Vol.. XVII. No. 5.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, MARCH 26. 1904.
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Some of Our
Early Shipments
POS
SPRING.
Every day Brings New Goods to
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DRESS GOODS,
RIBBONS, SHOES,
CLOTHING, ETC.
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Domestic and Imported.
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A large and varied line.
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rest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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