Vol. -XV1I.--XO. 13. CORVALLIS, OREGON. MAY 18. 1904. B. V. 1KVLNB Editor and Proprietor, Our New Arrivals Dress Goods, .Novelty Trimmings, Silks, Embroideries, Lace Belts, Collars, White Goods and Shoes. FOR GENTS iuauuMiiuuuiuuuuuu Clothing, Hats, Neckware, Shoes, Shirts, Underware. Call and See DOWN TO DEATH. FOUR YOUNG . PEOPLE FALL INTO RIVER AND ARE DROWNED. Free Bus. Fine Light Sample Rooms. (fTl -Gorvalli& J. C Hammel, Prop. Leading Hotel in Gbrvallis. Recently opened. New: brick building. ylfurnished, with modern con veniences. Furnace Heat Electric Lights, Fire Es-' capes. Hot and cold water on every floor. Fine single rooms. Elegant suites. Leading house in the Willam ette Valley. . r Rates: $ 1 .00, $1.25 and $2.00 per. day. All Lost in Swift Rapids Heroic Effort of Men to Save Lives of -. the Women Aerial Tram- :. way Falls Searching -for the Drowned Other News. . Reno, Nev., May -15. 'By the breaking of one of the strands of the suspension tramway across toe Truckee river, Laugh ton Springs, five miles west of this city, at 2 o clock today, four . young person?. Maurice Jacobs, a young business man of this city; Miss Nit a McMil lan, daughter of a paominent Reno business man; Mrs. hi. o. Hide, Jr., and G. T. Tilsman, of Chicago, were Drecioitated from the car into the swollen stream and drowned. The accident was - witnessed by Fred Coleman, of San Francisco, who was unable to Tender any as eistance.. The tramway consists of two steel cables stretched across the river, upon which a car runs. It is much used by pleasure ' seekers. Today the four young people enter ed he car to cro3s the river. When they reached midstream one ot the strands parted. One piercing shriek was beard and I be lour were ob served for a few moments struggling in the rapide. Both young men were athletes and gave up their lives in an heroic tffjrt lo save their companions. Mr. Jacobs was seen tor a tew moments swimming with Miss Mc Millan, holding ber above water, then was Been to turn on bis back, the better to save her, when she seized him and bore the etroog swimmer beneath the - eurrent, There was no time that the two young men could not apparently have saved themselves, altbougb at the place where the accident ocourr ed there are swift rapids, the water seething and boiling over great rocke. Hundreds of people are search ing for the bodies of the victims of the accident, but up toe late hour tonight only one has been recover ed . Under the direction of Chief of Police Leeper electric lights have been strung across the river at in tervals for several miles and nets have been placed. The searching party is exploding dynamite over the stream, but thus far their efforts have been unavailing. Owing to the prominence of: the victims of the tragedy the - entire city is in mourning and the river banks are lined with throngs of peo ple. Mr. Tilsman is a prominent business man of Chicago, who was camping at Loughton Springs for the benefit of his health. . OrefeOi Express robbery at Copley, and the slayer of Messenger O'Neil, arrived at his home, Eagle avenue last evening. He left again this morning presumably for San Fran;- Cisco, but Mrs. Gates, Who answer ed the doorbell when a Telegram correspond ent called, declined ' to tell where her husband might be. Barring the great strain' of ex citement under wbion the aged mother of the two suspects has been laboring the past few days, she re plied calmly to the question wheth er she had any .knowledge of a1 re port that ber two sons baa manag ed to reach the sea coast and . were now on their way to the Orient a- board the Magnolia. She -denied any such knowledge, and added: ' "l ean only hope that my boys are safe; in fact, I feel sure they are. This strain has been terrible on me, and I feel as if I could scarcely bear up under it any long er, but 1 teel i must do my duty as their mother, which impels me to be ready when they need my help, and J 'will be ready." . PORT ARTHUR FALLEN TEN THOUSAND MEN KILLED IN THE BOMBARDMENT , OF THE CITY.