The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-04

ploeions against other people shoul'
be hung to the first limb.
NswsoT TEE NORTHWEST.
Work is soon to commence on tho Mint
Pass.
jackson county il building q new eour
house.
A new county Jail is being built At Ne'
Tacoma.
The passenger traffic on the sound is RAP
idly increasing.
Mehama, Marion county, is badly in nse'
of blacksmith.
Cattle are being driven from Jackso,
county to Lake county.
Sheep Dhearins has commenced in sarnes
in Urnatilla county.
IessT-. Dinsl: 4 Eocl contsmplsts start
ing. ship yard aear Seattle.
Hok. Il. 0. Dunbar has assumed editoria
charge cf the Elickitst .se::tinel
The Baptist college at McMinnville viii
be formally dedicated on the l2tL CT Tune.
A large amount of Improvements are an
ticipated in Oregon City the present season.
Parties from Gray's harbor report she
clans fatter and juioisr than ever this sea
son.
Warren Drake and Gus Garron, the two
Umatilla horse thieves, made good their ss-
cape.
The old Bennett House in Salem, long in
disuse, is being fitted up for = tenement
house.
Chinese laundries in W. T., refuse to pay
licenses and one proprietor has been ar
rested.
A new government snag boat is to be built
for the Improvement of tho Puget Sound
rivers.
Julia, . new railroad town in southern
Oregon is now the distributing point tor ali
freight.
According to the Sound papers, Mr.. Vii
lard has greatly benefited thst country by
his visit.
A man named Fromodsr, living IL miles
from Salera. had his leg broken by his team
running away. s-.
The new steamer W. K. Mervin has
made her trial trip, and will be put on the
5kagit river route.
Tha w,Il.- Wall, Dsuorrat nassas
back to the stockholders on the first Of May
Messrs Rndd & Sharpstein retiring.
A gang of laboreru in Tacoma brick
yard quarreled yesterday. Is was white
against Chinese, latter getting worsted.
Hlisboro has forr billiard halls, ths sal
,ons are doing good business, and yet the
own is quite orderly.
There are now, 200 convicts in the penf-
,entiary of Oregon, within seven OF she
highest number ever there at ors time.
The public school ranks at Ril!sboro are
demoraiized by scarlet fevsr,
lung fever and epizootic.
Olef Peterson, well known citizen and
,ne of the owners OF the Occident Packing
Company, died at Upper Astoria on the q.
There is to be Touring mill erected close
TO the Vansycls canyon this summer. Il
will be joint stock company affair to cost
sl5o. COO.
II. G.. Marsh, of Winchester, Ind, the
aewly appointed Receiver CT the Vancouver
land Office, has arrived and entered upon the
iuties Of his cfice.
The Astoria Gaslight Co. has its building
nearly completed, and by the first week in
May, everything will be in readiness to be-
gin supplying consumers.
Sevensy thou1and dollars was subscribed
It Seattle the first afternoon the list was
circulated. This is foc the purpose of Sc
curing railroad line to that city.
A fog bell, weighing $3.50 80 pounds, has
been cast at the foundry at Mare leland aud
will be placed on Alcatrax Island. s. F. bay.
This ia the largest bell ever cast on this
coast. - 9zs
A laborer in Westacott's brewery at
Salem, got in q tank of hot water recently,
70 severely scalding his lower limbs that he
will be laid up for long time. He was
iaken to the poor house this afternoon.
The La Grande Reckord says: Later in
vestigation has shown that the damage
lone to fruit trees during the cold weather
vas not half al extensive as the fuss which
vas made over it.
The new steamer Tom Morris, built
It Rainier by johnson Bros for Arndt 4
Boiling, is at the foot of Cass street, Asto-
ia. She is IS feet long, IA feet breadth o.
,eam, and registers 1886 tons. She made
Ter trial trip last Saturday, and is-ready for
business.
The Statesman says the engineers of the
}. & G. R. K have made survey Of the
QUITE for aswiteh up Ferry street Salem and
henceto the penitentiary, and find it quite
and satisfactory.
The Madison Bros, says the Heppner Ga
ette, who has been prospecting for gold on
lead Of Rea Creek, Is miles from this place,
ave every reason to assume that they are
n the verge Of an immsnss deposit Of bitu
aainous Soaa.