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B. F. XRVIini Editor and Proprietor Rave Vou Seen Our New EEV3 iUiUMlU Lace Belts, Collars, White Goods and Shoes. FOR GENTS uiMuuiunuuuwumw Clothing, Hats, Neckware, Shoes, Shirts, Underware. Call and See Free Bas. 5 D -jsi- i jar! ,'.vT- ms, 'urn-'- W reading Hotel in Uorvallis. Ilecently opened. New: brick building. Newly furnished, with modern eon-; veniences. Furnace Heat, Electric Lights, Fire Es-' capes. Hot and cold water oh every floor. Fine single ; rooms. Elegant suites. Leading house in the Willam ette Valley. : Kates: $1 .00, $1.25 and $2.00 per day. - v ...... .! " - :- v WE DO NOT OFTEN CHANGE . . Our ad., but our goods change hands every day: ; Your money exchanged , for Value and Quality is the idea. Big Line Fresh Groceries Domestic and Imported. Plain and Fancy Chinaware A large and Orders Filled Promptly and Com plete. Visit our Store we do the rest. B Borning L. G. ALTAIAN, M. D. Homeopathist OSce cor 3rd and Monroe ets. Reel dence cor - 3rd and Harrison eta. Hours 10 to 12 A. M. 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M. Sundays 9 to 10 A, M, Phone rest dence 335. Arrivals Dress Goods, Novelty Trimmings Silks, Embroideries? - v. Fine Light Sample Rooms. : - varied line. " JG. R. FARRA, Physician & Surgeon, Office up stairs back of Graham & Wells' drug store. Residence on the corner of Madison and Seventh. Tele phone at residence. 104. All calls attended promptly. - Hotel ,-.r J. C. Hammel, Prop. 1$ BANDITS . FRUSTRATED PARTY WITH $8,000 WELL ARMED WHEN FIRED ONjj FROM THE WOODS l: .. .... . . t . j i On Their Way to Pay Ofl Employ ees in a Water Company Two Horses' Killed After I ' Exchanging Twenty-vfive Shots Bandits " "; : v' , Retire. . ; ..J, -;- Johnston, Pa., Jane -2o. A des perate attempt was made by four masked men to rob Superintendent W..H. C; Ramsey, and secretary Frank Howard, of the Johnstown Water Company- of about $8,ooo in cash, which they were convey ing to the new Dalton Run. dam near this city , to pay off . the 4oo men employed there. The two men made a run for it and escaped, but not until two horses had been-killed and about twenty-five shots had been exchanged. - v- ; , Mr. Ramsey and Mr. Howard started from this city in the early afternoon, and had reached a wood ed Etretcb of the highway which af fords au excellent opportunity fox a hold op. Both men were heavily armed and were driving in a bog gy with the money in a satchel 'at their feet. Close behind them, on horseback, rode . Chester Miltenber ger, an employee, -who has been ; in the habit of. riding down from the dam to meet a ad protect the pay masters. Across his knees Milten berger carried a; loaded f W inchester rifle. ' ' - - ' The first in timationr the party had that there was ' trouble ahead was a fusillade of shots from the deep woods and : the' tottering and-) sudden twitching of the horse which was drawing the buggy.. An in stant later the - horse that Milten-. uerger was riumg was snot iroin under him. -' The paying party drew their .weapons:, and . directed their - fire toward the weods, where aByet they had been unable to see their assail ants. 1 be horse that Ramsey and Howard weredrivicg staggared on, and just as it became evident that he must go down Howard grabbed the valise and jumped from the buggy and started to run. Ram sey alo left the vehicle, but he and Miltenberger retreated- slowly, exchanging shots with the men in the woods. A bullet grazed Ram sey's forehead and inflicted a slight wouod. Otherwise the men escap ed uninjured. While walking backward Ram sey and Miltenberger got sight of the highwaymen, but could not de scribe them accurately. With the bandits in the woods and the two nun in the road still firing at them, the party traversed a considerable distance, but How ard bad run ahead with the money, and when the highwaymen saw that their loot was ' beyend their reach they abandoned the chase Local police went to the scene to find only the two horses, lying dead in the road, the people in the vi cinity of where the attempted hold up took place have taken up the search, and tonight a hundred arm ed men are scouring,, the country for the highwaymen. -" New York, June 22. Stories of the war in the Far East have caus ed an outbreak among the inmates of the Morris Plains Insane Asylum near Morristown, Ni J. Half a dozen lunatics who had engaged in a long controversy, finally made a break for liberty. They crossed Speedwell river and hastily threw up a small fort of timbers on the top of a hill. Attendants attempt ed to carry the works, bnt were met by; volleys, of stones and beat a hasty retreat. For three hours the fort held out. , Then a trace was arranged and the commander of the garrison agreed to a parley as escape was impossible. . . A conference with the comman der of the keepers was held under the white flag on a big fiat stone in the middle of th$ river.