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) if 'v."fll ctutft Unas. . Wheat 72. ' ' August Fischer artJveTV'festert day morning from a business ' trip of several .days to Silverton- and Portland. A drop of a cent inthe price of wheat is announced in the local market. It is occasioned by lower prices in the Chicago markets, where May wheat has fallen to 92 cents. '.' A fine solo band, trick bicycle riders, a ladies fife and drum corps, a Happy'Hooligan and other attrac tive characteristics will be features of the street parade to be given , at "four o'clock next Tuesday evening ,by Mahara's Minstrel Carnival They have a new way of re ferring to the payment of taxes now. When a taxpayer hands in his money over the sheriff's coun ter, trey say he is "paying his as sessment for the Lewis and Clark Fair.'; Another $6,000 was sent ' to the state treasurer by County Treas urer Buchanan, Thursday, makiug $12,000 in state taxes paid for Benton since March 1st. Time was a few years back, when the amount already paid was , more than enough to pay state taxes in full, but now, it is only half enough Iast gunday, Virgil Avery, v aged 11, touched a match to the bulb of an alcohol thermometer. The boys do those things to see the fluid inside rise, He has been con fined at home ever since with in jured eyes.' When the bulb sud denly exploded, it is supposed that the tender membraues of the eyes were burned by the alcohol.' The trouble is not believed to be ser ious. The 10-year-old son. of Mr. Jackson, residing on Major Bruce's place south" ot town, attempted to dig the smokeless powder out of a 22-calibre cartridge Wednesday. Dr. Pernot dressed the wounds which involved loss of the tips of the-index finger and thumb on one hand. A x2-year-old sister who stood near when the explos ion occurred received a fragment of the shell in the wrist, but the wound is only slight. The ac cident might have been far more serious, considering that the lad's eves were intent on his work while he gouged at the wder. Latest war. news, London, March 35 Thi correspondent of the Daily Hammer at Niu Chwang reports that he has heard" through reliable sources at . An Pang that the Japanese forces at Ping Yang aidiicu uvcir lu ace 11 iiicrc any Russians at Jay Whang. when they got there, the report is that there was not a Russian ia sight. So, accerdiag tojanother re liable rumprr seat in by vvirele-s telegraphy fom 'Aunt Swaug via the overland route to Ho Hang, so it was expected that there would be heavy fighting in the near fu ture if not sooner at Pilee . Sang, and that most Americans didn't give a dang if they run the Rus sians clear back to Ourang Outang. iv 7. t. 4 1. Tte old Gaits' has Resumed" Operations Pistol Shot Mystery. . There U undoubtedly trouble ahead for certain--S Oftrvallis boys, whose doine " ia -.he f past have THE SETTING-. HEN.- 'ii She is m Demand in Preference to Arr . ' tificial Brooders, r ' - - - -' .-- - i j - - .Oae of the? unsolvable v problems of poultry men in the past has been to -keep hens out: or - the. notion of ., b . , setting, and should thty fail lajthat. more than once brought them into! . ., , , -, . .;' .-- 4'Vt i ,v tOTdispel Thejdea of ducking, tying public notice." ' It is not long ago h-n some of these boys were the courts as a result of behavior that was humiliating to their pav ents and disgraceful to themselves. After that their conduct was com paratively respectable for a time; they have pel the idea of ducking, tying la tA cr.rincr tn th . Ven rail, or i . otoer means more or iess vicious. It is different now. Theie are not setting hens. -:' enough .-.--in this locality to supply the demandt Whether the hens refuse to set. as a measure of retaliation for the in WITH LITTLE BUGS. AtV froduction of incubators, or wtaetn iT,u. jOTii m,,, ; er they are subject to the charge v"ZZluZS , which Roosevelt makes, involvin 1 ... , .i , . "! alleged "race suicide." it is not gram wua iowiivihio iiavc "Jiium- ; . Id each other in rapid succession certain,' Indeed the cause may nf thf 'Tsible assumptions. It maybe that!? with n the past two v weeks Sunda evening, members . . . f 1.. j . .. gang wantonly insuiieu two yunuj have V n 1 . . 