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Vol. XVII. No. 1.
" " ' "Bditor and Proprietor, :
CORVALLIS, OREGON, FEBRUARY 24. 1904.
OddsMeEnds
FOR
February.
Remnants Dress Goods
Remnants Silks
Big Bargains in .
Ladies' Fine Shoes
Discount in all Corsets.
DEATH BY DYNAMITE.
CAR OF DYNAMITE EXPLODES
AND KILLS TWENTY-FOUR
' PERSONS. ' V '
Report Is Heard 85 Miles Colli
. sioo Results From Brakes on.
Train Being Oat of Order
Twelve Persona Are
Also Hart.
loss to the insurance companies of
$31,095,180. ,X:.
It has been learned that many of
the iarge leading wholesale dry
goods houses formed an insurance
pool among themselves, which a
monnted to about 15,000,000, from
which practically nothing will be
realized Another development is
tbat vjry tew of the tenants of the
so-called fire-proof ' building car
ried any inBarance. ' ,
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W DO HOT OFTEN CHANGE
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every day. Your money exchanged
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1 Domestic and Imported.
Plain and Fancy CMnaware
A large and varied line.V
Orders Filled Promptly and Com
plete. Visit our Store we do the
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pew Furniture
I And Music Store.
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C0RVALLIS, OR.
I 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,
Go Carts
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.
t ttao Sewing Machines, new and second-hand. Second-band Pianos
lor sals and for rent. A few stoves and a few pieces ot Graniteware left.
O. J. BLACKLEDGE.
Ogden Utah, Feb. 19, Twenty
(onr persons were killed' and 12
badly injured this afternoon by the
explosion of a carload of dynamite,
caused by a head-on collision at
JacksoD, a telegraph station on the
Ogden-Lucin cut-off of the South
ern Pacific company, 85 miles west
of Ogden. Eight of the dead and
five of the injured are Americans.
The others are Greeks.
The collision occurred between two
extra trains, and was caused it was
said, by the airbrake apparatus on
one train failing to operate. The
explosion which followed the colli
sion was tern be, every thing within
a radios of half a mile being wreck
ed. The report was heard in this
city, 85 miles away. Several outfit
cars, occupied by Greeks, were com
pletely demolished, and the occu
pants blown several hundred feet
from .the track. . The telegraph of
fice was 'shattered and Operator
Taylor and his wife injured.. Fore
man Burke, bis wife and three chil
dren and his brother, who were
standing ntar the station, were shot
5JUI" feet through the air and in
stantly killed.
When the news of the accident
reached headquarters in this city, a
special train with doctor?, nurses
and stretchers .was hurriedly dis
patched to the scene of the diba'tar.
Late tonight this train returned to
Ogden with the injured.
The town of Terrace, 15 miles to
the north, on the main line of. the
Southern Pacific, was shaken as by
t n earthquake. The telegraph sta
tion at CoIop, 15 miles distant, and
everv window pane broken.
The explosion was so tremendous
that the first knowledge of the dis
a afcr inatnarl rf tknn rnia! vrasl Ymr
telegraph from the scene of the
aster, was communicated from. Ter
race and Lucin, operators at those
points reporting to headquarters
that an explosion had occurred. The
people of Terrace, looking across
the old lake bottom, saw an im
mense cloud of white Btnoke ascend
from Jackson point, and spread out
at a great height and then flames
buret forth. This lniormation was
given to Lucin, and a lineman -was
started out from that station on a
handcar to inquire into the disaster,
and it possible repair the damage to
the telegraph line, communication
by wire over the cut-of having been
destroyed. He had not gone far
when an engine and a caboose was
met carrying the dying and wound
ed. Where the explosion occurred
there was a hole blown into the
ground large enongh to bnry a
train. 500 yards of track were dis
placed and three miles of telegraph
ples blown down. The dead -were
scattered for hundreds of feet in all
directions, and a majority of the
victim b had their clothes blown off.
