LOCAL LOKE . Wheat 40. - Dr Lowe, the optician, leaves to day noon. - . - R M Davisson arrived Wednesday ."- evening from Salem. , Bricklayers completed their work en the Zierolf building last night. -Mrs. Henry Gerberhas returned from -a visit with her daughter in Port land. "Mrs Compton, of Roseburg, arriv ed Thursday on a visit to her son, James Flett. " Misses Ollie Skipton and Mamie Crawford drove up from Salem Wed nesday and returned Thursday. There will be the finest display of roses ever seen in Corvallis at the op era house, fune 7tb. ; Rev M L Boozer will preach in the Mount View school house Sunday afternoon at halt past two. Mrs W HMahoney mother of Mrs Kittridge are guests of William Groves and family. - They arrived Tuesday from San Francisco. ' Mrs R C Miller who went east a few weeks ago is taking a course in the finishing departm nt of a lne dressmaking establishment in Detroit Michigan. - Mr J A McFadden, of Corvallis was recently appointed - warden in the 8tatea8ylum. Mr McFadden brings a valuable experience with him having served Jn that capacity for several years. Rev M L Boozer will preach both morning and evening at the United Evangelical church on Suuday. . Sun day school at 10 a m ; Christian En deavor at 7 p m. A cordial invitation to all. Services at the Christian church Dext Lord's day. Preaching at 11 a m. In the evening beginning at 8 p m a special . program in the interest of 'Children's day" will be given by the Sunday school. All are welcome. The entrance to the city jail is now barred by a solid steel door which takes the place of a grated affair that formerly did duty. . The latter per mitted piisoners tooonverae with peo ple on the outside, The new one will prevent. The census takers are in tee field. They began work yesterday. They must hand in their reports on July 1st. Sometime befose the end of the month it is probable that the actual population of the country will be known. . . The wedding of Dennis H Stovall and Miss Odessa Reed is announced to take place at the home of the bride at Grants Pass, on the . 14th. - Tbe couple will take up their residence in Baker City, where the groom is engag ed in newspaper work. Both parties are well known in Corvallis, where many friends join in congratulations The eeDior retoricals closes next Monday afternoon for the season. The exercises have been magnificently at tended this year, the college chapel being crowded to overflowing. One of the leading feaures of Monday af- noon will be an original march compo ". eed especially for tbe O A C orches tra who will render it on that oecasion. The exercises at the chapel, which be gins at 2.15 p m o'clock, at the chapel, will be followed by a military skirmish on the campus.AU invited. ; Athletic Rally. " " . : A thousand years ago there was a verypecular individual. He was fun all to himself. Some said he bad trouble with an ox. Be that as it may. the 6ame creature was in Corvallis about 11 o'clock last Wed nesday night, when the unexpect ed bsnfire attracted the attention of the cit'zens of Corvallis. Every body had contributed to . the . fuel with the expectation of inspiring one more yell for the college boys who enter the intercollegiate con test today, r There were faces aw ry to be sure, but the next day for ty young men with four strong teams hauled in a half dozens mall barns making apile forty feet high". That night the opening salute with the cannon called the great crowd together at 8:30 to witness Mies Constance Holland apply, the torch: and as the great flames grew and leaped into the air, the college band rendered some military music that mingled magnificently with the inspiring roar of the pageant that rose on the nightly air. Then another cannon salute, which was followed by other college yells quite as deafening. So it continued for aa hour till the flames died away. When all went home as still as the moon that was tipping the moun tain to go to her rest. C. H. Hazard, well known in Benton county, is the candidate on the democratic-people's ticket for prosecuting attorney. In that capacity he formerly served the dis trict faithfully and well. He is a sound lawyer of great expejfeiice. He is a very forceful-and very fable man. He resides in Cops county, w fare he stands at, the head of th e legal profession.