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REMOVED. """ We invite our friends to call and see our new office, formerly occupied by F. M. Johnson. REMOVED. The GAZETTE btiotf located in its new office, two doors south of Ham iltort, Job& Co.'s Bank. sS VOL XXIX. COBVALLIS. BEATON COUNTY, OEEGON, FfclDAY, FEBRUAEY 10, 1893. M. 52. for Infants "CatTl ta no-etl adapted to children ttat I recommend itaa superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Abckkb, 71. D., 1U So. Osford St, Eivcslm, N. Y. " The use of ' Castoria U so universal nnd Its merits so well known that it wenis a work of supereroj-aiioa 10 enuoreo it. rtv.- uikmu Intelligent families who Uo uot keep Ca3toria Cjuxos JEiRTnt. D. D., New York City. Late Pastor Bloom! ngd&le Reformed Church. THS CKJTTinB FOR SALE BY E. P. GREFFOZ, THE LEADING JEWELER, COEVALLIS, : : OREGON. FORTUNE IS FICKLEDEATH SORE! CYRUS W. FIELD, at one time worth twenty millions, died a pauper, leaving his family nothing bnt his life in surance. . The time to insure is KOW ! a Massachusetts has the best insurance law. Every policy has a guarantee of CASH or paid-up insurance each year afterihe first. The surest policy is written by THE MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. Address H. G. COLTGM, Con. Agt., 233 Stark 6t., Or m. s. wod cock, Portland, Or. First National Bank, Corvallis. .-L.U.U-U gU325 WJ.bJUL Of Clothing- All eroods marked in ralain figures, and each article a bargain in itself. To the winner of the horse will be presented a J3 aii Call at the fousv bis- store and gret -particulars- of the arawmgv and Cfo!!d?sn Ciu-toria, CTree Colfe, ConstT"3ton, Bour Stomach, Diurrhrr-a. Eructation, Kills Wcrau, gives eluep, and promotes tU- KCKticu, WitLoui usurious medication. For eevoral years I ha-re recominonded your Castoria, '-and shall always continue vo do ko a. ijrbstt in variably produced boncueial resaits." Edwuc F. Farms, M. D., Use Wlnthrop," lCStu Street and 7th Avo, Nov. Torts CSt?. COMPAX7, 77 UOSBAT BTTUEBT, NEW VqkK. JL JOLJCJ Si A OTP LIl'I, The Regulator of Low Prices. AN E2TEMY BAFFLED. There is an enemy with whom thousands aro familiar all their lives, because they are born with a tendency to biliousness. With thisenemy they are constantly battling with ineffectual weapons. Hoatelter's Stomach Bitters will baefli it. Mere purgatives will not reform a disordered condition of the liver indicated, not by constipation alone, I but by sick headaches, yellowness of the skin and eye balls, nausea, furred tongue and uneasiness, more particularly cpon pres sure on the right, upon the short ribs. Avoid drastic purgatives which gripe and weaken the intestines, and take this world-famous- auti-bilious cordial, which likewise removes malarial, stomachic and kidney complaints, rheumatism aud nervousness As a laxative of the bowels, painless but effectual, it improves appetite, sleep and the ability to digest, and possesses the ad ditional advantage ef a staudardtonic. Complaint was filed the first of the week for au injunction to restrain the county clerk from raising the assessment to cou form with the standard made by the recent equalization board. Citizens of this city made op a purse to defray the expense of litigation and several attorneys are lending their services gratia. As tho farming com munity will be the principal beneficiaries on defeat of the board's action, those peo ple have no kick coining over the fight. fiben Baby was sick, we gave her O-storia. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Cliildren, alio gave Uieia Caatorla. TLo Union 1'auilic have published a very neat pictorial world's' fair folder, containing c :lorcd lithographs of the various exposition j buildings, birds-eye view of the ground?, with a complete map of the city, showing location of the fair, hotel, railway depots, street car lines and city parks.' Copy of wmo may bo had by addressing W. H. Uurlburt, assistant general passen ger agent, Portland, Ore. PNEUMONIA. At no time in the history of the country has pneumonia been so prevalent as during the winter months of the last two years. In times past a common cold was not consider ed at all serious, bnt of late years tho great tendency of colds to reenlt in pneumonia has made people appreherw-ive. The trouble is that colds are not always properly treat ed. No preparation containing opium, wild cherry or chloroform should be used, m they have a tendency to dry np a cold, whereas it should be loosened and the luugs relieved. It has been observed that when Chamber lain's Cough Remedy is csed the cold never results in pneumonia. The reason is that this remedy