The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-12-15
TIE o.P.R.E I SOLD.
Two Hundred Thousand Dol
lars the Price.
Mr.. CLARK THE PURCHASER
A Representative of Che Blair
Wharton FacaA, Of i
New York. I


Friday, December IS, 1897, is one tnat
will long be remembered as gala day
for Corvallis, much having occurred to
interest both the people of CUR inlrnedi-
ate community and of the outside world.
In fact, there was so much to occupy the
attention of our citizens that our sur
roundings were akin to metropolitan.
A football game, with its bruises and
pains, in which local talent proved the
victors, lecture by one of the leading
pastoral lights, reception and miscel-
1aneous entertainment at the college
chapel, a grand ball in the opera house,
a drunken stabbing affray in saloon,
a meeting of the social club, runaway
marriage over which some excitement
and much comment was had and the
great event of the day-the sale of the
Oregon Pacific railway property for the
insignificant sum of $2oo, ,ooo-the
amount required of bidders for deposit by
order of the court. According to the
mandate of Judge Fullerton aud as ad-
vertised according to law, Sheriff David
Osburn mounted the stony approach to
Benton county's magnificent temple of
justice and began the reading of vol
luminous document embracing a. COM
plete history of the litigation of which
this sale is thus far the final result. The
powers of endurance !. of the sheriff as
we'll as of the large crowd of spectators
was put to thorough test, owing to the
extent of the matter to be read, and for
over an hour (which was a long one) the
go1den-toned voice of our sheriff was
heard in PRONUNCIATION of the courts or
der. 1t seemed that everybody was pres
ent, whether they had business or not,
and some of those whose interests
brought them there in turn made known
the. object of their presence.
Messrs. Williams & Wood, egsrtland. !
g se -1:otice TIKI f,t the ss~oaA 3lrasy-
chlse of what is known as The V4l1anl-
ette Valley and Cascade Mountain Road
company and also of the Dechuttes River
Bridge company was not subject i'll any
way to the Oregon Pacific Railroad com
pany, and also called attention to the
fact of suit now pending in the u. S.
district court of Chas. Alterchul against
The Willamette Valley and Coast Rail
way company and against the Oregon
Pacific Railroad company and against
the Farmers Loan and Trust company
to clear title to the above described prop-
erty.
Chas E. Wolverton read the following
notice of adverse claim: The following
notice is hereby publicly given to all in
tending purchasers of the property and
franchise of the above mentioned Ore
gon Pacific Railroad company and the
Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad
company, or either of them, under the
decree of foreclosure sale, rendered by
this conrt on the I3th day of April, 1901,
under certain mortgage or deed of
trust executed by the said companies to
the Farmers Loan and Trust company,
dated October I, 1888. In pursuance of
the said decree of foreclosure the said
property and franchise were duly sold on
January 20, 1892, and were purchased at
said sale by Zephin Job, of Corvallis,
Oregon; and a certificate of such sale ac-
knowledging the receipt of $25,o 900 on
account of the purchase price, was duly
executed and delivered by the sheriff of
Benton county, Oregon, to the said Zeph-
in Job. The said sale was thereafter duly
confirmed by the court, and for a valu-
able consideration, the said Job duly as
signed and conveyed all the property,
rights, franchise, titles, and interests
which he acquired at the said foreclosure
sale and also the said sherif's certificate
of sale to the undersigned, the Oregon
Pacific Railroad company, corporation
duly organized and existing under the
laws of the state of Oregon The said
sale and the rights acquired by the un-
dersigned have never been abrogated
and could not be abrogated by at1y pro-
ceedings ins;this court No part of the
said snm of $75, 900 has ever been return
ed. And the said sale is still in full
force and effect; and under the signed
will assert and enforce all rights there
under and in and to the said property
and franchises existing in its favor.
Whoever buys or attempts to buy the
said property or franchise or any part
thereof at this or any other sale without
the consent or approval of the under
signed must do SO subject to all rights
and claims in and to the said property
and franchises existing in favor of the
undersigned. ORR O.
ByT E. Hogg as president.
]. K. Weatherford gave notice that the
Giant Powder company held lien upon
the property of the Oregon Pacific Rail
road company and the Willamette Valley
and Coast Railway company.and also up-
on the lands upon which said road is CON
structed for the distance of thirty feet on
each side of the center of the road for
distance of fifteen miles eastward from
station number 267e, plus 70, said land
being IN Marion county, Oregon, and
that any sale made of said property
would be made subject to said lien.
After these notices had been served the
sheriff proceeded to read the notice of
sale, after which he made a request for
bidders and received but one response
which came from Attorney Clark. a rep
resentative of what is known as the blair
Wharton faction, of New York. whose
bid, as above stated, was $500, 200 Mr.
Clark produced certified check for the
required amount and after careful scru-
tiny of same by the sheriff and renewed
calls for bids, the sale was made to the
said Clark.
1t was an interesting spectacle to behold
the varied expressions depicted upon the
countenances of the many presenf-some