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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1900)
LOCAL LORE Miss Jennie King of Coeur D' Al ene Is the guest of her uncle, John Trrn VYC11B. Miss Snell entertained a number of lady friends at Alpha Hall, Tues day evening. The Judge Moor house in this tity has been sold to J E Cronk. The price paid was 600. -'11. a ivicutc uocaiuQ aiiivcu Wednesday from Eureka Springs, Ar kansas, in time tg attend the funeral of her mother. Governor Geer and wife passed through town Wednesday en route home from Sewpoit. They went to the sea-side Monday. "President Gatch went Wednes day to Salem, where he was one of the honorary pall bearers at the f uner al of ex-Major G W Gray. Eecent letters from him to Wil liam Broders, announce that Ben Woldt will leave "Vienna, Austria, to morrow for the United States. George B Keady and J B Horn er, with tbtir families, left Thursday for a camping trip to the Alsea coun try. They expect to be absent a fort Wilson Wright, son of Mrs Wright of Corvaliis, now holds a po sition as superintendent of a quick silver mine in Northern California, and commands a large salary. Moses Craig is spending his sum mer vacation at Orangeport, Xiagara county New York. He holds a posi tion as horticulturist at the agricultur al college at Auburn, Alabama. By express Wednesday,' Hector Brothers north of town received a fine Cotswold buck, lambed this spring. The animal comes from theLadd farm and the price paid for him was 20. He is registered. The horns of a big 6even- point buck are to be seen at "Our House." The specimen Is one of the finest that ever surmounted a deer's head. The animal was killed by Jesse Brown near his home last Monday. t Jacksonville Times, July 24 Geo A Houck, of Benton county, a broth ther of Hon J J Houck, of Gold Hill, arrived in this county lafct week with over 1000 highbred Angoria goats, which he purchased in California and is driving home. The hardwood factory at the saw mill is now turning out telephone cases for the Oregon Telephone com pany. The cases are a sample lot made of maple, balm, cotton wood,' and pine. A large amount of additional, work of the sort is expected at the factory." In the absence of the pastor, Rev Shafer will occupy the pulpit of the Evaneelical church tomorrow. Mr Bhafer is an excellent speaker and an earnest worker. He is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute at Chicago. Christian Endeavor meets as 7pm at which time a collectfon will be ta ken for the relief of the sufferes cf the famine districts of India. Come and bring your offering. A new window display at A Ho des' attracts much notice. It repre sents a camping scene. The camp fire with its overhanging kettle is there. : fij-t olart la 4-Via tanf tha " fraaa thn lfV V 1UV 4V IIU V kl-UVj www. vtvwy bUW Jog with the hatchet etueK in it, the empty cans, the egg shells and all other things incident to a camp in the woods. 1 tie display is seasonable, and the arrangement artistic. Clem Hodes is the decorator. John Lenger's commission house handled the R C Kiger crop of Early Hale peaches. The yield of the orchard was 1,100 boxes, and the whole product has been picked and successfully mar keted. Four hundred boxes were sold in Corvaliis and 700 went, to Portland. Mr Lenger will also handle Mr Kiger's Early Crawfords, which will be ready for picking in three weeks. Of the 'latter there should be 1,000 boxes. . William Hamlin and family ar rived Tuesday from Crawford, Neb raska. They have leased a house, j and expect to spend the winter in this city. They came by team, hav ing left their Nebraska home May 10 th. In the party were two famillies, one of which settled in Grande Ronde, while the other went into the cti rf W oahinrrnn Tr TIamlin qteiq formerly acquainted with Mr McHenry and Carpenter Campbell, in Nebraska. Neil Newhouse artived Wednes day from Eugene, where he has been Tpfit.Mnor the rirver in the nrune orch ard of NorrisHumphery. The mod el adopted in the new arrangement of . the dryer is the same as ; is in use at the big prune orchard, which is 1 understood to be a complete success in curing fruit. In Mr, Humphrey's orchard the Italian prunes are prac tically a total failure. Of Petitea there will be a yield of 2,500 bushels. The orchard comprises 35 acres, halt Italian and half Petite trees, and is one of the finest in the state. Mr Brunk regrets the departure of F M Kaady, a late guest at