Vol.XVm.-No. 1.
B.F. IRTTKK Bdtto.
' and Proprietor -
CORVALLIS, OREGON, APRIL 29. 1905.
We all Wear Shoes!
Never befoie have we received sh quantities
and qualities in foot wear as this
SPRING.
Tans, Browns and Black
Low High and Medium cuts
Prices High, Medium and Low
But in all grade3 the very lowest price
for the quality of the shoe. Our efforts
will be great to increase our shoe sales.
Shoes for all Ladies, Misses, Children,
Mens, Boys and Little Gents. Don't
forget our Shoe Department.
WEBER MUST HANG
SENTENCE OF DOOM IS PRO
NOUNCED BY JUDGE
PREWETT.
Court, After Hearing Arguments
For a New Trial, Fixes June
30th as Date When Young"
Weber Pays the Pen
alty Other News.
fas
Fine Light Sample Rooms.
Hotel i
Corvallis
J. C. Earsrcei, Proj?.
Auburn, April 13. Adolph We
ber was sentenced to death today
for the murder of his mother.
'I hope yon are not deceiving
me, Mr. John6on." roese were
Adolph Weber's words to his chief
counsel shortly after Superior J udge
Prewett pronounced the death pen
alty and fixed the date of hanging
at June 30, 1905. .
Johnson had offered a wager
with Sheriff Keena that the su
preme court would grant a new tri
al. 1 be sentence came at 4 o ciock
this afternoon, after six hours of
argument by the defense on their
motioafor a new trial. When ask
ed to stand up this morning, Weber
faltered and had to be lifted up by
Under Sheriff May. This afternoon
when the court made the same re
quest, Weber had to be urged to do
so by his counsel. He seemed to
have lost his indifference and self-
composure. H9 was not defiant to
day, neither - did - he display that
contemptous smile he used eo fre
quently during the trial. Weber
is changed. Time is telling on hico.
He is more pleasant to the officials
and is more easily controlled by his
attorneys. ' '
Indeed, he agreed with his coun
sel to a settlement of the bank rob
bery case, if it could- be arranged.
This compromise was expected ; to
be made this morning, bat for the
balking of the young men, Geear,
MonogiianWdDapender, who,' with
Coroner Snepard, found the stolen
bank money under the Weber barn .
Toe proposition was that all suits
ba dropped, that the $5,500 iound
be returned to the estate and that
the bank take judgment gainet the
e-tate for $ 6,7U0. representing the
full amount Ftolea with interest.
A reward of $500 wa3 to be paid to
Coroner Shepard, who would divide
i with the others. ' -
was run out over some of the heav
iest grades, and otherwise tested as
to it ability to maintain speed and
power under tryiog conditions.
Uoder all situations the new inven
tion lias demonstrated itself to be a
success, and there is no doubt' that
it will prove itself worthy of the tri
al from the time it is pat in . com
mission in the Willamette -Valley.
General Manager B." A, . Worth-
ingtoa yesterday received notice of
the -progress of the car in a message
sect Dy. A.- Lr. Jdofaler; ; vice-presi'
dent and general manager- of the
Union-Pacific. , rMrr 'Mobler : said:
' We ran thr motor - car " from
North Piatt to Denver yesterday,
actual running lime,-1:26, at Jules
bufg. Average rate, as milesin-
cladicg meeting and passing trains.
The car Works splendidly and will
make another trip ffom Denver to
Greely tomorrow. The' day- after
we shall go to CheyerTne and, west
if Mr. Kruttschnitt approves, which
1 have wired him about.'' . ;.
'- It is, - thmforeVrwtically'.f'cer
tain that the V pepple of Portland
win be able .to seei the first , motor
car to be built in the United States
operated in Jthe valleyjlwithin; the
next two weeks. j- " e-.vii '
ANXIETY.
and
Effects of This Form of Mental
v v r Fhyaieal Derangement. i
In a paper read before the 'congress
of French alienists at Grenoble Dr.
Gaston Lalanne pointed out that
anxiety is a disturbance' which is ex
pressed toy the entire being. ' The ex
citing . manses are sometimes physical
and . sometimes "psychical, .and the
symptoms manifested are both phys
ical and mental. The physical Symp
toms comprise cold feelings and chills
of the scalp -and body, . general lassitude,-
' incoordination 1 of . voluntary
movements far - more. . apparent - than
real emotional coloring of speech",- and
vertigo, which is dependent npon vaso-
motor cerebral disturbances or npon
digestive : troubles. In the anxious
states " there are . always --circulatory.
troubles, such as accelerated heart beat,
irregularity oi. lue uearia acuun, i ,. . , .. .
heightened arterial tension and cold- Ume' 19 elowly improving
cess or tne extremities.'' iiespiratory,
disturbances are also present.
