Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, March 25, 1904, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL LORE. THE CIRCUIT COURT. Commences at the Court House, Monday, March 28. Bishop Ford, of Eugene, was a Corvallis visitor this week. Prof Per not returned yesterday from Portland, where he attend a meeting of the Board of Health. A. R. Hathaway, of the Mutual Xiife of New York, has. arrived here from Salem- ' ' .. Will McAdams, ot Independence, is visiting friends in this city for a few days. A. Blackburn has resigned his position in the Graham & Wells drug store, having accepted a simi lar position in Lebanon. Sam Hartsock, the popular drug clerk in Graham & Wells will spend iiia vacation on his timber claim in Southern Oregon. J. L. Underwood and family have been visitlnt at the home of Mrs. Underwood's brother, Neal Loftin, in Lebanon, Guy Walker, Sam Damon and Rae Walker went to Independence vesterday to attend a concert and ball given by the Mjnmouth Band. John Sweek, former 0. A. C. student-, came up from Forest Grove yesterday where he is attending school, to be present at the hop at the Armory. Walter Wells, of last year's graduating class, came up yester day to attend the hop. Mr. Wells holds a fine position in a Portland drug store Miss Mabel Cronise has issued invitation to a party to be given Sat urday evening, in honor of tl e eighteenth birthday of her brother, Kratz. Rev. Mr. Coney, of Salem, will hold services at th-i church of Good Samaritan on April 10. It is ex pected that he will be . secured for the church for the coming year. Granville Pitman, formerly of tl.-s city, died last week in Tayior, Cel., where he was at work. He was well known in this county, wherd he lived many years. Among those "who left for : their homes yesterday to spend a short vacation' were Messers Walker, Groves, Lingads, Bradley and Miss Bleeg of Portland, Messers Barnett and Forrest of McMinnville, Dar ling of Oregon City, and Spagle of-Hubbard- Walker and Spagle will not return to school this year. Dr. Mac Lean, for several years pastor of the church of Good Samar itan' in this city, has accepted the pastorate of the Eipiecopal church in Fort Morgan, Colorado, where he has been the last two months. Mrs. Mac Lean, and children left on Mon day of this week to join him there. The best wishes for his long contin uance in that place goes with him from his many friends in Corvallis Glen Gillette left yesterday for Toledo, He will be joined there by his brother in-law Ed. Stanton, and they will proceed to their chittirn claims on the Yachats. When cab ins have been bnilt and other pre parations for their comfort made. Mrs. Stanton and sister Hattie, will join Glen and Mr. Stanton and the partv will strip bark for several months. 8. N. Wilkins, who went to Port land on Friday to pass his examin ation before the State Board of Health returned on Sunday. The report will not he given out f jt some time. There were 47 candi dates at the examination, all Un dertakers and Embalmers of the state, and the range of topics dis cussed covered every phase of sani tation, practical embalming, disin fecting, etc. At the February ex -amination for diploma, Mr. Wil kin's average was 99. Regular meeting of the Coffee Club next Monday afternoon iu the City Hall. St. Mary's Chapter Order of Eastern Star meets next Tuesday evening at Masonic Hall. Members of Sister Chapters visiting the citv are cordially invited. The regular monthly meeting of the Village Improvement Society will b held at the Court Hause this Friday evening, at 7.30. Every b xly is invited. No skylarkine at the College this blieritt Burnett has issued or i .n.i . ... i cr. J - c , we.K. All toe Doys are getting up , CUiais onenng a rewam oi ioo euiy and paying attention to the r for the arrest of Edmund Crefield, l ooks. Examinations are on and j the late holy roller, who left this many anxious faces how that the j cjty wt1 a beautiful and sticky results are still doubtful. j coat of many colors donated by John Ingalls took his cpw and j some of his admirers late one horse across the river for exercise, j winter evening. He is wanted and turned them loose in the lane. ! k,- ri, fliitnrifiVs of -Portland fnr We give below, a list of the cases np tor adjudication at tne next term of the circuit court which opens on Monday of next week. ' CIVIL CASKS. . . A B Hammond vs W F Crosby : ac tion on promissory note. Vm Groves vs John M Osbnrn; euit. . James L Lewis . vs John McGee, Sr. : action. Palmer Avers vs E W Strong: action. G R Farravs AWilhelm, Admr. estate of Sam'l Eickard deceased; appeal from county court. Mary H Whitby vs John M Osourn, et al . suit, confirmation of real property. Fred S Elliott and Ernest Elliott vs Ada Emmett VV Elliott, Seth Elliott, L ily M Elliott, Annie Elliott, E E Wil son and M R Elliott; suit partition of re il property. J R Fehler and E T Wertzbaugher vs School Dist No 13, Benton county, Ore gon, aud J E Wyatt, Geo Cooper, J A Parks, as directors of said district, and E J Newton, clerk; writ, alternative mandamus. Wm Milton Howell v Adam Wilhelm &Sona; suit, injunction. Wiley Gadsby vs J C Hammel ; action, modon to dismiss. Delila Read vs Tbos G Read; suit, divorce. John B McLennan vs Elien Weiss ; ap plication to register real property. A F Peterson vs J H Read ; action on promis sory note. C H Monroe vs S Y Evans ; action. Mary E Herbert, T M Coon et al vs A L Coon; suit for partitiou and Bale of real property. The Charter Oak Mill Co., a corpora tion vs F P Sheasgreen and Edw Bux ton, partners doing business under the firm name of Central Planing Mills and Box Factory ; action. Carl G Hodes vs Heman W Hall and Flora Hall ; action on promissory note. CRIMINAL CASES. State of Oregon vs Wm H Wagner; crime of assault and battery. State of Oregon vs Chas Small; recog. State of Oregon vs Jas Guier. Crime of rape. The usual preliminary meet ing will be held at the Court House on Saturday, at 9 o'clock a. m. to arrange the schedule, so that the business can commence promptly "on Monday morning. The amount of business to come before the Court is very small, and prompt adjournment is expected. Democratic Ticket. The Chittirn Question. (Special from Alsea.) The dates have been set for the Deoar cratic primaries and conven tion, as usual several days after the Republican meetings for the same purpose. The primaries will be held on Tuesday, March 29, and the convention on Saturday, April 2nd. The convention will consist of 111 delegates. The representa tion is on a basis of one delegate for each eight votes or fraction cast in 1902 for Chamberlain. The nurx- ber of delegates for each precinct will be as follows. Corvallis, No. 1 9 Corvallis No. 2 12 Corvallis No. 3 J ii nrxT- r orvainis inu. 1 Fairmount 7 Soap Creek 6 Kings Valley 5 Summit..... 3 Blodgett 3 Wren 3 Philomath 13 Willamette 8 A.lsc3 . S Bellfountain 6 Monroe J 10 In the city the polls will open at one o'clock and remain open till five. Thf Spoiling places will be the Court H ousefor districts 1 and 2 and the City Hall for districts 3 and 4. As the sap begins to rise in the famous chittirn, enthusiasm in the residents of Alsea, LOwer Alsea, Lobster and Five Rivers soars in the same direction. When faimers and ranchers meet at the country stores, politics are discussed by a few; the Russia-Japan war is pissipgly men tioned by others, but the topic that interests everyone is the present outlook for a good round price for chttim, we say every one, for there . is . hardly a man, woman or child in these vicinities who is not directly or indirectly interested. ' Since last fall ' when bark reached . the price of . 15 cents per pound, scores of ranchers have been busily engaged in roaming through the rugged mountains of the Coast Range in search of this precious bark, un til now, every patch of cbittim that can be profitably handled has been located and a homestead entry made on the land on which it grows. Some of our most prominent citizens have taken claims includiug the Haydens, Headrick, Warfields, Seits and many others. The admirable feature of the chittirn business is that it brings the money direct to the class of people who are striving to build themselves homes in these mount ainous places, thereby benefitting themselves as well as the govern ment under which they live, for Uncle Sam has thousands of acres ot land in these coast mountains that will more than likely never benefit the Government in any way other to assist settlers to build homes on occasional spots that are not productive. The man who will be injured the most by the good prices is the man who is really, entitled to the most benefits; that is he who settled in the mountains a few years ago, and by peeling bark from the odd or even sections lying around him, found that he and bis family were barely per mitted to exist. Now that prices are better he finds himself practic ally cut off from supplies. The homesteader and railroad com pany together have surrounded his ranch and if he gets any thing out of it he must go farther back to some obscure patch that no one else has ever found, and there gather his 4 'grub steak" for the next winter. If any un pleasantness arises it will be be tween the railroad company and the rancher. As we have said the settler has heretofore peeled bark wherever he could find it to peel, and consequently nearly all the bark that is of any easy ac cess on railroad land has been peeled, therefore what is left may be so difficult to get out, that the rancher and railroad company can not aeree as to the terms on which the bark shall be harvested. It is hoped that this matter can be satisfactorily ajusted so there may be no trouble. A Golden Wedding. Oregon; Mrs. Annie McFarlandy of Summit Oregon ; Mrs. Jennie Bogue, Goldhill, Oregon. We wish, this couple many more hap py years. f A Benton County Case. ' On March 21, the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon handed down the following opin ion: Coast Land & Livestock Com pany respondent, ys Oregon PacifT ic Colonization Company, appel lants, from Benton. County, J. W. Hamilton judge, affirmed; opinion by Justice Bean. This was an appeal . from an order overruling a motion 'to set aside a decree and to quash a re turn of summons. The plaintiff is ari Oregon corporation with headquarters at Albans and the defendant a .; Minnesota corpora tion. This suit was brought March n, 1903, to recover on promisory notes and service was had upon S. F. Cook,, who was stated in the sheriff's return to the vice president and managing agent of the defendant. Default judgment was taken March 23, and on July . 8, after execution had been issued and property "ad vertised for sale, the defendant appeared specially without any showing ot merits, moved, to set aside the . decree and quash the return of the summons on the ground that Cook was not either vice president or managing agent. The motion was denied and on appeal the Supreme Court affirms the ruling. After receiving the testimony,! the Supreme Court concludes that S. F. Cook was the manag ing agent of the company and says that the company has also teen guilty of such laches and delay as to preclude it from secur ing relief, no defense upon the merits being shown. This property, known as the Coe lands, is part of a wagon road grant comprising 70,000 or 80,000 acres, made many years ago. ' The grant took in six odd sections on each side of the road runniug from Philomath to Ya quina Bay. The Oregon Agri cultural Company secured title to a portion of the property; part went to the Oregon development Co., and the bulk of the remain der, about 40.000 acres drifted somehow to Geo. S. Coe, as trus tee. When the latter died, a New York court took charge of this property, and appointed A. H. Masten receiver, to whom the Coe heirs made a deed. On At)ril 11, 1900, the receiver sold the property to the Astoria Company. This company, by A. B. Ham mond, president, sold the lands to the Coast Land & Livestock Co. In August, 1902, the entire holdings of the Coast Land & Livestock Co. and the ore?on Agricultural Co.,. comprisimg about 25,000 acres in Benton county and 35,000 acres in Lin coln, passed to the Oregon-Pacific Colonization Company, a Minne sota corporation. Q vf 1 'I Marx H?rtSchaff no rland Tailored Copyright IVUSbT Mart bctuttnu A M Being between seasons it's hard to tell you what to buy, but we have it. Also! Don't forget that the home of the H. S. & M. Clothing is at. ... The Elusive Ro!!er. 1 lie cow swam back across tne rivtr and landed by the high bank, :ir:ir the saw mill an i would have drownrd but for the help of some voting men who helped her out. The subject of discourse at the Ccrgiegational Church, Sunday ir.rrning, "The Feeding of the Five Thovsaid." Evening. "Improvi depc. Providence, the way to tvoid one Phase of Perdition, and the Toor House." A cordial inyitation is extended to all members of be uevolent societies. numerous acts peculiar to his peculiar creed, but which the un initiated denominate as crimes. A summer home at the expense ot the state, in the beautiful city of Salem, is waiting to receive On March 16th Mr. and Mrs. Abram Underhill celebrated their 50tht anniversary of their mar riagfe at their home in Philomath. The groom of 50 years was born in Cambridge, Vt., May 29. 1825, and at the age of two years mov ed with his parents to Burtis, Cayuga Co., New York, and twelve years later moved to Prophets town, 111., where he was engaged in farming. His father being a shoemaker he had the care of the farm. Ou March 16, 1854, he was married to Olive Marvel, a native ot Genesse Co., New York, who was born Tuly 14. 1S37. At the age of 8 years she moved with parents to Prophetstown, 111., where they were married in 1866. They moved with their family to Brooklyn, Iowa, where they lived until the spring of 1875, when they came to Albany, Oregon, to see if the western climate would be beneficial to Uncle Abram's health, which had failed him the vear before. He srained his health and is now a haie and hearty old man. In 1S77 he moved to Summit, Oregon, where NEW PIANOS ! $50.00 '.TO $75.00 cheaper than you can buv tkera in Portland or o Portland agents. We claim to sell In struments of the same quality ? SO to 75 cheaper than any otner agents witnin oou mues. inis may seem lite a boln statement, but we are prepared to buck it up with incontrovertible evidence, if given a chance. ARGUMENT. All large dealers, like the Portland firms, have enormous expenses . that we do not have in the way ot immense rent, electric light. clerk hire, freight, dravage and numerous other bills. Especially is this true of their agents who cart their pianos around from town to town, creating bills which you have to share if you buy of them. Laree firms save about 10 on a piano bv buying in large carload lots Do you think that makes up for Ihe abve expenses? We are in a position to sell cheaper than any large firms and the way our customers are i. creasing gives evident-e that people are huding it out. Beware of sdsc ial sales, piano clubs and the like. iso tiim can .-ell goods at wholesale prices to the retail trade and no firm does. We always make a prorit on our nianos and never give anyone a special price, or sell to vou for less than your neighbor, as we have but one price the "year around. There is uot another dealer iu the Pacific Northwest, to our knowl edge, which has strictlv one price on each piano from which they ever never deviate. At least have a taiK with M. A. GOODNOUGH before purchasing and see what he has to ofler Our JtO l ian is a thoroughly srood instru ment. of beautittil tone, action, fh'ish and workmanship and one whirh would cost else where !?oU0 so :J5. We have several new styles coming. Second hand piano's also for sale Omoe and residence. ixth stroct, one block we.-st 01 the Court House, Corvallis. him, where he can roll to his1, he lived until 18S6, when he hearts content, after ihe labors of I moved to Philomath, Oregon, It is the people good the day are over, eral wish of the the state that he may soon welcomed by Warden James his future home. of be to where they now reside. Five children were born to their union, four of which are living: Horace Underhill, of Summit, Oregcn; Mrs. Emma Hulburt, of Albany, 5 Drawer Sanger Mash ins 9. 7 Drawer Singer ZilassZtins -. $32. S G. A. PRICE, AGENT. S. L. KLINE'S. HOTEL CORVALUS J. C. HAMMEL, Prop. Leading hotel in Corvallis. Newly furnished with modern eonveni-' ences. Rates $1, $1.25, $2 per day. i 1 HEADQUARTERS FOR COMMERCIAL MEN. M. ..THE.. PIONEER BAKERY H. IV. HALL A fresh and complete line of candles, nuts and fruits kept constantly on hind. Ourbread is always fresh. We carry a complete cessities. line of smokers' ne- Main Street Now is the Time . . . To have your Watch Repaired, Clock Cleaned, Spectales Fixed. All work is done Neatly and Promptly ... . . . And Satisfaction is Guaranteed. E. W. S. PRATT, The Jeweler and Optician. JSStore closes at 6 p. m. except Saturday. If you are looking for ome real good W Bargains in .Stuck, (ir.iiii, l'ruit. and Poultry Ranches, write for our special 0 list, or c me una see us. e wn; taice pleasure in giving you reliaule informa tion; also showing you over the county AMBLER & WITTERS, REAL ESTATE, LOANS, INSURANCE VIRGIL E. WAITERS, Corvallis HENRY AMPLER, Philomath THE LARGEST PAPER IN BENTON COUNTY, AND THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. COKv G-AZETTE- ALi SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR, WHEN PAID STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.