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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1902)
Corvallis Times. BY B. T. HtVTNE. Official Taper of Benton County, COKVAIXIS, OREGON JVJ.Y 5, 1802. IT IS WELL. Farmers about 'Corvallis were paid $1,700 by the creair-ery for butter fat during Tune last year. They receive $4,000 this year. On the same basis, they should receive ihr Tune next vear $6,000 to $8,ooo. ' That they will do so, is likely. Farmers who have been patrons of the creamery from the beginning are increasing their herds. They have found that the business pays. None are retiring from it. Those who began 'with ten cows now milk twenty or twenty five. Many ex pect ultimately to increase the number to fifty or sixty. At the same time they are raising the standard of their herds by purchase or breeding better animals so that their profits are otherwise increases- , And there is an active aemancl for all the butter their cream makes. It goes into the market and is sold quickly at the highest prices, As time goes on it will sell more read ily on the reputation it is now making. And farmers are becoming more and more skilled in feeding and care of dairy stock. They are studying the new business, and are learning. They are building silos; they are seeding pasture lands; they are experimenting with "grass es and forage plants. The better feed and better care will further enhance the yearly proSt.. . Summed up, the dairy industry is firmly established i;i Esnton, is thriving, and is growing. What nature put here in the beginning, man is laying hold of. It is a rich heritage, that fully developed, will yield an abundant: reward. It is well. THEY DIDN'T WEI? Tracy and Kcrriii in the Oregon Psa iteatiary Corycrsl Paaishrasnt Thers. Recently the Ti:jS3 printed from the Pendleton -uast Uregonian an article that described how prison ers were whipped in the Oregon tvnitpnriT-v. "and that sdd that TrsCT- and Merrill, the escaped con r.se r-rioners VA-l" w .--0 x- to whom the punishment had been administered.- wita reference to the subject the following is ot in terest: Editor Times: Since the escape of Tracy and Merrill from the pen itentiary numerous stories have . been given circulation, rear.y of v which are given currency by ex cohvicts. , As an example there appeared in the Times of the 28th ' an" extract from a Pendleton paper . making the claim that unmerciful whippings were in a measure the cause of Trscy' and Merrill's triple murder and desperate escape, Allow me to say that neither of them was ever touched with the lash in the. Oregon penitentiary. , Corporal punishment is only re sorted to in extreme cases and nev er for petty " offenses. It is the 'general reputation of the manage ment that it has given to prisoners as good or better consideration than any former administration. The intention of the govern or ' elect to discontinue whipping, if he has so declared himself, will certain- . ly result in the use ot otner modes of punishment which must prove adequate to the necessity Such -as that perhaps as was recently used at the United States prison on McNeil Island . If Mr Chamberlain does net seek the counsel and 'advice of those with whom he entrusts the care of Oregon's convicted criminals, rather than that of foolish senti mentalists, I mistake very much the judgment of the man.', Ralph M. Dayisso:. Music Lessons ilordaunt Gooclnousrh will teach piano m m and harmony in Cor V-ilia this summer, . Terms ( ir.p tirmr lessor.. 6S cer.ts One 45 minute lesson, 50 cents One 30 minute lessoD.,.35 cents Our 4th of July suits for men and boys are all right- Stvle quality and wear. . " Nolan & Callahan Colbert fiTGrssofyManfy. Co. Sash, doors, moldings, furniture and general finished lumber. 