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Newspaper Page TextCORVALLIS, OREGON, FEB. 13. 1896. Over 200. My dress goods stock has been care fully gone through and all remnants put on the table. There are over 200 rem- -nants some from nearly every line of stress goods I carry. All wool, mixed and cotton. Black, solid colors and figured. They will be sold cheap, too, to close -them out ang, LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Dr. Lowe, the optician, is coming soon. The wise will wait for him. U. B. Vogle has a large stock of opli--cal goods and can fit the eye O. K. Miss Bertha Davis is home from an ex pended visit in Oregon City. Asahel Bush, a wealthy 9alem banker and a prominent democratic politician -was in town Monday. Albert Ray, of the firm of Russell & Co., Portland, was in town Tuesday on a liop-buying tour. Tickets for the Heritage-Winkler con cert Feb. 14th, 25c; children under 12, 15c ' - ' ; Grand musicale Feb. 14th by B. S. Heritage, musical director of Willamette University, vocalist, and Emil Winkler, of Leipsic, Germany, pianist The stars and stripes proudly floated yesterday from the public school flag staff, in honor of the anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Sunday morning the government snag boat Corvallis passed up the river. For the present she will be engaged in remov ing obstructions to navigation bjtween Eugene and Harrisburg. - - There comes a time now a then when a .gentleman feels the need of a stylish haircut or shave, and there is no place, as everyone knows, where those luxuries can be secured as cheaply as at Spencers. Horace Underhill, of Summit precinct, was in town last Friday on business con nected with the estate of Patrick Gill hooly, deceased, of which he is the ad ministrator. The 1895 tax roll has been completed and yesterday it was turned over to Sher iff Osburn for collection. The total amount .. of taxes . for col lection as shown by the roll is 160)301.46 Tonight Deputy Sheriff Skipton and U. R. Barber take, the "Sunset Limited" or California. The former goes on a pleasure trip, while the destination of the latter is reported to be the Cripple Creek mining country in Colorado. Died, at Grass Valley, Nevada county, Cal., at the residence of James Blodgett, from a stroke of paralysis, Miss Asenath I Blodgett, aged 78 years. The deceased, -was a former resident of Blodgett valley I and one of the old pioneers who crossed he plains to Oregoa in 1847. : J. D. Howell is no longer lessee of the Corvallis opera house. He gave np his lease last week and Mr. J. S. Spencer, a -resident of Lane county, who owns the property, has.-appoin ted Attorney E. E. "Wilson to manage the' business until other arrangements are perfected. , M. O. Wilkins and wife, with their household effects, left Corvallis Tuesday nnorning for Eugene, to permanently xeside. :. Mr. Wilkins, in addition to his "duties as official court reporter of this district will continue the practice of aw. The young barrister has plenty of .force and determina:ion and in his new ' field will doubtless meet with success. Dr. E. P. Geary, of Marshfield, grad chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, paid Valley lodge a fraternal j visit last Monday evening. Dr. Geary is a member of a very prominent Oregon .ftmily. He is a son of the late Dr. Geary of Eugene; and has a brother hold ing a lieutenancy in the U. S. army, while another brother is a leading Alba iny physician. - . .Hon. Thos. H. Tongue, of Hillsboro, baa accepted an invitation to lecture be fore the students of the agricultural col lege on Friday evening, February 21st iMr. Tongue is one of the most eloquent orators in the state. He is an able at torney and prominent in public life. A -cordial invitation is extended to the citi zens to attend this lecture and the capac -- ity of the college chapel, without doubt, will be taxed to its utmost The order of United Artizans have or ganized a lodge in this city and last week installed officers as follows: Mas iter Artizan, Wm. Hartless; supirinten dent, C. H. Lee; secretary, Emma Thompson; treasurer, A. F. Peterson; se nior conductor, - Mrs. Miller; warden, Mrs. John S. Scrafford. The grand ora tor of the order is expected to deliver lecture here soon with a view to increas ing the local membership. A bill that startled some of the breth ern at the council meeting Monday night was one presented by ex Chief of Police Taylor, for $ 147, claimed to be due on back salary. . Taylor bases his claim upon . the fact the the city reduced his salary ' by resolution instead of by ordinance. The claimant believes the reduction by resolution was illegal, and .that he is entitled to $6o per month until same was -reduced bv ordinance. . llie bin was .referred to the finance committee. A. W. Rose returned last week from ! an extended tour through the southern i states and seems satisfied to remain in Oregon. He found hard times prevalent throughout most of the states he visited and in Georgia and Florida the people were anxious to sell their property with a view to moving to some other portion of the country. . R. M. Davisson, state committeeman for Benton county, attended a called meeting of the- state central committee last week at Portland. He says that re ports from all over the state indicate that ths republican ticket will receive a larger m ijority than two years ago. The committee, after deliberating some time over the matter, fi.ially decided to hold the state convention on April 9th, be ing the sams day the democratic state convention will be held. They recom mend the holding of primaries on March 2 1st and county conventions on the following Saturday. The county central committee ha3 not yet held a meeting, although it is the intention of the ehairmm, G. A. Waggouer, to call the members together in a few day3, at which tiuie the date for the holding the county convention will be fixed. . Representative Hermann, duriuy the last congreis, succeeded in getting a bill passed appropriating the necessary money for miking a complete surrey of the Willamstte river from Eugane to Port land. Tke survey was finished Tjuriag the summer and since that tims the en gineers in charge of the work have been engaged in making estimates and plaus for improving the river as provided in Mr. Hermann's bilL Recently Mr. Her mann had the war department telegraph to the Portland engineer to transmit the estimates for the new project la his re ply the engineer informed the depart ment that the estimates had been com pleted and the sun recommended for the contemplated improvements amounts to $131,667. This does not include $69, 000 estimated for improving the Yamhill river. At the council meeting Monday night the question of a proposed reduction in the charges of water to private consum ers came up for discussion. Upon a mo tion to instruct the city attorney to pre pare an ordinance embodjdng such reduc tiou in the rates, the vote resulted in a tie, there being but six members present The motion was supported by Lee, Gref foz and Blakslee, and opposed by Flett, Samuels and Davis. - Upon a tie vote being announced, the mayor cast his bal lot with the supporters of the motion. Those who favor the reduction, claim the water company's rates are too high and that the power was granted the council under the charter to regulate the charges. It is said the , water company will not submit to the proposed reduction without a fight If the major ity faction goes ahead with their propo sition the matter is likely to get into the cour.s. The devils have been driven from Cor vallis. Yesterday was the beginning of "China New Year" and the pig-tailed boys celebrated with the usual din. ' The great fault of the Chinese plan lies in the fact that it only frightens away the devils and does not' annihilate them. They hover around above the smoke and din, to increased virulence when the bombardment has ceased. Last year they were attacked with an explosion of prwder.that nearly drove the citizen fxj'n the town, and yet they managed daring the balance of the year to get in tine very effective work. . Shooting scrapes, suicides and failures furnished pleuty of sensational news items. The Tae cloven-hoofed imp3 jumped astrad die the hop market and ruined it They duj away at the grain price until it shrunk to starvation rales. They lay in the pa lis of several public men and caused them to stumble. They worked all their old tricks and invented several new ones. This year powder was scarce, the devils are many and the populists have their augers sharpened. The Chi nese are earnest, but they fail to get at the root of things. - - The public school children will observe the birthdays of Washington and Lin coln in one celebration, on Friday the 2 1st inst Each of the departments will have appropriate literary exercises, in preparation for which the pupils have been rehearsing for some time. To these patriotic exercises the public, and espe cially the patrons of the school, are cor dially invited. . The matter of procuring a library for the school has been consid sidered by Professor Pratt and his corps of assistants for some months but until now nothing has been accomplished. Mr. Pratt informed a Gazettb represen tative that teachers had decided to ask for popular contributions in the way of books, magazines or such other reading matter as the public might feel disposed to donate. Of course money would b received, and economically expended in the purchase of such literature as the teachers might select It is'the inten tion to open a library in each department and an opportunity will be afforded Cor vallisites to make their donations at any time On the afternoon of the Washing ton Lincoln birthday exercises will be an excellent time to make a start, and it is to be hoped that upon that day the nu cleus for a splendid library will be formed. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the county court will receive sealed bids up to 10 o'clock a, m., March 4th, 1896, to furnish 30 cords of old growth body red fir wood 4 feet long, and 50 cords of grub oak wood 4 feet long. To be delivered at court house in Corvallis between June 1st and Sept. 1st 1896. '- The court reserves the right to reject any and alf bids. L M. HUNTER, County Clerk. -Dated this 5th day of February, 1896. . Organ for Sale. A fine Estey. black -walnut, cottage or gan for sale at $60. New. Cost $ 150. Call at this offiee. ; OKBSON'S GOD-CHID. When the stately warship of . the United States that bears the noble name of Oregon takes her place in the Pacific squadron, Corvallis will have . a live personal interest " in her. This city will be represented in the tes timonial that is going to be presented by patriotic minded citizens of Oregon to the white-winged' defender of our na tional safety, whose god mother is the state in which we liva. - The amouat may Hot be large; the be ginning is small, but still it is a begin ning and gives the assurance that Cor vallis will contribute something and have some part in the honor. As yet, no jersoaal solicitations have been made, but when it was first announced that the local committeeman was ready to receive subscriptions, a big, round,, American silver dollar was placed in his hands. This firjt contributor was Judge John Burnett Others have signified their intention of "following suit" The children of the public schools took the matter up and, undismayed by a ponderous editorial in a local paper in veighiug agiinst the awfulness of such action, they proudly gave as they could afford aud Tuesday a parse of S3 15 Wi3 tarnel over to the'conimittee's represent ative as a token of the children's patrio tism iud of their interest in the develop ment of our couutry's navy. Contribu tions were made by pupils in depart ments presi led over by Prof. Pratt, Mrs. Nelms, Miss Turner, MUs Spencer aad Miss Duncan. Miss Spencer's pupils, in the fifth grale, contributed the largest stn, they railing $100, and Jtr. John son, who is looking after the Corvalllis end of the movement, i3 going to pre sent a haaisom: picture of the "Oregon," to be hung in their room. So when the testimonial is presented, whether it be something for the officers and men to eat out of, to read, to look at, or to use, it will be something that Corvallis has an interest in and that Corvallis always will have an interest in. The subscrip tion list is open and any contributions from 5 cents up may be left ' with B. W. Johnson, at the Gazttb office. AT THE PHYHOTJSH. The Independence Amateur Dramatic Club made its second visit to this city, last Saturday, producing the popular m'litary play "American Born." The play is far from being suitable for ama teurs. It is full of difficult situations and exciting climaxes. There is no sparkling dialogue to tickle the risabilities, nor depth of plot to hold the attention. It is essentially a play of stage pictures and tableaux, and these require the most skillful handling to be made effective. We regret that the patronage was not better, for these friendly visits by organi zations from sister cities merit our atten tion and encouragement They are not money-making ventures, the desire being simply to make expenses. Mr. Readick, as usual, was excellent. He portrays a part with such smoothness and delicacy that it is a pleasure to wit ness it ' -" Miss Cora Suell made a good impression in the part of "Mary Hope," one of those characters that even the very highest or der of talent fails to make itself felt in, and, at the same time, one that requires delicate handling in order to be accept able. - . . Also worthy of a word of praise is the manner in which Mr. W. H. Patterson treated the character of "Faggles " Mr. Patterson is free from that self-conscious, hopelessly-lost appeareance s character istic of amateurs, and plays his part quite professionally. Other members of the cast were: Miss Freeman, W. P. Connaway, J. B. Morin, Frank Burch, Harry Hosier. L. A. Bai ley, J. A L. Myers and Ward Webber. The Uncle Josh Spruceby company played to a fair house Tuesday evening. The band and orchestra forms the princi pal and the best part of the organization and the musical part of the program was first-class. The sawmill scene was realis tic and greatly pleased the audience. The play was apparently constructed for the introduction of this scene. Part of the specialty work was very good. The gun manipulator struck the popular fan cy. The "Hayseed" band paraded in the afternoon and gave and enjoyable street concert . COLl,BO NOTES. J. H. Gault left for his home in Hills boro this week. J. R. Cooley has returned after a short visit to his home at Cottage Grove. There will be a" students dance at the Opera House, Friday evening, Feb. 14. This will probably be the last dance given by the students this year. All students and members of the faculty are cordially invited to attend. The court martial held at the college last Friday evening, was a very interest ing affair. Owing to the fact that this is the first court martial held in the battal ion, it was not as perfect in all the de tails as it might have been. Taken alto -gether, however, the boys did very well for beginners. Capt F. E. Edwards offi ciated as judge advocate, and Capt C L. Owsley, as president of the board of examiners. The board was composed of the following officers: Capt. Clyde Phil lips, Capt Arthur Morrison; Lieutenants O. G. Porter, H L. McAllister, Jos. Smith, C R. Porter," H. M.. Friendly, Arthur Buchanan, Lee Beall,.H. W. Kelly. The result of the court martiai has not been published. The director of school district -No. 9 held a meeting last" night at the office of Clrk Wileon. The several bids for furnishing wood to the district for the coming year wera opened and the contract to furnish oak wsod was awarded to W. A, Jolly at the price of 2.25 per cord and to famish fir wool to Durno Bros. & Bogue at $2.10 per c.rd. After some informal business was transacted, the meeting adjourned. A BEHBVES IN CRB AMBRIES. E. E. Paddock,- after spending several months among relatives in tbe east, is back in Oregon and is looking for a place in which to locate with a view to engaging in some mercbanlile pursuit. He says, if any thing, times are better in Minnesota and Wisconsin than in Oregon. This he ac counted for by the diversity of productions in that portion of the country in which he ! has been visiting.- That section he says has developed wonderfully during tho past few years. Land that sold for 530 and $40 per acre, five and six years ago has doubled in price. - '. Mr. Paddock spent several weeks in Oata na, Stesle county, Minn., and it was there that ho noticed the most improvement. The town had increased in population from 3,500 to 5,000 within the last fivo 'years. One of tho principal industries i that of dairying. In Steele county there are. now no lesi than fifteen or twenty creameries, which are con ducted on the cooperative plan. Thoir out put commands good ericas, creamery butter seldom bringing loss than twenty-five cents per pound. Stock and grain growing are also given attention bv the fanners there, but there aro very few indeed, who devote their energies exclusively to a single pur suit. That is what Mr. Paddock buliuvos to bo the trouble with many Oregon farmers today: They raise. too much grain and too little of other produce. A few yean ago in Steolo county,. Mr. Paddauk says land was cheap and most of the farm wore heavily encumbered, but thoso farmers who have diversified thoir in terests, and espocially thoso who have given considerable attention to dairying, are now mostly out of debt, and prosperous. In Oatana the two banks have deposits aggrega ting over $600,000, more then oaa half of which belongs to woll-to-do farmers in the neighborhood.. People will of cource argue that the busi ness of dairying can be overdone, but these are groundless fears. There ought to be at least fifty creameries in the Willamette val ley, Mr. Paddock thinks. It would than bo possible for Oregon dairy products to find an oastorn market. There U no reason why Oregon butter should not command as high a price as that manufactured ia the north wast. Good creamery butter is always ia demand. in Boston, Nw York and other c-utern cities, and throughout tho year sells readily at from 25 to 30 cent per pound. If the business wa3 gone into quite generally, it would thon bo possible to market our dairy products in the far east in ear-loud lots. Of course three thousand miles seems a long distance to ship butter, but wo are market ing our fruit in the east, and there is no plausible reason why other commodities can nit bo disposed of there as profitably as prunes, plums, poars and churrios. Products that can not be disposed of in thj local mir kets must be raised in sufficient quantities to parmitof their shipmant in carloads, other wise the freight will eat up a large share of tho profits. In this connection Mr. Paddock spoke of the advantages that had accrued to shippers of green fruits during the past season in lo calities whore large quantities were grown. This was practically illustrated in Corvallis last fall when the first car load of green fruit was shipped from this point. No single grower had tho necessary ten tons of frut for a car, aud it was only after considerable solicitation that local growers were induced to form a pool and :hip together and thus take advantage of rates offered on car-load lots. Had less fruit been grown, there would not have been a car load to market, and consequently no shipment would have been made from Corvallis. Thus it is plain to bo seen that the more fruit grown in any locality the batter will be the facilities af forded for shipping and marketing same; and what is true with regird to the fruit in dustry is a'so true of dairying. Mr. Paddock says that the Willamette valley is naturally bettor adapted to stock raising and dairying than any portion of the oast that ho visited. Corn, cloror, and tho various grasses used for feod, grow more luxuriantly in Westorn Oregon than per haps in any other locality in the United States, while the mild winters and cool sum mers of this section reduce the expense of carrying on the business to a minimum. When tha Willamette valley turns H3 at tention more to dairying, stockraising and fruitgrowing and less to grainraising, Mr. Paddock remarked, it will begin to prosper a3 cever before and will eventually become oao of tho wealthiest and most populous sec tions of the United States. THS JOB SALB. Yesterday at one o'clock was the time fixed by Assignee Bryson for selling the realty belonging to the insolvent estata of Hamilton, Job & Co., and a number of citizens were at the courthouse door at the appointed hour. From the large attendance, it was expected that the bidding would be quite spirited, but it turned out, unfortu nately for the creditors of the estate, that with very few exceptions, the ?rowd wan present merely out of curiosity. The Gra ham drugstore property was the first offered for sale. 83,000 was the first bid and it was made by B. E. Gibson. - Banker Woodcock raised the amount to $3,500. Gibson offered $3,600' but failed to get the property, Mr. Woodcock's bid of $3,615 being the suc cessful one. The bank building and fix tures were next put up for sale. Some minutes elapsed qeforean offer could be ob tained. Finally,, however, L. G. Kline started the ball with an offer of $5,000. W. H. Hartless bid $6,000 and M. S. Wood cock followed with an offer of $10,000, which was not increased, and tho property was knocked down to him for the First Na tional bank. J. N. Brandarberry was het successful bidder on the Cauthorn ware house property, his offer being $825 for the 31-C0th interest owned bv the bank. The other 29-60th interest in this property is owned by Banker Bush, of Salem. Property in Job's and Wilkins' addition brought $1,605. W. M. Ladd, the Portland banker, was the principal purchaser. Asa Alexvider bought the five-acre tract below town for $30. an acre, and R. E. Gibson bought' the larger tract, containing about 13 acre', for $22 an acre. ' The sale of the balance of tbe property was then postponed until the 1st day of April. 1896. A little over $16,000 was realized from the sale. :' Considering the financial depression the price obtained for the Graham corner is generally thought to be a fair figure. The bank building, however, brought consider able less than was expected and some are of the opinion that the sale will not be confirmed. WAS ALWAYS THUS. Some thirteen populists, a few spectators and an intense calmness, occupied the cir cuit court room of the court house last Sat urday afternoon. . The eventual object of the meeting was to elect delegates to the populist slate convention, but the represen tatives of the cure-all party found them selves woefully handicapped from 'the very beginning. Tha secretary of the county committee had unfortunately fallen into the wicked hands, of some' convivial democrats, and, becoming imbued with an over abundance of spiritual democracy, he was necessarily absent from tho afternoon's deliberations. The Oregon Henry "Watterson of his party, Mr. W-T. Hoffman , announced his selec tion, by some un revealed power, as chair man of the county committee, and desired to know the names of the committeemen from the various precincts. lie then took his seat and a golden, or perhaps in connection with populism, it better be said a greenbackic silence, arose from tho tobaeco-laden salava that fresco jd the floor, and seized every fftan of them. But every emergency has its Na poloon, and from out tha vasty depths of tranquillity there arose an auburn tinted delegate from the romantic shades of Sap creek, and in a voice trembling, probably with emotion, announcsd that tbe secretary had desired him to acquaint his. fellow embryo statesmen with tho direful news that all the records and documents of the Benton county end of the party were lost, strayed or stolen. It is said that Bon Woldt discovered on that dav,' among the