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15) State and Territorial. The grain yield in Klamath county this season is estimated at 50,000 bushels. Washington county has sohl its poor farm for $6200, and will buy a cheaper one. An eagle with wings measuring seven feet from tip to tip is owned by one of the Port land fire companies. Portland is the only town in Oregon and Washington territory that has the special postal delivery system. TheO. R. & N. Co. will rebuild it bridges between The Dalles and Walla Walla with stone awl iron. Tne Brownsville Woolen Mills company took first premium on finest blankets and cloths at the Mechanic's fair. A reward in the Queen of the Pacific sal vage case was paid into the U. Si. District Court last week. Including costs and in terests, it amounts to $70,517. The Children's H-me netted aliout$1000 from the benelit given by the Mechanics, Fair. The cash receipts were about SIO0O, and the fruit men donated their exhibits. It is estimated thit the chinamen who The Dakota people are bound that state hood sh-ill not be thrust on them unawares. They ha ve the capital ready, and the new state constitution, and have just nominated a full ticket of state officers. f One of the exports of Oregon and North ern California is chitum wood, or r;tther the nark of the same. Ir. is. shipped all over the world. Dealers pay 170 a ton for the bark. It is used as a remedy lor constipa tion. There are men in San Francisco who shuJderwith apprehension whenever public improvement is spoken of. They tear that theirjjroperty will enhance in value, and they will therefore be called upon to pay more tax. The Yreka, California, papers are urging their exchanges to advise all to keep away from that part of the c uu' ry if they want work of any kind. The resumption of woik on the railroad has attracted f .m times as many as can be accomodated. second-growth cherries, apples and pears have been reported aii over the country this .'iir. su i -li, .aid now a florist announces that some of his annuals are bioniniiiL' a sec ond tune. They are changing to semi-year Blackleg. A Prineville, Crook county, exchange says : This fatal maledy has Jiroken out in some of the cattie herds of this county and al ready several head of calves have died of it. I hough the disease has not yet become epi demic, fears are eut rtained that it will spread and create heavy lns-.es in the calf crop. Cattle men are somewhat uneasy and are using every precaution possible to con fine the disease to certain narrow limits. With what success they will meet remaius to he seen. There arc certain remedies for the disorder, but it is quite dilficuit to ap ply any of them, beciuse the affected, or ial.le to be affected, are scattered over an extensive range of country; and treatment is seldom of any avail anyway, owing to the rapid fatality of toe disease. Prevention is Letter than an attempt to cure. Unaffected cattle should be driven to a high, dry ivmgi , '. here the feed is abort and not -ry ii 4i; they should have clear, pure water to drink and in no case should thev be allowed to fatten. DiseaseJ ani n Is should be separated from the healthy; carcasses shoal t be buried six feet deep, and, if convenient, their graves should he fenced. If any die in or about the barn yard, the place should be thoroughly disi: -fected. Cold nights and warm days feed the disease, especially is this the case in a atiil atmosphere. Low, damp, rich pasture should be avoided, as the soil in such places contains a great amount of organic matter, and the animals are apt to feed excessively on ihe rich ue-u' -u grasses. Engineers are at work In ating the rail road fr m Colfax to Farmington, and it is expected the road will be built this fall. The v)regon Rail -v-iy and Navigation com pany h ve just completed two first-class snew sheils at , Canyoa, :u which is !)(i0 feet lo , an:! the i h r 5'jO. A third shed is inj erected at the same point, the grade has ' en widened m l the track moved out from the embankments where, the snow was lao to lift. The long-pending Queen of the Pacific salvage c .se Wis iv .ua I up rei eutly by the payment into the registry of the United States district c uirt . the full amount o! the award, which. dins; costs anil in- t-rest, was $738,786.84. The value of the cargo was 5-2J,0J6 The proportion of the awar I to lie paid by the ship, r claimants, is 540.463. 