Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-29
NEWS OF OREGON
HFMS 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
weaIth-Latest Market Report.

Andrew White, charged with the kill
ing of eter Beauchene at Portland, has
been arrested at Vancouver.
Several heavy shipments of sheep
are being sent from the vicinity of
Baker City t1 California for the winter.
A tract of land comprising 10000
acres in Benton and Lincoln counties
has been purchased by an Eastern syn
dicate. The price paid is not known.
The supreme court has decided that
the State of Oregon has no right to the
water it is using at the penitentiary,
so that different arrangements will be
necessary.
State Senator John L. Rand, OF Ba-
ker City, will make an effort to have a
bill passed at the next session of the
Oregon legislature giving Baker county
a separate judicial district.
A contract has been let at Baker City
for 200, 900 feet of lumber by the Or
egon Electric Power company. The
lumber is to be used in constructing
fume and power plant on Eagle creek.
Charles s. Wilkinson, who was ar
rested at Ashland two weeks ago for
stealing horses in Minnesota, has been
taken back to that state by Deputy
Sheriff G. F. Hurst, of Polk county,
MINI.
The Iowa Lumber company, which
has purchased 1900 acres of pine tim
Der land near Medford, is making prep
arations to put in large mill and box
factory at that place. The first carload
of machinery has already arrived.
Negotiations are pending between the
Portland City Railway company and
the City and Suburban Railway COM
pany with view of the purchase of
the latter by the former, and the con-
solidation of both systems under one
head.
Near Huntington, Malheur county,
ledge of gold-bearing ore has been dis
covered that assays as high as $4,000
per ton. The ledge averages about
eight feet in width, and croppings have
been traced on both sides of the noun
tain on which the find is located.
The Willamette Valley Land Co.
has shipped large box of grasses,
grains and fruits to be exhibited at the
Nebraska state fair.
A decision of considerable interest
has been received at the United States
land office at Oregon City in the case
of George L. Derrick against Arthur 7.
Merwin, involving tract in section 8,
township 8 south, range west. The
decision knocks out both parties on the
ground that the entry conflicts " ith
the Corvallis & Yaquina Bay wagon
road grant.
The Rev. J. J. Walter, formerly
Methodist bishop of Alaska and re-
Gently in the service of the leading
Methodist church at Spokane, has
been appointed colonization agent of
the Great Central railroad, projected\
between Coos Bay and Salt Lake City.
He will at once enter upon his duties,
which are to arrange the settlement of
colonies along the projected line.
A $25 900 hotel and lighthouses are
to be erected at once at Hot Lake.
Fire at Fendleton, which started in
William Hickey's paint shop, did dam
age to the amount of IS, 900.
Officers made raid on an opium
joint at Salem and captured two men
and the proprietor. All were fined.
Fred Reese, an IS year old boy, has
been arrested at Salem. He is charged
with stealing some clothing in UNA,
tilla county.