The moat enticing line of
K IT C H E N
RANGES
\
ever seen in Halsey is on display
at the store of
’ HILL & CO.,
with bright porcelain and shining
nickel which need no polish. Up-
to-Uate (ffioking appatatus ; latest
nu proveruenls.
F U R N IT U R E
RUGS
L IN O L E U M S
CO NG O LEU M S
out— He
covert.
was »talking a fawn in
«
utile blow of ths massive forearm
woulfl b*
Tb* huge fangs
TVi the elk this smell was Fear tb
self. He knew the ways of men only
(Continued from page 1)
too well. Too many times he' hod
J.
H.
Thompson and family
seen members of bis herd fall stricken
at n word from the glittering sticks from the county seat visited here
they carried In their hands. He ut­ Sunday.
tered a far-ringing snort
The Pollyanoa club at Browns­
H waa a distinctive sound, begin­ ville has suspended meetings for
ning rather high on the scale ss a the month.
loud whistle and descending Into a
deep basa bawl. And the Killer knew
George Drinkard and wife and
perfectly what that sound meant. It daughter Doris were in Halsey
was a simple way of saying that the Monday evening.
elk would progress no farther down
A moving picture illustrating
thnt trail. The bear leaped in wild
fury.
atockraising ie traveling the county
The bull seemed to leap straight np. this week but gives Halsey the
His muscles had been set at his first go-by.
alarm from Turner's smell on the
Cecil Quimby spent Thursday
wind, and they drove forth the pow­
erful limbs as If by a powder explo­ night at the county seat and W.
sion. He was full In the air when the E. Githens and family were there
forepaws battered down where he had Friday.
been. Then ho darted away Into the
Kenneth* Stone visited Eugene
coverts.
over Sunday and was royally en­
The grizzly knew better than to try
tertained by Mr. Howard, a broth­
to overtake him. Almost rabid with
wrath he turned back to hla ambush. er radio expert.
jo is and 1 ittles
Voters o f Linn C ounty:
gT that
IT IS with full rsaliaation of the responsibilities of the positioo
I am announcing my candidacy for the office of county sheriff
Having been born and raised in Linn county, I feel that I .m fully coa-
vensn t with t s iltin g condition». I f elected I pledge m y ^ lf to serve all
the people of Linn county in performing the d ntie. of the office
1 have
no interest to terve but that of the people, controlled by no clique or or-
g am utioo . I favor the strict enforcement of the law, b elieving that
when law» are placed on our book» they are to be obeyed.
W. J. MOORE.
meeting
ments.
the
foregoing
n q '.ire-
T Miss
Pearl Carey hat returned
to her home at Eugene.
¡^uir Peaches, 75c a bushel
W3OLRIDGE PEACH ORCHARD.
two miles south of Peons.
Mrs. Dr. J. W . Cook of Browns­
Bn ng sacks and boxes
lowed, the breed had been practically
ville spent Friday evening with
All the hunts were progressing fa­ v. iped out. A few of them, perhaps,
Mr». Wheeler.
fled fa rth e r and farth er np the Ces-
mously when there came a curious In
c.tdes, finding refugee in the Canadian
terruptlon. It was a peculiar growl
The Brownsville Good Citizen,
John Standish, J. C. Standish
quite low at first. It lasted a long n ountnlna. O thers traveled east. Io
ship league pro|>oses to form a
(To be continued.)
,
eating
nt
last
in
the
Rocky
moun­
and
wife
and
Mrs.
Mary
Haves
tim e, than died away. T here w as no
county organization,
tains, and countless num bers of them
Hsy, Grain, stock hauling, etc. Heavy
motored to Corvaliieto spend Sun­
opposition to It. The forest creatures
died.
At
last,
as
far
as
th
e
frontiers­
N. H. Bateman and wife of
hauling a specialty.
day with F. E. Taylor and wife.
had paused In th eir tracks at its first
Brownsville visited at W . H . Phone
note, and now they stood us if the men knew, only one great specimen
Poultry-culling
demonstrations
remained. This w as a famous bear
Chance's Stfbdav of last week.
w in ter had come down upon them sud
W . H. B E E N E
were attended by 28 people at
denly and frozen them solid. All the th u t men celled Slewfoot—a magnifi­
Halsey, Oregon
Charles Holloway and wife i f
Harmony.
13
at
Brownsville
jmd
7
cent
anim
al
th
at
ranged
fa
r
and
o th er sounds of the forest—the little
Brownsville are visiting at the
hunted
relentlessly,
and
no
one
ever
at
Harrisburg.
