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A VERY SIMPLE
DETECTIVE CASE.
Foundation work, sidewalk and curbing
a specialty ftianufacturers of cement
blocks, plain and fancy cement brick,
porch columns, cement flues, jardi
nieres, etc. Dealers in cement, plaster
and' lime.
First and Adams Sts. Phone 2318
Corvallis, - Oregon
Cbe City Stables
Everything new and up to
date. Rigs furnished on
short notice. Call
and give us a
trial. Cor.
Madison
and
3d
L. F.GRAY, -
Manager
Whitney's & Colbert
We Make
Concrete blocks ot all kinds. Concrete
, bricks, fancy and plain, Concrete tile
and steps, Concrete window sills and
caps.
We Sell
High grade Cement and Lime in any
quantity. ,
PhoneTnd. 3181
413 Second Street South
CORVALLIS - . - OREGON
20 Per Cent
DISCOUNT
In order to clean up our
SPRING SUITS
We will give 20 per cent discount
until all are sold
A. K. RUSS
Dealer in all Men's Furnishings
CORVALLIS, - - OREGON
Blackledjre fc Everett
Successors to Henkle & Blaekiedge
FUNERAL DIRECTORS and LICENSED EMBALMERS
Carry a complete line of coffins and
caskets in all colors and sizes; also
ladies' men's' and children's burial
robes. Calls attended to day and
night. Lady assistant. EMBALMING FOR
SHIPPItiB A SPECIALTY. Call at Blackledge's
furniture store Both phones.
ATTORNEYS
J. F. YATES, ATTORN E Y -AT-L AW.
Office Rooms 3, 4. 1st Natl Bank Bide.
Only Bet of abstracts in Benton CountT
PHYSICIANS
G. E. FARRA, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND
Surgeon. Office in Burnett Block,
over Harris' Store. Residence corner
Seventh and Madison. Office hours
8 to 9 a. m.; 1 to 2 p. m. Phones
Office, 2128, Residence, 404.
r. B. MORRIS, , M. D , PHYSICIAN
and Surgeon. Corner Third and Mon
roe Streets, Corvallis, Oregon. Office
hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 p m ,: 7 to
8 p. m. Phone in both office an I resi
denee.
W. T. ROWLEY, M. P., PHYSICIAN
and Surgeon. Special attention given
to the Eve. Nose and Throau. Otfiw-
in Johnson Biag. Ind. 'phone at of
fice and lesidence.
UNDERTAKERS
M. S. BOVEE, FUNERAL DIRECT
or and Licensed Emhalmer. .Sac-
cvenor to Bovee & Bauer Corvallis,
Oregon. Iud. Phone 4s. Bell Phone
. 241 , Lady attendant when desired.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
PICKEL'S STUDIO, . 430 SECOND
. Street. . Phone 4209. . , .:
2ND-HAND GOODS
OOODMAN'S SECOND-HAND STORE
Cash paid for household goods. 424
Second Street. Phone 4325.
By BERTHA DALSOP. ,
Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso
ciation.!
"Waiter, call a cab."
So spoke Walter De Forest while
sitting in the cafe of his club. In a
few minutes the waiter announced that
the cab was at the door. De Forest
went out, gave a street and number to
the cabman and got Into the cab.
There, before him on the seat, lay a
package.
Ah," exclaimed De Forest, "some
one has lost something."
Taking up the package, he opened It
and saw on the top a bank, bill for
$1,000. : He opened his eyes very wide.
Lifting the bill, he came upon another
for the same amount. He opened his
eyes wider. Fifty bills, each for $1,000.
were in the parcel.
He looked at the wrapper. There
was neither name nor mark on It to
give the slightest clew to its owner
ship. He tied up the package and put
it In hia pocket. On reaching his des
tination he said to the driver:
"Who was the last person In this cab
Defore me?"
"A young lady, sir."
"What name?"
"I don't 'know, sir."
"Where did she engage you?"
"She called me from the sidewalk."
"Where did she tell you to drive?"
"To 84 Union street."
Mr. De Forest started. "Did you
take her there?"
No, sir. A pair of horses were
plunging in the crowd of rehicles be
side us. I drove on. but when I got
down to open the door there was no
one inside. - I think the lady got scared
and slipped out."
Did you go to the location she gave
you to collect your fare?"
"Not yet. sir."
"How much does she owe you?"
"A dollar."
"Here It Is. I know the lady. I'll
tell her."
"Thank you, sir."
The coincidence was a strange one.
Julia Drayton, aged twenty-one, that
day had been paid in bills a legacy of
$50,000. She had stepped from a bank
to the sidewalk, got into a cab, suf
fered from a fright, jumped out and
left her fortune Inside. Walter De
Forest was an admirer' of hers and
had at the time made up his mind that
he would marry her If he could. Mon?
ey was no special object to him.
