The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-01-03
PACIFIC COAST

THERE'S not a<iassiko dwelling empty in
The name 81 the Naekls, Rec0ra Salem
is to be changed to Rising Star. =
The new telephone line between
and Oregon City is in working orr
There is strong talk, says Cd
of the Dallas Henaizer, of starti
Perrydale.
G. w. Quiyey, forme,
Democrat, is talking o. sdAl( - T. f
Independence, Polk county,
At a protracted meeting, hei1l ia Spring
field, Lane county, by Rs*s/S. Druer and
dhnrcb SnnkJ, of the y E. Church, 50 joined the
The La Grande Gazette denies the report
that large band of horses at La Grarlde.
belonging to the estate of the late George
Coggan, are sick and dying with distemper.
The steamer Satellite ran on to a snag at
the forks of Coos river last Monday and
sank out Of sight in fifteen minutes, por-
tion of the smokestack only being visible
She will be raised probably.
Mrs. Smallden, the female inebriate who
has figured so frequently in the Portland
police court, was picked up one morning,
last week, in an intoxicated condition, hay
ing lain in the street all nisht-being nearly
frozen, when found
George Geer, an old man wiitIts,silver gray
hair, died suddenly in tha.G Cos building.
Portland, Dec %, whittier he had entered
for a moments rest. Deceased was /, native
of Ohio, aged 81 years.
On the Oath of December Governor Thayer
pardoned John Dougherty from the peni
tentlary. Doughcrty was sent up from Multi
nomah county in 1875, for a1van years on
charge of larceny ina dwelling. Cause fail
ing health.
The steamboat S. T. chuseA will probably
go to pieces where she now lies in the VIII
lamette river below Salem. Everything
valuable will be removed, and the floods Of
spring time will carry her down the stream,
II. S. This report is contradicted ed.-Er.
GAzETTE.1
Union Sentinel: The Empire mine and
works were sold at sherif.s sale on Monday
last, for Sc, 74O IS. T. Regan and others
We're the purchasers. They can realize a
million dollars from the property within
three years.
A correspondent writing from Centerville.
Umatilla county, says: This new town now
numbers about 25 buildings, with others in
course OF construction. We have a good
school house, one hotel, one drug store, two
livery stables. two blacksmith shops. gro
cery store, saloon and wagon shop -,
The people of Coos Bay wish to send Gen.
Joe Lane to Washington to urge Congress
to make an appropriation to improve the en-
trance to the bay. In letter speaking of
the matter Gen. Lane says: s'Iwould not
be willing to take Or spend one cent of the
peoples money without could be of seryece
TO them. 1t is now too late in this Congress. ~
Mr. Luse, of Coos Bay, is going to build
another steamer to ply on the waters of that
oay. The Neaos says there are now four
steamers plying the waters of bay daily.
or freight and passengers, there are two as
inc tugs on the bay as thereareen the coast.
md two ocean steamers making regular trims
between this port and San Francisco. an
Imported by the patronage of Coos county
lone.
The Statesman says: ssWe have been in
ormed thatsthe Governor did not pardon
he man Luce from Lane county, but that
!e only remitted the sentence SO far as con-
nement in the penitentiary is concerned.
,ut did not restore him to citizenship. and
his action was based OH the opinion that
he man is really insane, and that if he needs
onflnement to prevent injury he ought to
e sent to the insane asylum.