The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-01-24
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon.

The State Tempernce Alliance meets at
There has not been single case of diph-
liberia i'll Coos county.
Lish Applegate has '.thrown up" his
greenback organ at Albany
SMrs John Hackleman died at Salem on
the 10Th, of consumption.
A man on the Dakota was arrested for
smuggling opium.
Mails were lately sent to Southern Oregon
via San Francisco.
c'NGrs Iary Evans, aged So years, died
near Wilbur last week.
Several persons were arrested last week i'll
Canyonviile for disturbing a religious meet
ing and fined SIS each.
Fall sown wheat looks well in Wasco
county, and stock are doing better than in
some other counties.
-JMr. John Quigley, a young man aged
about % years, died Saturday morning at
st. Vincent's hospital, after brief illness.
The Oregon Steamship company. and also
the Pacific Steamship com mpany, have ad-
vanced passage to and from San Francisco.
The Mountatneer says the store of Hodge
& Wilson, Prineville, burned with all its
contents. Loss, $4,000; insurance. $iO,-
600.
| John F. Moore, the party wounded re-
Gently i'll the shooting affray with Backen-
stos, at Portland, has fully recovered and
resumed his regular employment.
| James Kazerta Mercer, sentenced to the
penitentiary for fifteen years. has been fur
nlshed with an easy job. He has been ap-
pointed to the position of horse collar stuff
| fer.
Diphtheria still RACES at Vaila Walla,
Pendleton, La Grande, and in fact, every
where. From all quarters of the globe
comes the doleful sound ~" Death, diphthe-
ria
T. n. Smell, a merchant at Sheridan, has
received letter from ST. Louis announcing
the death of an aunt and that by it he be
| came the possessor OF an estate valued at
$4,000.
Steps have been taken to procure an ex-
tension of the Table Rock mail route -
miles further to Thomas sawmill- The ex-
tension is much needed, and will accommo-
date large number of citizens who are
without mail facilities.
Daily Oregonian 1t is the opinion of
Col. Gillespie and others versed in such
matters, who have observed the movement
of tire bars at the Columbia that in a few
years at the most the main channel will be
between Sand Island and what is known as
the middle sands. The bar across this
channel is gradually washing out, and light
draft coasters now occasionally come in
that way, tire water being thirteen feet at
low tide, The channel is true west from
Chinook point and is almost straight from
the southernnost point of Sand Island.
Should the depth become great enough in
this new channel the terrors of the Columbia
river bar will have almost entirely disap-
peared.
Capt. L. S. Scott returned to Salem, last
week, from brief visit to his father i'll
Iowa, near Omaha. The Captain had not
visited the .sold folks at home" for %
years. The Captain is OF the opinion that a
visit to the Eastern States will cure an Gre
gonian of homesichness very suddenly.
He greatly enjoyed his visit. but is fully
pursuaded that Oregon is the best place out.
With ice on the Missouri river fifteen or
twenty inches thick, and the wind blowing
cold enough to freeze the limbs off of the
oak grubs, and corn at thirteen cents per
bushel, wheat fifty cents, and pork at two
cents per pound, makes Iowa and Nebraska
good states for farmers to cmi gratb from.
In the eyes of the Captain it is an unparlon-
able sin to be dissent ented i'll Oregon.
The jacksonville Sentinel reports that on
the evening of the 10th inst a man named
Fri Sebring was shot and killed ON Jackass
creek, a few miles from jacksonville, by
Samuel Rath. On the morning of the 10th |
Rath and an Indian woman who lived with |
him as his mistress, had some trouble, and
the latter went to Sebrine's house for protec
ton At about dusk Rath and All Indian
named Steve went to Sebring's house and |
tried to get her to leave with them, but she
refused to do it. Rath was armed with Il
rife, and when Sebring demonstrated with |
him about his conduct he pointed the gun at
him, threateningly saying he was going to
kill somebody. Sebring said why, Sam,
you would not kill me- woull you ?" Rath
replied No." and hardly were the words
uttered when he shot Sebring, the ball strik
ing him just below thcleft nipple, glancing
upward above the heart and infiicting a
mortal wound He was buried on Sunday.
Ruth and his Inlian accomplice are under
arrest.