The next morning he saw an adver
tisement in the papers of a large re
ward for the lost money. In the even
ing he called on : Miss Drayton. The
servant who received him said that
her mistress was indisposed.
"Tell her that I have called to speak
to her about her loss," said De Forest,
and in a few moments Miss Drayton
came down. She was much agitated.
I saw an advertisement this morn
ing," he said, "which from its reading
I think must be yours."
"I have lost my inheritance."
De Forest asked her to tell him the
story, which she did.
"I am very sorry for you," he said
when she had finished, indeed so
sorry that I am going to exercise my
ingenuity to find who has the bills.
have a plan that I will put Into opera
tion, and if it succeeds I shall recover
your fortune."
"All of it?" she. gasped.
"All or none."
"But there is the reward."
"That we may talk of after getting
the bills."
Mr. e Forest called often to report
progress. Miss Drayton begged mm
to tell her of his methods, but he as
sured her it was not best Though at
times he spoke encouragingly and at
times the reverse, he continually kept
her up by a steadfast hope.
One evening De Forest left the young
lady conscious of the fact that he
might as well bring his detective in
vestigations to a close. - A few days
later he showed Miss Drayton a piece
of paper on which was scrawled by
some illiterate person an agreement to
return fifty $1,000 bank bills provided
that immunity were guaranteed. Miss
Drayton caught her breath. But De
Forest reminded her of the many
frauds in . such matters and warned
her not to feel too sure. Nevertheless
she wrung his hand.- - 1
A week passed, during which Miss
Dravton suffered alternate chills and
fever chills of despondency, and fever
of hope. And all the while she was
thinking of that good, kind man who
was devoting his time, his . energies,
his genius, for investigation to the re
turn of her lost fortune.
One day she received a note from
De Forest notifying her that if her
doorbell rang between, 7 and 8 that
evening she would do well to answer
It herself. At a quarter to 8 the bell
rang. Miss Drayton opened the door.
A man in working clothes handed her
a package and without a word hurried
away. , Turning to the light, she opened
the package and saw her lost bills,
Counting them, she found all she had
lost. ,
She was still In a delirium of joy
when the bell rang again. She flew
to the door and admitted Mr. De For
est. She could not control herself.
Throwing her arms around his neck,
she wept for joy. -
There was one and only one matter
to be settled between them. That was
Mr. De Forest's reward for his patient
labors." Miss Drayton asked him to
name it and it should be his.
Then he- told her that the1 reward he
had been working for was herself.
She kept her word.
Young Spreckels, Heir to Sugar Mil
lions, Denies His Is a Sweet Lot.
Claus Spreckels, son of John D. t
Spreckels, who did not marry Adcle
Case, says, according to a Chicago dis
patch, that he is among the "too rich."
Said the heir of the sugar millions: ,
I shall do as father wishes. He
said he'd rather have me be a sugar
king than a chorus man, so he told me
not to get married.
There are too classes of unfortu
nates In this world who cannot afford
to marry young. They are those who
are either too rich or too poor. I hap
pen to be in the former class, but
might as well be in the latter. They
are equally unfortunate, T
"There is ' said to be so much in
store for me in this life that I am try
ing to begin to choose what I may
best enjoy; hence I must obscure my
self In the branches of the family tree
and wait until I am mature enough to
start one of nay own. For the other
class there is so little to enjoy that
the wise ones say they must save un-
they are older. They will enjoy it
til
more. ,
I have so much money that I can
not afford to get married. If I had to
get married in order to eat it would
be different. But I have too much of-
life before me. No, I never was en
gaged to Miss Case and may never be.
met her while we were both staying-
with Frank King Clark of Paris.
I knew her only in a friendly way;
simply admired her, that's all. She
became entangled in a lawsuit of some
kind In Paris and had to leave sooner
than she expected. I was coming
home In two weeks anyway, and so I
offered to come with her and see her
safely on this side of the ocean.
ou see, father had heard of my
intended engagement to sing in The
Hague and Paris, and I guess he
thought that I was going to turn
chorus girl. Anyway he flashed the
C Q D;' said that the sugar business
needed me here."
Young Spreckels stopped in Chicago
on his leisurely journey to his home
In San Diego, Cal
"TOO RICH TO WED."
STOCKS
H ;9um if 1 em -;9nbni r iujeld - . . ; '
g These I.
YOKOHAMA'S BIG DAY.
Japanese Port Will Celebrate Fiftieth
Anniversary at Cost of $250,000.
The celebration of the fiftieth anni
versary of the opening of the port of
Yokohama, in Japan, to foreign com
merce will be held on July 1 and 2 of
this year.
