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The Washington times., 1906-04-18
TAFT USES PROD
ON CANAL CHOICE
President to Start Locks
Unless Congress Acts.
ZONE NEEDS AMERICAN BANK
Secretary Of War Advises Senate Com
mittee That National ConceJn
Would Be True Boon.

Before the Senate Interoceanic Canals
Committee today, Secretary Taft took
up the completion Of the Panama canal
He discussed IN order the Spooner act.
providing for the construction of the
canal; the government Of the zone; and
needed legislation by Congress: the
Hay-Narilla treaty and the political re-
lations between the United States and
the Republic OF Panama. the executive
order of mOdus viVendi Of December 3.
1904 the currency agreement Of June
20. 1oG, and the bankers agreement Of
April 9. 1906; authority Of the President
acting through the commission or other
agent, 10 make temporary arrangements
with the Republic of Panama; the old
commission and the new commission and
their work; the Panama railroad: Will
lam Cromwell: John F Wallace. the
Markell contract; labor. and the ques-
tion. Shall the canal be built by con-
tract -
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
DOCTOR
CASCARET
\ Office I'm your own
Vest Pocket.
On call anyMinute-Da -DayorNight

When Heartburn. Sour Stomach,
Headache, Bad Breath, Coated
Tongue. Belching Of Stomach Gas, or
any Of these forerunneTs Of Indigestion
appea-, Old Or. Cascaret wants TO
be right On the spot in your pocket.
He wants 10 check the coming trouble
instantly before II en- grow into
habit Of the Bowels to be costive.
Ladies. who extend 10 Dr.. Cascaret the
hospitality Of their Purses or their Dress
Pockets, will be rewarded with a fine
complexion. and healthy Happiness
These will about fifty times repay for
the trifling space occupied, and the ten
cents per week al cost.
The Washington times., 1906-04-18
Lock Type Now Provided.

He said that the SpOoner act was GER
tainly intended 10 provide for the con-
struction Of a lock canal II Congress
decides in favor Of a sea-level canal.
then. he declared, the President is an
Xious to know It as soon as possible in
order that work on the canal would be
begun at once.
IF Congress besides in favor Of a
lock canal the Secretary continued,
''or If it chooses not TO make any
decision c all and is willing to have the
situation rest upon the law as II IS, the
President will not hesitate 10 adopt the
plan recommended by the minority of
the consulting engineers. and proceed to
the speedy construction of the great
waterway at an S5-foOt level
The Secretary then gave a chronology
cal resume of the events leading up TO
the reorganization of the commission.
the resignation Of John +. Wallace as
chief engineer. the subsequent apDoint-
ment Of Ohm f. Stevens as his sue.
Cessor. and the reports of the members
or the board Of consulting engineers as
submitted 10 Congress on December 10
last For the government of the zone
ana additional legislation by Congress-
ne advised some changes ia court pro-
cedure- ''N
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31
IT IS COMPLETED.
The Benton County Assessment
Roll The Figures.

There are certain men who
usually have predictions to Offer
as to what the assessment will be
in the various counties, and this
year, as usual, such statements
have been made. As usual, too,
these men, who constitute them
selves an authority, have hit II
in some cases and missed it In
others, and Benton county is one
of the "misses.
The valuation in Benton is
higher this year than ever be-
fore, but in spite of this fact the
estimate of these prophets is
away in advance OF even the
higher valuation mentioned. The
fact was evidently overlooked bv
these guessers that Benton is the
next smallest county in the
state, the smallest being Multi
nomah.
The complete list of figures
on the assessment role is as fol-
lows, as handed us by Assessor
7. H. Davis:
Number of acres of tillable land, 63,.
506; value. $l.46O. 1880.
Number of acres of non ,tillable land,
3O6.0s6. value. $l,165, 700.
Value of improvements on land, $685.,
765.
Value of town lots, $241, $3.50.
Value of Improvements on town lots
ss1e,G35.
Number of miles R. R. bed, telephone
and telegraph lines, 395; value, $245,
$50.
Value of rolling stock, S1s. 1875; mer-
chandise, sl37, ,6s5.
Value of farm implements $50, ,1Sa:
money, $13,sSO.
Notes and accounts, $9O,S5
Number of shares of stock, 700; value,
$2s, 500.
Value household furniture, S73,990.
Number of horses and mules. 2,43l
value, slOs. 500.
Number of cattle, 1873, value, $S4.-
$50.
Number of sheep and goats. 25. $50;
value, $46.205.
Number of swine. 2,I9S; value, s4,9l5.
Total value of all property, $4.5l5, ,420.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31
Too Much johnson.

