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Vol. XV. No 16 COKVAIXIS, OREGON, JUNE 4, 1902. B. F. IRVINE eDITOR amo Prop Professional. .TV. T, ROWLEY M. B. Homeopathic Physician, Surgeon and oculist Office Rooms 12 Bank BliJg. Residence on ' 3rd ft between Jackson & Monroe, Corvallif, Or. Resident Phone 311 Office h:urs lb to 12 a m 2to 4 an! 7 to 7:80 p m DR W. H. HOLT DR MAUD B. HOLT. Osteopathic Physicians Office on South Mail? St. Consul t t'on and examinations free. Office hours: 8:3o to 11:45 a. m 41 t j 5:45 p. m. Phone 235. Li. G. ALTMAN, M. D Homeopathist Office cor 3rd and Monroe ets. Reel dence cor 3rd and Harrison sts. Hours 10 to 12 A. M. 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M. Sundays 9 to 10 A. M, S?hone residence 315. H. S. Pernot ( Physician and Surgeon .- Office over Post Office. Residence, Cor. 5th & Jefferson Sts. Hours io to 12 a. ffi" to 4 p.m. Orders may be left at Gra am & W ortham's Drug Store. B. A. CATHEY, M. D. Physician Surgeon. Office: Room 14Bank Building. Office Hours J 10 to 12 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m. G. R. FARE, A, PHYSICIAN, SPKGEOJT & OBSTETICIAN Residence In front of court house facing 8rd tit. Office hours 8 to 9 a. m. 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 COBVALUS OREGON C. H. NEWTH, Physician and Surgeon FHIXOMATH OREGON Abstract of Title Conveyancing lose??!) R. IIS iS son Attorney-At-Law Practice in all the courts. Notary Public Office in Burnett Brick. E. R. Bryson, Attorney-At-Law. -POSTOFFICE BUILDING- E. Holgate ATTORNEY AT LAW . JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Stenography and typewriting done. Office in Burnett brick' Corygilis, Oreg JNotary Public. E. E. WILSON, ATTOENEY-AT-LA Office in Zieriolf 's building. Willamette River Route, so Gorvaliis and Portland oo Str. Pomona Leaves Cervallis Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at 6 a. m. Leaves Portland Tuesdoy, Thursday and Saturdays at 6:45 a- m- ,. Oregon City Transportation Co, Office & dock foot Taylor St, Portland, Oregon. CASTORSA Tor Infanto and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! . Signature of LEFT A LEGACY TO A ROOSTER IN WHICH SHE THOUGHT HER HUSBANDS SPIRIT DWELT. Next of Kin Killed the Chicken and Got Fortune Young Man Shot His Sweetheart While Congregation Stood for Doxology. :. . London, May 24. A wealthy woman named Silva, died recently I at Lisbon, and left her entire pro- fervid spiritualist, a believer in the transmigration of the soul and im agined that the soul . of her dead husband had enter d the rooster. She caused a special fowl house to be built and ordered hf-r serv ants to pay extra attention to their master s want?.; The disgust of her relatives ove'r the will caused the story to become public and a law suit might . have followed had not one of .the heirs adopted the simple expedient of having the wealthy rooster killed, and thus becoming himself the next of kin. Of What does a bad taste in your moutb remind vou? It indicates that your stomach is lri bad condi tion and will remind you that there is nothing so good for such a dis older as Chamberlain's Stomach & Liver Tablets after having once used tbetn. They cleanse and in vigorate the stomach and regulate the bowels. For sale at 25 cents per box by Graham & Wells. Atltnta, Ga, May 25. As the congregation of Wesley Chapel, a sma'l church eight miles from At lanta, was standing singing the dox ology a ncl awaiting the benedict ion at" noon today r. mulard Lee, 2o years of age, pulled a pi toi and fired twic. at Miss Lilla Suttles, killing her instantly. Young Lre had ben sitting in the pew immediately behind that occupied by the Suules family, and only a moment before tthe tragedy had leaned over and asked Miss Lil la Suttles if she would a?compauy him to the night services. The young woman Eaid she had a previous engagement. Lee, who was desperately in love with her, remarked in the hearing of a large part of the congregation that if he could not go with her be would kill her. Less than five minutes later he pulled a pistol from his pocket and fired. The first . bullet took effect in the girl's back, and as she turn ed he fired the second time, the se cond bullet taking . effect in her breast. - Lilla Suttles fell in the arms of her father and expired without a word. Lee escaped from the church. A posse made up of three hundred farmers is on his trail and his cap ture is expected. If caught he will be swung up to the first tree ia sight. Saved From an Awful Fate. "Everybody said I had consump tion," writes Mrs. A. M. Shields, of Chambersbuig, Pa. I was so low after six months of severe sickness, caused by Hay Fever and Asthma, that few thought I could "get well, but I learned of the marvelous mer-it-of Dr.King'3 New Discovery for Consumption, used it, and was com pletely cured." For desperate Throat and Lung diseases it is the saiest Cure in the world, and is in fallible for Coughs, Colds and Brou chial Affections. Guaranteed bot ties 50c and $1.00. Chicago, May 31. Two colored men fought a duel to the death with knives last night, at Twenty second and Dearborn streets. As they slashed and plunged the weap ons into each other's bodies, a crowd of more than fifty persons formed around them and cheered the com batant3 