The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-02-23
Mrs. Fl. K. HINES,
State Pres'... w. G. T. y.
GENERAL NEWS.

State Pres':. W. G. T. q.
GENERAL NEWS.
Good beef 20 cents per pound at Wall
Walla.
Good dry wood in Dayton, w. T., sell
at $40 cord. o.
Four thousand valentines passed through
the Walla Walla postolfice on the l4th.
The ice is running SO heavy in Snake
river that they are not transferring any
cars at present.
The money order business for January a
the Harrisburg postofice amounted tt
$500. ..
Sibson, Church & Co., of Portland. have
bought the Thompson & Rounds ware
house at Carlton.
| Washington county is preparing to erect
suitable buildings on the poor farm recently
purchased near Cornelius.
| A large number of employees OF the o. &
G. R. r. are blasting rock at McVeigh point,
to be used at the Harrisburg bridge.
A wreclzing car is being built at the
sprague shops.
Improvements at Dayton W. T., during
1882, are valued at $50, 900.
Fairweather, W. T., is to have new
school house; also lumber yard. .
The mail service from Cheney to Medica'
Lake is now tri-weekly one.
w. B. Martin, while driving a herd Of
horses near Dayton, was struck by snow
slide and carried 60 yards down the hill
Grandma Allison died at Dayton, W. T.,
last week, aged SO years. =
Seven cases of smallpox are reported al
Thompson on the N. P. front, two of which
have died.
Mrs. Judge Lasater, who has been affec.
ted with the sn1all-pox at Walla Walla,
has entirely recovered.
It is said that 800 emigrant trains are on
the way to Chehalis county from Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska.
| Ferry's edition to New Tacoma, which
consists of about 10 acres AMI is one mile
west of Pacific avenue, is now being sur.
veyed. .. III
Farmers in the various parts of Lane
county say wheat il badly frozen.
| The Polk County temperance Alliance
meets at Independence on the 2sth inst.
The name of the postoffice now known as
|
changed to Lobbesville.
There is talk again in Salem of prospect
of building a narrow gauge road from that
place to connect with Silverton.
A young Mr.. Long of Salem accidentally
discharged load of buck shot in one of his
legs and it is feared anputation will be re-
quired.
John Bristow has bought an interest in a
drug store at Eugene City.
There are four cases of small pox at the
pest house at Weston, the family of the
man who died short while since.
Capt. Geo. J. Ainsworth returned to Cal
ifornia on the outgoing steamer.
F. K. Arnold, Secretary of the Board of
Trade, left on the steamer for Southern
California.
Hon. A, Bush and daughter of Salem are
passengers on the outgoing steamship for
Westfeld, Mass, to be gone for several
months.
Prof. Condon's lecture at the Congrega-
l.. e D. i
The steamer Traveller has been employed
by Portland to attend the city dredge at
about sll00 per month.
According to the sprague Herald, there
were eighty washouts on the line of the
Northern Pacific between Spragne and
Ainsworth, and 30, 600 ties were washed
away at Palouse junction.
The Walla Walla Union says: Charles
Eichler has received twenty young carp and
placed them in pond on the ranch of his
father in-law below town. Charley says
that in two years he will supply the market
with carp.
The Tacoma Neacs says: Four tons of
new hops from Puyallup valley have al
ready been sold for thirty cents pound by
one of the valleys most prominent growers.
Mrs. NJ. A. Barnes, says the Olympia
STANDARD, was the purchaser of the fair
grounds and buildings which was sold to
satisfy mortgage of $1,000 last Saturday.
The mayor of Waitsburg has issued an
order prohibiting travel to or from Dayton
as precautionary measure against small
pox; also recommending that travel on the
railroad be suspended for the present.
1t is said that the last spike of the main
line of the N. P. will be driven at point
from ten to fifteen miles west of Helena
Preparations are already being made for
grand celebration at Helena when the work
is completed.
On the 9th, Andrew Heikkila and Fred
Larkstrom, says the Pla;adealer, while ON
their way to Marshfield on Coos Bay, in a
small boat. with sail spread to the breeze,
were capsized and Heikkila, who was thrown
some distance from the boat, was drowned.
Larkstrom clung to the boat and was saved.
The body of the unfortunate man could not
be recovered.