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Corvallis Times CORVALLIS, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING MAY 8, 1906. TARRED AND FEATHERED. "When Creffield fell into the Hands of White Caps at Corvallis. The death of Creffield by the hand of a young man whom he had deeply wronged, recalls the inci dent at Corvallis in which the bo gus saint was tarred and feathered. The date was January 4, 190. The story as told in the Time at the time it happened, runs thus, in part: ' Tar and feathers were adminis tered to Apostles Creffield and Brooks, by a crowd of 20 men Monday night. The affair took place under the light of a winter moon near the first bridge near the sawmill at about 10 o'clock. The White Caps crossed the ferry and went over to the Beach house, 200 yards to the eastward. They stole noiselessly up to the house, which they surrounded. Then they broke in the front door, took the apostles, and recrosstng the ferry, went to ;the bridge, where the clothing was remvoed from both men and the tar and feathers applied. With the ceremony complete, their clothing was again put on, and the apostles told to leave the vicinity and not to return, or worse treatment might be applied. They started north along the Albany road, running at full speed. While the affair was in progress, Brooks was stoical, never uttering a word. Just before the tar and feathers were applied how ever, Creffield who had trembled all along, said, "Iet us pray." ' 'We have heard too much, of your prayers already," was the gruff re sponse of one of the party, and Creffield had nothing more to say. There was no attempt at secrecy by those who took part in the affair. None wore masks, and none affect ed a disguise. The identity of many of the party is known, and all ire men of standing and char acter. They say there was not a boy or hoodlum in the party. In the main they were persons who have felt the unhappy consequences of the strange spell the apostles seem to exert on the members of families often in a way to bring sor row and trouble. At tne tseacn house a dozen members of the rollers held rendez vous for the past month. When the white caps arrived, they imme diately surrounded the house, bar ring all avenues of escape. Then several stalwart men advanced to the front door, and after a loud knock, burst it in. Nearly a dozen rollers were in te room, Brooks and Creffield among them. Some of them were seated on chairs and others on the floor. Most of chem were bare footed. At the sudden appearance of the intruders, the members of the sect were more or less startled. Brooks and Creffield were told to put on their shoes. The female portion of the assembly began to sing and so continued during the rest of the ceremony. Brooks and Creffield obeyed the order to put on their shoes and hats and both were tied together and led out of the door. After leaving the house the party marched directly to the ferry arid crossed to the Corvallis side. On the boat, the captors stood close about the prophets to prevent any attempt at escape. Passing under the electric lights en route, the White Caps came directly from the ferry to Main street, and then went north on Main street past the saw mill and on north to the first bridge. Halting there they order ed the prophets to remove their clothing. The men did as told. The scene at the moment was dra matic. The moon shone clear and bright in the East, with the two apostles, nude and shivering in the center of the group. Silence was only broken by the movements of the men and by an occasional re mark, sometimes of a jocular char acter. One man, surveying Cref field after the tar and feathers had been well smeared, remarked, ' "Well, you would make a fine old Santa Claus now." Creffield made no reply. All the time he trembled like an aspen, and was undoubted ly much frightened. It was other wise with Brooks, who was stoical throughout and apparently undis turbed by the proceedings. After the incident, CrefBeld returned to the Beach house and attempt was made to remove the tar and feath ers. The next day Creffield was married at Albany, after which he disappeared. The next time he was seen in Corvallis, was when he was dragged nude, blinking and sfcinny, irotn under the Hurt house Use Yellow Dent iag. It is the best, rolf's. corn for plant- Get it at Zie CREFFIELD IN HIDING. His Long Sojourn Under the Hurt House The Incident Recalled. The killing of Creffield at Seattle brings to mind the long period of hiding from the authorities in which he spent something like four months under the house of O. V. Hurtof Corvallis. The discovery was made by Roy Hurt, aged 14, at 11 o'clock on the morning of Julv 29, 1904. The story of it was told as follows in the Times of the 30th: "With his body entirely nude and his frame a mass of skin and bones from the effects of his fam ished condition, Creffield, the man who by his wild religious teachings has sent half a dozen of his follow ers to the insane asylum and several others to the Boys and Girls Home in Portland, was found secreted un der the house of O. V. Hurt yester day morning, and at a quarter to eleven o'clock was lodged in the Benton county jail at CorvalLs. The discovery was made by Roy Hurt. He was looking for corks under the house, when he noticed something white in the northeast corner. He crawled out from under the house, and pulling out bricks in the foundation here and there, dis covered first a pillow, and then a quilt, and was at last getting so close to the apostle, whom he had not yet seen, that the latter spoke to him. The lad knew the voice