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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-19

Guthrie Camp No. 3, Woodmen of the
World meets every Monday night in the K.
j. b. TOWERS, Clerk.
VIM GREGORY, Cou. Com.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-19
"I Thought Would Never Be We'll Again. -

One Of the saddest things that can hap
pen to a woman is to fall into such a depth
of dependency through unnatural weakness
aud dteeaaa ae to oe,t,,o ti,ot 49,. -,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Herb Farms.

There are several kinds of farms,
profitable ones, too, of which little
mention is made to the public. Many
herbs are grown on farms devoted to
them, and they are product not over
done by growers. In New York are
acres devoted to the growth Of pepper
mint. In Illinois are farms where the
castor bean Is raised for the castor oil
that 1t contains. Many farms which
have lost their productiveness could be
made to grow sage. catnip, thorough
wort, and the other vegetable necessi-
ties Of the pharmacopoeia. The business
is one Of the few that are not ruined by
competition. Rose farms are to be
found in different sections of the coun-
try, and there is a sweetness in this
method Of earning livelihood, al
though that is not all there is in it by
a good deal In California some rose
farms are carried on to raise roses for
rose jelly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Frog Showers in Arizona.

Every once in a while stories are
brought out about extraordinary show
ers Of fish, of bloody snow, ETC., the
latest being of ship captain far out
on the Atlantic who ran into a dust
shower SO heavy he had to set his crew
shoveling the dust from the decks
when the weight began to get dan
gerous. To this be there added a tale:
1T rains frogs in Arizona. The old
timers believe there Is no doubt of it,
though they can not explain from
whence the frogs were originally lift
ed But this much is straight-let there
be a summer rain along the line of the
Southern Pacific in southwestern Ari-
Zona, and behold, the next morning
every little pool has myriad of little
lean green frogs, with marvellous
croaking powers. They don't wait for
nightfall like their more civilized
brethren elsewhere, but keep up the
music by day as by night. They live
where water comes only about once a
year.
'"They can't live over the interim un-
der the sun-baked rocks; they assur-
edly haven't hoped from the Colorado
River, and they are all of size, to
boot. If they didn't come from the
ground or from the river. they must
have come from the skies. And that's
what the Hassayampers firmly be-
lieve."-Arizona Graphic.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04

from the electrodes on the front Of the
machine was copper bar. four feet
long. One end Of it rested on the wood
en- floor Of the table Upon which the
patient sits. The patient then placed
his foot upon the end Of the bar and
held it there, making the connection for
the current. 1t was not necessary for
him to remove his shoes or any part OF
his clothing. When the current was
turned into him the only sensation he
had consisted in the hair becoming
erect and rigid. This was caused by
the exit of the current which, passing
through the cells Of the hair and filling
them, stiffens them until they looked
like tiny bars Of iron. In the case of
a woman her hair would have stood
straight out after this fashion, even
though it be four feet in length. Il
made a photograph the other day of a
woman whose hair is twenty inches
long while she was sitting in this cur
rent" said DR.. Roberts. ''If the hair is
wet while the patient is in the pool. and
the room is darkened, it will glow with
a brilliant blue flame. The other day
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
German ProRreas.

During the last thirty years there
has been nothing like the urban and
industrial development Of rustic Ger
many except that of America. Berlin
has increased in population faster than
New York. Hamburg, in the last quar-
ter of century, has tripled the num-
ber Of its Inhabitants. Between 1880
and 1890 Cologne doubled itself. Leip-
zig has grown more rapidly than San
Francisco. The agricultural population
Of eastern Germany has swarmed into
the great Industrial districts Of the
west, and still these are SO far from
being glutted that the employer holds
out yet higher temptations to the peas
ant to come to the city and leave field
work to Russians and Poles. Wages
are rising, and hours are becoming
shorter. The emigration which for
merly streamed fast from Germany is
diminishing from year to year. So far
is Germany from being crushed by
conscription that the -splendor and ex-
pense Of municipal improvements go
hand-in-hand with the extraordinary
increase of the towns in mere point Of
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Soldiers on Stills.

