The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-10
To TIE Editor OF The GAZETTE.

O; course some fsienls were kind enough
To send me copies os 5he Sunlly Greg
Of Feb. CGth. 1t is y paper which CONES
very rare Y into this section OF country
Perhaps ". ar, not heavy losers by beng
8 a-gd the temptation to read it. Aud the
mere fact of being calIel names III the
article which e.ici.s this Letter wcul;t not
have induce me 70 trouble You with il fnr
two reasons, first thai freely admit that
the sOr:.onian" ''owol M one for the
unvarnish ii ch eractcr glyc ii III tie re-
Gently published book Two ye@rs IN Orc
on" to which tho arslc!e frequently
,llu,les an second hecarSe 1 have vivid
Remembrance Of the amenities whl2a passed
between Mr. j. Hipp,e Mitchell and Ar
Harvey w Scott soale short time ago, when
those gent,emea indulsel in persona. con
troversy CT the laser sort, aud l have ro
desire to he led into . like position; and ii
Nsw York were a little nearer in point OF
time l would have let Col. Ho55 tt take
uD the cudge,s if he fe It inclined to do 50
Still, though | am not eitler the "attor
new nor the ''resiaent manage
the Oregon Pa,ific. yet as for
year past q Vico President OF that
road it's interests are to s2ne eXsea5
committed to me. Therefor, since tn
article in the Sunday OreGonian may d'
some harm uni ss it, mis-statemsnts are
exposed, I trouble you with this letter
The Sunday Ore soniau makes its7lf re
sponsiile for the following assertions. J
will try to coudense, but not to dlstoF'
them.
l. That the steamer "Yaqui!,a," OF gon'
model, anil ..well powered as to her machin
cry" (where did he lesrn his En- Iii sh al
thus equipped with fuel anl stores" Il di
not euppose that ''madei' power"
.machinery' were properly described
either s'iuel," or s:s5orcs," but we Gvs an
learn.) left Portland for Yaquina Bay OF
the 18th of january. and arrived OF va
ouina Bar two days later, having laid owe
, enc night in Astoria. That she lay
Yaauiua Bar with fires banked and stean
ND for sir days, finding the har 50 roasl
that it WIS impossible to enser the harbo'
That she then return ID to Astoria and ia,
there till the soa 5h-west ,riy weather va
enled, and then taking in more fuel. starte
ont and landet; her cargo at Yaquina,
large portion being freight for the o. ?. X
: z. That Capt. Denney, being interviewed
, in Astoria by al "Ass,rtn' re o'r5er, CIV
as tho reason for his inability to enter til
port of Yaquina that the water on the ba
was too shallow, and broke in depth 9
Z, II feet a,h:ft tie This last saataineat tn
4 "Oregonian'' says is true b,yoaa qt75;jos
y Now for facts. The ''Yaluiu!' lefS A.
f toria on Z iday was off Seal rocks, eis1
, miles south OF Yaq1iua on Sunlay mornin
4 early. steamed up opposite the bar at 'hig
e water. not far from nine o'clock, and inm
,tiatelv went off ont of sight to the mort
It and west Oa Monday morning at
g O'Clock she was away OF to the north an
n west of Cape Foulw Gather, SO far OF that
y was a IN after of doub5 if it were the ~
e ouina' or the Tillamook schooner, thou2
n pretty cool glasses were directed at h'
from the lighthouse poih1 "o 1ada'h
't By noon ON Mondaj she wa, ont of sigh
and by Tuesday morning she was. buck
o Astoria. So much for lying of Ya4uina f'
: six days unable to enter.
le The bar at Yaqnina on Sunday mornir
it was not nearly so ush as the Columb
J. bar on Tuesday: so say the ''Yaqnina'
e Messengers. When she was of the bar c
J. Sunday the tide guage at Newport, set up
y the U. S. Engineers, showed 20 feet OF wat