The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-09

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The Oregon Improvement company have
petitioned the supervisors of San Francisco
ITO have the assessments on their vessels
stricken from the delinquent tax list, as
they are owned and taxed in Oregon
The Walla Walla Union says: IF oTe-haif
the addition to Portland are ever converted
into real streets and blocks and lots, and
covered with buildings, inhabited by live
human beings, the people viii number more
than ara now existing in the city of London.
Unless destroyed in the future there will
be good crop of apples, pears, plums and
grapes and fair crop of peaches in the or
| chartls on Snake river. Hon. Thomas J.
| Smith says his orchards at Penawawa give
| promise of a good crop of all but apricots
| The Tacoma Nees says: Among. unveri-
| fed rumors is one concerning the establish
ment of locomotive works by Eastern cap
| italisfs on the water front, near Hanson &
| Co. 8 mill. Thirty-tsve thousand dollars is
the sum mentioned to have been offered for
ia sixty-acre tract. @.s~
| Independence has the high license fever.
The people of Weston are talking of erect
ing wooden mill
The Belt house at Independence ha.
changed hands, Mr.. Stannus selling the
| same to Peter Cook, for $500.
Hon. B. F. Burch. P. W. Haley, farmers,
| have purchased the warehouse at Independ-
ence, near the depot.
Mrs. Mary Holman, wife of j. S. Holman,
a pioneer of 1874, died at her residence on
| the Luckiamute, Polk county, on the I'd.
The Cape Fox canning company, says the
| Astorioas, has filed articles of incorporation
in the Office of the secretary of state, with
M. j. Kinney, W. F. McGregor, and W.
w. Ward as incorporators; capital stock,
$4,000.
W.N. Smith, new conner at Seattle,
was killed in the Yesler sawrnill on the 81.
There are at present four cases OF small
po1 at the Dayton pest house. All but one
are reported nearly well.
No more smallpox in Walla Walla. Mrs.
Lasater has recovered
There was shipped from New Tacoma dur
ing January, 6,505 tons Carbonate coal,
and IN February, 1852 tons.
The Mcfarland Industrial Home for the
Indian girls at Fort Wrangel, burned to
the ground on tho morning of February 9th.
Several mining claims in Cassi.r have
been doing toIerably we'll the past winter.
The weather has not been severe, although
heavy snow storm occurred in the early
part of the winter.
Some of our farmers along the foot hills,
says the Walls Walla Watchman, notice of
late painful epidemic among their horses,
which carry them of before they know it.
The Victoria Colosist, the government
organ, has strong article ia opposition to
| the Ainsworth Kootensy railway and navi-
cation scheme, and denounces it as dan
gerous monopoly. =
Quigley and Ballantine, from Caspian, re-
port great expectations are ente, tained with
regard to recent discoveries of gold in the
Delaro, Burshardt and Walker had return
ed from these diggings with considerable
coarse gold, and had 5000 pounds of pro
visions to take back to that locality.
WalIa Walla is to have a new $4,000
Presbyterian church this season.
| The Walla Walla Union Gays: The Oregon
Improvement company are now bringing to
this city coal from SidEey, Australia, which
costs the consumer Sl4.J0 per ton.
The Walla Walla Democrat says: Forty
odd squirrel scalps were received at the Au'
ditor's Office. Evidently the little rodents
were killed off in great MEASURE by the
late freeze.
The Lafayette Register says: The fe"
warm DAYS of the past week have shown
| that great deal more wheat was frozen
out than was at first supposed to have been
and You can hear nothing bus ''wheIe car
| get some red-chaf wheat to resow my
frozen ont crop"
The price of logs is going up gradually on
Puget sound. In 1879 mill men paid So. SO
per Thousand feet for logs. now they Fay
just twice as much. The piice viii probab-
! ly keep going up. as the demand for lumber
| is good all over theworld. Then, too, the
Puget sound supply is growing smaller.
| The walla walla Democrat says: From
all indications the report of the winters des-
truction to orchards has not been overesti-
mated. Great injury was done to the fruit
trees of Phillip Ritz and J. M. Jessie, and
| it is believed that few will live aside from
the apple and some of the hardest cherry
trees Out of an orchard of fifteen hundred
trees Jon. Singleton does not expect that he
Twill save more than couple OF dezen. Mrs
Ritz advises all not to cut down the tree
before May, as some of them might pull
through.
| There are ties enough piled up at Palouse
| junction to supply the road all the way to
Colfax. The scarcity of rails il the only
thing that may prevent the completion OF
the road during the coming SUMMER says
the Walla Walla Democrat.
Miners of Josephine county are busy, be-
ing favored with plenty OF water.
Many Of the miners of Jackson county
| are busy, but some have no water at all
| The mining season does not promise well
The Gold Hill mining company has en-
n1oyod Mr. Thomas an experienced ouartz