Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-20
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
New Rule at the Pen - Carnegie Library
for Grants Pass-Big New Sawmill at
Sumpter-Leasing Sheep Range-Try-
ing to Relocate Columbia County Seat
Full Pardon Granted.

William B. Curtis has been reap
pointed postmaster at Marshfeld.
Revision and correction of the senate
and house journals has been completed.
Grants Pass is TO receive $4,000
from Andrew Carnegie for the estab-
lishment of free reading room and
library.
Every prisoner in the state peniten-
tiary has had his hair cropped short
and cheeks and chins shaved. This is
to be the rule in the future.
Governor Chamberlain has granted a
full pard,n. to A. M. Humphrey, a
Marion county warehouseman convicted
of larceny of wheat stored in his ware
house.
M. B. Gwinn has leased from George
T. Parr, of the Eastern Oregon land
company, tract OF go, 900 acres in the
Blue mountains, Situated in Baker and
Grant counties. The land is to be used
as summer range for band of about
10000 sheep.
A new 500, 900 sawmill, with ca
racity of 100, 900 feet of lumber day
is to be erected in Sumpter this season.
Henry Newell, president of the st. Paul
& Tacoma mill company, is at the head
of the corporation that will erect the
new mill. The company has obtained
control of 13 900 acres of land, in the
vicinity of Sumpter, on which it is esti-
mated there is 165, 100000 feet of
standing timber.
The matter OF the special election for
the relocation of the county seat of
Columbia county is receiving attention,
and considerable discussion is being
provoked. Many of the taxpayers who
are afraid of incurring extra expense
favor having it remaining in the pres
ent location. A mass meeting has been
called to convene at Clatskanie next
Saturday afternoon when the claims of
that place will be presented.
There is the greatest mining activity
in Josephine county ever known before.
This is due to the interest being taken
by capitalists and enterprising mining
men in the quartz properties of the dis
trict. There always has been for the
past so years rush of business in the
placers of that section, but not till this
season has there been so glittering a
future in prospect for the quartz mines
of Southern Oregon and Josephine
county in particular, as at present.
Six Albany boys have been fined for
stoning a Chinaman.i
Sheriff Brown and Deputies Hemple
and Lachner, of Baker county, are all
confined at their homes with smallpox.
Game Warden Quimby is in receipt
of copy of a report the commission
ers of fish and game of the state OF
Maine have just published, showing
the amount of money expended by the
state for the preservation of game,
and also the amount of money brought
into that state by outside sportsmen.
The local game warden thinks it would
be a good thing if Oregon followed a
similar plan and appropriated suf6-
cient money for the hiring of deputy
wardens to enforce the game laws.
Foreman j. E. Godfrey. of the state
printing office, says that work is plo-
crossing rapidly on the session laws of
1908, and that if nothing unexpected
happens the laws will be out by April
/, which is much earlier than usual.
Fifty men are working on the Lewis
and CLARK fair site. Ten of these are
surveyors who are preparing contour
map. Twenty other men are clearing
away fallen trees, logs, and dead under
brush, and the rest are planting trees
and shrubs and doing nursery work.