The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17
Mail carrier from Coos Bay reports four
eet of snow on the Coast Mountains.

Dayton has stored l1O tons of ice, freight
ing it from 1Nallula.
Snow is FIVE and:a half feet deep on a
level east of Spokane Falls.
Two cildren of j. G. Saltmarsh. .of Lebar-
on, died recently o.. diphtheria :
Wells, Fargo & Co. have established an
Office at Rathdrum. Koatenia Co, Idaho.
The coinage at the Philadelphia mint in
January, 1882. aggregated; 1874, $50 pieces
valued at S6, ,276. 600 '>:- =:
A lamp explosion in a St. Louis brewery
killed one person and wounded several
others, yesterday. = - --.'='
The natives have burned town on the
west coast of Africa and plundered British
and French factories,
Mrs. Belinda Rhodes, a resident Of Linn
county since 1852, died on the 3lst ult of
consumption. aged 50 years. :z<.s-. =
Capt A. P -Ankney of Portlan |, has
lately contracted with one firm to saw for
him one million feet of lumber.
ne cOnUTdcG IoF IHe new M AZ. ShoiSii
building at Silverton has been let to Ames
Bros. for $3.50. work will begin soon.
Twenty-Five hundred Cinnamon and 1000
whites are employed ON the works of the
Northern Pacific, Pen::d 0reille division
Capt Mitchell, of the schooner H. l.. Tier.
uan, is having three-mast schooner built at
Shoalwater bay. She will cary about 400,
coo feet of lumber.
HIS. Maloney, county surveyor of Yam
hill county; has gone.to Tennessee to see a
sister who is at the point of death. with con-
sum ption. Willreturn about the lst of May.
The earnings of the sheriff OF Linn county
during the half year ending Dec. 3ist were
S2676. 60. Expense Of the office, $l469. Net
earnings for half year, sl20S. 60.
During the past season the Oregon
Improvement company have classed them
selves with the leading real estate owners
of Baker county by purchasing 1880 acres
of state lands.
The net profits of the Bank of England
ClO0.OUO ~ WSeh VI P-6.coo q Aisty !,
carrying the calculation little further the
potts are $3.50, an hour, take the money
day to consist OF six hours.
The steamer Vancouver ran against one
of the Portland bridge, piers OH the after
noon of Wednesday, last week, and broke
three holes through her hull planking.' She
landed passengers and was beached on tine
east side.
The Lewis river people are earnestly
opposing the erection Of the proposed court
hou Sc and jail for Clarke county. They ask
to submit the matter Of bonding the county
for s25, 1000 to vote OF the people.
Stevens is the largest county in Wash
ington territory, comprising 1920 square
miles; Spokane next. 10000 square miles;
Yakima third, 5000 square miles, and
Whitman fourth, 5000 square miles. The
smallest is Wahkiaktifi,s l5O square miles
On the Goth u1t.' the mercury marked 26
tdeg below zero at Parker's station, on
Burnt river. On the same day the record
was deg below zero at Canyon City.
This is theslowest temperature experienced
there for several seasons.
The coal bunkers toabe slsei for Storing
Carbon Hill coal to ths amount of 5000
tons at time, says the Tacoma Ledger:
will require nearly oneimitlion fe ,5 OF lun-
ber, and the work of con structing them
will give employment for several months to
IS carpenters and so Or more laborers.
At meeting of the; directors OF the
Washington County Agricultural Society,
held at Hillsboro Feb. 4th, it was decided
to change the time, of holding the annual fair
from September to July 5, 4, 5, 6 and 7,
and to hold an agricultural fair in October,
the time is not yet set.
The property known as the Fisher farm,
sold last week to J. n Bigelow and others,
will be laid off as an addition to the city of
Seattle and placed in the market. The
location is peculiarly desirable one, about
and just in the northern edge of the city.
Mr.. Henry Langenberg, of Rossburg, ex-
perienced the. result of an explosion of a
kerosene lamp, which resulted in severely
burning his wrist, and still old fogies say
there Is no danger from kerosene lamps.
Oh no! have handled them all my life and
never have met with an accident
Luckey. Breymau and Somerville of
Prinexille, have purchased about 100 head
of cattle, mostly steers, of the following
parties: Perry Reed, Al Lyle and VIM.
Guilford, and are in the market for more
They have negotiated with California buy
ers for a sale of 1900 to 1000 head of steers
j. B. Huntingdon one of the largest
stock-owners in Baker county, and extern
sively engaged in quartz mining, had
an assay made the past week from silver
quartz vein recently discovered by him on
Snake river The assay showed 424, so
ounces silver and slight trace of gold per
ton. Value in silver, s543, %.
At about o'clock Oh Wednesday eve
ming of last week four Jail birds escaped from
confinement within the hospitable walls of
the Marion county jail. 1t appears that
they had been provided with a small saw or
file from parties on the outside.
The Seattle barrel factory is being put
into first class order for operations. The
heavy machinery for making barrels from a
single piece-staveless coming from the