1 South Main St. Corvallis Ore. HOW WE CELEBRATED. The Fourth of Jufy A Big Crowd A a Onnd Time. VJOCl-J.il..1 " - I X lie ea.gic unu aiv-aun-v and loner vesterdav. The -popping of firecrackers fired off hy smsll boys set him to going in the early morning, and under the inspira tion of band . music, miscellaneous noise and the outburst of patriot ism, he kept it up till dewey eve. It was the glorious Fourth of July. There was a large crowd. Peo ria ctvUjpA from the frontier dis tricts of the county on Thursday. That evening there were many strangers on the street. At 8:30 on the morning of the Fourth a spe cial train arrived from Albany. It brought two of people. Through out the morning vehicles kept ar piving and by ten o'clock, despite the threateningweatherandoccasion al showers, Main street was lined for two or three blocks on either side with people who crowded and justled each other. ' ... The parade formed at ten o clock at the City Hall and moved south to A, east on A to Main, North to Van Buren, and , thence west to Fourth and the court house square. It moved in the following order: Goddess of Liberty, Miss Mary Danneman in a chariot drawn by four white horses, the Shedd band, float, peace and plenty, liberty car filled with children representing the states and territories, and carriages of citizens, George Washington was represented by Master Victor No lan and Miss Gracia Smith was Martha Washington. The exercises at the square con sisted of the oration, -the reading of -the Declaration and music by the Corvallis and Shedd bands. J B Irvine was president of the da3'. The Declaration was read by Her man Tartar. Judge Northrup's oration began at 11 o'clock. Be fore he' had fairly began rain be gan to fall, and the crowd repaired t- thp circuit court room, where the speech was concluded. It was a very senstDte and interesting ad dress. In the 'afternoon the following pvenfs occurred. Clay pgeon shoot jj,ntries, Pm lomath and Corvallis. Corvallis team, Burnett, Lilly, Elgin, Duly and Smith; Philomath, Williams, rrmk, Newton, Allen and Bryan, In the first contest, each team made a score of 33. Hundred yard dash entries. Woodcock of Corvallis, and Parker of Albany. Won by Woodcock; prize 5 10. ' - Four-forty dash Entries, Beach Moore and Woodcock; prize $10. Won by, Roy Woodcock. 50-yard dash Entries, Wood cock and Burnett; Woodcock won; prize $ro. 8So"b:cvclerace Entries, Fisch er rv.llins Mor-nn. Riddle of Monmouth ;' Hart, Wicks, Ramsel, prize Sio; Riactle won. Hose race, for a prize of $5o. Entries, one Philomath' and two Corvallis teams. Mack Hemphill's tpc.tn ran in 2r.A and White side's team in 31. The money went to the latter team. During the process of the bicycle race, a small boy stepped in front of a swiftly moving wheelman and was knocked down. He was picked up uncouncious, but soon recovered. "The weather du-xing the after; neon was fairly pleasant. A few drops of. rain fell .occasionally but the fall was not sufficient to inter fere with the contests, which were still in progress in the presence of a large crowd when the Times went to press. Blee Print Maps. Elite print maps of any township in E.ossburg Oiegon and District, showing all vacant lands for 50 cents each. If you want, any information front the' U S Land Office address Title' Guarantee & Loan Co licseburg, Ore. It will pay yon to investigate goods and prices at J II Harris You tan sfeve money. Posts Shingles and ail lumber on hand at l'-mbar yard. hinds of d inter Eton the LevAou' County Market Report. ' POr.TLAXD. W.hfiqt. - VftllfeV. 67 Floor, $ 2.85 to $ 3.40 per bnl. Potatoes, $1 c0 to 1 .20 psr csatal 'Egg?, Oregon, -13 to 2 o per doz. Butter, lito lb.; per lb. Creamery, 17. to 13i per ib. ' C03VALLIS. . Wheat, 53e per bushel, Oats 32 - Flour, SOe and 85 per sack." Butter, 15to2o c per -pound Oreamerv.-oGe. per roll. - Egg?; 15a par' dozen: . ' Chickens; to 12 1 er - lb Lard 15 c per lb.p KS S3 2? O 3a. - - ' COMMISSIONER IRWIN'S FIND Hoed the Garden and Found Money Long Lost A Queer Coin. ' While he hoed potatoes, the oth Commissioner Irwin made a find of money that has been long lost. The find consisted of a skigle coin of the denomination ot gio, and it is such a piece as people now adays never see. Though it is American money, its appearance is ... . . - r 4--u so unlike tne $,io-pteces w. present day, that no one would recognize it as such, save that on its face the com bears the legend, "Ton TVriiarc " its date is 1052, and the circumstances connected wifh it; discoverv. as wall as the character of the coin, leads to be lief that the piece has been lying in thevicinity of where it was found for nearly, if not, quite half a century. The queer coin was louna in a potato' patch on the farm