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Vo1.XVI.--No. 5. CORVALLIS, OREGON, MARCH 21, 1903. B, F. IRVUTE Editor and proprietor. Departments Have Received Big Shipments Shoe Department Clothing Department Hat Department Dress Goods Departm't Silk and Trimming M Lining D eparment ' Carpet and Rug Dep't Other Departments. sup1 '::M:::X':o::t:K::- gle Do not Cfpe to as high a standard as our desire would promote ") us. but see that vou the house that keeps the hig- est standard of Grocer- . ' ". : v ies that is the . .". ; place to ; " . .' " buy :;'v; (o Frcsb Fruits fresh everything to be had in the market. We run our delivery wagon and our aim is to keep what you want and to : .' please. Call and see B; Bornlnfl : f HOME-SEEKERS I IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME REAL good bargains in stock, grain, fruit and poultry Ranches, write for my special list, or come and f,seenae. 1 filial! take jpleasure in giving you all the reliable information you wish, also showing you over the country. , HENRY AMBLER, Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance, Philomath, Oregon. IS?! Breakfast. A Leaten Breakfast may be just aa en joyable surely just as wholesome if you will but select from the great variety we offer: cereals, fruft, fish and eggs. Really wholesome changes from a steady meat diet, and. money-savers as well. - P. M. ZIER0LF. make no mistake in Fresb Ueaetables, THE PENNELL RIDE, MYSTERY OF AUTO'S PLUNGE WITH OCCUPANTS INTO ..' THE quarry; Was it to Avoid the Newly Discov ' ered Evidence and the Ceas less QueetioningaofRepor - tere and Detectives Tne Burdick Case. Buffalp, March 17. A rich man beaten to death at midnight in his own honse: . twelve days cf mystery enfolding mystery with scores of police, detectives and newspaper men treading a labyrinth of divorce proceedings and strange ge loves in the hunt of themurderer and finally the man suspected above all others lie who had the strongest - motive to kill riding ! with his wife over a cliff to instant death for the one and fatal injury for the rough quarry below! Not even- the splendid horrors of Poe's immagination furnish such a picturesvuely terrible story as these plain facts in the great Burdick murder case at JtJuHalo. lnat nnal scene in the gray-twilight, with Arthur R. Pennell and his wife sweeping in the pouring rain over the edege of a rockv pit while a newspaper man waited for him to come back to his house and face newly discovered evidence the plunge of the swift automobile, the scream of Mrs. Pennell and the hor rified roadside boy clambering down among the rocks to find a dead man and a dying woman it sounds like' a page from Victor Hugo. Now there are three deaths to explain. Mrs. Burdick is still liv ing behind closed blinds with her mother and children in the house in which her husband was slain before he. cnnld press -to-a climax the divorce suit based on her rela tions to Mr, Pennell. Mrs. Pennell, who told the police '. that her husband was at home on the night of the murder is dead and no word of explination has come from her lips. Pretty, witty, clinging Mrs. Payne, the dentist's wife, who has been to closely watched " and so sharply,.questioned by the police, still dwells under sem-s ur veil lance in her house, a four-minute walk from the scene of the murder. That wild plunge to death in the stone quarry has riven the veil a little. Now we hear that Mr. Pen nell was in an agony of anxiety, that he sat in his law office day after day in an almost . hyster ical condition, fearing to remain at home lest it might be thought he bad broken down under the strain. Innocent or guilty, he found, it hard to keep up an appearance of confidence, for wherever -the changing . trail of inveetiga'ion led, whatever might be the chan ging clues that set the clamor of the newsboys m the streets against some new suspect, the unchangeable fact remain that Mr. Pennel was the only man known who had a direct and eufficent motive for desiring Mr. Bttrdick's death, and that fear of him had persuaded Mr. Burdick to carry a revolver. , And Mr. Pen nell, being a shrewd lawyer, knew that the police must come to his door again, in spite of the alibi wit nessed by himself, and his wife. ' The news from Buffalo is that the police have doubts as to wheth er or not Mr. Pennell deliberately committed suicide. It might have been an accident. They are still looking for Mr. Burdicks slayer among the living. The situation at the time of Mr. Pennell's death was intensely dra matic and suggestive. He had been the shadow on Mr. Burdicd's home. Three times Mr. Burdick had forgiven his wife on her prom ice to keep away from Mr. - Pennell, Then came the last phase of recre ancy and Mr. Burdick hired pri vate detectives, secured evidence, and sued his wife for divorce, nam ing the young lawyer as co-respondent. Mrs. Burdick left her hus band, her children, and her mother and w4 to live at Atlantic City. Thither Mr. - Pennell went also. The two were seen together.' These facts were known ' to the injured husband. He pressed hia suit for divorce and amended the complaint. Mrs. liurdick's answer to her hus bands suit wsb a counter-suit for divorce, with Mrs. Warren, adivor ced woman, of Cleveland Ohio, and Jane Doe, of Buffalo, named as -corespondents. , Mr. Pennell came back to Buf falo and made an effort to stop the divorce proceedings. He saw Mr. Burdick and he