LOCAL LORE.
Bide a Rambler.
Public School opens September
15th
Miaa Helen Steiwer returned
her home near Jefferson, Monday.
to
a. w Kauplacn was a passenger
ror .Portland Sunday. N
; Miss Maud Horningr, of Toledo is
a guast at m ujme of EB Horning
Charles Cntiiijbell of Portland is
x vioiuug iue-iiiiLiiiy 01 xnomaa xseii.
. W E Hanley ut Hillsbora arrived
Saturday for a biief visit with friends
W E Yates and family arrived
Saturday from, a sojourn at Newport
Boy Woodcock returned Satur
day from a few days sojourn at New
port,
Mrs Broders and children arrived
Friday from a six week's outing at
Newport.
Mrs Da Bolt of Yaquina, arrived
Saturday, snd i3 a guest at the Laff ar
ty home.
iather Jurek was a passenger
to Portland Saturday where he was
called on business.
Miss Grace Scott, arrived Friday
"' v from The Dalles, for a short visit with
Corvallis relatives.
George Hulbei t is in Corvallis on
a visit with relatives. George in now
located, in Idaho.
Miss Clara -Lane returned Sat
urday from a couple of week's with
friends in Portland.
Miss Carrie Danneman left Sat
urday for Clem. She will be a sent
about there week's. "
Miss Belle Banney returned Sat
urday from Olex Oregon, where she
bas been visiting for the past several
months.
A carload of cbittim bark billed
to New York left the S P depot Mon-
day. The shipment was made by S L
Kline.
Mrs August Fischer and children
and Miss Eva Millner returned Fri
day from three wpeks recreation at
Nye Creek.
Lincoln County Leader: Frank
Hubler of Corvallis is temporarily in
charge of a block in Lsster Waugh's
meat market.
- Byron Gill of Scio was in Corval
lis Sunday to make preliminary ar
rangements to re-enter college, He
- secured a residence.
Mta James Martin and son expect
to leave Monday for a two months
visit at Canfleld, Ohio- The visit Is the
first In twenty six years,
J J Flett drove over to Albany
Sunday afternoon to meet his mother.
,1 who re&ides in Boseburg and who
will spend a couple of weeks in Cor
vallis. -
Mrs Greff jz and Miss Adelaide
Greffoz arrived Monday from Newport
and will spend a week with friends
before returning to their home in
Portland.
J N MeFadden returned Sunday
from a visit to Junction and Eugene.
He attended Buffalo Bills Wild West
show at the latter place and gives a
favorable report of the performance.
Miss Winnifred Cameron left
for Portland Saturday, where she will
visit relatives. She was accompanied
-by Miss Beatrice Cameron who has
been a guest at the Cameron home
for a month.
Mies Ruth Ingram of San Fran
cisco, who has been the gutst for the
summer of Mrs M Elstoii Lee, left
Thursday to accept a position as tea
cher in an Episcopal school of that
city.
- Work on F L Miller's house is
progressing rapidly, and as the frame
work nears completion, one is
forced ' to the conclusion that . the
house will be one of the biggest things
in Corvallis.
Miss Lulu Spangler returned
- Saturday from San Francisco where
she has been studying music for two
months. Miss Spangler will leave
itKtuu ui ciuuut a wees to resume ner i
work In the Weston Normal School.
Tommy Newman, who resides
with his parents on the state road, fell
from a wagon last week and sustained
such injuries as necessitated . the "at
tention of a physician. The .upper
portion of the hip bone struck the
wheel as he fell. The exact extent of
the injuries can not be stated' but it
is believed that it will not prove seri
ous. ,
Mark Twain says that some years
ago, when in the South, he met an old
colored man thatr-claimed to have
known George Washington, "I asked
him," related the humorist, "if he was
in the boat when General Washington
crossed the Deleware, and he instant
ly replied: " 'Lor Massa, j steered
dat boat,' " 'Well, ' said I, 'do you re-
,4 ,. member when George took the hack at
' the cherry-tree?" "He looired worried
for a minute, and then, with a beam-
inR smile, said : 'Why, suah, massa.
j. aun arove aat nack myseir.
Joseph Polly an old tims resident
of Corvallis was In town Monday.
Saturday night he lost a horse from
hi3 home In Alsea and he started next
morning afoot to search for the ani
mal. He tracked the horse up the val
ley until he found that it had crossed '
the mountain toward Corvalii3. At
this point he availed himself of a ride
with Mr Fruit the stable man, who
was returning home from a fishing
trip, and came on to the city. Fort
unately Mr Polly next morning found
his horse ia Jobs Addition.
B F Irvine and daughter are rus
ticating at Elk City. They left Friday.
Examination begin at OAO on
the 19th and recitations on the 23rd.