- ' Judge Hazard deserves, and is sure to receive, a heavy vote in Benton. - .' THE CAMPAIGN. It Esds Toirglit Decks Cleared, for Action Monday. : Th6 campaign tour of the candi dates ended at Willamette yester day afternoon. Today the various candidates and their friends will be in town, and the day may be ex pected to be a busy one. By night everybody will be tired, and ready for the rest that comes tomorrow. The latter will be the lull that pre cedes Monday's storm. It may be hoped that in the various precincts of old Benton that the contest will be good humored and free from bit terness.' - Com paratively speakiDg, the cam paign has been a quiet one. It is true that there has been sharp in terest in the controversy between the clerk. This controversy was brought on by those persons who from the very outset began a dark alley system of mud slinging again st Mr Watters. They persisted in the manufacture and circulation of skinflint stories, for the purpose of injuring Mr Watters' candidacy. It is in this fact that the controver sy had its origiQ. In the case of th other candidates the campaign has been unusually good humored. Toe prospects w.ere never more flattering for the success of . the allied ticket than they are now at the close jf the campaign. The ticket is one of the cleanest and best ever offered the people of Ben ton county. Each candidate is per fectly fitted for the office sought. Criticism of them is harmless, be cause there is nothing to criticise In the case, . for instance, cf the clerk, the charges of Ashamed-of-his Name have invariably been die aproved, and they" have only served to bring out the reputation of Clerk Watters with a brighter and clear er lustre than ever. - Gellatly's own supporters by the score openly ad mit that' "Ashamed-of-his-Name's attacks have done Watters no harm, but a great deal of good. They say that oh the contrary these have been harmful to Gellatly. - As it is in the case of Watters' reputation, so is it with all the rest of the allied candidates. : Skeels, for representative, is simply beyond criticism, and the same is true of Howard Bush for assessor. In the case of Burnett for sheriff, who has so many warm personal mends, any attack would be suicidal. Grant Elgin, the hard working voune man, is sirnDly out of the range of personal criticism, because even his political opponents admit that on account of his personal character he ought by all means to be elected. And so on with Rich ard Irwin, and Professor Swann. The first a keen business man, and yet a whole-souled, genial farmer the whole county acknowledges to be pre eminently suitable for com missioner: while Professor Swann, teacher that he has been for -eleven years, is peculiarly fitted for county superintendent. Finally, Billy Buchanan, faithful officer that he has been, will come in for a hand some support at the polls, a support that will by no means be cod fined to party lines. r Thus, with a peerless ticket in the field, the prospects for success, as viewed just prior to the opening of the polls, - are very flattering. Let the supporters of these candi dates be full of hope. The rjeople of Benton county may always be trusted. - They are a discriminating people, a people quick to -distin gish and certain to select with wis dom and judgment, They will do their full duty on election day." ; Byron G. Leedj. Byron G. Leedy. who was -Hon last week installed Master of the Oregon State Grange for the ensu ing term of two years, was born in Knox county, OhioMarch lstl857. Later he came to Nebraska, and in 1890 he moved toTigardsville, Ore gon, where he has since been .en gaged in fruit-growing. He has from time to time held various posi tions of trust in the Oregon State Grange and in -the community where he resides. Mr Leedv is a Very prctiacal man with conserva tive views on matters going through the experiment alstage. He is deeply interested in the Oregon state agri cultural college of which he becomes regent by virtue of his office as master of the state grange; and he believes the school will gradually broaden until its influence will reach out to every leading industry in Oregon. It Is his purpose to preserve a healthy financial condition oi tbe grange which is now out of debt, to extend its membership, and make the order more useful to the industrial classes. Call for Warrants. ' - . " Notice is hereby given that there is money on hands at the eounty treas urer's office to pay all orders' endorsed and marked not paid foi want of funds up to and including those of Septem ber 9, 1899. Interest will be stopped on same from this date. u r - Corvallis, June 2, 1900. " - . W A Buchaxas, ' Treasurer of Benton Co., Or. ANOTHER GREAT FLOOD. To