- In all se riousness the lunatics, after a long wrangle, agreed to surrender, hav ing been granted some small f&vore. No losses were reported beyond a few bruised heads. For Sale. Span of mares.Inquire of Frank Francis co. Corvallis. . Cripple Creek, Colo., June 23. In reply to a - telegram from - the New York World, Charles H. Mey er, president of the Western Feder ation of Miners, who is . now & pris oner in the county jail.herei , sent an extended statement of; present nonditions in the ; state from, his standpoint. Mr. Moyer said in parti. , - - .". . "The deportation of the- union men. and others, bein in my opin ion unlawful, the Western Federa tion of Miners will use all . lawfal means to re-eatablish :: their mem bers in thejr home?, - No violence will be resorted to, but snch legal steps as may be necessary to- .bring about the desired results will be takea at the proper time. Pending encn acuon, aeporiea memoers ana I their families Will be supported by the federation. ; ;f ' : ' "General Bell alleges nha'j ( hi8; policy has been successful, and that other states are expected to follow suit. If this be true, then rebellion is not improbable, as the great ma jority of the American people " are today condemning such a system, and, regardless of ; unionism, would bitterly resist any attempt to put the same into practice I disagree with the general, as to the labor troubles being settled in Colorado, but do believe they will: be settled by the ballot in the month of No-t vember." . -; -0 ixr-l Ashland, Or., June 22. T. ; K Bolton, A prominent druggist; lof rthis place, who was arrested on the complaint of two private detectives, who claimed to hail from Iowa. by the name Van Wert and Peabody, for selling them liquor, pleaded not guilty and stood trial in the record er's court this morning. The drug gist admitted sellings them a bottle of whiskey' but-: maintained that they obtained it on a plea that they were going on an . outing trip and wanted to take it along for medical use. Bath prosecuting witnesses tes tified that the whiskey was sold them without qualification. The jury, beweverreVidently. preferred to be lieve the druggist to that of both informers, and promptly returned a verdict of acquittal. ' - 1 f Portland, Jane 22. The Orego- nian: The warships Wyoming, Paul Jones and Perry will be in Portland ' Harbor " next 7 Monday morning, and will remain - here for two weeks. - The will be one of the greatest attractions of the Carnival and the Fourth of July celebration and doubtless will be t visited by thousands of sightseers. . The ves' 8els will be moored in what is known as the "warship anchorage," just above the steel bridge, Where they will be easy to reach by launch or rowboat. ' Portland, June 22. Portland Oregonian: The light-draft steam er Oregona, built , ai the Portland Shipbuilding Company's yards for the . Oregon ;: City , . Transportation com pany r h as - been, .launched . and will soon be ready tor service. She will ply on the Upper Willamette as far as Corvallia, and will be able to run the year round. Portland, June 22. Oregonian: The fine American steamship Ne- braskan, of the' -American-Hawal ian line, arrived in port at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, having rcom pleted the longest voyage ever made by an oil burner. The vessel comes from New york, and ' brings 2000 tons of assorted cargo. .. She is the first of what is hoped to be a, per manent line of steamers plying Te tween the Atlantic seaboard and thiscity. '.Lf;Kr-S- Iu 55 actual running days 1 the Nebraskan steamed 13,682, using crude oil for fuel. She left New York April 17 and arrived at" San Francisco June 10, where part of her cargo was discharged. On the passage around from New York the vessel's speed averaged 103-4 knots. Her tanks have a capacity of ll.ooo barrels of oil, which will run ber for 6o days. The Nebraskan is the best exam pie ever seen in this port. She has all the conveniences for handling cargo to be seen on foreign tramps and many more besides.