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Vol.. XVII. No. 5. CORVALLIS, OREGON, MARCH 26. 1904. Si m We are Receiving Some of Our Early Shipments POS SPRING. Every day Brings New Goods to Our Store. DRESS GOODS, RIBBONS, SHOES, CLOTHING, ETC. Come and see. WE DO NOT - OFTEN CHANGE " Our ad., but our goods change hands . Your money exchanged Quality is the idea. - every daw for Value and 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. G. B. Horning. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. NEBRASKA PRAIRIE FIRE BURNING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH. v : Property Valued at f 100,000 Has Been Already Destroyed Three Deaths Reported Railroad Company Sends Man " to Save the Towns, Other Newe. . ' ' TV ' in all social affaire, and wan very populerNrith the fair sex. Bat he foundjhis popularity waning when the handsome, stalwart Kentucky preacher won the hearts of his peo ple. ;; InBpired by jealousy, It is said, he circulated . stories to the pastor's detriment. As punishment he war severely walloped on the street by tbe minister. Tecoma, Wash., March 21. A vivid description of the first attack on the Russian fleet at Port Aithur and the remarkable dashes into the inner harbt r by the Japanese tor pedo boats is Riven in a letter to the Taoma News from - Allen : Fair weather, of Tacoma, purser of the Loomie, Neb., 23. A prairie fire .steamship Pleiades, which had ar ia raeiner throusrb. this section of the 'rived at Port Arthur with a cargo etate, and already three deaths are of flour a few days before the attack rationed, while a number of farmers . was made. lie eays: are missing, muses and stock running farftoward $loo,ooo have already been lost, and the fire con tinues with unabated fury. V August Olson, an seed farmer, is known to have been burned to death and. two of his hands are missing. James Lewis and Wil liam, Aaderson, ranchmen, are alse dead. A number of cowboys are reported missing from different di rections. The flames are past all hope of control, aid are leaping a oross the prairie at racehorse speed, burning ever thins in their path. The Burlington railroad has sent a special train with are-ngnters from Holdredge to assist the ranch men in saving the small towns in the path of the flames. From Loomis to the Piatt river, 15 miles, the whole conntry will undoubtedly be swept clear by the fir?. Further to the west, toward which the blsze is sweeping, tha prairie countrv ex tends for nearly 2oo miles. There are no ft reams of note along this country, and the fire may sweep to the bend of the Platte river in that direction. SEEDLESS APPLES REFUSES TO DIVULGE THE SECRET OF HIS WORK. . New Furniture c Store. X Basset', Neb.. March 23. A dis astrous prairie fire has been raging in Rock coucty sjuca early this morrucg. The fira - origioated i In Loup county, and driven by a high vrindflatnedsi;trlp: Hvir W Tea miles wide from the .south line of the -county to the railroad near Newport, a distance of 40 miles. Thousands of tns of hay, many r B dsnces, outbuildings and (tack have been destroyed. The fire con tinue, and an army of men and tea a 8 is fighting it. Keartey, Neb., Mrch 23. A prairie fire iguited the Burlington Railroad PJatte river bridge today and partly destroyed it. SOUTH MAIN ST. CORVALLIS, OR. I Cordially invite you to inspect my New Stock of Goods consisting of Sideboards, Kitchen Safes, 1 Kitchen Treasures, Various Musical Instruments, Bed Lounges and Conches, Bedroom Suites, Iron Bedsteads, Maple and Ash Bedsteads, etc. Woven Wire Springs, Good Line of Mattresses, Extension Tallies, Center Tables, Go Carts Dining Chairs, High Chairs, Children's Rockers, and Many Styles of! Other Rockers. Fine Lot Banfboo Furniture just in Window Shades, Curtain Poles. New Line of Wall Paper. ' Also Sewing Machines, new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos ) for sale and for rent. A few stoves and a few pieces of Graniteware left, 1 O. J. BLACKLEDGE. E. E. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Officfc la Z'.erolf Building, Corva'.Hs. Or B. A. CATHEY, D., Physician and Surgeon. Office, Room 14, First National Bank Building, Corvallis, Or. Office Hours, 10 to 12 a, m., 2 to 4 p. m. Milton, Or., March 23. Either Otis C. logle mut make an abject apology to the members of the Christian church, of this p ace for the instilts which he heaped upon the head of the pastor, Rev. R. L. Cartwright, and for which the min uter soundly tbra?bed him, or else hit name will be stricken from the rolls ot the congregation. can atteod Christian Endeav or meeting?, but it is impossible for me to sit and lis-ten to that thing, ' cried Mr. Ingle last Sunday, before the horrified church rxieaiber-. Fined $5 for assault and l attery upon the person of Mr. Ingle, the