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County klerk's &i&c ! l! H-fflf iff - I. Vol. XVI.--No. 34. CORVALLIS, OREGONI OCTOBER 28, 1903. R. W. IK VI NIC Editor and Proprietor. No Previous Season Has ever found our Store, in all its Departments, so weir equipped. . The Stock Includes all the Latest Novelties. LADIES' Special attention is called to our Line of Dress Goods, Jack . ets, -y Waterproof Wraps,, , V Skirts, Shoes and Children's y , Clothiner. Call O. A. C. UNIFORMSr H Ole Do not Efue to as high a standard as our 0),.,v.,t1s. but see that vou w - -" the house that keeps the hig- - - est standard of Grocer- : v . ies that is the Z " - - ' 'place to - . BUY p Fresh Fruits, q) iresn every inmg to De naa ) ; run our delivery wagon and our aim is ; ' j to keen what vou , . a , : f r Tlftaspr Call B. Homing. . j-. !F T0U 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 shqwing you over the country. ,' . - HENRY AMBLER, Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance, . Philomath, Oregon. H. S. PERNOT, Physician & Surgeon Office evr pcratoffic. Itesidence Cor. Ftfth nd jfferwa streets. Hours 10 to 12 a. m., 1 to 4 p.m. Orders may be left at Graham & Wortham's drug store. DR. C. H. NEWTH, -Physician & Surgeon Philomath, Oregon. laiii and see. desire would promote make no mistake in-ww- Fresh Uegefablcs, "S. t in trie maricet. we want and to . - . : , r nnH ? ' ; v - 9 - E. Holgate , ATTORNEY AT LAW JUSTICE OF THE PEACB Stenography and . typewriting done Office in Burnett brick Corvallis, Oreg B. A. CATHEY, M. D Physician and Surgeon, ' ' Office, Room 14, First National Bank Bnilding, Corvallis, Or. Office Hours, o Jo 12 a, m 2 to 4 P. m. - ' ' : ! i '! 1 t BOB THE PEOPLE HOW TIMBER SHARKS GOB BLED UP FIFTEEN MIL LIONS WORTH OF . ' TIMBER. Got Ioside loformition From PcT- auna High in Government Ser vice Then H a rried Off t o gtt Timber Mother . -Murders Three , Cbillrea. Waahinston Oet. 24. Persistent inquiry develops that tbe present land fraud investigation, has been going on for montoa and covers the ttdmioistrBtion of Binger Hermann. Tbe method of tbe graft cor.eiettd in giving advance information re garding forest reserves. Those in tbe ring are aaid to have rea ized between $ 15,000,000 and $20,000,000 from the ecbemes. Rumors point ing to tbe implication' of , Weetirn seuatora and representatives are goit.g around. Tee situation looks suspiciou?, but tbe interior .depart ment are not getreadjr 10 give any names. An iaetance is cited illustratiog the mtttods employed'. Whtn the Blue mouutaiiijorest ' restrve was set asid-j temporarily last spring, repretentativts of certain ' corp3ra- lions bad Iccated practically all of tbe timber land prior to tne an nouncement of tbe withdrawal. For two or three weeks btfore ihe re serve was created ..cruisers hurried through the woods and it was ap parent that they were actiog : with a definite object and under the im petus of specific information. . It was alleged at that time that tbe advance information was given outbyomeono hig h-iiiHhesetvioe of the government, and allegations came to Washington- from Oregon that the information was 'Isold, for money. - It is hinted that wi misses are in existence who can swear that know of the offers of information for a consideration, and that a large sum of money was realized by some one or 'more persona from its sale. The scandal came at a time when an election was about to be held . to choos a successor to the late Thom as Tongue, congressman for Oregon and there was a disposition to re frain lrooi permittiug theioevitable denouement that must follow an expose of the questionable trans action. ' Latar Binger Hermann was nom inated for Mr. Tongue's seat, and pressure was brought to .bear to keep the matter from the public, lest it injure his cbances of election. The interior department was not anxious t ) protect Mr. - Hermann, and -if there was any deferring of the investigation, it was beCause of of tbe general considerations, of , the candidacy, tqfi a;; Republican for office end the doubtful, wisdom from a party standpoint of causing a dec laration that would ha vv deferred him" without doubt. V ; " V " ' ' : Another phase of the fituation has .owerful influence upon the yiews of members of congress " and senators rtlative to proposed aitsr ation in land laws. . It is claimed that agents of the interior; depart ment have yielded to temptations and have lent themselves to the use of corporations and were se curing large bodies of timber, -The method was to cause the suspen sion of tbe immense number of en tries by settlers, the subsequent cancellation of the entries and ' the immediate laying thereon of scrip held in enormous lots by the corpo rations. ' . " s ' ..