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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-29
TOOL sIonameat. From cemeterr.

st, Albans, Aug. 29.-It Is reported that
a marble dealer from Swanton drove into
the Catholic cemetery on Fairfax street a
few days ago and took down two small
monuments, loaded them into his wagon
and drove away lie told man who was
working on the grounds that they were
set up by him and had been but partly
paid for, and he was tired waiting for the
money. The matter Is being Investigated
by the committee which has charge Of the
cemetery, and tits told that there may be
some interesting developments for the
Swanton man before the matter is settled,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-29
BURGLARY AT NORTH P0WNAL.
Articles of Clothing Taken From store of
S. 4, smith aud son.

North Pownal, Aug. rs. The general
store Of 5. 4. Smith q Sons Of this place
was burglarized some time last night, en-
trance being effected through rear win
dow.
A quantity Of shirts, shoes, and smaller
articles Of clothing was taken There is
no clue to the thieves.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-29

Duett selected Miss fhillipsand Mr. sherifEs
Reading Miss Asay
A.silyer collection win be taken to help
defray expenses.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-29
LEAGUE BASE BALL.
III National League Gamas Boston Lost 20
New York.

AT Boston, New York II, Boston G.
At Cincinnati Cincinnati 5, Ccieago 8.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-29

Auction sale this afternoon and evening
at Hale's auction rooms. o. Fl. Hale auc-
tiOnaer
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
That is the Sum Spent on Schools il
Benton the Past Year.

That is the Sum Spent on Schools in
Benton the Past Year.
sup't. Denman has filed his an
nua1 report with the state superin-
tendant. The report shows;
Number of pupils between q and
20 years in county, male, 1919; fe-
male, 1851.
Number marked R on teachers S
register, male, 500; female, SCI.
Number pupils registered, male.
oo $50; female, o65.
Teachers employed, male, SO;
female, So.
Number not attending any school
male, 348; female, 23o:
Number of library books 1oII.
Money spent for teachers salary,
FINANCIAL,
$I4, 1858.
Paid for fuel and supplies, 81, 3o2.
Repairs, s53o.27.
Clerks salary, SAB. So.
Paid tor all other purposes, $2,-
oo5.5o.
The total amount expended for
all purposes was $22,395
The total amount received for
school purposes, $3o1.2o.
The estimated value of school
premises is $43,4o5.
Estimated value Of furniture.
$5,5IS.
Insurance on school property.
$25,4oo.
The average salary paid male
teachers. $50.
The average salary paid female
teachers. $32.
At a later issue the list of the
newly elevated clerks for the ensu-
ing year will appear in "THE
TINES
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
ENGLAND's DEATH RATE.
Remarkable Increase shown ASnfus,
q Decrease in Marriages
and Births.

The return of the registrar general
the year 1900, the first complete year
since the war broke out, shows de-
cline in marriages and births and an
increase in deaths, says the st. LOUIS
Globe-Democrat. The marriage rate
was 16 per 1000, compared with 1914
in 1S9S-99. The births in 1900 num-
bered 927, ,062, or a rate of 2S.7 per
1000, the lowest record, and 1.3 per
cent. below the mean rate for the
last ten years. The i1legitimate birth;
rate was IL per 1000, which is the
lowest record. The deaths numbered
5S7, $50, or 1872 per 1000, as against
II, 17.4 and 17.s in the previous three
years. Of the deaths, 1868 were i'm
mediately due to alcoholism or de-
lirium tremens. The death rate from
alcoholism was 1872 males and 95 fe-
males per 100000. Both these rates
were the highest on record. The
deaths from tubercular riseases
were 1914 percentum OF the deaths
from all causes, aggregating e1,3o2.
The strength of the army at home
anu dbfoid was ooo,ooi lue uedeAs
We're 1854, giving rate of 27.6 per
1000, as compared with 1912 and 1915
in the preceding three years. The
mortality in the army abroad was
36.1 per cent. per 1000, as compared
with an average of 14.5 in the pre-
ceding five years. The death rate at
home was 81, as compared with an
average of 43 in the preceding five
years.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
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NEW DEEDS.
A Five Hundred Acre Farm for A. R.
and Harold Woodcock.