the Oc cidental, The latter is apparently a dead beat. He' arrived in town, a stranger, and put up at the Occiden tal, He claimed to be an agent of the Native Sons order. For a week jhe continued as the guest of Mr Brunk. Then, without at warning, suggestion or an affectionate goodbye, he de parted, The hour of his going was early. It was, so-far a,s can be judged, long before the landlord had arisen. Where he went is not known. The chief rememberance of him is, that his board bill is still unsettled. . Wheat 45. Judge Mc Fadaen left for Califor nia yesterday. Mrs Jerry Nunan and children of Portland are iu town, the guests of relatives. A wife, a lost 5 piece, a missing dog and many other thiDgs are in quired about in the "Lost and Found" column tbis issue. ' George Davis, Samuel Whitesides and W H Mc Bee have bought three fourths of the Calloway -Hunter thresh iug out-fit, and the latter has gone to Muddy to operate. Joe Hunter re tains a quarter interest. : The following sheiiff's deeds have been filed for record. Peter Eickard te C E Robertson, 820 acres five miles north of Philomath, 1,572 35; M P Burnett to H S PitinaD, 40 acres two miles south of Blodgett, $1. After a rnonth spent in Umatilla" county, A M Witham, who returned Monday, says Willamette is not in it for wheat. He saw one wheat field that was four miles long. The crop beyond the Cascades is excellent. A drop in the price of wheat in the local market occurred Thursday. The decline is from 46 to 45. The price still stands at the latter figure. The change is on account of a decline from 58 and 60 to 54 in Portland, and weaker quotations in the Sau Francisco ana Eastern maikete. The ladies of the Christian church gave a very pleasant lawn social in the court house square Tursday night, The maples were tastefully hung with Chinese lanterns, and ice-cream and cake were . served from a tent. A laige crowd was in attendance. The sum or S19.50 was realized. A welcome change in the weath er has transpired. For the intense heat of the latter part of last week the weather clerk has substituted cool, temperate days and comfortable nights, and the old inhabitant is him self again. A threatening south wind with apparent promise of a harvest rain has been the only unwelcome feature. A number of her friends were en tertained by Miss-- Leona Smith Wed. nesday evening, in honor of the Misses Cooper and Miss Hessel, of PortUud. Those present were: Misses Julia and Louise Cooper, Frances Hessel, Mabel Withycombe Rosalie GreftVz, Lulu Spangler, Leona Smith and Mrs Rennie and Esther Avery. Messrs Grant Elgin, Raymond Henkle, Wal ter Keady, ArthurBier, Ernest Ar nold, ElmerClark, and Mr Rennie. " Guy Clark arrived in town Thurs day, having come from Portland on his wheel. He wore a fine $35 gold medal, taken by him as first prize in a half mile bicycle race at the cele bration ofthe fourthat Baker City. Businessin Baker at present is dull, and Guy will spend the summer in Portland where he has a position. The members of the Clark family are very well pleased with their new lo cation. - Mr and Mrs Cronk arrived Wed nesday from a month's absence at Coos Bay. They expected not to return, but after looking around for awhile they are back, and Mr Cronk has purchased a dwelling into which they moved Thursday, and which they will occupy for an iadeflaite period. At Coos bay Mr and Mrs Cronk visit ed with Kriebels and found them comfortably located, with Mr Kriebel in an excellent position. At Coos bay there is much activity in lumber, ship building, coal and other lines. The funeral of Mrs Haskina oc curred from the Presbyterian church at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. Save J H Haskin of St Louis, all of the sons and daughters were present, Miss Florence Haskins having arrived from Eureaka Springs, Arkansas, just in time to reach the church. The serv ice was conducted by Dr Thompson. The ch:ir was in attendance and ren dered several selections. There was an abundance of floral offerings, and many old time citizens of the town were present t'o pay a last tribute to one who had beenfor nearly half a hun dred years a resident - of Corvaliis. The interment was in Crystal Lake cemetery, . - Ther exodus to the' mountains and the sea has decimated Corvaliis'. population. Save a few straggling citizens, the streets are most of the time deserted. The town, dog dozes lazily on the, side walks, and only stirs to snap at an offending fly. Farmers