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About The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1883)
MttWv Corcallis feette FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 16, 1883 SOCIETIES Corvallia Lodfje, No. 14, A. F. and A. M., meets on Wednesday evening, on or preceding full moon. W. C. CItAWFORD, W. M. R. A. M. Ferguson Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M. , meets Thura daj evM.'nc on or preceding fuJl moon. H. E. HARRIS, H. P. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Old newspapers for sale at this office for 25 cents per 100. It is said that the wheat acreage of Walla Walla county for the coming season will be an increase of 30 per cent. Go to the Occidental the best hotel in Corvallis for your board and lodging. Samples ef ore sent from the Prehastin, W. T., mines to Boise City, for assay, .yielded from 30 to $100 per ton. Of the 800 creameries in Iowa, the butter they make is eaten in nearly every civilized country in the globe. Your place to buy the cheapest and best harness and saddles in the valley is at S. A Hemphill's. At Ellensburg, on Tuesday evening last, C. C. James shot and attempted to kill M. Bamett. Domestic trouble was the cause. The W. C. T. U. will give a lecture every Thursday evening during the winter in the College Chapel. It is reported that a company of Eastern capitalists will open a chicken ranch in Yamhill county and stock it with ten thousand chickens. The West Side is a neat six column folio paper just started at Independence, Polk county, by J. H. Stine. It announces its policy to be independent but not neutral. The public school in Junction has been closed two weeks on account of scarlet fever Edgar McClure, the priucipal, has been spending the time at home in Eugene. We have on hand at this office a new stock containing latest designs in ladies md gentleman's cards, business cards, &c, which we print at very low figures. Call and get some of them. The-Seattle Post Intelligencer thinks that 18S4 will find at least 0000 men at work on the Cascade branch of the Northern Pacific xailroad in King and Yakima counties. Legal blanks furnished at this office on -short notice at less than San Francisco d rices. A young man by the name of Taylor sud denly disappeared irom the Columbia house, Olympia, Thursday, and his friends there are very anxious to know oi his whereabouts His age is a!iut 24 years. The new quarters being erected at Fort Walla Walla are two stories high and 135 feet long. The upstairs will be occupied by the men as sleeping rooms, the lower floor tor dining room, kitchen, library and bath rooms. Daniel Haggerty, who was recently mur dered at Prescott, came from Washington, D. C, where two of his brothers und three sisters now reside. One of the heirs will go tto Walla Walla to see about the settling of the deceased estate. The character of a paper is of vastly more consequence to its advertising patrons than its circulation, though a paper to give value recievd must have both charactor and circulation. Manches ter Mirror. "Aw can you sell me a blue necktie to match my eyes ?" Said a dude to a sales man in a gents furnishing store. "Don't know as I can, exactly," replied the sales man, "but 1 can tit ynu to a soft hat to match that head." That dude left with a -smashed sour apple hue of disgust pervad ing his whole countenance. Ben Butler expresses himself as hopeful of future political success re gardless of his recent snow under. Seattle Chronicle Items. Many for the west. The St. Paul Pioneer Press, of the 23rd, says : The emigration travel to Oregon has become so popular that the Northern Pacific has been compelled to enlarge its equipment for that class of travel. Yes terday ten day coaches were forwarded to the Pullman works to be exchanged for thirteen emigrant sleepers. This will give the company a total of thirty of this class of cars." Indian School to be Removed. We learn, says the Oregon Register of Yamhill county, that thare are strong prob abilities that the Indian school at Forest Grove will be moved to Newberg, in this county. The arrangements have been made to that effect, and only await the arrange ment of minor details. It the report be true as we have reason to believe, it will be quite a boom for that section. - Coal Discovery. Mr. Jerry Borst and the superintendent of the New Castle coal mines, and party, last week located 16 claims on a