! Bob johnson is contemplating
a change of name. He may de.
eide on Smith, Brown or Jones
in order to get something out Of
the ordinary, as he declares that
Johnson is too common.
His trouble arose over letter
that came this week. 1t was
from some prospective prune
pickers. Now let it be borne in
mind that there are other Corval-
lis Johnsons who own prune
orchards besides Robert, who is
manager OF the biggest prune
orchard in the world-the Rem
ton orchard near Granger.
The letter read something like
this: "Mr. Robert johnson,
Dear Sir: We want to pick
prunes for Mr.. johnson, but we
mean for B. W. johnson or A.
]. johnson, for the big orchard is
too far from where we live. Mr..
johnson will you please hire US,
and tell Mr.. Johnson that we
want TO pick in his orchard if it
is nearer town than the Robert
Johnson orchard? Please have
Mr.. johnson write us which one
he is, A. ]. or B. W., and Mr..
Johnson, please notify us how
much you pay a box for pick
ing"
Robert hasn't slept any since
the letter came, trying to figure
out which one of the boys he is
and in what position he stands to
the other flock Of Johnsons re-
ferred to in the letter.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31
Walked From Mary's Peak.

Three of the girls who went
on the trip to Mary's Peak the
last of the week walked almost
the entire distance back to Cor
Wallis. They were Misses Mary
and Alice Jones and Florence
Adams, and it was not their in
tentiou to make the trip on foot.
but they started down the noun
tain ahead of the pack team, and
kept on, thinking the team would
soon overtake them. After they
had started it was decided to hold
back the team until the cool of
the evening, which was done.
The three girls finally reached
Philomath, where they rested
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31

three hours waiting for their con-
veyance, but the latter did not
arrive and the pedestrians started
for Corvallis. Three miles out
from Philomath they were met
by Ross Adams with rig and
brought on into town.
The trip covered a distance OF
1o miles, but the young ladies
said they were less fatigued than
they would have been had they
ridden in the wagon.
They had fine time on the
trip, although the'smoke was too
dense to permit good view be-
ing obtained from the summit of
the peak.
On the trip up, one party failed
to make the right turn after night
fell, and got lost in the dark,
spending the night near the in
take, without blankets or food.
This, however, was as nothing
compared to the doings of another
party on the way home, for in
broad day light these "leaders"
became bewiidered and after
travelling up mountain that
seemed to be set On edge, it was
so steep, and tearing their way
through fern ten feet high, they
found themselves about four miles
from nowhere in particular, and
entirely out of sight of the right.
road.
This part of the story has not
been "aired" by those concerned,
but the "parties of the first part''
have requested the publica-
ton and here is given the correct
version.
Besides those who who were
mention ed in the last issue of the
Gazette, the party contained the
following: Misses Mary and
Alice Jones. Ethel Linnville and
Maud McBee, and Messrs. Merrill
Hammel and Cyrus Harlan.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31
BECAUSE OF The ssDoRe." !"
A Corvallis Sportsman Missed
Rare Chance to Shoot.

