The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-18

| week. oVernoWlng ground that had not been
reached in months.
! During the teachers institute at Golden.
dale last week. steps were taken tow arc
establishing a normal school at that place.
Over $500 has been promised.
Elsie Nutting fell into the creek at
Sprague last week, and but for the help OF
deorge Hayes would have been drowned
A gentleman from Oregon named Cocka-
line bought the Palouse City Touring mil
at administrators sale on Monday of last
week, paying $1,000 cash for it,
The U. l. & o. Stage Co. are now running
"daily and a half" between Pendletol
and La Grande. The extra will be extend
ed to Baker City soon.
About dozen houses will be built in
Fossil this summer. About 2OO, 900 feet OF
lumber have been subscribed for, if a mill
will be built on Butte creek.
A special to the Walla Walla Union says
| the body of B. L. Bish was found in the
| Spokane river on the 7th inst. Bish fell
into the river several months ago while
logging
C.. r. Tayieur's band of weathers were
sheared at Judge buttons ranch this week
They numbered $40, and produced 1850
pounds of wool, an average of nine pounds
each. One fleece weighed sixteen pounds
| A new organization, known as Holiner's
band has been organized at Hillsboro.
Some of their articles of faith or govern
ment are, that they will not buy, sell OF
wear jewelry for personal adornment; will
not buy, sell or use tobacco to crafty a
perverted taste.
The residence of DR.. Mattison, who lives
about mile and half southwest of Aums-
vile, was broken into by thief recently
while the family were absent, and watch,
revolver and several other things were tax
en-.
| Brakeman Hall, who was so seriously in
jured at Jefferson by falling off of train,
after laying unconscious for three days. has
come to himself, and will probably get WELL
The largest fish we have heard of being
caught this season was taken by boat No
6, of the Eureka Packing Co., yesterday
morning. The fish weighed seventy pounds
| Historian.
special meeting of Astoria Engine Co.
No. was held at the hall of the company
last evening. It was decided to send a
team to Salem to take part in the tourna-
ment. Sufficient volunteered to insure
making up good team.
Messrs. P. A. Worthington and G. F.
Bulfnch of Weston have secured land on
Wild Horse upon which to build grain
platforms in case the railroad is finished to
that point this season.
Judge Wingard holds that the city of
Walla Walla has no jurisdiction in the Chi
nese opinm smoking cases, but that the
offense comes under the territorial law The
city will appeal the case to the supreme
court.
Lewis county is having a good boom in
the way of new settlers and sale of real
estate. Prices of property are going up.
and, with prospects of good crops, every
body is in good humor.
A longshoreman named VIM johnson,
at Tacoma, claims that while sleeping in
d tenement house he was attacked by a
stranger, who cut his face in several places
The wounds were probably received during
some drunken row.
The prospects of the growing crops are
all that could be desired. Wheat has a
rank and vigorous growth. Of late crops,
such as corn and potatoes. a large acreage
is planted with indications of a big yield
Jimmy Sheridan, veteran of the Mexi-
can war, while at work in gravel pit in
North Salem on Wednesday last, was badly
hurt by the bank falling upon him and
pressing him against wagon that he was
assisting in loading. Although no bones
were broken, his legs were badly squeezed
and bruised.
The Idaho Democrat says: A company of
cavalry left Fort Boise, Tuesday, tor Gath
crime creek, Owyhee county, to look after
renegade Indians, who are menacing the set
tiers over there. They will also visit Bru-
neau, and go as far as Duck valley probably.
Fears are entertained that the Bannock's at
Fort Hall, in conjunction with the Duck
valley Indians will 60 on the war path.
The indications now are that Alkali will
do an immense business the coming season.
The shearing season has already started in
earnest. There has been shipped from
there thus far this season upwards of 100
tons of wool. The platform at the depot
Is full and it is still coming. The most OF
this is from the neighborhood OF Rock creek,
and there are about 1900 head of sheep
still to be shorn there, with Thirty Mile
Butte and Pine creek to be heard from.
The Columbia water company, under the
of Hon. D. P. Thompson,
havh commenced work. ,~and expect to sup
ply Astoria with water during the comm.ng
summer. The water will be taken from
natural lake, formed by Bear creek, ten
miles from that city, and the altitude is 4l2
feet above the city. The water will be con-
lucted through ten inch iron pipe.
At Independence, Polk county, short |
time since, a grass widow, who was on the
shady side of fifty, married man much |
than herself, and her husband per-
'uaded her to,sell her land for cash, which
she did, when the old lady's daughter, who