IN CORVALLIS DISTRICT CONVENTION OF THE DEGREE OF HOSOR IX SESSION. Delegates Visited the College Yes terdayOld Mau Fell Twelve Feet and is Injured Foot Ball Comment. Thursday and yesterday, the district convention of the Degree of Honor was in session in, Cor vallis. A number of delegates ar rived on the noon trains, and were met at the stations by local mem bers of the order. Early in the afternoon the convention was called to order by Mrs Sarah ." Moore, of Corvallis, president. The after noon session was occupied, with discussion of means of prompting tne wentare or tne oraer, ana was very interesting to the member Thursday night there was a recep tion by the local members of the order to the visiting delegates. The hill was decorated for the oc casion with autumn leaves and vines and about 200 persons were present. Features of the evening were an address of welcome, by Mrs. Moore, instrumental solo, G!ad's Moore, vocal solo, Mrs. Ireland, sister of Mrs. Berchtold; recitation by Guy Moore, remarks, Mrs. Harriet Looney, of Jefferson; eocg, vocal duet, Adelaide and BernetfaSheasgreen; remarks, Mrs. KJ. J. liogue 01 Albany; violin so lo, Miss Winifred Gates, Corvallis; Indian Club drill, Gertrude Nolan, Leop Fieri, " Adelaide Sheasgreen and Vivian Wellsher, and quartette, R. L Cate, Ethyl Pierce, C. C. Cate and Gladys Moore. After the ren dition of the programme, lunch was served in the banquet room, waica was decorated lor tne occa-J siouXt was midnightwhen thecom paaydispers d. Yesterday morning, local mem bers escorted visiting delegates to the college, where the forenoon was spent in looking through the departments, attending chapel ex exercises ancLin other ways. A nrong the visiting delegates are, Albany, Mrs. Barker, Mrs. Conrad Meyer, Mrs. Marks, Mrs. Marv Kelly, Mrs. C C Hogue, Mrs Mey er, Mis. Hare, and Ed Hogue;. Jefferson, Mrs. Harriet Looney; Eugene, Mrs. M A Starr; Fossil, Miss Helen Pierce; Yaquina, M A Beverly; Harrisburg, Miss Ethyl Pierce. FOOTBALL NOTES Weight of Eugene Team Newspaper Comment on Recent Games. Following are the positions and weights of the University of Ore? gon foot ball team: Left end, Jor dan, 135; left tackle, Captain Watts 167: left guard, Frizzell, 187; center McKinney, 184: right guard, Ker ren, 172; right tackle, Thayer, 167; right end, Chandler, 140; quarter, Murphy, 149; left half, Goodrich, 158; right half, Payne, 146; full back, Templeton. Aver age weight, 158. - - Albany Democrat; The Albany football team has the material for being the champion college team of the .state this year, and it is be lieved is the superior of the U of O. The Multnomahs with Mc Millan in the line is stronger than ever before, and the Democrat does cot believe Albany is quite exper ienced enough to win against them. The indications are now that the OAC are as strong if not stronger than the U of O, a fact that will take a game to demonstrate. With Albany's spendid team in the field the business men ot the city should give it a support which will make it the superior of any of these teams. Eugene . Register: Football cranks say that the Albany team has not been given due credit. Ev ery man on the team has had fronij three to five years v experience while several Oregon men. in the game Saturday were vpractically new at the business. Then, too, Coach Edwards is a man of no little ability and is ranked as one of the best posted coaches in the state. The work of Oregon was certainly very listless and the in terference ragged, but theu the strength of the Albany team should not be disregarded. ' . - Eugene Guard. Horace Mc Bride, a member of -the 1901 foot ball team at the University of Ore gon, has been engaged , to coach the McMinnville College eleven for this season. McBride played end on the Oregon Agricultural College team for several years and last year was a half back on the Eugene team. He is an aggres sive player and will no doubt make a nrst class coach tor the McMinn ville eleven. Albany Herald: Only members of the football squad will be ad mitted to the field hereafter during practice. :lThis 2 rule' - is" necessary ontin acfeouut. of $he, pfesenceibf people irom otuer towns wno ae-sire-to: learn thecsignals" and plays of the team. The first junior rhetorical of the present school year took place yes terday afternoon at the college chapel. Tbe exercises were inter spersed with an instrumental duet by Miss Kathleen Canfield and Miss Una Stewart, and a vocal solo by Miss Mabel Cronise. .