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T- flour, GtV C V rfTi AO V K ? WEBS3 Vol. XVII.-No. 35. CORVALiLISi' OREGON, OCTOBER 15. 1904. B.F. IRTHfB Kdtter. and Proprietor : You are levited : : : TO CALL ANDINSPECTOUR GREAT LINE Ladies Jackets, Misses Jackets, ( s Children's Jackets. From one of the leading Gloak Houses in the United States. Jiaufe fso Feiud A big spipment of Gents Suits, Overcoats and Shoes. , See the goods, get the prices and it will pay you. ;, v J. Jlammel, Prop. Leading'Hotel in Corvallis. Recently opened. New 5 brick building. . Newly furnished, 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. i Rates: $1.00, $1.25 and $2.00 per day. ' "' ' 3 "An, ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure", Prevent any abnormal condition of the eyes by properly fitted glasses and you'll prevent at the same time years of mis ery and pain. STILL , FIGHTING. Pioneer 6un Store... Runtcrs Supplies, Tisbing Cackle, Sporting Goods, V . SERVING MACIUNB EXTRAS . ' . , Stock of 6. Bodes at Big Bargain JAPANESE . THE AGAIN ASSUME OFFENSIVE. ; r A Dee- Free Bus. " ' Fine Light Sample Hooms. :i '$::'-- id' Hotel n i v woryallns Russian Advance Stopped' perate Engagement, at Yentai Kuropatkin Causes the En- ' ' emy to Fall Back, but Reinforce ments . Turned the Tide. ship Georgia was launched at 1:53 today. : ... -.- - Excursion! 3ts from all sections o! Maine had come to witness the launching, and the party entertain ed by the officials of the company included Governor M. Terrell, of Georgia, Congressman Carter Tate, Mrs. Tate, Wido of the late Major William Tate; Miss Stella Tate and others of Georgia. Mis3 Tate, in her duties as sponsor, also had per sonal supervision of, the launching. BRYAN SAYS HE COMES TO SPEAK FOR PARKER. Mukden, Oct battle is now raging about six miles .Tokio, Oct. 11,t The Japanese gunboat Hei Yen struck a mine in Pigeon' Bay, west ef Port ", Arthur, September. 18, and sank. Only fonr of her crew were rescued. . The loss of the armored gunboat ! 00(jl'. was announced today and permis . .Lt -;miiasion was granted by the authorities Begins Tour of Indiana Large Crowd Attends," Which Is Pre- sided Over by John . W. . . Kern -Bryan Holds a Publio Reception . Other Newe, north of Yentai railroad station. The Japenese on Sunday fell back along the whole front, and the Rus sian advance guards crossed the Schili river, about half way between Mukden and Xiao Yang, and came within three miles of Yenlai; but yesterday the Japanese received strong reinforcements of infantry and artillery.and not only held their positions,' but even' assumed the offensive. ; -' ;: ;1; London, Oct. 11. The" British government is closely watching to discern the cause and effect of Gen eral' Kuropatkin'6 forward move ment. Baron: Hayashi, the-. Japan ese minister here, conveyed such in formation as he possessed to Foreign Minister Lansdowne on 'Monday. Baron Hayashi deprecates the ridi cule that is being showered by , the English Press on General Kuropat kin's proclamation. ;- , ' "Even the assumption of the ia itiative," said the Japanese minis ter, "must benefit the Russian for ces. I no. more believe that Gener ic. AIT. rT3 A TT . ml T 1 - i " ine jeweier ana vpucian. al Kuropatkin's move is a bluff than I believe that Marquis Oya ma'a lack of aggression is due to an attempt to lure Kuropatkin into a trap. The .situation, seems quite simple. Oyama, adoptingthe most gautipos method, has been fortify ing, step by step, and never advanc ing unless he was able to assure the absolute safety ; of his constantly lengthening lines of communication. He must have had great difficulty in bringing up sufficient supplies and ammunition for his large army, which were depleted greatly at the battle of Liao Yang. If he had been ready, . he would doubtless have taken that advantage which belongB in all warfare ; to the ag gressor and attacked Kuropatkin at Mukden. It is a point in Kuropat kin's favor that he was ready to re treat. ' ' "A week from now there Bhoald be a decisive battle, and is likely to .occur at Liao Yang or on the Taitz river. Skirmishes will 'take place meanwhile, but. unless 1 am very much mistaken (be Japanese will not make a determined stand until Kuropatkin reaches the scene of his receBt deieat. Our lines of