The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-12-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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business tac5 leads them to adve i Sc.
Ex-Cov A C. Gibbs was at the Roseburg
land Office last week on business.
Go to the Occi dental the best hotel in
Corvallis for your board and lodging.
w. C. King lectured at Roseburg last
Saturday on the subject Of right against
wrong. home against vhe saloon.
Your place to buy the cheapest and best
harness and saddles in the valley is at S. A
Hemphill's.
Mr. George Humphrey of Eugene City
was quite ill last week but later in the
week he was improving.
Legal blanks furnished at this office on
short notice at less than San Francisco
prices.
Prof. Lambert OF the State Universi y
has RESIGNED his position and will soon en-
ter the ministry.
The Indian school on the Puyallup reser-
vation is in flourishino condition. 1t DOW
has an enrolement o: sixty-tive pupils, all of
whom a,e making fair progress in the,
studies.
Tuesday night large boom of logs ne-r
Chehalis broke by the rise of the river. j
is estimated that about 100000 feet O.
lumber escabed in the lo.3.
Correspondent of the Dayton Jous rcl
suddenly cut of las5 Friday by the snow
and general free'.e-up is the order of
things now.
Tacoma Ledner: Twenty-iour men were
discharged from the railroad shops yestei
day, in consequence of an order received
from w. 4, Snall assistant snperinteuder
of machinery and motive power for the
western division. Thele are only for;y-fiv
men now employed at the shops.
Walla Walla Jom nal Late progress wii;;I
the shafts of the Calumet mines are disclo
ed increasing duanIi es of gold and silver
and assays which the company has had
made have shown The ore to be very rich il
these minerals. Operations at the. mine
have been shut down for The winter.
The pontoon bridge across the Puyallup
river at Puyallup was washed out on Tues
day night by freshet. The bridge is
lodged against lacge drift about mile be-
low where it was built. Fortunately the
new bridge is ready Tor use, SO chat no in-
convenience will be experienced.
C. w. Toole has ju:t returned to Dayton
from the mines with several specimens of
fine galena ore, ;aken from led owned by
himself and friends. An assay talea in
San Francisco shows it to contain TO- 5y-two
ounces silver, 1926 gold and 81 per cent.
lead to the ton. Negotiations are being
made for The sale of a po, tion of it, when a
smelter will probably be erected in its
vicinity.
A man from Portland bargained for some
sheep of Line county mau aud give two
checks on a Portland bank, one Cor SlOO
and the other foc 500. The hank paid the
large check but refused to pay the small
check because She party had no funds in
the bank
The man wbe sold the sheep had the
Portland man arrested and bound over to
appear before the next Lane county grand
jury for ob,alning his sheep under false
pretenses.
Last Thursday NIGHT barn, belonging
to Thomas Humphrey on his place about
nine miles east of Albany, was burued down
and most of its contents consumed. His
son-in-law, Columbus Cowan, was living on
the place. The fire occurred about one O.
clock P. M. and consumed 600 bushels oil
wheat, 900 bushels of oats aud a new hack,
and double wa con was bIdIy damaged
The Fl :e was the work of an iucen
diary.-A5onn Herald.
The o. &. C. r. r. extension will be
opened sor traffic to GranS's Pass in few
days probably Monday, says the Plain
dealer. Grants Pass is 80 miles south O.
RosebuIg and the new stasions to be esSab
lished on the line sce as follows: Almaden
20 miles south OF Eoseburg: Alta, IS miles
and Jnmp-o-Joe, 81 miles. The passep ge
train from Portland will arrive at Crano'
Pass at LEO A. M. and leaves that place fo
portland at 10 P. NJ. the following evening
The frs train will run to Grants Pass to
night and return tomorrow n, hit.
Mr. Schuey, an employe OF Beni. Despair
of Pilot Rock, was found lying in the roac
between that place and Pendle on on Mon
day with hisl leg broken, says the WALL
Walla Union. Schuey says that he wen
to put the break en- his wagon when hi
foot slipped, throwing him from the wagon
The family of State Superintendent E. b
McElroy have had the scarlet fever recent
but are getting well.
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