The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-16
GENERAL NEWS.

SCuOOl bcSau az CstC Ou VIC JUL AAiSe.
Diphtheria has again appeared in Sheri-
dan.
Eola wants a sawmill, grist mill and brick
yard.
The Walla Walla county fair opens on
the 18th.
Numerous blackbirds are harvesting the
! grain in Lake county.
An A. o. u. W. lodge is to be organized
at Ashland on the 18th.
The store and ho1ei of j. E. Richards
were burned at Mitchell Or, on the 2nd inst.
Some IS Indians from the Warm Springs
reservation are picking hops near Browns
vile.
A Kanaka company working in the
Klamath river, Is hands, took out $50 oun-
ces of gold dust in six days.
A mill in Beaver Valley, Columbia county,
was destroyed by FIRE last Friday night
Loss $1,000; no insurance.
The board of health of Astoria have de-
cided that children who have not been vac
cinated. shall not be sdinisstf to the public
schools.
The county Jail at Portland is to be lined
I with A-inch iron plate on the parts exposed
to the attack of prisoners attempting to
escape.
| Judge and Mrs. Matthew P. Deadly will
keave Portland on the goth inst, en- route to
| New York, to be absent about three
months.
| Alexander Stephensshas two stenograph-
ers hard at work assisting HIM to write a
book in reply to JEFF. Davis's history of the
Confederacy.
Hon ]. @. Thonton's residence in Salem,
took fire from sparks from the fue last Sat
urday, but was saved by the timely arrival
of the fire department
Joseph Osborn, deputy warden at the
State Penitentiary has been discharged by
Superintendent Bush for conduct unbecom
ing an officer of that institution.
| Judge Stott of the fourth Judicial Dis
trict has decided the contest for mayoralty
of Portland between Hor. Joseph Simon
and D. P Thompson, in favor of Thompson
The prospect is that all of the warehouse
at Harrisburg will be full though the rus
has shriveled great deal of wheat in tina
:. portion of the country.
| A petition is being circulated in the vicin
ity of Lewisvil1e asking Postal Agent Simp
son TO change the schedule of the Dalia
and Alsea mail from Mondays and Thurs
days to Wednesdays and Saturdays.
1 The decrease in the number of sheep il
Wasco county since the last yearly asses.
ment numbers Isl, ,15S head; in cattle, 40
! 255 head; horses. l705 head.
| The dwelling house just north of the en-
trance gate to the Fair grounds at Salem
was burned. The building was recentl,
owned by the State agricultural Society
The Pacific Bridge company's men finish
ed the railroad bridge across the Calapooii
on the 5th inst. The depot Is nearly finish
ed and most of the track laid to the bridge
SO they will soon be able to runtrains soutf
| of Brownsville.
Mrs. Mager, committed suicide by taking
Strychninc in Washington county few day
since, deceased was forr srly the wife o
Frederick Mager, farmer, living nea
: Cedar Mill, from whom she was divorced las
June.
The Walla Walla Journal learns tha
Toussaint, who was tried at Spokan Fall
for attempted incendiarism and sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary, mysterious
ly disappeared on Saturday last, from tn
Jail in which he was confined.
Il On Thursday, Sept 9Th, MIR. Isac Head
rick died at Howell Prairie Mr.. Headricl
was born in Kentucky in the year 1901, an,
in 1920 he removed to Missouri, where h
remained until lS47 he crossed tine plain
to Oregon, he settled on Howell Paririe
where he has lived most of the time since
/ Gov. Newell, of Washington Territory
l.speaks in the most enthusiastic terms of hi
trip to the north, and prophesies gran
future for Alaska. One of the leading fea
lures of that country for tourists is the gla
zier called the Ouk, about three miles from
the coast 1t is the second in size on thi
continent.
Mr.. Olds, of Middleton, Washington
county, has discovered bed of paint, o
his farm at that place. 1t is of dar
brown color, and several parties who hav
tested it say that it is of excellent quality
containing just enough iron to make it dul
able.
David Newsome in letter to the Albar
. Herald says: It seems to be fixed fact tha
a standard gauge railroad from Wallula vi
Snoqualime pass to Seattle, w, T., will
built very shortly, and another one like
from Portland to some point on the'sound-
perhaps at or near Tacoma
Says the Chattanooga commercial: II
majority in North Carolina against prob
bition is reported to be over l20, 900 an
the returns from the ''back townships" col
I tinue to increase it. Guess the inhabitan
of that state are not in favor Of shutting o
their toddy, just yet.
says the astorian,- is seriously afflicted wit
the smallpox. Daniel Wilson, Miss Clai
Billiard. Miss Minerva Withcomb. Brarlt