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r , Corvallis Times. Official e ayer of Benton County. COjCTAXIS, OREGON, MAK 2S5, 1903. DRAWING PLANS. i frS PROVISIONS. Fdl Text of Corvallis Water Works Bill, Recently Passed by the Legislature. ' -Continued from Saturdays Issue. For Women's Building at OAC Com mittee to Build if not Stopped by : i Referendum, Preliminary plans of tjie propos ed new Woman's building for OAC for which the late legislature made appropriation, were exhibited in town Saturday. Architect Bur .. graf of Albany, brought them up to Corvallis for the inspection of President Gatch and other mem bers of the faculty, and to receive suggestions relative to any change of arrangement. The proposed cost of the building is $50,000. A committee of the board has been de tailed to let the contract for con struction. The total amount of -appropriation, for the building and a drill shed, is $65,000. For the money, the new structure should be, by all odds, the finest building on the grounds. In any event, it is to cost more than has been paid out for any building so .far erected. It will probably be located on the site of the Hogg house. It is the purpose, if possible to complete the building in time for occupancy when college opens next autumn. - By the present pre liminary plans, the building is largely designed after a similar building at the University of Michi gan. The latter is one of the finest buildings of the sort in the country. The new structure is badly needed at the college, and has been so needed for a number of years. Of course, preparations will cease if the effort to invoke the referen dum on the omnibus appropriation bill continues until enough names to obtain submission of the bill to popular vote are secured. There could be no vote on the bill until the June election next year. If the bill by that vote should be vetoed " by the people, the appropriation would be gone forever. AFTER THEY SHOT EM. Sharratt Then Hade Will Giving all His Property to Those Now Held for bis Harder. UNION MEETING. The quarterly union meeting of the Missionary societies of the Cor vallis churches will be held at the M. E- church South, next Sunday at 3 o'clock. Mrs. C. I. McCaus land of the M. E. church South, will preside. Following is the pro gramme: Hymn, Coronation. Prayer, Mrs. Woodward. Scripture lesson, Mrs. Skelton. . Special music. v Educational work of the Con gregational church, Mrs. Green. Religion in Japan, Mrs. Holmes of the M. E. church. Hymn. Work of the Presbyterian church, Mrs. Crawford. M. E. church in Japan, Mrs. . Sarah Cauthorn. ' Closing hymn. A Word to the Wise Oak wood is getting higher in pnce and farther from town every year. Or der now for summer delivery. 200 cords now partly sawed stove lengths, 12 cords seasoned wood. , , 2200 pounds vetch seed. 3000 pounds clover, red and white, alfalfa. Alsike, timothy, orchard and rye crass, speltz, rape, all fresh seeds. A Also a line of garden seeds. Order now before the spring rush. Tread power, silo, elevator and cutter, Poland China hogs. Youra for Business. . Telephone 155. L. L. Brooks. Diamond Chick Food. Head Light oil the best for incubators. Field and garden seeds at - Dunn & Thatcher. Yon will find full line of flooring Ens tic and finishing lumber at the Benton County lumber yards opposite S. P. de? pot. Our No. 3 grade of the above can nqt.be beat in price and material, - Call and see. mis-tf Mill Feed Prices. Feed can be had at ; the following prices at either the Corvallis or Benton flooring mills: Cracked corn per bush' , 80 cents or 1.40 per 100 pounds; roll ed barley, 1. 10 per per sack; chop bar tj 1.05 per sack ; bran and shorts at th anal prices. The Corvallis Flouring Mills. Eggs for Hatching. . Entered 7 birds at Corvallis show and won 3 firsts, 1 second and 3 third prizes. White Eock eggs $1 for 15. v. P. C. Rhode Island Reds: Eggs from istpen 2.50 per 16 and " $1.50 "is.. . These are prices packed in special boxes ior snipping. r , '.- v - W, A. Bates, ' , Corvallis, Or. Section 15 Before holding any election herein provided for, " the clerk of said committee, shall under the direction of said committee,, give notice by publication in some news paper published in Corvallis, Ore gon, of the time and place of said election, which said notice shall state that the said election is held for the purpose of determining wheth er or not the said water committee of the city of Corvallis shall issue the bonds of the city of Corvallis, bearing interest at a" rate . not ex ceeding 5 per cent per annum, on 50 years time, for "the purpose of constructing water works for the city of Corvallis. Said notice shall also state the maximum amount of bonds proposed to be issued, and that the same will not be issued nor said water works constructed, un less a majority of the votes cast at such election, shall be in favor of issuing said bonds: that if it is de sired to favor the issuance of bonds ballots should be read, "For bonds" and if against the issuance of bonds said ballots shall read "Against bonds." Said notice of election shall be published for not less than two weeks immediately prior to the date of said election. Section 16 The failure to com ply fully with all the requirements of the section last aforesaid shall not operate to invalidate said bonds after the same are' issued, provided it shall appear that there has been substantial compliance therewith, and to that end said section last aforesaid shall be liberally con strued. . ' bection 17 Whenever and as sdon as the water -.. works herein provided for are, in t&e judgment 01 the committee, ready - for use, there shall be selected, as herein provided, four persons for the pur pose of maintaining and conducting said water works, who shall .be styled , individually, "water com missioners" and collectivelv. "The Water Commission", and