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Bounty fclerk's ifllil Vol. XVI. No. 48. CORVALLIS, OREGON JANUARY 20, 1904. Kdjtor and Piopitotaitv f REDUCTION f : 1 5 ALE For January. EVERY DEPARTMENT. Big Discount on Every Article. Specially Big Discount on1 DRESS GOODS LADIES' SHOES RUBBER BOOTS CLOTHING RUBBER CLOTHING. I. .h. ha; A BIG ENTERPRISE. GREAT TRACT SECURED SOUTH FOR FEEDING CATTLE. IN jj00i0aD0O0g00000O00!0O0eO00O0OBgiB8 J3BS9SI ' WE BO; NOT .OFTEN: CTMIJ, Our ad., but bur goods change hands every day. Your money exchanged vfor Value and Quality is the idea. ' Big Line Fresh Groceries Domestic and Imported. Plain and Fancy Chinavare A large and varied line. Orders Filled Promptly and Com- f plete. Visit our Store we do the 3K rest. -1 E. B Bowing 3 Swift and Armour in - ii Chicago Packers Propose to. Rid Them selves of the Expense cf Shipping The Corn Prod acts Trust Will B9 Hit. . - Chicago, Jao. 15. Te Swifts, the Armours, Nelsoo Mirris and Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, "the stockyard family." have purchased 1,000,000 acres of land in Southern Alabtma and Northern Florida. The news of the purchase has start led the s'oekyards, Lasalle '.strict aDd the railway World. ; These in terests see behind the purchase; a move intended to revolutionize the meat industiy-of America. ,4 -The great tract, it is declared, was purchased from the Louisville & Nashvil'e Railway at an average price of 3.75 an. sere, making .the total money consideration $3,750, 000. It is declared that .the great Chicago packers intend to establish on the reclaimed swamp land and the pine lands of Georgia and Flori da, the greatett cattle-feeding ground in the world, and: to escape from rates and double haul", "the lecal" rates, between Montana arid Chica go and Unicago and JNew York, in short, to rid theme elves of the great expense of shipping, and to fatten cattle on cas-ava. . -'' - . It is said,, be fore the purchase consummated, an. agreement was reached by the agents of the packers with the Alabama agricul tural commission in regard to lands which were held by the Louisvil'e & Nashville railway on government grants. The industrial comjoois- won, at ia said,-M w4n the-mo vo tife opening of a new era for the South tbe a quisit on of agreat part of the cattle raising industry of the Wesjf. Tbe fecret of the whole deal lies in one word- cassava. The -word cas sava in connection with the deal has fctartl-d the Laee le-street men and shocked, the corn-products trust. Cassava is a shrubby plant. It has a Heeh root - which produces i dible starch. It is also called ma nioc. ' It was upon this plant that the deal hinged, and it is upon this plant, so tbe authorities declare, that the future of the South now rests. The plant has been found to nourish in the regicns of Southern Alabama. It is declared to be the greatest fattening agent for cattle yet discovered. The Chicago packers have 8 greed with the Alabama agricultural Com mission, it is asserted, to plant1 the 1,000,000 acres in cassava, and to feed cattle on it. The corn-pioducts trusts is inter ested, because it is paid the packers intend, inonntction with their feeding ground, to establish great staich factories, and to manufac- ture starch and other products of the cassava root and put them in the field in competition with the coro products of the trust. childless, and he desired to contin ue the royal line. ; The royalists, headed by Empe rbr' Francis Joseph; endeavored to dissuade the duke frem taking the action he proposed, and pointed out to him that his divorce And remar riage would scandalize Catholic cir cles in Fr ar.ee, the chief eupporters of the royalist cause.' ' It at first appeared that the duke acquieced in the wishes of his fol lowers, bat he now renewe his re quest to the curia, urging the nulli fication of bis marriage on the ground that be was forced into the union. "v': " The noble woman whom the duke desires to marry is said to be Prin cess Clementine, "daughter of' Pau line, Princess de Metteroicbt-San-dor. She is described as a brilliant violinist, and one of the most fas cinating figures in Vienna, society. The report has caused a sensation in court ts, and the coarse at tributed to the duke ia severely con demned. It is said the strong de votion of tbe Archdnchess to duty is displeasing . to the duke. ; ' Tbe archduchess ha repeatedly tried to induce the duke to live as a more consistent claim to the thro.ie of France... r . It is Paid the development of the case will depend upon the decision of the curia. Duke Louis Philip Robert, bead of the Bourbon-Orleans boute. mar ried in 1896 Archduchess Mirie Dorothea of Austria. - Sto re. South Main Street, CORVALLIS, OR. 