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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1909)
?0 LADIES Attention! RUSSELL The Tailor has just received . his Fall and Winter . line, of ' 300 Patterns, Suits, separate Skirts, Jackets, long Coats, Divided Skirts and Rubberized Rain Coats, marte to your measure in the latest sty'-3s; strictly man-tailored; prices right. Before buying, call and look them over. Lady attendant. 132 Second St, Upstairs, Whitehorn Building . The City and Vicinity Born To Mrs. J. Hewitt, Monday, Aug. 30, a daughter. Look for "Owners" ad- "Two Bar gains City Homes" 8-13-tf A Rochester, Wisconson, man is talking saw mill to the Albany people. John F. 'Allen came up from the bay this morning to remain a few days. For Sale-An Oliver . typewriter. . New, used less than two months. Perfect condition- Cheap' for cash. David Christensen, of Newton, Utah, arrived yesterday and is visiting at the home of James Emery. Portland firm wants to trade monu ment for horse and buggy. Address Monument, care Gazette-Times office. .' '-. . . 8-27-3t Miss Olive Bassett and younger sis ters have returned from a week's visit with friends in Yamhill county, ' . " Complete outfits for camping parties at Blackledge's furniture store. 8-3-tf Miss Olive Thompson has returned from a month's visit'in Spokane. She was accompanied home by little Miss Violet Webber, of Portland, who is a guest at the Thompson home. . j Men wanted at the new armory at the college, Wednesday morning. F. A. Erixson,"" Contractor. 8-30-2t j Mrs. Carl Richardson and child re turned yesterday from a two weeks' visit to friends at Springfield. The family will locate in the .' property at the corner of Third and Polk street "in" this city. Eat Golden Rod Flakes, They are better for breakfast, Than old-fashioned corn cakes, . And five minuets time,' ' " Is all that it takes At Kline's. ; r', 6-12-tf Alma Upton, one of the mail carriers f Hoquiam, Wash., was in the city over night. He has been spending his Miss Edith Cummings, of Philomath, .is, in the city visiting ,her sister, Mrs. Florence Patterson. ' ' D. B. Taylor starts hop-picking Sat urday, Sept, 4. . Still room for a few more pickers. ... 8-31-5t . Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Moore are now living with the Bexells at the corner of 8th and Jefferson. , ' ' For rent or sale Choice 15 acre poultry place. Box 113 Turner, Ore gon. ; 8-26-lt-dw Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Moses arrived home last evening from a week's re creation, at Newport. - Miss Lela Wells has returned from a two weeks' visit with friends in " Port1 land and Oregon City. . r Mesdames A. E. Shaw and J. Hester, of Port Orchard,' Wash., and N. M.. McVannen, of Quincy, Kansas, arrived to day to visit here at the home of their relatives, Mesdames Charles Haskell and Hotchkiss. - - Special attention is directed to a correction in F. L. Miller's ad. The type made him say he was selling 36- ! inch half wool dress goods at 3 1-2 cents a yard. It should have been 32 cents a yarL Read the ad elsewhere. I Wanted Young man about 25, with $250, as partner in good paying busi ness; Experience not necessary,' but must be a hustler. For information inquire at the Gazette-Times office. ; 8-28-3t The inquries at O. A. C. thus far indicate a very large attendance for 1909-10. At the present time there are many students in the city looking for rooms and each day heads of fam ilies are here trying to secure houses to rent. Contractor Snooks, of Salem, will erect the O.-A. C.'s central building at a cost of $50,000, including heating plant for building.- The contract for this building calls for the completion of it by March 1st. The greenhouses costing $5400,. will be put up by a Port land firm.: All this work will begin immediately. Mr. and Mrs. John Goos, at 1st and Tyler, were unfortunate enough to lose a new-born daughter last night at 10 o'clock. The funeral took place to day at 2 p. m., the Lutheran minister from Albany officiating, after -which burial was made in the Newton ceme tery. The many friends of the Goos family will regret this sad news. - Mrs. E. Lefler who, for many years, has been employed at Livingston Bros. , San Francisco, has been here for a week visiting her parents and sister, Mr. nd Mwu-PhHlip Berthold, and Mrs. Claude Buchanan. Upon her return she will accept a position the 1st of Sept at. Rapheal . Weil , & Co., the White House, San Francison. Ice cream delivered on thirty minutes notice by Winkley's Palace of Sweets. - -K-': ,:' J ': ; V- -1 "'" tf Chief Wells took in a vagrant yes terday and Judge Denman gave him five days at labor. He refused to work THE MISSING NOTE, HARRIMAN'S GREAT MANSION. - vacation at Ashland and is on : his way the and big chief coaxed him a little by home ahd stopped here to see his friend J. F. Scott, who was formerly in Ab erdeen, Wash., but who, with his wife, is on his vacation, so the pleasure of a meeting with him was foregone. Mr. Upton left this noon for Portland. offering him a berth on Second street with ball and chain, to his limb. The vag concluded to work and during two days has developed an energy that creates much admiration among all be holders, v..