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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1909)
TRE . DAILY GAZETTE - TIMES Published every evening except Sun day. Office: 232 Second street, Cor VftlliB, Oregon. H0NE, 41S4 Entered u second-class matter July . 190 at tt postoffice at Corvallis, Oregon, under act of March t, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAllY' Delivered by carrier, per week $ IS Delivered by carrier, per month...- .50 By mail, one year, in advance 5.00 By mail, six months, in advance...- a 50 By mail, one month, in advance...- .50 and it is being demonstrated that the University is alive at least it has a "live" press agent. And because Eugene and the U. are alive there has been a re markable growth in the size of the student body at the Univer sity. From the standpoint' of profit and growth, alone, it is advisable for Corvallis to push the work in hand and get busy along various other lines calcu lated to make Corvallis more at tractive to the student and pros pective student. N. R. MOORE .-. . CHAS. L SPRINGER, . . . Editor Business Mgr. 0. A. C. AND CORVALLIS THE BEST PROOF DWhile 0. A. C. is a state in stitution, Corvallis has a . very special interest in the big school. On its growth depends in a great measure the growth of Corvallis. As an economic proposition then, it is a wise move to foster all that might tend to increase the size of the student body at 0. A. C. ; A fair number of students are attracted to a particular school because of the courses it offers, they want instruction of a certainkind and go where they can get it The remainder, however, are "floaters," boys and girls who have no definite idea other than that they desire to continue their studies at some higher school. A great many students on entering the college or univer sity are still puzzled as to what lme of study they shall persue, and are attracted to a particular school by influences not germane to education. , They go here, there or elsewhere because of Ibme impression they have gain- 1 ed of the school or the town in which it is located. They are in fluenced by old students, by Newspaper articles and adver tising and no one thing is more patent than their impression o the town or city in which ; school is located. Whether it is a live town, a pretty town with "good boarding places, a town - that has some attractions they can enjoy at odd hours, has much to do with their choice They want to know if it has a library, places of amusement, good" shows, up-to-date stores Where the "nifty" ones can get the latest; is the town one of . . Which they may be proud, or is it just some little old town? On the answer to these questions depends the choice of school in many instances, The point is that Corvallis people can do more to increase the growth at O. A. C. than can the management at the big school. The people can make this a "live" town, an attractive town in appearance., a town' of which studenfs may think with pride and pleasure when away; they can, (and would, if they were sufficiently alive to the need and desirability of such a move) secure a Carnegie library, and vif this public fully sensed the pos , sibilities it would unite in provid ing students every harmless at traction possible. A fine bath ing pool or natatorium, built for size, would prove a great attrac tion for the boys and would be a Davine investment as well, and Would be one of the factors in creating an impression in favor - of Corvallis and O. A. C. A street care line would help, a well conducted co-operative lo cation committee making it pos sible for the student to find easily a boarding place, would be "well worth, while; larger and finer churches are a factor and good walks and streets are a necessity if students are to get a good im pression to convey to prospective students. Eugene is a live town, That men who have lived here twenty seasons and others who have lived here but two regret their departure and long to re turn to the mild climate, the fruit and the roses of the Willam ette, is the greatest proof of the superiority of this region. A summer or winter in a given section may produce an entirely erroneous impression ot tne climatic advantages or disadvan tages; only he who spends a year at a given place can form a correct conclusion, and a more perfect conception can be ob tained if the stay is lengthened to two years. However, makes little difference how long the stay in this section, the jn dividual who moves away in variably writes back that he has found nothing that compares favorably with old Oregon so he bides his time until he can re turn. This