The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-21
News Sur1m ary.

A new quartz mill is to be erected
near Jacksonville Or.
The yield of gold in Jackson County
exceeds 100000 annually.
The Teachers Institute of Washing
ton Territory, convened at Vancouver
last Monday.
An attempt is being made to have
the Lakeview land office moved to Har
rey valley.
The iron works at Oswego will soon
shut down until better times will gus
tify them running.
MI. F. E. Smith of the Tacoma Coal
company says that they have discov.
ered genuine petroleum in the neigh
borhood of Tacoma.
Professor C. w, Roby and Mr..
Noltner are in the East endeavoring to
obtain the appointment as Post Master
of the Portland Post Office.
H E. Battin of Portland shipped a
carload of pears and pIums to St. Paul
via the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The shipments promises to increase as
the season advances.
There are now IS coal miners en-
ployed at Newport, says the Coast
Mail The yield of the mlne last
month averaged 200 tons per day dur
ing the days they worked.
The Columbia river pilots left Asto-
ria on the tug Hermina recently, to sur
vey the different bars and channels
between Astoria and Portland. They
willalso make soundings for anchorage
for ships
Last week the body of a man was
found in the Columbia river a consid-
cradle distance below the Cascades.
it is supposed to be one of the unfor-
tunates drowned on Saturday at the
Cascades
The brick work of the first story of
the new State University building has
been completed and the work on the
second story has already commenced,
says the Guard. The work is being
done in first class style.
James Murphy, formerly of Scott
Bar, Cal, was found dead in the
woods not far from Fort klamath.
He had been missing for some time
and it was thought that he had left the
country. When found however it was
discovered that he had accidently fallen
a tree upon himself by which he met
his death.
Statesman: DR.. J. J. Brown, of
Brownsboro, Jackson county, was
thrown from his road cart and killed
on Sunday last while on his way home
from a professional visit at Gold Hill.
His horse had taken fright and the cart
was overtu. ned, throwing the doctor
violently against heavy plank and
fracturing his skull.
The heaviest yield of grain of which
this journal has been informed during
this season, says the Statesman, was
from twelve acres on the farm of Matt
HAS Habberly, formerly the T. w.
Davenport donation claim in the Waldo
Hills. From the twelve acres six hun
dred and twelve bushels of wheat were
threshed, an average of fifty one bushels
per acre.
Merrill Fish typo on the Albany
Democrat one week ago last Saturday
while out near the Calipooya bridge
with two other boys by accident 2z
Caliber revolver was discharged the
ball lodging under the skin near the
bottom part of Merrills left thigh.
The ball on its way just grazed an
artery. The ball was extracted and on
the following Tuesday young Fish was
at his case.
The body of a petrifed giant has
been found by two farmers who were
sinking well ten miles from Victoria,
B. C. Its appearance closely resembles
thai of human being, so says one Of
our exchanges. The head has the ap
pearance of having been scalped.
The material is as hard as flint and the
arms and legs are broken short off.
The veins and ribs are plainly traced.
A party has gone out for the legs, arms
and hands, which lie in the hole