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''j ' ' ' """" ' "" mm Vol. XVII. no: J 8. CORVALUS, OREGON. JUNE 22. 1904: B. F, 1KV1NB Editor and Proprietor - , Bave Our New Dress Goods, Novelty Trimmings, Silks, Embroideries, Lace Belts, Collars, White Goods and Shoes. FOR GENTS ittMlMUUlttiUlttiU Jtt Clothing, Hats, Neckware, Shoes, Shirts, Underware. Call and See X I, VK 'V I , -I 5 's Free Bus. Vfs v. rAi&35G?j& sSi; "wtv.' Leading Hotel in Oorvallis. Recently opened. New: brick building. ylfurnished, with modern con-; veniences. Furnace Heat Electric Lights, Fire Es-i capes. Hot and cold water on every floor. Fine single j rooms. Elegant suites. Leading house in the "Willam-: ette Valley.. : Rates: $1 .00, $1.25 aDd $2S00 per day. ! WE DO NOT OFTEN CHANGE Our ad., but our goods change hands every day. Your money exchanged for Value and Quality is the idea. Big Line Fresh Groceries Domestic Plain and Fancy Unaware A large and Orders Filled Promptly and Com plete. Visit our Store we do the rest. 6 B Doming L. G. ALTAIAN, M. D. Homeopathist Office cor 3rd and Monroe eta. Resi dence cor 3rd and Harrison ets. Hours 10 to 12 A. M. 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 P.M. Sundays 9 to 10 A, M, Phone residence 335. ou $een Arrivals m HARM! Fine Light Sample Rooms. J. C. Hammel, Prop. and Imported. varied line. K G. R. FARRA, Physician & Surgeon, , ,?ceJnp stairs back of Graham & Wells' drag store. Residence on the corner of Madison and Seventh. Tele phone at residence, 104. All calls attended promptly. ATTACK TRANSPORTS, ONE OF THEM SUNK BY THE RUSSIAN FLEET. Explosion Adds to Horror on Ship Sect Down Russian Officers Refuse QuarterCrew Pre- . ; ferred Death to Being Captured. .- . Tokio, June 18. Farther de tails have been received Jaa to the attack on fonr Japanese transports in theCorean Straits on Wednesday by a part, or the whole, of the Sibe rian squadron. That there were fonr, and not three, transports, as was at nrst reported, now seems qnite certain. The foot transports attacked were the Hitachi Mara, the Kagato, the Sado Mam and the Izumi Maru, the first of which was snnk by the Russian fleet. ' The second and third are safe, while the fate of the fourth is uncertain, all that is known of her being she is overdue at Moji. The Hitachi in attempticg to es cape from the Russian . squadron was tired upon by machine gunB from three of the Russian craisers Her boiler burst and fire broke out immediately afterward on the trans port. JN ambers ot her men were killed, while nearly all her officers committed suicide with their swords or pistols. A lieutenant-colonel burned his regimental colors, call ing upon the men to witness the act. Directly afterwards he struck by a shell and killed. was There was no time to lower boats from the transport, and many of the men on board lumped into the sea. thirty-seven of these were saved by a fishing boat. It is believed that some thirty others, who jumped, al so escaped with their lives, but their ultimate fate is unknown The total number on board the Hitachi Maru is not yet known.- Ihe Sado Maru, although sale, is disabled. It is stated that the ves sels of the Russian equadron, which attacked the transports, fired about 150 shells at the Sado Maru, two of which, lodging in the transport's machinery, badly crippled her. The Russians then ordered the crew to leave the ship, but only the non combatants on board cbeed. These latter, together with some of those saved, after they jumped overboard from the Hitachi Maru, conveyed the news to points where it could be sent to the Japanese capital The Sado Maru, although, disabled continued to float, and all who re mained on board were saved. A survivor reports to Vice-Ad miral TsuDodathat the Hitachi was hit 60 timts and caught fire. A boat from the Sado was sent to the Russians for the purpose of parley. The Russians agreed to give the Sa do 40 minutes to clear the ship, and said tbey would take the non- combatants on board. Tbe Rus sians, later, it is declared, refused to receive the noncombatants ex cept an Englishman, the chief mate, and belore the 40 minute had expired the Russians, it is fur ther said, torpedoed the boat on both sides. -. ' The greater number of those on board the Hitachi were annihilated. The Russian ships were sighted at 7 o'clock in the