only come to town for machinery ex tras or a few supplies, and are gone again within a short time of arrival. For the next month to corae Main street wilf not drive people into lun acy with its bustling activity. The only sounds to relieve the monoto.ny will be the noise of hammers where repairs of building are going on, the distant buzz of the sawmill, or the rattle of the machinery in the plan ing mills. . ; " The big log drive passed along the riverfront Thursday forenoon. The main jam began to pass at eight o'clock in the morning, and by noon the river in front of the O R&N dock was practically clear of logs. Tha advance guard of the drive has been passing town for ten days. The drive com prises six million feet, and is com posed of white fir and balm logs for the Oregon City paper mill. In mov ing it forty men and eight horses are employed. The men are paid $2.50 per day, and the daily expense is $150. With the out fit are three scows, one being the bunk house and eating es tablishment for the men, and the oth er two for the use of the horses. The operators are Spalding Brothers, 'for merly of Corvalli3. ' Pror Knisely, the new chemist at the college, arrived - yesterday after noon and has assumed charge of his department. 'He has made a favor able impression on -those . he has met. With " commendable energy, J A Carter has replaced his burned build ings at Wells with new structures, and is again in business. . His announce ment is to be seen elsewhere in this paper. - " Heavy shipments of mail are now regularly received each evening by the new service on the C & E. The arrangement is a great convenience. A moriiing service for Portland would still further accommodate. ' Beginnicg Monday evening, the lobby oi the pott-office will be closed at night. The change is in response to orders isfcued by the post-cfHce de partment at Washington. .-It is on account of numerous post-effiee rob beries that baAe ocenrred. The Central Planing Mills and Box Factory have arranged with the City Lumber yards for a large supply of Cascade Mountain sugar pine to be manuiactured into fruit and other boxes. The box factory proprietors have tried the balm and river bottom or bull pine, which has not given satisfaction. In tjie future they will use the sugar or white pine for box es. This material is superior to spruce lor this kind of work. THE WHEAT YIELD. Reports Frtm the Threshers. The Average so far is Fim iue to St. ven teen Bushels. The uppermost question in Bent on connty miud9 now is"Whatis the wheat yield to be?" Much de pend an how ths waving wheat fields and the threshing machines an swer the question. When farmers do not prosper, merchants, . black smiths and professional men do not prosper. In this agricultural com munity every line is dependent up on the husbandman, and the weal or the woe of one is locked up in the success or failure of the other. Next week threshing of the fall sown grain begins The Smith Whiteaker machine opens up at T W Smith's place Wednesday. The Davis McGee Whiteside Hunt er machine starts at the W H Mc Bee place Tuesday. The Taylor and Tracer machine starts next week, but the day has not yet been fixed. The same is true of the Gellatlv machine. Ahead of all others is the Linderman Lock Knot machine. Its "fall run began last Tuesday. Tnere was. a day and a half of threshing on the E W Fisher fa"m. ,; From there the machine went to Sol King's and threshed until yesterday morning. In the forenoon there was a remov al from King's to Locke's, where threshing is now in progress. Across the Willamette in Linn several threshers are said to be at work. Among others is the Hoflake outfit, which has already threshed several fall crops. The yields where threshing has been done are not so discouraging as might have been expected. The crop, though much shortened, is in no sense a failure. On the Fisher farm wheat made an aver age of 17 bushels. Those who Baw the field, however, say that in an ordinary year the average would not have been less than 35. bushels. On the Hoflake farm across the Willamette from a large, fild of summer fallow was only nine bush els per acre. In the vicinity of Oakville a similar field went ten bushels. On the same' field last year the average was 25 bushels. On the Casper Zierolf farm four acres of wheat threshed as an ex periment Monday, made an aver age of 15 bushels. Oats on the same place averaged 22 bushels. It Averaged F.fteeu Bushels. The first grain