- Farther more, jnd is gracelully built, stanch and seaworthy and neat in appear ance. The steamer was launched in Jane, 1902, at the yards of the United States Shipbuilding at Camden, N. J. She is 360 feet long, 42 feet 6 inches beam and' 84 feet 6 inches depth of hold. Buy your 4th of July outfits at Nolan & Callahan. A RICH POCKET. FARMER PLOUGHS UP' LONG BURIED . TREASURER. ! Reported Discovery of from ''$300,- 000 to . $500,000 bn jSquakie , HUW-Ravages of .Grass- r " . hoppers in Umatilla. .. .r- Groveland, N.'Y June 11. The people of the neighboring -village of Mount Morris are generally worked up over the reported finding of a treasure of buried gold : coinea . on the farm' of - John F. .White, on Squakie Hill, . The general report' is that -the gold amounts to about $300,000, although some of ; the op timistic who1 have talked with Far mer White put -the value of: the coins as high as $500,000. Living ston county has not been so full of mysterious rumors 'foe many.- gen erations,' and almost everybody has" a different story to tell of the won derful find. ;w :i -f iii-.r-i ts;f!'" During the American Revolution, one of the stories goes,: a paymas ter in the Continental, army on his way into the Genesee and 1 Wyom ing valleys was: murdered by.: In dians who -buried somewhere in the hills-the gold that the paymaster and his assistance were, taken, with then! to pay the soldiers,: Squakie Hill is one of those : surrounding the Genesee Valley.' s: :r: - ' The BtoTy of the buried treasure, growing as the years went, by, has been handed down from generation to generation in Livington county, and nearly everybody wbo has been horn and brought up in the vicini ty has made a search for theburied treasure at one time or anotner, every cave and cleft in (the rocks, and every bid follow tree lias been explored, and men have been, dig ging here and there in the bills, off and- on, for a hundred , years, -j JBut np to the present time,- so far as was ever known, nobody has ever come across a single coin.- . "' Clairvoyants and so-called mind readers have been brought here and to Mount Morris, in the hope that they might dream out the location of the gold, and small parties fol lowing the mysterious tips received have dug at. night on Squakie Hill and in a hundred other places with out success. ' The story now circulating through Livingston county is to the efiect that one of Farmer White's hired men was engaged the other day in ploughing a part of the farm that had never before been tilled, when his ploughshare turned over a large flot stone. Uuner the stone -was a nother round, flat stone wbicn gave forth a hollow sound when accident ally struck. . The round . stone be ing lifted up a vault or hole in the ground was discovered. The farm band replaced the .cover and when he went up to the baro to turn in the horses for the night he told Mr. White all about what he had dis covered."' ' )., '"' '", That same night, it is said, the owner of the farm went by himself to the vanlt with a ' lantern and spade. ' A neighbor saw the lantern, be says, traveling several times tbat night between Squakie Hill and the White dwelling. This and some talk let fall by Mr. White himself have given rise to the story tbat all of the immense buried treasure has been recovered. Cambridge, - Mass., 2o. George F. Phillips, who won renown as en gineer of the collier Merrimac, sunk by Hobson at the month 01 bantia- go's harbor, is now numbered with the dead at his home in Cambridge port. - Phillips enlisted in the navy as a machinist, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. - When Hobson called for ' volunteers to sink the collier, Phillips offered his services. He remained at the i-englne of the Merrimac and at great jiersonal 'danger'" reversed bis . en gines under a storm 01 shells, men open the eea valves, flooded the ship and made his way to the deck while the vessel was sinking. After the war he was transferred to Phil ippine water?. His death was due to brigbt's disease. . Pendleton, Or., June 21. Tne army of grasshoppers struck the al kali wheat-raising district, about 20 miles southwest of this city, a few days - ago, and ;has wrought much damage to grain; - Morad Fix is the heaviest -loser,' grasshoppers having eated down 500 acres . to such an extent that the grain is scarcely fit for hay. . Other crops in that vicinity have been, more er less damaged. " - L A visit of. grasshoppers ; in thjs county is unusual..