The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-30


A boy named Walter Cowan, of Albany
was severely burned about the face by care
lessly exploding can of powder.
The saw mill of Alfred Davies will be re-
moved from Beaverton to point neal
Kalana, whsrs large quantity of cedal
can be had
The ship Majestic is. loading piles at Sea
beck for Alameda.
Dean & Newhall will soon establish .
staye factory at Orcas island.
Opium dens at Ainsworth have bee1
raided and smokers ordered to leave.
The rapid rise in Snake river has stopped
| some work on AinswoIth bridge.
The Universalist church building at Day
ton has been sold to Congregationalists.
The Washington mills at Waitsburg ar.
I to be enlarged this summer and new ma
chinery placed.
J. Lanahan, . workman on one of the
stone barges at Ainsworth, is missing, and
it is thought he is drowned.
Miss Alice Weststons, residing seven
miles from Dayton, is down with smallpox.
This is the third case in the family.
Patients at the pest-house are recovering.
Me@srs. Williamson and Phillips, recently
from Kansas, have purchased $50 acres at
Windy Cove. Mason county. On the tract
is Is acres Of cranberry marsh, and other
tracts will be converted to the same use.
J. H. Raley, J. H. Cavanaugh and D. K.
Smith have formed company to furnish
Pendleton with water.
The Episcopal church at Eugene has been
furnished with new benches
A dwelling owned by Floyd Vaughn, neal
Eugene City, was burned last week; los.
800:
There are ll05 school children in Clatsor
county, an increase. of Is per cent. owe,
last year.
Pendleton has ALT children of school age.
NJ. G. Willis takes charge of the Pendieton
hotel on the iat at Penilston.
A number Of hard looking fellows were
fred last week by the marshall at Eugene
City.
Miss Lulu Mckay, of Pendleton, while
skating on rollers, fell and broke her wrist il
two places.
A number of men of Independence, have
entered into an agreement not to lay around
the saloons and gamble.
The Roseburg school board have elected
B: A Cathey principal, Jeanette Webt
and Winifred Mosher assis tant.
The SAW Eil!s on the Sound are all being
run TO their full capacity.
A large number of contracts are out fol-
building steamers at Seattle.
Fourteen acres of land mile below Day
tan were sold last week for $1,000.
julius Thielson after inspecting the new
road to Blue Mountain, pronounces the
work well done and says it will be, ready tc
operate next Tuesday.
It is stated that the business men of Pom,
eroy have Organized a private company tx
build a railroad from Snake river to thai
place up the Patahs..
The two coal trains from the Carbonate
mines bring to the bunLers, at Tacoma, 7e
cars each, about 40 tons day. This coal
is improving in quality.
The protracted meeting at Buena Vista
held by Rev's Bowersoz, Halienbaugh and
Hushner of she Evangelical Association. re-
suited in twenty asses.ions to the church
and fifteen conversions.
r. R. freight hereafter passes Riddle and
goes to the front. The now road will prob
ably be completed to Julia, says the Plain
dealer. and freight aati: passengers will be
landed there by the first of May.
A lamp fell to the floor in hall at Buens
Vista aud scattered the OIL A fool Of lu
nasic touched match toa it for smartnesS
and came near destroying the building il
which there were at the time q: number OF
people cut of from the hall way.
Pullman cars arctic run through from the
Atlantic to. the Pacific ocean, by way of the
Pennsylvania, Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul and Northern Pacific roads, when the
latter is completed.
It is nows pretty generally understood
that Sup't Hallett, with his 1000 white men
and 5000 Chinese, will complete the work
allotted them by the lst of April. The en-
tire force will go back to Portland.
A tannery has started at Walla Walla;
the nemlock bark used is obtained near
lake Pend d'Oreille.
Tho distance by the o. K. 4 N. Co..
road to Snake river from Umatilla, is 225
miles, at q cost Of S5,000000.
Henry Willard and his associates in New
York controle 1882 miles of the railroads in
Washington and Oregon, viz: The Northern
Pacific Co., 4s7; the o R & N Co., 357; the
Oregon and California & r Co.,. $50; the
Oregon Improvement Co., 81. The 4S7 of
the Northera, Pacific Co, are IN w. T., as
are also the 81 miles of the Oregon Improve
ment Co., the latter being the coal road be-
tween Seattle and Newcastle.