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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1904)
LOC Air LOBE: (Mwttaementtinthls eohuan baigeai at toe rate oill oenui per Una , -. . . Mrs. Fruit, er Peoria, la MUl Corvallls irlend'. Praeldent Gatcta and Prof. Horn er arrived Tueedv from a eojoora at since Friday at Elk City. Mrs. Samuel Bane arrived Fri day from a visit c f several- weeks la Calif uroia. Mr. and Mrs. Gaor?e Bead ar rived Saturday f r avlslt at tte Young borne In this city. . After a week's visit, with Cor vallls friends, MUs Helen Steiwer ltft on Monday's boat for Salem. J. A. Watklns of .the B. M. 8. ar rived Friday on a visit to Beoton county relatives. " ' Cecil Bat'er returoed f Portland Monday alter a week's visit la Cor vallls. . m and Mrs. Taylor Porter a'e visiting raltlve3 and friends in Una county. J Mrs. T. H. Cats add daughter, Alleen. ot Bldgefleld, Washington, left Monday after a visit of several days with Cleve Cate. Edwin Rose la confined ' at home with a severe attack of typhoid fev m Ha was stricken with the disease last Thursday. Joseph Bryant ha purchased 120 nerea of land out of tbe Vineyard place. Tne deal was made some time ago: Invitations are out for the mar riage of Miss Eva Greenwalt of Port land to fioefeey Mason of Albany, to take place in Portland on March 2. Mrs.. H. O. Miller and family de sire to publicly thaok the OrSer of Lions and the Kulghta of Maceabe&f f it nromnt Davraeut of policies held by the late H. C. Miller. " 0. P. Lleth of Good Hope, Iilia ols, writes tbe Times that he Is think ing of coming to Corvallls in tbe near future. He wants iaf jrmatlou about Oregon. David H'aitoo and family ar ilvei Sunday from Idaho Falls, Ida ho, and flra to remain. Mr. Heasion came to Oorva'lls a coup'e of years ago with Mr. Thompson, who started the steim laundry, ut subsequeatly returned to Idaho. Robert Walters has Bold his farm in Frontier County, Nebraska, and is expected in Oorvalllu shortly, to locate. His family Is all ready here being at tbe home of Mrs. Walter's ' father, Mr. Morgan, in Job's addition. s Later they an to occupy one--.-c-J.-ts-i Mrs., McKlnney cottages. ' An incldeht of Monday afternoon was a concert given on Main streat by the cadet baod of the college, ia obaervaoce of Washington's -blctbdy. A number of selections were played wltu a suap aud flal-h that attracted much f ivorable oomment. Albert Trultt ot Greer county, .Oklahoma, with his family passed .through town Monday. enroute to tte farm purchased by him last week near Wren, mention of which appear . elsewhere In this paper. There are eight persons ia the family. In another column is the call of the county treasurer tor outstanding warrants. The amount available f 'r the call is $7,241, and It cancels alt warrants outstanding up to and in cluding those endorsed October 8. 1903. The number of warrants called in is 171. A big real estate deal was mads last week by Henry Ambler, tbe Phi lomath real estate man. He sold the H. 8. Pitman stock farm of 637 acres west of Wren to Mr. Truitr lately ar rived from Lelger, Oklahoma. The sale Includes considerable livestock and farm Implements, and the price paid was $1,000. Immediate pos session la to be given. The junior class at tha college entertained tbe seniors Saturday night The function took place In tbe lecture room at Agricultural Hall, and was largely attended. Pit and Flinch were among tbe amusements, a&d a leading feature was the banquet. Af ter the spread there was a season o! speech making. In which various mem bers of the senior c ass responded to toa9ts. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Trine acted as chaperones. Friday afternoon occurs the first of the series of inter-soclety debates at the college Tor the Gatch cup. It Is between the Feronlans and the Zeta gatheans, and the question is, "Be solved, That Capital Punishment should Be Abolished." The Feroni ans have the affirmative, and their team Is, Miss Gilbert, Miss Florence Adams, and Miss Alice Jones. Tbe team of the Zetagatheans Is J. C. Clark, Ralph Shepherd and Claude Cate. Instead of a payment on state . taxes County Treasurer Buchanan has determined to call In county war rants with funds turned over to him last week