.- The psychical symptoms of anxiety,
include various degrees of vague dread
and ' appreh'ensiveness, often taking
definite forms,-in. which case they are
designated as "phobias" or "obessipns
ox tear.weaKening tne-capacity or at
tention;; and 'f memory; : and a tend
ency, to confusion of ideas.1 Halluci
nations of the senses: are prone to oc
cur.:- . ' ' .. - . .-
' At Kings Valley. T '
There is demand for good hands
at good wages in the logging camp3 .
up tht JLiDckiamuts. - . 4 ;
Grain la generally looking find. -
From the bloom on the apple
trees the apple crop will bs - very-
ehortjother fruii ' will - be a good
crop.
:,: Early gardens are looking well t
and pasture is good. J
Mrs. Frank Plunkett, who has
been eick for the last Bix weaka ias
rtfcovered sofficiently to go home
with her mother to stay for a few
days. ' " ,
Mrs. Vanmeeter,. who has been
sick for about the same length of
BakerCityt Xit;i April 25 'The
two young men j Gay Wescott and
William. Smith, who. appeared : .be
fore Committing Magistrate Curry
this evening at 6 o'clock to anewer
to a most serious . charge, - scted
greatiy surprised- when the judge
said:.-tij t ! '.iii-. v;iv'y
"Young" men, I talked with the
father of one of you - this morning
and intimated "to him J that " when
you were arraigned the bond which
COMEDIAN -SAM VALE.
He Was the Original d Sam Welle
? -.'V ' ' Piekwielc .fame.' , . :
- The' original ofSam Weller was iSam
Vale,: au English low .comedian, who,
" in ihe early part of the last century, was
quite popular in the south of England.1
In the year 1811, and for a-few years
after,: he 'made quite a reputation in the
musical farce called "The Boarding
House," written by Beasley ; In this
lie -played, the part of Simon Spatter
dash, a person who indulged in odd and
Whimsical sayings.". ?'Come n,. as the
old man said to-the ticrht boot:" "1 am
I shculd fixtv'would "? be . very "low. 4 doym oh yon, as the extinguisher said
. . ui. rernoi ana ur, JUUtner per
formed an operation oa MrB. Ho
sier last week to remove water from
her lungs and she is said to be very
week. . : ; -
. John , Price is .working on the
roads some this week. v , -
" There was a bear hunt Sunday
over at Hoskios shortly after noon.
By Frantz saw a large .black b9ar
cross, an open space and enter a
6mall brush thicket on the, Ring
Hill. J He gave the alarm and very
quickly raised a crowd of about a
dozen men and half as many guns,
whojquickly surrounded the thick
et. They didn't get any bear but
By took the crowd down to Hoskins
and eet .np the soda if they would
not give the thing away, and when
an of the crowd was asked about
the bear hunt it only brought a
oroadgrin. - .
Leading Hotel in Gorvallis. Recently opened.
1ft
New
x oriUK. inniuxng. itjwiy iurmsueu, vvilu iuuubiu cuii-s
veniences. Furnace Heat, Electric Lights, Fire Es-
capes. Hot and. cold water on every floor. Fine single
jf rooms. Elegant suites. Leading house in the Willam- M
ette Valley. -u
Rates: $1.00, $1.25 and $2.00 per day.
Star Brand Shoes are Better!
For Shces, Qothingt Hatst Gloves, Hosiery, -Notions,
Fruits, Meats, Staple and Fancy Gro- -ceries,
see , & . &
WELLSHER & GRAY;
Highest Market Price Paid for all Kinds of Produce
Star Brand Shoes are Better!
Notice to Creditors.
In the matter of the Estate of James
C. Irwin, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
concerned that the undersigned has been
duly appointed administrator of the es
tate of said James C. Irwin, deceased, by
the county court of Benton county, state
of Oregon. All .persons having claimB
against said estate of said James C. Irwin
deceased, are hereby required to present
the same with the proper vouchers duly
verified as by law required within six
months from the date hereof to the un
dersigned at his residence near Bruce,
Benton county, Oregon, or at tVie law of
fice of E. E., Wilson, in Corvallis, Ore
gon. .......
. - Dated this April 29, 1905.
v . R- S. Irwin, '
Administrator of the Estate of Jamss
C. Irwin, deceased.
Largest I n? ef inatlui? ia
BlacktcdgVg.' -
ci:r at
Notice to Creditors.
In the matter of the Estate of George
W. Owen, deceased,
Notice is hereby given to all persons
concerned that the undersigned has been
duly appointed administratrix of the es
tate of said George W. Owen, deceased,
by the county court of Benton county,
state of Oregon.' All persons having
claims against said estate of George W.
Owen , deceased, are hereby required to
present the same, with the proper vouch
ers duly verified as by law required with
in Eix months from the date hereof, to
the undersigned at the law office of E .
