Corvallis gazette., August 21, 1900, Image 3

THE MM GAZETTE.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1900.
Ladies' Silk Waists
Good material. Good workman
ship. New Styles. $7 to $10 each
Underskirts
Mercenised cotton. Looks like
silk. Wears as well as silk. Pop
ular colors. $1.50 to $2.23 each
Taffeline
For fine skirt linings and for shirt
waits. Twelve shade. 50 cents per
yard.
S, E, Young & Son.
Albany, Oregon.
LOCAL NEWS.
of
-Born, August 16th, to the wife
D. D. Pittman, a daughter.
Attorney W. E. Yates attended
to leeal business in Albany last
week.
Mrs. Morris and niece of McMinn-
ville, visited friends' in this city
last week.
Hop tuckers are beginning to cir
culate through the country on their
annual mission.
George W. Henkle was a passen
ger to the coast Friday. He will
rusticate over there for a couple of
weeks.
Attorney E. E. Wilson spent a
few days at the coast last week
Ed feels improved since he dabbled
his feet in the water of bliss.
One thousand samples Moki Tea
to be given away on Wednesday,
Aueust 22nd at Allen fc Wood
ward's. Come early everybody.
Miss Olive Thompson made a
trip to Salem Saturday in the in
terest of the Belgian hare rabbitry
which she and her sisters have
started.
Miss Erma Lawrence was ex
pected to arrive in this city yester
dav. en route to Newport, where
she will enjoy an outing of a week
or two.
In Friday's Oregonian, in con
nection with an article on promi
nent teachers of the state, a fine
cut of Prof. J. B. Horner, of the
O A C, appeared.
J. A. Spangler has a vacation of
lira weeks from his duties at the
O A O. He expected to leave yes
terday for an outing in Oregon City,
Portland and The Dalles.
RaymondHenkle returned Fiiday
from Brownsville. In the course of
a few week he will go East and en
ter a school of pharmacy. He ex
pects to go to New York city.
W. A. Currin and George Big
ham returned late Friday evening
from their hunting excursion south
west of Mary's Peak. They en
joyed a good hunt and secured one
buck.
W. C. Corbett and family are en
joying an outing at Sulphur
Springs, about fourteen miles north
west of this city. They are accom
panied by Mr. Corbett's sister,
Miss Jessie Coibett, who is out on a
visit fro.ii Iowa.
George Bowers is now in Albany
holding a chair in the "Combina
tion" barber shop. He may be
there permanently .but three months
is assured him, as the party whose
chair he holds has gone East for
this length of time.
Ivan R. Daniel mounted his
wheel early Saturday morning and
started for the Big Elk country,
for a good "6"b" Hie return oc
curred Monday evening. In one
sense of the word he got "fish," but
in the other he didn't. His sister
says he never catches anything
anyway.
People who has been over at the
filt report hftPg "wHnewed a
jpather tfanpe by the jiilet s. Indians,
given in the auditorium at Newport.
From what is stated it was a novel
affair, as the dancers were dressed
in all the splencbr of their days of
long ago. Feather dances and pot
laches will soon be features of a
departed age.
T
It has beep undejstoqfj and js
t till thought n thB Wtf ipat
"Rock'' Bryson is to attend Polum
bja College of Law in IJew York
city during the coming year, hui
from the fbllowipg fropi the Epgepe
Hp mm HMfcttm
ft mistake iorftewhere: iJMra. Bryr
ion, of Corvallis, arrived in Eugene
on this afternoon's train. The lady
and her son, R. S., will board at
Mrs. Whitaker's during the coming
school year."
The census work in the first dis
trict-In Qregon is epm.pl' apd p.
"Winp, supervisor of said M8?
tpot pas cigseq pip omcp m ttiwuj'
The last boi of the voluminous re
ports have been forwarded te Wash
' ineton. The census work of the
second district is not yet completed,
but will be soon. It is thought that
it will be a number of weeks be
fore any repoit of Gregorys, peugua
frjfo tp givep tQ pf public Lpcal
census -r enumerators -speak 'very
highly of Mr. Winn's work in this
connection.
The excursion on the C & E Sun
day was well patronized and three
coaches were comfortably filled.
Ernest Redd, O A C's famous
quarter-mile runner, paid Corvallis
a short visit Saturday. He will re
turn to college this fall.
. Dennis Stovall has resigned his
positiou as city editor of the Baker
City Republican and is again en
gaged in Mac-abee work in various
parts of the country.
Mrs. M. Rosendorf and family of
four children arrived from Inde
pendence Friday. She will remain
here in order to school her children
and has already domiciled herself
an i family in the cottage of Mr.
Kiger, just north of the public
school block.
It will be interesting to the hop-
grow eis to learn that from the best
authority it is estimated that in
California the output will be about
6,000 bales short of the crop last
year. It is thought that Oregon
growers will be greatly benefitted
by this shortage in the sister state
The marriage of Hen. W. P.
Keady and Miss Lelia Maguire,
both of Portland, occurred at the
residence of the bride's sister, at
Antf lope, Or., August 14th. Mr.
Keady is a member of the board of
regents of the Oregon Agricultural
College and was for many years a
resident of Corvallis.
Elmer Clark went to the coast
Saturday and returned on the ex
cursion train Sunday evening. He
states the weather at the coast was
ideal. Many people are going and
coming and each year there are
greater numbers of notables from
various sections of the country to
be seen at this popular resort.
Grover Headrick returned Sup-
day evening from his father's place
in Alsea. He reports that the
greater number of campers in the
Alsea are now going to the lower
valley in order to be where they
can do some trolling- tor salmon
According to a special act passed
for Alsea the open season for troll
ing did not begin until yesterday.
Threshing was almost suspended
during the past ten days, owing to
the fact that the fall grain was
threshed and spring grain was
hardly mutured. This week opera
tions will begin again. T. W. B.
Smith and Norm Lilly both ex
pected to Btart their machines yes
terday. In no case is there any
money to be made by the machine
man this seaSou and they are most-
operating on a basis that will
play them even, nothing more.
From different sources there is an
expression of.fear that native birds,
songsters and others, have been
poisoned by farmers in an endeavor
to get rid of the many pests that
are destroying trmt and cereai
crops. The scarcity of birds this
season is attributed to the fact that
they eat worms that have been
poisoned and in turn are poisoned
themselves. Should this be true,
t would be too bad, indeed, as Ore
MARY'S MAIDEN NAME.
gon has no little songsters to spare.
Notice has just been issued by
the United States land office that a
change has been made in the home
stead Jaws. Hitherto a person who
had commuted, that is, lived a por
tion of the required time on the
homestead and bought the home
stead clear, had exhausted his
title and could not homestead
another claim. This order of
things has been reversed, and a
commuter can take another claim,
according to information received
at the various land offices.
Prof. Dan Pritchard and daugh
ter returned from their trip to
Portland by wheel, Friday. While
absent they visited the numerous
little towns surrounding the
metropolis. At one of them Mr
Pritchard visited a cousin whom he
had not seen in thirty-six years.
She is the wife of the "village black
smith" of Rockville. The meetirg
was a surprise to her, as she did
not know that Mr. Pritchard was a
resident of Oregon. The home trip
was made from Oregon City in ten
hours., wi,b. an hour'3 stop at Sa
lem, The distance is T9 miles.
J. E. Andrews returned Sunday
morning from an outing of a few
day in Eugene and Cottage Grove
In speaking of the grain crops of
that section, Mr. Andrews stated
that they were reallv poorer than
they are in Benton, and in one in
stance a man is reported to have
threshed oply ffQ buhe.ls o$ wheat
frp,m 24f acres. However, he states
that the mines of the Bohemia and
Blue fliver'jstricte ftnd the iu.n
berint? industry will tide the oeonle
over and they tyil,! W feel fte prop
raising been their sole support.
Danny Felton, five-year-old son
of Edward Felton who rides in Wil
kins' Addition, fell from an apple
tree about five o'clock Sunday after
noon and bioke his right arm just
rabove the wrist. The little cha-h is
yeff i'.npjrvy and fle hardly whim
pered when Dr- Qathy set the limb.
Surely there are people who are
hern to misfortune, it seems to be
their only heritance. This little
boy had the misfortune to fall into
the fire-place when only a little
more than a year old, and there
was a fire in it, his face waj geri,
ojMy bufcnM1 s t'i8 flftipm ' spurce
of wondef that the average hoy
lives to attain his majority and this
little fellow is surely having a
struggle of it.
A Choice Piece of History About Beaton's
Biggest Mountain.
The June number of the "Ore
gon Native Son" gives a men-,
torious poem entitled "Chin-tira-
l-in" which is said to have been
composed bv a gentleman in
Corvallis. The poem is accom
panied with an interesting legend
which explains how the Indians
cams to give the name "Chin
timini" to the beautiful moun
tain. The poem and the legend,
which have been extensively
copied may appear at some
future time in the Gazette.
But the mountain had another
name in the early days when
the pioneer was paving the way
for the Oregonian of the future.
It was called Mount Kellum;
and Mrs. Elizabeth C. Henkle
has upon our request written a
story giving some interesting
reminiscences and telling who
christened the mountain thus,
and, how it came about. She
said:
"Memory reverts back to the
early days of Oregon when the
pious people went great dis
tances on the Sabbath to attend
public worship. Men that had
teams, horses or oxen, would
load in their families and lunch
baskets early bunday morning
and drive the nearest way to
church. We were not confined
to muddy or dusty roads then as
we are now, and we spent the
day, or at least two services, ene
before and the other after din
ner, ana all seemed to enjoy
themselves both temporally and
spiritually as the mind's eye
was not taxed with deciding who
had on the latest style hat or
dress.
"It was in the summer of 1854
that meetings were held in the
house on Bush Wilson's dona
tion claim, now known as the
William Armstrong farm. At
this date, the spot where the old
house stood is free from under
growth of timber, while sur
rounding it is a dense growth of
oak trees. It was one of the
warm snmmer days when all
were in the shade of some large
oaks eating dinner that we saw
upon Marys Peak a smoke and
fire the first that was ever kin
dled by a white man. It caused
quite a little excitement, some
fearing a volcanic eruption.
Their fears were, however, dis
pelled when the report went
abroad that old Tudee Kellum
had started early that morning
from Henkle's saw mill which he
he was then building. He had
learned that a proposition had
made to name the mountain after
the first white man who would
climb to the summit. ' His equip-'
ment for the trip was a lunch,
a butcher knife, a hatchet and
three yards of factory, the last
named article was to be used in
raising a signal on the summit.
"He was a brave man, and it
required bravery to make the
trip alone, when the Indians had
such a horror of the mountain.
They believed there was a
'syme' living up there that car
ried the Siwasb.es off and 'mam
mal oosed him,' and they said
'grisly bear kill Indian.'
"The old judge in going up
by a direct route, got down in
deep canyons under overhanging
cliffs and unfortunately lost his
hatchet. He had to back out
and hunt a ridge to follow. He
made the ascent in good time.
On arriving near the summit he
saw a little way ahead a big,
black bear running down the
hill toward him. He had noth
ing to defend himself with save
a small butoher knife, so he
caught bold of each side of his
coat and threw it open to make
himself look as large as possible,
and yelled: 'Here we are.' He
said old bruin turned a little and
kept on, and the judge was very
willing that the bear should go,
and did not feel like encounter
ing him or contending for rights.
"Being without his hatchet
hp had no pole on which to raise
his flag of muslin, so as a. signal,
he set the gras. on fire. After
Testing a while, eating his lunch
and taking in the sights, he re
traced hia steps for Henkle's
mill arriving there in the even
ing a tired, but wiser man. We
think the name should be Mt.
Kellum, in justice to the mem
ory 01 its expires.
as cattle. He sold out to Win.
Wyatt and now it is owned by
the S. Wyatt Brothers. The
trails have greatly improved.
Stock is driven there and the
mountain is a summer resort.
Throngs of people annually as-
cead its heights, amidst laughter,
pleasantry, bird-songs, and moun
tain echoes; and the hazardous
journey made by Judge Kellum
long years ago has become the
sport of a child, and the pleas
ure of women who are seeking
a rest from the busy hum of the
toiling hordes of the lovely val
ley below. Change has marked
its way up the mountain side
where the path is gently winding
its way toward the sky; the
footsteps of the first pioneer to
spend a Sabbath hour upon the
summit have long since faded in
the wild that is now occupied by
grazing herds; the mountain
fastness is commonly frequented,
and the superstitious savage of
days agone is now an American
citizen, all to remind us that
Oregon is truly progressing and
that Mt. Kellum has marked the
steps of her onward march."
A Plum In Sight.
Joint Worm.
