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Vol. XV No 18. COBVALMS, OREGON, JUNE 18, 1902. B. F. IRVINE Editor and Pro W. T. ROWLEY M. I), - Homeopathic Physician, Surgeon ' and oculist ' Office Rooms 1 2 Bank B13g. Residence on 3rd et between Jackson & Monroe, Corvallis,. Or. Resident Phone 311 Office hours 10 to 12 o m. 2 to 4 and 7 to 7:30 p ni DR W H. HOLT DR MAUD B.: HOLT. - Osteopathic Physicians Office on South Main Sir. Consul tation and examinations free. Office hours: 8:3o to 11:45 a. m 1 to 5:45 p, m. Phone 235. li. GJALTMAN, M. D Homeopathist Office cor 3rd and Monroe sts. Resi dence cor 3rd and Harrison sts, TTniira 1 fl tn 19. "A TU" 9. tn 4. and . 7 - to 8 P. M. " Sundays 9 to 10 A, M, Phone residence 315. H. S. Pernot- Physician, and Surgeon Office over Post Office. Residence. Cor. 5th & Jefferson Sts. Hours io to 12 a. m to 4 p. a. Orders may be left at Gra atu & W orthain's Drug Store. . - "R A - n A T'TTTT'V TIT T - -Physician Surgeon. Office: Room 14, Bank Building. -Office Hours - f - -- 10 to 12 a. m..j- ; -: - 2 to 4 p. m. G. R. FAREA, ffHVSICIAif. SURGEON & OBSTETICIAN ' PAQfrlATmo fn fmrtt rt nnnvt tiniicw fnntnff BrA St. Office hours 8 to 9 a. m. 1 to 2 &n4 7 to 8 , 4COBVALLI3 OEEGON C. H. NEWTH, Physician and Surgeon : philomath OKEGON - . Abstract of Title Conveyancing .-. A ttorney-A t-La w practice in all the courts. Notary Public - : Office in Burnett Brick. v' B. R. Bryson, ' Attorney -At-Law, T POSTOFFICE ' BUILDING E. Holgate ATTORNEY AT LAW , . : JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Stenography and typewriting done. Office in Burnett brick Corvallis, Oreg Notary Public. J ; - '-; r. E. E. WILSON, A TTORNEY-AT-LA W, Office In Zierlolf 's building. .'' Willamette River Route. -0 Oorvaliis and Portland do leaves Corvallis Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at 6 a. tn. - "Ieaves Portland Tuesdoy, Thursday and - - Saturdays at 6:45 a. m. - ;-.- T -Oregon City Transportation Co, -, " Office & dock foot Taylor St,. Portland,-Oregon. ASTORIA " " ; Inputs &-I Children. His Kind You Ks?e Always ACROSS THE COLUMBIA CONVICTS NOW.. BEACH WASH INGTON. Drive From Near New Era Steal Team and Wagon to Expedite . - Escape Rifles Intimidate ,; Boatmen. . Vancouver, Wash., June 15. Adding the theft of another team-to their already long list "of crimes, Tracy and Merrill, the -desperate outlaws, between . Friday evening and tonight made their way through Clackamas county,- across Multno mah from the Clackamas ' line to a point opposite Fisher's landing, crossed the Columbia, and: now, just a week from the time of their escape from the penitentiary at Sa lernare in -the neighborhood of Fourth, Plain, Washing ington county, with anotner posse on . theirtrack, another sheriff "in charge of it, and : three detectives from Portland as reinforcements. As it was in the beginning, it is now? they will either be captured or killed, or make . their escape. Merrill is now on ground with which he is thoroughly familiar, having been born in Clark county and brought up in Cowlitz, and is thus belter situated than while in Ore gon. The country is much . the same, formed of low-lying hills," cut by. ravines, and overgrown with underbrush and scrub - firs which afford the best kind of - cover. As the men are armed with-. 30-50 ri fles and have ah abundance of am munition, it doss not seem ' likely that the desire to capture them will burn any ""more fiercely in the breaet3 of their new set of pursuers than it did in those of the posse that laid down its ' arms and gave up the fight at Barlow Friday after noon. ; - -'-'-5-' i From all the circumstances in the case it seems that Tracy and -Merrill have been going pretty' much their own gait,! irrespective of. those who come- after them. . Supplied with bacon at Graces' ranch Thurs day, they were able to proceed with out the necessity of revealing their whereabouts, and there was plenty of cover in the brush between Graves' and the Willamette, for which it is now clear they were heading. About .midnight Satur day two horses were taken from4he barn of W. Randall,- a mile and a half east of New Era and five miles above Oregon City, hitched to" a wagon and driven away. There is no proof that Tracy - and Merrill stole them, and the authorities are not likely "to ' accumulate " anyj rf or the convicts have several things to answer for which are more " serious than horse .stealing. Randall traced the team to mount - Pleasant,, just south of Oregon; City, lost the track and found it again, below the city, through which the outlaws had ev idently : driven without worrying much about pursuer e. The track led across the unguarded Clacka mas