The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-05-22
News SUNNI ary.

The annual roundup in Eastern
Oregon is now general.
Diptheria in malignant form has
made its appearance in Helix.
Sturgeon are more numerous in the
Umpqua river than ever before.
H. Hoffman, of Dallas, has COW
that gives fifty-one pounds of milk per
day.
Roseburg boasts of the largest brass
band in the State. 1t has twenty-five
members.
Pigeons are doing considerable dam
age to grain fields on Coos river and
Catching slough. :.
A Jail and Court House is to be
built at Canyon City, Grant county,
to cost $1o,73o.
The Grant county News says there
is from 20, 900 to 10000 mutton sheep
for sale in that county.
The fishermen are on stike at Astoria.
They appointed a committee to confer
with cannerymen apout their differ
ences.
Sheep shearing in Eastern Oregon
is pretty near over. Very little West
ern Oregon wool has been sent to
Portland yet.
The trial of Martin and William
Mackey, father and son, charged with
killing Micheal Purcell, is now in pro
gress at Jacksonville.
Oregon's large eprune ranches promise
to pay well, now that railroads have
fixed the freight rate to Chicago at
81 50 per 100 pound.
The Pioneer and Historical Society
of Oregon met at Astoria last Monday.
The society will hereafter attend the
funerals of its members.
Mrs. Amanda Mcdaniel has been
indicted b '>the Grand Jury Of Jack
son county for completely in the muir
der of her husband, Lewis.
M. A. Teller, Robert Olford and G.
Turpin, trio of thieves, who recently
escaped from the Roseburg county
Jail, have been recaptured.
A Chinese mining company on
Clark's creek, Baker county, one day
last week cleaned up $500, the pro-
cess ofabout one months run.
The Jury law which Senators Prim
put through the late Legislature is said
by lawyers to be invalid. The Su-
preme Court will soon pass upon it.
Henry Stove, of Pendleton, finished |
a band of weathers few days
ago, numbering something over 1900
head from which he got 1o,165 pounds
of wool.
A Nehalem. correspondent states
that people are still going into the
Rock creek country, and that an effort
will soon be made to develop some of
the claims.
o. Lindstom, Sweede. aged 40,
killed himself in the Astoria cemetry
Friday with a pistol. No cause is as
signed. Twenty:seven dollars were
found in his pockets.
The section boss ON the O. R. & N. |
at LaGrande, was shot a night or two
ago in the dark by Chinaman whom
he had discharged. The shot took
effect in the leg and is not dangerous.
The Astoria fishermen ask the can
nerymen to reduce the number ofboats |
On the river one-half, and to pledge
themselves not to purchase or can any
salmon caught IN fish traps. If these |
concessions are made the fishermen
are to accept the reduced price offered |
Tuesday afternoon at the Rye valley
placer mine, a Chinaman who was
working on bedrock which was some
what insecure, struck his pick rather
forcibly into the rock, causing it to
give way, precipitating the Chinaman.
some distance, and killing him instant
ly.
C. w. Hilton, of Pine creek, near
the main John Day river, the sheep
king of Gillian county, employs a
force of night as we'll as day herders
during the lambing season. The ewes