3rantj fcietk'e O1&09 '- ESI - - . - Vol. XVII.-No. 37. CORVALLIS, OREGON. FEBRUARY 8. 1905. B. r. IBTim Kdltor, and Proprietor i M..JW .-SI'. R! I ' 9 17. HI. . m -'.'. ! M - " J ..' f 1 - . - r ' r'. ' if I I 1 mm . J ','., 1 V -I ' - M. '.-'- . .1 .S Stock Taking Has been completed in our store and we tee 1 like the good house keep er who has completed house cleaning Now we are - read tor the new year and every day see the latest novelties coming into our store. Greatest 'line ot 1 adies shoes and wash goods ever bought. Shirt waists, hosiery and many departments receivings share of the spring shipments. . , Call and See FOR A MESS OF POTACE $5 Free Bus. Fine Light Sample Rooms. Hotel Cdrvallis Jr C Eammel, Prop. 4 i ?3 Leading Hotel in Corvallis.' ; Recently opened. New: brxck 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. - , ,. Rates: $1.00, $1.25 and $2.00 per day. Graham & YVellsf Pharmacy - That's the Place HEALTH Is largly dependent upon The' -Teeth. Give them proper care and attention, you will 7 SAVE DOCTOR BILLS We have a full line of - toothy brushes, - tooth washes and ' "tooth" powders.;,.. That's the Place - Graham <yells Pharmacy SALEM MEN SWEAR FALSELY .FOR SMALL SUHj " Attempts io Secure- Big" Tracts of School land Governor Gets ? - Confession Pater Paid in -Caeh Other News. .. - Salem, Feb. 2. S,,A. D. Pater, convecled of conspiracy to deiraud the government - in timber-land cases, and under indictment, on further charges, was caught today in attempt to secure title to 3200 gprao nf at.ata anhnnl ?a.nri in ViAlfl. tion of law," and the state land-board' has $2000 of his good money and evidence eufficient to show . the fraudulent nature of the transac tion. k . -. Basil Wagner, of this city, . pro' cored the men to make the applica tion for the land. As -each filed bis. application he told Clerk Brown that Wagner would call for the cer tificate of sale.' . . i Applications to purchase school land near Klamath Falls were filed, by nine residents of Salem who swore that they wanted the land for their own use and benefit, and had made no contract, expressed or implied, to convey the land to any other" person. No . certificates of sale were issued, but Clerk 'G G. Brown called the . attention of the state ladd-board to the Auspicious applications and an investigation resulted. ' :' " - ' - One of the applicants was taken before the governor, where he - was elosely cross-questioned, : until he admitted that he bad .made the ap plication-at the instance of an agent of Pater and made the initial pay ment with a bank draft furnished by Puter. " . -Governor Chamberlain immtdi- ate ly called a special meeting of the state J arid-board to consider the matter, and Puter appeared before the board. He asked leave to with draw the applications and receive his drafts, but trie land board re fused to recognize his right to have the money returned. The drafts will be returned only to the persons who deposited them, and when these men appear they will- be brought upon the carpet and questioned as to the truth of their affidavits. Whether the $2000 will eventually be returned or will be held by the board as forfeited re mams 'o be determined. Twenty dollars apiece was the price Puter was to pay the men for their services in making the appli cations, securing certificates and a8eigoing tne same to Iruter or per sons whom he should Dame. If the men desired they could retain a one-tenth interest in the land in stead of receiving the' $20, but so far as learned the men took the money rather than the one-tenth in terest. , This one of many illegal trans actions was discovered by Clerk G. G. Brown; Several days , ago ap plications for 640 acres of land were offered, signed by Maud Coffin and her mother, and sworn . to before a Portland notary. Brown was bus picious and sent back word that the applicants would have to appear be fore him to make the affidavits Todav the nine applicants mention ed above appeared to apply for the land which Puter had tried te g tnrougn i;omn, and otner lands in the same vicinity. They appeared one or two at a time, and each tend ered a draft on Ladd & Bash's bank for $200 as a first payment on 320 acres of land. . There was nothing in this part of the transaction to show the hand of Puter, though Brown suspected that tbe famous land dealer was back of the whole business. Wben Randle appeared and made his affidavit, he was escortee to tbe governor s office and put through a sweatbox. . The story Randle told and after ward put in tne torm ot a sworn statement was that two or three days ago Basil Wagner, of this city, approached him and asked him if he did not want to buy some state Land Wagner offered to furnish the money and give him a one tenth interest in tne land or pay him $20 for tbe one-tenth interest Wagner told him the transaction was all right, and he' went into it, After presenting the application and depositing the darft furnished by Wagner, he signed a blank as signment, convening his interest in the certificate of sale, which had not yet been issued. Then he was paid the $20.: -.,-..'