Improbable as 1t may seem, says the
Paris Messenger, the French army has
lately been making experiments with
the view Of testing the value of stilt-
walking. The result appears to be
such as to render their adoption by the
French army for special purposes high
ly probable. They are found to be SER
viceable not only In placing telegraph
wires in very rough country, but also
as a means Of quickly ascertaining
where a river can be safely forded by
troops. The stilt man, by the aid OF
his heightened legs, can measure the
depth of the water with great ease
and precision. He can feel about for
the shallow places and thus lead the
way,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Commercial and Financial Happenings
of Interest in the Growing
Western States.
Coal for Market.

In the country surrounding Stella,
Cowlitz county, WASH, it has been
known for a number of years that crop
pings of coal have been discovered, and
some prospecting and development
work have been done. The coal assay
ed well, and it was comparatively easy
of access, but for some reason it was
found difficult to interest capital suffi-
cient to mine and ship the coal on a
large enough scale to make it profita-
BILE, and the man who owned the most
valuable properties in that locality had
not the means to do so himself. About
six months ago the following capital.
lists of The Dalles became interested in
the property: Hon. Malcolm A.
Moody, j. M. French, j. B. McInerny
and ]. Nicholas. They employed a
practical mining engineer who had had
experience in this character of work,
and had thorough inspection of the
properties made. The result was that
they formed a company giving the
owner of the land a half interest in
paid-up, noc-assessable stock. while
they agreed to furnish all the money
necessary. They purchased machine' y
Of the latest design in the East, and
most of it has arrived and been set up.
1t is the expectation of the company
to have coal from it's mine on the
market within 60 days of quality
equal to any that is now used in the
Northwest, and at a price very much
below that at which it is now sold.
In carrying out their present plans
they will build a railroad from Stella.
four miles up Cold creek to where the
mine is located.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04

American.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
SITUATION is FAVORABLE.
There Are Bad Features, But they Are
in the Minority.


Bradstreet's says: Evidences OF the
fact that there are now two sides of the
general trade situation, where for a
year past there was but one, come to
sight this week. Different sections of
the country and lines of business return
different reports, but that the situa-
ton as whole is a favorable one and
suffers merely by commisseration with
the enormous and almost fevrish &C.
tivity of some time ago, is also evident.
Excluding the great speculative CEN
ters, the aggregate of business is un-
doubtedly larger than year ago, and
the business done in several industries
reporting reduced activity would seem
very large even to those bearishly in
clined had it not been for the enormous
aggregate done some short time ago.
Crop prospects, except IN the wheat
area of the Central West, and in some
flooded sections of the South, remain
all that might be wished for. Retail
demand is improving and nothing of a
definitely depressing character has yet
developed.
In the abrupt readjustment of steel
and wire prices, the iron and steel in
dustries received notable shock, but
have stood the ordeal very we'll.
In agricultural products the situa-
tion is generally one of sustained
strength. Some slight shading in
wheat prices is largely the result of
fattering winter wheat crop pros.
poets in the sections west of the
Mississippi.
Wheat, including flour shipments,
for the week agg1 egate 1858, 683 BUSH
els, against 8, 1898, ,451 last week.
Failures for the week in the United
States are we'll down to the minimum.
numbering only 1872, an increase of 21
over last week.
Canadian failures for the week mum
ber l8, as compared with 19 last week.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Tho Man with the Kodak.

0 what great diff renee in history,
What a rich absolution from mystery,
We moderns would know
OF events long ago,
If only man with kodak had been
At the following events, just to snap
shot the scene:
When the Red sea was divided,
When the bald-headed man derided
Called out bears to eat the children,
When the brazen serpent healed them,
When the Gorgon's head CONCEALED them,
When Horatio held the crossing;
When st. Patrick drove the snakes out,
(There are many just such fakes out),
When young Jeanne dare led the army:
When old Barbra Frietchie dared them
Shoot her gray hairs, and they spared
them
When King Arthur's knights sat ring
style;
When Columbus struck our borders
Bearing 1sabella's orders,
When the Pilgrim Fathers landed
o If some good man with a kodak had
been
On hand with his dinky to picture the
scene,
o what very great difference in history!
What full absolution from mystery!
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
MARVEL AMONG MEN.
PASSES 600, 900 VOLTS OF CLEO.
TRICITY THROUGH HIS BODY.
Before a Gathering Of Medical Men a
st. Louis Doctor Proves that High
Voltage Currents Are Not Necessa-
riIy Death Dealing.

