The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-11-04
GENERAL NEWS.


board of trade is to be organized at the
Dalles.
A new crop of horse thieves reported
about Walla Walla.
Buena Vista is to have dramatic society
composed of home talant.
/ white deer was killed on Griffin creek
in faction county last week.
Lodge No. 81 of the A. 0. U. w. was
instituted in East Portland last week
The Washington legislature has voted to
tax church property in that territory.
Walla Walla is now supplied with gass
male from pitch pine and crude petroleum
Petty thefts and burglaries are again be-
coming alarmingly frequent in PORTLAND
Six divorce cases are on the docket for
the next term of the Circuit Court at
E lcene
From s5 to $40. per day to the hand is
made in the Elliott creek mines in jackson
county.
The Chinese Government has published
an cdict exempting Protestants from assess
ments for heathen ceremonies.
Jewish emigration to America is subject
of much concern to the Russian government
and attempts are being made to settle them
on farms.
The valuation of property in Jackson
comfy is 81, ,463, 3O2. Indebtedness, S594,
s62. Exemptions. s232. 6l9. Total taxable
property, l,633,s No. of polls, 1850.
The bridge case in Portland was argued
before Judge Sawyer last week and per-
minent injunction from further construc-
ton was granted. The company will appeal
to congress for release from it.
The agent for o. r. & N. Co., at Walla
Walla has been ordered to ship no more
grain to Portland for the present. Sheds
are to be lluilt over the piles of sacks await
ing shipment.
There is considerable talk of starting a
cannery on-the Coquille. viii h, in view of
the large numder of salmon caught annually
in the river. ought to pay handsomely.
Judge Lawrence decided in the Guitean
matter that the court has power to sum-
mon witnesses living more than 100 miles
outside the juris fiction of court, AMI expen-
ses must be allowed by accounting officers.
One Armed Brown caught Chintman
selling liquor to an Indian in Salem recent
ly. and promptly took him to Portland t.
be interviewed by the U. s. Court.
The Grand Lodge of Oregon of the
knights Of Pythias will b, instituted at
Portland on Tuesday, Nov. 9Th, 1T viii ;h
time the members of the orler expect to
have grand time. On the 9th they will
have uniform parade, which will no doubt
be magnificent.
The owners of the celebrated Medical
Lake in Spokane county have procured
evaporators ant-are engaged in manufacture
ng powders. The water contains one-fifth
of one per cent. of solid matter. The pow
ders may be dissolved in rain water, which
will then contain all the medical properties
of the water taken directly from the, lake.
Last Friday, Wm Sanders, while hunting
on Spencer Creek west of Eugene, had the
misfortune to slip with his gun which was
discharged. the ball passing through his
hand te ring it in a fearful manner
The California from Sitka will bring to
Portland for trial the lndi,ns who murder
ed Campion and Maloney last Fall She
also brings four Indian wi.nesse. Henry
Imhoff, the brewer and several other Eris-
oners are also coming for trial.
Enoch Boyle, the missing shoe maker. re-
turned home last week. He says he wrote
home and his wife failed to get his letter
He has been at work down near the mouth
of the Columbia and has now gore up on
the Oregon Pacific Railroad. Albany Dem
ocrat.
Mr.. John Hill, of Big Prairie. was in town
last Saturday. From him we learn that an
almost continuous search has been made for
the missing man. George Strong, for a couple
of weeks, without finding the least trace
Mr. Hill thinks he wandered into the noun
tains and perished.-Eugene Guard
A promenant New York lely complains
that she has applied to several ministers of
that city to pray for Guiteau's soul anil
that they all refused.
A public meeting was held at The Dalles
last Saturday to take into consideration the J
subject Of organizing Board of trade in
that city, 1t is thought such an organizs-
tion might render assistance in securing
further appropriations for the locks AMI
canal at the Cascades.
1t is reported that farmers along the
Columbia Slough have put out poison to
kill the dogs Of parties hunting in that sec
tion, hunter scarcely realizes how much
annoyance comes from their dogs to the
farmers or they would be more careful