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Corvallis Times
Official Paper of Benton County.
CORVALLIS, OREGON,
'TUESDAY EVENING NOV. 21, 1905.
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE
Hereafter the publication day of the
' TiMkS will be Tuesday evening and Fri
dBV evening, instead of "Wednesday and
-Taturdav moruinut. For li- yeafs the
paper has been actually appearing in the
evening, though the following morning
was given out as publication day. The
chance now announced ought to have
been made n years ago.
THE LIGHT FRANCHISE..,
Is Pending in Gty Council What its
Provisions are.
ELEVEN ARRESTED.
THEIR ERRAND.
Corvallis ought to give a cheery
greeting to the Good Roads men
when they assemble here tomorrow
from all over the state. Their er
rand is cne of glad tidings. They
are missionaries in a cause that
means much for the weal of the
people. Their purpose is to dis
seminate information and create
sentiment for better public roads.
It is a truth that- the people had
just as well be traveling over hard,
smooth turnpikes as to drag their
weary way through mud and mud
holes. It is as easily within their
reach to have roads with a surface
as smooth as Main street of Cor
vallis as it is to have the mudridden
and water-soaked highways they
now use. The added, happiness and
"comfort as well as the greatly in
creased profitjto result by the change
to farm life and farm homes would
be incalculable. With the rural
telephone and the rural free deliv
ery belongs a road as good in win
ter as in summer and as good at
any time as a city street. The
only reason why things are not so
adjusted already, is that there has
not been enough agitation for the
change. It is human nature to
live along in a rut if no one agita
tes. The reforms of the world,
each advance step of ciyilization
are the product of the agitator.
The men who come tomorrow are
the Garrisons, the Sumners, the
Phillips's, trying to break the slave
fetteis of bad roads and free the
people for a happier, better lot.
They are agitators who ought to
be a thousand times welcome, and
Corvallisites ought to meet them,
learn of them, catch inspiration
from them, and co-operate with
them.
SUES FOR DAMAGES.
Two Thousand Dollars on Account of
Gopher gun in Bkknell House.
The shooting in which a gopher
gun figured and in which James L
I,ewis was the victim last February
has become the occasion of a $2,000
suit for damages.. The case was fil
ed Saturday and will probably be
tried at th'i coining term of court.
The inci'ient ou which the suit is
founded transpired last winter at .
the farm house of Spencer Bick
neil.X'i'h of town. The house
was unoccupied, and a gopher gun
had been set in the tront room, Mr.
Bicknell ?ay? to kill squirrels that
infested the pieinisei. Mr. Lewis,
in his capa;ity of real estate agent
was showing an eastern man over'
the place. . The buyer expressed a
desire to look inside the house.
Mr. Lewis led the way, and as the
door opened, the gun was discharg
ed. The complaint of Mr Lewis in
the damage suit says 22 of the shot
were discharged into his leg in and
about the knee, as a result of which
he suffered great mental and bodily
anguish. Two thousand dollars
damages is asked, and also the sum
of $66 special: damages for expense
of a physician and nurse.
Do you shave yourself? Well
just keep in mind that our Witch
Hazel Extract is a distilled extract
and does not contain, one drop of
wood alcohol. Price, bottle, 25.
Graham & Wells. '
The proposition to bring electric
power to Corvallis is pending in the
city council. An ordinance grant
ing a 30 years' franchise reached
that body at an adjourned meeting
Friday night. The measure if pass
ed, will grant to A. Welch or his
assigns a franchise for using streets
and alleys for poles and wires for
light and power purposes for a term
of 30 years, but the franchise does
not become effective so far as
Welch is coucerned until November
1913, or wuen trie present rrancmse
with the Porter company expires.
The full text of the ordinance is
as follows:
Section 1. That .authority be
and the same is hereby given,
granted and vested by the common
council of the city of Corvallis, in
Bonton county, Oregon, in A.