Come in I901-A Pioneer Predicts Iudiau Traditions a ud Past Floods to Prove it. . - Since -"Noah, built ' dat ark", there has always been considerable nervousness about high Water. - Of course people see ah occasional rain bow in the sky. or in the falls of some great Niagara, to remind them that an inundation will not occur on so exteoaive a scale as it did when the good old man with - his three sons gathered their families, stock, poultry, and wild game into the great floating ship. Neither do they talk so much about fire as they did in former years; yet the old time feeling that some day there will be a great deal of valuable property destroyed by fire; and that many will find" the heat intolerable on that occasion still haunts man like the nightmare on a high mountain. Peode know that the deluge wilL not be repeated; yet they fear that the rivers may choke up in some narrow pass and overflow the coun try above as it has done many times; or that, the water may spout from above or below; that there might be a general uprising of islands to cause an overflow from the sea; or that tbe ocean might break through at some tidal wave and give us a great deal of unexpected trouble and salt water. . At least one of Oregon's.: oldest citizens predicts some remarkably high water; .and that for the near future. '' J. ' Last week this pioneer of pioneers, a man who has been in Oregon since '48, lately said: "Yes sir, we've had a deluge here; and it was since I came.' It was in the winter of sixty -one-aud-two, and I remember it very well. There had been some very warm days days when a work ingman could not wear a coat. Dur ing this unusual - weather, there came a very heavy rain, as hard a rain as man "ever saw." One awful Sunday night which' was as black as the infernal region I retired at an early hour; only to y- be awakened 800 n bya strong light as strong and clear as a shady day. It astonished me; I was alarmed;,! had been in many queer places, dealt with ail kinds of people, contended with the savage on the plain, and successfuly met the lion, the panther, and the bear; but I had never seen the night suddenly change into day, and I was fearful that the .worst had come. : However when upon solicitations of my wif -. I approached the window, my surprise was only exceeded by horror when I beheld the vast sheet of water extending out on every side as far as the eye could reach; and.the lonely acre of ground on which our house sat was like a little isle in a mighty ocean "But a neighbor" who lived far above us was scared f much . worse than I. He thought that the ocean had really broken through the mountain, and he watched long faithful in his back yard for noun ders and r porpoises, herring and shark, codfish, seaweed and. whales; He would not have been surprised to find a clam bed anywhere; and an oyster cocktatl raised on his own farm was not among the im probabilities. In fact the air smelt so briny to him that be ordered -his' hired man to step to the door and taste the water to see how brackish it was. ' Among his greatest fears was that the seawater should break through into his well so . that he would have nothing fresh to drink. - In a day or two the water subsid ed to rise again the following Sun day night. Each lime the waters were eo high that we often saw pur neighbors' property floating away, and when the waters fell we found the carcasses of eheep, "hogs, cattle and horses lining the. fences near my house. We were unprepared for such a freshet, hence were help less I never saw such a time be fore ;T never want to see tbe like again. - :A.- - .-A:' "But it was iust twenty years afterwards that we had nearly the same kind of a thing; and ten years later there was a good showing; in '49, an old Indian told me that these things come regularly once in twenty years, that this saying was traditional in his tribe. Next Win ter after next" he continued, "the time will be up for it; and ; it's a dead certainity that we'll have the biggest water the younger generation ever saw. '.. ;"". "Before I go, let me give you the date more exact, so you'll know when to look for it. Since the count ry has been settled the high, water has appeared three seasons, ". twice , each season, making in all six times; and like the worst battles of the world it came on Sunday. - So look out for an unwelcome visitor who will call on you some Sunday night, winter after next; and be sure ,you' are prepared for the worst". . -AThe Crystal Lake Cemetery Asso ciation meets