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VOL I. NO. 33 CORVALLIS, EENTON COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY,, JUNE 9, 1909 PRICE FIVE CENTS PLENTY OF GAS IRE SURY OREGON .HAS LARGE SURPLUS NOW ON HAND. ILLiOfl I1J QUARTER Available Funds for State Use , Stow Splendid Financial Condition Pub Ik Schools will Receive Larger Ap portionment OAC Gets $195,129. OAC To Help New Station The available cash on hand in the state treasury at the close of the five months' period ending May 29, as shown by the financial statement issued by Treasurer Steel, has oyerreached the million-and-a-quarter mark, the exact figures, including all funds, being $1, 256,bs3.27. The amount ot cash on hand January. 1 was 892,147.44; the receipts for the period covered by the i report were $1,629,843.04, transfers $12,500.93, and disbursements $1,265, 312.21. The cash on hand in the gener al fund June 1 was $493,175.79, as against $312,373.94 January 1. One of the features of the statement is the steady increase ot the common. ' school fund, interest, which amounted to $253,581.52 on June 1, as against $201,241.23 upon the corresponding date of last year, including $119,000 which' was apportioned among the several counties of the state for the benefit cf the public schools in April. The law provides that this fund shall be appor tioned among the ssveral counties of the state upon the basis of the school population of each county, October 1 of ach year, but the State Treasurer may, in hi3 own ciseretion, dispose of the fund in one or more apportionments before that date, according to the dic-';tate$-ef his- judgment. Last year the fund was paid out in two apportion ments. . The cash on hand in the com mon school fund, principal, June 1, which is -subiect to loan upon interest for the benefit of the public schools, was $344,616.93. The principal items among the re ceipts during the five months' period covered by the report were; State taxes, : 1908, $23,797.96; interest on 1908 .state taxes, $57312, paid by Yamhill county for withholding its portion of the state tax of 1908 pending the decision sof a test case of the system of tax appor tionment; state taxes, 1909, $747,791. 25; tax on foreign insurance companies, $14,646.13; fees of Department of State, $32,423.52; corporation license fees, $6, 577.10; express company license fees, $4386.74; telegraph and telephone com pany fees, $1349.09; sleeping-car com pany license fees, $2075.95; Supreme Court fees, $1945.50; interest on deposit of state funds, $3411.74; rents and sales of state property not required by state institutions, $2160.55; convict labor, $8497.66; inheritance tax, $11,780.93; miscellaneous, $3025.47. The total amount of money invested from the educational funds to June 1 amounted to $5,515,526.99, of which $5. 218,288.42 is credited to the irreducible school fund, $195,129.93 to the Agricul tural College fund and $102,108.64 to the university fund. Of the loans cred ited to the irreducible school fund, $1, 417,876. 12 is out on first mortgage loans, $155,025 is invested in school district bonds and $645,387.30 in certificates of sale of state lands. Of the Agricultural College fund, $191,361.03 is out on first mortgage loans and $3768.90 is due up on certificates of sale of state lands, and of the university fund $97,618.64 is out on first mortgage loans and $4490 due on certificates of sale of state lands. The Oregon Agricultural College, Pa cific University, the universities of Ida ho, Montana, Oregon, Puget Sound and Nebraska, and Whitworth and Whit man colleges have offered their co-operation in the work of the new marine bio logical station, which will be established at Olga and Friday Harbor, on Puget Sound, next summer by the State Col lege, the University of W ashington and the three normal schools of Washing ton. The announcement for the new Wash ington station offers courses in explora tory zoology, Invertebrate zoology,, hab its of insects, molluscs, fishes, element ary cryptogamic botany and systematic botany. Lincoln County twites Benton. ETERANS HP. IE CLAIM RGHARGED SAY ADVERTISED RATES WERE NOT GRANTED. THEY HAO TO PAY FULL FARE Old Soldiers Have Entered Complaint Before State Railroad Commission Against S. P. for Exacting Fell Fare from Albany to Corvallis on C. & E. Lincoln County is going to hold a big fair at Toledo, September 8,9,10, and Wallis Nash, chairman of the exe cutive committee, sends through the Merchant's Association here a cordial invitation to the people of Corvallis and . Benton county to join their neighbors on the west and help to make the event a great success. Friday, September 10, has been, set apart as Benton County Day, and the committee earnestly bopes that as many as possible from this section will be over to