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(2) Willamette "Valley Banking Company CORVALLIS OKEGOS. Responsibility $100,000. j& General Banking Business. Excharge issued payable at all finan cial centers Jo, Vnlted States, Canada and Europe, . Principal Correspondent Portland, Seattle. San Francisco and New York Canadian Bank of Commerce Chicago First National Bank Canada Canadian Bank of Commerce . Union Bank of Canada. Corvallis Times. BY B. F. LUVINB. Official Paper Benton County, CORY ALUS, OREGON OCT. 89, 1908. STEAM ROAD ROLLER Talk of Purchasing one Adjourned Meeting of County Court There wasan adjourned session of the commissioners court last Wed nesday. All the members of the court were present. John ' Gilman submitted a proposition to build, for the sum of $250 an eight foot grade around Oliver mountain on the Alsea-Dusty road, He is to make proper fills, build suitable bridges and construct safe places for teams to pass, all for the satis faction of the court, and is to com plete the work by June 15 1903. The court also agrees to purcha se two wheel scrapers and a road plow. There was also informal con sideration of a proposition to pur chase a steam roller for use on county roads. It is understood that some action may be taken with reference to the latter at next week' s term of court. - GOOD ROADS THERE And Good Cows, too Also Rich Farm ers Corvallis Man's Return. - After an absence of three years, A I, McFaddeo arrived Saturday from California. For several months past, Mr McFadden, who wal former . ly a Corvallis lawyer, has been in Humboldt county. The chief in dustry there is dairying. Before it was undertaken some years ago, the farmers of the section were poverty stricken and the country roads almost impassable in winter time. The introduction of dai.ying was followed by an - immediate better ment of farm conditions. - Herds have been so improved that dairy men realize as high as $75 md $80 per cow a season. To facilitate de livery ot milk and cream, and as a consequence of the betterment in conditions roads have been so im proved that now the dairy "section as a system of turnpikes that make traveling in winter as easy as in summer. , These facts were the basis of an article by Mr McFadden published in the Times last spring and. widely copied by the newspa pers ot the state. - -Mr McFadden left Monday for Lincoln county for a - brief- visit "with his sister. , THE BOLD BURGLAR How He Kept the Household Awake all : Night And Whojie Was. ; A Corvallis housewife was alone in the house, the other night. Sud denly she was awakened by a noise. It was at the lone hour of 2-30 a m, and she was sure ' there was a burglar. : She hurried over to a near neighbor's, and with a big pistol each, she and a young man returned to give the . villian battle. They searched the house froiH cellar to garret but found nothing. Then the - other folks went home, and again the house wife retired. But, it was no time for sleep. The thoughts of the murderous burglar, and of what he mieht do, kept her awake. Nota ing blood curdling happened how ever, and by and by the : precious daylight came. It was then that the lady learned that the cause of all her woe, was only the churn dasher, which had fallen from its accustomed place. . TIMBERLESS TIMBER LANDS What Frank Seites Says ' About Portlanders Location. THEY WAITED THE NEWS And Crowded the Streets and News Offices Students and Citizens' Main street presented an anim ated appearance Saturday after noon. College students by the hundred were in the vicinity of the telegraph and telephone offices. waiting for the results of the foot ball games. Chief interest of course centered in the r Seattle game. though not a little was manifest in the contest of " the OAC second team, with the first . team of the McMinnville College eleven at Mc Minnville. There was also inter est in the outcome of the game of Albany College and Willamette University at Salem, as indicative in a measure of the relative strength of the OAC and Albany teams and incidentally of the OAC and Eu gene teams. Albany having play ed Eugene, and OAC, Willamette the week preceding. In the wait citizens, farmers and others joined the students, 'and the pavements for a block on each side of the street were crowded with pectant throng. The first news to arrive was the announcement that the olucky second team had only been defeated by McMinnville' s first eleven by s score of five to nothing and short ly afterward came .' the . statement that Albany had only won out ov er Willamette by 27 to nothing as compared to OAC's 67 to nothing, a week before. Neither was dis appointing, and both ; served to intensify interest in the. Seattle game, from which news wag not received until half past five. ; The Seattle score of ito OAC's six though generally regretted was regarded as an excellent showing for a new team, and later when it became known that Seattle only won by place kicks, . instead of su perior team work on the field, sat isfaction was generally expressed. an ex- "Tearing orchards, mostly apple3 Wood land. - ' Mrs. C. W. Adams, Warren, Columbia Co, . - Oregon. Wanted A position to do general housework by an experienced girl. ... Inquire .'at Times officer - ." Lost Between Corvallis and Monroe last Sat urday a big black shawl. Please leave at Times office. For Sale. . .." A choice residence at a greatly re-" Sliced rate if sold within 30 -days. En quire of - - G A.Robinson: Corvallis. Teams Wanted - Unlimited number, to haul lumber. Tifty cents and $1 per thousand