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

A Lynx wa. killed last week in Curry
county.
Several bui.ness failures In Portland wers
reported Last week.
The Territorial Legislature. convened at
Olympic on Monday last. !
Salem wants Garfield monument erected
At the Capitol, by subscription.
Lake view is to have An academic school |
the first term will begin November lst.
Thos, Clarke Of Walla Walla has been
adiudped insane and sent to the asylum at
Steialacoom.
The Saranac il. the deepest vessel that
ever sailed in over the Columbia bar: She
was Drawing 81 IL feet
San Francisco has spent s. 50O.0 0O0 on
| its city hall. and it will take $1,000. 600 to
complete it.
From $1,000 to l25.ooo hoop poles are
| shipped from Clackamas county to San
| Francisco annually.
Patrick McManus who has been missing
from Salem since the 25th was found at the
| bottom of a fiums with his neck broken
last week.
| A $40, 900 breach Of promise suit Il In
| progress in Laue county. Miss Bradley
formerly of Douglas county vs George
Williams.
CAPTAIN Denny's new steamer to ply
between Portland, Tillamook Yaquina and
Coas bay, vill commence making regular
| trips in about six weeks.
There was but two inches Of water in the
Ohio river at Pittsburg. during the severe
tirouth this season. A condition never
before known.
| Lieutenant Governor Tabor. Of Colorado.
proposes to give Denver public library,
with a building costing 5000, 600. and lOO,.
600 volumes.
| The Oregon and Nevada Railroad Com.
uany in trouble. It is reported that the
company is bankrupt, and ITS property Is
liable to pass into the hands Of the Virginia
4 Truckee Railroad company.
| The White river cheese factory. is running
ON full time, and turning out q large guam
\
about 5000 pounds of milk daily,
The second annual fair Of the Mohawk
Farmers Club viii be held at the Stafford
school house, Saturday. Oct. 18th. NJ en- en-
trance fee, and free admissions. Prsmiums,
blue and red ribbons.
Fx.Collector Ball, of Sitka, will knock at
the doors Of Congress next winter for ad-
mission as a delegate from Alaska having
, been chosen at q recent election in that
! | Territory.
The new county of Klttitas is to be organ.
lied out of portion of Yakima, in eastern
I Washington. It will be large county. and
3 though at present thinly settled. contains
). many natural resources to be developed.
s TIE new logging cars are being built for
E the Tacoma mill Company, to be used on
their logging road to Big Skookum Bay.
, These cars will each have sixteen wheels
under them and will be different from any
thing heretofore gotten out on the Sound.
The barn af n. F, Joy. situated about
G miles south of Salem was burned last week
!. He also lost thresher, header, large
n amount of hay, and also q small quantity o.
wheat which was stored therein.
Last week Mr.. P. C. James brought in
specimen of Tobacco raised near Knox's Butt'
: in this county, says the Albany Democrat
Mr. James raised two hundred plants this
e season and says it compares very favorabi,
e with that raised by him 1t his former nom
). in Southern Illinois.
q Gov. Thayer has issued the following
= commissions; Jos. F. Kelly, Captain; Rob't
Roden. lst Lieutenant, and Richard West
= acott, I'd Lieutenant, of Capital Guards
r Co. D. lst Regiment, Second Brigade, Q. s
NJ
Q Oregon has sent away IA vessels wit
q wheat, has six in port and seventy on
Ie on the way, due between this and mex
e March. These will carry 136,6oO tons
leaving 263 500 tons, or l66 vessels to
obtained if we ship al our surplus befor
next August
= A Chicago journal contains an interv'e,
!. with President Dillon, of the Union Ia
J. cifc Railway Company. Mr. Dillon sal
= that the construction of the Oregon Shot
= Line, projected from Granger. so mile
= west Of Omaha, to Portland, Oregon
= - being pushed with energy. One hundre
miles of track will be laid this season.
an A report was current at the Dalles las
no week that Mr.. Smith had been sent fro
He the Treasury Department at Washington
AN 10 inquire into the propriety OF stoplr
- further appropriations for the constructic
Of the Canal. Hon. NJ. g. George addresse
no large mass meeting ON tho snbjsct, pr
,st testing against It.
nd The north ward Of the Insane Asylum
he MP and all ready for the tin roof. The wal
m Of the adjoining ward are al up ready t
lei the roof, and the walls Of the main OF CO
his tral part Of the building, which will be to-
'th stories high. one story higher than u
m, remainder of thA building-wili be finish
OF in few days a. also the kitchen and ehap'
Ben Blauton and Charley Riley, had
-. quarrel It Sublimity about twenty yea
n. AGO. Riley chen left the country. a fe
s. days since these parties met again IN Ba's
81 CITY, and both drew pistols and fired
s. each other. Blanton fell dead, and KiI
nvsd only lev nkinubsa