- . -.. We Use Scien tific Instruments To determine the needs of your eyes There is no guess work about Tur examinations. They are just as ac curate " as trained skill and experi ence can make them. They .cost you nothing so you certainly ought to have the benefit of them, if you have any eye trouble at nil. They mean ' the : proper glasses, the only kind you can afford to wear. - E W. S. PRVTT, Jeweler and Optician STRICTLY STYLISH Ready-to-Wear SUITS, SKIRTS and WAISTS These Garments for Ladies, and Misses are of excellent quality. The styles speak 1 ' for themselves and the prices are really less than the cost of material and making. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY BUYING HERE NOW Henlzle Ct Davis By LESTER DILLON. Copyright, 1909, Dy American Press Asso- . - - ciation-J , - : There was a period in England when the crime of stealing or forging a banknote was punishable with -death. At this time there lived In Devonshire Sir Bryan Trevelyn. His estate wap large, and on it were many tenants, He had but one child, a daughter Gladys, who would Inherit his prop erty, and between her and Edgar Cor nish, the son of a clergyman, had sprung up an- ardent love. Sir Bryan opposed the match, having higher in tentions for his daughter,', but she was a girl of firm disposition and gave him reason to suppose that if he did not give his consent to the match . she would make a trip with her lover to Gretna Green. Fearing this, he con sented, and that his future son-in-law might learn to manage the estate Gladys would Inherit be made him his secretary and accountant. One rent day Sir Bryan and his sec retary were receiving the rents. When the last tenant had gone the former, leaving a fifty pound banknote on his desk, left the room for a paper be need ed. On his return the note was gone.' He looked for It everywhere, assisted by his secretary, but It was not to be found. Sir Bryan went to bed that night convinced that the man who was to be his son-in-law had stolen the note Opposed to him before, he now became determined that a thief should not marry his daughter and inherit his property. However, the next morning he had "a thorough search made of the room in which the note had disappear ed. It was not found, and Sir Bryan, despite the pleadings of his wife and daughter, gave young Cornish over to the authorities, preferring against him a charge of theft The courts in those days were not the complicated affairs they are now. The accuser stood high in the county; and his word was a power. He told the magistrate his story. He and Cor. nish were in the room alone together. Sir Bryan went out for a few minutes, leaving the note on his desk. No one entered during his absence,- On his return the note was missing. JSince In animate articles cannot remove them selves it must have been appropriated by the only living person present. It was. not found on Cornish's person, but he "was not searched till he was arrested. He had had ample time to dispose of it. There was no defense made, for there was nothing on which to. base a "defense. The crime was committed In midsummer, and since the courts were not ; given in those days to spending much time ovec.the cases that came before them the trial was-concluded and sentence passed be fore . September. Cornish was sen tenced to be banged on the first Friday to October. "-"r.; -" "-"4'Kp"-7:---Naturally every one. connected with the condemned was wrapped in gloom. The lovers who had anticipations ""of a happy union now had before them a separation by death. Lady Trevelyn shut herself up with her daughter and would have no communication with her husband, blaming him for the hor ror he tad brought upon his family. 