The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-16
News Summary.

dren enrolled.
1t is said that Willard took ou5 of Port
land $6,OOO,OOO.
1t is estimated that immigrants have
brought $500, 900 into Oregon the past
year.
Yambill has population of 1866 per-
sons; males, 4472; females, Sl6l. Legal
voters, 2237.
A number Of prospectors are out looking
for quartz ledges ia the mountains south
and west of Ashland.
The citizens of Sellwood held meeting
last week and organized an anti-Joolie Lea
que.
Twenty-one immigrants passed through
st. Paul Wednesday of last week for points
west of Spokane Falls.
The house occupied by Fred Waymire,
on the McTimmons farm in Polk county,
burned down few days ago.
The Oregon Pres5ytery has circulated
l75,OOO volumes and 100000 pages of
tracts during the past year.
At the Lewis county fair last week a
crazy quilt was shown, the work of a wom-
an over seventy-six years old.
The Kansas wheat crop is short, but,
strangely for prohibition state, the natives
are rejoicing because the corn crop is heavy.
The Disco cry of quartz mines on Blue
river, in the Cascade mountains, west of
the Three Sisters, has created quite an ex-
citement.
The 81 Gamer McCully claims the right of
the Yamhii river, having been to the ex-
pense of sluicing it out to make it
navigable.
According to the assessment roll of Was
CO county the gross value of all property i'll
the county is $3,77S,0O4; Indebtedness,
1856, AL; exemptions, $239, 400
A sharp. earthquake shock took place last
Sunday evening at Olympia, w. 7. The
shock was followed by rumbling sound
which continued for few seconds.
The jackson county assessment is as fol-
lows: Gross value of property, S3,250, ,99S;
indebtedness, $7lS,5 exemptions, S242,
373. Taxable property, s., 29o, lib.
David Holmes; who was so mangled at
has recovered consciousness and is able to
sit up in bed without the aid of props.
The settlers along Lake Creek are taking
the necessary steps to construct a wagon
road along their little valley also a road to
let them out INTO the Willamette valley.
A few days ago thief opened the change
drawer ill the store of Mr.. Glass at Craw-
fordsville and took some money therefrom,
while Mr.. Glass was writing at the desk.
Ernest Becker. who has tried several
times to commit suicide in Pendleton, finally
succeed, d last week, hanging himself from
a tree near the bridge across the Umatila
river.
J. L. 3 aiock closed contract with A.
H. Johusun, the Portland butcher, last
week by the sale of 800 acres of corn at 50
per acre, delivered at Johuson's feeding
grounds.
Klam ath river is lower than ever known
since the settlement of the country by the
whites Many bitches which have hereto
fore been fed by the Klamath are left high
and dry this season.
Mr. Frank Wood, of Albany, who de-
signed Oregon's memorial stone to the
Washington monument, left last week for
Washington with the stone, via the North
era Pacific Railroad
The Leep Brothers, of Cornucopia. on
the 1lth Of September discovered four
= foot free gold ledge, about eight miles
southwest of Cornucopia, on the Eagle
creek side of the mountsins.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation COM
panys bran III road from Colfax to Moscow,
which was completed few weeks since, is
in good operating condition, and trains are
running regularly over that extension.
A little soa of S. A Greene, of Ashland,
was accidentally shot by his brother last
week Monday. The ball tore through the
palm of one hand, the thumb Of the Other
hand shot off, and flesh wound in the
side.
During the first nine months in 1885,
three railroads were projected in Oregon ot
an aggregate length of 563 miles. In the
same time seven were projected in Washing
ton Territory, of an aggregate length of 95t
miles.
S. A. Hughes, who resides nine miles
north of Salem, has discovered mineral
spring six miles above Mehama, in the forks
of the Santiam, which, from analysis made
of the water, will probably prove to be oI
great value.
Mr.. Ezra Meeker, commissioner of Wash
ington territory to the New Orleans exposi-
tion, in his recent address at the Lewis
county fair, stated that thirty-two years
ago he had camped with his blankets but &
short distance from where he was ther
standing, under large fir tree. All ther
uas draarv and howl:np wilderness New