threshed in Ben ton this season was at the Casper Zierolf farm Monday. Four acres of wheat averaged fifteen bushels per acre, and a small acreage of oats made an average of 22 bushels. A. farmer who saw it said that the straw in the wheat was good enough for a yield of thirty bushels. The yield however, was not below what Mr Zierolf expected. The grain was threshed by the new Taylor-Tracer outfit. The threshing, in fact was only done for trial of the machine. The out fit was purchased of J R Smith & Company of Corvaliis, and com prised a 33-56 Garr-Scott separator and an eighteen-hbrse Garr-Scott compound enjine, with wind stack er andautomatic band cutter and feeder. . -. A large crowd of interested machine men were - on hand to watch proceedings, and all ex pressed delight at the smooth work ing of the machinery. A machine of the same kind- but of smaller size, and belonging to the Lindar man, Locke Knotts company, was tried on the farm of E W Fish er north of " town, Tuesday - with equal satisfaction.. The cost of the Taylor Tracer""-outfit was about $3,000. -:: - - - ,. . All summer dress goods at "cost. Nolan & Callahan's.: TOO MANY WIVES. One in A'sra and- Another in the ' East That is the Chat ge against Edwards. . . A warrant is out for the arrest of R. E. Edwards." Itehafges him with bigamy and adultry,' The offensel charged is that Edwards, while stil, lawfully married to one woman entered into the marriage relation with another. ' Edwards lives in the Alsea country, near the foot of Digger mountain. The records in the clerk's office show that Edwards wa3 married to Miss E. S. Strake in Corvaliis on the first of last Feb ruary. The marriage was solem nized in the law office of E Holgate, Mr Holgate as justice of the peace officiating. The witnesses to the ceremony were John Burnett and Mrs A Strake. The latter is the mother of the young lady whom Edwards took as hi3 bride. Miss Strake was only seventeen years of age at the time of the wedding, and along with the application for the license w.as filed the mother's writ ten consent to the marriage. At the time of the marriage, Edwards was the husband of an other woman, whose residence is now in the East, and from whom he has never been divorced. The case is brought in the court of John Edwards, justice of peace for Alsea precinct. The warrant was sworn out by District Attorney E it Bry son, who went to Alsea to look up evidence in the case Wednesday. The proceeding is brought in the Alsea court to save milage and costs. The justice in the case is not related to the defendant. The defendant is to be arrested in Alsea this morning, and his preliminary examination wiil follow as soon as arrangements are made. The case is sp.id to be a very plain one, with abundant evidence on the side of the state. Prior to Edward's latest marriage, the Strakes, mother and daughter were, as they still are, residents of Alsea. - DEXXIS STOYALL'S LETTER. Facts Abcnt Baker City and Sumpter Where the Jloney Conies From. Editor Timks: - I hear and read a great deal of late regarding the mines and -mineral lesources of Oregon, more especially the district surrounding Baker City and Sump ter. For the edification of the interest ed readers of the Timks, and as there are several Benton county people who have set their slakes here with the many others, I as one who has become quite well acquainted with this country would beg leave to say a few words. There is no doubt whatever but that the Baker and Sumpter min ing district is booming; as Sumpter has grown during the past three yearfrom a village of 300 to a city of nearly 5000 people. Baker City now contains 10,000 people where only a short time ago there were but half that number. People are flocking in here by the scores and hundreds . r But here comes the all-important .question Do the resources of the country justify this rapid growth? If I should be asked the question I would say, I believe" not. In the first place there is no' agri culture here; that is none to amount to anything as the great host of people require. The country sur rounding Baker City is naught but barren hills, where there i3 naught to be seen but tufts of sage brush and clouds of rolling sand. How ". it makes the heart of the Webfooter long for home, for the green mead ows, the rippling streams and the cool shades to look, across these miles and miles of mountains with out a single tree in sight, naught but sage-brush - and sand, and sand