bridge at Gladstone, where it turned off on the road to Portland. Randall returned to Oregon City for Sheriff Cooke, who telegraphed : to Salem for : the bloodhounds and started for Portland forthwith. That was clue No. 1. The Eecond was not delayed. ; " George Sunderland and Walter Burlingame were enjoying a quiet boat ride on the placid waters of Columbia Slough about 12:30 o' clock this afternoon when two : gen tlemen appeared . upon - the bank, pointed rifles an them" and" asked them to come ashore. - ..They had been on the slough - about long e nough, so they complied, and so grateful were they to . their new found fiiends for asking: them a shcre that -when the latter; called for food it was cheerfully given. ; " The men with guns - ate, and.- re quested Burlingame and Sunder land to row them across the river, It was impossible to get from" the Slough to the river in the "boat, so the new : arrivals suggested that a nother boat be found on the river shore, and that Burlingame and Sanderland should find; it, mean while, carrying about 30 pounde of amcxumtion whie-jthe visitors- had w'iIj them in er.Ls. The -sugges-titKi seemed reatonable, and was a dop ted without arg umen t. WJW. Padduck. a young man of the Sun-detland-Burlingame party, was in vited along. by tte footpads, and ac cepts"! the invitation. - . " t? how : 1AVH. ' Tl T. L'a. Is. -.'awn t upon the young men who their new acquaintances were and their sus picions were co'vifirmed by the con versation of -the men, who began to ask what , had happened since the escape from the penitentiary. , Tra cy, sitting in one end of the boat and holding his rifiaon his lap, was uncommunicative, but . Merrill , perched in the other, and also ready to use his gun if it should be neces sary, began to talk, and let drop several interesting bits of history. lie said among other things that when they lay in the wheat field near Gervais, they saw Sheriff Dur bih drive up, and he (Merrill) drew a bead on him and was about to fire when Tracy discouraged him, argu ing that such a course would pre cipitate a battle; and: that a fight with the pSsse right then would prove, disastrous. He also said he felt sure Farrell and -; Jones had been killed, but had been uncertain as to" the fate of Tiffany, the guard they shot putside6f the walle. They had all the money they needed, he said. Tracy then began to join in the conversation , ; and : said : . "I wasn't the least bit afraid of them bloodhounds. We fooled them. We didn't intend . to kill those guards. I told Jones -not to move, but he began to make Bignals after he had his bands up. Those guards were fools to allow us up that- lad der and .ekin over the wall (at the "penitentiary.) .We've got about all tne money - we need, ana plenty of ammunition." Tracy and Merrill then spoke in an undertone and argued about the direction they ought to take after . reaching the; shore. Tracy favored the i North Yakima country, but his companion seemed dubious, . :- , V : Facing the to wer of the boat, Merrill said: "Wa're not bad men, but we intend to get away, ' and . if anybody stops us they are sure to get hurt. - With" us, ; it'a a "case-"dt burn at the stake or get shot." On landing at the Lieser place, Merrill ask Sunderland for his pocket book, It was produced and examined, and then Merrill said:" "You have a $5 gold piece there I see. but I won't take it. ' I'll just" take $2".v But I ain't a bad sort of fellow, and to. show what I mem, Til "give vou this Elk3' badge that I got off a "fel low the other day (Dr. White).' Sunderland accepted the badge. On leaving, . Merrill and Tracy shook hand3 with their three ferrymen and promised when they made a raise, they would send them $50 for their trouble. -': Sitting on ' a fence, a -little- way back "from ther shore the convicts watched the boatmen row out into the; river-for some distance," and then turning' into' a field crossed it and had dinner at a nearby ranch. They then disappeared: in an orch ard,"Tieading northwest. ..THE ALAKM IS SPKEAD. , The ' men in . the boat rowed straight; across the river," for they had heard that the rifles behind them carried a half mile. : Onae . a shorej however, they hurried to the ferry landing opposite" Vancouver and reached Vancouver in ; quick time. W. W. Paddock," after con sultation withSunderland, hastened to the police station in the city and told Chief of Police McLaucblan of his queer adventure with the -outlaws. Paddock found? the ; detec tives arming for the fray, ; and "in conversation with au Oregonian re porter saidr - " -" "I don't think that either "Tracy or Merrill is'wounded; Tracy had on a pair of Jblue overalls and a jumper - The telephone wires had been kept busy, and Sheriff Marsh, . of Clark county, Wash . ,-: and Consta ble Tomlinson began to get their shooting-irons in order. 