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Vol. XVI. No. .15 , CORVALLIS, OREGON, MAY 27, 1903. . Editor and Proprietwe. A FEW About Some Items- r - In Some of our Departments Should Interest Many. ' All -our Ladies' Kid Gloves Reduced in Price for April. Some shades and grades can now be seen in our show -window. $1.50 grade ' for $1.35; $1.25 grade for $1.15; $1.00 grade for 90c. : See what a fine Kid Glove you can - buy for 70 cents. Just Received Big line of Ladies' Wrap- pers. Shirt Waists, 50c. to $6.00; Muslin and Jersey Underwear, Silks, Dress Goods, cotton, wool, linen and silk,' .and all at lowest prices. - Call and see. V Big Line Shoes. T le Do not Etoe ' rt to as high a standard as our " us,7 but see that you make no mistake in the house, that keeps the hig est standard of Grocer ies that is the - - - : .,. y. " place to . ' BUY L Fresb Fruits q iresn eTerymmg.to.DQ naa ru4.our delivery, wagon and , our aim is 1 - to keep, what you want and to CO , nlooao fall 6 B fiorningj 8F YOU - ARE LOOKING FOR SOME REAL good bargains in stock, grain, fruit and poultry Ranches, write for my special list, or come and see me. I shall take pleasure in giving you all the reliable information you wish, also showing you over the country. - 1 HENRY AMBLER, Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance, . " Philomath, Oregon. EL.B. Bryspn, AttCFtnent&t-Law, POSTOFFICE . BUILDING- P. A. OATHEY, ,M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office, Room 14, First National Bank Bnilding, Corvallis, Or. ' Office Hours, 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 P. m. - ' S3. LINES desire would promote O) I Fresh Ueaetabtes, ; ) xn: ine mance. we r nfirl bap i E. E. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. NOTARY ' PUBLIC. Office in Zierolf Building, CorvalHs. Or. G. It. FARE A, PHYSICIAN. SURGEON' it OBSTETICIAN Residence in front ot court house facing Srd t. Office hours 8 to a. m. 1 to a and 7 to 8; COBVALU3 OKEOON NEW BOAT '' BEST. RELIANCE OUTSAILED THE CONSTITUTION AND COLTJM-: BIA. .'. She is the Master Piece in Amer ican Yacht- Designs Lipton ' Will Bring- Over Sham-1 1 rock I for .the Com ing Races Oth er News. New York, May 23. In a wind that ranged from a mere zephyr to an eight-knot breeze, the Reliance clearly proved her superiority over the Columbia and the Constitution in the race on Long Island Sjund this afternoon. . Though officially the race was no contest, owing to the failure of the boats to finish be fore 6:30 o'clock, enough was re vealed so prove that in his latest creation , Designer . Herreshoff has wrought his masterpiece. In all points of sailing, as they were brought in the triangular course, the new boat clearly outclassed her rivals. Whenever conditions - were at .all. equal, .she scurried away from the other yachts with ease. The tests to which the boats were subjected were mainly confined to measuring their respective merits over reaches, close and broad, little opportunity being afforded of show ing what the Reliance maybe capa ble of in working to windward or running to leeward. - In what little chance there was to "form an esti mate of thfl .boats in these two lat ter, respects, the new boat demon strated her superiority. . As for the Columbia . and Constitution, . the contest ,was indecisive, though when the time : limit had' expired the Columbia bad a slight ad van taee over the Belmont boat. It was' after' the Reliance had started for home with hex lee rail awash that she proved to the thous ands who were watching her what a racer she is.' She simply new away from the Columbia and Con stitution, and in about ten minutes had opened op a lead of over two miles, which, was being rapidly in- creaBea wnen me committee signal ed a postponement of the race. In the meantime the Constitution bad-very-materially ' cut down - the Columbia's lead, rand at the finish was nearly abeam of ' the old de fender. . New York, May 25. American yachtsmen and the members of the New York Yacht lub in particular will probably be surprised that Sir Ihomas Iyipton has a double pur pose in' sending' both Shamrocks across the Atlanlio at this time, and that the mother Shamrock - is not sent over pimply to act as trial boat for Shamrock III, cables the Amer ican's London correspondent. It is ' taid. that not' only' will Shamrock I be used for a trial boat for the new' boat, but that it is' Sir Thomas' Purpose to enter . Sham rock I in the , New York Yacht Club's cruise, and any races and regattas to which she may be eliei ble against the Columbia, Consti tution and Keuance.' : v It is not Sir Thomas' idea to enV ter her in the trial and cup races as they would, of course, be confin ed to American designed boats, but he thinks the American people would use to - see what ' the old Shamrock could do - against the Americsn boats, and believes that it would add an international fla vor to the -preliminary races that would interest the English and American people almost '- as much as the cup races. - Sir Thomas and Designer Fife believe the old Shamrock never had a fair ehanee against the Co lumbia in 1899, owing to Mr. Fife's illness, and that had ' her designer been on board she would have made a better showing. v.;..' . !