The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-07-15
STATE NEWS.

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The Coos Mail of the I'd inst. says: Last
Wednesday,, as Thomas johnson, with 9TH
ers, was engaged in peeling bark for the
tannery short distance back from Center
! vile, falling tree struck another, breaking
off the top of the latter and throwing it in
the direction where Mr. johnson and the
others were working. His companions saw
the danger and ran out of reach of the fall
/ ing tree, while Mr.. johnson stood as if riv-
eted to the spot, and the tree struck him or
the head, crushing it in a fearful manner
and killing him instantly. Thefuneral took
place at Marshteld ON tho day following.
The unfortunate victim was native of Nor
way, and had been resident of Coos and
Curry counties since 1852. He had no rela-
tives on this side of the Atlantic He was
one of the first mail carriers between Port
Oxford and Gardiner, was an energetic prose
pector, and in 1856. with J. Somers discoy-
cred the mines on Skies river. In 1857 he,
in company with Seth Lount went to
the Colorado river country and was thery
/ engaged in war with the Indians, in which
Lount was killed and johnson shot and seri-
ously wounded. His death leaves another
gap in the ranks Of the Oregon pioneers
Mr.. Levi Knott, of East Portland, on last
Thursday, while driving a colt it became
suddenly frightened and kicked with both
feet through the dashboard, hitting Mr..
Knott on the left leg below the knee cans
ing severe injury, but 10 bones broken.
On Monday last the house of W. S. Myersr
at The Dalles, was entered through the bacl.
door while the family were absent and bur-
glarized, and ten dollars i'll coin and sonic
valuable jewelry and keepsakes stolen. a
roll of county orders in the same drawer
were left. Oregon seems to be full of this
lawless class Of unwelcome ''visitors. Z"
4 A correspondent from Independence IT,
the Itemizer says: "Charley Saunders fell
from the top of Vanduyn & Smiths brick
store with hod of mortar, but was not
hurt We don't wonder at it, for sucb a
man would not get hurt to so through i.
cannon ball.
Five bents of the new bridge at Independ-
ence fell lately, covering man who was
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was not hurt seriously, except it became
necessary for him to have bandaged arm.
w. S. Bennett, young man recently
from Douglas county, claims that he was
robbed of So, 400 in bills at Portland on the
5th inst.
Dave Catterlin was relievedsof fifty cents
by a foot-pad in Salem on Tuesday night OF
last week, and that pad gave all of the so
. cts. to a small boy to kick him because Lc
did not get more
Two pieces of gold were lately taken from
a mining claim s..uated near Scott's bar, on
8 Scott's river, the largest weighing 554 ounces
and valued at 1925, and the smaller one 0
ounces, worth $50.
+ George w. Morris, while at work at q
saw mill few miles from Ashland, was in
t the act of Strengthening slab thlt was be-
9 ing sawed when the large circular saw
caught his arm and mangled it in terrible
manner. The arm was amputated just be-
low the elbow.
On Thursday of last week the roof of Mr..
was sxtinguished.
On Thursday of last week at about Il
5 o'clock at night, the barn of j. A. Wet
I more, of Portland, was consumed by fire,
Supposed to be the work Of incendiarism.
! John Douglas. survivor OF the war OF
{ 1872, and a resident of Multnomah county
since 1852, died at the residence of bis SON.
in law, Thomas Buoy, in Powells valley, or
. the 2Sth OF June, aged SS years. On the
4th of July, 1875, when the soldiers of the
the war of 1872 We're invited to join the
, procession at the celebration at Portland
Mr.. Douglas alone responded to the invita-
ton. He was clad in a uniform of his so,.
dier life and driven in a carriage through the
streets, being the only representative pres-
ent of the struggle of 1872. Five daughters
survive him.
The AstoriAn says: Smallpox in Astori
We may say that SO far but one case, and
that of very mild type, has occurred; and
this case was Immediately removed to the
pest house, outside the city limits
-Four prisoners confined in the county jail
at Astoria escaped last week. Two of then,
were canght and brought back.
i Two handsome residences are to be bniit
in Portland at a cost of $4,000 each by Ja-
| cobs Brothers.
1 While Mr.. John Harris was digging u
well on Marquam's Hill last Saturday no
came across a human skeleton some four feet
below the surface, 1t was in standing po-
sition and is supposed to be an aborigine, as
it has evidently been there for many years.
Standard.
i On the 4th of July the counter drawer OF
Mrs. p. p Prim's millinery establishment at
Jacksonville was entered by some unknown
i party, and its contents, about SIS, stolen.
Howards railroad surveying party are
now in the vicinity of Coles, Cal. having
4 passed the State line on the 9th inst, They
4 expect to reach Klamath river in about four
i days, when they will rctrace their steps and
survey toward Rogue river. The route now
being run will probably necessitate tunnel
through the Siskiyou mountains three-
i fourths Of a mile in length, pielc cling It about
Il Affl feet below The lowest place In the pass.