is the greatest proof, and is ample answer to inquiring strangers. If the climatic advan tages very mild winter, beauti ful spring, cool summers and de lightful falls could be clearly set forth to the hundreds of re tired eastern farmers and - busi ness men who would like to spend their remaining days in a de lightful home town located ideally from a climatic standpoint, the population of i, Corvallis '' would double in short order. : DID COOK CLIMB T MQUN . - -. i-c 1 r . ff Asserts He Did, but Companion Denies Story. SAYS 'HE FAKED PICTURES. We command ; attention at all times because we are decidedly An exchange says: 'The city of Calgary, Alberta, owns its own streetcar1 system. For the first month . of July it was oper ated the profits were $4,800. The tares are eight tickets tor a quarter, school children 12 tick ets. The line is nine miles long, but will be extended. Frantic efforts were made by representa tives of the Montreal streetcar combine to persuade the city council to sell it, and the , com bine would have given three- cent fares and a considerable proportion of the gross receipts to have prevented municipal ownership. Calgary has its own electric light plant and 'water works, and the probabilities are that the streetcar line will be made a success. For Constipation. Mr. L. H. Farnham, a prominent drug gist of Spirit Lake, Iowa, Bays. "Chamber lain s istomach and J,iver 1 ablets are cer tainly the best thing ou the market for con stipation. ' Give these tablets a trial. .You are certain to nnd them agreeable and pleas ant in enect. .Price 25 cents, bamples free, cor sale by (iraham s VV ortliam. Did Not Get Within Twenty Miles of the Summit, Declares Barrill, Whom Explorer Called a "Noble Character" In His Book. Edward N. Barrill, the. Alaskan guide who was Dr. Frederick A. Cook's only companion on the ascent of Mount My- .Kinley in 190G, when Cook said he reached the summit, has offered sworn testimony that Dr. Cook's assertion is unfounded. The New York Globe says that Barrill has made affidavit that at no time did Dr. Cook and he get nearer than a poict fourteen miles in an air line from the top of Mount McKinley. He declares under oath that a photo graph which Dr. Cook published in his book, "'To the Top of the Con tinent," as the summit of Mount Mc Kinley was in fact ( a photograph of a peak at an elevation of not more than 8,000 feet and not less than twenty miles in an air line distant from the top of the mountain. Barrill adds that Dr. Cook ordered him to "doctor his diary so ato make It appear therein that they had ac tually gone up the whole 20,390 feet of the mountain and that the picture of the small peak was used because it looked just the same as the top of Mount McKinley as they saw it in the dim distance." Story Denied y Dr. Cook. . , Dr. Cook has made a formal denial of Barrill's story. He declined, however, to go into the details of the guide's affidavit until he learned how it was obtained and said he had a feeling that the statement might have been "doctored." , - Captain William N. Armstrong, who was a member of the Cook Mount Mc Kinley expedition as far as the foot of the mountain, declared that all the members of the party knew that Cook didn't go halfway up Mount McKinley and characterized his story of the as cent as a joke and Cook as a romancer. Story Told by Barrill. After reciting the circumstances of his employment by Dr. Cook as a packer, Barrill declares that on Sept 6. 1906. Dr. Cook and he started from near the foot of Mount McKinley on their way toward the summit.' He says that after climbing not more than 8,000 feet (the mountain's I height . Is over 20.000 feet)' Dr. Cook said to him at or .. near the ,point which Dr. Cook claimed as the top of Mount McKin ley, "We will go back down and get a picture of this." His narrative continues:- ; ,; - L. .... "We did not take our bags with us to the top of the point, having left them down in the saddle above the glacier. We then both went down from the point to where our bags had been left. The doctor took the Amer ican flag out of one of the bags and handed it to me and sent me back to the top of the point .and told me to hold It there ou the end of the Ice ax, which I did. 