f# The trouble all came about
through the idiotic antics of the
tcsmrnonestssort of asyellow dog,
one without pedigree, antece-
dent nor personal record to re-
commend him, and his behavior
on this occasion has branded
him as the most ordinary of ours.
1t is against the law to4chase
deer with dogs, and being aware
of the fact, the Corvallis hunter
referred to procured a strap and a
snap, and attached the dog to his
belt. Then the hunt began.
The hunter was DR.. Cathey,
who spent last week at Cascadla,
where he started out, arm
ed with his trusty Savage, while
Collie Cathey, with eye alert,
and ready Winchester, also took
part in the sport. Suddenly, as
the Corvallis men p1owled in the
mountain wilderness, a fine deer
sprang out of the brush and dart
ed off.
Up came the DOCTORS Savage,
and just at that moment the yef-
low dog saw the game. AS the
doctor brought his rife to posi-
ton, the worthless cur exper-
fenced fit of the widest enthu-
siasm. He lunged and barked,
he paved the air and howled, he
yanked this way and that, he ran
around and around, twisted an1
turned, and at every jerk he al
most upset the Corvallis pill man,
who tugged trantically at the
strap and tried to quiet the yelp-
ing canine.
All the while Collie Cathey
was pumping lead at the fleeing
deer, the shots deafening the al
most distracted hunter whose
troubles were already more than
be could bear.
Just as the deer had about
reached the summit Of the mon--
tain, and the do ctor and the dog
had stood still long enough t"
catch their breath, second dee
leaped into the open and a se'
ond ki-vi and a terrific lunge :
he excited pup broke the snar.
and the doctor was free man!
Two shots rang out-one from
ne Winchester. another iron
ne Savage. and the deer tell.
Watcher the yellow canine
vas dispatched later by the sg-
.ravated owner was not learned,
,ut as D 'c.or Ca'h-y is a gentle
nau If equable temper. it is pre-
umed the ''orueryn cur is still
iive.5 sIf is safr to predict. how
yer, that no dog will ever again
ae Ses.s. s.s.ssttaci1nd' = 4tosthe doctor
wfsp be IS out for deer, II
!. - =
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31
A LONG JOURNEY.
And No Deer Nor Bear But
Plenty of Trout.

Not sign OF deer nor bear did
the Observation-Disclosures
ing hunting party see on their
2oo-mile trip to Southern Oregon,
and return, but they ate fish un-
til the mere mention OF trout now
almost sours their appetites.
They e shed in the Deschutes, in
Clear Lake, Crescent Lake and
in the Willamette near Cascadia,
and everywhere caught all and
more than they could devour. At
many of the lakes people were
catching trout by the barrel, to
salt down for winter use.
E. B. Horning, who traversed
the same territory sixteen years
ago, states that he would not
have recognized the Southern
Oregon country, SO great has been
the improvement. There are
now fac farms everywhere, with
fields of waving grain, and gen.
eral air of progressiveness and
thrift.
There is much wild land in
that country, and out on Crane
Prairie, one lone rancher is using
10000 acres as pasture land.
Last winter he kept 200 head of
stock on the range, and 500 head
of cows could be kept on the hay
produced on one field this year.
He pays I2H cents per head for
each cow that he pastures, and
about the same amount per acre
for use of the other land. In one
corner of this immense tract this
farmer was putting up 400 tons
of wild hay. When the country
is eventually thrown open for
settlement these people who are
living on or near the land will
of course be in on the ground
floor to secure fine farms. The
nearest railroad now to this tract
is Shaniko, probably 100 miles
distant.
In the vicinity of Odeil Lake
the Corvallis party stopped at the
home Of Charles Graves, whose
daughter, now Mrs. Maud Graves
Ringo, is a former popular OAC
student, graduating in this years.
class. She is at present at her
fathers home, and treated the
Corvallis men to pitcher OF thick
cream. which they describe as
"simply immense" They were
also given a pail of milk, which
they hung to the roof of their
covered wagon, and next morning
there was ice frozen on top of the
pail. So cold was the weather
there that ice froze in the Graves
kitchen that night, and one of
the Corvallis men declared his in
tentlon to return home next day.
as he too had nearly frozen dur
ing the night.
Joseph Ringo is out with one of
the surveying parties that is at
work on the S.P. extension which
begins at Natron. The S. P. has
three surveying parties in the
field, one in Harvey aud two in
klamath counties, and everything
is on the move.
At Rossland the travellers ran
across Joseph Bogue, a brother of
William Bogue, of this city.
The former is a prosperous mer-
chant of that place.
The return trip to Corvallis
occupied nine days, the party ar
irving here Monday afternoon.
The report that w. o. Trine was
i'll on the journey was an error,
as all were we'll and had a splen-
did time.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31
For Sale.

Twenty head of horses and mules aged
from 2 to years. Four miles south
west Of Albany on the Oakville road.
Route 8, Albany, Or.
72-4 B. L. TAYLOR.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-31

Buy your harvesting outfits. at
Nolan's. Complete stock ct. bot
tom prices. 62-72
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17
Company Declined to Consider the
PROPOSAL.