stimulates the macos mem brane which lines the throat and lungs, to a healthy actiou, causes free expectoration, throwing off the poisonous matter, and counteracts any tendency toward pneumo nia. For eale by T. Graham, druggist. VERY NEAT. H. L. nayes, Well-Fargo's accommodat ing agent at Coryalls is the proud recipi ent of a neat little badgo of courtesy ia the shape of a Columbian souvenir coin, set in the center of a thick card on which is print ed a suitable inscription. It is a keepaake from the president of the company, John J. Valentine. Every employe of tho company in every office of the couutry has received one of the significant little mementoes, and the bit of geuerosity must have cost the donor several thousand dollars. TRUTH STK ANGER THAN FICTION. A True Story from North Carolina. Borne ono has sold that M tho truo and the false speak the same language." But there can be no doubt that this speaks with the truo ring to it Letter from. Mrs. J. M. Hollemanpronrietress of " Hotel Holleman." Apex, N. C. " My son Harvey had scrofula from the time ho was three years old until he was seven. We hod the best doctors that the country afforded, yet he was given up to dio, several times. Some one recommended Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. After taking flvo bottles he was well enough to get about, and has mended so fast that he is now enjoying good health.'' Find a remedy for scrofula something that rrwrifies tho blood, as well as claims to. That, if it's taken in time, will euro Consumption, which is only lung-scrofula. Dr. Pierce has found it. It's his "Golden Medical Discovery. " As a strength-restorer, blood-cleanser, and flesh-builder, nothing like it is known to medical science. For Scrofula, Bronchial, Throat, and Lung affections, Weak Lungs, Severe Coughs, and kindred ailments, it's the only remedy so sure that it con be Guaranteed. It it doesn't benefit or cure. In every case, you have your money back. LE'ITER LIST. Following is the lirt of letters remaining iu the Corvallis postoffice, unclaimed Feb. 8, 1802. when calling for eame, please say 'advertised." Geo. W. Bryant, N. Boehnor, J. It. Fer ris Miss Maggie Hubbard, Homer R. Mans field, W. S. Perry, E. K. Rinkcr, R. L. Smith, R. W. Walker and Wm. Wake field. C. E. Moor, Postmaster. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report 0, wsaggg if ABSGUUYEIX PURE DOUBLE TKAGEDY IN LINN. Albany Herald.. A tragedy that resulted in two deaths took place near Thomas Creek, about twelve miles east of this cify yesterday morning at 3 o'clock. Otto Ser fling shot and instantly killed his wife, Lydia Serfling, and then sent a bullet crash ing through his own brain. They had been married only abont a year and their home was not a happy one. Some time ago Mrs. Serfling packed ber trank and went to Portland. Serfling followed and induced her to return with him, pre sumably to adjust some matters in regards to the property. Friday evening they went to a dance at Fred Mesrpelt's, a neighbor near by. They quarreled aud he went home early in the evuning. . He did not re tire, however, bat made all arrangements for the killing. Mrs. Serflling went heme at 3 o'clock, and the tragedy at once fol lowed. Serfling shot his wife three times, all takiug effect in the head, causing instant death, and then turned the revolver on him self, firing one shot, the ball going through his brain. This was Mr. Serfhng's third wife, while'she had been married the fifth time. They were both about fifty years of age. She was a handsome woman while he was a well to do fanner. In the room where the double murder was committed was found au axe and shotgun, bcaides the revolver with which the shooting was done. Further p-irtioalara from private parties indicate th X Mr. Serfling did not contend pinto killing Mrs. Serfling until he returned home. Circumstances show that he opened her trunks, found letters in them from other men, of such a nature exciting his high temper, judging from one or two let ters found afterwards. Then ho burnod everything of hers he could get bold of; two trunks of clothes, 'pictures, silverware aud $50 in money ho had sold some wheat to so- euro for her. She was shot in the back of the head and hit under the nose, he in the right temple. Four shots were fired. An express train on the West Side railroad ran into a flock of abeep this gida of Carlton, killing several. When the train readied Forest Grove, two sheep, one dead and one alive and unharmed, were discovered on the pilot, and at Cornelius they were tak en off. B. S. Martin reports flattering suc cess in his prospects toward gaining the