com munication and our supplies and ammunition could scarcely have reached perfection to any point north oi Liao xang. "It does not matter much wheth er Kuropatkin has assumed the of fensive upon orders from St. Peters burg or by his own desire. He has taken a tremendous risk, and it is not tor me to say whether he was justified or not. It is all very well enough to say that the Russian commander leaves bis communica tions open to. attack: but only t very large force can adequately dis turb such lines as Kuropatkin pos sesses. I hear on good authority that he has got men standing al most shoulder to shoulder along the railway.. I would not be surprised if Kuropatkin, instead of continu ing a frontal attack, should launch the whole of his army against Gen eral Kuroki's flanking force. It would be a bold stroke and precipi tate a great struggle, but the Rus sians are not accustomed : to moun tain fighting and would be handi capped, even though superior in numbers; . to publish the details of the disas ter. The He! Yen struck a mine off Pigeon Bay on the night of Septem ber 18 and foundered. Nearly 800 persons, her entire , complement, were drowned. Two petty . officers and two sailors managed to reach Chiaopai Island, from which they were rescued. ." . . - ' The Hei Yen,' which was engaged In guard duty off Pigeon . Bay, was missed by the fleet and a search for the. vessel was immediately begun. The .petty officers and sailors found on. Chiaopai Island reported that at dusk on September 18, a storm came up, accompanied by high seas. Tte Hei Yea endeavored to return (to her baee, when - she suddenly struck a floating mine, which ex ploded under : her starboard side amidships. The vessel began to sink and an attempt was made to oner the boats. The boats were swamped and the crew jumped in to the sea, . where, owing to the heavy combers, theywere quickly drowned. The Japanese fleet carefully searched the patrolled locality, but failed to find any other survivors An official announcement of the disastet, issued today, says: "It is highly regrettable that no reDcrt in anv form has been receiv' ed of the fata of the" other survivors. The sad event was made worse on account of the weather, which must have added greatly to the already awful result caused by ,the explo sion of the mine." The Hei Yen's compliment was 300 officers and men. Eleven of the crew had previously been ,de tached for special duty. . Mukden; Oct. ;11.---The battle commenced this morning along the line of the railroad ' with a terrific artillery fire on both sides. The railway line almost to Yentai is in possession of the Russians, The station itself has been damaged near ly beyond recognition. : The weather is beautiful and the sound of cannonading is audible a distance of 40 miles. , . . .,: It is impossible to tell how the day's fighting will develop. ; s :, Bath, Me Oct. 1L The battle- Astoria, Or., Oct. 11. The steam er George W. Elder arrived in port this morning with the hag at halt- mast out of respect to the memory of Boatswain James Williams, who waa drowned by being thrown over' board by a pitch of the vessel after she had passed over a rough bar when the Holder was near the gas buoy. During the passage of the vessel from San Francisco it Is cue tomary to Icarry a small: boat on the davits over the side to be of im mediate use in case of an emergen cy call for its ; use. In swinging this in from the d.avitts, Boatswain Williams was in the boat, and with a lurch was thrown out into the river. '' It was at 8:20, and the ebb tide was running very strong, but soon as the cry of "man overboard' was heard, Captain Randall signal ed to stop the engines and called for volunteers to man a boat, as the eea was running too high to order a boat away unless the men con sented. a irst omcer Mason was the fir6t to respond, and selected three men to accompany him, and the small boat out of which the boaUwam had been thrown quickly lowered. When the first cry of "man over board" was made some one . threw from a stateroom a life-preserver. which it was thought at the time Williams had Becured. Mason and bis crew of three men searched for 40 minutes on the breaking bar for their comrade without , success, and Captain Randall . never expected that the boat would reach the M der again, and