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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1903)
J LOCAL LOBE. ( Advertisements in this column euaiged for M the rate on cents per ltae. , Mrs. u. M. DvIsaon.a.Trivri s-if-urd . 'i ti family to rei e for i he summer to the Wood's Creek farm. Miss Jt9Pph1n Bnrch or Dallas arrived Friday. She 19 the gut-tt of her cousin ftliaa Alice Burch. Kay White of Portland, who has been the supf t for toe past tew days of Tom Nolaa returned home Monday. Miss v Bbcfcba Heokle returned Sunday from a ttvre mouths r visit with Portland tnende, : . - Mrs. Hatley Hall of Buena Vista has arrived for a visit at the home of her parents. , Mies Jennie Gollaas returned to her bome in PottUnd Sunday, after a visit at the Wieka home. The estates of T. P. Wagoner, Sa rah Howard aid JS'iZiibeth E.f E liott were finally sertlei last Saturday, and the admioistrat rs have been dis charged v ; Wade Malux vas in town veater day on his, way to Portland. The AI eea telephone cotntaoy is to open bids Thursday night "or the construction of its telephone Hoe. A number of friends were pleas antly entertalued t t,b home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. N lan Sifurday eve ning, to. honor or Ry Whife of. Port land. Drive wbit "as th amuse ment. Dainty refreshments were eer- -7) Will Byrl of Salem spent Saturday nisfbt in Corrallla, a 1 guest at the Oathey home. He was -called to Corval'n to perform tbe operation on Mies Hedrick. , , "t Mlie Etta Puller and" Miss Alice Edwards ieave today -for Capitola, California, whpre they tro 8g de'epat.es to the College Youn "W 'man'it Chris tian Aesoeiarioi.. Tbey are to be ab sent two wrels. . ' .... " Frank Sits came ot from .Five Elvers country M'-nd-iy. He' brought a. band of beef rat l.a bunch of s?pp and a number of t-gs, aad with . the proceeds floi!hvi payment on addi tional land boMiacs that he added; a year or so ago to his home ranch. . A logger e-nployed ia the woods at the Benton : County sawmill on Greasy Creek sustained severe Injur-' les Saturday, He was struck, by. a falling tree in sueh a way that his nose was broken. Ha also - received other painful fnjuTli, A physician from Philomath dressed his wounds. He will recover, ' . Hogs at seven cents on foot is ac- . counted a good . price in Webfoot. That price was paid for porkers last week by .W A. GellaUy, who shipped, aeouple of . cars . to Portland.' Juhn U arris sold him 11 head at that fig tire." The buach averaged 180 pounds; bringing an average ptieri of 12 60 or a- total of $138.60. " : Assessor Bush . rrng about to wo Monday with butti eyes swelled Dearly shut,- He said he had been hiving bees, There are other tbeorisOoe Is that he was in the mix-up Slomday when the-Portland excursionist lost a hunk out of an ear." Another is that, some lady tax raver objected to' her assessment. Tha. t-. appearance of the .eye rather favois the . latte.r theory. ,.,,. , , . . l u , The vocalists wSio are. to take part In the oratorios to be given at'tfie an nual meeting or the Willamette Valley ChoraT Union, "left for Eugene . yester- dayThe.o umber ot,s.lpgers 4s. much. smaller than was originally expected. Among' them were1 Mr. -and- Mrs, Blackledge, Mrs P. L. - Moore, ,Mrn. Lake Miss Maud Kerns and - B. W. Johnson. - I , . ' A Blood poisoning has developed in the band, ofjEooch Emerlck: 1 While working on the railroad track. ha got a sliver of wood, in hts thumb." That was laet Friday.' - .The. member, swel led badly and Saturday ' he consult ed a physician. Symptoms of blood poisoning were presenc, and the case has since been under treatment,.The thumb, hand and a portion of the wrist are now Involved; and an oper ation may yet become necessary. - , " "A new residence Is shortly t" be built On lots known i as the'. Hanna property. ' The flatter -: is owned 'by John Elckard who, resides four miles south of town. The present dwelling house is to be moved back and a por tion of It will te used as the rear of the new building. The latter will be both modern ana commodlou8,and will be occupied permanently by Mr. and Mrs. Elckard. '.'", - - Willamette .University was the theme at tbe morning service at tbe Methodist chur.h .Sunday. ' The ad dress waj by-Dr: Coleman, the presi aent or tne pioneer institution. i'or .several 'years -the school has been struggling aloDg with a debt of S35,o--oo- overshadowing It. . Kecently Dr, Celman undertook the task of .paying off this debt and t placing" Willam ette on a solid financial basiej There is promise of a liberal endowment from wealthy members of the Metho dist church, provided that the' debt be first cleared up. At the service Sun day