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Weekly Corvallis Gazette, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1.SS4. fcG'Ml communications to the (Jazeti:, either on business or for publication, to insure prompt atten tion should be addrr.ed to the GAZETTE PUBLISH ING HOUSE. SOCIETIKS Corvallis Lodste, NV 14, A. F. and A. M. , meets on vVednesdav evenimr. on or preeeame fun moon W. 0. CRAWFORD, W II. K. A. M. Ferguson Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M., meets Thurs dav evpi :ntf on or preceding full moon. H. E. HARRIS. H. P. LOCAL NOTES the Bay fellow's" Ike Harris made a business trip to Port land this week. Repairing sewing machines a specialty at Will Bro.s. Moses Kline goes to Salem this morning for a few days visit. Linn county has $7000 in the treasury, ami no outstanding debts. Those solid steel axes Baldwin's are something new and fine. For the most approved sewing machines ;o to the Corvallis, S. M. Depot. Geo. Waggoner returned from last Tuesday with "some other hat. Will Bro.'s have now opened out their large new stock of fishing tackle. M. S. Woodcock, mother and sister came up from Salem on the Occident lest Tues day. (Ihas. Huffman,; the photographer, went to Eugene City the first of tin: week on business. Bargains, Bargains, in all lines of goods offered by S. L. Kline. Call and convince yourselves. Family nail box. something new and a new Tracing wheel to be seen at Woodcock & Baldwin's. "Words that burn,"' as the publisher said when he lighted his cigar with a spring poem. Preserve your lawns by using one of those nice .Lawn Rakes to be had at Woodcock & Baldwin's. For the latest styles of boots and shoes, for both ladies and gentlemen, go to the l'.oot and Shoe store. Misses Hattie Hanna and Lizzie Hamilton went to Forest Grove Tuesday morning to visit friends at that place. T. J. Buford and Judge Bryson are j "doing" Kugeue City this week in the in terest of Yaquina real estate. j V e are informed that three men were arrested in Albany last Wednesday Io nian nfactnring counterfeit coin. Just received at the Boot and Shoe store the Iarg -st and best selected stock of boots and shoi-.i ever brought to, torvallis. Any -i : having books belonging to the Young Peoples Union library will please return the same at one of the weekly meetings. Col. John Kelsay returned from Eugene City Wednesday evening, where he has bee:; attending circuit court which is in session at that place, A match game of base ball by a juvenile nine of Philomath ami tiiis place was played in this city last Monday, and won lty the Corvallis nine. From and after this date I will pay no bills made without my personal :r written order. . F. M. Wadswokth. April4t'i, 1884. Good brick for sale at Mrs. L. A. Den nick's brick yard, near the llouring mill. Orders are now being tilled, and a good sup ply is yet on hand. Will M. Kirk, went to Salem Tuesday morning for a few day's sojourn in the capital city. We are not advised as to the principal feature of attraction in that direction. Waggoner .t Buford have moved their real estate office to the building formerly occupied by Will Bros., and Geo. A. Brock has moved his law office into the building lately occupied by them. Last Monday at the ad journed term of the t Circuit court at Albany, in the case of John N. Crawford vs. Linn county and George Humphrey, sheriff, Judge Boise decided the mortgage tax law constitutional. i The second match of the serjes of Base ball games between the Corvallis and Alba ny nines will be played on the Corvallis ground to-morrow. A good time and a closely contested game is anticipated. At the weekly meeting of the W. C. T. I", on Wednesday next, at the Evangelical church the "Press Work" will be brought up and the methods and aims of the Union will be explained and discussed. All cor dially invited. The snake river bridge which was begun in March, 1882, and erected at a cost of 1,250,000 was submitted to test last Sun day, and proved to lie safe and substantial. This bridge is said to be exceedingly hand some, and one of the best of the kind ever built. M. Fickle, the electric man in the O. P. It. R. office, is spending a week's vacation at Oakland, Douglas county, attracted thither by the 'mildness of the climate, and other causes; possibly the smiles of a bewitching maiden. Rev. Dr. Geary, of Eugene City, deliver- A poor unfortunate, bereft of reason, is now in the county jail awaiting examina tion for commitment to the asylum. The first wedding was celebrated at the Coeur d'Aleue