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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1907)
Leading Corvallis Newspaper. Best Advertising Medium. Couvalus, Bextois Coujvty, Oregon, Friday, March 8. 190T. Vou X.L1V. NO. 22 Investigation shows that many uooii watches ar spoiled by tampering. No muiter ho little you suppose is the l yours better Have us rttpatr St. A whole lot of damage ran b ti me hi those who are not acquainted with the delicate mechanism. V know watches nd an repair them as they Miould he Brins us yours if it doesn't 120 just rinht. Albert J. Metzger WATCHMAKER Occidental Building, ... Corvallis "Should Aula Acquaintance Be Forgot" Extraordinary Engagements Thursday, March 14 Ian Maclaren's Beautiful Scottish Idyl The Bonnie Briar Bush Original Kirke La Shelle Production Positively Guaranteed to be the Best Attraction Here This Season Seat Sale Opens FROM THIS DATE Til further notice all glasses fitted by PRATT, The Optician, will absolutely guaranteed for one yean against breakage any kin A REMEMBER- We make a specialty of Jap-a-lac, Sewing Machine and Acme Washers 0. J. BLACKLEDGE'S Furniture Store Corvallis - - - Oregon SMITH & DAWSOX lnt Pl' 209 Pay the Highest Cash Price For Poultry. Dressed Veal and Dressed Pork. Parties in or close to town having poultry or veal to cell, call ns on Tnd. Phone an1 we will call for same. We keep a fall line of Poultry and Stock Remedies. Also Chick Grit Shell and Bone, rrd Compound, Fruit Tree Spray, and Cider. Corvallis SMITH 4 DAWSON Oregon Next to J. R. Smith & Co. PRATT Beet SaifsfactJom a Ha!r Inviyorator And Dandruff Eradicator , I iai! ftrfcrr' s : Price, Fifty Cents Manufactured by The Vegetable Compound Company Corvallis, Oregon 91 Sarr' Bakery has secured the aeryice of Dck Llewellyn, the wonderful bread njakr. 89tf era Tuesday Morning be of a se 8 The Jeweler and Optician S.lla the Ti'ue - Keepinn Watch on the Market. Guaranteed WHAT THEY SAY. In Regard to Birds of Oregon Much Discussion Aroused. Because of the widespread in terest that has been aroused by the defeat of House Bill 367, space is requested in the Gizette by Wuham L,. Finley, president of the Oregon Audubon Society, in which tc explain why this so ciety made such a strenuous ef- for. to defeat the bill. He says: We understand that many of th orchard ists in the state want ed this law in order to protect themselves from the ravages of certain birds.- It passed the house and senate, but was vetoed by Governor Chamberlain. Our present Model Bird law was passed in 1903. This law has been adopted and is used in every state in the Union except ing thitteen. It was strongly recommended by the Biological survey of the department ot agri culture. At th time it was pass ed, it was so amended to meet the needs of Oregon. We are emphatically opposed to abolish ing protection to all our useful birds on account of the sins of three or lour species. . This is what House Bill 367 proposed to do The last provision in this bill reads: "Provided further, that this act shall not be construed as preventing faimers, gardeners and orchardists from destroying any birds, other than game birds when necessary to ptevent the destruction ot crops from the ravages of birds." This seems fair at fir 1 glance, but it is in direct coi-fltct to the spirits of the very law to which it was added, because this law precludes that many song birds are not in jurious, but of positive benefit to the farmers, gardners and or chardists, and the general good of the state demands that they shall not be killed. This proviso is too sweeping to become a law, because it nulli fies all preceeding song bird leg islation. Under it, any land owner can claim any bird on his premises is harmful to his crops Peopie can shoot any or aJl song birds on their own property and pursue these birds to other parts. This bill opens our song birds throughout the state to the slaughter of Italian gardeners, gunners and all others who wish to shuot larks, robins, thrushes and other species for pot-pie. Another proviso ot House Bill 367 reads: "Provided, that the protection afforded birds under this act shall not apply to crows, bluejays, cwls, hawks, butcher birds, magpies, blackbirds, the English or European houe spar row, woodpeckers and apple- birds." There are six or seven varieties ot owls that inhabit Oregon, only one ot which, the Horned Owl, is in any way detrimental to poultry interests. The other owls are recognized by all as birds of the most economic im portance. Our present law pro tects all owls except the horned owl. House Bill 367 permits the indiscriminate killing of all owls, which is a great mistake. House Bill 367 permits the s called 4lapple bird" to be de stroyed without limit. "Apple biid is a local application known only to the framers of this bill. It may refer to a robin, chick adee, sparrow, flycatcher, thrush, grosbeak, or any other bird that lives about an apple tree. Many of these spec ies are ot the highest economic value, why permit thtir des truction? Under our present law, w have a check on the tendency 01 the boy to kill useful song bird' for sport Under House Bil 367. the gate we have r lied up on Is thrown wide open and th boy may roam the fields ann woods with sling-shot and gun t ctinnf all nt K1 V V.,", J 1 t peckers, and under the term,! "apple birds, the tanagers. robins,- chirping sparrows, fly catchers, waxwings, thrushes, grosbeaks, chickadees, . and all others that live about our or cbards. We wish it clearly understood that the Audubon Society is not defending birds merely from a sentimental standpoint. We are defending some birds as a class because the Department of Agri culture at Washington has prov ed beyond doubt that thev are of real economic value to man. OAC Victors. In a second game of basketball between the OAC and Crescent Five of Chicago played at the Armory Wednesday night to de cide the question of which is the better team, OAC was victorious by a score of 38 to 32, winning by six points. The same number of points fell to the Chicago team in the first game, played Monday night, when the score was 28 to 34. In the game Wednesday night the locals had recovered from their "stage fright" and put up a regular whirlwind game, carry ing their opponents completely off their feet, and renewing the old time faith of the spectators in the superiority of the OAC I five. It was thought that Swann would be out of the game be cause of injuries received Mon day night, but he was allowed to enter and played brilliant ball, while no less effective was the work of Bilyeu, Reed, Rooper and Foster, each of whom prov ed his skill at every turn. An immense crowd watched the con test, and later in the . night the cannon was fired a half dozen times in honor of the OAC vic tory. It is rumored that a movement will be started to make up a purse to send the OAC men to the Jamestown Exposition to con test for the championship of the world. Has Not Been Found. A few weeks ago Chief Lane reeeived a letter from Hubbard, Oregon, asking that he keep a lookout for a lady who had mys teriously disappeared from her home there. A picture was sent and a description given of the missing woman, but no trace of her was ever discovered in this city. More information on the subject is obtained from the Sa lem Statesman this week, in a dispatch which says: "All of my efforts to learn the whereabouts of my wife, who has been missing since the first of January have been tutile," said M. F.eyman of Woodburn yesterday while in the city on business. It will be remembered that Mrs. Preyman suddenly dis appeared from the home of her sister at Hubbard January 1, where she and her husband were visiting. Mr. Preyman has been untir ing in his ettorts to locate his wife. He says that some of his neighbors claim that she is alive but does not wish him to know it. It is a peculiar case and Mr. Preyman is going to make a strenuous ettort to bud the miss ing woman. tic says he is going to offer a reward for her return dead or alive or for any information that will aid him to locate her. The parties were married eight years ago and have no children. DoVt Complain. 11 von. rhest pins y n and von are unuMf to Rleep l-e:,aiiA f a coiiirh. Buv 1 r tl? of Bn lttnl's H irehnund Svrno. .nd von wmi't have anv c-onish. . Get a bottle now ami that lO.iifh will vorlaat one A rn'ftT all (Hilmnnarv diiieaee. M' - 3 Ga'vtn. Texas write: "I can't nv enough lor Bwllard'a Hore- honnd Syrup. Tne reli-f that it has vivan mA ia an mat la nanaaaarv tnr ma to My." Sold by Graham A Wartham.' the worst S?3AYiNMN PROGRESS. Do People Want the Law Enforc ed? Facts for Consideration. County Fruit Inspector Preach estimates that one-fourth the orchards in Benton county have already been sprayed, and the work is progressing rapidly in nearly all sections and in a satis factory manner.' Mr. Fruit wishes to call at tention, however, to certain facts that are likely to be over looked. One of these is the ab solute necessity far spraying even where there is . apparently little scale to be found. The recent freezing weather killed some ot the pests, but . Mr. French' de. clares that the San Jose scale was not killed by the freeze and urges that orchardists be not de ceived into believing otherwise. True, a small per cent of the scale may have been - frozen, but it is not sufficient to hinder the spread of the pest nor to prevent destruction to orchards from it. Where oue man sprays his trees and a neighbor nearby does not spray his, the work of the former is practically in vain because of the neglect of the latter, and it is such cases that makes the path of the county fruit inspector a hard road to travel. As in all other movements, there are supporters of the plan and there are non-supporters, and the task of awakening the indif ferent ones to a sense of their duty both as to their own or chards and to those of their neighbors, is slow of accomplish ment and beset by many difficul ties. The lime and sulphur spray is almost a specific for San Jose scale. For a small number of trees Mr. French recommends buying the prepared mixture in quantities to suit, but for an or chard of one hundred trees or more he advises preparing the mixture at home. The formula for the spray is known to nearly all farmers and is easily obtained if wanted. "If Benton county orchards were cleaned up and kept as they should be the fruit each year would bring $100,000 easily," was the declaration of an exper ienced and well posted man, this week. "That amount of fruit goes to waste in Benton county annually," declared this speaker, "and Benton county can never hope to have a cannery located here until clean, attractive fruit is available to supply it. No one would buy wormy fruit in cans, and it is impossible to run a cannery with, say 50 or 75 employes, and not have wormy fruit put in occasionally if it is thsre to put in, for I have seen it tried and the result is failure both for the farmer who has fruit to sell and for the cannery which sells second rate goods." This is an idea worthy the attention of every Beuton farmer, and should be another incentive for spraying and improving his orchard . Inspector French is anxious to learn the desires of the people jf Benton county in regard to whe ther or not they want the law ritidlv enforced. He believes the majority favots such enforce ment, which is simply to secure the greatest good to the greatest number. However, there is a final and higher authority in the matter than Mr. French, and whether the people want it or not the law may have to be en forced to the very letter. This other authority is Commissioner Charles A. Park, of the Wallace orchard at Salem, who is soon to pay a visit to Benton county or chards. and who will announce his further wishes as to tne man ner in which the work is to be carried on hereabouts. Mr. French is very anxious that every oue take an interest in getting the work as well done as possible before Mr. Park's visit. Within a few miles of Corvallis is place in the COnnty or Si .' J se scale, declares ' ie Benton i isoector, a fct which is princ:i:ily due to 'ong contin.-. ned neylect. In districts farrher, out moie work has been done and the pest has not made such in roads on t'ip fruit trees as is ap parent hereabouts. With Grvallis as the county seat, it b-hooves every citizen to Uinke thi a personal matter and get busv. and to "back up" In spector French in his viorois effori to give Benton better fruit, cl aner fruit and more fruit. 'The Bonnie Briar Bush." It appears as though Ian Mac Laren's story of "The Bonnie Briar Bush" as dramatized by James MacArthur will never grow old. Its success has been and is now phenomenal, but it nevertheless is not a success tnat cannot be accounted for. Of all the good plays that have graced the stage "The Bonnie Briar Bush" is the best and purest. It is a story of human interest, unfolding a life's chap ter in the simple Scottish prlen, so true to nature and to life as to appeal with irrestible force to the audieme. It is a comedy drama, which, like good wine, improves with age. It is fra grant with the heather of bonnie Scotland, is enliveued with point ed, yet harmless Irish wit, and is softened and tempered by the rendering of "Annie Laurie," "The Bonnie Banks of Lock Lo mond" and other songs of Auld Scotland by an excellent quar tette. This beautiful play which will appear here on next Thursday night. March 14, will be given with a most sumptuous scenic equipment, the entire original Kirke LaShelle production being used. The company is practi cally an all star one including among its members such artists as J. Palmer Collins, for several seasons Mr. Stoddard's under study in the role of . "Lachlan Campbell," Chas. E. Bloomer, late of the Froham forces, who has made a name for himself this season in the part of "Pos- ty," W. Leonard Howa, who was brought to this country by Forbes Robertson; Bino Bulow, a beautiful young actress, in this season appearing as flora Campbell," Kenneth MacKen zie, late of the George Edward's company, and many others equally prominent A male quartette will add to the Scottish atmosphere, as will also Robert Ireland, whom every body knows as late Pipe Major of the 48th Highlanders, whose performance on the bagpipe cannot fail to arouse enthusiasm in every heart. ENJOY EATISG. Goad Digestion Can Be Readily Gain ed with Mi-o-na Stomach Tablets. If you cannot eat and enjoy three good hearty meals a day without a feeling of discomfort, your stomach is weak and needs to be strengthened with Mi-o-na stomach tablets. The remarkable curative and etrenRtli- eaiog powers of Mi-o-na i a stomach dis orders is attested by the guarantee which Graham & Wells gives with every 50c box, "We re f and the money if Mi-o-na fails to cure." If you suffei from indigestion, distress after eating, specks before the eyes, head aches, pains in the beck and side, sleep lessness, or any of the other symptona of stomach troubles, begin the use of Mi-o-na stomatn tablets at once. Gra ham & Wells sell them in 50s boxes with a guarantee to refund the money unless they cure. Zierolf keepa all kinds ' and grass seed for sale. clover 22lf NOLAN'S WHITE CAR NIVAL ! week. Don't mis rL. 2