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 SaTes, -Kitchen Treasures, Dining Chairs, High Chairs, Children's Rockers, and J VM.GI AkUWKCIQ. Fine Lot Bamboo Furniture just in window Shades, Curtain Poles. It-o tewing ilichiues. Dew and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos 'ir sale and for rent. A few stoves and a few pieces ot Gruniteware left. E. E. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office In Zierolf Building, Corvallia. Or B. A. CATHEY, M. D., Physician and burgeon. Office, Room 14, First National Bank Building, Corvallis, Or. Office Honrs, 10 to 12 a, m.a 2 to 4 p. m. New York, Jan. 15. Another suit has been by formal service of papers, added to the list of actions r suiting from the collapse of the United States Shipbuilding com pa ny. The latest is one brought by the Commonwealth Trust Company of the republic, to determine its lia bility to some of its holders cf ad interim stock certificates distribut ed, it is alleged, by John W. Young who promised the underwriting in Paris. Some of the certificate hold era allege that tbe. trust company of the republic promised to ex changed their certificates for etocks and bonds, but the Trust Company's successor, it has been asserted, re pudiated the alleged promise, and desires the matter to be settled by the eupreme court in a blanket ac tion. - 1 Whatcom, iWaah-, Jan. 16. -r While drying sime new powder of his own invention in the, building which he uses as a postoffice.'at Ge neva, last evening, foBtmaster U. W. Slater, set -it -near, .the .stove. When tbe explosion came, it blew tbe' postmaster and - Mrs. ; Frank Hatt, who- were:: in the-building, through a window, took tbe rear of the , building out. and so badly burned Mrs Slater that she started for a nearby lake with the inten tion of throwing herself into the water,-but-was.ught wby-.psople. rushing to the scene and forcibly prevented. KENNEDY NOT GUILTY, JURY BRINGS IN VERDICT OF t ACQUITTAL. Decision Rendered in Early Morn ing Engiueers Report Against Further Improvement of Yaquina Bay. . Hillsboro, Or., . Jan. 17. Rev. Richard H. Kennedy, the Congre gational oinister, has been acquit- iea 01 tne cnarge 01 having entered the house of E. H. Warren, aelight distance east of Hillsboro, on tbe early morning of September 1, and committing a. burglary. ..The., jury was out untu about 4:30 this morn ing, .when, they agreed and signed a sealed verdict. .... : .. .. . Just as soon, as it was known tba. an agreement bad been effected Mr. Kennedy was apprised of the fact. It bad come. to light that . the . ver dict, was acquittal, and the minis ter was greatly .affected Court convened this mornineand the. verdict was read in he presence of the defendant and. tbe , attorneys for tbe state and defense., The street report has it that the first ballot elood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. Salem, Or., Jan. 16. The su preme court at 2 o'clock this after coon denied a petition for the writ of probable cause in tbe case of the state of Oregon vs. Pleasant Arm strong. The only course tbe de fense now has to pursue is to take the cate to the Federal court by a writ of habeas corpus, j Albanv, N. Y., Jan. 16. Attorr cey , General Cunnen has received a communication from a man -in Michigan, who inquires whether e lectrocutioh is an effective punish ment for the crime of murder. The attorney-general in , reply , stated that so far as he is aware no man who bas suffered ' that punishment ever again committed murder or any other crime. : Chicago, Jan. 16. A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Winne mucca, Nev., eays: Workmen en gage! in digging gravel here have uncovered, at a depth of about J2 feet, a number of bones that once were parts of the skeleton of a gi gantic human being. Dr. Samuels pronounced them tbe bones of a man who must have