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ai r Leading Corvallis Newspaper. Best Advertising Medium. ink Vol. XLIII. Corvallis, Bexton Countv, Oregoxv Friday, July SO, 1906. No. 60 ABOUT THE TRIAL Seattle May Send Esther Mitchell and Maud Creffield Home. Seattle, Wash., July 18. - Esther Mitchell and Mrs. Maud Creffield may be removed to their Oregon homes, instead of being tried for murder here, despite the direct information on a murder charge filed here today. This is a proposition which' has been discussed at some length by, and has met with some favor from, influential members of the King county bar. One object gained by turning over to Oregon her own citizens, say court officials who have suggested the matter, would be that King county would, at very little cost, rid itself of an expense bill of about $5,000. Mrs. Creffield's home, they claim, is at Corvallis; Esther Mitchell in Newberg, Or., or Portland. A Washington law pro vides that non-resident insane persons may be taken to their home State. The trial of George Mitchell, it is estimated, cost King county, about $2,500. As many Oregon witnesses would probably be re quired in the case of the women as in that of the young man against whose life they plotted. The women have the right to be tried separately, thus costing the State twice as much as did Mitchell. Should ' an insanity commission find the women insane and the court send them to Oregon, the Oregon officials who were so out spoken in their opinions at the trial of "George Mitchell, claim local court officials,-would then have a chance to . handle the case themselves. Probably Esther and Mrs. Creffield would be sent to the Hospital for Jhe Insane at Salem. On tHe other hand, if alienist experts should find the prisoners sane, their records would be admissible at the mur der trial here. l ? . Even now insanity experts are holding an inquiry into the men tal condition of the prisoners. Much will depend on their re port. The information to be filed this afternoon names 17 wit nesses for the State, including local police officers, newspaper reporters, physicians and Perry and Fred Mitchell, Fred Dick man and Lewis Sandelle. How Pruett Hunted Grizzlies. Ralph Pruett returns tomorrow from Lis vacation at Green Peak, near Bellefountain. It is said Mr. Pruett considers himself a hardv mountaineer, brave, fear less and equal to any occasion, but the other day he had a ter rible experience, according to the statement of his fellow salesmen. Belt and Porter, of Kline's store. The story goes that Ralph hunted big, shaggy bears up in the mountains. He carried a fierce-looking gun that snoots 19 times without being reloaded, a long bowie knife that cuts on both sides, going and coming, and about 500 cartridges in a cowboy belt. He looked fierce and felt fiercer as he traversed the wilderness in search of griz zlies and other big game. His thoughts were wholly oc cupied with the question of how he was to get his bears and deer down the mountain side to camp, after he had killed six or eight and tired ot the pastime, and a blood thirstv look was on his usually infantile face as he peered into the underbrush, here and there. Suddenly there was a crack ling of brush behind him and Mr. Pruett wheeled about. In fancy he saw two big fiery eyes, as large as dinner plates, and a great, brown, hairy carcass bear ing down upon him, and, with a sudden feeling of homesickness, Ralph took to his heels. He started down the mountain side pell-mell, lost his footing and rolled something; like 40 rods, losing, Belt says, something like 200 rounds of ammunition on lhe trail. Then he picked himself up and glanced back. There he saw, perched on a log, a tiny chipmunk that had caused all the crackling in the underbrush. Mr. Piuett's friends are keep ing the story dark, out ot regard for Ralph's feelings. MURDER THE CHARGE. Against Esther Mitchell, and Mrs. Maud Creffield. Murder in the . first degree is the charge that hangs over Es ther Mitchell and Mrs. Maud Creffield in the court of King county, Washington. While O. V. Hurt has offered to mortgage his home in this city for $500, in order to defend his daughter at the proper time, she declares that he shall not" spend his money for that purpose and both she and Esther Mitchell affirm that they will not allow any plea of insanity to be entered for them. An Oregonian dispatch from Settle Wednesday had" the follow ing to say: Attorney Speckert today re ceived a telegram from Judge Upton, ot Walla Walla, to the eflect that the latter could not possibly assist in the defense of Esther Mitchell. Upton created a sensation by the following mes sage sent the night that Esther Mitchell shot down her brother George: "Walla Walla, Wash., July 12, 1906. Miss Esther Mitchell, County Jail, Seattle, ' Wash. Accept thanks, congratulations and assistance if needed: . Talk to your lawyer only. " - "WILLIAM H. UPTON." JUtorneyJtt morning wrote a long letter to O. V. Hurt, Mrs Creffield's father advising him that he could not defend the two women, owing to urgent business: Morris stated that the defense of the two women would probably be placed in the hands of a young attorney in this city, at the request of Hurt Esther . Mitchell and Mr?. Maud Creffield" were jointly charged with murder in the first degree today by information filled direct in the Superior Court Jonn F. Miller, assistant prose cuting attorney, stated that the trial of the two women would probably be concluded before Chester Thompson is brought to trial. The prisoners are being ex amined daily by Dr. J. B Loughr ary, who calls in one or more consulting physicians to act as advisers in an effort to determine the mental condition of the wo men who are responsible