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THE DAILY DIES VOL. I. NO. 83 CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1909 PRICE FIYE CENTS ALBANY A S65.D00 BLAZE FLAMES PRACTICALLY DESTROY BANK BUILDING CLOTHING CO. HEAVY LOSER Uo Knowledge of How the Fire Started Nightwatchman Discovered Blaze Too Late For Fire Department to Ren der Effective Service. CORVALLIS. A3 VIS- TORS SEE CITY THE IMPRESSION THE STRANGER GETS ON A SHORT VISIT. RESIDENCES GOOD; REST RAD Main Street Sends a Chill Down Spinal Column of Men Charmed With Resi dential Sections What They Sug gest fof Betterment of City. The fire at Albany mentioned in yesterday's Gazette-Times was a $65,000 conflagation, the First National Bank building, one of the best in the city being gutted. The Blain Clothing Co. lost heav ily. Of the fire the Democrat says: "Just after one o'clock, an em ploye at Spires Stables discovered fire issuing from the tailor shop in the rear of the clothing store of the L. E. Blain Clothing Co, and gave the alarm, with a quick response from our volunteer fire- men, who soon had streams on from the hydrants. The engines were slow, but did good work when well started. The flames pfead- IPtEL ft was, imrossjble to conhne them to the lower; part. They worked their way through ' into the second floor and into the .garret under the roof, where it was impossible to reach them and they soon covered the upper part of the building, completely gut ting it, but leaving the floor, of the second story, before finally gotten under control, with eight or nine streams from the rear, I side and front. Not until after 6 o'clock were the last sparks out. By that time the building was completely drenched with water ""and everything in it soaked. The L. E. Blain Clothing Co, is the heaviest loser, carrying a stock of $40, 000 completely ruined except a few things gotten out from the front, with an insurance of $20,000. The wall of the building is un impaired, but the damage must be close to $15,000 with an insur ance of $12,000. ! All the valuables of the First National Bank were in the vault, including all the papers. Three thousand dollars insurance is car ried on the fixtures. The vault . was hardly heated so well were the flames kept from that part of the building. The second story occupied by law offices is a complete ruin: Hewitt & Sox got most of their things out, and $500 will cover their loss, and the same is the case of the office of P. R. Kelley, with about a loss of $200. .L. L. Swan's office being in the rear suffered severely, a new type writer going. In the library were some of the books of Judge Wolverton's library. The loss is about $1,000. G. W. Wright got out part of his Oregon reports. His loss is about $1,000. J. C. Christy had a large library cost ing $4,000, and he only got out a : dictionary and a code. He was the only one in the top story Jin- sured, carrying $1,000, recently taken out. Judge Duncan's Ore gon reports were in Mr. Christy's office and were burned. W. S. Risley saved nothing, and losses j about $500 worth ' of praperty. W. D." Mixture had ah-office with L. Ii Swan and lost a few things. How the fire started is a mys- A gentleman in this city yes terday who has seen all of the west a half-dozen times and much of the east said to the Gazette Times man: "In all my travels I have never yet bumped into a business street that impressed me as your main street does. I walked over much of the resi dence section before I wandered down town and I was immensely pleased with the many nice resi dence properties I saw and the signs of progress manifest every where, but when I struck Main street the contrast was so great that it really depressed me: Main street looks old, dilapidated, dis 5pJoredw woe-begoneancU yet you have a business, section of considerable extent and it could be made attractive. Get 'those old board walks off the sfreet, condemn at least a few of the worst shack's, and at least level up the street with good macadam and your main street would not impress a stranger so adversely. Corvallis has far more nice look ing residence properties than one usually finds in towns this size and it has a business section aoout as discouraging as one ever looks at. I am surprised at this, and no less surprised that your Agricultural : College has no greater extent of build ings to care for its 1400 students. Most schools with half that 1 A 1 t numDer oi stuaents nave more buildings. The Oregon . legisla ture certainly made no mistake m providing $zuu,uuu lor new buildings. From the reputation the school has, I thought would find a large number of fine , structures. Pres. Kerr very kindly gave me an insight l a . i . 4 into pians ior tne tuture, and with these carried out the insti tution will certainly be a superb one. I know something of Pres. Kerr's work and his general rep utation as an organizer and I am confident the Oregon Agricultural College now has at its head the greatest executive and builder in the west, without exception." Five generations of the Henkle family, Jacob Henkle, his daughter, Mrs. Rachel A. Kitson; granddaughter, Mrs. Enlma E. Mason; great-granddaughter, Mrs. Iva E. Staines, and ereat-ereat-grandson. Terrence Henkle Staines, were all gathered here at one time. Jacob Henkle is in his 84th year. He crossed the plains with ox teams from Iowa to Oregon in 1853, and settled in Benton county four miles southwest of i fnuomatn, where he Has since resided.-' iis wife, Elizabeth Wood Henkle, died in 1904. - " , . - St ay ton For Train Service Another Man's View. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Flint, of Middle ton, Idaho, are in Corvallis visiting Dr, Johnson, who will go with them to the bay tomorrow. The Flints have been to the fair and down to Long Beach, Calif. " This is their first visit to the Willamette valley, and Mr- Flint charmed with the country. He finds the land selling at. a very reasonable price compared with lands elsewhere, and he is enthusiastic about Corvallis. He thinks we have the making of mighty fine little city here. Mr. Flint was particularly impressed with the uni formly good residence properties and commented on the absence of the small SERIES OF FORTU NATE ACCIDENTS THREE DIFFICULTIES THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SERIOUS. THE TENNYSON ANNIVEF ISM LADIES REVERE MEMORY OF ENG. LAND'S POET LAUREATE. TWQ RUNAWAYS IN TWO DAYS Man and Boy Slightly Injured in Acci dent Today; Woman Escaped From Very Dangerons Runaway Yesterday on Lebanon Road. Pool Exhibition of Not having satisfactory train service, Stayton citizens have bought an automobile and now it between that town and Salem. The Stayton Mail says of the undertaking: At a meeting of the citizens of this town one day last week it was decided that if enough mon ey could be raised an automobile would be bought and placed on the road to carry passengers from here to Salem and inter mediate towns. About $1500 was raised for the purpose in a few hours and enough more was promised to assure a success of the undertaking.' " Last Saturday a young man came over here from Albany with a big touring car and off ered to put his machine at the disposal of the citizens of Stayton if they would do the advertising and fix a few of the bad places : in the road. This they readily ' agreed to do and another meeting was held Monday night to raise mon ey for' advertising purposes and work on the road. In less than half an hour after the petition was drawn up enough money had been subscribed to go ahead wi th the work, ' : Tuesday morning the big automobile made its first trip loaded down with Stayton boost ers on their way to Salem to con sult with the Board of Trade of that place to co-operate with them in the undertaking and to petition the court for assistance in mak ing repairs on the county road.V This evening Prof. Dan O'Leary, Los Angeles, Cal., will give a fine ex hibition of fancy pool shots at Jack Milne's. - Prof. O'Leary is an expert at the game and has played all over the United States and Canada. He played some of the swellest clubs in the coun- try. He makes 4-6-8-10 balls in one 1 stroke of the cue. He also plays blind- I folded and makes shots. All are cor dially invited to see this exhibition at 8 o'clock. An Albany man and his son were slightly injured in' a runaway in this city early this morning. They were driving in a buggy when the horse be came frightened by an auto and dump ed them from the vehicle near Mrs. Arch Johnson's property.. The gentle man's heel was badly wrenched and the boy was scratched up considerably. About half way to Lebanon yester day, Dr. Pernot in his machine met Dr. Guthrie driving a team and his wife driving behind in a buggy. The horse driven by Mrs. Guthrie became frigh tened at Dr. Pernot's auto and ran away. The buggy was upset with Mrs. Guthrie beneath and the horse tumbled over on the wreck. Dr. Pernot ran his machine into a ditch and went hastily to the woman's assistance, expecting to find her at least badly hurt. Instead, she was- only bruised and her temper was so little disturbed that she had no desposition to blame anyone. This was a ..peculiarly, fortunate accident, . no damage being done other than to the buggy top. AFFAIR AT MISS KLINE HOME Beloved Poet Would Have Been One Hundred Years of Age had he Lived Until Yesterday Gone, but Wi'J Never Be Forgotten. The Gazette-Times 50c per month. Joseph Dixon, one of this county's best known farmers, is having quite an experience with his hand. Two months ago a thistle pricked one of his fingers and a portion of the weed broke off in the wound. Mr. Dixon reached for i the knife with which he cuts his tobac ' co, trims his corns and peels his apples j and proceeded to gouge out that offend ing thistle. He got rid of the obstruc tion but he let in a great mass of germs and within a week his hand was terri bly swollen. The difficulty was so se rious that the hand had to be lanced a Last night a number of ladies who knew the poet Tennyson in his youth their youth cele brated the 100th anniversary of his birth. They gathered at the very pleasant home of Miss Paul ine Kline and there in the even ing's twilight glow, augmented by Edison incandescents, quoted verses learned while sitting at the feet of the noet laureate metaphorically speaking. . Those who couldn't quote, read; those who could do neither looked wise, or tried to. The editor was one of the latter. After a season of this mental strenuosity the guests adjourned to the spacious parlors decorated gloriously with a profusion of lovely roses, swppt 'nmis nnrl fms. T?v una. cial petition signed by half - the property owners the writer at tempted to sing "Sweet and Continued on page two. half dozen times and now after two months is just getting in such shape that Mr. Dixon is certain of keeping it. The one pleasant feature about this difficulty was the charge of the sur geons, the bill being considerably less than the old gentleman anticipated, and he is jubilant. tery. There had been ; nothing doing in the tailor, shop, 1 where the start was, for a few days". It was either from an electric wire, combustion or mice in matches. and squalid homes found in most towns and cities, ' He thinks our Main street lacks much of beine in keeping with the rest of the city. Mr; : Flint is fruit grower in the Boise valley, one of the finest valleys in the west, but he may invest in orchard . . land here, prices look good and the possibilities un limited. If the beach looks good to him he will buy, and build a cottage for summer use, Mrs. Flint being afflicted with hay fever." Dr. "Johnson hopes that Mr.: Flint's enthusiasm will not run out until he actually gets ' located here.' ' We announce the first showing of Fall, 1909, Ladies' Suits LaMUE BRAND You can secure the newest designs of the foremost style creators The new est and freshest fashions that are of fered anywhere. You will find them remarkably moderate in price. 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