Dr. Colman announced that about $32,000 of the. $35,000 had been rai sed.. Of tbe amount a bout , $4,000 Is subscribed on the condition -that -the total be secured by ' June 1st. -'At Corral lis Dr. Coleman - raised about $100. and there Is promise that the amount will be ' Increased, Dr. Cole man drove to Albany In the afternoon and In the evening presented the case of Willamette to the- church ; In that city. ;?, Mrs; D. O. Houck arrived Satur day from Gold -Hill for ; a a vials with friends. " V " , '' A petition for sale of real proper ty at private sale has been granted in the estate of I. M. Mttt toon. . , '' Mrs. P'oiter, of Oregon City, ar rived Saturday tor a week' . visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Spaog ler, and CorvallU friends. , . , , J. W. Skipton has been In the city einc Monda morning, .having come up frora Salem on account cf " the be reavement of the Headiick family... Miss Bussie Herbert has been ill about two weeks from typhoid fever, and there is now little change In her condition. .- , .. . , ,. . ' J. E. Williams has filed his bond as guardian of the Waggoner heire. The amount of tbe bona is 2,400 aD(j t he sureties are G." W. Howard and A. H. Buckingham. Georee Emtick, Wale Smith and Charley Wilpy are hauliug grain from the B oneville warehouse to tbe Ben ton .Mills in'CorvBllK1' Usually this grain la transferred by boat. , , , A party of three hunters went over the river Mourtay afternoon nd bagged sixteen pigeons. . Shooting pigeons is about the only sport which may be indulged with the guu at this A letter from Southern Oregon re fers to quite -a large colony of Corva!- 1h peopia at Grant a Pass. "The letter mentions Mr. aa.1 Mts. Guy Lowis, Mrs.'Thomas Graham and eon Dick, Charley Barn bart, Paul Schmidt ana Bruce Burnett. , Ernest Koberstdn came to town Saturday, taking the hrtt U1e emce ha ba 1 bU foe t and ankl injured by a fall from the Benton Mill Company's flutne, being ,con6t"ucted own Greasy. He had been confined to. his house for a week, and whil in town suffered greatly from the effect of the ride. ' U. G. Berry has been appointed a Itniol-itriiF.or of the estate of Suf an rt. Berry. Hie bond i for f 4,000 with M. J. and W. -A. Weil as snretit-e. The apDra'eM are Wi'l'am B gue, W; A. Welli and E. B. Horning. The helrei of the fstate aire,' U. G., J. K. and M. D. Bf rrv, and Mina Piiudle and Esther Carl. ' ' It is Captain James Gibson nd Captain D, Prltchard now. Each has a f 'Mowing of Woodmen, and they are mgaared lo a contest. The name of Gibson's side i the Ba'k-peelere, And Mr Pritehard'a, SapuckTs. Each side is eudeavoring to bring wore new members into the ortfer than the other. Tbe side that loses is to provide' a big banquet tbe even ing of July.luth. -. y County vClefk Moses has snt congressional distiict election noticeH to thevarious judges ' and clerks of election throughout the county,., wi h instructions that such notices be post, e. .Frrrt"r!v the - sheiif was requir ed to post election notices, but a lute law makes It the duty of tbe clerk to f 6r ward two ptia ted copies of the no tics to each judge . iind . olerky'hose duty It Is to poet them. - - iDr,i Lester'd whits Wyandotte fgis arrived. ifliondav,,, and full arrange- men ts have been made t--bave them incubated. In bur list issue a'n enee was made . to wbite-Wyandotte fowls wbich was evidettly taken a rftlei tion on the bleed. It was not the intention to do er and since that time the poultry editar has been- fara iihed abun lact proof that the white Wyandotte bird i-t fully the equal if not this superior of any other chicken for general utility. v" i f ' The A. M. McCa3key place of 22 aeresvtwo' miles "west'-of 'Philomath was sold Friday to D. W. Mael, lately arrived from Albla. .Wbitmarf CotfDtf, wasniDgtbD fTha ptloe paid was $1, 250 cash. The new purchaser 5ok possion Saturday The sale was made by Henry Ambler, he P hllomaxh real estate man. Mr. Mael also, purchased through JVlr. Ambler, the George Soott place of. 13 acr.es. .adjoining' .hr Mc Oaskey pfars; i The, price patd-1 for the litter was tpauu casn. T -: An Iowa mantVh'o went to Wash Jngfooj last- year andsettled tber.'e arri- vea isunaay. lie came to look oer Willamette in the Interest of a son-in law who still resides In Iowa. "This county beats Washington." he said on the street Monday, "and I am coming nere as soon as. I can sell . out there. "I am going to write to my son-in law to come . here." That's ight," t.ald K. H.Cblbert, another former resident of Iowa; "I have been here nearly two years now," and I have kicked " myself many a time for not leaving Iowa ana coming here twenty years ago. Sunday evening a crowd stood about the corner of Allen's drug store discussing the events of the day when suddenly a thunderous . roar . broke forth overhead.