Klamath agency billet. He start ed with the idea that if he : could get 500 names to his petition he "would stand a good chance, and already he has over 1500 names enrolled. Good for Barney. Hedge fence agents have been in this section ten days or more and dur ing that time have disposed of the plants for about ten miles of hedge lines. The terms of their contracts are upon the installment plan in three different payments, so fixed that the total cost will be $1.35 per rod. The hall belonging to Dr. Farra and Mr. Allen, and occupied by Ellsworth Post, G. A. R. and Woman's Relief Corps, the Knights of Pythias and A. O. U. W. societies, has recently been over hauled repupered, cleansed and generally improved so that it now shines as neat as a new piu. Alex McDonald, living three miles east of Scio, smolced a pipe while working about his barn, and in a little while the barn went up in a bigger smoke, togetlier with 1200 bushels of oats, a large lot of hay, seven head of good horses and all of his harness. Mr. McDonald thinks his pipe didn't cause the fire. Dr. T. W. Shelcon, an old resident of Eugene, died in that city last week, of leukaemia, at the age of 48 years, lie came to Oregon in 1846. He had a large practice and was highly respect ed. The mother of the deceased is living at Monmouth at the age of 85, aud a wife and one daughter, Miss Alberta, are left. Prohibition by law is essential to the best interest of the people, because it is the only security from the ravages of the liquor traffic. Why is selling tainted meat or poisoned candies a crime? Why is building a wooden house in a thickly populated city a crime? - Why are a thousand other things, not wrong in themselves, re garded and treated as crimes? Simply because the good of the people and the protection of society require it. Edi torial flashes Demorest's Family Mag azine for February. BRIEF LOCALS. Cash paid for eggs. Wells & Son Tablets, copy-books, etc., at Mrs. Murry's. Wells and Son-pay tho highest mar. ket price for good apples. New goods arriving and trade in creasing at Wells & Son. Ladies' and children's hair cutting a specialty at Taylor's. Furniture at cost prices for SO days at J. A.- Knight's furniture store. We handle none but the best cas kets and coffins. Hearse furnished when 'desired. L. Welker & Co. Do you know who Carl Dunder hi If you wish to find out call on Wheeler &Lang!ey. For Sale. A second-hand, uncov ered buggy for sale cheap. Enquire at this ofhee. The Maccabees have reached Al bany, a tent having been organired in that city last Saturday evening. There will be services at the Evan gelical church, Sunday evening; preach ing by the pastor, T. L. Weaver. For picture frames and fine mould ings go to J. A. Knight's furniture store, the cheapest and best place in town. The steamer Willamette Valley will sail from Yaquina for San Francisco Monday next, 13th Jnst, at 8 o'clock a. m.. Rev. C. G. Harmon will preach, in the college chapel, Sunday Feb. 12th morning and evening. Ail are cordially invited. Sunday dinner at the hotel Corvallis; everything new and neat ; tables spread with the best the markets afford. All for 25 cents. Ladies wauting a sewing machine will do well to call at J. A. Knight's furniture store and examine his new style "Davis Sewing Machine." Nelson, the new barber in Loud's old shop, has just put in a fine new $75 barber chair. Those who have tried the new barber are well pleased with his work. The superintenJency of the Port land exposition has changed hands, R. W. Mitchell haviog been selected to step down and out to make room for E. W. Allen. The uniou services of the Y. P. S. C. E. organizations of the city at the Congregational church Sunday eve ning were very interesting and drew a cfowded congregation. It is said that the failure of the tJnited states banking concerns at Gervais, Sheridan and Junction was the first bank failure in the history of this state. That's creditable for Ore gon. Wanted Everyone to know that Peterson keeps the fiest moulding and makes the finest picture frames in town as well as turning out the beat job work. Shop two blocks south-west of publis school. One morning last week Louis lin ger was found dying in the streets of Cottage grove and a few hours later fhe coroner's jury had occasion to de cide that his death was caused by drink and exposure. " II. M. Stone, of Oukvillo, Linn county, has purchased two lots in Mrs. Helm's addition ap.d as soon as the weather will permit will erect a residence thereon and will come with Lis family to be a resident of Corvallis. On Fnduy evening, 17th inst., Val ley Lodge K. of P. of this city will have a