morning, and in response to a signal the Hitachi was stopped, but at 10 o'clock got under way again and attempted to escape. The Russians followed and opened a heavy fire directed about the wa ter line, with tbe evident intention of destroying the troops cn board. The fire was terrific, and in a few minutes the decks were covered with corpses and washed with blood Una shell, which struct the engine room, killed 200 men. The ship began to fill, and sank gradually by tbe stern. ' At 6 o'clock in the evening she was completely sub rrerged. Captain Campbell, tbe English master of the transport, jumped ov erboard at 2 o'clock in the after noon, and is numbered among the missing. The chief engineer was killed on the bridge. - Sandy Hill, N. Y., June 11. A desperate scheme to blackmail Fred D. Howland, one of the wealthiest residents of Sandy Hill, has thrown the village into a fever of excite ment. Last Wednesday he. receiv ed a letter demanding $5,000 on penalty xif having one of his four children kidnapped. The letter re the cost mark ''Sandv Hill. June 8, 11:30 A. M. i The writer . demanded that : five thousand dollars in $100 'bills be put in a tin can which would be found in the creviees of a tree in the yard of the resideoca of W- F. Battsreon, in Oak street,' which is one of the beet residence districts here. - The Patterson residence haB ap elestric light in front.: ., -, 1 The condition was that Howland was to drive by the site soon after rfcei-yiog the letter. In case he at tempted to waylay the men making te demand they would riddle him with bullets, the writer said.1 IMr. Howland consulted the chief of police and telegraphed to ; New Tflork for a detective. At ;th6 time specified in the letter Mr. Howland took a package of paper and placed ' xt ' . ii J; l 1 . J J it in me can as uireciea, sou aeiec- , ti Yes have been watching the place ever since, out without result, jno one went after the supposed treas ure. . .; A detective has been shadowing a suspicious local character and his house is being watched. Mr. and Mrs. Howland are much agitated over the matter. The letter, which was badly spelled and written in pencil, reads: 'We are hard pinched fot cash; must have it quick. Won't you give us $5,000 in $loo-biIls? ' Yon are worth $000,000, . so you can spare it. If you don't do this will swipe one of your kids, and won't kill it, bat worse; we will torture it to end of its days. - Don't wan't big one; it will be one of little ones. Have money ready Thursday June 9. half-paet 9 in evening. Put it at 92 Oak street at foot of tree south ward in tin can that will be there. Wrap roll money in paper. "Now remember, if you fail noth ing will save you, even if you hire one hundred men to guard your kids.- Don't let any one know a bout this. If you do we will deal with you as we see fit. Pass the place in the afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock. Some of the gang will be watching for yon and no harm willeome ? to yo.,-:Jffe - will riddle you to pieces if you attempt to waylay us. Remember, come a lone with the money, and if you don't hell on earth will play with you and we will follow you from place to place and your life will be hell. "Come rain or shine, Thursday night. We wrnt to leave the damn town Friday, and if you don't bring the money we will start to seek our revenge." -Some think it is a hoax, 'but Mr. Howland intends to .discover tbe perpetrators if possible. Grant's Pass, O.. June 8. A milkpan half full of gold 200 oun ces valued at more than $4ooo. was the sight that greeted scores of visitors at th Grants Pass Banking & Trust Company's bank today. This represents about one-fifth of the amount taken from a ledge since its discovery last Sunday afternoon. The discovery was made by the 18-year-old son of David Briggs. While out hunting, he stumbled on to a ledge of decomposed quartz which was more gold than quartz. He secured a chunk the size of a candle box, and took it to bis fath er's placar claim, where it was mor tared and yielded nearly $800. -s. Early next morning the family staked out seven claims and began mining. In two , hours , they had ,000, and in one week they bad mortared but $25,000, and Mr. Briggs reports the ledge getting bet ter all the time. The whole amount was taken from an excavation ten feet long by seven feet deep. The