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Bounty Clerk's C4e art Vol. XVI.No. 40. .CORVAJLLIS, OREGON, JANUARY 13, 1901? B.F. 1KVUW Editor and Froprtotavt m SAVE MONEY- By Investing your Cash where it will . bring the Greatest Income. Our Discount On Goods sold DURING JANUARY- Will pay 3 ou to investigate. It will be a move in the right direction. All goods in every department , included in sales. A VESSEL GOES DOWN FIFTY-FOUR LIVES ARE SAC RIFICED IN THE WRECK. Our ad., but our goods change hands .'"v every day. Your money exchanged for Value and Quality is nhe idea. Big; Line Fresh Groceries Domestic and Imported; Plain and Fancy Chinaware A large and varied line. Seattle-Victoria Steamer Disabled in a Rough Sea Every Wo man and Child on the Ves- " eel Lost Life Boats Were Useless. , Seittle, Jan. 9. The Seattle-Vic (oria steamer Clallam was lost ear- ly this; mcroing midday between I Smith Island a id Dungeness Spit, at least 54 persons losing their Uvea in the disaster. Every person who I put off in the life boats, lowered when it was apparent that the steamer could not live out the ter rific gale that 'was blowing, drown ed. a At TV ."' Only those who stayed by, the vessel, fighting againtt the : tea for possession, were taved. Thesei per sons were compelled to fight desper ately for their lives, rushing ' for ward when the vessel turned on her beam ends, clinging frantically; to the rails and finally clipping off the sides of the vessel into the-water or to a lifecraft that bad been lowered. Subsequently they were picked up by the tugs Sea Lion and Hoi) oke. It was not the fault of command ing officers nor the" mefj. in charge of the lifeboats that the passen gers who toot to the ". boats were hast. Wb,en the lifeboats Vere low ered land was in sight. yet the: im potent Clallam -was unable- even tod make frndence dictated that the passen gets and such of the crew needed to navigate the boats be giving the op portunity of saving their lives by the lifeboat. That they failed to reachehore was due entirely tothe fact . 3. i i j. taat numan Birengin was uus a lee Orders Filled Promptly" and Com plete. Visit our Store we do the rest. - ' B fiornincj progress, and it seemed for a time tbat the Clallam, with the . remain der of her passengers and crew was to be saved,' r But the hungry ' seas were cot to be cheated if their prey f and etui mere Uvea were " to - be Sacrificed to the trod of the : 'waters. The hull of Ihe Clallam began to tire -way before the terrific assaslts of the waves and the strain of the 4o line completed ' the -work the was had begun, - - v-. K The' tag Sea "Lion sighted the Holyoke and her tow -boat : mid night and stood by to assist. At 13:30 the'Clallam wtnt- on her beams ' end, begans inking rapidlv. lAt 1 :u7 she settled and the tow lines Were cot. -A few mi no tee .later ehe lurched and disappeared--beneath I he waves.; Only her top works and floating wreckage remained to shew that she had ever been. - By heroic efforts, the crews of the two tugs saved the lives of nearly - ell - who had remained aboard the Clallam. A few were swept away and perish ed in the blackness of he storm, with none to heed .their shouts and criesv - ''"'1. The closing scene "in this, -' the most terrible tragedy ever known in these waters, was eight miles north of Protection Island, only a short distance north of Port Townsend and approximate 1 v 3 j mile from Victoria, The Hul yoke picked the Clallam up off Smith's Isiaod. -The survivors of the wreck were brought the steamer Dirigo.-- - -.- A MURDER COLLEGE HOW AND WHERE TO STRIKE VICTIM ; WIH KNIFE IS , TAUGHT PUPILS. Machine at Last That Is Sure to Fly-Will Go a Mile a Min- ' . . nte in Light Wind Other to on Seattle, Jan. 9. A Times special from Victoria,; B C., says: ; When the steamer Clallam brek down she was within half an hour or lees of her wharl here. The hacks head way against the galea and hotel busses were there await- J".i3 L 1 . . . r;, iDg ber, and tbeo tne news came that she bad ; been seen to stop steaming off the point with Victoria in plain view, She Lad broken down and became unmanageable. None knew what had happened. At 3:20 P. M. she was seen to slow ble prpttsl. agaihs: .the ;fttry, oth$Ljr4roan(i nd- drifted-; away : .toward elements. r - . . Rome, Jan. 2. As an instance of the way secret societies like the Ma fia are organized in Southern Italy, it is worth reporting thai7' the Ital ian police recently arrested "seventy one persons, all'membere of a secret organization called' the "Milavita," in th city of Foggia. 