The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-11
the stage in Southern Oregon has changed

the stage IN southern oregon has changed
to summer schedule.
Sheriff Germrn and posse are still pur-
suing the murderer Cottner.
The editor of the Waitsbufg Times has
gone to Kansas on a visit.
Douglas county lumbermen are to meet
and adopt uniform price for lumber.
Mr.. Shanks purchased in jackson county
4.3o0 head of sheep for $1,000. He will
drive them to Montana.
The Saranac and str Walla Walla both got
stuck on the st. Helens bar on last Friday
They got off on Saturday.
Eugene Chausser, l3-year old boy got
into scufie with another boy at Jackson
vile and got his arm broken.
The contested right to the town site of
The Dalles has at length been decided in
favor of the city, by the supreme court.
A band of 1000 wethers has been started
from Heppner for Kansas, where they will
be wintered and fatted for Chicago markets.
A chinaman was sblown to kingdom
come" by blast of powder, at the rail
road front in Southern Oregon last Thurs
day.
Three prisoners escaped from the jail at
Pendleton on last Friday night, but two of
them returned the next day and gave them
selves up.
The body of an unknown man but suppos-
ed to be Peter George who was drowned at
Clifton about month ago, was found at
Tongue point on Saturday.
DIR. G. Munson, who has been engaged in
the best sugar manufacture in California,
has arrived at New Tacoma and expects to
establish manufactory at this place
Mrs. Geo. E. Myers had an arm disloca-
ted by being thrown from a wagon at spo-
kane Falls on Tuesday of last week.
Capt. Gore, of Ssfe Spokane, found the
body of a man floating in the river below
Monumental rapids April 29th The body
| is probably that of Chinaman.
The Yakima river is rising rapidly. Re-
| cent rains in the Yakima section has started
grass and cattle are doing we'll Both fall
and spring sown grain looks healthy.
A young man named John Harer was
thrown from horse near Walla Walla Sat-
urday afternoon. Both legs were broken
below the knee, Inflammation set in. De-
laying surgical assistance.
A wrecking force left San Francisco last
EriIoxy for 4ba - H.
ter. They are accompanied by diver, and
attempt will be made to save the vessel.
Two men at the new town of Julia last
week concluded thot one or the other had
lived long enough, so they proceeded to emp
ty their revolvers at each other without any
effect, only to frighten the bystanders.
The people of Yakima county are sub
scribing literally toward building the
wagon-road to connect Seattle with the va
kima country.
Arrangements have been perfected for
the immediate building OF the Multnomah
Railway company's line from East Portland
to Vancouver. The road is to be finished by
August l next.
The Shoalwater bay oyster beds are Civ
ing evidence of recuperation, and it is
thought the damage by last winters severity
has been overestimated.
One day, this past winter, when the pay
roll on the front of the N. P. R. r. was
called, there were Sc men missing and no
one knew what had become of them.
Butchers from The Dalles are offering $50
per head for dry cows and two-year-olds,
and $40 head for big steers in Haystack
valley, but none are offered for sale.
A new stern wheel steamer called the
Glide was launched at Seattle on the 10th.
Five other steamers, unnamed, are now on
the stocks, and will follow her into the wa
ter as soon as their builders can get them
ready.
Officials state that the Central Pacific
railroad work on the Oregon division is be-
ing rapidly pushed forward. A large stretch
of masonry has been constructed, and from
the beginning OF the past two weeks they
have put to work three thousand men at
grading.
The rapid settlement of Fox valley with
in the last few years has created demand
| for the establishment of postofice there,
and the Postofice department has just COM
pleted it's arrangements to- this end. The
new Office is called Fox, and John J. Buck.
master is Postmaster.
F. Hofer after sinking well near
Waitsburg to depth of eighty feet failed
| to get water. He then went over the hill
about eighty yards and got six feet of water
| by sinking twenty feet He found the skel-
eton and antlers of very large deer at a
depth of seventy feet under ground in his
first well.
A young man by the name of VIM. Kirby,
was hauling rails on the hills west of Nc
/ Minnville, when the wagon, team and all
went rolling down the hill, passing entirely
over William, who, strange to say, es-
capped without injury. The horses and
wagon went tnmbling down the hill for sew
eral hundred feet, badly hurting the horses
and destroying the wagon.
Henry Wizards car was rnn through
Nevada at the rate of almost mile min
ute. Hank Small, the famous engineer
of the Jarrett Palmer train of five years ago
handled the locomotive on the Sacramento
division Four chanoess of trainmen' were