Wo’
ve
no
com­
w hispering noises of gliding bodies
home of Otis Taylor at Corvallis.
ment.
and fluttering feet, and perhaps „ knew ju s t when they were going to
We have Iota of good
run
across
him.
H
e
was
apt
suddenly
Harrisburg walloped Eugene 4
bird's call in a shrub—were suddenly
In July E- J. Henderson’s 217
to 1 Sunday at the former city and
stilled.
T here was a moment of to loom up, like a gray cliff, a t any
bens near Brownsville laid an
Auto repairing
breathless suspense. Then the sound turn In the trail, and hta disposition
won the baseball league penuant
Tires, oils anil accessories
I grew querulous with age. In fact, ln- on hand and are getting more everv day average of 16.9 eggs each and
commenced again.
lor
the
upper
W
illamette
valley.
.
"
• " J * rec! ived » “hipm ent of
| stead of fleeing as moat wild creatures
Mrs. O. C, Karstens* 93 averaged
It was louder this time. It rose and
buying**1” *'
c , t our F ic e e b* ,ore
have
learned
to
do,
he
was
rath
er
16.08.
Ae far as can be learned from
gathered volume until It was alm ost a
likely
to
make
sudden
and
unexpected
•n
Y
v
v
hV
.*
*
l,r
<
* ’ u* k of
the
Harrisburg
Bulletin's
account
roar. It carried through the silences charges.
AflOOcow belonging to J. C. it was those cancers of which he onn w X 4
to $40. Very good condition.
A ll at
pric"
In great waves of sound. And In It
H e was killed a t la s t; and seem­
Curry was crowded by other cattle
bargain pricas.
w as a sense of resistless pow er: no
was
alleged
to
have
been
cured
at
ingly the southern Oregon grizzlies
against a wuier tank and a pro.
42J West F irs t at., Albany, Oregon.
creature in the forest but what knew
Brooton Springs that caused the
were wiped out. But It Is rath er eaav
jecting piece of galvauized iron
this fact.
death of Tilden Warden, projyie
to believe th at In some of bis wander-
ripped a terrible gash in her belly.
"T he Gray King," one could im agine
tor of the Rowland store.
lags he encountered—lost and fa r In
Thia was patched up and on Sat­
A R C H IE C O R N E L IU S
them saying among themselves. The
the
deepest
heart
of
the
land
called
effect w as instantaneous. The III tie
When Leonard Gilkey started Telephone 16z3
urday she dropped a nice calf.
Props,
T rail's End—a fem ale of his own
The cow waa turned loose and for the Snokaue Interstate fair
raecopn halted in his descent, then breed
T here m ust have been cubs
crept out to the end of a limb. The who. in th eir turn, m ated and fought E xpert workmanship. Watches and Monday evening wae found lying with his exhibits of products he
coyote, an instant before craw ling and died, and perhaps two generations
in a pool of blood, probably fatally took as far as Portland two M i.
clocks a specialty.
w ith body close to th e earth, whipped I a fte r them. And out of the Inst brood
injured, having got caught in a Donald boys, aged 14 and 16, the
OREGON patch of blackberry vines and torn former blind, who had run away
about as if ‘he had some strange kind ’ had emerged a single great male, a HALSEY
of circular spring inside o f him. He worthy descendant of his famous an­
herself open again.
from borne and sought farm work,
snurled once in (he general direction ' cestor. This was th e Killer, who in
■ ud returned them to their father.
Dealer in
of the Gray King. Tlien he lowered 1 a few months since he had left his
Mre. Georgia Starr Morse of
his head and skulked off deeper into fastnesses, was beginning to ruin the
Brownsville, who in an advertise,
Professor W . F. Sierr, the new
the coverts.
cattle business in T rail's End.
ment elsewhere offers to give les­ superintendent of tire Brownsville
Office 1st door south of school boOse
The blacktall deer, the gray wolf,
As he cam e growling from his bed
sons on the violiu to people of schools, has arrived. The instruct,
Halsey,
Oregon.
even the stately Tawny One, stretched this Septem ber evening he was not a
Halsey, Harrisburg and Shedd, ors for the year are:
High
In grace In his lair, wakened from i creature to speak of lightly. He was Dealer
in Real Estate. has
had some very successful school, Professor Starr, Mabel Da­
sleep. The languor died quickly In down on all fours, his vast head was
Handles Town and Country Property classes in her home town in late vids, Lida White, Gladys Lupher
the la tte r's eyes, leaving only fear
lowered, his huge fangs gleamed In G ive him a call and see tf be can fix
30 days' credit
years.
