The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-24
GENERAL.

penitentiary last week.
A patent has been issued to J. Brush, Of
Albany, for grain separator.
Judge Blatchford, of New York, has &C
cepted the supreme justiceship.
There are about 300 Cinnamon at worl
on the railroad south of Roseburg.
Statesman: Mr.. Jas. Cochran has pur
chased half-interest in the steamer City 0
Salem.
Standard: Mr. S. A. Clarke Of the Far
mer was badly hurt, last week, from fal
on the sidewalk.
The North Pacific bridge across the Pei
d'Oreille Lake is completed and trains ar
crossing upon it.
The stories concerning the Garfield CHASE
letters are so conflicting that no credibility
is given to the same.
There were two feet OF snow remaining il
Colville Valley on the 10th, and stock mel
are wearing long faces.
1t is said there will be an. opposition line
Of steamships between here and San Fran
cisco in about month.
Warren Hayden, who accidentally sho
himself at Ilwaco short time since, died
from the wound recently.
The petition at Chicago for the pardon
of Sergeant Mason is 2400 feet long and is
said to contain l2O, 900 names.
Parties near Lewiston are offering one
dollar per bushel for the coming flax croI
of that regi I'll delivered at the river.
1t is reported that the Oregon Short Line
will connect at Baker city with the Oregon
Pacific and the o. r R. & N. Co.'S line.
Between seven and eight feet of snow
were on the ground, between Truckee and
Blue canyon, on the Central Pacific recently
The sad intelligence C mes to us that the
venerable General Stephen Coffin died at
his residence in Dayton, Yamhill county,
last week.
The Genties at Salt Lake are rejoicing
over the passage of the polygamy bill. A
division in the Mormon church is reported
as imminent.
Last week Frank White, says the Daily
Standard, was caught in the act of robbing
J. K. Gill's store and held to answer in the
sum of $1,000.
DR.. w. @. Stewart, father of Mr.. G. H.
Stewart, editor of the Democrat, died at
his home in this city last week, of lung
The Walla Walla Watchman is response
Bile for this item: A petrifed and almost
;rystalized heart is now on exhibition at
Holmes drug store.
The State of Oregon is divided into five
U. S. land districts with offices at Oregon
City, Roseburg, The Dalles, La Grande and
akeview.-Astorian
There has been taken mp, so we are told
BY responsible citizen, l40 section of land
II the Butter creek section during the past
;wo months. East Oregonian.
statement that all the horses belonging to
he Oregon Improvement Co., i'll Whitman
ounty, have been ;.ttacAei for taxes.
There will be banl contest at Mcaiiun-
lille on the 25th and 26:h of next month
Any band in Oregon can enter; there vii
re two prizes, 500 first, AMI SO second
: Exchange.
Constable Grant arrested G. L. Wander
lit. a cler.1, on a char5. OF larceny from a
tor. The prisoner is sail to be the nephew
f VIM H. Vanderbilt of New York. Eve.
ing Telegram.
Pierce Co.. News: There are several hum
red cases of measles in Seattle, distributed
npartially between the adolescent and
dult portions of society. The type of the
isease is not malignant one
Last week the last rail between the Cas-
ades and The Dalles was laid and train
assed over the road on the 18TH Reg.
lar passenger and freight trains will be
ut on as soon as the roal is ballasted.
The lawyers of Portland have orgrnized
Bar Association and incorporated it. Its
rincipal objects are to advance the science
jurisprudence, promote the administra-
on of justice, and establish law library.
Charley Hamilton, of the Bradley gang,
ho was sick at Mazatian week ago, is
i'd to be in Valparaiso now. He viii. |
robably go down to Patagonia, where he
i'll find race of savages well fted TO as
,ciate with him.
Three sailors arrived at Coos bay in an
pen boat recently. They were from the |
ustrian bark 'Bulwarl" which they re-
nrt foundered in Lat. 45,07 N. and Long.
f5 w. Eighteen of the crew were left on
oard and were probably lost.-Coos Bay
ews.
The Miner, published at HALEY, Idaho,
,nounces that number of monied men
that territory have projected a narrow
.uge railroad, to connect at the city of |
alley with the Oregon Short Line and run
Bullion and the principal mining camps
Wood River.
An attempt to take H. c. Laws, twhe
lied young Calavan near Langell valley)
ON the authorities of Lake county and
unch him into eternity on short notice,
as made at Linkville last Saturday, which
suited in the death of Deputy Sheriff
swis of Lakeview and the wounding of
,stice Wright. Times.
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