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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-02-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
concerned that I, the undersigned, have
been duly appointed executxx of the last
will and testament of Philip Weber,
deceased, by the county court of Benton
county, Oregon; and all persons having
claims against said estate are hereby required
to present the same, duly verified, with the
proper vouchers, to me at my home in Cor
wallis, Benton county, Oregon, within six
months from the date of this notice.
MARY WEBER,
Executrix of the last will and testament
Of Philip Weber, deceased.
Dated January l3, 1892.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-02-12

The cash value in the policy of the
Mass. Mutual makes it collateral loan
at any bank or with the company, at
6 per cent, after two payments. Com
pare with other companies and you
will find no cash value, and a liability
to loose all you pay in, in case of mis-
fortune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-02-12
COUNTY COURT NOTES.

The petition of VIM. Rails, of Monroe
precinct, praying for a liquor license, came
up for contest, on the ground that said petit
tion did not contain the names of majority
of the legal voters of the precinct, and that
a number of the signers were not qualified
to sign the said petition. Those remonstrat-
ing filed number of affidavits to sustain
their objections, while the petitioners filed
a counter affidavit. The petition was DIS
missed for the reason that, in the opinion of
the court, it did not contain majority of
the names of the legal voters of the precinct
Petition of -- Mckinney, of Monroe,
asking for a liquor license, was withdrawn
A liquor license was granted to Willard
Hunsaker to run saloon at Yaquina pre-
cinct.
PROBATE.
Reuben Kiger, executor of the estate of
John Sylvester, deceased, filed his final ac-
count, and Friday. March IL, 1892, was the
day set by the court for hearing said final
account.
Mrs III. p. Harris, administrative of the
estate of H. ?. Harris, deceased, made final
settlement and was discharged. All the
personal property of the estate was distrib-
uted to Mrs. Harris and George Harris, her
son.
r. S. Barclay, executor of the estate of
VIM. Barclay made final settlement Febru.
airy End. and was discharged
George Ii. Rosebrooks, guardian of the
estate of Joseph w. Rosebrooks, minor,
was granted an order by the court to sell
real estate. consisting of house and lot in
the city of Corvallis, belonging to said minor.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-02-12
ASSIGNEES' NOTICE.

Notice is hereby gwen that the under
signed has been duly appointed assignee Of
the estate of II. G. Read, an insolyent
debtor. and all persons holding claims
against the said T. G. Read are hereby
notified to present the same to the under
signed at his office in Corvallis, Oregon,
duly verified within three months from the
date hereof.
W. S. HUFFORD, Assignee.
Dated December 80, 1891.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-02-12
MARRIED..

AN-PITMAN.-At the Presby-
terian parsonage ON Saturday, February
6, 1892, by DIR. Thompson, Mr.. j. N.
Hoffman, of Hoskins and Miss Nettie
Pitman, of Corvallis.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-02-12
FARMERS INSTITUTE.