when one of the other drove the knife to the hilt. After ten minutes of hard fighting, Alexan der Shii ley staggered and felUwith his adversary's weapon sticking in his body. The longblade had pier ced his heart. He was dead when the police arrived. His slayer, Charles Thomas, ; was bleeding from several wounds ' The police huriied him to a hospital and, af ter his' wounds were dressed, lock- ed him up. He will be charged with murder. Shirley came to Chicago from Mississippi. He met Thomas last Monday, and having known him in the South, tried to borrow (money from him. Thomas refused to give him assistance, and they quarreled. Before parting, Shirley, it is said, made the threat that when they met again one or the other would die. ' Yimlent (Jancer Cured. Startling proof of a wonderful advance in medicine is given by druggist G. W. Roberts of Eliza bttb. W, Va. An old man - there had long suffered with what good doctors p.-or.ounced incurable can cer. I ney oeiieved nis rase nope-le-s till he Uuse Electrid Bitters and applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve, which treatment : cempletely cured him. When Electric Bitters are used to exyil bililious, kidney and Microbe posions at the same time this salve exerts its matchless heating power, blood diseases, skin eruptions, ulcei and Bores vanish. Bitters 50c, Salve. 25c at Grsham & Wortbam. San Francisco, May 31. Later details of the earthquake in Guate mala only add to its horrors. Pas sengers arriving hereon the steamer City of Sydney say they understand that 14C0 dead were taken from the ruins of Quezaltenango. One man who was there and aided in the work of taking out the bodies says that over looo had been taken out when he left there on May 13, 25 days after the city had been de stroyed. Reports of 1 ss and dam age on the coffee plantations are beginning to come in, and tbey practically double the total reported from tbe towns. The estimated fig ures run into the millions. Tapachula is a city of about lo- 000, and the damage to the town is estimated at about $2oo,ooo San Marcos, a town near Qaezaltera 'go, was also destroyed, with great loss of Ufa. - There wore 14o prisoners in the j and every man was killed, crushed and buried under -the fall en walls. In Tuxlachico, a town of 2000 in habitants, not a Louse was left standing. How to Avoid Trouble Now is the time to provide your self and family with a bottle of Cl amberlaio s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. "It is almost certain to be needed before the slim mer is over, and if procured now may save you a (rip to. town in the night or in your husiest season. It ie everywhere admitted to be the most successful medicine in use for bowel coin plaints, both for children and adults. No family can afford to be without it. For sale by Gra ham & Weil. At Summit. The farmers are still behind with their spring sowing. " Horace Underbill has a stray horse, which so far has no owner. Lee and Charles Kennedy ex pect to leave sometime this week for Washington. Charles Frantz of Hoskins made a short visit with his old friend, Titus Ranney last week. Remember there will be Sunday school at the new school house, ev ery Sunday at 3 p m sharp. Miss Kitty Gillett left on Satur day's train for San Franciscjj to visit her sister, Mrs Doliie Bridge. She intends to stay one year, if pot longer. I will now kindly say to the peo ple of this vicinity tbat I took it in hand to write.up the items of this place, not to hurt the feelings, nor to run down the reputation of our friends and neighbors, but to have the" news lively and interesting as possible, and I now resign my correspondence to someone else. V , Ha Ha. Filthy Temples in India. Sacred cows often defile Indian temples, but worse yet is a body that's polluted by constipation. Don't permit it. Cleanse your sys tem with Dr. King's New Life Pills and avoid untold misery. They give lively livers, active bowels, good digestion, fine appetite. Only 25c at Graham & Wortham's drug store. . . - PENNOYER i -1 . . -. . - 4 ...... - THE WELLK NO WN Ex- GOYERN 0RS DEATH IN PORTLAND. Sketch,' of His Career He was Twice Elected Governor of -Oregon- Won Over Thomp I son and Cornelius. Sylvester ; Pennoyer, for eight years governor of Oregon, Mayor of Portland from 1896 to 1898, and a man of "national prominence, died very suddenly of heart disease at his home on West Park and Mor rison Streets, about 4 o'clock yester day afternoon. He wa-3 alone in his room on the second story of his residence at the time of his death, and was not discovered until five o'clock, when his wife, returning from jt street-car ride with her 8on-iniw and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gecrge F. Uu3sel, found him lying prone on the floor near a soa, from which he had apparently fal len. His glasees lay broken on the floor beside him, and across his face was spread an Oregonian wuch he had been reading and which bad 1 evidently b ea loosened from his grip in the fall.. Mrs. Pennoyer immediately sum moned the servant and sent for physicians, and Drs. White and Brown, whose offices are near by, and Dr. Dickson was called. An examination convinced them that Governor Pennoyer had been dead about hn hour, and it was there o pioion tbat either heart disease or apoplexy had