7 In this city Detective. Joseph day, , Kerri gan and Snow were ordered on the case, and before they left were join ed by Sheriff Cooke, of . Clackamas county, and Deputy Sheriff George McMillan, of Multnomah, and Fire man R. B. Castle and Emil Glutsch, both of Portland. Each - man.car ried a repeating riSe.v .The party took trolley cars and ferry boat- to Vancouver, where they were met by the chief of police of . that town and a big crowd, , who were impa tiently waiting developments. After"a rapid consultation be twen the two sheriffs and the de tectives it was determined to head off the cohvicls in their northward journey from: Leisers ; place -near Ellsworth." To do this it became necessary to make a detour of about ssven miles. ; " - ' . . . .-- - - fi: "Head the convicts' off. Stay in front of tJi.hx Meet 5 them as they come ou, ws the Z'tt of tr-i- c!e- Con'.'.-J on i.cg j 4 . -c,; THE FUGITIVE IS FOUND OFFICERS CAPTURE PAUL UNDER- WOOD NEAB "' SOUTH: BEXD. Says His Wife Knew About Doing ; Away of Infant She Has Made ; -jl StroogDenial Within Ten ' Feet of Men Hunting ; . Him Several Times. 4 South Bend, Wash., Juno 14 --Panl Uuderwood2 accused of the murder of his three-weeks-old baby," was captured ,a bout 6:32 Vclock this morning near here. From-the "start : the officers have; been trailing him, Deputy Sheriff Markham, of this county, W S Kindred and,G L Houk, all experienced woodsmen, keep ing the trail; while tne others, sought to head the fugitive off by beating the woods ahead. . As usual they started out at day break this morning, and at the hour stat ed Sheriff Cudihee saw Underwood come down a hill, aud the latter, evidently .spy ing the officer, dropped into the tail grass on the tide land at the bottom of the hill, but gave himself up promptly when Cudi hee came up to bitn. : He was apparently making his way to Cedar. River, and had i about half of his supply of provisions left when captured. ' He was placed in the custody of Sheriff Roney, of this county, in whose charge he was brought to this city. : He waa taken to a barber . shop for a shave and then- tothe jail. - His first wish was for a glass of ; beer, which ; was not Ratified. He was not fully" satisfied with his quarters, and sent word to Sher--iff Cudihee that he - would like cleaner quarters.' - - Underwood talked quite frgely when assured that ho would be treated fairly. He said.- "--." ' "My baby wf s ruptured and was dead when' I threw it in the water. ; This is the honest God's truth. -I had to take most of the care of the baby from" the start, for I . loved my baby, I confess, more than I did my "wife,- She did not seem to have so much love, for it, as aha thought ii would disgrace her. - It slept on my arm at night, and I had to wash and take care of it.. It then took sick. I got some- catnip tea,. which did " not seem to do it much good.: It would nurse all the milk my wife bad, and I would feed it more out of a cup, "and then it would throw" it all up. Mrs. Hetzler told me it might have the spring fever, and if it had it could not live. tFriday hight, before we left, it was the" most ill. My wife'wanted me to get rid of if. I told her we would sell every thing and move to Aberdeen, where my mother would be glad to care for it.- Her parents . did not know then that she had a babyu but my mother did, and she told me to " bring it home." ;- ' -. - ; . "''': . Underwood fairly raged when informed that liis wife was reported to have ex pressed ignorance of how the child waa made away with, and had laid the blame on him. -" "She knows that is a' lie," he said, "Why don't she tell the truth and be done with it. She wanted me to get rid of the baby, and I refused to do it. ' She said she did not want any babies and I told her that it was ho use for us to live, to gether then. ' Why, she held one side . of the sack when we dropped the baby into it with the rock, and then jolted the bag. She knew all about what I was going, to do when I dropped the baby in the water. If Iliad wanted to drown the baby' 1 yeould not" have gone that long distance to do it. -1- could have done it at Ballard, when pe were going to catch - the street car to take the train for Aberdeen. . " "Twae tarrying the baby. "It began to groan and thentq cry. It had not slept well for two sights. -1 .happened to have along a little pottle of chloroform ' I had bought for my wife to ,take during-her illness; but Mrs .Hetzler said it was dang erous to use it -unless "ja doctor : was pres ent, and I did not use it then. The baby needed sleep, .and I pnff a few drops on my handkerchief and put it over the ba by's face. : It stopped crying. ;: A"'little while afterward it groaned and seemed to be gasping. Then it became limber. It stopped- breathing anil, began to grow cold. Oh , I loved riiy baby. " Then I put my ear down to its breast and" its- heart had stopped beating., We put it into the sack and threw if into the.; water . - Wo ought to have remained and given it' a decent burial. This is the God's truth. I shall tell this story on &ewitneS8 stand. It was a healthy baby, and with proper, intelligent care.it would have lived." r ,7t - Underwood was greatly ; agitated while telling his Btory. Speaking o his expe rience since he left Aberdeen v he saidTy, t "I had no intention "of rufihig""away, but l was notga'itg to let tbat officer Mur phy catch rne. I had no . use for him. He "kb LI-i.il -goih'e tronbi ,t": 1 3?erit out" of the back door of the house as he came in the front door. "-French': Pete put me across the river from Aberdeen. I I thought I would come down here until it blew over, ; Then when I got no further than the."Y"n the railroad track, I had half a notion to turn back and; give my self up,' but I wanted to leave the coun try, anyhow.- I slept in Deming's shin gle mill, near Ocosta.'that night. I there traded my shoes for an old: j.air : of the night watchman's. -What I was after was the shoes.1 1 had on low.patent leath er shoes and they had cut my feet. You can see the blood on the heel of this shoe where it soaked through, -1 bought a cap at Westport, because any hat was not of much account. The next day I walked leisurely down v the beach and over to Tob eland. They say I was armed. That is all" nonsense. I did not - even haye a knife when I left home, and-1 left there a Smith & Wesson revolver. As luck would have it,-1 picked ug an " Italian's knife on" the railroad track while walking to Ocosta which a section hand had drop ped or I would not have had" anytbiog to cut shavings with. I waited around Toke land,'expecting to see tny . father. But when I saw the Ocosta eonstable I took to the woods. -1 thought-I would ' stay in hiding until the thing had blown over, and then go to work oystering for Mr Stewart at Tokeland, who had offered me a job. That same, dy I saw two" men men with rifles hunting me, and if they 1 had much sense they couid have trailed me, as I had to jump ' back- out Of their sight, aud I was close enough io them to hear , what " they said, though they talked in a whisper. An Indian was showing them my tracks. -1 never went far back into the woods. I was afraid to. Twice I got lost;. Several times I was with in ten feet of the" men - bunting me I would haye given myself up long ago, but I did not know the men, and" I was a fraid they would 'plug' me the "moment they saw me.: If I had seen Joe Graham the city marshal of Aberdeen, or Sheriff Cudihee, I would " have given myself up. Cudihee is a friend f mine and would do anything for me he could." If 1 wanted to escape I would have taken one of the boats on the beach nearTokeland. lama good boatinan and am well acquainted with the country" 2: Underwood was searched, by; Sheriff Roneyj but no arms were found, on. him. when asked how he had managed to hus band his supply of "provisions" so- well, still having about half Of his grub with him when" captured, he said , that he had eaten Salmon berries as he walked along and had very little appetite, anyhow. -; yWaterbury, Conn.J June 8. John L. Sullivan's realism on the stag6 is responsible for the wreck of his "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Company in this city. Sullivan af. Simon Ia gree, used his blacksnake whip in such a vivid manner that the negro actors under him rebelled. Sulli van say3 these; colored men have j-no sense of true art in acting.- ' "The nearer yau get to- the real thing in acting the more of an artist j-you are," and be lashed the: mock slaves on the etage till their backs were -patchwork. : '7 ' "Massa John, you'ee too pew'ful," said -: Uncle -Tom in a rebellious stage whisper at the last perform ance, after Sullivan had lashed his back with more than usual vigor. The gallery gods yelled in delight, and -John L, leshed ' some more. The result , , was a -T strike, a wrecked company, and a miscellan eous collection of stage settings load ed for shipment to New York. :The freight was sot paid and" the rail road company dumped the scenery and trunks on the track and . left them there. ; , . " The negroes carried , off all they could, including souvenirs- of some of John L.'s greatest battles -end a $75 dress belonging to Topsy, and pawned them about the town. De tectives were called to the pugilist's -aid," and rounded up Uncle lorn, William Fairfax, William Camrel and George Harris," who are now locked up in this city, Sullivan will be asked to come to Waterbuiy to testify against -them," and Down ings, the proprietor of " the show, will be asked to pay.; railroad fare for twenty stranded negroes who are not wanted in Waterbury, v-.