She
had
thoroughly and Mrs. Bernice Coshow; North
These were braver than the I.ittle 1 the dark red mouth. The eyes werff you up.
grounded herself in ber art before Brownsville public school, Mrs. W-
People. They w aited until the thick I small, nnd curious little red lights
F A I .K B R O S .,
brush, not far distant from where the glowed In each of them. The K iller
she essayed the role of teacher. L. Starr, Mr». Clara B Lawrence,
hull elk slenr. began to break down
Among her instructors ware W ill­ Nell S. Turner a ad Gladvs Stew­
and p a rt before on enormous, gray
iam Wallace Graham of Portland, art; South Brownsville, Sadio K.
body.
Edwin Ludwig Nelson of Albany McKenzie, principal, and Trula
No longer would an observer think
a nd George Cherniowsky of Seattle. M iller, Lillian
Warmoth and
of the elk as the forest monarch, lie
She a'so took instruction iu Eu. Lorena Fox.
w as but a pretender, a fte r all. The
A ll work done promptly and rope. Her announcement open»
real king had ju st wakened from Ids
The fifth candidate for the
reasonably. Phone No. 269.9
a desirable opportunity for thosi-
afternoon nap and w as starting forth
shrievalty
o f Linn county is Frank
who wish to attain high rank a-1
to hunt.
Richards of Lebanon. The candi­
violinists.
Even his little cousins, the black
dates are all running as indepen­
bears, did not wait to make eonversa
In
open
oongregational
meeting
dents,
it being too late to make
tion. They tum bled aw kw ardly down
the Lebanon Church of Christ has new parly nominatione under the
th e hill to get out o f his way. For
W IL D E Y LODGE NO. 65.
resolved that providing any body law. after the a«»aa«inatlon of
th e massive gray form —weighing over
F . M . f r c n c h a s on s
Regular meeting next Saturila» of Christian people in that city Sheriff Kendall. W. J. Moore of
h alf a to n - was none other than thut
ALBANY
ORCO.
night.
of the last of the grizzly hears, that
‘‘will unite on only those things Brownsville is the only democrat
terrible forest hunter and monarch,
that are common to all Protestant in the running, and that he ie
the K iller him self
churches and on only those which popular is seen by the fact that
TRUCKING
E. L. Stiff
FURNITURE EXCHAN6E
H alsey G arage
USED F U R N I T U R E
U sed
R an g es, $20
Satisfaction Guaranteed
W* TCHMAKER & Jeweler
Halsey Garage, Foote Bros.
Halsey
Meat Market
W. J. Ribelin
Fresh and
Cured Meats
Props.
F. M. GRAY,
We make a
Specialty of
Friendship,
Engagement and
Wedding
Rings
Draym an.
I. O. O. F.
W R IG H T & PO O LE
Long ago. when Oregon .
n new
land to whltts men, in the days of the
clipper ships nnd the Old Oregon
T rail, the breed to which the Killer be­
longed were really numerous through
the little corner north of the Siskiyou»
and west of the Cascades. They were
a worthy breed! If th e w ords of cer
tain old men conhl be believed, th e
southern Oregon grizzly' occasionally.
In the bountiful fall days, attained a
w eight of two thousand pounds. No
doubt w hatever rem ains th at thou­
sand-pound hears were numerous.
The K ille r Was Cross; and He Dido1!
Hut unlike the little black bears, the
Care Who Knew I t
grizzlies developed displeasing habits
They wore much more carnivorous In « a s cross; and be didn't care who
ch aracter tlm a the blacks, nnd their knew It. He was hungry too; bat
great bodily strength gad power en­ hunger Is an emotion for the beasts
abled them to m aster all of the myriad of prey to keep carefully to them-
form s of gam e ht the Oregon woods 1 selves.
F y the 'an te token, they could take a
The Killer moved quite softly. One
full-grown steer and carry it off us a would have marreied how silently his
woman carries her.baby.
great feet fell upon the dry earth and
It couldn't he endured. The cattlg-
with what »light sound his heavy
pten had begun to settle the valleys, form moved through the thickets He
and If w as either a case of killing the moved slowly, cautiously—all the time
grizzlies or yielding the valleys to mounting farther up the little hill that
them . In the relentless w ar th at fol
rose from the banks of the stream.
He came to an opening In the thicket,
would have to close down hut once.
Th* bear d'd not move a single tell- I a little brown pathway that vanished
ta le muscle
He scarcely breathed. | quickly into the shadows of the cov-
The bull was alm ost within strik in g ! ' erta.
range now.