One Greek was found headless, and
the arms and legs of the children of
Section Foreman Burke were torn
off. A laborer was pulled out of
the burning debris, his lower limbs
on fire. The injured were covered
with blood and one heroic little wo
man, her face scarred with deep
gashes thst poured out a stream of
blood, unmindful of her own inju
r'es, helped gather up the dead and
dying. -
A witness to the scene of destruc
tion said he walked out to where
the children were, naked in death,
and threw a few garments over
them. A few feet away was the
mother and just beyond the father
and his brother a whole family
wiped ;u,t.
Of 4&.jersons at Jackson's point
when the explosion occurred, only
nine escaped without wounds.
- London, Feb. i9. Lloyd's ; this
afternoon are asking a premium of
3O per cent, against and outbreak
of an Anglo-French war within the
next three months. This high late
is baBed on the fact that France has
not given a formal declaration of
neutrality, beyond a vague state
ment Delcasse.-' Also that France
allowed Russia to use Jibuti!, in the
French colony at the head of the
Red sea, as a base for the rendez
vous of the Russian fleet. This is
decidedly contrary to the usage of
other neutral powers, and the Brit
iah foreign office is very uneasy a-
bout the outlook while the admiral-)
ty is preparing for a quick mobil
ization in case of eventualities. v .
In view of all this Great Britain
has practically secured an option
for the purchase of five Chilian war
vessels and is in other ways active
in putting herself on a great war
basis "''.''-.
MANY. SLAIN.
RUSSIANS DEFEATED IN
LAND BATTLE.
BIG
Reports Are That More Than Two
Thousand Russians Were
Slain and Their Lines
Driven . Back Other
: News. . '
St. Petersburg, Sunday, Feb. 21.
I have authority which prohibits
me doubting the veracity of the re
port, that in spite of the official dis
patches stating that nothing is tak
ing place and everything is perfect
ly quiet, outposts engagements have
taken place on the Yalu resulting
iu the Russian Advance Guards be
ing ' drivn back with considerable
losses, which are estimated' at 2500
lives, but whether this, means those
who fell on the Yalu or the) entire
Russian losses since the commence
ment of the war is not exactly clear.
undone to add to' the general feeU
ing of unrest within the country,
and-have Beized on the defeats' of
Russian naval forces in the Far
East as a pretext for their agitation.
At the word of a fresh" Russian re
verse, the trouble is to be begun with
demonstrations against the govern
ment in all of the principal cities
of the empire. The revolutionists
are declared to be well armed and
equipped and to have a well-nigh
perfect organization, and that nam
bered in the ranks are some of the
best-known persons in Ruesia. In .
addition thousands of students are
enrolled as members, and many of
the rank and file of the army and
navy have sworn allegiance to the
movement.
Paris, ; Feb. 20 Fourteen ' em
ployes of a celebrated comb factory
at the Boulevard Sebastopol and
the Rue Etinne Muriel lost their
lives in a fire which was started by
an explosion of gas. Twenty oth
ers were injured.
The explosion which occurred in
a room in trie iourtn story, a rove
bricks and pieces of glass againtt a
house on the other side of the street
and immense jets of flame followed
immediately. Soon the entire strnc
ture. was on tire, (simultaneously
with the appearance of the flames,
a number of men and women em
ployed on the upper stories, and who
had been eating their luncheon, ap
peared at th, windows and shrieked
for assistance. 1 bree men attempt
ed to drop from a window to a bal
cony beneath it, but missed it, fell
to the pavement and were killed.
The firemen arrived shortly after
ward and devoted themselves first
to saving as many of the endanger
ed persons as possible. Several
were rescued. One couple showed
great presence of mind, occasional
ly opening a window for air and
closing it to prevent the spread of
fire.
It was not long before the flames
were under control, ' and then a
search for the dead was made. In
a corridor leading through to the
street five of the victims were found
against the .wall. They had been
asphyxiated and then inciner
ated. In all, 14 bodies were con
veyed to the moige, where they a
wait identification. Five persons
were taken from the building badly
burned," two of whom will die. The
damage is estimated at $10,000.
