The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-08-26
GENERAL NEWS.

" S. Rails. one of the old time residents
of Jackson county. died at his residence
near Willow Springs on Tuesday night OF
last week. He was near 50 years of age.
The Tidings says the Ashland Woolen Mfg
Co. will manufacture hundred thousand
dollars worth of goods this year.
Caldwell & Bybee's large barn at Tule
Lake was burned to the ground last week
with all it's contents.
The Yreka journal says that an army
officer has been sent to Fort Klamath to
make estimates and arrangements for the
construction OF a military telegraph line
from that post to Ashland. Oregon
born, of Michigan, actuated by laudabie
desire to see something OF this country, left
Portland Tuesday morning for Mt Hood,
accompanied by Prof. Pratt, who viii take
them up into that mountain
A disastrous fire occurred at Cheney w.
T. on last Saturday morning. The losses
are as follows: Payne & Rich, dealers in
general merchandise, So, coo insured FOR 81,
| 5000; E. Wilce, builder, $1,000; Stratton 6
Harrington 50, GOO, insured; and several
| other small sums.
The Columbia sailed from Portland last
Saturday evening at II o'clock with large
| list of passengers and the following freight:
10 on -. 7 HI lo4I Q,Ire
| oats 2oS bx dried apples, 72 SKIS wool, l es
eggs, crates croekery. Is pkgs Govt
! freight, 60 tons pig iron.
Tie Countess of Derby bas completed
discharging her cargo of railroad iron at
| Portland, and has taken in lot of wheat
| for stiffening. Messers. Balfour, Guthre &
| Co. have her cargo of valley wheat awaiting
her at Greenwich dock, and i'll few days
| she will be on her way to the United King
| dom.
From ii. c. Perkins who is just in from
| Harney valley we learn that the young
cattle in that section and in the neighbor
| hood of Stems mountain are dying lin Large
| uuuDCIS VI q olSCdcC WIiCu 10 hlloWh e~o ohis
black leg. The mortality is chiefly confined
| to young cattle and is contagious. 1t will
| be serious matter for our stockmen If this
disease gains such an ascendency as the
rinderpest and kindred diseases does in Other
sections.-Lake county Examiner.
Lieut.. Davis is at Fort Klamath arranging
for the delivery of poles and doing Other
work Connected with the construction of the
| new military telegraph line from Ashland
| to Fort Klamath. Plaindealer.
Mr.. D. j. Pankey says the Plaindealer
has the largest yield of grain we have heard
of yet. He had oats that yielded sixty
bushels to the acre. Average yield Of
wheat forty bushels to the acre. Can
any other precinct in the county beat that:
Some time since Mr.. Jacob Wills, who
| resides at Willis Station on the East side
road, had one of his fingures crushed in a
moving machine. He has since suffered
| anlputation of the member twice and now
erysipilas has set in and it is probable that
he will loose a greater portion of his hand.
! A large abcess has formed on one of his legs.
caused from blood poisoning, that keepsshim
very ow, so that the operation has been in
definitely postponed to await favorable
opportunity ty.-Standard.
| Dr. Trowbridge and T. B. Maxwell left
Monday morning for the north fork of the
Santiam to thoroughly prospect new silver
mine lately discovered in that section. The
ledge is twelve feet in width, and some of
the rock from the surface has been aasayed
by Professor Steen, of this city, and Yielded
at the rate of s46 per ton. It lis proposed
to extract sufficient quantity of the ore to
obtain certain test of its value Standard
Jack McKinzie was killed at Walla Walla
on Friday evening last while endeavering
to stop runaway team. He was slightly
under the influence of liquor at the time,
and as the horses were turning a corner he
ran out to head them off. Misjudging his
ground he ran directly in front of the ami
mails, and while falling, one Of the horses
struck him in the head with his knee, crush
ing his skull and breaking his neck, causing
almost instant death. Standard.