The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
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coma is $2.24l, 1858.
The store of O. NJ. Annis at Alderton was
robbed of: Sl60 Sunday night
The grain yield in klamath county this
season is estimated at $4,000 bushels.
Forest Grove is the place selected fol
holding the next annual conference of the
NJ. E. church.
Clackamas county took the first premium
ON grasses and second premium on cereals
at the state fair.
Whitman college, at Walla Walla. has l3l
students, including eleven lady boarders at
the ladies boarding hall.
Cases of diphtheria are reported at differ
ent places in Southern Oregon; also in the
Willamette Valley.
1t is reported that Samuel Dodson and
w1fe have diphtheria; also the family OF MIR.
Rice on Clark's Branch.
The Capitol Mills company have begun
construction of new dam across Mill creek,
aat the foot of High street.
The people of Lake lew are anxious for a
daily mail between their town and the rail-
road at Ashland and are endeavoring to get
it.
Invitations are out to attend the marriage
of Charles l.. Mosher and Miss Hattie Lount
at Phoenix, Arizona, Monday ev ming, Octo-
ber 18th.
The contract to complete the Siuslaw road
was recently let by the Commissioner $
court of Lane county, to John Brown for
$4,000
Two stages going to Marshfeld from
Empire City last week, after dark, went
over the grade in the heavy timber back of
CentrrviIe.
Six car loads of hops from the Puyallup
Valley passed through Portland recently for
the East. Three car loads go through to
England.
). A. Clarke, of Salem, is making arrane-
ments to ship several car loads of dried
prunes and plums to Minneapolis, st. Paul
and Chicago.
Judge Denny who was formerly in Oregon
has been appointed adviser at court for
Corea. says the Shaghai Mail, at salary OF
$1,000 month.
VIM. Williams about 66 years of age who
came to this coast in lS49, recently walked
over bank Of Rogue river thirty five feet
high, which resulted in his death.
Chinamen are picking and sacking pota-
H.
cents eer bushel. Some 10000 bushels
were raised in that section this year.
The narrow gauge railroad connects with
the Portland and Lebanon express SO that
party leaving Portland can continue on aud
reach Brownsville the same evening.
Davil Holm IS, who was so mangled at
McMinn"ille Thursday by runaway team,
has recovered Consciousness and is able to
sit up i'll bed without the aid of props.
Linkvilte and vicinity are receiving about
double the amount os freight they received
last year, which shows that the Klamath
lake basin is rapidly filling up with settlers
Work continues on the long prospecting
tunnel at ii e Big Yank Ledge in Josephine
county. The quality of the rock taken ont
is reported as improving as the tunnel pro-
gresses.
1t has just begun to be realized that the
rivers and streams in Oregon are alive with
crawfsh, and that these insects which wear
their sections OH the outside are delicious
eating.
The contracts for furnishing the Oregon
state insane asylum with boots and shoes
during the next year was let to Krausee
and Klein, and John G. Wright secured the
grocery contract.
Railroad surveyors are busy at work on
the Syskiyou mountain making surveys, one
party being at work in the canyon near
Coles, where it was supposed the Oregon
company was to build.
A Celestial at Halsey, whose name is i'm
material. was robbed recently of .the large
sum of $3.50, hard earned money. Other
Cinnamon were said to be the thieves. No
clue to the thieves.
On Thursday of last week, j. H. Albert,
cashier of Ladd & Bush's bank since March
1859, resigned, to go into the new Capital
National Bank Of Stlem, of which it is
understood he will be cashier.
The Jacksonville Seminal ssys: "A horse
disease is prevalent in the valley. Gran
willie Naylor is the heaviest loser so far hav-
ing up to this time lost stock valued at
$1,000, including his Sligard stallion.
The Central School building at Albany is
fast nearing completion. The interior wood
work is finished, and ready for granting
The black boar,ls are b.ing male, and in a
week or two the seats will be placed i'll po-
sition.
The Redding "Independent" of last week
reported that some two hundred white men
were at Delta waiting for employment on
the railroad, but were not likely to find
work, as the company is employing only