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LOCAL LORE. NEWS OF CORVALLIS AND VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF. The Comings and Gpitfgs of People Social Gossip, Personal Men tion and Other Items Public Interest. of returned Wednes weeks' sojourn in Mrs. Isbell day from a six Washington. Mrs.- LilHe King returned Wednesday from a few days trip to Portland. Mrs. S. N.' Wilkins returned Wedneslay from a week's visit at the Fair. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wilkins returned Thursday from a week's fishing trip at Elk City. H. S. Pruner. the Nashville merchant, was a Corvallis on busi ness, Thursday. Mrs J Mason returned Thurs day from a two weeks' business vis it in-Portland. R. C. and H. C. Herron of Irish Bend were Corvallis visitois Thursday. William Baker and family left Thursday for Brownsville to resid', Mr. Baker having bought a black smith shop in that place. Mrs. Sarah Pugh of Oakville, was found in her bed, unconscious Tuesday morning, and it was later found that she had suffered a severe stroke of paralysis. Miss Alice Jones left Wednes day for Philomath for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bay Rick ard. Of hunter's licenses in Benton, 150 have been issued, 50 of them since the 9th of August. Foity fire permits have also been issued by Clerk Moses. Lee Wigle left Monday for his home at Prineville. Mrs. Wigle and the children remain until the first of next week, when they go to Hood River for a visit, enroute home. Miss Jennie Brown returned to Corvallis Wednesday from Wells, where she was a cook during har vest with A. A. Williamson's ma chines. Judge Durroch, a boyhood friend and old neighbor of P. A. Kline has arrived for an extended visit. His home is at Kentland, Indiana. The free reading room that is being fitted up by the W. C. T. TJ-, is now newly papered and presents an attractive interior. New walks have also been made about the premises, and other improvements - made. Numerous repairs are to be made to the Howard house, just south of the Rosendorf home. This is the house that, was damag ed on July 4th, when the Greer bouse burned. Adams Bros are engaged to do the work. Corvallis has a certain - citizen who is passing swift as a money maker. He goes down to the club of an evening with half a dollar in his pocket and after taking two or three ten cent drinks comes out worth a million. Peter Mangas, of Defiance, Ohio, has arrived and is a guest at the home of his son. Henry Man-J gas. He is well remembered bv old Corvallisites who met him when be vi -ited here six years ago. x Adams Bros, have secured the eontract for a handsome new resi dence that N. Wilkinson,- cashier of the Willamette Valley bank, is to build. The structure will o cupy the lots recently purchased by .Mr. Wilkinson of Abe Locke, . just east of Aga Alexander. Man slaughter is the charge brought against the wife of a wealthy Cleveland manufacturer who drove her auto into a passerby and killed him on the spot. Per haps the court will let her off with a small fine because she only killed one man during her reckless ride; or on that better grounds that in the swiftness 01 her pace she mis took the man she annihilated for her own husband. Philip Krigh, known as' 'In diana's 700 pound man," is dead at his home in Stilesville, Ind. He had been ill for several months with dropsy, and suffered greatly during the hot weather. For sev eral years Krigh was in the employ of a circus where he was exhibited as the largest man in the world His weight often reached 775 , pounds. He was over six feet tall but his bones were very small. It required two tailors to take measur ments for his clothes, as it was ini possible for one man ' to reach a round his body. It took several yards of double width goods to make him a suit. Continued from page one. In reality the adjnumncent over the two days was to give each side an opportunity to consult its govern ment for the last time. . - The cutlook is black. 'Many be Hive it was never so black as to night. The Japanpee are not talk ing. Iodeed tonight they appear to be more taciturn and more res olute than ever. - . The only possible line of further Japanese concession is considered to lie in the diminution of the amount of the purchase money de manded for the north half of Sak halin. The decision rests therefore as it baa from the first, with Rus sia Unless the emperor agree? to yield between now aod Saturday, the end is likaly "o come on that day. And the dispatches from Pet erhoff, instead of raising the chan ces, indicate even a firmer determ ination to yield neither territory nor indemnity, eugar-coated as the latt?r may b . snd for reimbursement of its war expenses. ' ' "The inevitable inference from these facts is that after the czar learned from the Kaeier at their interview off thecoaH of Finland that William intended to take no action toward France that would require Russia to espouse the case of ber ally, the czar instructed Mr. Witte to yield not an inch of ter ritory, and not a kopeck of indem nity. "From a political point of view, the reformers are glad that the au tocracy appears bent on hasiening its own destruction