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Vol. XV. No 23. CORVAIXXS, OREGON, JULY li), 1902. B. F. IRVINB Editor amo Pro W. T. ROWLEY M. D. Homeopathic Physician, Surgeon ang oculist Office Rooms 12 Bank Bldg. ! Residence on . 3rd Et between Jackson & Monroe, Corvallis, Or. Resident Phone 311 Odce hiurs 10 to 12 a m. 2 to i and 7 to 7 :3D p m DR W, H, HOLT DR MAUD B. HOL rH Osteopathic Physicians Office on South Main St. Consul ' tation and examinations free. Office hours: 8:3o to 11:45 a. m 1 to 5:45 p. m. Phone 235. 3L. G. altman, M. D ; Homeopathist Office cor 3rd sad Monroe sts. . Keei dence cor 3rd and Harrison Bts. Hours 10 to 12 A. M. 2 to 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. gth & Jefferson Sts. Hours io to 12 a. m to .4 p. m. Orders may be left at Gra am & W ortham's Drug Store. Physician - Surgeon. Office: Room 14, Bank Building. Office Hours 10 to 12 a. m. -. 2 to 4 p. m. G. R. PARR A, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & OBSTETICIAN Eesidence In front ol court house facing 3rd et. Office hours 8 to 8 a. m. 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 COBVAH.I3 OREGON C. H. NEWTH, Physician and Surgeon FHELOMATH OREGON J. P. Huffman Architect ' Office in Zierolt Building. .Hours isom 8 to 5. Corvallis Orego n Abstract of Title Conveyancing 3osesS Wilson A tt orney-A t-La w , practice in all the courts. Notary Public .Office in Burnett Brick. E. H. Bryson, Attorney-A t-Laiv. -POSTOFFtCE BUILDING- E. Holgate . ATTORNEY AT LAW JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Stenography and typewriting done. Office ii Burnett brick Corvallis, Oreg Notary Public. ' E. E.' WILSON, ATTORNEY' AT-LA W, Office in Zieriolf 's building. " ' Notice to Creditors. . . Notice is hereby given to all persons concern ed that the undersigned has been duly ap pointed administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Elda Jo Elliott, deceased, by the county court of Benton county state of Ore gon. All persons having ;claims against aa id es state of El. ia1 J. Elliott deceased, are hereby required to present the same with the proper vouchers duly verified as by law required with in six moritns from the date hereof, to the undersigned-at his residence in Lebanon, Linn county, Oregon, or at the office of E E Wilson, in Corvallis, Benton County Oregon ; Dated: this June 21st, 1902. - Ernest Elliott - Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Elda Elliott deceased," Tlie Kind Yen Hgye Aiv;avs Pbusjs Bears tie A MERRILL'S BODY FOUND TME STORY OF TRACY TURNS OUT TO BE TRUE. Body Was Found by Mrs. Mary Wagoner and Her 12-Year-Old Son While Blackberrying Other. News. Chehalis, July 15. Mrs. Mary Wagoner and her 12-year-old eon have found the body of David Mer rill, who with Harry Tracy escap ed last monlh from the Oregon pen itentiary, behind'a log on an unfre quented road four miles southeast of this place. The ghastly discov ery was made shortly before dark last evening, while Mrs. Wagoner and ' her son were searching for blackberries. The body was slight ly decomposes!, but easily recogniz able as that of Merrill. There was a bullet hole in the back and anoth er in the left, wrist. The body was dressed in dark-blue trousers, a dark coat, a black hat, and heavy shoes. It had been dumped over the log bead first, and lay with the face concealed. Mrs. Wagoner's son came here this morning and no titled the coroner of the find, and the body is now being brought in. A settler named Verba, who lives a few hundred yards south of the place where the body was found, has identified it as that of one of two men who went past his place at 5:30 a. m., June 28, the'day Tracy sajd he killed Merrill. Both men. Verba says, were heavily arm ed, and he thought at that, time that they were Tracy and Merrill. Tacoma,. July 15. A Chehalis special to the Evening News says: Superintendent Westendorf, of the state reform school, J and Dan W: Bush have returned here, and con firm the story of the finding of the body of the escaped convict, Dave Merrill, who was killed by his pal, Hairy Tracy. : The body is un doubtedly that of Merrill, and he was killed at 6 o'clock, Saturday morning, June 28. The body was found by Mrs. Mary Wagoner and her 1'2-year-old son, of NapaviDe, yesterday afternoon, who will claim the reward of $2,720. While pick ing, berries, they discovered a corpse thrown over a log and jammed be tween two tre8 stumps, a few feet off from the main road. A bullet hole is plainly seen in the back, and also one in the wrist. Another ia believed to be in the neck.' Three 30 30 Winchesters were found, one behind a cedar tree at the roadside, and two about 10 , feet from the corpse. The indications are that Tracy fired the first shot from be hind a tree, and then completed the assassination of his dying pal and brother-in-law, -Tracy first told the story