The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-01-31
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon.

o. c. Taylor is running three ditchino ma.
chimes near junction.
Chief Moses has been let loose bv orders
from the Interior Department..
The Dayton Neacs thinks Dayton is des.
tined to outstrip Walla Walla.
Quincy Grubbe has resigned as principal
OF the school at Bethel. He will move to
Salem
Snow six feet deep on the Blue mountains
Ill the vicinity of the Parker wells, though
only four ON the summit.
Col. w. Thompson has organized three
militia companies in Wasco county and ex-
poets to start several in Grant.
On account Of the number of hot springs
emptylng into the Sprague river, in Lake
county, that stream has not frozen over this
winter.
The Salem Chinese mission school is pros.
porous. and its friends claim that it is doing
mucn good; Its students will soon give
pub ic exhibition.
I The sheriff of Jackson county has collect.
ed up to date little over S1l 900 of taxes
due for 1876. The whole amount to be col.
lecteI is S32, 1876 GS.
Everything frozen up in Josephine coun.
ty. Illinois ri:er is blocked up with tail
d
needed to clear it out.
Jackson Grant, the half breed Indian who
shot Sheriff Eakin last Summer, has heen
convicted of the murder of Dennis Spellen,
at Portland and sentenced to be hung on
March 2lst.
La Granle Gazette Four degrees above
zero is the lowest point to which the ther-
moneter has reached in La Grandc this win
ter. notwithstanding the sn..w is about fif-
teen inches deep.
Salem Statesman A young man by the
name of John Carter, or John Orr. was ar
rested at the Salem depot Jan. %, on a
charge Of forgery, he having cashed note
at Ladd & Bush's bank for 50, 500, drawn on
Bates & Helmerick. of Buena Vista, which
is claimed to be forgery.
The citizens of So'laville are taking steps
to improve the condition of the soda foun-
tain at that place. 1t is the intention to
take away a part of the brick which now
surround the spring and to put down in the
r,lace Of it marble tank and to also i'm.
prove the grounds around the spring
Salem Statesman The custom house off,
GERS have been making n tour of the city,
cautioning cigar dealers against giving away
cigar boxes on which the stamp has not been
properly Cancelled One keeper became in
censed hecause the officer cut the lids from
off I'll his empty boxes. He wanted them
to fill up.
Walla Wal!a Inion Of the 18th inst On
tie Sth of January Capt. w. Fl. Winters,
1t cavalry. was in John Days valley, in
oon,mrn'l of two compani of troops, escort
ing 3O) Tn lian from Camp HaFney to the
,les. He was wa ting the arrival of 2F0
more Jnd;ars. These IndE Ms are ] risoners
who We're captured or gave themselves up
rast summer 1t is understood that they
are being moved to the Yakima reservation,
md that Camp Harvey is to be abandon
ed.
Says the osel urg St,r: On Friday last,
lack Frpcrsrn formerly # this city. got in
TO an alter ion with a hottl Eeertr named
Thomas, at Guyservi.le, Cal. i'll which the
latter WAS killed ] y a shot from Wincbes-
ter rife i'll the hands of Epperson. In his
att empt to escape, Eppers'n fred four or
five shots at the constable, who in return
fred at Epperson, the shot taking effect in
the ler On Sunday }. Epperson, the
young mans father. received telegram in
this city that it had been necessary to am
puta7e J"ck's ler, and it was thought that
he were not survive. Mr.. Epperson's ra-
rents live in this city, and are highly re-
spacted and have many friends who sympa-
thize with them in this distress. 1t is re-
ported that Jack had been drinking bard for
several days previous to the commission OF
his dasperate act