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itel a rail f liiiESS ( . Vol. XVI. No. -45. v CORVALLIS, OREGON. JANUARY 6, 1904. B.F. IRVUTB Editor and Proprietor, REDUCTION SALE For January. EVERY DEPARTMENT. Big Discount on Every Article. Specially Big Discount on"1 DRESS GOODS LADIES' SHOES RUBBER BOOTS CLOTHING RUBBERCLOTHING. AFTER THE FIRE HORRORS OF THE LATE HOL- OCAUST AT CHICAGO. W BO OFTEN CHANGE Our a"d., but our goods change hands N every day. Your money exchanged ' - for Value and -Quality is the idea. Big Line Fresb Groceries Domestic and Imported. - Plain and Fancy Chinaware A large and varied line. Orders Filled Promptly and Com plete. Visit our Store we do the rest. B Renting. Si O. J. BLAOKLEDGE S Furniiure and Music yin lew 1 ' MLWk Store. - feouth Main Street, CORVALLIS, OR. I Cordially invite you to inspect my New Stock of Goods consisting of Various Musical Instruments, Bed Lounges and Couches, Bedroom Suites, Iron Bedsteads, Maple and Ash Bedsteads, etc. Woven Wire-Springs, Good Line of Mattresses, Extension Tables, Center Tables, Sideboards, Kitchen Safes, Kitchen Treasures, Dining Chairs, High Chairs, Children's Rockers, and Many Styles of Other Rockers. Fine Lot Bamboo, Furniture just in Window Shades, Curtain Poles. . Iso Sewing Machines, new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos 'or sale and for rent. A few stoves and a few nieces of Graniteware left. E. E. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Zierolf Building, Corvillis. Or B. A. CATHEY, M. DM Physician and Surgeon. Office, Boom 14. First National Bank Blilding, Corvallis, Or. Office Hours, 10 to 13 a. tn 2 to 4 p. nr. Father With Dead Bdy of His Boy in His Arms Forced Street Car Coqd actor at Pistol Poiot to Let Him Ride Whole City Mourn?. Chicago, Jab. 1 Chicago, great, busy, virile, energetic, mirth-loving Chicago, saw New Year's come in, but watched it with a face somber land huggnrd. In the street there I was no merrier nt. For the first lime in me mstory o me city meie had occurred something crrying a shock sufficiently tremendous to ev ery b iber element to make every man thoughtful and respectful. , ' Chicago thiDks of nothing, for daye.ibr weeks, will think of noth ing but that' horrible scene at the disastrous theatre fiie. The great tremendous heart of the town itself, the greatest embodiment of sheer- energy toe world ha ever Been in a community, i deathly sick, desper ately hurt. Cnicago is heartbroken. Eirly-JoJay there existed still that terrible monotone of grief the stupor amounting almost to apathy which had possessed the souls of ill throughout the night. Later there seemed to come tQ all greater, sharper anguish, which increased steadily throughout the day. What had been too great to b9 personal now did become peismal. Great and singular spectacle, that of an entire civ plunged into grief and sorrow, 2,000,001) people mourning as though they were two score or less. Two million people at last keenly awakened to a re alizing s-nse of horror of this which has befallen. The centralization poiot of this general grief was the question of identification of the dead. The laBl i'ena of horror came to hand in the" cruel certainty that no' matter how patient and careful the search might be, the fate of many misBiog oofs could nev;r by any possibility - be known. ( It is no wonder that men sit silent in sc-nes accustomed to rev elvv and hilarity at these bourp. With bis dead boy in his arms a grief-stricken father half crazed by the events of yesterday alternoon held a revolver to the head of Wabash avenue car conductor and compelled him to give passage to his dead. No more dramatic inci dec t of all the thousand of strange and unprecedented happenings of those wild hours following the hoi ocaust has been recorded than this one. The father had got his boy at the morgue and as he sought to en ter the car the conductor saw that the child was dead and hesitated for a moment. He was facing condition tbat bad never before a- risen in his experience, the admiS' sion of a corpse, even though so small and pitiful a one to his car. "You can't get on with that body," he said at length. Eyes that bad been unseeing of a sudden flashed fire., The father lifted his little burden to his left arm while with bis left band he drew a revolv er. "If you) don't stand aside, and let me on here with my dead bo; I'll blow your brains out," he said simply, without passion, but