The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-26
At Be1lfountain.

At Bellfountain.
Born, to the wife of Prof. Mack,
Oct. Is b, son.
A cousin from Illinois, Of Geo. R
Hall. is spending the summer In
Oregon He is we'll pleased with
this country.
The grain in this vicinity will all
be harvested in few days. The
yield is very light. owing to the
aph aud hot, dry weather.
Crystal Lamb has been very sick
for the past two weeks.
G. E. Banton has completed his
work for E. E. Brimmer and is
now taking a hand in the harvest
field.
Peter Hoover passed through
this place Tuesday with a load of
salmon which he hoped to retail at
1 cents per pound.
Mrs. Haughton has returned to
her home OIL Coos Bay, after spend
ing several months with her daugh.
ter, Mrs. J. R. Buckingham OF
this place.
Born Sunday. to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira Lennon, a daughter.
Edith Buckingham came home
Tuesday from weeks visit in
Portland and the Fair.
J. L. Cation will leave this week
for a scjourn at the Bay. He will
also visit the Fair before returning
home.
Jos Stanturf and Charles Brit.
tain have returned from Eastern
Oregon where they have been
working in the harvest field. They
went to see the country, and report
a good country, but very hot.
! Oregon City, Or. Aug. 20 AT.
ter serving one day of a 45 days
sentence for wife-beating. August
Young, a painter, recently from
Corvallis, found himself today
faced with divorce suit brought
by the wife on the grounds of cruel
and inhuman treatment. When
the papers in the divorce suit were
served this afternoon, Young plead
ed lor his liberty from the Jail SEN
tence, agreeing to pay $SS. the un-
served portion of his sentence.
This was agreed to by City Re.
corder Dimick, who required that
an additional sum of $50 be paid
the wife with which to defray the
costs of the divorce suit, and order
ed that Young leave the city i'm.
J.. mediately.
The terms of the compromise
were subscribed to by Young who
left the city this evening Young
who is aged about 50 years and had
more than 5000 with him, escaped
prosecution and the inevitable pun.
ishment that awaited him for wife
5 beating yesterday because Acting
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney U'Rer
declined to prosecute the charge
I for the double reason that he doubt
ed the ability to prove the com
e plant and because of his doubt al
a to the constitutionality CT the &C
r providing whipping for wife-beat
y ing.
= Chicago, Aug. 22-Tne CORES
! pondent of the Daily News in Mos
, COW says:
"If Mr.. Witte withdraws from
the Portsmouth conference rathe
u than admit that the principle c
Indemnity and agree to the cessio
/ of Sakhalin, that act will show tina
1t his instructions have been modi
e fed since be left ST. Petersburg
IS AS your correspondent has state'
y before, an authority hitherto ofte
= tried and found trustworthy in
" formed him at the time of the Rus
d sian envoy's departure that the cza
/. had sanctioned the payment of 500
s 900, 900 and the cession of half o
|, Sakhalin Island.
1t at was never supposed for
r. moment in St. Petersburg, no
: withstanding the protestations {
a Mr.. Witte, that Japan would
al go self-denying as to refrain fror
% asking for the strip of land lyin
off tho mouth Of the Anour riuf