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Vol. XVI. No. 38. . I CORVAliLIS, OREGON. NOVEMBER 28, 1903. H.F. IRVTinS Editor and Proprietor. No. . Previous Season Has ever found our Store, in all ts Departments, so well equipped. Th e Stock 1 ncl tides a 1 1 1 he - Latest Novelties. LADIES' Special attention is called to our Line of Dress Goods, Jack ets, Waterproof Wraps, Skirts, Shoes and Children's Clothing. Call and see. O. A. C. XJXIFORis. Rle Do not Ciue '.' - ' Co ) 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 RAILROAD ROBBERS: GANG OF BANDITS ARE AT . TACKING STATION AGENTS AND TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. r, V Fresh Fruits , Fresb Uegetablts, J -"Si ) m m (o ) o) ) Outlaws Covers Up Their Trail Trains With Deputies Kept Aloog Lints of the .-, New York Central and Penn- .-. sylvan ia. Ready for a Chase. . - Potisville, Pa.. Nov. 23. Leav ing a trail ot blood behind them, the bandits who have been break ing into the express and telegraph offices of Eastern railroads, have worked as far south and , West as Pottsville, aod this morning broke; luto the office ot the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad . at ; Girard ville,' and robbed the agent at that plee of $75 in cash and three val uable express packages. , ; , v j As soon as information was re ceived at Potts villa of the robbery, an armed posse was sent to Girard ville aod an active search for the robbers began, but without effect. The four men who had robbed the elation and the express agent' had escaped ioto the mjuiitainsand had lejt no traced behind except scat tered diops of blood; which indi cated that the first pursuit of the bandits organized in Girardville bad resulted in the wounding of one of tbtm. ". , Four men were engaged in the robbery of the railroad office at Gi rardville and are believed to be the tame men, or members of the same gang, who murdered Willum H. Clendeneu, the New York; Central operator in the Oak Grove signal tower Thursday night; who cuboed and chloroformed Murrel J. Haler, the station agent at Allentown, and who a tacked operator Ewart at the sattioa at Keating.- - .. . - ..- : John Dal ton was in charge of the office at Girardville and was knock ed down and overpowered by the robbers, who bound and threw him into a closet. The closet . had an opening ioto a back room, through which Dalton escaped, giving the alarm and setting a possa on the track of the four men who had at' tacked him. ,. fresh everything to be had, in the market.' We . run our delivery wagon and our aim is v to keep what, you want and to . ' '" please.: T Call and see 6 B. Bernini SOME-SEEEERS ! 1 F 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. . . HENRY AMBLER, Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance, Philomath, Oregon.1 5?, rfi Frt rf wf v. r r?-i r r rrr H. S. PERNOT, Physician & Surgeon Office over poatoffice. Residence Cor. Fifth and Jefferson streets. Hoars 10 to 12 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. Orders may .be left at Graham & Wortham's drug store. dr. c;hitewth, Physician & Surgeon Philomath, Oregon.' , E. E. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LA W. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Zierolf Building, Corvallte. Or. E. Holgate ATTORNEY AT LAW JUSTICE OF THE PEACB Stenograpfiy and typewriting done. -: Office in Burnett brick Corvallis- Oreg B. A. CATHEY, M. D j Physician and Surgeon; - Office, Boom 14, First National Bank Bnilding, Corvallis, Or. Office Hours, o to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. . . 'I For Sale. Grub oak wood. For particulars in quire of E. B. Horning. , Portland, Nov., 25. The Orego nian fays: The Iodiana in attend ance upon the Federal -court are not pleased with the verdict ot toe jury holding ; Albert Martin guilty of nanelaugbter. in the killing of U. S. Grant upon - the Silefz reserva tion a short time ago. i The ex pressed opinion of these red men, or at least the majority ; of ' them, is that Martin did not 'commit the act that cost-Grant his life, and they do not think it is just to punish him. , The convicted I. man shows less concern over the result of bis trial than the members of his tribe, who watched every step of the trial, and who were grouped about : the building yesterday, telling each other what they thought of the de cision of the case. " ;: "Injuns think Martin ; no kill Gran t, 'jwas the reply of t be xed men when they were asked what they - thought of his conviction. 'Injuns think Martin tell truth; but they think he drank no think be ' bad "man." The tncentive prompting this feeling on the part of the Indians may arise from the tribal feeling and differences that have 'already been shown to have played , a prominent part in the murder, but whether this he the cause or not, red men evidently hold strong sentiments .in Martin's favor A noticeable circumstance in con nection with the murder that is as cribed to the time honored custom of the Indian and his strange - idea of justice, is the fact that Grant was evidently killed bybeating to death on the head. - This was the manner in which "Indian Tom," the rela tive of the two prisoners, was kill ed. It is a custom among the In dians that has been observed for ages that the death of a member of a tribe shall be avenged in the same manner in which death was inflict ed upon the slain Indian. As was brought out during the trial of Mar tin, the motive for the killing of Grant was traced to the murder of "Indian Tom," and by some of the Indians who could be induced to talk about the matter, the killing of Grant, by whomever