and sage-bru3b, with an occasional jack rabbit that 'perhaps came in here during the crusades, But is there gold here?' Yes there i3, just lots of it. -But I haven't got it, neither has my neighbor -or the the people living across the street. There is mcgiey here too, just lots of it, but it is that which I and my neighbor and the people across the street, together with others brought here when we came. There are mines here too, just lots of them,, and thousands and thousands of dollars are spent in working them. But how many paying mines are there? Very fewr But what makes Baker boom? Well we have just lots of mines and it takes money to run them. So' if yoii will he kind enough to take up another it will mean that much more money for the 'grafters." - - - ; Dennis H Stovall. : Deserted His Family ami His Farm. : The queer behavior of John Lout eenheiser of Alsea has come to puB lic notice. For fifteen years he has resided in Alsea, where he owned 160 acres of land. He formerly re sided at Cameron, Missouri, where an interesting family and a fine farm were deserted by him when he came to the Coast He received a pension of $30 per month, and reg ularly the moEt of this money was sent to the family in Missouri. He refused, absolutely," however, to go back to his family, or to permit members of the family to come out to him, threatening, if they attenua ted to do so, to go where he could not be found. He was a past-master of a Missouri lodge of A O U W, and kept his dues promptly . paid. Recently he went from Alsea to Al bany. There his mental condition grew worse, and members of the workmen took charge of his cafe. Last week, the Democrat says, a daughter and son-in-law of the strange man came out from Missouri, and Wednesday they started with him for his old home. The case is unuually peculiar. Stinginess That Did Not Pay. The man did not live in Benton county. He was a Kansan. He was too stirgy to subscribe and pay for the local paper. He sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. In his haste ihe boy ran over a $4 stand of bees and in ten minutes looked like a warty summer squash. -His cries reached his father, who ran to his assistance, and failing to notice a barbed wire fence, ran into it, breaking it down, cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy and ruining a . $4 pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and got into the corn field and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket the wife ran, upset a four gallon churn of rich cream into a basket of kittens drowning the whole flock. In the hurry she dropped a $7 set of false teeth. The-baby left alone crawled through the spilled cream into the parlor, ruining a new $20 carpet. During the excitement the oldest gfrl ran away with the hired man; the dog broke up eleven setting hens, and the calves got out and chewed the tails off four fine shirts. LOST AND F0DXD. Wanted A man of 35 wishes to correspond with lady with a view to marriage. Address, P O Box 633, Portland Ore. Boxes! Boxes! Apple boxes, peach boxes," boxea of all kind made. - Pine ' cotton-wood and fir. All work guaranteed. Best new planing mill just started at the Corvaliis Saw Mill. Lost. White Setter dog, red spot on left side, red ears. Named Bob Any one finding such a dog notify Frank Lilly and receive reward. All goods at cost until Saturday 28th, at tha Ladies Bazaar. Ladies, when you visit Nolan & Callahan's don't forget looking over their remnant counter: Choice Plums All shirt waists and crash skirts at cost. Nolan & Callahanls. Buy your harvesting outfits at No lan & Callahan's. " Sweeping reductions in all summer goods at Nolan & Callahan's. Big Bargains in broken lines of ladies' shoes at Nolan & Callahan's. The favorite whiskey of famous men is HARPER. Because of its smooth, exqusite flavor; because of its matchless purity; because of its mel low age. No wonder its the favorite. Every drop sterling. -HARPER WHISKEY SOLD BY J G. WCEsTEFELD ; i . Corvaliis, Or. Big Bargains in mens' and boys' summer suits at Nolan "& Callahan's. Complete stock of . harvesting out fits at Nolan & Callahan's ' Cut prices in trimmed hats at Ful lington & Ranney's. For Sale Cheap. Good buggy and harness. Enquire of E P Greff -z,. the jeweler. For .Sale. - " 84 head nannies and 55 head stock sheep. Address or call on S Fisher, Philomath, Oregon. For Sale. ' - A 14 Tray-Currin Fruit dryer. Stcvea complete used one season. Price $25. Will exchange. - R Fis her, Corvaliis. Sugar Pine Boxes. . All kind of fruit boxes made from sugar pine at Central Planing Mills and Box Factory. . .