State and Territorial.
The Iron works at Oswego, Oregon closed
down last week with but . little hopes of
again being able to leopen.
The Oregon Horse ami Land company has
12,000 horses on its numerous raucies in
Western Idaho and Eastern Oregon.
The Canadian Pacific is in the near future
to be a close competitor of the North Paoi
lie for the through emigrant business from
the old countries and Lower Canada.
2lew .Northwest: If a strong bill to pun
ish prize fighting, its aiders and abettors
were introduced in the Oregon Lcgislatuie,
It would be mterestiug to watoli toe course
of a part of the Multnomah delegation,
The law of the state of Oregon explicitly
says that no person who is divorced can
marry again for the space of six mouths, or
until the time for an appeal has expired;
and any person violating this express statute
is liable undr the law.
The population of Union county has in-
-creased froma.fioO iu 1SS0 to 8,(S8, accord
inn to the census just taken, A ranch gie it
er increase is shown iu the Eastern Oregon
counties in the last five years than in Wes
tern Oregon counties.
A young man in Colusa county, Califor
nia, shot himself about a year ago because a
young woman refused to marry him. The
.girl said he was a fool, but the buy recover
ed. The other day the girl committed sui
cide because she boy refused to have her.
The world changes and so do boys and girls.
Dave Small of Walla Walla, has contract
ed for the furnishing of 12,000,OUO feet of
lumber for a company that is now engaged
in the construction of an eight-mile Hume
down Pichard creek, through the placer
diggings,uear Murrayville. A practicable
wagon road is being buiit from Thompson
Falls, which seems to have a future before
it after all, but it depends ou the mines
An idea of the sizff of the sheep ranches
in Montana and Wyoming may be had from
the statement that the V;irren Live Stock
company of Wyoming has on hand 40.000
1 1 l I , nnn 1 1 r i
neau 01 snceu, uesicies avuu neau ot sheep
which they now have fattening at Gibbon.
Neb. These great western and northwest
ern ranges have for a great many weeks
been sending vast numbers of sheep to New
York.
A Seattle paper says: 'The Chinamen in
this city signify their willingness 10 leave
Seattle if they can get purchasers for their
property. Gee Hee said recently they were
not at all mxious to stay, but felt that they
could not sulfer a loss of tlieir property.
He said his company the V.i Clung com
panyhave $130,000 worth of property
here, which they would part with if a buy
or in ide bis a;vearauee. "
Chinese pheasants, with all their winsome
ways ami ..mg tails, are said to be the most
destructive hud known when it comes to
making an attack on a shock oi' wheat. Not
satisfied with getting enough to eat they
overhaul C!is whole sljock, scratching the
wheat in eery direction. Wiieu it comes
to tiglitiu. a game cock is said to stand no
chance wi .u them. One good-sized Chinese
pheasant will "cleau out" a whole barn yard
of roosters. Democrat.
Soma of our valley farmers claim that
lipids are i ml from seed brought here in
1833 from California, Tut- glorious climate
of California, nninternpted by frosts, per
mits the grow th of many varieties of weeds
which seriously annoy farmers there, and it
is not altogether unlikely that in the wheat
used here to re-seed our laud that spring
some of the noxious things were introduced
and still linger with us. Yamhill Reporter.
The Walla Walla Journal says: "Wheat
is pouring into Prcscott at the r te ot 000
to 700 sacks a day, wuile not more tkau 100
a day, ou an average, are shipped out. The
accumulation along the track at the point
is now over 20,000 sacks. This is represen
tative of the situation at all stations on the
road north. The farmer with notes matur
ing and under compulsion to pay 2 per cent,
jute rest thererfttjr and unable to obtain pay
for his wheat until it is shipped, finds the
grinning ami bearing of it a somewhat diffi
cult matter."
The people of the western part of Lane Go.
held a meeting at Florence lately, and ap
pointed committees to aid iu securing the
annexation of the Siuslaw portion of Doug
las county to Laue, says a Lane county ex
change. Hon A. C. Barbour will present
the subject to the legislature. They will
also Knead the.efforts of Hon. Binger Her
man in securing an appropriation to make a
full survey of the harbor and buoy the chau
nel at the entrance of the bay. It success
ful, this move will open up a large section of
country to settlement which is now almost
entirely unoccupied.
Wasco county raised nearly 800,000 bush
els of grain the padt season. Next year,
with favorable prospects, the yield will be
over a million bushels.
At the term of the circuit court held in
Linn county at Albany recently, there were
eleven divorce and two slander cases on the j
docket.
Lawsuits are sometimes rather expensive
luxuries. A case has just been concluded
Baker City Sage Brush: Some talk of
having a new judicial district out of Baker,
Union and Umatilia counties, and it is re- in a circuit court in Iowa, which iuihebe
ported there are about twelve candidates ginning might have been settled for sS-0
for judge. but the fighting disposition of the parties
As an offset to the general prediction of a 1 involved prevented a settlement. The
bard winter, it is worth noting that one of atter U3S in c'lrt3 eleyen year8'
the oldest residents of this valley, who ; cost over 20,000 and bankrupted several
unusually observant of weather phenomena, ; prosperous farmers.
says he has never known a severe winter to i A number of girls were recently brought
follow a fall in which the rains set iu early, lover the Short Line from Omaha to be wait
Douglas county sheep men complain tntj.ferS in the eating house at Huntington. A
...i .,1-1.0- oi.or..l,;n;.,,, .., Idav or two since a susceptible young fellow
i ' i i tT.i till1 I wuirji one; I r I ii lux .iniiii.11.1 ai i i tt i "
on the increise, and they are very destruc- "ja3' bunch grass.
tive to that important industry, and that
the bounty offered by the county court is
too small to induce anyone to limit and de
stroy them.