Welch, his heirs, executors, ad
ministrators, and assigns the right,
privilege and franchise to erect,
lav. equip, maintain, construct and
operate in the city of Corvallis, in
Benton county, Oregon, including
all streets and alleys thereof, posts,
poles, towers, wires and other cbn-.
ductors for the transmission of elec
tricity for electric power, electric
lights and all other purposes ior
which electricity may be or is used
and to sell or otherwise dispose of
electric power, electric lights and
electricity to all persons or corpora
tions whatsoever, within the limits
of said city of Corvallis, and to
construct, erect and : maintain in
said city all such buildings and
machinery as may be necessary or
convenient for such purposes
Section 2. For the purposes
aforesaid and for the practical en
joyment of the said rights and fran
chises the said A. Welch, his heirs,
executors, administrators and as
signs, are hereby authorized to
string such wires or other conduct
ors upon poles or other fixtures
above ground, or lay the same un
der ground in pines or conduits, or j
otherwise protected, and to use j
such other apparatus as may be
-necessary or proper to maintain and j
operate the same.
Section 3. Such posts, poles,
towers or other .supports shall be
placed at such points in the streets
and alleys of said city, and the
wires or other conductors thereon
strung at such height at least to in
terfere with the travel and use
thereof, and the placing of such
posts, poles, towers or other sup
ports and the laying of such wires
or conduits shall be subject to the
reasonable control of the common
council of said city a the public in
terests may tequire. No poles or
other supports above the ground
shall hereafter te placed upon
Second street in said city between
Adams street and VanBuren street
and from and after the 28th day of
November, 1913, all wires main
tained under the authority of this
franchise as well as the posts, tow
ers or other supports therefore shall
be removed from such portion of
Second street.
The city reserves and shall have
the right from and after the 28th
day of November, 913 to require
that all poles or other supports
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anove trie ground maintained in
said city under the authority ct
this franchise wilhiu the dis-.rlct
bounded by First street, Washing
ton street, Ninth street, and Tyler
street, or within one hundred "feet
of the boundaries of such district
shall be painted from time to time
as may be necessary to keep such
poles in a reasonable sightly con
dition. Section 4. It shall be lawful for
the said A. Welch or : assigns to
make all needful and convenient
excavations m any ot tue streets o
For Digging in Streets Water Com
pany and Gty at Loggerheads.
The question of whether or not
the Corvallis Water Company has
a right to make excavations in the
streets of Corvallis for the purpose
of laying new water mains and
making extenions. is in the courts.
Eleven local working men are un
der arret for working on the exca
vations after they had been notified
bv the city authorities not to do so.
They are, John C. Young,' W. A.
Potts. A. B. Alexander, H. B.
Spradling, Thomas Langley, T. J.
Cams, James Peters, George C.
Dickey, David Mahagy. Estel
Wilson and Fred Callahan. They
were arrested Monday afternoon by
Chief Lane, and were arraigned be
fore Police Judge Yates at nine
o'clock this morning. Dr. Farra
appeared with them and said that
he would give any necessary bonds.
The question of when and how they
should be tried came up, and speak
ing for himself, Asa Alexander
said he was ready for trial now and
"WITH BURNT CORK.
Music and Mirth A G hanged Min-
strelsy Many were There.
There .'was minstrelsy at the Opera-
House'Satfiday tiigotK- It .was
rninistrelsy with songs, jokes, burnt
cork and end meuf'and yet there
were-lacking things that used to be
prominent in the rninistrelsy ot the
days when meu of now were" boys.
There were Tolickiug end men with
big mouths, made bigger in'appear
ance by red paint about the ' lips,
and there was the interlocutor.
There was the olio with its songs
alternating with jokes and the
clash and bangrof the .orchestra.
There was -the man with the bones
and another with a tambourine, but
neither was as strenuous' with his
instrument as 6nd men' used" to be
It was indeed a. changed minstrelsy
and vet, largely for the better. That
of the old day .always hjfd a large
asset of coarsenesswhieh wras hurl
ed at the audience for wit. When
the end men lacked . uative wit,
there was .often attempt made to
make up the loss with - jokes bor
dering many times ou vulgarity.
Nut so with the black comedians
oflast Saturdav night. It was a
Our Fifth
Friday; Economy Sale
" November 24th
Dress Goods, Silks
and Velvets
that he did not want any jury. An- i performance as clean as a church
other man said he was in the same j entertainment. The songs - we re
boat, and would trust his case to j fresh and crisp, and the jokes clean
the court. ! and harmless. There was music by
City Attorney Hryson suggested an orchestra that was fit for royalty.
