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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1904)
,OCAL LORE. lAdwttoementi In thl column charzd for t thentsoUS eenta per line. J. R. -Smith are Mr. and Mrs. Portland visitors. Dr. and Mrs. Farra left Mon day lot Portland. Mrs Ellsworth Irwin arrived Saturday from visit in Yamhill. Ladies sailor hats worth a dol lar or more are being sold for 50 c at S. L. Klines. F. P. Sheasgreen .-returned Monday from a brief trip to Toledo and Newport A new attraction at the Ccval lis Soda Works is a serpentine walk constructed by tbe proprietor. Miss Semite Groat, after a week spent with friends in this city left Monday for her home in Port land. Mrs. Brooks and daughter of Sacramento, California, are guests of Mrs. Fannie Purdy. Miss Mabel Abbe, who gradu ated from OAC in the class of '03 left Monday to joinber father in Kansas. She may not return in the fall although she hopes to. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Allen ac companied by their daughter. Miss Edna left Monday for a brief visit with their snn and to attend the wedding of their daughter in Port land. C. C. Huff has sold 80 of the 141 acres in his farm to Mr. Gel lately from Iowa, to whom he has leased the balance. The price paid was $2,600. Mr. Huff is looking for a house for rent in Corvalhs. J. H. Stalker, '02 of OAC, has just completed an elegant drug (tore in Prairie City, whre he has gain ed tbe largest trade in his line in Grant county. Announcement has b-en made of the engagement of Miss Anna Allen formerly of Corvallis to El dred Kuizenea, of Portland. The wedding is to take place in Port land Aug. 8th. Miss Allen is the eld est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen of this city. Monday was a busy day for owners of threshing machines. The Cooper - Gray " -machine passed through Corvallis during forenoon bound lor the Gus Harding place north of town, to thresh a vetch crop. The Gellatly outfit began Monday on the Dick Kiger ranch; the Witham machine on the With- am place and various other outfits are low in operation near Corvallis. A telephone message Sunday evening summoned John Rickard to fort land. It came from his son Bey, who went to that city about a week ago to consult a physician re lative to an ailment of the stomach that has for over a year give i tbe young man much trouble. The message Sunday evening stated that Portland surgeons would, on Mon day morning, perform two opera tions upon Bey Rickard, one being necessary for a floating kidney and the other to correct a dangerous de rangement of the stomach. News from the patient is awaited here , with much anxiety by many friends of the family. j The preliminaries for thje the -erection of the Heni derson brick have been inaug urated. Occupants of the wooden buildings that must be torn down to make room for the new structure are beginning to vacate- The Turner grocery store is being re moved to the" building so long oc cupied by the Hodes Gun. store, east across the street .from the Farmer's Hotel. . The ice cream parlors occupied by Mrs. Small are also to be vacated at once. The building will be immediately south and adjoin the Fisher brick. It will be 40 feet frontage and 73 feet deep, and the contract for its con struction will probably be let dur ing the current week. The biggest excursion of tbel season went over the C&E to New port Sunday. The train ran from Detroit to Yaquina and return, and earned about 400 excursionist'. It consisted of eight coaches, well fil led,and on the return trip, had two locomotives as far, as Summit. The day was warm until Summit was leached on the west bound trip, and then the cool ocean breeze steadied the temperature. As the excur sionists were taking the boat for the trip down the Bay a thick fog swept in from the ocean and for tbe rest of the day hung over the Coast, a pleasant relief from the 100 degrees of heat that raged in the Valley. On account of the fog, the trip by the Roscoe out over the bar did not transpire. The weather was too thick, and the ocean too rough. On a trip to sea the day before the boat carried 25 excursionists, 20 of whom were seasick before they got back. I Glen Goodman, an OAC sopn- omore. is engagea it present in tee principal hardware store in Pendle ton. He returns to college in Sep tember. . Herman Tartar, chemisf for the State Food and Dairy Commission er, is visiting his parents for a week He leaves for Portland in a day or two. - Their friends are w tching for invitations to "tie jedding of Roy Woodcock andMiss Clara Lane. Guessers say that ft will occur about the 17. A position in an Albany flour ing mill ha"? b'en accep ed by Har ry Wicks, late "of the Benton Mills, and he left Mondv to assume hi new duties- His family is to follow, later. f Thj Episcopal parsonage his jnst been given afresji coat of paint. The members ae mAktog extensive improvements, preparatory to the return of the pastor from a visit to relatives in Eslandabout the 1st of Septembe. A quantity of baled hav is be ing stored in Corvallis warehouses by vaious growers. In the M.C. Miller ware room there is now a bout 50 tons belonging to J H. Simp son and Geo'ge Lilly, who are pla cing the baled pro met where it will be handy for winter delivery, when there is a considerable be mand for it. -Ths value of the practical in education com' s more and more to be demonstrated. There are thou sands of instances in tbe case of graduates frcm' OAC. all of whom; if they desire to, go at once mti're- munerative places. . An instance, however, in proof of the point is the case of Alta Additon, an OAC graduate of several years ago. In col1 eg e he wa a mechanical student and sp cialized alone engineering lin?s. He now draws a salary of $400 a month fs a mining engineer in the California mining districts. He has not been on a salary of less than $150 per- month for year. He is married and lives in - Berkeley. The 26th of next Octoberwill be a great football day in Coryalli. On that day the states of Oregon and Utah, for the first timewill be pitted again't each otheroa the gridiron. The contesting teams will be the elevens tionl OAC and Utah Agricultural college. Thelat ter team is a good flrfaV, having de feated everything yftwent against last season. TheUtah men will be on a tour of theCoasn with games with the Univrsity of Washington at Seattle on.the 22nd, with OACat Corvallis oof the 26th, with the Uni versity ofCalifornia at Berkeley oi the 29th and with the University of Nevada at Reno on November 2nd.vThe game will attract wide at tention all over the west. The con tract for it was signed by Captain Pilkington yesterday. THE BOGUS PROPHET. Taken to Portland Incidents of His Going .Effect of Capture. . " Corvallis has parted company with CrefBeld, and there is a fervent and Tin versal hopi that - it may be forever. Supported " between two officers, Creffield walked out of the door of the Ben'ori Comity jail short ly alter one o'clock Saturday after noon, and tbe West side train hur ried b'm, a prisoner, to Portland. When he jail door swu g open, the apostle looked into the faces of per haps 100 boys, women and men,ga thered in curiosity to see what the man looked like. Either from weakness or otherwise, he walked with some dfflculty. and requii ed the assistance of the officers to get along. In the three months period of hiding under the Hurt house, there was but little exercise for his legs, and it is but natural that they should be sh ky for a time. If he never got out f-om under the buil ding at night to shake out his plu mage and drins in a breath ot tresn sea breeze, he must cot, during the loig period of his sneak, have once been ab1e to taise himself to the full of his majestic stature. To have lain so long on h:s back, oh one side or the other or on his face with but twenty odd inches of space between earth and floor to operate in, is illustration in itself of the manly character of this latest and funniest f all the Elijahs. Proba bly no other man on earth whether one in complete touch with the Al mighty or just an ordinary sinntr, wonld have devoted so much time to so noble a calling, to-wit; hice un der a man s bouse, be fed by fool ishwemen, in avoidance bfasim pie, plain charge ot adultery. Any man with 'the spirit of a seven year old boy in him, would have quit the spot any dark night, and have fled to some other place where at least he could stand on his pins and look the world in the face. TAKEN FROM THE JAIL. .V THE CHURCH WON. ' Big Suit Against Bondsmen of Execu tor of Mason Estate. A matter that has been for sever al years in litigation in Benton Cc, was settled Monday by a decision in tbe supreme c urt. Several year3 ago J.L.Akin became executor of the Hannah and Peter W.Mason es tate, which estate held his note for $800, and interest. It subsequently developed that Akin was insolvent. The legal question as to whether in spite of his insolvency he was, as evecutor offlciallyresponsible for the amount ot his