been nearly 11 feet in height. is corn- Vienna, Jan. 15. The Allge- meine utang says that Duke Phil ip of Orleans is seeking a divorce. and that be ha9 petitioned the cu ria for a dispensation to enable him to marry, the daughter of a great American noble. The Allgemeine Zeituog asserts the duke consulted the leading members of the royalist party last summer,' and informed them of his intention, giving as a reason that his present union was Salem, Or., Ja.n. 13. State Prin ter Whitney has just completed the task of setting up and running off 1500 copies cf the general laws, as enag&ed by the special session of the' legislature. The book posed of onlv 50 pages. He is now ready to go to work on the special laws, which will make about 200 pages. The journals of the two branches of the session will not be ready for the printer for la bout two months. The 43d volume of tfce Oregon Supreme Court Reports is now in the hands of the state prin ter, and is well under way. For the first time in several years the eupreme court reports are being set pp by hand composition, they hav ing heretofore been set up by ma chine. The hand composition' is the more expensive by about $250 or $350 per volume, but more satisfactory. Upholstering. Lounges, Couches, Desks, Folding Etc., made to order. ' Particular attention given to special orders and re pairing. : All work guaranteed. One door south pf R. M. Wade's, Main street. "W. W. Holgate, Washington, D. C, Jan. 16. Copies of the report of the special boaM of army engineers, recom mending against further appropria tions for extending the jetties at the entrance ' to Yaquina rSiy, have just been received from tbe printer. It was the report 01 this board that was approved by tbe engineer board of review and by the chief of engin eers, and the unanimous recommen dation will, no doubt, p-event any further appropriation, for j tty work at Yaquina; at least o far as the present congress is concerned. . rTHer board," which :.consistpd of Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Heaer, Miior John Millis and Major W. u LingSit, reviewed the history of the Yaquina improvement, showing that from the commencement. of the work in 188oup to i894, $685,ooo was .made available for improving this waterway. Two converging jetties were built of rubhleBtone, the north being 2, 800 feet long and the South 374 feet long. The outer ends were kept at a distance of lboo feeti The project contemplated a resulting depth of 17 feet at high Water, a gain of 7 feet over previous existing depths. This increase was obtained in 1892, and . has since been practically -maintained. ' At times this depth is for very short periods. Decreased a foot or two through severe storm action, afterward to be again recov ered. ' At the time of the visit of the board the least depth on the bar was somewhat over ,17 feet at mean high water. The crest of this bar is found about 25oo feet beyond the end of the jetties. At about 2ooo feet inside the line joining these ends, is found an inner bar with about sixteen feet depth at mean low water, and farther up the bay there are other shoals sepaiat- lng areas of deeper water. In oth er words, should much increase in depth of water be obtained on the out er bar improvement of these inner bars or shoals would also ba neces sary, ' adding a very considerable item of expense. The total area of harbor room ov er 18 feet in depth is only about one-third of a square mile, and much cf this area is too narrow, for anchorage' room. Since the last work of jetty extension in 1894-5 there has been but little money a vailable for maintenance, . and such work was really not considered ne cessary. As a result, trestle, ap proaches, wharves, etc., through natural causes of decay, are now practically worthless for any fu ture operations. The plant, being largely worn-out at cessation of op erations, is nearly worthless andof antiquated patterns. The ' rabble mounds forming the jetties have so far maintained themselves in efficient condition, though the outer eads for some distance have been beaten down by the sea. This is, of course, unavoidable and to be expected. Between the ends .of the jetties and the crest of She bar and extend ing directly across tbe channel is found bed rock, tbe depth to which at mean low water is but 18 to 19 feet. To get' a channel entrance of greater depth than this would re vjuire toe removal ot a very largen area of this rock at a corresponding ly great cost.. Particularly, then. - f . : t 1- .. us JICBCUUB Ul MllS root . iimus WSJIe amount of improvement obtaina CORVALLIS MAN ABROAD. W. A, Wells Writes Interestingly afc Tucson, Arizona and His Visit There. 