The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-25

come potent factor IN politics. =
This seems to be in accordance with
the expression of the democratic
organ of Benton county. -
ANOTHER TEMPERANCE LECTURE. '~'
Drunken cowardly Assassins Shoot To-
wards Three Ladies' Passing the
Street, and Afterwards Shoot
| at the City Marshall.
1t has been claimed for generations
that money was the root Of all evil,
bnt the nature of things has changed
so remarkably that this old saying is
no longer applicable to the present
order of things. Under the existing
state of affairs it is becoming a well
established fact that drunkenness and
intemperance is the root of all evil
because men perpetrate cowardly
misdeeds which there is no excuse
or occasion for them to do when
drunk, that no one would do at any
other time.
We are compelled to chronicle
another affray wherein hanging would
not be too severe for the demons who
perpetratcd it. On last Sunday even.
ing Mrs. Vincent had been to the
residence Of Judge Chenoweth
to make friendly call and
about ten O'Clock she started
home, when Miss Lizzie Chenowcth
and her sister Mrs. Mary McFadden
started to accompany her part way.
The moon was shining bright and
when they had proceeded as tar as
the vacant lots between Col. Hogg's
residence and Dir. Lees residence on
Third street, two demons in the form
of men, mounted on light gray horses,
rode into Third street just ahead of
them from towards the river, hollo-
ing and running their horses like
wild indians on the war path, when
they espied the three ladies named
walking quietly along the side walk,
they Immediately turned their horses
and rode rapidly in direction of the
ladies. The from: horseman drew a
revolver and commenced firing to-
wards the ladies. AS soon as the
first shot was fred the ladies began
to run but the cowardly assailants
continued riding towards them and
firing upon them. After the second
shot the ladies had succeeded in
reaching the residence of DR.. Lee,
where they threw the gate open and
dropped down behind the fence, when
the horsemen turned and rode to-
wards Mary's river bridge: One of
the shots came so close to the ladies
that they heard the bullet whistle
plainly as is went by then1.- Marshall
Pygall and VIM. Campbell were up
at the Mary's river bridge and heard
the shots and yellings when they
started as rapidly as they could go
in the direction of the disturbance.
They had run down as far as Mrs.
Wrights residence when they met
the outlaws coming at full speed.
Marshall Pygall yelled for them to
stop and they fred two shots at him,
one of these shots going 80 close to
Pygall and Campbelfthat they, heard
a very dtsagreeable tiBgling- in the
ears as the bali passed.
Every good citizen, above all
things, desires to live in a quiet,
peaceable community. Although we
have strict laws forhidding the sale
of liquors and making men drunk on
Sunday, yet there is hardly Sunday
passes bye but what the places where
liquors are sold are kept open on that
day and mer mady crazy drunk with
the liquor supplied them in these
places, so that drunken men can be
found in our town nearly every
Sunday. IF things have coma to that
pass, that the ladies of our town can
not safely visit from neighbor to
without being rode upon,
assailed and shot at by a lot of drunk
en- horsemen, it is, time that the
peaceable citizens of our town should
build good substantial scaffold in
the most convenient part of town SO
that it can be used for every day
work. We do not believe in doing
anything rashly, but men whether
drunk or not, whose natures are SO
devoted to crime as to perpetrate
such cowardly act as to ride their
horses on to ladies passing the street
and to shoot at them, should have
both barrels of double tarreled shot
gun turned loose upon them, or else
be hung upon the first limb, and men
who sell liquor on Sundays and In
of law, SO as to make men
and ia condition to perpe i