The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-07-20
THE NEWS OF OREGON.
Interesting Items Cleaned from
the State Exchanges.

lOf scalp DOuHtlcS tndH iOT any OCneI
single item of expenditure except
roads and bridges
Forty sacks Of sugar for Cottage
Grove merchants were refused oy the
railroad here "Wednesday and SO was
sent up 10y wagons. 1t costs fourteen
cents per hundred to ship by freight
aud only fifteen to ship by wagon.--
Eugene Guard.
Ii their plans do not miscarry two
Portland inventors promise the public
an exhibition Of novelty soon. The
novelty is nothing more nor less than
water Notwithstanding that is
,tirey new and is now assuming
realistic shape from designs drawn
upon paper.
The Eugene Guard announces that
the notes given in aid of the Siuslaw
IL Eastern railroad were ready TO be
de >ercd to the makers, rs the com.
,anv had failed to fulfill their part of
the contract. That indicates that the
Siu,law railroad project is at an end
for the present, a condition to be re-
grrtted. as it, building would have dc
vcloped fine country.
Nj. Schel < Co. have started 25O
head of horses east from Prinevillr.
I hese horses will be shipped from
Huntington and will he attended by
Elmer Graves, Ii. Gibson, Joe Crooks
and A. Crooks, WHO own interests in
them. Mr.. S;chel will be absent about
six weeks. If satisfactory market is
found for these horses they will he
followed by several more bands this
season. They are destined for Green
castle: Ind.
The Grants Pass Courier SAYS the
carrier pigeons sent to that place hy
the Pugrt Sound Homng club to be
turned loose for trial of speed had
bad luck in getting back to their home
in Puyalup. The weather on the
sound WAS miserable and foggy and
the first ones did not reach home till
| o'clock next afternoon-3l hours
after leaving Grants Pass. Several of
them had not reached home when Mr.
Meek-r wrote Mr.. Ellis on the 9th
inst. They will try again some Of
these days.
Henry White, the pal Of Texas
Jack, who had the latter arrested here
two weeks ago for lai ceny and Il en-
failed to give the required evidence to
convict, has been committing some
acts Of petty thievery in Albany,
getting drunk there and attempting to
help Jack ont OF j ILL., He has been
arrested and has confessed to several
other crimes committed and in process
of incubation. Texas Jack is the bet
ter man Of the two, but both are useful
only to keep peace officers earning
their salaries-thev are naturally and
10y practice, bad eggs.-Salcm States
man.
Eugene Guard: E. C Smith, who
was up on the Middle fork last week,
reports the drowning of fine team of
horses Friday afternoon. One of the
Gilfin boys was engaged with crew
OF loggers running logs for the Elgene
saw mill. They were at the point be
low Jasper when in some manner the
team which was used along the bank
i'll shallow water. was struck 10y float
Ing logs and carried out beyond their
depth. Becoming entangied in the
harness both drowned bcfore it was
possible to rescue them. The horses
were valuable animals and the blow
falls heavily on their owner.
D. H. BRAZIL, while at work on the
fish wheel, was shot in the thigh last
Monday afternoon by passenger on
the steamer Regulator. When George
Stevenson, of Skamania, learned OF the
accident he offered $50 reward for the
man who did the shooting, bnt he could
not be identified, and doubtless hld
away. Of course it WAS accidental, SO
far as the wounded man was concerned,
bat the folly of firing pistols came near
being dear lesson to the unknown
shooter The bullet was extracted by
the Steward of the Regulator, and the
man was taken over to Dr.. Candianl at
the Locks to have the wound properly
dressed.
| Eugene Guard: A fish story comes