! While all of this was going on Puter was in the - rotunda - of the capitol and got wind of thetrouble. Wheni the board met .in epecial sessioii he asked for a hearing and was gfanted an opportunity to say anything he wished. He told; the hoard "t net the land was being pur chased'? for , California' capitalists, who.furnished the money, and that he wa& their agent. He did not deny that theapplicants had ; been! hired :faf act as mediums for v the transfer'of the title to the lahd, but tried to make -it appear legal by representing that the applicants were fo retain tone-tenth interest, which, he afterward purchased for $2o..sf " .- , Wajner appeared ' at the time but had nothing to say. The board would Tuake.no reply to his request for a return of the bank drafts fur ther Ahan ta say that the drafts will be returned to no one but the ap plicants in person, and perhaps not to tiem.' . . Omaha, Feb. i. The bitter cold whfch haa prevailed for 48 hours ovet Nebraska and,, Western. "Jdwa continued t.onight, accompanied in part Qt JSebraBka by a snowstorm. The minimum in Omaha was 24 degrees: below zero;, early in the day at Lincoln it was 22, and at Sioux City it reached 30 below;; . Man trains from the west, were from Saat to , six : hours late.;; In Omana the street-car service was at standstill for 24 hours on account of the cold. . . Over the entire state of Nebraska tbe cold weather nas . been tne se verest for many years and intense suffering of 'livestock is 'reported from many places. London, Feb. 4. The , crews of the Black-Sea fleet are on the verge of mutiny. : Kevolutionary - htera' ture in. great , quantities has been tounc oa the ships, lne - men are in a dungerous frame of mind, and an outbreak is .feared at any. mo meht: 1' r- The intense feeling of revolution iB strengthened by the fact that 38 of their comrades are being sen tenced. to death as ringleaders in the first outbreak. -. POLAND IS ACTIVE REVOLUTION RUNNING RAM PANT IN .RUSSIAN POLAND. ' Washingcon, Feb, 4. It is learn ed on excellent authority that the government attaches great import ance to the fact that Binger Her mann, before retiring from thegen' ral land office, caused to be de stroyed 36 letter books containing copies of letters be had written while commissioner, an average of ten letters a day. for his entire term. Hermann contends that these let ters were of a private nature. Tbe government has secured the testi mony of one or more clerks who saw the letters in question which shows that many of them were in reply to letters which Herman re ceived making inquiry about pub lic land business of one sort or another. This fact will be held out by the government to establish its conten tion that the letters were of a pub lic nature and that the t books de stroyed contained government re cords, but it baa further been learn ed that .all the letters' which the commissioner copied in his private books were sent through the mails under the government frank. Clerks and messen, era who mailed letters did not place stamps on ibeuj, yet each envelope containing one of those alleged "privateT let ters bore on its face- notice that there was a penalty of $300 if used for private purposes. II Mr. Hermann s contention is true, the government will show that he violated the postal laws and laid himself liable to a fine of $300 for every private letter sent under his frank, and, if all his letters were private, the maximum : penalty should be imposed, which will nev er be done, of course. Mr. Her mann would be fined $0,000,000, for each letter book contained ap proximately 5oo letters. But if the government presses the case against Mr. Hermann for llle gaily using the government's frank on private correspondence, that charge will have to be-, brought in the District of Columbia, where the letters were mailed. This letter book incident, which for a time was set aside, now promises to play an important' part in the government's case against ex-Commissioner Her mann. '-.'.: ' ;. Strikers Armed With Guns and Smuggled Dynamite Ominous , Quiet Broods Over City of . . . Warsaw Crash is Boon :- Expected. . Warsaw, Feb. 6.--4Revoluti6n is running rampant throughout Rus sian Poland. Ibis ' statement is made with positiveness,' despite the ominous quiet which hangs like a pall over this ; ancient city this morning: despite the official 5 state ments made f by Russian bureau crats that he situation is vastly improved and can no longer be call ed serious even in the face of the reassurance cabled to the United states from this and other Russian cities -by newspaper correspondents who allege that the trouble is over. One' - hundred thousand k strikers, armed with - firearms and dynamite smuggled across the Austrian, fron tier are ready ; to assemble at a mo ment b notice at any ... given point and offer their lives as a sacrifice to better the condition of their fellows. A.general strike has been declar ed throughout the governments Kaliesz, Radom. and . Kielce. Churches are being burned by or thodox believers, ; who have lost faith owing to the manneir in which their priests ' haye betrayed