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CORVAIJJS, OREGON, JULY 30, 1902. r atar ' B. F. IRVINE Editor ud Pro Vol. XV. No 24. 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 Fhone 311 Offi33 tour's 10 S3 12 am. 2 to i and 7 to7:3a p m DR V. H. HOLT DR MAUD ; :W 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. L. G.'ALTMAN, M. D Homeopathist OfEoe cor 3rd and Monroe sts. Eesi 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, I'hoao 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. B. A. CATHEY, M. D. Physician Surgeon. Office: Room 14, Bank Building. Office Hours 10 to 12 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m. G. R. FARRA, aPHISICIAN, SURGEON & OBSTETICIA3 Residence !n front of court house faeing 3rd et. Office hours 8 to 9 a. m. 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 . CORVALLIS OREGOK C. H. NEWTH, Physician and Surgeon FHIX03IATH OEEGOX J, P. Huffman Architect Office in Zierolf Building. Hours from 8 to 5. Corvallis Orego n Abstract of Title Conveyancing 3osepb 1 iUilson A 1 1 orney-At-La w Practice in all the courts. Notary Public Office in Burnett Brick. R, Bryson, Aitorneii-At-Law. -P03TOFFICE EUILJMNG- E. Holgfite ATTORNEY AT LAW JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Stenography and typewriting done. Office in Burnett brick Corvallis, Oreg Notary Public, n E. E. WILSON, A TToimTEY-AT-LA TP, Office la Zlerlolf '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 J, , Elliott, deceased, by the county court of Benson county state of Ore gon.AH persons having claims against said es state of Elda J. Elliott deceased, are hereby required to present the same with the proper Touohers duly verified as by law required with in six moirt-Hs teom the date here f, to the un dersigned at his residence In Lebanon, Linn county, uregon, or at the offlce oils JS Wilson, In Corvallis, Benton County Oregon ; Dated: this Jane 2lst, 1902. ' Ernest Elliott Administrator with the will annexed of the 431316 of Elda Elliott deceased, Bears the ? The Kind Von Have Always ig Signature " , yfrtZJz-' HUNGER-GRAZED DOGS AMERICAN W05IAX WOMAN IN FRANCE KILLED BY GREAT , , DANES. New York, July 26. Mme. Ed mund Sempis, who before her mar riage a year ago was Miss Louise Rutherford, of. Brooklyn, N. Y., has been set upon, says a Paria dis patch to the World, by two hunger maddened Great Dane dogs, which had been secured to guard her hus band's country house at Anneccy lake, and so terribly injured that she died two hours after the acci dent. M. Sempis ,is a prominent busi ness mau in Paris. His home is at Anneccylake, an isolated spot. Following an attempt by burglars to enter tbe place, he purchased two powerful Great Danes as guard's. The dogs proved so ferocious that they were confined in an iron in closure during the daytime for tbe safety of the family. M. Sempis was advised to starve them, so, when food was given to them, they would remember kindly their bene factors. So tbey had nothing ta eat for two days. Mme. Sempis did not accompany her husband and their guests, who started, for a drive. She noticed the dogs while 6he was walking in the yard, knowing that they had been without food, and determined to feed them, as they were appar ently quiet. The instant Mme. Sempis entered the iron inclosure, the Great Danes leaped upon her like hungry tigers. They bore her to the ground and as she vainly sought to defend herself, their teeth sank in her arms and body. Her struggles apparently maddened the animals the more. . ' " . The coachman heard the screams of Mme. Sempis. She begged the man to save her. He ran to the stable for a pitchfork. When he re turned, the Great Danes hadiear-' fully torn their victim. The coach man, fought the brutes into a corner and kept them there until the cook summoned neighbors and carried Mme. Sempis from the inclosure in a dying condition. A few minutes after M. Sempis and his guests returned she suc cumbed to her injuries after ex changing a few words with her hus band, who is nearly crazed by the terrible accident. Biker City, July 26. William Buchanan shot his nose off Thurs day evening, while out hunting on the Osborn ranch, 10 miles north west of this city. He was hurtling with a shotgun when by some means the piece waa accidentally discharged, the load passing upward in front of his face in such a man ner as to almost sever his nose from his face. The member was left hanging by a strip of skin, and Mr. Buchanan-said he was about to pull it off and throw it away, when he decided that he had better let it alone. He was brought to this city yesterday and placed in the hospital. The physicians think they can save his nose, or at leatt they have replaced it and are going to try to save it. Eusr CUP. ir . hi b V.i Snprir W. W, . Withers returned todav from Nevada having in charge Bert Heaton, alias Ray, whom he has been after for two months. The crime for which Ilea ten is wanted is tbe murder of Benton Tracey at Junction May 20. Tracey was kill ed late at night in a saloon where he was tending bar, . there being no witnesses' ? to the murder. Suspi cion at once pointed to Bert Ray, a gambler, who had been playing in hard luck, and upon search being made he was not to be found. The sheriff was unable to get any as to his whereabouts until 24, when he heard of him in clue June