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VOL. XXII.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, NOVEMBER 27, 1885.
NO. 48.
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TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES,
Of the 4 past week condensed.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The number of grain distilleiies registered
durinir the year was 1195, of which only
918 were operated.
The report of the tobacco industry for the
last fiscal year shows gratifying results.
Not only has there been a sin ill increase in
the amonut of taxes collected, but there
h is been a markel increase of manufactured
roilacts, and an unusually large increase of
the quantity of these products exported to
foreign countries.
The first auditor of the treasury has dis
allowed two months pay of the governor of
Alaska, on the ground that his pay did not
commence until he entered upon the actual
discharge of his duties. The tw. months
for which pay has been disallowed were oc
cupied in going to Alaska.
The president's message has been sub
stantially completed in its most important
parts. One question on which he is likely
to disagree with the democratic majority in
the house is the proposed suspension of sil
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Willi tile gom uoiiai. ll is .mmu hull uc
adheres to the policy of his letter addressed
to Bland, Warner and Bnunut, on the 27 of
February, 1885, and is prepared to reinfoict
the arguments then used l?y the experience
of the treasury during the last six months.
Total exjienses for the service durogthr
past year were about 3.9 of the amount col
lected. !Six hundred and twenty-four vio
lations of til : internal revenue laws ha 's
been reported by revenue agents during the
year awl zM persons have been arrested on
their iufor nation. Property to the amount
of$171,05i lias been rexiftedfor seizure and
$52,869 fr assessments ffor unpaid tuxes
and pan i i s. Tin com nissioner recun
ynends an increase in the number of revenue
agents.
A gentleman high in the diplomatic ser
vies of a foreign government, in spe.iking of
the Chinese difficulties which have occum d
in the western states and territories, said
that when the first attack was made upon
the Chinese word was sent by the Chinese
minister to Col. Bee, who represented the
Chinese six companies at San Francisco, to
thoroughly investigate the circumstances
surrounding the case and submit a report
coveriug the whole ground. Col. Bse did
so and sent on his report which was sent
by the Chinese minister at Waihi igton to
Marquis Tsena, who is now in London, but
who will shortly return to China, to assume
a position in the imperial council, which
corresponds to our cabinet. It is said that
soon after his return a demand will be
made upon the United States by the Chi
nese government for reparation and indemni
ty for all suffering and injury to which
Chinese have been subjected, as a result of
various outbreaks against them. The ques
tion to be determined is whether this gov
ernment has been guilty of any violations of
the provisions of the Burlingaine treaty.
Commissioner Sparks has recently made
a ruling which is probably destined to have
an influence upon the course'nf transactions
in public lands. He has decided, in sub
Stance, that commutation of a homestead is
in effect and law the turning of the entry
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. , . fer with the authorities in respect to the
GENERAL NEWS.
The United States grand jury at Lewis-
ton, Idaho, has indicted Hibbs for forgery.
Schooners just arrived at San Francisco
from Puget Sound report very rough weath
er at sea, and a number of vessels were par
tially disabled.
S. C. Blake, a stationer of San Francisco,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor and jumping from his room to
the sidewalk.
Orders were received by the Northern Pa
cific last Friday, to complete th- Cascade
branch with all possible despatch, and to let
contracts for tunnels at once.
Miss Kate Field delivered a lecture on
Mormouism at Chickeriug hall, New York,
to a large audience Satarday evening. The
lecture is the outcome of Miss Field's re
cent sojourn of a year in Utah.
Little or no attention has been paid by
cattlemen who have enclosed portions of the
public domain, to the recent message of the
president, commanding the removal of
fences. Criminal and civil proceedings will
probably be instituted against the offend
ers. The Austrian minister to the United
States has been retired by his government.
This leaves the mission vacant, and the
Austrian goverameat h is signified that it
will remain so until the U ite 1 States sees
lit to appoint a minister to succeed Kelley.
whom they rejected.
Schiieffer defeated Slosson in the sixth
game of the Chicago billiard tournament,
after .-in exciting contest. Tiie score stood:
Schaeffer 600, Slosson 492. This made
triple tie between Schaetter, Slosson and
Vitfuaux, which will have to be decided by
another series of games.
