News Summary.
The Red tjfoWii mills at Albany are to be
enlarged to a capacity of 300 barrels a day.
The hame of the Astoria Independent has
been changed to The iiatoewfty City Daily
Herald.
There are 5027 person of school age in
Umatilla county, of whom only 2923 at
tend school.
The school superintendent of Jackson
county reports 3833 persons of school age in
the county.
A car-load of fine lx-ed cow from Mis
souri was received by Linn county stock
breeders last week.
A harpoon of the pattern made over forty
Tears ago was taken from a whale caught
near Coos Bay recently.
Douglas county has 77 school districts
and 4098 persons of school age. The total
VAlu of school houses and grounds is
$34,140.
fifteen men are employed on the Coquille
breakwater, and probably the remainder of
the appropriation Will be expended by the
nd of the month.
The hop crop in the neighborhood of
Brownsville is thriving finely uuder the
wnrm weather. If prices are f.-ur the hop
raiders wili have a bonanza this season.
Roseburg bonsts of a spring chicken with
four ieijs, b(,rn 011 - A at'9 farm near tuere
The monstrosity lived a few days then died,
and tney have salted it down iu alcohol to
keep up its spirits.
The salmon-fishing season opened April
1st. Some of this year's pack was offered
for i;1 iu Portland by Sealy, Mason & Co.
on the 2nd inst., havingjbeen caught, cooked,
can ,&1 .lucl shipped the first day.
Baker City Tribune: From eight degrees
Kid shoes for ladies, Misses and kids, at
cost at Whitnfey4 closing out sale.
The hop crop in Oregon never looked
more promising. The vines are growing
vigorously.
The Bulletin will commence publication
at Albany shortly. It will be issued semi
weekly. Several thousand acres of virgin sod have
been broken in the Cold spring and Juniper
regions this season.
The Lane County Board of Immigration
met at Eugene City the other evening and
effected a permanent organization.
For the year ending March 31, 1885, gold
to the amovnt of 23,507 ounces was received
at the United States assay office, Helena.
The Eugene municipal election, April 6th
resulted as follows: F. B. Dunn, Mayor;
E. R. Luckey, S. H. Friedly and L. Bilyeu,
Councilmen; Win. Shaw, Recorder; C. E.
Roberts, Marshal; F. W. A. Crain, Treas
urer. The Linn county school superintendent
reports 97 districts, 5614 persons of school
age, 3722 pupils enrolled, 97 school houses,
five new ones built during the year, value
of school property $54,467, and $43,487 re
ceived for sclll purposes.
The Red Men are prepariug for a grand
celebration at Jacksonville on the 12th of
I May. Among t'.ie exercises snwounced is
! a band contest between as many of the brass
j bands of Southern Oregon and California as
! can be induced to take part. A prize or
prizes will be offeied the bands, but the
amount is not stated.
Coiuiderable excitement is felt over the
discovery of a large amount of quartz near
the head of Gall's creek, iu Josephine coun
ty, which is supposed to be rich with silver.
An assay of tome of the ore made in Port
land shows it to be of a very promising
Below zero in Chicago to eighty-hve degrees character. A number of claims have been
above in Baker City may seem quits a , iocllted already.
chancre in temperature, yet sach were the
contrasting temperatures 'As we found them
4i our return trip from the East.
The fanners of Tenftecsee are in a bad
way owing to a 1 ick of snow for the pro-
Regardless of the fact that Oregon is a
I heavily timbered State, Michigan lumber is
! sold aiong the O Short Line at a big
profit. This is something that should not
be permitted. It indication that
tectidn of wiuter wheat. Already 2a per s0meDody is sound asleep iu the great
cent, of the wheat sown has be n plowed , jforthwest, w'aere people arc usually re
ap, and many fie'. Is which are left, hoping garded as being wide awake and full of busi
t or an improvement, will be put down in ness
oats or planted in corn. j Walla Wa,la Union: A farmer here upon
Thos. Healey, a bridge foreman, fell into Deir,3 pai1 abut 53 700 for his wheat crop,
the Mareut chasm west of Missoula bi.t wuici, he.sol(l for fiffcy.OHB ceu'ts a bushel,
week, and was instautly killed. Every sacked, equal to forty-seven cent? a bushel
Vtie in his body was broken. The fall is Bet w asked jf he lnaiie anything. He
22$ feet. The Northern Pacific bridge at repjieu: ..t di(l Illo8t of the work myself;
that point ii the highest w.wden structure kcpt a c1(lse accouIlt nf what I paid out;
known to railrtad etig't ring. j and j thiuk 1 made about 52,000.