this afternoon at 2.S0 at the residence of Mrs James Flett for election of officers and payment of dues and other business. Mes M Elstoit Lee, Pres. This is bargin week at Kline's on Lodies skirts. THE BOOK PURCHASES What Watters Bought ATso What Geliatly Bought A Coinifarisou. . Here is the book business all in a nutshell. Of the Portland - firm about - which so much noise has been made, Watters, in four- years bought $83 worth of record books for Benton county. This does not include the books of registration", which are extras. It does not in cludes the tax rolls, which are fur nished by the secretary of sate. It includes all record books of the vaaious courts' used in the clerk's office. During the same . period Gellatly bought of the same firm $81 worth. -The difference is $2, Here is the proof. Bought by Clerk: ' " . 1896 1 county court journal $14 50 1897 I : " attch. record-. 14 00 1897 1 circuit court bar docket 16 00 1898 1 county probate court journal 14 00 1898 1 circuit court journal - . 12 50 1899 1 attch record for court ,12 00 83 00 jsi8 50 18 50 14 00 20 00 10 50 Bought by Recorder: . 18971 mortgage Tecord 1897 1 deed record 1898 1 deed record 1898 1 sheriffs deed record 1899 1 dentists certificate record $81 50 State of Oregon, .' "1 ,- '""''-" " - ss County of Benton J r I, Victor P Moses deputy clerk of Ben ton county, Oregon, hereby certify that the above is a correct statement of record books with the amounts thereof purchas ed by the clerk of Benton county, . Ore gou, from Glass & Prudhomme for cir cuit, county, commissioners and probate courts of said county from Aug 1 96 to June 1 1900 and also a correct statement bf .record books, purchased by the record er of Benton county from said firm from Aug I 96 to June I 1900. . Witness my hard and seal of .said coun ty. ;this 1st day of June 1900. seal - - Victor P. Moses, dep Clerk. : Takes Charge Today. ' Today Mr. Kau-bisch "of the Co lumbia Creamery company assumes cheJge of the Corvallis creamery, and the latter becomes a part of the Columbia Creamery company, of. which Mr. Kubisch is the manager The arrangements for the transfer of the plant were ail perfected last night, and the future output of the concern will be under the auspices of the Columbia Creamery compa ny. The latter is a powerful con cern, v enjoying a '-, wide reputation and, a wider market at fancy pricesj and a great development of the creamery's dairy interests in this -vicinity ought to result. Next wtek Mr. Kaubisch expects to make a house to house canvass of the vicinity jn. the interest of the creamery. He will talk with the farmers, explain his method of bus iness, and inquire into their dairy rrangements. He. is thoroughly I acquainted with the business, and will be found to be a most interest ing person. Those whom he visits will be sure to become interested in his plans, and the iimes teel sure that they may place confidence in his statements. Mr Kaubisch ex pec' a to bsgin his to1 i early next week.. : . Meantime the creamery will be operated, on principles born of wide and ecientihc experience, pro-. ducing a butter product .that will command: .; the best price in any market. The local demand for the product will be fully accommodated . . '.; They are to Graduate. 1 The graduatiug exercises public school occur at tbe of tbe opera house next Friday evening. The class numbers 21 members, as fol lows: A valyn Barn hart, Floyd Bush ueir Davis, : Guy Fleming, Lura Flett, Myrtle Dehaven, Blanche Hershner, Carolyn Harkin, Violet Herbert, Joseph C Henkle, Karl Steiwer, Otto Weber, Harvey Wil son, Bessie M Yates, Belle Mattley, Edythe-Bristow, - May Stimpson, Florence Wicks, May Hotch kiss, Williams Jones, George Rowland and -Etta Fuller. :i. The address to the graduating clas3 will be delivered by Rev L M Boozer. T: The presentation of dip lomas will be by A F .Hershner, chairman of the board of directors. The programme of J the exercises js to be as follows: . Invocation, Rev Mark Noble; piano duet, Vera and Pearl Homer; j oration, "The Power of Education", Belle Mattley; "Old Things .Have Passed ; Away", Myrtle Dehaven; vocal solo, .Prof Ginn; oration, "Philanthropists' Floyd B Davis; oration, "foe One Dark Chapter", Edyth-' Bristow; trombone solo, Victor r Moses; oration, "Signs , Blanche Hershner; valedictory, Emergencies and Men" Karl Stei- wer; . preseentation or diplomas, vocal solo, Lulu Spangler; , violin solo, "Air Vario"De Beriat, Ruthyn Turney. - -" Removal. The tailoring establishment of G M Beam has been removed to the second door north of the Hemphill harness factory. Cleaning, dyeing and repair ing done on short notice and In a sat isfactory manner. Special attention paid to the cleaning and repairing of adles clothing, , All work warranted. A Warning: Voters, beware of statements to the effect that any candidate on the allied ticket is being traded off in order to help any other candidate. All such statements are false, and are circulated by unscrupulously politicians in the hope of deceiving you. There are no traitors on the allied ticket. They L are all true blue.. ' ' ';' . 