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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1909)
VOL. I. NO. 135 PRICE FIVE CENTS FROM OVER THE STATE OF ORE GO HAPPENINGS OF ONE SORT OR ANOTHER WORTH WHILE 160 ACRES SELL AT $150 PER A General Lot of Interesting Facts Condensed for Busy Readers of the Daily Wreck Kill One, : Three Pears Come High. Injures Eugene's street car trackage is being extended one mile. , For , the District Fair at Ash land the state gave $1200. The Elks are just finishing a four story building at Ashland. A hazing incident at the Uni versity resulted in the suspension Of four for one year; Cswjmtuttu3s 8 inches in diameterriffe; totter found i an Albany garden. '. '.- " ''' i ; A. Harney county ranch of 15,- 000 acres was sold to easterners last week for $300,000. ., Senator Bourne has just bought thirty 'boxes of , Medf ord Cornice pears at $9 a box. , n . no sonramnar Tiiwtflt I .inn ' county' s treasurer shows $90, - i 1 . 1 . ,, .... 1 . .. 1 I it net niir -oui.neoajanceraanar'Tr'' ; Four hundred forty ' seven-year-eld Bartlett pear trees at Medf ord produced 1489 boxes of fruit. 'The assesment of Multnomah county's business property shows an increase of $2, 000, 000 oyer the assesment of 1908. The assessor has ' found $7,672 worth of dogs in Multnomah county and $7,100 worth of hogs. The sheep and goats total $7,815. A train wreck near Portland Tuesday night about 11 o'clock Mlled the engineer and injured three others badly. The train ran into a rock slide. : A Baker City man named VannoAv a nflForino1 frrnn rancsr of the mouth, killed himself The County Court in session yesterday granted the petition for a county road in District No. 20, said road beginning west of the D. D. Davis property and ending in Township 2, the road to be 40 feet wide. F. M. Wilkes, E. M. Doedele and J. O. Wilson, as a Board of Reviewers, were ordered to meet at the residence of E. E. Stellmacker, near Wells, Monday, Oct 18, at 10 a.5 m., to survey said road, and report Nov. 3. 1 ' And , application of Dick Kiger, J. D. Howell and others for a county road on Kiger's slafid was referred to attorney or investigation. " ' Petition of W. H. Malone and M. E. Malone for the vacation of Monroe street"" in ' Alsea was granted, " IsMfe Robertsrf nrifc- mspectori: filed his resignation 'and the same was accepted. - - .1 :.-. ' ' A petition of various persons for the appoLirient of L. Roberts as county fruit inspector was placed on file. John Price, road supervisor in district No, 10 resigned v and T Read was appointed to fill the shot- couple of days ago with a gun. In an election to decide whether outside territory should be annexed to the corporate lim its or Springfield, the people af fected; voted 31 for to 28 against, Mrsj Lola G. Baldwin, a' Port land woman, has just received from Seattle a package of tea containing enough poison to kili fourteen future generations o: the Baldwin family. The de tectives are now busy. F. H. Hopkins, of Medf ord. has sold his entire crop of Win ter Nelis pears at an average o: $3.12 a box f. o. b. New York which wilj net him $2.14. From 16acre s of pears he will prob ably have 7000 boxes, so for this block he will gross $1325 an acre of, net approximately $15,000, The same pears in 1907 produced $19,000 net One hundred 'sixty acres of the L. O- Ralston ranch near Lebanon has just sold for $150 per acre. The land is a part of the Wm. Ralston donation land 7 claim, and this is. the' first.-time it his changed hands other than to decend to the son on the death of the father... .Mr.. Ralston took it as; a" donation, claim, m. 1847. - .and owned itruntifc his death; about three years ago, never ROADS IC Ai VER STARTS GRADING FOR RAILROAD BIG DONKEY ENGINE UNLOADS' ITSELF AND CARRIES OTHER MA : r CHINERY TO MILL SITE. brought down "B" street in front of the new sawmill's office and from that point circle around to First street and thence on to ,the Occidental mill. Logs for the Gerlinger-McCready mill will not be hauled on this, however, but dropped into Mary's river at the bridge, as has been done for the Occidental. Nor will the Carver road carry out the new mill's lumber. The Southern Pacific will use the Carver road for :a' block from Washington street and then build a spur out. to the mill site. Some of the railroad mag nates were out this mrYrnincr with Houses Being Erected at This Time and Will Be Shipped Via. the C. & A. stakes and a twine string survey Southern Pacific Wiff Run Spur to the Mill on Marys" River Flat Logs ing the right of way- trom u & A. to Be. Damped in Marys River. , NEW' MILL - WILL BE IN OPERATION ER 15 Logging Operations to Be Started in the Mountains at Very Early Date Bunk THE COLLEGE . NEWS NOTES ne big game on U. A.MJ. s new athletic field next Saturday promises to be a hummer. Among the alumni are some of the toughest football nuts that big teams have had to crack in recent years, and some of these are m excellent trim. They will give the big team all it is able to handle and then some The Mary's river flat is a very busy place just at present