A Five Hundred Acre Farm for A. R.
and Harold Woodcock.
Mary G. Hibbard and husband
to ST. Stark 80 acres in Kings
Valley $425.
Emma J. WoodcocR and hus.
band to Robert M. Crawford one
fifteenth interest in 524 acres north
of Corvallis $3.50.
Robert M. Crawford to A. r.
Woodcock and G. H. Woodcock 524
acres north of Corvallis So,
J. E. Henkle ct Tx to j. W. Roth
land near Philomath 81, 500,
Alice Croft and husband to Mag
gie E. austin one fifth, interest in
one lot in block Dixon'ss Add.
$Ioo.
T. L. Chairman trustee to Victor
Moses south half of block I County
Add. $1,o75.
E. e. Overran and wife to D. w.
Morelock ct al IS acres Philomath
5000.
Robert McCaustland and wife to
Josephine III. Moore block IA Viii
kin's Add $I,o75.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
THE AUGUST SHOOTING MATCH.
Proposition to Hold State Tourna-
ment Here About September goth.

mem Here About September goth. !
The Corvallis Rod and Gun Club
held its regular monthly clay pigeon
shooting match the first of the week
at the Avery racetrack grounds.
Ten persons participated. There
were eleven events, and all consisted
OF ten targets, unknown angles, ex-
cept the last which was at five tar
gets. Entrance fee was so cents,
money divided SO, 80 and 20 per
cent. A scarcity of shells in town,
such as are commonly used, COM
pelled the participants to use an as
sorted lot consisting of skies, sevens
and eights, ,ib1ack powder, and an oc-
casional load of buck shot, all of
which largely accounts for the er.
ratio shooting by the boys.
Participants in the match were
Emery Kiger, Logsdon of Albany,
Rennie, Burnett, M. Reynolds, Cur
rim, Kerr, Sheridan, Elgin. Emery
shot in all the events breaking IS
out of possible los, his average
per cent being II, the highest score
of the day. Kiger was in seven
events. He made the second best
score, breaking Al out of possible
IS, making his average per cent o3.
Logsdon was third with an average
of 68.s, breaking A out of posi-
bic 70. Rennie and Burnett tried
with an average of 60. both being
in all events; Reynolds, in five, re-
ceived 40 per cent. to his credit;
Currin and Kerr, in all events, each
received 81 per cent; Sheridan, in
FIVE events. received "a per cent;
Efgin, in six, 90 per cent.
In the latter part of, September
the club expects to have big tour
nament, probably at the race track,
that location being well adapted to
the purpose on account of the low
horizon of the east. Here the clay
pigeon shows against the sky al
most the moment it leaves the trap.
A shooting tournament on the ex-
tensive plan contemplated by the
club will interest crack shots
throughout the state and elsewhere.
The boys ought to receive whatever
encouragement is necessary to carry
out their plans in regard to this at
traction.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
Immigration increasing.

Immigration statistics for the last
fiscal year are of interest, because
of the great increase in the number
of new arrivals. Of the total Of 494,-
500, the month of May brought the
most, s2.054; and in the past four
months the. arrivals numbered $685.
5o7, or considerably over one-half.
Austria-Hu -,ary. Italy, Germany and
Russia sent the most immigrants. 1t
IS of interest to note that only one
fourth of the whole number were
women, and that not the newer parts
of the country, but New York, Penn
sylyania and New Jersey were the
destinations of the majority of the
incomers. Many went far west, even
to California.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
PREFERRED FERN STALKS.
To Other Food for His Dinner-Insane
and Gone to the Asylum.

! anu GUuG " Inc asylum.
Joseph Lester, who imagines that
evil spirits occasionally take posses
sion Of him and direct his move
ments, was taken to the insane asy-
lum by Sheriff Burnett and Deputy
Fullerton, Monday He lives in
A1sea, where he resides on his
homestead claim. He came to the
country about year ago from Kan
sas. He has brothers and sisters in
the latter state, and father in Den
yer. He is rs years OF age, is un-
married, and is of agreeable presence
and address.
Testers insanity was first noticed
week or ten days ago. One night,
! ! between II and IL o'clock, he sud-
denly appeared at the home of one
of the Hayden brothers. He arous-
ed the family and told them that he
had come to help drive some of
their sheep over to his place, where
the feas were bad. He said if the
! sheep were taken over there, they
would take the fleas away.
After that he was at work for the,
Haydens, and at dinner time he
declined to go to the house, saying
he didn't want any of their dinner.
This fern around here is what I
eat" he continued, 'and I don't
want any of your dinner"
At last it was suggested that he
could gather some of the fern,
take it to the house with him, and
eat it there along with the family
dinner. He consented and gather
ing lot of the stalks. a foot in
length, he took them to the house
and after peeling off the outside
bark, presented himself at the table
There he passed his fern stalks
around to those present, all of
whom declined the unusual diet.
Lester himself, however, ate the
stalks along with the other food, !
declaring that it was a fine diet,
better than any medicine. This and |
other manifestations convinced his
friends that the young man was OF
unsound mind, and his trip to Cor.
wallis in charge of a deputy, and
the subsequent journey to the asy-
lara followed.
Lester confesses to a belief that
evil spirits often control him. He
aas talked freely to that effect
among his Alsea friends, and id |
he examination before the county
udge Monday he made similar
statements. "Tt the spirits ordered
you to do something violent or bad,
would you have to do it?" inquired
he physician in attendance. '.Yes
would have TO do it; but I would
probably be sorry for it afterwards
This idea, together with his lnusu-
Il behavior led to a fear that his
na1ady might assume such a form
hat bodily harm to himself or some
me else might result. A faraway 3
ook in his eyes, and a Frightening
# the: light in them when the sub
ect of Spirits is mentioned tells on
TOO we'll the story of his mental
DR., Cathey was the
Examining physician.
Lester lives alone in the cabin on
lis homestead,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
Teachers Examinations.