-f- Huodreds of thousands of acres of Ihe public lands have been se cured by the corporations, and the' suspicions that some of the interior department's agents have been par ties to the scheme . adda flavor to the scandal. If pushed to itslogi calfjconclusion, it will bring an ex pose that wiil -startle the world, and' elicit a demand, from the people to have a clearing up all around. Monterey, Cal., Oct. 25 While temporarily deranged, Mrs Louis Iverson,- wife of a Salinas machinist murdered three of her four children at Pacific Grove; at the dictation, she said, of a, "supreme power." : r She "first strangled ; her - eldest daughter, Louisa, aged 12 years. Sb? then attempted the life of her eldest eon, aged 11, who had just come into the house, but the boy broke away from her and took a train for his home in Salinas. Sbf then strangled her son Hirold aged 6, acd then went out of -the bouse and got an ax, with - which she struck him a blow on the head. Later in the evening she ki led her 7-month.old-baby, Maria, by stran gling.) : : ; ;.. ... Tbe murder of her children waa related by Mrs Iversen to Sheriff Nesbitt'this morning. She added that during the night she had wal ked about the house, lying down for a sb on time on the-floor, She said that she realized now that she bad done wrong, but believed . that she was doing right at. thetime she committed the deed. She persisted, however, in stating that tbe chil dren were not dead. : ' . The boy wbo escaped went to his home in Stlina. and reported to his father that the eldest girl was ill and had been lying on tbe' bed, but said nothing of his mothers attack upon bim. The father telegraphed to a Paci fic Grove physician, asking him to call at tbe hou?e and see the child. The doctor did so and was met at the door by Mrs. Iverson, who said there was no one sick in the house and tbat some mistake bad,, bsen made. ' . v." Erly tbis morning Mr. Iverson drove; to Pacific Grove, ' He knocked at ttie front door and was told to go around to the back doo'. He did eo, and : entering the house was about to kiss his wife;, when she -said: . . . Don't touch me; don't put your hands on ,me. Go , look at your cbildren," . With that he opened the door of an adjoining - roomt , where . lay the bodies of the three children. ' the boy on oner' bed and the two girls on another. ' y.;;'-''' :''- : , . Mrs. Iverson -had been ill ". or several months, and had 'shown signs of mental derangement, ; her manriatwiuenf a ' ? : " D Good It Pays. , ' A Chicago man has obser ved that "Good deeds 'are better than real estate deeds soma of the latter are worthless. ' Act kindly and gently, show sympathy and lend a helping band, xou cannot possibly .lose by, it.". Most; men appreciate a kind' word and : encourage ent more than substantial help. There are persons in this community who might truthfully say: ; My good friend cheer up. A few doses' of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will rid you. of your cold, and - there is no danger whatever from pneumo nia when you use that medicine. It always cures.' J I know it for it has helped me out many a , time." Sold by Graham &. Wortham. . Cheap Rates. .. :t. ,,'., Between Portland, and .Willamette Valley, points Low round trip-,, rates have been placed in effect; between Port land and Willamette Valley points,, ..in either direction. .Tickets will , be ; sold Saturdays and Sundays, and limited ' to return on or before the following Mon dayj "- Rate to or from Co.vallis $$.o. Gall on Southern Pacific Go's agents for particulars, . ' ' . ; Claims ot Supervisors. ,. Lewis Wentz Supr. Dist. No 5 8 00 E A Blake ' . - 6 14 00 J S Miller ' 7 10 00 WM Clark " 8 4 00 A Cadwalader v " . , 9 12 00 J R Fehler " it s 13 5o G T Vernon . ". 