Ma chinery for the Gerlinger-McCready sawmill is being unloaded at the Southern Pacific switch on Washington street, and work on the Carver switch from' the C & A. terminus to the Occidental milt has. been begun,-- Two cars of 'mill- machinery arrived yester day, this comprising a large don key engine, boilers planers and smaller equipment i. The "donkey engine is a 1500 horse-power con cern and, to the amazement of many "bystanders unfamiliar with the' engines,., unloaded itself and started" on its way" tothe "milt From the S. P. switch it is two blocks to the mill site, and this donkey engine, as it travels to the mill, will carry behind it the boiler, and other machineiall" of which is on skids. One engine is already at the mill site and DETERMINED cars of ..machinery, will be here hortly. ' v ; Begin Work Nov. 15 ' Mr. McCready makes the state ment that the new mill . will be gin sawing not later than Nov. 15. While the mill will not be HAVE TO PAVING At the regular biennial city election in Roseburg, Monday, Dr. F. W. Haynes was elected Mayor over B. W. Strong by a completed before sra-iner. it Ts the majority of 142. The vote was Intent to fill some heavy orders tne heaviest in the city's history, &s quickly as possible and at the totalling 800, of which Haynes feame.time get but lumber for the received 472 and Strong 327. remainder of the mill buildings. Strong headed a ticket that The company now has one large was nominated in the Methodist bounding m place, a large ware- Episcopal Church, and the cam- uaouse ior dry, lumber, and an Paign slogan oi tne ucKet i was office." " , :: , 'Shall the Brewery Rule? JOT . Will Begin Lonrinz - , Alua waB umtJU at ine iioseDurg : The first move will be to put a erj the cnurc? ca" , -'v. . t. , , didates declared was running the I rt connor prow in fho fimhn. . . . . ' j .Z A "JT city 1 atfairs and was. also to enu ui uie iarver line. ine U. blame for the - aUeced . lav : n. , Jj&A. has . grading-completed : to' forcement of the prohibition law the 1 Gerlinger-McCready timber locally. : r . - and will be readv for losrs in a The candidates on the , Haynes short time. The mill neonle are ticke asserted , that the liquor luxt ieet, anam a snort time blinding the voters to the fact will send these on flat cars to the that the opposition was fighting mountains. 1 the proposed extension of the o iA v " street paving work. . Railroad .Operations , -nT..'C ' ' - With nno CYeonhnn aramr TVie P.arvpr awitVi fnr tirVi?Vi ai.. tt. ' j.--i.li. rv" graamg is being done, will be was elected. THINGS DOING ATVPHILOMATH COLLEGE HAS SOCIAL TIMES. AND INSTALLS FURNACE. GOOD CITIZENS RIDE GOAT People of College Town Come and Go, and Do Many Things of More, or Less Interest -A General Lot of News Notes Worth While. Philomath, Oct 7. (Special Correspendence) The College of Philomath has been presented with a curio in the shape of. a stick of mica, two feet long, found recently by Frank Kragh, a student, while on a visit to Oklahoma. The Royal Neighbors met Tuesday evening. A class of candidates "rode the goat." Re freshments were served and a demonistration of the floor work was made. Those initiated were! Mrs. Mollie Felger, Mrs. Emma Pugsley,- Hazel Roadrick and Chas. Shupp... v, , ' New!! students are being en rolled daily at the College of Philomath. - : The Philomathian Literary Society is to be re-organized Friday night Officers will be elected, a program enjoyed and refreshments served. S. O. Watkins entertained his Sunday School class Thursday evening at his home. Eighteen were present and a delightful time is reported. . Continued on page two Herr Pospiachil,.new instruc torm violin, gives promise of meeting every pleasant anticipa tion. He is a.most cultured. and refined-gehtfeffienj;modjt than bombastic and brings to hiftstudio a pleasing earnestness marked by its patience rather than imperious demand; Herr Pospischil is a German, as' the name discloses, and is reputed: to be a creditable product of emift ent German, masters,.- He will make his first public appearance at convocation next Wednesday. The Cauthorn Club is r under the management of students Thompson, Zimmerman and Breithaupt this year, and special effort to give the best service at the least cost is now being made. The, dormitory- committee , is as sisting and it is expected that an excellent general plan will be worked out ' A stong effort to bring up the oratorical end of the situation is to be made this year.' While O A- C's representatives did hitrh ly credlta3je,wx4ast year 'they won uv but a single instance. against McMinnville. His Tel tnai j. jx. j. was sugntiy un fortunate- in a- decision- or two but- insfead bf""compTairifng- the soefetie propose to get in., and work a little harder than las M ott Not Oil The mmy Sie lil ver Walkover SKdiis are 1 things; they walk over all other inferior competition and stand above all others. We have a complete stock of college drill shoes, and also dress, at Values Unequaled GOOD VALUES $3.50. '-mm A SAFE PLACE TO TRADE STRONG VALUES $4.00 placing a mortage or lien on it year.