Herman Walker, the youutf man who re- Murray Sun. United States Marshal
a jl 1 i- . s I
ceiveu an almost lat 11 gunsnui; wouuu in Dabojs j8 makimr it r .rat for the Mormon
poylg imists of Oneida county. He has al-
the face wail'j Minting 1 - inftu has .al
most entirely recovered. He was in Albany
Monday and looks remarkably weii for one
iiaving had so narrow an uscaiie. His face
will not be so badly disfigured as w is at
first feared. Disseminator.
The Tacouia IndThrw of Washington 'ter
ritory will soon have the patents for the
lands of '-their rvation, which were al
lotted to thein in severalty. It is charged
ready caused H.he anest of eight and has a
list made out for twenty-five others who are
to be arrested. This is only a beginning, ps
it is state I that over JOv" are to be cited to
to appear for trial. This is in Oneida alone.
After Oneida will come Bear Lake county,
which is fairly alive with polygamists.
A S75 nugget was brought to the bank of
Murray on Saturday evening last which is
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mat wiey ere wi.ue.u .or some unrxpiaiue.i s,lrroun,le(i ,y qaite a jitt)e mystery. It is
reason by Ex-Secretary Teller. Senator the purest siu .de piece of gold of a large size
Dawes calJed Secretary Limar's attention j ever received at the hank. The claim or
to the matter, wh . ordered the immediate . glli(;h when, it came from js kept dark It
issue of the patents. j wag taken t() t;lL, banb ,,y a mL.rc!ianti who
Seattle Post: April is determined evi- j said he was enjoined to strict secresy and
lently to do as weli March in the matter ; would not . ire. U:e lucky miner who
of weather. So fa not the least exception 1 brought it to town. There is no Quartz in
it.
Manufacturers of
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could be taken to the weat'ier on the score
of beauty -ure; in fact, the only
grumbler. ar garduers, who ray for rain.
Owing he loiy em tinned dryness the
ground begins to pack, seed, do ost sprout,
and tendur vegetables show signs of suffer
ing. The cattle industry of the Northwest is
tstill in its infancy, net being ten years old.
A vast extent of country is yet untenanted
save by wild animals, sand the 27,000,000
acres of Indian . enervations in Montana
"must also be deducted from the available
grazing ground, so that the coautry lias
only begun to be settled. Montana has a
little over 1,000,000 head of beef cattle at
present aud ia capable sjf supporting 10,000,
000 head.
Tuesday afternoon of Hit jreek a surprise
-dinner was given at the re .ideuce of W. C.
Tweedale, n Albany, in honor of the 77th
liirthday of SI rs. iSuntley, mother of Mrs.
Tweedale. In consideration of the age ot
those who attended, it was au event of--' :rrt -
siderabt interest. There were eleven
present whose united ages were 790 years,
au average of between 71 and 72 years,
rangtag from 60 ta 83 years.
On the claim of Charles Kelt and George
leasou, known as the "Old Sling" claim,
near Althouse, Josephine county, a nugget
of gold was picked np which weighed
seventeen ounces. On the same claim, in
the year 1854, one weighing nearly $3200
was found. A few weeks ago a Chinamen
on the o'a:i immediately above found a
nugget weighing fourteen ounces. The
ground in this vicinity is noted for its great
richness, and is quite extensive, and also
for the large nuggets found.
The Modoc Indepandint says ihat a com
pany has keen organized in Modoc county
for the purpose of const meting a cana! to
tap Goose Lake and conduct its waters, into
Pitt river, thenceover the sage brush lands
iu that valley and by this means to furnish
adequate means for irrigating a large area
of now useless land, and at the same time
to reclaim several .hritaud acres of swamp
land lying along the shores of Uoose Lake.
the upper end of the lake there are 20
1 J acres of land, land at the lower end
there are 20,000 acres which can be drained
and thus brought into use. The water will
follow the channel of Pitt- river to a poiut
about, six miles above Alturas, where a ditch
will be started and follow the foothills
around the -Berth of Hie valley, the ditch to
be increased in length as the demand of wa
ter requires.
