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Vol. XV. No 28.
CORVAIililS, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1902.
B. F. IRVINE
Editor and po
Professional.
W. T. ROWLEY M. D.
Homeopathic Physician,
Surgeon and oculist
Office Rooms l-z-Bank Bldg.
Residence on 3rd et between
Jackson & Monroe, Corvallis, Or.
Kesident Phone 311
Office Hours 10 to 12 a m. 2 to 4 and 7 to7:30 p m
DR W. H. HOLT
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.
X.. G 'ALTMAN, M. D
Homeopathist
Office cor 3rd and Monroe ets. Kesi
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,
Phone residence "315.
H. S. Pernot
Physician and Surgeon
Office over Post Office. Residence, Cor.
gth & Jefferson Sts. Hours io to 1 2 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 J 10 to 12 a.m.
V a to 4. m.
G. R. FARRA,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & OBSTETICIAN
Residence In front ol court house facing 3rd
et. Offlce hours 8 to 9 a. m. 1 to 2 and 7 to 8.
COBVALlil3
OEEOON
C. H. NEWTH,
Physician and Surgeon
PHILOMATH
OREGON
J. P. Huffman
Architect
Office in Zierolf Building. Hours
Crom 8 co 5. ' Corvallla Orego n
Abstract of Title Conveyancing
3oscpbF. Kittson
A ttorney-A t-La w
Practice in all the courts. Notary Public
Office in Burnett Brick.
E. Holgate
ATTORNEY AT IAW
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Stenography and typewriting done. ,
Office ia.BurnettJbrickCorvallis, Oreg
Notary Public.
E. E. WILSON,
A TTORNEY-A T-LA W,
Office In Zieriolf's building.
E. It. Bryson,
Attorney-M-Law.
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KB NTUCECV
Gold medals were
nlso zrwni'ded at
and Worlds Fair
Chicago VsXi.
I kdEteBn- laurels
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FILIPINO WIVES
AND CHILDREN DESERTED BY
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Brave New York Girl Saved an
Infant From Death A Spe
cial Session of the Penn
sylvania Legislature to
Settle Coal Strike
Other News.
The officers in division head
quarters are kept busy now davs.
J not only with the departure of
'regiments,, but in looking after
(wayward and miscreant husbands
that are leaving for the states leav
ing behind them wife and family,
says the Manila Times.'
How many soldiera who have
left their lawful wives in the prov
inces before coming to this city
will probably never be known, but
the wronged woman have found
that there is some Consolation to be
found in etatiDg their wroqgs
to the commanding general of the
division and a large number have
taken advantage of the assistance
offered.
Tuesday six men were taken: one
of, the transports in the bay, the:
complaint in such case being able
to show a neat marriage certificate
many of them having been signed
by the chaplain of some regiment
who was on duty in the islands
Yesterday J there were seven more
women at the Estado Mayor, claim
ing that their husbands were leav
ing, that they , were both mother
and wife, that were penniless, and
their husbands on board the trans
port Cook, now in quarantine,
preparatory to sailing for the Un
ited States.
One pitiful case among the many
was that of a beautiful native
woman who was sitting on the
beach opposite the door of General
Chaffee office at the Estado Mayor,
weeping as though her heart would
break . The general happened to
pass just as she wa3 in the midst
of the sorrow, and ordered one of
his aides to ascertoin the matter.
An interpretor was called and the
woman told the same pitiful story
that she was the wife of a soldier
by the name of McDonald, of M
company, twenty-fifth Infantry,
that her husband had gone to the
states on the transport Crook, and
left her and her child penniless.
It is needless to say that the gen
eral when made acquainted with
the facts, ordered his launch to
the vessel's side to have the mis
cleant husband returned to the
city.
Cases of the kind are becoming
so numerous that steps will be tak
en to punish soldiers who have
been lawfully married here and
who return to the states deserting
their families.
The colored regiments , have not
been alene in this, and complaints
have been made of members of oth
er regiments who have gone away
and left a wife and baby in these
islands, and several cablegrams
have been sent over the sea to in
tercept the parties before they are
discharged, so as to bring them to
justice, lhere is but httlethat can
be done in the way ol punishment
for soldiers who have been found
guilty of deserting a family in these
islands, but they can be discharged
from the service without honor.
Whether this would have any ef
fect in stopping the practice is
questionable, but it. would return
them to the islands for discharge,
would relieve the army cf such
miscreants and would leave them
here where they would be compelled
to give support to their children,
instead of turning them out on the
streets to beg.