-' ' ,", New York, May 20. At last the department of Justice of tha Roose velt administration has been forced to take up the fight begun by Wil liam Randolph Hearst against the illegal coal trust- ''' '. Attorney-General Knox has .di rected General Henry L. Burnett, United States district attorney; for the southern district of New York, to go into the circuit court and ask for an order compelling , the.' coal barons to appear before the Inter state Commerce ' Commission and answer the questions that President George F. Baer and the other trust officials so contemptuously refused to answer in the Hearst suit. ' "' More important still, the court order' demanded will require the railroad presidents to produce be fore the commission the trusts con tract limiting production amd mak-1 ing the coal monopoly absolute, r' A retusal to comply with such an order" of the United States court is contempt. " If President ' Baer pleads,. Lmne tight, '-even " that will not protect him from punish ment. " He must answer the ques tions that Clarence J. Shear n, coun sel for Representative Hearst, put to him at the hearing last month . in the Federal building and he ' must produce the trust agreements that created and cemented the infamous monopoly. '... y The coal trust magnates were driven to bay by the evidence that the Hearst petition and complaint brought out before the commission; They were glad enough of a re spite of a month in an adjustment of the Interstate Commerce Com mission's hearings. They showed their desperation when they flatly refused to answer questions and practically defied the commission to compel them to show their trust agreements. . Tbei respite will avail them naught.' -The Interstate Commerce Commission applied to Attorney- General Knox to take the only ac tion that would 'sustain their au thority Hand dignity as a govern ment bodyj and- the attorney-general has directed District-Attorney Burnett to apply for the - order of court.- In this application, which wilLbe made before United r States Circuit Judge Lacombe in -the first week; io June, the United S'ates district attorney will appear as the counsel for the commission. The entire-legal machinery of the government; J therefore is arrayed finally with Representative Hearst and his counsel - against the coal trust. " ,.X'- The court order prayed for by the commission, represented by the district representative of the de partment of justice, 'of -which At torney-General Knox is the head. will require the attendance and tea timony of President Baer and the other coal trust members. They will be ordered and requir ed to bring1 with them and produce for examination before the commis sion the-' trust agreements and- all the books and papers they declined to produce when they defined the subpoenaed duces tecum. : ven President Baer will hesi tate at defiance of an order of the United States court. When Lawyer Shearn was asked today if he had learned of Attorney-General Knox' action he said: "The Examiner's information is correct. ' r The'" preparation - of the petition ia the United States court for orders compelling President Baer -to produce the Temple Iron Company's contracts- and .compell ing the coal companies owned by the railroad companies to produce their coal purchases' and transpor tation Oontracts has been completed and will be presented to the Inter state Commerce Commission for signature on -Friday 'of this week; Copies willlbe served on the rail road companies at once and the ar gument will take plaee before Judge Lacombe on the 3d or 4th of ' June. "Mr. Knox has at last been forc ed to take cognizance of Mr. Hearst's case against the coal trust," and to take action which, if success ful, will leave the attorney -general no alternative but the prosecution Mr. Hearst hag so long been de manding of him. . The preBS of'the whole country is saying to Baerr; Truesdale & Co.: "If there is no coal trust and you are guilty of no unlawful acts in maintaining your anthracite mo nopolywhy don't you answer the questions put to you by Mr. Hearst's attorney and obey the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission to produce your books and eon tracts? Why, if you are innocent, do you act the part of thieves in the prisoner's dock who 'sit there sullenly and stubbornly silent,' fear ing to testify lest they be convicted out of their own mouths." i ; New- goods all Callaban.. .. the time. - Nolan & HIS REVENGE SHOOTS FATHER-IN-LAW-IN THE BACK AND FOKOES WIFE ' ' TO FOLLOW.1 The Woman Had Secured Divorce . , and the Deed Was in Retalia ; - tion Murder Had Vowdd , There Would :Ba Anoth-v ;' Tracy Other News. - Portland, May 25. The Orego nian: - Maddened by the fact that his wife had "- obtained ' a divorce from him two weeks - ago, M. V. Leasia wreaked a terrible