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Many ol the immigrants who come to
Oregon from the -Ka.-s.ern states have been
informed by the advertisements distributed
by i c ilroad companies that there are
immense tracts of the fittest plow lands open
for homestead and pre emption settlement
in every portion of Oregon, and ate sur
prised whes. find the valleys of West
ern and Southern Oregon under cultivation.
There is a large quantity of government
land in Eastern Oregon yet, but many im
migrants come with the idea of taking up a
quarter or half-section praii.o kuid iu the
Willamette valley. Ex.
Baker City Tribune: Many times in the
past year hav wt been informed the stock
men of Eastern Oregon are opposed to the
settlement f this country, because it inter
fered with "their ranges." The stockmen
are few in numbers aud tresspassers on the
public domain, and as such do no not de
velop the resources of the country nor in
crease land vai nations. The settler ard his
family take up the horaeste a improve
the same, and in so doing not only adds to
his own wealth but increases the valuation
of surrounding property. Is it not easy to
perceive whife of ! lye two is the most value
to the country?
Some of the farmers in Southern Oregon
who have been stall feeding beef cattle
since last fall find to their ... ;, that they
overestimated the demands of the local be
market. They are now anxions to sell their
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even turned the beeves out upofn the range reliable Medicine like 1 funder's Wu mood
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-OFFICE IX-
Fisher's Bk ck ,
GREAT NOPJHW- r ftN REMEDY.
nmnajMEMaanaHHa
lUaul til 1 ; 1 SjQ I t'j t ;i .TirflTrTirri
again after having feed them grain all win
ter. Stilly Riddle and Drfn Levens, of
Douglas county, have each turned ont near
ly a hundred head, and a man near Bose
bnrg has the same kind nf a shattered bo
nanza on his aan-ls, wnile near Eagene
City 8omo 300 or 400 head of fat winter-fed
beeves will be turned out to grass it is said.
Extensive works for the reduction of base
bullion are about to be erected iu Portland.
Some of Portland's capitalists are waking
np to the fact that the metropolis has got to
be np and doing, "that they can't any longer
sit still and absorb 'the nppe- valley as it
always has done Were, without any effort
to encourage home industries or home man
ufactures. We hear too -nt parties are
willing to put money in a canning business,
so as to save thetfruit from going to waste.
An enterprizing woman told us that in an
effort to--start a cannery hero in Oregon it
was necessary to put California labels on
the fruit to sell it to dealers. Ex.
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and puts fresh energy into the system 1-y making
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New Jewalry Store.
C. W. Smith,
A practical Jeweler aud Watch-maker has located
".. - a p cemw oitice, t-orvauu
Special attention given .0 repairing flue chronemster
watches. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices to anit
the times. A fine stock of watches, clocks and lewal-
ry constantly on hand. 21-frlti
James L. Lewis.
Sheep, Cattl Horses and Hogs bought tari
sold and Contrasts -ft a de to-fana-ish itat
AT ALL TIMES.
Mutton, Beef and fat Hogs a
specialty.
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CORVALUS
Three Year Old Kecord, 2:41.
Sou ..f
Altamont (2:27), and Belle Price.
Will be kept the season of 18S5 on the
farm of J. W. McKniuht, at Lnwaon Station
on the narrow gauge railroad, Linn Co., Or.
Will be allowed to serve a limited number
of mares at 50, payable when the mare is
removed from the farm, with the privilege
of returning barren mares in 1836 free of
charge.
ONECO
Was started in all the principal three year old races
in Oregon in 1S84, winning three out of four, and
making- a record of 2;4L, which stands at the head of
all three 3 ear old records on the North Pacific Coast,
and trot tiny a fifth heat in the remarkable time 01
2:44, the last half in 1:17, 11 2:34 trait.
Hia breeding will suit the most fastidious. For
particulars and extanded pedigree address
Mcknight brcs,
Albany, Oregon.
GOATS FOB SALE!
Four Hundred head of line
ANGORA GOATS
for sale at the residence of the Undersigned
seven miles north of Corvallis, Oregon.
Chas. Read.
For Sale!
A Good Burinass Location,
With a number one Store House
24x70 ft., with house attached
suitable for a small family.
Situated in the center of the
City of Philomath.
Ami a good shipping poiut
ON THE O. P. K. E.
