The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-07-15

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Saturday night. They make good.
Mrs. Hubert Hodes went to
Granger Wednesday for visit.
Homer Lilly and family leave
Monday for a ten days visit to the
Fair.
Miss Ella Johnson returns to-
morrow from a two weeks rest at
the coast.
Mrs. Burns. mother of Archie
Burns the we'll known O. A. c.
student, returned Tuesday from
California, where she spent the
winter.
The open season for killing
deer is changed from the 18th of
July to the 18th of August, and
then hunters can kill only bucks.
Gene Robinson and wife and
Miss Blanche Rood are to leave
Monday or Tuesday for North Da-
kota. to reside.
Mrs. Robert Kyle and Mrs.
Angie Anderson of Bellefountain
passed through Corvallis Wednes-
day, enroute to the Fair. Mrs.
Kyle will go from Portland to Spo-
kane for visit before returning
home.
Leslie Murray, class of 'o9 o.
A. c., who has been for several
years employed by the architectural
firm of Perrot & Co. of Philadel-
phia, has just been appointed
superintendent of building at Ash
ley, Penn. The position is one of
responsibility, and speaks well for
the young man who has received it.
George Lauth, the murderer of
Leora Jones at Oregon City last
September, was hanged at the
State penitentiary Thursday.
About twenty persons witnessed
the execution, which took place at
one O clock. The prisoner went to
the gallows without fear, and be-
trayed no weakness at the supreme
moment. The crime was the out
come of a fit of jealous rage, in
which Lauth went to the home Of
the woman and shot her to death.
Virgil Alonzo Pinkley. pres
ident of college of oratory at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, gave a reading at the
Presbyterian church Wednesday
evening, under the joint auspices
OF the Methodist and Presbyterian
congregations. A pleasing pro-
gramme, mostly of light, humorous
selections was given to an audience
that filed the auditorium. "The
old Man and Jim" and other we'll
known selections from James
Whitcomb Riley, Uncle Ephraims
Heaven" "Dot Good for Nothing
Dog of Nine" the letter scene
from Lord Dundrery and a couple
of poems written by the reader
himself, were among the selections.
In many respects Mr., Pinkley's S
work was very excellent and the
evening with him very peasant, as
was manifest by frequent bursts Of
laughter and rounds of applause.
The scheme of cooperative
colony to own lands aud conduct
enterprises in this region is men
toned again in the newspapers.
The plan is generally looked upon
as an impossible dream, and the
present is likely, as have all former
efforts, to end in nothing. The
Portland Telegram thus speaks of
the latest phase of the matter:
Taking over the mammoth sys-
tenn of sawmills in Southern Ore
gon, under the present control OF
the ooth-Kelly Lumber Company,
the purchase of the entire land
grant known as the Oregon Mill
tary Wagon Road, extending from
Eugene across the state to Ontario,
sklrting southwark a number OF
miles to include the richest sections
in that part of the state, and the
acquiring of the Corvallis and
Eastern Railroad to extend it south
over right-of-way that will pass
to the westward of Harney Lake
and travel over old surveys to Win
nemucca, New, and there connect
with Gould's Western Pacific, is
learned today to be a part of the
plan of the Cooperative Christian
Federation. Included in this gil
gantic scheme is the construction OF
a connecting line between the Cor
wallis & Eastern and Portland.
The federation was recently formed
in Portland. Options on these
holdings and detailed plans are be-
ing used to obtain capital in the
East. These facts have been plac-
ed in the possession Of the Tele-
gram. and while H. S. Wallace,
president of the federation, denies
that the deals mentioned have been