- " Siege Guns Burst Forth in Storm of Fire and Shell and Japs'Rush Down Upon Crumbling Walls ; 0 Bottled Flet t at Bay. 1 Pari?, May 16. Port Arthur, according to dispatches received here from St. Petersburg, but which as yet has been given no actual con nrmation, nas iuien wun tne mostipurs ancj terrible casualty list cnroniciea '" killed. f . r 7 any recent wars. ; - ( ' Fiehtinsr has been reborted in this WE DO NOT OFTEN CHANGE Our ad., but our goods change hands " Tour money exchanged . Quality is the idea." every day. for Value and Big Line Fresn Groceries Domestic and Imported. Plain anfl Fancy CMnaware A large and varied line. Orders Filled Promptly and .Com plete. Visit our Store we do the rest. B- Doming, L.:G. ALTAIAN, M. D. - Homeopathist Office cor 3rd and Monroe sts. Resi dence cur 3rd and Harrison st. Hours 10 to 12 A. M. 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M. Sundays 9 to 10. A, M. hone resliiu e G. R. FAKRA. J Physician & Surgeon, Office up stairs back of Graham & Wells' drug store, . Residence on the corner of Madison and Seventh. Tele phone at residence, 104. All calls attended promptly. While the woman he was living with was" away from home, today, A. Thoratermson, formerlv a mem ber of the police force of this city, sh(t bis nine-montbs-old baby thruugbthe head three tiaits as it it lay in its cradle, and then lying down on the floor, placed the muz zle of the 38-calibre revolver in his mouth and blew out his brains. The following letter, which he he left unsigned, explains tbe mo tive: . "When you read these lines we, Atlin, (the child's name) and I, will be dead. Then also will likely come an end to your grumblings. I cannot leave my child alive in the claws of such a mother as thou art, who has time and again threatened me and the child, and who could convert herself into such a cTevil as you did last Wednesday night. You have made me a murderer. Cursed be tbe day that I met you. A mon ster will always be a monstsr, world without end. I have nothing more to eay about this matter." . . It is said that Tborstermson waB not married to the woman who bore him the child, but was to have been shortly.' She was the mother of two children by a former mar riace.-and these were away from the house at the time of the murder and suicide. The dead man has a brother iu Vancouver, B. C. Louisville, Kyi, May 13. Sidney Sladden, held for trial on six chare- es of foreery, was admitted to- cash bail In the sum of $3,000 this after noon, furnished by his father, who arrived yesierday from Eugene Or, Just before be was released from tail the authorities came into pos session of private papers of Sladden, revealing more of his past career and dealing ' with bis first, second and third wives. . They show that when he was divorced- fiom - Nellie Eugene Gilbert, in Los Angeles, in 1892, he paid her S15UO alimony. She is now Mrs.- William B. Knapp of East Orange, JN.- J. Receipts were found for the buri al expenses of Mary Roberts Price, who aied at the Hotel JEIorecce. San Diego, February 20, 1894. It is reported from Los Angeles that Sladden held $20,000 insurance on ber life. Papers found today show she had four policies of tbe New York Life Insurance Company' for $5ooo eacb, payable to Sidney Slad den. She bad notes for $9420, some silver ware, $loo.3o cash in the First National Bank ot Chicago and ?J,- 7oo in a Loa Argeles bank. She had also a .claim for $15oo gainst the estate of her mother Baltimore. Papers showed that she owned lot 12, recorded in book 33, page 330, in Eugene, Lane county, and that she owned 16 acres in Baltimore county, Mary land. A record was aleo found of wife No. 3, heretofore enshrouded mystery.' She was Marie Genevieve McSweeney, a widow, daughter Michael J. Casey, who was well-to-do citizen of Chicago. The estate of Casey was left to his two daughters and upon tbe death one, Mrs. Sladden No. 3 came into it all.' It was held by tbe Equita ble Trust Company of Chicago. There were letters of a sentiment' al character written during his eer vice in the army, signed Violet which was not the name of any of his wives so far as can be learned. There are-records also of two other women, not identified as any of the five wives, the names of which are withheld in the hope of obtaining further clews. Sladden's father has retained at torneys to fight his case of forgery while agent of the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company. Sladden still refuses to discuss hid case and bis father believes him guilty ot no ee- nous crimes. have occupied Kuanliaosan, . 