The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-11
Hay sells at $40 at Heppner.
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Hay sells at S20 at Heppner.
Tacoma is rapidly improving.
Beef is retailing at 25 cents in Seattle.
Dayton w. T., is discussing the sewerage
question.
Drunken Indians annoy the citizens OF
Ellensburg.
A side track and water tank is being built
at Alkali.
Strawberries are getting ripe in Douglas
county. -E
Land is being rapidly settled up in Doug
las county.
The new bank building at Roseburg is
about completed.
An organized band of claim Jumpers is
said to exist at Alpha.
Seattle coal exports during April aggerga-
ted 10, 500 tons.
Over Is, 900 buffalos have been killed in
Montana this season.
Additional machinery is to be made to
the Ashland wooden mills.
Two or three hundred passengers arrive
at Tacoma by every steamer.
Olympia dogs have to pay tax of 81 so
to So, according to sex.
Mrs Mary TORY, aged eighty years, died
ON the Cd inst at Wilbur.
They have 100 gallon capacity whisky
distillery in Jackson county.
A six foot vein of coal has been discov-
cred just north of Cathlamet.
The Fannie Paddock hospital at New Ta
coma is crowded with patients.
The two escaped couvicts from the Seatco
penitentiary have been recaptured.
During March 81 steamers, Is ships, 80
barks and Sc schooners passed Cape Flattery
H. N. Muzzy of Spokane Falls, had his
face lacerated by the kicking" of a gun.
Thirty acres of hop roots have been set
out in one neighborhood in Lane county.
The Elk Head Quicksilver mines is now
turning out fifty pounds of quicksilver per
day.
Mr.. J. E. Elkin's team ran away near
Buena Vista, and threw him out, dislocating
his shoulder.
Harrington is the name of new town in
the Big Bend country, twenty-five miles
north of Sprague.
Andrew c. Masterson died at Walla Walla
the 9th inst. He settled in that section
twenty years ago.
Deaths at Seattle for the months of Feb
ruary, March and April were ifty-four,
twenty mine being males.
The o. r. & N. Co. has transferred all of
its property in Walla Walla to the N. P. R.
R. Terminal Co.
The break in the wharf at Tacoma by the
steamer San Pedro will cost $1,000 for re-
pairs.
The increased acreage of hops in Yakima
county will this year be double as much as
the year past.
Freight is carried from The Dalles to
Yakima City, 100 miles, at So per hundred
pounds.
Wallowa valley is said to have 200, 900
acres of land that is susceptible of cultiva-
tion.
The assessor of Pierce county, w. T.,
claims 5000 inhabitants. This includes both
of the Tacomas.
Pat O'Neil who lives near Tacoma, killed
a cougar with club. 1t must have been a
small cougar, or big club.
Cannery men are paying ST piece for
salmon. One cannery near Skomockoway
pays $l.10.
MIR. F. Hill of Yamhill county, had a
valuable pair of mules killed by tree fall
ing Rpon them.
George Ely, farmer near Centerville,
shows bunch of winter wheat fourteen
inches in height.
The Oregon Construction Company will
put 1000 Cinnamon at work on the Blue
Mountain division soon.
Mary A. Langley, of Baker county. fell
from swing and laid perfectly unconscious
for two weeks before she died.
A Chinaman was killed and another SER
icusly wounded at Susanville, ON Elk creek,
in Grant county on Sunday last.
General Frank Wheaton is now at the
Vancouver barracks, acting department
commander in the absence of General Miles.
Up to Saturday night Seattle had roised
$40, 600 for the Cedar Valley railroad, and
expects to get the remainder before Oct. lst
The Oregon Short line on the 10th began
to deliver passengers at the new terminus of
the Wood river branch, twenty-five miles
north of Shoshone.
Senator J. N. Dolph, P. G. NJ, will de-
liver the grafton at the laying Of the corner
stone of the new Odd Fellows Orphans
home, on the 18th of May.
A wolf club has been organized by the
citizens who reside on Clackamas river, to
protect their focks of sheep from wolves.
A bounty will be paid for the scalps.
Mr.. Fl. G. Hurlburt, says the Historian
with surveyingparty was at that place on
Friday. This party is to- examine the
country with regard to timber and survey a
road.
Track laying is progressing finely on the
o. R. & N. line. They are now within a
mile or two of the mouth OF Meacham creek
a distance of twenty-five miles from Pen