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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1902)
Tflf'OHMLIS GAZETfL TUESDAY, DEC. 30, 1902. To cover the cost of setting and dis tributing the type in such matters, a charge of fifty cents will be mide for each "Card of Thanks," and five cents per line for each set of "Resolutions of Condolence" appearing in these columns. LOCAL NEWS. Charley Newtoa has bean dan- gerously 111 of late. Tb3 ttftta legislature uinls a weak from Monday, January 12th. Commissioners court wi;l con vene next week in regular monthly session. ' Mrs. Ida Nelson returned from Portland, Saturday. She Was down there for six weeks or two months. Prof. E. F. Pernot has j'J9t had a 4 foot sidewalk laid along the west side of his residence ; property on College Hill. Saturday, W. A. Wells eoM 4 lota, block 17, in Job3 addition to Mrs. Rebecca Harlan. The consid eration was $120. Chicken pox is a luxury (?) that those who can afford it are copy ing in various communities as a holiday diversion. Wear Ralston Health Shoe thecure for cold and wet feet. All leathers and styles: price, $4. S L, Kline, eo!e agent. During the past few days snow has crept pretty well down the hillsides just west of CorvaHis. It was a chilly spectacle. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Garrow, who for the past week have been visiting relatives in Salem, are now in Corvallis for an exteudsd visit. Diamond rings, diamond -ear drops, diamond studs, diamond hrooohee, and diamond stick pins at E. W. S. Pratt's, Jeweler and Opti cian. During the past month there was quite a large number of real estate transfers recorded. Real estate business seems to have been quite animated. Henrv Ambler, real estate dealer of Philomath, was in Corvallis doing business, Saturday. He is sanguine .'egatding the future of Bsnton county. During last week the following licenses to weU weta "CTantea: Clarence Albin t'J Mae Burnap, James J. Johnson aiid Sarah J. Bailey, and W. C. Reese and Anna A. Howard. Committees of Wobdmen havo hefn -exceedingly busy ol late i-m4iJp ranging tor me c;g evei.t m ia scheduled for today. Beyond doubt this will be the greatest affair of its kind tbat evtr took place in this eit)'. Mrs. E. E. Paddock entertained a number of young people Thurs day evening in honor of Miss Sarah Jacobs, of Corvallis, who has been visiting her. Music and games were the amusements of the eve ning nnd a delicious luncheon was served. Independence Enterprise. Prof. S. I. Pratt, principal of the public schools of Philomath, was in town on business last Saturday. He says he has a good school out there, the enrollment of pupils be ing something more than 160. Prof. Pratt says he has a good ninth-grade class. School will open Again next Monday. Since Christmas everything about town has been very quiet. Trade ia slack, but this is a usual thing I just after holidays. However, day fter tomorrow we will start in on a new year and wa may be afforded opportunity to do all sorts of things. This is the time of new resolutions such as are made for one day and broken for an entire year. It has now about reached the sei of the year for hunting match es. So far "this season Corvallis sportsmen have not attempted a match hunt and there is little or in talk of suoh an evant very soon. Those who have been afield recently declared that gvnu is S3irc3. A party who was out a few days ag considered himself fortunate when he secured a duck and a muskrat. S L. Kline has a Woodman window that has attracted consider- iibV attention during tlie past few davs. The window is dressed with th stars and stripes as a back ground, and there is an oak stump as the main feature. In the stump an axo is sticking and across the handle a towel is hung. Near the base of the slump there is a glass nf water and a cellar of salt. Each article has its significance for Woodman. Ray Carter, who hold a position in E. R. Horning s grocery store left, Saturday, for .Newberg. it is sni.f that todav he will be united in wedlock to Miss Chase, of that city. The young couple expect to arrive in this city during the latter part of the week and will take ur their residence in the J. II. bimp son house, near the home of Dr, Cathey. Mr. Carter has many friends in this city, is quite popu lar, and from reports his bride is enuallv noDular in her home. Con gratulations are extended. Graham & for dairv WVlia. stock. Sp-'rndid fe?d Victor Spencer left yesterday to resum1 duties as a pharmacist ir- -Iv-'u-Sut after a short visit in Improvements are in progress near the inscuer iVJounnj -jsiius A couyle of barns are in course of construction. Miss Rose Pnos, who spant Christmas in Albany at the home of her mother, came back to Cor vallis yesterday. . Allen B&tes has accepted a oosl tion in a drug store at The Dalles, and left .yesterday to assume the duties' of that position The next attraction at the Opera House will be fhe jural play "Sandy Bottom." The company is-said to be a Ptronor one, and the date of its appearance is January 10th Visitors to the Episcopal church Christmas eve were delightfully en tertained. The feature of the eve ning was a talk by the pastor on the early iife of our Lord, illustrat ed by a powerful stereoptican. The United Evangelical Church Watchuight service on Wednesday beginning, at 9 p. m. Rev. T. T. Vincent will occupy the pulpit next Sunday in the absence of the pas tor. No service at Mt. Via w Sun day afternoon. - Lazarus V. King and Miss Ella V. La Sieur were married at the home of the bride's parents in Port land, Sunday, December 21, 1902. Rev. T. M. Ramsdell performed the ceremony. air. ana Mrs. rang have been visiting relatives in Cor vallis for the past week. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Gibson, and little son, leave shortly for a pleas ure trip in California. They will go immediately to L103 Angeles. After a stay in that city, they will start for Corvallis, visiting other places on the way home, which they expect to reach about next May. "Everything in sight," seems to be the motto of Linn county. The present attorney general aud state printer-elect are Linn county men, and the governor-elect was formerly from that county. Now Linn is asking that the state game warden be chosen from within her borders. Ernest Sherbloom, who attended the O. A. C. several years ago, re cently wrote a friend in this city re garding himself and prospects. He is now at Williamson. NGrih i)ai k-eia Ire hrau?itor of the Great Northern Railroad and receives a salary f $125 per month. He has 600 miles of road to attend. When he wrote- the thermometer was 36 belcw zero. Charley Collins, who drives a r wagon for the Corvallis Sawmill Co., had a narrow escape yesterday. He was driving a large team of horses attached to the run -ning gear of the wagon. The ani mals started to run near Phillips' blacksmith shop and Charley was jarred from his seat on the ridge pole. He hung on to the pole with one arm and held the lines with the other band. The runaways were slopped near the postoQice, and and Charley clambered to his feet overed with mud, but none the worse for having been dragged three hundred yards. In selecting an all-star football team to represent the Pacific North west, the Oregoman chooses Bert Pilkington, of O A C for halfback. In selecting him for this position that paper says: "Although Pilk ington played fullback in most of the gamps this vear, Coach lier- bold believes that he is cut out for a halfback, and would do better in that position. As a fullback, he is a close rival to Brawn (of Whitman College) and his absence from the team would prove a weakness. Pilkington is a fierce line-bucker and can always be relied upon to take the ball for a gain. In defens ive work he is the peer of any play er in this section." Speidell, of Washington, is selected for quarter. Says the Oregonian. "Five times during the season he boosted the leather over his opponents goal posts, and had he not done so when the points were needed Washing ton's games with Whitman and the O A C would have resulted in a tie." Here's an Opportunity. S. II. Moore, who owns V2i acres of land eight or nine miles west of Corvallis, was in town yesterday. Mr. Moore sa3'S the road over Card- well hill is in good condition for travel by horsemen, but numerous windfalls have closed it to vehicles. There is opportunity, according to Mr. Moore, lor some one who cares to lake the trouble to secure a good homestead or timber claim near his place. There is a ten- thousand-acre tract near his place, composed partly of school, univer sity ind government land, as well as some of the old Orogon Pacific land grant, that is unoccupied. It is ail valuable and 600 or 700 acres of it is covered with splendid fir timber. The title to some, of this prooerty is now in litigation. It seems that it has been improperly platted and a survey wilt be neces sary to segregate the different par eels. Recently a party took up a homestead cf 160 acres within mile of the school house in Mr Moore's district. Oil meal for sale at CORVALLIS POSTOf LICE. Soma Figures Relating to the Business of this Office. .. , , Comparatively-few people have any idea of the magnitude of the postal system' of 'Uncle Sam," however well informed they may be on general matters. Indeed, not one person in 500 has any where near a correct idea of the business carried en in an office of the Corvallis class. Last week, the Eastern mails . were delayed and it was reported that some 30 or -35 sacks of Corvallis mail were held up. There were many who doubted this, for the reason that so many sacks seemed to them an exaggeration.- B. W. Johnson, Corvallis postmaster, kindly assisted us by furnishing the following data: Last Wednesday, 1 5 sacks of mail were received; the follow ing day 28 sacks arrived, and on Friday 12 sacks arrived at this office. This was occasioned by the hold-up 01 the mans, as above mentioned. For the year ending Dec. 31st, 1 901, the postal receipts irom postage stamps, were $5,180.64; the receipts for the : year ending Dec. 31st, 1902, will approxi mate $k: 900. This is certainly a good stamp and postal card sale for a place of this size. During one dav last week $47 worth of stamps were sold. -The receipts of the office for the quarter end ing Dec. 31st, 1901, were $r,- 439.84; for the quarter ending Dec. 31st, 1902, the receipts will be approximately $1,640. This is an increase of about 15 per cent, over last year. . The number of money orders issued from Oct. 1st, 1902, to Dec. 26th, 1902, was 1,620. - The number of money orders paid during the same period was 1,- 012. This leature 01 trie omce represents a vast sum of money and consumes considerable time. During this period, 216 registers were dispatched and 385 were received. At the Corvallis office there is an average of from 5 to 10 tie sacks and from 4. to 6 pouches incoming daily. Tie-sacks con tain papers and packages, ,wh!le the Douches arp utilized for the conveyance of letters, - registered matter, etc. A tie -sack will contain about 150' papers on an average. The incoming mail brings from 1,000 to 2,000 let ters per dajr. From 20 to 25 tie-sacks are dispatched from this office, week ly, aud about the same number of pouches, making from 40 to 50 sacks of mail matter that is dispatched each week. An aver age of from 500 to 1,000 letters are dispatched daily. It will be seen from the above figures that the postmaster "has troubles of his own ;M that if he gets dyspepsia there is a cause for it, and that he must be a ca pable person. He must possess the faculty of remembering names and faces in order to face the general delivery window just after the heavy mails have been distributed. He is to be kicked at despite his every eflort to please. That he may make a mistake now and then is to be expected he would not be hu man if he did not but it goes without saying that he does his utmost to please. Splendid Prospects. Those who hold stock in the Great Eastern Mining company have reason to congratulate them selves on their good fortune as re cent 'assays are most flattering. The company owns in all, nine teen claims in the Bohemia dis trict. They have developed but two of the claims so far. On the Great Eastern two tunnels have been run into the moun tain; one tunnel is in a distance of 60 feet and the other some thing like 200 feet. Both tun nels strike the same vein of ore and the ledge is from three to four feet deep. An assay was made ot the ore taken from the end of the 66-foot tunnel and it averaged $45.39 per ton. The ore taken from the same ledge at a depth of 200 feet assayed still better, going $88.07 per ton. On the Elephant claim there is a splendid ledge. ricKeo ore taken from the vein about 20 feet from the surface assayed $150. 07 per ton. lhereisabso a free-milling proposition tbat shows up well. Numerous as savs of this body of. ore have been made aud an average of $25 per ton is the result. All of the b!ock ot 50,000 shares that was first placed on the market has been sold. Next Monday there will be a meeting of the stockholders, in this city, tor the purpose of electing board of directors, "etc. It is t - J tnougnt that the sale ol another block of , so. -300 -shares otl' stock will be authorized at this meet ing, and the probability js that shares will be placed on the mar ket at 15 cents., each. The rea son for selling stock is that suffi cient funds may be secured to develop the . mines, to .place ma chinery for working, etc. -Beyond -doubt this is one ot. the best propositions floating about Ihe country today, , as a few sam ples of picked ore Save 'assayed close to $x,ooo per ton", Benton Must Not LagV Steps are being taken by the various county courts of the Wil lamette valley to begin a syste matic crusade of road improve