Whenever a marriage certificate
can be produced to show that the
parlies were legally married the
case will be looked into and the
men will be ' brought ashore and
dismissed without honor.
Poughkeepsie, Aug 28 Accord
ing to a report which reached this
citp today from Ocean Grove, Miss
Virginia Sweet a popular school
girl of this city, is a heroine
among the summer boarders of that
New Jersey resort because of the
bravery she displayed at the time
of the baby parade at Ooean rove.
Mise Sweet is nineteen years old,
With her parents she is visiting
Ocean Grove. She went out to see
the baby parade, and stood on the
curb to watch the long procession
of baby carriages pas's by. J ust
beyond her was a spirited horse at
tached to a light wagon.
Suddenly tone of the women
turned over the carriage which she
was pushing and its occupant, a
tiny baby., fell out and rolled dir
ectly under the horse. "Oh! My
heaven! My baby will be crushed!
screamed the mother. Even then
the horse was moving restlessly
and its right forward foot was
raised in the air as if he would
bring it down upon the little frame
lying prostrate and helpless be
neath its feet.
Like a flash Miss Sweet sprang
from the tide walk and seized hold
of the up lifted foot. The horse
began to prance but the Pough
keepsie girl clung to his hoof and
it was only a matter of seconds
before strong hands grasped the
animal by the head and another
pulled the baby from its precar
ious position. '
Harnsburg. Pa, Aug 30 Per
sistent rumors were in circulation
today that a special session of the
legislature may be called by Gov
ernor Stone in the interest of the
legislation looking into the matter
of arbitration of the strike in the
anthracite region. It is understood
that should there be a popular de
mand, for calling the legislature to
gether, a demand imperative and
unmistakable, . representing the
great mass of the people who have
indirectly suffered by the coal
strike, the governor would be con
strained to call an extra session.
While no confirmation of these
rumors can be secured from an of
linial source it is stated tonight
that a legislative solution of the
grave situation in the strike is pos
sible. '
Berlin, Aug So The price of
meat in Germany continues to rise,
and the town councils and other
bodies and the newspapers in every
part of the country are discussing
what is called a "meat famine."
The Butcher's Guides advanced
the price of meat this week from
24 to 5 cents per pound, A good j
steak costs 44 cents in Berlin.
Meats are generally reported statis
tically 26 per cent higher- there
now than in 1900, although in Rot
terdam, Paris, Vienna and Buda
pest tyhe are only lo per cent high
er. Germany's more rapid advence
is attributed to the scarcity of home
animals, the exolusion of foreign
livestock and and the prohibition
of canned meats thus suspending
large American . imports. Ham
burg figures show that the imports
of American salt and smoked meats
in 1901 were only i28,8oo metric
hundred weight against 3o5,2oo
in 1898. The import of sausages
have shrunk in the meantime from
18,ooo to 880 metric hundred
weight and American canned meats
from 34,6oo to 18,9oo metric bund
ed weight. Berlin slaughtered in
July 511o fewer animals than in
July 1901,' in spite of the increas
population, and the slaughterings
were further diminished in Aug
ust. The officials of the kingdom
of Saxony report 5 per cent de
crease in the slaughterings since
19ol and & great lack of animals
suitable for butchering.
A number of important muni
cipalities have petitioned the gov
ernment to open the frontiers to
livestock. The Prussian ministers
of agriculture, Herr Podbielski,
replying to a deputation of the
Posen council said that it was im
possible to with draw the exclus
ion decrees, averring that the ex
clusion of foreign animals had
immensely improved the veterin
ary conditions of Germany.
Iowa, was cured of a stomach troub
le with which he had been afflicted
for years, by four boxes of Cham
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FIVE KILLED
A TORNADO WRECKS A TRAIN IN
; MINNESOTA.
Cecil Rhodes. Bequeaths Land
Worth $1,000,000 to Earl and
Countesss of Warwick
; Duke of Marlborough in
Automobile Accident
Other News,
Waseca, Minn, Aug 3o Two
persons were killed, three fatally
injured and more than a score hurt
tonight in the wreck of a train
which had been hurled down an
embankment by a tornado. A west
bound train on the Chicago & North
western R R, consisting of an en
gine, a baggage car, and two crowd
ed passenger coaches was struck
by a tornado while running at the
rate of 35 miles an hour two miles
from Meridan. The passenger and
baggage cars were hurled IS feet
down the embankment to the
fence guarding the right of way.
A brakeman was lighting the lamps
when the crash came and the
wreckage was ignited by the spill
ing oil.
