Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-19

Attorney e. r. Bryson is home
from Eugene.
| Mrs. A. J. Hall, of Wells, was
in Corvallis, yesterday.
Mrs. &c. Taylor returned from
| the coast, Sunday evening.
| Prof. A. B. Cordley and vie re-
turned from their outing at the
coast, last Friday.
Mrs. Grace e. Hall, of Buena
Vista, arrived in Corvallis, yester-
day, for a weeks visit with her pa
rents.
|. Father Jurek arrived home, Sat
urday, from a trip to Washington,
where he was called on church
business.
Grover Headriek drove over to
Alsea. Sunday, and returned with
his sister, Miss Alice Headrick, who
has been over there visiting for ten
days. Miss Headrick expects to
leave for Salem today.
W. W. Collins was up from
Suver. yesterday. He will begin
threshing today and says that he
will have about three-fourths the
yield he should have, but will fare
as well as some Of his neighbors: .
DR.. Rowley's famous steed has
cut another caper. A few evenings
ago the doctor and friend drove
down to Sulphur Springs. While
unhitching, the beast began a pro
tracted series of bucking and kick
ing and finally made its escape. 1t
hasn't been seen since.
A party consisting OF Clum Reed
and son. Tam Case and Charley
Barnhart expect to leave, Thursday,
for trip to the Des Chutes river
country. Mr.. Case has a timber
claim over there which he desires
to prove up on and the rest of the
party are going to hunt and fish
They will 60 via the Santiam route
and will return over the old mill
tary road. They will be absent
three or four weeks.
| We are indebted to S. B. Bane
for liberal treat of "jerked" veni.
son: Mr.. Bane recently returned
from a hunting trip in Southern
Oregon, and was accompanied by
French z. Oliver. The latter pass
ed a day here with Mr.. Bane. Mr..
Bane must have had splendid sue.
cess, for alluding to the reward
spoken of by our contemporary, he
said that if Frank would keep quiet
he would give him some jerked
meat.
+ Our sportsmen who have kept q
close lookout on the China pheas
ant proposition with a view to shoot
ing this fall, declare that the pros
poets for an abundance of birds are
not fattering. It is said that
pheasants are unusually scarce,
and the reason attributed for this
fact is the>late spring rains. Those
who are posted state that if the
first broods are lost on account o1
the weather the parent birds do not
nest much later.
In the last issue of the GAZETTE
it was mentioned that Mrs. j. w
Walker, who formerly resided neal
this city, had been committed to
the insane asylum from Monmouth
Her mental arrangement was
brought about by the death of hel
child. We aye reliably informed
since our last issue that Mrs. Walk
er's death has occurred in the asy-
lum. This is certainly a sad affair
and Benton county friends will re-
member it with regret.
| Last Saturday, while trying tt
push cartridge into a shotgun, th'
shell exploded and injured two o
the Warfield boys, of Alsea. Par
ticulars are meager, but it is statee
that quite fragment of the shel
entered the side Of one of the boys
and cut cash two or three inches
long. The face of the other DO.
was considerably powder burnt ane
he also was struck in the side will
piece of the shell. Neither is Sc
riously injured.
The horse race on the Kiger track
Sunday afternoon, drew quite !.
crowd. 1t was the fourth race be
tween these horses. The race ami
mails were formerly known as tn
Tartora and Cook horses. They ar
now the property of E. r. Case ant
w. N. Work. Three of the race
were for a distance of a quarter
mile, were run on the Kiger track
and the mare now owned by Work
, won all of them. One was run il
Albanv the distance being 3Ol