take part in the gala occasj ion. All possible arrangements will be made to care for visitors and the good people of Lincoln county would like to feel that their many friends in Benton will take advantage of this .opportunity to shake hands and become even better ajaainted. Fifty More Attorneys Examination of candidates for admis sion to the bar was held this week by the Supreme Court. There were about 50 candidates who represent nearly every portion of the state. The exam inations were very rigid this year and practically all the candidates passed in a most successful mannerr" - Among the applicants for admission wno took tne examination are two wo men and two members of the House of Representatives of the 1909 Legislature. The women applicants are Miss Blanche Irene Langley, of Forrest Grove, and Miss Wilda Buckman, of Portland. The Representatvies are J. C. Bryant and A. W. Orton both of Portland, the latter having recently received appoint ment as Register of the United States LandOffice at Lakeview. Commencement Exercises ?09 Alleging that the Southern ' Pacific Company misrepresented matters in its advertisements of rates to the recent state encampment of the G. A. R. in Corvallis, some Albany veterans of the Civil War are planning to take the mat ter before the State , Railroad Commis sion, Edward Washburne, a past com mander and prominent ' member of Mc Pherson Post, G. A. R., of Albany, has written to C. A. Williams, of Portland; assistant adjutant-general ofthe state organization, asking that such action be taken. The claim of the old soldiers is that the railroad company advertised a one fare round trip from Albany to Corvallis over the Corvallis & Eastern line dur ing the encampment, . and then refused to allow it. The advertisement read "One-fare round trip, from June 2nd to 4th." A number of veterans who came from Albany to Corvallis on June 3rd, were forced to pay full fare each way. This applied to Albany veterans, as well as those who came into Albany from both directions on the Southern Pacific, and came from there to Corval lis on the C& E. - : ' Mr. Washburne and other veterans whose names he has secured, assert that they started for Corvallis on th understanding that the one-fare round? The Board of Regents and ' the fac ulty of OAC have issued a handsome, invitation to the fortieth annual com mencement exercises of the college, the program to be carried out in the fol lowing order: Friday, June 11, 8 p, m. Armory, In- terscholastic Debate for Gatch cup. Saturday, June 12, 8:30 p. m., Ar mory, Junior Hop. ... ., .- Sunday, June 13, 11 a. m. Armory, Baccalaureate address, by Dr. Luther R. Dyatt. .- . : ' ; Monday, June 14, 9:30 a. m., Campus Class Day Exercises ;4 to 6 p. m.Pres- ldent Kerr s residence, Reception to graduating class by President and Mrs. Kerr.; 8:30p.m., Opera house, i "Mi kado." , . .. . Tuesday, June 15, 3 p.i-m. Campus, Graduating Parade ; 6:30 p. m., Waldo Hall, Alumni Reunion and Banquet. Wednesday, June 16,. Commencement Day, 10:30 a. m., Armory, Graduating Exercises. CO-EDS MEET COLD, GRAY D TO DO ATHLETIC STUNTS ALL BY THEIR LONESOME. EVERY EVENT BUT POLE VAULT Winsome Lassies From Waldo Hall Vie With City Maidens in Track Events on Athletic Field This Morning for the Honor of OAC Championship. Races Begin Tomorrow The big three day's race' meet which will be held here this week begins to morrow at the Driving Park and will be continued Friday and Saturday. Entries have been ' made by the lead ing horsemen in all this section and some exciting sport is looked for. The program for tomorrow is as as follows : 1. Benton county driving horses, 3:00 minute class, 2 in 3, purse $75. 2. Running, 1-2 mile dash, free for all, purse $100. 3. Pace or trot, 2:25 class, free for all', 2 in 3, purse $100. 4. Three mile race, Benton county saddle horses, 1 mile walk, 1 mile trot, 1 mile run; purse $50., , ' j TALK OF THE TOWN PIONEER PREACHER PASSES One of Oregon's First Baptist Ministers ' Is Dead Rev. Carpus Clark Sperry, one of Oregon's first Baptist ministers, died at his home in : Brownsville, Monday, at 5 P.M. of paralysis, following illness since May 26. Rev. Mr. Sperry, was born in Lawr ence County, Ohio, October 8, 1830. He moved to Iowa in 1840 and there em braced the Baptist faith. He was married to Miss Rachel A. Fulton" in Jefferson County. Mo., February 12, 1851, and on April 1, 1851, with his bride started by ox team for Oregon, arriving here the same year: rie settled near Brownsville. He was licenced to preach in 1857, and from that time until h's death worked continually tor the ciurch. About 1858 he moved to Shasta Coun- Long before Old Sol had arisen from his slumbers this morning to smile a welcome to the coming day, long lines of merry maidens might have been seen flitting through the mists of . the cold, gray dawn to OAC Athletic Field, had there been any profane masculine awake at that" early hour to view so un usual a sight. The gathering of all these winsome lassies was by prearrangement, the oc casion being a genuine track meet by the co-eds of OAC to decide whether the Waldo Hall girls or the students who resided around in the city should be known as athletic champions for the year about to close. 