19, less the $1254 id to J. H. IX Gray .September 17, 18S3. r ?43,:20a 19. (Tor this am ant a check v is drawn yester day by Mr. C. H. Prese at an 1 ha ded over to the clerk of .art T-r- amount of cargo saved is $21,653.83, which is.-lready in .court, hav ing been paid in advance i- the time of tak ing the goods from the ship. Oregonian. Parties in the imploy o" the Central l'a ciliu iiailronl Co. have been in m Willow -springs and Blackwell regions recently on t urs of observation, says the Jacksonville 1 iines. A gentleman, in cor versatiou with one of them, was infmn ed hat 'hi Cen t.al Pacific f .Iks considered the road south .if Rnsebarg very ..-.rls constructed and al .ogcthtr too crooked for advanfageou" traf fic. They did i it c .re a tig for any of the many towns in the vai'e ad would hate a road to suit n ii mauds, no matter whom it inlnred or benefitted. This had al ways been their policy, ami there was no probability of changing it now. Wheat is moving from Snake river points more rapidly this year than ever before. From the talk in the early season about a line of boats to Ainsworth, the O. R. & N. has, no doubt, concluded th.it the ,eople along Snake river are not altogether help less, in tr asportation matters. The O. R. & N. is building at Riparia a scow, which, it is exjiected will be completed in about two weeks, ami wi i have a carrying capaci ty of about 200 toes. It will be used he tween Riparia and Almota, and poisihly higher up in times of high water. The boats now running in Snake river carry from 150 to 200 tons, but -.heir work is so syste initizedth t e made about double the :ris they ever di 1 I-eroa-. have leit Oregon ami Washington for their j lies to keeu BP with this fast age. home since the anti-Chinese excitement be gan have taken over a quarter of a million of solid coin with them. Cattle men of Klamath county complain that they receive from $ti to $10 pi head leu for their bjef c itt'e this year than last. This will make a difference of mar y thous And dollars in the income of the whole coun- ty- A petition to the legislature is being ci - cnla ed praying for the enactme.it of a law making it compulsory for the railroad coin pany to fence its track in baker county. The petition is being signed by every tax payer to whom it is presented. The West Side says that Polk county fanners as a Uie .ire confident of an ad vance aud are determined to get all tin can. lno.se ho have hell their wheat Bo far are sanding their hands and taking a new grip for a still further advance. Another rich Hud has been made in the Colville district- The new mine is on the Columbia, three miles above the Six-mile bar. The ledge contains masses of galena anil chlorides reaetaldtog 'he OM Dominion ore. The mine has been bonded by an Ari zona capitalist and miner. The Port Townsend Argus says: It is pro posed by Chaplain Stubbs, of Portland, that Henry Ward Beecher. the little sou of col lector Baejlier and grandson of the eminent Brooklyn divine, shall hoist the Seamen's Bethel Hag for the tirjt time in history at Port 1 owusend. 'I lie incident will be note worthy. theBakerCitycourtliou.se burned down receutly. was built in 1869, at a cost of 10,- 000. A stone vault built in 1872, saved the coun i y not less than $5 ,0l)0. The Re veille says: "The town is full of dead lats, who won 1 do my piece of work like that for 85. aud it is uly a forerunner of some tiling more serious if ..ur citizens do not take measures to t.rotect themselves. " Dallas Ite aiz-r: We were shown a hick ory cane this week wh' ;h has a history. It is about au inch in dianuter, and has a shoot grown from one end .ihieh twines along its entire length. It was cut the day after the battle of Fort Donaldson by James Crystal, Hon of Mrs. Crystal of this place, and sent to his father, then in Iowa, who, when he crossed the plains to Oregon in 1864, brought the cane with him. It is kept as a relic. A Southern Oregon exchange says: Geo. H. Chick is preparing to put up a quartz crushing machine in Medford, the object be ing to attract thither for test the quartz from various ledjes in the county now be imr prospected. The site