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ft IK VI V Vol. XVI. No. 51. CORVALLIS, OREGON. FEBRUARY 10. 1904. r. t. ntTnra Editor and Proprtetas WW 4 151 3T .AJiTXD Smu-' BI WILL BE FREE IN JULY OddsMiEnds FOR February Remnants Dress Goods Remnants Silks Big Bargains in Ladies' Fine Shoes Discount in all Corsets. MRS MAYBRICK IN CONVENT ' UNBEKNOWN TO ITS INMATES. ... hxrxos30ooBooooogioooooooooaKo S WE BO NOT: OFTEN cSWQE 8 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. Plain and Fancy Cbinaware A large and varied line. Orders Filled Promptly and Com plete. Visit our Store we do the rest. E. B Gornins New Furniture And Music Store. SOUTH MAIN ST. CORVALLIS, OR. ' I Cordially invite you to inspect my New Stock 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, Go Carts Goods consisting of 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. '. New Line of Wall Paper. Also Sewing Machines, new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos tor sale and for rent. A few stoves and a few pieces of Graniteware left. O. J. BLACKLEDGE. E. E. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office In Zierolf Building, Camilla. Oi B. A. CATHEY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office, Room 14, First National Bank Bnilding, Corvallis, Or. Office Hours, iw lu , in., x iu4p, m. Home Where She la Completing Sentence la the Resort of Ma , ny Titled Women Exten- sive Fire in the City; of Baltimore. '.-.'-. .. - - . London, Feb. 6. Mr8. Maybrick ia serving oat the last few months of her life sentence 'for the killing r 1 1 1 3 z 1 ...... -a. ill HHr uuMinftuu. in iiirr uumii .1 1 1 1 1 1 . try home of the Sisters of the E-'Prjson warden is DiDhanv at Eruro. Cornwall. under ibncktne.s,8ters an assumed ' name and with - her identity completely hidden. . She is guarded from communication with the outside world as jealously as if she were still in Ayelsbury prison, r Though the fresh Cornwall air is I bringing the color back to her cheeks the strain of her fourteen years of confinement, commencing with the imposition of the death sentence, passed under the severe discipline of various prisons, is the only out ward sign she shows 01 her ordeal. Even the Sisters with whom she as sociates and the servants have no idea that she really is Mrs. May brick. She wears an ordinary black dress, with a white frill at her throat. She occupies a pleasant, simply forniehed room in the home and rises at 6. o'clock each . morn ing. - Though a free agent in many ways, she is obliged to conform to the strict discipline of the' convent. She takes her meals in silence and and is not allowed to converse ex cept on religious subjects during the day. At that time, when for an interval the Sisters are permitted to talk of mundane things, Mrs. May brick retires to her own room.,, She must be in bed - by 9 o'clock. No newspapers are allowed her, and only such books as are given her by the Sisters. At first newspapers were surreptitiously supplied her. but it Was discovered and a severe reprimand followed. During part of the day Mrs Maybrick works in silence in the sewing room with the Sisters, who make all their own clothing. Last Sunday she attended services in the Truro cathedral, and she has been allowed to walk about the town ac companied by one of the Sisters. Mrs. Maybrick is supposed to be recovering from an attack of in flu enza and passeB merely as one of the many visitors to the Sister hood, who pay for their acoommo dation. She will- remain in charge of the Sisters until she is released next July, though before that time, when toe weatner improves, she will be removed probably to the convalescent home, under the same management, which is located in one of the wildest spots on the Cor- msn coast. - In her present sanctuary Mrs, Maybrick appears to be happy by comparison. The prison fare and discipline is almost as complete as the perfect freedom of the large, beautifully kept grounds surround ing the Sisterhood building, which overlooksthe sleepy-like cathedral town of Truro, where the breezes Bweep from the Cornish moorsand coast. . . Many members of the English aristocracy are inmates of the borne. The Mother Superior of the Sister hood is Hon. Miss Dalrymple, while several other Sisters,1 under only their Christian nnmes, conceal well-known patronymics. The Sisterhood of the Epiphany constantly receives within its walls titled women who wish to find tem porarily rest from the world in a religious retreat, and hence Mrs. May brick's arrival caused no com ment. She was driven from the Truro railway station to the home in Miss Dalrym pie's private carriage and remained in strict incognito for nearly a fortnight. The Acting