The engineer is reported to have
seen the tornado in apparent pur
suit of the train and scarcely an
instant, before the wind struck the
cars the train gave a lurch in a
sudden spurt to evade the funnel
shaped fury. It was 5:40 when the
train was struck. Fully an hour
and a half elapsed before the
wrecking train arrived.
The engine did not leave the
track, the baggage and passenger
coaches having been twisted off
and hurled downward to the bot
tom. The baggage car was shat
tered to splinters. The two dead
were jammed in the wreckage and
their- bodies cut out with . axes. . It
is feared that more bodies may be
found under the debris and wreck
ing gangs sent from WaseCa, are at
work on ;the shattered cars.
The brakeman who was lighting
the lamps in one of the passengers
coaches when the tornado struck,
cannot be' found tonight. It is
feared his body may be in the
wreckage. Passengers saw him
strike the" under side of the coach
with teriffic force and at the same
time t he lamp that he had
been trimming was smashed into
splinters.
The injured and the bodies of
the dead were brought to Waseca,
by physicians who attended to the
seriously injured.
London, Aug 22 The Essex
county Chronicle says it hears that
Cecil Rhodes bequeathed to the
countess of Warwick lands in
South, Africa which have been sold
for $1,000,000.
The Earl and Countess of War
wick have an estate in Essex. The
Countess formerly Lady Bourke,
the famous beauty known as "bab
bling Bourke,' was given that nick
name because it was supposed it
was she who first whishered the
baccarat scandal in which King
Edward, then Prince of Wales,
figured years ago. The Countess
founded Brooke house at Reading
for the training of women and later
added to it, a colonial department
in which women are taught cook
ing, housewife! laundry work and
dressmaking. Some time before
the death of Rhodes the countess
published an article oh "Training
Girls for the Transvaal." iu which
she appealed to ' Andrew Carneigie
for aid in the work.
At the time some of the provis
ions of Mr Rhodes will were made
public and it was reported that
he had left a large sum to the
Earl and Countess of Warwick
because the Countess, more than
any other Englishwoman, best
personified British imperialism.
J ne report was denied at the time,
Philadelphia, Aug 30 High so
ciety had a surprise today when
it learned that a member of the
Biddie family had secretly mar
ried and had not taken his bride
from the ranks fashion or wealth
J C Mercer Biddie accomnan
ied by a young and pretty woman
presented himself before the Rev
M E Kunkleman of St Andrews
Lutheran church in Atlantic City,
and asked to be married, f be
bridegroom signed his- name as J C
Mercer Biddie, of Atlantic City,
occupation, gentleman ; age 45;
father's name, . Marks J Biddie
The bride signed, her iaame, Anna
Teresa Brennan; twenty one years
old , of Atlantic City;
The bridegroom is a very wealthy
and popular member of the "horsey
set in this city, and a tamilar fig
ure in Philadelphia club life. I
is said that the bride is a Phila
delian but her parents do not re
side in the aristociatic neighbor
hood. '? : .
London. Aug 28 While the
Duke of Marlborough was riding
in his automobile on thV'Eynsham
road near'Oxford, this' afternoon,
his machine came in collision with
a farmer's trap in which a woman
and little girl were driving.
The occupants of the trap were
thrown out and the woman sus
tained a slight concussion. She
was taken to Radcliffa Infirmary
by the Duke.
fJiilfai: Wasriinctnn. Alicr 3n
At Garfield, 19 miles north of here,
hurerlars entered the O R & N Co's
depot last night and blew open the
sate ana escaped witn vno ana es
caped, leaving no clew. The work
was evidently ' done by experts.
The depot stands near the business
center of the town but the robbery
was not discovered until this
morning.
The safes in both the O R & N
and Northern Pacific depots at
Garfield have been blown open half
a dozen times in the past few years
Garfield is only, nine miles from
Palouse where the postoffice safe
was blown open and $800 taken.
It is believed that a gang of experts
are at work in that part of the
country.
Chicago, Aug 3o The hearing of
testimony in a legal tangle that
comes as an echo of the absorp
tfon of the Carnegie company by
the United States Steel Corporation
was closed today before Marshall
Sampson, clrk of the United States
court, acting as special coTftrfniif''
gioner. Tne suit involves the trans
fer of over $0,000,000 of stock of the
Carnegie Company held by prom
inent Pittsburg people.
William H Vantine of Pitts
burg is the complainant. He al
leges that the Chicago broker was
ou the other side of the deal3 and
by agreement was supposed to div
ide the profits with Mr Vantine
equally.
The deal was carried through
in Februrary 19o2 and it is alleged
that W J Hylands represented JP
Morgcn & Co in the transactions
Hilands is said to have made
475.0OO profits out of the deals but
it is said that he turn had to pay
President Delafield $i4,771 for a
three minute interview with J P
Morgan.
Washington, Aug 30 The Unit
ed States army officers after an ex
haustive tet. hsve reported against
the adoption of bullet proof cloth
shields. , The test showed that for
weight, the shields were not as re
sistent as steel plates while they
were of double weight when wet.
Eureka, Aug 80 After floating
in the waters of the Pacific for just
nine months an empty bottle con
taining on a rough scrap of paper
a message from one of the victims
of the steamer Walla Walla, wreck
ed 11 miles off of Cape Mendocino,
January 2, was picked up in Hum
bolt bay today. The message in
the bottle reads as follows:
"Four a m, Jan 2 Wresked from
steamer Walla Walla off the coast
of Cape Mendocino- Nine of us in
an open boat; death stares us in
the face.
' A. E. WILLIAMS,
A Passenger.
A close inspection of the list to
night of the doomed vessel at the
time of the disaster shows the name
of Williams among the missing and
unaccountable for.
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A FORGERY CASE
BY A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR AT
CRESENT, WASHINGTON. -
The Oldest Naval Officer Now 9Ett
Years Old Attempt to Wreck
an S. P. Passenger Train
Near Shedd by Placing
Ties on Track.
Spokane, Aug 28 Among tha
troubles that Harry Tracy, the out-
law, left to the people interested or
instrumental in his death, the latest
to appear is a forgery case. Floyd
Johnson, telegraph operator and
railroad agent at Creston, is the
central figure of the transaction and
he is now under arrest for the ser
ious charge. The complaining
witcess is Constable Charles Straub
one of the Creston party, which
will probably receive the reward for
Tracy' undoing.
The groundt for the arrest and
the trial, which will be soon held
are given by the Creston authorit
lea as ioiiows:
About the time of the death of
the outlaw, the New York World
sent so it is claimed, a telegram to
Sheriff Gardner at Creston, asking
that official to send a dispatch con
taining a descriptive story of the
captuje, and to draw a sight draft
on the World for $50.
It is alleged that Johnson, being
the receiving operator at Creston,
took the message 'and instead of
delivering it to the person addres
sed, he suppressed the telegram and
sent the story to the World over
the signature of Charles Straub.
He then went to the bank and eign-
ed Straub's name to the Bight
draft of $50.
Straub, on being informed of the
occurrence by the bank, officials
immediately went to Davenport,
the county seat, and made com
plaint to the prosecuting attorney. .
i he officers notified the telegraph
and railroad officials that Johnson
would be arrested and a man was
sent to Creston to relieve the op
erator. Sheriff Gardner then vis-!
ited Creston, and placed Johnson
under arrest. His bond was fixed
at $loco, and was furnished.
It is stated by some of those in
terested that nothing can be done,
to the accused, as he simply
adopted an assumed name, that ha
did not defraud Dtraub out cf any
thing by signing his name and in
no way laid himself liable to pun
ishment on the charge of forgery.
The case will come up for hearing,
in the near future.
Washington, Aug 23 The oldest
living officer of the navy is the
most sensitive of any in the serv
ice about his age. He is Rear
Admiral Thomas O Selftidge, re
tired. No one except the admiial
knows his age and he won't tell.
Theerecord shows the admiral to
was born in Massachusetts. They
also show that he was appointed
from that state in Jan 1818, many
years before , the establishment of
the naval academy or the invention
of the rifle guys. Midshipmen of
his day entered young, and allow
ing the admiral to have been fifteen
at that time, he is now ninety nine,
years old. If he lives nntil next
January it is believed tbat he will
turn the century mark..
The admiral dislikes to have any
one mention age to him, and as far
as the retiring age is concerned, he
thinks it ought to be .seventy two
instead of sixty two. Washington
is his home where he has lived
since his retirement, more than 3o
years ago. His eldest son is Rear
Admiral Thomas O Sefridge Jr now
about sixty six years of age.
There is another son, a com
mander in the navy.
Albany Railway officials here
were apprised early Wednesday
of a distardly attempt to cause dis
aster to the seoond section of the
northbound passenger train v by
placing ties on the track near
Shedds, the station some 26 miles
below Eugene. 1
Train No 16 was in two sections
which ran about 24 minutes apart,
The first section passed through
Eugene at 3:13, and the seaond
went through at 3:31. ; The first
section passed through. Shedds in
perfect safety and immediately the
ties were piled on the track. 1 They
were discovered by the engineer
of the second section just in . time
to save the rushing train from be
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