for the death of George Mitcheli. These examinations are being made at at the request of Prosecuting At torney Macintosh, and the re ports made by the physicians are being kept a secret. It is said, however, by Macintosh that no complete report has been made so far, and it is probable that the examinations will be kept up for some little time. The women so conduct them selves as to make the determina tion of their, mental coaditton vey baffling. Miss Noma Stewart is seriously ill at the family home in this city. Mrs. Jennie Leonard of Philomath is a guejt at the Burnap home in this city. Mrs. Paul Dodele and daughter of WellB were Corvallis visitors "Wednesday. Samuel iert began yesterday oa the task of repainting the Charles Hout res idence. Mrs. J. L. Underwood leaves today for a two weeks' visit with her brother at Lebanon. Ralph Davidson and family of Port land were in Corvallis yesterday en route to Big Elk for a camping trip. Miaa Helen Miller returned horn Tuesday from a two week's visit with Miss Lola Wagner, near Philomath. The ladies of the W. C. X. U. will give an ice cream social on tbs court hoots lawa. thU erasing from 5 to 10 o'clock "HAPPY" IS HOMESICK. "Still Going . Some", He Says Hair Holds the Job. I received the papers all right at Willmar, Minn., and I want to thank you for them. I was get ting mighty homesick for a sight ot the Gazette. The weather up in Minnesota was something awful; rained all the time and half the state was under water. We like that fine as we were living in a tent all the time. I was mighty homesick for Corvallis for a ' while.- The weather finally got better and we had a fine time. v The weather now is as hot as the hinges on the secretary'sdesk downiri perdition: I don't want very much of this country in the summer or the winter; it is ail right in the spring or in the fall, but in the summer or winter it is fierce. I wiU tell you something about the life with the show and that is all I can tell you about myself. I arrived in Rockford, from Portland, all right , and found word waiting for me (not Tom Word) to join the show at Minne apolis and we have been hitting it up ever since. We have eight people with us and w.e are mak ing good right along. We are handling the Navajo Indian Rem edies and we have -Dr. Jim Long (White Spear) at the head of the company. We . have three full blood Navajo Indians and two actors and one actress besides my self. I am a combined actor, lecturer; and salesman and am kept pretty busy most of the time. . Doc Tim pavs good salaries and every body seems to be satisfied. I am well and fat and can' t com plain enly about the .weather. We stop from two id ten days in each town and we manage to get weltenougriacquatnted ' that-we" can have a pretty good time, in everv town. I have three hours' work in the afternoon, and three hours' work: after supper and the rest of the time is my own. I get 90 a month and board, the In dians get $30 a month ,the two ac tors get $60, the actress $40 and Doc Jim gets $200 a month, so you see we are doing some business all the time. . Now if my hair was not long and luxuriant I could not hold my Job for a minute and I would be sticktng type in some country print shop, this hot weather at $12 "pei", while as it is I am able to be out of doors most of the time, and what is more I am hav ing a good time along with it. The show was five weeks in Minnesota 'and will be io Iowa until it closes, which will be about lhe end of July. We will have six weeks off and then open in Indiana. If they stay around in the Central States this winter I will not stay with them; it will be me back to Oregon, for Ore gon looks good to me in the win ter. I think I will have to come back to Corvallis in November anyway on account of those Club trials, unless they are settled be fore then, because I promised Mr. Bryson I would come back as a witness and I am going to do it I tell you that there is no coun try like Oregon, to me, and I am coming back some time to stay. I want to live in the Willamette Valley some more. Why, I have not heard the word "Hops" since I have been out in this coun try; I don't think they know what they are. I have been in two train wrecks, one cyclone and was in a h ouse that was struck with lightning, and am still going some. I 'was in the cyclone that tore through Murdock, Minn., and I got out with a slight scare. I assisted in putting out the fire that was started by lightning in the house where I was staying iu Minneap olis, and I got out of two wrecks on the Great Northern with a few scratches. I guess I was some locky. : ,, ' c- I supposcyott are having Jpts of work sow Lia the office, and you ate keeping pretty basy -your- selfj I remember you used to keep pretty busy when, I was there. Tell the force that I am still the same oid "Happy" only more so. 1 nave to go some to keep up with Doc Jim for he is worse than I am. Has Milt Morgan got his ap pointment in the Phillipines yet, or is he still looking for it THE REGENT MEETING. Much Business Transacted, but No Changes Reported. I The midsummer meeting of the board of regents of the Agricul tural college was held Wednesday afternoon. Eight regents were present and five absent. The absentees were Secretary of State Dunbar, Judge Cotton Superin tendent J. H. Ackerman, Ol well and Pierce. More or less routine business was transacted and re ports read. In regard to the question of mountain water for the .llege, a committee from the water commission appeared before.. the. board, submitting a written proposition to supply water for . the college at the rate of 15 cents per 1,000 gallons, the college to take at least 100,000 gallons per month, and any amount in excess, at that rate. The authority