- Claud Buchanan, under the sub ject "Modern Chivalry," said that modern chivalry now consists in successful athletics. This was shown at the Buffalo exposition when greater attention was shown athletics than any other feature of the great American Exposition. Miss Maud Cauthorn . said that colonization and expansion as prac ticed by the Anglo Saxon races is the whi'e man s burden. Expan sion and progress are ' the watch words of, the Anglo-Saxon races, until these people have assumed re sponsibilities on the five grand di visions of this earth. Bush Wilson said that as New York City is the leading American seaside city on tne Atlantic, so Portland or Seattle will bathe lead ing seaside city on the" American Pacific. Which of the two cities should it be. Tbe effect of the Norman Conquest Upon the World, wa3 the subject of Miss Isabel Whitby's oration. Without the Norman conquest, the English nation would not be Great Britain of today. Had there been no conquest the condition of the whole world would now be different. Mr. John W. Buster says that a political education requires the ed ucation of the masses. There should be a healthy, vigorous sen timent for general education. Of the power of habit MissaEtta Fuller said, habit is the deepest law of human nature. : Man is a bundle of habits. A habit is the best or the worst enemy. A man is only half a man when he begins to sur render to bad habits. (President Hall of Clark University says: - "Boys and girls need 6lang. It's good fot them. Let them use it. Slacg aids the boy or-girl from 14 to-19 years of age to acquire fluency.")' Awl cheese the cultured layout; Cut out the brainy talk. This wise guy has it coppered, And he wins in a walk, Get onto education You'll nab it in a buoch, . If you're like old Columbus And follow ud your hunch. Who was the duck that figured This lot of gram mar dope? Oh, pass him up. He's nutty, What us kids need is rope. We're next to all tbe gabbis But when we're due to b&lk Is when the teacher orders A first class string of talk. That gazabo That Euclid He rubs against my nerves With all his razzle-dazzle ' " On getting onto curves. And history? Say fellows, It jolts me up a lot To read how some old has been Was johnny on the spot. - Say, this slang education Will cop out all the trade, We'll pass around our language Ala Professor Ade, The coming School commencement Will be extremely fly With hot stuff umpalazzas About the "Goo Geo Eyes.'! Estray Sheep About 25 or 3O head are at my farm south of Corvallis. Came there a month ago. . Marked with upper half slope in right ear. Owner call and pay charges and take them away. Robert L Buchanan. Summons. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Benton County. George H Burtch. Napoleon Hodge and Sarah Hodge, his wife, Wilburn Hodge aud Cornelia Hodge, his wife, Jane Ball and Am03 Ball, her hubband. Price Mallory and ' Mallory, his wife, Richard Mallory Calvin Mallory and Malioiy, nis wue, ;Minme maimer ana Richard Palmer, her husband, Georuia Doran and James Doran, her husband, Plaintiffs. vs Jennie Churchill andSamuet Churchill, her husband, Mabel Fultz, a minor, and George Burtch, Jr, Defendants. To Jennie Churchill and Samuel Churchill. her husband, Mabel Fultz.Sa minor, and George Burtch J r, the above named aeienaams:- . In the name of the State at Oregon, you and each of you are hereby summoned and requir ed to appear and answer Uie. complaint of plain tiff in the above entitled suit now on flle in the office of toe Clerk of said Court on or before the 22rd day of November, 1902, mat rjemg tne date fixed for the expirationcf the period prescribed for publication ot this summons, towlt, once a week for sis consecutive weeks. You will take notice that if you fail to appear and answer said complaiut aB herein required plaintiff will apply to the Court for a decree as demanded in the complaint, towit. a decree or dering a sale o . lots Nos 107 aud 114 In Block -25 in Philomath, Benton Oountvr Oregon, and for that purpose-appointing a referee to conduct said-sale; and designating the- terms thereof: that the proceeds derived thereirom be divided among the parties hereto according to the r, respective interests, after deducting the costs and disbursements ot this suit, and for plain tiffs costs and disbursements herein, and lor such further aud different relief as may be just and equitable. This summons Is nublished by order of Hon Virgil E Watters. Judge of the County Court of Benton county, uregon, maae uciooer mm. 1002, and the date of the first publication is Oct ober 1Kb, K02. RltmnWlTBUfiCL'ARS ANG IF . FOUR BOUND JOHN MEAcm IN 15 JUS BARN,., BUT SLIPPED ' BIS B0ND3. Two Pan Away,, but Were Wound ed and Later Captured It Was Work of Infinite Patience ' and Bravery Other News. - Cleveland, Oct. 15. Remarkable was the courage of aged John Meach in a des perate battle with a gana; of robbers who planned to plunder his home last night on a lonely country road two miles from the village of Rochester , in Lorain coun ty. Undaunted by the brutality of the rob bers, who had bound him . hand and foot and left him in a barn, Meach, who is white-haired