with a force and intensity that 'carried con viction. "It isimposeible to get a cab," he continued, "and I'm going home. You stand aside." A half dozen passengers hurried to the platform and added their force to the argument and the con ductor suddenly changed frott and allowed the eorrowing man to . en ter. "He rode borne with . his still, white burden on his knees. ' As stated the new year brought no relief to the tired deputies of the morgues and the details of police. Anxious relatives of the unfortun ate, victims thronged the streets in front of the coroner's office and mobid crowds still hold sway at the scenVof the dreadful disaster. The exact number of the dead may nev er be. known, as many "standing room tickets" were sold and many of the- purchasers were strangers in the city. Cara Stillman, daughter of Pro fessor John M. Stillman of the Le- land Stanford Jr University of California, was among those who lost their lives-. The voting woman, with her twin sister, Mina Stillman was visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. H. Mulligan, at 28 Linden court, Chi cago. Together with her sister and ber aunt she attended the perform ance, their seats being in the bal cony. - - - : . Her ancle, E. H. Mulligan, was seen to day and made the following statement: "My nieces, with my wife, had eats in the balcony. When the fire broke out, every one in the balcony made a rush to get out and in the crash the three be came separated. My wife and Min nie made their exit by way of the fir tapAna - T . ri 1 I Pbadly bruised in eettine out. Both were nearly distracted on- reaching the open air to find that Cra had been separated, f om them. How ever; wo all kept hoping for the best, thinking she possibly : might still be alive and that we would find her in some of the hospitals. I searched all oi them and finally it became evident that the most we could hope for would be, to find the body. Even this seemed almost hopeless until I finally found her at the Horan's morgue on Eighteenth street. She was terribly. burned." Chicago, Jan. 2. When it was 12 o'clock the chimes of a Ngrth Side church tolled a dirge, and the northeast wind carried it over the hnitv.- 5 fore the first n itea hurl died away another chime farther south Bounded a mournful - intona tion. Then a hundred xbella broke forth in a mighty diapason, whode iron moans sseva to reach the gray clouds and echoed back again in Bole'mn concord. The bells tolled for an hour. A enow storm which pre vailed added to the solemnity. An intense quietness in the atmosphere itself, a holiday appearance, an i, the numerous funeral corteges as they moved slowly through the storm while the church bells were slowly tolling, combined to make the occa sion one as peculiarly cheerless as it was solemn and impressive. As the tones of the city s dugs in the scattered towers spread over the city, more paused and list ened in sorrow and awe than on any occasion in the minds of the people. Many stood " with bared heads as on the day of the burial of President BfeKtnley. . : Chicago, Jan. 2 ThelnterOceau th;s morning says that warrants have been issued for the arrest of Will J Davis end Harry Powers, proprietors and managers of the Ir oquois theatre, and George Wil ltams, city building inspector, on the criminal charge of manslaugh ter. The warranto were issued by Justice George W. Underwood at his residence after n o'clock last night, and the charges were sworn to by Arthur E. Hull, of 244 Oak wood Boulevard, who lost his wife and three children in the fire. Mrs. Hull's mother also perished. Mr. Hull's entire family was wiped out in the fire. Mr. Hull said: "My wife and my children, all I ever had to live for, are gone. All that remains is for me to make some one pay for this carelessness. A few carpenters and stage hands have been arrested. Men who sang in the cborus are in jail, ouch an investigation is a cruel mockery. the men who are responsible are allowed to walk the streets no- touched, while a few laborers a,re arrested. ' "lnm has been the. greatest ca lamity in the city's history, and the authorities most understand tbat those who have euffered ' will not wait for them to dally - along. l here must not be any pontics or favoritism in this investigation. FOUND IN AN OAK LOG. SAW STRUCK.AGAINST TOMA HAWK IN HEART OF LOG. Supposed to Have Bsen Left in the Tree by One of General Stark's 4 Revolutionary . Soldiers ' -' Arc Light Disturbs