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WEEEL' Vol. XVI. No. 48. CORVAL.LIS, OREGON. JANUARY 23, 1901. b. r. ntTiirai - Editor and Propria . m m SAVE MONEY. By Investing your Cash where it will bring the Greatest Income. 7 . Our Discount On Goods sold DURING JANUARY Will pay you to investigate. It will be a move in the right direction. All goods in every department included in sales m GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN WE DO NOT OFTEN CHAW Our ad., but our goods change hands every day. Your money exchanged for Value and Quality is the idea. Big Line Fresh Groceries Domestic and Imported. J Plain and Fancy Chinaware A large and varied line. e m a Orders Filled Promptly and Com plete. rest. Visit our Store we do the B Horning ECCENTRIC GENIUS DIES OP HEART DISEASE - IN NEW YORK. I O. J. BLACKLEDGE'S f Store. South Main Street, CORVALLIS, OR. Cordially invite you to inspect my New Stock of Goods consisting of Various Musical Instruments, Bed Lounges 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 Cbairs, Children's Rockers,- and Many Styles of Other Kockers. Fine Lot Bamboo Furniture jnst in Window Shades, Curtain Poles. ' iso Sewing Uachines, new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos 'or sale and for rent. A few stoves and a few pieces of Graniteware left. E. E. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office In Zierolf Building, CorsalHs. Or B. A. CATHEY, M. D., Fhysician and Surgeon. Office, Room 14, First National Bank Bnilding, Corvallis, Or. Office Honrs, 10 to ia a, m., 1 to 4 p, m. His Successful Caieer Author of Forty BxksNebraka Pretty School Teachers Struck . With the Mttrimouial ! Epidemic Other .. -News. New York, Jan. 19. George Francis Train, who died lst night at Mills Hotel, No. 1 Bletker Etreet, probably was una of the most, pic 1 tureeaue figures in ; the history of America. Only a year sgo, when hp was then 74 years old, he die tated the reminiscences of his ex traordinary career, and the result was publ shed in book form. Sum marized in bis own carious fashion, this contained the following in formation about bis career: ; "Shipping clerk, 16; manager, 18; partner in Train & Co.,2j, with income 01 10,000. ... r: : "Established firm of George Fran ciB Train & C, Melbourne, Aua tralis, 1653; aaent White StarLine, income, $9o,ooo. . Started 4o clip pers to California in 1849. Boilt railrrai connecting Erie with Ohio and Mississippi. ' Pioneered the. first street rail way inEurope, America, Australia and England. Built first Pacific railway, 1862-69, through Credit Mobilier.' Owner 5,ooo lo's in O mabaAwortn $0,000,000. iJee.i . in 15 jails, without any crime." G 078 Francis Train was born in Boston, March 24, 1829. tils par ent?, wit 1 several brothers and bis- ters, died at New Orleans from yel low fever, and bis childhood home wa on his grandmother's farm in Massachusetts. Not long after en tering the Boston shipping house founded by his cousin, be went' a broad, and from that time on be wandered, all over thevglobe. In 1873 he began a career as lec turer and agit-j'or, and held public debates with some of the ablest or a tors in the country, A few years ago he made a trip around the world in 67-i days, saying after wards that bis psychic force enabled him to overcome all obstacles. When Mill 8 Hotel No. 1. was op ened several years ago, Mr. Train went there to live, and since then made it his headquarters. One of the features of his eventful life wai bis admiration for children, and for years a familiar spectacle in Madi son Square was "Citizen" Train on a bench surrounded by a group of little ocf&. Mr. Train's aat misadventure occurred last summer, when he was quaraniiot d at Stanford, Conn., in a smallpox isolation camp, and threatened that city with a suit of $5o,ooo damages. He was the au thor of at least iohooks, and fre quently asserted that his "psychic powers" eventually " would make him the most potent sovereign of the earth. x Mr. Train may fairly be describe ed as an erratic genius. ' lie pro fessed to be ruled by an imaginary being called fe-yeno, and to be a believer in psychic force. He was a strict vegetarian, and often went tor several days without food. He talked in short, jerky, incomplete sentences, omitting all the small words, and wrote in the same style. always in red and blue pencil, in a large angular band. He had a great aversion to shaking hands, and the closest approach he would make to it was to clasp his own bands to gether. All these eccentricities caused him to be charged with insanity on one occasion, but lie fought the charge with great bitterness and a- bility, and won. The cause of bis death was heart disease, following an attack of acute nephritis. - Omaha, Neb., Jan. 2. Cupid has invaded the ranks of Nebraska school teachers so often of late that the state officials are seriously con sidoring ipjunctionroceedings. "it is aonoice Detween recourse to the law or dispensing with edu cation till the matrimonial epidem ic abates," declared State Senator Pemberton, of Beatrice, to Attorney-General F. N. Prout at the etate capitol yesterday. "At Beat rice teachers cannot be had to in struct oar children. Marriage ie responsible. All the pretty teach ers are marrying, notwithstanding they have contracts to . teach the year out. I don't understand why Hi-.": : . .;,y....