The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-09
Astoria is soon to have new county jail.

A fire in Portland last Saturday night
destroyed five wooden buildings.
Cattle in the Wallowa valley are still dy-
ing off and it seems there is no remedy for
the plague.
Articles of incorporation were lately
filed with the Secretary of State incorpo-
rating the East Portland Water Co. Cap
ital stock $50, 600.
At French Prairie on Sunday last the
threshers were going in every direction, and
Large amount of wheat in that section was
not yet harvested.
WEDDINe.-On last Tuesday evening, at
East Portland, Mr.. Wilber F. Kerns, post
master at that place, and Miss Addie E.
Buchtel were joined in wedlock. The bride
is the second daughter of Joseph Buchtel,
Esq. Sheriff of Multnomah county
Mrs. Nunnally, of Atlanta, went to clean
duck and found fourteen pins in it's gig
zard.
Hop pickers in the vicinity of Springfield,
Lane county, demand so cents box for
picking,
One of the hands on the Springfield bridge
fell from the false work, a distance of about
26 feet, one day this week, bnt alighting in
the river. escaped harm.
The town of Prescott, situated at the
crossing of the Touchet, is being laid out by
Fl. D. Chapman.
One hundred and twenty tons of wheat
and -four were shipped from Dayton and
forty tons from the Milton mills on the I'd
inst
On the farm of R. B. Cochran, near
Coburg, 10 bushels of oats were cut and
threshed from three acres of new ground
The British bark Loweswater, Lewis,
master, COB tons register, arrived yesterday
at Portland from Townsville, Queensland,
in ballast.
We are informed, says. the Eugene Guard,
that the mail carrier on the Mckenzie route
in Wasco county, on his last trip discovered
at Summit Prairie, the bodies of two Warm
Spring Indians, who had been shot by some
one, laying at the side of the road. The
perpetrators of the deed are unknown.
Lyman Daman, near Monmouth, Polk
county, threshed seven hundred and ninety
one bushels of wheat before noon without
one stoppage of the machine until the whole
79l bushels was threshed
A valuable horse worth $3.50 belonging to
Ike Durbin, On French Prairie, was poison
ed the other day by some unknown person.
Bennett and Chambers, two convicts con-
fined in the penitentiary, tried to make
their escape on Monday evening but were
unsuccessful
The British bark Countess of Rothes, 73e
tons register, arrived yesterday from Cardiff,
after a passage of 2l4 days. She is loaded
with railroad material and got aground at
the mouth of the Willamette. If she does
not float this morning part of the cargo
will be discharged into lighters. Standard.
n. Whealdon, of the firm of Whealdon &
Edwards, who has been seriously i'll with
typhoid fever for the past three weeks at
Salem, is now rapidly recovering.
Says the Itemizer: Uncle Mid. Simpson, a
pioneer of 1915, who has owned place on
Luckiamute since that time and resided
there almost continuously, has decided to
remove to Yaquina Bay, where he has some
land Hehas rented his farm and this week
advertised en- auction sale of stock, farming
implements, ETC., to take place ON the 23d
inst. His many friends throughout Polk
county will regret his removal, and join us
in wishing him happiness and prosperity in
his new home.
A few days since says the Standard, we
were several cases of smallpox at the Willipa,
on Shoalwater bay. Last evening we learn
ed that a letter had been received by dray-
man of this city named Wilson, informing
him of the death of a brother in that local
ity by that disease. There are said to be
a number of cases at Astoria, and yesterday
we heard it reported that the people OF The
Dalles were becoming excited and many of
them leaving town on account of the ap-
pearance of this dread disease there. So
x.
excepting the two cases of varioloid reported
some time since, as we have not heard of
case here since. The commencements!of work
ON the o. P. r. R. which constantly brings
so many strangers to Corvallis our people
may look for this dreadful disease to break
out among us at any time.
STAGE RoBERY.-On Tuesday night of
last week the stage going south was stopped
on the Anderson grade, just the other side
of the ferry, says the Jacksonville Sentinel
by one masked man who demanded Well,
Fargo & Co.'S treasure box and the U. S.
mail. Sullivan the driver, informed the
robber that the box was chained to the
stage, when he was ordered down to hold
the leaders while the highwayman cut it
loose with an axe. Seven sacks of mail
were also taken, but the through sacks Of
registered mail was not on board at the
time The express box contained only $l3,
but what the mail contained cannot be es-
timated, but it surely could not have been
much wien the register mail was not on
board. DIR. d. Ream and several other
parties from Yreka went out to the scene of
the robbery on the following day and found
seven sacks of mail with some of the con-
tents. but all had been cut open and rifled,
It was small haul to say the most and an
other robbery can be looked for soon.