Nieu Schwang, Feb. 2r. A Jap
anese victory is reported near the
Yalu River, but is unconfirmable
from any source. According to the
report current here a large part of
the forces both Russians and Jap
anese were engaged. The Russians
are said to have lost several thous
and men. There are no details of
the engagement obtainable.
New York, Feb. 20. The Amer
ican prints the following cable from
its London correspondent:
A dispatch from Tokio today
says: ' ' ' '
"Cannonading was heard this'
morning off Mihonoseki, north- of
Shimane Peninsula, -
."Three unidentified warships ap
peared of Okurijl and Kntogori to
day apparently searching for a ca
ble. - .
'The steamship Tamagawa Ma-
ru, which has arrived at fehimone-
seki, reports that she was followed
seven miles off Fusan by four Rus
sian warships and that the chase
was abandoned near Tsushima.
ii
IE. E.WILSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OSce '.3 ? J-o'.f BaiUing. Comllis. Or
B. A. CATHEY, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office. Room 14, First National Bank
Bnilding, Uorvallis, Or. Office Hoars,
ip to 12 a, m., 2 to 4 p. nu
New York, Feb. 21. The Ameri
can's Tokio cable, dated February
2I, sayB: .Russian warships are re
ported beeween Japan and Uorea
transports carrying troops across
are heavily conveyed in conse
quence. - Half the Japanese fleet is
, J i.X
occupied in surveying inu protect
ing the landing of troops in Corea
and the other half is searching for
the Vladivostok warships.
1 The prefectural office has received
a telegram from the chief magistrate
of the Island of Miyaki, south of
the Gulf of Corea, reporting that 12
Russians1 debarked in a boat from a
vessel in the offing on February I9.
The subsequent movements of this
mysterious party are not reported,
but inquiry is under way. . The
Russians were probably seeking to
cut the cable, s s three warships
were reporled off Okushiri Island
today searching for the cable.
Warsaw, Feb. r. Heavy siege
guns are nemg mounted on the
coast 15 versts (ten miles) from O-
dessa. They will cover the ap
proacb of the harbor.
Russia's feverish military and
naval activity belies the optimistic
official assurances to the effect that
nothing untoward is anticipated
and that no other power is expect
ed to beconte involved in the pres
ent conflict.
Port Townsend, Wash., Feb 21.
While the revenue steamer Area
ta was tenporarily moored at Fri
day Harbor dock Friday afternoon,
the crew was engaged in shooting
at paesing ducks with a rifle. A
bird pasEed over the vessel and a
coalpasser, Alfred Go9bel, leveled
his rifle just as William L. Sayre,
one of the Warrant engineers, came
into range. A heavy bullet plough
ed through the head of the unfor
tunate man, entering at the base of
the skull and coming out at the
mouth, killing him instantly.
A coroner's jury was empaneled
at Friday's Harbor, investigated the
case and rendered a verdict exoner
ating Goebel, who is frantic , with
grief. Sayre had been several
years in the service and left a wife
residing at San Jrancisco.
Baltimore, FetClcj- The Balti
more Underwriter in its issue to
morrow will print a list of all the
fire insurance ' companies involved
in the Baltimore fire. . The total
los is $32,864,800, of which $6,
000.000 falls on the local compan
ies. The estimated total of salvage
lis $1,769,700, which leaves a net
Racine. Wis., Feb. 20. All that
remains of the Racine county in
sane asylum is smouldering ashes,
the loss aggregating $114,UUU. All
of the I33 patients escaped, though
rescue. in many caBes was accom
plished with difficulty, as some of
the inmates fought their rescuers
and tried to plunee back into the
burning building.
The patients were air finally as
sembled and brought to the city on
a special tram, where they were
cared for at the City Hall, the po
lice offices and the courthouse,
Merchants ' offered ' bedding and
clothing liberally. Many of the
patients were thinly clad and suf
fered much from the severe cold.