litter in his back yard, some fugitive papers that bore populist names and figures, together with some demo cratic doctrine that did not sot well on a populist stomach. It was a condition, how eter, not a theory, that the convention had to face. A vain appeal was mado to the memory of tho delegates and then it was decidvd to appoint new committeemen. Sev eral precincts had to bo left unrepresented as those present were unable to recall any populists in such localities upon whom the honor might bo bestowed. . T bote selected were: Willamette, Biley Logan; Fair mount, C. Skeels; Soap Creek, C. ,M. Vanderpool; Monroe, .James Calvert; Philomath, O. A. Robinson; Alsea, W. G. Tharp; Summit, M. R. Savage; Kings Val ley, Perry Eddy. The eonYentionjrollin? up its sleeye3, then proceeded to elect four delegates to repre sent Benton county at the state convention. The chairman of tho assembly, Mr. Skeels, was first nominated. Possessing, no mock modesty, he put the motion himself, called for ayes and nays, and declared himself elected. The invincible Felix Dodolo then nominated Richard Calloway, in a ringing speech that brought the janitor out of the basement. Mr. Calloway w03 unanimously elected. Then some of the delegates began to question the gentleman's ddvotion to tho party. It was asserted that he was true blue and although a recent convert, he had all the ics and isms at his finger tips. However, in the interest of harmony, but without with drawing bis name or reconsidering the vote, the convention selected C. M. Vanderpool in his place. The selection of Major Bruce completed tha quartette, which is supposed t support tho populist poet laureate, W. T. Hoffman, as congressman from this district. Ko one seemed to know where the state convention was to be held, nor when, but the gentlemen elected announced their readiness to go whenever duty might call them. The cnnvnnlinn divided that thoir irininrip 1 cYmiilil lipid first. Sfltiirflav in Mftroli and the convention the Saturday following. The convention was marked by tho most decorous conduct. Tnero was no cheering, no applauding, no exbilersting speeches Not the eligliUst evidence of enthusiasm marred the dull placidity of the proceedings. All remarks were made in feeble, apologeli cal tones, and a funeral service would Dea livoly event compared with Saturday's staid meeting. OUR I.OCAI, HORTICUIfTTJMSTS. On July Hth next the Stato Horticultural Socinty will hold its semi-annual meeting. At the Portland meeting it was tacitly agreed to hold the July meeting at Corvallis, but the final decision of the executive committee may favor some other locality.' One chief far.tor in determining the place of meeting will be the local membership. At present there is a disposition to hold the meeting at Salem, becausa the local mtmbership there is much larger than here. There is no question that much benefit is derived from the meetings of the society and our local fruit growers remember with plcns ure and a sense of profit the last meeting held here. Shall the next meeting beat CorvallU? Thnt depends on your interest in the miitter. ir you want a ieot' or more of the foremost horticulturists of the stato to meet here and give you tho benefit of thi-ir years of experience, then become at once an active .member of the society and use your voice and influence to get other persons to do likewise. The membership feo is only $1.00 per yeir and tho society expects to pubilsh at the close of the year a report, full of interesting information to the fruit growers, gardeners and florists, both amateur and professional. This report will be free to members only. Itcmember, the society is an organization of horticulturists, working for the advance ment, in every legitimate wny, of Oregon's horticulture. It knows no politics; no rcli gion, save the upbuilding in nil its varied branches of Oregon's horticulture. Are you enrolled among its working mem bers? If not, why not? Is not tho cause a good one! Will you not assist in building up this organization, and through it, that greatest of agricultural interests o ir fruit industry? E. K. Lakk. (Persons so disposed can deposit their ad mission fee and receive a ruccipt for same at thisoffiee.) - The record of remarkable cures ctT-eted enables us truthfully to ray that Hood's Sarsaparilla U the only true blood purifier prominently in the public eye todoy. Hood's pills are-the best family cathartic and liyer medici ie. Harmless, reliable, sure. Awarded k Highest Honors World's" Fair, . -Qold Medal, Midwinter Fair. CREAM m 1 Most Perfect Made. 40 Years the Standard. mm m UP, On the north side of our store room we have placed on this Bargain Counter : : : EvePpMqg foP Men aqd Bo$. Suits we sold at $20, on the counter for $10. 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