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Bounty frlerk's &s1m am i t. Vol. XVI. No. 18. Willamette Vallcj Banking Company. GOBVAL1IS OKEGOX. Responsibility, $100,000 1 General Banking Business. Exchange Issued payable at all finan cial centers In United States, Canada and Europe. - Principal Correspondents v PORTLAND London & San FranciMCO Bank Limited; Canadian Bank of Commerce. SAN FRANCISCO London St San Francis- co liank Limited.1 NEW TORK Messrs. J. P. Morgan Co; CHICAGO First National Bank. LONDON, ENG. London & San Francisco Bank Limited. . SEATTLE AND TACOMA London & San Francisco Bank Limited. C0RVALUS & EASTERN RAILROAD. Time Card Number 21. 2 For Yaquina: i Train leaves Albany V".i:45 P- m ' . . " Corvallis...... 2:00 p. m . " arrives Yaquina; ....... 6:25 p. m I Returning: . . . V v Leaves Yaquina. . ......... 6:45 a. m Leaves Corvallis . 11:30 a. m Arrives Albany 12:15 p. m 3 For Detroit: '.' . Leaves Albany 7:00 a. m Arrives Detroit 12:05 p. m 4 from Detroit: Leaves Detroit............ .12:45 p. m Arrives Albany 5:35 p. m Train No. 1 arrives in Albany in time to connect with. S P south bound train, as well as giving two or three hours in Albany before departure of S F north bound train. Train No 2 connects with the S P trains at CorvaUis and Albany giving direct ser vice to Newport and adjacent beaches. Train 3 for Detroit, Breitenbush ; and other mountain resorts leaves Albany at 7:00 a. m., reaching Detroit at noon, giv ing ample time to reach the Springs the same day. . , For further information apply to - Sdwih STOW, ' ' - Manager. H. H. Gronise, Agent CorvaUis. Thos. Cockrell, Agent Albany. J. P. Huffman,1 Architect Office in Zlerolf Building. Hours Irom 8 to 6. CorvaUis, Oregon. L. G. ALTAIAN, M. D Homeopathist Office cor 3rd and Monroe sts. Resi 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. DR- W- H- HOLT. DR- MAUD HQLTi 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. DR. C. H. NEWTH? ' Physician & Surgeon Philomath, Oregon. H. S. PERNOT, Physician & Surgeon ' Office over postoffice. Eesidence Cor. Fifth and Jefferson streets. Hours 10 to 12 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. Orders may be left at Graham & Worthau's drug store. E. Holgate ATTORNEY AT LAW JUSTICE OF THE PEACE " Stenography and typewriting done. Office in Burnett brick Corvallis. Oreg W. T. Rowley, M. D. (HOAMEPATHIC) Physician, Surgeon, Occuist CorvaUis, Oregon. ' Oefice Rooms 1 and 2, Bank Building. Residence On Third street, between Monroe and Jackson. Res. telephone r feomber 611, office 481. Office Horns rio to 12 .a m, a to 4 p m. Administrator's Notice. Notiee Is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed by the Connty Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Benton, administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Jane Shipley, deceased. All persons having claims against Bald estate are hereby requested to pre sent the same properly verified as by law re quired at the office of Yates & Yates, Oorvallis, Oregon within six months from the date hereof. Dated at Corvallis, Oregon, this 19th day of May, 1903. ' A.J. SHIPLEY, Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Jane Shipley, deceased. .... r Seasoriahjie m Qoods.--- We have Many Articles in our Estab lishment that the season is just beginning to permit you to use. Many of them we are selling below regular prices. All Shirt Waists 20 to 30 percent Reduction. All Dimities and Lawns 15 " , " : All Wove Dress Goods 10 " " All Ladies' Shoes 10 " Big Line to Select from. as m (o - i b to as high a standard as our desire would promote us, but see that you make no mistake in , the house that keeps the' hig est standard of Grocer - ies that is the place to BUY (b Fresh Fruits, rresn everytnmg to De nad run our delivery wagon and our aim is ' ; to keep what you want and to please. Call and see SOME-SEEKERS! IF 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 Jiake pleasure in giving you all the reliable information you wish, also showing you over the country. r HENRY AMBLER, Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance, Philomath, Oregon. E. R, Bryson, ' v. 1 " : , Attorney-At-Law, POSTOFFICE BUILDING- B. A. CATHEY, M. D Physician and Surgeon. ' Office, Boom 14, First National Bank Bnilding, Corvallis, Or. . Office Hours, 10 to 12 a, m.; 2 to 4 p. m. CORVALLIS, OREGON , JUNE 20, 1903. nM run (O Fresb Ueaetables, in the market. We E. E.' WILSON, , ATTORNEY AT LA W. v NOTARY PUBLIC. ' Office in Zierolf Building, CorvaUis. Or. G. B: FARRA, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON OBSTKTICIAN KeSldenCA in fmnl nf nnnrt linniiA ffutlnor ItrA t. Office hours 8tota.in.ltoa and I tol; C0BVALU3 OREGON CLEARING THE DEBRIS. THE , TERRIBLE . CONDITIONS PlUiSENTED AT STBICKEN ;; HEPPNEB. ;! - -7'" 'v ' ' Dragging Bodies out of the Drift and Mud Men, Hogs, Wom , . en and . Children in In- ',, discribable .JIass s .v Other News. " : - Heppner, Or., June 16. Scenes at Heppner are indescribable in their greweomenees, their anguish, their awful desolation. No pen can exaggerate the horrors they present. Every heap of debris may contain a human form in decomposition. Many do reveal such spectacles when uncoveied, and meantime Willow Creek, as if to mock the dead, has returned to a purling brooklet, and the courthouse at ev ery hour peals' forth its dolorous note into the ears of the bereaved. An army of men and horses are sifting great wastes of debris. Three hundred bodies have been found and. there are ; men Who eay ': the work is only half began. An army of women take charge of the bodies as they are borne out of the wreck age by the straining arms of men. Au arm, a leg, a toe, a finger, a lock of hair, a tuft of clothing these are harbingers of horror beneath . the mud.