and ' seventy, unloosened the thongs, secured a shotgun, shot two of the bandits dead and wounded two others. Meach found his brother Jarvis, aged sixty-five, beaten into insensibility by the robbers. Loren, another brother, aged eighty, aud bedridden, had not been mo lested. Tbe house where the Meach brothers live is secluded,, and just such a spot as would be chosen by desperate characters to attempt a crime. The brothers are reckoned wealthy men, and the robbers probably had no difficulty in learning this. It was common report that in the farm house was a safe in which the Meacbes kept considerable money. John Meach was in a barn a short dis tance from the house about 8 o'clock If st night when three of the robbers sprang from: places of hiding and overpowered him. They knocked him down, bound him with ropes, dragged him into a cor ner and left him, as they thought, help less. Meach heard them run toward the house and immediately set about to free himself. With infinite patience the old man tested the ropes that bound him, and was overjoyed to find that he could move one .of his bands slightly. He managed to untie a knot, and the rest of the work of releasing himself was com paratively easy. .He crept to the barn door and saw that one or more of the robbers had. been left on wf.tfh. Meach stole a; ojnd to the back of the the barn, aud by a circuitous route ap proached the house and noiselessly en tered through a door that tbe robbers had left ogeu. He was convinced that they had silenced his brothers, and the sound of drilling told him that they were at work on the safe. He secured a shotgun from a room near that in which the robbers w ere working, slipped two shells in the chambers, plac ed half a dozen more in his coat- pocket, where he could reach them easily, and tip-toed to the door,' through "which he could see three men at work on the safe Meach fired both barrels almost at the same instant. He bad caught the rob bers "dead to rights." Two were prob ably instantly killed by the heavy charg es of buckshot. The third, although seriously wound ed ran to . the outside door and fled through the yard. Meach slipped two more sheila in his gun, as he gave chase, and catching Bight of a retreating figure as he reached the door fired again. It was fouud later that this third shot wounded a fourth member of the gang. Meach then went back to the house to look for his brothers. He found Jarvis bleeding and unconscious from blows on the head. Jarvis said later that the rob bers had come upon him unawares and struck him down before he could defend himself. Loien, the invalid, heard what was going on and was tortured in mind, but could do nothing. The neighborhood , was aroused and the authorities started in search of the robbers. The robber who had beea work ing at the safe with Lis two companions who were killed was found on the prem ises fatally .wounded. He said his name was Casey. A man covered with blood and bearing many buckshot wounds ' was captured near Wellington Village early this morn ing and raken to the Elyria jail. "He said his name was Davis, but refused to make any statement The authorities are con fident he was one of the gang. His wounds are serious. , It is believed that Casey was the leader of the gang. He had a. "Jimmy" and nitio-glycerine in hiB possession when captured. The gang is believed by the authorities to have been organized in Cleveland. Loren Meach may die as theresult of shock. Jarvis, although painfully wound ed, will probably recover. " John Meach fought off the robbers before they had se cured any money. Estray Notice. Notice is hereby given that about the 1st day of August last, a three year tri gelding, 16 hands high -weighing - about 1250, being a mouse colored brown witlt a star in the forehead left the .". Vineyard pasture about four , miles N, W from Cor vallis. Reasanable reward will be paid for the return of said colt or information as to its whereabouts. Spencer Bicknlll, Owner, Corvallis, Ore, for Infants The Kind Tou Have "Always Bought has borne the sigrna ture of Clias. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his , personal supervision for over 30. years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and r ' Just-as-good " are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children Experience against Experiment. 