The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-06-09
GENERAL NEWS,

| TheSwitzler brothers of UnatiIla county
Oregon, have sold altogether 800 head O
cayusehorses this year. They have receive,
on an average $3.50 per head.
The new code of laws of Washington
Territory is now all printed, and being dis
| tributed.
! DIR. Pruett and wife left Pendleson lrts
t Monday morning, tor All extended trip tt
Portland, Willamette Valley, maybe Cali
fornla and other parts of the country
DIR. Pruett has been in ill health some
time and he is il hopes of improving it,
A colony from Ripon and Meaasha, Wis,
have located on the line of the n. p. neal
! Young mans butte, at place called Glad
stone, on the Yellowstone river. The col.
ony has made arrangements for a tract of
land 10 miles square, and has l4O members
A company OF 800 immigrants is said to
be en- route from Ohio to Wasco county.
Last year there were 994 children il,
Grant county drawing school money. This
year the number is 1877. The March appor
tlonment of school fund was S3573 81.
Up to May lst the total expenses of Spo.
kane county since its organization were $23.
5s7, 80. OF this amount $3,692,3O arc out
standing, and there was s2l65. 90 on hand
Machinery for several stamp mills and
smelling works is on the way to the Wood
river and Sawtooth countries These min.
ing camps are attracting capital and miners
from all parts Of the Unitel States.
An immigrant tram consisting of seven
teen wagons from Kansas passed Rockville
last week, en route for Lewis county, w
T.
The export of coal from Seattle from Jan
nary lst to June |, 1882, was 65, SIT tons.
l.. G. Abbott, of Thurston county W. T.,
purchased last summer merino buck and
eve from which he has she .r,I 251 pounds
of wool.
About six tons of oysters were shipped
from Olympia last week for Portland and
San Francisco notwithstanding the ho.
weather.
J. c. Smith of Walla Walla, sheared IA ST
week 2460 poun.ls of fine, clean wool off leO
fine graded sheep being log pounds pei
head.
John Hanley starse from jackson county
on Monday of last week for the Harney
Valley with a baad of about three hundred
cattle, expecting TO remain there with them
until winter.
Many hna lrel acres of sod are being
turned up in Garfield county, w. T.
Jesse ]. Walling died in Dayton on the
9th ult., of dropsy, aged 90 years
F. kaup, man II years old, had thumb
and finger torn off at the Waitsburg planning
mills, last week.
A. c. Dickinson sold 2i0 acres of land in
the Spring Valley w. T., recently for
$500. He still owns 1000 acres in the
same vicinity.
VIM. Pearsol, living on Assotiu creek, W.
T., was fatally shot by his brother on the
30th. The shot took effect in his stomach,
causing death in hours.
Bailey & Lawrence will start from Colfax
during the coming week with 400 head of
horses and 5000 head of sheep. They drive
to Chicago.
During the past month three men have
been drowned in Salmon river at a point
known as Old Chimney.
The new mill at Quartz creek, Klickitat
county, has been finished. The machinery
is in fine running order. Klickitat possesses
an almost inexhaustible supply of timber
John Wells of Ashland precint sheared rs
pounds of wool from three Spanish Meriuo
bucks few days since,
Dave Ridenour lett Roseburg Thursday
with 5000 head of mutton sheep, which he
will drive to the California and Nevada
markets.
The prospects Of the hop crop in the Puy-
allup valley were never better than at pres
ent.
Track laying has commenced at Roseburg
says the Jacksonville Sentinel. and it is now