Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-29

Misses Elinor and Maud Tobin
of San Francisco, are visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Yates
A free lecture by John G. Wool
ley, of Illinois, the peerless prohibi'
ton orator, will be given in the
opera house tonight.
The engagement of Gov. Geer .te
Miss Trullinger, of Astoria, has been
publicly announced. The marriage
is TO take place in the middle oi
June.
Jas. S. Booth, formerly of va
quina, sailed from Seattle a few
days ago for Cape Nome. His
wife will remain with relatives in
this city during his absence.
Harry Tracy, a populist orator
of Texas, addressed a small crowd
in the court house Saturday even
ing. He is not serious or con-
vincing speaker, but seems to take
a very serious view of things polit-
ical.
Early Saturday morning the
store and dwelling house OF J. A.
Carter were destroyed by fire. The
greater part of the household effects
were saved as the fire started in
the store. 1t was a very unfortu-
nate affair and Mr.. Carriers loss is
estimated at about $4,000.
The city council held session
Saturday and elected S. L. Kline a
member of the council to fill the
vacancy in the third ward caused
by H. w. Halls, change of resi-
dence. 1t seems that at the city
election recently held that although
little interest was taken in the mat
ter, a number of voters cast ballot
in favor of S. Chapman for the
vacancy thus caused. In the
minds of many people it is guam
dairy as to just who is to fill the
seat formerly occupied by H. w.
Hall.
AS regards the authenticity of the
reported wild man who may be
roaming the forests near Fall City,
in Polk county, there is little further
known. J. II. Wilson, son-in-law
of A. K. Handy, the latter of whom
many thought to be the man seen in
that vicinity, made a trip to Polk
county to investigate the rumor and
returned without ascertaining any
thing definite. Mr.. Wilson states
that very reliable men relate hav-
ing seen a man in the woods there,
and that there may be some truth
in the rumor cannot be denied.
The search is to be continued and
everything possible done to ascer-
tain the truth of this strange rumor.
There were "a applicants in to
take the examination in the eighth
grade work of the public schools
AS the county superintendent can
not personally make all of the exam
nations it has been arranged for
him to mail all of the teachers in
the different parts of the county the
list of questions that go to make
up the examination; these questions
are to remain sealed until the ar
rival of the examination. Instead
of giving the name of the scholar
examined, the teacher will desig-
nate by number. These papers are
submitted to Supt. Denman for
supervision, and as the papers of
the different pupils have a number
instead of a name, all fear of any
favor in the matter of merit is done
away with.
On the third day of November,
1854, at public sale of university
lands of the Territory of Oregon,
held in Corvallis, N. Huber, COM
missioner of the Territory for the
sale of lands, an office created by
act of the territorial legislature,
sold to J. E. Williams 40 acres in
Sec. Is, 10, 5, Benton county. Soon
after the purchase, Mr.. Williams
died, the deed not havin., been re-
corded. Last week the youngest
son of deceased was thinking of
purchasing the above forty acres,
but could not find who the owner
was. Afterwards he was looking
over some old papers of his father
and found the deed for the forty
acres he wished 10 purchase The
above deed had rested in seclusion
for about forty-six years.