it may have been done, was but the visiting of lodian justice upon one whom the Joshuas thought responsible for the escape from justice of the murderer of "Indian Tom." M The trial of Abe Logan,: to de termine bis guilt or innocence, be gan yesterday morning. The pros ecution occupied the entire day in troducing testimony for the govern ment. This testimony appears to be very Strang again Logan, and the prisoner watched each step of the caee with anxious interest. The witnesses examined were the same as those put upon the stand during the trial of Martin, but . additional testimony is being brought out rel ative to Logan's connection with the crime. - ' ' -" - ' "' 1 Daring the morning session the tfforts of. the prosecution were de voted to the tak ojf attempting, to prove that an empty gun found in Grant's pocket after the murder, be-j longs to Logan. -A number of wit nesses testified that it did-not be long to Grant,' and Martin s wore that it belong to Logan. - The most damaging testimony against the accused . man was given by Mrs. Martin, the wife ot the con victed man. She testified that when Logan came to her house, the night of the tragedy, he had blood on his clothing. She also ' testified that Logan had said to her husband, in her presence,- that Mr. Hall 'who lives on the reservation, was the only' one who had seen them i with Grant, and that besought to - be bribed to say nothing. .Herfur ther testimony was to the effect that Logan bad explained to her that Grant fell from his hone 'and hurt hims If, then eaid that her husband had murdered him. ,Other, witnesses testified that when Lcgan guided - them to the place where Martin was . found drunk he pointed to a place in the river where he claimed that Grant bad been thrown, and said: "Let the ' stay there." The defense will open its ca?e this morning, and the trial may be completed today.' . - '. ;': . Portland, Nov! 25. The Orego niao: Robert Waters 17 years old, was drowned in the Willamette yes terday morning, falling into the Water from the O. R. & N. elevator dock in Albina, while watching the French bark Germaine unload its cargo. The drowning was attended by a pathetic incident. - - ; v The report that a boy had been drowned spread through the vicini ty of the dock very rapidly and many people collected to watch the search for the body. Among the curious was Frank Waters. He had heard that a boy whose name was not known 'had "been drowned. Winning his brother Robert to go with him to the water front, he ran home for him. Robert was not at home. He bad left a couple of hours previous, so his mother told, him, and was at the borne of one of his friends or else bad gone" up town she was not sure .which. , ,-; ',' . - So Frank went to the dock alone. He watched the searching party in its skiff until it located the body, and then be started away, not wish ing to see the rest. However, one of his comrades called to him to wait a few minutes and he did so. He' taw the body when it was brought to the surface of the water some distance away and remarked that it appeared to be that of a sail or. When the searchers rowed to the dock and cast up a rope to which was fastened the form of the drown ed boy, Frank answered the request for volunteers and helped to hoist it onto the dock. -.- - As the form came over the side of the dock he averted his head, not wishing to see the lifeless form'of the supposed straDger. A moment later, though, his curiosity master ed him and he looked. The heart-broken lad was led home by friends, nearly prostrated by the sudden shock, and inconsol able in his grief. The . body was taken to the morgue. v The unfortunate boy had been standing on the dock watching a crew of men at work unloading the cargo of the Germain,' when he lost his balance.; In falling to the wa ter, a distance of 20 feet, he struck on a heavy piece of timber. The blow rendered him unconscious, so that he was unable to .fight for his life, when he was in the water. Oth er wise the boy would have been saved, as several of the workmen were eyewitnesses of the occurrence and could have cast a line inside of half a minute. They say the lad's body sank from sight the moment it struck the water, SAVED THE WOMAN. MAJOR McCLUNG SAVES LIFE OF MRS. LILLIE H. COIT. Alec Garnet, Who Fired the Shot, Had Been Discharged by Mrs. Coit and Attempted to Kill Her While Intoxicated , Other News. San Francisco, Nov. 25. Major W. J. McClung, a well-known bro ker and clubman, was shot through the abdomen tonight at the Palace Hotel by Alec Garnet. McClung was takn to a private sanitarium and is reported to be dying. . . The shooting took place in the rooms of Mrs. Lillie Hitchcock Coit, who is famous as the only woman ever actively connected with the lo cal Fire department, . In pioneer days she ran to fires with the fire men and was later elected a mem ber of a company.. v. . ; Garnet was her business agent in minor matters and Mrs., Coit had a disagreement a few days ago; that resulted in bis dismissal from her employe Major McClung, who is an elderly gentlemen, was yiti ting Mrs Coit this evening, when Gar net appeared in an intoxicated con dition. ; '; 'i' .