1 A V 1 .. couples on College Hill, carrying i cf Huu" . a""u- "l " their conduct so tar that'oae ot the J A 7 r ' . . -, ,,u young men attacked discharged his In ,?nd. about CorvaJ.s. where J . - ri 11 q 1 1 r v ti mnt-A rf an rKi prt than revolver to let hi assailants know a -, - V i: thathe wasprepared to defer.dh.mself !nbe-lnS hens are Purred that he intended to do so. The par-j to wcabatow: Just . now among ties assailed were molesting nobody, ' "r P0ftry facers there a good and the insults heaped uon them ?eal ff borrowing oC . ting hens were wanton and whoUy malicious. from f and many Ctgf n 4.j are sent to the c mntry to be hatch- HPraUie Lllf V 1 f t!IlLCVA L1AC uiauii, - the gang is now making all kinds (be steps of the students, for it was e chmg as remuneration for a couple of college students on whom he.r ser- " was 8& the indignity wis heaped by the this f k b? a Tl "l Y' rowdies: The incident was not j maa that a car oad of setting hens rUflWnt from a case in i wuulu wi"u ,cau M,C - ,u ed on shares. I he usual arrange ment is for the hen to receive halt widely ditterent, trom a which a college student from that the once despised clucking hen has finally acquired the respect due her matronly instinct. I county was attacked by members of the same gang, about a year ago and his leg broken as a -result of a fracas that followed. He was compelled to leave coliege and nat- i urally enough has never returned, j In the past, these hoodlums have ! prosecution. For the sake of their parents, in more than one instance, the sentence of the court has been much lighter than the offense de manded. It appears, however, that all these things have been in vain, and that the gang proposes in a spirit of pure hoodlumism to keep up the practice of terrorizing and n4.liaTTifa i -i en 1 1 11 nr rxvA&r xr ' T-itfWTk1 Mi 4.u 1 - iA-j- counter at a local establishment un to read Lenience with these offen- j der. conduions that excited sus ders is nonsense, promises are idle, ! P- .f Th? ladtwh t aA rtWa V,a -hrA it's limit. 1 SeDted aild tQe thlS5 he bOUght . . . 1 tiMtli ,t mprA c.-i fint nf miut o c tn in. PAID LODGE DUES. ' With Family Heirloom A Town boy, a Five Dollar Piece and an Officer. A $5 gold piece with a history, a juvenile lodge and several small- I boy members of the. latter furnish j ed the local police with a job in ' detective work this week. The coin, smooth from use, and bearing j the date of 1834 was paid over the The parenceof these hoodlums must expect the worst, for the public is tired of the condition, and the offi cers propose to end it. They Flavor Batter now and Hake it Taste Always the Same College J - Experiments." They control the flavor of butter now with what is , known to the trade and dairymen as "'Butter starters." The practice is an ev olution that bacteriol gical inves tigation has brought out, and many a man who smacks his . lips over the excellent taste of the" butter that he is eating, does so in com plete ignorance of the fact that in it is a multitude of living " organ isms.that makes his butter taste so good.-' In fact the flavor -of all ! butter, good or bacL-as well as 'he flavor ot cheese is the " consequence of the presence of these organisms, and in the. "butter starter." there: is employed only material that has always existed, but is now iutelli- j gently direced by the superior and j technical knowledge that men by! nse of bacteriology have acquired. "Butter starters" though but re- j cently discovered in the East, has.; already become an article of com-', merce. It is put up m a bottle, the j fluid containing multitudes ofa single kind of organisms. A small j quantity of the fluid is put in; the : cream shortly before churning time. ! The fluid with its . multitudes of: little living creatures gives the but-, ter a desired flavor, , the result is ! always the same. Out at the college they are experimenting with the Vstarter" and persons who have eaten the.hu ter produced by use of the method, have nothing but praise for the product. It fs cer tain that.in time all butter manu factured will have it's flavor con Iro'lled in this way, instead of allow ing the flavor to develop by chance with half a dozen or more kinds ot organisms entering into.the pro duction as now- - In the experiments at the college Prof.