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Corvallis Times CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, DEC 7, 1906 HUNDREDS WERE THERE. And all Indigent But Still Generous nJ Fair ""Shipper and Railroad. OPEN THE WILLAMETTE. In the original design, the water courses were not intended to be tethered to the financial scheme of private corporations. It is no more natural that toll should be taken for use of the water ways than for the use of air. If a river can be reduced to a condition of private ownership and the public can he made to pay a private company for the privilege of navigating it, why not a fee be exacted by a syndicate of all the people who breathe air? There is not a whit of difference in the principle involved. If the Willamette region has to pay fifty cents a ton extra on all freight shipped in or out because a private corporation has obtained a species of ownership on the river, it must be fully as equitable in the ethics of nature and human rights for a fee Jper cubic foot to be exacted of every person who breathes Wil lamette air. If the lockage toll is to indefinitely continue, why not ex pect future citizens of Willamette to wear air metres that will measure every breath, with an agent of a corporation at the end of the month examining the metre and collecting toll for the air breathed. The one would be as reasonable, as season able and as perfectly matched to ! the natural fitness of things as the other. As well might corporate wealth acquire and claim ownership of the ocean, and take toll for navigating it. If corporate wealth may own the privilege of passing up or down the Willamette, the same agency has the right to improve harbors and require payment of toll for passage in or out of vessels. It is a principle obviously and fatally wrong. It cannot be defended. There are things of which there must be common ownership. The ocean, the seas, the lakes, the har bors, the rivers, the air, all these must be free, and must be kept be' yond the control of private greed, A more enlightened civilization in the future may catalogue other things in the list of unowned and unownable, but it is only the pur pose here to maintain tnat the in trusion of a toll on a water way is an unpardonable invasion of public rights, and that the peo ple should never permit it. Wherev er snch toll exactions are set up, the region affected has its inherent rights abridged, suffers discrimin ations that other localities avoid, and ought to arise en masse and protest and petition until the con dition is removed. WONT IT PAY? Are there to be good big special levies in all the Benton districts for the improvement of the roads the coming season ? Is it worth while to have good roads, or is it better to drag a weary way through mud and mudholes? Were the roads nude hard and dry and smooth so that products could be taken to market in winter and so traveling would be as easy then as in sum mer, wouldn't time be saved, money be made, and life be . happier? If is is possible to get to town and back or to the neighbors and back with ease and speed, instead of dragging slowly along" and pulling the heart and life out of the horses, isn't the farm worth more, isn't the problem of living easier and the pre s pect sweeter ? Is there any man who insists that it is better to have bad roads than good roads ? Since there is no such man do not all agree perfectly on this one thing that it Is better, far better, in finitely better, to make the roads better? In order to make them bet ter is it not the only way to raise the necessary . money i by taxation; and spend it to improve them? It is now time to settle the ques tion. Special road levies must be reported to the county clerk ? by January ist. ' -: : One f the biggest gatherings rf basina men ever held in the Wil lamette valley transpired in Eugene Wednesday. It was a convention of men n Reeled by the car shor - aiie, and an immense aggregate of capital and business brains was re presented. Three hundred to 40 j men from all parts of Oregon wei prscut, and each man was in dead ly earnest. The paralysis oi industry caused by the tar shortage is far more im portant than it is commonly report ed to be. The Booth-Kelly Com pany alone have 73,000,000 feet of logs and lumber tied up by the car stringency. Twenty mills at Cot tage Grove alone are practically idle. Hops cannot be move-1. Buyers who have bought large stocks are frenzied. They cannot get them to market and there is danger of a depressed price. Hop agents in Oregon are receiving tele graphic advices to buy nothing more on any account. That blocks the sale of unsold hops and Heaven knows what it means for the grow ers with stocks yet on hand. Flour cannot be shipped. Flour millers can not get cars to ship their prod uct outside of Oregon, and but few or local trade. The Willamette is the main reliance of the Corvallis and other mills along the river. Even th,s line is more or less