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CorvalHs Times THURDAY N IGHT. Official Paper of "Benton County. CORVALLIS, OREGON, "TUESDAY EVENING MAR- 6, 1906. JURORS DRAWN. Listof Veniremen for the Coming- Term of Circuit Court. furors for the coming term of circuit court were drawn today The list is as follows: S. H. Moore Farmer CorvalHs. J, G. Horning Blacksmith J. H. Dorsey Farmer " John Pimm Alsea P. Klecker James Pfouts " Monroe R. H. Gellatly " Philomath E. L. Strange Electrician Corvallis S. E. Trask Salesman " Ira Griggs . Farmer Corvallis Geo. Hall Sr. " Bellfountain J. W. Handy Farmer Corvallis W. E. Dunham Henry Scheie - " Blodgett Ernest Brimner Carpent. Monroe PaulTruitt Farmer Wren Chas Franklin " Philomath H. Seifert " J. F. Allen Druggist- Corvallis Arthur Allen Farmer . ... J. E. Buchanan " " N.Adams. Carpenter M, C: Miller Real estate man " C. G. Davis Farmer " ANOTHER FUNERAL. . J. H. Daniel .-: S. Merrick G. T. Sebrell ; A. Vanderpool Wm. Bogue W. C. Corbett E. H. Castle Willamette Philomath Alsea Soap Creek Corvallis Philomath THE HORSE SHOW. Secretary Crosby Davis has hand ed in the following for publication, In reference to the horse show: The Corvallis horse show will be held June ist and 2nd. The entrance fees for double teams and stallions will be $2. For mares and geldings, four years old and over, $1.50. Colts of all ages,' $1. Premiums will range from $1 to $10 according to grade and compe tition. No admittance fee will be charg ed. The committee will make an effort to secure the services of Dr. Withycombe as one of the judges. As soon as arrangements are per fected a regular pamphlet will be issued. One of the most attractive featur es of the "show will be a troop of cavalry drilled by Lieut. Quinlan. Big Basket Ball Game Team From Chicago to Play . OACMen. There is to be one more big bask et ball game at the College Armory It takes place Thursday " night, and ought to bethe most spectacular of anything of the kind that has vet transpired this season. This time it is another Eastern team that is to go up against the OAC men The men are the Meteors, a Y. M C. A. team of Chicago. Unlike the Red Wing team, they are in size about the equal of the OAC men, everaging 135 to 138 pounds. Their great stunt is speed and team work, and at this they must be crackerjacks, from all accounts. They have played 54 games this season, all but two off of their own floor, and they have lost but seven. One defeat was by the Kansas City Athletic Club, the champion team of the world, by which they were defeated but three points. Subse quently the Meteors defeated the University of Nebraska team, which has since beaten the Kansas Ath letic Club. They . have one man who is only five feet four in stature who jumps five feet ten in the high jump. The Meteor men left SanFrancis co last night, and will play a game in Eugene tomorrow night, reach ing Corvallis Thursday. They left Chicago eight weeks ago and have since played in Illinois, Iowa, Wy oming, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California and Oregon. Their route home will be via the Northern Pacific, playing many teams enroute. ', At Salt Lake, : Utah, they de deated a team that beat the Red Wine team recently in Corvallis, by 17 points. They saw the Red Wing team play at Stockton, Calif ornia, but did not play them. From the Day Home Two Victims Now Facts About Typhoid. A negro approached a fish stand kept by another negro and asked: . ."Got "any fresh fish? -; -' Co'se I has. . .What you t!ink I'm selling?- Shoes?' -.'""'"'i Oh, I know's you's . selling fish, but is dey fresh ? - Co'se dey's fresh. Hyab! Quit smelling o' dem fish. I ain't smellin' 'em! What you doin' den? I'ze jus' whisperin' to 'em, dat's all. An' what you whispering to dem fish? : - v ' Oh, I'ze jus' askin' how'lall de'er relations that dey lef ' in de ocean. . An' what dey say? Dey say it's so long since dey seen 'em dat dey forgits." - ' For Sale Spray Pump, manufac tured by Field Force Pump compa ny all brass cylinder piston and valves, mounted barrel on strong one-horse cart, complete and ready for work. This is a powerful and convenient rig. Apply to George "Armstrong, Corvallis. Call for Warrants. Notice is hereby given that there is money on hand at the county treasurer's office to pay all orders endorsed and marked not paid for want of funds up to and including those of Sept. 15th,' 1905. Inter eet will be stopped on same from this date. - . - Corvallis, Or. Feb. . . 