For further particulars enquire of "J. JV.
ALLEN, Philomath Oregon.
THE MUTUAL SELF-ENDOWMENT
iXD BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA,
Grand Central Office, Tort Worth, Texas.
SAM CUNDIFF, President. E. M. MACY, Secretary.
B. V. BHOVVN, Vice-Presiienfc. A. W. MORRISON, Trej.
Chartered under the laws of the State of Texas, June 11th, 1881. Copyritfl t secured bj fllirff title Jane 11
1481, ill the office of the lihrariau of Congress, D . C.
PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE:
No. V Powell St. Corner Market. San Francisco '
OFFICER
HON. SAMUEL C. HILBORN, President, A. W. KELSEY, of Sacramento, Vice-President.
W. H. WARD, Secretary, J N. UU&SEL, Sr. , Superintendent,
PKOF VV, E. YAYLiOH, M. D., Medicl Director, PACIFIC BANK, Treasurer.
0APT. J. N. LEONARD, State Bupt., Portland, Or.
The object of this Association is to provide endowments for living members as well as benefits for
families -f deceased members, at the least cost consistent with perfect security, by istuin? endowment as
well as death benfit certificates.
The plan embraces two forma, lite and death. One pays at the death of a member, and the other p
in five equal installments durinc life. The association is operated on the mutual plan. It has no stock
ho'-deri to absorb its earnings, and no trustees among whom to uivide its surplus.
The total membership r.f the association now amounts to nearly 14, (.00 with a steady increase
each month. The association has disbursed to date .-f 570,033.0-2 in benefits to the legatees of deceased mem
berAt aud on maturing coupons. Is loaning from fiftee to twenty thousand per mouth to li-ing members.
REVIEW SIMCR ORGANIZATION.
Receipts since organization, - - - . $570,238,06
Disbursements since organization, - - - 570,038,02
Balance ou hand. - - - 201,06
Coupons paid, - - - J ' - 80,600
Agents Wanted in every county of the Pacific Coast.
F. M. Johnson, Resident Agent, - - Corvallis, Oregon.
City Stables iDaily Stage Line
FROM ALBANY
THOS. EGLJN,
On the Corner West of the Engine House
CORVALLIS, - - OREGON.
HAVING COMPLETED MY iiffjat3
new and commodious BARN, 4fdcS7
1 am better than ever prepared to SyftT-SgS
keep the
BEST CF TEAMS B'JSGIES. CARRIAGES
AND
SADDLE HORSES TO HIRE.
At Reasonable Rates.
i3T Partioular attention given to Boarding Horse
HorBes Bought and Sold or Exchanged.
PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL.
TO CORVALUS.
Proprietor
Having secured the contract to t arrying h
United States Mftll
FROM
Corvallis to Albany
For the ensuing four years will leare Corvallis caer.
morning at b o'cinck, arriving; in Albany abont
o'clock, and will rtart from Albany at 1 e'uiock in k
afternoon, returning to OrvalliH about 3 o'cl
This line wili ue prepared with good tbv arc o r
ui drivers and nice conuortabie and
EASY RIDING VEHICLES
For the accommodation of the
TRAVELING PUBLIC.
Wheat and other Grain Stored on the best of Terms by
T- J-. BXj.AIR,
AT
CORVALLIS
SACKS FURNISHED TO PATRONS.
Farmers will do well to call on me before making arrangements elsewhr
18-27-yl
THE BENTON COUNTY
real: estate association
Office: Corvallis, 0 epOn.
M. S. WOODCOCK, Marager.
rill 1 TO ASSOCIATION will buy ard sell all classes of Real Estate en rea sonable terms and wMthw-X-
Ii In oughly advertise by describing each piece of property en truatedto it for sale. The fellow-
ing pieces of 'property will be sold on extraordinarily reasonable terms:
SAW MILL-I'ndivided i interest in a mill ivr b;
water, a good phner and SVeU acres of land user
in conn ction i fa the mill. Power t-Utt cicnt to m
all -f th i year, ti i ted handy to n.arket anrl withi
about 7 dies of Corvallis with an excellent goou
road to m it. Terms .asy.
FARM Farm all under fence only 2J milesfroi.
Corvallis of loO acres, 80 acres now in cultivation, tht
balance of it can be cultivated, about 20 of it now ii
wheat with a fair house good barn and granen .
will sold at a bargain. Terms easv.