blamed himself for permitting it to start. The bar tug Wallula was in Bight, and when her captain saw that something was wrong, hurried to her assistance ran out over the bar and picked up the life-preserver, but saw nothing of the man. was C ASTOR I A for Infant3 and Children. Ito jOna Yon Have Always Bong) Sears the gaatureof RUE TO HIS PARTY. Indianapolis, Oct. 12. Every available inch of floor space in Tomlinson Hall was crowded to night : during : a political meeting, which marked the close of the first day of William J. Bryan's tour of Indiana. . v--' Mr. Bryan arrived in Indiana in special train this afternoon; hav ing spoken at Rockville, Veders- burg and .Urawfordsvllle en route from Terre Haute. During the hours preceding the meeting Mr. Bryan held a public reception at a hotel. An illuminated parade es corted Mr. Bryan and ' the entire committee to the hall. i John W.1 Kern, Democratic can didate for governor, presided, and in introducing Mr. Bryan, said: ' ' "I present to you a man who came out of the campaign id -1900 with a strong hold on the affections ef the American people, but he came from : the St; Louis conven tion with a stronger hold on .the af fections', of the . democratic party than he ever had before." Mr. Bryan was greeted with cheers and the waving of hats and handclappmg. He began:. "1 nave appeared in this hall in a different role from that in which I now appear. I come tonight not as a Moses to guide the party, but on an errand; speaking of whom I call a Moses, Alton if." Parker." Throughout his speech, in which he insisted that it was not for the aake-oflba appeatance of !bein2. in line" but through sincerity that he championed the cause of Parker and Davis and a united democratic party. Mr. Bryan was interrupted by repeated cheering, and the very large crowd remained attentive un til the end. Mr. Bryan in his Rockville ad dress also denied the charge that his wishes for the success , of the democratic ticket this year were not earnest. He called attention to the. importance of the legislative ticket, as there is a United States senator so elect in Indiana. .' He said ' the Bacon resolution was defeated in the United States Senate . by but only one vote, and continuing said: Had the resolution passed, there would have been no war in the Philippines, $6,00,000,000 we have spent to force a foreign government upon the people of those islands would have been saved, and eeveral thousand American soldiers whose bodies have floated back across the Pacific would have been saved and the disastrous results of this war of conquest would not have been." He regarded the Bacon resolu tion, he said,' as the most import ant question the United States sen ate has had before it in a quarter of a century. Popular election of senators was urged. had been held out, would be moBt -disastrous. For 'all these reasons General Kuropatkin's friends are ; convinced that, the offensive waa . taken with open:" eyes ' and with a full appreciation" of its difficulties and a firm belief that victory would -be achieved. On the other hand, some of. his enemies are unkind . enough to intimate that General Huropatkin. has rashly risked his army, knowipg that victory will ' now insure his selection as . com- ,' mander-in-chief of both Manchuri an armies. . .- . According to the advices received by the war office here, the Japan ese hold entrenched lines extending in a semicircle north of the Yentai ' railroad station erroneously report- . ' ed to have been captured by the Russians. Thence they have a se ries of arcs covering the Yentai branch road, including - the mines whence their ' lines run southeast toward the Taitz river, thus inclos ing the mountainous region form ing the triangle of their main posi tion. ':." ' ' "' ' General Kuropatkin's right seem ingly is carrying out a strong flank ing movement eastward,. as report-, ed by the" correspondent of ,the: As- . sociated Press at Shanpintaidze.but whether it 1b intended to push it home, or whether it is only a feint to cover an ultimate attack against Field Marshal Oyama's left has not , yet developed. The latter view is held by many omoers here, who be lieve Kuropatkin's purpose is to ' crumple up the Japanese left push ' them off eastward from the railroad, and then carry . the .Japanese