- Babies and little children lie their buried, with many a gash or biuise on their tender bodies. Forms of women frequently come to light bereft of all clo'thing save where a corset shields them from the gaze of anxious searchers. Cloth ing of men is less frequently torn away. The bodies are borne to Robert's Hall to be washed and dressed by women, to be- shrouded in coarse white cloth, and to be laid in rfiugh wooden boz.es. . .There, is no time for ceremony. It's the grim reality of death. And women who would faint at scenes one thousandth part as awful, obey the mandates of necessity without a flinch. The floor swims with tbe half-diluted mud that drips from the victims, but the living patter through it or sweep it out when it gets too deep. The rough boxes go to the cemeteries, not singly in hearses, but many at a time, piled high in wagons. , Social lines are all erased in the disaster. The aristocracy of . tbe town delves in the mud with the lowly, and with the same grime on its faces. All eat the same enervat ing food. The eity and county offi cials are supreme authority. One of them fired a man to work yester day at the point of a pistol. Any person detected in looting must be shot on the spot. Medicines are not needed here, nor physicians, nor nurses. The town must be cleansed if it would escape pestilence. It must have more men to clean up and provi sions to feed the men would be right welcome. Many families are entirely destitute, all their worldly possessions having been Bwept a way. In many a family ' only a father or mother er ah orphan Is left. Help would tend to lighten tbe gloom of all such as these. ; Houses crushed and telescoped beyond recognition, buildings twist ed from their foundations, deposit ed in Btreels or on . alien property, one-fourlb, or one-half, or one mile away; household goods strewn in every direction in reeking mud; trees two feet in diameter uprooted and woven in impeded drift into all kinds of awful fantastic shapes, bodies f men and horses and cattle and pigs all cast in indiscriminate ruin such is Heppner of today. All persons say that the crest of the flood was upon the town within three er four minutes after the danger was pereeived. Most of the people were in their houses. Most of the dwellings were near the bank of the stream, and the, day beiDg Sunday, the hour being dinner time, and a heavy rain falling, all caused them to pen themselves within doors. The people .were therefore caught like rats in a trap. The whole row of houses'next" the creek was swept away. . Spectators of tbe calamity describe the struc tures as falling like card houses. The dwellings were tossed about like bobbins, and most of tbem fell completely to pieces. The "town had perhaps over 250 houses, near- j ly 209 of which were" demolished. The whole business part of the town would have been swept away had not the Palace hotel, a heavy brick structure, diverted the current. I- dentification of the dead has been easy. - ... . '. ' The bpdies of Dr. Vaoghn, Post master, and his wife were found to day locked in each other's embrace. A foot of each body was all that first came to light: Mrs. Vaughn's dress was intact, and she still wore her jewelry. At the railroad depot a live 2-year old baby was found yesterday in a grain sack in a pile of drift. The mother was rescued a short distance further , down stream. Gaorge Conser's experience, was probably as extraordinary as any. Mr. Conser was sitting in his house with his wife, Dr. ; McSword and John Ayers when the flood picked up the house. The floor of the front hall bulged upward, letting in tor rents of water. Conser and his wife fled up stairs. They do not know what became of McSword and Ayers, and believe the two men must have tried to escape out the door. ( While the husband and wife were up stairs a petition fell in on them and held them down to their necks in the water. - They thought their latt moment had come, and kissed each other good-bye; but a friendly current took the bouse shoreward.; There the structure was all but demolished. When the wa ters abated Conser - kicked out a window and with his wife escaped. "We had given up the fight," said he, "when we were saved. We lost all our household effects, and these clothes are all I own in the world." C. E. Redfield returned in the early darkness of this morning to find his home, his wife and his three children all swept away. As he etood by the scene of desolation he wept aloud in his anguish. His was one of the handsomest bouses here, and not a vestige of it . re mains. ' ; v All stores were ordered opened today by the emergency organiza tion, eo that goods could be pro cured for relieviflgMistresf." Goods were confiscated, especially imple ments, though the credit of the city was assured for payment. Hotel Heppner