social demonstration at the opera house in honor of its 19th an niversary. The program will consist of short addresses, music and literary exercises and a dance. Hon. C. K. Wilkinson, representa tive from Lane county to tho legisla ture, was among the delegation of col lege visitors Saturday evening, and re mained in the city over Sunday. He is the youngest member of the assem bly, and is only in his 2 2d year. Mr. Sickafoos, head painter at the carriage factory, lost a valuable Hoi stein mdeh cow the first of the week, by a disease which is said by knowing ones to have resembled much the pneumonia scourge that proved so fa tal and wide-spread in the Mississippi valey some years since. ' A dispatch, was received by the friends of Jim Lewis on Tuesday last stating that he had been injured in a railroad accident on the Union Pa cific railroad near Huntington. He vas seriously bruised. A Chieago irl named Egan was killed and erity-five or thirty other people were re or less injured, The derailment o hree or four cars, which went down at embankment into a wreck was the casion of the casualties' ACCIDENT. While unloading lumber froai the steamer Hoag last Sunday, two deck hands got shook up iu hi accident which for a few moments looked as if there would be nothing left of the me:i but a couple of "shapeless masses," but from which both luckily escaped with no more serious injuries than "being badly bruised. They were on the. in cline car with a load of lumber which had been unevenly placed on the car and as they neared the top in thrir as cent the load became overbalanced and capsized. The men went over board in the crashing mass. Ii must have been forty feet to the river below, down a steep bank that was nearly perpendicular, and down went the un fortunates through the meshes of the flying lumber to land in the paralyz ing waters of the Willamette. Thoy were promptly rescued by their ccat ptnions and a physician was summon ed. Dr. Applewhite responded at once and found the men suffering from many contusions and bruises, but with no bones broken or serious injuries sustained. Their escape from instant death, or being badly crippled, seems truly miraculous. The names of the men were unknown even aboard the boat; except that ono was "Ike" and the other "Jack." SPO-rlN' THE (JAKE. Once there was a nice court house and it cost about 75,00X And there was spread upon the floor of the court room a thick cooling of saw dust, most of which was not saw dust at all, but really a lot of fine, fuzzy shavings. And there was a meeting of fifty n en in the court room; and of those fifty fifteen of them, by actusl count, were smoking either cigars, cigarettes or pipes. And each cigar, cigaretto or pipe aforesaid had fire enough in it, if a stray spark had gotten down into tho sawdust and there smouldered till everybody had left and then communi cated to the shavings, to have burned seventeen court house?. Then the question would have been "how in the world could it have happened?" And the great American verdict would ha vo hovered like a mesaanger of consola tion, whispering! "Incendiai iFin, with out a doubt!'"' Such an occurrence never befell in Corvallis; but has al ways happened down in Ypsillanti away over "east of the mountins," you know. But just 'uposin' the the case. Here is a fish story from the Santi am Lumberman. Gait well before taking: Last Thursday morning snow commenced falling in a lively manner, and Saturday had reached a depth of about fourteen inches. Then it was that a warm rain set in, and the snow was rendered a watery mass. The fish had grown hungry owing to the scarcity of bugs and flies, and took to the mountains in vast num bers in quest of food, swimming with some difficulty - through the slush. In that vicinity the earth's surface stands ou end, and the water ran off very fast, leaving the fish on dry land to be picked up by the settlers. Barrels of them, we are told, were caught in this manner and salted down for future ue. Senator Jeff Myers has introduced a bill to "define who ib a tramp and to provide a punishment therefor." Whosoever goes about from town to town, or from place to place in any town asking for food or shelter or beg ging or subsisting on charity, shall be deemed a tramp, and be imprisoned at hard labor in any city or county juil not more than six or less than one month." For injury, or threatening to iuiure, the property of another, or for injury, or threatening to injure any person, a tramp shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary from ono to five years. Miss AUha Leach who has been a student at the agricultural college for