chosen for the mill is near the railro id track, a short dis tance south of the depot. A number of cit izens of Medford "ui up" tat Lu- enter prise. Wm. Raid of Portland and Col. Ue . P. Bissell of London, England, j .in- up to Sil verton on the nirr .w gang-; Thursday, aud took private conveyance to Sa'em through the Waldo HUU. Fr.nn Mr. lleid it was learned that the 'me of the Willamette val ley railway (nairow guage) has been perma nently located from Portland to lundee, and that work will begin on the same as soon as practicable. A great minuing aoom h expected in the Northwest in the spring of l86. There are several regions to develop, ami all are assured of a great rush. Coeur d'Aleue ex j.ects to enjoy a liooni that will exeell all others. The regieu is being developed by Eastern capitalists. Pine Creek will also come in for a boom. This sectiou is un doubtedly very rich, and abounds in mineral wealth. Mining men say it is the richest camp on the coast at present. The Col ville country is one of great promise and will be heard from. A cabinet of Pine Creek ore samples, collected by Gen. T. R. Tannatt, will soon be on exhibition in the State Immigration Board rooms, where it will attract th attention of all new comers, both capitalists and immigrants. 0 A party of Albany hnnters were out on Crabtree creek last week, hun ine deer. when the hou ids started a hear, which thev A government -ngiu-er points out that in nine of our seaboard eitie.- alone property valued at 3,322,000,000 is ex, osed to des truction in of .var. 1- cause of our lack of sea coast defenses adequate to cope with the navies of the fighting powers. Mongolian pheasants have heen noticed iu the vicinity of Sheridan lately. Hunters will please reinemlmr to it a line of 50 is the penalty for killing one of these birds. True sportsmen will not kill them and oth ers ought t be complained of when caught. There is some talk of building the narrow guage railroad from Cohurg to Eugene and then extend it to the headof tide on Sins law bay. It would .pen up quite an exien sive country to settle ueii and afford a di rect outlet for the gr .in aud other products of the county. A Yakima cattle baron is preparing to ship six hundred heal heel cattle to Montana. The value of the shipment will fe twenty-four thousand dollars, and it ill take thirty-live ears to in o r it. Thus is steam tnterieriag iu the domain of the cow boy ami wresting his occupation from him S lys the Seattle Chronicle: At Snohomish the other day a meet'iig was held to tlisCBSa . he Chinese question. Vitr some indiffer ent taik it was decided to appoint a com mittee to request the Chinese to leave; but ifter every man in the audience had been appointed and deemed to serve, the meet-j tu award to be paid by the iug adjourned without further action. S. A. Clarke's mission eastward has prov ed partially uusucceisfui. H I found no dif ficulty iu disposing ..f Oregon fruits to good advantage, but parties iu Oieg ni whom he was representing failed in fulfill their part of tl e contract, thus occasioning delay and perhaps preventi ins, the sale of a large am . nnt of fruit at advantageous rates. Mr. Jacob Underbill, of Pi I't.and has re- I ceived the very gratifying intelligence that his claim of 5S0OO against Uncle Samuel for war insurance paid upon merchandise had been allowed, together i ith ,3 per ce ir. in terest. This claim was based on the Gene ra award in the Alabama case. The princi pal and interest amount to something over 316,000. Mr. Geo. Wells, of Boeoa Vista, weighed a colt a few days ago which was but five months old .aud weighed 679iba. Ben Tharp raise I eleven potatoes that weighed one bushel. Mr. Whitman raised 16 squashes that weighed a ton. Mr. John McCarty raised 20 acres of wheat that made nine hundred and fifty bushels, with several grangers to hear from. And now comes the greatest wonder of the year. Chinese .striking in the cigar fac tories. A San Francisco dispatch says: Six ty Chinese cigar-makers iu the factory of Koeusberger, Falk &. Meyer, Pine street, struck wairk because the linn refused to dis charge their white workmen. It is lean. id that the Chinese Union ordered the stiike. This dictation by "the Jhinese that "whi e men must go," has created no small sensa tion. Christians