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DAILY
VOL. I. NO.-114
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1909
PRICE FIVE CENTS
JAPS GOULD LAND
AT NEWPORT
SHOWS COLD AT NEW
ACTIVITY THAT IS
T
T
OF PHEASANTS HANDLED IN THE WEST
GOOD
CORVALLIS
RAISER
SH PS
A
FOR
CORVALLIS
SUNDAY
MAKING
ENTER WILLAMETTE THROUGH
ALSEA VALLEY.
IS NO IMMEDIATE DANGER
Official Making Maps of the Bay Says
Japs Could Capture Entire Coast and
Hold it Some Time Jap Army Of
ficial Discovered Near Newport
That Japan could send a fleet
across the Pacific, land an armed
force any place on the Pacific
coast and capture the entire
jNortnwest, is the opinion ot a
government hydrographer now
working in the vicinity of New
port. And that a few days ago
government officials recognized
in a C. & E. workman a Jap
formerly a high officer in the
Japanese army, is a statement
emenating from the same source.
Could Capture Portland.
Newport bay is said to offer
"1 . 1 t n i .
conditions ideal tor landing a
Japanese force. The lack of
forts,' mines in the bay, and any
sort of defense, make it possible
for an invading force to land
there without difficulty, and the
inaccessibility of the place makes
itimpossjble-TeTenmg
force to be landed there. , The
Japs could get heavy 'artillery in
to the Willamette Valley by way
of Alsea, and then swoop down
on Portland. From there they
could control the Columbia and
railroad passes, and hold this en
tire section for a considerable
length of time. If they should
happen into Corvallis, while the
school year is on, Capt. McAlex
ander's cadets would make things
interesting for the visitors, of
course, but they would probably
choose the good summer time for
' an attack onthis city, when the
ministers, Bob Huston, E. W. S.
Pratt, Dr. Handford and all the
cadet scrappers are on their va
cations. The hydrographer says the
Japs are as familiar as he with
the topography of the Pacific
coast. They have had their ex
perts here and he doubts not that
they are here all the time. That
a high official in the Jap army
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Palace Theater
Monday and Tuesday
Entire change of Program
New Motion Pictures
' 'A Woman's Way'
A splendid series of dramatic scenes
in which the strange terms of an . Eng
lish squire's will are unconsciously car'
ried out by the heirs. . ; ,
"His Wife's Visitor:
Clever scheme of a young wife to re
form her truant husband. The plan
works to perfection as portrayed by the
pictures and hubby decides to spend his
evenings at home.
"Mrs. Jones' Lover
, The furious actions of a jealous hus
band and the happy explanation . which
- prevents a threatened fatality. .
MANAGER GROVES BOOKS BEST
ATTRACTIONS GOING.
SEASON OPENS SEPTEMBER 22
We Get Such People As Max Figman,
Maud Powell, Charles B. Hanford
and Several Big Musical Comedies.
List of Attractions.
The Corvallis theatrical season
opens on Wednesday, Sept. 22.
Uncle Josh Perkins' will be
here on that date and "The Time,
The Place and The Girl" follows
on the 27th. The list of attrac-j
tions booked for the season shows
a preponderance of top-notchers,
some of the best shows seen in
first-class theatres throughout the
country. A partial list of attrac-
tions to be seen in Corvallis dur-
ing the year:
The Time, The Place and The
Girl" with Jessie Huston and
forty others.
"The Sunny Side of
-Broad-
way." ' " ; ' ; -'
"Just Out of College" by Geo.
Ade, author of "The College
Widow."
King Dodo" one of the best
comic operas ever written. and
presented by a company of un-
usual excellence. -
'The Parisian Model" famous
New York musical - success, first
played by Anna Held.
"The Land of Nod," musical
extravaganza, with the well-
known comedian, Knox Wilson,
in the character of "April Fool.
In Wyoming, western com-
edy played here last season with
great success.
Primrose Minstrels in their
usual highclass performance.
Max Figman in "The Substi
tute," or "The Man on the Box.
May Howard and Company.
Rose Melville presenting her
original New England play, "Sis
Hopkins,"
The House of a Thousand
Candles," with Hugo Koch as
cates.
