The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
rEws OF THE NORTHWEST.

City.
DIR. D. w. Ballard, of Linn county, is
i'll with dropsy.
White cedar logs for lumber are worth
Sl6 per thousand feet in Coos county.
Gei. Sprague delivered the Grafton at
decoration day exercises in New Tacoma.
At Laconner project is being discussed
to found hospital for sick or disabled
loggers.
Two hundred graders are at work on the
Celfax branch of the Northern Pacific rail-
road.
The steamer San Pedro has arrived at Ia
coma, and will take her second cargo OF
1000 tons of Carbonate coal.
Geo. F. Fouche, assistant keeper of Ia
toosch lighthouse is to be transferred to the
West Point lighthouse.
A final footing of the census of Jefferson
county, w. T., show population OF 1850.
If the census were taken to-day it would
show 25O0 at least.
The new Imperial mills warehouse at
Oregon City is fast approaching completion.
The Statesman. says: The symptoms of
the wounds of Hon. j. Voorhees, are favor
able for a speedy recovery.
A reward of $500 is offered for the ar
rest of X. w. Cannon, who attempted to
assassinate Hon. j. Voorhees, at Woodburn.
1t costs two and half to three cents per
pound to have wool hauled from Grant
county to The Dalles.
Lebanon has population of about seven
hundred, and they begin to feel the need of
a fire department.
The Umatilla reservation il being settled
very rapidly by the French formerly of
French prairie, Marion county.
The Grand Lodge of Oregon, Knights of
Pythias, will hold it's next session at The
Dalles, on Tuesday, June 5.
County Judge 7. c. Shaw, of Marion
county, offers $500 reward for R. w. Cam
eron, who shot Hon. j. Voorhees,,
There is estimated to be one hundred
thousand head of sheep in three districts
of Grant county.
The City of Salem Companyis flour mills
started up in earnest the 24th. The ma
chinery is working well, and about thirty
men are employed in running it.
The City of Salem brought down 5000
be- of ,ba,{ fo,. %ha C,1o
from Buena Vista. After discharging, she
took on l,cOO barrels of -four and sailed
away for the metropolis.
George Jordan. who lives m Empire City,
got on a big drunk and concluded to clean
out an Indian ranchere, when an Indian
wearing the euphoneous cognoman Of Joe,
shot Jordan, who viii probably die from
the effects.
The Dayton Chronicle says a young man
by the name of Wambold was drowned in
to cross the Penewawa few
days since. His body was recovered on the
next day. --.-
Miss Estella Bradish, the young lady
who was So seriously injured in the Jose
phine disaster, is at present in Seattle. She
still finds it necessary to- use crutches while
moving about. ---.
Walter Mcfarland of Seattle, is the own
er of. a bible printed. in Edinburg in 1925.
It is well printed, well preserved volume.
and is worth to Mr. Macfarland great
deal Of money.
At about three o'clock Monday morning
as the Emma Hayward was pulling out
from Seattle for New Tacoma, large vol
lsme of steam from the kitchen passed
through the open window and finally into
the state-rooms. The passengers immedi-
ately had visions of another fire and the.
burning of the steamer on the deep waters
Of the Sound. In unusual CONSERVATION
The door toward the source of the steam
was broken in and there the whole matter
was revealed The steam was not half SO
fearful to behold as the smoke and fire
which they had expected.
VIM Billings, the contractor of the Seatco'
expects to turn out five hun
lred thousand brick thissummer.;
Miss Willard, the president Of the
Wonsen's Christian Temperance Union, ac-
by Miss Annie Gorden, her pri-'
vate secretary, has arrived att Tacoma:
Mr.. James, Travilion's band of horses, one
hundred and twenty-five in number, includ-'
ng number of thuroughbreds, left Baker
5ity for Montana.
Lieut.. Cook, of the revenue marine, has
east for: examination for pro-
notion. Hisnumerous friends here would
ike to see him returned.
A cave has been'discovered at point Of
ocks about four mifesr below Cello by
yorkmen who were blasting off the face of
Tiff to obtain rocks for rip-rapping the o.
(. & N. Co.'S road. The entrance allows
nan to walk in erect, and the passage has
,eeu explored for some distance.
The first case tried in Klamath county
vas for divorce which was denied the
'laintiff. s----.
R. B. Hatton, clerk; and J. L. Hanks, !
herif of Lake county, have resigned, as
hey intend going to klamath county,
Roseburg hoodlums, while playing on a
Iannber of fiat cars, gave signal to an en- /
ineer, who supposed it came from train
and. Thestraih was backed into another
browning one carffonsthe track and wreck
ng two others.
The preliminary examinatfons of Indian 4
oe at Empire Cityson Tuesday of last week,