tri angle, compelling them to retire in the direction of the Yalu river, thus clearing the way through Liao Yang for possession of the railroad southward, and possibly enabling Kuropatkin to relieve Port Arthur, which, as announced in the Rus sian General's order of the day, is T his main objective. , Still the best-informed members of the general staff are inclined to think that the strategic battle must . depend on the manner in which the ' engagement develops.. It is pointed out that, rrr - the event of . iefeat,, which Kuropatkin must constantly ' bear in mind, since , the Japanese then will doubtless try to puBh through stra'ght to Tie Pass, it will; be necessary for him to keep his ' heaviest battalions east. . The etorv cabled from Shanghai to the London Telegraph by . Ben nett Bui leigh, that Oyama will be recalled, and that General Nodzu will be made commander in-chief ofj the Japanese forces attracts live- . ly interests in military circles here.; It is now known that General Nod- zu's action in the battle of Liao , Yang, in prfasing a portion of his, army across the Taitz river to co operate with General Kuroki, thus increasing the strength of the Jap anese flanking force, and threaten ing Kuropatkin's communications.; made it impossible lor the Russian . commander, to risk continuing his . original plan of striking ihe Japan ese right, and; forced , the Russian retirement. According to a Rus sian , general, who has just re turned here from Liao Yang, the Japanese , had 140,000 men, six double divisions and , four brigades across the river when Kuropatkin ordered a retreat. . , , St. Petersburg, Oct. 13. Appre hension is caused by the Tokio dis patch saying Field Marshal Oyama reports that he is gaining ground and has cut off a Russian column below the Taitz river. It is Only natural, alter tne repeated reverses already suffered that the Russians fully realize how much General Kuropatkin has staked on . the as sumption of the offensive. The bat' tie now 1 in progress probably will outweigh in importance the hard fight at Liao Yang. For Kuropat kin's victory, partial orcomplete, is necessary, v Defeat would certainly spell rum for bis military repute tion and probably prove a disaster of the first magnitude to the Rus sian army. : it the Japanese should roll up Kuropatkin's advance now, all hope of an aggression success in this campaign or of relief of Port Arthur would be ended probably for this year, but Russian success how means a winter eampaign and immensely enhanced prestige, not only: for ' Kuropatkin personally but for the Russian arms ' in Man churia in the eyes of the Chinese. which is an important factor in the present situation. The effect also of defeat upon the gallant garrison of Port Arthur, after hopes of relief Summons. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Benton. , ( , . , t Ell Tyler, Plaintiff, ; ;.. - vs. . . Howard Tyler, Defendant. To Howard Tyier, above . named defendant, in the name of the State of Oregon, you are ' hereby required and commanded to appear and answer the eomplalut filed against you la the above entitiea suit in said court on or be fore Monday the 28th day of November; 1904, and . if vou fail so to appear and answer the plain tiff will take a decree against you for the relief , demanded In complaint herein, towit: . a. aecree ais&oiving ine marriage contract now existing between vou and the olaintiff and for the care and custody of Homer Tyler and : Frank Tyler, the issue of said marriage, by the piainun ana iurmer oecreeing ner the costa and disbursements of this suit agttlnst you.- Thia summons is published by order of the Hon.VIrgil E. Watters, County judge of Benton County,Oregon duly made on September 12. 1904, in and by which order it Is prescribed that this summons be published In the 1 Corval lis Times, for six consecutive and successive weeks. The date of the first publication of this summons is Sept 17, T904. . W-S. McFiDDEK, . i ' Attorney for Plaintiff,:' New York, Oct. 11. The gun boat Paducah was successfully launched at the shipyards of the Gas Engine & power Company aad the Charles L, Seabury Company, on the Harlem river, at Morris Heights, today. Miss Annie May Yeiser, of Paducah, Ky., the spon sor, broke the bottle of champagne over the vessel's bows."