- iVU How to Avoid Trouble. Now is the time to provide your self and family with a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera- and Diarrhoea Remedy. .It " is almost certain to'be-ped before the sum mer,is over, a vd - if ' procured- now may save yovs--'i-'r!;rt'; town in the night or in yna-- litest season It ie everywhere admitted ; to be ; the most successful aJedicihe in Use for bowel complaints, both for children and ad.ultsr; ,No family fcr.Ti- efford to be wi'liout i,.-.; For sal i by Cip. ham & Vell. - - -":'v;;:- CRAZY NEGRO BARRICADED IN HIS HOUSE HEf DEFIES THE AUTHORITY. Armed With a Revolver, Held - 3dL : Police at Bay A Bloody Fight In a West Virginia Politic- , al Convention Other '. :: l;::-: News. : --"';"..; ::;' : Philadelphia, June 13. All dajr yesterday and until 1 o'clock: thir morning, George Sherman, a crazy . Infegro, barricaded himself in hia pome, ana, armea wnn a. revolver and a shotgun, held 30 police , at bay. After he had fired nearly 10(J bullets, the police, aided by an er qual number df citizens, broke into . the room and captured the maniac . Port de France, June. 13. Yes, terday was the day set down in tha minds cf the natives for the - total destruction of Martinique. 'J There . was great anxiety, and -. thousands of eyes were turned ' towards Pelee, expecting a fatal blast. -There waa no disturbance and this morning the excitement calmed down.; Mer- 1 chants who fled are returning and " reopening their stores. r . . - Welch, W. Va". , June 7. Bulletin . cluba and knives figured extensive ly in a republican senatorial con- : vention held here today. Col. J. M. Fuller ts lying critically injured at a hotel, and a dozen other persona have injuries of a less serious nature.""- -'- -"" .' ;. ;'-' Col. J. L. Caldwell is a candid date for United States senator and N. B. Scott is seeking , re-election. Each wished to secure a candidate for the state senate favorable to hia, candidacy. The convention soon split and two chairmen" mounted the same stand and began . holding separate conventions. It was not -' long until a general fight broke out. Col . Fuller, chairman 01 - the -Caldwell force3, was knocked in tha head , with . a.-." revolver .and ; waa knecked unconscious.- His skull ia believed to be fractured. Fighting - was then fast'and furious. ' Several pistol shots rang.out. In a rush for the door many visitors were tram pled: under foot. .The. Caldwell forces were finally forced to the rear of the room, but they remained un til they named Col. Bob Cane, ox Wyoming, for etale senate. - Tha Scott followers named B. Randolph Bias, of Mingo. -" . a .-: -" Seattle, June 8. After almost in credible perils and hardships, L. L. Bales the tamous Alaskajguide, ar rived here last night from Nome. He states that Frank Grimm and Leads Mason, while trapping on the Engatolik this winter, found a cabin with nothing in it except half a blanket. Close by they found the body of a man; a quarter of a mile distant they came across tne Doaies of two other men. All had been murdered. ;s: i Indianapolis, June 12. The ar rest of Tyler Crothers " at Nobles ville develops the fact that Lucius Strduu, a wealthy farmer of Hamil ton county, was buncoed out of $31, 000 A few days ago. It appears that Crothers entered a running race, on which Stout won a few dollars, and the two agreed to make a fake race with a man from Springfield, 111. Crothers said if - Stout would bet his money on the Springfield man he would allow the letter", to win the , race, and Stout the ; money. Stout secured $31,ooo by mortgag ing his farm. The race was start ed all right, but Crothers won ii. Stout charges that he was the vio tim of aa conspirey, -: - c Topeka, June 7. The validity of the. Farrelly - Anti-Trust- law . was upheld today in a decision ; by the state supreme court, in -tha case of E. J. Smiley, secretary f the. Kan sas Grain Dealers,. Association. Smiley was arrested for violating the law, was convicted,: fined $000 and given a jail sentence. . - : Filthy Temples in India.";; " r Sacred 'cows ; often'" defile: Indian temples, ..but worse; yet is a- body tht'a polluted:-by. constipation. : Don't permit it. ' Cleanss your sys-: tenvwitKDfKlag's New Lif Pills - , and avoid uiitald misery. 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