Maud Powell, famous violinist,
and company ot musical artists.
Charles a. liandtord in bhake-
spearean productions.
High Class Attractions.
Those familiar with plays and
players will recognize . the fact
that the shows named above are
as good as Corvallis can expect
to get Whilg some of them have
been before the public a number
of years, none of them have been
here, and the fact that they have
been on the road. so long is proof
of their popularity. -It is a par-
ticular pleasure to note the com-
ing of Max Figman, Maude Pow-
ell, Charles B. Handford and
King Dodo." Rose Melville is
also without a peer in her class.
The stout) named above is" pom-
prised of - e-emiinelv first.-rlass
productions, for cities the size of
.Corvallis, and it is a fact that all
of these productions play the
larsre cities of the coantrv- : "
"The Time. The Place and The
Girl," which will b seen here on
Sept. 27, is now playing at the
Moore theatre, Seattle, and later
will appear at
the Buneralow in
Portland . . : , ?'!' . - - .
Manager Frank Groves is to be
Commended for his disposition to
STIFF BREEZE FROM ICY NORTH
CHILLS VISITORS
COW KILLED, BOAT OVERLOADED
What An Excursionist - to the Bay
Sunday Saw on the Trip to and
From Newport, All But Deserted
--Train On Time,
Saturday's' train to Newport
carried two hundred and fourteen
passengers, and Sunday's excur-
sion landed eighty at the beach,
The weather conditions on Sun-
day were not perfect, a strong,
cold, breeze blowing,
The visitors who were not f roz
en were blown full of sand
-J-pe wind did not reach Elk city
and visitors there had a very de
lightful time.. Though : the
season at Newport closed ' but
a week ago, thatresort
UOOKS HKe a tailing mm-
ing camp. JUvery other
building is vacated . and
the places remaining open look
like they want to quit.
Injured Cow. ;
The return of the Sunday i ex
cursion was markedv by three
facts worthy of particular men-
tion the injury ot a cow three
miles west ot Corvallis, absence
f rowdyisim on the train, and
its arrival on time, ihe cow
struck by the train- was pitch
ed to the side of the tract
with a broken leg. The train
ran its length after hitting the
animal and trainmen inspected
the situation but did not kill the
injured cow, they having no
authority to do this,
The tram left Yaquina a little
late, and there was some doubt
as to whether it would get to
Corvallis, but the string, with
which the engine was strength-
ened a little before leaving,
held the scrap iron together and
despite the accident to the bovine
the train came in at 9:57 p.m.
; Boat Overloaded. -
In recent went weeks this
Ipaper, and correpondence pub
iisned in this paper, has called at-
tention to the overcrowding- of
the boats at Yaauina. Leea:
papers on the Newport's walls
say that boat is privileged to
carry 115 passengers. On the
return trip from Newport at 5:30
yesterday evening, the writer o
this counted 147 passengers on
tne ooat. ine lower decfc was
so crowded that m case of acci-
dent, not a dozen could have
climbed out. But the crowd on
the boat yesterday was far less
than half 'the size the boat and
its barge has carried over at the
height of the season. '
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raise the standard of attractions.
ast season some very goodshows
were brought here, arid that the
Present season otters much that
nlher 18 due t0 nis energy and
foresight. It takes nerve to book
Highclass attractions, tor tne rea-
son that they cost more money
and give the opera house a small-
er Percentage ot receipts,
Men wanted at new Armory
next
dav for 9 hour8 work. Add1v at the
1 building. F. A. Erixon, contractor.
EASTERN OREGON ACREAGE BE-1
I ING OPENED FOR SETTLEMENT
ROSE FESTIVAL ARRANGED FOR
Other Things of More or Less Interest
I to People Interested in Develop
; ment . of Beaver State Seyeral
Towns Join League. - '
Portland, September 13, (Spe
cial) Vacant lands of the state
are being settled in a way that
has never before been equalled.
A private land company is open
ing up a huge tract around
Lakeview, , the purchasers of
contracts now being on hand
there in large numbers to take
part in the drawing. On Sep
tember 15th will start the Fall
colonists t movement from the
East, thousands of new settlers
will reach the state to make
heir permanent homes here.
