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Holiday Just the thing you want can be found in our store, and at prices that will let you off easy. Drop in and see. : : . FOR LADIES, r Jackets, furs, Rain Coats, Umbrellas, Slippers, Rugs, Carpet Sweepers, Fan cy Baskets, Sewing Machines, Etc. FOR MEN. Suits, Rain Coats, Slippers, Shaving Sets, Watches "and Jewelry. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. See other issue of this paper. - Ole Do not Ciuc to as high a standard as our desire would promote us. but see that vbu . the house that keeps the hig- est standard of Grocer- , . -,-.' , r ies that is the , place to ,' r' ' - BUY '.. - (b Fresh Fruits; c fresh everything to be had in the market. We rn our delivery wagon and; our aim is i to keep wha you want and to ; - - please. Call and see l i B, Borning HOME-SEEKERS ! Ie i uu AJK,i luulijmj ut 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, v ' , ; HENRY AMBLER, ' - Real Estate, Loan, and Insurance, 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 & Wortham's drug store. Physician & Surgeon Philomath, Oregon. , E. E. WILSON, (ATTORNEY AT LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Zierolf Building, Corvallis. Or. Presents. make no mistake in ' ' ( Fresb Uegetablts, E. Holgate r ATTORNEY AT LA.W " ' . JUSTICE OF THE .PEACB ' -Stenography and typewriting done. Office in Burnett brick Corvallis, , Oreg B. A. CATHEY, M. D., Physician ajid Surgeon, Office, Room 14, First National Bank Bnuding, Clorvallis, Or. v Office Hours, o to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. For Sale. '. , Grub oak wood. For particulars in quire of E. B. Horning. , , . ANOTHER'S EAR 13 NOW ON THE HEAD OP MAN WHO PAID FIVE THOUSAND FOR IT. Was cat off theSilJer's Head by , Surgeon end Grafted on the H?ad of the Buyer First Operation of the Kind . Ever Accompl.shed. A, Andrew As a friend of Dr. Nelden, I wa? ptrmitted to-day view niactieor ated patierjt, upon whom be has grafted a ''living ear f om the bead of a man who sold his ear for $5,00J. Except for Dr. Nelden and the.physiciaDS and nurses who have ben attendant on the case, I was ihv fi at person to see tbe punient. whose4 identity is kept a pr tound secret. Dr. Nelden concucted me to the operating room in his residence on East Twenty-ninth street, , where the patient was being treated st the time. The man was lyiog. in tbe operating chiir, with tbe grafted ear exposed. Dr. Nelden assured me that unless unlooked for con tmgenctes arose the operation would be an unqualified success. Except lor a slight 3 swelling and mhamation, the ear had a perfectly normal appearance. So fr as "fit was concerned, ur. JNeldon nas copied nature with scrupulous ex actness. From lobe to tip there was no indication that the tissue bad shrank, and the healtby. red- neesof tbe member showed that complete circulation had been estab lished. Dr. Nelden removed with infi- hate care a t-ilver needle which had been passed through tbe side of the ear and under the cuticle, thus holding -it in a flat natural position and a silver wire which bad been f a ened t i tle tip of the - ear and eecund ovr the bead to prevent it from "lopping" until tbe increasing circulation had suihciently strength ened thetiseups. After Dr. Neldon had removed these supports I saw t'ie ear retain f-itself a normal position. The scars of 1 he stitches which had held the ear to the patient's head are still apparent, but Dr. Nelden says thev will not be visible when the wounds heal. . There was much congealed blood about the ear, as no attempt bad been made to wash tbe wound for fVar of disturbing, even in the slightest degree, the uniting tissues. Swellings were nolicable, both above and immedi ately back of the ear. and at the side of the face just below the cheek bone. Dr Nrldeh said these swel- ilopUGLASSHDCCop v- '. Tf Will H9V rk -U A TXT t3 ' - fJ " W.WIIIIIH, U1C I I L. Doufflas slinpq an A u for I K ir ii . . ' j I h jruuiBcii ludt iney are jusr as j 1 h guuu ia every way as inose lor 13 H which you have been paying S Ke to 7. For stvle. com- M fort, and service, they M , wi cannot be surpassed Mr by custom-made Jfr - -. shoes, ' ' ' FOR SALE BY lings presented no menace to the ear. . 1 ha patient still wore over the side and back of his head the plas ter of paris shield which had served as a foundation for tbe solid plaster 01 pans cast wnicn bad beld bis head Jo that of the man from whom he had purchased the ear. Pus bad collected in the ear but the ear itself was without blemish of any description except for the high coloring and fullness. Tbe dressing was performed with out the use of any anaesthetic, and tbe patient did not appear to be seriously inconvenienced. He has been made restive by the enforced inactivity of the past, two weeks, but the knowledge that a false move may shatter thesuceess of tbe operation nerves mm to unceasing vigilance. Announcement of the successful accomplishment of grafting the ear of one man to the head of another was made by Dr Andrew L. Nel den of No 13 East Twenty-ninth street, last night. The patient upon whom Dr Neldeu grafted the ear is nowbeing cared for in tbe physi cians home. He is overjoyed in physical possession of an ear which another man wore little more than two weeks ago. - Ibe man who sold his ear for $5,000 is now in a private sanitari um in Philadelphia, where tbe oper ation was performed. He will : be released in two days and will eo immediately to his home near Pits- burg where his wife and child are awaiting him. He is perfectly sat isfied with his bargain, Dr. Nelden eays, and will use the $5 000 to start life anew. The patient was brought to this city yesterday. Wide attention has been attrac ted to tbe case around which great secrecy has been thrown to prevent revelation of the names of either the patient or tbe ear seller. This secrecy will be mantained, but in the interest of surgery Dr. . Nelden decided to make public alt tbe other, facta in connection with case. '" the This is the first 'time in the his tory , Burgery. as far -as- --th rec oras go, mat tne graiting or an ear has eeo accomplished. Dr. Es. march, the celebrated German- egg' geon,- has striven reportedly to graft the whole or part of an ear, but in no instance did the tissues unite. Plenty of subjects were furnished to him from among tbe German students, whaee ears are frequently maimed in tbe sabre con tests. The failures of so emient a surgeon as Dr Ismaech led sur geons tbe world over to believe that ear grafting was practically impos sible. Dr. Nelden advertised in The World of Nov. 8 an offer of $5,000 lor the right .ear of a man or woman 24 inches lone. 11 inches wide with perfect curves and full lobe. More than four hundred persons including several women, were anxious to sell their ear. Off- era came trom almost every state n , the Union and many, from Europe. Dr Nelden was author ized to make the offer by a rich Western man who had lost his ear in a mining accident. One of the conditions imposed was. that tbe name of the man muet never be re vealed, . ( - Hannibal, ; N. Y., Dec. 2. Han nibal folk believe that all the bod ies buried in their village cemetery, nave turned to stone. Two bodies nave Deen disinterred to be remov' ed and both were found to be pet rified. " .' ' : The last body exhumed was that 01 Mrs. Rose Van Horn, who was a beautiful young woman. She died in 1896. When the sexton opened the grave be found that the "coffin had fallen to pieces but the wo man's body was perfectly preserved. Dr. Acker, of Hannibal, who is sued the permit to open tbe grave. declared it to be a remarkable case of petrifaction. - '"The preservation was just as nearly perfect as it was possible for it to be," he said. "The finger nails were perfect The most peculiar feature was the eyes. They were open and looked precisely like those of a living person. "1 he body had. about the hard ness of chalk, but a few years more would have made it as hard as flint. I presume that the petrifaction is due to some peculiar quality of the soil. - - . . -j -'- - We are capturing the i gift makers. Our line of diamonds, watches, rings and silver novelties, is full of quality and merit. F. M. French, the jeweler, .Albany, THE CONDEMNED AT SING SING ELECT ONE OF THEIR NUMBER MAYOR A Strange Custom in Which the New Official Serves a Year Un ices Executed Former Mayor of Death House Was Put to Death His Duties. New York, Dec. 4 Albert T, Patrick was re-elected Mayor of the Death-House in Sing-Sir sr prison yesterday. His second term of ser vice is to begin from January 1 There is absolutely no appeal from his rulings. There are nine prison ers confined in the death-house, b:it only eight votes were ctfst. Police man William H, Earns, of Brook lyn, under -sentence of death for wife murder, refueed to participate in the ballotine. Patrick, being a lawyer, is looked upon by his -fellow-unfortunates as their proper leader. Not only has he prepared his own case for the court of appeals but he has aided tbe other condemned men in their efforts to secure new trials. All questions of importance are referred to bim, and he passes upon them jest as a city magistrate would un der other circumstances. ' A chief executive of the death house is elected for one year, but in the event of the "removal" of the mayor another election is made ne cessary. Patrick' first term was what is c 3mm only called an unex pired one. He succeeded Arthur Flanagan, who killed a keeper in tbe West Side Prison and who was put to death last spring. Even during Flanagan's administration Patrick was the chief adviser, and he prepared Flanagan's letters of appeil to Governor OdelL' The ap peals were so strong that Flanagan obtained two week's respite. , The nine men who are 'now con fined in tbe death-bouse are Pat rick, William H.' Ennis, Thomas Tobin, Arthur Kopping,. William Spencer, Charles Jackson, James Breen, Raffaele Cascone and Oicar Bergstrom. Tohin, Ennis and Berg strom are to die a week from next Monday. Ennis is believed to be insane, and Governor Odell has been asked by Warden Johnson to appoint a committee of experts to examine him. : A clergyman who visited the con demned cells yesterday was present at the election. Patrick thanked his fellows for the confidence they had in bim aod assured them that he would try to rule them with fair ness and to their entire satisfaction. : Tbe powers of the mayor of the death-house are great. If two of the inmates want to play checkers it is necessary for all the others to be quiet. In case the majority should object to a game the ques tion is referred to tbe mayor, whose decision is final. .Absolute silence is necessary, because the two per sons playing do not see each other nor can they play on one board. Each has a board marked on paper in his cell and the moves are called off across the hall. It is the' same with chess. ' Whistling concerts are indulged in now and then, but only when the mayor permits. All matters of eti quette and all points ot law are passed upon by him. William Spencer, the nesro, who killed Superintendent Macfarlane, of the Goddard Society, . was a can didate for mayor, but be withdrew from the race when he learned that Patrick had the majority with him it 13 said mat . tne election was made unanimous. Trinidad, Colo., D c. 7. The sheriff with a posse and .blood hounds, left tonight on a special engine for Primro, in response to a message that a party of five nonun ion miners going from berwind to Primro were ambushed on the trail this evening. One of the nonun ion party was shot in the foot, but made his way to Primro and gave the alarm. . He did not know whether the rest of - the nonunion party had been killed -or wounded, but they had not arrived at Prim ro at 9 o'clock tonight. The non union party was being escorted by Frank Jennings, brother of Superin tendent Jennings, of tbe Berwmd mine. . The sheriff was joined by 50 deputies at Primro. Word 'reached here at midnight that a pitched battle .occured at Se- gundo, a Colorado Fuel & Iron camp, between 9 and 10 o'clock to night, between about 30 striking Italian miners on one side and ht. en of the company's guards on the) other. Three of the strikers were shot and two of them will probably die. One was shot in the groin,, one in the head and the other ' ia the leg. None of tbe guards was hurt, though one had his hat shot off. : - . ' -. - ''! 1 tie ngbt occurred at the coke ovens at the edge of the camp. The mim'rs went to the ovens, but were ordered to atop by the guards. Al most immediately the shooting began-, each side claiming that the other fired first. After the affair a mass meeting of strikers was called, but dispersed shortly afterward. Sheriff Clark with a posse is now on the ground. v s At midnight nothincr had been heard from the nonunion men who were fired on earlier in the night. Bums, Or., Dec. 8. The iurv ia the - trial of Harry Egbert, . who murdered Deputv Sht-riff Saxton and John Weston October 4. return ed a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Scnieuce will ba passed Thursday. ' .1 When tbe jury came into court at 4 p. m. todav Esbert was nArfar-r-. ly cool and be listened to the ver dict which meant death to him. Fiva days of last, week were used up in securing a jury and the taking of testimony was begun yesterday morning. ;. Egbert relied whollv upon an at tempi, iu emaojiBn Ben-aeiense asu the cause for the killing the two . . . x 1 1 : 1 1. . - ' men. lhisis the first verdict in volving capital punishment ever -rendered in Harney county. It is--highly commended by the public. Jonn baxton, a well-known at torney at Burns, Or., and John West, a rancher, were murdered bv John Frost, alias Harry Egbert, in Wild Horee Valley, 125 miles Bouth af Burns, in Harney county. Wild Horse Valley is one of the most isolated spots in Oregon. jbgDert was a tugitive from jus tice, wanted in Douglas countv f or . burglary. . Saxton, as deputy eher- ft, went from Burns to arrest bim. West went along to help.. . October tney came to a ranch , house in Wild Horse Vallev. Tn thia were Egbert and his wife. , Egbert opened fire with a rifle and the wo man fled. West was shot down at the first fire. Saxton followed the man into sued through a thin board petition. Saxton heard West cry for water, and while attending to the needs of tbe mortally wounded man was shot. A large reward was offered for Eg bert's capture, and after a lone chase Constable McCoy caught up witn the villain at Rockland, Idaho. STATE OF OREGON. - Executive Department. Salem, Oregou, December, J, 1903. Ia accordance with tbe crovlslona of an act entitled, "An Act submitting to tho leotors 01 me oiuie 01 uregon ai we u-enerai mioeana. to be held on tbe first Monday in June, 1901, the pending proposed Constitutional Amend ment," filed in the office of the Secretary ot State February 24th, 1903, I, Geo. E. Chamber lain, Governor of the state of Oreiron. do here by cause the proposed amendment to the Constitution f Oregon, hereinafter set out at lengtn ana aestgaatea as "omce of state nf Printer Amendment." to be published for fire consecutive weeks in the Corvallis Times newspaper published in the Second Judicial District of tne state of Oregon- : v a Done at tbe Capitol, at Salem. Oreiron this First day of December, 1903. . ; - , , (Signea) ubo. k. uhambkeladt, ; , Governor of the State of Oregon. - By the Governor 1 - F.I. Dunbar, secretary of State. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. I. - , Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring That the following article, as an ameudmeut to the Constitution of the State of Oregon, be proposed and referred to the next legislative assembly, and if the same shall be concurred in by a majority of all the members elected to each House thereof, and shall afterwards be ratified by a majority of tho electors of the state, then the same shall be a part of the Constitution of the State of Oregon: Article 1. That Article XII, SecUon 1, of the Constitution of the State of Oregon, be and the same is hereby abrogated, and In lieu . thereof shall be inserted the following: The Legislative assembly of the State of Ore gon Is hereby empowered to provide by law for the election of a State Printer, to provide for his compensation, and to prescribe his powers and duties. AO opted by the Senate January 29h, lflOl., - C. W FUfcTON, President of tha Suuate. Concurred In by the House. . , Li', D. HEADER, Sneaker of the House. Adopted by the Senate, . . tjEO. V. BROWNKX.Ii, President of the Senate, oncurred in by the Ho use January 21st, 1903". L, T, Harris, Speaker of the House. ' UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ,7 STATE OF OREGON. . , Office of the Secretary of State, r, F.I Dunbar. Secretary of State f tha state of Oregon, and custodian of the seal of saia state no nereDy certify that 1 nave com pared the preceding codv of Senate Joint Res - olutdon No 1 of the Legislative Assembly of 1901. "Office of State Printer Amendment" with the original copy now on file in this office, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom -and the whole thereof . . IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed hereto the seal of the State of Oregon. Done at the Capitol, at Salem, Oregon, this First day of Decemoer A D, 1903. . (Signed) F. I. Dunbar, r ' 1 Secretary of State. ) L. S. . '. .