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VOL. XLY. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 1, 1908. NO. 67. RUSSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CLASSIFIEli ADVBKTIREMINTg : Fifteen word or less, 25 cts for thru ncceseive insertions, or 50 rts pe month; for all up to and including te; additional wor)s. cent a word for earl Insertion. For all advertisements over 25 worth 1 ct per word for the first insertion, ai. yi ct per word for each additional inaer tion. NotuiBK inserted for less tfaau z cents. Lodge, society and church notice otber than strictly news matter, will b ciiartred 'or. House. Decorating. for painting am? papering sei VV. .b.'Paul, lnd.-43a : lt) ATTORNEYS Jl V. Y ATK.H jTTUHMr'VJlT.I au. Uoiy set of ajwirauis in neutoii (Jouub t. K. URVSON AITOKM5Y AT i,AV Vmce in iout umie .Building, (otval- as, Oregon. , WANTED W ANTE D 500 SUBSCRIBERS TO THi Oazkttb ana weekly Oregonian al 2.50 per year. PHYSIUANS B. A. UATHKY, M. I., PHYSICIAN .o. - urgeon. Kooina 14, liana. is una lag. uinue Hours: 10 to 12 a. in., i u. 4 p. in. Residence: cur. oui ami au ams oib. 'leieptione at office ana rea taenia. (JorvuUlt), Oregon W. T. ROWLEY, M. JU., PHYSICIAJS auU burgeon. Special attention given to ttie Kyu, Nose and Throat. Office in Jouusou Biug. lnd, 'puoiie at ot- nee and lesldence. UNDERTAKERS BuViK & BAUER, FUNERAL Dl- rectors aud Licensed Embalmers Successors to 8. .N. Wilkins, Corvsitis, Oregon. Iud. Puone 45. Bell f bone 241. H91I HEJSKLE & BLACKLEDGE, UJS'DER takers aud licensed eiuoainiets, boulti Main bt., Uorvalhs, Or. BANKING. THE FIR.-S1 JSATIOMAL BAJJK Oi Corvallis, Oregon, transacts a genera, conservative banking business. .Loan, money on approved security. JJraiu bought and sold ani money translerrec to tue principal cities ot the Uuitec Stales, Europe and foreign countries. HOMES FOR SALE WE HAVE SEVERAL PARTIES who are looking for homestad locations or relinquishments, also some good timber claims. If you know of any good homesteads or timber claims it will pay you to write us. Address liliNA KliAlvlV i;UMPAY, 225 railing Building, Portland, Oregon. WILL SELL LOTS IN CORVALLIS, Oregon, on instalment plan and as sis t purchasers to build hoiiies on then, if ueaired. Address First National Bank. Corvallis. Or. WLLL SELL MY LOTS IN NEWPORT, Or., for spot cash, balance instal ments, and help parties to build hornet thereon, it desired. Address Al. b. VA od ock. Ck.-vailie. O . Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed by the County Court ol the btate ol Oregon tor the County of Benton as ad ministrator of the estate ot Martha Nichols, de ceased, and that he has duly qualified as such ad ministrator. AU persous having claims against aid decednt are hereby notified to present the : sauie, uuly verified, to me at my resideuce in ' Con allis. in Benton County, Oregon, withiusix month, of the date of this notice. Dated at Corvallis, Oregon, this 9th day of Ap ril, ioS. R. J. Nichols, Administrator ul,thc estate of Martha Mchols, deceased. 33M Agricultural College Corvallis, Oregon. Offers collegiate courses in Agriculture, ' including Agronomy, Horticulture, Ani mal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, etc.; Forestry, Domestic Science and Art; Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Mining Engi neering; Commerce; Pharmacy. Offers elementary courses in Agricul ture, Forestry, Domestic Science and Art Commerce, and Mechanic Arts, including forge work, cabinet making, steam fitting, plumbing, machine work, etc Strong faculty, modern equipment, free tuition; opens Sept. 25. Illustrated catalogue with fall informa tion on application to the Registrar, free. 64-4t-fri. PiONEER FIDDLERS' DAY Novel Feature to be Held at The ' Oaks, Portland. John W. Simpson, the father of "Gene is from Arkansaw and is a fiddler. Joseph Yates is from Arkansaw and is also a fiddler. ': These two often take their instruments to some re tired spot .-where family criti cism will . not interrupt and spend a pleasant hour in play ing such , good old time airs as Arkansaw . Traveler, Virginia Heel, Soldier's J ov, Gal on a Log, Fishers Horn Pipe &c. Not long since Fiddler John commu nicated to his friend Joseph that an advertiser .ent had ap peared in , the Oregonian of a Pioneer Fiddlers lie-union to be held at theOaks at Portland and proposed " that they should ,gp. Joseph got busy. He called on his friend Gordon V. Skelton, I (also from Arkansaw) who found in the Oregonian files the adver tisement. He hied to the office of his son Joseph F who is a lawyer. He there pledged the stenographer to secrecy and dic tated a letter answering that ad vertisement. The letter was writ ten on letter heads of the attor ney. A few days ago the attorney received thefollowing letter from the manager of the Oaks : Portland, Or., Aug. 6, 1908. Mr. Jos. Yates, Zierolf Build ing, Corvallis, Oregon. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 3rd ad dressed to The Oregonian, rela tive to pioneer fiddlers, has been refeired to me. I recently in serted an advertisement calling for the names of pioneer fiddlers and thank yon for your interest. ! In answer to several suggestions, 1 am planning a reunion day to take place in the near iuture in which I would like to have as many as possible of old time performers on this inrtrument to attend and get acquainted, and incidentally to have a short program in which each fiddler will play his favorite selections. lhe audience shall be the judge of which they like the best and it is probable that we shall award each one who attends and parti cipates, a beautifully engraved medal commenorating the Pio neer Fiddlers' Day in The Oaks. If you are a fiddler will you kindly drop us a line and indi cate whether vou will attend, if notified in time, and if you will enter the friendly contest and do what you can to make the con test a success. If 'ou know of any others who are likely to be interested, I would be obliged for their names, I have received from various sources about fif teen names of fiddlers who live FOR CHICKEN LICE The Best Louse-killer on the Market The following ingredients, properly combined, form the best known remedy for lice on chickens. It is applied by dusting on the feathers,'and also placing in a box where the fowls may dust themselves with it: Naphtha Sulphur Tobacco Dust Lime Bran or Shorts The above will be put up Drug Store. WASHINGTON AND PORTLAND. WRITE The School that Placet Science in Surgery. Mending a broken arm with a nail is the extraordinary feat in surgery which has just -been performed successfully by Har lem hospital surgeons. It was a plan resorted to after the usual methods had failed, and when the case seemed to be hopeless Now the limb operated upon is as sound as it ever was. Charles Nelson. 15 years old, was injured in a car wreck. He sustained a severe fracture-, which caused one bone to lap over another. He was taken to the Harlem hospital and the limb placed in a splint, but the bones did not set. Thereupon the surgeons resolved upon the novel method of treatment. The lad was put under the influence of ether, and an incision was made in the arm just above the wrist joint. ,What is called the shaft of the bone was pried open and the two overlapping bones were set -together. Meanwhile a steel nail about an inch and a half long had been carefully sterilized and medicated. A vice of cotton and other material was made for the arm, and with an ordinary hammer, the . nail was driven into the arm, pierc ing both bones, in much the same fashion as two boards would be fastened together. The splints were then removed. Nelson returned to the hospi tal yesterday, and it was found that his arm was as strong as it had been before the accident. A few minutes later the boy was playing ball in the street. Tele gram. A man on a bicycle carrying a Winchester rifle, a knife, car tridge beltand other war-like par aphernalia, attracted consider able attention on Main street Syturday afternoon. He rode up to a lunch counter and after look ing all about the street as though expecting someone, he went in. Whether the stranger was "Al kali Pete", "Cucumber Ben", or some other wild and wooly char actor, or only a tourist returning from a vacation is not known. If the latter, he certainly en joyed the notice he attracted. in this community and would like to get more. I thank you for your interest in this matter and trust that we shall have your co-operation in our efforts to provide a little en tertainment out of the ordinary for the pioneer fiddlers at the park. Yours ery truly, D. C. Freeman, Manager. As they do not wish their fam ily to know about the letter ( r their plans for fear of interfer ence, those reading this item are requested not to mention it. to order at Graham &' Wells I BUSINESS COLLEGE TENTH STREETS OREGON FOR CATALOG You in a Good PositionO WORE TENNIS SHOES And Cracked Corvallis Safe Stol en W heel Recovered The Story. Corvallisites ". awoke Friday morning to find that a bold, bad burglar had been busy during the previous night and had en tered the Jack Milne cigar store and billiard hall, cracking the safe and getting away with over $100 in money. Entrance was made through the back-door' of the establishment, a skeleton key being us,ed. The combina