The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-02
GENERAL NEWS.

The hop crop in Lane county is said to be
good and picking viii soon commence.
About IL, 900 bushels of new wheat had
been received at the Eugene City mills last
week.
The ore Of the South mountain mine in
Idahs is said to yield 200 ozs.. of silver per
ton.
Many rich strikes are being made in the
new mining district now being developed in
Idaho
Albany people are di scu.ing the probabil-
ity of large wooden mill being built there
in the near future.
Messrs Berry and johnson caught sal
mon on sthe Cocuille last week which
weighed u pounds.
Work on the entrance to the Coquille has
been suspended as the amount appropriated
by Congress has been expended.
J.W. Strange has withdrawn as editor
of the Rosebnrg Plaind ealer and w. Fl.
Byars has again taken charge.
The junction City people are now regal
ing themselves ON ''bar" meat. Two large
black bears were killed on Lake creek last
week.
Albany is to have general reading room
1t is the joint production of the blue ribbon
club and the young peoples christian asso-
citation.
The Christian Messenger says that unless
more stock is subscribed to their publishing
company the paper will close publication
at the end of the present volume.
junction City Touring mills, are kept
busy day and night filling orders and tend
ing to the wheat which is coming in at the
rate of a Thousand bushels per day
Clark Richards, on Deer creek has raised
the best crop of oats SO far as heard from this
year, being an average Of IS bushels to the
acre.-Roseburg Plaindealer.
Some unprincipled scamp went to the
new threshing machine of Shrum and Wat
son near Roseburg, and deliberately broke
the spur wheel to bits with sledge hammer.
Five new caneries will be built on the
Columbia in time for the season of 1882
The net earnings of the Oregon and Nav
igatien Co. for July was s2lO 900 an increase
of SO, 4 per cent over July 1880.
The Oregon Improvement companys new
steamer Umatilla which sailed from New
York for Portland on the 3lst of July, ar
| rived at Rio Jeniro on the 10Th of August.
| She is expected to reach Astoria about Oct
22nd
Harry Mordam, who made his escape from
the penitentiary at Salem few weeks ago
| has been captured at San francisco and
will be sentenced to serve out the balance
of his time in that institution.
A little daughter of Mr.. Charles Steward,
! living at the mill on the Ahtanum, w. T.,
while playing near the deep mill race, acci-
! dentally fell over the steep bank and striking
| its head on a log was instantly killed.
Last Friday evening Mr.. j. W. Cox with
| his mother were out riding in Salem, when
the horse got frightened and overturned the
| buggy throwing out both occupants, the
| mother escaping unhurt, but the son had
his collar bone broken.
| An error has been found in the boundary
| line between Wasco and Umatilla counties,
| says the Standard, it is claimed, iby Port
land firm who are getting up map of Oregon
| for their own use. The error If corrected
will give about thirty miles more territory
to Wasco countyr
Robert d. Hume owner of the line of
steamers running to San Francisco to Smith
! River and Ellensburg, is expected here soon
| to make arrangements with our merchants
for shipping their goods. via Smith River.
Jacksonville Sentinel.
The narrow gauge is now graded all the
| way through to Cobnrg Lane county. It is
expected the road will be carrying wheat by
the lst of October. No warehouses will be
built this season, but temporary sheds will
be erected by farmers, from which the grain
| will be shipped.
| Seye raj railroad and navigation compan-
les of the. northwest have united in putting
a scie ntifc exploring expedition in the field
for the purpose of examining into the MN
eral, agricultural and other resources of the
country tributary to those companies be.
tween lake Superior and the Pacific coast.
The task of the expedition will extend
through several years.
On Wednesday last little daughter Of
Mr.. Eli Williams, of East Portland, while
| playing in field near the house says the
! Vindicator. she stepped scyths
that was laying in the gras s. She received
severe cut on the right foot as she stepped
on it, and then the scythe flew up the sharp
point cutting severe cash in the right thigh.
No arteries were severed, only deep and
ugly flesh wound.
| As Mr.. William Wilmott, of Powelps
valley, and his wife were coming to the city
| says the Vindicator, last week, driving
horse that had lately been purchased by
Mr.. Wilmott, they had occasion to come
] down short, steep hill in the road
4 just as they arrived at the foot of the hill
the horse began kicking in fearful manner.
Mrs. Wilmott attempted to climb out O
the wagon, a proceeding the horse, it seems
objected to, for it let drive one tremendou.
blow at her, which struck her leg just below
the knee, breaking and splinetring the bon.
badly.
The Eureka correspondent of the Sal
Francisco Chronicle, under date of the 24tl