, President Gatch left Monday to
spend two week's at his Newport cot
tage. .
After a few days spent at home
Charle Heckart returned to Eugene
Monday.
The Chemawa band passed thro
ugh this city Monday enroute home
from Newport.
Miss Hazel Hardy returned to
her home in Salem today after a
week's visit at the Lilly home,
Mr and Mrs Simuel Bane left
Monday for a four months visit with
relatives at Gilroy California. '
Paul Cauthorn ia visitiog relati
ves and frienda in tMs city. He arri
ved Monday from Boseburg.
Beese Groves a school man of
Dakota, arrived Monday for a visit
with his uncle William Groves.
Three hundred people were
aboard Sunday's bay-bound excursion
Forty tickets were sold to Corvalli3
ites. .
Mr and Mrs E C Hay ward retur
ned Saturday from a visit to Mr Hay
ward's father at Oictoria, British Col
umbia. Mrs Kohn, and Miss Florence
Kobn left Saturday for their home in
Portland, after an extended visit at
the Jacobs home.
Mrs Garrow and daughter have
moved this week to the Wells resi
dence lately occupied by President
Gatch and family.
Elmer Bethers and Elmer Din
ges left last week by private convey
ance for North Yakima. They go to
look for a location .
Mrs Wm Brunk and son of Ash
land arrived Saturday and are guesta
of Mr and Mrs Brunk of the Occiden
tal hotel.
Wm. Frazler the horse buyer,
was in town a couple of days last week
but was unable to obtain the kind of
horses he wanted.
Mr and Mrs William Crees and
Mrs Lessie Scrafford returned Monday
from a brief visit with relatives at
Elk City and Newport.
Joseph Bryan now traveling sa
lesman for A Schilling & Co. of San
Francisco is spenuing a few days with
his parents at Philomath.
Mr and Mrs W M McMahan re
turned yesterday from Cascadia, They
went for the benefit of Mrs Mc
Mahans health, and have been absent
two months.
Among those aboard Sunday's
excursion train were Mr and Mrs J E
Farmer, Mr and Mrs George Paul of
this city and Mr and Mrs Ed Bryan
of Philomath.
Ernest Bedd arrived Monday for
a few day's visit with college friends.
Mr Bedd holds a position with the
drug house of Forbes, Jaeneke & Co.
in Portland.
-Frank Seits of Lobster, was
among the Corvallis visitors the first
of the week. He states that there is
much travel over the new road which
passes by his place.
From all accounts there is to be i
a church wedding in Corvallis before
many months. The bride to be is a
daughter of a well known citizen - and
the groom a Californian,
Darwin Nash who has been vis
itiDg his parents Hon, and Mrs Wallis
Nash at Nashville, passed through
thi3 city Saturday enroute to San
Francisco where he holds a positi on
with the American Wire 'and Steel
Company.
Saturday evening an Uncle Tom's
Cabin company gave a performance
here in a tent, and the same was well
attended. When we observe such a
gathering at a rendition pf this thread
bare play there is no reason to marvel
at the reappearance "of Uncle-Tom's
Cabin company. The grand noonday
parade announced was made up main
ly of juvenil home talent in leggins
and faded coats of red.
An adventure by pleasure seekers in
the mountains, near Belknap Springs
turned out to be of a very thril
ling nature says The Bullentin. They
went for a watch at the deer lick, and
in planning the ambuscade, tethered
the pack horse a short distance from
where they would lay in wait for the
deer. Next morning .when they went
for the horse his clean-picked bones
we're left in testimony of a sumptous
feast. by the king beast of the moan
tains -rMr Cougar.
It was in the far south. "How.s
times?" asked the tourist. "Pretty
tolerable, stranger" responded the
old man who was sitting on a stump.
"I had some trees to cut down but the
cyclone leveled them and saved me
the trouble." That was good. :lYes;
and then the lightning set fire to the
brush pile and burned it up." "Be
markablf I But what are you doing
now?" "WcJ.ing for an Jeart'c quake to
come along and shake the potatees
out of the ground." .
For Sale
Three milch cows, one fresh, One
heavy horse, and one driving team.
Cramer Organ" & Carriage Factory.
Strayed -
One bay mare weight 1000 pounds
branded with cross on shoulder.
Finder will nlease return nrooertv toAb-
bott' Feed barn, at Corvallis and recei
ve reward. v
HABITS OF THE SALMON.
Artificial Propagation Described The
Elk River Hatchery.
Three miles up the river from
Elk City, a salmon hatchery is in pro
cess of construction It is on the Elk
fork of the Yaquina river and con
struction is under direction of dep
uty game warden W A Smith of
Giyde, Douglas County. Up to last
Sunday only a dozen big Chinooks
were all that had entered the pen'
or basin in which they are kept
until spawning time, but their
movements as they glide about in
only three feet of water were Inter
esting to see. No fish more shapely
or handsome is known and none
has a movement more graceful.
The expense of constructing and
maintaining the hatchery is borne
out of the funds provided by appro
priations by the state legislature.
Construction has been in progress
since the first of August. Across
the Elk fiver, just above the head
of tide a fence or rack made of
pickets set upright, has been built.
The pickets are nailed so closely
that salmon cannot pass between
them.- Two hundred and fifty feet
above a similar fence oa rack cross
the river. Thesectian of river be
tween is a flat gravel bar on which
the water is three . feet deep and
forty to sixty feet w i de.
It is in this section of the river that
the salomn are kept until they are
"ripe" for spawning as the operat
ors of the hatchery term it. '. The
capacity of the present hatchery is
2000 salmon at one time. The
spawning by Chinooks usually be
gins about the fifteenth of Septem
ber.
An interesting fact is the method
by which the salmon enter the
basin that is both a prison and death
to them, for the handsome fish that
enter the pen never leave it alive.
In the lower fence near the middle
of the stream are two small open
ings near together. Each is six or
eight inches wide and twelve or
fourteen inches high. They arecalled
chutes and through these the
fish enter. Through these aper
tures in the fence they could pass
out as easy as thev passed in, but
they never do it. The instinct for
reproduction of young salmon is so
strong m the parents of either sex,
that they press steadily onward up
stream and never turn back. It is
on gravel bars in the upper waters
ot iresh streams that tney spawn
and with the time for dropping
their eggs approaching, their noses
are pressed steadily against the
current.
When, for instance, they encoun
ter the lower fences at the hatchery
they try to pass through the open
ings first at one place and then at
another. They keep on, until ulti
mately they find one or the other
of the chutes, and enter their doom.
The noses of the salmon now in the
Elk river hatchery are white from
their efforts to find an opening in
the upper fence, but not one of
them has tried or ever will Iry to
find again the holes in which they
enter,
. Below the upper fence a few feet
a walk crosses the stream. Stand
ing on this walk, the visitor can
see the handsome Chinook working
faithfully in their constant- hunt to
find a way for further progress up
stream. It is the same restless
movement that is seen in the cap
tive tiger behind the bars of his
cage. - It is an interesting but piti
ful sight, and one that moves the
observer's sympathy. To prevent
the fish from undermining the up
per rack of the fence, the founda
tions of the fence are set in solid
bed rock.- The salmon are great
burrowers and were the fence not
fixed in solid rock they would bur
row under it and escape up stream.
When the fash are ripe, that is
ready to spawn, they are caught
and the eggs are taken from them.
Sometimes they are caught with
seines, but mostly they are driven
into pens, five, feet wide and eight
feet long, in the stream, entrance to
which is effected by holes similar
to those in the fence at the lower
end of the main basin, If when
caught the fish are not ripe they
are . put in other pens for the pur
pose until tne spawn are reaciv tor
removal. The removal " of - the
spawn is accomplished, with ease, a
slight pressure of the hand on the
spawn sack being effective for the
purpose. .
The eggs, after removal are plac
ed in spawning pans where fertil
izer from the male fish is poured
over them. Then they are cut in
to sections that from their size are
known to contain a thousand each,
and twenty of these . sections, that
is if all goes well, will yield" 20,000
miniature salmon, are placed in a
hatching basket. The latter is
made of wire netting and is two
feet long, ' eight inches wide and
eight inches deep. Baskets for the
Elk river hatchery were manu
factured by a Corvallis establish
ment. After the removal of the
spawn or fertilizer . the salmon is
killed with a blow on the head.
After receiving their quota of
fertilized spawn, the baskets are
placed in troughs through which
fresh water very gently : flows.
Water for the Elk river troughs
is brought from a stream in the
vicinity, through r4oo feet of flume
The temperature (of the water in a
measure modifies the progress of in
cubation. The water in the troughs
especially from the sixth to the
twelfth day must not be disturbed.
A ripple created by a stroke of the
hand befng sufficient during that
period to destroyall the eggs in the
trough, that is kill 125,000 embryo
salmon. ' ... .
.. In twenty days after the. baskets
are placed in the troughs if an egg
from one of them be held between
the eye and the sun, a little fish can
be seen swimming about in it. A
salmon egg scarcely as' large as a
coffee grain, is a small world for the
little salmon to live in but it is all
that he requires at this stage of in
cubation. In 45 to 48 days he has
out grown his egg and is swimming
about with the remains of it as a
globule attached to his head in the
vicinitv of his gills. By this time
he has been removed to another
trough with . larger apartments
where he has greater room for his
movements. The egg globule is
his food supply and it stays with
him. passing backward along his
body to the end of his tail. After
wards it passes under the body and
becomes a part of the belly. He is
then a full blown salmon and must
thereafter earn his livkjg. Thisjstage
in his development is reached in
about sixty days after the spawn is
placed in the hatching ' troughs.
If kept longer in the hatchery,
however, he is fed and his diet is
salmon, especially canned for the
purpose at the Columbia River Can
nery. Generally speaking, how
ever, very soon after reaching this
stage, he is set adrift in the waters
of the river, and" allowed to shift
for himself.
So far the Elk river hatchery is
only a temporary arrangement. Its
capacity as a beginning, will be ten
hatching troughs capable of turn
ing off 1,200,000 small salmon in a
season. If a sufficient spawn is
secured additional troughs can and
will be provided on brief notice
. The question of whether or not the
hatchery will "become permanent
will be determined by the ' success
that attends the temporary arrange
ment. - . ..
By the system in vogue at gov
ernment hatcheries more than 80
per cent of the eggs are hatched.
Though any estimate in the case
is essentially random, experts be
lieve that not more than 10 to 20
per cent, possibly less, of the spawn
dropped naturally by - salmon is
hatched. If left alone, salmon
spawn on gravel bars where the
swift water is uncongenial to hatch
ing and destructive of embryo eggs
This alone results in a vast waste
of salmon spawn. But even great
er waste is the destruction wrought
by trout that feed on the spawn.
Often while the female is spawning
on the gravel bars the male is
dashing about in the vicinity fight
ing away trout that endeavor to
snatch the eggs as soon as they
are spawned. It is to protect the
spawtf from these enemies that the
salmon after the spawning cover
the eggs up in the gravel. Even
in the basin at the Elk river hatch
ery a large trout is otten seen con
stantly at the side of the salmon,
apparently waiting for spawning
time to come. The larger fish
occasionally chases him ' away but
like a shadow he returus to his
wonted position as soon as the war
is over. If is because of these con
ditions that the hand and brain of
man has gone to the assistance of
nature in the salmon proposition,
and the results whenever tried have
justified the most sanguine expect
ations. Fish Commissioner Van Dusen of
Astoria, visited the Elk hatchery
Monday. '
There is a contract ready to be let at
Cramer's Organ & Carriage' factory for
2 million lo0s to be loaded on cars, 1 mil
lion feet of hemlock to be loaded at
Grider's switch, logs to be hauled three
miles from Hains place. 2 miles this side
of Mills City.
One milliou feet to be put on cars at
Cramer's switch this side of Summit
one mile from skid road. For further
information write b'r call on
' B , M. Cramer,
Organ & Carriage Factory.
Private School.
Sliss Anna Denman will , open a pri
vate school the first Monday in October.
For particulars inquire at- residence cor.
nth & Monroe. -
Broadhead Dress Goods,
. Wanted
Men for work in saw mill and lumber
yard. Steady work. Inquire of
Booth-Kelly dumber Co., Coburg.
Colbert & Gregory Manfy. Co.
Sash, doors, moldings, furniture and
eneral finished lumber.
South Main St, Corvallis Ore.
At: $1.50, $2.00, $2.50,
$5.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50,
$5.00. Made from fine
black mercerized goods
and of proper style and fit.
To be had only at
Tie Regulator
Shirtwaists
at One-Half Price,
We have them in colors at 25, 35, 50, 75c and $1 .co up to $?.oO
white waists from 50c to $2.
Remnants in all color and materials. We are making a" Clea'"
ance Sale of Remnants of Calicos, Percales, Law'ns, Swisses, Challie
Dimities, Shirtings, Muslins, etc. ,
20 per cent reduction on all Dimities, Challies and Lawns.
We carry a full line of W. B. Corsets Girdles, Summer weigh
and Straight Fronts, 50c to $1.50
Ladies' 2-clasp Suide Lisle Gloves in black, greys and white, 50c
F. L. MILLER'S Corvallis, Or.
Phono 191. '
mbeti you see it in our ad, it's so
"Broadhead Dress Goods
New Outing Flannel
New Flannelettes
"Hawes" $3 00 Hats, for men
New Clothing and Overcoats
Royal Worchester Corsets
Mens Furnishings
W. L. Douglas $3,00 and 3,50 shoes
Ladies Fine Shoes
New Cloaks and Tailor Made Suits
New Goods Weekly. .
Strictly Up to
. -
J. D. Mann & Co are receiving -
!ar Load Lots of Furniture
For fall trade, and are now able to
show a fine line oi '
'orniture, Carpets m
Largest assortment" and best bar
gains ever offered.
'J. D. MANN & CO,-
DP TO DATE
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