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V J V V ! . EEL' Vol. XVI. No. 52. CORVAIiLIS, 1 0REGON. FEBRUARY 17. 1904. b. r. iRTims . Editor and Propriator. "2"- - -' - 1- - - V We are Receiving Some of Our Early Shipments foe SPRING. Every day Brings New Goods -to . Our Store. DRESS GOODS, RIBBONS, SHOES, ; CLOTHING, ETC. COME AND SEE. AFRAID OF POISON. WE DO NOT OFTEN .CHftNGB 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. v' . - PlaiQ aod Fancy Cbinaware AND WON'T WEAR SOCKS, AND ONLY . DRINKS AT PUBLIC FOUNTAIN. - wear: -They are much lighter than wood: , v ;" ' -. -.0 ' - - It ia said plans will be made for the Pullman Company for fire-proof cars. - Another Monopoly for Standard Oil The "Guillotine in Paris - Masked M?n Slaughter Fif- V teen Hundred Sheep - " ' Other News. ' .i Paris, Feb. 6. That Francis Reuben Bryan, an American mil lionaire, who committed suicide in 1902 in Paris, was in mortal dread of beirg poisoned, has been brought ought by the suit of relatives who have been .contesting his will. He lived here many years, and on dying left $1 0,000 to the Histor ical society of Pennsylvania, and residue of his great estate ' to the South Kentuckian Museum in Lon don, together with a large collec tion of valauble curios and works of art. ; At the hearing Mr. lie Lagrenee, the consul-general , of France at Moscow, testified that -M. Bryan believed the Cardinal Richard, the Archbishop of Paris and the prefect of police were conspiring to murder him and had bribed all the laun dresses to poison his socks. Con sequently he never wore any. Whenever he received a ew suit of clothes from the tailor he Boaked it in a bath for forty-eight hours before wearing it. He would drink only at a public street fountain, and refused to pass tbe front windows of the Jockey Club, believing that the members would kill him. He always carried a completelist of antidoVs to poison,"" and gave copies to fnende. The court rendered today a deci sion that Mr. Bryan was mentally irresponsible at the time he made his will. - London, Feb. 15. There were a" number of belated telegrams reach ing London from the Far East last night , but they added little or noth ing to what is already known re garding the situation there.' The mystery surrounding the fate of the V ladivostok squadron is still tin- solved. - The Daily Ma 1, the Daily Tele graph and other papers publish dis patches from Tokio, Nagasaki and Shanghai, reporting the destruction of three Russian . cruisers by mines j or torpedoes in the .Teugaro S:rait,' on Aomon, Japan EIGHT SHIPS SUNK. AND TEN TAKEN BY JAPS LATEST REPORT IN ORIENTAL AVAR. Dispatches Also Tell of the Loss of Three Japanese Vessels Port N: Arthur Expected to Fall ' - Into Hands of Japan- : ese Other News. The Daily Mail, which at first described the tews as official, in a later telegram says' the report still lacks' absolute confirmation. In the absence of confirmation the re ports are not generally credited. - A statement that China . will maintain neutrality, is published in Pekin' It is reported from Tien Tsiri that all foreigners and civil ians have been ordered to leave Port Arthur. : It is also reported that the Sibe rian railroad has been wrecked in si? places, covering a distance of 70 miles. The correspondent at Tien-Tain of the Standard, cabling under date ot February 11, eays tbe British, ' American and French, German and Italian ministers, have jointly notified the Russian and Japanese ministers that no hos tilities will be allowed on .Chinese soil, other than that of Manchuria. official telegram dated from head quarters of the viceroy at Port Ar thur says the German cruiser Han sa, which had been sent to remove German subjects form Port Arthur and which had. on board also a number of Russian women and chil dren, had been fired upon by Jap anese warships. The Telegram reiterates the state ment that three Japanese torpedo boats have been sunk in a night at tack on Port Arthur. " - A large and varied line. Orders Filled Promptly and Com plete. Visit our Store we do the rest. EB. fiorning Ni- si." "N" -S- ""si" -VA- "si" -s- 'SA,- --1 5 m ew Furniture And Music Paris, Feb. 1 1. Deibler, the Par-! is headsman, is passing sleepless1 nights trying to arrange for the coming "Promenade de la . Veuve (widow)," as the- Parisians face tiously speak of putting the guillo tine in operation. i: Fiancois Spino has just been sen tenced to death, but the question ii: Where can the guillctine be erect ed? ' ' . The last beheading was that of Peumenez at La Roquette, but since that prison has been torn down the residents of that quarter have made such vigorous protest against the riotous scenes attending an execu tion of tbe death sentence that the four famous stones on which the guillotine used to be put up have been removed. Capital punishment in France is public, and crowds pass the night befora holding points of vantage. Sometimes they dance and Biug madly about the scaffold during the execution. Every quarter of Paris is equally opposed to having the guillotine and Deibler would hardly dare to erect it in the place ie la Concorde. He hopes President Loubet will c immut? the condemned man's sen tence, as he has allowed no one to be 'put to death' sice? he became president. V Netf York,-Feb. 16. The Rus sian consulate here was destroyed by fire Sunday night, says a World dispatch from Shanghai. The cause has not yet been ascertained. The RuBBian gunboat Mandjur, which was trapped by the Japanese warships at the mouth of the Yangtse River, is now being dis mantled. 