Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-02-10

gagged in cutting wood for which there
is heavy demand from.the valley tow ms
having railroad connection with the
tlmbered regions of the Santiam. The
weather of the past week or ten days
caused almost a total suspension OF
operations IN the woods, and Mr.. Cockrell
took advantage of the interyine to visit
his family.
Mr.. o. w. Rose came up from Portland
last Friday to visit his parents and ac-
company his wife home. Mrs. Rose has
been with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. P. Martyr, during the past six weeks.
Ol occupies the position of chief engineer
at the Portland Linseed Oil Works, a
a branch OF the National Linseed Oil Co.,
of Chicago. E. Larrimore, former
Corvallis resident, is manager of the
Portland works.
Prof. Crawford, purchasing agent at
the college, is entitled to the palm as a
weather prophet. This week when the
mercury stood shivering at zero, and
B. S. Pague, the weather man, waved
his storm signal and predicted all kinds
of hard freezes until the 18th, Mr.. Craw-
ford cast one eye over the prophecy and
the other over the snow clad horizon and
announced rain before night; and rain it
did. Down with Pague and up with
Crawford.
Louis V. Dietz, of the Fourteenth
infantry, who was killed at Manila
Saturday in the battle with the in
surgents, was the only soldier lost who
was known in this vicinity. His h.-me
was at Buena Vista, Polk county. He
was enrolled by Captain Rutenic as
recruit for Captain Worrick's company of
the Second Oregon volunteers last sum-
mer, but, becoming impatient to go to
the front, he went to Portland, where he
enlisted in the regular army.
Workmen have been engaged the past
few days in placing additional wires in
the city for the telephone company
Among the new patrons of the company
are the o. R. & N. dock, the c. & E., S.
P, Fischer's mill, c. Berman, and it is
expected that there will be dozen or
more new patrons at once. The private
lines of the mill and the G. & E have
been turned over to the Oregon Telephone
Co. and connected with the general sys-
tenn so that they enjoy a more extended
service.
The game of indoor baseball at the
Armory last Friday night between 0. A.
c. and the Albany college was highly
interesting although for time it was
rather one-sided, in favor of the former,
which finally won by score OF IL to 6.
Personally the Albany team had been re-
garded as the intercollegiate champions
with rather chilly extremeties, but it |
soon became apparent that the advantage
of Howell's phenomenal pitching could |
not be met by the visitors who failed to
tally during the first six innings.
Editor Matthews, of the Yaquina Bay
News, paid Corvallis business visit
Saturday. Speaking about the efforts of !
the people of some sections of Lincoln
county to have those sections taken back
into Benton, he said that no one cared,
so far as he knew, whether they came
back or not. Mr.. Matthews is hopeful
for the future of his county and says that
while they are 10000 in debt and have
nothing to show for it, the affairs OF the
county are being much better managed
and it will be on it's feet again in seven
or eight years.
A photograph of Gene M. Simpson
in the last mail from Manila,
shows this veteran clothed in the regula-
ton U. S. uniform of the tropics; white
blouse, with epaulets, white trousers and
black knee boots, white helmet la
Henry M. Stanley. Gene is musician
in the 1st regiment band California
and the picture shows him
cornet in hand, with determined ex-
preston in his eyes as if about to playi
Hanging at his side is his
case with field glasses. Every inch of
him looks like a soldier.
Charley Mummery went fishing on
Soap Greek this week, but all he caught
was an elegant cold which seriously
effects his vocal organs. What voice he
has remaining is as spasmodic as the
sound of a Chinese fiddle, and he ofends .
those of the company in which he frds
himself by conversing in low whisper
and then startles them with an express
sion in high G key. 1t may be ex-
planned that he was angling out of season
in the exercise OF his prerogative as
deputy fish and game warden. His
theory is to remove temptation to in ,
fraction OF the law.
"Cycling Through Europe with a {
Kodak" will be the subject of novel
and highly entertaining lecture to be J
delivered at the opera house next Mon {
day evening, Feb. 18th, at 8 o'clock, by ]
DR.. E. P Hill, of Portland. The lecture 7
will be illustrated by 75 views of poets,
priests, kings and queens. These views, &
together with Mr.. Hills varied expert l
ences in securing them, form one of the S