find is the talk of the coun try, and already 'the surrounding hills are being searched by prospec tors and gold excitement is at fever heat. The ledge is located in the southeastern - part of Josephine county, about 50 miles from Grants Pass. Nagasaki, June 17. Seventy three survivors from the transport Sado arrived here today. They es caped in a water boat and contrived a sail from their clothing. They met a British steamer off tbe island of Iki at 5 o'clock yesterday after noon and were towed to a point near, Nagasaki. The survivors say that the Sado's engines were disa bled after a few shots had been fired by the Russians. When the survivors left the scene the Hitachi was still afloat. Firecrackers, bombs, rockets and all other kinds of fireworks at Hodes Gun store. A TRAIN HELD UP EAST-BOUND PASSENGER TRAIN FROM PORTLAND ROBBED IN MONTANA. Express Car and Safe Dynamited ' Posses in Pursuit With Bloodhounds Booty Said - to Be -$6o,ooo. ; ' "Missoula, Mont., June 18. Big jnnt,wa n( nffiira. ill determined meil are today purBUing bandits who at n o'clock last night, held . and rohbed the North Coast lim- rited train of the Northern Pacific railway near Bearmouth station. But two masked men are supposed to have accomplished the bold hold up and tbey are supposed to have been members , of the notorious "Kid" Currie gang. They got a way with a sum which it is believ ed to have reached $60,000, although express officials are reticent regard ing the amount. . The holdup occurred near the same spot and was similar in na ture to that of two years ago in which Engineer O'Neil was killed. The train stops at Bearmouth to take water and it was at this time the robbers, boarded the tender of the engine. After leaving the wa ter tank the train had only proceed ed a short distance when the engin eer and firemen were covered with guns in the hands of two masked men wbo bad climbed over the coal from the rear of the tender. The engineer and fireman were ordered to throw up their hands, and at a distance of about two miles from the station Engineer Wade was ordered to stop tbe train, which he did. The two robbers then forced the engineer and fireman to accom pany them to the express car, where tbe express messenger was ordered to open tbe door, which he refused to do. One of the masked men then handed tbe engineer a stick of dynamite and ordered him to light it and place it against the express car door After the explosion the force of which completely shattered the door and side of the car, the engin eer and fireman were forced to pre cede tbe banditB into tbe car aDd the attack on tbe safe was at once begun. A half dozen sticks of dy namite were placed on tbe top of the strong box and ignited. Tbe terrific force of this second charge completely demolished the interior and Bide of the car and hurled the safe a distance of ten yards from its resting place. The contents of the safe was appar ently unharmed and after securing them, the 'robbers warned tbe train crew that they would not be harm ed if they made no resistance and obeyed instructions. One of . tbe masked men accidentally struck the engineer during the proceedings and during his conversation, while making an apology, called the en gineer by name. This gave rise to the suspicion that tbe robbers may be railroad men. After the looting of the safe was completed tbe engineer and firemen were ordered back to the engine by the robbers, who kept them covered with revolvers. When the train crew reached the engine the robbers shot out the lights on the rear of tbe train and quickly disappeared in the darkness. Passengers were under seats and secreting valuables in every conceivable place that offered a bid ing place. Tbe rear breakman, re alizing what was going on, quietly slipped from the train' and made his way to Bearmouth, where be reported tbe anair to tbe superin tendents omce in Miseoula. bhortly before 1 o'clock a sheriffs posse left Missoula for Bearmouth. At the break of day posses witb bloodhounds started in pursuit of the bandits. The sife blown open contained shipments of currency en route from Portland to Chicago and New York. New Orleans, June 11. St. Jul ian Renfro, Shreveport, La., who was stricken deaf and dumb in the midst of a religious argument at Chicago on May 3I, in a written in terview here today declared