DR.. Heber Roberts, of st. Louis, be-
fore gathering Of medical men in that
city recently, proved that 100000 volts
of electricity could be passed through
the human body without injury to 1t.
and that the popular belief that high
voltage currents were death dealing
is fallacy. According to DR.. Roberts,
the injurious possibilities Of current
depends upon it's amperage, and the
voltage when properly handled is with
out the power to kill or even injure
any one. The experimenter attracted
much interest among professional men
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
New Blue River Ledge.

The newly discovered quartz pros
poets On the Blue river, Or, reported
about two weeks ago, are attracting a
great deal of attention. Miners and
prospectors are heading that way from
all directions, and already a lively
mining camp is there. The discovery
is in the vicinity of Blue river falls,
several miles northwest of the old Blue
river mining camp. 1t is easily acces-
sible by horse trail from the main
road up the McKinzie. and no difficult
ty is experienced by miners taking in
supplies.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04

placed man on the table and turned
the current into him. He had previous
ly stripped to the waist, and wet the
hair upon his face, head and chest.
When the current began its passage
through him he became ghostly in ap-
pearance. His beard, head and chest
were wreathed in blue flame. Yet he
did not feel the slightest disagreeable
sensation. Another peculiar feature
about this static current is that when
ever it finds point for exit it becomes
blue flame, one-half inch in length.
1t has heat, yet it does not burn the
person from whom 1t passes" The
discovery of DR.. Roberts should be
very valuable in the application of elec.
tricity to therapeutics.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
The Old Cane PoIa.

Inc OlO OAn6 fOI6s
oh. the old cane pole-how my heart beat
high
When used to swing it in the days gone
by
Where the bending rushes and the long
lake grass
Furnished hiding places for the hungry
When great big lunker that was tempt
ing fate
Telegraphed a message that he had the
bait
Twas a sweet sensation that'd stir the
soul.
Spattin' in the rushes with an old cane
pole.
My whole anatomy with laughter thrills
To see rod and reel and the other frills
The hifalutin' artist brings into play
To snake out bass in scientific way.
He'll look around with plying smile
At the fellow fishing in the good old style,
But in every case will bet my roll
That he won't be in it with the old cane
pole.
Oh. the old cane pole-there's nothing so
fine
0s " ieei pdss Tug ou Soou slout
line,
For if you've got your nerve and you
work it right
You are sure to land him in good square
fight;
And when you're going home you won't
have to guess
Where your fish are coming from-you'll
have mess.
So let the fancy fishermen cast and troll,
But l will spat the rushes with an old
cane pole.
Chicago Record.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
w hat a kopje ls.

+ No one who has not seen an African
kopje can easily realize 1t. 1t Is not a
hill so much as the stump of hill
what is left of it after ages of denuda-
ton, but the special feature Of it is
that 1t is almost invariably covered
with a breastwork of powders. Trop-
lcal torrents have washed away the
earth and all the soluble components
Of the rock and what is left consists Of
heaps and lines of detached masses Of
sandstone, ironstone or granite. The
kopjes are the Beers fortitica tions
and he has any number of them.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04

Wool-Spring-Nevada, 14@ Ice per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 12@1 Ice; VAL
ley, 2O@22c; Northern, 10@12c.
Hops-1899 crop, 11@13c per
pound.
Butter - Fancy creamery 1sc;
do seconds, 17@171ac; fancy dairy,
l7c; do seconds, log Ice per pound.
Eggs-Store, 15c; fancy ranch,
17c.
Millstuffs - Middlings, $17.O0 q
1000; bran, $12.5o@13.5O.
Hay-Wheat$ Sc. 5O@9.s0; wheat and
oat $6O0@9.O0; best barley 5000
100; alfalfa, $5.00@6.5O per ton;
straw, 25@40c per bale.
Potatoes-Early Rose, 6O@65c; Ore
gon Burbanks, 7Oc@$1.0O; river Bur-
banks, 4O@75c; Salinas Burbanks,
80c@l.10 per sack.
Citrus Fruit-Oranges, Valencia,
Mexican lines, $4,000
500; California lemons 75c@$1. 80;
do choice $1.75@2.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas, $1.50@
$50 per bunch; pineapples, NOM
inal; Persian dates. 6@RXc per
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Great Schemes.