Lecturer by Talking. ' . Chester, Vi, Dec. 30. Charles North, who lives near tbe Summit, was sawing op -an oak log in the woods near his place a few days a go when, the steel teeth came in cantact with metal. The log had been felled the winter before. North abandoned the saw and resorted to the axe. After ten minutes of labor he disclosed the butt of what appeared to be a hatchev. firmly imbedded in the trunk of the tree ten inches in from the bark. A little more cut ting and the hatchet fell out, . and proved to be an Indian tomahawk covered by rust, but still in a fair1 state of preservation. North could see traces of an inscription on the blade, and carefully washing off the rust he was able to make out sever al worde. The name "Peter Snow" was vis ible where the blade bad joined tbe handle, and a little in front of this was "General Stark's Army, 1777.' There were two other words that could not be trade out aud then the words "white, squaw." A rough fine drawing of a red fox was scratched on the. reverse side of the blade, and below thai two eagles In 177 General John Stark and his Ne wham psbire militia marched from Concord, N. H , to Banning' ton, Vt., and camped lor two months near Lowell Lake, a short distance irom where tbe toinaViwk was found. H? later took part in the battle of Bennington. Many curiosities have been round near the camp, which is now marked by an old burying ground. Several years ago a resident of this place discovered under itwo leet of sou a cannon ball and a tomahawk simi lar to that found by North, but it had no luscripti: n It is believed that one of Stark's soldiers left the Weapon in the tree, and that the wood grew around it until it covered it. The oak was old and stunted, but in full vigor when felled. ing the negro in the head, poured kerosene over bis body and set it afire. ' The flames communicated to tha jail and destroyed it, together with ; eight 8 tores, two warehouses and the postoffice. The lo is loo.ooo. - Citizens have deposited : with ft. -local bank offers of rewards amount ing to $l,ooo for the arrest of th " perpetrators. In massmeeting to day the citizens passed a resolution requiring the immediate presence of Solicitor Qoarles - and a special term of court to try them. Auburn, N. Y., Dec; 30. Frank White, the Oswego murderer,, who is sentenced to die next Tuesday, has created another scene in the corridor for the condemned. Bedstead, chair, closet electric light bulb were - ail torn asunder amid the most horrible cursing ever heard by the prison men. The fragments , with the excep- , tion of one iron leg of the bedstead, were hurled at the guards. He kept the leg as a weapon end dared any body to come near him. Warden Mead and lour aeepem wi-re sum moned to tbe scene, tnJ several volunteers offered to enter the cell and subdue White. The warden would not permit any chances to be taken and order ed the hose turned on the prison er. It required fifteen minutes ap plication of the cold water cure be fore White weakened and then keeper Bites entered the cell and sprang upon White. . The others also rushed in and succeeded in handcuffing the murderer. He was removed to another cell. Prison officials think White is feigcing insanity through coward- . ice at his approaching doom. London, Dec. 30. Japan is nego tiating for two Chilian warships, the armored cruiser iiismeralda and another, probably tbe batlte ship Capitan Prat. Negotiations with other South American governments for warships are aiBO in progress. Baron Haya&bi, the Japanese min ister to Great Britain, eays: "We want more ships. Of course this is 'only a precautionary meas ure, and it may be a lot of expense all for nothing. "I have no indication of tbe na ture of the Russian Reply. I scarcely expect it will be 'delivered for some little time. ' Being asked about the Barlin despatch of December 24, saying that the British government has represented to the czar that Great Br tain ''deems Japan's demands just, and earnestly expects that Russia will grant them." ''Baron Hayashi answered tbat he was not aware of the precise action taken by Great Britain at St. Peters burg, but added: "The British government is well aware that Japan will be obliged to go to war unless Russia modifies the position she lias taken up in her last note. South McAllister, I. T., Dec. 3O, A bold bank robbery, attended by a desperate battle between citi zens'and robbers, occurred fromKio- wa, a