The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-04-20
GENERAL NEWs
.xes on saa5 $40.

| j. E. Mclaughlin OF Portland has leased
the cement mines near Oakland.
Track laying has commenced Oh tho Col
fax road.
Yakima city is 1900 and El.enburg 1900
feet above the sea lsvel.
The Odd Fellows at sprague are taking
active measures to organize lodge.
Rockford ia row enjoying a boom. The
surrounding country is rapidly being settled
The logging camp OF U1a Henderson, on
Camp creek, was visited by fire, and all
tools, provisions, et2., burned.
A saw is1ill at Candy, Clackamas county
is working on a contract for S0,00G railroad
ties.
The new mill Of ssthc Yalnhin laundering
| Co has aefnnleneed work and turns out Is,
o00 Poe day.
The mill 1T South Bend, Pacific county,
" T., is turning ont SO, 600 feet per day
and cannot ill orders.
Nlr. a. Sutton, Of Wasco, has sold his
ranch for the sam Of sI3, GRO, and expect to
remove from that country.
The citizens of Halsey are earnestly agi-
tstat5,g the building OF e new 81, 800 school
lonse in chat enserprising village.
The citizens OF vVaila Walla distributed
! Sil5 toward the Mayor Trevett's monument
fund.
| a small new steamer is TO be built for the
accommodation Of the Artonde!s and Hen
derson bay trade trade on tie Puget Sound.
| The Ayg7ts says that houses to rent are
very scarce in Port Townsend. Anything
with roof on il ren.s at high figures,
A new saw m.l with 3 daily capacity of
Il, eco sset will soo:, be completed at Sum-
a.er, Pierce county, ". 7.
! During March 5! steamers, 10 ships, 80
banks and IS scnooners Eazaed Cape Fiat
terry.
Dan Winfield, sheopheader near Waits
burg, had leg broken by betag thrown
| FROM p horse.
The losses by the recsn5 WailA Walla fire
have been adjusted. Total loss by. fire, S4,-
| 657; insurance S27787.
The nalne Of the young man sccidently
killed by pistol shot at hontesano was
Sca,nmons, aud his age was Is years.
The new court house at Cheney IS nearly
completed, district court being now held in
| the large room.
Wells Fargo & Cos. express efics at Va
l,irnse City, is open For business and the Ell
enbugge office vii! soon be open.
AJ splawn, of Yakima, is receiving ESQ
cattle for shipment to Portland. He paid
$40 for cows and $50 for steers.
A. C. sones for many years a leading at
torney III Jacksonville, has taken up his res
i,lerioe at Roseburg
A fishing boat has ,lrifted on the beach
bottom up at the entrance to Shoalwater
bay.
a minister is on the way out from New
York to take charge OF the Presbyterian
! church at Boise City,
Charles Anderson, recently shot by
Sheriff Purdotn of Douglas county while
trying 10 escape, has been placed in the
insane asyIam.
Archbishop Seghers had class OF thirty
for confirmation at Gervais last Sunday. In
the afternoon ne dedicated the Sisters
School.
The shoalwatcr bay oyster beds are Civ
ing evidence of reouperation, and it is
tEieaght the daraaae by last winttt's severe
ity has been overestifnated.
The store of Mot Crosby at CentevrilIo,
Lewis county was entered last week and
$l75- in morey taken. Three men have
been arrested charged With the robbery.
\ public meeting will soon be held at
Garfold:to devise means of raising the bal
ance OF money needed to erect a high
school.
One thousand men are at work On the
railroad along the PuyaIlup, Stuck and
yThige rivers The bridge across the Puyal-
lor is nearly finished
tim 81 pack of thieves who undertook to
rob him, ssad when they failed, fosrsng pros
ccutien themselves had him arrested in or
der to insure their own safety.
The Guard says chat the people of Lane
county are in more prosperous condition
that for years past, notwithstanding the
freezing ont Of the Fall sown grain.
There is a,scarcity.of houses in Eagene.
Eigin Psarat of the Daliea had an artery of
his wrist severed by = pane of glass falling
on els arm.
During the past season the twenty-six
logging camps at whatcom county W. T.,
employed 2I5 hands, and cnt so, 03o, 600 feet
of logs, valned at $500, 600.
A mil with daily capacity Of Ii, 900 feet
viii be built on Elk river, Curry county, In
the spring. Port Oxford is the shipping
point,
A cedar tree was recently cut. on Johns
river, ". T., measuring ninety feet in cir
conference and contsining Is, G00 feet Of t
lumber.
The N. P. R. R. shops at Tacoma are turn
ing out an outfit of fifty switches and other
railroad material, to be taken to Horse
Plains and the Missouladlvision of the road.
Ex-senator Mitchell IS attorney for the
.lainants in the Dalles town site case