begged him to for give his wife once more. Mr. Bur dick refused the suit must go on. It is said Mr. Pennall threatened to kill himself and Mrs. Burdick. Even-then Mr. Burdick' did not relent. . - ,'. Imagine that scene! Picture the tempter pleading for the tempted, and the wronged husband, sitting beside his own lawyer, turning a pitiless countenance upon 'his for mer friend! His wife, his children, his' home, all involved in that last stern answer, his home. Then Mr, Pennell, the smooth, sly lawyer, went forth to think of some other plan to avert the disclo sures of the divorce suit. How could be strike down the unrelent ing - husband from his position of advantage, how stay the coming punishment I When Mr. Burdick was found in his louningdeo with his skull bat tered ta pieces all eyes turned to ward Mr Pennell. Mrs Pennell promptly confirmed her husband's j declara'ion that he wan at home on the night of the tragedy. Then rumor went whopping after others. Bat the trail led back to Mr1 Pennell. A few hours before he was dashed to death in the quarry new evidence had been discovered. It was known on the day before the murder he had met Mrs Burdick in New York. That was a discovery. The secret csnierence of the two persons who, of all the world, had the most obvious motivesof wishing Mr Burdick dead gave a new turn to the investigation. 7 So at the hour appointed, the correspondent waited in Mr Pen nell's house. And while he waited Mr Pennell and his wife were tear ing throgb the storm 1 along the street in their automobil toward the outskirts of Buffalo, toward the cliff over .which they went head lonlojfcherqcks below Innocent br gailtth'elasrswift tash 'over the roads must have been a' thrill ing experience. So many things, so many things to think of. So many voices clamorihg, so many fingers pointing. . . So many policemen, so many newspaper men, so many questions and so many millions waiting to hear the answers and pick them to pieces. He had written a letter to a friend in Pottsville, Pa, , saying that Mr Burdick had been killed by an unknown woman, and" the let ter had got into the newspapers. Ah! how they and plied him with questions about that! ," How did he know that a woman had killed Mr Burdick? So many questions, so many questions. And now he must explain his meeting with Mrs Burdick in New York on the day before the murder. He must explain the new evidence. Police detectives and newspaper detectives how keen and presis teutthey were! in a few minutes he must begin an other explanation on which his liberty, perhaps his life, might depend. Two boys in the roadway heard the automobile bell ring. They saw Mr Pennell's hat fly off, his arm go up; and then the swift machine turn sharply out of the highway, bumped over the side walk and then leap thirty feet to the rocks, crushing the lawyers head almost flat", and killing him almost instantly. When new3 came of that leap to death in the stone qaarry it was supposed that the end of the Bur dick murder case had been reached. But no; the police are still searching for the murderer. Even if Mr Pen? nell did commit suicide that does not explain all. How did Mr Burdick happen to be dressed only in his undershirt when his skull was beaten in? For whom did ; he prepair the partly eaten supper found in his den? " Why did he not seize the loaded revolver found in his clothes, only a few feet from where he was killed? He was not drunk the medical examidation shows that. He was not drugged science has also de monstrated that. He admitted his slayer to the house, or some one else in the dwelling did it. There was no struggle. That is shown by the condition of the room He saw the first blow struck, for his bruised ,. fingers indicate .that he tried to parry it.. ; The Burdick murder mystery has not yet been solved."; LIEU LAND PIRATES. GOV. CHAMBERLAIN MAKE3 ANOTHER MOVE IN DEFENSE OF STATE LANDS. Won't Make More Selections Now Referendum and Fair Appro- priation Petitions Sent Out Editors Sue Each Other Oregon News. Salem, Mareh 16. The lieu land business has come to an ab rupt end. Governor Chamberlain has refused to make any more selec tions of lieu lands on mineral base, even for the purpose of Eetting up selections heretofore made, but which have fallen down. In an swer to every application that has been made the governor has de clared that, he will not make any more selections until it has been finally determined' what amount of those already made will fall. If the quantity is large he will contin ue bis refusal to proceed. If the amount i small, he may permit se lections in all cases where the pur chasers furnish the bass and pay the state the difference between the present value of the base and -the amount they have already paid for heu land. His determination is that the credit of the state shall no longer be hawked about by lieu land operators for their own gain. As a consequence of: Governor Chamberlain's taking this firm position, the lieu land operators and purchasers are in sore straits and are fearful of the outcome. Governor Chamberlain's veto of the bill in which a clause had been inserted in the interest of the lieu land ring, together with the stand he has now taken, is a hard blow for those who have been making money by celling in valid base. When 'both" houses had" passed a bill which made it the -duty of the governor to "set up" all fallen lieu land selections, the operators