liability to tbe estate. Suit was brought by the Upited Brethren church and Mrs. Margery Davisson to determine the question, and, after adjudication in tbe circuit court, where the plaintiffs won, the case was carried to the supreme court, where Akin lost a gain. J.W.Ingle and J. Q. Rogers were bondsmen for Akin. The question then arose if these bondsmen were not, as his sureties, liable to the es tate for its claim against Akin, the executor, in spite of tbe iatter's in- Horse For Sale. . Color dark bay, can be driven single ot doable, good saddle animal, gentle for family use, weight 950 ponnds. Geo.W.DepmaB. ' But it is a different sort offibre in the mnke up of Creffield and the crowd that watched him leave the jail saw bis slender figure, surmounted by Victor Moses hat, shambling along between Deputy Sheriff Wells and a Portland detective named Hait man. O.V.Hurt.aDd Chief Lane were escort to the procession, and when the outfit moved from the jail steps, the crowd followed, From the jail, the prisoner was taken past Mrs. Burnett's house to Sixth street, where it had been ar ranged for the train to stop. The train had not left the station house when the track was reached, and CrefBeld was allowed to seat him self 00 the edge of the sidewalk, while the party waited. At the station meantime, many other curi ous people had gathered to see the apostle tak the train. The seaside passengers of whom there happened to be many were likewise craning their necks for a sight of the dash ing Elijah, this one that doesn't go up in a chariot ' in the clouds, but hides under the floor of a man's hous-;. His fame was in every mind about the station and his 'name on every lip. and each arrival who tra veled in company with somebody else was guessed to be Creffield. One man thought J.R. N.Bell might be the apostle, and another stranger thought he had him sure when he allowed that S.N.Lilly was the man. . THE APOSTLE SANG.) While he sat on the sidewalk, waiting for the train, Creffield did a little stunt at singing. His voice was low, and his words undistin guishable, save that once was heard "Jesus hath-' the victory." He paid no attention to the crowd, which was constantly swollen by new ar rivals. People in the vicinity and afar had seen the procession, had gues-ed its meaning and they came in twos and threes, small boys, housewives, and ' others, all eager with curiosity for . a view of the man with the champion sneak to his credit. Perhaps a hundred had gathered when the train finally came aiong, siowea up ior a secona-i and waited for its notorious pas senger. A big man with a big mustache on the platform signalled to the passengers streaming out of the aisles to move back, ' a white- haired figure under - Clerk Moses cast off hat was helped up the steps the officers pushed him through'the door, down the aisle and into a seat, and Creffield was gone. The good- Jhumored bystanders hurled many sally of repartee after him and turned from the sight of the speed- Fl - ' J t TM:' t T . lug nam unu jrassenger Aiijaa wua a sigh of thankfulness and relief. PORTLANDERS PROPOSED MOB. . The night after the prophet was lodged in the Benton county jail, there were suggestion of violence, The suggestions did not come from Corvaliisites, and few if any of them expected any trouble on that score Hundreds-of them felt that the man deserved more than he can get in the way of punishment from the law, but their idea was and always is, to abide and obey the law. : Ac cordingly, the scenes about the) streets were not other than usual. At six o'clock, business houses closed, and everybody went home, j Before that iour, the stragglers who had hung round the ' county jail all afternoon, had dispersed. By nine o'clock in the evening, there were not half a dozen men on Main street. A number of . drum mers sat in front of one o the ' ho tels and talked until a late hour, and this was the only sign of life save an occasional citizen who pass ed along the thoroughfare. Nevertheless, there was a pro position to do violence to CrefEeld, but it did not come from Corvaliis ites. The authorities heard of it early in the evening. Four men left Portland on the evening train; ana drove over from Albany. They were men who have full occasion to hate ' Creffie'd. Among them was B. E. Starr, who is plaintiff in the case which Creffield must an swer in the Portland courts. After arrival in Corvallis, the Portlanders wentjto O. V. Hurt, and proposed a settlement with the man in the jail. They