and hurried to town to inform his father, who with Chief Lane went at once to the scene. With some difficulty they induced Creffield to come out, and after supplying him with clothing they hurried him in. to a buggy and drove him by a back street to the Benton county jail, in which the apostle was at once lodged. The whole occurrence transpired within half an hour, and Creffield was locked securely in a steel cell in the jail before many Corvallisites learned what had tak en place. Creffield was so weak from his long reclining position under the house, and from his famished condition, that after he came out from under the building he had to be supported by his capt ors to the carriage. It is the belief that all these weeks and months that Creffield has been the object of reward and search, he has been hiding under the Hurt house. It is believed al so that he was ted and maintained here by his followers, His time under the building was spent in a hole in the ground under the north east corner of the house. It is more than three months ago that Cref field fled from Portland. The hole in the ground is alongside the brick foundation and is six feet long, 18 inches deep and two and a half feet wide. The spot was the dark est place under the house. In the hole, there was a pillow and two old quilts. Under the pillow was a the pillow was a pair of old draw ers and a shirt. These were the only articles the apostle had to keep him warm. The dirt from the hole had been leveled off and under it were found 11 half gallon and seven quart trait jars, ail empty save tnat in one there was a little sugar, in an other a little flour and in several decayed remains of a little uneaten fruit. A small tin cup "had butter in it, and another showed that it had been used for stirring flour. In one of the jars fruit and flour had been stirred together. These ar tides, with a knife and spoon, all hidden under the dirt, completed the naked apostle s commissary de partment. In the county jail. Cremeld was as silent as a sphinx. To a news paper man, he would not talk. When Dr. Pernot was summoned to investigate his physical condi tion, it was some time before the long-haired, light bearded, ghost like man would say anything. On one subject, though he was profuse in speech, he insisted -on talking about Jesus. In whispers and dis jointed sentences, he said, "Oh, I feel so good; Jesus is so near me; Jesus told me last night this would happen." In this kind of vein he wanted to chatter all the time. When the doctor diverted his at tention with the inquiry, 'when did you have your last meal," there was no reply. "What did you have for your last meal." was followed by hesitation and then a whispered, "a little flour." All the time the gray eyes shone bright and were a lurid setting for the hollow cheeks, the unkempt hair, the long light beard and the steel cell bars. When asked if he wanted food, he said af ter hesitation, "yes, 11 tnere is no hog meat in it; Jesus don't want us to eat hogs", you know." After a day in jail, Creffield was taken to Portland by a Multnomah deputy sheriff, and there tried for adultery and sent to the penitentiary lor two years Eat Butter-Nut Bread. Thatcher & Johnson sell it. THE WOOL PRICE. Shearing Soon to Begin Something About the Pros pective Market. Shearing sheep will begin in a very short time. Wool in small lots from mutton sheep is already arriving in town. 1 he prospective price is a matter of deep inteiest to farmers, nearly ali of whom have a band of sheep in greater or less numbers. The Oregonian has the following on the subject: ine uregon wool market is slow in getting under way. It was expected that a heavy amount of business would have been transpir ed by this time, but practically nothing has been accomplished yet In Eastern Oregon buyers and sell ers are apart in their views by sev eral cents and neither side shows any disposition yet to make con cessions. Much the same condi tion exists in the western part of the state. The local mills are not in the market yet for valley wools and buyers have reduced their quo tations to correspond with the lat est prices at Boston. Fine valley wools are quoted here at 24 and 25 cents and coarse wools of which about 80 per cent of the valley clip is composed is quoted at 22 and 23 cents. Growers as a rule, are look ing forward to last year's prices, but the dealers say there is no pres ent prospect of their hopes being realized. "A recent advice from Lewiston, Idaho, reports the purchase of 500,000 pounds of wool by a prom inent Boston firm at 25 cents. ' Discussing the effect of the San Francisco disaster on the wool market, the Boston Commercial Bulletin says: 'The San Francisco catastrophe has had no effect upon this market, except one of sorrow for the misfortune which has be fallen that city. The wools from California are of short staple, and the entire clip is only about 12, 500,000 pounds. Consequently, the loss of around 3,000,000 pounds in San Francisco has occasioned no particular comment among mer chants. However, there is another side to the aftermath of the disaster and that is the possible effect the withdrawal of large sums of money from Eastern banks to adjust in surance claims will have upon wool growers' policies. Hartford, Conn. which was hard hit in insurance losses, and been a large lender to wool men. and the diverting of money to insurance companies will not make it easy for our merchants to obtain low rates. It is generally contended that the exodus of sub stantial funds to the West will natur ally tighten the money market, and with the