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COliVALLIS, OREGON. AUGUST 24. 1904.;
B. F. IKV1I
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Biff Gut on
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All ladies fine shoes at a
big discount, and some odds
and ends in all kinds of shoes ;
at half price. Summer cotton
and wool fabrics at a great;
sacrifice. Lots of bargains j
for this month.
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HOT FOREST FIRES
OFFICERS PULL THEIR COATS
AKD LEAD THE PRIVATES.
Thirty-Five People - Burned Oat of
Home and i Loet Everything
- i Frank Cubit, Arson Sus-
pect, Is Arrested and .
Gives Bail. ',
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Free Bus. ."..--" Fine Light Sample Rooms.
S.r'S&fc' Hotel r 1 1
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Vancouver,- Wash., 19, 'Twen
ty-three small children: 12 adult?,
and a badly singed cat (which u
much r better, than ; it looks ) are
homelfsi on Fourth .-. .Plain, near
Vancouver Wash. burped out by
the fierce forest , tire- -of .the . past
week. ; Few -of the unfort unate-people
hadn't muh in the way of world
ly goods, but as one. remarked ..to-
day:' ' ": ':::t ; '
"It seems a good deal when it's
all you've gpi, and you lose it."
The end is not yet as tee nre is
now threalenins the hamlet' of Or
chard, about: seven miles east of j
Vancouver. ; . ;
Frank Cubit, who is charged with
baviDraalicioualy started the fire
last . Wednesday, was arrested at
the ;Vancouyer; ferry-elip by City
Marsha Fran b Vabnat j, Thursday
evening.fHe' was released on $500
bond today to appear for examina
tion in the justice ourt.at 10 aim.
tomorrow; ' Feeling against him; is
strong, though the evidence appears
HO De ciji;uiiiti.auija!. , ,- ,.i - r
t" Cubit, who lives at' .Woodla'wn,
has long been engaged; in hauling
Kyancouver City and Clark county
sutoonuea-naa; oeeu appeaiea 10 ior
aid io; vain, Colonel Huston began
arganiziog . companies ot soldiers
and sending them to help, the strug-.
glirg, -exhausied nd, smoke-choked
settlers. The men were relieved
at intervals by fresh battalions, so
that from 40 to ,150 soldiers .have
been fighting fire' practically j ever
since Jast Wednesday., 'That much
more damage has: not been done is
undoubtedly due almost sltojrether
Lto the tffort8 ot the officers and sol-
dierp.; ' : , r-, s ,
"Uncle Sam's boyB are all right,"
it bp ark?d a smpke-begriao med wood-
pan 40 ,f, he UregoDian .oorrespond
tnl today-. "I feen a lot ' of tbem
j'rlloB-s' owatib'.and chokin' and i
A RACING TORNADO
THAT SWEEPS THE CITY OF
sr. -Paul and several7
. ARE KILLED AND
.V j ; WOUNDED.
Minneapolis Aleo' ;- SufferB Loss
' Amounts to Millions Wire "
. ; Service Is Uttetly Demol-;;;' ,
( . .. iebed The Storm. U'l:
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rnr st suffocated,, and them officers "utriv 1 V
.. .. . ' . - ' ... . nnna were killerl. ft nnmher. are re-
puued on thetr eoats ana; noierea.p . .. . . lnn
. . . ... nnrtart missincr -nnn fill fn KUl nrprn
filnmfl nn hrius. Atirl: OMiInrt riirht
Irf, tOO," : .. t r.';,.;U vii'fV'v- V
A drive past, .the1; barracks,, and
out along, the country' road ; east
ward about five miles brings one
close to the f nter. -of.; the burned,
district, "in a field tq the left, va-"
cant dwelling has been occupied by
four , of the. unfortunate families,
who have loet nearly, all. Their
tew honsehold effects saved, lo , the
bustle of escape from the , woods a
mile distant are scattered about the
house and - yard,; enough bedding
being mustered to accommodate the
party .'by crowding .the .floor : space..
; i "Not a life was .lost except chick
ens and- cats,".-, said ' Mre.; F. N7
Borduian. , ''They went except our
yellow torn there. Ha got awfully
sioged, poor dear, but is b3tter'n.hei
looks., , See, he can just walk pain
fully, abauti en his, burned feet. ,Our
bouse was .all a fire-when, ..he craa
woocl from 'Vanconvef. and i selling' Lthrbugh t;"thea eut , and .through
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Leading Hotel in Corv.illis. Ilec8ntl3T opened. New
brick building. Newly- furnished, with modem eori-
vonif ncea. Furnace Heat, Electric Lights, Fire Es- W
cipes. Hot and c.i)ld water on tvery lloor. Fine single-.
