The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-02-07
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon.

Mckay creek. near Pendleton, has been
permanently bridged.
DR.. Watts has organized blue ribbon
temperance society at Scio. -
Hay is scarce in the Eugene market, and
is selling at from SIS to $lS.
The Marsh6eld city government does not
owe cent and has ON hand nearly $4OO.
The snow was thirty inches deep in the
vicinity of King creek, Jackson county.
Mr.. David Newsome of Marion county,
attends DR.. Watts on his temperance cru
sade.
A scow loaded with match wood swamped
in Coos Bay, last week, and most of the car
go was lost.
A six foot vein of fine coal has been dis
covered above tidewater on the south fork
of Coos river.
Sixty seven marriage licenses were issued
by the clerk of jackson county during the
year 1878.
About thousand head of cattle are being
| fattened for market in Surprise Valley,
| Jackson county.
Prof. Rice is painting a panorama of
scenes in Eastern Oregon, which he proposes
To exhibit throughout the eastern states.
| Albany fremen who don't want to he
| blown up, are endeavoring to enforce the
law relating to the storage of powder in
stores
The captive Indians from Camps.Harney
aad McDermott, who are to be quarteretl on
the Yakima agency, passed through the
Dalles en- route last week.
The eigth annual session of the Oregon
State Temperance Alliance will meet in the
city of Albany On Wednesday, February
10Th, 1879, at o'clock P NJ.
A correspondent writing from the upper
Wallawa valley says: We are expecting an
Ind ian war in the spring, and are prepar-
ing to meet it as best can. But few of
our citizens are inclined to join the state
militia.
The bridge across the Luckiamute at Da-
Wilson's is impossible owing to the fact that
the water has worn away the bank and car.
ried away bent of the bridge on each side
of the river. Owing to the height of watel
in the stream repairs cannot be made.
Salem Statesman : We learn from a gentle
man who has recently been travelling through
Linn, Lane and Benton counties that the
frosts have not in the least I'M ured the
wheat. That everywhere the wheat looks
green and thrifty, promising heavy har
vest the coming year.
Pendleton East Oregonian New mine!
are being discovered along Snake river, neal
SdliuOH EtIlS, WHICH, are very flCii. LIZ
deeper the better. Nine dollars per day ha'
been made to the man at Payne's ferry
two men with a small bench machine ant
a few sluice boxes have been averaging ST.
to the man ever since they started up las
February. The river banks are rich will
fine gold.
Il The M. E. church at Salem has determin
ed to enforce that section of the discipline
which refers to ''imprudent conduct" to
wit : Gases of nesl slect of duties Of an
kind, imprudent conduct, indul9ing sintll
tempers or words, the buying, selling o
using Intoxicating liquors as beverage
dancing, playing at games of chance, at
tending theaters, horse races, clrcuses, dane
ing parties, or patronizing dancing schools
or taking such other amusements as are oh
viouslv of misleading or questionable mora
tendency, or disobedience to the order o
discipline of the church,
, Ya1ni,ill Reporter The crops have p" sset
through the frosty season. and are uninj jure'
in fact the frost has been a great benefit
This is the report from every locality in thi
county and adjacent farms. One of tb
, most successful farmers on the whole west
, side gives it as his opinion that the GRO
throughout the valley will be increased fv
} freeze, and our farmers generally are il
cheerful spirits over the result. Grain
not killed out by the frost so easily as som
imagine. Unless the ground be very wet
so that the freezing, AMI thawing process
: moves and displaces the roots from the soil
there is no danger.