The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-15

n6Cn0r. DGHlOA COuhty AOPAS
sentatives will show up we'll in
this operation, for, having had
their boards trimmed and their
hair cut by Jesse Spencer, the
skillful barber, their heads will
present well-groomed appear
ance.
A freak of Oregon nature may
be seen at Crawford & Harnish's.
A long worm like root, with a
dead appearance, has embedded
in its winding body several good
sized stones, while shooting up
from it are a large number of live
limbs. The whole is labeled: ell
lustration of the Energy of Ma
ture." You cannot stop growth
in Oregon and here nature knows
no Observation-Disclosures.
A coterie of gamblers conduct.
ed an exciting poker game here
for couple of days this week.
Several hundred dollars exchanged
hands during the brief stay OF
the professional card manipnla.
tors, but they appear not to have
| been we'll posted Oh the rules OF
The fes. i've game and in conse-
quence left town with their pock-
cts very much lighter than when
they arrived. According to street
talk, local sport is four or. five
hundred dollars ahead of the game,
while another citizen mourns the
depletion of his bank account to
the tune of four hundred dol
lars.
Monday the farmers short
course began at the college and
quite Il number of students are
enrolled from abroad. The work
of the course will consist of twen-
ty lectures in each OF the follow
| ing departments. Horticulture,
dairying, entomology and chemls-
try. Added to the, lectures there
will be two hours per day labora-
tory work in dairying throughout
the course, and two hours per
day, three days in the week, labo-
ratory work in, horticulture. Lee.
lures will be given in the evening
during the course by Messrs. M. O
Lownsdale, A. 81. Carson, Il. +
Dosch and DIR. james Witty
combe. Lectures illustrated by
the stereopticon will also be given
in the evening.
A sequel to the closing OF
|Woldt's saloon was the arrest
Wednesday evening of Thos.
Whitehorn for permitting a pok-
er game to run in his saloon.
The complaint was made by
Thos. ,Samuels, who claimed to
have been present for a couple oi
hours while the game was in pro-
gress, and who says that several
hundred dollars in money and
checks exchanged hands during
his stay. On being brought be-
fore Police Judge Porter, Mr..
Whiteflorn plead guilty to the
charge filed against him and was
fined fro, which he paid. Tom
1 my has been in the saloon bust
ness here for the past fourteen
years and had hoped to retire
with a~cfean record. This was
the first time he has been arrest
ed during his long business ca
reer in Corvallis, and he regret:
exceedingly that the present diff
hculty arose.
There is young man in Corval
lis who recently came here claim
ing to be an optical specialist. and
there is prominent business MAJ
in town who insists that the afore
said optical specialist is only al
Limitation eye doctor. The busi
ness man evidently knows what h'
il talking about, Tor one day th
week he visited the doctors offic'
to have his eyes treated for pal
OF glasses, and after injecting SOM
sort OF fluid into the patients optic
! the doctor left suddenly for Alban.
and only returned under threat o
legal proceedings against him 70
malpractice. The patient is abb
to be around, but claims that hi
eye sight is so badly impaired tina
he can scarcely see. Some yer,
interesting stories of this youn
doctors doings are going tn
rounds that reflect seriously upo
his business and social standing
, and if they are found to be true
he should be requested to seek
!; more congenial cline.
Ben Woldt, proprietor of tn
Maple Shade saloon, is fast learl
ing that the way of the trans
gressor is hard. Recently he pal
2 a fine of $25 to the city recorde
t on charge. of: selling sliquor t
minors to which he plead guilt.
, Monday=aight the matter came u
q before the council through a letts
Il from the college authorities askil
|. that Woldt's license be revoke
and when the motion was pu
every councilman voted ''aye
n Tuesday the place was closed
=. the chief of police. Only mon