28th,-1906. W. A. Buchanan, V Treas. Benton Co., Of.; A fine line of Spring hats on dis play at Mrs. J. Mason's. v , Notice to Bidders. Sealed bids will be received by the sewer committee until six o'clock p. m, February 16, 1906, for the construction of a sewer through blocks 14, 15 and 16 N. B. & P. Avery's Addition to the city of Corvallis. according to the plans and specifications on file in tbe offise of the Police Judge. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. - Geo. E. Lillv. R. H. Colbert. P. Avery. - Sewer Committee. Osier not in it. Dr. Charles Minot, professor of embryology in Harvard University sent a shudder of horror through his audience in the Academy ot Medicine Saturday by setting back the Oslerian age to the 25th year. After that age, according to Dr. I Minot, man is incapable of pro-1 gressing. Dr. Minot mercifully re- j frained from setting any definite ! age for the administration of chlo- ! roform. The following extracts are from his lecture: The twenty-fifth year is the lim it of the intellectual growth. We begin to grow old before we are born. The infant learns more in its first year than it learns in all the rest of its life. As soon as the power of growth ceases, old age sets in. Dr. Osier placed the period of permanent fatigue too late in life. m .Permanent fatigue is the ex pression which he gave to his ap preciative audience as the descrip tion of a man who tops his twenty fifth year. - Portland - Market Report. Wheat valley 72c Flour $3.60 to $4. Potatoes .60 per hun Eggs Oregon, 1 6c doz Butter 1 6c per lb Creamery27 to 30 , . Corvallis. Wheat 62c Oats 36c " " - Flour $1 to $1 25 Potatoes 50 per sack Butter 60 per roll Creamery 75 per roll Eggs 15 per doz . . Chickens 12 to 15c per lb Lard .12 ite c per pound A second victim of typhoid fever was buried in Crystal Lake ceme tery Sunday. She was Ina May Day, 13 year-old daughter in the John Day home. Her sister, Eva Bell Day, aged 19, was laid away in the same burial lot the preceding Monday. ' ' The funeral of Ina Day occurred from the Christian church at two o clock, and the service was con ducted by Mrs.' Humbert. There was a splendid offering 5of flowers, brought by the children of the public schools. In the same fam ily, Joe Day, aged about 18, is very low with the disease. The melancholy facts above ren der of keen interest statements that appear in an article published in McClure s magazine last June. In part they are as follows: All typhoid is traceable to pol luted water. If for a year the world were to stop drinking dilute sewage typhoid fever would vanish from our vital statistics. Nine-tenths of all infection comes direct from bad water. Infected cities get the disease in one of two ways. They drink water polluted by themselves or by others. Lake communities drink their own offscourings. Res idents of river municipalities wel come to their warm and hospit able interiors the germs which come down the stream to them from dis eased cities or rural districts direct ly abov. There is a pleasant the ory widely and warmly endorsed by various boards of health that run ning water purines itselt in seven or eight miles. This is shown to be fallacious. In Pittsburg in four teen years typhoid fever has claim ed 6.000 victims, practically all traceable to the water supply. Some day Pittsburg will have good water It is spending- seven and one half millions on a filtration plant. At Butler, Pa., in 1903, a private water company was at fault. In sight of the pumping station stood a house where there were two cases of ty phoid. The refuse from the house was thrown into a creek and car ried down to the intake. There developed in 19 days 1123 cases. Many new grave stones point the lesson that while the law ot man does not exact its penalties, the law of natuie will require them. "At Ithaca, New York, the seat of Cornell University, an epidemic existed in 1903. The watershed supplying the city was lined with pigstys, manure piles, garbage heaps, cattle pens, tnd outhouses, many of them discharging their contents almost directly into the supply. By the time the disease had run its course, there were 1880 known cases out of a population of 15,800, more v than one to every