3 " 1 ".T - - It was discovered that ' this socie ty"' was organized ta order ' to com mit all' sot ts of cftntes, from high way robbery to kidnappiog.'r Two schools were founded', oh'e'la leaish the Way to UBe -the- .knife rani the other for pickpockets. An admia- flion fee of a few francs was charged and the members were divided into three classes and promoted fiom oner to the other by a tort of su preme court; with headquarters at Brletta. ; . r.i .i--Ar-' r-"'t -? The distinctive uniforms of : the members consisted of a red rcarf to be worn as a belt and: a -long cutl banging' down the forehead, or a green ecarf for those of a lower de gree Hfrthe society.-' If any one of the members was arretted, other members volunteered to. -give.-per? jured testimony . in his . behalf. while a few more tcor charge ot toe witnesses for the prosecution whom tney. scared by threats into refusing to testify.- A special recruiting de partment was ahu a feature of the socjety.' ; 1, ' . O. J. BL ACKLEDGE'S ire aim iwc tiewluilii 3'- : g 1 Mgfelltfl South Main Street, CORYALLIS, OR. ? : 3 I Cordially invite you to inspect my New Stock of Goods consisting of Various Musical Instruments, Bed Iionnges and Coaches, 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. .180 Sewing Machines, new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos 'tr sale and for rent. A few stoves and a few pieces of Graniteware left. E.E.WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office In Zierolf Building, Corvallis. Or A. CATHEY, M. D Physician and Surgeon. Office, Room 14, 1 First National Bank Building, CorTallis,- Or. - Office Hours, 10 10 13 a, m.a 1104p.m. Had all the passengers and crew remained On board, it is undoubted ly true that most of them would have been lost when the boat turned over and gave up the struggle. Oth ers sirooger and better able to care for themselves drowned with the re lief tugs standing by waiting to take them aboard. - The Clallam was a staunch, pew passenger boat. She left Port Town- send for Victoria - yesterday - noon, facing a- terrific southeast gale. Within sight of her destination a bugh sea overwhelmed . the little steamer,- smashing in ; her :. head lights, flooding bet hold with water, extinguishing the fires beneath her boilers and placing her at the mer cy of a bowling gale. - . ' All this happened yesterday afternoon.- The culmination of the tragedy was postponed: for several agonizing hours, . , Bravely officers and crew of the helpless hulk work ed to save the vessel,' and the 80 souls aboard, pf her, . .but in vain Staunch as she was, the Clallam could not tand the terrific on slaught.of the seas tbat raced moun tain high from the ocean and just betore darkness began to .fall, ,it was resolved to make an' attempt to save the passengers at tenet by the boats. , : Two boats were launched and ' in these some of .the passengers- were entrusted to the angry waters. The first boat contained only women and children three deck' hands from the Clallam and Captain Law rence, of Victoria, going 'off with her. The boat was overwhelmed 600 feet from the Clallam and its occupants shrieked in vain for aid from those aboard the steamer. Not a hand could be raised to aid them The second boat rowed away into the darkness. Onboard the Clal: lam men were seen as. the waves tore them from the boat, but' later she was still afloat, ' The third boat containing only men, swamped in launching. From that time the members of the crew and the few passengers wbo bad volunteered to remain a board, devoted themselves to the task of trying to save the vessel The pumps were impotent and three gangs of bailers were set to work- in spite ot their enorts, the water gained on them and they were a- bout to resign themselves to' their fate when the Richard Holyoke, one 01 tne six tugs which bad been sent to the rescue of the Clallam from Port Townsend, hove in sieht. A line was thrown aboard the tng and with her tow she. started for Port Townsend. She made fair D scovery Island, broadside to the wind. She was wallowing neavny, rolling from beam to beam in a big sea. '. : ' " Telephone messages were sent to her agent, E. E. Blackwood, ' who made great efforts to secure a tug to assist her. 