The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-11
News Summary.

JOnn SGengeT COnmllcu SulCtut
near Pendleton the other dav, byshoot-
ing himself in the head.
Monroe county has 1866 sheep,
5,I94 horses, "a mules, 3,o4o cattle,
and 1892 hogs. The population of
the county is a,7o4.
The ninth annual reunion of the
Pioneer Association of Southern Ore
gon will bs held in Ashland next Thurs
day, September 10th.
StockmeH of Klickitat, Kittitas and
Yakima counties, w. T., met in North
Yakima Tuesday last and organized a
protective association.
Robert Childers in Polk county was
thrown from horse power while NOV
ing it last week and the power ran
over him breaking his back. He died
in about three hours.
S. B. Pettingill, Jas. K. Kelley and
c. B. Bellinger, of Portland, Oregon,
have recently incorporated the Stand
ard Publishing Company who now
publish the Standard.
The Franklin Building and Loan
Association, of Portland, recently
loaned $500 dollars in two amounts
Wednesday evening, receiving fifty two
and fifty three months interest in ad-
vance.
A fire at Centerville, on Wednesday
morning, destroyed two blacksmith
shops. dwelling and agricultural Office.
1t is supposed that the fire originated
from forge in one of the shops. Loss
about 500
Mr.. Mcclure aged 70 and wife.
Ben and Charles Lyons and their
wives went hunting up the Mckenzie
last week and returned home last We'd
nesday, Sept. 2. They killed nine deer
and one bear.
The first car of wheat ever shipped
from the Cascade division Of the North
ern Pacific Railroad was loaded and
sent out from North Yakima last We'd
nesday to the Northern Pacific Elevo-
tor Company, Fargo, Dakota.
The government snag boat is at work
building a wing dam on each side Of
the river at Matheny.s bar below Sa-
lem. The water on Lone Tree, Ben
nett's and Matheny',s bars, respectively,
is now eighteen inches deep.
The Lighthouse tender, Shubrick,
having completed repairs left recently
with Captain George. Davis on
board She will do buoyage work on
the Columbia river and establish
number of ADDITIONAL stake lights.
L. d, Brown, one of the proprietors
of the St. Charles Hotel of Portland,
is building a quartz mill at Jackson
VILE. 1t will have capacity to re-
duce five six tons of rock daily. The
mill will be ready for operation in
about five weeks.
Three car loads of chrome ore have
been shipped by 6. w. Riddle to
Portland, says the News, and. from
there it will probably be shipped to
England for reduction process 1t was
taken out of the hill near the nickle
mines close to the town of Riddle.
1t is understood that an agent of the
projectors of nail factory is in Port
land, says the News, negotiating for
the purchase of the works OF the Ore
gon Iron and Steel Company at Os-
wego, eight miles south of Portland.
At that point they can own and mine
their own raw materials with but little
Cost.
A prominent Portland mining man
who is now in the Pine Greek mines,
writes to friend as follows: says the
News. A shaft forty feet deep has
been sunk in the Union mine. The
ledge is found to be much wider than
was at first supposed, and the ore or a
better quality. The Whitman mine
has been bonded for $4,000. The
ledge is wide and rich. There seems
to be no end to the mineral wealth of
the mines, and new discoveries, some
very rich, are being made daily. A
new mill will shortly be erected at Cor
nucopla.
On Tuesday, of last week, barn ON