- This is the first year the - insects have done ' any damage to grain. ' . Cooperstown, June 2o.,r Mrs. W. A. Renwick, of Hartwick, in com pany with her sister - and two boys, was standing , with a liehted lama in her baud in her home while a se vere storm was in troerss, A ter rific clap, followed , by a ripping sound, is all that any of the party remembers. - When they revived at the end of fifteen minutes none of the party was inj ured. - ; 5 .... . ':,The lightning had torn its way through the gable. 'puot-d the lamp chimney in Mrs. - Rt u wick's hand and extineuifbiiik ibe lieht and torn her shoe to shreds. Then haying played a few freaks with the 'furniture : the olt shattered the stove and made its- exit through a big hole in the floor. , Mrs Ren wickcuffered no injury beyond 'a dull red bruise on her beel. .' - Tokio, June 22. The crew of a junk which left Port Arthur a few days ago and J which was captured by the Japanese, reports : that two Russian destroyers and the steamer Shintaiping struck 1. float log mines at the entrance to Port Arthur har bor and .'.were destroyed and 140 Russians killed. . - ; . . Tokio, June 23. Reports receiv ed from Chinese : sources state that despite reports to ; the contrary, the Russians ; have, not ' succeeded in clearing the entrancet to -Port Ar thur, and when the cruiser. Novik made her- appearance , a. few days ago she was towed oat by tugs. Ac cording to these reports, j nearly all of the big vessels have been denud ed, of their guns, which have been mounted on the barber fortifica tions. . .-'-,. r Washington, June 22. Piesi- dent Roosevelt decided today that a - naval ' demonstration ' shall be made against Turkey. Alexandret ta, from which port the American squadron was "recalled last year, will be the objective point, v 7 Admiral Barker's fleet, consisting of the battle ships Iowa, Kearsarge, Alabama, and Maine, sailed today for Gibralter for the Piraeus. ..The battle ships Missouri and Illinois and gunboat Mayflower will join them there. - When Admiral Jew-J ell and the European squadron, now at 1 angler, arrives, the demon stration . against Turkey will , be made. : ,, . : - - It is probable that the Eurooean squadron will go . firtt to Alexan- dretta, this being decided upon . in deference to ; Russian's protest. . If the sultan does not then yield, the battle ships will follow, Jt is un derstood 'there is po present inten tion of bombardment. . . - -London, , June 23. The Daily Telegraph's Tangier correspondent, telegraphing to his paper at 9 o' clock last night, says: : There is another hitch, and . the -for sending forward the has been countermanded, has . demanded another order . for prisoners . - Raisuli province. When Perdicaris is released he will be brought to rjis - town house, , where bis wife is ill, suffering from the, treatment she received at the hands of the brigands at the time me capture was maae. What will follow the release of the captives, it ib impossible to discover. The next step lies with Francs, who will not land troops, but acting on the prin ciple, a thief to catch a thief, will recognize Raisuli as governor of- A J A. country between. , - St. Petersburg; June 22. A se vere battle, lasting two days has been fought near Haicheng. : The Russian casualties are given at 16S officers and 5,ooo men. The outcome of the battls is not known, but from the fact -t that the Russians gave no flat . announce ment of victory, it is presumed by the correspondents that the out come is either in doubt or that both Bides withdrew. Official announce ments are expected and excitement in the capital runsbigh. LOSt. '" On Monroe picnic grounds, Sat urday June 11, K of P watch charm. Finder please leave at Times office and receive reward, ..