ment in the spring. Polk county, under the admin istration of the present county court, is waking up .to the im portance of good roads. With in the past - year ' over 3000 feet of wooden bridges hive been re placed with earth fills over sewer pipe culverts. This policy will be kept up as fast as' old bridges and culverts can be repaired,-and as soon as the . finances of the county will permit, the court will commence a system of steel bridges over the large streams of the county. It is the intention to construct in each road district a section of road . built scientific ally as an object lesson. Super visors will be exoected to follow the pattern. - County judge Sib ley is a strong advocate of the county roadmaster system, and says the law should -not be re pealed. - Rural Route Ordered. The postal department at Wash ington has ordered the establish ment of the proposed rural route from Corvallis petitioned for a year ago last spring. The route was inspected last July and it was hoped that the service would be in "operation . by the " first of last September. - The following letter ."from the general superintendent of the free delivery system to Senator Mitchell; datedXXeceriberl.j6, tod2. will explain the reason fort ? j ,1 delay "I beg to acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter of recent date, '"inclosing a comniui.ieation from Mr. B. W. fohnscn, post master at Corvallis, Oregon, ask ing your assistance ' in securing establishment of a proposed,rural route from that place. Referring to your request that the route b2 put into operation at an early date, I beg to state that as soon as the additional appropriation, request for which has bee n made, becomes available, the Depart ment expects to issue orders for establishment of all routes now favorably reported upor,: to be come effective within the next two or three months, and the Corvallis route will doubtless be established within that time." A telegram from Washington states that the route has been or dered. It is about 25 miles in enotk. Beginning at Corvallis, it runs north on the Independence road to Blake's; thence back to Mt. View school hovise; thence west to O. . Martin's; thence east to Richland school house; thence south on the Albany road to Cor vallis. About a hundred fann ies will be served. Reason Sugar Is "High. One reason for the strength of the sugar market is said - to be : short crop of beet Sugar in the Europe, .which in Germany aione is estimated to amo-tat to 1, 200,5 000 tons. J This shortage lias caused a material advance of raw sugar all over the world, par ticularly in uerrnany, wmi:u seems to be the present controll ing factor in establishing tne value of sugar. The raw sugar is today higher in Hamburg and in London than it is in the United States. America is still com pelled to draw a gcod portion or her supply lrom Europe, xne refiners have to pay this advance, and in order to get out" even, they necessarily have to advance the price of the refined article. The prices that have been ruling up to about 60 days ago for the raw article have been the lowest ever existing, and so far below the cost of production. " Stoctholdars' Meeting. The annual meeting of stockholders of the Great Eastern Mining Co, will occur at the store of Milner -& TVellsher, this city, at 8 p. m., Jtn. 5'V 1903," for the purpose of electing a. fcard oftlirectore, transacting such other business as usual ly comes before such Aieetings. - , . .. A Vateabie Bulletin. : "'Thereovernment has published and distributed "as a. bulletin the reports upon MPrunes and Prune Culttsre in Western Europe with Special Reference ; to Existing Conditions in the Pacific North west'? by Prof. Edward R. Lake, of the Oregon Experiment Sta tion.? It also contains important references to the Mirabelle group of . plums and .their economic value in the countries visited. -- Professor Iake visited France and other portions of Europe; a few years ago as a representative of-the government 10 investigate the prune industry inhose coun tries. The expenses" of the in- vestigatfon of which this bulletin is the official . report were defrayed-from the appropriation of the division of botany for botani cal J nvestigations. - The bulle tin contains the report of a care ful investigation of the - econom ics of the prune industry in Western Europe, more especially in France and Germany, and should be of much value to all interested in prune culture, and there are' many valuable and in teresting half-tone illustrations. In his introduction, Prof. Lake says, 1 'The prune industry of the Pacific Northwest, includ ing the states of Oregon, Wash- ington and Idaho, is today the foremost pomological interest of this section. Beginning with a tew trees planted by; the late Henry Miller, at Milwaukee, Or. ink i860," and a commercial or chard planted near Portland, Or. , by Dr. J. R. Cardwell, in 1871, the plantings have increased un til there are approximately 50, 000 acres of commercial prune orchards in these three states. The estimated value of this acre age, together with equipment, including apparatus, evaporating and packing plants, is $20,000, 000." v '.'The prune industry of France is about a thousand -years old, and with a few exceptions due to the introduction of modern com mercial evaporating and packing plant's, it is carried on in much the same way today, so far as the producer is concerned, as it was 460 or more years ago. While the industry is less than a half cenluiy .bld ""in America, and great changes have been made in the method of producing the cured product, French methods have remained practically un changed for centuries." ' WJU siscoatteae Ksw Years. ! The butcher shops of Corvallis will discontinue running their meat wagons after New Years, and will close their doors every evening at 7 o'clock. - The city delivery . wagons will accomodate customers of the meat markets on the morning aad afternoon trips. Youttg's Cash Store. Ladies' Goods' at low prices, to close out. Full line of woolen hosiery, ako fancy goods. - Orders for groceiies may be sent by telephone. Notice to the Public. On account of the advance in prices of hlacksmithincr sunnlies. we, the under signed blacksmiths of Corvallis, find it necessary to raise the prices of boresboe ing. On and after January 1st, 1933, two dollars per horse for new shoes all around, and one dollar per horse for old sho33 all around, will be charged Signed, Wm. Pouter, HOESIKG BkCF. L. V. Baker. . . J. T. Phillips. : Corvallis, Or., Dec. 26, 1902. To the Public. . On account of the increased price of feed, blacksmithing and repairing, we, the; undersigned draymen of Corvallis, find it necessary to make a correspond ing raise in charges for our services. On and after January 1st, 1933, the charge for hailing lumber will be 25c, 50c and 75c; 4-ft woad 75 cents per cord ; bouss hold goods, 50 cents and 75 cents per hour. - Lee Heskxe, G. A. Seeley, H. N. Robinson. Floyd Lase, A. L. Henkle, G. -A. Robinson, A. Kyle. Corvallis,' On. Dec. 29, I9O2. Confidence Slakes traveling a pleasure whea correct a s tT. Yours may be a-paeteejbut , through incoru- , peteut repairing yuu Tj-it.rfinto me. I Will repair the worst Wrecked watcli, and I will do it cally. Albert Metzoer Occidental Building. CorvalUs, Or. Vetch 5eei- For sale. Address Corvallisy Oregon. M. S. "Wtolcock, Don't m s BEGINS 1st The Business College Man Will give a Complete, Thorough, Up-to-date Course in Business, Pen Art, Short Hand, Typewriting Three Months Twenty Dattars Six Months Thirty Five Dollars. Ten Months...... Fifty Dollars. . 1 y-t . 1 1. l i. i: f ... Tkn- Vjomumeu course, any iwj, i diouhih, i ihj-uvo iunwo. Books and Supplies, from Five Dollars to Fifteen Dollars. f This Department is in Connection with Phliomath College ) which carries a corps of thorough teachers and all of the popular college courses. ' You ail kuqw its past record for solid work. Well, it's better now than ever. Tuition and board low. . Address mo and get a free catalog and set of flourished and business caps. F. S. HAROUN, Philomath, Oregon. 9 BUi i 1 If jou a'riflooking for eorne real Fruit a;nd 'Poultry, Ranches, write for I ehall'tike pie surer in giving you all also showing you "over the country. HENRY AMBLER, " - Pkttoaiatli, It is so now late that yon can't come early in the season, but you can come early in the day nnd avoid the Christmas rush which is now on at . 01. S. The Jeweler and dinner. We have these, too, chow, etc. Everything to help a royal repast here. AV P, I Pioneer Bak Fresh bread daily. A complete stock of candies, fruits and nuts kept canstantly on hand. Smokers supplies aspecialty. Confectionery H. W HALL Proprietor. et Sale 1903. gooi bargains tm btock, Grain, my special list or come and see me. the reliable information you wish Ileal Eetate, Loan , and Insurance. County, Oregon Pratt, Opticiafl. Fruits for the! Christmas Table do here abound fruits fresh and fruits fresh when encased in glass or tin; therefore sweet? fine flavored, luscious now." Then there are the relishes appertaining and belonging to that famous feast, the Christmas in plenty sauces, catsups, enow make the meats and vegetaw Forg iiii KLINES ZIEROLF S cry