-S room.-;.' Elegant suites
etie a! lev.
Hate?: , $1.00, $1.25 ai d $2.00 per day.
Lendins house in theWillam- S
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but our Oods change hands'
ry i!ay. Your money exchanged
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Quality
is the idea. M
Big Line Fresli groceries!
Domestic and Imported.
1 Plain anA Fancy CMnaware
A lartre and varied line.
Orders Filled Promptly and Complete.-
Visit our Store we do the
rest. '
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XtraooD Glothes
For boys, little fellows and
young men see Nolan & Callahan.
G. It. FARRA,
Physician & Surgeon,
Office np stairs back of Graham &
Wells' drug store. Residence on the
corner of Madison and Seventh. Tele
phone at residence, 104. :
All calls attended promptly.
it in Portland.: His;stropgest com
pettier is said .to have :been the Van
Oouver Fuel Company. - who cut
their wood and haul it from: the
same timber tract on Fourth Plain,
where Cubit has been cutticg and
where the fire originated. v. lt
It is asserted that Cubit's rivals
have beeD ' cutting prices lately.
j urthermorpj trial uuoit was; ; in-.
volved in a law suit wnereby.be
feared bis own cordwood might be
attached; also that his wood was
insured. ' These considerations are
thought to have furnished the mo
tive for incendiarism.
1 be Vancouver authorities say
that' Cubit, accompanied by his
vou'ng eon, drove to the tract in"a
cart by a circuitous route Wednes
drt : that the cart and horse left'a
nliin trail- along the byway to
point near where the first blaze
staited; that be left the cart and
walked into the Blurock slashing
near where the fuel com pan v had
about 450 cords of wood, symmet
ricaiiy puea: tnatjuttas be was
coming bark he was met by a man
who ni l , appear as a witness lo
mortii ; (hat the man slopped him
and. "Cubit appeared very nervous,
locking over his shoulder from time
to uuif-,!? 11. tiie dirtetioa whence a
fw n omei t-i 1-ittr the fire appeared.'
; Cubitus ailfgtd to have next pro-
out-rei io lis own wood ami nred it.
rtfe blaze was well under way -when
he iis met bv' Clarence Bildwin, a
woodcutter df the vicinity. Bald
win fiivs lijMt he urged Cubit to try'
to put ouc the fire urd offered to
help, but (La, Cuoit replied: - '
! s'Ii's no use, let it go." ;' r
i But for the ratter strong uorth
ierly and northeasterly winds which
I have prevailed all week, the blaze
j would doubtlese have beeu controll
ed long before this.
The burned district covers an area
approximately five miles loog, north
and south) by three wide. It was
bnrning hercely last night at the
western side of the strip, near Min
nehaha, but through the heroic ef
forts of the Vancouver barracks reg
ulars, aided by a favorable wind to
day, the flames are fairly under
control on that side.
Now anxiety is left chiefly for
Orchard, in which vicinity are liv
ing.about 100 people. The posteffice
and houses close by will be sure to
go if the blaze gets rampant in
Paddock's elashmg. These "slash
ings," being full of dry, dead tim
ber and brush, are invariably the
worst places the fighters have, to
deal with.
Colonel Hu6ton last night order
ered a battalion of about 125 men
to the vicinity of Orchard. . They
are armed with gunny- sacks, axes
ana otner weapons for fira-figbting,
and will remain all night in the ef
fort to prevent the further destruc
tion of homes.
Enthusiastic praise is giving the
soldiers and officers from the bar
racks by the settlers of Fourth
Plain. The barracks have at no
time been in. danger, bat after the
the blazing mill 'and into the pood
below. He get on a log in the mid
dle of the pond some how and stay
ed there through it all. Our cattle
we could not drive nor-, lead. .' We
had to tie them behind the wagons
and iust drae them out. . We wo
men 1 jaded' the three wagons while
the men, were trying to save-'the
;The mill cost us $4,000, and
timber was worth $1,000 and our
homes contained all else we had in
the world; The four families of us
got out a sewiDg machine each, one
piano and two organs and a little
other stuff, but not a bite in the
way of provisions; ,
"We put a lot of crockery in a
tub and stood it out in the pond;
well, the fire burned that tub to the
water s edge and melted the crock
ery right down into it. We buried
Eome fruit and stuff in glass jars in
the ground, but It all burst and was
lost, too. We stayed until themen
bad to give up the mill and as we
drove away the flames actually met
over the road over our heads."
A mile further on through the
smoking wood3 brought the corres
pondent to the ruins of the Home
stead Lumber Company's mill, and
a cozen uweuicss and barns, be
longing to the two Boatdmans, V.