'The doctor then with his camera took the picture shown opposite page 227, which picture is there designated as 'The Summit of Mount McKinley in his work 'To. the Top of the Conti nent,' the truth being that the sum mit of , Mount - McKinley wa3 over twenty miles distant in an' air line from the point where my picture was so taken, according to the scale on Dr. Cook's map shown between pages 152 and 153 in the book. . Says Pictures Were "Doctored." "I .then came down with the flag to where Dr. Cook was standing with his camera, and I made the remark that the eight peaks on the other side of this point where I had been photo graphed would probably show in the picture, and he said that he had taken the picture at such an angle that those peaks would not show. "When we were in the saddle near the point where I was photographed I made a drawing of what 1 named 'Glacier Point.' At the same time and point I made a drawing of Mount Mc Kinley, as I could see the top of Mount The ,e Store Of the town. We want to uphold this reputation, and we know we will do so, with the splendid range of fashions we are ready to place before particular clothes buyers. We will welcome a call from you and gladly show you some new things for this sea son. You should look over our big display of You will find us equipped to give you the Best Garment this town has ever seen. Some of the Doctrines of Man Called! Martyr by European Radicals. Throughout Europe men of radical . tendencies have been roused to out bursts of protest by the recent execu tion . in Barcelona of Professor Fran cisco Ferrer, the anarchist teacher and leader. Some of Ferrer's teachings are as follows: "Society today is divided into the privileged and the disinherited. The former usurp everything, while the latter die of hunger. That capital " should appropriate the fruit of the workman's labor is an injustice sup ported by the law. "Religious education inculcates false hood and teaches foolishness. The soldier's uniform conceals crimes against humanity and the misery of his own existence. To maintain order is to maintain injustice against the workingman. All religions are based on ignorance and imposture and aim at exploitation and oppression. The gospels relate the life of the so called Jesus Christ, and it is truly a misfortune that such ideas exist for the deceiving of the ppople." An anarchist school in Valencia, Spain, was closedj-ecently by the po lice. Over the principal's chair was a large picture representing Anarchy as- female "figure brandishing a torch upon a heap of ruins, consisting of the broken symbols of the monarchy, the church, the army and other social In stitutions. ,, OCT. 23 CORVALLIS OPERA HOUSE ONE NIGHT SATURDAY A Charming Story of Alaska "THE 6P01LERS" " - - . By Rex Beach EXCELLENT COMPANY OF 18 PEOPLE A BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION IT'S REAL IT'S HUMAN PRICES 25c 50c 75c $1.00 A PLAY THAT WILL TOUCH YOUR HEART TEACHINGS OF FERRER. Seats on sale Thursday, October 21, at Graham & Worthams. CLASSICS IN A CAMPAIGN, u Democratic and Republican Candidate In New York Quoting Liberally. The present political campaign in New York has been marked not only by the use of undignified epithets by some of the candidates and their sup porters, but also by the frequent use of quotations from classic authors. In a statement replying to an accu sation of trickery Judge William J Gaynor, the Democratic candidate for- mayor, quoted from Epictetus as follows: "That which another saith of thee '. concerneth more him who saith it than It concerneth thee.". In another speech Jndge Gaynor said: . "He Mr. Hearst reminds me of the saying of Cicero about the rich young: man who 'combined the aspect of & -sheep with the face of a hog.' " Not to be outdone by his Democratic opponent Otto T. Bannard, the Republican-fusion candidate, remarked in a. speech: . - "Let me call myself the middle of the road candidate, steering an evens course between Scylla and Chary bdis ' (X am not calling names.)" AS SPELLED BY FRESH MEM. OTIC E OF SALE Real Property of the City of Corvallis. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as Municipal Judge of the City of Corvallis under and by virtue of a resolution of the Council of said City duly passed on the 20th day of September, 1909, at a regular meeting thereof, will, from and after Saturday, the 13th day of November, 1909, at his office in the City of Corvallis, Oregon, pro ceed to sell at private sale, for cash in hand, but subject to confirmation by the Council, the follow ing described real property now owned by said City of Corvallis, to-wit: The East one-auarter of lots numbered 11 and 12 in block numbered 11 in the original town of Marvsville. now City of Corvallis, Benton County, State of Oregon, and more- particularly described as beginning at the Southeast corner of said lot twelve, running thence on the East line of said lots twelve and eleven one hundred feet to the Northeast corner of said lot eleven, thence on the North line of said lot eleven Westerly twenty-hve feet, thence Southerly parallel with the East line of said lots one hundred feet to a point on the South line of said lot twelve twenty-five feet Westerly from the place of beginning, thence Easterly on the South line of said lot twelve to the place of beginning. . -f -, j, Dated this 16th day of October, 1909. - . . , Geo. W, Dbnman. Municipal Judge of the City of Corvallis. first Publication, Oct, IB, 1909. - ' -. Last Publication, Nov. 12. 