1 It was a sight for men and gods, had either been fortunate enough to get a peep at the charmingassembly, but the ! girls had. kept the meet such a profound secret that not even-a "Rookie" was prowling around to mar the pleasure of the fair contestants and their admiring ; friends. Those who did witness the I brilliant bursts of speed in the dashes C. E. Peterson went to Portland this morning to attend the Rose Festival. For Sale Household furniture at 857 Tyler street. 6-9 -10 t. - Splendid singing, handsome costumes, fine , chorus, . lots of fun. Mikado. Don't miss it. Ira M, Davisson to E. F. Pernot, lots 6 and 7, block 4, Wilkin's addition to Corvallis, $800. Miss Audrey Close, of Eugene, arriv ed this morning on a visit to friends in. Corvallis and at Philomath. prices. . Tickets J 1 - J- J.T ' J- - 1 J- J-1 . ty, California, where he remained four ;say lnal lne .P were u, vprS -M5aT,o- 5n romVD- two or hest varsity time, the jumps were Battle With Salmon Ted Rossman, who lives on the Mc Kenzie river, 20 miles east of Eugene, last Saturday, caught a 35-pound sal mon with a 7-ounce rod and fly,, requir ing three hours and 20 minutes from the time the fish.took the fly till it was landed on the bank of the stream. This is said to be the largest salmon ever caught in the McKenzie river with a small xod and fly. they got to the depot they were forced J to pay full fare each way or stay at. home. -. . . R. IT. Montgomery, Southern Pacific agent at Albany, says the trouble has arisen over a misunderstanding of the rate on the part of the old soldiers. - "The cheap rate was effective," he said, "on June 1 and 2. We sold tick ets on those two days at that rate to everybody who applied for them. , The advertisement means that these tickets were good returning during the entire convention, but we never had orders, and it was never intended, '- to sell the cheap tickets on the 3rd and 4th. Tick-' ets sold on the two former days were good returning on those days, but no new tickets were sold. It is merely, a misunderstanding, for we never repre sented at any time that one fare tickets for the round trip would be sold on the 3rd and 4th of June." - i record breakers, the hammer and dis- assisting in TYrct t-inTvr.iar. runrchpa. ma T.npn -rp- i turned to Brownsville and was ordained ' throws a complete refutation of the Pi.,t Dfa r!fcwi. Wo erroneous impression that the feminine kripateasin- is not equal to such a fe&twhile moved to Eastern Oregon and spent I e reiav race wa one. coiiunuoun vib- two years traveling for his health. In iQn ot nying teet, graceiul bodies and 1883 the Brownsville church again call- a panting crowd in over the finish line, ed him, and he returned to his old home The only feat that was not attempted and preached for that church and out- j was the pole vault and this was omitted lying stations until 1888. After that he fm the Program for sundry and van was pastor at Halsey, Scio, Harrisburg , ous reasons whlch e girls refuse to and Providence I make Public. although the impression Mr. Sperry was one of the most popu-: has gained ground that it was because lar and widely known pioneer ministers the lassies did not want to show how of this state, and he probably preached easily they could beat the best efforts more funeral sermons than any other , 01 Ule livinz Dioneer minister. He Breached i The girls from the city beat the Wal- continuouslv until Mav -23'. 1909. his ! do Hall; misses by one point boarders at that classic Peddlers' Law Defective ! ' According to an opinion written by former '. Justice of the Supreme Court R. S. Bean, now Judge of the United States Court at Portland, and handed down March. 