7 ... OTHER COMPARISONS In yesterday's Gazette Ashamed of his:Name made a comparison of the records of Watters and Gel latly. There were a .few matters that he left out. Here for instance are some : " lst Gellatly . went , to Sumpter, bought town lots run an abstract and real estate business and be came landlord of a "first class mod ern hotel" to-wit the Golden Eagle Watters stayed at home and worked nights to keep up tie business of his office in proper shn pe. 2nd Gellatly has . not, sidce the first day of January, last past been in bis omce halt a dozen whole days at a time, while not only Wat ters, but Watter's deputy have un -til the campaign trip began been io. tbe office all the days and far in to many of the nights., . 3rd. Gellatly has, during the greater part of the year, been pract ically ignorant ot wnat was gojng on in his office, sole control left to his deputy," Captain being Craw-whol- fold, while Gellatly has' been ly and entirely interested in spec- ulations, town lots, and outside matters.- Watters, during the term has run his office in the sole interest of the people, and, save less than $14 a month allowed . by the county, has paid his deputy out of his own pocket, reducing his omo salary to an amountbut little in ex cess of what the recorder's office pays. : . -y . " r 4th. Oa the etumo . Gellatly ..... has publicly denied many things con nected with the Sumpter trip, all of which were truth; - Watters has never at any time or in any place went back on the truth and he never will. 5th- Many a time during Gellat ly's term persons anxious to en ter have seen on the locked door of the recorder's office a sign "Gone to the postoffice." They never saw it on the door of Clerk Watters office. So much for comparisons ,'In filling their ballost . Monday votrrs ' should u remember . Grant Elgin. He is honest; he is capable; he is clean. He 11 no flash', e npty headed politician, but a plain, blunt,, honest ' young man, with plenty of good horse sense. All he has, and he has attained, he has earned by hard knocks Give him a lift..,'- :; ' v :i :' Cold Steel or Dea'h. "There is but one small chance to save your life and that is through' an opera tion," was nhe awful prospect set before Mrs IC Hunt, of Lime Ridge, Wis by doctor after vainly trying to cure her of a tngntlul -case of stomach trouble and yellow jaundice. He didn't count on the marvellous power of Electric bitters to cure Stomach and Liver troubles, but she beard of it, took seven bottles; was whol ly cured; avoided surgeon's knife; now weighs more and feels better than ever. It's positively guaranteed to cure Stom ach, Liver and Kidney troubles and nev er disappoints. Price 50c at Graham & Wells' drugstore. All predictions indicate a great rush this spring and summer to the new gold fields at Cape Nome. Here for the first time in the history , of . man kind, gold is being washed , from the beach sand. Mr C Edgar Lev. is writes on this subject in the April Magazine Number of The Outlook, with' very, full Information, and with some new and extremely Interesting photographs of Cape Nome scenes, streets and min ers. (S3 a year. The Ootxook Com pany New York.) . . - His Life Was Saved. Ms. T. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen of Hannibel, Mo., lately had a wonderful deliverence from a frightful death. In telling of it he says: I was taken with Typhoid Fever, that ran into Pneumo nia. . My lungs became hardened. I was so weak I couldn't sit ub in bed. Nothing helped me. I expected to Soon die of Consumption,-when I heard of Dr. King's New Discovery. One bottle gave great relief. I continued to use it, and now am well and atrong. I can't say too much in its praise." This marvelous medicine is the surest and quickest cure in the world for all Throat and Luug Trouble. Regular sizes : 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Graham & Wells drug store; every bottle guaran teed.