Mrs. Isabella Francahu has instuted suit
against the citv of San Francisco to have
defendant declared trustee for her of a tract
of land included between Frankliu, Lyon
and Union streets, ami the water front,
which comprises 100 squares. She claims
that the tract mentioned was granted to
her father, Gabriel Castor, by the al
calde of the old pueblo of Verba Bueua, in
1836.
A New York dispatch n? the 23rd inst.
says: Fish Commissioner Blackford was
routd this morning, unpacking a box f
steel-head salmon, w hijii had just arrived
from Oregon. The fisli were plump and
hanl, and looked as fresh as if just taken
from the water.
"We are receiving a box ot steel-heads
fr"tn Oregon daily, each box containing 175
p .loads of fish, and we must say they arrive
in splendid condition, probably because the
ice is renewed four times enroute. Tiiey sell
for twenty cents per pound lauded here.
FOREIGN N3WS.
The French government, it is state 1, has
decided to terminate its Madagascar exped
ition. A terrible cyclone swept over the Phillip
pine islands Friday. Eight thousand build-
idgs, including numerous churches and
school houses, were destroyad, and twenty
two pe-sons were killed.
The British steamship Iherian, from Bos
ton November 10th, for Liverpool, is
ashore in Dunmanus bay, and likely to
prove a total wreck. Dunmanus bay is an
inlet on the southwest coast of Ireland in
Cork county.
Sir John McDonald left Ottawa Friday
evening for London. His mission is to con
fer with the imperial authorities respecting
a commisiion to arrange with the United
States concerning the fisheries of Canada,
ind terms upon which the fisheries may be
enjoyed by United States fishermen. It is
understood that the larger question of re
ciprocity is included in the subjects which
Among the Rocks at and about Vineyards.
the pre-emption law. Since the passage of
the homestead law it has become almost a
universal practice for settlers to secure
claims under both fliat and the pre-emption
law in addition to which thev have usually
taken the benefit of the timber culture law,
thus aggregating, under the three laws, a
maximum estate of 4S0 to each settler. It
has been customary to take up a pre-emp.
tion and "tree claim" at once, and after the
shortest necessary interval to mortgage the
former for enough to pay the government
price of it, wher, having secured title, the
settler was at liberty to move away and
take the benefit of the homeatead law. The
ruling of the commissioner is calculated to
do away with this practice. It leaves the
set tier still a right to either a homestead or
pre emption in ddition to his "tree-claim''
and, as far as the ruling itself goes, it leaves
him a right to secure a pre-emption in the
usual way, and then secure a homestead by
living upon the land five years; but the lnt
ter right General Sparks does not concede
The ruling prohibiting commutation u
homestead claims by persons who have pre
viously been preemptors will still, he be
lieves, have an importaut result in prevent
ing, to a considerable extent, speculations in
transit of British mails to eastern Asia and
other points via the Cauadian Pacific rail
way. Advices from Tsaribod state that Cols.
Beuitizky and Topaloviich on Friday af
fected a junction of their forces and made
a joint attack upon the Bullgariaus at
Slivnitza. The latter were driven from
their positions, after a desperate fight. At
5 o'clock Friday evening the two armies
were still engaged. An ade-de-camp ot
King Millan was wounded during the tight.
Tnree other Servian officers were killed and
six others wounded. A dispatch from Bel
grade, dated midnight, says it is believed
fighting is still goinh on by mooulight. The
reported capture of Sofia is untrue.
The Servians are continuing their retreat
and the main army is now in Servian terri
tory. The -,roops seem to be demoralized,
and since the recapture of Tsaribrod by the
Bulgarians, they have fallen back without
offering any resistance to the victorious
t'rince Alexander. The Bulgarians have
occupied all the positions recently held by
the Servians in Bug.ria, and are advancicg
to the frontier. Servian headquarters are
now at Priot. The first clas3 of the laud-
claims. The obligation to live five years I strum has been summoned for active duty,
upon a claim is a test of good faith to which I After com .feting the massing of his army.
only actual farmers who desire land for King Mil I Ian will head the final attack on
their o.vn cultivation will eare to submit, the Bulgarians.