E. Wilson in Corvallis, Oregon.
Dated this April 29th. 1905.
Margaret E. Owen.
Administrator of the Estate of George
W. Owen, deceased.
Albany, O.., April 25. Propaga
tion of Eastern oysters in Oregon
has begun. Yesterday a carload of
hoe young oysters from Old Point
Comfort, Va., arrived in Albany
and wtre immediately sent over
the Cjrvallis & Eastern to Yaquina
Bay, whet e a two-acre bed had been
prepared for them.
For ' several years experiments
with-Eastern oyster3 have been
made at Yaquina Bay, and they
wire very successful. Ths oysters
not only grew rapidly and became
folly developedljat they have the
fine flavor of the be3t article from
the Atlantic Coast. Those which
were eent to the coast yesterday
were the property of Dr. M. M. Da
vis, of Newport, who.with "some
others, owns several acres of the
finest oyster beds on the Oregon
Coast. - ' '
1 ttri t . ' i
wnne yesieroay s carioaa win
plant but two acres of this bed, a
like amount will bs planted each
year until the entire tract is sup
plied. As it takes four or five years
for the young oysters to fully ma
ture and be ready for market, this
system will have fresh oysters com
ieg on every year when once they
bacome marketable. The men are
going into oyster propagation as a
business proposition and are confi
dent of success. .
In addition to the Atlantic Coast
oyster, Dr. Davis is Tareparingi to
plant a small bed of the big Hero
shimo oyster from the Japan Coast.
The conditions of the Pacific Coast
are more like those ofv Japan than
of the Atlantic seaboard, and it is
possible that the big Japanese oys
ter will do even better than the Old
Point Comfort variety.
since tnen T. -oaye: .cBansea . my
mindi j Facta are coming'; to . light
that make this case very, eerious:
Public eentiment is rising and I
find the charge against you is felo
ny, and, if convicted T the penalty
wilt-be from three to 20 years in the
gtate penitentiary. I fix your bond
Those were the ' words that took f
all the hilarity out of the - young
men s faces.
Sunday r.ight, May Wilkinson
aged 15, called at Ihe'Bounds' home
and, asked that little Jane, aged 13
be allowed to go to church with her.
The mother protested, but as eh9
would be right along on their heel?
to the same church in a few min
utes she finally -consented- That
was the last seen of the girl? uutil
Monday morning at 6 o'clo
Wescott and Smith met tr etn on
the street. The girls v;-"- induced
to take in an an act 0: '. , v,o at the
Star Theatre. Aftei ihe theatre,
a walk, in this close! town of Ba
ker, and all four of them under age,
too, beer, plentv of it. Then they
went ta the St. tawrence Hotel and
stved all night.
When the judge and public een
timent was rising the words did
not half express it. It is up. To
morrow at 2 o'clock the examina
tion will take place. - Gay Wes
cott ia i9 years of age and Smith 2O.
"Short" on Peruaa but "Long"
on prunes. Italian prunes. W-taund
Ibexes, i.5o. F. I,. Mil!tr.
to the- candle;" :"I.et every - one - take
care of himself ia's-- the', donkey said
when dancjngl' among . the chickens,'
are7 fair illustrations of his witticisms
in. the course' of that - play,! the resem
blance between them and some of. the
sayings of Sam " AVeller.- being very
marked. !. In private life Vale rttsa
wit, and, many, good things in his own
excellent temper he had- no-enemits,
and the good humor which pervaded
every saying, together with the droll
ery of his manner", gave his witticisms
unusual value. His sayings were called
Sam Valerisms, and on the appearance
of Tick-wick in 1SS0 the character of
Weller was generally recognized as a
portraiture of Tale. The comedian died
in 1S4S at the age of fifty-one.
Gorvallis & Eastern
- Railroad
Time Card Number 28.
TbiE VViLLOV TREE.
Wanted
tons
To contract for one to fiye
seed, season 1905.
S. L. Kline
vet'jh
Dry Fir Wood
Portland, April 26. Orego nian :
The new motor car will be ia Port
land in a little more than a week
and will be at once put to'' work on
the West Side fun between Port
land and Hillsboro. The car has
now been gent from Omaha, where
it wa3 built,, and is on the road west,
being pat to all of the most severe,
tf.sU a3 it covers the journey. B
fore kaving the shops at OAiaha it
At $3.50 per cord. Orders solicited
for grub oak for summer delivery, i -'
Frank Francisco,.
' Corvallis. .
Notice to Contractors.
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids
will be received by the bewer Committee
until the 8th day of May at 12 o'clock
noon for the construction of a sewer
through blocks 31 and 32 Avery's Thiid
addition to the city of" Corvallis accord,
ing to the plans and speculations now
on file in the office of police judce. A
certified check on a responsible bank
must accompany each bid.