It is proposed to spend about $250j
000 in entertainments, and the foreign
squadrons of the nations represented
In the Pacific and the far east will be
invited to the harbor during the cele
bration. The foreign residents gener
ally have expressed their desire to co
operate in every possible way,-, Among
other things It is purposed to erect 'a
memorial hall especially commemora
tive of the opening of the port..
CAN A MOOSE GALLOP?
Rev. Dr. Long Calls Roosevelt "Nature
Faker" on This Issue.
Rev. Dr. William J. Long of Stam
ford. Conn., whom former President
Roosevelt once attacked as a "nature
faker," said in Pittsburg the other
day:
'Mr. Roosevelt is neither naturalist
nor sportsman. , He lived a few
months on a ranch and shot game
around the cabin. He says he has
seen, moose galloping, when every man
who knows anything about the animal
knows that a moose could not possi
bly gallop. Its means of locomotion
make such a gait impossible."
Prices Boiled '
Down to Make
Best Bargains
tractive Specials
One Dozen Ladies'
Wool Tailored Suits
At Actual Cost. . .
All Ladies' Oxfords
. At a Big Reduction
Men's and Boy's
Clothing at Sale Prices
A Lot of Boy's Cloth
ing, 4 to 14 years,
at HALF PRICES
Get on to Our Bargains for next week
ARRIS
H
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Highest Cash Price
Paid for Second
Hand Goods
C.W.McKee
312 Second St. Phone 1323
Airship Traveling Trunk.
German ingenuity has lost no time
in devising special equipments for air
Ship passengers. One offering Is an ex
tremely light airship traveling trunk"
made of. aluminium, with cunning
leather attachments for fastening to
the airship car. The "malle aero," to
give it its international name, has no
compartment for the large, fashionable
feminine hat yet, but it contains,
among other things, a small medicine
chest filled with medicaments that
may be useful for a sojourn in high
altitudes.
Sardine Oil by Tank Car.
A tank car of 163 barrels of cotton
seed oil recently shipped from Ken
tucky, for a Maine canning company
is said to have . arrived at Eastport,
Me, a few days ago in good condition.
This being the first attempt to ship
oil east in other than barrel packages,
the experiment was awaited with
much Interest.
Capture of World's Biggest Tarpon. '
A recent telegram from the Califor
nia Tuna club at Los Angeles from
Tarpon, Tex., says that L. G. Murphy
while fishing at Tarpon landed the
world's record tarpon, measuring six
feet six inches in length. The catch
was taken on a nine ounce rod with a
nine thread line.
Edward Everett Hale.
Some spirits of this world are born to
' drive.
They do not know nor do they care to
. learn
The gentler means that win. Their na
tures spurn
The rioble kindliness that keeps alive
The better part of man wherein survive
The human sympathies which always
yearn
For those who need direction most and
turn -
Unerringly to those' too weak to strive.
No driver was the spirit of this man.
His force of arms, his . power In grand
;. display, . ... , .
No poet in resounding verses sings."
His glory is not measured by a span. .
He knew the right, and. having shown
the way.
He led the weak and strong to better
thing. - .
W. J. Lampton in New York Times.
' ' Daily Gazette 50 cents per month
Why not take it.
Hay Baler
' Wijl rent on the shares for the sea
son's run, a Hay Baler. Address M.
S. Woodcock, Corvallis, Oregon.
6-7 D4.Wtf.
Taunton & Burnap
Cement Contractors
Makers of Best Cement Walks in Town
All work guaranteed first
class. '
Corvallis, Ore
HYDRAULIC WELL
DRILLING
Powerful and rapid well ma
chine run by gasoline engine.
Wind mill pump repairing,
and drove wells a specialty.
Place your orders now before the
season's rushwork is on.
A. N. HARLAN
Box 526 Corvallis, Oregon
MONEY LOANED
ON REAL ESTATE
LONGTIME EASY PAYMENTS
RELIAALE REPRESENTATIVES WANTED
The Jackson Loan & Trust Co.
Fort Worth, Texas Jackson, Mississippi
The Best Paint
There is no better paint made for appearance anc
durability than
Acme Quality Paint
Specially prepared for exterior and interior use.
"FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS"
WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE
Second Street, Near Palace Theater
Occidental Lumber Co.
Successors to;
Corvallb Lumber Co.
We are here to supply your 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 f, Local Mcr.
and eygtEmUlfiSSi
ta
frtiOL3S I' TRIM. 8CTTIE FREE
AK&AILTHROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES
GUARANTEED SATSFACTORV
Of? FfONcTf ffEttAfDED.
Benton County Lumber Co.
Manufacturers of all kinds of
fir Lumber, Mouldings, Cedar Posts,
Sawed and Split. Gcdar Shakes
Dealers in'
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Doors, Windows, Lime, BriCK Cement
Shingles, etc