1 . SOUTH MAIN ST. CORVALLIS, OR. I Cordially invite you to inspect my New Stock of Goods consisting of . Various Musical Instruments, Bed Louuues and Couches, Bed t oo m Suites, Iron Bedsteads, Maple and Ash Bedsteads, etc. ' Woven Wire Springs, Good Line of Mattresses, Extension Tables, Center Tables, Go Carts Sideboards, Kitchen Safes, Kitchen Treasures, Dining Chairs, High Chairs, ' Children's Rockers, and Many Styles of Other Kockers." Fine Lot Bamboo Furniture just in Window Shades, Curtain Poles. New Line of Wall Paper. K Also Sewing Machines.'new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos kr 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, Corvillis. Or B. A. CATHEY, M. D Physician and Surgeon. Office, Room 14. First National Bank Bnilding, Corvaliis, Or. Office Hours. 10 to ia a, m 2 to 4 p. m. . Nagasaki, Feb. I4 - The surviv ors from the Variag and Korietz, the' Russian cruisers that were sunk by the Japanese fleet at Chemulpo last Thursday etill remain on board the British cruiser Talbot, tbe Ital ian cruiser- Elba acd' the - French cruiser-Pascal. . - - The situation is becoming acute, as the Japanese have twice made demands on the commanders of tbe three foreign vessels that tbe Rus sians be surrendered as prisoners of war. Tbe captain of the Talbot, being the senior naval officer, each time replied that he was awaiting instructions from bis government. None of the Russians are on board tbe American gunboat Vicks- burg, whose commander considers that the Japanese are right in their demand, as the Russians took ad vantage of the clemency of the Jap anese in returning to the harbor, then taking refuge on the foreign vessels and refusing to surrender, whereas the Japanese fleet refrained from sinking them in the open sea, as it could have done. A magnificent episode in the bat tle was the second sortie of the two Russian cruisers. With bands play ing the national anthem the inter national fleet loudly cheering the bravery and gallantry of the Rus sians, the Variag and Korietz faced the Japanese fleet in what was cer tain death.. The position of the wrecks ap pears to be such that it will be easy to recover the guns. The Russian losses were one officer and 40 men killed and 464 wounded. London, Feb. 16. Among the dispatches' from the Far East, pub- asnea ner8 tnis morning, is a re port of another engagement at Port Arthur, in which the Russians lost eight vessels sunk and ten captured. A reporter of the Daily Mail, who witnessed the engagement off Port Arthur, confirms the morning's previous accounts of the fight and asserts again that one Japanese tor pedo-boat was ' sunk and another deserted by its crew in a sinking condition and probably captured by the Russians. : He says also that .the Japanese lost one battleship; and had one cruiser put out of action, and that the Colonel of the Fifteenth Russi an regiment was killed by a shell during the bombardment. Cablegrams to the Daily Mail from Wei Hai Wei and Nsu Chang report a J apanese fleet with trans ports, cruising in the Gulf of Pe chili. apparently with the idea of effecting a landing near Port Dalny. Chicago, Fjb. 7. AsbestoF, as a manufactured commodity, is now controlled by the Standard Oil Company. That corporation has contracted for the entire output of the Ontario asbestos mines, from which comes all but a small per cent, of the as.besto3 of the x world. The plan is -to make the industry monopolistic as the steel or the oil industry. Asbestos is to DC a material em ployed for a hundred new purpo ses. Railroad coaches are to be built from it, tunnels are to be lined with it, and fire-proof furniture to be made from it. , As an indication that there is no exaggeration in this outlook, the corporation has prepared plans lor asbestos cars built with steel frames for tbe underground system of the Rapid Transit Company el New York. It also has the contract for lining with asbestos a large part of the tmnels of the same system. Asbestos planks, experiments havsEhowc, can be shaped and need exactly as wood. They may. be sawed and planed and polished. They will bear weight and stand Havs City, Kan., Feb. .1. As a