that he had killed Merrill the day that he fode in a captured launch to Seattle, July 2. Seattle, July i 15. Picker ton de tectives have joined in the celebrat ed Tracy man-hunti, and the dime novel cemplexion of the chase grows more yellow; It is not so much to capture Tracy himself that the Pinlertons will center their famous detective ability, but they are now engaged in an endeavor to ascertain who were the individuals who pass? ed the rifles into. trie Saieu peniten tiary, and also who afa Tracy's ac complices at the present time. " A short time: ago the Pinkerton agents at Portland began opera tions; assisted by a special detective from the Chicago branch. Several days were spent in the matter by the detectives, and much valuable information was obtained. The de tails in their entirety could not be learned from any of the Pinkerton men, but the Chicago sleuth was not averse to making a few statements. "It is known," 6aid he, "that ne gotiations were in progressbetween Tracy and Merrill and two men in Portland for at least three months before the tragic outbreak at Sa lem. One of the men who smug gled the rifles and ammunition in to the prison is known, but the manner in which he did the job has not as yet been fully learned." It has also been learned that two men have been in communscation with Tracy.within the last few days, but their names are not known. The Chicago detective firmly be lieves Tracy killed. Merrill He says if Merrill is alive, he is sure he has not been seen since June 26. Many rumors concerning Merrill have been run down, and in each aDd every case they have proved false. According to the detective quoted above. Merrill, if he is alive, has severed all connection with his old pal, Tracy. Ia this connection he said: "Why should Merrill, who prob ably never killed any one, join Tra cy, when he had plenty of time in which to escape, having nothing but a 10-years' sentence to serve. As "to why Tracy lingered around Seattle so long, the detivea say there is no doubt that Tracy fully intend ed to assemble four notorious crooks and turn ; rn' big trick, such as robbing a 5rt : or big gambling house. TiaCj wrote three ietters to persons in Seattle. Two of those wera intercepted by officers 'of the law, but the most important ono has not yet been found: In one of the letters, which was posted at Chehalis, Tracy as much as stated his intention to turn a trick such as these mentioned above. It is said to b9 a fact that the de tectives have leirned that Tracy left Meadow Point for Port Madison' in a skiff, with hi3 two pals, and that the name of one of the .men is known, but the other is not. It is thought Tracy: arranged to meet hi? Pals at Renton, while they were rowing to Port Madison, and it is certain that four men met Tracy near Renton after he left the Ger rells home. The plans of the gang fell through, attd the following let ter,. written to a crook in Portland, throws some light on the fact: 'Hank on the kill; everything off Hike.", ... . . ' ' The letter was addressed to A.B. Cox, General Deliverys" . Portlarid Oregonian: An inform ation against A. L. Belding, charg ing him with murder in the first de gree, in having shot and killed Mrs. Deborah A. McCroskey, his mother-in-law, was fined in the etate c5rcait court yesterday by District Attorney Chamberlain. It sets forth, that the killing was done with pre meditated malice. It.is hot necessary to file inform atiions against Belding charging him with killing bis wife and Wood ward, as he can only be hang ed once, and one eonviction is suf ficient for all purposes. Since Eelding has been confined in the city prison, his friends have been very, attentive to him, and have sent bim sumptuous meals, consisting of steaks, qysteis, toast, coffee, cherries, bananas, fried po tatoes, chicken, etc. Cigars, ciga rettes and bunches of roses have al so been included among the gifts, Belding was taken to the county jail yesterday morning by Detec tives Kerrigan and Snow. . Thepa trel wagon is ia the repair shop, consequently he had to walk to the county jail Jwith the officers. In his new quarters Belding will have to conteut himself, with the jail fare as it is not customary to allow meals to be brought in from the outside. His friends will be per mitted to give him cigars or tobac co. - Seattle,. Wash. July 15. Thera was absolutely nothing done by the posses searching for Tracy today. Sheriff Cudihee's orders for all dep uties in the outlying districts to re port to his office in Seattle are being slowly obeyed. 