The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Indian Agent, F. M. Wadsworth, from
the Siletz, arrived in Corvallis last Friday
Go to the Occidental the best hotel in
Corvallis for your board and lodging.
Portland paipers complain of plenty of
game en- the markets.
Your place to buy the cheapest and best
harness and saddles in the valley is at S. A
HemphilPs.
in Portland last week and six Cinnamon
were arrested for the offense.
We have on hand at this Office q new
stock containing latest designs in ladies
and gentleman's cards, business cards. &C.,
which we print at very low figures. Call
and get some of them.
A breach of promise case is going the
rounds of Portland Circuit Court in which
Miss Clara M. Wood sues DIR. G. H. Davis
for ten thousand dollars.
Will Bros. just received a nice assort-
ment of accordeons, and sell them tgreat-
1y reduced prices.
Albert Lande ffteen-year-oldl lad while
riding on a box car of a freight train in
East Portland sudden bump of the car
threw him of, the cars ran over him injur-
ing him SO that he soon after died.
One hundred sacks dairy salt 50 lbs., at
rs cts. per sack, for SAKE by 7. w. Belt,
Philomath.
Pixies peak has been surveyed for the
narrow gauge railway from Manitou to the
summit, thirty miles, and work is to be
commenced at once. Hon. James H. Kerr,
of Colorado Springs, is president of the
company, which was organized to build the
road. The maximum grade is to be 500 feet
to the mile.
At Philomath. 7. w. Belt is getting a
big run on his Sugar Loaf Drips, it is the
finest syrup in the market.
Messrs. Back, Porter & Co. of Halsey
Linn county, failed last week. Their liza
Thousand dollars. Assets about 500, 1000.
It is thought by some that the firm may
pull through and have something left.
One hundred gallon cans coal oil, $50
test, for sale at sl.75 ger can by T. w.
Belt, Philomath. Remember coal oil ha
advanced 25 cts. ON the can in the last
days.
Several fine prospects for gold and silver
have been found between the headwaters
of the Clackamas and Eagle creek, says the
Northwest Ners. The parties who have
found them are keeping the location to
themselves, and should the winter be
fairly open one, they will so back again and
open them up.
Hon. E. B. McElroy, superintendent of
public instruction, says the Ptaindealer,
accompanied by President Van Scoy of the
Willamette University, remained over Sun
day in Roseburg on their way home from
Ashland, where they have been in attend
ance at the teachers institute.
All parties desiring first-class photographs
at reasonable prices will observe from the
card of J. w. Mcconnell in an other COL
umn that he has opened business in the old
stand so long occupied by Mr.. Goldson,
where he will endeavor to please the public
by giving them the best of work.
The many friends of Geo. A. Brock, who
was admitted at the last term of the Su.
preme Court to practice law, will be pleased
to learn from his professional card in
another column that he intends remaining
at this place to practice his chosen profess
ion. George has been very faithful and
persevering student and his habits of indus
try will no doubt lead him into successful
business.
Will Bros. have just received a large
shipment of the latest improved sewing
machines, including the Eldridge, acknowl-
edged by sewing machine experts to be the
ightest running machine In the market
The Eldridge is a new machine and has
many good qualities over all others which
must be seen to be appreciated. 1t is no
trouble to show the good qualities of our
machines to parties who contemplate pur-
chasing. Old machines taken in exchange.
Already Northern Pacific trains run
through snow fields at intervals all the way
from Idaho to St. Paul The snow is no
where deep, but these early falls are FORE
taste of what msy be expected later on.
While there Will certainly be difficulty in
operating the road after storms IN Montana
and Dacota. it is not likely that there will
be serious blockades. The methods which
keep the roads open in Minnesota and the
other Northwestern states will, without
doubt prove effective on the Northern Pa
cifc.
An exchange says: A recent discovery
ON the head of Cowlitz river establishes the
fact that Washington Territory can now
boast of the grandest cataract in the world,
its height being 1900 feet. The Nooksack
Indians assert positively that waterfalls
higher than the tallest pine, fir or cedar
trees are to be found on the extreme head
waters of the Nooksack river. That section
of the country has never yet been explored