in China have been recently, it seems, undergoing treatment similar to that recently experienced by some pagans in the United States. The persecutions complain ed of our robbery, destruction of chapels, bl ckmailiug and buycotting natives who have professed Ch.a-tianity. The account reads like it might have come from Wyom ing or western Washington with the perse cutors and persecuted placed in reverse or der. It apoears to us that there ought to be a farmer's detective organization iu this val ley. No doubt exists but that the Middle ton mills were robbed before they were burned, under very suspicious' circumstan ces. The barn w; s located on the Robinson place, near Carlton, and hail in it 16 tons of hay, 144 bushel of oats, and 102 bushels of barley. The ruins left no trace of the grain whatever, leading to the suspicion that the barn was robbed nd set on tire. Loss, about $500. The house on that place was uuoccupied. McMinnville Reporter. Fred Schwatka is planning another Arctic soon treed. Mr. Smith shot it twice with ! expedition. He is reported as saying that a shotgun, and it fell, bo" only severely ' he is couvinced no vessel will ever reach the wounded, and marie a lively fight with the I pole, and that he will not attempt to get dogs. During the melee one ol the hunt- there by that means. He proposes to get as ers was attempting to get a good shot with- far north with a ship as practicable, and out injuring the dogs, when the bear turned then travel ov r the ice on sleds. He wiil npnn him. In attempting to : away he I depend entirely on the natives to drive the tripped, ami Bruin was soon upon him dogs, as he believes they are better fitted Mr. Smith ran to his rescue, and when he 1 for the work than white men. He says the arrive! found man, bear and dogs ail iu one i natives travel more rapidly and of course confused heap. He soon gave the bear a have better knowledge of the land. He ex fatal shot. The unlucky hunter who was pects to be ready to start with tle opening caught Was La lly bit on the arm and back, of spring aud is fully confident that he is but escaped luckily, for had it nut been for ( g iug to get there this time. It is also stat tbe faithful dogs he would undoubtedly ed that Engineer Melville is planning anoth h a ve been killed. I ar ex, edition. D. C. ROSE, A. W. ROSE. ROSE BRO'S. Manufacturer of and Dealer in Domestic Keywest and Havana Cigars. Wholesale and Retail. Chewing and Smoking Tobaccos and Smoker's articles generally, Aiso just received a fine lot of POCKET CUTLERY. No Chinese labor employed. CORVALLIS, - OREGON REMOVAL. I wish to call the attention of my patrons to the fact that I have moved my Harness Shop from my old stan ' to the shop on Main street formerly occupied by Cameron Bro's. I shall carry a good hue of harness and sad dles, and by honest work and fair dealing J endeavor to merit a share of yiair patronage N. P BRICCS. F. M, J3HM N. Attorneyat Law. Fire Insirancea Specialty. Money Loaned on Good Security. New Jewelry Store. C. W. Smith, A practical Jeweler and Watch-maker has located in Wagoner & Buford's real estate otiice, Corvallis. Special attention driven to repairing tine chronometer watches. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices to stiit the times. A tine stock of watches, clocks and jewel ry constantly on hand. 21-51tf LEGAL L A FOR SALE AT THIS OFFIOE n NKl MP WOODCOCK: BALLY7IFS the: ioeist SSRlCUfTURAf IMPLEMENTS! Temperance Department. EDITKD BY THE W. C. T. U. "Free Libraries are almost as widely spread as schools in New England. There are nearly 2000 of them, or one to every 800 inhabitants. Most of thhse institutions or iginate in private munificence, which the town meeting is generally ready to supple ment liberally even when prepared to fight "to the bitter end" against some highway or bridye rate With the b -qua for form ing a library by ol I Silas Bronson of Water bury, Mass. , occur the following words in the will "for the sake of promoting the edu cation and intellegeuce of this city, in whose well-being 1 feel great interest and to en courage aud maintain there in that good order and'those s nud morals, which 1 deem largely dependent on intellectual and moral culture." 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