are here in referred to as the Commissioners and Commission respectively, and thereafter the power and author ity hereby given to the city to keep conduct and maintain water works therein shall be exercised as here inafter provided; and during con struction of said water " works, -and until delivery thereof, said com mittee shall, have- the power and authority conferred on said com missions of this act. section is I he commissioners shall be selected by the committee from their own number for the sev, era! terms of one, two, three and four years, but in case a sufficient number do not consent to serve as such commissioners, the remainder may be selected from the resident tax payers of the city. Section iq Whenever any mem ber of said commission above nam ed or hereafter elected . as herein provided, shall arrive at the age of 70 years, or. shall cease to be a tax payer or a bona fide resident of the city of Corvallis, then in either of said events there shall be deemed to be a vacancy in said commission; Whenever a vacancy shall exist in said commission as a. result of the causes above named, or by rea son of the death or resignation of a member, the said committee "shall immediately hold a meeting and elect from their own number, or in case none of said, number will con sent to serve, then from the bona fide resident tax payers of said city, some person to fill the term of such vacancy, provided that when a va cancy occurs for any reason other than the expiration of -term of office the successor to fill such vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired term only; Provided, that not more than three of said commission shall be long to the same political party, and provided further that the pol itics of each member shall be de termined for the purposes of this act, by his politics at the time of his election as a member of said committee; . ' . Section 20 Three commission ers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; the commission shall meet at a time and place to be appointed by the com mittee, and organize by the selec tion of a chairman and clerk, as herein provided in case "of the com mittee, which chairman and clerk shall have the same powers and duties in regard to the commission as the chairman and clerk of, the committee have and are required ;to perform in regard to the latter; and thereafter the committee shall meet in the city for the transaction of business regularly once a month On such day and hour thereof and" at such place as. it may provide, and otherwise as often as may. be deem ed necessary and convenient. . Concluded on Page 4, ' Extraordinary facts appear in the murder case, in which the Greens are charged with killing "Sharratt. It was not until after he had re ceived his death wound from those whom Lincoln ' county, authorities charge with his murder, that Shar ratt made his will giving the al leged murderers all his property. F. W. Green, one of the defend ants, arrived today at the Benton county jail. Jointly with his wife, he will be tried at Toledo (next July for the murder of Sharratt at Waldport on the 21st day of Jan uary last. Mrs. Green passed through Corvallis the other day, enroute to WaldpoTt for her pre liminary examination as one of the principals in the crime. At that time some of the details of the al leged murder appeared in the Times Judge McFadden and J. F. Yates of this city, with Mr. Hawkins of Toledo, are'counsel for the de fendants." They arrived Saturday from Waldport, where the prelim inary of Mrs. Green was held Fri day afternoon. Mrs. Green was held for murder, without bond, and is to be confined in the Iinn county jail, at Albany. It is. the requirement of the Lincoln county authorities that Mr. and Mrs. Green shall not occupy the same jail. ' The story told by witnesses at -the preliminary seems to indicate that the case for the Statev is not very strong. - Five years ago Shar ratt went to Waldport, ' as he . ex pressed it, to die. He had. been in bad health for a loner time, and did not expect .a recovery. He found a home with the " Greens, until the day of his deathr he re sided with them. Green is a fish erman and the day of the alleged murder, arose at six and went to his crab net in Alsea Bay. Mrs. Green arose at the same time to get breakfast. When the meal was ready, she called to Sharratt. ohar ratt occupied a room adjoining that occupied by the Greens. He did not answer, and she called again, without response. At' length she went to the room and there found Sharratt unconscious, with a small, bullet wound in the neck, above the Adams Apple, ,Oti the bed Jay the 22-caliore target, - rifle with which the wound had been made. Mrs. Green was terribly frightened and hurried to alarm the neighbors. ! She notified Mr. and Mrs. Charles ! Stanton, Henry Nice, Jake Holgate and called her husband. Witness es for the prosecution say she told them that Sharratt had shot, him self while fooling with the target rifle out on the front porch. After arrival of the neighbors, whiskey was administered, and af ter a time, Sharratt revived. fHe grew . better and m better, and at last was able to talk. The course, however, of the bullet was some what upward, and the wound had made him suddenly deaf. By means of writing, he was plied with ques tions as to how and by whom he was shot, and if he had shot him sehy to all of which he refused an answer . . During the forenoon, Sharratt made his will. He called for writ ing materials and requested Mrs. Green to take down what he had to say. He started to dictate, and it soon developed that he was mak ing his will. The dictation at first was taken in pencil, but when he discovered it, he . declared that it would not be legal, and required a pen to be brought.; All this time, other persons besides the Greens were in the room, and witnesses to the proceedings. When a pen and