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Barred Plymouth Rocks.
For Sa.e. A choice lot of breeding
hens, pullfcta and cockerels at from Si.
each upward. All toy young birds are
from pen beaded by an Arpo cock bird,
(cost price $20.00.) -
W. G. Emery,
- Corvallis, Oregon. .
IjamewBaek.
Tlii? ailment is usually caused by rhenrha
i'mm of the muscles and- may be cured bv
applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm two or
three times a day and ruhbiiia the parts
vigorously at each application. If this does
not'aflbrd relief bind on a piece of flaitHel
slightly dampened with Pain Balm, and quick
relief is almost sure to follow. For sale by
Graham & Wortharav ;
that no steps for trial ought to be
taken until the arrival of the Wat
er Company's attorney, and advised
a postponement until . his arrival.
This advice was taken, and tomor
row morning at nine o'clock was
set for the trial of the cases. City
Attorney Bryson, during the pro
ceedings, suggested that it was pro
bable that after consultation, the
attorneys could enter into such stip
ulations that the trial of but one
case would be necessary, and that
in the single case thus tried the
whole issue could be, presented to
the court. Mr. Bryson also notifi
ed Dr. Farra and the men that
every-man who attempted to work
would be promptly"arrested.
Apparently, the two sides to the
controversy are in for a battle. On
the one side is Mr. Bryson, repre
senting the mavor and city council.
and on the other, W. E. Yates andj
the Corvallis Water Company. The j
extensions of the mains by the com- j
pany began two weeks ago when
digging commenced at the first !
Methodist church. A trench three j
feet deep was opened westward to
Eighth and thence southward to
Adams. Meantime the mayor and
city council raised the question of
the right of the company to make
extensions, under the circumstances
The matter was referred to City
Attorney Bryson, and the opinion
of that officer is that the work is il
legal, and cannot be pursued with
out the consent of the city govern
ment. This, consent, in view of
the fact that the city is building its
own water works, and that the
present -extensions are presumably
for the purpose of competing with
the city itself, causes the authorit
ies to doubt the advisability of per
mitting the work tb go ahead.
The first move by che city for
stopping the work, transpired Sat
urday morning, when Chief Lane,
acting under the instructions of
City Attorney Bryson notified the
men to stop. Dr. Farra was a'so
notified, and lie told the men to
quit. Sundav, the Water Com-
lhere was a pretty little tarce in
which the funny man was funny
and as cute as he could be. There
was quartette singing with a unity
and sweetness of voice seldom
heard. There was a contortionist
whose feats amazed those who saw
them. There . was much to de
light and nothing to offend, as will
be freely acknowledged by all - of
the large audience that was in at
tendance. The performers were
Richard & Pringles' minstrels.
The Biggest Bargains
in Gorvallis, or any ofhe place
: for that matter.
WHICH WILL WIN?
pauy's attorney, W,
rived from Vaucouv
alleys of said city of Corvallis for ! were working in a trench, tin
the purpose of erecting and main
taining the posts, poles, towers or
otner supports for the said wires or
for the purpose of laying, maiatain
ingand operating wires and other
conductors underground far the
purposes aforesaid or to repair and
improve such electric power or
light system and to extend the
same as the growth of said city or
the needs of the inhabitants thereof
may require, provided that when
the said A. Welch, his heirs, exe
cutors, administrators or assigns,
or any person or corporation under
the authority of this franchise,
shall disturb any of the said streets
or alleys for the purpose aforesaid,
he, it or they shall restore the same
to good order and conditions as
soon as practicable and without un
necessary delay, and failing so to do
after ten days notice from the street
commissioner or street committee of
the common council of said city the
said street commissioner or street
committee may place the said street
or alley in such good condition as
recover from the person or corpor
ation enjoying this franchise double
the amount of the cost thereof.
Section 5, None of the opera
Continued on Page 4.
E. Yates, ar
;r, and Monday
morning operations were renewed
with a largely increased force of.
men. During the forenoon, they
were all notified by Chief Lane
that if they continued to work they
would be arrested, but t'aev went
a-head with the digging until short-!
ly after dinner when all were taken
into custody with the result related
above. When arrested, the meu
t be-Hays
And What will the Score be? Great
Game on College Field Friday.