and all others interested thought the way was clear for the perfecting of the bad titles. But . the governor discovered the stineer which had been bidden in tbe bill and in spite of the protests of those most inter ested, he vetoed it. . Albany, March 17. A determin ed attempt is to be made to defeat the appropriation of $500,000 made by the Oregon legislature for the Lewis and Clark Fair. The first move in the caxpaign was made this morning in this city when the Referendum League was organized. : The referendum is to be used as the main weapon of the people who are desirous of knocking out tbe Lewis and Clark appropriation. The referendum league was or ganized in this city this forenoon with Hon. J. J. Whitney, as presi dent and Hon. T. J. Stites as secre tary and treasurer. It was ordered that a petition be circulated throughout Oregon for signatures asking for the reference of tbe Lewis and Clark Fair bill to the people under the referendum act. Another meeting will be held Saturday. Tbe movement to invoke the ref erendum against the Lewis and Clark Fair appropriation is the di rect outgrowth of the refusal of the last ligislature to pass tbe Harris bill for the taxation and regulation of the corporation?. The demand for the passage of this bill was ex ceedingly strong in the rural dis tricts and its defeat called forth se vere condemnation from the coun try press. A similar measure was presented two j ears ago but failed to become a law. This fact was recalled by Speaker Harris at the last session in his argument for the passage of his hill, and be warned tbe assem bly that if the wishes of the coun try districts were again ignored, tbe consequences might be serious. : ' : While Speaker Harris did not instigate and perhaps does not ev en countenance the .effort which is now being made to defeat the Fair appropriation, it unquestionably springs from the widespread dissat isfaction of which he warned the legislature. The farmers of the state realize that the Harris bill would have become a law if it had received the cordial support of the -Multnomah delegation, and they felt that they bad the right - to de mand that support in view of the generous provision made for the Fair. Even before the legislature adjourned, intimations were fre quently heard at Salem that the farmers would retaliate by invok ing the referendum upon the Lewia and Clark appropriation. - .Portland, March 17. -J. H. Da vis yesterday filed suit against Hannah Nicolai, bis mother-in-law, -says The r Oregoman, to recover $50,000 : damages for alienating his wife's affections. Mrs Nicolai is a wealthy woman, and is tbe wife of Theodore Nicolai, who is a member of tbe Nicolai Bro. Com pany, which conducts a planing mill in this city. Davis is a dentist, and is a son of Dr. L. M. Davis, also a dentist, and a well-known politician of Al bina. Young Davis has recently practiced his profession atSumpter. The facts in tbe case seem to be that Mrs. Nicolai was displeased with the union of her daughter and Davis, and was not satisfied with her son-in-law's business prospects. "My child," said the legal rela tive of Mr. Davis, in etiict accord ance with every canon of the hu morist, "your husband is not good enough for you." . , "I know it." said tbe docile daughter, and the way was paved for the onslaught of Mr. Davis up on the ducats of Mrs. Nicolai. Mrs. Davis paid her mother a visit a short time ago, accompanied by .her little boy, aud her mother persuaded her to go to California, taking the child along. , The papers in the case wer9 filed in the state circuit court by Attor- ney Charles F. Lord. i . The complaint recites that on February 24, 1898, J. H. Davis was married to Lucy A. Nicolai, and one child was born to them on December 4, 1899. In February, 1903, while Davis and his wife were living happily together, it is charged that Mrs. Nicolai maliciously and intending to injure hiav aad..d&prive-Wnv of the comfort and society of his wife ' and child, coucseled her to leave him. Mrs. Nicolai it is alleged, in order to induce Mrs. Davis to leave the plaintiff, told her he did not support her in a fit,, and proper manner, and that there were sever al young men of greater wealth who could provide for her in a manner fitting her station in life whom she might have married, any one of whom would marry her as soon, as she wa& divorced from her hus band. The complaint further re cites that by means of these false insinuations and by insidious wilea Hannah Nicolai induced Mrs. Davis to leave her husband and to depart from the state, taking the child with her. . Because of distress of mind and body which he suffers and the men tal anguish caused by the loss of bis wife and child, Davis demands a judgment against Mrs. Nicolai for $50,000. Tillamook, Or., March 17. Fred C. Baker, editor of the Tillamook Headlight, has sued R. M. Watson, editor of the Independent, for $5000 for libel. It is set out m the com plaint that Baker, by inuendo, re ferred to Watson as a ekunk. Last November Watson sued Ba- ' ker for libel and asked for $6000 damages, and this suit of Bakes's -is in the nature of a cross-suit. Watson has offered to compromise if Baker will pay him $1000, the difference in the amount of dama-, ges asked by each plaintiff. WaDted. Fifty thousand pounds of mohair highest market price, at Kline's. THE OLD RELIABLE yum ' 01 ' Absolutely Pure THERE S NO SUBSTITUTE n I fi?oyA l & as