---- ;;", ': Garnett drew a revolver and at tempted to shoot 2Mis. Coit,' when Mr. "McClung attempted to save her and received the bullet - intend ed for the woman'. The police up to a late hour were searching for Garnet. ' t Bozemart, Mont., Nov. 25. A; O Jones principal of the East Side Bozeman school, a married man, protr inent in the Social- circles of the city and well known generally in educational circles of the . state, has been found guilty of assault up on the person of Louise Bosmeir, a 15-year-old-Fiench-tJanadian girl, a pupil in his school, and has been sentenced to five years in the peni tentiary at Daer Lodge, The affair has created a sensation in Bozeman and an upheaval in the society of the town the equal of . which has not been known since the convic tion of the Rev. J. Barr Harris, a- bout a year ago, on a similar of fense, for which that ecclesiastic is now doing a year at Deer Lodge. A verdict of acquittal . was expected because of tbe'questionable charac ter of the girl, as shown by the tes timony adduced at the trial, and when the decision of the jury was announced the scene in the . court room was a pathetic . one. Mrs. Jones,' wife of the defendant, who has stood by her husband through all his trouble,,- broke down, and, laying her bead upon the table, sobbed most pitifully There, was not a dry eye in the room. t : ., Boise, Idaho, Nov. 25. Charles A. Packenham, superintendant of the X-Ray' tunnel in the' 'Black Horn district, was brought to the hospital this - evening - from a bad gunshot wound inflicted as a result of carelessness. He was walk ing up the road toward the proper ty when a party passed him in a wagon. When the wagon had pass ed on.some 300 yards ahead of Packenham one of the men, T. J. McGinnis fired a rifle, as . he says, at a rock near the road." - Packenham fell at the shot. The party turned back and found the wounded man had been shot in the right shoulder. They brought him to town. It was : found the bullet struck the collar-bone and passed down into the right lung. It is thought he will recover.' ' Leavenworth, Kan. Nov. '19 The suit of First Lieut. Sidney S. Burbank, Sixth Infantry against Mrs. Concepsiou Vazques, a Filipi no woman to set aside an alleged marriage will come up in the Leav enworth DistrictCourt on Monday. The suit was filed Sept. 24, and the fifty days' time allowed under the Kansas statutes to answer has ex pired. So far the woman has not been beard from. It would require another month for the Filipino women to get her defence here, as all the papers in the case has to cross the Pacific twice, y;; " Lieut. Burbank; was - engaged to marry Miss Stone, daughter of State Senator Stone, of Kansas. The engagement ; was announced last summer. Then he- claim of the Filipino woman was sent tT the War Department, which called upon Burbank for an explination, and threatened him with court martial if he married again while he had a Filipino wife. Burbank, in order to clear his name filed ; suit to set aside the marriage. He charges that the papers are forgeries and that it is a. plot to marry this Filipino women to him or to extort money. Th engagement with Miss . Stone is still on, but there will be no mar aiage until the suit is decide. Miss S' one's father -is Lieud Bar- bank? attorney in the suit tt. bave the alleged marriage to tho Fili- . pino woman set aside. - inted with the defendant and met her frequently, as did also other men in the military re.-vice of the United States, but that &h rela tions to her were uuto'her-' than otj different from the relations to her of other men in the' army and in private life; that all the -' time he knew the defendantshe made no claim or pretentions of being his wife. ' - " -: Lieut. Burbank is still at Fort Leavenworth carrying on his army duties. '"- ' ''. . - ;: Washington, Nov, 24. News of. trouble with threats of violence, at ' il. . T! 211- T M! . 1 1 T . . i.iih .1 iHri m 1 1111 iu r u 11 rtri in ivniu Mexico, reached the interior depart ment today from , Superintendent Johnson in charge there. He - tele graphed that an Indian boy who had entered the school fell dead in the arms of the industrial teacher, Phillip Say les, immediately after a bath yesterday, and another boy, who was being dieted on account of stomach trouble, had eaten a large quantity of prunes which he had stolen from the school kitchen - and his death resulted. -.'.vv-VV..-.'r - The Indians in the reservation', the superintendent stated, are very superstitious,-- and have been wrought into a high pitch of excite ment. Tbey believe in witchcraft, and they place the blame . for the death of the boys on the industrial teacher,, and are threatening to at tack the echool with .the . avowed Durnose of rescuing their children and avenging the death of their boys. -7 Mr. Johnson stated they had called a council to meet next Sat urday and unless they could be pa cified they would undoubtedly be come violent. , i V The Best Remedy for Croup. (From the Atchison Kan Globe.) This is the . season when the women who know the best remedy for croup are in demand in every neighborhood. One of the most terrible : things in tbe world is to be awakened in the middle of the night by a wboop - by one of the children. The croup remedies are almost as sure to be lost, in case of croup, as a revolver is sure to be lost in .. case ' of burglars. " There used to be an old fashioned remedy for croup, known as hive syrup and tulu, but some modern mothers say that .Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is better, and dees not cost so much It causes the patient to"throw up the phlegm" quicker, and gives re lief in a shorter time. Give this remedy as soon as tbe croupy cough appears and it will prevent the at tack. It never fails and is pleaeant and saft to take. For sale by Gra ham & Woitham. . " For Sale. - Ooe good 1200 pound team, cheap. En quire of B- Martin one mile northwest , of College. . v For -. - ' . . . Good gentle drivii) and buggy. J, K. Berry. THE OLD RELIABLE SSl Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE