Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-02
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
Lumber Company is Driving
Logs Regardless of Danger From High
Water-New Rural Delivery Route -
State School for Truants and Unman-
ageable Children.

| stare SCHOOL 1Or IruanIS ana Onmdn
ageable Children.
A fire in Salem's Chinatown caused
$500 damage to some old WoedeI
buildings.
The region about Summerville will
have a new rural free delivery route
to begin February 1, 1903.
Ontario will make another fight tc
obtain the county seat of Malheul
County at the coming session of the
legislature.
The badly decomposed body of a
man was found on the South Umpqua
river. He had apparently been
drowned. The body was we'll dressed
Burglars broke into a Salem gun
store and stole about 5000 worth of
revolvers. The same night a street
car was held up, but the highwaymen
weakened when they saw number OF
passengers in the car and allowed it
to go without molestation
A British ship direct from Shanghai,
is in quarantine at Astoria, having a
case of smallpox on board. She had
a load of mud from the Shanghai
uiver as ballast, and this must be
treated with a solution of acids, for
fear that it may contain cholera
germs.
An effort will be made to found a
school for truants and lncorrigibles in
connection with the Boys and Girls
Aid Society of Portland. The plan is
to provide that in any town of 1000
inhabitants or over, truants and in
corrigibles may be committed to the
care of the aid society.
A company of Eastern capitalists,
in Southern Oregon by
Captain 7. J. Pierce, has purchased
the Owl Gulch group of quartz claims,
on Savage Creek, in the Gold Hill dis
trict. The consideration is $4,000.
The Owl Gulch claims were located
but a few months ago, but in this
brief time have proved to be quartz
of great promise.
The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company
is taking chances this winter in the
matter of driving logs which nobody
heretofore has been willing to take
1t has a drive in the Mohawk, which
will be turned into the Mckenzie and
driven to the Coburg mill, and as soon
as this is completed it will start big
drive at Fall Creek, to be brought
down the Willamette to the Spring
field MILL The running of logs in
these streams in the winter season is
attended with much danger, which log
gers have chosen heretofore to avoid.
Should heavy rains fall and suddenly
raise the water to flood stage it would
be almost impossible to boom the logs
at their destination.
Governor Geer has granted full
pardon to George Morey. who was
serving life sentence for killing Gus.
Ferry in Portland in 1898.
A night pumpman at the White
Swan mine, at Baker City, is dead
from falling into an old shaft contain
ing boiling hot water from the exhaust
If the engine.
The agent of the Oregon raft COM
oany reports good progress in obtaining
he right of way for the proposed log
,ing railway up Milton creek, and sur
;eyors will be placed in the field at
,nce to take levels.
The new Methodist church at
was dedicated last Sunday
morning. After the ceremony was
completed the sum of $1,000 was
pledged by the people to pay off the re-
indebtedness.
Frank Wallace, Grant county sheep
nan, was recently arrested on a charge
If stealing % valuable bucks, but was
acquitted. He now
brings suit for $40, 900 damages against
lis accusers, one of whom is county
stock inspector.