over for mer prices. . Benton County Lumber Company. v Cotswold Rams Persons wishing to purchase will fitd a few at J E Wyatt's Estray Notice. From the undersigned at Corvallis Oregon, one bay mare, 6 J years old, tiranded with Roman cross on left should er; weight about 1000 pounds; rope on . "when last seen, near Inavale. Reward ibr return. A.R.Norwood. A Boy's Wild Rids for Life. With - family around expecting him to die, and a eon riding for life 18 milee, to get Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, W H. Brown, of Leee- ville, Iod., endured death's agonies from asthma, but this wonderful medicine" gave instant relief and soon cured him. He writes: "I now sleep soundly every night.' Like marvelous cures of Consump tion, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds and Grip proves its matchleBs merit, for all Throat and Lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Graham & Wortham's drug store. located, their claims would all ; be subiect to contest. The - fact that The I thrvr failpd to '0-0. on the lands would itself invalidate ' their titles. A further fact is that it places each of them in a most delicate position, for in filing, all had to take oath to the effect that they had been on the land.' The wording of one oath is as follows; -. - - ? . . "That I have personally examin ed certain lands and from my per sonal knowledge, state that said land is unfit for cultivation and valuable chiefly for its timber; that it is un inhabited; that in contains no im provements whatever." :- " In another affidavit the appli cant says: "That I am .. well ac quainted with the character ot tne described land and every legal sub division Jhereof having frequently passed over the same; that my per sonal knowledge of said land is such as to enable me to testify un- derstandingly with regard thereto; that there is not to my knowledge within the limits thereof any. vein of lode of quartz or other -rock in place." Each member of the party sub scribed to the above language un der oath. The fact that none had been, on the land, leaves them in a delicate position, though -of course, all relied upon the- statement of the locator, and supposed they had act ually been there. . -The name of the" timber locator who piloted the - Portlanders x into their troubles, is Stone. It is said that he formerly operated in the tim ber business in Idaho. The account is that the majority of the claimants paid him $100 each forms service's, eivine him a sroodly sum as his pay for the work. Each of the party, including filing fee, is out somewhere between $125 and $150, and hasn't any timber either. Whether or not Stone will refund the money to them remains r to be seen. . ; ; . -. Stone has been absent from Port land, but returned there Monday. When they interviewed him on the subiect, Stone declared to some of the claimants that he had taken them on the land on which they had actually located, and that there l was fine timber there. - They call ed in Frank Seits, and the latter in the presence of the --locator made statements cencerning the lack of timber oh the lands similar to those quoted from him above. A stormy scene ensued, in which Stone re iterated his statements, -offering to bet $5000 to $1000 that the lands filed oh. were all covered with good timber. Mr Seits of course stuck to his truthful statement, and there they were. - -' As to what the claimants will ul timately do, remains to be seen. Any of their claims are subject to protest, on the ground that the claimants -were never on the land arid if there' were timber there to justify contests would be filed. As nobody however, familiar with the country wants the timber, no con tests will b forth coming. The late effort of 36 "Portlanders to secure timber claims in this section of country, and their fil ings on timber lands that are .'well nigh barren of commercial - timber, continue to be the subject of much comment in Corvallis , and Benton county. But "few developments have appeared in the ' case since Saturday's issue of the Times, : but all these have served to show how lamentable was the failure of the timber hunters in their . errand. Frank Seits, who lives within half a mile of some . of the' lands filed on, and who has been overey ery foot of all of the country contigu ous, returned yesterday from Port- wherehe has been servingori the Un ited States petit jury. He says there are not fifty old growth fir trees in the sections filed on, and there is not a million feet of commercial timber in the region claimed. He says that what the Portlanders got for all their pains and cash, is ha zel brush, elder bushes, " salal and "'a magnificent crop of fern , hay," In some places, he says, there is second growth fir timber ranging from six inches to twenty inches in diameter, but of commercial timber there is practically none. Where ever there : are old growth trees they are tunted and limby, so that they are of little value for commer cial uses, Of the second , growth, there is an occasional tree two feet in diameter, bulot will be many a long year before any of it is fit for lumbering purposes. Mr Seits says that Monday four members of the party, in his presence, got rid of their claims by letting others have them, ". ". It has been definitely ascertained that the party -never got within twenty miles or more by -wagon road of the lands on " which they filed. Their nearest point was in Alsea Valley when they took the south road that leads eastward to Monroe and Dusty instead of going westward . over Digger