One of the leading and most ancient land
marks near Oorvallis is the promontory
about four miles north of this city and
known as the Vineyard R mch. Its trend,
looking from the south, is easterly and west
erly. It is high, and slopes somewhat gen
tly to the south. t its foot lays a soil as
rich as may be found in the valley, from the
disintegration of rock peculiar to th's loca
tion, and perhaps all that could be desired
in the way of soil making. Walking up
and on the flanks of this hill and casting
the eye from point to point, there is nothing
more attractive apparently to be met with.
than may be seen mrauy hilly slope. Only
an hogsback or a rock exposure here and
there. Its somber sha ie re elhng rather
than inviting inspection. B it a closer and
more critical look at what is around us re
veals colors bright and attractive, and then
the query, what is it? r hat are they? fol
lows at once to the inquisitive observer.
The writer does not presume to unfold the
mysteries hidden here, for, after only one
day in a field so rich in rocks of igenious
wrath, it cannot be expected; it will however
suffice if what shall be written will draw
attention, so, that if any benefits aie to be
derived from this field, the owner thereof
and this community may soon be the recipi
ants. In going to and fro over this field the ob
server soon comes to the conclusion th t
where be stands has once, more probably
several times, been the seat of boiling,
seething, sputtering rock, for on the one
hand lay misses of bright red porphery
tilled with threadlike veins of quartz, near
and at a distance can be found black an I li
lac or laveuder grey colored trachytes, and
this agi'in is dovetailed with the more som
ber, heavy and lull basalt. The trachytes
break with a rough uneven fracture, are dry
and harsh to the hand, much li!; a cinder.
Inclosed in this ock arj y t'lowislj, white
crystals much the shaoe of a peanut. This
broken, reveals tine slender threads or fibers
of a white or gray; sometimes these rest
upon a bright gre ;'.i. red or orange colored
jottony bed. occasionally two colors prevail
in t'ie sam3 crystal. While the rock has a
dry h irsh folding a more critical observation
reveals the m iss to be as it were c impose 1
of a re 1 and white fatfy substance in wave
lines giving the lavender sha le to the rock
as before ossntioael Also, as if for furth
er adornment, deep red prisims of iron dot
the surface here anil there. The rock may
be said to be vescicular and amygd-iloidal.
Aside from what revelations thooe igne
ous rocks may suggest the old conglomerate
shale laying beneath, tell of a time near
when this disturb nice prevailed, but where
the vents or chimneys through which so
much and varied matter came, and what its
thickness uuou the water made rocks, or
what wealth may be embosomed, all this is
yet to lie determined.
High upon the sides of the mountain in
several places are some good springs, these
have openedout shallow waterways down
to the creeks below. In these waterways
lay rocks generally basalt, sometimes a little
ironstone, but, all of the rock above the
water line is covered with a white salt efflor
escence, suggesting a mineral beneath from
which this efflorescence is derived.
Passing from this interesting field to the
public road below, and thence 1 1 the west,
we do not go far before our attention is ar
rested by what looks like a richly colored
clay by the road side, but on a further ex
amination, its weight, hardness and color
suggested it as a substance into which ae-
composed mineral had entered, and not a
clay. What was it? Ah, you who reside
thereabouts tell us, for when we passed, we
hail neither the time or facilities to look
further into the matter, and it may. be per
haps, we shall uever see it again. On, a
mile or so further west we pass the sulphur
and salt springs on Soap creek. Passing up
a litfle distance above the mill is a deposit
remarkable and worthy of mention. This
is a bank ot oeherous earth. It standi im
mediately upon the edge of the creek and
forming the south bank. It is about 10 feet
high and 20 feet broad as seen. It is divid
ed into beds of about two feet each and up
wards, not laying directly horizontal, but
fitting together wedge like. The upper lay
er or bed is of a clear bright red, this rests
upon a deeper bed of a lively lemon yellow,
then again red and again yellow. Below
this rests a thin layer of a few inches of
grass green, beneath this is gravel. Through
this mass vertically, ami in other directions.
are veins of a white glassy mineral, some
what decomposed making a white pasty ma
terial. Having lost the small specimen ob
tained, an examination of them has been
impossible. But the colors here suggest the
lecomposition of other mineral than iron,
and at not a remote distance from where
this bed reposes.