FARM Farm of 478 acres for less than 918 per
acre, bein one of the cheapest and best farms ii
Bento. coi nty, situated 4 miles west of Monroe, i ei
a ndie fron. a good school, in one of the best neigh
borhoods in the state with church piivileges baacy.
About 130 acres in cultivation, and over 400 ban fa t
cultivtaed. All under fence, with good two ston,
irarue house, large barn and orchard; has running
water the vear around, and is well suited ter stock
and dairy purposes. This is one of the cheapest farms
in the Willamette Valley Terms easy.
STOCK FARM 320 acres, about 50 in culttntiaa
160 acres can be cultivated, CO acres, of good fir and
oak timber, the balance good grass land. Small con
for table house nd barn. t lies adjoining an Inex
haustible ou range, making one of tbe beet sleek.
ranges m ienton county, bituated aoout 10 mllea
jSouthwest of Corvallis. Price $1600.
j FARM A farm of I6 acres of land situated
mile from Corvallis, in Linn County, Or. All under
I fence; 80 acres of rich b ttom land in cultivation
j 60 acres of good fir, as. and maple timber; 2 good
;houses, 2 good orchards and two good wells with
pumps. Terms: JtfifO per acre, half cash dowa nd
balance payable in one and two years, cured by
iiuortguge upon the farm.
I LOTS Two unimproved lots in Corvallis. One o
toe choicest building places in tbe city for sale tns-
onable.
I ALSO Four unimproved lots exoept fona
led in Corvallis, Or. The choicest building nlaee la
: the city for bale reasonable.
THOMAS GRAHAM,
Druggist and Apothcary,
-AND DEALER IN"
MOTS, OILS, MUSHES, BM1ES, GLAKS, PETTY, TRESSES,
SHOULDEK BKACES. TOILET ARTICLES AC.
A full line ol B' oks, Staiione-y and Wall Paper. Ovr drngfi are treoh (?
well selected. Paescriplions compcunded at all homx. 19-27yl
FRANK BROS. IMPLEMENT CO,
DEALERS IN
FARMZQoXMILLXMAGHINERY.
La Belle Vt ajjons, Walter A . Wood's Mi.wer, McSherrj Urills and SeeuBrt,
Keapers and Tine Binders, Buford's Walldnr Pluws, Hodge's Double Draper Header,
Bmord's Gang and Sulky Plows Coate's Sulky Kakes, Buford's Riding and Walking Cultiratora,
Gaar, Scott & Co. s Engines and Threshers, Cooper & Co.' Saw Mill Machinery,
Dandall Wheel ... rrows, Carriages, Spring Wagons, Buckboard Wagon, etc. , eta
The Celebrated Hollow Tooth Harrow, Etc., Etc., Etc.
Full Line of Farm Machinery,
Write for Catalogue. Address either FRANK BROS., Impl. Co., Portland, Or., or
T. J. BLAIR.Agent, Corvallis, Oregon. 22143a
NOTICE OF imi SI, TLEMEfcT.
In the matter of the estate
' of
Andrew B. Moore, re. .as4.
Notice is hereby ijiven that I, Ma:tha Moore, ad
ministratrix of the estate of Andrew B. Moore de
eeased, have filed my Anal account as tuch adminis
tratrix in the Cou :tv Court of the state of Oregon,
for Benton couiwv; r.nd the said Court has fixed
Saturday the 9i ly rst, 1886.
at the hour of 10 o'clo i a. m. of said day as the time
for hearing any and all objtctions to the same and
for a final settlement thereof
MARTHA MOORE,
Administratrix of the-ostete of An Irew B. Moore,
deceased.
A MStSi
Send six cents forpostageand receive
a costly dox 01 gooag which win
all, of either sex, to mure monev
nurn. away .nan anj-tnuig in tt e world.
Fortunes await the workers, absolutely sure. At
once address3'auE & Co. , Augusta, Maine
J. B. SCR AFFORD. J. R. SCWOFTORl
J. B. Scrafford & Ero.,
PROPRIETORS OP
CORVALLIS
MARBLE WORKS,
AND DEALERS IN
ALLKINDS PLAIN, FANCY
AND -ORNAMENTAL
Marble Granite.
MAIN STREET
CcrnS - Oregoa.
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