- Pernot is endeavoring to simplify the. present method for use of "starters." so that dairymen themselves may, instead of buying the organisms in the market, pro duce and perpetuate them, by some system akin to the practice of the housewife who gels her start of yeas', and by methods known to herself keeps it alive from day to day, using it now and then for making bread. First tilimpses ' 3 SPRING FABRIGS. All, over the store the new Spring things are crowd ing iD. swiftly turning the perfect Winter store Into a perlect Spring and Summer store. - , New Arrivals- Beautiful Wash Goods . Exquisite Spring Silks Taffeta and Fancy Ribbons Fancy Lace Hosiery: ; Black Dres3 Goods Plain and Fancy Veilings New Allover Laces Ladies' Belts. Latest styles New Sorosis Petticoats ' 4 New Spring Trimmings : i New: Kid Gloves. We are showiqg thi3 Spring a larger and better stock than ever before. At the first opportunity make a tour of this store and you will find many beautiful things to admire, at ( S L. KLINE'S, . ' Regulator of Low Prices. J PAID BUT PART. C. & E. Taxes Tender Made Sheriff Burnett by Company's Lawyer-What; ot the Balance? Mrs. Annie E. Liggett, former ly a resident of Philomath, died February 29th at North Yakima where she had lived a number of years. Mrs Liggett was a pioneer of the Willamette valley, having crossed the plains in 1852. Her maiden name was Annie Sleeth. She married Joseph Liggett in 1853, and together with her husband made a home for themselves on Little TnrkijiTiitit in PnlL- mnnh T.ntr they lived successively in Linn and : T ' Benton counties. Her husband died at North Yakima in 1S92. The immediate cause of Mrs. Liggett's death was a stroke of paralysis. Five sons and daughters survive, among whom are Leander N Liggett of Priuville, a graduate of OAC. The effort of the E. rail road company to effect a reduction of taxes in Benton, took shape Wednesday, when attorneys of the were i company appeared in the sherm"s and j office and made a' tender of 'the amount they held to be proporti onate to the assessments of other tax payers. The amount was $1 ,593. 15," and they proposed it should be in full payment of the company's taxes for the year. They were told by Sheriff Burnett that he would not accept the money in 'full " payment, but that he would take it in part payment. This they agreed tch and the amount was" paid over, and placed to the credit of the company. The balance, according to the as- terest the proprietor in 'he trans action. He called the attention of Chief Lane to the incident, and the( latter set out on a stunt of discov ery. After a day or two of patient and effective investigation, he un earthed these facts: The ancient coin was an heirloom in one of the families in towa, where it was high ly prized and in whose possession it had been for many years past. In the family is a son of a dozen sum mers or more, and he belonsed to one of thejuvenile lodges, now very popular and widely prevalent in Corvallis. All sorts ot mysterious ceremonies and awful secrets among the things in vogue at the lodges, the meetings of which tran spire in old shacks, in barn lofts, and in one case on top of the wood in the family woodhouse. In the lodge' in question, the pay ment of dues in cash is one of the features, and it was- in this : way that the precious gold piece , found its way out of the family bureau to the lodge room, and thence through various boyjhands over the counter Mahara's Mmistrels. sessment aggregates over $200. The : of a local establishment in exchange amount tendered ,foots up to about what the company's taxes would have been, if the raise in their val uation had been proportionate to the general raise, which was about 72 per cent. They express a wil lingness to pay a proportion equal to the general raise, but object to their assessment as it stands, be cause it is a raise of over. 130 per . Nothing definite is yet known as to when the funeral of the late , Edward Rosendorf will take place. The mother reached Philadelphia Wednesday, and a telegram recei ved in Corvallis that afternoon, an uounced that she would leave Thurs day on the return trip. Beyond this brief dispatch, nothing has been heard from her, and it is supposed that she is now enroute home with the remains. Efforts by wire to get definite information as to when she started have so far been resultless. Reckoning, however, that she began the homeward journey early Thurs day,' the arrival in Portland should be Monday night or earty Tuesday. It is possible that the arrival may be in time to catch Tuesday's West side train out of Portland, , but this is only conjecture. No funeral ar rangements will be made, until the wishes of the mother have been ascertained, and this cannot happen until she reaches Portland. . It . is not known what the next move of the company will be. It is-supposed that the attorneys will wait until the court attempts to sell the property for the balance of taxes and that then the sale will be enjoi ned, and the matter be thereby lan ded in the circuit court for adjudi To the Voters of Benton County: Acceding to the wishes of a larse number -of patrons and friends of our public schools, I submi' my name to the voters of Benton county for the office of county school