by Sheriff Burnett. The sum was $10,000. Ot the amount, a portion' Is set aside, as state school tax, and the balance Is to be applied to cancellation ot county warrants, the figures appearing elsewhere In this Issue. The treasurer has until May 1st for payment of state tax, and by applying present funds to cancel lation ot warrants. Interest on war rants la stopped and a considerable saving made to taxpayers, -Mrs. MryvBfTS6n aftlved Voe-:! dy frum a wlntei'd visit In Southern California. . - .TV - Dolph Ker, wad ia an employe of the Silvrton fljur'ng mill, paioV his parents and Mends Id Corvallls a brief visit, returning Monday. - . Tam Case came over from Albany Monday to pay bU taxse, greet- his friends, and exchange comments on the weather. ( ? " i Mrs. E. A. Cummings came down from Cottage Grove on a ehort vjUit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. WelUher. She returned home Tues day. ' ; A very good house greeted the Jubilee singers at the Opera bouse Monday evening. Tbe performance is warmly commerdid by gome of those who attended. A carload cf dried prunes is to leave Corvallls- Thursday morning for Mllwaukie, Wisconsin. The fruit came from the Paddock o. chard across the Willamette, and Is shipped by Mr. Paddock on consignment to a Mllwau kle commiseion hou?e. The siz-s are 30 40's, 40-50's, and . 50-60's. All tbe fruit has been processed and packed by the Corvallls Prune Processing Com pany. The packing is in 20,. 50 and 80 pound boxes being faced. Packing began Friday afternoon and was com pleted yesterday, eight men -aud half a dozan women and grhls being em ployed. The car will carry away a bout 50,000 pounds of the fruit. - Monday evening was a gala occa sion in Bebekah hall." The local lodge was at borne to the Independence and Philomath lodges cf the order. The Independence members came by spe cial train to the number of 30, and thera era a dozsn Phtlomitea. Three candidates rode the goat and this fea ture was followed by a banquet. There was an address ot welcome by Mrs. Pernot and a response by Mrs. Wal ker, noble grand ot the Independence lodge. ' Mies Spangler sang -vocal so los and there were selections by the Woodcock orchestra. The special train, carrying the Independence del egation home left at 12 o'clock. School patrons of smaller dis tricts complain much a" the provision ot the law-which permits apportioned money to follow pupils who attend school In adjoining districts. The f;iult Is mostly fouod in districts - adj Jining Corvallls, Philomath and Mourse, where advantage la taken if tha larger schools by pupils of the smaller districts. Considerable sums ot ap portioned money thus ficda its way out of districts already weak as to school resources a"d diminish school, ttrms all rady abbreviated. By all these, the test of the law likely to be made at the eomiog term of the cir cuit court will be watche 1 with inter est. In the state circuit court of Mult nomah county, Alma M. Miller has begun divorce proceedings agalost Charles Miller. The parties disagreed to such an extent that both concluded some time ago that mariiage, so far at lea3t as their relations were con. cerned, is a failure. In her complaint Mrs. Miller accuses Billy of be ing a very bad actor gener a'ly, and if all the meanness laid to him Is proven he is a harder citizen tbau bis fiiends here evifr -btliaved him to be. Billy will not coosbut the allegations cf the complaint, there having, It is said, been a full vmder staadiug between the uncongenial par ties, respecting their affairs, pecuniary as well as personal. Mrs. MUlej: asks neither for property nar tors alimony. Soe ' desltea to resume her maiden name of Alma M. DowC There are no children. Both parties are well known here. They were married in; Linn county March 13, 1901. That august place, the city coun cil chamber, is in a state of almost to tal wreck. A Heppner flood or a Gal veston horror could scarcely have left it in a more dilapidated condition. The roof has leaked from time Imme- mortal, and at various times make shift efforts to repair boles have been made. Some times these attempts have been temporarily efficacious, but in some Instances they have yielded no benefit. In the late rains the roof-, for a spaee about 12 feet square di rectly over the chamber has practical ly collapsed, and almost as much wa ter runs through It as falls outside. The matting on the floor Is completely soaked, and puddles ot water etand here and there, sometimes an Inch or two in depth. The plaster on the ceil ing i i likewise soaked, and will proba bly drop. The whole Interior looks more like some deserted and haunted house than the assembling place of the solons of a gre it municipality. Charles Colbert has made a queer kind of a dining table on which he has applied for a patent. One section of it is an ordinary circular table five feet in diameter. A circular iron tube pas ses through the center from below, the under end of which is even with the upper sujtace of the table. A sec ondary part of the table is a circular plane two feet In diameter. At the center ot the under surface cf this is attached a spindle fitting within the tube aforesaid. It is arranged so that the lesser section, when adjusted, is about six Inches higher than the larg er one. Thus, the attachment, or sec ond story of the table, may be revolved. Upon this, ail the eatables are placed while the platter cups and saucers, knives, forks, etc., rsst on the station ary section. The ad vantages of this din ing table are many, and they are all in cidental to the fact that any individu al seated thereat is able to help him self to anything before him by the simple act of turning the "dumb waiter." N6 5A1 iver TBi From Elk River. Hatchery Nearly ' -! Four Million to set Adrift. Along the :line of the .C & E railroad west of Corvallis, they are turning adrift now, millions .of baby salmon that are being - hatch ed in the Elk River hatchery, near U1K K,ixy, Lincoln County, in all, Sm , - T t -w- 4-a TURNING SALMON LOOS.B nearly tour million ot tne little bsbrmust a -fight, their preferences will be turned loose 'during the season In four years, the mites, which meantime will have gone" to sea and grown into big salmon, are expected to return to the waters of the Yapuina aud Elk Rivers to spawn, and die. Science has it that each fish as a result of instinct, re turns invariably to the . place . of birth to spawn, and that then hav ing accomplished so much in the way of reproducing its species it gives up the ghost and dies. The period usually ascribed between the birth and death of this greatest of all fish, is four years, though some hold that in instances they are known to have come back from the sea within three-vears from the time of birth. ' ' ;. At the Elk River hatchery, loca ted two and a half miles up Elk River from Elk City, operations have been attended with very good results this season. " A temporary hatchery, built there as an experi ment a year ago last summer, was unfortunate in its operations by reasons of freshets which carried away the plant. A large number of salmon were in the pens, and many eggs were "in. the hatching troughs when the floods came and enough information was gained by the experiment to lead to the erect ion of permanent works, and last summer a permanent building and appliances were constructed. Dur ing the salmon run that followed something over 460 female fish were taken and the work of hatching has now been reached where the little -fish are. fast maturing to, the point when it is necessary, to turn them adrift, in the waters of the vicinrty, and it is on this work the' hatchery f r ce is now buisly engaged. When set adritt; the ...little .fish are about.an inch in length. They are hatched in troughs, in which the eggs are placed in wire baskets. The water from a - spring ' with a temperature of 45 degrees, flows through the troughs and over the eggs, and is the means ' by which the hatchingjs effected. The pro cess of hatching requires fifty jdays at a 4s degrees temperature. ' At the end of that time a miniature tail protrudes from - the egg, and the thing begins to swim -around. Afterward a little head appears on the other side of the egg, and the thing begins to" take on the appear ance of a fish. "The egg globule re mains a part ot the embryo thing of life however, for a considerable period, and sustains life- At the end of about seventy days, howev er' the little fellow begins to feed. He must then be turned