L; Hash, J. C. Carson; M. Iser, E.
H. Hugan,' Frank Augee, Allison
Pettit aud Louis Pettit. .
Three dwellings just across the
creek were almost miracuioucly sav
ed thoitgii surrounded for hours by
the fiercest fire. These -were occu
pied by the families of William
iitalev, Louis Pettit and Wi E..Sny-
der; ' : ' 1 '
- "We had an awful time, of it,"
ssid Mr. Pettit. "Tin bridge waa
a!l ablaza aud the other families,
eeeicg that we couid't get out, were
sure fi r a time that we all had been
dettroved. You can sse how clean
Jhe fire took everything up to with
in a foot of my barn there. It got
in through the windows and burned
the bedding. There's the remnant
of one straw mattress that I threw
out blazing. It seemed as
though I drew and carried from
that well a thousand pails of wa
ter that day, but we stayed with it,
'There were 11 houses in this lit
tle place about the mill and we
called the place Hob9on. E. E.
Hugan was the oldest inhabitant;
he has been here 22 years; he lost
everything orchard, house and
outbuildings valued at about $1,
000. .. - ;
"The soldier boya saved Bill Sny
der's place up there after four hours
of the; most , desperate fighting.
These fellowa are all right-1 tell
you. A. Pettit, who was work
ing at the Portland sanitarium aa
nurse, lost all he had except a shav
ing outfit. I lost three email build
ings, one 01 wnicn waa use J as a
church. : Four hundred dollars will
cover my lose. No one waB well
off enough to be a heavy loser in a
monetary sense, but it's pretty hard
on the families that lost all they
had." .
ported missing and. 50 to 100 were!
iojuredi" some '"fatally; business
property and residences were dam
aged to the extent of perhapa $1,
000,000; .The massive steel bridges
across the Mississippi were wrecked
and strained; shade trees were lev
eled and much other damage was
done in St. Paul and Minneapolis
by a tbrnado which broke over the
two cities shortly after 9 o'clock
last night..' 1 .' , : ; .
Apparently, the storm waa of". a
local character, for .as far . as can be
learned no damage was done in the
neighboring towns." The storm waa
particularly, severein the business
districts' of the two cities. : Wind
ows; were blbwn in and Tbofa torn
from immense wholesale warehous
es and the flood of rain which ac
companied the Etorm did immeas
urable' damage to "stocks of goods.
Dwelling houses," 'churches- and
schools also suffered greatly.
" Railroad traffic between; St. Paul
and Minneapolis 'waa complately
cut eff. The street-railway of both
systems were: prostrated. For hours
after the storm had spent its. fury
it was impossible to get into com
munication With. Minneapolis, . the
telephone wires being, demoralized
Humors ot great loss of lite were
rife, but on being tracked : te their
eowrces "were-found to be incorrect;
Practically every building on the
north side of Third street is wreck
ed... The Habe-Hurst block, at
Sivecth and Wacota t streets, was
unroofed, and the Economy depart
ment store was damaged to the ex
tent of $20,000, at Minneapolis
there was no one killed but man?
were wounded.
The storm was of short duration,
lasting not more than 15 minutes.
The devastation it wrought waa ter
rific. The wind according to the
government weather observer, blew
80 miles an hour, coming from the
southwest, Buildings were unroof;
ed and fronts blown in, the cellars
being flooded by. the rain which
came in great waves along with the
wind. Electric wires were pros
truted and many persons were in
iurtd by contact with electric wirea
An excursion steamer, towing
barge on the river below St. Pau
ia. reported to have been wrecked.
R'.litf parties in steam launches
av i-'en dir-ptched to tbe rescue.
It is said thta many live were lost
tbfire. .
ilie at. AnthoDv elevator in
Minoeapo!i3 v.ns leveled. One per
son io reportBU killed m one wing
i of the House of the Good Snepherd, !
which waa blown down. A little
girl was killed aud ten or twenty
women injured. As later reports
cume in, ic is thought the list of
the dead will be materially increas
ed. -
The Pioneer Press building, a 13
story steel and brick structure, was
considerably damaged. The wind
ows on the top floors were blown in
and a number of printers at work
in the composing-room were seri
ously eut'by flying glass. The
Vestern Union Telegraph office on
the eleventh floor of the Pioneer
Press building was flooded. An
immense skylight was crushed to
powder and the court in the center
of the building was filled with' de
bris. . The work of getting out the
Sunday edition waa not interferred
with. ,
About 10O residences in various,
parts of the city were damaged . to
more or less extent. . -: - ;
The tornado came as a climax of
a day of humidity and warmth.