Notice is hereby given that the coun-
ty superintendent of Benton County will
hold the regular examination of appli-
cants for state and county papers at Cor
wallis, as follows:
For State Papers.
Commencing Wednesday, August II,
9o'clock a. m. and continuing until
Saturday August IS, a O'Clock.
Wednesday -Penmanship, history,
spelling, algebra, reading. school law.
Thursday Written arithmetic. theory
of teaching, grammar, bookkeeping.
physics, civil government.
Friday Physiology. geography. mem
tai arithmetic, composition, physical
geography.
Saturday-Botan plane geometry,
general history, English literature,
psychology
For County Papers.
Commencing Wednesday, August y,
at O o'clock a. m. and continuing until
Friday, August "a, at o'clock p m.
Ist, end & 3rd Grade Certificates.
Wednesday Penmanship, history.
photography, reading.
Thursday. Written arithmetic, theory
of te aching, grammar, physiology.
Friday-Geography mental arithmetic
school law, civil government.
Primary Certificates.
Wednesday-Penmanship orthogra-
ply, reading. arithmetic.
Thursday-Art of questioning, theory
of teaching, methods, physiology.
Dated at Corvallis, this 2eth day of
G. w, DENMAN,
County School Snp't
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
Reduced Excursion Rates.

The Southern Pacific Company has
placed on sale at very low rates round
trip tickets to the various resorts along
its lines, and also, in connection with
the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, to De-
troit and the seaside at Yaquina Bay,
latter tickets good for return unil Oct.
ober 10th.
Three day tickets to Yaquina Bay good
going Saturdays Mondays are now on
sale at greatly reduced rates from all
points Eugene and north on both East
and Westside lines, enabling people to
spend Sunday at the seaside, Very
low round trip rates are also made be
tween Portland and the same points on
the Southern Pacific, good going
Saturdays, returning Sunday or Monday
allowing Portlnnd people to spend Sum
dav in the country, and the out of town
people to have the day in Portland.
Tickets from Portland to Yaquina
Bay, good for return via Albany and
Eastside. or Corvallis and Westside, at
option of passenger. Baggage checked
through to Newport. A new feature at
Newport this year will be an up-to-
date kindergarten in charge on an ex-
perienced Chicago teacher.
A beautifully illustrated booklet de-
scribing the seaside resorts on Yaquina
Bay has been published by the South
ern Pacific and Corvallis & Eastern and
can be secured from their agents, or by
addressing W. E. Conan, 6. F. a. S.
P. Co. Portland, or Edwin Stone. Man
aeer C. & E.R. R, Co, Albany, Or.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
WHAT FOUR ACRES DID.
Kept Seventeen Cattle and Twenty-Five
Hogs Three Months-What Alfal-
ia Did,