I'm going to write great poems some day,
Exactly when 1 will not say.
Just now some things are in the way;
I'll begin-well, week from Tuesday.
There are pictures, too, mean to paint;
Ny plans, as yet, are little faint,
But my notions are really new and quaint,
As you'll see a week from Wednesday,
A drama great have in mind,
AS soon as a plot can find,
Striking, original, refined,
Perhaps a week from Thursday.
l hope to form a stock concern,
Enormous dividends I'll earn,
Till coupon bonds have Ito burn,'>
About year from Friday.
Or, no-I'u just invent toy,
Some simple gimcrack to give joy
To each enraptured girl or boy
I'll work on that next Saturday.
I can't decide which scheme to choose,
Each idea seems too good to lose;
Meanwhile I'll take my Sunday snooze-
To-morrow's only Monday.
-Woman's Home Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Northwest Notes.

Fred E. Wilmarth has purchased an
interest in the Burns, Or. News.
A new saw mill will soon begin
operations at Alba, Umatilla county.
The material for the Fossil, Or,
waterworks, weighing 100 tons, will be
hauled from Arlington by team.
The new bridge crossing the Coquills
river at Myrtle Point has been COM
pleted and opened to traffic. 1t is the
best bridge in Coos county.
The Sugar Leaf Creamery, Coos
county, has resumed operations. 1t
will handle 10000 to Is, 900 pounds of
milk daily as soon as the roads are
good. and will make cheese principally.
George snodderly, a pioneer of Grant
county, Or, died at Long Greek. He
was SO years of age, and went to the
Canyon creek mines in 1850. The
body was taken to Susanville for
burial.
Field Superintendent Larson, of the
La Grande beet sugar factory, reports
that there is total of 700 acres of
beets planted and the ground is pre-
pared for seeding 800 acres more.
J. F. Birney, of Everett, WASH, has
gone to Snohomish to survey logging
camp for Campbell Bros, ON BATHS
slough, where 700 acres of timber will
be handled.
At Port Townsend custom house
sale of seized goods, consisting of silks,
cigars and opium, the principal bidders
were Chinese, and the opium brought
$1O.5O pound, the regular market
price.
Over 500, 900 shingles were floating
in the bay and strewn along the beach
at Port Townsend as result of the
capsizing of the scow towed from Dun
geness with 100000 shingles on
board. Many have been recovered, but
the loss will be heavy.
A cattle buyer was on the Lower Co.
guile river the past week buying and
contracting for calves and young stock
for parties in Fresno county, Califor-
MIA. He made contracts for some 600
head of calves at So per head, to be de-
ivered the first of September.
The Republic company has SO teams,
many of them six horses, on the road
freighting from Republic to Columbia,
B. G. A six horse outfit hauls 5000
pounds, and makes the round trip in
five days.
There are 219 national banks in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04

The Davidson Fruit Company, at
Hood River, Or, has furnished about
$4,000 tomato plants to farmers who
are going into the business of growing
tomatoes for the cannery. P. F. Brad
ford has the supervision of the growing
of the plants, and has visited the farm
ers and given instructions about setting
the plants. The plants are furnished
free and the farmers have engaged to
plant about 80 acres for the fruit COM
pany. Next season if 100 acres of peas
can be secured, the company will put
in machinery to hull and can green
peas.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Strategy.

"What is in that box you are SO care
full about, If may ask?" inquired the
man who had secured the lower berth
In the sleeper.
'That's a collection of rare snakes
am taking to museum. They are too
valuable to be trusted out Of my sight" T"
replied the man. who was preparing to
climb to the upper shelf.
"Say, I'll trade berths with you"
"All right. I'm not particular where
I Sleep Chicago Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Metric System Adopted

Metric System Adopted in Russia.
By a decree of the Gar, the metric
system of weights and measures has
been adopted for use throughout the
Russian Empire, and commission has
also been organized to consider the re-
form of the Russian calendar so as to
harmonic with that prevailing in the
other civilized countries.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
The Big Buffalo Sold.

One of the most important mining
deals ever made in the Northwest,
whereby the former Big Buffalo mine
at Buffalo Hump becomes the property
of Charles Sweeney, the Spokane capi-
talist, has been consumated at Grange
Vile, Idaho. The sale embraces the
Bert Rigley, Young and Robbins inter-
ests, representing one-half of the mine,
for $125, 900 cash. Sweeney had pre-
viously secured the other interests for
which he paid about $4,000. The
deal on the property has been pending
many months,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
He Had to Good Reason.

"I've nothing to give you. my poor
man, except piece Of pie"
''Thatl do, ma'am. kin eat pie
Thanky."
"Have you any occupationw
"Yes'm. I'm a snow shoveler."
"You didn't expect to get any oppor-
tunity to shovel snow In this part Of
the country, did your"
''Nome. That's why 1 come down
here. There was too blamed much of it
up in Michigan" Chicago Tribune.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
The Savage Bachelor.

eff you had been at the Browns gold
en- wedding celebration last night" said
the sweet young thing, "you would
have altered your views on matri-
mony."
II wouldn't, either" said the savage
bachelor. eff matrimony were not n
fake there wouldn't be such pow-wow
raised over a couple that had managed
to endure each other for few years.
and don't you forget it."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
At the Seat of War.

First Correspondent-A native run
ner has arrived, but the Beers waylaid
him and he swallowed his dispatches
Second Correspondent - Oh, well,
that's probably more than the public
would have done.-Puck.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
MOhair Pool Sold.

A pool comprising 2,931 fleeces of
mohair has been sold at Corvallis, Or.
The purchasers were F. L. Miller and
S. L. Kline, merchants of that place,
and the price paid was % cents per
pound. The total weight of the lot
would be about 10000. The pool is
the second of the kind sold there this
season. A former lot of almost the
same number of feeces sold recently at
28X cents per pound.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
inst as Eff .ctive.

"There is nothing like being in love
to make a man gentle and thoughtful
in all his actions"
"No-except touch of rheumatism
between the shoulder blades."-Har-
per's BaZar
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Both Vegetarian and Cyclist.

Count Tolstoi is an enthusiastic cy-
clist. He declares that he has to thank
his bicycle and his vegetarian diet for
the robust health which he has so long
enjoyed. Twenty years ago his ply
sician advised Tolstoi to avoid too
much muscular exercise, but the pa
tient was obstinate, and did exactly the
contrary; in fact, he has ever been a
lover of sports of different kinds.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Khaki Note Paper.

Khaki letter paper is the latest. and
being linen it might be made out of the
very material made into uniforms,
from its appearance. This may not
mean that it is altogether beautiful.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
Comprehensive.

On a tombstone in an old New En-
gland churchyard there is an epltaph
which never fails to bring a smile to
ory of Ann Sophia and Julia Hattie, his
two wives, this stone is erected by their
grateful widower, James B. Rollins.
They made home pleasant" ."-Woman's
Journal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04

II see those friends of yours, the
Rustlers, have their names in the pa
per again." said the lady who is inter-
ested in social topics.
"Have they, indeed" responded Miss
Cayenne, languidly. 81 didn't know
the delinquent tax list had been pub
lished again!'-Washingt Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
The Eacta of the Case.

II understand that Banker Bustupp
was really the victim of people in whom
he had placed confidence"
II guess it is SO. Poor man, he was
more skinned against than SHINING"
indianapolis Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
A Prolific Writer.

Askit-Whom do you regard as our
greatest writer of fiction?
Tellit-The weather man.-Baltimore
American.