60 miles north of - Feng Huan Cheng, and 4oo Russian cavalry was dis persed, leaving one wounded officer . on the field. " ' ; " As Mukden is but 125 miles from Feng Huan Cheng, this advance is a remarkable one, and . shows- the rapidity with which' the Japanese are" forcing their, way through a mountainous country where every advantage lies with the retreating Russians. ' - T . , - Constantinople, May 14. A re newal of the shocking massacres in Armenia which have startled the world is confirmed in re ports received here . today. In & fight in a Sassoun ' district 300 900 Armenians were Ten thoueand men are reported to have been killed and injured. Tbe first report came here in a bulletin this : morning which con cluded by saying that the report could be traced to no official source in St. Petersburg and wsb therefore to be accepted with reservation. A second dispatch added that great excitement was to be seen in the Russian capital,: but added that still nothing beyond street reports were obtainable. ' ' r' " This afternoon a special addition of the newspaper La France was is sued which prints a St. Petersburg dispatch in full containing a reiter ation of the report that Port Arthur has been overwhelmed by a terrific onslaught of Japanese who after a fierce bombardment of the fortress ith siege guns " brought for the purpose, stormed the walls.' The telegram says that "alter fierce fighting the Japanese actually swarmed over the walls, gained the inner inclosures ana " seizea tne works. ' ' "' It is estimated that no lees than lo.ooo mea were killed, veritable 'food for gunpowder.' ; She Russians fought almost to tbe death and until by force their banner had been hauled down." . j-The- paper says that if this - re port receives full confirmation, there can be no question that the fleet, so successfully bottled up in the harbor now lies at tbe mercy of the Japanese and can but lower its flag or go down to death, in a futile battle against hopeless odds. This, seems borne out by tbe fact that the Japanese have used heavy guns in reducing the fortress, and theee, brought up and turned down upon " the imprisoned' warship?, would make escape for them an im possibility. It is barely possible, however, that the Russians may have, within the past few days, sue ceeded in removing the obstructions to such an extent as to permit an escape to sea. ' Even in that event, however, they could not escape the watchful eyes of the Japanese com mander, wbich have never ceased observation of the harbor's mouth since that day when Japanese live3 were valorouslv sacrificed to ob struct with fireshipB a channel al ready rendered tortous by sunken- rocks and submerged mines. On every hand here news is a waited with great anxiety, aa the French ma-rsas feel sympathy for Russia, rather than exultation for the Japanese, district on several occasions lately. Following their custom bands of Turkish soldiers have ten roam--ing among the Ar,n-".it. villages, commiting depreda.ii --- ud out rages among the Cbristiau ' popula . tlon. The people have submitted quietly but recently the Turks have become so bold in their murders and looting that the people have or ganized against . them in self-de- I tense. ": Under the leadership of a Turk ish captain nearly 1,000 Turkish troops and renegades ;' raiding through the country were exposed by a superior force of Armenians, led by their elders and enly poorly armed. Many had merely farming implements for. weapons. The Turks, supplied with modern weap ons, made short work of them and presently routed the Armenians. Pursuing, they butchered all with out mercy who came in their way and left no wounded. A large number of villagers es caped to the hills and are now in hiding, abandoning their homes and farms. ' Alameda, Cal., May 11, George G. Gates, father of George and Ver non Gates, the two Alameda boys who are being hunted throughout the north as the perpetrators of the Chicago, May 13. A dispatch to tbe Inter Ocean from Loseur, Minn, says: The marriage of Mies Myr lie Thyme and Albert brayland occurred today. The groom " was only 2o years of age, and being an orphan without a : guardian, - was consequently