Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-11
OR[QON STATE NEWS
Items Of Interest From All Parts
of the State.
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS
A Brief Review of the Growth and Improve.
ments of the Many Industries Through.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.

Grants Pass Is considering plans for
better fire protection.
The Burns postoffice has received a
mum ber of com bination boxes.
The new depot at La Grande is
ready to be painted and furnished
Ninety Danes have made their
homes west of Eugene since last tall.
Leonard Lingren lost three fingers at
Mineral last week in a shot gun acci-
dent.
Construction of the new hospital at
Baker City will begin in the early
spring.
Colonel J. T. Gray son has bought the
Last Chance mine, in Cable Cove. for
$751;
Two carloads of mining machinery
for the Cornucopia mines has arrived
at Baker City.
Ounce Davis, who was seriously in
jured recently at the Coos Bay jetty,
is re covering.
j. P. Abbott farmer of Wasco
county has finished the most up-to-d
residence in the county.
Plans are being drawn for a number
of modern residences at Baker City to
be erected in the spring.
The discovery of two new veins of
copper at the Greenback mine, Grave
creek district, is announced.
The Bison group OF mines near
Quartzburg, Grant county, has been
sold to California syndicate.
The Medford bank presented to its
customers and friends in jackson coun-
ty, roo buokskin money pouches.
The men who carried out the dead
Chinaman that succumbed near Cam
non beach received $50 for the work.
A portion of Pete Peterson's dixie, on
Hayne slough, Coos county, washed
out. The damage is estimated at
1000.
Constance Duffy is held in $l60
bonds to await the next term of court
for having assaulted John Tolen at
Athena.
The road from Miami bridge to
Garibaldi is obstructed with DRIFT logs,
and it is possible to get by them only
at low tide.
Two Marshfeld youngsters had a
duel with air guns last week. One
was shot in the finger and the other in
the forehead.
Paul Romeo killed a cougar near
Bald Mountain, Polk county, for
which he received $40 bounty from the
Livestock Association.
Joe Peters, aobut 80 years old, who
lived about three miles south of Los
tine. Wallowa county, was found dead
near his cabin several days ago.
Tom McEwen states that three
foot body of ore averaging $24 has
been encountered in the shaft of the
Snow creek property at a depth of 55
feet.
| Dan Yager, who has a group Of
promising claims at old Center, about
six miles from Sumpter, on the Gran
| ite road, has gone to Montana to buy
mining equipment,
The Granite Hill mine located in
Louise Creek district, and owned by
Messrs. Hull, Mongum and Booth, is
being operated on full time, with pros
poets of good run.
Mrs. Captain Geary of Corvallis
made compromiie with the insurance
company in which her husband was
insured, accepting $4,000 in lieu Of
the claim of $4,000.
In a drunken brawl an old man
named Aldrich stabbed Henry Zum-
walt severely several times in the back
and shoulders. The wounds are not
considered dangerous.
A barn belonging to John Reith, of
the Lewis and Clark river, Clatsop
county, was blown over recently.
Four head of stock were buried in the
ruins but none were injured.
Sidewalks nearly two miles long
leading to the church are contemplated
at St. Louis. For this and other inn
provements on the church property the
parish expects to use about 100, 900 feet
of lumber.
A new coal mining town, three miles
southeast of Wilkeson, by the name of
Hillsboro, has been plated by Andre
J. Hill and Joseph Finkelberg. The
plat contains IL acres. A logging road
from Wilkeson runs near the new
townsite.
The Croweil ranch of 800 acres, near
Jacksonville, has been sold to o. j.
Knips, of Grants Pass, for $8. 900. It
consists of 20 acres in apples, 80 acres
in prunes. 10 acres in alfalfa, and 80
acres in new sown wheat. The pur-
chasers are recently from Iowa.
John Golfer, alias "Scotty." has
been held in ST., 600 bonds to answer at
the next term of court on the charge of
robbing Thomas L. Edwards, of Mill
ton. of 500. Golfer snatched purse
from Edwards at Pendleton.
| The Sparta and Sparta Carson stage
, lines in Eastern Oregon have gone into
the hands of the bondsmen Tor the
mail contracts. The reason given was
that the contract was taken at too low
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