I1VRS 1uI6C w udI Al1dl-4
ia Did.
There are two facts of special in
terest to farmers out on the college
farm. One is a two acre field OF
alfalfa, now in its third crop. and
the other is an experiment in soil
ing.
The alfalfa is eighteen inches to
two feet high. A yield of three
tons of green feed per acre is e4-
pected from it. The second crop,
cut about four weeks ago, was tall
er, and yielded about four tons per
acre. The cutting of the first crop
began the 1st of June, and from it
a measured yield of about ten tons
was secured. In all, the three crops
will make product of more than
II tons per acre. The soil on which
the crop is produced is ordinary
land, such as abounds on hundreds
of farms in the Willamette valley.
Tt has had the benefit of no CONNER
cial fertilizer and has not been irri-
gated. Only such means were used
in the growth of the plant. as is
available on any well kept farm,
where barnyard manure is regarded
as an asset in the business. The
tract was sown in the spring of last
year, and the manner in which it
has fourished has convinced all
who have seen it, that alfalfa is not
only a possibility. but destined to be
a profitable crop on many a Will
1amette valley farm, where it is
now regarded as one of the things
that can not be grown. DR.. Witty
combe is certain that three fine
crops of the plant can be grown on
any river bottom land.
The soiling experiment is the
continuation of a test began two
years ago On the college farm. It
has shown that a very small acre.
age of ground wifi sustain large !
herd of live stock for a consider
able period of time. In the test,
II head Of cattle and IS head of
hogs were maintained from the 18th
of May to the 1st of August, and
there is still enough feed on the
tract to keep them a couple of
weeks.
The soiling began on the r3th of
May, when crimson clover was cut
and fed green to the herd. When
the clover was exhausted a first
crop of alfalfa was, used, aud was
followed by peas and green oats.
Then the second crop and so on un-
til tbs present, when a third crop
S in USE |,
"A careful account of the extra
Expense on account of the cost OF
labor for cutting and feeding has
been kept, and it has aggregated
three cents per COW, per day. The
estimated income from the herd !
based on present prices of dairy
products is, for the period, $284.2o.
The results show that by soiling,
any farmer can make up for such
deficiencies as he may have in past
urage for a long period, in the
summer, and at the same time en-
rich his land, for the growing
plants renew the nitrogen in the
land that otherwise, must in time
be bought in the form of commerce
al fertilizers and added to the land
in order to secure crop.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
To Cascadia.

Cascadia Stage Office, at Powers and
Loftin's livery barn, Lebanon. We are
prepared TO convey people to Cascadia
after the arrival of the morning train
reaching there the same day with or
without baggage.
Powers & Loftin.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05

Buy your harvesting outfit from Nolan
& Callahan. Big stock to select from.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
Powers & Loftin.

What is worth doing is worth doing
we'll. and SO in selling coffees, we sell
oaly the best-Chase & Sanborns
importations' P. M. Zierolf
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
For Sale.

Thirty two inch Pitts separator and a
horse power, to be had for 800. Call
on or address,
R. G. Kiger, Corvallis.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
Wanted.

To rent farm or stock ranch. Will
pay cash or give one third. Address
w. A. Rickard, Be11 Fountain.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
Dainty
Breakfast
Goods,

AS well as Choicest Delicacies
for lunch and dinner, can al
ways be found at our store.
We handle only first. class
goods and can guarantee quail
ity. Everything offered for
sale here is strictly fresh and
just as represented. We car
ry a large stock of selected
Family and Fancy Groceries,
and are sole agents for
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
For Rent.

Furnished rooms, second door north
of M. E, church South.
Mrs. E. L. Fitch,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05

Buy your harvesting outfits at Nolan
& Callahan's.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-05
Chase s Sanbclff
E5iaE, Grade gcffeeS.
p. ND. ZieroIf.
For Sale,

For Sale,
A lady's Imperial bicycle and lady's
gold watch and chain. Articles in good
condition, Inquire at Times Office.
Evening journal., 1903-08-07
CLEVER SWINDLER IS
CAPTURED IN MARYLAND
Man Who Victimized Hun
dreds of Old Soldiers
Operated in This City

Jervis Maxwell Jewell. who was ar
rested at Still Pond. Kent county. Nd.
yesterday by Special Examiner George
Sidman, for swindling old soldiers. oper-
ated in this city early last spring. The
police received a number of complaints
from pensioners who had been swindled
by she clever crook but he did his work
quick and left the city, before the police
could arrest him.
Jewell operated successfully for sax
months in Chester and Delaware counties
Pennsylvania, and all parts Of Delaware
New Jersey and Maryland. During that
time he is said TO have victimized hun
dreds Of old veterans, most of them be-
ing colored men who were drawing pen
sions
The swindler had number of aliases
but always passed as a physician. His
game was to find out the names of old
residents who were drawing a pension
lie would then visit his victims, claiming
he was a government medical examiner
and had come to examine them for an in
crease of pension He would tell then
they were entitled to an Increase ant
would charge what he claimed was gov
ernment fee. This was never less thar
S2.75 ana mostly as much more as h
could get.
The Pension Bureau at Washington, hal
received hunareds of complaints since las
February. Although secret service mel
have been working on the case all tn
time it was not until yesterday that h.
was arrested al Stn Pond. where he wa
visiting relatives. The detectives got tn
/ clue TO his whereabouts through a wOmal
In Baltimore, who had been seen wit
Jewell When questioned the womai
broke down and told the officer where tn
| criminal was
Jewell has respectable connections q
the lower part OF this county and
Maryland. The Baltimore authorities ais
have a charge against him for horse steal
ling and robbery.
Evening journal., 1903-08-07
CAUGHT ATRANDOM

