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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1902)
LOCAL LORE. Klde a Rambler. Thomas Nolan arrived yeaterkay from the Seaside. Miss Mabel Cronlse left Wednes day for a week.s visit with Salem friends. Clem Hodes and George Belt arri ved Thursday from a two week's out ing at Newport. J C Cox ar-! Tittle son, of Jeffer son arrived Thursday for a brief visit with friends. WHMaione. George Peek and S N Warfield have been appointed appraisers of the estate of J H Mason. Mr and Mrs J E Winegar came up from Corvallis, Tuesday, for a visit with the former's parents. Telephone Eegister. Alex Schick, former Corvallis liv erymao, arrived Thursday from Bro wnsville for a few days vUit with friends. J H Harris is expected home to day after a six week.s sojourn in the mountains of California for the benfit of his health. Mr and Mrs L F Wilson arrived Thursday from a month's outing at the Newport beach. They occupied a cottage at Big Creek. Monday next is Labor day, which is a legal holiday, and all public offl , ces in town, inclnding those at the court house will remain closed. Dr and Mrs A J Bosseter of Day ton Oregon, who have been visiting Mr and Mrs Brunk for the past two weeks returned home Wednesday, Plans and specifications are now on file at the court house for a new bridge to be built on the Alsea road. It provides for a main span of 56 feet. A marriage license was issued Wednesday to Miss Lois E Lewis and S O Watkins. The wedding ceremony was performed at Philomath Wednes day evening. County Clerk Moses is ' missing. He dissappeared Wednesday, and is not expected back in the court house until next Tuesday. Whether it is a wedding or an outing is not known. No alarm is felt. W A Wells left Wednesday on a business trip to Medford. From there he goes in a few days to the Seuohern Oregon springs where H F Fischer is sojourning. Mr Wells is to be absent two weeks. A Kyle who recently purchased the house at the corner of 14th and Van Buren is making improvements to the property, and E A Morgan who occupied it has removed to the Guy Laws house, ' Reduced rates have been made by the Southern Pacific on account of the Elks Carnival, in Portland. Sepr- ember 4th and 5th. Round trip tickets will be sold from Corvallis to Portland . for one fare, or 82.60. Announcements of the reduction appear in another column. Mr and Mrs L N Price arrived Wednesday from a seven week's out ing at the seaside. Mr Price whose health was impaired, 13 very much improved. The family are to leave today for Irving, Line County, where they expeet to buy a home and reside. Sheriff Burnett is proceeding to enforce the collection of delinquent taxes due on the lands of the Coast Land & Livestock Company in Benton County. The official notice of sale of the lands for the taxes ap pears in this issue of the Times. The amount of the taxes delinquent on the lands is nearly $4,000. Wednesday at 8 p m Ninus Francisco and Martha Elng were un ited in marriage at the home of the brides parents Mr and Mrs Samuel Elng. H A Deck officiating. The room was tastefully decorated. A number of friends and relatives present wished them Godspeed. After the ceremony refreshments were served. The new ly married couple will make , their home in Corvallis. "Is this where Thomas Jones used to work" asked a strange youth as he entered the Graham & Wells drug store Wednesday afternoon. When . told that it was, he threw a big pack age on the counter with the remark -Tnnpa inatnmt-pr! him f.'i laava If fhoro The wrappings were found to contain the hide of a big cougar killed by the new county surveyor who ia now rus ticating for the benefit of his health in themountalns near Hazelwood, Doug las County. S Jensen returned Monday from Roseburg, where heand two daughters filed on timber claims in the locality. First class timber was secured about 10 miles from the railroad . 'Mr Jen sen, who is familiar with the timber situation in the East, says ft will not be iong till the people of Oregon will realize how precious are the big trees that are now being cut for , market, eo many of which have been ruthles sly turned in the past, A news item of absorbing interest to parents and to boys who smoke cigarettes is the terrible death of Charles Zane. aged 11 years, which occurred last week atEaston, Pennsyl vania. The dispatch announcing his death dated August 21st, is as follows: "Charles Zane, aged 11 yeara died to day from brain fever, superinducad by excessive cigarette smoKlng. He was ill ten days, and, while delirious, he went through the motions of hold ing a cigarette to his mouth, and im agined he was blowing smoke from ; his nose." Wha.t do Corvallis