Corvallis gazette., March 25, 1904, Image 1

COKVA
GAZETTE.
Vol. XLI.
Corvauljs, Benton County, Oregon, Frtoa'y, March So, 1004.
Published every Tuesday and Friday by the
GAZETTE PUBLISHING COMPANY.
0. A. Dearing, Editor and Business Manager
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
1 he attention ot voters, livine in what were
formerly Corvallis precincts number 2 and 3, is
called to the fact that the portions of these pre
cincts which lie outside of the city limits, have
been attached to Corvallis precinct number, 1. Pre
cincts 2 and now lie wholly within the limits of
Corvallis. This change was made at the Novem
ber session of the commissioners court. At the
same session a portion of Alsea precinct, compris
ing territory in the vicinity of the Benton County
Sawmill, was added to Philomath precinct.
We noted in our last issue the disgraceful attack
made on the Dallas visitors to the basket ball game,
and hope we shall never have to chonicle such an
other incident. The hoodlums who did it are
well known, and their friends are apologizing for
them. The patience of the people of this city has
reached the limit, and a Nemesis waits for them in
the near future. It will probably take the shape
f good and well deserved beating; and it is the
wish of the community that it be well applied.
The plan of putting the convicts of the State
Prison at work at road making is about to be tried
at Salem . A force of 15 convicts, with four teams,
began this week the construction of a permanent
highway between the Oregon Penitentiary and the
State Reform School. This work was authorized
by act of the legislature of 1903. but it has not
been convenient heretofore to" begin the work. It
is expected that the road will be completed by this
Fall.
The practicability 6f using convict labor on
the roads will be tested bv this experiment. If
successful, it is hoped that much more of it will
be utilized. If our Circuit, County and Police court
would take time by the forelock and set every pris
oner they may sentence, to the rock pile, we could
have material enough to build all the roads the
county may need. The plan works two ways. It
has sumcient terror to it to prevent many persons
from committing any crime that will subject them
to the punishment. When they do get one dose of
this medicine they will be more careful about get
ting a second. . By all means start a rock pile and
see it grow.
The following item going the rounds of the
press, is generally credited to the California Voice.
"It has now developed that a syndicate controlling
almost unlimited resources has been formed, and are
sending out agents and advertisements all over the
world, for girls for the world's fair at St. Louis.
The object is to establish an immense demi-monde
district, where a great traffic in girls and their vir
tue may be carried on. In other words, an im
mense crib district, such as we have in Los Angeles,
where all kinds of lewdness and vice may hold
high carnival. Will the people submit to it?"
It this charge is true it strikes us that here is a
chance for the clergymen of all denominations in
the country to make an earnest fight. If all the
ministers who from their pulpits have access to the
ears of millions, would take up the matter enthu
siasticaly, and give to it the same earnestness they
have expended in trying to close the gates of the
Fairs on Sundays, (a plan that will necessarily
work to the advantage of this very element), they
ought to be successful. Particularly the resident
clergy of St Louis.
No doubt many of their own parishoners are on
the boards that have granted these concessions.
Perhaps it might be a good idea to start at the be
ginning and see what they have to say, or can do,
in this matter.
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Republican primaries will be held in this coun
ty tomorrow. The representation from the various
precincts to the county convention will be based
upon the vote cast for Thos. H. Tongue for con
gress in 1902. By this arrangement more dele
gates from precincts outside of Corvallis will sit in
the coming convention than were in the conven
tion of 1 90c, while the number of delegates from
Corvallis will be the same as two years ago. Never
in the history of the party in this county has there
been greater harmony than promises to prevail at
the polls tomorrow. Delegates to the coining con
vention will represent the party as a whoe not a
wing or faction. The great majority will be elect
ed unpledged to any candidate, and all will unite
in selecting the strongest men available for places
on the county ticket. Voters will see to it that
delegates are elected who will take the pains to
determine what strength each aspirant for a nomi
nation at the coming convention has in their pre
cinct, and who will vote in that convention for the
aspirant who shows the greatest strength in the
county, irrespective of their personal likes or dis
likes of the delegates themselves. Of course, every
precinct has its favorite son, but the candidate with
the greatest strength in the county as a whole is
the one who will poll the most votes next Tune.
It is in the power of the Republican conven
tion which meets next Thursday to select a ticket
that will be elected to a man. Voters at tomor
row's primaries have it in their power to elect
delegates who will see that such a ticket is named.
What a horrible crime it was for the Russians
to massacre the Jews at Kishnieff. How the world
shudders when we read of the attrocities of the un
speakable Turk in Armenia. Yet the same people
apologize for the brutal act of lynching when com
mitted in our own country. "It's only a nigger."
Two places, and not in the South either, within
one week recently, have witnessed the brutal and
uncalled for murders of colored men by mobs of
lynchers. One was in Ohio and one in California,
and the pathos of the latter was that the man was
innocent the crime was committed by a white
man. It is a sad commentary on the character of
our people to have to acknowledge that a man of
another race accused of. crime is safer in China, in
India or perhaps in Africa, than he is right here in
the United States. It shows the necessity the
ever present necessity that every intelligent and
patriotic citizen should always, by word and deed,
teach respect for law and order and should do all
he can to discourage mob violence. Our system of
civilization sadly needs overhauling. These shame
ful and bloody deeds by mobs, seem to be becom
ing more common each year, and in almost every
case it is a man with a black skin who is the
victim, while the fiends who shoot, burn or torture
are white men who boast of their superior intelli
gence and civilization. Would it not be a good
plan to stop, for a period, our efforts to christian
ize the heathen of foreign lands, and put our mis
sionaries at work right'here in America. The need
is apparent to every one, and the time is ripe. Who
will begin the good work.
OUR BRAINY CONTEMPORARIES.
The following indicates than the U. of O have
a few smart aleck students who need some lessons
in manners.
A mild sensation has been created at the Uui ver
sify of Oregon by six men students attired in wom
en's clothes witnessing the girls' freshman-sophomore
basket ball game in the gymnasium. The
faculty had previously announced that no men
would be allowed to see the game, but determined
to do so these six young men fitted themselves out
as women and wearing veils over their faces, gained
admittance to the gymnasium. Their identity was
unknown until at the end of the game they gave
the college yell and ran out of the room. The
faculty, is now endeavoring to find out who the
masqueraders were. Still, these student chumps
consider themselves gentlemen. Albany Democrat.
Preliminary steps toward effecting organized
opposition to the proposed parcels post bill now
pending before Congress were taken on March 19,
in San Francisco, when an organization to be
known as the Anti- Parcels Post League of Cali
fornia was formed. The meeting, which was held
in the rooms of the Pacific Coast Hardware and
Metal Association, 132 Market streets was attended
by representatives of some ot the largest commer
ical houses in the city.
M. A. Bley, editor of the Pacific Coast Mer
chant, who had been elected temporary chairman
at a previous meeting, called the assemblage to or
der. It was unanimously decided by those present
that the organization should be known as the Anti
Parcels Post League of California, A committee
was appointed by the chair to draw up a constitu
tion and by-laws. They are also to call upon the
various commercial bodies and arrange for a meet
ing at the Board of Trade during the coming week.
An effort will be made to have every one interested
in the subject attend, so that permanent organiza
tion may then be effected. S. F. Call.
The school funds of the state have been greatly
augmented by the Pierce act passed by the last
regular session of the legislature. School districts
will be able to add one month in the school term
and at the same time pay 20 per cent more for
wages. Teachers should bear this fact in mind
and refuse to make contracts until an increase is
made in salary. The state has provided $6 for
every child in the state. The state irreducible
fund will be about $1.50 for each pupil. Teachers
may count $7.50 for all persons in the district, be
tween four and twenty years of age. in estimating
the income. The superintendent of public instruc
tion reported in r902 that there were 138,466 child
ren drawing money in the state, and the average
daily attendance was but 66,779, or les? than half
the number drawing money. If this ratio holds
good in your district and you have an average daily
attendance of forty pupils there would be eighty
persons drawing money and your district should
get $600. Of this sum the law requires that 85 per
cent shall be paid for teachers' salaries. You
should, therefore, get $510 for your year's work.
Be sure you get it. Oregon Teachers' Monthly.
' , Katorallr Worried Her. -
After vainly, trying' to make his pipe -'
draw, he threw it on the floor .'and',
stamped on it. - (
"Why, John Henry, what are you do
ing?" she cried.
"That's all right," he growled; j
"that's just my nature. Withanything' i
that's mine I'm patient up to a certain :
point, and then if it doesn't suit me I
just smash it. See? I smash it good
and plenty, so as not to be annoyed any ;
more." i
"Dear me!" he returned, fearfully. '
"What a terrible thing it would be if I
shouldn't auit you some time." Chi-,
cago Post. j
ntd f it t Lu. j
Stubb Well, old man, what is the
cause of that smile? i
Penn Pickpocket jus picked my
pocket.
Stub!) Don't see why that should ,
make you happy. !
Penn He took the letter that my
wife gave me to mail a week ago.
Chicago Daily News. v j
Relative Power of Endurance. j
"When my grandfather was a young
man," said the boy with the snub
nose, "he could run ten miles with- .
out stopping." j
"I heard my grandfather make a
prayer 25 minutes long once, at a
prayer meetin'," responded the boy
with the dirty face, "an' it didn't '
faze him." Chicago Tribune.
Ccue for Joy.
"Horrible! horrible!" gasped the
first passenger, during a terrible
storm -t sea. "The captain says we
are likely to go ashore at any min
ute." "Thank Heaven for that!" fervently
exclaimed the seasick person who had
taken no interest in anytnmg up to
that time. Philadelphia Press.
Loa-ical Explanation.
"Why is it," asked the girl who tries
to be funny, "why is it that they al
ways say that a young man pines for
a woman? Why couldn't they just
as well say he oaks for her, for in
stance?" "Because," growled the old bachelor,
"because pine 'is about the softest
wood there is." Tit-Bits.
- Some Good from It.
Simms I can't imagine why Stutter
ton married Miss Strongmind.
Timms Nor 1. However, she's cur
ing him of the stammering habit.
Simms You don't say?
Timms Yes, she doesn't give him a
chance to talk at all now. Catholic
Standard and Times.
A Victim of Matrimony.
"You should be high-minded you
should elevate yourself," said the good
man, advisedly.
"Can't "-do it," was the response.-
"Why not?"
"Because my wife is forever calling
me down." Yonkers Herald.
Heard at a. Church Concert.
He How I envy the man who just
&ang the solo.
She Why, I thought he had an ex
ceptionally poor voice!
He Oh, it isn't his voice I envy, it's
his nerve. Tit-Bits.
The Truth-Teller.
The man who speaks the simple truth
No doubt is doing right;
But he will soon be known, in sooth,
As monstrous impolite.
Washington Star.
PROPER SORT OF BILL.
Hotel Guests-Landlord, can you let
me have my bill this afternoon?
Landlord Can't possibly, sir. To
morrow morning, perhaps. My clerk's
working at it night and day. Ally
Slope r.
The Firet.
He You are the first girl that I
have ever loved.
She Darling, I believe you!
He Heavens! You are the first girl
that ever told me that! Judge.
Because It's Xlce.
Mamma Oh, Ethel! you naughty,
naughty girl. Why do you persist in
doing things I tell you not to?
Ethel I s'pect it's because it's so nice
to do "don't s," mamma. Y. World.
Indoubtedl j-.
Doctor I'm- afraid your husband
doesn't get enough exercise.
Mrs. De Style Well, he'll be exercised
enough when my dressmaker sends in
her bill. Chicago Daily News.
A Slanderous Supposition.
Mrs. Tupenny How can that ed
itor speak of himself as "we," when
he's a single man?
Tupenny I don't know, unless 1m
lives a double life. Town Topic, j
Spring
WASH GOODS
New Percales and Calicos
New Ginghams and Chambrays
New Challies and Cotton Suitings
New White Waistings
j newDrm$Rirt$and$l)irtUldi$t$ : 1
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New
WOOL DRESS , GOODS
Mixed Suitings
New Scotch Weaves
New Etamine7andjVoiles
New Mohairs, Plain and Figured
New Black
NOVELTIES
New Buttons
. New Waist Sets '
New Trimmings
New Ornaments
New Stock Collars
New Laces
New Ribbons
newBo$ieryandOnaerwear
DOMESTICS
1 New Table Linen and Napkins
New Muslins and Sheetings
New Towels and Towling
New Curtains and Scrims;
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miller.
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Horseless Carriages.
Made so strong and fhiishctf so
welf;
Prices so low and styles: so
swell;
Is it any wonder that the blamed
things sell?
, . SUCH A BUSINESS..
J. D. MANN & CO.
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