Mother Superior is one of the few who know of the identity of the vis itor, and she guards her from all in terviews and a vigilance worthy an old time abbess. This Sister abso lutely refused to con veya letter or a message to- Mrs. Maybrick from a representative ot the Associated Press. A rescuehome for ; fallen girls and a laundry for tbeir employ ment is carried on in connection with the Epiphany convent. Un til now the Sisters who know Mrs. Maybrick's identity have evaded in quiries regarding her by statin she was not in the rescue, home which is quite correct, as Mrs. May brick had nothing to do with this department of the convent. Mrs. Maybrick's. somewhat an omalous status was explained aa fol lows to the Associated Press repre sentative by one of the chief officials of the Epiphany Order: . V . V ; ' "Mrs. Maybrick 1b still a prisoner and has not even been released on ticket of leave. Those in charge of her are practically her jailers, and all communication with her is for bidden except through the home secretary.?' v , These appear to be textually the official instructions which accom panied Mrs. Maybrick on her de parture from Aylesbury prison. . No with Mrs. May being implicitly intrusted . with her safekeeping, which fact is generally regarded as constituting an unprecedented in dulgence to a prisoner. The Baroness de Roques will, it is said, come to Truro later in ord er that she may be near her daugh ter. ; ' MISS CLAYBORNE SHELDON RELATES HER EXPERI ENCE IN CITY OF NEW YORK. Ithaca, Feb. 3 111 from typhoid fever a year and finally suc cumbing to tne disease on the -anniversary of her taking ill was the fate of Miss Leona Ireland, who died today at the city hospital. Mtss Ireland's case was the most notable of the many growing out of the typhoid epidemic of a year ago that have puzzled local physicians and the medical faculty of Cornell University. During her year's ill ness Miss Ireland suffered every complication of typhoid fever known to medical science. She died from hemorrhage of the stomach. Her body was wasted to lees than fifty pounds.- . The Dalles, Or., Feb. 5. News reached this city tonight of a shock ing hunting accident which occurr ed near Ay gh Valley a few - days ago in consequence of which Clark Doughton, of that neighborhood, has lost his life. A party of hunters, including Doughton, and George Moody, also of tbat place, started early in the week for a few days' trip in the timber. The second morning out, while hunting in thick brush, Mood saw an animal resembling a cougar moving in the undergrowth some distance ahead of him and tired at it. The shot apparently taking no effect, on firing a second time Meody was horrified to find that he had shot his friend Dough1 ton. The animal proving to be Douehton's dog. The wounded man was carried immediately to Tygh, where he died today. He left a wife and three children. Moody, who is one of the most-prominent and best re' spected citizens of that commanity is said to be distracted over his ter rible mistake. - SOLD A FARM. ROBBER CABMAN. Buying Cattle Loss of Stock Feared King's Valley News. Farmers here have been plowing and some seeding has been done. Joe Brown was in the valley last week buying mutton sheep. He paid three cents per pound. - Protracted meeting has been held at the United Evangelicrl church for the last two weeks. W. L Price is converted. . Lloyd Cheooweth has sold his farm to tiuaa Alcorn. J. he price was $2500. Tom Alexander announces the ar rival of a boy. Mrs. Ieabell visited her new grandson, Saturday. ' Spaulding logging crew has been clearing the banks of the Luckia mute of saw logs 'with a donkey engine. They completed their work at Hoskins last week and have returned the engine to camp. The hills are covered with snow, and snow has fallen in the valley, bnt melted as fast as it fell. Should the present cold rain and enow continue very long the loss of cattle and sheep will be heavy. On some places feed has not been good, and cattle and sheep on grass are in poor condition. TJno, New York Officer Arrests Guilty Driver Upon Vague Descrip , tion A Hard Fight With Fifteen Woolves. New York, Feb. 5.-A cabman. known as Moffatt, has just been held for trial on a charge of robbery made by Miss Clayborne Sheldon, of Buffalo, who told the magistrate a remarkable story of hex arrival here as a stranger, and her attempt to reach a reputable Broadway Ho tel through the medium of a cab. Miss Sheldon came from Buffalo January 15, she said, to seek a po sition, having achieved at home something of a reputation as a vo calist. She had been directed to an uptown hotel, but at the Weehawken terminal of the railroad took the ferryboat for Franklin street, in stead of West Forty-second, and landed down town. "I told the first cabman I met that I wanted to go to the hotel," said she. J "He said it would cost $5 and I got into the cab. - I do not know how many miles I was driven, bat hours passed, and it seemed to me as if I had made the circuit of the city several times. Every time I spoke to the cabman he said that we were getting near the hotel. , I could not understand what the cabmen meant, and after we had paesed a familiar corner, I stopped the cab, determined to get out. Where am I?' I said. 