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STATE NEWS. The Santiaw was the highest last Sunday that it has been in seven years. O. V. Meyers of Stayton slaughtered a chesher white hog this week which dressed 508 pounds. About 40 Japanese are at work on the Southern Pacific railway, 13 miles south of Roseburg, lightening up a slide. The circuit court docket for the term in session at Corvallis this week contains only 52 civi! and six criminal cases, the lightest for years. The creditors of the Job bank, in Corvallis,are to be paid by the assignee a dividend of about 8 per cent and it will be the last they will receive. Oscar Brown, of Siletz, was bound over to appear before the grand jury in the sum of $1.200 on a charge of rape on the person Lillie Depoe a girl of 16. Kinney's cannery suspended packing for the fall season with the close of last week; the boats are now being hauled out of the water and stored away for the winter. Lee and Robert Story, two small Nimrods of John Story, living near King's valley, in Benton county while out hunting last Monday, killed a fine fox. A correspondent to the Harney county News says: "A lady near John Day has about ninety cats, and the factory is still turning out cats to the full limit of its capacity." The Stayton labor exchange have the lumber on the ground to erect a starch factory. A meeting is called to consider the construction of the building whether the plant is operated or not. A bill of sale of the Pendleton TriT bune's accounts for subscriptions, job t printing and advertising has been filed b in Pendleton in favor of Mrs. Mary A. S Murphy. The bill of sale is signed by John P. McManus. h f An ordinance has been introduced in the council of Corvallis to close 18 every business house in the city on Sundays, except drugstores, for the sale of medicines, undertakers, livery V stables and barber shops. W b A Portland wife has introduced a T new feature in the popular divorce T fad. when called upon by the court a to testify in her own behalf, she G calmley produced a carefully kept V fe diary of his husband's misdoings, di especially of her numerous drunks, n and proceeded to read from it. Her b petition was granted without a murmur. 1.