23 of this year, the act de fining, licensing and regulating peddlers, as enacted by .the last Legislature and filed by the Governor February 24, is . in contravention of section 8, article 1 section 1, article .XIV, and section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con stitution of the United States, and sec tion 20, article I of the state constitu tion, because it interferes with the pri vate . rights " of citizenship, and, if it were to be put o the test of the courts, would probably be. declared null and void. The Pythian Sisters There will be a 'regular meeting of Alleta Tempie No. 44, Pythian Sisters at the hall tomorrow, Thursday night, and all members are urged to be present, the men folks as well as the ladies, there being business of import ance to recieve attention. Horticultural Trustees Governor Benson has appointed J. R. Cardwell, of Portland, one year; L. T. Reynolds, Forrest Grove, three years to serve their respective terms as trus tees of the State Horticultural Society, under the provision of the act of the last Legislature. They are to ser without pay. - Chamberlain Is L. L. D. Senator Chamberlain has returned to Washington from Mississippi, where he delivered the address to the graduat ing class of Oxford University. While there the degree of LL. D. was confer red upon him. During his absence Sen ator Chamberlain paired with Oliver, of Pennslyvania, on Senate roll calls. Special Booster Edition Issued See the Mikado. Popular Opera house Monday, June 14. at Graham & Worthanjfs today. Miss Clara Quick, of Indianapolis Ind. is visiting her cousin, Miss Anna Quick, and may remain here during the sum mer. The musical event of the season. The Mikado, Monday night at the" opera house. Get your seats today at Gra ham & Wortham's. Lost Cloud . agate brooch, about a month or more ago. Finder return to 402 North Third and Harrison streets and receive reward. 6-9-1 1. Thos. . Whitehorn and sons, Claude ; and Tommy, went to Portland today,. where the latter will undergo an oper ation for a growth in his nose. His honor, the Poo Bah, is an animat ed example of pompous aristocracy. His ancestor was a primordial atomic globule. Mikado Monday night. Flower Mission Day will be observed at the W. C. T. U. reading tomorrow, June 10. All members and friends are invited to come with a flower or a mes sage to some one in need of cheer and comfort. . Misses Ariel Ewmg and Helen Hyde Br,.l rh i Tobin, the OAC instructors who went to Seattle last week to place the exhi- t -j. tj.- i nnnrnprs sit. rnnr. f aRsif. p.n.ravansarv last sermon oeing at me center bciiooi- ------- ----- , nnmpt,V Sr-ipnr.e denartment. i p t mi tt. rtpc aro Thar rma was nn v nosR n p nv - vri - nouse. soum oi orownsvine. lie was -- j i j i striken with naralvsis Mav 26. . the former having had the advantage of a square meal the night before. Kay Posey, of Portland, is the guest , of Corvallis friends. The Daily Gazette, 50c per month. sent from the college here, send word that the display is in every way super ior to that exhibited by Washington State College. - A pleasent surprise ' was given Miss Ruby Fowells last night by a number of her old schoolmates. Numerous games were played, light refreshments . served and a very enjoyable evening spent by the young people. MissFowells leaves tomorrow for Seattle, to visit her broth er, Edward Fowells : and wife, and to attend the exposition. . Daily Gazette 50 cents per month. The publicity department of the Corvallis Commercial Clmb has just re-' ceived a special booster edition of the Times, the subject matter for which was compiled with greatest care bv Booster Waggoner. This special edition consists of 5000 copies" and will be given wide distribu tion throughout the East and middle West, a large list of names of parties who have signified their intention of coming out to the Coast this summer! having been secured for this particular purpose. The descriptive work in this'excellent number is accurate throughout and gives a remarkably good idea of the resources and advantages of the county and the desirable features which make Corvallis such an attractive residence city. The edition is a credit to the publicity committee, to Mr., Waggoner and to the publishers,, it s. being certain to accomplish good results. t : j - '. ''. ; - ' ', i Excursion to Klamath Falls' Friday and Saturday, June 11th. and 12tk, round trip tickets will be on sale to Klamath Falls to celebrate the com-: pletipn of .the. Southern. Pacific to that city, rare irom uorvaiiis to Klamath Falls and return will be $15.50 with stopover privileges on return ' trip. Barbaque and many other festivities. Through Sleepers.- Make reservations as early as possible. R.C. Linville," Local Agent.' Wm. McMurrayj General Passenger Agents - Portland Ore. - 6-9-lt AGENTS QUEEN QUALITY SHOES New Oxford Styles V S. . -X 1 Jl 4 111 AGENTS STANDARD PATTERNS June Styles Here We are just in receipt of a shipment of all styles of Nemo Corsets, to fit all figures. These corsets are so well j known we can riot say more for them but !VT 5ELF-REDUCING with Reu2fSthap 7; Just received, a new i lot tailored suits in blue, th summer color, Panamas and made with' long coats, trimmed buttons. Just the thing for- outing. of ladies' now popular serge, with i h'405 ""Relief Bands m . ..- J ,v;: Latest styles in tan oxfords just re ceived. Fifth Avenue last, short vamp, new color of Russia calf and tan vici. : $2.50 to $3.50 3