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4 THE COR V ALUS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1890. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. There is" a surplus of $1,978.60 in the city treasury. Uncle joe Polly, of Alsea, came over Wednesday. - Domino party to-night at the opera house. Attend it. There are 705 children attending the public schools in Eugene. Many a log is now wrestling with salt water of the mighty ocean since the flood. What sveryone wants, what every one gives, what everyone asks, and what very few take? Advice. The great "tariff question" will be torn to pieces by the Adelphian 1 iter ary society of the agricultural college on Friday evening, the 21st inst. Frantz Bros., the mill men of King's "Valley, are talking of establishing a lumber yard in this city. Hartless & Daviason will act as their agents. A few days ago a farmer went into one of the grocery stores in this city and purchased butter, eggs and pota toes. Such transactions occur every week. There will be another elocutionary contest for a silver medal in Corvallis about the first of March, the W. C. T. 17. having the matter in charge. Only children under 12 years will take part this time. urn The government scow, which was anchored across the river near the east lauding of the ferry and which floated away with the high water last week, is now lying on the bank near the Hyland house, a few miles below this eity. Oregonians of the 5th, 7th, and 8th were received here on Monday last. It was quite laughable to see the scrambling for them. There was only one of each date and each person had j to await his time to glimpse at the columns of flood news. The old building between Rose Bros. cigar factory and S. A Hemp hill's harness shop is being made ready to move away just as soon as the good weather arrives. A two-story brick structure will take its place, S. L. Kline having the same done. An Oregon farmer says that in his orchard he has a few trees of greenings, from which he gathered thirty eight boxes of apples which netted him at the orchard 79 cents per box, or $7.50 each for the four trees. Taking seventy trees to the acre, which is the nsual number planted, gives a nice lit tle return of $525 per acre. , ..The State Sunday school conven tion wilt meet in McMinnville April 15, and continue its session up to the evening of the 17th. There will be representatives ot nearly every Sun- l l . i - r . r ay scnoo. m Oregon present, 01 every denomination, wm. iteynoicis, presi dent of the. International . Sunday chool convention, will be present, and many other promin ent nationa Sunday school workers. We learn that the court house at McMinnville, is in a very bad condi tion. The building is settling and that a large amount of the plastering in the court room has fell off, making the room look very bad. This cer tainly does not speak very well for the company that erected the building. We believe that the building will be a eontinual expense to the tax payers of this county for years to come. Lafay ette Ledger. County Judge Holgate is on the sick list. Mrs. H. Pape, J r., has been slightly indisposed this week. The county horticultural society will meet on Saturday, the 22ud inst., at 1:30 p. m. County Clerk Wilson granted a marriage license to Wm. Edwards and Clarie A. Baldwin on the 12th. Franklin Wyatt, of this county, was married to . Miss Ariminta Clark of Linn, at Albany on Mon day last. J. T. Philips is constructing a new. building just north of his finished, will be used as a wagon shop. '. The contract for putting in the new gallery in the opera house, of Job brothers, has been let to S. G. McFadden. He was , the lowest bidder. Work will be commenced immediately. - The first west side passenger train from Portland for twelve days arrived " yesterday about 1 o'clock. There were several pouches of letters and two tons ot paper mail received. On last -Thursday, the 6th, the Oregonian press room was' four teen inches under water, and as a result many ads. were left out and the paper appeared as a four page sheet for the first time in about two years. Mrs. P. H. Hatch, an old pioneer of Oregon, and who has lived in, Salem for many years, died in that city a few days ago. She was the mother of several children, among whom is Herbert L. Hatch,- for merly mate on the. steamer Win. M. Hoag. There came near being a run away at the S. P. depot yesterday just after the passenger arrived. Lenger's two teams became frisky at sight of the delayed train and with the hacks full of mail started to circle around the old south school property. They were soon caught with but little dam age. Otto Clellan returned Sunday from