con gested because the shortage of ocean steamer accommodations. Oregon millers are accordingly losing their California markets and customers, who must make accounts with peo ple who can furnish them with stocks. The injury thus wrought to Oregon business is almost irre parable. Workingmen are out of employment in the lumbering dis tricts. There is nothing for them to do and their homes are needy. There is distress, stagnation, and paralysis. It is something, the like of which Oregon never saw, and at a time when the state is more pros perous otherwise than at any other time in her history. These things were the theme of speeches at the convention. There were no honeyed words there for Mr. Harriman. He wa3 loudly condemned. Every condemnatory utterance of his name was applaud ed. It was said that he was de- vo ing time to gobbling up other lines and to keeping other railroads out of Oregon and that the employ ment was discreditable to him. That sentiment was applauded. It was said the legislature ought 10 enact drastic railroad legislation. That was applauded. It was said that the road ought to be made to dis gorge the remains of its land grants that it has withdrawn from the market, and that was applauded to the echo. It was stated that the Southern Pacific has gone to build ing sawmills and to hauling off its own lumber, sawing up the forests it has withdrawn from market. A speaker said that was discreditable and ought to' be stopped, and that was loudly applauded. A man from Cottage Grove said the Southern Pacific system was a "thieving scoundrel" and though it was h?rd to see just wherein the epithet ap plied to a track and ties, it was vociferously applauded. Any thing in tact inimical to the road was considered 'bully" and invar- to tfce fullness. A commission with powers to ascertain the - value of roads, to fix and alter rates, to make rules for reciprocal demur rage and enforce the same, in short with all the powers that can be con ferred, such a commission is what will be demanded at Salem. Such at least is the idea gathered by ev ery man who attended the Eugene convention. CORVALLIS PIONEER. Passed Away in California Rev. Jo seph A. Hanna Founded Local Hjf Church. Rev. Joseph A. Hanna, a pion eer Corvallis minister, builder cf the present Presbyterian church in this city, died suddenly at Long Beach, California, Wednesday. The remains are to be brought to Corvallis for interment, and the funeral will take place Monday in the old edifice to which so much of his early resources were devoted. He came to Oregon in 1852 and settled in Marysville, now Corval lis. Here he organized the Pres byterian church of Corvallis in 1853. At the second meeting - of the Presbytery of Oregon, October 1S53, then consisting of Rev. Lew is Thompson, Dr. Geary and Rev. Robert Robe, Rev, Hanna was re ceived from the Presbytery of Wooster, Ohio, and his name with the church of Corvallis consisting of five members was enrolled bv the Presbytery. From that time to the present Rev. Hanna contin ued a member of the Presbytery of Oregon. He organized several of the early churches and suoDlied many of them for varying terms. He went to California in the early Nineties and a year preceding he spent in the synod of Washington. His name with the names of Lewis Thompson, Robert Robe, Dr. Geary, Dr. Yantis and Dr. Linds ley will remain identified through out all time with the beginnings of Presbyterianism in Oregon. Rob ert Robe is the only one ot this early group living. The surviving relatives of Rev. Hanna are Mrs. Grace Humpheys, Eugene: Mrs. Hattie Hovenden, Portland, daugh ters; Calvin Hanna, a brother at Eugene, and his widow. fine 3ob Printing at Cbis Office. Pictures lor (KMsH.ua 3 The largest and finest line of Framed rnd Unframed Pictures ever shown in Corvallis. That's what we think of them. We want you to judge for yourself. Pages could be written in praise of these beautiful creations, but they are on display in our f tore, waiting to tell their own story. Come in and look them over. Perhaps you do not intend to purchase, but you will enjoy looking at them anyway. In the selection of Holiday Gifts, can you think of anything so appropriate for so many of your friends? Prices to suit all purses. Don'i fail to see our window display. Goods stored and delivery made when you want them, Hollenburg Complete house & Cady-i Furnishers, HIS LEG BROKEN. WHO THEY ARE. iably brought down the house. All kinds of toys, and Xmas presents at Moses , And it wasn't a house of hood lums either. The men there were sober, steady, highminded, self respecting gentlemen. They were and are, angry. Their indignation is unloosed. 