The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-19
GENERAL NEWS.

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pool is S. so per thousaad feet; only 300
miles.
The 0. & C. r. 4. company has ordere
thirty-six new locomotives from the Bald
win works at Philadelphia.
The Pendleton FIGURING Mills are yer
busy, their utmost capacities are bein
tested, running day and night.
Two Indians caught a fine sized sturgeon
in the Columbia near the Umstilla Hous
last week. ighing over 500 lbs.s
J There is a imam over in Umatiils count
who didn't know he had received non.
inatinn till he saw it in the paper.
Medical La'.e is having a boom; batl
house 80 by 60, ans a hotel aul infirmar,
40 by so and two stories high is being bniIt
| A Militia company has been organized il
Spokane county with the name of Rocklan'
Guards. There were so charter members
1t is claimed that the arrivals in Portlan,
of persons seeking homes in Oregon ant
Washington aggregate about 1000 pc
month.
The taxable property of Seattle is IS, 95S,
720. according to the return of the count.
assessor, an increase of $50 per cent. owe
| last year.
| Gen. John w. Sprsgue has been appoint
ell Adjutant tor Washington Territory vic'
NJ R. Hathaway, who has removed from
the territory.
| The knights of Pythias have paid s500t
to the willow of Geo. B. Reynolds. the maj
whose murder led to lynchiny at Seattle :
few months ago.
a record kept at point a mile above
Moore's mill at Moscow, shows that four
teen feet four iii. hes of snow fell there dur
ing the past winter.
| A street railroad operated on the Sar
Francisco cable pan is to be constructed
between Butte City, n. T.. aud Walker.
vile, tie coming season.
! The steamship Geo. w. Elder saiisl from,
San Francisco for Puget Sound uorts ON
the Goth of last month. with 29S passengers
| and $50 tons OF freight. -
The Odd Fellows lodges of Junction and
Harrisburg will hold a picnic at the Harris.
burg bride tomorrow. Geo. :. S.'Wasl,burne
will deliver the Grafton.
Four hun .red ana twenty head of catt!e
b.ionging to j. +. Miller. Of Sal. nj. passed
through Sprina field, Lane county last@,we.k K
en route to Eastern oregon.
Says tie East C''eyonian: RediLabens.cin
has q bind OF sheep cut on sh.rcs; .l3c0 Of
tileln had lis lambs, AMI the same 1900
sleared IL. Coo pounds of wool.
2lC0 hiran,eu arrived at Victoria Mon
dag OF last week. Chin. steamers are
daily arriving at Say Francisco. .eThers is j
small Geet I'll route for the Columbia.
Nr.. CampLausea. the ialy nail con.
traet,r Ger carrying the n.ai.s IN severa!
nf the routes, is In Lewiston. We learn
that she is buying hcrses to stock the :asu.cs.
Mr. Chas. Newman, OF the Dalies, has All
! In.:i.n tomalavk that was given 10 Lis
wlfe's mother by a soldier in Gen. jackson s
army shertly after the Creek ln.ian war.
The contract for Euil,limg the new county
Jail at Roseburg has been let to W. V.
johnson, for the sum of $500. The build.
iG.y is to be completed by the Gr=t of Sep.
tenn ber. -
The American ship Storm King after hav-
ing been detained SO long for want Of hands
IS finally ready for sea. She lease4 Astoria
carrying g. ,S97 bushels of wheat to Liver
pool, worth SG4.7Gi.
The steamer Geo. W. Elder. on her last
trip to San FIR n:isco t:.ok aboarl at New
Tacoma % cases merchandise, 2?7 bundles
hoop po,es. $50 Packages stave material
and 7 bundles deer Lidts.
Some parties who desire to start a saw
mill recently offered $50, 900 for the Cham
bers' mill property ut Steilacoom. The
owner wanted about double thessn named,
ami the trade fel. through =
There is one man in Umasiila county
that cant read or write only his own name.
When lie signs Lis name it i, always well
executed, in l.oid. business way, bat that
is the limit of his chirogaIhy.
Ex-Governor a. c. Gibbs is visiting his
oil home in New York State, and was re-
Gently on,;,iimentc.l by &c eivi.g the free
dom of the House in the Legislature at
Albany. lIc graduated in a ia8 school IN
that city.
A correspondent from Rockville to the
Dalles Nouatuineer says: Stock is sail to
be in better condition on this range than for
several preceding years. and consequently
there are good many beef cattle driven to
The Dal!es and surrounding markets
A ut!eman from Tulare county, Cal,
states that very large it..n.i- ration from
the San Joaquin Valley may be expected
in Washington Territory this season. Ee
says that recent n.r.h winds have dtA,e
great damage to the grain crop in that
sc, ticn. and that in some sections there
will e total fai are
The slip Challenger sailed from New
York for Eew Ia ,onla on the. 4eh instant.
i&.len With a cargo ot ir n aJ,d material for
tile Northern Pacific Railroad The ship
Henry Ealing sailed from B:th on the 5ta
instant, under charter for New Ta:nma. VII.
New York. simi ar Cargo for \. P. r. r.
There are twenty-five vessels chartered BY
e company to bring n.aeerf:f to that city
eIeapar Than Eyar.
: Dry g"ols aud groceries are selling at
A. j. Langworthy'r Cash S.ore - snisl,-