that he saw an angel and that he will de vote the balance of bis life to relig ion. Renfro wrote that his friende were firm believers in the Suprems Being while he did not believe in God. : ; s,;! "; ". ' "In the religious discussion,' Renfro wrote, "I told my friends that unless the God they believed Would strike me deaf and dumb I would not believe there was one. As soon as I finished the sentence the power of speech was taken from , me and a few minutes afterward X was unable to hear anything my -friends were Baying. I was strick- , en bo suddenly that I hardly knew what bad happened. I tried to epeak. but that waa impossible, and since that day I have been unable - to bear or utter a word. "Jnst as soon as I lost my hear- ing powers I saw a beautiful light in one corner of the room. It re minded me of lightning. In the midst of this light there appeared an angel. I oemember the suene perfectly. The vision lasted for a few minutes ooly, ard ihn disap- . peared as suddenly t 11 had come." London, June 18. Dispatches to the Daily Mail from Tangier state that the American naval officers there have become incensed at the action of the sultan of Morocco in - bringing native troops from Cassa- bianca into Tangier and Fez, thus wantonly disregarding the express stipulation of tbe bandit Ralsuli for the release of Messrs. ferdloaris and Varley, and delaying their re lease. Protests against this action of the sultan have also been . made by the British authorities. The Americans are prepared to take energetic measures if tbe saltan continues to pay no . heed to the . protests. The American naval com mander is considering the advisa bility of landing looo marines to occupy the town of Tangier until the sultan withdraws the troops. Gibraltar, June 18. Owing to the representations of Rear-Admiral Chadwick, of the American squadron in this water, to the Brit isn legation, H. M. S. Prince of Wales, one of Great Britain's first class battle ehips attached to the Mediterranean squadron, has been ' ordered to return to Tangier, there to remain until the conclusion ot the negotiations now proceeding for tbe release of Messrs. Perdicaris. and Varley by the brigand. Raisuli. Helsingfors, Finland, June 17 The Russian flag at half-mast over the governor's palace this morning proclaimed to the people of Hehingfors that General Bobri koff, governor-general of Finland, was dead of a bullet wound inflict ed by an assassin. There was no excitement in the city, and no at tempt at demonstration was made. The father, mother, brothers and sisters ot Schaumann, the assassin ' of Bobrikcff, were arrested and sub jected to a searching examination, but late this evening they were re leased and allowed to return to their country home. How far the Swedish party is implicated in the killing of the governor-general has not been estab lished, but the authorities are con vinced that Schaumann, who com mitted Buicide, bad accomplices who found in the brooding, half- fanatical student a ready tool, Warning of tbe intended assina- tion of the governor-general reach ed tbe authorities laBt December. but Bobrikoff, against the pleading of bis official family, declined an escort. A few months later, this warning was repeated and Bobri koff thereafter was attended by a small guard, and a number of se cret service men, except within the state building, tbe guard having requested permission to furnish pro tection for the governor there. It appears that General Bobri koff never had a chance to survive. The surgeons had only Up slender est hope from the operatiou which they performed, and they rel.zed that death was almost inevitable. During the operation the pulse al together ceased more than once. The injuries inflicted were eo terri ble as to indicate that ' the bullet waa of an explosive rature' - When the operation waB complet ed, the patient regained and main tained consciousness for about three hours, during which time he spoke a few words to his wife and daugh ters. Then at 1 o'clock he became unconscious and remained so until he died. - It is said that Schaumann's fath er, who was a member of the sen ate, retired from public life because he was opposed. to Finland's becom ing an integral portion of tbe Rus sian empire., ' Our sample line of swell tailor made summer clothing is now in. OAC Press ing Co. ' :