1 heir dogs 01 war have been unleisched. Six years these men have waited for cars they couldn t get. Three par cant of the cars required for lumber ship meats have been furnished. That is a very small ratio. It is one thirty-third of what was needed That and like car stringency in ev ery line brought the delegates to Eugene to speak their minds. When they got there they found other men as indignant as them selves. They met them cominjr with set teeth from every direction. It is not surprising tnat tne aggre gate of their pent up wrath, when it did burst forth, took on a lurid hue. They do not mean to persecute the roads The expressions of out' rage and incense were always ac companied with a . proposal ever to be fair. Injustice for neither rail road nor people was the slogan of the convention. But there must be remedies. . And there must be ef fective remedies. A railroad com mission law with reciprocal demur rage provision is the most favored idea. : It must be a! commission, however, with claws ;, and teeth.. The old commission was toothless and clawless, " tt had no powers, It could only r!de . on passes and draw salaries. . These things it did well. It also, according to the traditions did several other useful things, always utilizing its powers Bays That Play in the Cadet Regiment Band Developing Into Splendid Organization. A coming source of pride at OAC is the cadet regimeut band of 30 pieces, which under the leaderr ship of Harry Beard is fast develop ing into an organization of great merit. It began work this year under more favorable conditions j than ever before. Most of last year's members are back and more good material has been found in this year s freshman class than m any previous year, a number of ex perienced musicians having enter ed. Musicians -get a " good military band training at OAC, sine: they are thoroughly drilled . in all the evolutions of a regular army band. The grade ot music played by the' band this year is far in advance of anything ever before attempted. The repertoire has been increased to meet the requirements of the better class of musicians, and it is expected by the end of the present college year to have the best ama teur band in the Northwest. More new members will be added after the holidays and next year it is. hoped to have a band of forty piece?. The following is the mem bership and instrumentation: Cornets Wilkins, Cole, Brock, Johnson, Hector and O'Connor. Clarinets Utzinger, Colyjg, Harlan, Watts, Blanchard and Chambers. Horns Read, McGinnis and Sell wood. Trombones Cathey and Holm'. Baritone Crawford and . Wills. Saxaphone Lumtn. B flat bass Luper andv Kart stater. ' " E-flat bass Ingle. SB-flat bass Hudson. , Bass drum Adams. Snare drum Gagnon. Fracture is bad and Amputation may Become Necessary Has but Slender Means. Both bones were broken in his leg while John McCoy was employ ed at the Corvallis Saw Mill yester day forenoon. Saw logs were be ing pulled from the river up to the mill, and McCoy was assisting at the work. Aa a big log was in transit, the wne cable broke and in the recoil McCoy was struck by it midway between the knee and ankle. The force of the blow was such that both bones were not on ly oroKen Dot in addition are so crushed that it is feared amputation may become necessary. Besides the broken bones three ugly flesh wounds wre inflicted in the limb, though these are inconseuqential in comparison with the breaking of the bones. The injured man came with his family to Corvallis from Airlie re cently, and resides in Jobs addition. He is about 35 years of age, and his only means are his wages. Contributions aggregating $40 were made at the mill and in town for his benefit after the accident yesterday. CITY MARKET Choice Meats and Groceries COFFEE SPECIAL OUR 3 LBS For a short time we will sell 3 lbs Rio Coffee for 50 satisfaction or money back 5 O C T S GOODS ARE FIRST-CLASS. PRICES ARE RIGHT. WE Sell Flour. Harlan & Schwingler CLEVER FARCE COMEDY. At the Opera House December 15th. Jerry from Kerry, is a hurrah farce comedy, up-to-date and clean Clever specialities are the features. The company consists of bright, lively funmakers. New songs, pretty music, charming girls and all one expects to see in a show of this kind. The motto of this com pany is "Clean, refined and moral high class comedy." They come highly recommended from Eastern cities. Their superior uniformed band and orchestra is one of the best. itt Two Rvila CImmm -tike Ijeaa. Doctor If yon are to recover, you must spend the next three months In traveling. Patient Bat I can't afford It, doctor. Doctor Very well, stay at borne if you .must, and I will' visit you daily. Patient Never mind, doctor; I think I will travel after all. Victor Moses has fine china in his store- nothing better for 8 Xmas present. Always Keeps ChamDerlain's Cougb Remedy in His House.; "Wz would not be without Chamberlain's Cough Keraedy. It is kept on hand eontin-t nally in our home," says W. W. Kearney, editor of the Independent, Ldwry Citv, Mo. That is just what every family should do. When kept at hand ready for instant use, a cold may be checked at the outset and cured in much less time than after it has become .settled in the system. This remedy is also without a