The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-04-13
GENERAL NEWS.

/ to 32-column paper.
/ There are llS patients in { 9 insane as
| ylum at Steilacoom, w. f.,
The Walla Walla driving park is adver-
tised to be sold by the sheriff.
Fhe Walla Walla police report shows but
twenty arrests fer the month of March.
/ A Mrs. Peter Brown suicided near Boise
City, MARCH 9th by taking strychnine
The total amount of school funds distrl-
buted to Linn county the present year, IS
$40, 794, 10.
The sawmill at Colney, Lane county. is
preparing to do a large business ths COM
! ing summer.
| Peter George Greek fisherman. clipped
from his scow at Clifton, Thursday morning
and was drowned.
C. B. Montague, of Lebanon, dropped a
knife upon his foot, the blade penetrating
couple of inches and breaking off, 1t was
extracted with difficulty.
1t is reported that the steamer Yaquina
has been chartered by Humo & Co., to re-
move the material for a cannery from the
Columbia to the Coquil!e.
There remains of the Coos bay appropria-
tion unexpended about $4,000. 1t will be
expended in about four months.
! A prominent boat builder estimates that
there will be 800 new boats built in Astoria
for this fishing season at s2l0 APIECE.
|
demand for labor in that county. wages
ranging from s35 to $50 per month and
| board.
The officers of the projected Seattle &
Gray's Harbor r. R. Co. are considering the
question of branch line to Bakers Bay.
There is II feet of water reported on the
CoquilIe bar, and the breakwater improving
it beyond the anticipations of the most san
guine.
The Clatsop mills cut l25, 600 feet of
lumber daily and this does not supply the
demand
Major Adams paper, the Columbian, pub
lished at st. Helens, will be enlarged next
week to twenty-eight columns.
The 500 yard race near Lafayette last
Friday afternoon, between Boatman's bay
horse from Dayton. and Dudley's sorrel
horse from Muddy, was won by the latter
by nine feet.
A large acreage on Candy prairie has al
ready been planted in potatoes. Unless an
exceptional season occurs, there will be
raised in that nook in the woods, about
10000 bushels.
Jerry Meeller .and Eliza Odell, students
of the Indian training school, were married
March 3ist. At the same time and place
David Brewer and Kate Loulin, also stu
dents, were married.
Oscar Gainard, aged Is, died near Rock
Point last Friday of diphtheria.
Fred Houck, Of Ashland, had an arm
broken while wrestling with playmate.
Baker county has 1851 children of q
school age OF this number 7G5 are en-
rolled in the public schools and 226 in pri-
vate schools.
During the present term I40 scholars
have been admitted in the Heppner school,
requiring force of three teachers.
| Goldendals elected city temperance
| ticket.
Italian fisherman recently caught large
devil fish near Seattle.
Stage lines are to run from Missonla to
the Kootenai county.
The steamboat Northwest is laid up with
a broken shaft at Ainsworth.
Rnmor has it that the Wilkeson coal
mines viii soon be opened.
A. K. Woodbury. has sold the Spokane
Falls Chronicle to FL. 7. Cowley.
| Members of the German Methodist church
at New Tacoma propose to erect church.
On last Friday night the breakwatsr at
/ the central pier of Ainsworth bridge was
swept away.
Hanson Co. 3 mill at New Tacoma is
| being enlarged, and next month will cut
225, 600 feet daily.
The sum of So, 800 has been subscribed
toward the purchase of grounds for county
fair purposes at Walla Walla.
The Walla Walla city council have placed
the liquor license at $3.50 per year, but one
councilman voting against it.
Dr. Fruiht, advance immigrant agent, has
| just gone into the Big Bend country to pick
| out locations for fifty families.
Josiah Merritt, pioneer of King county
W. T., died suddenly at his home
Falls City last Thursday. His age was
about IS years.
Messrs. Wiscombe, johnson and Burns
are erecting steam mill and sash factory
at Spokane. The machinery is to cost
5000.
There is considerable excitement among
the Indians near Goldendale, as it is under
stood they have all been ordered to reser-
vations.
! Bishop Owens has bought Ia acres on
the beach back of Ilwaco. The intention is
| to erect buildings for conference and camp
meeting purposes.
On Monday, the I'd inst, several men
| were injured by a falling bucket in well at
| New Tacoma. Chas. Getzmeyer received
! injuries about the head.
J A new Baptist church was organized in
| New Tacoma, on Wednesday of last week,
with ten constituent members: Rev. J.
d., 1o4c ofI 49, IoJ