loos, or he wlil eat the egg glcbules on his smaller companiens in the trough, and that of course will kill the lat ter. It is in the tributaries of the Yaqaina and Elk Rivers that the little salmon are turned adrift. The smaller streams are selected, and as many different ones of them are used as possible, in order to . make sure that the little fish have fresh feeding grounds , and every oppor tunity to survive. They are hauled from the hatchery to the streams in big milk cans, and while the I conveyance is m motion they are active and thnrty. As soon how ever, as the vehicle stops and the water in the cans becomes inactive and still, the little taint, and it allowed, to so remain for a considerable time, they perish. The movement of the water seems to be necessary in order to afford them sufficient oxygen. Two and a half millions" of eggs were secured at Elk River hatceery this year. In addition a million eggs taken t the Clackamas hatch ery have been shipped and hatched, making an aggregate of three and a half million little' salmon that are to be set adrift in neighboring streams The per cent " of eggs that are thus artificially hatched is about ninety.' By the natural method in which the females deposit their spawn on gravel bars where the eggs are preyed upon by trout, the per cent hatched is very much ,ower, some authorities placing it as low as fifteen per cent. The main building at the Elk River hatchery is 100 by forty feet Remember Nolan & Callahan's Rem nant and Rummage sala will close Wed nesday evening Feb 23." ' E. Holgate ATTORNEY AT LAW JUSTICE OF THE PEACB Stenography and type writing done. Office in Burnett buck Corvallis, Ore ' ARE. WITH JAPAN." 'iCt Sympathy Local Chinamen Say Old Lady Will am the Japanese. . Corvallis Chinamen are favorable to the Japs in the present struggle between Russia and Japan.-' .They don't like the war, and hope it will soon end. A ' love of peace is a .national trait amraw them. hut if it Inrp. in snitff the recent unpleas antness between Japan' and Ghina with the little Yankee of the . East. The faces of several operatives''' in a local Chinese laundry lighted up with unmistakable signs of pleasure when told Monday that the Japs had been victorious in a big land battle. ; " ' "Oh, Lussiajthink he smart," said Big Jim, the old time cook. "Putty soon Lussia find out he not smart. Japan ketchj'em guns, ketch en soldier, ketch em glut), ketch 'em wajaJrip, knock 'em debble out of Russia." Jim refers to-the empress dowager, the present ruling monarch in China as 'The Old Lady." He has un bounded faithin her ability warm ing up with enthusiasm, he contin ued: " Lussia likee ketch ' em every body land. Like steal 'em all Chi na countly. Make, 'em Old Lady heap, mad. , Old Lady send 'em 200,000 soldiers and 15,000 boxes fight 'em Lussia, make 'em Lussia stay out of China. Old Lady make 'em Lussia heapsickT Kill 'em all. J Old Ladv got lots money 800 million dollar. Lock .'em all up, she ketch 'em key. Japan not got muchee money, - Japan telegraph Old Lady send 'em money quick, Old Lady send 'em. Japan telegra ph, send 'em glub quicty," Old Lady send em glub, heap quick; quickern forty seconds." Jim has read in a Chinese newspaper of ,the purpose of '.'The old Lady" to send a big army to the frontier to prevent Russian occupation of Chinese ter ritory, other than Manchuria. He has a distrust of Germany and France, as well as Russia, and fears they may at any time make war for the further partition of Chinese ter ritory. He says that the Chinese do not care so much about the Rus sian occupation of Manchuria, . be cause it is, as he "says, "The King's country?" but if ever an attempt is made to tear off a piece of China proper, there is no doubt that big Jim will go home to fight.'and that for once the invaders will encoun- ftef a frenzied resistance not " expec ted from therpeace-loving perpte 1 of the Flowery Empire, A koY'S INVESTIGATIONS. Figured out Strength of College Ar mory Trusses, and Found Them Ample. The policy of the various scien tific departments at OAC is to require the graduating thesis of students to be of the highest pract ical character. Steam engines, dynamos, and other appliances are thus built by boys scarcely out of their