'Failing, owing to the absence of available tugs and : the fact that all steamers in port were unable' to get up steam in less than five hours, he wired to Port Towns end and the Holyoke and Sea Lion were dispatched The Steamer Iroquois went trom Sidney and searched for hours without seeing anything ot her, and in the dark none knew- what bad befallen the steamer. ' Then came the news of the dieaater, and Victo ria is sorrow-sticken. Flags are at half mast, ana crowds are throng ing newspaper and: telegraph ofh COS. . .'--;'.. y . Many Victorians are among the losu N. P. Snaw ie a son-in-law of C. H." Luerin, well known in 86' attle. He owned the steamer Ven tura, and' was head of a- big - meat business in British Columbia " and Dawson. ? Captain Livingstone Thompson. was Lloyd's surveyor and a promi nent Victorian. ' He was ; an : old military man. - ; Captain Torn Lawrence was for merly ! in "the : Canadian' Pacific steam ship service,- and last year in command of the ' Yukon steamer Scotia. Mrs. Galletly and Mies Galletly were wife and daughter of the man ager of the bank of Montreal. Miss Annie Murray was a sister of E. Burns, agent of the ; Northern Pacific in Seattle.' whom she had been' visiting. ' Miss Diprose was a sister-in-law of W. L Challoner, the well-known jeweler. She was a Tacoma nurse. Mexico City, Jan. 8. At the Les Laureles mines', west of Gaudalaja ra, a large number -of boxes of dy namite which were stored in & pow der house exploded; killing 20 men and injuring 4U others. The detonation of the explosion it is believed, was heard several leagues, and an American mine- owner workiDg his mines a league away was struck by a rock and killed. ". ' . ... New York "World: The quick step music ordered by Roosevelt to hasten the march of negro veterans at his reception was not,' oddly , e nougb, the classic ditty, "All Coons Look Alike to Me." : " - . V Kalamazoo, Mieb, Jan. 3. Work has been begun here on a large air ship designed after th model of the airship invented by JameB Douglass a farmer of Texas township, near Kalamazoo, and which proVed en tirely successful oh its initial trip in this city a few days ago. The maolune wul be completed within three months, and it is the inten tion of the itfventor to sail it from Kalamazoo to St. Louis to compete in the airship contest at the Expo sition. - J; ".' '.'. ; '1 ; ' The small. model tested here last week proved so successful in its op erations that the inventor has the Greatest confidence in' the new ma chine he is having built and has in terested a number of local capital ists to finance the project. Mr. Douglass's airship is in reali ty a flying machine, - as it depends entirely upon its wicge for raising it from the ground and propelling it. No gas ie Used. ? ; r The airship now being built here is thirty-six feet in length and ' will be constructed entirely of thin sheet vst eeL JThe body of - the ma chine is Bhaped something like a cigar, the deck or upper side being flat, and is about eighteen inches in diameter and five feet wide in the widest part. . All the mechanism is placed on the deck- .The machine will be operated by two small bat powerful turbine engines, using oil for fuel. . The engines also are an invention of Mr. Douglas. -' Tn designing his airship the in ventor has followed the principle of a bird in its flight. - It is equipped with 1 four sets of double Wings, which operate in the same manner as those of ' a bird when flying. When a wing of one set is taking the downward stroke, the other wing takes what is termed ! a "dead stroke" and revolves into place- to take the downward Btroke again when the first wing ' starts : oa the "dead stroke." . Consequently one wing in each Bet is constantly