vengeance on his father-inrlaw; F. H, Drews, yesterday morning, ' shooting him in the back from a distance. He then slew the" wounded man with another shot, fired at such clo-e range that it burned the "victim's clothing. His former wife, who; with her two infant children, lived with her father at his residence near Penin sula Station, . undoubtedly witness ed final cowardly act of the trage dy, and was then forced to ' accom pany the assassin, r whither no one knowB, as in spite ot the careful search being prosecuted by the po lice and posses no trace of the coup le can De round. : . : Paler faced ; and speechless, the mother stood at a neighbor's bcuse an hour after the tragedy, and list ened, the seal of terror on her lips, to her murderous husband ask the neighbor to care a little while for the babes; listened to .him to tell a tale of falsehood as to why they had left the home of her father; a tale that mocked her as it said how the murderer and herself were go ing to return to" the dead victim and were going to minister to his wants because, forsooth, he had been hurt by a fallen timber. And then as the red-handed "assassin, who had been her . husband spoke the word, she turned and followed him out of the door to meet a fate as yet unknown. ' ) 'The possibilities of the case can be conjectured only from the repeat ed threats made by Leasia after his wife had secured the divorce. r ' "There is ' going to be another Belding case," he told C. W; Milter, his wife's attorney, -"anchl am -going to be a second Tracy." - : ' Foot prints were found near the gravel pit,. which were-followed by the members of the posse1 te a spot, where the grass was beaten down. There" the -couple ' had evidently stopped to rest. ' Late hi the after noon the couple were reported to have passed through Lovers' Grove traveling in an Northeasterly di rection, evidently heading up the Columbia River. Sicce then noth ing has been seen or heard of them. . Policeman Vaughn and Gabriel were among the 'mounted posse un til late last night; : and Detectives Kerrigan, Snow and Day ..are also, trying to capture the murderer. Leasia is a desperate man and 'is expected to resist arrest, in .which case the posse has orders to shoot him on sight. ; ' Mrs. Leasia is a frail, little ' wo man, and is in delicate health.- This coupled with the fact that she is in sufficiently clothed, .leads to the be lief that the couple will, seek, shel THE OLD v Absoiutel Pure THERE MS HO SUBSTITUTE ter, In' which case1 the "bfficert "hop to make the arrest.' It is fearei . that: i Mrs. Lasia will give oati when it is feared that tha.murdem-, will kill his , wife,, and,, attempt to make his escape alone. Unless,, hot " deserts his wife the .murderer wilt ' undoubtedly be apprehended. :-: -i' KICKED BY HORSE. One If an Got- That ' and Another Cuj"ij ; his toeofft-In Lings Valley. ;.r i . All of the Kings Valley people that went to Portland to see ' Uie President 1 have ! returned : homew They all report that the. Presidents was-there. c, r v, ... . ;j, ( Tom R&msdell JrM one of t Art ; Miller's loggers met with a serious , accident Saturday. While cutting.,, a rottea log, a heavy blow from tha ax brought the sharp edge in, violent contact with his foot. " The ' little toe was completely severed and. the ax laid open a gash . half way ; through his foot. , )t Art Miller also met with a mia- bap. Sunday in leading or drivings one of bis ; young horses he wa.r' severely kicked. , II s injury is,-, more or leas painful, v. The Pastors of both branches of the church arrived in , the .. valley t Saturday and had preaching at the. old church in the morning and at ' the new church in the evening. . AT PHILOMATH. i Finishing Lumber - Flume Special Train Other Neighborhood NewsT , . Five people were baptised Sun- day by the pastor of the Radical VL B. Church. : . ; , . ; Elder Black P. E. preached at? Kaezels Chapel Sunday. , , , - . Quite a large party went from here to see the President. The Benton Co! Lumber Co.a flume will be completed and, . inj operation during the week.' v " ; - . There is a patch of several acres of rhododendrons in bloom on" mile beyond the Benton Lumber Co.'s mill which is visited by many eight-seers i ; ; , ., f The Philomath closed last Friday. public schools ' A special train brought home tha? delegates who attended theloterstat -Oratorical Contest held at Corval- -lis last. Friday, evening and. run ning backward in the dark, killed . a cow for Mr. S. Dixon. ;.-"-; The W. C, T. U. will hold on , of their silver 'medal contests , at Keezeis Chapel next Friday ; evening- .. . Mr. McCauley gave a gramo. phone entertainment at Odd ;FeWn lows hall last Saturday evening.' . To Bent. A new 7 room house with 2 3-4 acres o ground, on College HilL A desirable location. Apply to J. J. Cady at College barn. New rugs, small, medium and large,, , in Roxbury, Azminster and . Moquette; all wool art squares; also tapestrys, vel- . ours and corduroys for coverings just ar-.-rived. Nolan & Callahan. - RELIABLE