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County Waifc't -V, , , 111 r - ' i it Vol. XVII.-No. 37. CORVALIJS, OREGON, IlOVEIBER 12.1904. B.F. IKTDfl Editor ad Proprietor m You are Invited ; ; v . , ' ' . TO CAJLL. . " : AIND INSPECT OUR GREAT LENE Ladies Jackets, v . Misses Jackets, ; " Children's Jackets. From one of the leading Cloak Houses in the United States, Jlave fso Ieiu$d A big splpinent i of Gents Suits, Overcoats And Shoes. . ' See the. goods, get the prices and it will pay you. 5 Free Bas. - '-,ri;r ';-.iaitM' Sl'-Sple KoomjJ IS B J. Hammel, Prop. Im 3$ Leading Hotel in Oorvallis. Recently opened. New i Vm.;1t v.;!;,. j u-u j : veniences. Furnace Heat, Electric Lights, Fire Es- jr capes. Hot and cold water on every floor. Fine single 55 rooms. Elegant suites. Leading house in the Willam- ette Valley. " , Too. S1 AA dM or J o A J "ares. jj..vu, px..t uiiu f.uu per-uay. I ... ; 1$ fB" "--iir "An 'ounce of preven- ?fe i$ mTBejv'" tion is worth a Dourtd l& tion is worth a pound of cure." condition of the eyes by and you'll prevent at he f 1 : .n is ' Bolh Sides Suffer Heavily Russian General at Port Arthur Asking , for an Armistices Women " Blown to Piecea Dogs 1 Preying on the Dead. v Tokio, Nov., 10. It is reported that Geoeral Stoessel, commanding Port AMhur, has asked the Japan ese for an armistice, the purpose of which is not stated. ; A confirma tion of the report , is unobtainable. It is hoped here that General Stoea sel will capitulate before' the city proper is taken. , lae Japanese soldiers are aogry and inflamed on account of the al leged abuse of the wounded by the Russians. They believe they will be murdered if captured. - Under these conditions, it will probably be difficult to avoid a massacre when the troops meet in final com bat.- : y":, . :.".'..' IN A SAD PLIGHT. DEAD AT PORT ARTHUR CAN NOT BE BURIED F0RSEV- . ERAL DAY3. Chefoo, Nov. 9. The Japanese continue to bombard Port Arthur, a id the shells are falling so inces santly that the Russians have prac tically abandoned the repair of the works protecting the harbor. C.tizen volunteers and the police are now reinforcing the garrisons of the forts, according to the stanes of Chinese arriving here, 60 of whom left Port Arthur on November 7, owing to the high price of food. bo many men were killed on both sides during the last assault that many bodies lay unburied for days, and in some instances, dogs which bad been driven from the town, as suaged their hunger by eating the dead. In a few cases where this was seen, the norror-stricken Kus- siSa shairpshooterr killed We" cEogsT some months ago the .Russian au thorities ordered that all dogs ' seen on the streets should be shot, with the resnlt that half-famished crea tures have been roaming the hills, becoming savages. The Chinese say that the forts on Golden Hill have done practically no firing for months past, and it is believed that their ammunition has run short. The demolition ol the Chinese new town is almost completed, a thousand houses having been de stroyed for the valuable firewood they contained. . The town is constantly catching on fire and the majority of the warehouses and stores belonging foreigners have been burned to the ground. . 385 E. W. S. PRATT, The Jev-eler and Optician. ...Pioneer (fan Store... fiuntcrs Supplies, Tisbing Cackle, Sporting GoOds. SEWING MACIITXE EXTRAS Stock of 6. Rodes at Bid Bargain v London, Nov. ' 10. Special dis patches from Port Arthur and Che foo, which 'are printed in this morn fag's papers, add little to the iecent news of the besieging operations at Port Arthur, but give terrible de scriptions ot the condition of the besieged. The Daily Mail's correspondent before .Port Arthur described the Russian killed and those taken pris oners as greatly emaciated, and as serts that the men subsist . entirely on a daily ration of leBS than two pounds of black bread. The Daily Telegraph's Chefoo correspondent declares that the taek of burying the bodies of the slain at Port Arthur is tfow beyond control and that the corpses are simply pitqhed into the dock excavations near Golden Hill, where there is only a few feet of . wa- ,ter, an American candidate.. The nearest approach to this vote was in 1896, when McKinlev re ceived a plurality approximating 850,000, and in 1892, when Grant received b2;99l. - "Tonight the interest centers in Missouri and Maryland. Late elec tion returns indicate that the for mer; state is in the republican col umn so far aB " presidential electors are concerned, but that Joseph W. Hoik, the democratic candidate, has been: elected governor. 1 ' la Maryland the presidential vote will probably he cast for Roosevelt. Lata returns tonight indicate that Thomas A. Smith has been elected to congress by the democrats in the first district. . Congressman Jack son, of this district, tonight, - how ever puts forward the claim that trick ballots were used, and says he will contest the election. In the other states it is simply a question of pluralities. "The solid south" was broken by the defection of Missouri. The , figures tonight show but twelve states with 133 v6tes for Judge Parker. President Rooesyelt carried all the northern states- swept them, in fact, and to nigh fhe had 343 electoral votes. The banner state is Pennsylva nia. Twenty-four hours after the polls closed the returns ' from this stats- indicated that Roosevelt's plu rality; would reach 485,000. r 1 . Next comes Illinois, where the president polled " approximately 225,000 more votes than did Par