13 3900 E N Starr ' " , 14 1500 John R Crow ' . t 15 . 8 00 D E Baoton " . 18 4 00 . And notice is hereby given that if no objections are filed thereto that the sum will be allowed by the County Court of Benton County, Oregon,: at the regular November 1903 term of said Court. ?; . t Published by order of Court. ,.'v. s VICTOR P. MOSES,' i . , County Clerk. . Call for Warrants; , Notice is hereby given that there is money inthe treasury to pay all city warrants drawn on the general fund and endorsed prior to July 1 2th 1 90 1, also all street fund war rants indorsed prior to Aug. 25th 1903. ' - Interest will stop on same from this date. Dated at Corvallis, Ore, Oct. 16th 1903- - ' r Wm. McLagan, City Treas. GALLS THEM SNOBS. FAMOUS SOCIETY -WOMAN SAYS NEW YORK SOCIETY PEOPLE ARE. V ' And Explains Why Big Figures . 'for Writing Books What Some of the Authors Hive Re- v ceived Fifty Thous . and for One Book. Chicago, ' O jt. 19 . Mrs. Stuve sant Fish, wbo is here , with Mr. Fieh, asserts that naughty reporters have misquoted her when : they put her down recently as ridiculing so-, cjety. ': :. "I siid," explained Mrs. Fish, "that society in America was not sumcientiy ldentined with tne po litical life of the country to lift it above a, frivolous plane. I said tbat society in this country was narrow because of this lack.. It hasn't e nough of solid interes's to make it anything but J frivolous in the sense I mean. . Mind you, I am not attacking it when I say this. I am simply stating tne actual conaiuon in which, American 8 jciety finds it self. ,! : "You think that society. ,women should devote themselves, to poli-" tiCS?" . . r,Certainly," replied,' Mrs. Fish promptly. ."Not" in the sense of go ing to tbe polls ot anything of that sort, but they should interest tbem eelves in political matters so ; tbat they might , help ' their , husbands. Women abroad do this, and they are consequently broader minded and better.". ... . ; "And now, Mrs. Fish, your asser tions in regard 'to the Four Hun dred.". ' .-.:-;i:..;..;:-v;v "Oh, the. Four. Hundred," she ex claimed -with another .shrug. D ,esn't it sound ridiculous?,' Just great ; country there could be just lour nundred persons and no more, worthy, to ibe, called the elect. Isn't it absurd?, Amer ica is too big and too new for that sort of narrowness. It isn't . typi cal of American principles it does not do justice ; to the American idea.". . ,.. , , . "You think , American society aims to be too exclusive? ,? "I certainly do. and it, simply makes this country tbe .'object of ridicule abroad. Just think for in stance, how nany worthy people, artiste, writer?, thinkers and the like, are excluded from, 'society' or the 'Four Hundred,' aa it is! called in this country, whereas in foreign society such congenial souls are welcomed with open arms. Tbat is what I dislike about America. "You believe then that talent and intellect should onen tbe portals of society?', ' " ": -"Most certainly. ; That is where other9 countries, show understand ing and where America betrays a deplorabla snobbishness, New York, Oct- 24. The World says: According to the cable news John .Moreley received from the publishers a fee of $50,000 for bis "Life of Giadstone,'' just issued. This is tbe largest sum ever paid for a copyright biography in EDg land. It is not large recompense for three years . of time . and involving the reading of over 3oo,- 000 documents. For purposes of comparison there is the American inetinoe of John G.v Nicolay and John Hay, who are credited with receiving the same eum, $5o,ooo, from the publishers for . their , work on "The Life of Abraham ., Lin coln," published in 1890. From his biograpy of Lincoln, issued soon af ter the war, Dr. ' Holland . realized about $25,000, V James G: Blaine's "Twenty " Years ' in Congress" brought its author $5j,ooo. Gen. Grant's family received something like $3oo,oou from his Memoirs. ; It