ink were brought, the dictation of the will began over again, Mr. Green writing it down. When tne task was finished, it appeared that all of the property had been willed to the Greens. One of the . items was $749 on deposit in a bank in Portland. : An order was prepared in the same way, directing "Henry Nice to pay to the Greens a cer tain sum due from Niqe to Shar ratt. Sharratt called for his spec tacles, and after properly adjusting them, proceeded to read the will and other papers. When he had finished, .he called for a pen and with the aid of a notebook for the papers to rest on, he sighed them. Sharratt was of a moody dispos ition and at times was morose. The statement, of the defense is that he never had any trouble with the Greens, but on the contrary, he was very fond of both. It is also claimed that if, as the Lincoln coun ty authorities insist, the Greens had murdered Sharratt, he would .j. not after receiving vhis death wound, have willed them all his property. - This feature of the case makes of it probably a prosecution without a parallel. y Sharratt. continued conscious four or five days, but shortly lost the power of speech. - All -efforts to get him to tell how he received the wound failed. A friend from Portland named Keesey, "- arrived and used every endeavor to get the facts out of him; but without, re sult. Keesey is one of the witness es for the prosecution. After nine days, Sharratt died. A post mor tem examination was made by Dr. Parker of Newport. The ball was not found. In the ilpper part of the brain, near the temple a large quantity of pus was found. The statement of persons who were with the doctor at the post mortem is that almost a tea cup measure of it was removed. The finding of Dr. Parker was that death was caused directly by this pus accum ulation: And now the doctor him self is held under $500 bonds as an accessory with the Greens to the murder. - ' " TEE NEW CAPTAIN. Is George Herbert Root And Fred C, Stimson is Manager Annual Foot- Ball Banquet. George Herbert Root is to be cap tain of the CAC football team the coming season, ind . Fred C. Stim son is to manage- it. Both points were settled mid plaudits and other manitestations 01 approval at an athletic function Saturday night The occasion was the annual foot ball banquet, held at Hoel Corval lis. Eighty persons participated in the festivities and pronounced the occasion the most successful of any athletic function in the history of OAC. Events of the evening, besides the election b y the football squad of their captain aud manager was the presentation to the men of official' sweaters, the presentation to each of a big group photo of the team, subs, trainers and managers, and last but not least, the presen tation to Manager Stimson of a huge group picture of the eleven, the gift of the men themselves. These ceremonies, with the discus sion of the menu, the post prandial sentiments and the interlarded con versation occupied the time from half past nine to midnight, - and constituted an occasion so memor able, that its successor to come again a year hence, will be looked forward to with " anticipation by all present Saturday night. The menu at the banquet was as follows, raw oysters,- shrimp sal ad; turkey and cranberry saucej, cold ham; celery, bread and butter, pickles, and olives; ice cream, lady- fingers and macaroons: coffee and fruits. The tables were arranged in the form of a huge letter U, with 'and the open space at the east end of the dining room. The sweaters and souvenir pictures for the men, and the big photo for Manager Stimson, were presented ' by Pres ident Gatch. During the incident, the men were lined up in the mid dle of the room, and .the ceremon ial took on a character intensely impressive and extremely felicitous. It was while the men were thus lined up that the . election of the captain and. manager took place. The election was confined entirely to the members. . Root was placed in nomination in a neat speech by Floyd Williams, who for three years has played side by side with the big half back, and - has shared with him the honors of every vict ory and been melancholy with him in the hour of every defeat. The nomination of Stimson for manager was made in a neat address by Glenn Goodman who has been as sistant to Mr. Stimson, as general manager the past year. Of toasts, there was a number, and all in formal. None of them was stud ied, but all were pointed and fe licitous. Among the speakers were, B.' W. Johnson, Dr. Withy combe, Dr.'Bowen Lester, F. L, Miller, Lieut. Quinlan, and W. G. Emery. : Root was elected to the captaincy without opposition. Dow Walker'9 name was earlier mentioned for the place," but it is understood that Mr. Walker himself favored Rootbe cause of the lattes's longer service in theteam. Root is one of the best half backs on the Coast, or in the coun try. He is extremely popular with his team mates and : through out the college, and he wilT un doubtedly make a good captain. In a neat speech, he promised to do his best to promote success, and there is no doubt but he will do it. . The election of Fred Stimson to the managership was in acknow ledgment of his wise and most suc cessful management of the past year: Mis administration has oeen so successful . from every stand point that it has, made him one of the best know n and most popular students that ever attended AOAC For Sale. - . Real estate, farm and city property lor sale, exchange or rent. - No sales means no commission to be paid. : Yonr pat ronage kindly solicited. Help furnish ed and positions secured. - H M. Stone, ' ' South Main street, Corvallis. ;.; ; N O WAD AYS it is a recognized fact that most md give some cnougnr. as to now to oe ciotnea, an when and what tO;wear It is possible that it would have been considered some generations? 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