What will the score be, and
which will win? That is a ques
tion uppermost in the minds of
many, concerning the game to be
played on OAO field Friday after
noon. The Willamette eleven is
coming up with a special train of
rooters, confident of victory. It is
a team that is as strong as any team
in the Northwest from the stand
point ot straight football. It has a
line that cannot be pierced. Mult
nomah couldn't do it; Eugene
couldn't do it- Can OAC do it
that is a question.
Some people say OAC will be
stronger Friday than at any time
this season .jjjSome changes have
been made, and some trther things
have been done to strengthen fea
tures that were weak at Eugene.
In the three games ahead of tuem,
Steckle's men have a chance to re
deem whatever they may have lost
in prestiger and they know it,
The Willamette game won with a
clean score would put them at the
head of the list. If they play the
game they played against Pullman,
they will, without a doubt, win.
In any event, the quality of ball
that will be plaved will be worth
the while to see. Followers of the
game all over the state are going to
attend. A delegation is coming
down iro.li Eugene, and many will
ie here from Portland. A special
train will bring up the Salem team
and crowd, ami another special is to
come from Independence. It will
be the last' same of the season on
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
rilled. Lumber delivered when required. ?
OTIS SKIPTON, Philomath, Ore.
Bell Phone 4x2.
R. F, D. 2.
Sawmill located four miles southwest of Philomath.
No Prizes go with our
Chase & Sanborn Higb Grade
COFFEE
In fact nothing goes with our coffee but cream, sugar and
SATISFACTION
P. M
IEROLF.
iiftAMit 0 Pair!
i CC Ml
Sole agent for
5 w i 3 v
lA Grade
j OAC
1 to be
ICiU.
i stem
i tie crc
winder
wd i.s certain
gins at the corner near John
residence and runs westward.
The controversy with the Water
Company was discussed at length
at a meeting of the city council
Monday night. There was a gen
eral expression of views by -members,
and it was determined that
the city . government would stand
by its officers and fight the matter
to a finish. . ;
It is understood that City Attor
ney Bryson offers to make' a test
case of one of the eleven meu ar
rested, provided" the company will
stipulate for a postponement of op
erations until the matter can be de
cided, all therest of the cases to
be dismissed. Or,. if the: company
wishes to try. the issue on its claim
that the Pitman franchise still holds
and that it was a perpetual fran
chise for the use of the streets of
the town, Mr. Bryson will dismiss
all the cases and let - the company
bring mandamus proceedings to
compel the superintendent of streets
to issue a permit for the excavations
to continue. The latter method
would.bring trie vital question in
controversy to issue, and" the courts
could soon pass on it to the "satis
faction of both parties.
Wood to Well Stnmpage.
want lo ilear some land and have
2,oco cords of fir and oak f-rub wood to.
sell. First come gets first choice of
timber to cut.
G. A. Cooper,
' P. 0. box 21S.
Is displayed by many . a man enduring
pains ol accidental Cuts, Wounds, Bruis
es, Burns, Scalds, Sore feet or stiff joints.
But there's no need for ifc. Bucklen's
Arnica Salve will kill the pain and cure
the trouble. ' It's the best Salve on earth
for Piles, too. 25c. at Allen & Wood
ward's, druggists.
.Vor Sale
Oak grub wood. Cheat and vetuh hay
for sale, Satisfaction guaranteed
T A Logsdoa
Phone. 55 Mt View line .
- Vetch Seed.
pure vetch seed for sale
Matthew Thompson,
C. & E. Crossing.
Ladies and children's underwear
at the Bazaar.
: Mrs. Caroline Maxfield has add
ed a line of groceries to her store,
in addition to millinery and con
fectionery. Your patronage is so
licited. . .
Bicycle & S
I Boots store
. LONG'S
portinf
Is the place to get your Guns and
Ammunition for the opening of the
pheasant season. I have guns and
ammunition of every description.
Guns and Bicycles for Rent
, A full line of sewing machine sup- .
plies. I have anything in the um
brella line from a rib to a new um
brella. Everything you call for. in
sporting goods line.
GENERAL REPAIR SUOP.
Fine Job Work
Corvallis Times Office.