small town lb miles of this city, 6ajly today, the robbers secur ing or destroying about $28, 000. Tne men gained entrance through a- rear window. The first charge of nitroglycerine made no impression on the safe, but the noise aroused residents of the town and Boon fifty men were congregated in the stock yards at tbe rear of the bank. A volley of shots was fired at the building and it was at once return ed by tbe sentinels of tbe robbers secreted outside. An almost in cessant fire waa kept up for half an hour, during which time the rob bers continued their efforts to open the safe. It required three discharges to force the door. The third explosion was terrific, and almost completely demolished tbe safe as well as the the interior of the bank. Paper money was blown into shreds, large quantities of mutilated bills being left by the bandits. After looting the safe tbe robbers left tbe building from tbe front and backed off in the darkness, keeping np a nre on the posse. Tbe men were followed quite a distance. It is said that one of the -fbbbers was injured. The bankXcfiicials placed their monetary loss at $28,ooo. It is be lieved that the bandits made away with only a small part of this Bum, the paper money, being almost alto gether destroyed by tbe explosion A posse of United States mar shals is in purBuit of thel robbers. Pinepple, Ala., D.'C 30 Last Wednesday P. Melton, a prominent young while man, had a quarrel with some negroes and one of them snot mm. unristmas day a negro was arrested, charged . with the shooting, and the friends of Melton it is alleged, swore vengeance. This morning at 4 o'clock a mob broke in tbe jail, and, after knock Woodbridge, N. J., Jan. 3. An explosion wrecked the hotel and hall of Joseph Galaida and more or less Beriouely injured 30 persons at Keasby , four milea from here, to- . day, while the St John's Benevo lent Society was celebrating its an iversary by a dance. There were about 500 in tbe hall and one of the two exits were closed by the wreckage. The people became panic-stricken and fought to get out, many being trampled on. and sen- . ously injured. Galaida was burned about the head and face. His wife was thrown against the ceiling and fell uncon scious to tbe floor. One of Miss Gertrude Ellon's eyes was destroy ed, ber noee broken and her jaws dislocated. She may not recover. Michael Ponger's arm was torn off at the elbow. - It is believed that some one with a grievance against 'Galaida or the society used dynamite. The walla of tbe building were blown apart and may collapse. Colombia, Mo., Dec. 30. At ar lecture at Missouri University an. arc light suddenly said "Hello," and then talked rapidly for several moments, interrupting the lecturer. It was found that the sound was due to the fact that a telephone wire had crossed the electric light wire, so that the sound was trans mitted into the arc light, the flame acting as a receiver and reproduc ing tbe veice,with startling distinct ness. The students have perfected a contrivance by which an arc light may be made to produce any sound desired. At a party given the -coeds to exhibit the invention the arc light laughed, sang and finally gave the 'varsity yell. Detroit, Dec. 30. Baby Hein- ricb, of Williams avenue, weighs exactly one pound. It was feared that tbe tiny bit ot humanity would die before it was a day old, but the baby didn't look on tbe matter in that way. The normal action of the lungs and heart was followed by a vigor ous crying spell aud tue one-pound baby seems to be uotityiug tbe household that ehe i on earth to stay, even if she is one jf the small est babies that ever arrived in Le- truit on Christmas day. Guardian's Sale. Tn the matter nf the estate of Mabel E Howe a minor, notice is hereby given that under aud in pursuance ox an oraer oi saie maae oy we County Court of Benton County, Oregon enter ed on the 25ih day of November, 1903, I, Frank L, Howe, guardian ot the person and estate of said minor, will from and after the 10th day of ' January, 1904, proceed to eell at public or pri vate sale to the highest bidder for cash In band all the estate, right, (itle and Interest which ' said minor Mabel . Howe, now has in and to the following real estate towit: Lots ten, elev en and twelve in Block 22, in the County addi tion to the Oily of Corvallis, Oregon. TbiB the 12th day ot December, le03, at Cor vallis, Oregon, - FEA.HK L HOWE. Guardian of the Estate of Mibel , Howet minor.