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The Coro ner's jury exonerated. Green. - CHAMBER OF DEATH DEATH LIST WILL EXCEED THREE HUNDRED. Large Force of Men Trapped in Shaft of the Cambria Steel Company's Rolling Mill Mine Few Escape 5 Miles From Main Entrance. Johnstown, Pa., JulvlO. What (in all human possibility - was the I greatest mine disaster in the histo ry of the Pennsylvania coal fields filled nearly 600 homes with terror today and overcast the city with a gloom comparably with that only occasioned by the great Johnstown flood of over thirteen years ago. Somewhere between loo and 45o mioers are entombed in the great rolling-mill shaft of the Cambria Iron and Steel Company, beneath the foothills, five miles west of John stown, as the result of an explosion that occurred shortly before noon. f The number is disputed, but how ever many there are, there is little doubt that all is the ehatt are dead. Inside the mine fire is adding to i the horrors of the explosion, and smoke is slowly coming from the entrances. The rescuing parties have abandoned all attempts to use the Westmont drift, and are devot ing all their efforts from the Mill Creekrshaft, at the other end. v At midnight the first rescuing party returned to the Mill Creek shaft, after penetrating over two miles into the workings. Dr. J. B. Lowman, one of the party, said that they had passed over twenty five dead bodies. The party devot ed its efforts to saving the living, ad carried tolhem' lafge "'supplies of oxygen. It is being supplied now to about thirty unconscious men, and the physicians hope to save many of them. " Up to midnight no one has been laken alive or dead from the "Klon-1 dike," the portion of the mine in which the explosion occurred.. There are probably 2oo men entomb ed, and probably all are dead. At l:3o o'clock the dead discover ed numbered sixty-seven, and more were being found at every step of the rescuers. Officials of the company oper ating the mine assert that there were four hundred men at work aud that two hundred and fifty escaped. Those of the rescued who are able to talk say that there were 600 men in the long black hole which pene trates the earth for a distance of five or six miles, and that not more than 15o have been accounted' for. At 11 o'clock tonight four vic tims were brought to the surface from the Klondike Eection. Dr. John B. Lowman who came up w:ttf the men, said he passed twenty five dead bodies, some of them in sitting postures. Only eight bodies have been tak en out. The rest are hemmed in or crushed into shapeless masses beneath thousands of tons of coal and rock displaced by the explo sion. If any areyet alive the res cuers are prevented from reaching them by the flames in someeections and the black damp in others. Rescuing parties composed of de ter mied men wrought up to a pitch of desperate courage by the exciting events of the day have endeavored in vain to penetrate the various shafts, but none of them have suc ceeded in accomplishing anything beyond the recovery of a few of the bodies of those who dropped in tneir tracks while neeiBg toward dayligh. Bratticibg, fanning and every plan and device known to miners for enabling them to penetrate shafts failed with black damp have been resorted to in vain, and so complete has been their defeat that nearly all have now given up hope. Half-hearted efforts to accom plish something are still beiug made, but with practically no hope of success. It was not until news came into the city that many miners had es caped at the Mill Creek opening, between four and five miles from the city, that it was known that all had not perished. About a hundred miners manag ed to escape by way of the Mill Ureek entrance. They said that they had left hundreds of dead men in the mines, and told terrible sto ries of crawling over the dead bod ies of their comrades, i The experience of those who at tempted to get into the mine and who were driven out gasping and nearly dead in a few minutes shows conclusively that those who are in the center of the disturbance must necessarily have been suffocated. The general confusion about the mine is amazing. A stupor seems t ) have taken possession of every one and all Johnstown seexs to be stunned by the shock. Even the disconsolate women and children gathered about the mine entries near their homes a sad fea ture of mine disasters have ceased to scream for husbands, fathers and sons whose faces they will never see again, and they sit or stand a bout tonight in despairing silence. They cannot be induced to leave the spot. : About both of the openings to the mine the scene early tonight was heart-rending. Thousands of men, women and children were congregat ed, waiting and hoping against hope to hear of the safety of their loved one. Wives and mothers,' sisters, children of the imprisoned miners were standing about wailing, .sob bing and praying. Some driven to desperation by the fear that those whom they love they will never see again have tried to fight their way into the mine, but 1 have been held back from the fool hardy errand. Throughout the city and especially that portion where the miners had their homes there is mourning tonight.