teens. A new and interesting thesis of this character has just been handed in by Mr. Underwood. It is an in vestigation and computation of the strength and adequacy of the truss es in the Armory building. The strength of each piece is measured, the weight it sustains computed, and the adequacy of the whole for the part it plays in sustaining the big building is shown. . Of curious interest in the matter is that the results show the build ing to be perfectly sound and its fellows becomerstrength more than adequate to all requirements. The information, gained by the young man during the course of hisx investigations is of far more utilitarian value than poring over (the mysteries of an cient mythology, dead and for gotten languages and like require ments of other lines of education. Mr. Underwood conducted his work in the mechanical department under Prof. Co veil. FOR SALE. Vetch seed at Corvallis Flour Mills For Sale. Best Plymouth Rock or Brown Leghorn cockrels or eggs. J. B. Irvine. Corvalfie. Go to Zierolf's for fresh . oysters-' - Yaquina Bay Wells, Windmills and Pumps. I am now prepared to do all kinds of well, windmill and pump work. See me before you have your work done. Send orders to Simpson's Hardware store. A.-N. Harlan. Rent for Taxes. E. Wt Fisher has three acres of land close bj the College for rent to any peison who will pay taxes on same. E. R. Bryson, Agent. ; 7 FEBRUARY INVENTORY SALC r - y , . . .. - ' This month, is cleaning up month, stock adjusting ' time -cleaning the deck for spring business. There-' fore you will find here that goods are lower in price, not because they have decreased in value, but because our policy will not permit carrying them ' over another Season. ' K " . - ' . Ladies' Jackets. $3 00 Ladies' Jackets $1 50 ' 4 00 Ladies' Jackets 2 00 5 00 Ladies' Jackets 2 50 ; 7 50 Ladies' Jackets 3 75 10 00 Ladies' Jackets 5 00 Children's " 5 00 & 6 00 ".Jackets 2 50 l-'3 off on Ladies' Furs, , 1-3 off on Ladies Wrappers 1-3 off on Ladies Skirts. Corsets in broken lines 50c on the dollar. A-few pieces of 50e Bresp Goods at 25c per-yard. Values and the worth of .materials not considered. It's only how quickly we can clean up and make room for the new spring fabrics. At . - S. L. KLINE'S, Regulator of Low Prices. ' IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME REAL 1 good bargains ia stock, grain, fruit and poultry S I Ranches, write for my special list, or come and see me. I shall take pleasure ia giving you. all 1 (5 . the reliable information you wish , also showing 5 you over the country.- . S HENRY AMBLER, ' 2 .1 . , , . Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance, , . r. . Philomath, Oregon. w EMERY'S -ART. . Soiitlh Maim St., CorvaHls, Ore. ' , : 1 L Xv Carbon, Platinum andPlatmoPorti'aiture O. A. C. ATHLETIC AND SCENIC VIEWS, f Art Calendars. Sofa Pillow Covers, And other Photographic Novelties. X Reductions GROCERIES. Look our list, over, see the reductions, . and save money while it rains. D. G. Sugar, 100 pounds ... $5.65 A. &L. Rid. Oats, 22 pounds 2,00 Padlock brand Peaches, 35c cans, for !25 Palo Alto brand Peaches, 25c cans, for 20 Extra Standard corn, two cans for .25 Extra Standard tomatoes two 3-lb cans for.... .25 Corned Beef, 20c cans, three for .50 Dried Beef, 20c cans, three for...... .50 Three cans fancy sardines in oil 25 One pound Seeded Raigins in bulk .r....... .10 Two 1-pound packages'" Seeded Raisins.. 25 Four packages A. & L. Soda 25 Two pounds 15c Coffee ,25 Three pounds 20e " , 50 Three pounds 40c " 1.00- Six bars Silk soap.... 25 Seven bars Daisy soap .25 Young America Full Cream Cheese .17 J DISHES. One set decorated eups and saucers 50 One set decorated dinner plates... , 50 One set decorated soup plates.... 50 One set decorated breakfast plates ... 40 One set decorated pie plates .. 40 When yon see it in our ad. it's so. f L. Miller, Brussels, Garpet 50c PerYard. v 35c Cottage Carpet 25c yd. 40c Win. Shades, 25c each. 13 off on all small pieces of Matting. -1-3 off on broken lines of Lace Curtains. - 1-3 off on Wool Waists $1 25 Ladies Waists $1 05. 2 00 Ladies Waists 1 35 2 50 Ladies Waists 1 70 1 3 00 Ladies Waists 2 00 1-3 off on Ice Wool Shawls and Fascinators. for February Gorvallis. STUDIO? r-1 11 1.