Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-21

The excursion on the G & E Sur
day was well patronized and thre
= coaches were comfortably filled.
Ernest Redd, o A C's famou
quarter-mile runner, paid Corvalli
a short visit Saturday. He will re
turn to college this fall.
Dennis Stovall has resigned hi
position as city editor of the Bake
City Republican and is again en-
gagged in Maccabee work in various
lparts of the country.
/ Mrs. N. Rosendorf and family O
four children arrived from indie
pendence Friday. She will remain
here in order to school her children
and has already domiciled herself
AMI family in the cottage of Mr..
Kiger, just. north of the public
school block.
| It will be interesting to the hop.
lgrowels to learn that from the best
authority it is estimated that in
California the output will be about
5000 bales short of the crop last
year. It is thought that Oregon
growers will be greatly benefited
by this shortage in the sister state
The marriage of Hen. w. P.
Ready and Miss Leila Mcguire,
both of Portland, occurred at the
residence of the brides sister, at
Antelope, Or, August 14th. Mr..
Ready is a member Of the board Of
regents of the Oregon Agricultural
College and was for many years
resident of Corvallis.
Elmer Clark went to the coast
Saturday and returned on the ex-
cursion train Sunday evening. He
states the weather at the coast was
ideal. Many people are going and
coming and each year there are
greater numbers of notables from
various sections Of the country to
be seen at this popular resort.
Grover Headrick returned Sun
day evening from his fathers place
in Alsea. He reports that the
greater number of campers in the
Alsea are now going to the lower
valley in order to be where they
can do some trolling for salmon.
According to special act passed
for Alsea the open season for troll
ing did not begin until yesterday.
Threshing was almost suspended
during the past ten days, owing to
the fact that the fall grain was
threshed and spring grain was
hardly mutured. This week opera
tions will begin again. T. W. B.
Smith and Norm Lilly both ex-
pected to start their machines yes
terday. In no case is there any
money to be made by the machine
man this season and they are most
ly operating on basis that will
play them even, nothing more.
From different sources there is an
of fear that native birds,
songsters and others, have been
poisoned by farmers in an endeavor
to get rid Of the many pests that
are destroying fruit and cereal
crops. The scarcity of birds this
season is attributed to the fact that
they eat worms that have been
poisoned and in turn are poisoned
themselves. Should this be true,
it would be too bad, indeed, as Ore
gon has no little songsters to spare.
Notice has just been issued by
the United States land Office that
change has been made in the home
stead laws. Hitherto a person who
had oommuted, that is, lived por-
ton of the required time on the
homestead and bought the home-
stead clear, had exhausted his
title and could not homestead
claim. This order of
things has been reversed, and a
can take another claim,
according to information received
at the various land Offices.
Prof Dan Pritchard and daugh-
ter returned from their trip to
Portland by wheel, Friday. While
absent they visited the numerous
little towns surrounding the
metropolis. At one of them Mr.
Pritchard visited a cousin whom he
had not seen in thirty-six years.
She is the wife of the "village black
smith" of Rockville. The meeting
was a surprise to her, as she did
not know that Mr.. Pritchard was a
resident of Oregon. The home trip
was made from Oregon City in ten
hours, with an hours stop at ga
lem, The distance is 70 miles.
]. E. Andrews returned Sunday
from an outing of a few
day in Eugene and Cottage Grove.
In speaking of the grain crops of
that section, Mr.. Andrews stated
that they were really poorer than
they are In Benton, and in one in
stance q man is reported to have
threshed only 40 bushels Of wheat
from "a acres. However, he states
that the mines of the Bohemia and
Rlue River districts and the lun-t