catch ing; the air and propelling the ship. The wings also revolve -rapidly e nough to hold the machine in the air. The wings are. connected with a central shaft which- is revolved by the engines. All connections are bevel-gear. " f - ' The Eteering apparatus is a large sheet-steel fan, composed of several sections,' and acts like the tail of a bird. When the machine is ready to alight the tail is set at an angle wnicn caoBes ine snip to -circle a round in the air, and the slowing of the action of the wings will al low it to gently circle to the ground where it will rest on four pairs of strong steel springs, thus prevent ing jar. -h ' Judging from the speed made by his smaller model, Mr. Douglass believes that his new machine will be able to make a mile a minut in - a light wind, and that it will carry 5oo pounds in addition to its own. - weight..- - . '..'..., . The invention of. Mr; Douglass is the Iruit of thirty years of faithful study of the problems of aerial nav igation. V , very detail of the new macbino has been carefully considered, and" it is quite possible that the honor of being first to make navigation of tne air practicable may be secured . by a Miohigan man. Mr. Douglass's idea has met with the approval of many of the leading authorities on aerial navigation. ... V ' - ' . : . ' ' Philadelphia, Jan. 8. The : Re jord tomorrowwill say: .; - v " Ihe Japanese government has se cured an option oh the new Turk ish craiSer Medjidie, now beings hurried to compldtion at Cramp's shipyards.' - Both the -Russian and Japanese governments have been negotiating with the sultan for the Cruiser for a month psFt, through the Ottoman Bank, "an Euglieh corporation- in Turkey. The latter transaote nearly all the . financial business in Turkey, m-d has prac tically the control of alt the gov ernment's cash. 2' ( ':. - : " - Representatives - of Russia and Japan have been working through the bank, bidding higher and high er, as the war fever increased, until it is alleged ' the ' Japanese -offered $000,000 more than the cruiser cost, after which the Russian representa tive withdrew. . . The Medjidie cost about $2,ooo, 000, and the Cramps are under con tract to deliver her in Constantino ple, when the balance - due will be paid. Should the sale be made the cruiser will be turned over immedi- ( ately to Japanese officers, who are at Seattle awaiting orders from home to proceed to Philadelphia. .. The Medjidie on her trial trip developed a speed of 22.24 knots. The guns for ber have been made in England, and if the sale Is made will be saiurjed to. Jaoan via the Suez Canal; and - mounted in the navy yard at Yokohama.. When in commission she wilt be manned by 4oo men and will have a battery of 14 gone. 1 ' New York, Jan. 8. New York World: There was plenty of com edy in the life of 1903 which crop ped out in the news. ' - Miss Francis fettit, 01 Ualway. N. Y., recovered $3,000 at law for 1,236 kisses administered during fourteen vears by the village black smith; Mr. Pugsley, of Mount Ver non, N. Y., had his wife arrested for making mm sleep in the chick en coop. Xiegieiatora ot Dtoc&noim, as a famine measure, proposed an. avoirdupois ' tax - on all ' persons weighing over 125 pounds. Seven ty poets in Germany formed a an ion and demanded at least 1U cents per line for their verses. William W. Black, "head critic of the normal school, was tried by the trustees for the alleged inability to smile. At Oberlin college a scholarship stu dent was expelled, for kissing a pret ty "co ed." A Berlin wife got her divorce on the complaint that her huBband wore a wig and that she did not know it before marriage. In Omaba a woman tenant in a flat-house was enjoined by the court? on the landlord's application, from talking to ber neighbors. - Uenerai Miles found in a Boston bank, with increment, the dollar he deposited and forgot in 1860. Counsel in a Western divorce case invited the jury to feel the- wife's muscles for evidence that she could not nave thrown furniture about as alleged. - - There are more things in the news than are dreamed off in the big headline philosophy. . THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE S NO SUBSJJTUJZ