Washington, Feb. 20. Comman
der TakeBhita, naval attache of the
Japanese legation, states that the
report published this morning that
a Japanese cruiser and torpedo boat
were sunk in the engagement off '
Chemulpo is entirely unfounded.
The official report of Admiral Uriu,
commanding' the Japanese squad
ron on that occasion, states that
there were no casualties on the Jan-'
anese side. .
Tientsin, eb. zz. what is re
ported to have been a band of Chun
chuzes, but is believed to have been
a scouting party of Japanese, at
tacked the Russian force of railroad
guards at Fu Chan and attempted
to destroy the raliway. A pitched
battle followed, and the attacking
party was driven on: with loss.
London, teb. 7.1. The corres
pondent of the London Times ca
bles that the British cruiser Am
pbitaile has sailed for Hong Kong
with the Russian wounded who
were injured in the battle of Che
mulpo, in which the Kussian cruis
er Variag was destroyed. They will
be landed there, and and, on giv
ing their parole cot to fight again
during the war unless exchanged,
will be taken care of by Russian a-
gents.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the
Times states that the Russian con
sul is making arrangements to send
the Russian refugees from Chemul
po and the survivors df the cruiser
Variag, who have been brought to
Shanghai, to Odessa. They are des
titute and suffering, and the Rus
sian consul is unable to supply their
wants. -
Tien Tsin. Feb. 20. There has been
obtained in Niu Chwang from an
officer who survived the explosion
on the Yenesi details of the acci- -
dent which destroyed the ship.
ihe xenesi was engaged in lay
ing the 400 mines. Three . hun
ered and ninety eight had already .
been planted, but the three hun
dred and ninety-ninth floated in
stead of sinking. Thereupon the '
Yenesi drew off and fired her light
gun in an effort to sink or explode
it. While thus occupied a lookout
discovered that the ship had drif
ted near another mine. He gave
the alarm and jumped overboard
Immediately afterward there was '
terrific explosion. One hundred;
and ninety officers and men, incln- ,
ding the captain, were killed and
90 others were picked up in boats.
The official laying the mines was '
the only man in the fleet knowing'
exactly how the mines were dispo
sed. He was killed. A violent
storm followed the explosion and
the mines came to the surface and
floated in all directions The next
day the crusier Boyarin was sent
to assist in securing the derelicts.
The Boyarin was caught in a stormy
and driven on the rocks and there
became a total wreck.
The loss of the Russian fleet to
date is 11 large ships wrecked) or
permanentely damaged. Trains
running from Port Arthur to Har-;.
bin are greatly delayed." The line
is cloeely guarded.
Geneva, Feb. 20. Russia is facing
a revolution of great magnitude,
and the uprising may come at any
moment. At the headquarters of
the central revolutionary Russian
committee this evening it was stat
ed that reliable advices received
from St. Petersburg show that eve
rything is now in readiness for a
far reaching revolutionary move
ment. "The men who have pre
pared the g-ound have left colhing
Berlin, Feb. 20. The Jews here
have received information that the
Russian government has expelled
the entire Israelite population of
Omsktomsk, Yakutsk, and ail
towns on the route of the Trans-
Sirerian railway, on the ground
that they might betray their mili
tary secrets to the Japanese. The
expelled Jews are not allowed to
use the railway and are compelled
to take a long tramp through the
snow aud cold to places of safety.
Three thousand are affected, many
of whom are liable not to survive
the hardships of the journey.
Paris, Feb. 20. According to the
St. Petersburg correspondent of the
Figaro, the . Russian government
fearing for the safety of the battle
Bhip Oslabya and the cruisers Dum
try, Donskoi and Aurora and their
convoy of torpedo-boat destroyers
and transports, now at Jubitil,.
French Somaliland. at the entrance
to the Red Sea, has cabled orders to
the admiral in command to return
to Russian waters at once.
It is known that a Japanese fly-.
ing squadron is lying in wait to.
capture this fleet should it altsmpt
to continue its cruise toward Port
A-tbur.