1 To "The Times: "' ; ' On the 9 th day of last December, I took the C. & E. train at Corval lis, with Tucson, Arizona, as my destination, the temporary, change) of location being ' for reaeons - of health. It was on Sanday morn ing, the 13th, that I arrived here, and went 10 Hotel St, Augustine, . building that was formerly a church of the same name, until I could se cure permanent apartments in a more quiet quarter. Iam now at 141 South Stone avenue, Tucson. Arizona. Tucson is one of the oldest cities in the United Slates, and a place with a" past rich in anecdotes of the- adventures of the Spani-b conquer ors and of the American invaders who came to the South west after the Gadsden porchase. As earl v. as 1649 the missionaries from - Sonora penetrated Arizona as far: north . as . the Gala river and established mis sions at Tubac and Xavier. ! Tbe old Xavier mission was established by Jesuit priests in 1649. Tbe old church is a very interesting struc ture wth its decorations of the sev enteenth century, its wall paintingsj its fantastic facade, and half ,rUined towers. In the valley, nine miles, north of this old church, or. mis sion, the Spaniards built a post to protect their settlements from the Apache invasion's, ' and the small village, which grew up around the soldiers' barracks was called - Tuc- . eon, a name which tbe Indians ap plied to the watering place in the' valley near the town. Tucson re mained an outpost for almost two hundred years, peopled by the most'' venturesome Mexicans and. SpanJ iards. - ... ' ... In 1853 came the Gadsden pur chase, which added the territory in which -Tucson is located to' the United States. This was followed by an American invasion, and Tuc goo became a station for the over lard mail and tbe largest and most important trading post in Arizona, a distinction which she - has held down to this day. On many occa sions after the American occupa tion the savage Apaches terrified the inhabitants of the town and were driven off by the troops , sta tioned at Tucson and the forts in. the valley. In 1884 the Southern Pacific railroad was completed, the soldiers marched away and the Americanizing and mcdenrizing of Tucson began. Tucson, the social and commercial center of Southern AiizoDa, is situated on the main line of the S. P. railway, about midway across the territory. It is about 300 miles east of Los Angeles. It has direct connections with El Paso and New Orleans By the S. P. Railway, with St. Louis by the Iron -Mountain and Texas and Pacific to El Paso. The city of Tucson nes tles at the foot of the Tucson moun- . tain?, on tbe western edge of abroad and beautiful valley. It has an al titude of 24oo feet above sea level, and its atmosphere is always dry and pure, on tne north and east, at a distance varying from ten to thir- " ty miles, are mountains, reaching a height of more than 10,600 feet. On . account of the clearness of the air these mountains eeem marvelouely close. During the day there is a contin ued play of light and shade across them, aod in the morning and ev ening they are bathed in a flood of mellow colors, whose varying shades one never tires of .watching. Such a wealth of .beautiful coloring ia never seen except in high altitudes, with an atmosphere f reniaikable purity, and is almost i.yond the conception of one wr o has always lived in the prosuc iiiast. Tucson . is known far and wide for two quite distinct reasons: First, as a pleas nre and health resort, and second, as tbexenter of the extensive agri cultural stock-raising and mining industries of southern Arizona. It is ' claimed for the nine colder months of the year Tucson is an ideal city in which to live. The cli mate may be compared to that of Italy. There is but little frost. The sun shines nearly the whole time; and raidy days are extremely rare. Flowers bloom during the entire winter, and much of tbe shrubbery Concluded on Fourth Page.