The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-03-28
News SUNNI ary.


The mumps are in fourishing condition
in Goldendale. 1he market in pica les is
consequently quiet. So;
County Treasurer Gray has sent to the
state treasurer check for $4,000, the bal
ance of Lane County's taxes for this year.
The republican county convention of
Coos county will be held at Coquille City on
Saturday, April l9.
Heppner Gazette: Reports from the cat
tie ranges show that the average losses by
the winter storms will be ten per cent.
Grant County News: Thomas Howard re-
turned on Tuesday last from the Malheur
He reports the stock as doing well and the
winter having been very mild.
For being good cook and getting up at
at three o'clock in the morning for ten years
Governor Cleveland has pardoned Henry
Harrison, negro, who was sentenced to
Sing Sing for twenty years for robbery
The board of directors of the Walla Walla
Agricultural Society have decided upon
holding five days fair this year, beginning
Sept. g., and to offer racing premiums to IL e
amount of $500.
The other day little 6-year-old son of
Matt Brown at Newport, Coos county, was
very dangerously poisoned by eating wild
parsnips. Prompt medical aid soon brought
the child around all right.
w. NJ. Colvig, school superintendent,
writes the Jacksonville Times that there was
an increase of AL children ofschool age dur
ing the year i'll jackson county, but the in-
crease in funds more than meets the de-
mand. In fact school matters seem very en-
couraging at present.
Miss Ella Montgomery and Miss Laura
Hubbell two well-known young ladies, one
graduate of the High School and the other
from Southern Oregon, have established all
Employment Bureau at No. 2299 First St.
Portland. and will give special attention to
securing positions for women in all classes
OF work. Both have had some experience
In the business. and will without doubt
give satisfaction to all patrons.
Leon Boggs, Who is stopping with Mr.. Ben
Thompson near Harrisburg last Wednesday
undertook to load breach loading shotgun
by driving the cartridge in with bolt.
The result was a demoralized gun and a SER
i'usly wounded boy. Parts ofthe cartridge
hit him above the eye and plowed furrow
up and across his forehead, leaving an ugly
wound, and some splilters in his face that
were subsequently removed by DR.. Menden-
hall An
A singular superstition held by Indians in
the vicinity of Umatllia is detailed by an
Oregonian correspondent. They have re-
Gently been having trouble with the whites
about laud, and held a conference with Can't
Upham on the 18th inst, when he explain |
ed to them and told them that thew must |
file upon land as other men do to secure it.
The Indians refuse to do this, or to traffic |
III land at all, claiming that it is no better
than dealing in human flesh, as men are
made of dust and return to it at death They
believe that land should be free to ALL and
are not satisfied at having whites become it's
owners. Trouble will probably result.
The permanently. organization of the wool
growers association of Grant county took
place Oh Saturday, and the following Off
GERS were duly elected: VIM. Hall, presi-
dent: G. w. McHaley, vice.president: E.
5. Pentield, secretary: j. Luce, treasurer.
The regulrr meeting of the association will
be held In the Granger hall, in John Day
City, on the last Saturday of each month.
The next regular meeting will take place on
Saturday afternoon, March 29th, at2o'clock.
Every wool grower througout the county is
invited to join this organization.
At Harrisburg considerable excitement
was caused the first of last week by the SER
lous poisoning of Mrs Mary A. Boggs, Dale
Mcdonald, Mrs. Boggs' grandson, and MIR.
Martin Powers, boarder, on last Sunday,
Several Others were slightly affected. On ,
tracing up the matter it was found that the I
troubled came from. the flour, as some were ]
Affected from sating the bread. and others {
rom eating biscuit and pie made from the {
'ame flour. Drs. Mendenhall and Davis s
ssre called, and by prompt work soon had a
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LANCER. The symptoms of the poison were l
hose of strychnine. An analysis of the I
'read will be made. Mrs. Boggs subse- s
luently emptied the yeast made from the t
iOur into the hogs feed and it killed two S
tut of the three hogs which she was feeding. n
A Tillamook lad was recently the victim b
# misplaced confidence, A large whale e
lad drifted ashore in the neighborhood in a
which he lived, and his father desiring to o
'ossess such a coveted prize, fastened rope
o the narrative relates, around the behe- a
moths tail, and it was at this moment of h
riumph that the over-confident youngster c
eated himself upon the forehead of the mon d
ter 1t appears that the whale had as yet f,
allied to give up the ghost, and when it be- d