mountain and into the Five Rivers country. The timber that they looked at, and on which they supposed they were hung lies m township 14 ranges six and seven. That on which they actually hied is in the same township, but in ranges nine and ten. As every range extends six miles, the actual distance between where they , thought - they were getting timber and - where , they really got it is from 1 2 to 1 8 miles; As the victims explain it, the timber they looked at is on the east slope of a big mountain. The tim ber locator led the way and the 36 men and women in the party fol lowed, on foot. As they passed along the trail the locator saw sur veyors marks on the side of a tree. "Here's our tfmber," he shouted, and the process of . selecting then began. While he traveled through the woods with some of the victims the others finished climbing the mountain to get a view of the coun try, j It was from the top of this peak that Dr Gillespie, whose Statement nnnpflrpfT in Snttirrlnv's ! 7i 1 - . . . 1. . I iAumr or roiK ana slate 01 uregon, maae ana 1IMES, Saw AlSea Store tO the West-lentered of record in the matter of the adminis tration 01 toe estate 01 James Li uwin. aoceased. i wiu on ana alter me iq day 01 uecemDer. 1902 .offer for sale at private sale to the highest bidder the following described premises in Benton County, Oregon towlt: " The north half of the north west Quarter of section sixteen, In township fourteen south of ! range eight west of the Willamette merldan. Terms of sale, cash in hand. Bids therefore win De received Dy me at Monmouth, Polk county, uregon. ,. .. . MARY E. OWIN, A Administratrix. Get a free sample of Chamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets at Graham & . Wells' drug Btore. They are easy to take and more pleasant io effect than pills. - Then their use is not followed by consti pation as is often lb a case with pills. Rsgular-sizs, 25j per bo. To Homeseekers. I am now offerine some genuine bar gains in city properties in Corvallis and Philomath, Also some of the verv best farms and stock ranches ' in the county, with or without stock, verv low. -Have S"few choice small acre pioperties near town. Come and see me .- before voir buy. I am alone in the business. F.P. MORGAN. ward,7 and somewhat northerly. As a matter of fact, standing- on the lands on which theparty actually located, they could have not seen Alsea store without looking east ward, and then only by." boring a hole through Digger mountain, or some of its neighbors. -.'-. borne people believe that if was Prairie mountain, on the slopes of which "the members of the party examined timber. This is the be lief of Frank Seits. From the top of it, they declared they could see the ocean.If as some suspect, it was frame mountain that they climbed their supposed J locations would have been in township 15 range about seven, and the air line dis tance fiom their actual location not Administratrix Sale. notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an order and decree-of the County Court of the Dr lyOWe, the oplicion will be in Cor vallis again Nov 17, iS and i9tb. . ' Just Arrived Hyacinth, crocus and tulip bulbs, all imported'stock, and to be sold at cata logue prices at Homing's. Get" less and probably greater than if in township 14. "Hyacinth, tulip and crocus bulbs, Even if there were timber on the freshly imported and cheap at Horn, lands on which the party actually ing's. To Rent Five miles nf flnrvnllifl larop enxt- ranch, hay in three barns cheap for cash address, . CH Hall. . ". - Corvallis. E. It. Bryson, Attorney-At-Law. POSTOFFICE- BUILDING Slioming Soon! "Troubles of a Married Man" By Local Talent This is one-of the funniest of Society Comedies and every man, woman and child in Corvallis ought to see it...... .. TheJbest play Local Amatuers have undertaken. . . . . .. Dates ana Particulars Eaten wefl 16 PiBoai! - www The arrival for the past two .weeks has placed in our store one of the largest and : best selected stock of merchandise we have ever had, comprising all the late novelties in dress goods, silks, trimmings -ribbons, etc. In shoes you have the largest and best selected stcck in the city to choose from. Our aim is to carry everything to be found in an up-to-date dry goods store. Prices to please..:....,.... JB H. HA: O A C. UNIFORMS. WICKS & LILLY - SUCCESSORS TO r Taylor & Heish Dealers in all Kinds of Fresh and Cured Meat Lard Etc. Corrallis, - Oreg Call up Hode's Grocery for Tip to-date goods; its the place you get the best edibles. Teas, cof fee, extracts, confectionery fruits, vegetables, can ned and bottled goods. Syrups, meats, lard, flour, cereals, mush. Every week we are getting in fresh fruits, candy, crack ers and cookies. ?Jr Buy the Woodlark vanilla and lemon extract', best W and cheapest. We carry a big line of stone and' HI willov?- ware. ' : "" Tubs buckets, baskets, brooms, brushes dusters 'Qfk washboards, mops, lamps, lanterns, oil. cans, . Parlor matches 1500 all for 10 cents. Bodes Grocery Students Headquarters $f kill S-R1 1 1 Business glotbing When you buy business clothes you want em business like in price, but it isn't good business to have clothes that are not stylish, nor. to pay to much are to little for them. ' We've got the famous. Hart Schaffer & Marx suits for you, and with that statement wo answer every question that you can think to ask about looks, style, tayloring, fit arid business-like prices" -J. You can prove the truth to all we say in five 'minuets; we're waiting for you to come and see. . S. L. KLINE.