The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-08-12

square for first and 81 90 for each subseqent ifsef
| tion. No charge for affidavit OF publication.
Transient advertisements to be paid in ADV HNCE.
Professional or business ciT1ls q square1 e1z PEI
annum,
No deviation in the above rates viii be lnsds jill
favor of any advertiser.
The price paid is 60 cents. Five Sesfs ago.
| when the price was 25 cents, the highest
catch made by one boat was 10000 ThosS
| who ventured farthest out at the mouth of
the river were not so successful as those
who fished up the river.
We have received letter from Mr.. Levi
Davis. who has been in the Willamette valley
for the last NORTH fortlie purpose Of intro.
ducing the celebrated carp fish into the
waters Of this state He has already
stocked ponds at Astoria, Portland, Molalla..
Gervais, Corvallis and Eugene City. and u
at present IN this county for the purpose Of
seeing what he can do in this line -Dalles
Times.
A house belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth
Crane, situated in the suburbs Of Rosebnrer
was burned on Monday of last week.. Eosar
$1,000; insured in. the State Investment for
$780,
Articles of incorporation of the OregoR
Fire and Marine Insurance Company were
fled in the Office of the Secretary Of State
| last week. The incorporators are w. 81
Ladd, NJ s. Burrell, Henry Failing; L.
White, Charles Hodge, c. H. Lewis VIM.
Reid, NV. Fechhsiinsf and Frank Dekum.-
The business in which the incorporation
proposes to engage is to carry on the fire an,f
marine insurance business'in all its branches
or such thereof as the directors of the corr
poration shall from time to time establisif
| agencies therefore wherever and whenever
it may be deemed convenient and profitable
The amount Of capital stock shall be $500,
900 and shall be divided into 800 shares.-
t-Statesmasi.
A military road is now being constructed
between Fort Colville and Spokane Fallsr
The distance will be shortened to IS miles.
The secretary of the treasury at Washing.
ton has placed the revenue cutter W6ac0tt
at the disposal Of the department cointnan-
der at Vancouver, for the purpose of ens
abling him to make a recohnbisante Of the.
coast between Port Townsend and Cape
Flattery, for the establishment of a military
telegraph line. ne.-Independant.
Track laying:has con.enced on the main
road of the o. r. & N. Go. to Grange City.
There is force Of about 100 men engaged
on the work.
Forty or fifty car loads Of iron Has al
ready been discharged at Umatilla for the
Baker City branch. !. It is Intended that
track laying should begfh soon on this
| branch.
The d. Z. 6 n Co: are now shipping
about Sc, car loads of last years wheat per-
day from Walla Walla. On, Wednesday
last 80 car loads of grain went down on tho
train. This years wheat has just begu1f
coming into the depot, and preparations
are being made to ship this years crop AZ
fast as it can possibly be done. -Statesmady
Says the Colfax Democrat: The depot
| buildings for Spokan Falls and Cheney will
| be built within the next three weeks. Each
! town will have a warehouse 24x74 feet, at-
tached to which there will be a station
house 24x24, two stories high, and fitted up
| in heat and comlete style.
| A few days silce q son of Emory Harris.-
| ON Flatwoods, was trying to draw water,
with rope, when be caught one foot in the
| rope and fell and broke his arm. The nsxt
| morning, while Mr. Harris was gone With
II. he hot,1 s$k sSy
the fire and was burned quite seriousIys
Censor. s
Gen Nelson A. Miles, commander in chief
of the department of the Columbia. has
| arrived in Portland; he has visited FoFS
Vancouver and was received with the usual
| military display due his rank.
Daniel Newson, who has made an extenS
| size tour Of Linn county, says shsrs d mo-
appearance Of rust on the wheat except ~
little on the blade which will not effect the
wheat.
A piece Of the burr milestone rock frOnt
| the Burr nlbuntalni above Lebanon, in
linn county, has been sent to- Prof CondeH
at Eugene for examination
4
Miss Addie George, daughter Of tho Ass
Hon. Hugh n, George and niece Of our
present congressman, NJ. @. George, now
has charge Of the delivery window ,of the
Portland Post Office.
Two walters ON the R: h Thompson
have been missing for several days, undef'
circumstances which lead to the suppositio6
that they have met with death by drowns
ing.
The fishermen from the Columbia havS
gone to work on the railroad between Port
land and the Ualies.
A small branch from plum Mee an inch
and q half long, from the garden Of Mr.. Elf
Moran, in Portland, had 200 pluns on it.
The weight Of The fruit broke the bransh
from the tree
Mrs.Jo Johnson, wife Of DR.. Gabriel Johnsons
died &C her homa near junction City Last
week, aged Is years. She was the mother
Of seven children and this is the ffst dssth
in the family.
Articles have been FLED in the eaerk&
office Of MnitnonaI county and with thS
Secretary Of state, incorporating the silver
ware consolidated mining company witk
.anftai stock Of 500, COO which i Al sub<