peer for croup in 'children, and will prevent the attack when given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, which can only be done when the remedy is kept at hand. For sale by Graham & Worths m, - - An Expeulve Wedillna:. "The bride nearly fainted during the ceremony and had to be supported by her father until It was over." "Yes, and now I hear her father is supporting both of them." . A massive Quincy granite monument has been erected over the grave of the late Gen. Abner Doubleday, at Arling ton, by his former comrades of the First Corps, Association,, Army . of the Potomac. ' The column is similar to that which, marks the grave of Gen. T"- - "' . ' n - , ' Fresh groceries always Mo3es try them. on hand a The IVfune Klasrara. "Everybody pronounces Niagara wrong," .said a philologist. The accent of this beautiful Indian word should not be put on the syllabi ag,' but on the syllable "ar the penult the one before the last Niagara means 'hark to the thunder.' Its accent should fall on the penult because the Indians them selves accent It there, because rn prac tically all our Indian names of places the penult Is the accented syllable. Think of the Indian names you know. Don't you accent nearly all of them on the syllable before the last? There are, for instance, Toronto, Mississippi, Alle ghany, Appatachtoola, Narragensett, Tuscaloosa, Saratoga, Ticanderoga, Os wego, Conshohocfeen, Wiaaahtekan and Hochelaga. In all these names tlie ac cent is an the pemiH. Niagara Is a Huron word, and tf you con find a Huron you will find that be accents It as be does Saratoga or Tuscaloosa. 1 don't know bow we have fallen Into the habit of accenting it wrong." Chi cago Chronicle. A Good BteoamaiAattOB. An Irishman was charged with a pet ty offense. "Have you any one In court who will vouch for your good character?" queried the Judge. Tea, sorr; there is the chief cor stable yonde." aos-weied Pat. The chief constable was amazed. "Why, your honor. I don't even know the man," protested he. "Now, sorr," bro&e in Pat, "I have Qved In the borough for nearly twenty years, and tf the cblaf constable doeant know me yet. Isn't that a character toe Change in C. & E. Trains. . On account of the new time card going in effect on the S, P. the Corvallis & Eastern will charge the time of their trains to conform to those of the S. P. on the 25th. Train No. 1 from the Bay will leave Corvallis at n:-?o instead of 1 1 a. m. as at present. No 2 for the Bay will leave Corvallis at 1 : 42 p. m. No. 9 for Albany will leave Corvallis at 12:45 instead of 1:30 as at present and No. ro from Albany will arrive in Corvallis at 3:05 instead of 4:30 as at present. The Sunday train for Corvallis will leave at ir:30 and arrive from Albany at 1:33. There will be no change in the morning or 6:30 p. m. trains nor in the Front train from Albany. FRESH OYSTERS Daily at the Maqle Shade Lunch Counter. Patrons should place their orders half a day in advance. A. Assell People having Second Hand goods of any kind for sale, drop a postal to O. Rogoway, Corvallis Ore., dhe will Please Take Notice. All rut standing accounts due Mcses Bros. mu?tbesettled on or be fore Jan, 1 '07 as the firm has dis solved acd must settled with R. J. Moses and Sam at Philomath or Victor P. Moses of Corvallis. All accounts not settled by Jan. it.'o7 will be put in the hands of an at torney for S'ttlement. R. J. Moses President & Mgr. Victor P. Moses Secretary. WANTED. Two more car loads of vetch seed for Spring drfivery. 4 vetch hay. for sile or trade a 6 year old horse, clean clover seeds, and all kinds of farm seeds. ' see samp'es at Welsher & Gray's store, h. I. Brooks. notice to Creditors. n the Matter of tne Estate of 5 ' John McGee, Deceased Notice Is hereby given to all - persons concern ed that the undersigned has hen duly ppolnt ed admistrator of the estate of John McOee, de ceased, by the county court of the state of Ore gon for Benton county. AH persons having claims agaluBt said estate ot JohnMcGee deceased, are nereoy requirea to present tne same witn the proper vouchers dulv verified as bv law rpnnir- ed within six months from the date hereof to the undersigned at his residencejone milejsoulh of Cor vallis. in Benton couutv. Orea-on. or at the law office of B E. Wilson, in Orvallie, Oregon. Dated Ibis November 9, 1206. F. J McGEE. Administrator of the estate of John McGee, de ceaaea- Cdrvallis patent flour for sale by all leading groceries. Tow ling sacks, 85 cents per sack, Stand -ird sack 80 cents per sack, every sack guaranteed. Mount Hood Snowball is made from the new wheat recently in troduced from Idaho, and carries 35 per cent gluien a very strong flour, Use Lenords best for wheat flour it is excellent. a hard For good results, try "a sack of Corvallis flour, eerysackis guaian teed to give you the besrof results and make easy baking, should you fail bring back the sack after giving it a thorough, trial and get your money back.' i