Red- ding. He at once went in pursuit, but the man was gone. Keeping up the search he located him in Wells, Nevada, where he made the arrest in a barber shop, and now has his prisoner behind bars. - Port Townsend, Wash., July 26. Yip Hay, a Chinese, is the first man to be arrested while fleeing from the scene of his crime in A laska, through the medium of tele graphic communication but recent ly established. When the steamer Dolphin called at Petersburg, Yip Hay came aboard. Arriving here he was taken into custody on a war rant wired from United States Mar shal Shoup, at Juneau, securing the Chinese of the crime ol murder, jsjo particulars of the crime came on the Dolphin, but it is supposed .Hay murdered one of his countrymen at Petersburg, which is a properous cannery settlement. The. prisoner is to be held here pending further orders from Marshal Shoup. A Duel Fought With Fists. (PORTLAND TELEGRAM.) Frank CarLoa and George W. Baldwin fought a duel with bare fists on Nicolai street near Tweaty fourth, Saturday night, and as a result Cai i.j.Ji.'s body is at - the morgre, while Baldwin is confined to a cell ia the city jail. A charge of manslaughter has been placed against him. The prisoner declares he acted in self defense. The duel was fought opposite the woodyard of the Banfield-Veysey Fuel Com pany, wmcn is some distance re moved from the mam thoroughfare and traveled by few after dusk. Tbe fight was prearranged and was in tended to settle once for all a claim which each is said to have had u- on the affections of two girls, Jose phine Smith and Ida Fiddler, em ployed as waitresses at the Villard "Hotel on North Front street. It seems that young Baldwin bad first become acquainted with the girls, and resented the attentions Carlson had been paying them of late. The two had their first l tercation about a week ago, and they seemed only to embitter the jealousy and ill-feeling between ibem. i he girls, it is said, finally told Carlson that Baldwin had been rude to them, and the former de manded that an apology be made. Baldwin's reply was in the nature of a challenge to a fight with bared fists. The relatives and intimate friends of the two 3'oung men tried to per suade them not to fight, but to na avail. Both principals were on the ground soon after 7 o'clock Satur day evening, together with a crowd ofabout35or 40 men, including William Baldwin, father of Geo. Baldwin, and one of his brothers. The clothes of both men were searched before the fighting began, and their penknives were taken from them to make it certain that they should not hurt each other too seriously. Both men had friends in the crowd, and they were divid ed into two hostilecamps, each jeal ous of the ether. The fighters went at it, nip and tuck, landing blow after blow upon each other with a fierceness made possible by thejeal ous hatred of each toward the other. Finally Carlson appeared to be weak ening and he stepped back,,his hand on his stomach, gasped a few times and feli. It was over. Baldwin was the victor. The crowd thought the whipped man had fainted. He was taken by his friends to a near by house, where it was found that he was dead. Coroner Finley removed the body to the morgue. The police were notified and Detectives Day and Weiner arrested young Baldwin as he was about to enter his home af ter spending sometime downtown. Baldwin expressed regret that the fight had e.ided so disastrously. "It was a fair fight," he said, "and I fought Carlson because he fought me. I simply defended my self. He must have been weak physically." Some of the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest Sunday night in the case was rather conflicting. ("The verdict of the jury states that death was due to a solar plexus blow, in other words, the blow which caused death was one struck in the stomach, in the region of the solar plexus. There was no attempt to censure anyone in the verdict. The evidence showed that both men were in good physical condition. Dr. O. S. Binswanger, who per formed the autopsy, said he found the organs in a normal condition, and was satisfied Carlson did not die of any heart trouble. He said the victim died as the result of a blow in the region of the solar plex us. He found that Carlson's nose had been broken and other minor bruises of no importance. William Baldwin, father of the prisoner," bet $ 1 with deceased on the result of the fight. For Sale A fine Durbrm milk cove, fresh. L, L Brooks SSs f36- sinila ggaature . if 13 - every VERMONT WHISKEY STORED IT IN THE TRUNK OF A MAPLE TREE AND OWNER, , SENT TO PEISiM ror issuing it a jomn Used as a Bar to Deceive Authorities '.Many a Scheme to Defeat Prohibition Laws "j Other New3. Burlington, Vt., Tulv 19. Start ling disclosure relating to tbe sale 'of intoxicating liquors in defiance of the prohibitory laws have already been made as a result of the nomi nation of Percival W. Clement for governor on a high license-inde pendent ticket. More will follow, and present indications point to a stirring up such as this stata has never before experienced. Mr. Clement bolted the republi can state convention in June, and General J..G. McCullough, a pro hibitionist, was nominated. Last Wednesday Clament was nominate ed by the Vermont Local Option League, and instantly started the fiercest political fight ever seen here. The battle will