1909. v ; . ? ' Roller Sk ating McKinley off to the northwest and, I should say, at least - twenty ' miles away. Dr. . Cook stood by my. side when I was making these sketches. using his Instruments for the purpose of taking1 temperature, elevations and the like: "When I came down from the point and handed the doctor the flag, in ad dltion to what I stated above, he made several othep-remarks, and there was more or less talking done, which I do not now recall; but, whether at that time and place or thereafter and be tween the 12th and the 16th of the month, when my diary was doctored to fit the conditions in order to prove that this point was the top, he stated to - me as follows: 'That point would make a good top for Mount McKinley. It looks just about like the gunsight "peak would look on Mount McKinley,' which we had been looking at from the saddle.". . - Barrill's "Noble Character.". In his book Dr. Cook refers to Bar rill as follows , when describing his emotions when standing on "the top of the continent:" j " "The thing that impressed me first was the noble character of Edward Barrill, the bigness In heart and soul of . the man who had followed me, with out a word of complaint, through hope lessness to success." - -, ,.- 1"""- " y ' -'V y'- 'J ' jf? ; Northwestern Students Show Lack ot Training In English Orthography. Freshmen at Northwestern univer sity were called upon after having beer. divided into eleven sections to speir words . in common ' use. each section-, having 100 words. Here are some of the words propounded, with the spell ings of the students: Irregular Earegular. iregeler. iregealor. Accessible Excessable. assessable, ax sesble. Counterfeit Counterflt.- conterfite, coun- terpheet. Apprentice Aprentase, aprentis. Chivalry Shlvalery. shivelry. chlfalery. -Magazine Magazeen, magazean, magi- sene. Plumage riumnage, plumeagre. plumaeg.. Anthracite Anthreecit. antbrisight. Adage Addage. addige. Municipal Munisipple. munciple. Glacier Glassear, glashier. Intelligence Enteligance, intelegence. Professor J. Scott Clark, head of th&- department of English, said after the test that the present mode of educa tion in grammar and high schools was responsible for the large number oC poor spellers. STATION FOR AIRSHIPS- New Vanderbilt Hotel to Have Land ing Place For Aviators. It has been announced that one or the novel features of the twenty story- hotel which Alfred G. Vanderbilt wilt erect in New York will be a landing; station for airships. This accommoda tion has already been mentioned ir connection with the enlargement of the Hotel Astor roof garden and a new hotel that is being built. The annex, it is said, which the Automobile Club of America is now building in the rear of its present home in Fifty-fifth street: will also include an aviation station. A well known student of aviation, said that it would be a long time be fore an aeroplane alighted on the roof of a New York hotel and remained there while the aviator went down to luncheon in the restaurant. At the present time, he added, there are not more than half a dozen experts who could accomplish the feat safely and? satisfactorily, and their lowest charge for the feat would be. $5,000. The skating season has opened with a rush. Roller skating is the most fascinating of all indoor amusements and is also a very beneficial exercise. SKATING EVERY DAY Afternoon, 3:00 to 5:30 y Evening, 7:30 to 10:00 PPT TUP U'A1 DIT t villi i -inc niDii - French Children Drinkers. French children, it is said, are be coming alarmingly familiar with the taste of alcoholic beverages. A Paris, paper states that of one school class, numbering forty-nine thirty pupils ac knowledged that they had tasted ab sinth. In a class of sixty-three chil dren whose ages ranged from six years to nine twenty-four said that they drank brandy every day. Almost Killed by Wheat Beard. Silas Anderson, j& wealthy elevator owner of Washington, Ind., got the beard of a wheat fastened in his throats It could not be located, and the pain was Intense. A physician lanced his: throat and found a large' ulcer had; been caused. lie says Anderson wonldi have died within a few days.