taken him off. There were every indicatihn of a peaceful, painless death. Governor Pennoyer had of late been in fair health, although his strength was sapped by an attack of illneas nearly a year ago, and he had, never recovered his wonted ro bustness. Of late he bad made dai ly v isits to his ranch in Woodstock, and spent several hours in the op en air superintending numerous im provements he was making. Yes terday morning he went to his ranch as usual and re'turned about noon. Iu the afternoon he took a walk, and the servant, who was left alone in the house, said he entered the hone at three o'clock, and, as was his habit, went immediately to his room. She heard no sound of a fall, and was aetonished beyond measure when Mrs. Pennoper in formed ber that something had hap pened to the governor, and sent her out to summon help. " The news of tbe governor'd death v as a surprise and a shock to his thousands of friends throughout the city, among whom it soon spread. He had been on the street every day this spring, had taken adeep interest in p litical affairs, although not participating in them, and his counsel was much sought by demo cratic leaders, of whom he wa3 re cognized as one of the ablest up to the date of his death. To those who spoke to him and inquired for his health he invariably replied that he was feeling better than he had for years, tbat his work on his ranch was making a new man of him and that no one could bear more lightly the burden of three-score and ten years than he. The strike in the Pennoyer mill, in whieh he still re tained a large interest, had given him some uneasiness, but he ex pressed himeelf as entirely satisfied with the manner in which it was settled. In fact, with a fortune, with no political cares, and with a congenial occupation, that of farm ing, his only trouble the last few years was the improvement of Al der street, on which he owns a block in the heart of town, and gave him. much annoyance because of his apprehension tbat it would be paved in some manner objectiou able to him. Pennoyer was easily the moot picturesque figure in the political life of Oregon. His famous tele gram to Grover Cleveland, through Secretary of State (Sresham, when Cleveland, as president, advinedthe governors of the various states to guard, against Chinese troubles, was but one of the many unexpected things which he seemed to delight to do. He was a man of elegance and force either on, the slump or with his pen, and his communica tions to the newspapers were no less interesting than his speeches.. Both contributed largely to the at tention he attracted, throughout tbe state and the nation. ; Per-onaliy he was exceedingly genial, fond of quoting from Scripture or from-Ae sop's Fables to illustrate a point, a fine story-teller, and a .charming companion. He was alike-approachable to every one, and peopls who year after year have seen him walk ing back and ' forth from his resi dence to the business part of town, remember how often he was stopped by prominent citizens or laboring men, and how he loved to chat with any and all of them. Proba bly no one in the city has such a wide circle of acquaintances as he enjoyed, and certainly no one is bet'er known by eight. Mrs. Pennoyer and Mrs. George F. Russel survive him. His son, Horace, died about 8 years ago at Williams College, and was buried from Trinity church, and the gov er never fully recovered from the shock the boy's death caused Lim. So sudden was the governor's death and se prostrated are his family by the shock, that no arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. Sylvester Pennoyer was bern in Groton, N. Y., July 6, 1831. Both his father, Justus Powers Pennoyer, and his mother were born in the same state, and there the future governor of Oregon lived until 1853, when he went to Harvard College Law school, his expenses being part ly defrayad by an annuity of 40 left by William rennoyer, wno re moved in colonial days from France to New Haven colony, and died there in 1760. This sum was to be sent every year to Harv rd College to b? applied to the education ot the descendant of William Pdn noyer's brother Robert. Since that time, for mnre than two centuries, has that 40 per annum been sent to the college, without a single fail ure. - - - In 1855 young Pennoyer came to Oregon, having journeyed to San Francisco by way of Nicaragua, thence to Puget Sjuod by the bark Leonesa, and from there to Port land, paddling down the Cowlitz River in an Indian canoe, and tak ing a Columbia steamer at its mouth. He was admitted to the bar by the supi eme court, consisting of Judges Williams, Olney and Deady, but never practiced here. lie taught school for a time, and in 1862 he engaged in the lumber bus iness. He was long successful, founding a large corcern, which was so prosperous up to 1890 that a fine new mill was built, then the largest in the city. The governor was married the year following his arrival to Mrs. Mary A. Allen, and ot tbe bve chil dren that were born to him Mrs. Russel is the sole survivor. Although he became in 1881 as sociated with Dr. Weatherford in the Oregon Herald, and afterward purchased snd edited the paper for two years, he did not -enter politics to any extent until 1885, when he was nominated for mayor against JohnW. Gates, on the