The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-09

C. Long of Coos county made nearly
tons of butter from 60 COWS during the past
season.
The Newport coal mine was sold last
Saturday for $4,000. P. Flanagan and
s. s. Mann were the purchasers.
Seven cows on G. N. Farrin's ranch,
butter for the year ending November 10.
A very handsome piece of gold quartz,
worth about S25 was recently taken from
the O'Keefe claim on Ruby creek and is
now shown in Seattle.
Produce in the following amounts was
shipped from Cheney from October Goth
to November 10th inclusive: Oats, l4O. 600
bushels: fax seed, 700: wheat, 260O; po-
tatoes. 5000; hay, 1000 tons; vegetables,
1000 pounds.
I It cost Whitman county $l20 to bury the
bodies of the Indians who died. at Palouse
ferry of smallpox, and were abandoned by
their comrades. They were unburied for
a number of weeks.
Mr.. c. B. Hopkins, editor of the Palouse
Gazette, published at Colfax, w. T., on the
9Th of January will commence the pubi-
cation of an illustrated newspaper in con-
nection with his other journal.
More coal was shipped from the port of
Seattle last month than in any previous
Of 14c OQ0n
the Renton mine and l4,O74 from the
Newcastle mine
It is reported that R. D. Hume is moving
in the matter of building coast line tele-
graph, starting at Eureka, Humboldt bay,
and extending as far north as Marshfeld
and above if business viii justify.
The Masonic hall building at Marshfeld
will be finished and ready for occupation by
the order about the end Of this month. 1t
will cost between $4,000 and $4,000. Paper
containing the principal Masonic emblems
will be used on the walls and ceiling of the
hall, which is 27 by Al feet in size and it
will be finished up and decorated after the
fashion of the grand lodge of the order in
Portland.
The American ship Olive s. Southland,
1,l00 tons burden, is now at Walkers
Island, 60 miles down the Columbia, where
she is discharging material for the Northern
Pacific R. r. Co. Her cargo consisted of
5,977 bars of steel rails, S75 splice bars. n
kegs of bolts and NUTS, making l,525 tons
in an.-Standard.
The Brownsville wooden mills in the month
of October manufactured and sold $l3, 600
worth of goods. The company employs 35
hands who receive on an average 50 per day
many of them being girls and boys. The
company last year sold $llO,O 600 worth of
goods.
Articles of incorporation were on the
9th inst. filed with The Secretary of State
incorporating the Pacific Lumber and
Manufacturing Company. 1ncorporators
L. G. W. Primby, Robert G.. Hinman and
N, Versted. Capital, $4,000, Principal
Office, Portland Oregon.
Chronicle, Dec. Sd: Dayton's outlook as
regards smallpox is favorable. During the
past week there have been only four new
cases and one death. Only one or two
patients are considered dangerous, and the
majority will be discharged as cured, in the
four or five days. As we go to press there
are just forty cases in town, including those
in the pest house. Many houses have been
disenfeeted, and unless there is another
outbreak of the disease, one week more
will show few or no yellow flags in town.
Last week man was arrested at Ven-
tnor, on the line of the N. p R. r., on
charge of shooting, and placed in charge of
Mr.. Shafer, the Sheriff of Kootenay county,
to be taken to the county seat at Westwood
when on the cars the officer of the law fell
asleep, and the prisoner literally ''went
through" him. First he took his bulldog
pistol then his seal ring, purse, pocket book
and everything he had in his possession;
and to wind mp the ceremonies he tied the
sheriff to the seat and made good his escape.
That sheriff will be heard from.