be fought strictly on a high-license local op tion issue. This calls for a license law, to be presented to the people for approval by popular vote; laws regulating party primaries, and true economy in public affairs. As conditions are today liquors are sold freely, but not always op enly. In the smaller towns every effort is made to conceal the sale of intoxicants, and the length to which some dealers go is astonishing. It developed today that in a town south of Rutland there is a saloon in an undertaking shop. Consid ering the character of Vermont whiskey this is not as incongruous as may appear to people who drink good liquor. The town in question has a lively temperance. society and the , under taker conceived the idea of rigging up a coffin for a bar in order to a void suspicion. The cask-.! which is old and dusty, lies on a bier in the rear of the shop. The glass cov er is locked down. In other re spects it is like any other resting place for the dead. When the un dertaker has a trusty customer he opens the lid aDdiusteadof a corpse a set of glasses and well-filled bot tles are disclosed. These are set out on the foot of the coffin and the bar is ready for business. Vermont has a few salos?n9 that do not pretend to conduct a legiti mate business along with the sale of intoxicants. Forty out of every fifty drug stores have a saloon con nection in the rear, and every hotel of any size does a "room" or "bot tle" business. "In Rutland there are eight full-fledged saloons cn one business block. They are run un der the protection of the present or der of prosecuting, and each has a drug store in front. A little medi cine is sold, but in the main lh stores deal in rum in various stages of adulteration. In one of these places a certain brand of "spring blood cleanser" received a remarkable patronage until the local temperance society discovered that it was simply whis key with a fiavoringof horseradish. The radish served to fool the tem perance folk for a time and took a way the taste of fusil oil in the whiskey. In another place in the same town there was until recently a bar that served beer through a speaking tube. There had been a long crusade and beer was found to be two bulky to keep with safety behind the bar. The cellar had been frequently searched and the proprietor hit up on the scheme of placing tbe barrels under an adjoining store and con necting with hia saloon by means of a speaking tube. No particular pains is taken in the cities to conceal the saloons owned by the men who stand in with the machine. Any one who is known can procure ail the whiskey he wants at any of the drug stores. The saloon is divided from the store proper by a prescription desk at the rear of the counters. It stands directly across the doors, but a lit tle in front and acts as a screen. There is always a rear exit to be used in case of a raid. Few people pay any attention to the raiding of ficers as they do not' interfere with business unless a strict crusade is on. The sheriffs are frequently in vited to take a drink, to "get evi dence,'' and there the matter ends so far aa tbe customers are concern ed. The drug store bars are in many cases elaborate, and liquor is served by white-coated keepers with all the freedom of a licensed commun ity. You can get any fancy drink you wish and partake of afree lunch that is in many cases elaborate. Hotels sell with the same freedom when there is no crusade on. When the temperance societies get to work the bars are shut and the liquor is served in small bottles io rooms. A room is-xeoted for fifty cents and the amount i3 duly paid. The mon ey is deducted from the first round of drinks, so the purchaser is not out anything. Having regularly hired a room the authorities cannot break in without a search warrant, and by the time that it is procured the place will be vacant. "The "illicit?' rumsellers who do not stand in with the prosecu tors have a hard time of it, but they manage to make a living and in some instances get rich. There is a section of Rutland called "Ne braska" where the "illicits" do a thriving business. The same is true of sections in all the larger towns and cities. The ways taken to fool the authorities are, to say the least, ingenious. Whiskey bibies were common up to a few years ago. This device was what appeared to ba a copy of the Holy Writ. It was in fact, half a Bible. The other half was a tin compartment with a plug in it. To get the whiskey you opened the book until you struck the compart ment containing the liquor. The plug was then removed likewise tbe whiskey. Not long ago it was noted thai men congregated in the back yard of a suspected "illicit." There vis its were made at night, and one by one they were seen to deposit mon ey with the suspect and then ap proach a maple tree. The tree wa9 inspected, but it was not untilt it was felled that the authorities dis covered a tank inside. This was connected with a tap mado by bor ing a small hole in the bark. The tank had baen inserted by drilling a hole down into the trunk from a pointy where two limbs separated 1 ha proprietor is now serving time in the state house of correction. where he polishes marble. Cariandaieua, N. Y.; July 19. It has taken six years of steady work for Messrs. Eaton and Wilbur, taxidermists here, to put together the skeleton of a mastodon for