Below we present the programme of the farmers
institute which is to be held under the auspices of
Corvallis Grange, No. 242 in the court house, Cor
Wallis, Thursday and Friday, February Is and 10.
There should be a good attendance, not only by
the farmers of Benton county, but by the citizens
of Corvallis, who do much toward encouraging
this most useful work, and making Benton the ban.
ner county of Oregon.
THURSDAY, 7:3o p. M.
MUSIC
PRAYER, REV. E. j. THOMPSON.
ADDRESS, Hon. JOHN BURNETT
WHY ARE WE "pArRoNs~ HT. French
MUSIC.
FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURE,
JAMES CAUTHoRE
THE COUNTRY HOME AND ITS RELATION TO THE
COUNTRY SCHOOL, ALICE HoRNISe
DECLARATION. J. w. STORMS
DEMONSTRATION WITH THE DELAvEL BABY CREAM
SEPARATOR.
ADJOURNMENT
FRIDAY, $50 A. M.
FARM DRAINAGE c. D. THOMPSON.
DISCUSSION.
THE OREGON VEGETABLE GARDEN, HI FRENCH
MUSIC.
SILOS AND ENSILAGE, j. W. WILKINSON
ADJOURNMENT FOR DINNER.
FRIDAY, 1870 p. M.
MUSIC.
PUBLIC ROADS, Hon. M. F. STARR.
DISCUSSION.
PROGRESSIVE FARMING IN THE WILLAMETTE VAL
LEY, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DAIRYING.
C. H. SCHMIDT.
MUSIC.
GoPHERS AND MoLEs, FL. wAsHBuRS.
DISCUSSION.
FARMERS AND FARMERS HOMES, S. C. STARR.
MUSIC.
FRIDAY, 7:3O p. M.
QUESTIONS FROM QUESTION BOX.
MUSIC.
ESSAY. CLAW" MRS. A. r. SuIPLEY.
AGRICULTURE, B. S. PAGUE.
DISCUSSION.
MUSIC.
RECITATION, Miss JENNIE MCGLLIs.
ESSAY, 'woMENs EMPLOYMENT" MRS. H. T. FRENCH.
MUSIC.
requested take part in the discussion of
the topics presented in the programme question box will
be provided and times this feature is the most interest
ing and instructive of any.
Bring lunch baskets and take part in the picnic dill
the 10Th the Grange Hall in Farra's brick
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York with her maid and child, and. in pas
sing, struck her left knee against the sharp
eoge OF barrel which had been set over
az open coal hole in the pavement in front
OF Thomas Bottoms building on the south
east corner of Washington and Liberty
streets Some mysterious injury to the
oone seems to have resulted, and IN April
1871. Mrs. Maltbies condition had become
SO serious that her leg was amputated at
tae thigh. She broughs suit against the
MoeI Asphalt company, whose workmen
put the barrel in the coal hole and on De-
cember II. 1891, jury in the supreme court
awarded her ST., 500 damages. She was then
Just thirty-two years of age. e
Miss Clara a. Lake, OF North Gage, New
ork, recovered on January 10, 1890, YER
dict OF $4,000 damages against some reck-
less men OF the vicinage who had come to
cniyaree" her on the superstition that she
had been married, and with the rural
lolocy commonly displayed on such occa-
slons. had fired gun off and put out one of
her eyes.
Miss Hannah Wherry's $1,000 damage
suit against the Brooklyn bridge trustees,
brought in January, 1882, for damages
caused by splinter running through her
shoe sole into her foot as she was walking
over the promenade. is looked forward to
with considerable interest by the legal fra
teruitV
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SAVED BY TIE SCISSORS.

Snakes will not pass over hair ropes.
The average life of ship is about TWEEN
ty-six years.
In France match making is a govern
ment monopoly.
In France ell postage stamps are sold at
the cigar shops
The average length of a generation is
thirty-three years and four months.
Oranges and lemons are picked long be-
fore they are ripe for export.
The better class of the Philippine island
ers smoke cigars foot long.
il takes about a quarter of o century to
get the elephant to full maturity.
Between 1890 and 1850 3, 400 women were
burned for witchcrsft.
About 300 organ-grinders arrive in Lon
don every June from Italy and leave again
about October
1t is supposed that the average depth of
sand In the deserts of Africa is from thirty
TO forty feet.
The title of "reverendn has been applied
to clergymen since the middle of the seven
teenth century.
Agates are kind of quartz. Most of
them come froIS South America, and espe-
cially from Brazil.
BY far the deepest lake known in the
world Is Lake Baikal, in Siberia. 1t is
from Z, 900 to 5000 feet deep.
1t is stated that over 10000 persons land
at Jopps every year in order to make a
pilgrimage to Jerusalem and other spots
celebrated in sacred history.
Sufferers from neuralgia are warned by
a medical writer not to drink tea, but to
drink freely Of coffee into which the Juice
OF lemon has been squeezed.
Glass or enamel letters can be fixed on
glass windows by a cement composed of
one part india-rubber and three parts mas
tic, dissolved in fifty parts of chloroform.
In the southwestern islands of japan the
women are the laborers Their hands are
roughened and tanned with heavy work.
while the mems are delicate and white.
A line of telephone, the first that unites
two Italian cities, has been opened at
Milan, establishing telephone communica
ton between that city and Pavia. 1t is
more than thirty miles long and acts per
fectly.
In digging the foundations of a new sac
risty for the Church of ST. Christopher at
Turcolng, trench was discovered con-
tanning more than 1000 skeletons. It ia
supposed that they are the remains of
those who fell at the battle of Turcoing.
which was fought on May II, 1894.
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ran from $50, 600 10 $40, 600, and he was run
over by one Of defendants trains, after
having been, without fault Of his own put
off another. A Canadian blacksmith is
said to have received s25, 900 some years ago
from the Great Western railroad for SINH
lar injuries.
The court of appeals of New York in 1889
affirmed the judgment of the Orange circuit
of the supreme court on verdict of S26, 493
damages awarded to William n. Albert,
passenger who had been injured in sleep
ing car on the New York, Lake Erie g.
Western road by the swinging door of an
other train passing.
A most remarkable case is that of Martin
Christianson, Dane, who has brought suit
for s75, 900 damages against the New York
& Cuba Steamship company, for injuries
sustained from fall down into the hold of
one of the defendants steamers. The
spinal column was fractured above the
lumbar region, and the man, who was taken
to Bellevue hospital, not only did not die,
but actually seemed after a time to have
become well-above the waist. He very
properly expects to be well paid for having
been turned into freak, q surgical marvel,
a man who can live on and on after having
sustained injuries which send most of
their victims into the next world, but only
killed one half of Martin Christensen.
a freight brakeman has rights which
some juries respect H. L. Hall, while
coupling cars on the Rock Island road, lost
leg. A jury at Fairfield, Iowa, gave him
ST., 900 damages on February p, 1890
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR AN
ARM
In the case of Hickinbottom against the
Delaware & Lackawanua Railroad COM
pany, the court of appeals OF New York
held that a verdict of $751; for the loss
of plaintiffs arm, where the injury ines
pacitated him for carrying on a business
which brought him IN g., 900 year, was not
excessive.
There are a great many men who would
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17

her toe ana mashed itso it had to be cut off.
Lena's friends saved the toe, thriftily, in
alcohol. and showed it TO the jury.
Some of the cnriosities of the law OF neg
ligence are worthy, from newspaper point
OF view, of an article ali to themselves. If
you, sin broad-day light, go into q mans
vineyard TO borrow some of his grapes
without bis knowledge and with no inten-
tlon to repay the loan, you are trespasser-
Ii ne has set spring gun there for thieves,
and the gun goes oil and shoots you, you
can recover damages from him. This has
been decided in Iowa. But ii the transac-
ton took place at night, then you couldn't
get any damages.
Frank Carew bought q gun in London
three years ago and went to Africa to shoot
antelope with it. He was plunging away
with itrone day when il purst and hurt
him. He went right back to London and
sued the dealer who sold him the gun for
$4,000 damages, and what is more he got the
money.
The biggest damage suit on record. so
far as anybody seems 10 know, was brought
a good many years ago by the Webster
Loom company against e. S. Higgins 81 Co.
for the infringement Of a patent wire mo-
ton in a carpet loom. The damage claimed
was assessed at sos, 750. 600. OF course,
that suit is too TAT in pickings for the law
yers to permit it to come to an end. 1t is
still pending. JOHN PAUL BocoCK.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17
THE WORLD oF LARnR.

Coal is cut by electricity
England uses paper barrels.
machine is to black boots.
London has So 600 Welshmen.
London has electric fire engines.
Ten railroads centre in London.
An electric tricycle. is announced.
Wasps were the first papermakers.
A tunnel will go through the Alps.
Indiana natural gas is petering out.
Marmora has floating fire engine.
Austria talks of a school for millers.
Oregon on wheels" is coming east.
Baltimore lreland) has q fishing school.
England makes flexible metallic tubing.
Russia will have an S00-mile electric rail-
road.
The average size of an American farm ia
Clio acres.
Apple seeds are used in making prussia
acid.
The first steel pens cost the manufacturer
Sl.25 apiece,
A Berlin dry goods house has a regular
physician for its employees.
No bank failure has occurred in China for
goo years. For failure the officers must
lose their heads.
Chronographs are now being made that
are capable Of measuring to the ten-thous-
andth part of a second.
The first N atches were pieces of wood
about six inches long tipped with sulphur.
They caught fire easily from a piece of
flint
The government of New Brunswick is
about to levy tax on insurance, telegraph
street railway, express and banking com
panies
A cocoon of wen-fed silk worm will
often yield thread LOCO yards long. and
one has been produced which contained
!, 295 yards.
One hundred and twenty-seven years
ago England seized the first eight bales of
cotton raised in the south and declared it's
production should cease.
The new clock being made for ST. PapI,s
cathedral in London will have face thirty
feet in diameter. The hammer which
strikes the bell weighs $50 pounds.
The Importance of our commerce. with
Great Britain IS shown by the fact that she
takes SI72, coo out OF a total of s975 :
600, OC0 of our exports of farm products,
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quite willingly give an arm for that sum,
1 but there are few juries, probably, who
would make such an award The Judges
watch the amounts of verdicts very care
fully. In Duck VS.. Webb, IS, Hun. D. 1S5
/ the supreme court of New York declared
that where no personal violence had been
used a verdict of 81, 600 was excessive for
requiring passenger to ride in an ordinary
car instead Of a drawing-room car The
/ law says the jury must be the sole Judges
of the measure of damages. But the iudpes
and the other lawyers who are not on the
bench are constantly finding some legal ex-
cuse to take away from juries this consti-
tuuonal prerogarve- They interfere on
the ground that q verdict has been rendered
for an excessive amount by reason of "pas
sion'' or prejudice. They are indeed.
constantly interfering with what they saw
is mot legal" however right and Just it
may be.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR BABY
In the case of Ehrman against the
Brooklyn City Railroad company. SO New
York State Reports, page $50, the court of
appeals held that verdict Of S25, 600 for a
child three and a-half years old, who lost his
leg through the negligence of car driver.
was not excessive
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad
paid little Dora Paine's guardian 81, 500 for
udfluk hlllCQ nGI uObLSE anu StGD1ath6r at
Rose Hill The Highland Ferry company.
at Poughkeepsie had to pay 81, 500 to little
Alice Bartholomew after she stepped in
hole in the ferry house and was crippled
for life Manuel Silberstein, boy. got
SIS, 600 damages in the supreme court of
New York because Houston street bob
tail car ran over him and cut off his arm.
But the corporations shrewd lawyers
managed to get the verdict set aside. That
is what corporations hire lawyers for. If
they can't get such verdicts done away
with legitimstely they will actually set q
trap for the trial judge, artfully inducing
him to rule on some apparently minor cues
ton in direct contradiction to some decis-
ion of the court of appeals. Then these
crafty fellows cease to care how large the
verdict is. They feel sure they will get a
reversal.
Little Manuers suit, by the way. was
tried a second time in November. 1890. and
he got $4,000 that time. Little Lena
Schmidt was actually encouraged by the
good fortune of some of her little fellow
citizens and fellow sufferers to sue the
owners of a tenement at No. 223 East
Thirty sixth streetfor $1,000 damages he
cause a blue stone flag in their yard fell on
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OLE INTEREST TO Wnnrn

Mrs. Amanda Moss, of Lincoln, Kan.
has just received commission as notarv
public.
Mrs. Harrison is becoming quite skillful
as water-color artist, and has alreadv
adorned the White House with some of heT
works.
The famous Florence Nightingale is now
seventy two years of age. She is in feeble
health, resulting from q prolonged attack
uf the grip.
Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote
"CurieW Snail Not Ring Tonight is
living in California, and is busy on his.
tory of Oregon.
Mrs. Clara L. Williams, the only remain
ing woman on the school board OF New
York city, has been made chairman of the
committee on evening schools.
Rudyard Kipling's young wife. thouoh
pretty, charms more by her manners than
by her good looks She is a tall and slender
brunette with large and lustrous black ewes
At breakfast party given by Mrs. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox in New York last weaI-
ices were served in real American beauty
roses; the cards were written on ribbon
attached TO corsage bouquets.
Miss Louisa Macdonald, the recentlv
elected principal Of the New Uniyersity
college Tor women at Sydney, N. S. W., is
ohlJ 10 col otu' ouo uds splendid rec
ord as classical scholar and student of
classical history, and reputation as an
arch9ologist.
Mrs. DR.. Lutz, late sister Rose Gertrude
says that she is quite happy in her mar,
riage and her home and is content To live
and labor in the leper settlement of the
Hawaiian islands, where she is doing ali
that is within her power to make the un-
fortunate people in her care as comfortable
as possible.
AT one of Mrs. Leland Stanford's hand
some luncheons in Washington last week
the pin-cushion favors were heart-shaned
and tied with satin ribbons with the name
of the guest painted on one end of the bow.
A covering of antique lace was laid over
yellow satin on the table, and scarlet tu-
lips massed in a central mound
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FORTUNE In DAMAGE
Astonishing Sums Awarded
Plaintiffs by Juries.
A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A KISS
urs. McComb's Verdict Of Over Two Millions
How Baby Got Twenty-Five Thou
sand Dollars Damages.

tFor THE SUNDAY HBRAID-Copyrighted I
Mrs. Homer r. Baldwin's suit for a
quarter Of q million dollars damages against
the New York Central railroad company
has PROFESSIONALLY aroused the attention
OF lawyers and litigants all over the civil
lized world. Such an item of news as that
would even claim and get few lines IN a
london journal. The sum touches the ex-
tfeme limit o. amounts claimed as damages
Ter personal injuries. The sufferings on
which the demand is based nkeswise
touch the extreme verge of human endur-
ance, SO lar as we may judge from exper-
fence, though some thoughtful men say
there is no limit to what a woman can en-
dure.
here is fortune in damages, and an al
most universal opinion among those famil-
lar with the facts of the case that for
tune viii be awarded by the jury and paid
by the railroad company, if the claim in
deed be not compromised and settled before
the case reaches court.
A fortune, indeed, in damages. Yet it is
doubtful if the most groveling money
Chaser in the whole world, the most des-
pairing wretch, who, for the lack OF enough
silver to buy alcoholic Oblivion, leaps from
bridge OF swallows ratsbane,, would con-
seat to undergo what this frs.l little
woman hRs suffered since Christmas eve,
1891, even with the certainty that quarter
OF million dollars would eventually be
awarded the suffer aud the lawyers.
Legal text books viii, beyond question,
refer from this time on 10 the Baldwin case
as precedent. They do not give the facts
OF the most famous suit for damages up TO
This time, which exists in legal memories and
by hearsay, and which was an sction for
damages for personal injuries brought by
goes that he sustained such vital injuries
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MR.. pARNELL's s25, 1000 VERDICT.

When Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell sued
the London Times for a half million dollars
damages and only recovered $4,000 the
Tories tried to encourage themselves to be-
neve that the result was a virtual victory
Tor the defense. But as matter of fact,
verdicts for damages in Great Britain, as in
New York, rarely exceed the figures of Mr..
ParnelIs verdict.
sonal injuries in Pennsylvania is said to be
S4o, $50 given Mr.. j. Rozensweig, of Erie,
Pennsylvania, 10 an action against the Lake
Shore Railroad company. MIR. Rozensweig
was middle aged man; his earnings yearly
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The feelings of that conductor. If that
thousand dollars could have been deducted
In monthly enstallments from his none too
lavish stipend might rival Antony,s after
Actium, or those of Paris after Troy
though he would not have had anything
like as much fun as they for his money.
The decision does not mention whether
Miss Craker was a good -looking vonne !,
woman or not No plain woman ought To
go into this sort Of speculation with the
idea OF making living out of it. A iurv
would be just cranky enough TO give the
conductor damages il the kiss were proven
anc the provacation not apparent
OnJune IL, 1882 Mrs. Armstrong Malt
hie- OF Sufferin, New Jersey, came to New
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STATE OF ILLINOIS, lss

STATE OF ILLINOIS,
COUNTY OF COOK IS.
w. S. Warren, associate resident manager of
the Chicago branch Of the Liverpool and London
deposes and says that he is the above described
ofncer OF said company and that the foregoing
statement OF the general condition of said com
pany on said thirty-frst day of December, is
correct according to the best of his informa.
ton, knowledge and belief, respectively.
w. S. WARREN.
subscribed and sworn to before me this Goth
day OF January, A. d. 1892.
SEAL SIMEON W. KING,
Commissioner OF Deeds for the Territory of
Utah in Illinois.
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TERRITORY OF UTAH,

TERRITORY OF UTAH,
SECRETARY's OFFICE. s.
], Elijah Sells, secretary OF the territory of
Utah, do hereby certify that the above and fore
gong IS q full, true and correct copy of the an
nual statement Of the general condition OF the
Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance
company of Liverpool, England. filed in my
once on the nineteenth day Of February, 1892
IN pursuance of an act relating to fire insurance
companies, approved March 10, 1884.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the great seal Of
SEAL the territory of Utah this nineteenth
day Of February. 1892.
ELIJAH SELLS,
Secretary of Utah Territory
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TERRITORY OF UTAH.

oICiNn iAni Orr1Ot. J
Utah, do hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is full true and correct copy of the
annual statement Of the general condition of
the Home Insurance company, of New York
filed In my once on the 10th day of February
1899, in pursuance of an act relating to fire in
surance companies, approved March IL 1884,
In witness whereof l have hereuuto set
my hand and an1xed the great seal
GsEAI.1 of the territory of Utah this 18th dav
of February, 1892.
ELIJAH SELLS
Secretary Of Utah Territorz.