mines on the 3rd inst; the tirsfc gospel sermon was prached on the 0th inst. , and the lirst paper printed and pub lished there was the Nugyet. Kit Abbey lo9t his barometer. It has escaped from hi3 gaze. The stick is of no consequence. He cares nothing for the jar because it belonged to Tom Graham, but for the frog he offers a liberal reward. S. L. Kline went to Portland last Tues day to meet his wife who arrived on the steamer from San Francisco, where she has been visiting for some time. They both returned to this city Wednesday evening. Last week Niok'Baesen, our enterprising market man, liouglit of John Kecord 40 head of fine beef cattle, paying therefor the sum of S60 uer head, or $2400 fur the lot. This is the finest lot of beef ever bought for the Corvallis markets. It is expected that Rev. Dr. Lindsley, of Portland, will preach at the Presbyterian church in this city next Sunday, but iu the i event that it is impossible for Dr. Lindsley at Woodcock & to be present, Rev. Ross will occupy the pulpit. McConuel and Huffman photographers are doipg a good brsiness in their line. They hw. e employed an assistant, a man of experience from Salem, ami are well pre- j pared to "catch the shadow, ere the sub ( stance fades." CAUSE FOR ALARM. It Can t be Helped. . The friends of the Willamette valley, as Wiien anything cannot be helped, by the well as the greater portion of the state of means at our command, there is nothing Oregon, have much cause for alarm at this more to be said : it then becomes us to ac time, because only about two yeais ago the ! cept the inevitable with the best grace we district for the collection of custom duties can. Some things cannot be escaped and for this state were so divided and apportion- i it does not help the matter to tight against ed off as to make a port of entry at Yaquina j them and makes it much worse to be over Bay with a custom office for the port at Ya- come by them. qnina City. One object of this was so that j It is often that the grumblers of this the duty on material shipped to that port ! world are those who have the least to com for the construction of the Oregon Pacific . plain of, while those who are really un RaUroad might be paid without trouble to ) fortunate bear their trials without a murmur. the company and for the couveinence of the It is human nature to submit to what we commerce of the State. During the last "now can t be hetpeu, without a struggle few months this Rail Road Company : D is what we feel that we can help that has begun rapid construction of their road as a race we battle against and worry over. with Hu view of comoletinir it to Corvallis i H We live long enough we must become Dr. Farra was summoned to Philomath Wednesday evening by H. Reives, who had cut his foot with an ax at a logging camp near that place. The cut, although a deep one, is not considered a dangerous one, and at last accounts the patient was resting as comtorcably as tiie nature ot the wound would permit. Ye editor-in-chiet has turned granger since his return from Salem. Notwith standing the heavy storms of the past few days, be has been busily eggaged in making garden, if reports are true, and we have not the least doubt that garden made under such circumstances will flourish as well as an editor's garden could be expected to. Mr. E. E. Charman and Miss NellieChar man, of Oregon City, were in oni city sev eral days this week ami attended the Ra ber Fisher wedding. Mr. E B. Cha.man was formerly a resident of ibis place, and is a garduate of the Agricul uial College. His man v friends were pleased to see him on our streets again, Tom Buford is minus a buggy. It hap pened last Saturday, on the county road two miles west of town. Tom says that Prof. Arnold was instrumental in causing the team to become unmanageable, leaving both occupants iu the middle of the road. For further pa4freulars and a cheap buggy inquire of Buford tud Arnold. Dr. J. R. Bayley went to Iioseburg Mon day and returned Wednesday evening. The Dr. reports tim dull iu Douglas county, and that the farmers are no farther advanced with their spring seeding than they are iu this county. Also that fruit ami vegetation i.f all kinds in this section is ahead of that in Douglas county, which is not usually the case at this season of the year. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that there are funds in the treasury to pay all Benton county orders endorsed prior to August 10th 1883. Interest on the same will cease from this date. Dated at Corvallis, Oregon, April 17, 13S4. T. J. Bi'FORii, County Treasurer. in a few months. During the last few weeks for the material for this road about 45,000 in duty has been credited to the office at Yaquina and in a few months no doubt three times that sum will have been paid at that place. In the last lew days steps at the city of Washington have been started by some of the enemies of this port in rder to have it abandoned as a U. S. port with custom office for collection of duty and have it attached to the Astoria district. This attempted fiaud and im position upon the interests of this valley old; our personal charms, if we have any, must fade; our strength must depart. Yet We do not pass sleepless nights and unhappy- days because of it. We know that soon or late We all must die. Vet this does not trouble us much. In fact we think very little about it. It is our common lot and we accept it as such. But did one-half the human race escape either old age or death what v coi tinual worry there would be. Given the possibility of escape from any thing and discontent is inevitable. Although we generally submit patiently to what cannot be helped yet there are Lml the Tteonleot Oregon eertainlv can not r 1 . 0 .i -ax:i.: l lit..:- : . ... . ., t siuiir mmcLlous (.11,11. leave lock nuiiic&a loi but meet With failure, because our senatijES I r will see to'a' ne" one case of uear.li, amiougn we Know our griet is ot no avail, Information Wanted. .?. E. Grainger disappeared from H. D. Depure's place in Linn county, April 7th, 1884. Any infor mation of his whereabou.s will be gladly received by his many friends in Browns -ville. T. G oss. Notice. All parties who have given orders for the celebrated "Alba" lamp, are hereby cautioned against allowing any other lamp to be put upon thein. Remember the name "Alba" stamped upon the end of the wick screw. Any information furnished by the undersigned, Chas. E. Brav, Sole Age it for Oregon and Washington Ter. 149, Fourth Street, Portland, Oregon. Annual Conference Changed. The annual session ' the Oregon conference of the Evangelical Association has been changed from the 30th to the 23d of May, one week earlier, in order that it may not conflict with the Agricultural college com mencement exercises. Bishop R. Dnbs, D. D., of Cleveland, Ohio, will arrive in Corvallis about that time to preside. Rk.liaei.f- Maps. Mr. S. G. Irvin showed us a map this week of Township 11, Range 11, esc, complied 03' mm, anrl showing the amount of water on the Yaquina bar, and in the bay, the different town sites, location of the 0. P. R. R., and R. R. lands, the oyster beds and mud flats, the wharfs and proposed dry docks, the different wagon roads and the location of small creeks and streams, all of which has been ascertained by actual survey. This is only the first of a series of maps, and Mr, Irvin informs us that it is his intention to publish these maps each month as corrected from authentic sources. He has applied for a copyright and is able to furnish them to paities desir- i ing a reliable map at SI .25 each. Address S. G. Irvin, Corvallis, Oregon. r ami representatives in Congress it that such a dastardly scheme is put to an end . Republican County Nominations. LINN COUNTY. For senator, C. T. Lever; for represent atives, Peter Hume, X. C. Cunningham, B. 11. Irvine, S, Pearl, S. Jones, A. S. Looney and D. it. M. Blackburn; for commissioners, Walter Ketchum and W. B. Donaca; for clerk, D. Andrews: tor sheriff, II. A. John son; for treasurer. Fred Mueller; for school superintendent, W. Noffsiiiger; for assessor, K. T. White; for surveyor, E T. 'I. Fisher; for coroner, Asa Peterson. The election of delegates to the State con vention resulted ill the selection of K. W. Langdon, (ieorge K. Simpson, ii. H. Hewitt. F M. Redfield, ('. P. Bishop, A. C. Hans man, John Denning, E. O. Hyde, J. C. Johnson, George W. Davis, Caleb Gray and W. J. Bramwell. POLK COUNTY. Senator J. C. Allen; representatives, J. B. Stump, A. B. Griggs, and S. P. Gibson; county judge, George Tiilotson, sheriff, H. Holman: clerk, Koswell Shelly; treasurer, C. L. De Lashmutt; assessor, Ashley White; school superintendent; W. E. Yar.es; sur veyor, Frank Butler; commissioners, J. S. Bogue aud G. C. Bell; coroner, W. B. Magers. The following delegates to the State convention were elected: J. C. Allen, W. Truitt, McM. Dodaon, J. W. Wksefer," L. Damon, A. J. Richardson, J. -Ro'ie aud G. C. Bell. V A VI ii i : !. COUNTY. Delegates. Ut the State convention: B. F. Hartman; Ifc & Powell, It. R. Lr.ughlin, H. Hurley, E. H. Woodward, T. V. Fnlkuer, Wm. Cooper, T. H. Henderson and IV. J. Simmons. Lane County Nominations (Social dispatch to the Gazette. ) Eugene, Or. April 22. The folio win nominees were made to-day by the Bane we con tinue to mourn our dead, and life is robbed of half its happiness and success, half its triumph by knowing that they may not share it v ith us. We all possess the f oulty to a greater or less extent of making the best of things. While the crisi is impending aud every thing is trembling in the balance, sleep may depart from the eyelids; but after the fortune or the competency, as the case may be, ivvjone, the.) the inu.vidual manages to conform himself to the situation. It is always a comfort in any calamity to feel that it really could not be helped. If on the contrary we know that we might have helped it the trial is greatly increased. If the pilot is asleep when he ought to have been awake and his vessel is wrecked and scores of human lives lost, if the farmer is dilatory, and loses his crop when it might have been saved, if the wife is extravagant, and ruins tf husband, when she might have assisted him, -ieit reproaci adds a new sting to the calamity. "It can't be helped" is often an excuse for lack of energy. People often say when a lliiug tas gone wrong, "It can't be helped," when, if they would only go to work in the right way it, might soon le rec tified. Because we have made one great blunder is no reason for o.aking another by giving up entirely. If we make up our minds that we are foreordained toj fail, we are very ely to do so, while if we have the will to conquer we are apt to . ucceed. It has been uy said "Heave 1 1 elps those who help themselves." God has given us our energies ami there is nothing that is im possible for the majestic worker to accomp- Kepnblican convention. Senator. A. J. ijW'i'ue fact, is plainly evident that God rr i . . T j a.: r i a . . J . ' ' L- n . Xumwalt; Representatives, Rodney Scott G. H. McClung. G. W. Harpool, J. M.Dick; Judge, Geo.'S. Washburne; Sheriff. W, B. Walker; Clerk, Joel Ware; Treasurer J. G. Gray. - - em 11; Its. Me. Kditop. : Pie e allow us, as a family, space in your columns to express our highest appreciation to the many kind friends in Corvallis and vicinity for so many acts of especial kindness which we have re ceived tor tiie last ;U days 01 wile s severe and critical illness. To the almost unsur passed skill and attention of Drs. Lee and Farra, and the self-sacrificing attention of the ladies who nursed her, we will forever be indebted. To Dr. Lee, the attending physician, for his untiring energy, to hold the thread of life until nature came to the rescue, we have no words to express our gratitude. The fact is, skill and kindness have given back a wife and a mother to bless a household winch was overshadowed by a gloom almost unbearable. Dear friends of Corvallis, we shall never forget you. To mention anyone who has excelled in this labor of kindness would be to make an invidious distinction. All has been done that could be done, and the happy result is wife is convalescing nicely with ever)' pros pect of t'nal recovery. Kind and beloved friends, may God bless and keep you, pros per and protect vou always. J. R. N. Bell and Family. Vicinity MARRIED. RABER FISHER. In this city, at the residence of the bride's parents, April 22nd, 1884, Mr. Roy Raber and Miss Lena C. Fisher; Rev. J. R. N. Bell Officiating. The contracting parties are well and ed a very able discourse at the Presbyterian : favorably known in this citv. where thev have a host of friends who wish them a long church in this city, last Sunday, both morning and evening. He returned to Eugene Monday morning, and about the 15th of next month he will start east to attend the session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church at Saratoga New York. and prosperous voyage through life. The happy couple left on Tuesday morning for Portland and will visit othei places on their bridal tour before returning to Corvallis, where they will reside in the future. Cake received and compliments extended. To the Ladies of Corvallis and Having decided to remain in Corvallis in future, anil give to my patrons the benefit of the latest and most fashionable styles of millinery, no finer or more expensive can be hail in Portland or San Francisco; to this end I solicit my patrons and all others to come and examine my large and stylish stock. I have selected in person and wlti esteem it a fa?or to show my goods and give prices, as I am confident there has never been so large and rich a stock of Paris trimmed hats, bonnets and milinery ever brought to Corvallis before. Come and see, examine and satisfy yourselves. No trouble to show goods. Remember at my old stand. Come one, come all. 20 Mrs. J. Mason. Throughout all parts of the Paciffe Coast from San Diego to Puget Sound, and also Eastern Oregon, Washington, and all sect ions of the Upper Columbia Basin -the re reports are uniform as to the promising out look of the winter-sown grain crop at this early period of the season. For Spring-sowing the weather is also unusually propitious and if the crop is not attacked by an unto ward viait of rust or other source of blight, the Valley output next harvest will exceed all former years; and as for "the Walla Walla Country" which term ebmracse most sections east of the Cascades in both State and Territory withthe heavily increased acreage in all its regions, together with a favorable Fall and Winter, there is every indication of a phenomenal gram crop at next harvest. never 1 requires anything or us that we cannot do: and it is sqna ly certain that he will never do for us what we can do ourselves. We should never become discouraged. Like the spider spinning his web, if the work of our life lies in ruins before us ve should reso.utely go to work and build again. The most prosperous men in the world, have met with failures. If Samuel F. Morse had become discouraged at his first failure, he would never have given the telegraph to the world. After failing in his own country, he crossed the ocean to seek assistance in Europe. ailing both in France and England he returned home and when he. had at last succeeded in getting an appropriation of thirty thousan 1 dollars fro congress, he spent nearly all of it in trying to inclose the wire iu buried tubes. Finding at length that this plan would not work, he resorted to the system of wires suspended from poles, and on the first of May 1844 the electric telegraph was an accomplished fact. When the true man meets with failure he doe3 not say: "It can't be helped," but he perseveres until at length he succeeds. The picture comes before me of a little boy sitting I his desk iu the country school house, his book before him, his cheeks rest upon his brown hands and his eyes swim with tears. Outside he hears tin boys at play. There is a choakmg sensation in his throat as he thinks "It can't be helped, I must give it up." But after, a while he takes courage. Others have succeeded and he must or take the consequences, so after a struggle or two, he goes diligently to work, until he has mastered the hard lesson, and T5"fcsady to go out to his play witli a light heart and a good conscience. A young man is entering upon his lifes career, who has wasted his early oppor tunities and acquired evil habits. If he goes on as he has begun he is sure to prove a failure. But a glimpse of a purer light creeps through the narrow crannies of his poor dark soul. He is not quite content with himself; he sees others prospering and doing well, and the question comes to him "Why should I go to ruin'r" The enemy whispers: "It is too late now, your habit of life is fixed; you are ruined and it can't be helped; you have lost your freedom; you are manacled and a slave." I read one time of a man who lay dow n by the side of a railroad aud placed the chain which con fined his hands upon the track, waiting for the locomotive to come and crush the iron links. It was a desperate experiment, but it shows what can be done by one who is both determined and desperate. Evil habits are stronger than iron, but the human will is stronger than either. If you have lost your youth you can never recover it again, but must expect to be somewhat behind; you cannot expect to outstrip your com panions and be first at the goal, but "you may so run as to obtain" the crown, sooner or later. "Help thyself and God will help iJiee." Stella. "Does It Pay?" Ed. Gazette: Under the above head in your issue of last week, we must peruse "Citizen's" communication with christian forbearance and deal gently, but earnestly, to Correct the impressions that he desires to make on the minds of your readers, viz: "that prohibition as an economic force in the government does not pay. " For the consideration of "Citizen," and his admirers, I will give the r eport of James A. Thorton, secretary of the State Temperance Union, of Kansas, who after thirty month's experience of prohibition in that State says: On the 4th of December I mailed a series of questions to every county attorney. county