The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-05-05
City election q week from Monday.

Chas. Watts, of the Albany Sunday Tel
escope, paid this office a pleasant call last
evening.
Solomon" the independent ''coon" of
the ''Spy of Gettysburg,''is comical gen.
ius, and Mr.. Lee has the part down fine.
Miss Lawrence has the soubrette role as
'Lottie" tonight in the "Spy OF orGettysburg."
/ The part could not be in better hands.
! Mrs. W. A. Wells and Miss Lou Wiles
arrived safely in San Francisco on Tuesday
after voyage OF 43 hours from the va
quina docks to the city.
| The the charaters of "Mr. Mulvcy'' and
General Meade" are we'll filled by Mr.. Ed.
| Watts and Mr.. Caples, and lend much in
terest to the Spy of ofGettysburg."
The Danube arrived in Portland from
Victoria Wednesday morning with a cargo
of 6I2 Chinese aboard, all merchants" !"
Few of hem will be allowed to land.
A petition for an injunction restraining
the mayor and police judge from signing
the water bonds, was sent to Judge Fuller
ton this week. Should the judge grant
the injunction it will open up field of liti.
CATION concerning the water question.
Zeph Job is in Albany to-day to answer
the complaint of Game Warden Mcclure
charging the Niagara Mill Co. with violat-
ing the salmon law. It is alleged that the
company's dam obstructs the passage Of the
fish. but the company takes different view
of the matter.
Mr.. Geo. Panl has been chosen for the
character Of Major Tapley," a genial. good
natured fellow who is always right there
whenever he is needed by the ''Spy of Get
tysburg."
The plant Of the Novelty printing rooms
gives this Office additional facilities for doing
job printing. Mr.. Flett, the former pro-
prietor of the Novelty, is now employed at
this office, and his patrons will be pleased 10
know that his services are still available.
The following was handed this paper for
publication: ''Mrs. Dele H. Cox. late of
Kansas, deli vered two able addresses at the
opera house Corvallis, on Sunday. She
showed our citizens the folly of the idea that
saloons help the finance of our towns.
Where they pay as in Junction City, Lane
Co. 81, 200 for their licenses, they take in,
out of their citizens pockets $4,000 each
year.
Do not fail to see the. Spy of Gettysburg"
tonight. 1t is a grand play, we'll cast and
Thoroughly rehearsed. All who take an inter
est in amateur theatricals should sec this play; !;
all who desire to spend pleasant evening
should attend, and all who wish to see the
best performed play, by home talent, in the
last four or five years should be there.
Commencement exercises of the Corvallis
public schools will begin May 3lst in the
opera house, on which date an entertain
ment is to be given by the undergraduates.
Hon. NJ. c. George has been invited to ad-
dress, on June lst, the graduating class
numbering fifteen. On June End the grad
uating class will give reception 10 the
alumni
The Agassiz Scientific Society meets
Wednesday, May 10th, at sp. m. in the
botanical laboratory of the Agricultural
college. Members will bring specimens
and present notcs.on literature and work of
interest in their several departments of
study. The principal paper of the evening
will be by Mr.. Wallis Nash, Sketch of
Chas Darwin's Life and Works.
Mayor Friendly met Receiver f. W.
Hadley and General Superintendent r. i.
Mulcahy, who had come down to Portland
especially to meet him. They said they in
tended running the steamer Messenger
regularly to Eugene and would ship all
southern Oregon freight offered to this
point and have the same forwarded by rail
to their respective destinations; and if the
trade warranted it, they would build a new
boat especially adapted to the upper river,
during the summer.-Eugene Guard.
Drs. Lee and Farra were called to Mon
roe in haste Wednesday morning to attend
DR.. J. M. Cain. who had been stricken with
paralysis of the right side. When the ply
sicians arrived they found that the doctor
had regained the use Of his right arm and
leg, and that the immediate danger was
past. The doctor experienced a slight
stroke of paralysis during his attendance at
| the recent term of circuit court in this city.
| and his friends are apprehensive of the uti--
mate result of the symptoms.
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