The wicked red eyes ; The Killer slipped softly Into the
could already discern the dimmest ; heavy brush Just at t u mouth. It was
shadow o f his outline through the his ambush. Soon, be knew, some of
thickets, liut all nt once he stopped. the creatures that bad bowers In the
h«ad lifting. The K iller knew th at th e ! h(-art#of the thicket would be coming
elk hut! neither detected bis odor nor along that trail onto the f»>edlng
heard htm. and lie had made no move­ grounds on the ridge. H e bad- only
m ents that the sharp eyes could de- , to waif.
The night wind, rising somewhere In
tect.
Yet the bull was evidently |
alarm ed lie stood Immobile, one foot I the region of the n o w banks on the
lifted, nostrils open, bead raised. ! highest mountains, blew down into the
Then, the wind blowing true, the gria- Killer's face and brought messages
that no human being may ever receive.
zly understood
A pungent' smell reached him from i Then his sharp ears heard the eound
below—evidently the smell of a living of brush cracked softly as soma one
creatu re that followed the trail nlong of the larger forest creatures came
th e stream that flowed through the up the trail toward him. •
The steps drew nearer and the
slew He recognized It iq an Instant.
Ha hiul detected It many times, par­ Killer recognized them. They were
ticularly when he went into the plainly thevsoft footfall of some mem­
cleared lands to kill cattle. It was ber of the deer tribe, yet they were
man. an odor alm ost unknown in this too pronounced to be the step of any
lonely glen. P ave T urner, brother of of the lesser deer. The bull elk had
Hinton, w as w alking down the stream left his bed. The red eyes of the
grizzly seemed to glow as he waited.
tow ard U udauua lam p.
Groat though the Mag. w ss only one
'X - W
L IC E N S E D F U N E R A L D IR E C T O R S
H A R R IS B U R G
LE B A N O N
Phone 35
.
Phone 15
Branches at
Brownsville, Phone 37C15.
Halsey Phone 166. F rank K irk , Mgr
are scriptural” the Church of Christ
will ask its pastor, V. K. Allison,
to resign, will sell ell ita property
and devote the proceeds to benevo­
lent, educational or miaaHnary
purpose», and go in a body and
take membersb'p with the church
Kendall’s majority over him four
years ago, when both wore candi.
dates, was only 385 in the strongly
republican county.
Q A N IT A R Y
Lz
( Continued on page 4)
First class work gusrsnteed
A . M. O O LT N A
S T IM S O N
Are You Looking A head?
Ave you saving lor the future or spending all as you got
Saver or Spender ?
The saver w ill soon he able to own h it own farm or business
His
success is assured ,
The spender has a good time early in life, spending a ll, and too late re­
alizes the truth of the saying
’ ’The secret of success is saving."
Which One Are Y ou?
Save a little each week au.l prepare for the future.
Radiar Shop
Chiu, and
.
Barber
Batts
Amor A. Tim ing
“The Shoe Doctor”
L A W Y E R A ND N O T A R Y
will move to
B row ksvii . i . k ,
316 W. Second St.,
ALBANY
O kkoon
C .C . B R Y A N T
Opposite Hamilton's Store
ATTORNEY A T LA W
Sept. 25th
Ctaaick Bank Building,
Albany, Oregon.
Tell your triends and everybody else
T h e F irs! Savings Bank of A lb a n y, Oregon
W t Mil
Where Savings »re safe ”
Be caved friends com m itting to my care for preparation and burial
the Claxtonola
to m e in and hear it play
Sothe remains of beloved ones may feel assured of the same respectful and 2
Setrnder treatment I would wish to be given my own dear one». E very 2
g,wi»h carried out in detail and prices gnaraatetd to satisfy. Best of
§®equipment and complete stock.
N. C. L O W E
^LICENSED M O R TIC IAN AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR
L E B A N O N , O R E. ’
Ik*v nr niarht PSr.nm O
• _ ■ . _ a .
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Fire, theft, collision, property damage and
personal liability. Protect yourself against ;
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A ll
phonograph
records sud
needles.
W here our ice cream la served there
is sure to lie satisfaction. For (he fam ­
ily dessert there is nothing so delicious.
W ith each succeeding spoonful you 'll
like it more and more. Let us send
you some. We have sll flavors. W e
sell pints, qurrts, half gallons sad g al­
lons.
Clark's Confectionery
ET SOMETHING that is stout that is,
C A B L E , in place of rope-^-stronger
and lasts a lifetime.
When jo u buy machine oil don't think
any old grease is oil. We have a heavy red
E N G IN E OIL, host that can be bought, at
5 0 a gallon. Try it. T W IN E ¡« here.
C. P. STAFFORD, A gent. . i
G. W. M ornhinweg
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