pistor of the Christian church Sun day before last apologzed from the pulpit for the disgrace which be had brought upon the congregation and upon Christianity. ''But it was impossible for me to withstand the insults tbrust upon rjoe by Mr. Itiele, was the pastoi e pba. , 1 he church members enter be lieved tbfft the minifeter'e offence should b fofsive'n in a Christian spirit, or else tbey were proud ot a preacher who could call a man from his plac9 of " business and thrash him on the spot, so by a unanimous vote the church exoner ated Mr. Cartwright. He has pre sented his resignation, but .it was not axcepted then, and probably Will not be. Excitement reigned in the Chris tian church when the pastor made his apology. Though he made no excuses and asked forgiveness from none, the exonerating vota was im mediate. Then the members thought that Mr. Ingle should extend the band of friendship and call it square. He was called upon for an apolrgy, bat none was forthcoming. Ha was given until next Sunday to save himself from expulsion. Until Rev. Cartwright enter ed upon bis work here two years ago Mr. Ingle had been the leader of .the Christian Endeavor society, and "We arrived at Port Arthur Feb. 7. The Russian fleet, consisting of 14 battle ships and cruisers, were alf lyine outside the mouth of the harbor. We got a birth just inside of he low spit which forms one side of the entrance. "Monday night about 11 o'clock we heard heavy firing, which con tinued until about 12:30 a.m. Every one thought the forts were engaged in tome kind of night target prac tice, but in the morning, when we aw two of the largest and. bett of the Russian warships aground on the new spit, we knew that seme thing more than practice had been going pn. It developed that a fleet of Japanese tornado boats had come along quite close inshore, flying the Russian flag and giving the Russian signal. They had passed right un der the forts, along the spit side of the harbor, and had passed by the patrol boats at the entrance, giving the countersign. ''They passed through the email entrance to the harbor proper, turn ed around and passed out, going up to the other coast until directly be hind the largest and best of the war ships lying outside, when thev turn ed ami fired torpedoes into thrte of tbem.'- . : -'The remarkable part of it was the dash of the torpedo boats through the 100-yarda wide mouth tfi-yhe fsarbcr and there- turrcg; a round inside. "The Russians fired a shot at the torpeBo boats, but apparently did no barm. They then attempted to get their warships into the harbor, but two of the worst disabled ran aground on the spit and were then in a sinking condition. "The next morning the Japanese fleet moved in to within firing dis tance and fired shells for 45 min utes.' The Pleiades was behind the spit, but in direct line, and the shells fell all aronnd up. Our deck whs covered with pieces. "Later the Russians got their grounded warships off the spit and inside the harbor, where tbey now lie on the bottom, practically sub merged. By working bard tbey succeeded in bringing in a five funneled cruiser, which sank in the harbor the next day. . ''We had great-difficulty ' in get ting away. We were obliged to take 300 Chinese women awav with us." , North Yakima, Wash, March Charles Spencer's Narrow Escape from Going Over Willamette Falls Lands Thrown Op en for Settlement - Other News. Glen wood Springs, Col., March 15. After experimenting for 7 years John F. Speccer, an old nurseryman and fruit grower of Grand Junction baa produced a seedless apple. The new fruit very much resembles the seedless orange in that the meat ia solid and there is a slightly hard substance in the navel end. The trees have no blos soms. ' ' - Spenoer says he began experi menting with the apple shortly af ter the seedless Orange appeared. He reasoned that if it was possi ble to destroy germination in the orange it was possible in the apple. He originally produced . five trees that wonld bear seedless apples and then experimented to see if he could make the bads reproduce others. In this he succeeded and secured forty additional trees. From these he has budded iwo thousand more. He has kept hie experiments to himself for all these years and he now refuses to divulge his secret. : Mr. Spenoer claims that with the seedless apple many diseases due to the laying of eggs by mothsin' ap ple blossoms will be avoided. river. He managed to free his frac tured limb from the rope after hav ing drifted down stream for several rods, and came to the surfaoe, only to discover that he was about to hie carried over , the : breakwater and into the falls. His friehtened com panions hastened in a boat to his -rescue and pulled the helpless man out of the river just in time to save his life. Spenoer was hurriedly brought to this city, where his in juries were treated. Ashland, Or., March 22 A storm of unusual severity for March has been raging through the mountains and valleys of Southern Oregon and Northern California since last night, and snow and rain have been fating almost without ces- sation. 