The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-11-11
ALONG THE COAST.
Items of General Interest GIeaned
From the Thriving Pacific
States.

The ministers of Spokane are ger
orally OF the opinion that there shoul
be but one legal ground for divorce.
The new sawmill of the Equalit
Colony, near Edison, WASH, is com
pleted and paid for. It's daily capacit
is 10, feet.
The shipments from Coulee City
Wash, last week amounted to SO car
OF cattle, containing nearly l, 500 head
and representing $4,000.
The Indians who have been causin.
trouble are getting out of Grant ooun
ty, Oregon, as fast as possible. and n,
further trouble is expected.
According to the financial statemen
OF Coos county, Oregon, the per cen
reduction in the legal rate Of interest
will mean yearly saving of something
over $1,000.
q. Gunerson, of Melbourne, and one
OF the largest tim ber importers of Aus.
tralia. is Visiting the Northwest arrang.
Ing for the purchase of several cargoes
of fir lumber.
Isaac W. Garrett, x-secretary OF
state OF Idaho, and a pioneer Of Ore.
gon, died at Boise. Mr.. Garrett had
suffered from complication Of troubles
for about year.
The Grand Ronde Lumber Company,
OF La Grande, has just closed large con-
tracts with different southern California
frult associations for very large quanti-
ties OF orange and other fruit boxes.
The receiver of the Bank of Everett,
which. failed early in the panic, has
made his 1inal report to the court, and
an order has been made directing the
remaining assets to be sold at auction.
The Pacific sheet metal works at New
Whatcom started up again last week
with half a crew, after having been
shut down for about a month. This
means the employment of about so or
90 persons, and is welcome news to
large number of. people.
The discovery has been made that
some miscreant has defaced the two 54-
ton guns that are waiting to be placed
In position at Marrowstone point, in
Puget sound, by cutting names on the
steel barrels with soap and acid. sus-
picion rests on discharged workmen.
The Imperial Paste Company has
been organized at Great Falls, Mont,
for the purpose of manufacturing
macaroni to supply tho trade of that
and adjoining states. The output of
the factory is 500 pounds daily. They
have orders ahead for three months
product.
The receiver of the defunct Spokane
Savings bank has been authorized by
the court to pay dividend of per cent
on the outstanding claims against the
institution. This will make total of
81 per cent paid by the bank. The
total Indebtedness of the bank amounts
to 500, ,409.54.
The Golden Giant dredger, now be-
ing rapidly pushed to completion at
Lannan's spur. below the mouth of
Burnt river, will be ready to operate
On December /. It's capacity Is 1000
cubic yards per day, and 1t is. to be
operated on leo acres which are report
I'd good for 80 cents per cubic yard.
The Republic Mining Company Of
Eastern Washington has just declared
another dividend amounting to $780,
700, which Is at the rate of 8 cents Der
share. This is the second monthly
dividend paid by the company of like
'moupt, and there is every assurance
hat the dividends will continue at this
ate every month, although the mill is
Tot running at its full capacity.
Never before was grass SO scarce On
be Gillian county range as now.
even In pastures where the old bunch
rass is abundant, the grass is so devoid
I nutIimsnt from long-continued
rought that stock are losing flesh on
). Several sheepmen have commenced
9eding hay already, and wise sheepmen
nd oattlemen are reducing their focks
1st now, while the pirce is good.
The contract to cut 5000, 900 feet of
lmber and $4,000 ties has been {
9cured by Mcpherson Bros. & Stout,
Brooklyn, B. G. This contract is 6
18th the Columbia & Western railway.
hich will use the lumber on its Rob-
lson-Penticon branch. This firm con- :
IN plates removing their mill to Glad .
one, where fine body of timber
Iists.
John Holmes. Of Wellington, New
was recently in Vancouver.
c., as commissioner from the gov
nment of the island on mission to !
I'd new fields for the hemp trade of
ew Zealand, which last year pro-
iced %, 900 tons. Mr.. Holmes says Il
is country offers a fine opening for n
ade in shirts, shoes, cottons, house.
I'D furniture, canned salmon and agri- q
ltural implements. fl
Five mourning tribes assem- bled at
9 Puyallup reservation Sunday to p
y the last honors to the royal infant, T
led Leschi, who died last week, and
10 was the 5-months-old son of a,
gorge Leshi, chief of the Puyallup 8.
be, and his death is mourned as the q,
moval of possible leader of the peo- in
3, there being but one living heir OF
W left Leschi's uncle was the leader ci
the war against the whites in the st
rly days, for which he lost his life. ar
In compliance with the request of
, Philadelphia board of trade, which Sc
s addressed to the several cham bers ar
commerce in Pacific coast cities, the pl
8 Angeles chamber of commerce last in
elk passed resolutions urging congress ca
take needed action to restore to the 10
ited States the ocean-carrying trade
vessels sailing under the American tit
!, and also urging the press of the tit
st to lend its powerful aid to the qu
cess OF this great national under Cd
ing, and to cooperate with local ca
organizations. ha