-. . The throng hastily scattered, thinking- thet one of the large converters of the. eltctric wire pole had broken its fastenings and was crashing down. Those however.' who looked up, beheld a network or flame In tha wires. Two large guy . wires or stays had become .sagged, so : that they came in contact . with the- live wires ' and', for a moment there - was thunder and lightning and consterna tion there.. One fortunate effect of the incident wa to displace the main belt at tbe electric light works thus prevent ing further damage. In tbe excite ment of the moment it seems strange that so many people noticed and found such great amusement in 'the energy and activity displayed by tbe fat man of The Times, who was leaning against the post when the shock came. i Racine buggies are the best. See our stock and get our prices before buying. A. Wilhelm &. Sons, Monroe A STREET , MELEE. It Happened Sunday Fists Freely Used The Sunday Excursion. Corvallis has had a lot to talk about since last Sunday, The spectacle of a street melee in which fists were freely used by anywhere from twenty to fifty men and in which perhaps a score of men were knocked down is a fruitful theme of discussion.. To heighten the interest, one man lost a part of his ear, and he claims that some Cor vallisite bit it off. He is a Port lander - The Sunday excursion brought the row. Fifty or a hundred of the excursionists were maudlin drunk. They looked for more bug-juice thronging about the closed saloons in the vain effort to find it and as saulting first the front and the back doors, all of which were closed Some of the saloon owners fully ex pected to see their closed doors crushed in at any moment-when the demand for lia uor was at its height.' ( . . - Enraged at conditions they found, the drunken contingent flocked on the street and stood ready for a row. They took advantage of Chief Al exander's order to the Salvationists to leave the street, and interfed to preven t . He called on friends for assistance, and within a few min utes, fists were in use on all tides. Johnson Porter was "among those who went to the rescue of the chie He clinched with one of - the men who confronted the cheif in a threat ening attitude. Subsequently, the Portlander turned up with a portion of his ear-, gone, and his friends claimed that Mr. Porter bit it off. Many other people say" that the thing was done by a drunken Port lander. . ;- . ... Meantime many other Corvallis ites were engaged in the fray. Rob ert Carapbell, who lives near the sawmill, though a man of more pre haps than sixty, became as young as ahy of them, aud in the course of a very few minutes his good right arm risd laid out six or " eight of the toughs. His strenuous defence of his town has since come in for many a generous compliment. Many other local townspeople had to fight: One of two of them got knocked down, but in the main it was the badly behaved, visitors that got cracked heads. It was several minutes before the fighting finally ceased. Afterwards thej crowd stood sullenly about, and when Mr. Porcer left Kline's store and attem pted to make his way home, the crowd closed around him threating ly. He was accompanied by Roy Raber, and both were armed. As the crowd closed Mr. Porter drew his revolver and forced the toughs to keep a respectful distance., , , The attitude of the Corvallis people in the matter was unavoid able. Those brought into the row are among the town's most 1 res pectable and quiet citizens. . , , The mistake in the whole matter is that provision was not made-by the ap pointment of a score of officers for the occasion, to the end . that . the usual dignity and peace of the town might not have been violated by a crowd of ruffians. Save the drunken contingent, (be..,,-! excursionists were , all 'fine people.' More than a thousand of. them1 visited the college, u passing through all the buildings and de partments. Manp others remained in the coaches-, while still ; others among the respectable portion walked about in various " parts of towd. The excursion came in two sections and comprised 25 coachesratt 'packed." -"It -"arrived shortly after one, and left at four. - At Albany, a large number of the drunks were ' arrested. f r After 2o years in ' the- business, Thomas "Whitehorn' has sold' his saloon to William Broders "Posses- s ion' is' to be given June 1 st. ' ' . Fred ' Overkrader ''resigned as nigfhtwateh Monday night.;". The temporary fiiling -of -the vacancy was delegated to the chief of police. '' Last' fall Hans J. Simonson built a rsew house on his farm in Ever green Neighborhood, and he: is now engaged in constructing a large new ' barn, and otherwise improving his place ' ' 1 1 ' 'A subscriber -takes' The Times mildly.' to task for overlooking the fact that George -V." Parker has a new toy at his house. It happened a week ego and George and the boy are.' certainly entitled to recogni tion. 1 1 ,. Racine, vehicles are the standard of the world and carried everywhere by re sponsible dealers. , Why bay "cheap john" of .'