unable, to obtain a 11 cense. The young ladv, though nearly two years-younger, was still over 18 and of lawful age to get married. Neither one wanted to wait fo the young man to grow old er, so the difficulty was settled as follows: MisR Tbymeformally and legally adopted ber ' affianced and then, as his guardian, gave tbe ne cessary consent to there being marriage license ,. issued to him. The document was duly given out and a justice of the peace married the couple. . ' Portland, May 14. Portland Telegram: -There is reason to be lieve that tbe A. J. Johnson ! men tioned this morning in a special dis patch as lying in a critical condi tion in a Stockton hospital, suffering from the effects of a dose of knock out drops, administered by a thug for the purpose of robbery, is none other than Albert Johnson, former ly of this city, the ' fact of whose robbery with Paul Patterson on the southbound Oregon . express last Sunday, night was published in The Evening Telegram of May 12. The morning dispatch says that Johnson is a member of Portland Lodge of Elks, and that the lodge haa been notified. John B. Coffey. Secretary of the Lodge, says that -there is an Al . Johnson who is a member of the lodge, and that he left here last winter for Klamath Falls. He was formerly employed at the Imperial hotel bar. He is a married man, and The Telegram's dispatch says that he boarded tbe southbound train at Klamathv Falls in company with his wife. Chefoo, May 14. Early this morning five Japanese cruisers, a batilechip and a gunboat cleared tbe channel and entered the harbor at Dalny, where they began a heavy bombardment of the town. It is estimated that 2o,ooo Japan ese are investing toe town, ana there is every reason to believe that it yielded to an assault this after noon. Unverified tamo s have been 16 ceived here this afternoon that an assault has also been made on Port Arthur,- indicating a general ad vance all ' along the line. : - Heavy firing has been beard in the direc tion of Port Arthur and Dalny. ' Just received the finest' line of-.1 cloth ing. . We bought this from the best manufacturers and every suit is guar anteed. Call and see us for :. clothing. See our men's suit at $ 10, it is a marvel. Ilenkle & Davis. The Tillage Improvement Society will give aa evening's entertainment at the college chapel on Friday even ing, Judu 3d, f jr the benefit ot the society. A small admission fee will be asked. The entertainment will consist of music, readings and etereoptl- coo views, some ot our best local talent will contribute to the enjoyment ol all who can be present. Tbe last -monthly meeting of the year will be held at the court room on Friday evening the 27th inat. . . Miss Eva Milncr, who has been very ill with typhoid fever, is slowly improving. Norris & Rowe, whose big tent shows will exhibit in Corvallis, Friday May 20th, have originated a pretty new novelty for their many hundreds ot juvenile admirers. It is nothing more nor les; tban a May pole dance executed by boys and dirls on ponies. The ; May pole is tastefully decorated , and draped with hundreds of vari colored ribbons. The children are dressed in picturesque summer costume and the intelligent little ponies are gaily caprionised. In and out of the maze of the dance go the joyous children and demure posies and all enter heartily into the festive spirit of the affair. The whole effect is so gracefully pleas ing as to win for it the enthus iastic plaudits of adults ': as well as the youngsters. - This is but one of the many extra novelties pro vided for the thousands of Norris & Rowe's admirers. - Shan Haikwan, May 14. A re port was received today that an engagement too'"--f4ace around Hsiuyen Thursday, andSihat . the Russian loss was l,5co killed v and wouedtd. The Japanese loss is un known. : S': ' The Japanese, however, occupied Hsiuyen, which shows that thev must have gained a complete victo ry, lne Kuesians at Hsiuyen were the pick of the army in that region, ana 11 an aiucs was made it is cer tain tbe battle must have been a fierce one; It is probable that the Japaneee loss will Drove no less than that of the Russians. - ' Go to Dunn & Thatchers for grit bone and sneU and ail otner Kinds ot poultry Tokio, May 14. The Japanese laud stock remedies.