of Mrs Elizabeth Irwin, twelve mites south of Corvallis. The potato' plat is an acre in extent, and it is about 300 yards to the eastward of Mrs . Ir win's residence. It is on land that used to be known as the Ike Win kle place. Through the spot, the old stage road used to run, 40 or 50 years ago. That was in the eolden davs when Oregon was a frontier with more Indians than whites, and when packers and min ers traveled to and from the newly discovered gold diggings of Calif ornia. There was a -mtie log cao in on the spot then, and a stream of water near afforded the travelers a stopping place, a privilege of which many and many a stranger, tradition says, availed themselves. The theory is that some fine day away back in the Fifties, possibly -i ' r a -,i-'rr n miiipr or nacker or "Rentoii count v settler, returning from California camped at the cabin. He had with him, not only the buckskin sack 01 sold dust that was everywhere in circulation, but in addition had a stock vof the $10 gold pieces that the new rnint at finn Francisco had at the time just beg.ua to manufacture out ci cure Cahtor-na .gold, aiiu, wnue he refreshad' himself, the coin that uecause of its unusual appearance is new accounted queer, was drop ped, there to lay unobserved and unclaimed, until Commissioner Ir win's hoe brought it to view, a day or two asio. The plat where the coin was found has baen continuously seeded and worked for the pa?t 40 years or more. Sometimes it has been a rnrdm for two or thrci years. aud then has been seeded to oats, or wheat or grasses or hay. Al most every returning season in the time the plat has been ploughed an worked; and in every round of sol cultivation, the lost coin has doubt less always been stirred or moved, l-.nt nnr ho'tir-? so that the eve or man beheld it. The -non for in stance, who last v' -b the pota toes got very dose we lest .gold pieceT for tlf i the commis sioner puilea. j-ii from under a ( potato vine, ..d from a -depth of perhaps an inch below tue suimce. The old coin has a peculiar ap pearance It is very much lighter in co'cr ian the usual American gold pr.-e, Ononeside.it has an eas-'m, r:d it is a queer looking eagle. The bird is very small, and itsVaigs hang much lower than they hang on the eagles on coins nowadavs, as though the bird might be in distress, instead of bold and couch ont as they ought to be. The figure is in all respects more crude and rov.gn tnan trie giaojiui bird that we are accustomed to see. On the same side are the words, "United States of America, ten dol. lars," the letters forming a circle almost around the face of the coin. Above the eagle is this inscription, "8S4 Thous." The other side 01 tne com i.- ev en more strange. No goddess of liberty with a wreath encircling her brow is there. In fact, there is no symbolic figure at ail on that side. Instead the surface is check ered with little squares made; with very fine lines that cross each other like the wires in a sieve. Across ihe center is a plain band, and 013 this band are the words, "united States Assay Glace of gold, San Francisco, California, 1852." . The words of course indicate that the coin was made at the San Francis 's co mint, and that the 1S32 was the year of mintage. Trs sb-e. the cueer coin is mucii larger than the ordinary Sio-gom piece. In diameter is psrnaps a twentieth of an inch more, and this in a measure adds to its strange ness. . Its lighter color, due' pos sibly to the absence of alloy or some other cause, together with its strange 'lettering, strange eagle, ab sence of a goddess of liberty, makes the coin a sight worth seeing, and accounts for the bewilderment that overhung Commissioner mvin for a day or two after he made the fmrl. Tt is sunoosed that the coin is unusually valuable on account of of the fact that it is no longer minted. HORSES TO RUN A Race on Kiger's Track Sunday Sports are Betting on the Result. Local sports talk much just now iinut a rntnino-horse'race. It is to be run on the Kiger track south of town Sunday. I ne nour ior the event is between one and two in the afternoon. The horses are a mare owned by Clyde Cook, and a horse owned by Gene Tortora. It is said that about $200 has already been posted on the outcome, and with the discus sion of