is told that of the late Joseph Harper that he wrote to Blaine while the. book of the man from Maine was in - preparation that to the historian the publisher came to the door and took off his hat. A later writer has remarked that the favor of obsequiousness is now yielded by the publisher to the pop ular novelist. .Five fiction succes ses of the season 19oo-19ol were re puted as bringing their authors $75, 000, $45,ooo, $39,ooo, $34,ooo and 3o,ooo respectively. Probably some of these figures have: since been beatsn. Contrast the $l,8oo which, as a first return irom "The Scarlet Letter, made ' Hawthorne richer than he ever had been before.7 The Deaf Gured. (Portland Freie Press.) The lack or loss of one of the fiva ' 7 human senses isolates the patient : tbrus afficted as entirely from the world as if he was : banished to a lo.ie isle. What gratification caa bring us the society of our best friends and acquaintances if their , voices do not reach our ear or if. instead of it, we ere only conscious J of an indistinct murmur? With the loss of hearing ; all pleasures dies within us, m vn s in domestic relations and lam Iv . lire. Tbe ' songs of our ch 1 lr- .vuda from their lips, but doa- n v. riach our hearts, their thana and prayers are an empty eound. No birds sing in-the branches for us; no sound of the whole nature reaches us a feeling of sorrow and despair fills our heart. It makes uo differ-. ence it our sulleriog is due to aa obstinate cold or to other causes. , To give our readers a case, tha most convincing because taken -from the circle of our nearest ac- quaintnces' we refer to Mr. J. J.,i Kern who suffered, five years ago -from a deafness so. obstinate that . his mind began to ' suffer. Mr. Kern was at that time editor of the "Nechrichten and Freie Press," and the loss of hearing and the -coo-, efant noise in his ears proved ..a, great obstacle in his business. .. . Dr. Darrin cured him ten ' years ago by clever treatment, and - the evil has never returned. ' .Jr " THE BLIND SEE. To the Editor: For about six, years I have had. a chronic inflam mation in my eyes and catarrhal conjunctivitis of the lids. Dr. . Darrin has to far restored me that I am confident a few days longer will perfect a cure. I reside in Jefferson end can be . seen- at any time. " " ' ! , A. G. Porter. .- . :. . ' '. v y. ' ' PARALYSIS AND EPILEPTIC FITS CURED. ' " ' 'C Mrs. James Pugh of -Shedd, Ore-' goo, writes as follows:' "You cured our boy 13 years ago in Portland of facial paralysis and epileptic fits. H9 is now a strcng man, He never bad only one fit two weeks after you commenced his treat ment." - ' ' Mr. G. ?W. Dunlap of Halsey, Oregon, says: i "For over 20 years -my wife has had. inflammed eyes and granulated" lids. Dr. Darrin has cured her." - Hundreds of others might be mentioned who do not wish their' names'published. . - In most cases only ore visit 13, requfred. :, Owing , to the crowds rushing to see the Dr. he will re- : ceive patients from 9 a. m. to 8 p. Dr. Darrin remains at the Revere House, Albany until Dec J, only. ' raingttisi 2825 Keeley St., Chicago, III., Oct,, 2, 1902. L I suffered with falling and con gestion of the womb,. with severe pains through the groins. I suf fered terribly at the time of men struation, had blinding headaches and rushing of blood to the brain. What to try I knew not, for it seemed that I had tried all and failed, but I had never tried Wine of Cardui, that blessed remedy for sick women. I found it pleasant to take and soon knew that I had the right medicine. . New blood seemed to course through my veins and after using eleven bottles I was a well woman. Mrs. Bush is now in perfect health because she took Wine of Cardui for ' menstrual disorders, bearing down pains and blinding headaches when all other remedies failed to, bring her relief. Any sufferer may secure health by tak ing Wine of Cardui in her home. The first bottle convinces the pa tient she is on the road to health. V For advice in cases requiring special directions, address; giving symptoms, "The Ladies' Advisory Department," The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga,' Tenn.