The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-04-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Oscar Wilde is in San Francisco.
A wagon road from Rossburg to Fort
Klamath is proposed.
Eleven car 10 dis of steel rails arrived at
Roseburg last Saturday.
Mr.. Mortimer Sloper's dwelling house in
Independence burned down last week.
Water works are talked of in Harrisburg,
Or 1t is thought if they are built, it will
be the making of the town.
Frank Wilson, of Albany, Or, swallowed
an ounce of laudanum while drunk, and
ended his earthly career on April 9th.
A man named Allen Boise, an old and
well known citizen of Lewiston, was thrown
from wagon last Thursday, and killed.
Little Potlatch, up in Idaho, is called the
blue country. Everybody has the blues, so
writes correspondent of the Lewiston
Teller.
Frank Day, a typo of Pomeroy, was
arrested in Walla Walla, on the night of
March Goth, for the robbery of safe in
Dayton.
Gussie Graves, step-son of W. J. Ma
goon, who resides at Mt. Vernon, near
Kalama, w. T., was recently killed by a
cougar.
Coos Bay Ne,cs: A cow belonging to P.
Monarch got mired in the swamp at Ten
To- o%
in short time.
Articles of incorporation of the Coos Bay
and Coquille Wagon Road and Navigation
company were filed in the Clerks Office at
Empire City on Saturday.
Last week seven families, numbering
about thirty five souls, arrived at Roseburg,
direct from Ida county, Iowa. Most of them
are farmers and intend to buy farms.
The murdered bodies of three Cinnamon
found near Lewiston are spoken of as en-
couraging evidence that this class of men
will soon be used up. So says the Moun-
taineer.
Oregon Sentinel: President Arthur was
burned in effigy in this place and at Phoenix
last Saturday evening on account of the
Presidents veto of the Chinese bill passed
by Congress.
Alvin Hackett, a student from Clacka-
mas county, at the State university, while
out hunting last week, had his face terribly
mangled by cartridge blowing out back
ward from breach-loading shot gun.
Railroad building on the California and
Oregon line is being vigorously pressed
road from Roseville south. A junction
of the two roads will be effected at the
State line.
A man named L. NJ. Stroux, from Mil
ton, was arrested on Monday by an Iowa
officer, who left with the prisoner on the
evening train for the east. The officers
were very reticent about the matter, but a
woman is said to be at the bottom of the
difficulty.
Reports from every section, says the
Prinevile News, regarding the condition
of stock, agree on the one particular point,
that there will be a heavy loss. The extra
ordinary deep snow and late spring has left
cattle extremely poor and weak, and already
many carcasses may be seen, even in the
immediate vicinity of town.
Al. Tureman purchased cinnamon bear
of Johnnie Morris for two dollars. On the
way home with bruin he became affection
ate; bruin did not like it and proposed
fight. In the tussel he threw Tureman
down, mangled his hand, bit his leg badly
and hugged him rather tightly. So says
the East Orsgonian.
A China wash house that opened at Ash
land about week ago is already thing of
the past. Six-shooters were the main argu-
ment used in inviting them to leave but
they seemed to be convincing, as the China.
men have not returned. Popular feeling
seems to be divided and considerable ex-
citement is reported.
The officers of the State Agricultural
Association and the Washington County
Agricultural Society have made arrange
ments with the O. r. L N. Co., whereby
stock intended for racing or exhibition at
these fairs will be carried over the various
railroad and steamboat lines throughout
the state at half rates, and passengers will