The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.

The store of Messrs. Everts l. Hiestand,
at The Meadows, Umatilla county, was
destroyed by fire So, 500; no insurance,
General Grover, is a younger brother of
Senator Lafayette Grover, and this is his
third trip to this coast. He is making a
tour of inspection of the cavalry forces at
Fort Boise
Every criminal case brought to trial in
the late term of Circuit Court in Multno-
nah county, resulted in conviction.
All work on the 0. r. & N. Co.'S road
between Portland and the Cascades has
been shut down for winter. Most of the
laborers are to proceed to the front on the
Northern Pacific.
The Dayton Chronicle says, ''People
round Dayton are profuse with Asafoetida
as protection against smallpox and some
carry onions as substitute.
1t now takes Sc hours to make the dis
tance between Roseburg and Redding by
the o. & c. stage. The company began
running on winter time on the I'd inst.
Thirteen months ago there was not hou Sc
where the town of Cheney stands, and now
there are 600 inhabitants.
Travel has almost ceased Cor this year
across the Lebanon mountain road, and few
more will attempt the trip before the road
opened next spring.
In making excavations for the railroad at
the Cascades an Indian curiosity was found.
It is about the size of mortar pestle with
carvings on each end and on one side heart
is cut
Says the Tacoma Ledger, A few days ago
we examined numerous specimens of free
gold, washed out of Michell creek, about
one and one-half miles above its junction
with the Nisqually river. The discoverer
is of the opinion that rich gold bearing
quartz ledge exists in that vacinity.
Gov. Thayer has appointed Roscoe R.
Giltner, of Portland, and j. T. Simpson,
of Grand Ronde, notaries public Of Oregon.
A Chinaman was arrested in Portland
last week upon charge of burglary, and
large amount of stolen goods recovered
which together with other evidence, proves
beyond doubt that ne is the party who
has victemized ::Portlandites for several
months past.
A court of inquiry was held by the British
vice-consul at Portland last week to inves-
tigate the cause of loss Of the ship Lammer-
law near Shoalwater bay, and the bark
Fernglen. Both captains were severely
censured for carelessness, and the certificate
of the commander of the last named vessel
was suspended for four months.
The town of Dallas VS. J. L. Collins is a
case of unusual perseverance on both sides.
The council ordered sidewalk built ada
cent to Collins property and the cost taxed
up against the property, as he refused to
construct it at his own expense. Upon suit
brought Collins defeated them on the ground
of insuficiency of the ordinances. The walk
was torn up and aftera new ordinance pas
sed, relaid and the whole process gone
through with three times, and the case was
submitted to Circuit Court on appeal last
week.
A former resident of Portland writes to a
friend there, under date of Butte City, Mon
tana, Nov. 1st, giving very fattering ac-
count of that locality as the most thriving
mining camp on the coast. Mines are in
active course of development, every house is
filled, buildings are being erected, money is
plenty and everything on the boom. There
are three daily newspapers in the town and
the Western Union telegraph company will
open an office there. Smelters, reduction
works and plenty of mills are in brisk oper-
alton. The railroad will soon be completed
there and everything seems to indicate a
brilliant future for Butte.
It is reported that The Dalles Military
Road Company have sold out their interest
to English capitalists, who intend to put the
road in thorough repair SO that it can be
travelled at all seasons of the year, from The
Dalles, via Canyon City, to old Fort Boise,
on Snake river. As soon al the road is put
in proper condition the land will be graded
and offered for sale.