Corvallis gazette., February 17, 1905, Image 1

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Vol. XLII.
Corvaius, Benton County, Oregon, Fwday, February IT, 10O5.
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GAZETTE
NOW IN THE TOILS.
Crackmen Who Robbed the Bank
at Lebanon Recently are in
Custody. 'g
A couple of issues ago brief
mention was made of the fact
that the bank iu Lebanon bad
been robbed of $9,000. So fat
as the cracking of the safe was
concerned, the dynamite: was
handled so skillfullly that what
might be termed a neat jab was
the result. ' :"' s
That a number of men could
work several hours in the central
part of the city carrying numer
ous sacks of chittim bark with-
yond belief. But if anyone ob
served them, nothing was done
in the matter. The sacks of
chittim were piled around the
bank safe and inside as a "dead
ener" wnen tne dynamite was
touched off. Thfs was the use
the robbers had for chittim bark
The fact that Henry Milbol-
len became connected with the
authorities in the apprehension
of these "crooks" gives this matter
local Color. Mr. Milhollen 'far
many years lived just across the
Willamette from . this city, in
Ivii n county, and is well known
here. He is a brol her of Mrs.
Talor Porter, of this city. At
present Mr. Milhollen is residing
in Portland, but had occasion to
visit Albany-and Corvallis last
week about the time of the bank
robberv.
While in Albany he noticed
several men whom, he recognized
as Portland gentry and whom he
nad tor some time suspected 01
bein? enaeed in some sort of
swindling operations. From Al
bany he came to Cotvallis and
during his sojourn here he stated
' that he was positive of the iden
' tity of the men who cracked the
safe of the Lebanon bank. These
rjrr.;r.r. fppd ;n thg neighbor-
affection for children, taking
them on numerous occasions to
Sunday school and was their pa
tron saint whea baseball games
were; on, for he always took one
or more little tots witn mm to
see these games. ! -
It is believed by the authori
ties, beyond a doubt, - that, this
gang has been working system
atically as cracksmen for the past
year and they tiave been under
suspicion for some time. J.
By the capture of Henry Rey
nolds, one of the members of the
gang of Lebanon bank robbers,
taken Saturday evening by the
Sheriff's men and as exclusively
related in the Telegram of yes
terday, the officers, are confident
they have one of the men who
held up the O. R. & N," train
Saturday night, January 2i,! on
the East Side within the city lim
its. Kingsley, the man who es
caped and who was tracked to
Seattle by Sheriff Word, was the
other highwayman in : this piece
ot" work. -This was a holdup
equal in daring and nerve to the
Lebanon safe-cracking and a
complete t chain of evidence,
pointing to Kingsley and Rey
nolds as being the desperadoes,
has been woven through the work
ot the Sheriff's office and private
persons, who had long suspected
this gang of crooked work.
In the county jail are now con
fined three men and one woman
charged with complicity in in
numerable pieces ot crooked work
which have been pulled off in
and near Portland in the past six
or eight months. Against Rey
nolds and Dunn and Dunn's wife
the evidence is said to be almost
conclusive, while Dunn's father
is held as a witness and accom
plice. Kingsley and Darling have not
yet been apprehended end it is
believed that Darling is in hid
ing somewhere in Portland, while
Kingsley left Friday evening os-
psibly for Seattle.
From a statement above it ap
ars that Mr. Milhollen was act-
g as deputy" sheriff. ; He must
ave been deputized in Albany.
COLLEGE JOTTINGS.
Items of Interest In and Around
'' the O. A. C. ' 'i '""
There is to be a game of bas
ket ball between the Willamette
girls and the O AC girls in the,
Armory tonight, , also -one be
tween the boys' basket ball teams
of Salem and OAC' ; 5
-, Miss Barnes the national secre
tary of the Y. W C. A. and Miss
Corbie, the state secretary of the
Y., W. C A., were visitors at
chapel Wednesday. . Seven min
utes was taken from each of the
last two hours in the morning and
given' to Miss Barnes to-address
the . students , in . chapel. ' She
gave a very interesting talk which
was greatly appreciated by the
students. . . . r
E;mer Wills, a former student,
hes taken a position in Cooper's
Mercantile establishment at As
toria. . '..'V
Fred Stimson was out of .school
several iays this week on account
of an attack of the la grippe.
A number of students enjoyed
the skating the first of the week;
Ray Walker and Karl Steiwer
have been unable to attend class'
es this week on account of sick
ness. ' ' ;.-
A catalogue of the books in
OAC's library, has been issued.
It contains 32 nages and will , be
very useful. x .....
The Zetagatheans are to enter
tain the Feronians Friday even
Next
OAC.