All over the country women continue to
take the benefit of the land laws by secur
ing homesteads from the government. Pick-
ng up papers which contain "notices of pub
lication" and "notices of proof," We almost
invariably find the names of women among
the homesteaders.
Says the Lakeview Examiner of ast Sat
urday: "The register and receiver of the
land office at this place rendered decisions
this week iu a number of swamp land con-
ests. The decisions in every instance were
in favor of the settlers and against the
swamp land claimants."
Roseburg Plaindealer: The Oregon & Cal
ifornia passenger trains run over and kill a
reat many deer between the mouth of Cow
Creek canyon and Grant's Pass. The deer
et on the track and become fascinated by
the light of the engine, and allow them
selves to be run over, or thrown senseless
rom the track by the cow-catcher.
In favorable seasons California counts its
honey-crop by the thousand tons, and bee-
eepers rind a good profit when extracted
honey commands no more than four or five
cents per pound, and comb-honey seven or
he cents. This year, however, the honey
yield will be light flowers are few and nec
tar scant.
asked one of them
to marry him. They had only
known each other three days
but she was equal to the emergency, and
she accepted him ':just too quick." He ac
companied her to a justice of the peace,
who, iu making out the necessary docu
ments asked the young man the name of his
intended. "You will have to ask some one
who is better acquainted with her than I
am," said he, "for 1 dont know." The mar
riage took place, and such is life in the wilds
of Baker county.
Free.
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,
Also 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 stand to the shop on Main
street formerly occupied by Cameron Bros.
I shall carry a good hue of harness and sad
dies, and by honest work and fair dealing
endeavor to merit a share of your patronage
N.P BRICCS.
For the balance of 18Sf
holiday number, to all wh
including the mammoth
subscribe now lor tgHu.
Last week as Mr. A. J. Ohn, who lives
near Shedd's was riding across a small
bridge, his horse broke through and threw
him violently forward, his head striking ou
a plank piece of timber at a point iu the
left eye brow, cutting a gash from that
point back to the top of the head and then
down to the left ear, and tearing the scal2
all down to the ear and temple, leaving' all
the skull in front of the ear and up to the
top of the head naked. The wuund was a
.frightful one but a physiciau was called and
-sewed up the wound and the man is getting
along all right.
The Chinese of Portland are determined
to stand on the defensive, and evidently un
derstand the maximum iu time of peace pre
pare for war. One gun store in this city
has sold ninety weapons to Chinese during
the past week. These consisted of double
action Colt's revolvers, and a few Winches
ter rifles, Yesterday a couple of heathens
purchased two splendid revolvers and 300
P. F. Bradford, a successful frail-grower
near Portland, has put up 22,000 pound i of
dried fruit, consisting of 16,000 huu'is of
dried plums and prunes, 4000 pounds of
dried apples and 2000 pounds of d.ied pears.
Mr. Bradford is a practical man and thor
oughly understands how to dry fruit. The
fruit sells easily at ten cents and upwards,
wholesale.
Farmers of Douglas county buy short
horn Durham cattle, raHe good grades,
make go id butter and cheese, stop the im
portation of these articles from the east,
keep a few tine bred hogs that you can feed
all the year upon skim milk, refuse grain
and ve 'enables, cease to put iu so much
wheat for shipment, and our word for if
you will seo better times iu the future.
Plaindealer.
the blakely null company is omitting a
Standard gauge railroad up tiie Little Skoo-
kinii river. Over four miles are ready for
the rails. A locomotive has already arrived
but for some reason the iron has been de
layed. The road will lie used at present for
logging purposes, but its ultimate destitute
tiou is Gray's Harbor, to which inlet it is
fifty miles. A survey to the summit of the
Olympic range to be crossed has already
been completed. Next spring active work
ou pushing the road through to Gray's Har
bor will be prosecuted.
Last spring there was a grand rush into
Harney valley, but. there were inarjy poor
settlers went in there who expended their
all iii improving their places, and are now
entering upon the winter without a cent.
and no probability ol securing work betore
spring. There are no chances of obtaining
employment in that section, and the man
who takes his family there should take funds
sufficient to tide him over the first winter at
ieasi. Sage Brush.
Ashland Tidings: During the past eleven
mouths there have beef but seven deaths in
the portion of this valley between Phoenix
and the California line, and two of these
were the results of accidents, one being
from a fall from a horse and the other from
a rille shot. The territory includes the town
of Ashland and has a population of about
2800 people. This is certainly a good re
cord and accords with the claim made by
Ashland people that they have remarka
bly healthy climate.
A correspondent writing from Blue River
mines says: The miners are preparing for
winter and are building cabins. Work is
still being performed on the ledges. Some
-till coming and going. They have located
Mat quartz claims ou the head waters of
the Calipooia. Mr. Warren raised and cov
ered a house to-day on his ranch one mile
aix.ve the mouth of the Blue river on the
Mclvenzie. Mr. John Watson is building a
house just one-half mile above him on his
ranch on Elk Creek. All of these places
have been recently taken up. Land hunt
ers, looking for government lands, shonld
pay this section a visit, as there is plenty of
good government land still vacant that
would make splendid ranches and veiy good
range for stock.
Concerning the tramps arrested for the
murder at Roseburg, reported two weeks
.'go, a correspondent writes as follows to
the Oregoniau: "Mike, one of the tramps
jointly indicted with two others whose true
names could not be learned, and who could
not be found, for the murder of the tramp
Sullivan about two weeks ago, was tried
last week. Tne first jury disagreed, stand
ing three for murder in. the first degree, two
for man-slaughter and seven for acquittal.
With the January issue THE WEST SHollL will
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