mothers eee down the future fbr'suc,h of their sons as smoke cigarettes? ' A purse has been found. Read about it in the advertisements. Dr and Mrs Withycombe arrived Wednesday evening from Fish Lake. M E Church Sou;e Sunday School 10 am. Preaching 8 p m by the pas tor All are invited. Thomas Hudson who sustained a broken thigh in the Philomath rail load accidentia improving. Mrs RIdders and daughter, retur ned yesterday to their home at Well's aHera brief visit with Corvallis friends. Neil Newhouse and family and Miss Daisy Rose arrived Wednesday evening from a camping trip to Waterloo. Mrs E;F Thayer is to leave to morrow to join her husband at Asto ria, whsre the latter has a permanent position. After a brief visit with relatives, Ed Crawford left yesterday to accept a position in a mercbantile establish ment at Eugene. A late letter from Professor E F Pernot relates that he will leave Washington City in time to reach Cor vallis September 20th. Those who are to deliver wood to the Times are requested to do so as soon as possible, or at least to give notice of their intention to do so. Preaching by the Pastor at Mc Farland Chapel. M E Church South next Sunday II a m. Sunday School 10 a m Epworth League 7 pm. Monday is the regular "meeting of Corvallis Fire Department, and the snuual election of officers. All members are requested to be present. Conductor Hoefline of the Yaqui na train spent a couple of days in town this week, during which he was under treatment by a Corvallis dent ist. Services at the Christian Chuica next Sunday, Subject in the morning, "A City of Righteousness" in the eve ning "The Lost Sheep. Ella M Humbert. G W Smith, recently arrived from Kansas, has gone to Washington county to look at that section with a view of locating. He is to be absent a week, In the Lilly yard, hop picking is to begin next Thursday, the 4:h inst. About 160 pickers will be required. The yard comprises 40 acres' and the crop ia very fine. All threshing machines are now busy on the spring grain. Practically all the grain wili have been garnered by the latter part of the week. So far the season has beeni notable for fine weather for harvest operations. Next Wednesday the Crawford peaches in the Kiger orchard will be readv for mckine. They will be sola at a dollar per bushel, buyers to pick them. The orchard can De reached either by ford or ferry. C M Cady: married recently in Corvallis and a son of Mr and Mrs J J Cady. has been promoted to a position in the train dispatcher's' office with the Southern Pacific in Portland. Mrs E Mundy and family of Portland arrived Thursday ,and occu py one of the Jackson houses on Ninth street. They come for educational purposes and expeet to remain four years while some of the young folks take a college course. Prof. Cordley has made an inves tigation of the grasshoppers in vari ous adjoining localities, and has deci ded that they are not of a dangerous variety. He says thev are not of the the migratory kind that work such destruction in eastern states. Misses Ella and Frances Currin leave today for Weiser, Idaho, where they have positions as teachers in the public schools. Their home -is with their mother, Mrs Mars, on the Gar ricn Tinarl althouffh thev taaeht at Corvallis last year, and previously at tended staniord universicy-aionaay s Salera Journal. TT.-n nlckinar becins in the Whit- JT C 7 U I excellent, and the yard comprises 30 acres. A feature is tnat grassnoppers have stripped the vines .almost bare of leaves, and picking will be easy and clean. About eighty pickers will be required, and it will take about 12 days to complete the work. - Recent letters to Corvallis friends from N P Peterson and family are to the effect that Eastern Washington Is not as desirable a place to live as in Western Oregon. Mr Peterson wrote that Webfoot might yet be his home. Another of his family wrote that on account of the dust over there the teams wore bells so they would not run against other teams on the road. The century dictionary at 63 is the newest offer made by agents. Mr Riddle of Philidelphla has been in town for two or three days, selling the set at that figure.