superintendent. Very -Respect fully, S. I. Pratt. Philomath, Oregon;, Mar. 7, igo4. The contrast between the simplicity of the old time entertainment and the luxury and extravagance of today is no where more strikingly presented than in profusely illustrated article on "Modern Banquets" in the Cosmopolitan for March. Gorgeous dinners at which guests dine on horseback, or in huge Easter egss and kettles constructed for the occasion in great ball rooms, ban quets in cellars, and on roof gardens, amid bowers, and flower banked grottoes makeup a striking series of pictures showing the mad rush for the novel which the wealthy American host has entered upon. for some of the things that small boys like to eat. The famous Mahara's Ooeratic Minstrels announced for one night Tuesday March 14th; next is a . su- -perb combination of all the best and most popular features of opera travesty, vaudeville, with the lar gest and best colored chorus in America. It is the climax of all popular musical entertainments. It abounds in ' catchy music, snappy specialties, beautiful costumes, fun ny comedians, novel dances, special are I scenery, brilliant - electrical enect. pretty girls, picturesque ensembles, bewildering drillsjand all the latest song hits of the East, . and many new and original stage novelties. The entire performance is' presen ted by a metropolitan organization of the foremost colored, singers, comedians and specialty ' artistic of the race in America. More bright music, entertaining vaudeville num bers and hearty laughing are crow ded into two and one-half hours of Mahara's -Minstrels than would supply half a dozen of the average musical farce comedies. A GOLDEII 0PF0RT1I Now is the time to think about Chat Pair of Eyeglasses You were to treat your eves to. Come to me and-I will fit your eyes, guarantee the fit, and will be here from 7 to 6 to make good my guarantee. . E.W.S.PRATT, The Jeweler and. Optician. Close ab 6 p. m. except Saturdays. I I 3(i gxyr THEY DISCUSS IT. Bast way to rid Main Street of Ugly Surface Water. The presence of a large quan tity of water collected at the sides of the business portion of Main street has caused much speculation as to tne best means of draining it away. Six-inch glazed sewer pipes extend the length of the street on either side and it is covered to a depth of three to six feet with coarse gravel. The supposition was that the sur face water of the street would drain through the gravel and flow away through the pipes. The plan worked well for some years, but when there was much traffic the gravel became cemented and would not allow the water to pass through. Removing the cemented gravel and replacing it with new was an expensive and only- temporary relief. The phm now inavor of draining the 'streets is to place at intervals, vertical pipes connecting with the underground drainage, the surface openings to be covered by grates. See Nolan & Callahan's gains for March. special har- .. For Sale. Best Plymouth Rock or Brown Leghorn cockrels or eggs. - J. B. Irvine. CorvalGs. Red cedar Star shingles at mill, $1.6o per thousand. the'aaw Wanted. Girl wants place to do housework. Inquire at Times office. f EMERY'S ART I . , Soutlh Malo St., Corvallis, Ore. Carbon, Platinum and Platino Portraiture VO. A. G. ATHLETIC AND -SCENIC VIEWS. f Art Calendars. Sofa Pillow Covers, . And other Photographic Novelties. TUDIO ? II -- For Sale. Poland China -boar. 22 months old subjct to register. Alfred P.icknell, ' 5 miles north of Corvallis. . Buckboard for Sale. This is a moderately heavy vehicle with pole and will be sold cheap. Ap; pip to J. D. Wells, court heuse, Corvallis. Remember Nolan & Callahan's Rem nant and Rummage sale will close Wed nesday evening I'eb 23. Wells, Windmills and Pumps. I am- now prepared to do all iinds of well, windmill and pump work. See me before you have your work done. Send orders to Simpson's Hardware store, A. N. Harlan. FOR SALE. Vetch seed at Corvallis Flour Hills E. Holgate ATTORNEY AT UW JUSTICE OjF THE PEACE Stenography and typewriting done. Office ia Burnett brick CorraUU, Ore Stop-Look-Listen ! To Gentlemen: Do you wish to choose from an elegant line of Negligee Shirts, in plain, colored, figured, and open work, for Spring wear ? Come in and see a large assortment at . 75c. $1,00, $1.25, $1.56. "Seeing' is believing." SPECIAL. We are closing out our All Wool Underwear at cost. $1.50 Lamb's Wool, Extra Quality, for. $1.12 1.25 " " Guaranteed 88 Bargains also in Men's and lioys' Clothing. A complete new line of Men's "Kingsbury' Hats in all styles. -V. Corvallis, Oregon. 1