P. Avery, Alex Rennie, Ed Buxton,
Sewer Committee.
John Pcrlie Custls Fla-ted tlie First
One In Tills Co entry.
When the south sea bubble in Eng
land collapsed one of the speculators
went to Smyrna to repair his fortune.
He was a fj-iend of Alexander Pope
and sent him a box of figs in which
had been placed a twig of a tree. Tope
planted the twig on his groundson the
shore of the Thames, not knowing of
what tfee it was. It grew and was a
weeping willow.. Ia 1775, when the
tree was over fifty years old, one of
the young British officers who came to
Boston with theBritish army brought
a twig from the tree, which he intend
ed to plant on his lands after the re
bellion had been crushed. John Parke
Custis, son, of Mrs. Washington, going
on errands to the British camp under
a -flag of -truce, became acquainted
with the owner of the willow twig,
which was draped in oiled silk, and ob
tained it from him, which he planted
near his home at Abingdon, Va., where
it became the progenitor f all the
weeping willows in America.
2 For Yaquina:
: Train leaves Albany. ......12:45 P
.' . ; Corvallis...... 1:45 p. m
; ; ' arrives Yaqujna ...... t . 5 mo t. to
i : .Returning: . -
Leaves Yaquina .7:15 a. in
Leaves Corvallis 11:30 a. m
; Arrives Albany .12:15 p. bj
3 Fcr Detroit:
Leaves Corvallis.. 6:00 a. m.
Leaves Albany ' 7:30 a. m
Arrives Detroit 12:02 p. m
4 from Detroit:
Leaves Detroit 12:35 p. m
Arrives Albany... 5:15 p. m
Arrives Corvallis. 7:55 p. tn.
Train No 2 oinaects with tne S P train. .
at Corvallis and Albany giving direct ser
vice to Newport and adjacent beaches
Train No. 1 arrives in Albany in time
to connect with S P south bound train,
as well as giving two or three hours in
Albany before departure of S P north
bound train.
For further information apply to
T. H. CURTIS,
Acting Manager.
H. H.Cronise, Asrent Corvallis.
Thos. CockreU. Aaect Albany.
WILLAMETTE ILL Ef
. Banking Company
Corvallis, Oregon.
Anemone Facta. ' .
. Naturalists have duly recorded that
that if a sea anemone be divided in
halves longitudinally a new animal will
in time be reproduced by each half, as
Burning the anemone is kept in pure sea
water. An old. zflSlogist relates how he
watched an anemone which somehow
or other had contrived to half swallow
one of the valves of an oyster shell.
Practically the shell struck in its giz
zard and gradually cut its way down
through the soft tissues of the anem
one -until it halved the animal as by
a partition. Perfect reproduction of
two anemones through the division of
one was noted to be the result of this
accident. Even a fragment or two of
an anemone body left attached to its
rock may in due season reproduce a
new body: London News. - ,
Resp&ftSf&Hity, $100,000
Deals in Foreign and Domestic
Exchange.
Bays County, City and School
Warrants.
Principal Sot-respondents.
SAN FKANCISCO
FOKTLAM) TIie Bank of ,
SEATTLE f California ' -
TAOOMA I x
SEW TOKK-Mmwi. .T. P. Morgan Co.
CHICAGO N.i! im.;U Bank of The Republic.
CONDON, ENG. N M Rothschilds & Sona
CAN AD 4 .-Union Bank of Canada
: ..-v-...
Wood Srwing.
I am prepared to saw w ood on
short notice with gasolene wood-
saw. - W.M2,. lioaay.
Ind. phone 351.
. The S. P, is selling round trip
tickets between Corvallis and Port
land for $3 good going Saturdays
or Sundays and returning Sunday
or Monday following, either on
East or West side, but . good only
on afternoon train from Albany to
Portland oa Saturdays if East side
is taken. Passengers to pay local
fare between Corvallis and Albany.
-Stacks for chimneys at Whitney.
Soldiers' Superstitions.
Among the numerous superstitions
of the Cossacks there is none stronger
than the belief that they will enter
heaven in a better state if they are per
sonally clean at the time they are killed.
Consequently before an expected battle
they perform their toilets with scrupu
lous care, dress themselves in clean
garment3 and put on the best they
have. This superstition Is not eonSned
to the Cossr.clis alone, but is widely
prevalent , in all branches of the Itus
elan army. . .. 1 ' 1 .
With " L wis and Clark
By Julia Fraser
in an interesting article in
Sunset Magazine
;Bi?fil number
This article is well illustrated and sho
uld be read by people of the Northwest
and then sect to their eastern friends.
It will help to sliow them the enterprise
and progress of the nortnvrest better than
many '"letters would. Other articles, .
short stories and actses. '
Sold Lv all Sews Dealers .