by continuing the bloody farce in the far East. FIRST At Bellfountain. Bjrn, to the wife of Prof. Mack, Oct. 18 h, a son. A couein from Illinois, of Geo. R Hall, is spending the summer in Oregon He is well pleased ' with this country. . The grain in this vicinity will all be harvested in a few days. The yield is very light, owing to the aph s aod hot, dry weather. Crysial Limb has been very eick for the past two weeks. C. E. Banton has completed bis woik for E. E. Brimmer aod is now taking a band in the harvest field. Peter Hoover ' passed through this place Tuesday with a load of salmon which he hoped to retail at 7 cents per pound. Mrs. Haugbton has returned to her borne on Coos Bay, after spend ing several months with her daugh ter, Mrs.' J. R. Buckingham ot this place. Born Sunday, to Mr. and Ira Lemmon, a daughter. Mrs. Edith Buckingham came home Tuesday from a weeks' visit in Portland and the Fair. . J. L. Caton will leave thin week for a et iourn at the Bay. He will also visit the Fair before returning home. Joa Stanturf and Charles Brit- tain have returned from Eastern Oregon where tbey have been working in the harvest field. They wer.t.to see the country, and report a gcod country, but very hot. Annual Regatta and O egon City, Or.. Aug. 22 Af ter serving one day of a 45 days' sentence for wife-beating, August Young, a painter, recently frem Corvallis, found himself today fscd with a divorce suit brought by the wife on the grounds of cruel aod inhuman treatment. When the papers in the divorce suit were served this afternoon, Young plead ed lor his liberty from the jail sen tence, agreeing to pay $08, the un served portion of his sentence; This was agreed to by City Re corder Dimick, who required that an additional sum of $60 be paid the wife with which to defray the costs of the divorce suit, and order ed that Young leave the city im mediately. The terms of the compromise were subscribed to by Young who eft the city this evening- Young who is aged about 50 years and had more than $2oo with him, escaped prosecution and the inevitable pun ishment that awaited him for wife- beating yesterday because Acting Deputy ProBeouting Attorney U'Ren declined to prosecute the cnarge, for the double reason that he doubt ed the ability to prove the com plaint and because of bis doubt as to the constitutionality cf the act providing whipping for wife-beat- mg. Clam Bake Mm 26 and 21 ib at Newport Rowing races of all kinds, Gasoline Launch races, etc. Musical entertainments dur ing day and night, excursions of all kinds. - AH races take Saturday Aug 26th. MONSTER CLAM BAKE SUMDAY The low rate of $2 50 from Albany, Corvallis and Phil omath good going Sat or Sun morning and returning Sun evening or Mon morning. Sunday Excursions. Taking effect Sunday and continuing every Sunday throughout the summer excursion trains on the Corvallis & East ern will tuu sharp on the following schedule: Leave Albanv. 7:30 a. m. ' Corvallis 8:ol ' Philomath 8:12" ' Wren 8:31 ' Blodgett S;50 ' Summit 9:05 ' ' Na-hville 9:25 ' Nortona 9:89 ' Eddvville 10:00 Chitwood 10:13 ' ' Morrison 10:21 ' Elk City 10:29 ' Toledo 10:55 ' Arrive Yaquina 10:20 , Newport 12-00 N. Leave 5-00 p. in. Returning trin arrives at Corvallis at it 20 p. m. ; Albany 9-55 p. m. Fare Corvallis, philomath lo New- pott and return, $ 1 .50. West of Pbi-lo-ii iih to Chit wood inclusive, $1; all points west of Chitwood to S'orrs inclu sive .75; au points west 01 btorrs, 50 J. C MAYO, Gen. pass. Aeent. Hay For Sale. Vetch and alfalfa, best cow tiay iD Ind Tel 155. L. L. Brooks. the Notice to Creditors. In the Matter nf the Estate James Eobinsos, deceased. V Notice Is hereby (riven to all pel sons concerned that the UDderslgned has been duly appointed administrator oC the estate ot James Robinson, deceased , by the county court, ot the state ot Oregon for Benton county. All persons having claims against said estate of said James Robin son, deceased, are nereoy required 10 present the same, with the proper vouchers, duly veri fied as by law required, within sis months from the date heteol to the undersigned at ' his resi dence four miles nor'h ot Corvallis, Oregon, or at the law office ot E. E. Wilson In Corvallis Oregon. uaiea tnis August 12, im WILLIAM KNOTTS. Administrator of the Estate ot James Robinson, deceased. ChicaervAue. 22 The corree pondent of the Daily News in Mos cow save: "If Mr. Witte withdraws irom the Portsmouth conference rather than admit that the principle of Indemnity and agree to the cession of Sakhalin, that act will Bhow that his instructions have been modi fied since he left St. Petersburg As your correspondent has stated before, an authority hitherto often tried and found trustworthy in formed him at the time of the Rus sian envoy's departure that the czar had sanctioned the payment of $5oo 000,030 and the cession of half of Sakhalin Island. "It was never supposed for a moment in St. Petersburg, not withstanding the protestations of Mr. Witte, that Japan - would be so self-denying aa to refrain from asking for the strip of land lying off the mouth of the Amur river JARS! JARS! Ball masons Royal and CUeir Stone Jars Tumblers and Jelly Glasses! BUY