The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-08

building and one can see that it will b
very handsome structure when com
: pleted. Mr.. Whitehorn will be able t
= occupy his new quarters about the frs
/ of next month.
4 In the case of S. N. wilkins VS.. tn,
4 street railway company, in which plain
/ tiff asks for $4,000 damages on accoun
\ of an accident whereby his son lost al
/ arm, the jury hung, eight favoring tn
i plaintiff. Milton o. wilkins was one O.
plaintiffs s attorneys.
There is another change of teachers il
the Corvallis public schools. Mrs
Campbell resigned her position and Miss
Read was elected in her place. Miss Ly
ford has been made teacher of the eighth
grade, and Miss Minnie Wilson elected
supernumery teacher.
The Willamette is low. Jesse Tunni
cliffe, of the electric light plant. says til,
water has not been at SO low stag.
since the plant was established, and il
consequence there is i great strain on thu
HC III WIS SHUT )TT TSCSnIiS
for few hours OIL this accoupt.
Mr.. w. w. FRYE expects to start fol
Dawson City i'll February. lie will &c
from Ska2uav. not by The pass, but OIL
the ice when the Skasuay rivcr freezes
He is now engaged i'll building sie,is on
which he and his two bows. who are to
t,,,r Il
There is a plea :znt rrada bleness abou,
the AL of F. l.. Miller. this week. II il
the plain talk of reliable business
house and will bear more than casual
scrutiny. The Buckingham & Hecht
$3.50 boots are going off like hot cakes.
The Sweater" item will interest students
especially.
c. Schmidt, the well-known hotel
keeper of Corvallis. has returned from
Skaguay, accompanied by his son and
w. H. Frye, and is registered at the Per-
! kius. Mr. Schmidt had lively expert
eAce in the rough town of Skasuay, but
he gathered up al kinds of money before
he returned to civilization.-Oregon
| Jesse Hawley, highly respected citi-
zen of Eugene, and a member of the
we'll known Hawley family who reside
in the southern part of Benton county,
died at his home Monday morning. He
was IS years old and came to Oregon in
| IS4S, settling near Monroe. The remains
were buried i'll the cemetery five miles
west of Monroe
Interest in bowling increases. While
no very high scores have been made this
month, the general average is very good.
Tuesday night the bowlcrs seemed steady
and the games were highly interesting.
III one game Robt. johnson, Geo. Bow
ers, johnson Porter and Fred Oberer,
constituting one side, made AZ, 50, 80
and 3S, respectively.
Prof. Letcher attended chapel exer.
cisss at the college Wednesday morning
and gave the students a brief interesting
talk. New pupils are still coming i'll and
the chapel every morning is crowded.
The cadet band has organized with H.
Beard as leader. An innovation i'll the
military department this year is the or
sanization of cadet signal service corp.
The Justly famous Nashville Students
will entertain the Corvallis public at the
new Methodist church to morrow night.
TEey are without doubt the finest COM
pany of colored songsters in the country
and their entertainment is one of refine
ment and culture. The press speaks in
glowing terms of their work. The con-
cert begins at s O'Clock. Admission so
cents, children rs cents.
Regular services at the Presbyterian
church next Sabbath morning and even
ing. Topics of special interest to all
will be presented at both services. Sun
day school at 10. Endeavor societies at
a aud $50 Service of praise a, 80,
followed by short sermon. A kind wei
come to all and seats reserved for strang-
ers and students. Topic for morning:
"Thc Winged Life" Evening: THE
school and scholar of the future
The commissioners court passed upon
bills and transacted the usual business
Wednesday. Yesterday M. S. Woodcock
and w. S. McFaddeu presented extend
ed arguments in behalf Of the First Ma
tional bank people, for reduction of
bank stock assessment. They want the
stock assessed at so per cent of its real
value. There is no one appearing for the
other side of the question. The attor-
neys were still talking at press time.
Corvallis is to have football team,
separate and apart from the college or
ganlzation. 1t is the present intention
to organize on the plan of the Astoria
footballists, i. c. form permanent ath-
letic club. Miles Phillips will probably
captain the team. Athletic quarters have
already been secured. A minstrel enter
tainment will be given shortly for the
benefit of the team. Corvallis has some
fine material and Will Bloss has proniis-
ed to do some coaching for the boys.
The semi-annual county exhibit that
appears on the second page, is the first
one published in Benton county. The law
requires such publication. but heretofore
the law has not been complied with, the
only report published being the one at
the end of each fiscal year. In his re-
port made last July. Clerk Walters gave
notice that he would hereafter follow the
law rather than the custom heretofore
practiced and the publication If the
statement this week, Is in accordance