Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-07-21

day, to resume his duties in the
offices of the Northern Pacific rail
road company, after short vaca-
ton spent at Newport and Corval-
lis. Mrs. Beach and daughter will re.
main in this city for few weeks
visiting with friends.
Jim Bier is ont with. a sharp
stick after the Individual who has
been purloining various articles
from the Corvallis Soda Works.
The gentleman operates at night,
and gains an entrance to the build
ing by forcing the lock OF the front
door. AT present there is charged
mp to him, a quantity of fl lvoring
extracts, machine for measuring
syr-ps, well bucket and numer-
Gus small articles.
VIM. Junes and Clarence Hout,
of this city. have purchased butch
er shop at Dallas. and took posses
sion yesterday. The Observer says,
both Mr.. Castle aud Mr. Shaw, the
retirirg prnpr'etnrs WI romain in
Dallas. Mr.. Castle Will engage, in
his old business of buying and sell
ing stock. Messrs Iunes and Hnut
come we'll commended as expert
enced butchers and reliable busi-
ness men, and they will doubtless
te favored with a continuation of
the heavy patronage accorded their.
predecessors.
Great changes are being made in
the appearance of things or the
west half of the block embraced by
Jefferson and Adams and Fifth and
Sixth streets. On the corner Of
Sixth and Adams, Tfos. Balls ele-
CANT new residence is rapidly near.
ing completion, and the smaller
building it replaces has been NOV
ed back and now faces on Sixth
Mrs. Ann Smiths residence, which
stood in the middle of the block,
facing west, has exchanged places
with the residence belonging to
Mrs. Caroline Hayes, which occu-
pied the corner of Sixth and Jeffer-
son.
A note received from the Harper
Allen Withycombe party, states
that they killed their first deer near
their camp at the Dave Tom place,
Thursday morning. The animal
was discovered in a little clearing,
about quarter of mile from the
place where the hunters were sta.
toned. and it forfeited its life to a
tall, slender man; a short, heavy,
man, and man of medium stature
The responsi oility for the death of
the gentle creature must be shared
by these individuals, for each fired
a shot ard three gaping wounds
bore evidence of the trueness of
their aim.
The Presbyterian had the pleas
ure of listening to two of their for
aign missionaries Sunday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Dir. Irwin have heen
in Layo for number of
years and are now ia this coun-
,rv recuperating They expect to
return TO their work in September.
At present they are visiting Mrs
[rwin's sister, Mrs. Proebstel. Mrs.
Irwin gave very interesting iad-
lress to the Endeavors and Mr.. Ir.
win spoke at the evening service on
he religion and customs sf the
4avo people. Both addresses were
highly appreciated. They expect to
cave Tuesday for Portland. Lavo
s dependency of Siam.
Oregon has about the same popu-
alton as South Dakota; the natural
are more favorable to
lairying ia Oregon than South Da-
,ota and the average price of dairy
PRODUCTS are higher here than it is
here. Nevertheless the number of
mich cows in South Dakota on
January 1, 1908, IS estimated by
he q. S. Department of Agricul-
ure at 37S,679, as compared with
'nly l29, ,7l3 in Oregon Even Ok
ahoma has more milch cows than
Oregon. The number credited to
he state of Washington is l41, ,701.
There is no present occasion for
Inyone in Oregon to worry about
'ver doing the dairy business in :
his state, says the Oregon Agricul-
urist. II
While attending the recent meet i
ng of the board of regents in thi-
ity, Hon. W.P. Ready had a CONVEX
alton with the GAZETTE aan, and
he future of the College and the
tate were subjects under discus
ion. In this connection, Mr..
Ready spoke of Oregon's good for {
une in having such an able dele {
alton at the present time. When
uestioned concerning the health of ,
'enator Mitchell, Mr.. Ready stated .
mphatically that Mr.. Mitchell, .
7as never capable of doing more !