,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.
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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!
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, 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.
Has iast arrived in the way of trimmings. Per
sian Band, Lace, Jet and Ecru Collars. Silk, Jet andl
Opia MadaTions, Jet and Silk Applique and Allover
Lace and many more new creations just from the de
signers at. .,
S. L. KLINE'S,
- Regulator 6f Low Prices.
. HOME-SEEKERS !
IP YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME REAL
good bargains in stock, grain, fruit and poultry
Ranches, write for our special list, or come and
see us. We shall take pleasure in giving you all
the reliable information youwish, also snowing
you over the country. . 1 "
AMBLER & WATERS.
Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance,
Corvallis and Philomath, Or.
EMERY'S ART STUDIO
South Main St., Corvallis, Ore.
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Carbon, Platinum and Flatino Portraiture
$ O. A. C. ATHLETIC AND SCENIC VIEWS, f
l i
J Art Calendars, Sofa Pillow Covers,
J And other Photographic Novelties.
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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.
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