tion lock on the safe was then broken off with a hammer and the money taken. There was $97 in gold and silver and a sack of small change, making some thing over $100 in all. Checks m another compartment of the safe were not molested, the bur glar evidently being "wise" to his work. The safe is a small one and was badly used up but can be repaired. During the first few hours it looked as though no trace of the burglar could be found, save his tracks made by tennis shoes, but Chief Wells has made a clever start at unravelling the mystery and knows pretty well who the guilty party is, although it may be lmDOSsible to catch him. The tracks led to the old Horning blacksmith shop, which was entered and a chisel, screw driver and a couple of punches taken, several of these being found later. 1 hence the fellow went to the river bank and back to the rear of Hotel Corvallis, going up the alley then to the cigar store, where he did his work. The tracks again led novifewagc&Ja.tl home'near the saw mill, where a new bicycle belonging to Jes sie' Sheff stood on the front porch. The wheel evidently ap peald to the burglar, for he took it and rode on. He was a poor rider and his "wobbly" track was easily followed down the Al bany road. Nearby towns were notified of the burglary and officers asked to be on the lookout for the wheel, with the result that Fri day afternoon Chief Wells re ceived a 'phone from Albany that a wheel had been found near the oil tank along the C. &( E., and it was believed to be the stolen article. Mr. Wells and Travis McDevitt went to Albany on the evening train and found the bicycle to be the one stolen in this city. Being left as it was not far from the depot, the sup position is that the rider board ed the train out of Albany that day, although no one could be found who had seen him. All evidences lead to the be lief that the man who worked on the safe in Albany recently in the railroad office, the one who made a sensational raid on sev eral Philomath business houses last week, and the man who en tered the Mrs. Anna Mills resi- HfmrA in t.nia nir.w d fflw rlatrs ncrn rp r.ri tho .BamA nPrson I Tennis Vop wpt-a won, hv the party in all these burglaries and a suspicious looking character, wearing tennis shoes, was seen in Corvallis, Thursday, and was in the Milne cigar store, being noticed at the time by Mr. Milne, who said nothing about it, how ever, at the time. Travis Mc Devitt and otheis also saw the fellow, although no one knows who he is nor from whence he came. Mill Improvements. Property is changing hands so rapidly in Corvallis that it keeps even a newspaper man jumping to keep up with the procession. The Cor.al.is taw iniii ch.-iieu nands iour Uuies during th pasi year at an advanced price, and now comes the good news that the new proprietors are prepar ing to enlarge and greatly im prove the property. The new proprietors are Dr. PASSING OF HUGH HERRON. Revered Pioneer of Irish Bend. Funeral Held Sunday. His Life. Death entered a happy home m southern .BentOn, Friday morning at 5:30 o'clock, and claimed the widely known and universally esteemed old pioneer, Hugh Herron, who had been a sufferer .since last March with cancer of the stomach. The news reached Corvallis a few hqurs later, and many an eye was wet and all hearts were touched when it became known that the end had come. The funeral was held at Mc- Farland's chapel, near Monroe, at 11 o'cl ck Sunday forenoon, the services being conducted by Kev. C. L. McCausland of the M. E. church, South, of this city. There was a very large attend ance at the funeral, neighbors and. friends coming for manv miles to pay their last - respects and mingletheir tears with those who mourn a husband, father and old friend. The services were most impressive, and a mixed choir rendered beautiful music. Hugh Herron was ' born in County Down, Ireland, in Sep tember, 1839. He was the youngest of a family of eight children, six boys and two girls, and his father died when he was a small boy. In 1850 the family came to America, settling first in Ohio' but going later to Illi nois. In 1862 Hugh Herron crossed the plains to Oregon, coming directly to Benton coun ty, where he purchased 320 acres of land, 15 miles south of the PJ$se- Wpity! pf JftoraUiassiJ a t o f r t - ' . 