specie harder to obtain here merchants will act more con servatively about buying cups in the West at prices the growers are now asking. On the other hand, it is said that the bulk of the mon ey will eventually retnrn in circula tion to the Hast, as there would be no necessity for expending any considerable part of it for many months while building operations would be under way Several hund red thousands suits of clothes will be required to replace those des troyed; and as a whole, it is felt that the increised business will offset any evil influence. The main thing now holding the attention of the dealers is the money mprket, and its course in the next few weeks will govern the acts of many.' " Oak wood, stove lengths, at Saw Mill Co. Call Give the Corvallis Creamery Co. trial on ice and ice cream. Sharpen Up. All kinds of grinding and sharp ening done at M. M. Long's repair shop. IP! BOOM ! BEE! GRAND ANNUAL SENIOR OAC RHODODENDRON EXCURSION To Newport and Return Saturday May 19, 1906 Beautiful Flowers! Good Music by Cadet Band! Lovely Trip! Glorious Week-Day Outing! Fun Fast and Furions! pare for tbe Found Mbagy, oruallis aijd , Spfedal train leaves Albany at 5 :30 a. m., Corvallis 6:15, Philomath 6:35, arrives at Newport ro a. m. Returning leaves Newport 5:30 p. m. arriving Corvallis 9:30, Albany i0. Come and enjoy yourself. ' OA' OA! TO GOOD AUDIENCE. Hon. Charles V. Galloway Spoke Is Very Fine Speak er 1 hings he Said. Hon. Charles "V. Galloway of Yamhill, addressed a delighted au dience at the court house last night. His subject was the political issues of the day, and he was plain and direct in defining his position on important questions. His frank ness in declaring where he stood won almost as much of the admiration of his audiuice as did his brilliant analysis of the issues. As a speak er, there are few men who have ap peared on the stump in Oregon who are his equal. He has a very quiet highly polished and a very effective style of oratory that held his audi ence deeply interested throughout the hour he spoke. "'So help me God, I will oppose the ship subsidy bill which grants immense bounty to rich corporations; I will oppose it with my vote and with every atom of power that I can summon to my help. Whenever in a con gressional career, I should- have a subsidy to give, I will give it to the sailors, not to the rich shipowners; if a subsidy must be given, I will give it to the farmers and farm lab orers and not to the Billion Dollar Steel trust and Standard Oil mag nates." His utterances met with very great favor, and were the sub ject afterward of very flattering comment by both democrats and re publicans. No young man in Ore gon has n career of brighter promise before him than does Mr. Galloway. He is a plain farmer, . but he has ability and power to grapple with largest questions, and a beautiful way of setting forth his opinion ot them. He left today for a day or two at his home in Yamhill county, whence he leaves the latter part of the week to continue his tour of Southern Oregon. For Chief of Police. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of chief of police, subject to the decision of the voters at the coming city election. w. G. I.ANE. Secure Your Tickets. Tickets for "The Flower Queen" to be given next Monday evening in the Opera house, may be secured at Graham & Wortham's drug store. The tickets may also be ex changed for reserved seats at the same time without extra charge. Tickecs 25 cents each. Children's tickets obtainable at the door, 15 cents. A. L. Ferrington, the Albany Rug man who makes rugs from old carpets, will be in this city next Wednesday. He will not make a canvas, but if you would like to see him, drop a card, care general de livery and he will call. For Sale. Registered bulls tor sale; one three year old and two yearlings. Terms reasonable. For further par ticulars inquire of J. E. Wyatt, Corvallis, Oregon. : If you are going to paint, get the best MO USE RAJ NT For Sale by Graham & Wells Srip fron. pbllonatl? $1.50 OAC! Clothing Remember we sre going out of ready to wear Clothing. Hundreds ot High Grade Suits for men, Young Merj, Boys and children at sweeping reductions. Top coats, Over coats, Single vests and Odd pants at closing out prices. Buy now beforfi lines are broken. HATHAWAY BROS. Blacksmiths, Machinests, Wag on makers and Horse Shoers All kinds grinding, Oliver chilled plow share?, also all kinds of machine work done in first-class shape. ALL WORK OUR GUARANTEED. Newest and Latest Up-to-date Machinery Prices so both can live. Buy Buy early as there's a HoUerg Picnic Hints tor the ' ' i Boned chicken, Chicken & liver, Boned turkey, Deviled ham, Veal loaf, Lunch tongue, German lunch sausage, Vienna sausage, Vienna sausage and sauer krout Chipped beef and bacon in glass jars, . Boast and corned beef, Lobsters, Shrimps, 0yster3, Salmon, Sardines, crab and clams, Fresh fruits, cakes and crackers, Napkins, many pretty patterns to select from, Paper plates no picnic baskets complete without paper plates. All kinds of pickles and olives in the bulk at Hodes' Grocery, ST Bargains! 1 Early We have a very nice assortment of Dining Chairs and Kockers. Don't allow the choicest bargains to slip away before buying. Com in today and look them over. A mong our second hand goods "we have the following, some of which may be just what you are Hooking for, Saws, Axes, Safes, Cupboards Tables, Jars, Couches, Ice Cream Freezers, Ladies Bicycles, Barrel Churns, Grindstones and Sickle Sharpners. bargain in these goods. & Cafly. 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