The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-04-27
GENERAL NEWS.

/ GENEhAL sN6Wo-
There is talk of paper being started at
Independence.
There are 80 salmon canneries on the
Pacific coast.
| It believed that the narrow gauge rail
| road line will soon tap Independence.
/ Eastern stock men recently bought qnite
drove of horses in the Yakima country.
The United States Treasury now has the
| enormous sum of sl35, 000, 600 in silver.
The city council of Vancouver has decided
not to purchase steam fire engine at pres
ant.
Farmers in the vicinity of Ritzville are
planting largely of forest and fruit trees
this spring:
The capital stock Of tho Umatilla county
Agricultural society has been nearly all
subscribed.
II. L. Yesler has commenced tbs erection
of one of the finest residents on the Pacific
coast, at Seattle.
The PrineTille Ne,os thinks the establish
ment of a wooden factory at that place,
would be profitable.
Fishing commenced in Rouge river last
week. Several boats were out, but only
few salmon were caught.
Both branches of the Ohio Legislature
have voted to submit to the people q tenn
perance amendment to the Constitution.
Cabbages continue to arrive from Ger
many, although duty of ten cents is col
lected, and turnips are brought from Rus
sia
Houston, Texas, has Mexican burro
with horns instead of boots on his feet, and
with body covered with wool instead of
hair.
Active measures will be taken with the
opening of the Summer months to build the
water ditch from Buena Vista to Indepen-
dence.
An aged colored man of Portland, Me-,
just deceased, was cooks mate on the Con-
stitution when that vessel carried Lafayette
back to France.
The builders of the Capitol, at Albany N.
Y, estimate that they can finish it for S6,-
600, GOO, and the expenditure TO date is
something more than $40 ,000, 600.
Two thousand four hundred and fifty
three seats have been sold for the Cincin-
natl Dramatic Festival for S64, ,626, of which
the premiums amount to $50, 283.
Manitoba has entered protest against
the action of the Dominion Government
looking to an increase in the duty on agri-
cultural implements from the United States.
The Union Pacific Railroad has reduced
the rates on immigrant movables from the
Missouri River to all points in Utah, Da
kota and Montana, from 25 to so per cent.
About twelve hundred persons have con.
trinuted from SITS, 600 to 5000, 1000 for the
development of the Kelley motor, and the
process of development is not yet finished.
W. F. Boothby and J. M. Martin re-
turned from San Francisco. They succeed
ed in securing improved machinery for the
Salem Water company, which will be used
as soon as it arrives.
Judge Stott has been presented with
$500 cash. and A. G. Walling with $3.50
gold watch, as reward for their services
as managers of the Good Templars' Hall
Association of Portland.
Rheumatic, dyspeptic.-atonic- anem-
ic, paralytic-poor wfetched person, the
Oregon Blood Purifier cures such cases and
sickness. Indeed highly recommended by a
vigorous body.
A National Bank with capital stock of
$50, 600 has been organized in Albany. The
names of the stockholders are John Connor,
S. E. Young, L. E. Blain. Henry Failing
and Henry f. Merrill.
A Louisville lottery project, in which the
Willard Hotel was the principal prize, has
collapsed. Of the 60, 600 taken in for tick
cts, only about $751; coo remains for division
among the purchasers.
The Bell Telephone Company is trying to
compel the Government to tiso its telephone
only, and no instrument of any other in
vention, which, it appears, is being done
by the Signal Service corps.
The government troops at Walla Walla
are ordered to be in readiness to march
north at moments notice to look after In
dians as recent Developments indicate
that the Indians up there will give trouble
again.
There is talk in Albany of calling meet
ing of citizens to organize pioneer associa-
tion for Linn county which will include all
persons who came to the county during or
before 1852. Why cannot Benton county
do the same.
The New Orleans Picayune reckons up
total OF 1898, 500, GOO profit to American
builders of Mexican railroads through Gov
ernment subsidies, and suggests that the
Republic is being practically sold out to
New York and Boston millionaires."
It is said that the Good Templars of
Harrisburg have raised $500 toward the
erection of a hall, and that they intend to
increase this amount, and if practicable,
build two story brick this season on the
ground adjacent to the L. o. O. F. hall,
renting the lower story, and using the up
per one for a hall.
A citizen of Lincoln, Eeb., has for 3
money consideration promised in marriage