Corvallis Times
CORVALLIS, OREGON,
FRIDAY EVENING SEPT. 14, 1906.
IT DIDN'T PAY. '
The get-rich-quick plan has yield
ed up- three more victims. A jury
3ais adjudged Pierce Mays, George
'.Sorensen and Willard N. Jones'
-gaTdty as charged. Their scheme
for easy money was to secure title
tf an immense acreage of worthless
school land in Eastern Oregon,
to bave these lands included in a
iorest reserve, for each scre of their
Sands so included to receive scrip
with which they could get title to
timber lands elsewhere and finally
-to sell the scrip to limber land pur
chasers at $7.50 to $15 per acre.
It was a comprehensive game.
They played for immense stakes.
A million or two of dollars would
ve been the profit if all had
worked weil. The presence of Or
gon statesmen of easy virtue at the
auational capital was a major asset
.ior perpetrating the enterprise.
'Staud in and keep still" was the
watchword of big and little in the
srame. It was the same old story
-f using political influence and of
-working an act through congress.
n innocent appearing act under
-which there was room for secret
igraft and jobbery. It was a scheme
that has been worked many a time
oa both larger and smaller scales
without detection.
But it happens in this instance
that there is detection, and a se
, quel. That sequel was the closing
-laSceiie in a 24 days trial in the fed
eral court yesterday when Mr,
.Slays, Mr. Sorensen acd Mr. Jones
-swere declared guilty by a jury of
5S2 -nten. After one more scene, the
-curtain will lall on this tragedy, for
dt is a tragedy, and that is when
4he court will convene, the lawyers
gather and the defendants be told to
stand up and receive sentence
"Then in a court room and at the
'very bar of justice where he has
3rcsecuted many a criminal, an
x-United States district attor
jney, who is also an ex-state senator,
.-member of a pioneer family and
Mong prominent in social and politi
cal affairs of the state will be told
uff for fine and probable imprison--ment.
With him will go his fellow
- ons"pirato:s, not like those who
jwrapthe drapery of their couch
--about them and lie down to pleas
ant dreams, but scourged to their
punishment.
Jt would have been an easy road
to wealth if all had gone right.'but
Vljy the sequel it is become a long
'-'sad weary way. On the journey,
friends, fortune, honor, position, ev
erything is sacrificed. It didn't
Spay. The get-rich-slow road would
bave been better, far better. And
what is more the pity, is that it
-sail comes too late in life for the ill-
- starred actors to regain that they
.- Jape lost, or rebuild that which has
'cXumbled in ruins about them.
Just to see the scatterment it
V would make among them, how in
" -teresting it would be to tnakeHeney
T tr,S. attorney general, give him
--carte blanche to prosecute, and turn
v&iai loose among the tiust barons.
-Tf it had been the oldtime 27,000
fin Maine Monday, it would have
-been hailed and heralded as a
glorions endorsement of onr grand
aod noble president and our illus-
-trious Tepublican congress." Since
-iiowever, it slumped down to 8,000
- it is downright ingratitude to say.
" "prohibition did it."
THrssIKrupp, the richest heiress
In all Germany, may, because her
wedding trousseau is to cost but
$230, be a conspicuous model now,
imt as all husbands know, that is
no guarantee of what she will be
-after marriage.
It would be so much more appro-
fiate if some of those who poke
n at the president's simplified
eHing didn't spell it "mutch,"
fiitch" and -offle."
Times
Job-Printing
Js the Best
' Have vou used the Economy
fruit iar? If not, see those at Zie
toIPs and you will understand why
sS9 many housewives are using them
WILL CORVALLISITES STAND IT?
Exactions for Insurance Premiums
The Charges are now Scandalously
High.
Where are the exactions insurance
managers are grinding out of Cor
vallis insurers to end ? How many
more advances will be made in the
fire insurance rates for Corvallis?
These are questions in which Cor
vallis people and all other people
are concerned. The insurance rate
on the present postofflce building in
this town was formerly two per
cent. Two or three years ago the
rate was advanced to 2.60 per cent
A few weeks ago when the 25 per
cent horizontal advance went into
effect, the rate soared up to. 3.25
per $1,00. It is a scandalous figure.
Similar advances about town are
arousing much indignation. The
general concensus of opinion is that
it is robbery. The main idea with
many people is, what steps can be
taken to secure a remedy ?
Advance is Absurd.
As all know, the excuse of the
insurance people for the new ad
vance is the losses they sustained
in the San Francisco earthquake.
Millions of money were swept away
by that cataclysm, but it wasn t
the fault of the people of Corvallis
or Oregon. This town nor this
state never had anything more in
the earthquake line than the gentl
est quiver, if even that. Nobody
remembers of any property loss that
ever resulted, and few remember
even a shake at all in these parts.
That is what makes the insurance
advance an absurdity and one that
insurers ought not to stand.
Rates Should be Lowered.
The insurance rates in Corvallis
ought to be lowered, not advanced.
