The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-25

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the northern part Of Polk looks exceedingly
| well,
In Mohawk valley bear killed twenty
five head of sheep for one man in single
night.
/ The new mammouth mill of the City Of
Salem Company started up on trial run
| last Friday. ~ =.
Sheep shearing is in full blast in Eastern
Oregon, and theclip is;repcrted to be unu-
sually good.
Oregon City Enterprise: Trains now run
sixty.fve miles south of Roseburg, hereto.
fore the terminus.
The prospect for fruit; hay, vegetables,
hops and grain is fine in all parts of the
Sound country.
Heavy thunder storms with rain, have
lately prevailed in Grant county, doing con
siderable damage.
Three fishing boats were upset near
Clatsop en- the Columbia river yesterday.
One man was drowned.
| Grain in the southern part of Yamhill
and the northern part of Polk counties
looks exceedingly.well.
Snoqualimie hop association have 800
acres of hop vines growing. The prospect
is good for large crop.
| The Walla Walla Democrat says the city
council has passed an ordinance taxing com.
mercial travellers s25 per day.
The N. P. land office at Sprague, during
the month of April sold 10, 352 acres of land
receiving $5l 1852 for the same.
Mr.. Richard Booth, better known as
''Uncle Dicky, died near McMinnville the
18th inst, aged seventy-two years.
ID. H. Johnston and Brothers will have
their new mill about six miles this side Of
Mehama, ready to start up i'll few days.
The Albany Democrat hopes the Linn
| county silver mines will turn out to be
rich, but seems to question their wealth.
Chas: Carey fell through trap door in
the Webfoot mill and was severely, though
not dangerously hurt, one day last week.
Garfield county, w. T. contains 66s, l6o
acres of land, and of this number IS, 600
acres are under cultivation, principally in
grain.
| 1t is estimated that James Murphy saved
Marion county four thousand dollars by
shooting himself. The last shot was the
best.
A Chinese petrifed shoe was found in
the Coquille river. How long it took it to
make the petrifcation is puzzling the local
scientists.
I Geo. w. WatSerhouse,, has secured the
contract for changing and making extensive
additions to the Touring mill of j. II. Foster
& Co. at Albany.
Uncle Aaron Payne, of North Yamhill,
is very low, and viii soon pass away. He
came to Oregon in an early day and is now
well advanced iryears.
The discovery of large beds of lime rock
near Lake Pen d'Oreille will be of vast ben
eft to the building and brick industry in
that region.
Freight for Helena merchants, coming by
the way of the Northern Pacific; railroad, is
now being billed through to Gallatin, thirty
miles this side of Bozeman.
The grist mill at New Era, built and un-
til recently owned by Mr.. Beales, has been
sold to a Mr.. Ross, formerly miller on the
Yakima Indian reservation.
Track-laying has begun on the "half-
moon road, Z" running from Palouse junction,
on the Northern Pacific, to-Colfax, Palouse
City, Pennington and Moscow.
Near Lakeview, a man by the name of G.
Spike killed another by the name of Charles
Delano. The shooting was caused by both
parties claiming the same piece of land.
Last Saturday we were shown fur taken
from genuine gray fox. The fox was
trapped over on the Malheur river, in Mari
on county. The fur was purchased for $25.
The Lee Mission cemetery grounds are
being cleaned of brush and undergrowth
1t is situated about mile east of Salem, and
is the last resting place of the missionaries.
Soda springs have been found at the head
of Ahtanum valley, some twenty-six miles
from Yakima city, w. T. Good bread has
been made by simply mixing -four with
water from the spring, using no other in
gredient but salt.
The Independent says. The fruit crop
will be light in Washington county. Mr..
J. D.. Rowell informs us that it will be a
failure in the Schools ferry neighborhood.
Some orchards were considerably injured by
the freeze, and the cold rains of April blight
ed most of the plums, prunes and cherries.
From all reports the fruit crop throughout
the state will be light.
Something like 100000 sheep will be
driven east and to Montana from Umatilla
county this spring. Mr.. Wood is just start
ing his band towards Nebraska He will
take about "a, 900 head out of that county
and perhaps as many more from the other
side of the Blue mountains. A. D. Howard
and Sam Carmack will start in few days
for Montana with II, 900 head and several
other parties are about to start with bands
of from 1000 to 10000.
Snohomise Eye: Thousands of PERSONS
have been induced to come to Puget sound
by means of hattering descriptions and
statements made by our citizens; and we,
as people, ought, in justice to those who
come, to show them that we have resources
equal to those of which we have boasted,