ker, phio "gave Roosevelt; 200,000 and NeV York 174,oo9.' The New YorkSty returns are still Incomplete but the? amaz3ment over the result has nd$ subsided. ' In general the situation is chiefly interesting tonight because of the fact thfc tickets in many of the states were c$t. President Roosevelt rao ahead gf his ticket in many locali ties. n Massachusetts he had a plurality of 86,000 while the repub lican candidate lor governor . was defeated.by 35,ooo. . . In that state the legislature is re publican and the entire reDublican nor, vr&B elected. ' - - In Missouri the circumstances are similar; In Nebraska the defi nite announcement that the legis lature is republican disposes of the statement that William J. Bryan had aspirations for - the United States senatorshlp. In that state, too, the governorship is in doubt, There is a curious situation in Minnesota, where Roosevelt has l25,ooo plurality, but where a dem ocratic governor and a republican lieutenant-governor were elected. Chairman Babcock, of the repub lican congressional campaign com mittee, has been returned in Wis cousin, but Chairman Uowherd, ot the democratic congressional cam paign committee, was defeated in Missouri. The situation in Colorado pre sented an interesting phase tonight. Roosevelt has carried the state prob ably bv 15,ooo, but the governor chip is Bull in doubt, both sides slaiming a victory. ' THE ELECTIONS ROOSEVEKT SWEPT COUN TRY' WITH immense: . PLURALITIES v ' Popular Plurality of Nearly two Millions Democratic Governors Elected in Several Northern " States. . - i Seattle, Wash, Nov 9 Roosa velt has carried Washington by a plurality estimated in the absence of complete returns, that will' not all be reported for another 24 hours to be 50,000 or more. .. . men is heartrending. beveral groups of them going to market have been blown to pieces. The street scenes there are said to be sickning. .Bennett isnrieign also sends a harrowing picture of the condition of the wounded in Port Arthur, of whom vast numbers are lying un attended within the inner forts. In the name of common humanity, he thinks, some effort should be made in behalf of the helpless sufferers and suggests that as soon as possible they should be taken upon neutral ships nyingi the Red -Cross and transferred to hospitals at Chefoo and Shanghai. New Yoik, Nov. 9. With the election returns still incomplete. the plurality for President Roose velt in the nation, according to all indications tonight, will exceed 1,- oUU.UUU the greatest ever given At Summit' T. Ranney's fine store building is completed. . He will . move his goods to the new store building this wees. . ,, ;. .... W. H. Dilley and daughter Lucy have pulled their tent stakes and flown to their home in Corvallis Our school is progressing nicely under the management of Miss Ed wards of Monroe. There will be a three months term, with 25 pupils enrolled. The condition of the helpless wo-T Mrs John-Morrow made a flying trip to Portland last Monday and returned . Wednesday where she went to meet her husband and mother-in-law of Wasco. Clyde Fox viBitsd at Summit and vicinity over Sunday, Mr. Green of Corvallis and Prof. Emrick of Philomath, spoke to well-filled house Saturday evening at tms place. Their subject was the great question, "Local Option." May the good work go on. George Ronfro of Ashland, will locate with us for the winter. He and his family will send children to school. He wishes to see what our climate is like in Western Ore gon Portland, Or. Nov 9 Eelectibn returns in Oregon indicate that the republtcaa plurality will reach per haps 43,000. Complete returns are not yet available. The total poll for president will fall a little short of that for supreme judge last June, when 93,000 ballots were cast for the four candidates for that office. The number of votes in that election was nearly 100,000 and the number of votes cast last Tuesday seems to be about ten short of that polled in the last state election. 1 . --i Seven counties have - adopted prohibition Gilliam, Yamhill, Jackson, Benton, Tillamok, Coos and Curry counties. - - Sixteen counties have " rejected prohibition Clackamas, Colombia Douglas, Grant, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, .Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wasco and Washington. Lincoln was thought to have gone dry early in the count, but pulls out against prohibition by a small margin. In Linn the result was very close prohibition being defeated ' by 96 triotic citizens covering every elec tion district who , are willing . to work for the good of the cauBe, an organization supported by the -many towns, city, - county and state officers, as we are able to elect in the meantime. .' -.'; v; - every northern,' Eastern and West ern state, save on9, in republican control. This gave to that party a large army of office-holders, reach iag into every hamlet, many of whom gladly followed the examples set for them by the members of the president's cabinet in devoting their time and eervicesto the party. 'To accomplish much in thia direction however, we- must forget the difficulties of the past. If any one suspects his neighbor of treach ery. let him not hint of his : suspicion.