-, s: - ''Nebraska never had so many pretty teachers before," was the ex planation ventured by Superintend ent Pearse, of Omaha. " "The present generation of young men realize . that teachers make good housekeepers," -Superintendent Fowler, of Lincoln, stated. The three educators to d the at torney get eral of the shortage of teachers, 'and asked if legal remedy can be had to prevent further an noyance from matrimony .among them. " . : "When a teacher signs a contract she can -be compell-d to keep it," was the attorney-general s advice. "You can't enjoin the-young rren from marrying the girls 00 the board of education pay-rolls,- bat mandamus proceedings will com pel the young- women to live. up to their contracts." A test case will be made of the next marriage planned. ; GROWING MORE VICIOUS EDUCATION MAKES THETNE GRO WORSE SAYS GOVER NOR VARDAMAN. Sioux City,- la., Jan. 20. Rev. Andrew Moe, pator of the Metho dist church at McLean, Neb., hear ing the nitroglycerine explosions with which robbers were wrecking the safe of the MoLan State hank early this morning, got np, dressed and with shotgun started - to prospect. He saw two men with Winchesters patroling the street, while two oth ers were working on the safe. He roused Emil Bjbler, Charles Bar rows and George Jenka and going to a hardware store presently emerg ed armed. Posting themeelyes, they began firing rapidly toward the bank. The four robbers were lined up and returned the fire. . The rest of the villagers were awakened and hurried to the streets, when the robbers took to their heels. They got away with $5oo, which " was found in the outer safe, and miss mg three times as much more m inner compartment. The robberB escaped. San Francisoo, Jan. 2o. The greatest fight in the history of the Bait trade on the Pacific coast is now at its height. Conflicting in terests are warring for the control of tbe market. - On one side is what is left of the old combination known as tbe Fed eral Salt Trust, now known as the Imperial Salt Company. On .the other side is the Amalgamated Salt Company, which includes in its membership the owners of many salt works around the Bay of San Francisco. The market for salt has fallen so low by reason of the war that no more quotations are made in tbe open. A cargo ot salt was brought from Mexico. The market in tbe North had some of this salt. That which was sold in San Francisco is reported to have cost $9 per ton, in cluding duty and freight, and was put out at a rate of $).5o aton. It is reported that the Amalga mated company has on band some thing like loo,ooo tone of salt and tha Imperial company has remain ing of the Old Mission Kocfc sup ply 3o,ooo tons. It is claimed by the Amalgamated people that when the salt trust was dissolved the old magnates of the Federal. Salt Com pany went over to the Imperial company and tried to control ' the salt market which eventually led to ODen war". As a Race, Negro Is Deteriorating Morally Every Day Terrible Explosion aud DeathsXat , : Steel Works. X Jackson, !Mis8., Jan. 19. In his inaugural address delivered today before a joint session Of tbe Missis sippi legislature, Governor James K. . Vardaman declared that the growing tendency of the negro to commit criminal, assault on white women, is nothing mure or less than the manifestations of the racial de Eire for social equality.. In strong terms he declared that education is the curse of the negro race, and urged an amendment to the Btate constitution that will place the dis tribution of . the common school funds entirely within the power of the legislature. Continuing his dis cussion of the negro question, Gov ernor VsrJaman said: As a race be is deteriorating morally. Time has demonstrated that he is more criminal , as a free man than as a slave: that he is in creasing in criminally with fright ful rapidity, being oae-tbird more criminal in 189j than he was in 1880. - The startling facts revealed by the census show that those who can read and write are more criminal than tbe illiterates, which is troe of no other element of our popula tion. I am advised that the mini mum illiteracy among the negroes is found in New England, where it is 21.4 per cent. The maximum is found in the black belt, Louisiana, Mississippi, and . South Carolina, where it is 65. t per C9nt: and yet the nero in New England is four a pd one-h alfjimes "more . cri minal, hundred for hundred, than he is in the black belt. In the South, Mississippi partic ularly, I know he is growing worse every year, iou can scarcely pick up a newspaper whose pages are Dot blackened with the account ofan unmentionable crime committed by a negro brute, and this crime, want to impress upon you, is but the manifestation of the negro's as piration for social equality, encour aged largely by the character free education in vogue, which state is levying tribute upon white people to maintain. " "The better class of negroes not responsible for this terrible eon dition, nor for the criminal tenden cy of their race. Nor do I wish New York, Jan. 20. The body of George Francis Train, who died early yesterday morning, has been removed from Mills Hotel to a mor tuary chapel, where it will lie in state until the funeral hour tomor- mow. Thousands of children, in whom Mr. Train displayed remark able interest, are taking a farewell view of the remains. The funeral will be private and the interment will be made in Greenwood cemete ry. Of bis once considerable for tune, Mr. Train retained nothing personally except , the interest he had in 3ooo lots he once owned in Omaha, Protracted litigation has taken place about them, and will, it is said, bs continued by his daughter. San Francisco, Jan. 2o.