The vacant wheat lands of
Central Oregon are being filled
up at an unprecedented rate, the
coming of railroads up . the Des
chutes being the cause of a big
boom in wheat growing in that
great . undeveloped-;
During the past week a record
trip was made into the vacant
ands about Bend by a. party of
settlers who went overland from
Corvallis by auto; The trip was
made from Corvallis to Bend, 150
miles, in one day and the next
morning members of the party
filed on 320 acre homesteads
near Bend and will engage in
wheat growing. A tract of .land
of 250,000 acres in that district
has just been included in the
new 320-acre homestead law and
is proving very attractive to set
tlers. '
Big Rose Festival Again.
Portland will hold its annual
Rose Festival next June as usual.
This was decided during the week
at a meeting of the directors of
the Rose Festival Association
when President Hoyt and Mana-
ger Hutchin were re-elected for
another year. Plans have al-
ready been taken up for the
1910 show and exceptional fea -
tures are promised. Among the
most prominent attractions likely
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1000 BIRDS IN SPECIAL CAR SENT
IDAHO, FOR DISTRIBUTION AT LATER DATE.
IDAHO THE PURCHASER ; 'GENE
Local Pheasantry the Largest Concern of Its Kind in the United States, With
One Exception Perhaps Simpson Develops Great Breeding Plant From, a
Few Eggs Secured Sevens Years Ago He Proposes to Go Into the BusU
ness on a Very Extensive Scale Now.
'Gene M. . Simpson, our own
'Gene, pheasant raiser, city coun
cilman and all 'round enthusiast,
did today what no other man in
the United States can do shipped
a carload of China pheasants.
Not only that, but he has enough
left for another shipment prac
tically as large.
1,000 Birds to Idaho
. The car' shipped today was
taken out at noon by B. T. Liv
ingston, deputy game warden of
the state of Idaho. That gentle
man brought a special car. with
him yesterday and when it left
today it carried 500 pairs 'of Mr.
Simpson's finest Chinas 100
crates of ten birds each. These
birds go to Boise and "will be
kept in a pheasantry there until
after, the. open season for; other
birds is on and then will be turn
ed loose at different points in the
state. Idaho has tried raising
pheasants before but failed to
make a huge success but they
are not discouraged.
To Open Market at North Pole
Mr. Simpson has had what
might be termed phenomenal
success m " handling the China
pheasants, and other breeds as
to be brought here is a contest
of flying machines. Correspon
dence has been opened with a
number of noted aviators of this
country and Europe with the re
sult that prizes will be hung up
that will assure this city of some
exciting speed contests in the
air. The automobile races, too,
are expected to be better than
ever and will be authorized by
j the Automobile Association of
America. In addition to. these
i big events, there will be a lavish
; showing of Oregon's floral wealth
i in masses of - roses and other
features that premise' to make
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Old English Black-Neck Pheasant
- TO BIG PHEASANTRY AT BOISE,
HI. SIMPSON THE SHIPPER
well. He has been in the busi
ness seven years, and started his
work with a few wild eggs se-
cured from a lady at Philomath.
His early experience was not
particularly encouraging, but he
kept up the good work, and the
past two or three years has been
able to fill many large orders. He
has shipped birds to England, the
Hawaiian Islands, Mexico and
British Columbia, and he expects
to open a market at the North
Pole, if Cook and Peary can fi
nally decide as to its exact loca
tion.
Will Branch Out.
Mr. Simpson has. accomplished
his work on less than five acres
within the limits of Corvallis.
He has just purchased twenty
acres near, this city, however,
and proposes to go into - the
pheasant business on a large '
scale. As it is, he has but one
real rival in the United States, a
concern now operating in Illinois.
Besides China pheasants, the
local' man grow3 a variety of
breds and produces some of the
most beautiful game birds any
one ever looked at.
(To be continued)
the 1910 Festival especially
not-
able.
High Priced Apples
New members of the Oregon
Development League were en
rolled this week when the com
mercial bodies of Milwaukie,'
Bend, Halfway, Silverton and
Lents joined the state organiza
tion. Live boosters in these
cities have organized clubs whose
sole object is to further the in
terests of their community and
by co-operation with the other
state bodies to advance the
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