- If he knows he has deserted let him not tell it. Our forces have been weakened by divisions. We have quarreled at times over non essentials. If we would help the people; if we should furnish an or ganization through which th?y may be relieved -of a party that has grown so corrupt that it will gladly enter into the partnership of trusts to secure money for . electiou pur poses we must forget the differences of the past and begin this day to build up wherever needed a broad and effective organization." ... Amon B. Pabeek. , . At Kinjre Valley. , ; , .' There was a -meeting of the King's Valley and Hoskins Tele phone Co., Monday. The line is to be extended south. Four new mem bers joined the company. Mr. Merriilof the Pacific States Tele phone company, told, us what his company would do lor us if we would become subscribers to the Pacific States Co. His offers were very liberal but they did not ' meet with the approval of the company. The line is to be extended south from Perry Eddy's as far as possi ble this winter. The distance will I -m 1 .. - . . 1 . 1 uvuauu wu iua uuuauci. nuu vv iaa tw.xi?? routed -Ubo.-'- vAmit nw in rno nnnnj inn nrfinn u Halsey, Shedd, Tangent, South Lebanon, South Brownsville Jackson has adopted prohibition and the wet majorities of Medford, Jacksonville and Gold Hill are therefor unavailing. Gilliam is a prohibition county by 34 majority. All precincts in Washington county have rejected prohibition. Two precincts in Clackamas voted dry: likewise 13 precincts in Douglas, four in Union two In Wheeler, four in MultnO' mah, four in Malhuer, six in Um atilla, one in Clatsop, six in Max ion, three in Wasco, two in Sher man.- In Lane county Junction City adopted prohibition SAVED HIS LIFE. J. W. Davenport, WingS. Ky., writes, Tune 14. IQ02: '! want to tell von I be lieve Ballard's Snow Liniment saved my life. I was under the treatment of two doctors, and they told me one of my lungs was entirely gone, and the other badly affected. I also had a lump in mv side. I don't think I conld have lived - over two months longer. I was induced by a friend to try Ballard's Snow Lini ment. The first application gave me great relief; two fifty cent bottles cored me sound and wen. It is a wonderful medicine and I recommend it to suffering Humanity. 25c, 50c, 11.00. Sola by Graamh AfWortham, Beet line of mattings in this city to be found at Blackledgea furni ture store. .. "- Esopus, N. Y. Judge Parker last night, gave to the press the fol lowing open letter:' . .Esopus, N. - Y., .Nov 9 lo the democrats of the nation: Our thanks are due to the members of the na tional committee and the executive committee in charge of the . cam paign tor the most unsemsh, capa ble and brilliant party service. All that it was possible for men to do thev did. but our difficultv was be yond the reach of party managers. "I am most grateful to them, and wish in this general way to extend my thanks to the workers as well as to the rank and file all over the countrj . I know how hard they struggled ' against overwhelming odds, and I Only wish I could take each one by the hand and thank him. . ' . " "Deeply as I regretted leaving the bench at that time, in the pres ence of overwhelming defeat, I do not lament it. I thought it was my duty. In the light of my present information, I am now even more confident that I did right. I shall never seek a nomination for public office, but shall to the best of my ability stand by the party that has honored me, and through theparty serve my country. "The party has in the near future a great mission. Before long the people will realize that the , tariff fed trusts and illegal combinations are absorbing the wealth of the na tion. .Then they will wish to throw to throw off these leeches, but the republican party will not aid them to do it, for its leaders appreciate too well the uses to to which the moneys . of the trusts can be put in poltical campaigns. "When the time comes, and come it will, the people will turn to the democratic party for relief, and the party should be ready ready with an organization of pa HOMESEEKERS. We have properties that no other agent can handle if yon are interested come and see os. If you do not know us ask some citizen of the county of us and our business methods. We expect to carry on a legitimate real estate business in this county -whether yon have a home for sale or desire to purchase one it .will he to your interest to come and see us. ' Try It. The following bargains are' handled exclusively by us; watch this space for new bargains next week. No 499 3 1-2 acres N W of OAO: good house 10 rooms, barn, chicken house;" wood honse, 1 acre orchard; good well and water; all under fence, a fine home: price $2700. ' - No 500 2 1-4 acres I mile from Cor vallis; honse 3 rooms new; chicken house good well; all fenced, price $750. -;. No 501 140 acres, 40 acres level, S acres. under cult.; balance timber; house, barn, woodshed; orchard, etc; 1-12 mile toR. R. and postoffice; running water through the place; price $1400. No 502 N 1-2 of S. W. 1-4 and S. W. 1-4 of S. W. 1-4 Sec. 25; T. 13; S. R. 6 W. cont .120 acres; price $300. No 503 128 acres in Bellfountain precinct; house, barn, shed, orchard etc; one-half seeded to grass; running water through place . good fences; price $ 860. No 504 3oo acres nearly all under cultivation; buildings not mu-h; running water; all under gopdfence; 8 miles from Corvallis; 100 sheep with place; price $2$ per acre. : ' - No5os 200 acres of splendid farm land; all under fence; no buildings; 2 1-2 miles from Monroe; price $2o per ae , No 506 ibo'acres inKings Valley; 50 acres under cult. bal. pasture; good eight room house; good barn and cattle-shed; 7 acres orchard; good well also running water on place; on B, F. T. and X " mile to good school; price $2000. - . Ambler & Walters, Real Estate Agents. '