7 . a ' - a xobo ne was married, to Miss Nicy H. Winn, at Monroe, and the young people took up their residence on the homestead at Irish Bend. Mr. Herron added to his holdings year by year, be ing a careful business man and a good manager, until at the time of his demise he owned 800 acres of Bentoi county's choicest soil. Throughout the entire course of his life Hugh Herron was known far and near not only as a public-spirited, progressive citizen, but also as a high-minded, honorable, moral man, one of Nature's noblemen, of whom no evil was ever spoken. Few men live as blameless a life as did this grand old gentleman, of whom his sons say "He was al most a perfect man." In his passing the family's loss is be yond compare, while the neigh borhood, county and state loses one of its best and most desir able citizens. The immediate survivors are the widow and the following children: Emery Herron, South Bend, Wash.; Robert, who lives on a part of the old home place; Clayton, who occupies the old home ;f Mrs. C. A. Bushhcll, of Seattle, Wash., and Miss Mar garet who is with her mother at the Robert Herron home An is de other daughter, Lizzie, ceased. The sympathy of the commu nity and of all Corvallis .is ex tended those who mourn. T. W. Harris and H. C. Mahon, of Eugene, and Glenn Bassett, superintendent of the Booth Kelly mill at Springfield. . The owners intend to increase the capacity of the mill from 30,000 to50,000 feet per day. The mill is now running on full time, the river is full of logs and inside of the next ten davs there will be no more delay in building on account of lumber. We welcome the new propri etors as business men and sin cerely hope their investment may not only prove profitable to them but a blessing, to the town. . There will he a band concert on Main street,' Thursday night, to which everyone is invited. WHAT THEY DID At Big Meeting Working on the Plans for All-Benton School Fair The Committee. There was an enthusiastic meeting, .Friday evening, of the general committee of the All. l . . w . Benton school fain at which time other committees were ap pointed and the work given a new impetus. ) The committee on sports reported that the med als had arrived and were on dis play and that the baseballs suits were on the way; the committee on music also stated that the band had agreed to furnish the music for three days for il25. It was decided that a Benton county booth should be a feature of the fair, with Frank Groves in charge. Roy Heater was appointed a committee of one to confer with President Kerr in regard to an OAC booth, and it is probable that such a booth will be an in teresting feature. Prof. Mack will look after the school"' children's parade, and this will no doubt be a great suc cess. A. J. Johnson, A. K. Russ, A. P. Johnson, Tommy Nolan and E. E. Wilson will see to it that there is a business men's parade that will reflect credit on the business part of the city. Robert Johnson will attend to getting out large posters, suitable to the occasion, S. L. Henderson will be the treasurer of the fair, and J. H. Harris will for the use of grounds. Special rates on the railroads are hoped for, and the president and secretary of the Commercial Club"! will "have this matter in hand. - It is planned to have a Cor vallis booth, to be managed un der the auspices of the Coffee Club. N. H. Moore will look after the publicity features of the fair, W. H. Savage will be grand marshal and R. C. Kiger, George Brown, Tommy Fawcett and Julian McFadden were appoint ed to look after the stock parade. From the foregoing announce ments it will readily be seen that things are moving some as re gards the fair, and that it will undoubtedly be the biggest and best event ever pulled off in Corvallis. Clean up the Grass. As we pass around the city and see the dead grass and the weeds, we are impressed with the idea that it would be wise for every property owner to take a little morning exercise. It would not only greatly improve the general appearance of the city but might save a disastrous fire. The grass is so dry that a lighted match, carelessly thrown down, would start a blaze almost anywhere. We all have a sense of pride in the beauty of our homes and why not in our home town? We have cleaned up about four tons of trash that has accumulated around the Gazette office for the past fifty years and we feel that we have a right to offer a little friendly advice to our neighbors. Strangers are now coming in, looking for homes, and there is nothing that detracts from the beauty and grandeur of the sur roundings so much as old dry grass and weeds in the streets. Pull down the old garden rake I and go to work, and when you have finished the job in fine style you will feel like patting yourself on the back and punch ing your neighbor if he don't do likewise. Get all the pleasure you c,an out of life, and the only way to do it is to clean up. Sol Smith Russell's great suc cess, "A Poor Relation," will bo the attraction at the opera housa next Thursday night.