The West Virginia Central Gas Co.,
in its application for franchise to sup
ply natural gas for fuel and illumina-
ton in Lonaconing encountered an OBJ
stacle in the Homecoming council last
night, which the company asserts it
will not attempt to surmount The
council offered to grant the franchise
if the company would supply the equiv
alent Of five one thousand candle power
lamps for the illumination Of the
streets. To do this, the company as
sarts would require the erection of 167
lamp posts and burners at cost Of SO
each, and the monthly expenditure of
S75 for maintenance The company,
through its representative declining to
consider the:proposal, council adjourned
without taking further or definite action
in the premises. Cumberland News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17
SAD DEATH OF A YOUNG NAN.
Ora Feather, Son OF Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Feather, of the Park Killed.

The remains of Ora Feather, aged
about thirty years, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John ". Feather, Of Mountain Lake
Park, arrived at the latter place yester-
day evening on train So from Pitcairn,
Pa, from which point they had been
shipped yesterday morning, being ac-
companied by Delpha c. Feather, a
brother of the deceased.
The young man was employed on the
Pennsylvania railroad as an extra
freight brakeman, having taken the po-
sition only one week prior to his sudden
death. Tuesday morning when the
train upon which he was working reach
ed Pitcairn his absence was noted by
the rest of the train crew and a search
along the road was instituted. At a
point near the terminal point of his run
his body was found alongside the track
indicating that he had fallen from the
train, his death ensuing Immediately.
Mr.. Feather was to have been married
on June q to a Miss Strecker, a most
estimable young lady of Marietta, Ohio,
who arrived here yesterday morning.
The funeral of the deceased will occur
tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock from
the residence Of Mr.. John w. Feather
with interment at O'Clock in the Oak
land cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17
c0c OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BITTINGER.
.x..sss99sSa.1.,.S.s..s.....t

Ice, snow and frost last week; this
week sunny days and balmy breezes.
Apparently but little damage to fruit
and growing crops was done in this sec
ton by the unusual cold wave of last
week.
Preparations are now being made for
a unique and appropriate celebration at
this place on May Both.
Three valuable young cattle were
killed by the train on Jennings Bros.
railroad near here last week. The ami
mails were the property of c. Warwick.
Ward Beechy, OF Grantsville, was
in this neighborhosd for the past week
doing some artistic paper hanging.
S. J. Brenneman, one of our most eff
ficient road supervisors, has a force of
men at work on our roads.
Frank Brenneman who has been con-
fined to his bed for some days, we are
glad to learn, is able to walk about
again.
Some Of our young folks are prepar-
ing to go to Cumberland next Saturday
to see the elephant.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17
THE ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT.

The violent attack of Senators TIL
man and Bailey on the President in cor
nectlon with the rate bill only betrays
their own partisan spirit and disappoint-
ment. He was seeking results and they
were seeking political capital. They
lose the capital and he gets the results.
They are acknowledgement and they
take it out in venting their spleen on
the President with the allegation that
he has violated faith and changed front.
What he has wanted is the best rate
bill he could obtain. The rate bill as it
now stands nearly finished in the senate
IS far better than as it passed the house.
1t is much more comprehensive, search
ing and drastic. 1t touches subjects
and contains provisions like those on
pipelines, which the house bill did not
include at all. 1t reaches abuses and
establishes safeguards which were
wholly beyond its scope as it came from
the senate. The remarkable exhibition
has been given Of the senate, which was
charged with being the bulwark of the
railroads and corporations, going far
beyond the house in its remedies, pen
alties and punishments.
The President, therefore, gets a
much better bill than he hoped for. He
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17
THURSDAY. MAY II, 1906.
ROOSEVELT RAPS STANDARD OIL

President Roosevelt on Friday last
transmitted to Congress the report of
James RS Garfield, Commissioner of
Corporations, giving the results of his
investigation,of the subject of transpor-
tation and freight rates in connection
with the oil industry. The President
states as a result of the investigation it
has been clearly shown that the Stand
ard Oil Company has benefited enor-
mouslys by secret unlawful rates. He
estimates that three-quarters of mil
lion dollars annually has been coverted
into their exchequer from rebates; that
Standard Oil profits immensely by open
rates arranged to give it advantages
over competitors and that largely by
unfair competition has crushed home
competition. When it is remembered
that rate discrimination gives the Stan
dard,Oil complete control of the market
it is seen at once what small figure,
the paltry sum of three-quarters of a
million dollars. saved-as direct benefit,
cuts as compared with the benefits
which!accruei to them in fixing at will
the market price. of oil products. He
also says the. Sugar Trust gets unlaw-
full advantages. The! President urges
Congress to give the interstate Com
merce Commission power to deal with
the subject.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17
MILEAGE BOOK NUISANCE.