supeiintendent and police Judge in the state, for the purpose of learning the effect and present Btatus of prohibition. Replies have been received from over one- third of the six hundred letters sent out, constituting a full report from sixty-six of the eightv-one organized counties of the State, including all the populous counties These replies demonstrate three facts favor able to prohibition. First, that it has de creased the number of saloons; second, that an unusually large per cent, of the prosecu tions under the law have resulted in con victions; third, that the principle of pro hibition is growing stronger. It must be borne in mind that these figures come from the officers of the State, without reference to their views upon pro hibition, and are therefore not subject to the imputation of being the product of fanaticism. In our letters I stated that we wanted the facts, whether favorable or un favorable to prohibition. We believe the facts were given, aud that the figures pre sented are as authentic as can possibly be obtained. In these sixty-six counties there were 708 saloons prior to May 1st, 1881, the date that the prohibitory law took effect. There are now, in the same territory, 313 saloons, 160 or over one-half of which are in Leaven worth, leaving but 153 saloons in the sixty six counties, not including Leavenworth. Prohibition in less than two years has close ! 395 saloons. During this time the popu ation has increased 12 per cent. If our saloons kept iace with the population, we would now have 792 saloons, so that in reality prohibition las prohibited 479 saloons in the territory named. Prior to May 1st, 1881, there were saloons in every one ot these sixty-six counties. To-day the 313 saloons in existence are con fined to twenty-five counties, over half the num er being in a single county. Prohibi tion has therefore absolutely driven the saloons out of forty-ne counties in which they existed under license. "Yon can't convict the saloon-keepers" has b en so tften repeated that many regard it as an axiomatic truth. In the early stages of prosecut.ons it was difficult to con vict. But the reports of the officers who have charge of this class of cases show that, as a general proposition, it is far from ihr& truth. In the district courts of these counties there have been 460 cases tried. resulting in 351 convictions, 57 -acquittals and 62 hung juries, or seven convictions out of every nine c es tried. In justice conrts there have been 572 cases tried, with 378 convictions, 75 acquittals, and 59 hung juries, or convictions in three fourths .if all cases tried. In these cases the fines impo? id amouut to $95,200. In addition to these lines there have been 81 saloon keepers imprisoned for various periods of time, aggregating 137 months and 19 days, or 11 years, 5 months and 19 days. There has been a larger proportion of con victions in wh sky cases than iu any other class of cases triad, as reference to the criminal docket of any court in the State will prove. There are now pending in the district courts ot the 218 cases, showing a vigorous determination to complete the work so well begun. In lifty-one of these counties the reports all agree that the principle of prohibition is growing stronger with the people. n seven it is reporte i weaker, while it remains the same iu eight. This, of course, is a mere matter of judgment. If prohibition can accomplish these results in thirty months, who can say the experiment has failed '! j Ur, how Jong will it he until the unyielding' sentiment of loyalty will crush out the 313 straggling saloons still running? We have learned from such unimpeachable authorities as ex-Governor Dingley, of Lew iston, editor of the chief paper in the State of Maine,' member of Congress and sworn enemy of the bond d whisky bill, that while in the year 1882 only four cents per inhab itant were collected on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic stimulants in Maine, one dollar aud forty cints p r inhabitant were collected in the United States at large. We learn from the same authority that though the prohibitory law was overthrown iu Maine four years after its first inactment in 1851, the people, after two years' trial of license, returned to prohibition, and now for twenty-ix years it has been steadily gaining until no party dares to be its enemy. Another Citizen. LIST OF LETTERS. Remaining unclaimed in the Postoffice at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, Friday April 25th 1884. Persons calling for same will please say "advertised," giving date of list. SprlntfDiitributlon of County iotool fund. 1 3 4 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 32 33 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 48 49 50 52 53 74 55 56 57 58 59 60 WL Cauthom S260 10 M J Connor 287 64 T B Williamson 162 18 C Voss 64 86 A.I Locke 91 SO EHolgate "41 38 TH Powers J58 14 Jasper Newton 238 68 James M Cross 156 06 Thomas H Cooper 162 18 J F Wood 107 10 C. B. Wells 125 46 W. H. Boles 675 28 R A Hulburt 70 38 Wm Robinson 12 40 J S S Powell 241 74 John Whiteaker 110 16 M Fiechter 183 60 James Edwards 244 80 HMFinley 45 90 T H Welsher 333 54 R J Nichols 201 96 J W Mansfield 122 40 WTm Groves 982 26 P;V Wustrow 104 04 Jos Thompson 149 94 J E Peterson 211 14 Wm Beers 61 20 J H "A Id rich 189 72 JohnYantias 131 58 W Button 61 20 No report M L 'frapp . 33 60 Tobias Tom.... t 186jS6 H H Starr 131 58 Wm N Phillips 146 88 Albert Wilson 116 28 G C Peek 91 80 Thomas J Elliott 104 04 James Watson 192 78 W H Hanert 67 32 C Zierolf 131 58 Wm Bagley 119 34 A W Wright 131 58 A L Baldwin 137 70 E M Kenney 97 92 H A Baxter 110 16 D. J. Derby 107 10 RF Rains 52 02 T P Connor 94 86 Jackson Chambers 113322 89164 70 On the third Monday in March the annual day of the spring distribution there was but a small amount of school money in the treasurer's hands. The amount of county school fund was $12,874.50 before Judge Deady's decision relative to taxing mort gages held by non-residents of the county; this amount is (reduced to nearly 812,000. The uncollected balance dne the School Fund is upwards of 2500, which will be distributed as soon as collected. Relative to school clerks' commissions, the school law says: "The clerk shall hare for his services five per centum of the money collected by him of district taxes." Clerks that have charged their districts five per centum for simply calling on the treasurer anif drawing the amount due their districts, have done so without a color of law. It is the directors' duty to ' make them refund. Tn instance a clerk has drawn enough illegally from the district', funds to employ a teacher for year. E. A. Milser, Supt. of Schools. AN N OUN CESd-ENTS. City Treasurer, I am a candidate for City Treasurer. Frank Irvimx. I hereby announce myself as candidate for the office of City Treasurer of the city of Corvallis, subject to the decision of the voters of the city at the coming election S. E. Belknap. For City Recorder. John W. Williams, one of the pioneer tesidents of Corvallis, announces himself as a candidate tor Recorder at the next city election. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of City Recorder st the com ing election, subject to the votes of the people. Geo. A. Brock. Brown, Georgie Jones, Lewis McEwing, Alex McGrath, John Park, Boney Rhodes, Thos. H Farchild, W Hcnnick, Magill, Miss McGuley, E Pringle, T F Rademaker, C White, R N. R. Barber, P. M. DIED. LAMB. At Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, March 21, 1884, James Lamb. Deceased was a brother of A. Lamb, of Monroe, this county, and was the first min er to prospect for gold on the Little Pine j Creek, Canyon City, Oregon, in 1862. Emmett H. Taylor, .so long and favorably known in Corvallis, requests us to announce in this manner the v iu 1 a candidate for the office of City Recorder at the ap proaching city election. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of City Recorder of Corvallis at the next city election. George M. Gerhard. The undersigned, who has presided over the destiny of the Corvallis city court for the past year, announces that he - will be a candidate for re-election as city Recorder at the coming city election. . ' VV. M. L.ESU. For City Marshal. I hereby annonce myself as a candidate for the office of City Marshal at the coining city election. John Lenger. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of City Marshal at the coming city election. M. St. Germain. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of City Maishal, of the city of Corvallis, at the coming City election. J. B. Scrafford. pbopuce price'currewtT Wheat is PortUnd firm at 1. 55 per contal HWit. No price offered here. Oits . .40 Wool per lb 16 to 17 Flour per barrel 6 60 Bacon aides 11 IS Hams 14 to IS Shoulders 8 to Lard, 10 lb tins... 11 Kegs 11 Butter, fresh rolls JO to a Eggs, per doz IS Dried apples, Plummer 10 to IS " Sun dried- It U Plums, pitless IS to 14 Chickens, per doz 5 50 to S 00 Hides, dry flint 10 tc IS " green 6 1 T Potatoes 76 Geese, tame 009 Ducks, ' 360 tat 0 Onions per lb