'You are near the hotel,' he replied. " 'Well, I will walk the rest of the way,' I said; then I tried to get out. The cabman seized me, and forced me into the seat. 1 "You will not leave this cab," said he, "until you pay me $100.' I aeked what for, and he told me to give up the mocey to avoid trouble. I screamed and he seized me by the throat. ' He told me to keep quiet for my own good, but I kept on fighting as well as I could. Then he threw a handkerchief over my face. I think it was saturated with chloroform. It made me sick. I ceased to struggle, and do not re call anything until some time after ward I found myself lying in a gut ter; I was dazed and sick. After a while I was able to walk, and found that I was at 1 Forty-ninth and Eighth avenue, two miles from the hotel." The woman immediately sought a policeman, to whom she told her story. She had been robbed of all her money, $45, a nag worth iflo, her watch, and many small articles. Perhaps the most remarkable part of the affair, which had occurred in a street which is crowded night and day, then developed. From the woman's description the policeman immediately recog nized the cabman, and set out to find him. He had just arrested Moffat in a distant part of the city and learned be had retired from the cabdriving profession January 16, the day after the holdup. The officer fully confirmed bis part of the adventure, and Moffat was id en tilled in court by the complaintant Baltimore, Feb. 7. The ' fire " which broke out at a few minutes before 11 o'clock this morning in the wholesale dry goods house - of John T. Hurst & Co., has raged with unrestrained fury continuous ly ever since and at midnight it is still unchecked, but is steadily consuming its , way westward on Baltimore Btret, afterhaving de stroyed all the large' stores and warehouses in the wholesale dis trict around Hopkins Place, and all the buildings on both sides of Baltimore street from Howard to Holiday streets, and Charles and Baltimore to Lexington, and on Fayette street to Charles to Holi day, including a total of about 20 blocks of the most modern and sub- ' stantial buildings in Baltimore, in volving a loss which cannot now be estimated, but which has cer tainly already reached $3ojooo,ooo or $4o,ooo,ooo. Ever since about 6 o'clock, when, darkness came, the fire department, although aided by engines from Washington, Philadelphia, Wil mington and the surrounding sub- urbs, has been utterly powerless to make an effective resistance to the consuming element, -though for hours as many as 400 streams of water were thrown into the flames. At 7 o'clock the situation was so desperate that Chief Horton decid- , ed that the only, thing left to do was to dynamite buildings at threat ened points and thus prevent, as far as possible, a further spread ot tha flames. - - - '. ; . In pursuance of this plan, a num ber of buildings on South s Charles street between Gorman ' and Lorn-, bard were blown up. Subsequently the splendid structure of J, W. Putback, notion dealer, at Charles and Fayette streets, were dynamit ed, and then the Daily Record building. Roes' drug store and oth ers. However, this heroic remedy- merely delayed, but did not serious- ly impede the onward march of the conflagration and tor two hours of more the fire department was prac tically helpless and resourceless in the face of the roaring furnaces which Bent their fierce tongues in the air and which filled the heav- ens first with a pall of black funer- eal smoke and then with livid sheets of sparks and lurid cinders. The whole city was notified of the fire by a terrific explosion soma minutes after n o'clock. - A sharp splitting roar went up with rever berating thunder. This was follow ed by a peculiar whistling noise, like that made by the ebrill wind.: The-churches in the central see- tion of the city were filled with worshippers, many of whom . be came frightened and, though no panic ensued, hundreds of men and women' left their seats and went outside to see what had hap pened. In a few momenta tha streets alll over the city were crowded with excited people. For Exchange. 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