Monday is a holiday at
Not Our Major.
ated unaer tne very eyes ol ' the"
officials for the past year or more.
Saturday night' Sheriff Tom
Word, with four deputies, enter
ed this neighborhood, and in less
than 30 minutes had under arrest
four men who are positively iden
tified as the Lebanon ; bank rob
bers, two others of tbe gang, the
leader, Kingsly, and Rind,
maae good tneir escape, it was
a daring gang and operating un-'
; der one of the most daring systeffis
which the local authorities have
ever encountered.
Deputy Sheriff Milhollen, of
Linn county, came , to Portland
Saturday evening, and together
with Sheriff Word and a number
of deputies swooped down on this
gang.
The leader of the gang, J. P.
Kingsley, and a man named
Rand escaped. Tom Dunn, Geo.
Culver, Smith and Darling, were
taken into custody. In their rooms
was found money which came
from the bank in Lebanon. A
warrant is now out for the arrest
of Kingsley, who with his wife
fled to Seattle Friday evening.
Criminals Surprised.
So completely were the crimin
als surprised thai they did not
have time to empty their pockets,
which some of them : tried to do.
Kingsley left his trunk . and ef
fects in the rooming-house where
he had been ' living for the past
six or seven, months, posing as
an English ' "remittance" man
and a patron of athletic sports.
Darling' s complicity in. the rob
bery was the greatest surprise of
all. He is a fatherly sort of in
dividual and had ingratiated him
self with the people in the neigh
borhood by his seemingly great
The Washington Birthday
dance occurs tomorrow night in
the Armory. A large crowd is-
expected. The music 'is to be
furnished by the Albany orches
tra.
The 22nd of this month is the
date for the classes to contest 'for
honors in the local try-out for the
spring athletics.
court since the year 1900, when
Mr. Osburn weut. into bank
ruptcy. .
t The contest was begun in the
federal court, was transferred to the
aw side ot the state circuit'eourt,
there ; pleaded and argued from
many positions, and then taken
into the equity department of the
same . court, where as much- as j
three separate ccm plaints were fil
ed by the plaintiff, Groves, when
issue was joined by answer of
defendant Osburn, and upon trial
being had, Judge Hamilton de
cided in favor of Mr. Osburn..
An appeal to the supreme
ncourt was then taken by Mrs.
Groves who had in the meantime
succeeded to the rights of
the original plaintiff through
the death of her husband.
It was either party's case till
the c ourt handed down an opin
ion this week. A new and diffi
cult question, of law perplexed
the attorneys and the court; and
and counsel for both sides search
ed the b oks at home and in the
State Library at Salem for pre
cedent, but finding none directly
n point, submitted their briels
to the trial court. Judge Hamil
ton decided for defendant Osburn
and the supreme court as stated
in the last issue of the Gazette,
affirmed his decision: thus giv
ing Mr. Osburn his old home un
der the exemption law.
How strange are the affair of
this world. The average person
had they been asked -which had
the strongest hold on lite, the
plaintiff or defendant, would have
given Mr. Groves the better ot
it. Such was not to be. Mr.
Groves has passed away since the
institution of suit and Mr. Osburn
is now living with his daughter
in Gold Hill, Or., where he en
joys good health. The attorneys
in his remarkable case were W.
S. McFadden and E. E. Wilson
for plaintiff and W. E.. Yates for
defendant, all of this city. .
COUNTRY CORRSPONDENCL
Many of our citizens .who saw
e dispatch from Washington to
e effect that Major Edward E
ardin nad oeen acquitted in
urt martial on account of the
escape of 30 prisoners from a uiili
tary bastile in the Philippines
Islands, said prison at the time
being in charge of the major,
made the same "mistake we did
and presumed the gentleman ex
honorated to have been the offi
cer in command at OAC previous
to Lieutenant Quinlan.
Such was not the case.. The
commandant at UAU wno' was
succeeded by Lieutenant Quinlan
was Major C. B. Hardin no rela
tion of Mai or E. E. Hardin.
On being ordered from OAC
Major C. B. Hardin was sent to
duty in the Philippines. " This
knowledge gave cause for the be
lief that Major C. B. Hardin was
the gentleman recently acquitted
in court martial.
By a peculiar co-incidence Ma
nor C. B.. Hardin was placed in
charge of this prison during, and
pending the court martial of Ma
jor a. Jb,. Hardin. We have just
been shown a letter recently wntT
ten by Major C. B. Hardin to a
gentleman in this city, and from
the tone of the letter it is very
plain that he feared some of his
friends in this city would make
the mistake of fancying him sub
ject to court martial- 1
We are informed that there are
'threeMajor Hardins in the army
Major E.s E. Hardin, of the
7 th Infantry; Mai or C. B. Har
din, of the 20th Infantry, and a
retired major having the name of
Hardin. ,..