-' Personal. . . "Will the person. to- whom, by mis take, a $5 piece instead of a nickel was given in change at the Ice Cream social Thursday night kindly return the amount due to Mrs Frank Elgin. In making change, the $5 was given, under the impression that it was a nickel. An examination 'of bis or her purse by the person receiving it ehouid show proof of the error. TOLD IS BRIEF. Peoples Movements What They are DoiDg aud Where They are Going. Mrs Mae Irvine left yesterday for Newport, for the season. v - The Nolan family leave the first ofthe week to occupy a cottage at Newport. For the weekLMrs J H Harris is at Kings Valley the guest of Mrs Alexander. - - Mrs Bertha Greenbers. sons and mother, returned yesterday to San Franoisco. . . Mrs Coopex and daughters and Miss Hessel, left yesterday for their homes in Portland. Miss May me Crawford leaves today to accept a position iu the tele phone office at Salem. Esther Reid,for the remainder of the college vacation, is an assist ant at Allen's drug store. Prof McKellips left yesterday for Conuor8ville, Indiana to be ab sent until September 1st. The Misses Simpson, guests of their aunt, Mrs F L Miller, leava to day for their home in Portland, Thursday evening at the lodge hall, the Degree of Honor gave a re ception in honor of the birthday of Taylor Porter. Mr and Mrs Fulton, Miss Hel-. en Holgate and Dr Bowen Letter left yesterday morning for a two weeks camping trip to Alsea. DrTotten recently arrived from Eastern Oregon and now a resident of the vicinity, will hold service at Oak Ridge tomorrow at three o clock. Dr Thompson leaves this af ternoon for Newport where tomor row he wjll hold servic-e in the Pies byterian church. Ha returns to Cor v i. i ; Monday. - The condition of John Sta' busch, who recently suffered a para lytic stroke, is not improved. He remains speechless, and his right side is completely involved with the paralysis. Harrvand Robert A properly armed and eq with three ponies for tra rtquirements lelt yesterday ing tor the Cascades lor a mon hunting and fishing trip. Henry Franklin has designed a drilling machine that promises to become useful in rock and other work. The machine strikes 120 blows a minute. The force of the blow is from- 200' to 250 pounds. The machine for blasting purposes It weighs but bU Dounds. The 13 aloutlUU. Miss Olive Smith. acceptably and taithtulvJTrTTed the position of organist at the Presby terian church, dnriug the past two years, returns to her home at Dallas today. It is seldom that a church is so fortunate to secure the services of a competent and constant organ ist for so long a period. The entire church and congregation recognize with gratitude the efficient service and help, Miss Smith has rendered. Whether or not Miss Smith wili return to Corvaliis is uncertain. ' HEAP TLUBBLE." A Chinaman's Distress. A letter From His Hire. Hog-m?at High. "In .China, muchee tlubble. Chinamen no likee. Too muchee fight, all sem Melican man." That is what Chinamen Ti said yester day. He had just received a letter from his wife in China. The .mis sive is supposed to have breathed much love and affe ction, as well as distress, for Ti was visibly affected. The letter said that the prices of everything in China had advanced since the war began. Thu3, rice before the war was a dollar per 100 pounds; now it was five dollars per 100. To get a small trunk through the Chinese custom house before the war cost $1; now it costs $10. But here is where the shoe pinches. Even as a lady loves a new spring bonnet, the Chinese love pigs. "Heap likee pig all time eatee, heap good" was Ti's description of the chinamens love of hog meat. Before the war. to get a pig through the custom bouse cost one cent par pound; now it costs five cents per pound. The consequent laceration ofthe average Chinese bosom . is easily understood. Ti's letter was on tissue paper in Chinese characters and was about a yard long. It read up . and down the page instead of across it, Ti said the Chinese troubles were caused by missionaries. "Chlist ian makee heap tlubble Ketchum China girl, makem Chlistian too; Boxer no likee. Cut um Chlistian head off. Chinaman no likee Boxer all sem Injin." ; ; ' Piano Instruction. . Mordaunt Goodnougb, teacher of piano and organ. Method of Dr Ma eon of New York. Terms reasonable.