The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-07-15
STATE NEWS,

The Black Horse mine on Warm Spring
creek was sold for IS, 600.
large train of emigrants passed through
Pendleton last week in search of homes
s40O. 600 has been offered to Capt. Ankeny
for his Sterling mine, He declined the
offer.
The steamer Idaho was brought down
over the rapids at the Cascades on last
Monday.
MANY silver and lead bearing lodes have
been discovered about 80 miles from Spokan
Falls. ON the line Of the N. P. railroad.
A miner of long experience after thor
oueh examination of the Wood river mines,
says they viii eclipse anything he has ever
seen in California, Nevada and Arizona
The pay ore in the Occidental mine, on
Greenhorn creek, near Wood river, IS tour
feet thick, The owners of the mine were
offered $50, 600 for it.
A bar of bullion was ran from the star
mine ore on Wood river weighing 100 o.,
which assayed 24O OF, silver and 60 per cent.
lead.
A mine in Greenhorn gulch in the Wood
river country was recently sold to San Fran
cisco parties for S., 900.
The body of Jimmy Haeheny, who SO
mysteriously disappeared from his parents
home in Portland few days ago was found
floating in the river. The coroner's jury
after thorough examination into the case re-
turned a verdict of accidental drowning.
Casner Bauman, a resident OF Bethany,
in Washington county, while going home on
foot from Portland last Saturday night at
late hour on the Cornell road, was met by
some unknown maa who fred a pistol shot
at him. MIR. Baunran retreated and took
a new day in which to finish his trip.
The four year old son of Mr.. Vincent Cook
of Portland, was drowned ON Sunday last at
Clifton fishery where Mr.. Cook and family
have been spending the summer season.
We were told by Mr.. j. e. P. Withers
this week rather a singular freak OF ma
ture, says the Gnard. He had in his patch
of potatoes one vine that persisted in bear
ing that esculent on It's vines above ground
instead Of below the surface.
VIM. Parker, john Austln and Thomas
McEween have filed articles Of incorporation
under the corporate name Of the Powder
River, Burnt River and Summit Wagon d
Bridge Co. The capital stock is $50, ,o0o.
Mr. Fred Mathews met with e painful
injury at Smith Bros. foundry last Friday,
a narticle of iron from the work on which
he was working striking him in the eye. Ii
is not possible to state just how serious the
injury may prove
Articlec of incorporation have been filed
in the Office of the Secretary of State incor
porating the Springfield & Siuslaw Railroad
Contrary Object, constructing and main
tanning railroad from point on the Viii
lamette river opposite Springfield to tide
water on the Siuslaw river, in Lane county
Oregon. distance of eighty miles Capita
] stock, $500, coo. Incorporators, A. S. Pat
terson, John Kelly and J. Fl. McClung. :
Guard.
I The third package of goods stolen from
the store of Mckinney & Smith, at Turne
together with some other articles takel
from other parties, has been found. Thi
was the most valuable package of the three
the articles found therein being worth s200
One day lrst week two prisoners engage
in working on the insane asylum, watche
their chance and slipped into the wheat nea
by. and craving on their hands and knee
for about 400 yards were not noticed by tn
guards until thinking they were out c
range of the rifles. arose and started to run
Nearly fifty shots were fred at them with
out effect but they were finally capture
by Sam Brown and another party and take
back to prison.
We learn from the Philadelphia Ledge
that the keel is being laid for an iron steam
ship, to be named Queen of the Pacific, II
tendid to run between San Francisco an
Portland, Oregon. This steamship will
$40 feet long, So feet 6 inches beam, an
% feet deep. She is being built under til
! highest class of Bureau Vcritas, and wi
steam Is miles per hour, regular steamint
! and it is claimed will be the fastest steam
e ship on the Pacific. Her engines are Of tt
g compound type, with piston valves and a
G indicated horse power of 3ooo The boi
u ers will carry 100 pounds of steam. Ti
It steamship is Understood to be for the Pacli
t Coast Steamship Company, and is beir
:. constructed at the yard of Cramp & Son
Philadelphia.