- The original price was $120, and II sets were re cently placed in Corvallis libraries by the Oregonian at $88. It is cheaper to repair a bridge than pay for an accident. It is up to the road supervisors to keep this in mind, and to be sure a defect in no bridge escapes their scrutiny. Far mers and others who have doubts as to the safty of a bridge should re port it to supervisors or members of the county court. Benton wants no bridge accidents. For Sale Thirty three head of Angora goats. Also a spaa ef mules. Address "B" Corvallis. . COUNTY OFFICERS' ACCOUNTS Expert at Work on Them Corvallis Man Got a Deer and Wants Reward, The reward for a captured deer in now claimed by County Judge Watters. He made a trip into the Alsea mountains Tuesday after noon, returning Wednesday night. He brought along a fine buck, the head and horns of which he has as proof, and which, by the way, are said to be beautiful speci mens. Mr Watters claims that John Hyde and Frank Spencer will bear testimony that will give hirn clear title to the reward. James Gibson, who is experting the books of the officials at the court house will hand in a report at the coming meeting of the coun ty court. It will not, for lack of time, cover the accounts ol all the officers. He began work immed iately after his appointment, and by the time court meets will only be able to report as to the accounts of ex-Clerk Watters, Sheriff Bur nett and ex-Recorder Elgin. The experting of the books of the coun ty treasurer will require a consid erable portion of next month, and report on the accounts of that offi cer will not be forthcoming until the October meeting of the court. There is no doubt that the ac counts of the officials will be found to be perfectly straight. RICH IRWIN'S FIND MAY COME TO BENTON Has Sold His Cattle in Eastern ' Ore .gon Looking for a Farm. J. M. Henkle, brother of G W Henkle of this city, arrived Wed nesday. He is an old Benton coun ty man, having settled ' in the vi cinity of Philomath when a small boy. In 1885 he went East, and ioyeasrago settled in the vicinity of Prineville to engage in the stock business . The ranges there how ever, are not as thrifty as they us ed to be, and Mr Henkle contem plates a return to Benton to reside. He was out to look at a farm Thursday, ' but made no purchase. tie still owns a ranch near Prine ville, but has sold his herd of cattle down to; 50 head. Mr Henkle ex pects to remain in the valley until the isth. He left for Philomath 'Thursday afternoon to visit rela tives. Choice three year old steers in Crook county bring $5 per head, two, $25; yearlings, $20. The ranges there have been so eaten out that it is necessary to feed stock from November to April. Another Man Found an old Ten Dollar Piece in a Potato Patch, The Times recently told how Commissioner Irwin founji a queer $ 10-piece in a potato patch at the home of his mother, south of Cor vallis. James Irwin says that . the commissioner, with visions of a bushel or two of the same kind to be found by further digging, dug in the patch a hole big enough to bury the largest horse on the farm. The coin found by Mr Irwin, it will be remembered, bore date of 1852, and differed radically from present day $ 10 pieces. For it, the commissioner has since refused several offers, among others, one of $25. A $io-piece of different mintage, but found under identical circum stances, was picked up in a potato patch at Wells, in the north end of Benton 14 years ago. The details are briefly told in the following, printed in the Times in 1888, and brought to the office Thursday by a subscriber: "In a letter to the Oregonian, Mr J F McMunn of Wells, Benton county, sends the following note about the finding of a relic of pion eer days: 'Mary Carter, wife of John A Carter while digging po tatoes in the garden, found a $10 gold piece, bearing the date of 1S37. This may be . regarded as a relic of Oregon's early days. The strangest circumstance is that the piece of ground on which the coin was found has been ploughed and worked for the last thirty years. WATER PEOPLE WRITE SOLD A FARM Interest of 'Minor Heirs Bought at Guardian Sale C. J. Davis the purchaser. A Benton county farm was sold at auction at the court house Wednes day. The property was the farm of 140 acres m the R R Walker estate, It lies three miles west of town and adjoins the Charles Smith and Rowland Fischer farms. The sale involved only the inter est of the minor heirs, and was made by Mrs Ford, guardian, un der authority from the courts. The guardian herself, who is the widow of R R Walker and mother of the minor heirs, holds a dower interest equal to the combined interest of the heirs, or one-half of the farm. There was one bidder at the sale. He was C J Davis who arrived several months ago from Washing ton City. He is a brother of W G Davis who bought the John Row land place north of town. He paid $1,400 for the interest of the heirs If the sale is confirmed at the end of the month allowed for redemption or increase of the bid, Mr Davis will reside on the property. There is a contract ready to be let at Cramer's Organ & Carriage factory for 2 million lofcs to be loaded on cars, 1 mil lion feet of hemlock to . be loaded at Grider's switch, logs to be hauled three miles from Hains place. 