The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-30
GENERAL NEWS.

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Ashland Lodge No. 65 of A. o. U. w.
was instituted last week.
The o. R. & N. Co. will build new dock
at Astoria 75x300 feet in size.
The Odd Fellows have membership cf
465, 1865 in the United States.
A brass band with sixteen members has
been organized at Hubbard.
The Washington county fair will COM
mence on Oct. Sd and continue four days.
| II acres of wheat on the farm of J. w.
Nesmith Polk county, yielded 55 bushels
to the acre.
| People at Goldendale w. T. are excited
over the discovery of rich silver ore near
Mount Adams.
Three Klamath Indians convicted of horse
stealing in Lake county have been sent to
the penitentiary.
A fire destroyed China town IN the su-
berbs of Chico CAL, on the Goth. 60 or 20
houses burned.
In excavating at the Lord Lorne mine at
Gold Hill, Nevada, at a~depthgof s300 feet
live worms. were found.
1t is reported that work will commence
again at the new Idrian mines in Douglas
county in few days.
/ A man was arrested in Portland for tear
ing down mourning draperes and ssentenced
to twenty days in jail.
| The secretary of the board Of trade esti-
mates the rise in value of real estate in
Portland the past year at 35 per cent.
Wm. Walker, recently drowned in Coos
Bay, is said to have raised the first Ameri-
can flag ever foated over San Francisco.
| Sulphuric acid in a natural state has been
discovered in Sweetwater county, Wyoming,
100 acres of ground being impregnated
with it.
| T. J. Ankeny, one of the three prisoners
who recently escaped from the Linn county
Jail, was captured at Seattle and taken back
to Albany.
The State Board of Education has issued
a first grade. State certificate. to- Miss L. l..
! Allen, of Astoria, and Miss Ruth z. Rounds,
| OF Portland.
Major Thomas Chairman, of Oregon City,
was stricken with paralysis at San Francisco
short time ago. He is now at home and
| about recovered.
U. B. Scott &:Co. .will ysoon commence a
new stern wheel b. at at the Dalles for the
upper Columbia: trade. 1t will be l25 feet
long, % feet beam and #, hold.
Julia Clark aged Is was shot and killed
in a disreputable house in Portland, ON the
| 18th caused by the accidental discharge of a
/ pistol by man who was drunk,
A fire at Stayton7in sMarion county, last
week consumed five buildings including a
saloon. drug store, boot shop, meat market,
and blacksmith shop, loss, about $4,000.
Alonzo Moser, of Butte creek, Marion
county, who harvested 245 acres of grain
with twine binder this season says the
average cost of twine per acre was l3t cents
Jacksonville Times: D. S. Wallace killed
monster panther, measuring eleven feet
from tip to tip, on Wolf creek recently.
He also anihilated a large bear the same
day.
Mr. T. R. Roster of Dayton w. T. has
! invented new wheat cleaner, which is
claimed to possess superior merritt He ex-
poets to have them manufactured at Port
land.
The o. R. & N. Co. have contracted
with Samuel Williamson, of Union county,
for 400 tons of hay; the company will win
! ter 500 horses in that county the coming
| winter.
! Tt has been discovered that the warm
earth in the vacinity of hot springs at
Linkville, has great curative qualities in the
| treatment of rheumatism and diseases of
| like nature.
The place where the railroad to Dayton
| leaves the main track of the Walla Walla-
Colfax division, is called Bolles Junction.
1t is PSI miles from WaIla Walla and IA
miles from Dayton.
Goose Lake Valley is afflicted with grass
hoppers and crickets. Myriads of them are
devouring everything green in their line OF
| travel A band of crickets will march two
or three miles day.
Malheur river bottom is HOO feet lower
than Baker City, is said to be fast settling
up by good class Of migrants. A ditch
some 10 or Is miles long is being construct
ed for irrigation purposes.
The North Pacific track is now completed
and trains run daily to Lake Prescott twenty
miles west of Lake Pend Oreille The tres
tie and bridge over the Pend 'Oreille will be
completed before December lst
James Welsh well known saddler Of
Portland. has been missing since the latter
part of July Any one knowing of his where
bouts will confer favor by informing his
partner Mr.. Christianser of Portland
A fire at the penitentiary at Salem, sup
posed to have been set by the conyicts, de
stroyed all the machine shops and out
houses. A convict Chiraman jnmped from
second story window to save his life and
broke his leg. Stahley's chair factory was
cove ed by policy of $1,000 and was the
only business insured The tannery, har-
nees shop and fixtures and Patterson & Co's
| foundry were total loss.