The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-07
GENERAL NEWS.

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GENERAL NEWS.
Children in Oregon City have scarletina
The board of health there calls it dutch
measles.
Chehalis county is one of the largest
and richest resources in the Territory,
hut it is almost undeve!oped. Its population
is less than one thousand, and total prop
erty valuation, $500, 600.
James Smith, resident Of Oregon City
for many years died last week aged IS years.
The first snow of this season fell at Silver
City Id .ho last week.
Henry Mcdonald who murdered George
Meyers, at Boise City, is sentenced to be
hanged Oct. l4th. -
Several new wfiarves have been built at
Point Discovery for the shipment of lumber.
The bodies Of the five men drowned in
the Columbia on the 10th have been recov-
Iered.
New and rich discoveries of silver mines
are reported on the porth fork of Lewis
river Idaho.
A valuable marble quarry has been dis
covered near Seattle.
A ledge Of chalk two feet thick was re-
Gently discovered in sinking a well at
Ceourdaleue mission w. 7.
| New Tacoma machine shops are crowded
with work and now they want rolling
mill.
The st Charles hotel at Portland, has
changed hands. Thos. Guinean recently
from Sacramento now has charge.
| Great damage was done to standing crops
near Grand Ronde in Yamhill county by the
rain of the 23d and oath.
A musk mellon over three feet long is
boasted of in Salem.
Next comes cabbage head at Vancouver
weighing twenty-seven pounds.
] The Dakota on her last trip from the
Sound took ten tons of pump logs and 64(
tons of barrel timber from Olympia.
The railroad grade from the Dalles to ths
Cascades is reported completed.
The hoard of Underwriters of San Fran
cisco offer $3.50 reward for the conviction o
any person Of arson in Portland during tn,
past six months. -
/ Willard and His party arrived in Portlans
Hast Friday.
+ I26 citizens of Tacoma signed pape
requesting sewing machine agent to leay
town, because he maligned Lincoln, Grant
land Garfield, calling the latter a scrub an'
swindler, He left accordingly.
1 A dog was accidentally locked in a mason
ic lodge room. in New Tacoma and faste'
% days before he was discovered. Strang
to relate he survived the fast and fully re
lowered.
The government work at Coos bay ex
tends from the shore into the bay ], 300 feet
i At the onter end the water is 26 feet deep
The DalIes boasts of two pound apple
and English walnuts native grown.
i A large tooth was recently found Of
4 Chehalim creek in YamhiH county.
weighs II lbs. l3oz. upper jaw. The tootl
Is from tho jlw of pachydermatus, o
thick skinned animal.
Second crop of blackberries reported il
Douglas county. Second crops are quit
fashionable of late.
i Postoffice department has ordered tn
mail services to be changed from the stag
routes to the newly openel line of the N
P. K. R. through as far as Spokane bridge
Buena Vista pottery is troubled with
ghost.
Mountain streams in California are dan
ageing agricultural lands, by depositin
alluvium brought from mines above. Ne,
congles will be asked to devise some NEAR
Of relief for them.
!, A piece of alder wood over an inch
length was extracted. from the leg Of Geore
Tillotson in Dallas last week. It had bee
imbeded there twelve years and gave hi
trouble occasionally though he was nj
aware of its presence till recently.
Twenty four. Boston women have marie
t negroes in the past year. Blue stocking
and black legs.
II There are 585 Chinese children in the s.:
Francisco public schools.
An attempt was made by some lawle'
!. fparty to burn the railroad companies ell
i vator at Brownsville, recently but the iii
! was discovered IN time to save the building
n The Hotchkis rife gun at Fort Steven
is to be sent to Vancouver arsenal
II l5o.00 lbs. of opium were consumed
United States during the past year to fee
the vitiated appetites of its victims
''The Polaris" is the title of new pap
TO be published in Portland at $3.50 p,
I year.
al Last Mondoy Mr.. F. c. Schrum of Il
; Waldo Hills came t, town and while r
D turning home in bis wagon an explosie
took place in his right coat pocket, tearir
a hole through and burning his sleeve. II
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