newly dis covered coal vein in the Teanaway county west of the Kittitas valley. This new find is said to be a five feet vein of superior coal. If as reported, it is one of the most import ant discoveries yet made iu the county. It is only about five miles from the N. P. Railroad survey. Yakima Record. New Coal Mine. The Kittitas Localizer has learned re cently that a valuable coal mine has been discovered on the east side of the Cascade mountains, and not over a day's ride from Ellensburg. The coal resembles the Cum berland coal, and a company of six persons are interested in the field. A cabin is be ing built at the mine, and preparations are making for its development. The seam is some six feet in thickness. Sixteen loca tions have been made in the districts, which about covers the whole discovery. Job Printing Office for Sale- We have at this office in the job depart ment sufficient good material to make up two good job offices. To any one wanting to purchase we will therefore sell a job office complete, including one press, and every thing else necessary. We have a new half medium Gordon, and an eighth medium Liberty press, as good as new. Of these two presses the purchaser can take his choice. An unusual number of large vessels' in the bay. The railroad company are putting up a building at the foot of South Second street to be used as an en gine house. The Elder sailed for San Fran cisco yesterday If. m., carrying 476 tons of freight, consisting chiefly of coal, grain, salmon and hides. There were 79 passengers. The schooner Beebe ic discharging her damaged freight at Yesler' s -whaif The extent of the loss will not be known until her hold is cleared. Yesterday the work of lowering the wharves to the common level recently fixed by city ordinance was begun, the force being first em ployed on the approach leading from Main street to the new ocean wharf. The Bark Montana now lies at the ocean dock. She is direct from Gua ymes, Mexico, whither she had taken a load of lumber from Port Blakely. She will load with coal for San Francisco. A sudden rise in the Snoqualmie last Sunday night about 1,000,000 feet of logs which had grounded on the bars and riffles during the high water of two weeks ago, part of them being in round booms and part loose. The ship Richard III, which anchored opposite tiie barrel factory Tuesday night, was yesteday towed to the ocean dock. She was built at Portsmouth, N .H., in the year 1859, and is ranked A 1 on the records of the American ship masters' as sociation. She .will load with coal for San Francisco. Attempted Highway Robbeiy. The Eugene Guard of last week says : On last Tuesday night near Cottage Grove Posy Veatch, while on his way home from church was ordered to throw up his hands by some unknown person coming from the brush close by, which he refused to do, at the same time drawing his pistol and both commenced shooting, the Iir3t shot of the robber cutting out the buiton hole of Mr. Veatch's overcoat. Veatch thought this a pretty close callbut stood firm and fired a shot at the robber, who responded by tiring another, but missing his aim tried it again and his pistol snapped, when Veatch turned loose on him with two more shots making him hunt his way into the brush. Should the party be found he will likely be found looking up a tree for breath. Without a Paper. An exchange publishes the following for the truth : "Once upon a time a certain man got mad at the editor and stopped his paper. The next week he sold his corn at four cents below market price. Then his property was sold for taxes, because he didn't read the Sheriff sale. He was ar rested and fined eight dollars for going bunting on Sunday, simply because he didn't know it was Sunday; and he paid three hundred dollars for a lot of forged notes that had been advertised for two weeks and the public cautioned not to ne gotiate them. He then paid a big Irish man, with a foot on him like a forge ham mer, to kick him all the way to the Dews paper office, where he paid four years sub scription in advance and made the editor sign an agreement to knock him down and rub him if he ever ordered his paper stop ped again." Such is life without a news paper. No Vacancy. "My Dear," said a fond father to his yungest daughter, "come hither and sit by rne while I whisper a tew words in your shell-like ear. List to my gentle voice as it goeth out to you in firm but kindly tones. I observe