Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-05-28

y Referring to Rhododendron excursion
TO Newport, Saturday, an annual affair
with the, seniors ol oAC. the Albany
Herald Gays: About thirty ,psmbsrs ef
the Albany College literary society and
their friends left yesterday morning on
special train for New, ort to spend the
day. At Corvallis crowd of over Eve
hundred students we're added to the par
~. The train returned last night"
Frank Rickard, who resides just east Of
Monroe, was in Corvallir, yesterday,
having come in for the purpose of catch.
ing the boat to Portland. He missed it,
however, and drove on through to Salem,
where he expects to put two teams on
the boat today, and proceed to point on
the Columbia river, where be will en-
gage in work on the railroad that ia
building. Mr.. Richard already has one
team at work there and receives S. per
day for himself and team.
Judge w. s. McFadden has received
the appointment as the additional prose-
cutting attorney in the second judicial
district. The Office was created by the
last Legislature and it became the duty of
Cover nor Chanherlsin 10 make selec.
ton to fill the position until the next
regular general election. The appoints
ment will be we'll received in the terri.
tory covered by the dnties of the official.
namely, Lane, Benton and Lincoln
counties.
The picnic at Riders grove Saturday
was, as usual, largely attended, tut thera
was little going on in the way of anuse-
ment save baseball game, foot race
and the always-present merry-go.round.
The day WAS ideal, and those present
spent the hours visiting and renewing
old friendships. In the evening gra nd
ball was given in the Artisan hall at
Wells, a very Urge crowd being present.
| Music was furnished by Marion Sharp,
and everyone had good time.
Preparations are well under way for
the annual reunion and picnic of the
! Linn County Pioneers association which
will be held at Coshow's park in Browns
vile, Wednesday,, Thursday and Friday,
| June II. Is and IA. Congressman Haw
lev, Senator Fulton and H. NJ. Cake ars
! on the program for addresses. Other
speakers will also be present. Other e1-
! tertaining features will be as good, if not
better, than on previous occasions. 1t is
! probable that the grounds will be illumi.
mated at night with electricity, which
will give opportunity for evening con.
certs and other amusements.-Journal
The refusal of the Southern Pacific
to accept the monev offered by Lane
county people for railroad lands has not
affected the interest in the movement
here, mol caused any considerable abate-
ment in the line of applicants for timber
, lands at 50. 50 per acre. In the neighbor-
hood of 500 applications have been made
| from this county, and the interest in the
outlaying districts is as great now as il
was in the towns few days ago. Proba
bly, $4,000 acres of land in Lane county
have been covered by the applications.
!! and it is likely that in few weeks the
most valuable timber claims will be
covered.-Guard.
Hugo Bezdek, physical director at the
university. and Joe Patterson, stude ut
from Pittsburg, Pa, while shooting the
rapids in the river at Judkin's Point. in
! a canoe, Yesterday afternoon, were over
turned into the seething waters and
would perhaps have drowned had they
not both been excellent swimmers.
They made the start in good shape and
were making good headway down the
narrow channel where the water is little
less than a cataract, when their frait
craft struck hugh boulder and capsized.
Patterson is said to be one OF the best
swim mers on the coast, and had it not
been for this fact we might have been
compelled to chronicle a drowning and
possibly two. Bezdek himself is an ac-
complished swimmer, but could not keep
up with Patterson in the lace for the
shore.-Eugeue Guard. Patterson ia
we'll known in Corvallis, where he spent
considerable time last summer.
A display of beautiful silver cups has
attracted much attention in E. W. s.
Pratt's show window the past day or two.
They are the prizes to be awarded at the
big livestock show that occurs in Corval.
lis June 7-8, and are indeed worth striv-
ing for. They are all to be handsomely
! engraved, and will be priced for the next
hur died vears by those who win them
an their descendants. There will be SO
cups in all, four specia1 beauties for
sweepstakes, valued at $40 each, and the
balance prize cups worth $40 each. Mr.
Pratt took all the Cups that he could get
in Portland and had to send East for the
remainder. In the window exhibit are
two splendid cups also that will be