The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-11

former tried to exercise his pugilistic al
upon the anatomy of the latter. He
failed to get in any serious body blows
however, and the finale was fine of tel
dollars and trimmings in the recorder
court for Mr.. Parker.-Lincoln Leader.
A daily passenger and a tri-weekl
freight train have been in operation OF
the o. c.. & E. since Sunday, in place q
the mixed train which has done the bus
mess of the road during the past few
months The east-bound passenger ar
rives at Corvallis at II:o5 a. H.. and re
turning reaches here at 1:5o p. III. The
new arrangement will be a great ac
comodation to the travelling public.
Ransom A. Belknap, an honored Ben
ton county pioneer, died at his home
near Monroe last Saturday at the advanc-
| ed age of IS years 3 months and Is days
| Mr.. Belknap was born in December
| 1920, i'll the state of Kentucky. Some
years later his family moved to Ohio and
subsequently to Van Buren, county Iowa,
where he was married in the fall of 1872
In the spring of IS47, with his wife and
| two small children, Mr.. Be1knap started
with party across the plains for Oregon
| reaching Corvallis the following Novem-
Der. A few months later Mr.. Belknap
located his donation land claim near
Monroe in the section now known as the
| Belknap settlement, where he lived, hon
ored and respected until his death last
week. The deceased was the father of
six children who survive him.
The school board of district No. 9 held
its annual meeting for the election of
teachers for the coming year at the court
house last Friday evening. With a sim
gle exception, all the old teachers were
retained. Miss Letta Wicks was chosen
to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Miss Jennie Spencer, who has
been in charge of the fifth grade during
given general satisfaction and she was
deservedly popular among her pupils.
Her successor, Miss Wicks, is a graduate
of the o. A. c., and since furnishing her
college course, has taught successfully.
The action Of the board III re-electing
Prof Pratt and his assistants meets with
general approval and is compliment to
the teachers for their efficient, painstak-
the assignment of the departments and
the several grades will be presided over
as follows: Ist grade Mary Newton; end
grade, Alice Horning; 3rd, Gertrude
Nelms; 9th, Augusta Turney; 9TH, Letta
Wicks; Sth, S. 1. Pratt.
H. H. Kreger and wife expect to leave
sometime in July for Santa Barbara, Cal,
where Mr.. Kreger will engage in bust
ness. They recently returned from an
extended trip through Southern Califor-
mia and Mexico and were very favorably
impressed with that portion of the coast.
Mr.. Kreger says that the California fruit
crop is badly damaged and less than half
a crop will be harvested this fall. How
ever, he says Southern California is ex
per1encing boom from the influx of
eastern people and also from the mining
interests of that favored portion of the
coast, and the opening for business is
very encouraging. Mr.. Kreger has had
considerable lnerchantile experience and
will doubtless meet with success in his
new undertaking. He proposes estab-
fishing a cloak and suit house i'll Santa
Barbara, city of some 10, 900 inhabitants,
and will have several thousand dollars
invested i'll the business. While in Santa
Barbara, Mr.. Kreger frequently met Mr..
E. W. Hadley who left here last fall. Re-
Gently he purchased piece of property
there for Sc 200, and has let a contract
for the erection thereon of ten thous-
and dollar dwelling
Corvallis came near having CO silly
fire Monday noon, and only the prompt
arrival of the fire department prevented
it. A spark from burning brush heap
near the opera house found lodgment
upon the roof of that building, and when
discovered the blaze had spread over an
area about ten feet square. Fortunately
the wind was not blowing very strongly
at the time, or the entire roof would
likely have been ON fire before the de-
partment arrived. Two lines of hose
and bucket brigade from the H. & L.
company soon extinguished the flames,
and $25 will cover the loss. This is the
third fire within the past two weeks tina.
the department has extinguished before
serious damage resulted. The first one
occurred in the roof of Cases barber shop
and had it been allowed to gain much
headway several thousand dollars worth
of property would have been endangered
and perhaps destroyed. The next blaze
was in the roof of G. A. Waggoner's res
idence, and it was extingulshed prompi-
ly, causing only trifling loss Probabis :
$50 will cover the loss in all three in
stances, although at any one of these
fires the loss might have IS, 900 and pos
sibly $4,000. Truly Corvallis has a fire
de oartment which is entitled to unstint-
ed praise for its active and efficient SER
vice.
Sunday Excursions.