1 It was now too late to recall what he had done. The law must take its course. Preparations were being made for the execution, and the people, as was the custom lii those days, were flocking in for the spectacle. A few days before the expected tragedy a cold rain and fog. the first of autumn, swept over England. The baron,- who sought to distract .his thoughts by . occupying himself with his accounts, sent for a sweep to take the soot out of the chimney of his office preparatory to building a fire on the hearth. While the sweep was at work Sir Bryan entered the room, sat down at bis desk and busied him self with his papers So preoccupied was he, rather with his somber thoughts than his work, that he did hot bear any sound within or without Suddenly he was recalled to his sur roundings by a cough directly In front of him. ; Looking up, there stood a fig ure black as Erebus. - It was the chim ney sweep, whose extended hand held small piece of .paper so smudged with soot that its character could not be v readily recognized." The ; baron mechanically took it and examined It A sudden light came into his eye, a color Into his cheek. It was the miss ing note. , The sweep had found itih the chimney,"where, carried by a draft of air when Sir Bryan had opened the door, it had remained ever since. Like a cyclone of Joy the baron swept through the bouse and stood beating on the door of the room where his wife and daughter had shut them selves 'in, crying:, "The note! r It Is found! The boy is saved!" The door was flung open, and the old man rush ed In brandishing the smudged note above his head. Then, when the sit uation was understood, Gladys fell In to her father's arms in a faint : Leaving her " with her mother, the baron rushed to the house of the mag istrate and before leaving had secured an order for the release of Edgar Cornish. The news spread, and" when the released prisoner: left the jail he was attended by a crowd of citizens. He had - not proceeded far when he was met by Gladys Trevelyn, and their meeting was greeted by the shouts of the people. . Sir Bryan Trevelyn spent the rest of his life trying to atone for his fault Had it not been for the sweeping of a chimney he would have caused the execution of an Innocent man ' and blighted his daughter's life. ' As to the sweep.- he swept no more. He was given the note he had found and lived for the rest of his life on the estate, enjoying a pension.' Fatures of Railroad Magnate's Sum mer. Home at Arden," N. Y. ? ? " " An r army of mechanics ' has been working day and night on the summer home at Arden.. Orange county N. I:; of E. H. Harriman. president of the Union Pacific railroad, who recently sailed from Cherbourg. France, for New York. The residence surmounts the top of Tower hill, which com mands a view for miles around. . Mr. Harriman owns practically the whole mountain, from the peak of which. Tower hill, signal beacons burned in Revolutionary days to warn the Continentals ofthe movements of the British or the approach of maraud ing Tories and Indians. In all, Mr. Harriman controls about 46.000 acres. and for the most part he holds the rights of way to this vast estate, thus obtaining a privacy which was denied him in his former summer home at Woodbury. The Tower hill house is 1,300 feet above tidewater and Is .reached by a private Inclined railroad 3,300 feet long, which rises 700 feet. This road con nects with the Erie railroad near Turn er's. '- ' For two years several hundred men have been employed on the house, which Is still far from complete. But the central part Is being finished tem porarily for Mr. Harriman. This por tion alone contains forty rooms, 'be sides the servants' quarters, which are permanently finished. -The house is being built with stone quarried on the mountain, and the timber for the exterior wood trim mings was also tewed in Mr. Harri man's forests. All the material used is American product. The one stone In the structure which Mr. Harriman's quarries could hot supply Is a huge block of granite, carved into a stag's head with spreading antlers. . This will crown the main doorway.-; The stone for this came from up state. The house is 360 feet long ndfth and south and 350 feet east and west, having three stories, with a tower sixty feet high. The tower is 12 by 12 feet The house Is surrounded by a stone wall, built some distance away from It on the" brink of a precipice. - Around the outside of the bouse, facing the edges of the cliffs, are log gias, covered galleries or porticoes hav Ing colonnades on one side, which is open to the air. The , woodwork of these was carved by well known art ists, and the paneled ceilings are deco rated. There is an enclosed court paved with narble. in which are a fountain and beautiful statuary. ; There Is a swimming pool on the lawn near the bouse containing .pure mountain spring water, and in the house are baths of every description. The house is fireproof. '- The staircases are of iron and marble and bronze. The elevator shafts are walled with terra cotta. and all pillars and beams are of irdn and cement.- Nothing short of. a volcanic eruption can destroy the railway baii tome. There;" 'are three acres of marble mosaic floors, and the rooms are fln- 339 ished ;in Japanese, French, German. Italian and colonial styles. While the actual cost of the house Is not known to any one but M-t. Har riman, it - Is stated that already more than $3,000,000 has been .paid out. The house has been over- four years In course of construction. v . ' AMERICA'S BIGGEST BALLOON Indianapolis Aeronaut Finishing Air-, ship For Fulton Flight Contest George L. Bumbaugh. the aeronaut In his factory at Indianapolis is 'put ting the finishing touches' on the largest dirigible balloon ever built in America. It will be ready for trial in a few days and Is being built especial ly to enter in the New York World's $10,000 Fulfon flight airship contest. The bag of the airship will be more than 160 feet long.' almost twice the size of the craft which Captain Thom as S. Baldwin sold to the government. Not only will It be the largest airship of Its kind In the United States, but one ; of the "few large ones in ;' the world. It is exceeded in size only by the Zeppelin and several f ; the French military balloons. Its diameter will be thirty-two feet. Bumbaugh has procured a specially constructed : Stoddard-Dayton motor having a velocity equal to thirty-five horsepower, proved in a break test. The gas bag. car and motor will weigh 2,000 pounds ready - for sailing. It will have a lifting capacity of 6,000 pounds, and it is expected that it will carry ."2.000 pounds of excess ballast. Bumbaugh intends to carry enough fuel to last him sixty hours. . , : v Two y Bargains in City Homes Two corner lots, with one house of 7 rooms under construction. -, , Bath, pantry, large closets to each bed roomi linen closets, halls up and down stairs, fire place, basement full size of house, which is 24x36 feet, plumbing and electric, light complete, septic tank, con- : crete sidewalk and small barn. Also one inside lot and 7-room house, bath, pantry, sewing room, closets to bed rooms, halls up and down stairs, basement -; 24x36 feet, full size of house, electric light complete, some plumb '.." ing, concrete walks." " .. , This property is in good location, two blocks from College, four - blocks from public school. No agents. Call on or address OWNER, 320 North Tenth Street, - Corvallis, Oregon. . - .-. - - - i ..." Occidental Lumber Co. v Successors to Corvallis Lumber Co. We are here to supply yonr needs in the Lumber line. Please call-on J. B IRVING for information and prices. And take notice that if we have not got exactly what you want we will - get it for you. G. O. BASSET r, Local Mer. The Best Paint There is no better paint made for appearance and durability than .... , Apme Quality Paint " Specially prepared for exterior and interior use. "FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS" WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE Second Street, Near Palace Theater - ; Pyramid Houses. A new dwelling proposed at the late hygienic congress In Berlin- Is to have each successive story narrowed from three to six feet with several feet of balconies to widen the terraces thus formed. This plan, recommended par ticularly for sanitariums and houses for the poorer people, provides an abundance of air and light for each story and supplies an open space for recreation out of doors. As a material for buildings of this kind re-enforced concrete has hygienic and other ad vantages. - :;. ----- . Calf Trained to Weed Fields. R. "W. Prather, who lives west of Columbus. Ind, has a living weeder that is doing admirable work. The weeder is a half grown calf, and it works .early and late. In some man ner this calf has been trained to go into the cornfields and chew up the weeds. . It never offers to bother the growing,corn. but it is death on weeds, and the field where it worked last week Is Just as clean as If human hands had pulled every weed in it Benton County Lumber Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fir Lumber, Mouldings, Cedar Posts. Sawed and Split. Gedar Shakes Dealers in Doors, Windows, Lime, BrtcK., Cement, Shingles, etc Glass Jars, All Kinds, at HODES GROCERY COPPER 5 NEWTDN HARDWARE CD. Successors to MELLON & PINKERTON Second Street, - Corvallis, Oregon Dealers In Hardware, Implements, Buggies, Wagons, Cream Sepa ; rators, Graniteware, Tinware and Builders' Hardware. V Sole Agents for Congo Roofing and Quick Meal Ranges WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT Phone Your Orders To No. 7, THATCHER & JOHNSON'S GROCERY Where They Will be Promptly Filled. Fine Line of Crockery, Glassware, Cut Glass, Haviland and Chinaware, LAMPS ETC. .. ....