The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-08-22
NORTH PACIFIC NEWS
Happenings of Interest in the
Progressive Northwest.
BRIEF REPORTS OF LATE EVENTS

A Budget of Items Gathered From
All Parts of Oregon, WASH
ington and Idaho.
1t is said that 20, trout are an
nually caught from Trout Lake in
Klickitat county, Wash.
A good many Whatcom, Wash. ,
ladies have been made quite ill by the
| heat and smoke from the nearby forest
| fires.
The Whatcom county, Wash, bank
has paid a dividend of per cent, ag-
gregating $4,000. The bank failed
early in the year. Another dividend
will soon follow.
A controversy is raging in the valley
papers as to the champion hiccougher.
George w. Harris, of Albany, Or, ap-
pears to be entitled to the belt, with a
record of nine days and nights.
The Gold Beach, Or, Gazette is be-
ing moved across the river to Wedder-
burn, Mr.. Hume's new town. The
building is put on wheels and rolled
onto a scow, then towed across.
The next session of the Wallowa
county, Or, circuit court begins Sep
tember Is. The docket is unusually
long, and includes several criminal
cases. Four prisoners are in Jail, and
others out on bonds.
The q. A. r. of Port Townsend,
Wash, proposes to have an encamp-
or dc Of f1a hon
military station in September, and G.
A. R. posts throughout the state are to
be invited to participate.
The proposed soldiers and sailors
encampment, to be held at Old Port
Townsend, WASH, the week of Sep
tember 8, seems to be ''go". Several
organizations of Western Washington
have promised to attend.
State Senator D. E. Lesch, of the
Yakima and Kittitas district, who is
manager of the famous Mckee farm, on
which 130 acres are planted in hops,
says the hop crop in Yakima valley,
WASH, promises better than last year,
but growers are discouraged at the
prospective low prices.
"China Jim," the venerable "dad-
dy" of the Chinese colony at Gold
Beach, Or, left on the schooner Ber-
wick Tuesday, bound for China. He
is over 20 years of age, and has been
away from China just forty-four years.
With tears streaming down his cheeks,
he said he was going back to die in his
native land.
The machinery for the new salmon
cannery for the Siletz has been pur-
chased in Astoria, and the materials
for the buildings, along with the ma
chinery, will be loaded on the steam
schooner and taken to the Silez in a
few days The cannery will furnish
employment to many Of the Indians
who would not work at any other en-
ployment.
Oscar Tom, of Alsea, Or, the king
beeraiser of Benton county, has thirty
three stands of bees, and the honey
produced is as fine as is made. Mr..
Tom is also grower of goats, and has
band of $50 of them. His band this
wool shipped netted him 80 cents per
pound, or $l.35 per head. He feeds
| his goats but little, and besides clear
ing up his land they improve the pas
ture and range.
The Pacific Coast Elevator Com
pany is making extensive improve
ments upon its buildings throughout
Whitman county, Wash, They are
also building some new structures.
They recently completed 15Ox4O-foot
addition to the Guy elevator, from
which little town there is a large
amount of grain shipped. The Pull
man ele~ator has been renovated and
put into shape for handling a large
amount of grain this season. At Glenn
wood there is being constructed 12Ox
40-foot addition. In fact every eleva-
tor in the county has been put in read
mess to handle big amount of grain,
and an enormous crop is expected.
| To go South as missionary vessel
is the object of a small craft which
lies at Seattle wharf. The boat is to
receive general repairs, and carry a
crew of Christian workers, who will
act upon the plan of the old steamer
Evangel, which cruised the Sound, her
owners holding meetings and spread
| ing the gospel among the loggers and
millmen Of early days, Charles Fri
ars is in charge of the present expedi-
tion, and with his wife, will go down
on the Mexican coast and carry sup
plies for the missionries, besides him
self doing whatever is in his power ro
teach Christian principles among the
people of the Pacific islands. The yes.
sci has no name, and the owner has nc
special creed of Christianity.
Judge Eakin, of Union, Or, of the
circuit court, has issued an order tenn.
porarily enjoining the Oradell Canal
Company, the Peoples Irrigation Com
pany, City of La Grand and number
of private citizens from using the wa
ters of Grand Ronde river in the west
ern part of the valley. The order was
issued at the instance of the Island
City Mercantile & Milling Company,
(which claims to have enioyed the frs