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WtW VOHK CtTT. Fresb Uegetablcs, Co had in the market. , We (9 you want and to Call and see C9 some real . good bar- m HENRY AMBLER, ISirlsiMrlsifflallSlSfa Pay More Than we charge for repairing you PAY TOO MUCH. It you pay lesii you don't get your work done right. We do -our Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairing as well as it can be done and our price are right for first class work. . When was YOUR watch gleaned last? j? Better have it examined now! , You may save your self considerable expense later on. , A full line of Watches, Clocks, Jewel ry and Optical Goods. ' fJall and $tt PRATT The Jeweler and Optician.' Stoves ExecQtofJq Sale of JRePjOperty. Notice Is hereby given. In .pursuance of the provisions ot the willoi Jonn Wiles, - deeeafed, directing the ;;UDderslgrned executors of said will to tell at private sale the real estate here inafter desci lbed : said will having been execu ted by said John Wiles on' the 23rd day o April lfOO, and filed and admitted to probate in the County Court of Benton County In. the State ot Oregon, on the 9th diiy ol September, J9J2, and! recorded on pages 52-53-and 54 of Book D of records of wills of said county, we, tbe sal 1 ex ecutors, will proceed to sell at private sale from and after Friday, the ltn day of November 190.2, for cash in hand at time of said sale, the real property belonging to' said estate, des cribed as follows, towit: Notification No 4U6 surveyed and designated as lots three, four, Ave and six, the nortu halt of the southwest quarter and the south west quarter of the southwest quarter of Section six in Township ten south of Kanga lour west, and lotj one, two and three and the north east quarter of the south east quarter of Section one In Township teu south of Kiiuga rive west ill the district of lands subject to sale at Oregon City, Oregon, containing 2i.V3 acres ot land in Polk County, Oregon. Xhij land being Incorrectly described in the will of said deceased as fol lows towlt: Beginning 29:00 chains S. and 8:23 chains E from the quarter section .corner on tbe S. side ot S 30 In T 9. S S 6 W, Willamette Martian, thence E 8 00 chains, thence B 40:00 chains, thence W SO: 00 chains, thence N. 40:00 chains to the place of beginning containing three hundred and twenty acres of lmd. Also, all that pertain piece or parcel of land lying in Folk County, State of Oregon, and known and described as follows, towlt: being a part of Section tixt beginning at the toutn west corner of claim sixty four thence running east one hundred and three rods, thence nortu one hundred and forty rods, thence west one hundred and three rods, thence south one hun dred and forty rods, tothe place of beginning, lying and being In Section tlx, Township ten, south Range four west, Willamette Merldan, and being a part of Notification No 1762, ana containing 9U acres In Folk County, Oregon. Also the following described real estate ; Be . ginning at the southeast come" of G W Dew eese Donation Land Claim and the S W corner of C Culp claim said point of beginning being in Benton County, Oregon, running thence west nineteen chains and seventy one link, thence north fifty oue chains, theucex east twenty four chains, thence south filty chains to tbe place of beginning containing llo-75-loo acres of iand situated In Benton and Folk Counties in the State of Otegon said sales to take place at the office of Walter T Wiles said executor in C orvallis, Oregon, and at the farm of Edward P Wiles, executor, in Benton County, Oregon. Said sale of said real property to be made subject to the confirmation Dy said County Court ot BeDtbn County, Or9.jon. Dated tlifs the 11th day of October, 19o2. WALTER T. WILES, EDWAK1) F. WILEs, Executors. Summons. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Benton County, J . C. Taylor"and Paulina Kline, plaintiffs, versus Abigail Elliott, acd Heirs of Hiram J. Elliott, deceased. If any such there be, wliosa names are to plaintiffs unknown, defendants. - 1o the Heirs of Hiram J. Elliott, deceased, if any such there be whose names are to plain tiffs unknown, defendants above named. In the name of tbe State of Oreeon. von tv hereby summoned and rf quired to appear and nnswer the complaint of the plaintiff In the the above entitled suit In the above entitled court aow on hie in the office of the clerk of sail court on or before the last day ot the time pre scribed in the order for publication of this sum mons, made by the county judge ot Benton county, state of Oregon, ' being the county where the above enti led suit is pending in the circuit court of said county and state which said order 13 hereinaiter referred to, towit, on or betoreffk weeks Irom the day of first publica tion hereof, and you are hereby notihed that If you fail so to appear and answer the said com plaint as herein reauit-ed. or want thereof the plalnUtl' wiil apply to the above entitled -court for the relief demanded in the said complaint namely for a decree determining all adverse clHlms"in and to Block 27 in the County Addi tion to the town of Marysville, formerly, but now changed to Corvallis, Benton county, O.'e son. forever bsrius and enijlnlng defendant fr3m asserting any claim whatever in and to said real property and