Va? sar college. The work is now al mast completed, and the moDSSter will be shipped to poughkeepsie. Ibe mastodon is 20 feet long and nine foot high. Its weight is nearly ene thousand pounds. Portions of the skeleton were uuearthed at Cir cleville, O.; North Bend and In dianapolis. Ind , and London, Can ada. The lacking parts have been supplied by madels and casts. It is said that tbe leal bones are 10, 000 years old. The tusks were ex cavated near London, and are in an excellent '.state of preservation. They measure nine feel along the outside curve, the tail is also niae feet in lensth. Atoka, I. T., July 19. Near Strongtosvn, Thursday night, Mrs. Daniel Grent, her daughter, Mrs. John Reyes, and a man named Nuckles were waylaid and killed while returning from church. Mrs. Reves had been separated from her husband about eight months, and prior to that time the couple had lived with the Grant family. Thursday night Nuckles had ac companied Mrs. Reeve3 to church. As they were returning to the Grant home in a wagon they were halted. Nuckles was made to get out and was shot. Mrs. Grant was shot while she was sitting in the wagon. Then, as the team bolted, Mrs. Reeves was shot. Mrs. Grant and Nuckles were killed instantly, and Mrs Reeves lived only a few min utes. The murderer's name is not yet known. Canandaigua,N. Y., July 26. Another terrific storm visited this section last night, doing great damage to crops and property that had not already suffered. Edward Chamberlain was struck by light ning and instantly killed. Canan daigua Lake is still rising and the damage on farms is irreparable. From every part of the country come reports that wheat is sprout ing in the shock and that a serious blight has struck the apple trees. TWENTY FEET LONG AND NINE FEET HIGH SKELE-f TON OF A MASTODON IN NEW YORK. Weighs Nearly a Thousand PoundaQ California Has au Imitator of Tracy Shoots Many Peo ple and Takes to the Mountains. ' Fresno, Cal.', July 28. In Por- terville yesterday James McKenney ran amuck and, initiated bis per formance by shooting out the lights of a saloon and tried to shoot the cards out of the hands of a man ia a card game. That he only wound ed the man was due to hia poor marksmanship and not to his crim inal intentions. He then proceeded to a livery stable and secured a rig: at the point of a revolver. Aeon stable, a deputy and ' several citi zens attempted to arrest McKen ney, but he opened fire and four of them were more or less seriously wounded. Officers in surrounding counties were notified, and a shatp outlook is being kept. McKenney has a bad record, having some years ago been sent to state's prison from Tulare: county. Two years ago he killed a man in Bakersfield, but was ex onerated. William Lonn, a gambler, whose abdomen and legs were filled with. . buckshot, has succumbed to his wounds. McKenney also filled the right arm of George Barrows, a printer, with shot, sent a bullet in to the mouth of Deputy Marshal Willis another into the arm of Dep uty Constable Tompkins, and a load of shot into the arm of W B West. Before leaving towu he called at the house of Dave Moahier. He awak ened Moshier and called him to th door. Standing before the door, with gun in hand, McKenney. ex claimed: "I've got into a h 1 of a fight. They came after me, but ' I whipped them all."" I killed three or four of them. They have not treated me right. They can send, the whole town after me. I'll die game. You Talk about Tracy? Tracev, he wan't be in it with me. They hurt me." Putting his hand to his leg' he squeezed up a handful of blood. He then drove off to Lindsey and is headed for Fresno county, where it is supposed he will make for the mountains. McKenney has a shot gun, rifle and revolver, and will not be taken alive. Sheriff Parker and his deputies are in pursuit, but no definite information has been re ceived as to the desperado's where abouts. Carbondale, 111., July 20. The Jaubeit brothers, who operated a small coal mine near Orville, re turned home about midnight and one of them began breaking the dishes and at last attacked his wife. Mrs. Jaubert and her sister fled to a back room and locked the door. The husband followed, broke in the door and renewed the assault, where upon the wife fired three shots into hia body, causing instant death. - The brother took up his broth er's qurrel and attempted to strike the womae, whereupon Mrs. Jau bert shot twice, killisg him. The woman surrendered to an of fice. This morning Coroner Knauer impanelled a jury, who exonerated the wife. Sherwood, July 28. Amy Hall,, the 14-year-old granddaughter of P G Martin, residing one mile north of town, very fortunately escaped sudden death in a miraculous man ner Saturday. As she was attempt ing to draw a backet of waterat the well near the kitchen door her foot slipped, and losing her balance the girl pitched head foremost into the well, some 30 feet to. the water. In her descent her hand caught with the well rope, which she held on to until her grandfather went to her rescue. She wa3 found with her feet in the water, which was some 6 feet deep. Fortuuately her head did not come in contact with the brick wall surrounding the well of the re sult would have been certain death. She was taken out injured but slightly, but in a state of nervous prostration. Boars tie TIm Kind You Have Always Bougtt