The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-02-06

After an absence of several years Mr..
Geo. w. Henkle has returned to Corval-
lis and will hereafter be identified with
! the business interests of this city, having
purchased the T. H Davis & Co. stock
of goods, which business Mr.. Henkle
proposes to continue permanently. Pa
irons Of the house will learn with pleas
urs that z. H. and Caleb Davis, Jr, have
/ Roy Junkin, son of the Linn county
horse man, who is travelling with a pho
nograph, has been heard from in Lane
| county. The Florence West has the
following: Roy Junkin requested us to
| make a correction about the ''phono-
graph man" locally appearing last week.
Inquiry develops little or no error.
Skunk songs are considered bordering
on coarseness even i'll Florence.
At meeting of the Benton County
Republican Club held last Friday eve
ming the following persons were elected
delegates to the state convention of
republican clubs, which met i'll Portland
Tuesday: w. E. Yates, w. S. Hufford,
G. A. Waggoner, S. G McFadden, Sher-
man Wade, Thomas Samuels, w H,
Currin, Columbia Read, A. w. Bowersox,
VIM Bogue, and Geo. w. Dennan.
american Born is new and popu-
lar drama; play of wit and war, pitl
and patriotism; five acts without lag.
The Independence Amateur Dramatic
Club is made up of representative people
of that city. The names of Miss Cora
Smell, Hon. W. P. Connoway, w. H
Patterson, ]. B. NORM, H. Hoster, Frank
Burch and l.. A Bailey, thoroughly
trained and assisted by the popular actor
Mr.. Frank Readick, are sufficient guar
antee of an excellent performance.
DR. R. S. Shake1ford, the erstwhile
ago made Corvallis his headquarters, is
again doing time in the penitentiary.
He was taken to Salem last Friday from
Clackan1as county to serve two years for
the larceny of gold watch. The Salem
Statesman says of him.: ''This is old
''Doc's" second or third term in the pen
and he looks a sad wreck His hair and
mustache are as white as snow and he
looked anything but comfortable or con-
tented as he reached the neighborhood
of his old quarters last night"
A c. Miller, of Kings Valley, was in
town yesterday OH business before the
county court. Mr.. Miller is strong ad-
vocate of good roads and is not favor
ably impressed with the Oregon road
laws. He made the statement that one
cent on each bushe1 of wheat raised in
Kings valley for the past ten years would
have created fund sufficient to build
macadarnized road from Hoskins to the
Willamette river. With such road,
grain could be stored in private grainer-
les and marketed during any month in
the year, thus saving the cost Of storage.
He thinks if road taxes were paid in cash
and the highways improved under con-
tracts let by the county court, the effect
would be beneficial.
The trial in which the most interest
was taken. at the recent term of circuit
court in Lincoln county was one in which
the state of Oregon was plaintiff and
William E. Rich was defendant Rich
was charged with burglary and the case
was the result of the robbery of a safe in
the o. P. station at Toledo on the night
of February 7, 1895, The defendant was
represented by ]. R. Bryson and w. S.
McFadden of this city aud ]. K. Wealth
erford, of Albany, and the state by Judge
Kelsay, H c. Watson and Fred Page
Tustin. A strong case was made out for
the state, but Rich succeeded i'll convinc-
ing the jurynan that the crime was com
mitted by some other person, for the jury
was out but a short time when verdict
was returned of mot guilty"
Bert Bowerso1- is moaning the loss of
two pei fe-rets, recently imported at con-
siderable expense, for the purpose exter-
minating the horde of rats which have
made their headquarters at the Benton
Flou5ing Mills. The little animals were
wont to wander away from Bert's tender
care, and one of the 1uckless little fel-
lows was taken for a skunk by north
end resident this week and killed The
other one has been seen lately in the vi
cinity of the Occidental hotel. Bert
wishes it distinctly understood that this
ferret is perfectly harmless, that it is
neither skunk, weasel nor anything of
that nature. Any information that will
lead to the capture of the pet will be
thankfully received by Mr.. Bowersox at
the office of the Benton mill
Populist Hoffman and Republican Pc
terson have done fighting their pen duel
in democratic. paper. The Times, after
favoring its readers with several illusions
from each of these gentlemen, devoted
mainly to the elucidation of the animal
qualities of each other, ruthlessly ''fred"
the combatants from the field, owing to
an accumulating fear that the increasing
heat of the discussion might warp the
cylinder press or cause a confagration in
in the mailing department. 1t IS now
reported on excellent authority that,
being deprived of an outlet for their
literary aspirations, the two gentlemen
will soon begin bonbarding each other
through papers. of their own. Mr.. Hof-
man the poet laureate of pODulisfu is to