In the last issue of the
Gazette mention was made of
a condition of affairs thft con
fronted William Ovenneyer, of
Linn county. It referred to a
worm that worked on wheal
joints, a. sample of which was
sent to the O A C experiment
station, in the .Herald appears
the reply of Prof. Cordley and is
as follows:
"The insect referred to as
feeding in the joints of wheat
straw is commonly known as
the joint worm and belongs to
the chalcid genus Isosoma. It
is an insect of considerable in
jury, in fact there was one
period during the first half of
the century when the farmers in
certain parts ot the Jiast were
compelled to abandon the growth
of cereals for a short time. So
far as I have observed in this
vicinity, however, only a small
proportion of the stems are in
fested and I believe that this in
sect is only in a very slight de
gree responsible Tor the general
failure of the wheat crop. In
certain sections in the lower part
ot the valley the wheat has been
badly injured by the true Hes
sian fly, and of course, through
out the valley it has perhaps
been slightly injured by the
aphis, but undoubtedly most of
the injury is due to to our sys
tem of farming, and to unfavor
able climatic conditions. By
the growth of wheat after wheat,
without the intervention of
clover or other similar crops, and
particularly by our system of
snmmer fallowing, a very large
proportion of humus has disap
peared from the soil, which, in
consequence, has a tendency to
become cloddy. The frequent
rains of last summer, alternating
with drying weather, probably
increased this tendency, and as
there was practically no trost last
winter to break up these clods,
the soil has remained in a condi
tion very unfavorable for the
retention et the capillary moist
are which is so essential to plant
growth."
Prof. J. B. Horner, of the O
A O, returned the latter part of
last week from Chemawa, where
he was in attendance at the
first meeting of the Pacific Coast
Indian Institute. The professor
is chairman of the executive J
board of this association, which
embraces the en tire Pacific coast.
The main object of this move
ment is to advance the interests
of the Indian students, especial
ly in industrial pursuits. Among
other things, Prof. Horner states
that a motion was made during
the session for an appeal for the
co-operation of the O A C board
of regents whereby graduates of
the Agricultural College may be
induced to take the required ex
animation in the civil service as
teachers for this branch of work.
Indian institutions ot learning,
as intended by the government
need the very best of teachers
and positions of this nature are
plums well worth plucking, as
the salaries are far better than
those generally paid in the pub
lic schools. A very interesting
and profitable session is reported
to have resulted at Chemawa,
and as the association will meet
annually, a place of meeting was
chosen ibrj.901. Tacoma, Wash.,
is to be the plice.
Additional Local
To 60 Abroad.
Many people of Corvallis will
be more than pleased to hear of
the latest piece of good tort une
that has come to Dave Rose
brook. As a cornet soloist there
is not a- man on the coast that
can equal him, and the strange
part of it all is, that when he was
a resident of this city a number
of years ago, although far above
the average, he was only appre
ciated by a few. The following
is a letter recently written from
San Francisco to his parents in
LincQlp. county
'J ha.ve some news to tell you
which I don't expect you will
care to -hear, as it takes me a
little further from home and
friends, I am going to London,
England. Leave hare about
September 34th for a tour with
a British concert band. The
trip will occupy some four
months, and if nothing happens
I will get back here hp,u.t " the
first of ie. new- year;goi,
W" open in Victoria, B. Cv, and
will give concerts all over Can
ada, then go to London and con
cert over England, Ireland and
Scotland. I will play cornet
solos and solo cornet. The band
will consist of not less tha,n forty
men. aU selected. Several of
Lrnj tfiusic-ian friends will go from
here, ana 4 av been selected
5 eernet soloist. I consider it
quite an honor, and get a good
salary and all expenses."
Some yers later a Mr, Pen-
laud took a band of horses np
there fef summer pasturage and
his wife was the first white
woman that ever reached the
summit. Later it became a re
sort for men, women and child
ren. Alex Osbur-n now, of Prt
land tbpkj a'pfe-ptjqn ciaim.
0,n the sunimit, tQQfe his family
up there and established a dairy
and made cheese for a couple of
years, as tne years went Dy he Nolan & Callahan,' -nuant
iook up sneep ana norses as weiimale closes ericpr, Augjist ggstt
Rev. L. M. Boozer will preach in
the Witham school house, Sunday
afternoon, at 2:30.
J . M. Nolan went over to New
port on Sunday's excursion to visit
with his family. He returned on
Monday's train.
Mrs. Henry Boyle and mother-
in-law, Mrs. A. Boyle, of Sodaville,
arrived in Corvallis, baturday, for a
visit with relatives.
Mrs. E. Brown and daughter, of
Tacoma, Wash.: arrived in this
city Friday for a visit with rela
tives. They will start home to
day. We wonder how a man must feel
to read of his acts as a thief? A
night or two ago somebody stole
the, knives and steels at the slaugh
ter house of J . C. Taylor.
The petit larceny thief who stole
the rope from Bruce Burnett's flag
pole last bunday night, had better
return the same or be reminded
every time he ' looks at the Ameri
can flag that he is a thief. B.
The large sawmill near Dusty,
owned by the Waggoner brothers,
was destroyed by fire last week.
The fire originated in the fire box
Besides the mill, over $100 worth
of lumber was burned. There was
no insurance.
The Harrisburg Mill Company
has made a contract with R. C
Edwards, of Lowell, for the delivery
of 6,000,000 feet of logs next sum
mer. Four million feet are to be
delivered at Harrisburg, and 2,000,
000 feet at Corvallis.
If everything carries as at pres
ent planned, a party of Cervallisites
will start for Alsea in a day or so
that will be heard from when they
get abroad. The personnel of the
party is not wholly settled yet, but
among other "eracker-jackt" will
be "Pap" Hall, Charley Barnhart
and August Hpdes.
Wesley January started yester
day for the Big Elk country to
gather fir burrs or cones. He is in
the employ of a gentleman from
Silverton who has a contract for
1,000 sacks. It is a matter of con
jecture as to the use they will be
put to, but as a general thing they
are used for medicinal purposes.
. W. H.Franklin, of the Frank
lin Foundry, this city, accompanied
by his wife, left this morning for
Bohemia and Blue River mining
country. He is out strictly on
business connected with his rock-
driller and will remain a couple of
weeks at each of these mining dis
tricts. Mrs. Franklin will remain
at Belknap Springs during the
time they are away.
The funeral of Mrs. Louise Ful
ler took place at 3 p. m. Sunday.
The services were held at the fam
ily residence and were conducted
under the auspices of St. Mary's
Chapter O. E. S. Her death oc
curred Saturday, August llth.
1900, and she was aged 77 years, 8
months and 5 days. Mrs. Fuller
bad been a resident of Benton coun
ty for more than fifty years and
leaves many friends to mourn her
dfUftiae. She has no children to
survive her, but has many nieces
and nephews living in various sec
tions of the country. She was buried
by the side of her first husband,
Wm. Bennett.
20
Per Cent
Discount on
all
Boys' and Men's
CLOTHING
Boys' and Men's
SUITS
THE
CLOTHING
WE SELL
-is
GUARANTEED
WTTHTHI5 LABEL
all therrect styles
and weaves.
Our Prices
are always lowest ad ejj
with the 20 per cent p
discount yon get a bar- C
gain that will be hard.
to duplicate again.
WE MUST HAVE ROOM.,
For our large Fall order of Boys' and Men'sf
Clothing, consisting of the latest style Overcoats and Suits.
S. L. RUNE, Corvallis, Or,
5
For hop-picking slave eo to No
lan & Qallahan.
Ladies who visit Nolan & Calla
han's don't forget looking over their
Kemnant counter; some choice
plums.
Farmers hxma yow produce to
j wmn. xiv win tase it m
exchange for anything in his line
awi sell you goods at lowest cash
you wouldn't leave your happy home for
any one, if your table was. pupplied
with that line of delicacies on display
in our grocery window. notelthe
prices: snider's tomato catsup, twenty
cents; two pounds choicest seeded rai
sins, ready for use, twenty-five cents;
4extra dessert" sliced pine apples, per
can, twenty-five cents; package "five-
minute" breakfast mush, ten cents;
"advance" brand canned salmon, fifteen
cents; "stag" brand oysters, ten cents,
ladies, winter is just around the corner, so
don't fail to see those fancy shirt waist
patterns in, french flannel in our south
window.
E L MILLER,
Corvallis Oregon,
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Cbe Paint Store.
C. A. Barnhart, Manager.
Paints, Oils and Varnishes
jwxhh paper
RAMBLER AND IDEAL
Bicycles, Majestic Lamps, Mossberg Chime Bells, Etc
Corvalliis Sawmill Company
We have on band a lot of
DRY LUMBER
we wish to close ont to make room in our shed. We have a large drive of
McKenzie Yellow Fir coming. We have in our box department
5,000 Sugar Pine Peach Boxes Which Must Be Sold
Before the Season closes; also
ALL KINDS OF APPLE AND PACKING BOXES.
Our Planing Mill Department is equipped with a complete set of
machinery for manufacturing Sash Door Mouldings, Brackets, Turnings
and all kinds of House Furnishings, All Work Gura&teed.
Job Printing
at this office