dozen inhabitants. The fever was not the most virulent type. - Only about 8 per cent ot the reported cases died, but even- with this low rate the mortality reached 725 per ioo, 000. - "Typhoid fever differs from most other diseases in that its trail leads from the country to the town. Each hamlet, village, and even farm houses, that drain to a watershed is a peril to every city which draws its drinking supply from that water shed. . ." . - "Every man is concerned immed iately or prospectively, in typhoid fever, if not through himself then through his family, his friends, his business interests, or the taxes he pays. You pay taxes to get good water and to have the laws enforc ed. One of the best preventatives against typhoid is the "pernicious municipal activity which sees that it gets what it pays for. The mat ter f having typhoid fever at great expense or avoiding it at less ex pense is largely a matter of intelli gent citizenship." - - PAUL RADIR. Visited Corvallis Is Man Thugs Tried to Slay Carries a Wound. Paul Radir, who has recently be come a well known figure in Ore gon, left at noon after a day spent in Corvallis. He is the man on whose life an attempt was made in Salem, a few days ago. While on a back street he was accosted by two men who inquired the way to the railroad station. As he raised his umbrella to indicate the direc tion, one of the men struck at Mr. Radir' s breast with a knife. The blade passed through the coat and vest and passed almost complete ly through a pocket book inside containing a lot of cards. Radir was quickly on the defense and being a young man of large and athletic physique quickly routed his an tagonists. In the melee, he re ceived a slash of the knife across the back of his hand, to repair which a couple of stitches were taxen by a physician. The marks of the struggle were still noticeable on Mr. , Radir while he was in Corvallis. The hole in his coat had been sewed, but the mark was easily noticeable. The rent in the vest had not even been attacked with a needle.- The wounded hand was carried band aged. The whole matter wastreat ed by Mr. Radir as trivial. "AH I hate about it is that they tried to get me into the fake column," he said. "The only thing strange about it is that my opponents down in Portland, pronounced the whole matter a fake before the sheriff of Marion county had even had time to be heard on the subject. The men assaulted me as described, and for what reason I cannot say. I have always said and still say that I cannot believe they were employ ed to attack me by the Liquor Deal ers Association.'? The person who comes in contact with the personality, of Mr. Radir knows at once that his story is true every detail. . a rranK, open For Sale. Vetch and Cheat and C lover hay. Also one fine M. B. torn. - T. A. Logsden. Tnn. nhone Mt. View line. 7 Wanted. Competent girl to assist in gener al housework. ' Apply to Mrs. A Wilhelm, Monroe, Or. Notice of Final Settlement. the Matter of the Estate ) ' ot Mary Elizabeth Manga deceased) Notlc e is hereby given that the undersigned as administratrix of laid estate of Mary Elizabeth Mangas, deceased, has filed her final account as such administratrix with the clerk of the coun ty court of the state of Oregon, for Benton coun ty, and the said court has fixed Saturday, the loth day of March, 1906, at the hour ot two o' clock in the afternoon ot said dav as the time. and the county court room iln the court house in uorvauis, uregon, as tne place lor nearm; any and all objections to the said account am for settlement thereof . Sated this February 9, 1906. MARY BIER. Administratrix of the estate of Mary Elizabeth A) a 11 gas, deceased. 53 Cents Per Setting For eggs. Beet brown Leghorns, J. B. Irvine, Corvallis. Our New Spring Stock is Nearly Complete. The Largest and most Diversified Stock of High Grade Merchan dise we ever owned. NEW ARRIVALS DAILY Corvallis, Oregon. Spraying. ; City or country work, country a specialty; reasonable rates. Inde pendent phone, 852, or 362. En quire of J. R. Smith. Read, Fullerton & Hubler,-Corvallis. in face, and a sincerity of speech brush away every doubt as to the manhood and integrity of the man, and leave no question as to his pur poses. He is a college man, and carries brains in his head that lift him far above many of those who are his accusers- He is most genial in his address, and speaks in heart' good humor of those who are making a bitter fight against him personally.'