.'trailers?" , ; ' ' ' Girl Wanted, .To. do housework. . Free i ano, organ and washboard, at this office. , access -to ' I nquir ' Milwaukie j Chain. (Drive i mowers, Champion Draw-cut mowers, Victor and Champion rakes are the best, r- For. sale by A. Wilhelm & Sons, Monroe, a. WHICH WILL WIN? '' OAC Goes Against a Hard Team Next . Friday on College Field.' ' There is to be a field,, and track meet on OAC field Friday afternoon. It promises to be far more interes ting than any fornier meet. The visitors will be the Pacific Univ-r-sity men from Forest Grove, They wallop d McMinnville last Saturday to the tune of 80 to 36. OAC beat McMinnville worse than that, but not very much. The condition makes ' it- worth guessing as to' which of the teams will : prove ;- su perior next Friday. The visitors beat OAC last year. It is not out of the bounds of the possibilities for them to do it again. It is riot' be lieved to be likely; but in such con tests many things can conspire to the advantage of one team and the disadvantage of the other. - For the above reasons there is much inter est in the coming meet, and it is an interest that is growing. There was a grand; stand full -of people with many on the side lines at the less interesting meet last Friday. The added interest will insure a much larger attendance and a gala occasion next Friday. The games begin at three o'clock sharp. STILL PAYING CASH. Homeseekers Assume no Interest Big Debt by Settling in Benton. - in ; Benton county, continues to do business on a cash basis. All the warrants issued at the late term of court are taken up' as fast as presented- All the holder has to do, is to walk-across the hall from the clerk's office into the ' treasurer' s office, where ihe receives either : the coin or a check f r, the amount. The fact is of exceeding interest to homeseekers. who assume partner ship in no burdensome public debt by settling in Benton county: A queer fact in connection with the condition is that though all war rants were called in two months ago, more than $3,000 of them have not . been presented for re demption. The money is on hand for their payment, and the interest ceased when the call was issued. G-uarantoed Clothes Are : Faultless in Fit; The Standard The Long-Service Kind; Par Value; Seasonable in Every way-The Absolute Satisfaction or Money Back Kind. Made in-a modem daylight '.fac tory, no sweatshop contamination, Not like the average ready -to-put-on clothes, .'.. '.They are like the clothes you'd expect from 'a high:priced. . tailor, excepting,!; only. his price.. 7 - 7K -'F. ;E-' ;niLLER,' Corvallis, Or. Great Wash Silk ATJY1E nnn TN I If In assortments so large and varied that every taste can be easily . satisfied, a superior quality of Japan-' ese wash silk is sold here. Stripes and checks in :r corded effects or plain, black,' white, and every new color combination. . Varti. -a . . These silks are our regular 50c values, and we especially invite the ladies of Corvallis and vicint ' ity to call and inspect them. On' display Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, May 14, 15, 16, at - S. L. "KLINE'S' ' . . For Sale. : . The beautiful home corner. 3rd & Washington sts. Terms easy. Make me an offer. ' ' - ' II. II. Kreger, , Santa Barbara, Cal. ' Manure to give away at the Stable. Brick Do You Want a Carpet, matting, linoleum or any floor covering this spring? If so, don't fail to gets prices of Oliver Blackledge,1 the carpet man at Mann & Co's store. 2 Sells ; these-' -Hats V onrl. Top Round Shoes Sale ! Friday Saturday. THE WHITE HOUSE. . Screen D0018. " Best quality screen doors, 75 cents each; window screens 35 to 50 cents. .. -I - Central Planing Mills.:. At Corvallis SawrrrU You can .secure ry wood at . $1,20 per load; cedar posts at jz cents, shingles at 2.25; and second class ' lumber at $6.50. ; - : i : For 8le. ' Shropshire sheep and Poland China hoes. : Wanted to buy. or take on shares, a baud of goata. L.L.Brooks. ri 'LifeS-c V sis " LEATHER THROUGHOUT, v f0W t- rj&-i Mm - ask tosee- it: Equal to any SS.00 Sho. Jy't;352&J '! '-'x . . '. . I ' ' : : - -fflgmw ii ) . ........... . K-.C?S. . .(-.- "'y,7 ' " " &::y-"tf&jf COPYRIGHT, 1902, BV ' B. KUPPCNHIWER A CO.