1t is undoubtedly true that one-half
of the world don't know how the other
half lives Tor il they did. additional
wings would have TO be tackled on to
the jails.
Passengers-"Why is it that you can
not get fve persons on the seats Of
these trolley cars nowadays?'
Conductor-"That is the fault OF the
dude tailors, sir, who invented padded
shoulders"
When a man of one political faith
says there are nothing but fools in the
other party, he is giving life-size de-
monstration that he is voting the wrong
ticket.
The Judge-"What has the prisoner
at the bar to say to this charger"
The Lawyer-"He is deaf, your
Honor, and is obliged to waive hear
ing"
The Salvation Army has invaded Ne
vada, and is bringing sinners TO time
to the tune of "under the Bamboo
Tree"
The latest indignities that microbe,
have been subjected to is firing then
from gun. This was done by govern
ment officials, and il was found thai
the bugs were not injured.
There is a man In Warsaw. Poland
who has the long distance record 70
bigamy. bar Utah, Turkey, and fev
such places. He has seventeen livinl
wives and each and every one Of then
is glad that he is in Jail.
The electronometer IS so acutel.
sensitive that il will detect in one min
ute an amount of matter which mus
accumulate for 100000 years befor
there is enough of IL to affect the mos
sensitive chemical balance.
The KickaDoo Indians are leavin
Oklahoma at rapid rate and settlin
in Old Mexico. The McLoud Standar
says il won't be long until the tribe wi
be forgotten in and around McLou'
, and that there viii be some fine sec
= tions OF land for sale in the near futurl
$ Only three of the fifteen members ,
& the famous Electoral Commission {
T 1877 survive ex-senator Edmund
h Sepator Hoar and General Eppa Hur
e ton. Of Virginia All of the five jus
= tices Of the Supreme Court who sat c
the commission long since passed ava
Evening journal., 1903-08-07
JUDGE. GRAY WILL
NAME THE UMPIRE
This Man Will Be the Arb
TRAITOR Of the Anthracite
Region Problems
DECISION WILL Be BINDING

Pottsvllla.. Pa, Aug. 7.-Havlng failed
TO agree on various grievances, the board
OF concllia zion Yesterday resolved to
break the deadlock by appealing to the
Judges OF tie Third judicial Circuit Of the
United States Court for the appointment
of seventh man u umpire. The quhs-
tions ia dispute WI be referred TO this
umpire. whose decision will be final and
binding on both sides.
Judge George Gray, of Delaware, will
appoint the seventh member Of the board
who will nave the deciding vote and will
Virtually himself be the arbiter of the
great probems In the anthracite RED ion
Awaiting adjustment. The arbitrator is
expected to be present at the meeting of
the board here next week.
DeadIooked on These Grievancet.
The Grievances mentioned in the res blu
tions adopted by the board are: Tho mas
Tanner vs. Coke Brothers & Co., In eor-
porated; dscriminated employees of COKE
Brothers g. Co., Incorporated; disco mi
mated employees OF the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company, and whether Cd not
employees of contractors sinking sid fits,
driving tuihneis, etc., are among those
employees directed by the award of the
Anthracite coal strike Commission.
The principal question on which the
board was unable TO agree was the stand
taken by Coke Brothers and the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company. who as
sert that they have right to BLACKLIST
miners anA refuse them employment.
Most Of the men whom these conn bnies
have Refused to employ were chs srged
with riotnB during the late strike.
In relation to Disseminated empIoYes OF
the Lehiglh Coal and Navigation Com
pany. the board OF Cancellation finds that
it is not within It's jurisdiction to pass
upon RAILROAD employees of this company
Wi. Takei Three Years at This Rate.
The PROGRESS made by the board is so
slow. Pres fdent Dettrey said that dt the
present rake It will take three yedrs tc
adjust an the troubles. This is the beriod
set ty thts commission during whi eh its
award As Directive. At present griel elances
are multipIly.ng faster than the b3 ard i.
settling th em.