- "If people knew the inner facts relative to the minor who got evid ence for us in the Portland liquor cases, there would not be one word of criticism by anybody," he said. "None of us knew McCabe was under 21. He had been making his own way in the world for five years. By the use of detectives, who were known," we could not land the evidence desired to convict those who were violating the law. We knew that girls were frequent ing the saloons and that they were being given drinks there. ; What we had to have was some one other than a regular detective to play the role, and that is what McCabe did for us. With the evidence secured a number of convictions .followed and that is the reason so much noise has been made about the matter. It is the exposure of the vice in the courts that causes those who coun tenance it to raise the howl." There is a warrant out for the arrest of Mr. Radir, because of the McCabe affair. It was sworn out by Crofton, manager of the inter ests of the Wholsale Liquor Deal ers Association. While here,. Mr. Radir communicated with the dis trict attorney, and offered to come to Portland at any time for trial, but was notified that the case could not be reached until next week.: Mr. Radir is president of. the an ti-saloon league with headquarters at Portland. The main purpose of the society is the defense of the lo cal option law. A thorough or ganization is promoted to resist tne Jayne bill which the Liquor Deal ers are pushing for adoption. . .. For Sale. S. E- .1-4 Section 23, Kings Val ley at $2.50 per acre. L. JJ. Lyonsy : Craftonville, Calif. Common Colds are the Cause of Many : Serious Diseases. Physicians who have sained a national reputation as analysts of the cause of various diseases, claim that 11 catching cola could tx avoided a long list of dangerous ailment' would never be heard of. Everyone know; that pneumonia and consumption .originate from a cold, and chronic catarrh, bronchitis, and all throat and lung trouble are aggra vated arid rendered more serious by each fresh attack. Do not risk your life or take chances when yon have a cold. Chamber lain's Coutrh Bemedy will cure . it before these diseases develop. This remedy con. tains no ODium. morphine or other harmful drug, and has thirty years of reputation back of it, gained by its cures under every condi tion.- Hot sale by uranam a wortnam. Oak wood, stove lengths. at Saw Mill Co. Call Order Seeds Now. Red Clover Aluike, Alfalfa, Rape Spelt z and Artichokes. , I can furnish inoculated seeds and land plaster, teat will donble the yield. See sample of seed at Wellsher & Gray's store. Wanted 80 ton Vetch seed ' for May shipment. - . L li. Brooks. One' Dollar Saved Represents Tea' , Dollars Earned. The average man does not save to exceed ten per cent, of his earnings. He must spend nine dollars in living expenses for every dollar saved. That being the case he can not be too careful about unnecessary ex penses. Very often a few cents properly in vested, like buying seeds for his garden, will save several dollars outlay later on. It is the same in baying Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It costs but a few cents, and a bottle of it in the house often saves a doctor's bill of several dollars. I For sale by Graham & Wortham, There are no better than the best The flour that stands the test, Pure quality, appearance grand, So surely, White Crest brand. Good Bread Delicious Pastrv Fancy Cakes, Etc. . So easily made with White Crest the flour of excellence, so good you always want more, order a sack today, 105 cents per sack. Hodes' Grocery, 03 E GU N .HODES - - Has just received the services of one of the finest mechanics in the vajley- and from now on will be prepared to do all kinds of repair work from a pad lock to a threshing machine. Guns, Sewing lchines, Locks a Specialty We have just received a complete line of 1906 . Base Ball goods, also a fine line of up to date fish--, . ing tackle, fllash lights, batteries and sewing ma chine extras always on hand. No Prizes go with our Cbase & Sanborn Higb Grade COFFEE In fact nothing goes with our coffee but cream, sugar and SATISFACTION P. M. ZIEROLF. . Sole agent for Cbase & Sanborn High Grade COFFEE Printing Done on Short Notice at Times Office-'