- ' ,-- Remember , John G Wooley, the great temper ance orator of this country, will lecture in the opera house, in this city at 8 0 clock next Tuesday night, . LOST AND FOUND, V Wanted, and For Sale Crisp Items to : Interest ai A Column -for you to tferd. . .." $10 Reward ; Will be paid to the person finding the bicycle which .was stolen - from the undersigned, on Eock Creek, May 17th. Description of "wheel: Name, "Diliey;" 22-inch, black enamel frame; reversa ble handle bars; 30-inch wheels, with twisted spokes; Fuibort crank hanger; vim cactis tires, and King pedals.. -t Feakk Vanhoosen, Corvallis, Or, May 29,1900. Auction . Sale. . I will sell at my ranch near Monroe Oregon, on June 12th. to the highes bidder, -675 goats in bunches of 20 t -50. These goats are 425 nannies, 1 t 3 years old, and 250 wethers, 1 to years old. Som bunches will be a nannies, some all wethers, and other half and half. All lots will be separat ed before bidding begins. Sale to be gin at 10 a m. Terms, cash. - : ; George A Houck. Don't forget 25 per cent reduction sale on Radios skirts at Kline's. Bi sni arck's Iron Serve " Was the result of his splendid health." Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the suc cess they bring, use Dr. King,s New Life Pills. Only55c at -Graham & Wells, drug store. . .Dishee at cost, at Hershner's. Fancy Eggs for Sale. . . Hulburt's poultry is up to date, and staudard bred; bred right, raised right, and is ail risrht. If not right he will make them tight. High scoring baaed Plymouth Rucks, ;md priz j win ning Brown Legborts, and Pekin duckp. Eggs from the above at $1.00 per setting of 15, not packed for ship ping. ALDEN S. HULBUBT, V Corvallis, Or. A Frightful Blunder Will Often cause a horrible Burn, Scald, Cut or Bruise. Bucklen's Aruica Salve, the best in the world, will kill the pain and promptly heal it. Cures Old Sores, Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Best Pile Cure on earth.- Only 25c a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by Graham & Well, druggists. .Notice to Taxpayers. Notice is hereby given that , the county court has ordered ire to close the 1899 tax roll on May 19tb, there fore, I will, on said 19, h day of May, 19C0, clo&e up said tax roll and turn the same over to the court. On the re turn to me of said roll I will proceed to levy on and sell property for taxes. Peteb Rickaed, Sheriff of Bentou CouDty. UB Vogle will close his ptace of business when college closes. '. . Rice flour at A Hodee'store. Jio Right to Ugliness. The woman who is-lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be attractive mnst keep her health. If she is weak, sickly aud all run down, she will be nervons and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the od.. It gives strong nerves, bright eye smooth, velvety skin, rich cotrplexion. It will make , a good looking, charmiug woman ,of a run-down invalid. Only 50 cents at Graham. & Wells' drug store. . : . A" Call for Warrants. . t I hereby give notice that there is money in the treasury to-pay city war rants Indorsed prior to October.. j3, 1898. Interest will stop o.h these war rants after this date. ' - ' - ': Corvallis, Or".-, May 30, 1900. Wm McLagvn, City Treasurer. ' ' Blue Bell, Jr. ' - Standard bred. Blood lines are Blue Bell, Hambletonian, Membrino ChleL on thoroughbred foundation. Has- fine style, speed and action. This horse will be at Philomath and my home one half mile east of : Corvallis in Linn county. For particulars call onxr ad dress '" Evebet & Tyson. - CorvallisOr. Two Millloa Feet Lumber for Sale. -Three hundred thousand feet dry yellow fir flooring, rustic and finish of all kinds, the very best grades, must be sold to make room in our shed for more by this fall. We have large amount logs coming. Our prices suit you. Cobvallis Saw Mill Co. For Sale. . Nice property situated on corner block, southwest of public school building. Five lots, good location, large house, good barn, good garden. A bargain if taken before owner goes East. Enquire at .Times office. Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but Skin Eruptions robs life of joy. , Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures them; also Old, Running and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, warts. Cuts, Bruises, B" ':s . Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilt: - Best Pile cure on earth. Drivt : v.us and Aches. On ly 25 cents a bo " are guaranteed. Sold ... by Graham & X.as, druggists. -