was completely demolished, and -about nine in mates perished. One of its propri etors, Jones, was amoDg the vic tims. The other - proprietor, Ash baugb, escaped. About 40 persons were in the hotel. Only one who remained saved his - life. Arthur Ducket stuck to his room, though nearly all of the structure broke away from him.: Ashbaugh was in a cottage adjoining the hotel with his wife and two children and a child of Jones. He snatched up the elder of his children and called to his wife to follow. She, in try ing to save the other two babies, lost her own and saved that of Jones. Believing she was doomed, she eat down on the bed. The house fell asunder and she found herself wrestling with tbe torrents. Bruised and cut by heavy timbers, she lost her baby. ' With the Jones baby in her arms she floated against the pickets of the Methodist church yard and was saved. - A section of railroad track meas uring 1200 feet in length, had been lifted bodily from its roadbed a quarter of a mile above, and had been piled up, where the waters had made a sharp curve, in ah in describable maes of wreckage. The heavy steel rails had been bent and twisted by the current into every possible geometrical figure. One section of rail, 200 feet long, on which the fish plates were still un broken, was lapped around a bluff of mud so accurately that nowhere in its whole length, was daylight to be perceived between that and the bank. Neither had the force of the waters buried it further in tbe soil than was necessary to hold it when the flood receded. Two other rails, 20 feet long, fastened at one end by a single tie, were drivenlike some gigantic carpel-tack up to the hilt through a point of land until . the points protruded a few inches in their side. Frdm Lexicon this morning small parties of searchers began to work towards Heppner,' but while it is possible that tbey should make a cursory examination of the river banks in their search for corpses, it would not be possible for ; 50' men to progress a mile a day.. And so it would seem that for many who last Sunday afternoon sat with their families within; their homes at Heppner, a dark expanse of sand will be their only sepulchre, and the murmur of a dying flood their only dirge. B. F. IBVim K litor and Proprietor. HIS BODY FOUND WITH EMPTY REVOLVER ABTDfc OTHER BELONGINGS NEAB. AT HAND. But no Clew of his Murderer Evidences of a Struggle That Must Have Been Desperate - Other News., . . Medford, Or.', . June 17. Ther body of the man found by prospec tors en Wagner Butte, this county, aod reported to b9 that of C.H. McCortney, i now proven beyond a doubt to be H. W. Ibbings, . of Madison, Wis., a young medical student from Bush College. Depu ty Coroner Dr. R.. Q. Gale and -Deputy. . Prosecuting Attorney Reames left early Tuesday morning for the scene of the dis ovry and returned to Medford lite last night and brought with them the grue some particulars of the horrible find. From all indications the maa. had died about two months ago. The legs had been dismembered and were found about twenty feet from the body; the skull was about 75 yards from the body under tree with a bullet hole through it. The skull had been badly smashed ; by some heavy instrument. Tha teeth were filled with gold and amal gam. Hair was light brown. Tha body had been moved after death. . There had seemingly been a hard struggle between the slain and hia assailant, as parts of his clothing were scattered in confusion over the ground. Near the body was s fever thermometer and about six feet distant was a 44-calibre Colt's revolver with all the chambers empty. The flesh was entirely sev ered from . the legs, although the shoes and stockings' were in good condition. ' - :i.ww.--.- watch and a package of cigarette) papers, a railroad ticket issued by tbe Great Northern Railway Com pany, from Seattle, dated March 22, 1903; a sleeping car ticket; a red leather card case in which was a receipt issued by the Modern Woodmen of America, being assess ment No.-3 and signed by J. H.' Gates, recorder of Lodge No. 8741r in favor of H. W. Ibbings; a receipt No. 7317, issued by the Rush Med ical College in favor of H. W. Ib- bings, senior class, giving him tha privileges of the cjllege for the sea sons of 1902 and 1903; two season, tickets to McVicker's Theater, Chi cago, aleo receipts from the Mystic Workers of the World. In his pants pocket were found a bunch of office keys, penknife, two silver dollars and several cartridges. In coat pocket, which was 25 feet from the body, were a number of stamped - envelopes addressed to William Tt Thhinors polar in crftn- eral merchandise, Madison, Wis. There was also a certificate of grad uation from the Rush Medioal Col- lege in favor of H. W. Ibbings; al so an unfinished letter addressed "My Dear Father," written in lead : j :u; v:- ....(. . pencil, aescnuiuK uis uavew. There seems no question but that the young man had been murder ed, but the motive of robbing hard lv seems possible, as money and jewelry were found on the body. He -was evidently a man ot means, as was indicated by the fact that ha was well dressed. Telegrams have been sent to every address given and it s hoped bis people will Da found. 1 ' THE OLD RELIABLE . AbsoIutelyfPura THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE mm IIP