The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-10-31
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Re-
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Happenings of Interest in the Towns and
Cities of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho.

Wash, for state and county purposes
is 5 mills.
A mass meeting was held in Seattle
recently to work up popular sentiment
to demand strict observance of Sum
day.
The tax levy of Whatcom county,
WASH, for state and county purposes
for the year 1895 has been fixed at ID
mills.
Company I, of Walla Walla, is re-
joicing because of the order issued for
the reorganization of that disbanded
militia company.
It is claimed that the Wallowa coun-
try has produced and shipped more beef
this year than any other like territory
in the state of Oregon.
The bridge across the Wenatchee
river near its mouth, connecting Kitti-
tas river and Oanogan counties, in
Washington, has been completed.
There is movement on foot in
Pendleton, Or, to start up the foundry
plant. In case the plans are carried
out, the water power from the Una.
tllla Will be used.
The motion for q new trial in the
case of Straub, the Blakeley island,
WASH, murderer, will be argued No
vember 80. Straub is now in Jail at
Whatcom, for safe keeping.
The statement of the financial condi-
tion of Marion county, Or, on Septem-
Der 80 last showed the amount of war
rants outstanding and unpaid to be
$40, 1888, and funds applicable to the
payment of warrants, SIT, $50.
The depositors of the Baker City Ma
tional bank will receive from Receiver
Beard their third dividend, about No
vember 1. The dividend will be 10
per cent, which will make so per cent
paid out since the institution closed.
A crew of eight men is working on
the telephone line between Grants
Pass and Crescent City, Or, and ex-
poets to finish this season. Heavy
twenty-fv foot poles are being put in.
A branch Office will be located at Smith
river.
There was strike the other day at
the Beaver Hill, Or, coal mines, few
of the negroes leaving. Those of the
negroes remaining have signed con-
tract, good until June /, 1896, at prices
made by the superintendent. Twenty
white miners have also been brought
in from Washington.
Pupils of the Ocosta, Wash. public
school complained of the water given
them to drink. The directors had the
well from which the water was drawn
opened, and were shocked to find the
remains of about fifty rats and mice of
all sorts and conditions. One of the
rats was found in the pump valve itself.
The contract for finishing the Astoria
water works tunnel has been let to a..
c. Campbell, representing the Pacific
Bridge Company, of Portland. The
contractors propose to drive the rest Of
the tunnel through the rock by the aid
of electricity, and have begun putting
in the appartus.
Three bridges across Wilson river,
Or, built chiefly by private enterprise,
have just been completed at an expense
ter road between Forest Grove and
Tillamook. An effort is being made
to have the Wilson river road designat-
ed as a mail route.
There is proposition before the La
Grande, Or, Athletic Club to change
the name to the Commercial Club and
make it business organization. The
promoters of the new movement do PCT
propose to do away with the
and social features of the .pnc
ganization, but rather tor
extend them.
c. D. McFarlin har1
berry crop, near o
and was rathe1
yield of berries
only 500 bushs
his cranberry
to the ocean,