with deep feeling of regret that John Henry continues his visits here four nights in each week, and I observe with still deeper feelings of regret that you en courage these visits. Nay, do not shake your head. Mary Jane, for you meet him with smiles, and it is not a woman's nature to smile and smile and be unwillin' still. Give the sombrehued past one searching glance, Mary Jane. A few brief years ago your eldest sister, Ann Elizabeth, brought home on the eve of a sunlit day a blushing young husbind and they still occupy the parlor chamber. Then Catherine Maria became a happy bride and when the joyous couple returned from their wedding tour they took my room, while I and your mother moved to the attic. Next, Frances Eugenia brought home a clinging, fragile youth of dyspeptic mould and humorous cast of countenance, and I had to plaster the room over the summer kitchen . And only a few short months ago, when the last set of twins came, I was obliged to build an addition to the south end. I feel now, my beloved daughter, that I must protest against a futher increase of family, except by the hand of Providence. As much as I would like to see you happily wedded 1 cannot consent to take John Henry in out of the cold. There is no room to build another addition, and your fond parents are growing too aged and infirm to sleep in ,the wood-shed loft. John Henry is doubtless an attractive youth, but there is no vacancy for him in the domicile." Butter Color. There exists a degree of prejudice against coloring butter. Persons not informed in reference to this matter entertain the idea that the coloring preparations are chemical extracts of vegetable colors, and are per fectly harmless. No one is afraid to eat the red or yellow beet, on account of their color. The extracts used for coloring but ter or cheese are equally harmless. Some say, why use color ! Why not leave it as it is by nature ? In answer, we say such is not the principle that we follow ordinarily. We rather aim to remedy nat ural defects. For this reason we trim the trees in our lawns and the hedges that sur. round thom, into fanciful shapes. We paint our houses with colors pleasing to the eye, although other colors might be more dura ble, and preserve the building for a longer time. We array ourselves in clothing of varied hues, although scientists claim we should wear pure white in summer and black in winter . And they must be cut the latest style or we are not happy. We all have an eye to beauty. The taste demands yellow butter. June butter by nature is yellow. This is the standard natural color. It pleases the eye. It looks better on the table, if it tastes no better. Therefore, those who purchase butter prefer yellow butter, and will pay more for it. There is no deception in the color, as it does not in the least effect the quality. It does not affect the taste, but it does improve the looks, and iu that way adds to its value. A tasty house-keeper wishes her table to look well. She knows that a plate of nice yellow butter looks much better than a plate of white, lard -colored, and this is a taste which is commendable, and which butter-makers must not overlook. Turned End lor End. Many fancy stories have been told first and last about Chinese cooks, and people who have had dealings with this class are generally firm believers in the old saying, that "the lord sends victuals, but the devil sends cooks." A case in point occurred in this city a day or two since. A lady en gaged a cook who had been represented to her as an artist in his line. Her husband who had tired of ill-cooked food, on hearing of the new acquisition, determined to have something a little extra in the grub line. so carried home that evening a lot of brains and some ox-tails. He delivered them to John, telling him to fry the brains for breakfast and make soup for dinner of the ox-tails. Next morning he came down to breakfast, his mouth watering in anticipa tion; but what was his disgust when, on removing the cover from the dish set before him, he saw the ox tails fried brown. The Chinese (cooks) must go, is now that man's motto. It is, however, not so vary singu lar that one of a nation who have no al phabet in their language, who wear their shirts outside their pantaloons and whose compass points to the south, should expect to rind the brains at the wrong end of an ox. Oregonian. Sixty Years in Oregon. A Salem co rrespondent to the Oregonian gives the following : "There has been con siderable controversy recently as to who is the pioneer resident of Oregon. I think that Marion county has the honor of hav ing the oldest settler in the state, if not on the Pacific coast, in the person of Mr. John B. Gobar, who resides near Brooks station, about six miles north of Salem. Mr. Gobar was born in Montreal, Cauada, in 1805, and at the age of 18 enlisted iu the service of the Hudson Bay Company, arriving in Oregon in the fall of 1823. He was sta tioned at Astoria (then called Fort George,) engaged in the various duties of a frontier trading post. Afterwards for a short time he was in the company's employ at "Spo kane House," a post near Spokane Falls, W. T. With that exception he has re sided in Oregon over sixty years. He has been a resident of Marion county almost half a century. Hon. B. F. Harding in forms me that he saw the old gentleman a few days ago at his farm and says that he is hale and hearty for one of his age and bids fair to continue for some time to be the pioneer of this coast ." Overcrowding. Every fall finds the poultry -houses over crowded, and even way up into the win ter is this the case, until the flocks get thinned down by gradually selling them off or until the bulk of them are hurried away by the annual slaughter just before the holidays. When you commenced in the spring with a few choice pullets and a cock, the house was large enough to comfortably accommodate them, but when the youug birds are forced to shelter by the approach of cold weather, having entirely out-grown their mother's care, the house proves to be far too small, though but few breeders make any extra accommodations for them. a3 they undoubtedly should do, to secure them comfort and insure their health. If sickness once gets a hold in such an over crowded house, scarcely anything will stay its ravages until there are few if any birds left Even if they do not die under such careless treatment, they cannot possibly keep their hea th, and will become sickly or droopy, and lose much of the weight put upon them when they were not in such close quarters, breathing the fetid atmos phere of the overcrowded house. Temperance Department. EDITED BV THE W. C. T. V. Prohibition. This word so hated and reviled in the past, such a terror to evil doers and to a large class of people who never want to have present conditions disturbed has grown very rapidly into general favor the past few years. The two ponderous argu ments used against it, "you have no right to prohibit" and "you cannot enforce that law," have been demolished as much by their manifest absurdities, as by the testi mony of experience and facts. While men have been trying by weak sophistries and false witnesses to continue the reignjof ruin, the iaily news has been every year more and more loaded with murder, suicide, robbery and crime of every awful type, caused entirely by the 1 dramshop. And the public cannot fail to see it. This beautiful country where every man and woman would live in com fort and competence, but for the licensed crime-schools is more cursed with tramps, paupers, criminals and human wrecks of , every type, than any country in the world i that is not equally drunken. I It is patent to everybody, that prohibi : tion would do away with all but an insig j nificaut fraction of this vice, crime and misery. Where the crime-schools have been driven out or never existed there is virtue, comfort and uninterrupted peace and prosperity. And honest upright peo ple are becoming convinced everywhere, that it is a crime for them and us to per mit a foreign enemy to spread debauchery ruin, misery broadcast over our land. They know too that it is as easy to enforce a law against a dramshop, gaming den and pest house as against any other nuisance or crime. Wherever religious or other conventions touch upon this question, they now call for prohibition as a remedy for the evil. As the world moves along, its thinkers pick up and adopt every doctrine and policy that the leaders of the temperance reform have put forth in their platform after it has been at tirst ridiculed and op posed. Section by section the world of common sense has accepted everything and rejected nothing that has been declared a policy of our reform. Therefore as prohibition, by a party elected to enact and enforce it, has for many years been the settled policy of all the thinking men who have pioneered and piloted the temperance program thus far, we may be sure of the speedy general acceptance. Read, Read Senta County. The series of articles which we published during the first of the year in the Gazette from week to week describing Benton comity by voting precints containing a list of the tax payers of the county with the amount of tax paid by each, we now have for sale at this office bound in pamphlet form. This contains a complete description of the county and is a valuable book to send to friends at a distance, and the tax list therein contained is particularly valu able to the business men of the county and all over the coast. FINE WORK OF ART. To my patrons and friends I wish to say I am now prepared to Enlarge Portraits, Tin Tvpes To any size desired in Oil or Crayon, by addressing me and sending color of eyes, color of hair and com plexion with picture. Satisfaction guaranteed in every particular. Address, W. H. H. GRANT, 1G3 First Street, Care C. C. Morse, PORTLAND, OR. C. H. MATTOON, (Successor to Buford & Campbell,) DEALER IN Candy, Nuts, Cigars, and Tobacco, And all goods kept in a Variety Store. Agent to Universal Fashion. Co. Of New York. Also agent for the Albany Soda Works, By fair and honorable dealing I hope'to merit a share of patronage. Don't ask for credit at resent, as I will do a cash business. 20-311 J The Buyers' Guide is is sued March and Sept., each year: 216 pages, 8JxllJ inches, with over 3,S0O illustrations a whole pic ture jjallery. Gives whole sale prices direct to consumers on all goods for personal or family use. Tells how to order, and gives exact cost of every thing you use, cat, drink, wear, or have fun with. These invaluable books con tain information gleaned from the map kets of the world. AVe will mail a copy Free to any address upon receipt of the postage 7 cents. Let us bear from you. Respectfully, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO 127 A 228 U'abuk Avenue, Chicago. III. j-8-tjfcBYWHEft r. B-AMU.X BiHLXK. i edition now icaily, ttie mont ,-I-Jdue.d. Mipcrfc I'lioto. Ai nu ,a cidufcii e deisms, directly Imponea for Mrown tratie, and standard publicr.t-.oiis: Hill's V"'i i-J Historic, etc. We offer unrivalled in ducements, with exclusive territory. Write to ua. .CAIRO & DILLON Publisliere.M annfaorurers and ImrjorteiBjjutesWa Bnildins. 18 and 230 a. OUrk St., Chicago, Iio- H " CELEBRATED lj X &ITTERS Though shaken in eTer joint and filer with ferer and ague, or biUus remittent. ?Jae system may yet be freed from the malignant virus with Hostetttri Ston ach Bitters. Protect the system against it with this beneficent anti-spasmodic, which is furthermore a supreme remedy fcr liver complaint constipation, dyspepsia, debility, rheumatism, kid ey troubles and other ailments. For sale by all Druggist and Dealers genera' ry. WOODCOCK & BALDWIN'S AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS! HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS AT CSANFRANCISCOPRICESJ BROUGHT BY THEM Direct from the East ! gTOVEg DIRECT FROM Eastern and St. Louis FOUNDRIES. REAL EST A TE A GENC T. MANUFA CTUR OF T IN W A RE! AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY. PORVALLISJ - QrEGOhT) SUBSCRIBE -FOR- The Gazette, ONE OF THE BEST AND Largest Family Paper Published in Oregon, containing all important dis patches, news from all parts of Oregon and the Pa cific coast, all local news of importance, besides a full supply of general and fireside family reading matter. Tli-e Gf-azette, As in past, will continue to be a faithful exponent of The Interests of Benton County &n the State at Large. It will faithfully and fearlessly warn the people of wrong, imposition, or approaching: danger where the public is interested, never fearing to publish the truth ot all times, but will endeavor to always ignore ail unpleasant personalities which are of no public interest or concern. JOHN MOORE Jr. WITH HIS STEAM SAW! will saw all kinds of fire wood. POLES m FENCING at one fourth what lumber will cost. In a few weeks he will start out with his Threshing Machine J and will thrash all the flrrain that cornea In his way en the Most Reasonable Terms. IF YOU WANT TO GET Sawed) Threshed) eitSand make a targain with John Wm. Moore. THE BENTON" COUNTY REAL ESTATE THOS. J. BLAIR, President. M. S. WOODCOCK, Attorney. THIS ASSOCIATION WILL BUY AND SELL ALL Classes of Real Estate on reasonable terms and will thoroughly advertise by describing each piece of property entrusted to it for sale. Mr. T. J. Blair will always be in readiness, and will take great pains to show property. Offices near T. J. Blair's warehouse, or at the Gazettb office. The following pieces of property will be sold on extraordinarily reasonable terms: TOWN LOTS Six vacant lots in the northwest part of Corvallis; Nicelv situated for residence, fenced and set out with good variety of fruit trees. Price $1,000. TOWN LOTS Two vacant lots in the southwest part of Corvallis; Very nice for a residence, fenced and set out with fruit trees. Price S450. DWELLING AND TOWN LOTS lit lots on the corner of (1th and Jefferson streets in Corvallis, Or., wnn comtortable 1J story dwelling with 6 good rooms a (rood stable, woodshed, iic. Half cash, balance on reasonable terms. Price $1100. SAW MILL Undivided J interest in a mill run by water, a good planer and seven acres of land used in connection with the mill. Power unfficient. tji ran all of the year, situated handy to market and within aDoui i mnes ot uorvauis with an excellent good road to and from it. Terms easy. FARM Farm all under fence only 2i miles from Corvallis of 150 acres, 80 acres now in cultivation, the balance of it can be cultivated; about 20 of it now in wheat with a fair house good barn and granery, will be sold at a bargain. Terms easy. FARM Farm of 478 acres for lcaa than 1 nar acre, being one of the cheapest and best farms in Rantii i a . . . . . , wuiivj , Diuuabcu nun west, oi juouroe, J OI a mile from a good school, in one of the best neigh borhoods in the state with chnrpli About 130 acres in cultivation, and over 400 can be cultivtaed. All under fence, with good two story frame house, large barn and orchard; has running - muuuu, aim i wen suiLeu ior siock and dairy purposes. This is one of the cheapest farms in the Willamette Valley Terms easy. LOTS Two unimproved lots ir. Corvallia One of tne choicest building plates in the city for sale reas onable. ALSO Four unimproved lots except fenc ed in Corvallis, Or. The choicest building place in the city for sale reasonable. STOCK FARM 320 acres, about 50 in cultivation, 150 acres can be cultivated, 60 acres of good fir and oak timber, the balance good grass land. Small com fortable house and barn, jt lies adjoining an inex haustible ou rangi, making one of the best stock ranges in Benton county. Situated about 10 miles Southwest of Corvallis. Price $1000. FARM A farm of 136 acres of land Bituated I mile from Corvallis, in Linn County, Or. All under fence; 80 acres of rich bottom land in cultivation, 56 acres of good fir, ash and maple timber"; 2 good houses, 2 good orchards and two good wells witi pumps. Terms: $30 per acre, half cash dowi. t-jd . Lalance payable in one and two years, secured by mortgage upon the farm. GrUN STORE. BREECH & MUZZLE LOADING SHOT GUNS ifl8, Pistols, ' Amunition, Cutlery, . Spy Glasses, Fishing Tackle, Sewing Machinss, Work made to order and warranted. 20 33tf c. HODES, Corvallis. AUGUST KNIGHT, CABINET MAKER, UNDERTAKER. Cor. Second and Monroe Sts. , CORVALLIS, : OREGON, Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of FTTRILNriTTJUE Coffins and. Caskets. Work done to order on short notice and at reasonable rates. Corvallis July I, 1881. 19:27yl. PORTLAND BUSINESS COLLEGE, N. E. Cor. Second and Yamhill Sts., PORTLAND. - - OREGON. A. P. Ahmstroho, J. A. WicscO, Principal. Penman and Secretary Designed for the Easiness Education of Both Sexes. Admitted on any week day or the 'year. Of all kinds executed to order at reasonable rates. Satisfaction guaranteed. The College "Journal," containing information of the course of study, rates of tuition, time to enter, etc., and cuts of plain and ornamental pen manship, tree. "It is not wealth, or fame, or state, But get up and git that makes me groat. " YOU SEE THAT S. A. HEMPHILL is still sitting on the smoothe side of poverty drawing out the cords of affliction in behalf of his old customers, where he keeps constantly on hand a full supply of No, 1 Harness, Saddles, Bridles, COLLARS WHIPS. COMBS, BRUSHES, Robes, Spuria, Sponges, Harness Oil, Blan kets, Hobbles, Nose Bags, Cinches, Harness Soap and everything that is kept in a tirst class harness store. Carriage Trimmings a Specialty. Repairing; Dona OK Short Notice. Call and see for yourself before buying else where, at the old stand, opposite the express office. Corvallis, - Oregon.