issue of mu nicipal ownership of the water plant, then in-the hands of John Green and H. C. Leonard. Gates easily defeated him. But during tbe winter of 1885 and 1886 a strong feeling against the Chinese sprang up in Portland. Th workingmen, whose opportun ities to secure employment had been restricted by th9 influx of the Orientals, projected a meeting whose object was to devise waysand means to expel them. Mayor Gates called a counter meeting, but the working- men captured it and Pennoyer was made chairman, and the meetng fi nally adiourned. having passed res olutions favoring law and order. This made Pennoyer's popularity In 1886 ha was elected governor as a democrat by a plurality of 3702, although the state went republican on the general issue. In his first inaugu-al address he took the posi tion that the courts have no right to nullify a law passed by the legis lature, a position from which he never denarted, and on which he asked the last sUte democratic con vention to make him its nominee for supreme judge. . The first and perrfaps the most noteworthy of his actions as gover nor was taken iu 1888, wben the contractors on theCorvallis & East ern Railroad failed to pay the la borers. A telegram was received by the governor from an officer of the road announcing that the la borers were marching on the town, and asking that the troops be ord ered out. Pennoyer went to -Gorvaliis and told the officers that un less they paid the men -he would take no action; but if, after pay ment, a riot should occur, he would Coctii ued on page 4 THE ONLY ONE THAT LIVED . THROUGH THE AWFUL DISASTER AT MT PELEE He was a Prisioner in a Dungeon When the Shower of Volcanic Dust Came The Thick Jail Walls Alone Saved Him. Fort DeFrance, May 19 There was one man who was not in the streets of St Piejre on the morning: of the eruption. He was Roul Sartout, a coarse, jet black native, who bad been arrested for some trivial offense the week before. He is actually the only creature in all the city of St Pierre to live through the fiery deluge. - Sartout, who is now in the hos pital at Fott de France, had become ostreperous in his prison and was tiansferred to the dungeon below the level of the sidewalk facing the Rue Dieppe, which slants down ward to the roadstead.. He heard the faint echo of the rumbling of Pelee. He felt the. earth as he had felt it many tim.33 before, and was not afraid. But he quickly realized that something extraordinary was going on. He could not see anything bat the thick stone walls of his prison could not prevent him from hear ing the deep rumble and cyclonic tearing 01 ine nan 01 aeam inrougn tbe city in which he had lived all his life. He was panic-stricken with fear and beat with his handB agains'. the walls so he said. He succeeded in getting open a Hrmr 1 marline into a. cell a littla larger than hie, over which there was an iron grating looking up through the sidewalk. He stumbl ed into this apartment to find it full with a sifting mass of hot ashes and dust. It burned him se verely aad he was not elow to re tree t to the inner celt from which he had just escaped. Then came the awful' silence that seemed to paralyze him with fear more than the first roar tbat had awakened the keenest sense of danger in his simple, untaught soul. Hi has sinte said that he lay on the floor of the dark cell for hours, scarcely daring to breathe. oppressed by the terrifying silence. He does not know how many hours be lay there. F.nally he summoned upcourage enough to open the cell door and look into the other apartments. He was met by a wave of dust that choked his mouth and nostrils and half blinded him. It had cooled, and he ventured' to wade through the soft flaky like mass toward the iron gratings, through' which de scended a Bhower of soft and al most invisible dust. He hallooed, aloud again and again, and at ev ery echo his voice seemed to in crease the shower through the grat ing. He went to the door shutting off his escape to tbe stairs leading to the floor above and pounded at it un!il bis fists were bruised " and, torn. He waited for a response but none came. He struggled through the masses of aches 10 the grating again again to shriek and cry for help. Hunger and thirst overcame him and he crept back into the dungeon to sleep but he could net. He says he did not close his eyes from the moment he heard the terrifying roar of the volcanic ball until Mon day morning, four days later, when his shrieks were heard by the first party of searchers to invade the stricken city. His cries were feeble by this time, ts he had aloaost de spaired of liberation. Finally a marine irom the French cruiser Suchet heard Sartout's wail and tracing it rescued the one living creature in tbe city. . The bars of the grating had to be pried open and Saitout was dragged out more dead than alive. He was found to be not only on the verge of death from starvation and thirst, but suffering from terrible burns about his legs and the lower part of his body. " Manila, May 27. Capt Charles E Russel, Eighth Infantry, is dead, the first officer to die of cholera. In Manila, there have been twentyfive cases of cholera among Americans and twenty deaths. The cholera totals to date are: Manila, 1,165, cases and 935 deaths: provinces, 5,ool cases and 2,878 deaths.