argued that the punish ment to be expected from the law. couldn't be adequate, and inquired if Mr. Hurt would be a party o the plan. The latter took position at once against it. ON THE WATCH. Mr. Hurt advised peace,, at all cost; It was good advice, and the menfrom Portland acceptedit as such They gave up the plan without further effort, and there the matter ended, v Meantime, however, the jail was under constant surveillance by an officer. In the absence of tSheriff Burnett, Deputy Wells was on duty I It was arranged with the Corvallis police to render aid in case of need. Private parties were made conver sant with plans for preventing viol ence. Deputy Wells spent the night in the county clerk' sv office. where from a window and under a j favorable moonlight, every object in the vicinity of the jail was plain ly discernible. The watch there was kept up until five o'clock in tne morning, . but no suspicious circumstances occurred. Nobody approached the jail, and even pas sersby ceased to appear after ten o'clock. At half past one, a buggy drove along the street! . going - west from the direction of the ferry, but it passed the jail without halting. As it approached, the deputy had visions that the time- had come for trouble, but as it drove swiftly by and disappeared to the westward, everything lapsed back into a si lence and peace that continued un til the morning. By use of a conven ient telephone, it was proposed" for assistance to have been summoned, if the Portlanders had succeeded in the plan for violence. Deputy Wells had a newspaper man as a companion in his vigil. - THE REWARD. N disposition has been made of the reward. The sum offered was $350, of which $200 was for the capture, and $150 for the capture and conviction. Roy Hurt, 14 years "of age, i the person who discover- ed Creffield and made bis capture pissible.. Under the terms of the offer, he is, entitled to the $200 now and to the $150 later if there is a conviction. O.V.Hurt, however, has given it out that he does not want the boy to have the money, and the lad has assumed a similar attitude. Mr. 'Hurt said yesterday: "It was Creffield that we wanted; not money. Several of those who are contributors to the reward fund have expressed to me, their willing ness for the bov to have it, but I do not want him to have it." It is not yet known what disposition' will be made of tbe sum. EFFECT OF CAPTURE. It is believe'd that tbe removal of Creffield from the community will give his followers a chance to re cover mental balance. As long aa he was abla to remain in communi cation with them, and play the martyr before them, tbey became worse. It was always mysteriotts to those who suffered from condi tions Creffield made, how it was that his followers grew worse in stead of better, after bis disappear ance. They did not. know then, as they do now, that from his pit un der the northeast corner of the Hurt bouse, he was giving out rev lations and apostolic decrees to his victims. It is an explanation of why after Creffield disappeared, hats and shoes were discarded by members of the sect, all ot whom knew of his whereabout?, and of his orders. If now, the law puts him where he can no longer communi cate with themjit is believed that they will gradually pass oat from the diabolical influence that he seems to have over those foolish enongh to accept him as a real man ot God, instead of the monu mental humbug and viper that he is. Lots of Remnants At the Busy Big Store! " ' - ' ----- - c , Remnants in the Celebrated A A Satin Gros Grain Ribbon. That we have decided to dispose of and have made prices to do it. Any color you want No 16 regular value 30c special 19c 12 25 " 15c 9 -- 20c . " 12c 7 " " 15c 9c 5 V 10c - ' " 7c 3 " 8 1:3 " 5c 2 " 5e ' - 3c Something new. 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ATHLETIC AND SCENIC VIEWS, f l i J Art Calendars, Sofa Pillow Covers, J And other Photographic Novelties. r We Don't v. f ant to Hurry You But you must come early if you wish to se- cure some oargains at our j ijrreai oummer ; Reduction Sale Wash Goods and Summer Dress Goods At Cost Ten. per cent reduction on Table Linen and Napkins " " Lace Curtains and Sereens " Calicoes, Percales and Ginghams " ' 50 cent Mixed Wool dress goods Cretons, Silkoline and Darperies Towels and To welings . Bargains in odd and ends Ribbons and Lace 20 per ct red. on Embroideries & dress Trimmings Other Bargains on the remnant counter. ' We pay top price for country produce. . Corvallis, Oregon. s