J. R.
P. ivate hut official advices from London
state that the British government invites
tenders for a fortnightly steamship service
from Coal Harbor, B. C. , to Hong Koug,
calling at Yokohama, for a period not ex
ceeding seven years. This is to be run al
ternately with steamer lines, via. Brindisi
and Suez, and is regirded as very important
in the event of blockade or other interrup
tion on the Suez canal. It is t-xpected that
through mails wi.l go over the Canadian
Pacific via Queue; and Montrea'.
The N. Y. Tribune has a long article on
Postmaster- General Vilas and the foreign
mail service, which it summarizes as follows:
"Criticisms in regard to the foreign mail
service have finally elicited an indirect but
apparently official reply from Postmaster
General Vilas, the tone of which is defiant,
and his statements more positive than cor
rect. He asserts that American companies
are monopolies which should not be encour
aged. Then he proceeds with the astonishing
assertion that the foreign mail service of the
conntry to-day is better than when Ameri
can steamship companies furnished it. This
has raiseil a direct issue of veracity between
Vilas and the business men's committee,
which is unfortunate for Postmaster-General
Vilas."
MISCELLANEOUS CARDS.
M. S. WOODCOCK,
A-ttornev - at - Law,
CoRVALLIS,
Oregon.
GrtJN" STORE.
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Kirlrs, P'slols,
Auiunitinn, Cutlery,
Spy Glasse, Fishing Tackle,
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Work made to order anil warranted.
20-33tf c. HODES, Corvallis.
James L. Lewis.
Sheep, .a'.ile, Horses acd Hogs bought and
sold and Contrasts mai to furnish same
ATALLTIMK8.
Mutton, Beef and fat Hogs a
Specialty.
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Will practice in all the Courts in the state.
Collections promptly attended to
(Office in I'ostorfiee Building.)
Corvallis, - - Oregon.
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Lewis & Rabei, Pioprietorg.
13" Do a general Draying Business.
Orders Solicited.
0. B. STARR'S
UVBT m and SALS STABLE.
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Charges Reasonable, Satisfact
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Oorvallis. - - Oregon.
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assortment of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc.
kinds of repairing done on short notice, and all
wirk warranted. l8:33-yl
y INCENT HOUSE..
. B. CURTIS, Proprietor
The best dollar a day House n the
city.
CORVALLIS, - ORECON
BURNETT & JOHNSON,
Proprietors of the
WHIST AND BILLIARD ROOMS,
Constantly on hand the best brands of
Tobaccos and Cigars to the market.
Fruit, Nuts Confectionery
Ice Cold Drinks, Etc.
GIVE US A CALL.
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Samples Sent Free on Application.
R. MONTGOMERY.
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.
New barn, new buggies, carriages,
and every thing else new and
first-class in all respects.
Special Attention Given Transient Stock.
Good Saddle Horses.
Prices Reaonnble.
(Second Street. )
CORVALLIS, OREGON.
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J.W. HANSON'S.
Clothing and Tailoring
EmDOvium,
You car. find the latest styles of ready made
clothing, also the finest
Pants Patterns and 'Suitings
Ever brought to Corvallis.
READY MADE CLOTHING
PRESSED TO ORDER.
Constantly on hand a full line of
Furnishing Goods, Underwear,
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CORVALLIS. - - - - OREGflV
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
In the matter of the estate
of
Elizabeth Col ye, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that I, W. J. Kelly, execu
tor of the estate rf Elizabeth Coyle, deceased, hav
Hied my final account as m'uI executor in the County
Court of the etate of Oregon for benton county, and
the said Court has fixed Monday, December 7th, 1885,
at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day as the time for hearing
any and all objections to the same and for a final set
tlement thereof.
22-45-5t W. J. KELLY,
Executor of the estate of Elizabeth Coyle, deceased.
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