was given the ex ecutive committee to lease to the water . commission the right of way across any portion of the college grounds, the connections to be made with the main run ning from Cautborn Hall north to the county road. It is under stood, that the college is to fur nish its own connections and me ters, all the big buildings to. be provided with meters. Mr. Daly and Mr.V Weatherford. were ap pointed 'a committee and author ized to enter into a , written con- iact wi.th the city water-works to that effect Supplementary bids were open ed . on the , proposed - woman's building, and as these were about $60,000, it was decided that a committee should remodel the plans or get new ones, so as to enable the project to be carried on within the limits of the avail able means, which is from $50, 000 to $65,000, a part ot which, however, is wanted for equip ment. Gov. Chamberlain sug gested an entire new and inde pendent " building, constructed within the means at hand, and so planned that two wings could be added later, greatly increasing the size without destroying the symmetry of the structure. It is said the appropriation must te used by Dec. 31 or the funds re vert to the State treasury. Resolutions were adopted in the Quinlan matter, authorizing a committee from the board to make a rigid investigation and to report its findings to the secre tary of war, and also to the board at its next meeting. J. K. Weatherford was instructed to correspond with the secretary ol war to see if the government could not send a representative here to be present at the investi gation. , Prof. L. B. Baldwin, ot Philo math, was elected as assistant in English, for the coming year The degree of Ph. D. was con ferred on Supt. J. H. Ackerman Keep An eye on Him. The Chief of police has bf n ousy tne past lew aays igokiu into conditions generally ab6r. the city. Out in the wester; part of town he found the Kest-. butcher shop locked and deserted but from the interior a stencl was emitted that turned the burl chief seasick: He held his nost with one hand and effected an en trance to the building with the other, and there he found a quar ter of beef 1 hat was supposed to have been pat away to "corn'. That it -had nt "corned" was evidenced hv thn smelly .Otherf pieces of hetf 'were -found, tossed lin.to a box and f the ' whole thing carted awayp A can of lime was scattered over the floor, but it is doubtful if the stench can be over come while the building stands. Chief Lane is not certain but what he will have to bury him self to get the odor out of his clothes and hair. , . . In various other parts. of town he has fonnd conditions in alleys, shacks and back yards that should not be tolerated in any well or dered city, and when questioned as to what he proposed to do about it, the chief smiles and looks wise, but says nothing. The safest plan for citizens is to keep an eye on the chief from now on, and if he is seen "snoop ing" about in any certain locality, the residents had better get a shovel, hoe or rake and "get busy" without waiting for ther notice. fur- Petition For Protection. A petition has been in circu lation the past few days and it has numerous signers, asking that the city provide for one of You're Sure to Grow Over iny set of Shirt Waists Sets like those now on sale at this store. ." .;' : Shirt Waist Sets tot July are just as good for August cr Septem ber, or any other month, if bought here. If you want what's exquisite, at a modest price, buy a set. . We guarantee theyire tha greatest value for the sum invested mat can be had. See them and bay a set. v Albert J. Metzger WATCHMAKER Occidental Building, - - - Qorvallia A Specialty We are making a specialty in the form of the latest and most up-to-date eye glass mounting, ever offered to the public. This eye glass mounting is "The Heard" guaranteed to stay on where others absolutely fail. If you care to investigate call at my store any time. J . IE. W. S. PRATT, Jeweler and Optician. FOR A FINE LINE OF Guns, Fishing Taoki9 Baseball Goods - -Go to Gun Hodes We Carry the Famous Bristol Fishing Rod THE FARMER Rates offered by us are $1.00 per year where the farmer uses his own telephone (farmers not having telephones can purchase from us at $8.50 each) or $5.00 per year where we furnish the telephone- You can be connected with 200,000 Local and Long Dis tance telephones. Further information at any of 'our offices. PACIFIC STATES TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO, i O. O. Htmmtmnd. Chmm. Blmkmmlmm. I f CORVALLIS STEAM LAUNDRY. I - Pateonlzo Homo Industry I: - ----- 'rrrtMUfMi t im ' the four hose carts to b. kep' m the northwestern part of tor, together with 506 feet of hose. The city could well do this, ic would seem, as that part of town is wholly without protection in that respect, and in winter a building would be half destroyed by fire before a hose cart could be got out there, if indeed it could be .taken there at all. There are residents who say that the petition should be honored by the dty fathers, and that another hose cart should be located near the Bodine warehouse, for pro tection in that section, and that a general fire should require the combined force of all four carts. Now that mountain water is available in all parts of town it would be an easy matter for the entire city to be reasonably pro tected from fire, by the location of the hose carts, as suggested. Durirjg the early part of next week the Presbyterian church will give a social on the lawn at the church. Watch for the date. SPENCER'S Hair Invigorafor And Dandruff Eradicator SIS JUST rwxw 5 s S- 5 r e CO 1 o o 3 13 . e b 1 4 J ; "5 5 At :"fl)9!s5-i - '- Trail Mark KegntanJ. 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