BEAVER CBEEK. .
Sherman Gleason was a Corvallis visi
tor last Friday.
Mrs. Alta Gray has returned home
from a few days visit with the family of
Otis Skipten. . ,:
Mrs. Ish is visiting friends and rela
tives at Junction City. , , . ,
A team of horses belonging to Dick
Scott ran away one day last week and de
molished his seeder.
Andrew Ireland is visiting friends and
reia'ives at Independence.
Mrs. J. S. Ireland returned last Mon
day from Sodaville, where she was called
to the bed-side of her mother, who has
been very ill, but is now improving.
' Grandfather Butler is reported to be
much improved ir health; Grandfather
Butler is over 97 years of age and re
members distinctly incidents that hap
pened 90 years ago.
Billy Gates, and Charley Armstrong
have sent a fine collection of furs to a fur
dealing house in Chicago.
1 Chas. Armstrong and George Winters
are at present engaged in making a fine
lot, of boards, which tbey will "sell at
moderate pricey; the boys say tbey aie
going to South America 011 the proceeds.
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Get your school books and school
supplies at Graham & Welle.
Lewis and Clark
at P. M. Ziero'.fs.
souvenir plates
Si'k and woolen goods a specialty
at Corvallis Steam Laundry.
All the local news all of the
time, with a large amount of
miscellaneous martet.
Home Savings Bank.
The First National Bank of Corvallis,
Oregon has been in possession for the
last ten years of the small home savings
bank 8 ,the same as advertised, thongh1
out the Willamette Valley. The custo
mers of this bank can obtain tl'iese banks,
and take them home at any time, by cull
ing for them. . .
Whon a sjsteui of savings is adopted
t-atisfautory and successlul to lim custom
er, the officers of the Firrt National Bank
will be pleased to inform ytm libw you
can readilv own your own borne, ana
proceed along lines of financial prosperi
ty, tinally gaining a competency tor ilie
future. "
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Splendid
Serials
' OAC souvenir
Zierolf'a.
dishes at P. M
Send your lace curtains to Cor
Aallis Steam Laundry.
Patronize home industry Cor
vallis Steam Laundry.
Standard A cedar shingles for
$1.50 ppr thousand at the Corval
lis Saw Mill. 10 tf.
" Second grade fir lumber, almost.
any uiuipusiuii, 1 ir ODiy ay per, ,
thousand feet, at t Corvallis Saar
Mill. 10 tf.
Are you going with the crowd?
The time of your lifethe event of
the season W. O. W., Albany,
Feb. 25. . 11-18
Thirteen hundred shared Great
Eastern Mining company stock for
sale at 10 certs per share. Ad
dress Box 62, Corvallis, Oregon.
11-15
An interesting serial Btory
running every week in the
Gazette.
A Menance to Health.
Kidney trouble is an insidious danger
snd many people are ef a serious malady
beford the symptoms are recognized.
Foley's Kidney cure corrects IrrSeulari-.
ties and strengthens and bnilds np the
kidnies, and it should be taken at f e
first fndication of kidney trouble, as it is
impossibl-s to have good health v the
kidnevs are' deranged. For sale by Gra
ham & Wortham. " ' ' '' ' '''
Prompt
Reduction in Fare.
Commencing 'Nov. . 7, rates between
Corvallis and Pert land, via C. & E.,
Albany, and S. P. will be reduced to
$2.60, same as West Side 'rate. ' Tickets
on sale by C & E. agent and all offices
in Portland. "
Mrs. Jas. Ireland is home from Soila
ville. Her mother is much better, but a
sister is very ill.
Andrew Ireland has gone'' to Counell,
Wash. "
Mr. Taniel is practicing violin music
now-a days.
Mr. Earl Brown says these "nippy"
mornings put h:m very much in mind of
corn-huskiu weather in hi old homft
countrv. northern Indiana.. Mr. Bro n i
rides his pony back and forth from I'i.iji
math every day. . .
Decision Rendered.
The'decision of the Groves y.
Osburn case last Monday in
the Supreme Court of Oregon
ended a long-drawn-out and hrd
fought battle between th- liti
gants. In one form or anothc
the question who wou'-d finally
own the John Osburn home in
Corvallis has been before th-
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The people trade with us, first, because they like our way of doing busines; second,
because thev admire our broad, liberal policyf and third, because they know we
keep everything in the House-furnishing line and at prices within reach of every
one. . .
' Our new spring stock of Go-carts will arrive about Feb. 15th. To make room for
them, we will sell those on hand at greatly reduced prices. " Easy payments ask
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