THE Diamond W Jar Rubbers, BEST ON EARTH Parafine and Sealing Wax j we: sell the SAGINAW TOOTHPICKS Flat, Polished, Double Pointed Price 5 cents per Box. Hodes ' Grocery Independent Phone 203 WE BO HOT OFTEN. CSE&NGB Our ad., but our goods change hands every day. Your money exchanged for Value and Quality is the idea. Big Line Fresb Groceries Domestic and Imported. Plain and Fancy Cbinaware A large and varied line. We always keep Vegetables when when they are tobe had. . B Borning : Cumber Tor Sale At Lowest Possible Prices -Send in House Bills for estimates of cost All kinds and grades of lumber on hand, all orders piomptly filled. Lumber delivered when required. OTIS SKIPTON, Philomath, Ore. Bell Phone 4x2. R. F. D. 2. . Sawmill located four miles southwest of Philomath. Notice to Creditors. In the Matter of the Estate) . of Louisa Ibwin, deceased. J . Notice is hereby given to alt persons concern ed that the undersigned boa been duly appoint ed executor of the last will and testament of Louisa Iiwin, deceased, by the county court ot Oregon for Benton county. All persons having claims against said estate ot Louisa Irwin, de ceased, are hereby required to present the same, with the proper vouchers, duly verified as by law required within six months from the date here of, to the undersigned at his residence ten miles south of Corvallis, Oregon, or at the law office of E. E. 'Wilson in OorvalilB, Oregon. Dated this August 12 1905. R. 8. IRWIN, Executor of the last will and testament of Loui sa Irwin, deceased. Notice to Taxpayers. NOTICE Is hereby given that the County Board of Equalization for Benton county, state of Ore gon, will attend at the office of the county clerk, of Benton county, Oregon, in the county court house, In Corvallis, said county and state, on Monday, August SSth, 1905, .the same being the last Monday In said month and the Ume:fixed by law for the meeting of said baard) and continue t whtah time they will nubllo.lv examine the assessment rolls ot said KnnfATi rnnntv. Cirfttrnn. lor the year 1905, and correct all errors In valuation, description or qualities of lands, lots, or other property. All persons Interested are required to appear at the place aua time above appointed. , T. H. D.WIS, Assessor of Benton County, State of Oregon, . Dated this 1st day ol August, 1905. Wanted Butter and Eggs at Moses Brothers HOME-SEEKERS" If 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 take pleasure in giving you all the reliable information you wish,' also showing you over the country. AMBLER 6c WAITERS ! Real Estate, Loan and Insurance ! ' Gorvallis and Philomath, Oregon. E. E. WILSOX, ATTORNEY Al LAW. G. R. FARRA, Physician & Surgeon, Office up stairs in Burnett Brick idence on the corn er of Madison Seventh at. Phone i t honseand rfi WILLAMETTE lA LET Banking Company Corvallis, Oregon. Responsibility, $100,000 Deals in Foreign and Domestic Exchange. Buys County, City and School Warrants. Principal CorrcsDondenis. SAX FBAIfCISGO 1 PORTLAND f TIl SEATTLE r TAOOMA I SEW TDRK !nm. -T T ltTn.n . rv. CHICAGO National Bank of The Repub lic. LONDON, ENG. N M Rothschilds & Sonft CANADA. Union Bank of Canada R. D. Burgess PHYSICIAN & SURGEON OS.ce over Blackledges furniture store. Hours 10 to 12. 3 to 5. Phone, o&ce 216; Res 454 CorralliSf Oregon. W. E. Yates Bert Yates Yates 6c Yates Law, Abstracting & Insurance. Zierolf Building Both Phones. Corvallis, Or. H. S. PERNOT, Physician & Surgeon Office over poatoffiee. Residence Cor. Fifth and Jefferson streets. Hours 10 to 12 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. . Orders may be eft at Graham & v-tham's drug store. B. A. CATHEY Physician & Surgeon Office, room 14, BanK Bldg. Hoarst lO to 12 and a to . Phone, office 83. Residence 351. Corvallis, Oregon. J. FRED FATES A TTORAn I -A T-LA IF. First Nat'l Bank Building, Only Set Abstract Books in Benton County P. A. KLINE LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEER Corvallis P. A.. Klines line Phone I. O. A.ddrss, Box n. Fays highest prices for all kinds of Live Stock. Satisfaction guaranteed. Twenty years ex perience. E. R. Bryson, Attorney-jit-Law. Sunday Excursions to Newport! ON THE G. & E. R. R. Beginning Sunday, June 18 ' and continuing until the end of August EVERY SUNDAY Leaving Corvallis at 8:00 a. m., Philomath 8:15 a. m. Returning leaves Newport at 5 p. m. arriving in Corvallis at 9:15. at Albany at 9:55. I Giving 5 hours at the beao h Fare round trip from Albany, Corvallis and Phiiomath $1.50 Largest line of matting in the city at Blackledgb's. CHOLERA INFANTUM. Child Not Expected to Live from One Hour to Another, bat Cared by Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Euth, the little daughter of E. K. Dewey of Agnewville, Ya., was seriously ill of cholera infantum last summer.' "We gave her tip and did not expect her to live from one hour to another," he says. "I happened to think of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Eemedy and got a bottle of it from the store. In five hours I saw a change for the better. We kept on giving it and before she had taken the half of one small bottle she was well." This remedy is for sale by Graham & Wortham.