The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-05-09
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
News Summary.

L1nd Office at Union, one day last week.
Franklin Post No 26, G. A. r. has re-
Gently been organized at Sheridan, Yam hill
county.
The graduating classes of the Oregon state
normal school at Monmoth this year, will
consist of nine in the normal class, five in
the commercial and three in the cole giate.
Commencement day is June IL.
The amount of land sales of the n. P. r.
r. Co., at Portland for the month of April
in round numbers is as follows: Pen d.
Oriel division, $4,000. Pacific division
500, 200, Total $42,O
The Oregon City Enterprise is authority
for the statement that there is ''a gentleman
in this county by the name of Franklin, who
has great great grandchildren and will be a
hundred years old in a few months. He is
as anxious to vote as ever
The County Treasurer of Multnomah
county, during the month of April past
handled $2l3, 255.O3. He paid out on
county warrants alone 500, 1876. The
remainder of the money has been nearly all
disposed of, a balance of only $39, 1885, O3
remaining in hand.
A tough element infests Spokane Falls.
Recently, one mrn was garroted and robbed
of $35, and another was coaxed into den
and swindled out of $3.50 The authorities
have commenced cleaning out of the
toughs.
We understand. says the Plaindealer that
definite arrangements have been made for
the development of an important and rich
coal mine in this county. We are not at
liberty to state the mine, or its location, but
work is to commence at all early day, and it
is probable large sum of money will be ex-
pended in the community.
Stoppage of work on the railroad above
Redding will cause Siskiyou county to ship
via Portland for San Francisco and the east
as the cheapest route. Teaming is only
forty-nine miles from Yreka to the Oregon
railroad terminus at Ashland, and lis miles
from Redding, and will be only forty five
miles nearer about midsummer.
Writing from Woodburn, Oregon, to the
Salem Statesman, a correspondent says,
This place was visited las. evening, about 7
O'Clock, by severe hallstorm, which lasted
about fifteen minutes, doing considerable
damage to gardens We feared it would
injIre fruit, but on inquiry we find that
fruit was not injured to any extent. Some
farmers have had to quit seeding OH occount
of the ground being too wet.
Alfred Cowles, the business manager of
the Chicago Tribune, assures the man of
gossip on the Washington Capital staff that
the Tribune annually pays so per cent
dividends on an investment of $5O0,000.
The stock, of which Mr.. Medill owns con-
trolling interest, is valued at 81, 900, 900 and
the profits are 25 per cent on that.
A distressing and fatal accident occurred
Tuesday at Clifton, resulting in the death of
Johnny McLane, infant son of J. w. McLane
an employee in Cooks cannery. The little
fellow, who'is only eight months old, when
his mothers attention was attracked else
where in the house, managed to pull over
kettle of boiling water ON himself, sustain
ing injuries which all the parents care could
not prevent from proving fatal.
Mr.. Frank Cooper laid on our table last
week peculiar plant, which he requested
us to name says the Salem Statesman. We
gave it up, and he proceeded to inform us
that the plant was ''teasel,' and that a
Mr.. Cotteral, who resides near Soda Springs,
l,,, r1,o al
with this weed, and from which he ex-
pected to make $4,000 from this years
crop alone. The plant produces a very
large bur similar to the cockle-which is
used in dressing wooden cloths.
The last issue of the Democrat says: The
following, clipped from an old Albany
Democrat of April 9, 1861, will be of great
interest, as showing the earlier history OF
the Bay, and what people thought of it,
'sMr. L. A Davis informs the Corvallis
Union, that the view of the road from Cor
wallis to tide water on the Yaquina river has
been completed. The whole distance is
44s miles. The toughest part of the route
is embraced in the first Is miles.
Should the bay prove to be sufficiently
capacious, and it is thought it unquestion'
ably will, for commercial purposes, with a
convenient and safe entrance, much benefit
will be gained by the central portion o
Oregon, by the development of the facts.
The Pacific journal of the Goth ult. says
For the benefit of the incredulous and skep-
tic in the matter of building the railroad
from Ilwaco to Oysterville, we would say
that the read is assured. The Journal is
informed this week that the amount neces.
sary to accomplish the work $50, ,OOO-has
been subscribed. With this road built on
the peninsula and the connection made be-
tween Gray's Harbor and Shoalwater Bay,
the garden of Washington Territory will be
opened and our country will receive the rec
ognition she so richly deserves, after lying
dormant these many years. 1t is expected
that a d;rectors' meeting will be held very