Oregon City, where he had been on a tricycle, leaving here on Wednesday. He reported it a sorry looking place. The water was four feet deep on Main street. He saw a big log float into a store door, and had an addition recently platted, pointed out to him, over which the water floated to the height of a telepraph pole, the top just sticking out. Albany Demo crat, 11th. PREPARING FOR THE BUSY SEASON. Some very substantial improve ments are being made in J. M. Nolan's store in this city. At present, carpenters are busy level ing up the floor and putting in new timbers for sleepers. All the shelving will be replaced with new whieh will be much deeper and permit of a larger stock of goods being stowed away. The ceiling and walls will be covered with beautifully designed decorated paper, and the woodwork all re painted. Six incandescent electro lights three on each, side will be hung in the room and one will swing in front of the main en trance, thus making the establish- ! ment after dark nearly as light as during the day. The right rear corner of the room will be arrang ed for the ladies' shoe department, and the office will be opposite to the left. The north side will be devoted to lneu?s fine and medium furnishing goods and that opposite to ladies' dry goods, etc. In the whole, J. M. can boast of a neat and newly-arranged business place after the mechanics finish up the labors designed to them. Another Revetment Needed From an Albany paper of the 9th, the following is taken: "The re ceding flood has disclosed the fact that the high water in the. Willam ette has caused the river to begin to cut a new channel opposite and above this city, which threatens to destroy ' much valuable garden lands and to injure the city's wa ter front and-shipping by turning a portion of the current down a new formed stream. An examin ation of the break will be made by the mayor and city 'council, with a view of petitioning con gress for an appropriation . to con struct a revetment or breakwater to confine the river to its present channel." Down the River. The first boat to leave Corvallis for down the river since the floodm was the Oregon Pacific-steamer Wm. M. Hoag on Wednesday morning at 8:30 o'clock. She had come down the river on Tuesday with 230 tons of grain from Booneville, which she took on north hoping to be able to get through the locks at Oregon City without difficulty. About thirty passengers got aboard here; some going simply for the trip and to see what destruction had been done by the high waters of last week. The N. S. Bentley may come up the river to-day, IT'S ALL OVER. AND EVERYTHING IS FAVORABLE- FOR AN EARLY SPRING. Since the raging Willamette of last week is more like itself again, things are beginning to quiet down and the flood of '90 is getting to be a thing of the past. Around Corvallis there are only two signs of what has been done by the overflowing water one the Mary's river bridge going down, and the wharf at the foot of Monroe street. But take it all over Benton county and the damage by land slides, washing away of bridges, etc., is great. la Alsea country alone, the losses will sum Hip high into the thousands of dollars. There probably is not bridge in this county but what is dam aged and $25,000 or $30,000 would hardly replace them. It is said that every bridge between Corvallis and Monroe is swept away, borne one said that the loss of stock in the coun ty's limits would be small, but' there is no doubt that this is untrue, for, with every report brought in, comes the ac count of some additional loss. Along the Yaquina river quite a great many head of cattle were killed. One insyi, who lived in the Alsea district, said his place was so badly torn up and everything he had gone, that he never would return to the spot again. Many mothers, perhaps feel the same way. . All over Oregon the damage done was terrible; the lower Willamette coun try fared the worst as but little chance was given the water to spread owing to the high banks, therefore the force was terrible. The O. & C. railroad, on both the west and east lines, was greatly dam aged. The first train since the 1st inst. arrived yesterday aiternoon; the east line is not near repaired, and in southern Oregon the work of repairing will take a month or two. The Ore gon Pacific track is repaired to Albany the greatest damage being between here and that city and a train will reach there to-day. It has been twelve days since any mail from the north, east, or south has been received in Corvallis, anil, of course, the citizens here naturally are disposed to "kick" some. The super intendent of the postal service for this district should be presented with a leather medal for his efficient (?) man ner in getting mail through he ought to attend some reform school "awhile, and see if a little "extra exertion" could not be pounded into his system. He's a daisy. Some mail could cer tainly have been sent here; there are plenty of cayuse ponies in the country yet. FRQM THE BAT COUNTRY. Newsy notes clipped from the Ya quina Republican of the 6th, are as follows: - About half of the fill for tventy feet on Front street in front of Rny's wharf washed out. Fears are entertained that all the oysters in Yaquina river will be killed by the fresh water. On Monday the flood reached the ceilings of the first stories of the houses in Elk City. i King's Valley was first settled in 1845 by a man named King and his three sons. The family is now numer ous in that valley. ' The Yaquina Bay boat d of trade is already bringing about some good. Through its efforts harbor lights will probably be established on the bay. The ocean for a hundred miles off shore is tinged with earth color, such hits been the immense amount of dirt washed into it along this coast during the past week. It will be a long time before Fall street can be put in a condition for iraveL Hundreds of loads of dirt have fallen into the cut and it will be an ex pensive job to remove it We hear some names mentioned for county officers but so far nothing has been said about candidates for the legislature. The democrats will prob ably nominate Tom Cau thorn for state senator. This side of the range will claim the senator and one representa tive on the republican "ticket if the east side is to have the county officers. A United States senator is to be elected by the next legislature to suc ceed ' Senatoi ; Mitchell. . "Benton county wants congressional help in ap propriations and therefor " it should send a full republican delegation to the legislature so as to be in harmony with the party in power and the con gressional delegation from the state. The republicans have the votes in this county to elect their straight ticket provided they work in harmony and put up-staunch men. r FROM KING'S VALLEY. King's Valley, Or., Feb. 10, 1890. Eds. Gazette: The big water of the Luckiamute has again found its way within its banks after a rise surpassing the waters of '61 Mnd '62. No serious damage is lone in this locality; some bridges and fences "are moved and carried away, S;me land slides of considerable note, but nothing serious. The Luckiamute logs, which have been in the' ivyper river,' came down and were sifely landed in Frantz Bros.' boom which is a dandy, holding more than five million feet, and showed r.o sign of weakening. Prescott & Vancess' logs passed through on fair driving water and were a sight worth witnessing. All the logs were saved and not lost as' has been reported. A landslide on the Luckiamute, near Prescott & Vancess' camp, is reported to have ch nge'd the channel of the river, driving the inmates of to the hills for safety. A portion of C. A Frantz's camp was washed away. J. II. COUNTY COURT. The February term of the county court met ou Thursday, the 6th, and the following business was transacted: Bills allowed and ordered paid: S. L. Kline, pauper supplies $ 2 50 VV . Mackay, rep. c. h .... ...... . 2 50 A. L. Clark, 3 cougar bounties 7 50 Henkle Bros., bridge spikes 4 17 K. Staats, 2 coyote bountiesr. . . . . 20 00 A. Cloak, grand jury witness 5 60 W. E. Brieu, 1 coyote bounty 10" 00 Mrs. A. You Hi;, board war veteran Mr. Fan lier 5 00 38 9S 2 00 6 00 2 00 2 00 6 00 64 45 Harris & McUullouh, bridge lumber J. iscratford, juror Dec. term c. c. T. J, Denman. " A. M. Withaui, " L. J. Crow, Corvallis Times, printing Barnard & (Jo., record books B. Carlilo, jury list: 3 00 S. T. Jeffrey, jury list asst 2 00 M. V. Burnett, " " " 2 00 W. ilackay, sheriff... 14 50 " board prisoners 5 00 W. W. Holgate, furniture sh' office 3 00 Phil College,-'88 election rent 5 00 L. P. Pond, care p. Green, in ..... 13 25 I . h.. Uauthora, supply pauper .Dyer a 00 John Sylvester, rent " " 8 00 1. Vincent, care pauper.. IS 00 E. Emrick, " " a . . 73 40 Jos. Prussoman, bridge work flood 2 00 Calvin Threslmr, . " 2 00 543 75 13 GO 1 00 40 00 17 4: J 4 50 19 40 20 40 5 00 B. W. Wilson, clerk. Heckle Bros,, panper supplies..... Stock's store, court house fui;;iie.H li Liillv janitor S. A. Loan. com. 2 days. . ....... Smith, rope tie bridge fl or. . . . . Geo. Bushuell, m. d. insane. . ...... W. E. Cain, guard insane ........ M. L. Pipes, att. insane. Smith.... In case of state vs. H. Shultz, following cost bill of justice of peace allowed: A, L. Fipes, pros, atty, so; V. (."arlile, l.p.. $5.70; .1. R. Scrafford, marshal 31.78; Wiuu Mackay, sheriff, $4. - In the case of the state vs. II. It Clark. following cost -bill allowed: Al. L. Pipes, pros, att'y, $5; D. Carlile, j. p., 9.10; Wm. Mackay, sheriff, $9.45; J. Starr, B. Hamil ton, J. L. Bayne, E. It. Lyman, A. M. Gray, W. A. Lampkiu, C. B. Lampkin, K. V. Caldwell, Caleb Davis, Jr.. M. E. Campbell. A. Einehart. B. L. Arnold. T. E. Cauthorn and W. Nash, each $1.50 as one days 8 witness fee. In the' matter of a proposed county road leading from a point on comity road a Hales creek to a point on road at Hayes creek, ordered said road be opeued, and fol lowing expense bill of viewers, etc., le al lowed: J. H. Craio, viewer, $13 40; H. E. Underhill, viwer, $13.60; It. F. Simpson, viewer, $10,o0; U P . I'tpin and J. VV. ttry ant, chaiumen, $9.20 and $9.10; A. L. Por ter, surveyor. Sib. 30. In matter of judges and clerks of elec tion It appears to court that Oliver At tree, heretofore appointed clerk for Toledo precmct, is under legal ass. ordered that J Gaither be appointed instead. In matter of sheriff s bond as tax collector for 1889 it ordered that Win. Mackay, as such, give bond in sum of $'2a,000. In matter of liquor license to John Kin- cade for 1890 petition heard to sell liquors in Yaquina precinct. No. 10V License of $400 having been paid, aim bond, in sum of $1,000 .with Jas. Robertson and Geo Mad. dex as sureties, be granted. In reports of road supervisors for 1890 Same were beard and following bills allow ed: K. Chambers, dis. 17, $16; .G. H. Liii derman, dis. 7, $8; E. F. Simpson, dis. 35; $12; R. M. Williamson, dis. 1, $8; Wm. Crees, dis. 6, $16; J. It. Haslan, dis. 44, $14; W. A. Slate, dis. 20, $8; C. Ustey, dis. 4, $10; Aug. Kruppe, dis. 37, $12; J. Plun- kett, dis. 8, $18; C. Button, dis. 46, $6; G. F. Roebrook, dis. 34, $22; A. G. McMillan, (lis. 42, $4. John Brvson lie annointed supervisor district 24, - to till vacancy made ty J. J. Irvine residing at of district; also A. JN . JUocke to district T, in place of Geo. Taylor who is over age. In matter of application for bridge ma terialordered that J. O. Fuller, dis. 17. allowed to purchase 2,200 feet of lumber and spikes for said district. In matter of construction of new bridge across Mary's river, etc. ordered that no tice be published in Benton Leader for two weeks for sealed plans and specifications, strains, diagrams, and bids for construction be presented to court at term ou March 5th, 1890. Oidered, also, that county judge be empowered to contract for hm-ing a tempor ary bridge or ferry at said place., 7 In inattt-.r of reconstruction and repairs of bridges destroyed by flood ordered that S. A. Logan, commissioner, and the judge be emfKiwered to contract for and have such bridges reconstructed or repaired as the case requires. : ' - ,y Adjourned. . ' , ' - - - All ,0. K. -Every river wharf at Corvallis is o. k.-now the only damage done to them was in tear ing up some of the boards to allow the water to come up through and thus prevent an upward pressure. Personal. Allan Slauson, a representative of Oregon's famous daily, the Oregonian, was in Cor vallis on Monday, having come up on the west side, by construction trains, . velocipedes, wading, and shank's horses. He is traveling to furnish that paper flood reports that it has been unable to get. On Monday evening he dispatched a lot of news from this city. He is now plodding along on the east side taking in the country between here and Ashland. - The Albany Herald of the 12th, says of him 'A. B. Slauson, ot the Oregonian editorial staff, was in the city yes terday, having walked over from Corvallis. He started from Port land on Saturday, coming by the west side and .viewing the wash outs and wrecks along the route, riding, walking, and pumping a railroad tricycle on different por tions " of the route. The Derry bridge he found to be the mot se rious break on the West Side. In dependence he thinks will not lose very much, as the washed out saw mill and- other buildings can be placed back on their foundations. The break in the Oregon Pacific railroad between here and Cor vallis he found to be serious, the track in one place being piled up against the tiees some distance below, looking like a picket fencfe, and some of the. track gone en tirely, the most diligent search failing to find it. Mr. Slauson W5nt on down to Salem on the special train that ran down yester day forenoon." . - Tried to Haxo Himself. Fred Smith, who is a New Yorker bv birth, and who has been in Ore gon for a year past was brought to Corvallis from Yaquina one day last week to be examined as to his sanity. He had gone to the bay from Portland expecling to take the steamer for San Francisco, but as they are bar bound he was com pelled to remain there. - He- has beeu, for the pasi eight years, sub ject to insane fits, and was taken with one while at that place. About 4 o clock Tuesday aiternoon ie 'made an attempt to end his life oy Hanging nimsell. lie tore a piece off one of lheheavjr curtains used over the jail windows ani, aftei twisting it into a cord shape, put it up over an iron on the top of the front doors, tied it around his neck after gelling up a few inches from tha floor and thus swung off to glory. While i:f this position, and before life was extinct, he was discovered and im mediately taken down, Drs. G. R. Farra and Chas. Lee were called and soon had him in conscious state, and he is now on a fair way to recovery. Wednesday he was taken to Salem's insane asylum by boat. " JLoss of Life. On the 3rd inst., a side of a mountain a few miles above the old Peak mill in Alsea, slid down and in its course, struck the residence of Robt. Barclay, and nearly buried it with the mass of dirt and stone. It was about 5 o'clock in the morning when it started, and his wife and daughter hearing the noise rushed out to see what the eruption was. As quickly as possible, the alarm was given to Mr. Barclay and his three children, and Robt. Brown, who were in the house, but before they could get out the building was covered and smashed by the debris. Mr. Brown was almost in stantly killed, but the others were, after about three hours, released with but slight injuries. The barn of Mr. Barclay's was Patn of the sliding mass, and two horses, two cows, and six yearlings were killed. Three -Thousand More. By a vote at the school meeting on Fri day last the district was allowed to borrow $3,000, the same to be used in making some improvements about . the new ( school building. This nioney can be returned to the parties loaning it as soon as the ground where the north school stands, can be sold. - ; ' m . Plenty oi mail now. Since the Water has Fallen. Across the river in Linn county where the whole country was flooded last week it is now above water and does not present such a deplorable condition as at first supposed. Most all the rail fenc ing is gone and in some places the cuts are extensive and deep. But most of the farms have been ben efited by the a'luvial washings, some parts of them being covered to a depth the bottom of which could not be reached by a plow. Mr. Beach reports some of his land so greatly enriched as to be unfit for wheat raising, and he is thinking of planting it all to pota toes during the coming spring. A low spot on the ten acre tract of Rev. A. Rogers', which was to have been filled in by having dirt hauled onto it, is now perfectly level with the rest of the land, and the reverend gentleman is smiling all over at his good for tune. Mr. Wilbanks says he thinks every acre of his land has been benefited $5 worth on ac count of the additional new soil deposited on the place. It will take but a few dollars and but a short lime to replace the fences, as timber is plenljr in the sur rounding countiy. To those par ties the-high water has noybeen so great au '-ill wind" as at first thought. A Warning. According to one Salem paper it is now learned that the bridge there was to hastily as well as lightly built. The State Democrat says: 'Salem's frail toy bridge has gone the way of all the earth. It-ought to have been aved. The undue haste which at tended the preliminaries of build ing the bridge indicated a bad re sult. The thing at that time look ed like a job. The irresponsible bridge builders were enough to warn the public against them. 3nt no, the;,r must have the con tract and they got it, before the city council were called upon to act on the subject. Robbsd. In Ju-ilice Carlile's ofilce yesterday Adam Baumbar ger appeared to answer to a charge of. robbing Hugh McKenzie of $8 aim some cents, ineseiwo lei lowsheld out on Wednesday night at tiie 'boarding" house ol the King crowd near Sorbin's laundry, and when McKenzie was putting on his .pants the next morning he missed the nioney and a purse. Suspicion' at on-e was pointed to I3aumbarger and the inarshall call ed who, after some questioning, took him in chargs. He will have his examination , to-day; the chances are strong against him. A Month Yet. Port Captain J. W. Troup, of the U. P. company, says the Oregon City locks will not open for a month yet. The damage to them consists in the washing away of the wing dam and the upper flume, and these must be repaired before the locks can be opened. Letters, Advertised for Feb ruary 14, 1890: John Daly, Wil liam lgo, Mr. Alva Jordan, Mrs. Emma Muller, Byron Nivon, S. W. Perkins, J. P. Wilson, Johnson White. F. A. Helm, P. M. O rT n a 5" n . I V1 o o rs t) : s & OS