1 be Southern racihc has its snow plows out from At-hland and Dunsmuir keening the track clear of snow on the Sitkiyous and -ihrougktbj; Sacramento, Canyon section, where in some places it has fallen to a decth of two feet or more Tonight it is drifting badly, but no serious difficulty is anticipated. Oregon Gity, Or., March 22. Nine and a fractional sections in township ten Soutb, range 11 west. were thrown open to settlement at the Oregon City land office at nine o'clock today. The tract embraced more than 6000 acres, and all the land was filed on with the excep tion of a quarter section by the 34 applicants who stood in line for an hour before the office was opened. The land, whiohie looted 'n the Siletz reservation, was 4nd to settlement under the pinvi-iors of the homestead law, and wa- uken almost entirely by Salem nd Al bany people. Two similar tracts in, the same section of this land dis trict will be opened to settlement on April 6 and 13 respectively. Oregon City, Or., March 22. Charles Spencer, a logger . in the employ of the Willamette Pulp & Paper Mills, of this city, narrowly missed going over the Willamette Falle, which would have resulted in cettain death. As it is, he is laid up with a serious fracture of both bones in the right leg just bt low the knee. Spencer is employed with a crew of men that conveys rafts of logs from the company's boom at Sta tion A., on the east side of the riv er. While directing a raft today, Spencer became entangled in the rope and was knocked into the wa ter and carried t the bottom of tbe Denver, Colo., March 22. Colo nel William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," made a deposition before a. notary in this city today in the ac tion for divorce which he has begun in Big Horn county, Wyoming. Colonel Cody will sail for Europe shortly, and will be absent from the country when his suit is tried. In the proceedings today. Colonel Co dy was interrogated by his attorney and was subjected to cross-examination by counsel for Mrs. Cody. "Mrs. Cody tried to ' poison me three years ago," the Colonel testi fied. "She has frequently. We were visiting in Rochester, N. Y., during the holidays of I9OO, and the day after Christmas I was ill. I supposed the turkey and plum pudding did not agree with me. She said she would fix me np. She pretended t give me medicine. . It was poison. It almost finished me. I was unconscious for sometime. I think it must have been an "over dose, for it made me vomit and I suppose that is what saved my life." In bis testimony today Colonel Cody related many instances of bis wife having humiliated him at his former home in North Platte, by her conduct toward bis guests. "She drove my friends away,' he said. "When they were no longer welcome in the handsome residence I built and elaborately furnished it was no longer my home.'" Tbe witness' went in to details and recited many specific instances of bis wife's discourtesy to his guests. 22. The body of Jack Gingle, who was killed at Foothill, SpokaneCo. by - 'fficers Sunday niornir g in a hand to hand fight, was brought to tbis place this morning and wiil be buried in the potter' field tomor row. Sevt-ral people viewed the body as it - lay in the ' morgue of Fiint &, Shaw. George Pyburn, Charles Mabrey and Flavey Cuary recognized tbe dead man as the one who held tbem up in Shardlow's saJoa one right in January, 1901, and robbed, them of $800. Other parsies also recog nized him. He isone of the rob bers who held up the saloon in the Arlington Hotel, Arlington, Or and robbed it of $S00. tlis brother, Jim Cringle, who is in jail here charged with being con nected with the robbtries in which his brother a implicated, ; was taken to eee his dead brother to day. He appeared stolid and un affected at the coffin, but when tak en back to jail broke down and wept. He will have a preliminary bearing on Thursday " afternoon. - Cured Consumption. Mr. B.Evans, Charwater, Kan., writes: "My husband lay eick for three months, The doctors said he had quick consump tion. We procured a bottle of Bf Hard's Horebound. syrup, and it cured mm That was six years ago and since then we nave always kept a bottle in tne House We cannot do without it. For coughs and colds it has no equal." 25c, 50c and f i.o. (sold by Graham & Wortnam. . T. D. Campbell has taken charge of he Benton County Lumber yard near the S. P. depot. Will furnish building material. ' See Mr. Campbell before yon buy. 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