The greatest objection to the railroad
mileage books is that the railroads force
the purchaser to put up $40 deposit as
a guaranteeTof good faith, which is not
returned to, him until after he uses the
book, and. after-he has proved to their
satisfaction that he is himself and not
somebody else. While that objection
makes thesbook proposition great nui-
sance and!gives the railroads the inter-
es. On the oXtra1 deposit, which
mounts to large sum when all the
books are considered,.yet little is ever
heard Of thelfact that the railroads still
get the benefit of the interest'on the 500
payment proper for the book, made in
advance.
The railroad company gets the use of
this money long before the purchaser
gets the use% otsall., his mileage, and as
the books run fori-a year. it would hap
pen in some cases that the railroads
would draw interest not only for the $40
deposit for a year, but for great part
of the $40 outlay also. - In short, the
purchaser does not get full value re-
ceived until hesuses up the book entire
ly, and then must go through lot more
red tape to get his $50 back, while the
railroads get the full benefit of his $50
paid in advance.
If the advocates of the two-cent fares
in this state would bend their energies
to getting a traight $50 mileage book,
without any deposit saeXactions and com
polling the railroads to give the pur-
chaser to give purchaser the privi-
lege of letting other members Of his
family tide on it the two-cent fare
would be gainedsfor the majority of the
travelling public. In good time the
straight two-centl fare without mileage
books will come. in West Virginia. but
the more urgent reform should be striv-
en- for first. Wheeling Intelligencer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17

cannot be accused of taking the back
track in supporting it as it now stands,
for it is an advance along the whole
line. Even on the single question of the
scope of the court review the final SEN
ate provision, while recognizing the
broad review which assures the cOnsti-
nationality of the bill, surrounds it with
full safeguards. With this made clear
the larger charge of Senator Bailey
| against the President of retreating from
his position and changing front falls to
the ground. The only issue left is the
petty personal question involved in the
| statement of ex-senator Chandler to
Senator Tillman.
This is of small consequence one way
or the other. Mr.. Chandler tells Mr..
Tillman, according to the latter, that
the President in conversation reflected
on Senators Spooner and Knox as injur-
ing the rate bill by their attitude and
amendments. The President says he
did not. What of it anyway? The fact
that the President is in full accord with
Senators Spooner and Knox at the end
shows the real truth. Even if the Pres
ident had said what Mr.. Chandler
alleges it would signify nothing. He is
to be judged, not by any casual obser-
walton made under possible misappre-
hension, but by the record Nothing is
easier than to misinterpret a chance re-
mark, and nothing more unjustiiable
than to make such remark given in
the free and easy conversation the basis
of public criticism.
We say this even on the assumption
that Mr., Chambers statement as re-
peated by Mr.. Tillman is correct. But
the President says it is not, and indie
pendent Of his word, this presumption
Is with him. What he thinks Of
Senators Spooner ane Knox everybody
knows. They are his true and trusted
friends. We accept his statement be-
cause it is in harmony with his relations
with these senators; but he might easily
have been under a momentary misap-
prehension and might easily at such
moment have spoken a word of impa-
thence, and if he had done so it would
have possessed no Importance whatever.
The attempt to make such an allega-
ton of public attack is unwarranted
and indecent, ana will recoil on the
authors. If the democratic senators
hoped to bring about breach between
the President and the republican senate
they have signally failed, and they have
only exhibited their own defeat and
modification.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-17
Oil Well in City.

Excitement was caused in oil and gas
circles at Clarksburg, Monday, when it
became known that three lots within
the city limits owned by Edward Arm
strong had been leased by party I'M
derstood to represent the South Penn
Oil Company. A handsome bonus was
paid and an agreement made to put
down an oil well within ninety days.
Fine gas wells and fair oil wells have
been drilled just west of here, but this
will be the first one within the city
limits. Leases on other town lots are
being sought.