The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-02
GENERAL NEWS.


A directory of the city of Salem is to be
published soon.
The wigwam in Salem has been opened
again for skating rink.
Senator Edmunds will discuss the polit-
ical aspect of Mormonism in Harper's
Magazine for January.
A new town called Van Duyam has been
layed out, at the terminous of the Marrow
Guage in Lane county, at the forks of the
Willamette.
Mr.. Daniels, of Harmony, Clackamas
county, has lost over forty fine sheep which
were killed by wolves. Mr.. Alfred Luell-
ing, of Milwaukee, lost about . dozen last
| week.
On Sunday morning last Mr.. Andrew
Frazier, who lived alone near the Fair
Grounds, at Salem, was found dead in his
house. It is supposed he died from heart
disease.
Andrew To.we-pe, one of the Indians
who was implicated in the murder of the
| Perkins family, was hanged at Fort Colville
on the 18th inst. He died "game."
The partners in Sacramento law firm
Young & Young, are husband and wife.
Mrs. Young was admitted to the bar some
| two years ago. The firm is doing success
full busineas. Exchange.
The net proceeds Of the Cantata Queen
Ester, played at Independence few nights
since. amounted to $25 "a, which was
donated to the oagan fund of the graded
school.
c. A, Pickett, from Clackamas county
has been sentenced to seven years imprison
ment in the penitentiary for an assault with
intent to commit rape.
| Proposals will be received at the contract
Office, Post Office Department, Washington
D. c., until r. n January 7th, 1882, fol
carrying the mails of the United States
upor, she routes and according to the sched
ules of departures and arrivals specified BY
the Department, in the Territory of Wash
ington, from July lst. 1882, to June 3Oth
SS6.-lndependent.
By the last steamer there was shipped t.
New York several cases, containing sample
of the forest trees of Clark county, w. I
They were collected for . natural histor.
society in New York.
The Portland Journal Of Commerce says
the shipments of potatos to San Francisc
are large. Between three and four thous
j and sacks were taken by the Columbia O.
. her last trip.
Another attempt to get womans suffer
age bill passed by the w. T. legislator
was made on the 18th says the New North
west. The new Bill provided for tn
submitting of the question to popular vot
Of the people but was lost bya vote
four to SIX,
At a meeting of the Episcopal Diocesan
Board of Missions in Oregon, recently he'll
, in Portland, the following appropriation
were made for church buildings: Trinit
, Mission Chapel, Portland, SIS; st. Mathew
: Chapel, Portland, $25; towards the erectio
of the church at Oakland, $l0O; for repai
s ing the church OF the Good Samarital
!. | Corvallis, 800.
!, Messrs. Watts l. Godfrey will publish
I business directory of Linn county, a5o'
: January lst. One thousand copies WI
be issued, large numder of which will
furnished to immigration aid societies Il
}. distribution on trains, steamboats,, etc
b while the remainder will be sold at tt
s low price of SO cents per copy.
s Robert Gray, keeper of the lighthouse
= Entrance Island, reports, says special
the Victoria Standard, that on the llth in
q sloop, partly decked over, was wreckt
b ON the southeast end of that island. The
r were two white men, two kloochmen ar
4 three children seen on board. All on boa'
q were lost.
II A large amount of hydraulic pipe hi
8 been ordered in Portland for the squa
Q Lake Ditching Company, Of jackson count
IS This assures more extensive operations
II the company. which is all that is needed
) assure success.