When Dallas put in a new water
svstem, reductions running from 10
to 30 per cent were made oh busi
ness property. If it was worth but
2.60 to insure the postoffice brick
in Corvallis formerly it ought not
to be worth nearly so much now,
when there is a water system that
would flood the place within "a few
minutes and under which a serious
property loss by fire seems impos
sible. Indeed every building in
the town is splendidly prstected,
and there is not half the hazard now
tnat there was a few months ao.
The fire alarm system alone by
means of which an alarm is turned
in in any part of town without the
need of a half a minute's delay, is
in itself a matter of very great im
portanee affecting insurance, andan
item that most strongly suggests,
not a raise of rates, but a reduction.
In the face of it all, however, every
policy that is written now goes in
under the advanced rates. It is an
exaction that the insurance trust
is making just because it has the
power. It is a grab that oughtto
be resisted.
'Would tax the Companies.
Two ways are open to Corvallis
people as a means of securing relief.
There is the city council, and there
is the plan of insuring themselves.
The city council can license the
insurance companies, and force
them to pay for the privilege ot do
ing business in the town. Let them
pay license the same as Corvallis
truckmen do. That is what Dallas
was proceeding to do with them
when that town secured a reduction
of retes. Such is the plan suggest
ed by City Attorney Bryson.
There are others who favor the
formation of a local insurance
company. The guess is that five
to ten times as much money goes
out of Corvallis annually in fire
insurance premiums as comes back
in losses. The premiums that
yearly go out are a great big sum.
Formerly, the insurance on the
Benton county mills alone was
$1,000. There are those who es
timate the sum annually collected
in the town for insurance at $15.
000 to $20,000. One agent alone
fends out about $2,000 in premiums
The insurance on the court house
when the present policies expire
will cost $550 per year and on the
school houses $375. When the
big stocks of merchandise, the
brick buildings and the other struct
ures, machinery ana appliances en
ter into the computation the aggre
gate of the premiums reaches a
very large sum.
Suggests Local Company.
How policy holders in the life
insurance line have been robbed by
the companies and their officials
was made glaringly manitest,in the
recent insurance scandals, That
similar unwarranted exactions are
going on in the fire insurance busi
ness is altogether likely, and that
is why there are those in Corvallis
who look with favor on the suggest
ion of a local company. One lead
ing citizen is heartily in favor of
the plan if the fire insurance com
panies refuse a reduction. He has
offered to put $5,000 into the
scheme or $10,000 if necessary.
provided a good strong company
can be organized. The subject is '
one in which Corvallisites should be
come interested to a man, for the :
insurance companies are demanding I
premiums that are scandalously and
unwairantably large. ,
Survey was Promised.
Some time ago the insurance
agents of Corvallis held a meeting
and formulated a letter which was
sent to the board of underwriters.
This letter explained the new facil
ities for fire protection, and asked
a reduction of rates. The board
replied that an agent would be sent
out to survey the town with a view
to such possible reduction. Up to
the present, he has not put in ap
pearance, and it is doubted serious
ly if he ever will. Meantime the
horizontal advance in rates has
gone into effect as each policy, is
renewed, and Corvailis is paying an
awful price for its protection. How
long will the people stand it?
CONTRACT LET.
For New Postoffice Building W. 0.
Heckart Builds it.
The contract has been let for the
new postoffice building. It goes
to W. O. Heckart at a figure that
has not been made public. It is
planned to have it completed and
ready for occupancy by December
1st if possible, and with that end in
view, wort win begin ac once ana
be pushed with all possible dis
patch.
As finally arranged, the place is
to be even more elegant than was
originally announced in the Times.
The building is to stand flush with
the east line of the alley northeast
across the street from the Occident
al hotel. It will be of brick with a
front of pressed brick and glass.
There will be a vestibule entrance
with handsome swinging doors. The
dimensions will be 34 by 75 feet,
and one story. The structure will
be to match the fittings of the post
office and on plans to especially ac
commodate the latter. There will
be five skylights besides huge
windows, so that the light . inside
will be as good as in open air.
The especial elegance of the
place will be however, in the fit
tings. The manufacturer was in
Corvallis the other day to take the
order and he has since been in con
ference with the architect and con
tractor so that the building can be
designed to match the fittings. The
hangings of the boxes will be of old
copper effect, very rich and dark
enough not to show dirt. The
panel work will all be quarter-Saw
ed oak. The glass from the top of
the boxes to the ceiling will be
florentine plate supported by pil
asters of quarter sawed oak. One
third of the boxes will be with
keys, and the-balance keyless, and
of combination effect like that on
money safes. There will be larger
offices, and more costly buildings
in Oregon, but not one will be
more elegant or more sightly. It
will be a place that all Corvallisites
will point to with pride.
A LA MODE.
I took my last year's Panama
And knocked it out of shape,
Then dyed it in some Alice blue
And fastened on some crepe; -I
pulled the thing way out in front,
And bent it up behind;
I stuck some feathers on one side
The biggest I could find;
I took it to a maniac
And bade him do his worst,
He added some few touches till
It looked like something cursed;
And then I gave it to my wife
This little jokt so pat
Who thanked me with unfeigned !
delight, -For
"just the sweetest hat."
Puck.
Dr. Rowland, presiding elder,
preaches at the First Methodist
church Sunday morning, at which
time there will be holy communion
and sacrament. In the evening,
preaching by the pastor.
House to House Canvass.
Representatives of the Pacific States
Telephone . and Telegraph Company
have started a house to house canvass
among the farmers of this county, offer
ing an extremelv low rental for instru
ments to be used in connection with the
central offices of the Company through
out the county. !
For t.G8l4 cents a month the subscrib
er is given free switching with all other
subscribers connecting with his central
exchange- Under this rate it would ap
pear that no rural resident need he with
out a telephone and its attendant ad
vantages, especially as every assurance is
given of prompt and efficient service.
Mr. G. B. Hibbard is in' charge of the
canvass in this county and he states that
he may be seen at the central office of
the Company in Albany, or wilt visit
any community or organization of farm
ers interested in telephone matters.
Well Drilling.
J. E. Sloper is prepared to sink wells
through quick sand and gravel. Rock
drilling a specialty. Inquire ofJ. B.
Smith & Co., or address J. E. Sloper,
, Corvallis, Oregon. .
Fall Opening and Fashion Exhibit
NEW STYLES IN
LADIES' CLOAKS and FUR
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
We extend to all a most cordial invitation to attend onr opening exhibit of the new
Fall Fashions in Lauies', Misses and Children's Tailor-Made Garments.
You will find this an especially interesting event; It marks the introduction of a
new fashion season with its pleasing array 0f new designs in dress for the fair sex.
grace. With all, they are reasonable in pries in fact you
can save qoite a bit of money by buying your clothes ready-
made, and most always have a nicer appearing garment.
The new styles are beautiful indeed. They have a newness, a fresh
ness and an air of dainty Stylishness that is fascinating to the fastidious
taste.
' They are the sort of garments that add wonderfully to the charms of woman's
pends on style and fit and here is where "La Vogue" garments reach perfection.
We personally invite vou to call, to see this attractive display.
THE PEOPLES STORE
THE
Pacific
Coast Leader
Oregon
State Fair
l&aem Sept 10-1506
(Open Day and Night)
The West is a promising
live stock district. This exr
hibition will be one of great
value to breeders and pur
chasers. The entire stock
loving West will be at Salem.
Come and see the
Display of
HORSES,
CATTLE,
SHEEP,
GOATS,
SWINE and
POULTRY
Also a Grand
Display of
AGRICULTURAL,
HORTICULTURAL,
MEC ANICAL and
FINE ART WORKS
Racing EvQnts Daily
Special Railroad Rates
Correspondence Solicited
W. H. Dowling, President.
Frank W. Durbin, Secy.
BANKING.
The First National Bank of Corval
lis, Oregon, transacts a general
conservative banking business.
Loans money on approved secu
rity. Drafts bought and sold and
money traneferredto the principal
cities, of the United States, Eu
rope and foreign countries. . .'
Here are to be seen the most recent Parisian modes adapt
ed in stylish garments for the American women. You can
eee the fashionable products of the most author ative crea
tors of style in a variety of designs and prices.
The new 'La Vogue' Cloaks and Furs which we show are
a surprising revelation to nearly everybody. So much good
style and such neat appearing garments are not expected in
ready-to-wear garments. We selected them from the sam
ples of one of America's largest and best known tailoring
houses and had them made to our order.
We want you to see them. Only care
fully selected durable cloths are used;
they are shapely cut, excellently tailored
neatly finished and fit' with
S. l. KLINE
Boys School Skills
The XtragooD label on our clothes is the
mark of the best boys clothing made. This
superiority is due partly to the better quality
of the woolens and linings used -by the ma
kers; partly to the style and good taste they
know how to pnt into garments, and in large
part to their honest, consciencious work in
tailoring.
In XtragooD you get clothes of sterling worth. The
most perfect combination of fabrics and expert workman
ship. The most pleasing and harmonious designs, absolute
ly reliable, honest and durable merchandise.
Boys watches free With
Boys department we give free
one year.
Comfort is a Necessity to Enjoyment.
When your eyes ache and your head pains you some
thing is wrong with your eyes. Perfect fittTng glasses
are the correct remedy for all refractive deficiencies. Call
on E. W. S. Pratt and have youi eyes examined and
a pair of glasses which will be scientifically correct.
N. B. Don't send away for duplicate lenses, bring in
your broken ones and have them replaced by one which
is guaranteed to be right. ..'-''" '.
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dress. Much de-
ESTABLISHED 1864
each $10 purchase in our
a boys watch, guaranteed for