- Fathers, . hus bands, sons and brothers are miss ing, and those who loved them and depended upon them feel all too surely that they will never return again, , Johnstown is passing again through an experience which it will take years and years to efface. ' About a score of American min ers who were at work in the "Klon dike" district, but not at the imme diate scene of the explosion, notic ed the presence of the fire-dam p. io their apartment soon after the ex plosion occurred, and they started for the main entrance. They were nearly overcome by the deadly fumes, but managed to reach safety. These said that they believed not one of the men who were at work within the area of destruction could be saved. The rumor spread broadcast that all were dead. Women and chil dren whose husbands were some where, dead or alive beneath the bright green of the hillside, rushed to the point and gathered there, some with dry eyes and set faces, some crying, some moaning, but all gazing steadfastly at that dark op ening in the hillside; that was the only impression thatconnected them with the loved ones in the dark be yond. But already from the opening in the hillside the noxious gasses were beginning to pour from an explo sion that had taken place three and a half miles away, and the po lice of the Cambria Steel Company refused to allow any one to enter. Women with blanched facescame and entreated that they might bs allowed to eDter, with no thought of the distance, with not the faint est reasoning as to the utter use- lessness of the attempt, only a de termination to do something to res cue the loved ones from dealh Little children, little realizing the terrible meaning of the news, but with a child's vague consciousness "that something that might hurt father" was going on, clung to the skirts of the women and added to the piteousness of the scene. From the stories told bv some it must be that thi3 great mine, run ning in all its ramifications gal leries, drifts and chambers many mile3 under the earth, honeycomb ing the hils hereabout, is a vast chamber ot death. 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Garner's story has, up to the present time, been kept quiet by him, through fear of the outlaw, who, he says, threaten ed when leaving. Garner says that at or near three o'clock Sunday af ternoon a man entered the housa without knocking, and announced himself as Tracy, saying: "Gentlemen, I am Tracy, and I want something to eat quick." The Garners, father and three son?, had just finished dinner,- so they told him to sit up and help himself, which he proceeded to do, first ordering the two eldest sons to go to one corner of the room, di rectly in front of him, where he could keep them covered with his murderous rifle. At the time of Tracy's entrance the youngest boy was shaving, but after the convict announced himse lfhe ceased the op- eration, and was unable to proceed, even when told by Tracy to go; a-, head and finish his shaving; ' After eating his dinner, Tracy said: "Young man, come here and shave me." Upon the young man demuring on the ground of not be ing an adept with the razor,, Tracy said: "That's all right; I am not particular, and if I, don't kick you. need not," whereupon young-Gar- -ner lathered his face and proceeded to remove his beard. They Btate he had at least a two weeks' growth of beard, with which he was much pleased to part. After being shaved Tracy helped himself to a pair of trousers that were hanging on the wall, putting them under his arm, and then went out. . This will materially change the theories of Tracy's pursuers, as it has been believed all the time that he came to Enumclaw from Palmer by working along the side of the mountains south of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and was first seen by Clarence Burke just east of the town. It seems, though, that be came down the line on the north side of the track until he came to or near the White River, when he worked his way south along the river, crossed the track near the White River bridge, and continued up the stream to tha Garner home. The railroad company keeps a watchman at this bridge, and he says he saw a man come up on the grade and cross the track shortly after the noon hour, who, he is sat- isfied, carried a gun, as he could see it glisten in the sunlight. This even at 7.30 smoke was seen ascending from a small gully in the foothills just east of here. As it has rained here nearly all day, and at times very hard, it is believed by a great many of the citizens thatthe criminal is still lurking in the im mediate vicinity. If his past: ac tions are to be an index as to bis future, it is more than likely to be his campfire, as it is well situated on a slope commanding a good view of the main highway to the east, and al;o overlooking the town. 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