declaring said plaintirt J C Taylor to be the owner in fee simple ol lots l, 2 and a m said iiiocK zi ana piiiintm, rauiina Kline, to be the owner in fee simple Lot lots , 5, & 6 in said Block 27 and for sunh further and different relief as fo the court m iy seem equit able. Tnls summons is published in the Corvaliw Times once a week for six successive and con- secetive weeks beginning with the issus of Oct- uobr 11, 1902, an 1 ending with the issue of Nov ember 22, 19D2, under aud in puruince of the directions contained in an order male by the . Hon Vlrsril E Watters. CjuntyJudgs of Benton County, Oregon, being the county where -the above entitled suit is pending in tne aoove en titled circuit court, dated O-Jtjbjr 8, WO.!. Date, of first publication hereof li Ojtob'sr 11. 1902. J, H. WILSON, E. E. WILSON, "Attorneys for PlilnUUts, Summons. . Iu the Circuit Court of the State of regoa for Benton Conr.ty, Cora E naaer, piaintin, versus James a. ujser defendant. To James H Baker, the above named defend ant- In the name of the State of Oregon, yon -are hereby summoned and required to appear and answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entitled suit in the above entitled court now on flle In tbe office of tbe clerk ot Slid court oa or before ihe last dy of the time pre scribed In the order tor publication of this sum mons made by the County Judge of Benton County, State ot Oregon, baing thecounty where the above entitled suit is pending ' in the Cir cuit Court of said county and state which said order Is hereinafter referred to. towit, on or before six weeks from the date of first publi cation hereof and yon are hereby notified that If you fail so to appear and answer the said com plaint as herein require-1, for want thereof the plaintiff will apply to the above entitled court for tbe relief demanded in her said complaint namely, for a decree of divorce from the said defendant forever dissolving the marriage con tract existing between the pl-iintifl and said de fendant, and that she be decreed the custody and care of Paul Baker, a minor child, the issue of said marriage and for sueh further and dif ferent relief as to the court may seem proper. This summons is published in the Corvalils Times once a week for six successive and con secutive weeks, beginniag with the issue -of October 11, 1002, and ending with the issue of November 22. 1902. under and in pursuiuce of the directions contained In an order, made by the Hon Virgil E Watters, County Judge of Ben ton, county, oreeon. Demg tne county wnere tne above entitled suit is pending In the above en titled clrcuitcourt. dated October 8. 1902. Date of .first publication hereof U October 11, 1902. Attorney for Plaintiff. Summons. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Benton County. John S Govler, plaintiff, versus Jesse Brown Eflio Brown. Milton Hodie. Lida Mellvll and James Mellvll. defendants. To Milton Modle, Llda Mellvil and James Mellvil, three ot the defendants above named: In the name of tbe State of Oregon: You are hereby summoned aud required to appear lu the above Cour t, at the court room thereof iu the City of Corvallis, Benton County, State of Oregofr, on or before Monday, tbe 24th day of November, 1002, it being the 1st day of the next ' regular term of said Court and to answer to the plaintiffs complaint now on flle In said Court in this suit, and if vou fail so to aiioear and answer for want tnereof the plaintiff will take a decree of said Court for the relief prayed for in said complaint, towl t: That tbe . plaintiff is the owner iu fee simple of the following des cribed premises, towit: . . Commencing at the north east corner ot claim No 46 Notification 2678 being the donation: land claim of said Jacob Modle und Kachel Modie, his wife, from the U - B goverment, and situated lu T 10 S R 6 West Willamette Meridan, and thence running west about 53 rods to the center of the Channel of Soap Creek, tuence in a rtirentinn east of south to a blazed oak tree on the east boundary-line of said claim No 4t about 107 rods south from tne norm east curner thereof thence north on the eest boundary of said claim to the plaee ot beginning and con taining 24.7o acres situated in - 'he northeast corner of said claim, in Beaton County, in the State of Oregon aud decreeing that you have no right, title, claim or interest of. In or to the sumo and debarrine aud enjoining you from asserting any claim or interest therein. This summons is puoiisiieu . " Virgil E Watters, Judged the County Court ot t he State of Oregon for Benton County inane ou I the tenth day ot October, 1902. To be published I for six consecutive weeks and the.date of the first publication thereof to be October II. 1902.. . 1 . - W. a&J.N. MCFADDKN, Attorneys for Plaintiff. - . tt. iMt 1 SU.X, Attorney for Plaintiff.