several years, Wednesday received by telegraph the sad news of the death of her mother, Mrs. Belle Leach, at her home in Lexington, Eastern Oregon. The deceased was a sister of Mrs. E. Woodard, of this city, was herself a former resident, and had many friends here who will be pained to bear of her demise. People who have come out from the bay at Various times daring the late stormy weather report very little snow and for the most part fine weather sunny, soft and balmy as spiing. A FOOLISH MISSTATEMENT", The Tillamook Headlight ia credit" ed with a bit of statistical misinform' lion which is notable for its stupidity. It s-iys: "Tillamook, not yet possess ing the advantage of a railroad ami having only $20,000 appropriated sc far, exported 26,325 tens of freight, ovyr 6,003 -tons more than Yamuna with her $000,000 appropriations' During the year ending June 30th, 1892, one s.teamer plying between Ya quiita and San P'rancisco carried out f,r-.r tl,r, ".r..,..; !... Off TOft -1 freight. Those are he only definite! figures at hand, and they are absolute ly reliable. Then besides,- this run' -ning regularly are the steamers Chance and the Harrison and an other, while many other vessels of the sort that rarely ever find iu- dueement to run into Tillamook, are frequent visitors in the Yaauina har- bnr at intervals when business calls them there. Tillamook has one regu lar coasting vessel running. The sec ond one is talked of, but at last ac counts the master of the old vessel-" the Augusta was appealing to the people to stay by him as there was nofi business for two steamers. This comparison is drawn for want of explicit figures to ' produce on Ya-- quina's exports. It indicates that) there is at least three times the ' vol- mue of commerce passing out of the Yaquiua harbor over that of Tilla--mook buy every year. Yaqnina has all the resources that Tillamook has ' and they arc more extensively dc veloped. In lumber, in agriculture, iu . dairy products, in fishing and all the other interests which attach to a coast) location, Yaquiua lias its industries as well as Tillamook; while with the1 general commercial fabric, which a railroad and a seaboard, when they clasp hands in development erect, Ya' quma has advantages with which Til-' lamook cannot compare, nor hope tc attain tor several years to come. These remarks arc not made in a spir' it calculated to decry Tillamook. The (jAzette rejoices with every section of our proud state which itself can re joice in prosperity and advancement The Headlight based its statement? quoted upon a report recently made by an engineer prejudicial to Yaquiua, and which was a tissue of misrepresen tation. This report wa3 published by the Oregonian and iis' inaccuracies were enlarged ftpoft by that paper. Then the Tillamook contemporary picks up the Oregonian's jealousy and starts in ou the very common but very unfair line of dealing, by attempting to tear a neighbor's character down with the hope of gaining some advan tiigeous showing for its own section in the operation. To this the Gazette files iUi protest. Tho animus of the Oregonian's dis paragement of Yaquina is well under- stood hereabouts. It has been in op eration for years. The fact that grain ilealers can pay from 2to G cents a bush" el mora for wheat to ship over the Ya' quiiia r.-tiiro.vd than can be paid tor send via Portland ; that freight rates between this section and San Francisco, 650 miles distant, are actually lower" than between here and Portland, 90 miles distant, is just where the shoe pinches the city at the month of the Willamette and hef mouth-pieces speak her disfavor towards Yaquina on that account The Yaquina route tap? a good share of tho Willamette valley; the fanning communities along" its line reap thousands of dollais o( relief from ti:e exactions of monopoly, saving so much to the local wealth ; the arrogant metropolis has lost its hold upon the grab-bag which erst while emptied a colossal tribute from its contents into her bp; and commeri' surate with Portland's curtailment has been the gain ct the upper Willamette? valley. All this was brought, about by the improvement at Yaquina bay in con- junction with its Samaritanic copart ner in the good work, the Oregon Pa- ciSc railroad. Hence the big elephant down the river is displeased and rat' tlcth his chains. Hence again the gentleman from Tillamook is hardly justified in playing second fiddle in thtf big elephant's circus just to get A 'back-handed clip" at a peaceable, prosperous neighbor. R. H. Mitchell, agent for the Sal Francisco Examiner, has been doing Corvallis during the week, and g&fl Gazette office a t till.