2 miles this side of Mills City. , One milliou feet to be put on cars at Cramer's switch this side of Summit. one mile from skid road. For further information write or call on R.M.Cramer, Organ & Carriage Factory. Fcr ale , Three milch cows, one fresh, One heavy horse, and one driving team. Cramer Organ & Carriage Factory. Want to Know When the Next Meet ing of the Corvallis Council Will Occur A letter has been received in this city from the people who pro pose to bid for a franchise for a new water plant at Corvallis, askjng when the next meeting of the city council will take place. From this it is supposed that they are making arrangements to be present, and to make their offer on that . occasion. The next meeting of the council will be on the second Monday in September, which will be a week from next Monday. Meantime, the pros and cons of the water question are much dis cussed, and the expectation is gen eral that new conditions of one kind or the other will result from the agitation. While in town, Engineer Smith who is at the head of the plan for bringing moun tain water into Corvallis, said that if granted a franchise by the coun cil, his company would have the plant in full operation within a year and a half after the contract was signed It is estimated that the cost of the undertaking would be somewhere between $70,000 and $100,000. .. MACHINERY ARRIVING For the New Steam Loundry Taylor Miller's Foot Crushed in Threshing Accident. The engine and boiler has arrived for the new steam laundry. Both have been placed in position in the Charles Young building, which is to house the enterprise. The boiler is twelve and the engine is eight horse power. Cal Thompson pro moter of the enterprise, hopes to have the launrdy ready for operat ion by September 20th. A portion of the machinery is to come from Rochester, N Y, and it is because of this that the start is somewhat delayed. The machinery in the plant is all to be modern and up-to date, , which is a guarantee that the work to be turned out will be of the best. Mr Thompson, who came recently to Corvallis from the East, is a driving young man and a de sirable addition to the local busi ness world. Private School. Miss Anna Denman will open a pri vate school the first Monday in October. For particulars inquire at residence cor. nth & Monroe. Fresh vetch seed at ZierolPs. Notice tolnxieje Notice is hereby given that the county board of equalization will attend the office of the county clerk ' of Benton county, state of Oregon in the said court house of said county, on Monday the 22 03 September, ioo2. and continue in session one week at which time they ) will publicly examine the assessment roll of said Benton county, state of Ore gon, and correct all errors in valuations, descriptions or correct qualities of lands, lots or other property. All persons in terested are required to appear at the place and time appointed. - H. L. BUSH. Assessor of Benton county, state of Oregon- Zierolf has vetch seed. Found Between Philomath and Oak Creek a silver watch. Owner can have same by proving protiertv and oavinsr for this no tice at TimE office. Broadhead Drees Goods. Wanted Men for work in saw mill and lumber yard. Steady work. Inquire of Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Coburg. Colbert & Gregory 'Manfy. Co. Sash, doors, moldings, furniture and enerai finished lumber. South Main St. Corvallis Ore. ill ' M OP TO DATE "Sorosis T'-r-1 V At: $1.50, $2.00, $2 50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4:50, $5.00. Made from fine black mercerized goods and of proper style and fit. To be had only at KLINE'S. Tie Regulator of Low Price Shirtwaists at One-Half Price. We have them in colors at 25, 35, 50, 75c and $1 .co up to $2.0.0 white wraists from 50c to $2. Remnants in all color and materials. We are making a"1 Clear ance Sale of Remnants of Calicos, Percales, Lawns, Swisses, Challie Dimities, Shirtings, Muslins, etc. ; 20 per cent reduction on all Dimities, Challies and Lawns. We carry a full line of W. B. Corsets Girdles, Summer weigH and Straight Fronts, 50c to $1.50" Ladies' 2-clasp Suide Lisle Gloves in black, greys and white, 50c F. L. MILLER'S Corvallis, Or. Phone 191. lUfjen you sec it in cur ad, it's so "Broadhead Dress Goods New Outing Flannel New Flannelettes "Hawes" $3 00 Hats, for men New Clothing and Overcoats Royal Worchester Corsets Mens Furnishings W. L. Douglas $3,00 and 3,50 shoes Ladies Fine Shoes New Cloaks and Tailor Made Suits New Goods Weekly. Strictly Up to Date! J, D. Mann & Co are receiving Car Load Lots of Furniture For fall trade, and are now able to show a fine line Of Furniture, Carpets and Sfovef Largest assortment and best bar gains ever offered.