Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-11-12
LOCAL NEWS.

Get your umbrella fixed at The
Hicycle Hospital.
The regular monthly meeting of
lie city council was held last night.
Editor L. L. Porter, Of the Ore
gon City Enterprise, spent Sunday
with relatives in this city.
Mr. and Mrs f. R. Bryson left
Sunday for visit with relatives II
Portland. e-->as- ,-.
Oregon fruit won 80 medals al
the Pan-American exposition, ard
prizes were also awarded this state
on three kinds of nuts.
Rev. R. l.. Meiiey, Of this city,
delivered one of the addresses be
fore the session Of the Willamette
Presbytey held in Salem last week.
While in Corvallis last week,
udge Stewart of Lincoln county
perchased a Jersey calf from the
college, and shipped it to his farm
near Toledo.
The wife of Jesse Gross at Cor,
Wallis who has been quite sick is
much better. George Gross expect
ed to leave for Corvallis on yester-
days train but on account OF her
improved condition will not 60 at
present.-Register.
DR.. Withycombe and Professor
Kent returned Sunday from Elk
ton, Oregon, where they took part
in the program of the Farmers
Institute held at that place Friday
and Saturday, under the auspices
of the Agricultural College.
The George Brown stock farm Of
80 acres, situated four miles west of
Philomath, was purchased last
week by F. N. Toothacre, of Salem,
late of Nebraska. The deal was
made by Henry Amber, the rust
ling real estate agent OF Philomath.
Hon. w. E. Yates left es'er@ay
for Canyon City, Grant county,
where he is to appear as counsel In
an i'm portant case to be head be-
fore the circuit court which con-
venes at that city next Monday.
Miss Jessie Buoy. who has been
quite i'll in this city fol the past
several weeks, is improved much
in health and expects to return to
her home in Toledo this week. Her
brother, w. II. Buoy, and family
are now at Toledo o. a protracted
visit, after an absence of some
months at Astoria.
Dwell Bros. of Central Point,
who are the largest growers OF ap-
pies in southern Oregon, have
gathered their crop Of apples. 1t
amounted to 40 cars of 900 boxes
each. All of the Newton Pippins
grown by them have been contract
ed for by the London, England
market, to reach which the cost
per car is 5000 Jacksonville
Times.
The revival meetings at the
Christian church began with ;
good interest and the meetings c
the church are delighted with tht
work of Evangelist Burton. The,
expect great meeting. Re-. Bur
ton is logical, eloquent, earnest ant
Christ-like in his presentation 0
the truth. The subject of his ser
mon for this evening is: 9Th
Greatest Mistake of all" On Wed
nesday evening: Supreme Real
tiles"
Monday the government com
menced the long deferred paymen
to the Siletz Indians of the pur
chase price of the reservation land
for which, at its last session, Con
gresa appropriated $500 says th
News. The rate per capita will b
$I9646. The payment will b
made alphabetically and the settle
ment of estates Of deceased Indian
will be taken up last. We under
stand, that the settlement of quit
anumber of these estates will b
held up on account of irregularitie
of the administration thereof. Tf
payment is being made by Specis
Indian Agent D. W. Manchester, {
Cleveland, Ohio, who has been g
the Agency for some time past al
ranging the preliminaries.
Numerous cases of poisonin
due to drinking "loaded' appl
cider are coming to light and il
vestigation is being prosecuted
Some of this cider, known to hay
been manufactured at Salem,
being alalyzed at the Agriculturi
College, by the station chemist
and as soon as the State Dairy ar
Food Commissioner has receive
his return, he will attend to IL
manufacturer who placed it on Il
market. There are those WI
believe that the cider was rendere
poisonous by having been shipp'
and handled in unelean vesse
but chemist Kniseley has found t
cider contained sodium fuoride,
deadly poison. The drug was US
by the manufactures for the pr