Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-14
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
Commercial and Financial Happenings of
the Past Week-Brief Review of the
Growth and Development of Various
Industries Throughout Our Common
wealth-Latest Market Report.

Hugh O'Donnell, a pioneer mining
man of Baker county, aged 65 years, is
dead.
The Tallant- Grant packing company,
of Astoria, has filed articles OF lncor-
poration.
Eugene has asked for an increase in
mail carriers to meet the growing de-
mand for free delivery.
Two million feet of logs we're swept
away in Lewis river freshetseaused by
the recent heavy rains.
A bill for the nomination of political
candidates by the voters has b cen pre-
pared for the Oregon legislature.
The work of installing the new ma
chinery at the Mountain View mine,
near Baker City, will soon be COM
pleted.
The 1902 hop crop in this state will
amount to about So, 900 bales. Of this
amount less than 10000 bales remain
in the hands of the growers.
The Multnomah county delegation to
the legislature, at meeting held last
week, indorsed a 100000 appropria-
tion for the Lewis and Clark fair.
An experimental salmon hatchery is
in operation on the Alsea river, in Ben
ton county. The past season has prov
en- so successful that it is likely to be
made permanent station.
A custom quartz mill will soon be in
operation in the Quartzburg district
Contracts have already been secured for
reducing ore sufficient to keep a 20
stamp mill in constant operation
The Waldo smelling and mining COM
pany will put in 100-ton smelter at
once at its copper mines in the Waldo
district. A smelter at Waldo will be
of great benefit to the vast mineral dis
trict of that section, as, aside from
treating the ores of it's own mines, it
would also do general custom busi-
ness. A number of good mines of that
section will be able to do their smelt-
ing at home and with much less expense
than heretofore. as the ores had to be
sent to California.
The first heavy frost of the season a.
The Dalles fell last Wednesday night
The drug store of DR.. H. A. Wall,
Lyle, was robbed of $1,000 by four
masked men.
Mrs. Mary Starkey, an Oregon pic
neer of 1845, is dead. She had lived
in Salem for number of years.
G. A. Fitch, of Lakeview. Fusion
candidate for state printer in 1898,
committed suicide by taking morphine.
Citizens of Portland have started to
raise $25, 900 fund for an immigra-
tion bureau and permanent exhibit.
The sugar factory at La Grande has
already received Is, 400 tons of beets,
which amount is greater than the whole
crop of any previous year.
1t has been announced to the stu
dents of Pacific university, Forest
Grove, that the Corbett prize for schol-
arship of $50 and the Tibbals prize fol
oratory of $50 have been again offered
this year.
/, The report of the superintendent oi
the state asylum for October shows
1866 persons to be confined in that
institution, an increase of nine since
September.
An important ruling has been made
by School Superintendent Alderman
He has decided that the residence o.
the parent or guardian, rather than the
place where the pupil is enumerated
determines the place where child ii
entitled to attend school without paying
tuition.