-The jury in the case of Martha E. Bow ers, on trial on the charge of murd ering her husband, Martin Bowers, brought in a verdict tonight of murder in. the first degree, and fix ed the penalty at imprisonment for life. of the the to be understood as censuring there for it. I am not censuring anybody, nor am I inspired by ill-will for the negro; bet I am calling attention to a most unfortunate and unendur able condition of affairs."" What shall be done about it? "My own idea is that the charac ter ot the education for the negro ought to be changed. If, after years of earnest effort and the ex penditure of fubulous sums of man ey to educate his head, we have on ly succeeded in making a criminal out of him, wisdom could suggest that we make another experiment and see if we cannot improve him bv educating his hand and his heart. "There must be a moral substrat um upon wmcn to nuud, or vou cannot make him a desirable citi zen." - The governor also declared that the people of the nation should rise up and demand the repeal of the 15th amendment. . eral are in a critical condition. --' : A large water Dine burst, and iar . flooding the ground about the scenae of the accident. One man caught in the debris is in plain sight, bat cannot be rescued, owing to the in tense heat. It is probable that not " one fifihe men penned in can -escape death either by - drowning oc fire. -, . ' , . "- - . . . . At 2:40 o'clock it was said the in- jured will number 25 or more, many 01 wnom arefiterriDiy scalded and cannot live. Two bodies have beer' recovered. , The accident oocurred just as tha turns were being changed, and was the result of the engine in the mill running off as the result of the gov ernor belt breaking. The wheel was aoout dU teet in diameter, and exploded with terrific force, smash ing into a large steam basin that' ran along the roof of the building and caused it to burst. The entire xopt was caved in, and the whole"" mill is a complete wreck. - - Inelorceof the extloron, ac cording to the men who ip ere work ing mjjae mill, wax terrific. Large girders were twi.-ted out of shape and everything is a tumbled mass of ruins. How many men may be buried in the mass, it is now im possible to tell and it will be sev eral hours U fore definite informa tion can be secured. There were 5O men at work in No. 2 mill and few of them escaped without at least some injury. The fact that the victims are foreigners complicates the enumeration of the dead and injured, One millwork--er, who was near" No. 2 mill, but far enough away to escape the force of the explosion, says he saw men writhing on tbe ground amid the wreckage, rolling over in the names -while others appeared to be almost submerged in the deluge of water pouring from tbe broken mains. rwo ot the victims in the hospital are Americans, one of whom is be yond all hope of recovery. Neither , of the. Americans has been identw '. fied. " Such devastation has not been seen around'the plant ofthe "Cam-" ona Steel Company since the Johns town flood, when the entiie plant was submerged and practically all the valuable machinery wrecked, Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 2O. The east-bound train on the Delaware. Lackawaona & Western, which left here at 10. o'clock last night, be came stalled in tbe snow - at Sum mit, and was unable to move until nearly noon today. The trolley line to Auburn was forced to suspend. business. x Heavy drifting Enow baa paralyzed all the railroads except the main line of the New York Central, where trainB are late. Tbe worst blockade in recent years prevails on the Rome, Watertown dcOgdensburg road. Trains are JGV to 15 hours-late, and many have! been abandoned. The road between Watertown and Syracuse is com pletely closed, no train having nndQAl Avar tViA lino iinnavMfArftair .' - " I J afternoon. Several trains are stall ed in snowbanks 1 near Richland, and every snow plow is in use to release them. Bloornfountain, Orange River Col ony, Jan. 19. It is announced to- . day that 60 persons were drowned, in a cloudburst which occurred Sunday. It destroyed'many build ings in the vicinity and did oth er great damage. Twenty-four bod ies have been recovered. Johnstown, Pa., Jan. 21. An immense steam pipe directly over the engine in the boiler room of No. 2 mill of the Cambria Steel Compa ny exploded about i:30 this morn ing, bringing down the whole sec tion of roof running from tbe pud- -dling mill to the finishing shed of tbe mill, the woodwork at once took fire from the furnaces, and at this time is burning fiercely. The number of dead is placed at 14. It is known that at least two or three men are under the debris, and it is not believed that these can be res cued in time to save their lives. About 15 men have been taken out, and have been either sent to the hospital or are lying on cots in offices near by. It is impossible at present to learn the extentNf their For Sale. O. E, Grubbers. 3est in Oregon; three state premiuma; one horse has tha power of 99; can grub an acre a day. James Finney, Brooks, Or THE OLD RELIABLE v Absolutely Pure, THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE