TALK OF THE TOWN
Furniture store. 5-17-tf
Roscoe Gardner, an -OAC student, is
spending the day in Portland."
Acme Quality Paints and Floor Var
nish that wears at A. L. Miner's.
5-17-tf.
Daily Gazette 50 cents a month.
Mrs. Eden, of Kings Valley, is visit
ing friends iu Corvallis this week.
Mrs. G. R. Crawfoot, of Tygh Valley
is visiting at the M. M. Long home.
R. S. Harrington returned yesterday
from an extended business visit to New
York City.
Doc. H. B. Kiger, living north of Cor-
: vailis, was in the city today and went
Get your piano ' to the circus.
prevail. Katz j E M Bealg and family, of Alsea, are
The election is over,
tuned and let harmony
S m town. o 18 It. , fiAa nnrl relatives in Cor
Call up the Palace of Sweets for your vailis this week,
ice cream and sherbets. Free delivery. Millard Long's baseball team was
" . . 5-6-tf walloped in fine shape yesterday by the
high school nine.
Solomon Gardi and wife, Miss Sibel
R. H. Katz the piano tuner is now in
town. Leave orders Hotel Corvallis or
with Profs. Gaskins or Boone 5 '18 3
Libbitt and Sam Selling, all of Port
land, were entertained today at the Ja
cobs home.
Mrs. Mentor- Howard has returned
from Albany where she was in attend
ance at. the Orand Rebekah Assembly
James Randolph Beck is confined to duri the entire session. Mrs. How-
i 1 1 i mi i i
ine measiy , , rior,, tot Pi-ooiHont nf the
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Grand Assembly ot Texas m 19U.
General repair shop. All work first
class, promptly done. Back of Beal
Bros., blacksmith shop, Wood Bros.
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OCEAN BALLOON TRIP
WELLMAN TO TRY AGAIN.
to
Boston Scientist Plans to Cross
to Europs In Few Days.
MUST SAIL AT GREAT HEIGHT,
Professor Henry H. Clayton In Ex
plaining His Project Says Atlantic
Flight Can Be Made In Three or
Four Days-: Relies on Upper Air
Currents.
the home with the measles,
things prevented him from attending
the circus.
the best and
Go to Dr. Howard for
most artistic dental work.
karat gold crowns reinforced with 18
karat goldsolder made and put on in j
one hour. Stf
Mrs. L. A. Bernaugh and son, of En- j
terprise, Eastern Oregon, are visiting
in the city. Mr. Bernaugh is a gradu
uate of OAC. and is now engaged in
the drug business at Enterprise.
Dr. Howard don't keep you in the
anxious chair and make you lose your
valuable time and punish you a half
day for 15 minutes work. A mechanic
can always do a piece of work first
class in a reasonable time. 8tf
Tom Alexander and wife, of Kings
Valley, who went to Tucson, Arizona,
some time ago for the benefit of the
latter's health, returned to God's coun
try yesterday. He is not particularly
pleased with that country and was glad
to be at home once more. The lady is
not much improved in health. '
Sheriff Gellatly seems to have an in
side shift on the weather bureau. He
has a fine rarlch over in Blodgett Valley
and copious showers of rain has kept
the golden grain shooting heavenward.
If the rain is to fall on the just as well
as the unjust let us all pray that this
scriptural injunction may be fulfilled.
The band boys were up bright and
early this morning and devoted their
morning hours to the decoration of cars
for the Monroe picnic tomorrow. With
the excursion train on the side track,
circus cars sandwiched down along the
line, lumber and merchandise unloading,
, we could make the railroad yards of
Portland look like thirty cents.
It - is indeed strange what foolish
things men do at times and what seri
ous results follow. This morning a
gentleman from the country drove in
town behind a team of fancy blacks
and, carelessly throwing the lines
around the hub of the wagon in front of
Nolan's store, went in to trade. The
team got scared and in backing up drew
the lines tightly and piled the whole
outfit up in one conglomerated mass.
Luckily no serious consequences result
ed, but through this manner of care
lessness many people lose their lives.
There is an ordinance against leaving
teams unhitched on the street and the
officers should see that it is strictly en
forced. ,
The circus people had a little jam at
the depot this morning while unloading
Twenty-two ! and one of the wagons was precipitated
between the cars. The foreman did
the "cussin" for the occasion with his
usual command of the heathen dialectt
No ladies present. v
Clyde 'Mullhollen, a resident of Cor
vallis and a carpenter, quietly slipped
away last Sunday and went over to
Prineville where he was married to Miss
Ruby Cadely, of that place. Mr. Mul
hollin is a cousin of Mrs. Taylor. Porter
with whom the young couple will reside
until the home can be preparad. The
young lady was a former O. A. C. stu
dent and is a ladv of intelligence and
refinement. Mr. Mullholen is a clean
man, a good workman and the young
couple will be gladly welcomed as cit
izens. Guy Johnson, . who came here last
spring from the Blue Grass region cf
Kentucky and accepted a position with
Horning & Mackenzie has been heard
from. Becoming homesick and contin
ually tormented by the vision of a golden-haired
maiden he left Corvallis two
months ago, returning by the southern
route and stopping at various points
along the line. After landing at the
home and cooling his ardor by the sight
of his loved one it then dawned on his
mind what a mistake he had made in
going back. To a friend he writes- that
Oregon is the nearest a paradise he
ever expects to find on earth and will
be glad to return.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
In the matter of the estate of Susan M.
Berry, deceased. : ,
Notice is herebv given that the under
signed as executor of the last Will and
Testament of Susan M. Berry, deceased,
has filed his final account as such execu
tor with the Clerk Ot the County Court of
the State of Oregon for the County of
Benton, and that said Court has fixed and
set Tuesday, the 6th day of July, 1909,
the same being a day of the regular July
term thereof, A. D. 1909, at the hour of
two o'clock in the afternoon of said day,
and the County Court room of the County
Court of the State of Oregon for the
County of Benton, which said Court room
is in the County Court House at Corvallis,
Benton County, Oregon, as the time and
the place, for hearing any and all objec
tions to said final account, and for settle;
ment thereof
Dated at Corvallis, Oregon, May 21st,
1909.
U. G. Berry,
Executor of the last Will and Testa
ment of Susan M. Berry, deceased.
First Publication May 21st. 1909.
Last Publication June 18, 1909. ,
A balloon trip across the
and possibly around the world is the
object that Professor Henry H. Clay
ton, scientist and aeronaut, had in view
when he left his work as meteorologist
at Blue Hill observatory a short time
ago, says a Boston dispatch. Through
his knowledge of the air currents Os
car Erbsloh was able to win the inter
national balloon cup in the flight from
St. Louis in 190G, when the balloon.
Pommern traveled halfway across the
continent. ,
Before he makes the aerial voyage
across the Atlantic Professor Clayton
plans a test flight from San Francisco
to the Atlantic eoas.
By taking advantage of the knbwn
upper currents of air which he has
discovered during his long years of
study Professor Clayton declares he
can easily make the voyage from con-,
tinent to continent in three or four
days. These air currents, he says, are
reached at a height of two miles above
the earth. '
"Air travel is practical and is bound
to supersede railroad trains and steam
ships," said he.
"The equipment of such a balloon as
I would need for the intercontinent
voyage would amount to about $10,000.
Already ' tentative offers have been
made me toward the proper equipment
of the balloon.
"My idea is a balloon twice the size
of the greatest now In use, say of the
capacity of 200,000 cubic feet of gas.
The necessary scientific instruments,
ballast and two men would still leave
a margin of sufficient lifting power. ,'
"I would have the gas bag a little
more than half filled with hydrogen
gas, so that as the balloon rose high
in the air the gas might expand until
It filled the envelope entirely. At
night the balloon would shrink as the
temperature fell, and at the same time
the balloon would' descend gradually.
In the daytime, in the full glare of
the sun's rays, the gas would expand
and the craft rise.
"A gradual outlet of sand ballast
would overcome the inevitable leakage.
of the gas which is bound to occur.
no matter how tight the envelope Is
made. With such a balloon as I have
planned the trip to Europe could be
made with considerable lifting force to
spare. '-. . ' - .''
"It would take three or four days -to
cross the Atlantic. With the present
knowledge we have of the air currents
It would hot be impossible to desij
nate beforehand approximately where
the balloon would touch in Europe
and the number of hours required to
make the voyage.
"But, against emergencies, I would
take along a lightly constructed boat
as a balloon basket, so that if It sud
denly became necessary to descend the
boat might be floated upon the surface
of the water1! and equipped with ; a
small sail and. stores sufficient to last
until we were picked up
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Americans Back Him In Attempt
Fly to North Pole In Airship. :
Valter Wellman, the newspaper cor
respondent recently announced that he
would this summer renew his effort to
reach the north pole by means of a
dirigible balloon or airship. All the
preparations have been made, and Mr.
Wellman will soon sail for Paris and
Norway. . "
This expedition : will be under Mr.
Wellman's individual ownership and
responsibility. The capital' has been
supplied by Americans. No change has
been made in the general plan of the
expedition, which is, to assemble and
''.:': j inflate the airship at the headquarters
Atlantic f station, Danes island, Spitzbergen. in
June and July and to start thence
northward through the air in August,
provided the weather conditions make
a start practicable with a reasonable
chance .for success.
The airship to be used is the Amer
ica, which had a trial in a voyage of
about twenty miles at Spitzbergen a
year ago last September. The owners
Of the Chicago Reeord-Hprnlrl hnvs
turned over to Mr. Wellman free of
charge the airship, plant, buildings and
machinery of Mr. Wellman's former
enterprise.
The America, which is the second
largest airship yet built about three
fifths the size of the Zeppelin has been
reconstructed and improved by Engi
neer Vanlman in the expedition work
shops at Paris. If the America is able
to start next August, she will carry a
crew of three men, 6,000 pounds of cas-
oline for the engines, food for a year,
sledges, sledge dogs, a lifeboat and all
the requisites of a sledging party. One
member of the crew will be Chief En
gineer Vaniman, an American, w"ho
was in charge of the ship's engines on
her trial voyage. The third member
has not been selected.
"The difficulty of getting a fair start
with an airship designed to go to the
pole is, of course, very great." said Mr.
Wellman. "Actually the period of ef
fective work is confined to about ten
weeks. If delay or accident happens
from any cause, it may be necessary to
postpone the voyage till another year.
Much depends upon the winds."
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and Cleanliness. .
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Eases' Watches need
Constant Repairing
Their method of carrying them is
responsible for the fact. Pinned to
the waist or hanging on a chain the
delicate mechanism is easily disar
ranged. We pay special attention
to ladies' watches, and when re
paired by us you will find that they
. r keep iu order longer.
E V, S, PRATT, Jeweler and Optician I
GAMBOL OF THE LAMBS.
BIG POSTAL CONFERENCE.
In
Koung or old, who wants to dress well at the most reasonable
cost, can do so right here. You may take it as a fact that the
ready-to-wea'- clothing we are now offering represents the
greatest bargains for the bets suits to be found "anywhere.
.Nothing has been omitted. Quality high. Prices low.
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Famous Club's All Star Show to Open
With a Street Parade.
Clay M. Greene, chairman of the en.
tertalnment committee of the all star
gambol of the Lambs club, announced
the other night that the program of
the frolic to be held at the Metropol
itan Opera House, in; New York, on
Monday evening. May 24, had been
completed, s
The show will open with a minstrel
parade in the afternoon, led by Victor
Herbert and his band of fifty pieces.
The marchers will wear pongee coats,
with Connemara capes and . conical
high hats. All the Lambs in New
York will take part.
The pefformance will be in three
sections, with musical interruptions by
Victor Herbert and his orchestra. The
first division will be an old time negro
minstrel show, with such diversions as
Augustus Thomas can devise, aided
and abetted by A. L. Erlanger, Wil
liam Harris, David Belasco and Joseph
Brooks. .
The second part will introduce De
Wolf Hopper as a tragedian. Weber
and Fields will present on the occa
sion their well known pool room scene,
and William Collier will appear In Ben
Burt's new musical number, "After
the Matinee," with a dozen female Im
personators, recruited from the young
er members of the club.
The afterpiece, "Tuesday," by George
V. Hobarf, is a return to the form of
entertainment in vogue in the late
eighties It tells the story of the post
mortem of a "near bit" melodrama.
The cast will include Donald Brian,
Wilton Lackaye, John B. Kellerft, Rob
ert Edeson and other famous actors.
Even the soldiers and spearmen will
be well known actors. ' .
Proposed International Gathering
1910 Meets With Approval.
James L. Cowles, secretary-treasurer
of the Postal Progress league, in New
York city, said the other day that his
proposal for an international postal
conference at Berne, Switzerland, in
July, 1910, was meeting with approval
both In the United States aud in Eu
rope. Mortimer Atkinson, editor of
the Farm Journal, and Mahlon A. Win
ter, a well known manufacturer of
Washington, he said, would sail short
ly for Europe to interest the govern
ments and- the- various chambers of
commerce. : --
Henniker Heaton, M. P., wrote a let
ter to Mr. Cowles in which he approv
ed of the conference. Mr. Heaton has
received credit for bringing about the
present two cent-postage rate between,
tbe United States and England. In his
letter to Mr. Cowles Mr. Heaton said'
in part;
v "1 never cease denouncing the Brit
ish postmaster generals for -their paro
chial instincts.; . I am strong, for the
British postmaster general to summon
a meeting, first, of the postmaster gen
erals of Europe, and even of the world,
and, secondly, of the postmaster gen
erals of the empire to discuss the ques
tion of cheapening and facilitating pos
tal and telegraphic communication."
Mr. Cowles believes that the post
office is the most efficient instrument
in the hands of the nations for bring
ing about universal peace. He says
that the present rates are altogether
too high.
TAFT TO SIT AS A JUDGE.
Cabinet Officers Will Submit Briefs In
. a Dispute Over the Law.
President Taft has been called upon
to sit as judge In arbitrating a differ
ence of opinion between two members
of his cabinet arising out of a clash
In which Fred Dennett, commissioner
of the land office, and Gilford Pinchot,
head of the forestry service, figure.
The misunderstanding grew out of
the refusal of. Commissionef Dennett
to withdraw certain public lands for
use of the forest service as ranger sta
tions, holding that the lawwould not
uphold such action on his part His
stand was indorsed by Secretary Bal
linger. Mr. Pinchot insisted that the
law was plain on the point and that
no trouble ever had arisen in the past
over the right of the service to cause
the withdrawal of such land as was
needed for the operation of his bureau.
In this contention he had the support
of Secretary Wilson.
The matter was passed along to the
president, who has invited the cabinet
members to submit their briefs. The
matter will be considered by Mr. Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham. It
is declared emphatically that no fric
tion between the two departments ex
ists and that the entire question is
only one of the proper Interpretation
of the law.
: Greeting Signal of Night Ridersi
In the trial of fourteen men charged
with Nlht P.lder outrages In Hum
phreys county, Tenn.. the other day
Joseph'' Prater, who admitted that he
became a member of the Night Riders,
gave the greeting signal of the Night
Riders. "It is as follows:
"Who comes there?" ' ,
"Silas McGee."
"1 see you've been there?"
"Yes, on my bended knee." '
Convicts as Art Rivals.. -There
is a strong rivalry between
three prisoners in the Berks county
prison in Pennsylvania., each of whom
is an artist. They have all noticed that
the paintings in the warden's office
and the rotunda need retouching, and
each wants the Job to kill time. An
art committee will pick- the winner.
Novel Food For Parisians.
Paris of late Is suffering from a craze
for novel food. Three months ago roast
camel meat was the dish. A little later
kangaroo chops became tbe ' fashion.
and now the restaurants of the gour
mets offer them zebu hump.
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MELLON & PINKERTON
Second Street, - - Corvallis, Oregon
Dealers In
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as
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Fine Line of Crockery, Glassware, Cut
Glass, Haviland and Chinaware,
LAMPS ETC.
ast
nmmer
During the Season 1909
via the
Southern Pacific Co.
from
CORVALLIS, OREGON
To OMAHA and Return - - $62.60
To KANSAS CITY and Return $62.60
To ST. LOUIS and Return - - $70.10
To CHICAGO and Return - - $75.10
and to other principal cities in the East, Middle West and South.
Corr;spondingly low fares.
On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3; A v gust 11, 12
To DENVER and Return - - $57.60
On Sale Miy 17, July 1, August 11
Going transit limit 10 days from date of sale, final return limit October
31st.
'"' These "tickets present some very attractive features in the way of stop
over privileges, and choice of routes; thereby enabling passengers to- make
side trips to many interesting points enroute.
Routing on the return trip through California may 1 e had at a slight
advance over the rates quoted.
Full particulars, sleeping car reservations and tickets will be furnished
by R; C. LINNV1LLH, Southern Pacific local agent at Corvallis or
WM. M'MURRAYj General Passenger Agent
Portland, Oregon
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V. E. WATTE RS
The Benton County
Heal Estate Agent
Corvallis, Oregon
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you to the business men of Corvallis. 1f Some splendid bargains send for
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103 N. Second Street, Corvallis, Oregon