result of the war in the Orient, the district court is beieiged with ap plications for citizenship. There are hundreds of Russians in this county who tow seek naturalization papers, to avoid taking any chances of being compelled to return to their native land to be drafted into the army. . The correspondent of the Daily Express at Pekin, in a cablegram dated February 12, reports that Viceroy Alexieff is practically iso lated, direct communication be tween Port .Arthur and Vladivos tok being suspended. He adds that the railroad behind - Port Arthur has been blown up and that 6000 Japanese troops have landed near Dalney. ' The Daily Mail's Tokio corres pondent, under date of February 12, says that tbe Japanese ship Amaki has captured the German steamer Yokohama, which had a cargo in cluding dynamite, for Port Arthur. The Nagasaki correspondent o?" . the Daily Telegraph expresses Jthe conviction that Russia is quite able to bold tbe Lia-Tung peninsu la and that Port Arthur is bound to fall by the effluxion of time, even without an assanlt. .'. ... Chefoo, Feb. 15. The steamer Wenchaw, arriving from , Port Hr thur, reports that 11 Russian ehipa were Etruck in Wednesday's engage ment. . . . . ; , . It is stated that the crnieer Ask -old, with a big hole at the water line has been towed into the inner basin and beached. " - The battle ship Sebastopol haB a shell hole just above the Iwaterlina and ia useless in rough weather. The cruiser Novik has a hole ia her after port side. The battleship Retvizan is on the beach and her bottom has fallen OUt. T; ' ; The cruiser Pallada was torpe doed abaft the engine room.J ,. The battle ship Czarevitch, which was also torpedoed, has-been dock ed. ,!"' ' 1 V.-" - - The others were chiefly damaged in their upper works. . .. The whole of the fleet has been taken into the inner harbor and Port Arthur is depending for pro tection on her forts, , which have been reinforced. There is frequent firing which is presumably drawn, by Japanese torpedo boats. Firing was heard at midnight, February 11 at intervals, also on the nights of February i2 and 13. On February I4 the firing continu ed until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. An eye-witness claims to have seen 18 dead landed from the Russian ships Wednesday. It is understood that Admiral Stark has been reduced for his fail ure to repulse tbe Japanese attack. The cruiser Novik was the only ves sel to do effective work. She gave chase to tbe Japanese torpedo boats and, according to the Russian '-account, sank two and captured one Paris, Feb. 18. The Journal's Yeng-Chau correspondent under date of February i2 says.: . Kussian wires being absolutely forbidden, I am obliged to leave Port Arthur. Monday's surprise was absolute. Tke ' squadron anchored only one vessel, using a search light. When fifing. began the officials and sever-. al naval officers thought that only maneuvers were intended, as the Japanese had hugged the coast with lights veiled. The Czarevitch, Retvizan and Pallada were not destroyed and the two former are floating in port with repairable breeehes. ' Complete re pairs will be difficult at Port Ar thur, but the vessels are utilized in the roadsted? All three took part in the second engagement which took place onTuesday. The population are fleeing from Port Arthur and the authorities are endeavoring to rid themselves of useless persons. Viceroy Alexieff apparently foresees a long siege. It is certain that Rnssia is preparing to make a great enort here. The decision of the marine board of inquiry which sat upon the Clal lam disaster casp, handed down to day, lays the chief blame . for tbe disaster upon Chief Engineer de Launey, charging him with neglect and incompetency. . Captain Rob erts is censured for not having an officer of the ship in the second and third boats that were launched and for not giving explicit orders to the captain of the Holyoke to- take the ship to the nearest7 shelter. The officers of the tugboat Holyoke and Sea Lion are highly complimented for their share in the work of rescu ing the passengers of the Clallam. De Launey 's license is revoked and the license of. Captain Roberts - is suspended for one year. Are You Restless at Night.? . And harassed by a bad cough? Use Bal lard's Horehonnd Syrup, it will secure you sound sleep and effect a prompt and radical cure. "55c, so and 1.00. Sold by Graham & Worthasu. There is a quality in Royal Baking Powder which makes the food more digestible and wholesome. This peculiarity ofRoyal has been noted by physicians, and they accord ingly endorse and recom mend it. ... , ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. 1 r London, Feb. 15. The Daily Telegraph's Shanghai correspondent under date of February 12, says it is reported that the Japanese have bomaarded Dalny and landed ma rines, . Concluded on Fourth Page. .