Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-31

: the hobo.
The last excursion of the seaso
| will be run to Newport, Sunday
Usual prices and times of arriva
ard departure will prevail.
Jaspar Wyman returned fror
Albany, Tuesday, whittier he. ha
! been to assist in taking an inven
tory of stock in a drug store.
John Smith completed threshin
his grain crop last Tuesday. Johl
did not state his yield, but from
what is learned he has raised better
crops.
Charley Overland arrived from
the Big Elk country Wednesday
He is after another load of provis
ions for winter and starts hom,
this morning.
Will Buoy, who has been G. & e
agent at Toledo for a number O
years, has resigned his position
and gone into the fish business. B
II. Boles, of Albany, will take his
place as agent.
Prof. F. L. Kent, of the Agricul.
tural College Experiment Station,
at Corvallis, was in Ashlany one
day last week, making an inspec-
ton of the workings of the Ashland
Creamery.-Tidings.
Rev. L. M. Boozer went to PORT
land a few days ago and is to re-
turn in season for the regular Sum-
day services. He will be accom-
panied home by his wife, who has
been visiting her parents in the me-
tropolis.
Salmon are beginning to run
pretty well in the Alsea river now,
and the cannery of Mr.. Nice is
soon to be started. Ten Cinnamon
passed through Corvallis Tuesday
and it is understood that they are
to operate at this cannery.
E. M. Kimble, the Alsea miller,
was in Corvallis for a couple of
days this week. Mr.. Kimble seems
quite we'll satisfied with his pros
poets over in the little valley and
when his little Touring mill is idle
he employs his idle moments on
the clarinet, an instrument he is
quite fond of.
Miss Magda Schoenfeld arrived
in Corvallis Tuesday, from Ham
burg, Germany. She travelled from
the old country with Mr.. \Voldt.
She is stopping at the home of her
uncle, J. Wrage, the tailor, in whose
shop she intends to be employed.
Miss Schoenfeld has already formed
a most favorable impression of this
country. and could not be induced
to return to Germany.
Ben Woldt surprised his friends
in this city by suddenly appearing
on the scene of action Tuesday.
He reports fine visit to the old
country during the three months
he was there. AS to the general
conditions, it appears that the peo-
pie of Germany are very prosperous
this year.. Nevertheless, Ben says
that the nearer he got to Corvallis
on his return the faster he wanted
the train to go.
The party mentioned in our last
issue as being gone to roost in the
wrong camp, arrived home late
Wednesday evening. They report
a glorious time, and an abundance
of fish, but game was scarce and
only one deer was secured. The
only thing that caused a chill
the party was August
Hodes' abnormal fear of wood rats,
and this he was slowly outgrowing.
Steve Archibald, merchant at
Philomath, was arrested Tuesday
by Deputy Game Warden Jack
Miller and was brought to Albany
and arraigned before Justice L. L.
Swan, on a charge of killing Chi
nese pheasants out of season. Young
came over to Linn coun-
ty Sunday and killed a number of
Chinese pheasants. He was seen
shooting the birds, and the alert
deputy game warden was soon after
him. He plead guilty and was
fined $25 and costs.-Herald:
C. C. Chandler, of Alsea,. left
Corvallis early yesterday morning
for home. He had a big wagon
load of 12-inch steel piping, OF tub
ing, which he was instructed to
purchase of.,Huston, Bogue. & Co,
for a recent arrival in Alsea. The
purchaser is. putting up $500
prune dryer at a point ten miles
below Mr.. Malone's store: This
will be the first prune dryer to be
erected in Alsea. They are. q, little
behind on its construction ard re-
part that their ..prunes in that Sec
ton are many of them ready for
drying now,
Leslie Butley, who was executor
of the estate of Frank Ried, who
was killed in Skagway by the
famous "Soapy" Smith, has been
in Portland adjusting matters rela-
tive to the estate Of the deceased.