the case that is in progress ahnnt town it is nrobable that the aggregate stakes will be many times more by the time the race takes place. The distance is to be a quarter of a mile. The race is the outgrowth of a contest of the same kind that took nlace on the county road near Sol King's Wednesday: It was be twppn thf Tortora horse and an other that Cook owns. The Tor tora horse won by a good many feet, and the making of the race against the other Cook horse was theconsequence. Several town sports witnessed and won or lost shekels on Wednesday's race. BUILDING BATH HOUSES TTnr AU-vear-Round Business Th Building Is Already Under way. A new enterprise is incubating over at Newport. The plan to es tablish there a big bathing estab lishment for the benefit of invalids, who will be treated, not only in the summer season, but the Whole year round. The promoter is Dr Minthorn, late proprietor of a similar estab lishment at Hot Lake, Eastern Oregon. His interests at the lat ter place are said to have sold at .000. He has the building al ready underway at Newport. One or two stories are already up, and they say a third is to be built. The length is 85 and the width 52 feet. .With its appliances, it is said the establishment is to cost $7,000. It is located oa the bluff racing the ocean, 100 feet south 'of the Gatch cottage. The .proposals ci the promoter are manifold. The doctor is skirled in the use 01 the bath for the bet terment of human mechanism. He proposes to surround surf bathing with such strictures as will make it healthful. A proper rub down in a warm dryroom and similar precautions will fee observed, lie proposes to give salt -water baths and other baths, such as fan baths, needle baths, Turkish baths, and the like in treatment of rheumatism nervous diseases and other ills to which flesh is heir. In - short, as talked of about Newport, the es tablishment is to be a big thing, and one calculated to . become a future attraction at that popular seaside resort. A MAN TV-R-i T-Ir.w. bat Ween Alive his Ee- havior was Strangest of tii-3 , . Strarsre. A curious character has just died at Union, Oregon. He owned a railroad, but never 'accepted a pass on it, it is said, had never ridden on it, preferring a cayuse to his steam horse. . He also pos sessed a fine residence, which his family occupied, but the greater portion of his time was spent in a cabin near Drewsey. He had three large general stores in liastern Oregon, fdled with clothing, yet he cr.lv" wore overalls, a cheap cotton shirt, a pair of cowskin boots aud an old wool hat. He owned a Si 0,000 flouring mill at Drewsey, but he had never been inside of it, thoueh he passed it almost daily. With every reasonable luxury on earth at his command, a splendid home, and a devoted wife always pleading for him to come aud re main at home, he preferred a rude cabin in the alkali desert-, a board bed. and bacon and beans,, aud the companionship " of cowboys' and sheep-herders. I-'c.r Sale Two well bred iuree year old Clydes dale colts, color hay, Fcr futlter itifo- tioa it: quire of. X A Norton - ' Blodgett Oregon Big bargains this week in Men and Soys summer suits, shoes end hats Nolan & G2I iahan. . ' v- ,' Dotft Tor get us "When you want clothing, we can save you money Nobby all wool snits from $7 to 14. Children suits $1 75 to 6 00. Just received a big line of shirts, underwear and hats. Come and see us Headquarters for .Weir Stone ipif a pi can be sealed or un-sealed by 1 iflJL I a cnd- P1J Wl never breaks when being se 1 i 1 fa 1 aled or un-sealed. Pill I PI excludes the light as well as 1 fill 1 the ail- fplff f 151 enables the user to know if TffSf contents are keeping by a . - A A simple test.. I S. 3 Pints, Quarts, -Half Gailon- t at lutes' &mmf Tie Mil Beit! Wte. Co : Manufacturers and Dealers in ' SKugfts Ea m Posts A Square Deal for Everybody " Yards near Southern Pacific-Depot, Corvallis, Oregon, . '.MORGAN &.EGLIM ResH Estate, ' Excih&ngs and Insurance Agstsls, CcryMs, Oregoss. J . If you wish to sell or buy anything, see us. We have a .ire line of farms and city property, improved and unimpro ved. 'Also several nice acre blocks outside tbe incorpora tion. . i!f!?ff!?W1?W1Wi 1 1 W k Hi f ill Sl IE Shoes. A'A If I Hp Fruit Jar... JA Boss .