Early in the evening there were in
dications of a heavy thuniler storm
with lightning flashing and the
thunder rolling distantly. Shortly
atter a o ciock it began to ram and
then to bail. " .
A strong draft of wind came from
the northwest, filling the air with
debris. Then there was, a calm for.
a short space, the . wind veered to
the southwest and the tornado was
districts heavy tin roofs were pick
ed up aod smashed against the sides
of sky-scrapers, shattered .plate
glass windows aud tearing down
electric wires.'; Pedestrians- unfor
tunate to be caught without shelter
were thrown violently to the pave,
ment, .and in many ' cases were
struck by. flying glass aod timbers,
suffering serious. injury. The streets .
were rushing torrents of water, and
the wind 6 wept before it tree?, wires,
signs and debris of all kinds. " :
, Tbe asemoleterof tbe St. Paul
weather bureau recorded a velooity
of SO miles an hour, coming from
the northwest, for one minute, and
then broke. Tbe rain, guage was
demoralized early in the storm, ' so
that the precipitation-will never be
kriown.-V .VT'T'rT.. ' "''-". ,
The center of tbfe storm seemed
to.follow the Mississippi river from
Dort bnelhne t Bn 'e Square.
where the . grt-aift d mge was
done, and then i sp-'mt its force
in the wholesale u if trie-- oq Day
ton's Bluff and 'the northeast- part
of the city. Two spans of the high
bridge were crumpled into a mass
of debris'. ! The Tivoli Concert Gar
den on Bridge Square was -crushed
as it it were an eggshell, killing two
persons and more or less seriously
injuring, a score of others. The
wharves along the river frontage
were wrecked. -
on, in all its fury. v Io
St. Louis,' Aug. 20. Magnificent
Parisian gowns valued at $5oo,ooo
are in a ruined condition in the
Palace of Manufactures aa the result
of ' the .heavy rain storm which
swept over the World's Fain The
valuation is placed by . Marcel and
the acting commissioner-genefal of
France, who has investigated " the
havoc wrought by the water.
The gowns were made by French
dressmakers and were .one of the
most : interesting features of the
Manufactures building. They were
displayed in glass showcases, ; bat
the rain was driven , through crevi
ces in the rcof of the building and
poured down upon the top and
eventually soaking the garments.
"New York, Aug. 20.--Margaret "
Dougherty, of Rochester, Nl Y.m
who Was almost scalped in an au- -
tomobile accident, August 10, is re
covering at a hospital here, after
undergoing a remarkable operation
which resulted in the replacing
of her scalp which was torn from
her head. The cuticle has already
begun to unite, and the girl's hair ,
shows such Eigns of vitality that
the success of the operation is as
sured. '.'".
M'isb Dougherty fell in dismount- ,
ing from an automobile in Central
Park. Her hair caught in the bal
ance wheel, which had net been
shut off, and the rapidly revolving
shaft wound it up, teari'jg off part
of the scalp seven inches from her
ear and five from front ta back.
She was cirried to thf hospital un
conscious and later a policeman ar
rived with the scalp.
The doctors quickly prepare! the
wonud, replaced the seven d por- -tiOn,
n hieh fhtad perfectly when
eewed on. Upon removal of the
haudage it hes brea found -tba. the
cuticle if healing and the surgeons
are saiisfied that tbe woman will
show no iKt,t3 ot ber terrible ex
perience a lroDth hence.
Tokio, A'Jg. 21. After a severe
eDgpgement with the prottc'.ed
cruisers Chilose and Tsushima, the
greyhounds of the Japanese navy,
the fleet Kussiaa cruiser Novik has
been varquisbed. The fight tccurr
ed today. After it, the Novik, in a
sinking condition, was run ashore
in Karsakovsk harbor, on .the Isl
ane of Sakhalin.
The details of tbe sea tight are not
known here, but it U evident that
the Chitose and Te-ushrua caught
up with the Novik yrt-rday and
that a running fight ei sued. The
contest was resumed and terminat
ed early this morning.
Captain Sukeichiro, who is in com
mand of the Chitose, reports, the en
gagement in a brief telegram, which
reached the navy department here
this afternoon. He says he first at
tacked tbe Russian cruiser Saturday
afternoon, and that Sunday morn
ing he inflicted heavy damage up
on her.. The Novik nearly sank,
but she was beached at Korsakvosk.
A shell from the Novik struck
the Tsushima in a bunker. Tem
porary repair?, however, rendered
the Japanese cruiser seaworthy and
she continued to fight. ' The Japan
ese Buffered no casualties. The Im
perial Prince Yorihito, pf the
House of Higashi Fnsbima, is sec
ond in command officer on board
of tbe Chitose. .
, Captain Sento commanded the
down-town Tsushima.
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