The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.


Hon NJ. c, George leaves for Washington
on the 10Th inst.
Saloon keepers in California are forming
leagues against the Sunday law.
The military telegraph line from Ashland
to Ft., klamath is completed,
The new Presbyterian church In Jackson
vile is to be dedicated Dec. 4th.
Mr.. Jas, H. Short, last week killed two
lynx on Deer Creek in Douglas eouisty.
$3.50 barrels of salmon were put up at the
Coquille fisheries on Coos Bay this season.
6O,OOOlbs of hops have been purchased
in Lane county at an average price of l9
cts., per lib
bard;in Marion county, was burned Satur-
day night.
Nearly all of Sitting Bulls friends and
adherants have surrendered and applied
for blankets and winter rations.
A petition to Congress to erect light
house at the mouth of the Sinslaw River
is being circulated in Lane county.
Most of the freights for Monmouth arc
obtained through Independence leaving the
Morrow Gague out why is it this!
The first consignment of tea consisting
of l,O3S chests direct from China to Port
land, was recently received by Corbett &
Maclecy.
Owing to the prevalence of smallpox at
Dayton w. T., the o. r. l. N. Co., has
| stopped all trains from running beyond
Walla Walla for the present.
Gov, Thayer has commuted the sentence
of Joseph Marx, sent to- the penitentiary
from Clatsop county, for term of five years
from Aug. 80, 1877, for the crime of larceny.
Cause assigned uniform good conduct and
term of settence nearly expired.
A severe wind storm accompanied by
heavy rain, prevailed at Oregon City last
Tuesday morning, fences were blown down.
signs loosened from their fastenings, win
dows shattered and trees uprooted. Old
inhabitants say it was the fiercest storm
ever known there.
The following is the transaction of the
Roseburg Land Office for the month of
October, 1881: Alb acres sold for cash; "a
homestead entries, embracing 1856 acres;
| l3 final homestead proofs, embracing 1854
acres; 81 pre-emption filings; l timber
entry, embracing 54 acres; soldiers home
stead fling
E. Starr, of Prairie City, shot and killed
Mr.. jeff Parry, of that place, because he
would not marry his daughter, with whom
he had been keeping company for some time,
Boys don't 60 to Prairie City unless you are
on the marry.
A hotel at Pendleton has been named
Willard, and would be local bitters tally
one for him as against Col. H. because il
one were named after him it would moi
sound very well, but we presume he car
| live without that honor as we know {
couple of farmers who are raising up boy
to bear his name.
Government horses and mules recent,
purchased in Jackson Co., seem to hav'
Jared rough from careless handling. Or
| their way from that place, being tied togeth
er, one was run against a tree and killed
and sevaral more considerably crippled by
being crowded off bridge.
Articles of incorporation of a company
who purpose to manufacture lime, .cemen
and all kinds of building material, wer,
yesterday filed in the office of the county
clerk The incorporators are Messrs. Noal
Lambert, III. D, Greene. Paul Schulze
David Goodsell, E. ]. Haight, J. McCracke
and v. McCulloch. Capital stock of tn
company is S., 900 in shares of $50; duratio
perpetual, and the principal place of bus
ness, Portland.
Mr.. William Kerns, of East Portlan
has laid out town site on the donation
claim of VIM. aud Mary Kerns, situated o
the base line road some three miles east {
that city. It is divided into five acre lot
and on paper looks as well as the averae
town site. The town, when started, is t
be called Marysyille. Standard.
Within the past thirty days 3.O25 bale
of hops from the Puyallup w. T., yard
have been shipped to. San Francisco, vi
Steamship ''Dakota, two trips, 2,266 bale
Idaho last trip, 759 bales. Several hui
dred bales are yet awaiting shipment, an
a large quantity were left in the railroa
. warehouse last Friday, the "Idaho" beir
i, unable to take them.
t A friend studying the Wa shington Teri
tory crop figures, given by the sensus
f 1880, and published in the Union, figur
/ out that Walla Walla county had twice.
t many acres in wheat as all of Westel
Washington. The seven counties formil
: Eastern Washington had 67.099 acres
wheat, the rest of the Territory "a, AZ
acres.
8 The Golden Fleece, lately arrived fro
the Arctic regions, brings the news tn
!. the mysterious Wrangel Land was found
the United States exploring and reli
Y steamer Rodgers. to be an island abo