them bv siding with thejgovernment. I he governments of Radom, Ka- hesz and Kielce were declared in a state of siege Sunday. The procla mations setting forth that fact came after 12 hours of turmoil, during which neither life nor property were safe. It isdifficult to obtain accurate facts and figures from these outlying districts owing to the strict maintenance cf internal cen sorship and "the general state'" of chaos which has made commcnica tion other than by post next to im possible. ,, s.. Most of the news is brought here by couriers, who, having only; ob Eerved their happenings in their particular districts, and areot able to give connected accounts of - the general situation, but their combin ed stories tell a tale of - horror- and crime and of conditions which in dicate that the bloody days of 1863 and 1864 will be repeated and that unless every demand is granted to the strikers, or unless those con trolling them decide that the "day haB not come to deal Russian rule in Poland a death-blow, the. world will witness another of Poland's sin ister tragedies. r The statement can be made with out fear of contradiction, that the strike of the discontented, workmen throughout Poland is practically general to day, and that the figure of 100,000 idle men represents very conservative estimate. - . : . Whether the peasants have al ready made common eause with the-workg in the cities is still a much mooted question, and the au thorities exprese confidence that the agitation has not reached the agri cultural d.etricts. The strikers here while leticent as to their plans, in timate that before long- Poland will be aflame and that all classes will make common cause against: Rus sian oppression "'-jXyyv' . Highest prices paid for chickens and eggs at Moses Bros.' - re-establish the ancient Polish mon archy and secure for it the recogni tion of both Germany and Austria. This failing, the old plan, so ot terly unsuccessful when last tried, nearly a hundred years ago, is to be readopted and Poland declared a republic. Feeling certain of the success of their plan to re-establish the kingdom of Poland, the leaders pf the movement do not care to fore cast the possible consequences, po litical or otherwise, which the procl amation of a republic would have in its wake. - ; ' There is a well defined disposi tion among intelligent Czechs : to trust in the acquiescence of both Germany and " Austria and with possibly even Russia, irr the restor-. at ion of Polish throne. It is urged by them that Germany has grown tired .of the great burden caused by tbe indefatigable Polish agitation in her own provinces and that while she would never recognize free-Prussian Poland as ( Buch individually Emperor William may be willing to act in conjunction with Empe ror Francis Joseph and relinquish the provinces which were added to their domains by tbe Polish parti tion. v - ' Strange as it may seem, the Czechs who favor the plan express no fear that,, the Austrian govern ment may take steps to prevent, or . if this cannot be done,' break up the Polish congees. They Bay that the Austrian government is willing to listen to .proposals and will Hot exercise police duty over a body at least four-fifths of which owe no al legiance to Austria and can claim the protection of other governments. There are ;ithoEe who claim to know that the leaders of the con gress will receive notice in due time that the political freedom of Poland was absblutely out of diplomatic reckoning and that a serious at tempt to bring it about would, if ceceeeary be met by armed ' force. Thes3 conservatives say that the congress will busy itself with ques tions only which will in no way lead up to the liberation of Poland, but will have only the object to se cure for the PUto provinces ? the' restoration of Polil&;a8 the official language with alH tha concessions! thereby implied and a larger meas ure representation in the German and Austrian legislative bodies than -is at present the case.'.. Prague, Feb. 6. A congress of the leaders, of the movement ; for Free Poland," will he held in this city in the near future; at which the. advisability of proclaiming the- re union of the thiee Pplaads as an in dependent government will be dis cussed in all its various phases.; Ihe mam body of the : delegates will represent Russian, ' Austrian and German Poland, but there will also, be present many ' men- who have shaped the policy of the revo lutionary movement, ; from - Paris, Berne and Vienna. n addition, a large delegation from the. United States, headed by Philadelphia, Chicago and PittBburg ' Poles,, has promised to attend. So far as can be learned ' at this time the congress will declare those who believe in its object - must re frain from participation in any an-ti-Ru8sianmov6ment that has not for its Bole object the-liberation'-of Poland. It is alaoVetated by; jfell- informed parties here ; that the sug gestion to proclaim a Polish repub lic will not be considered, but that ways and means are to be found to Xennewick, Wash., Feb. 4. John C. Evans accompanied bv two friends from the East, broke all Northwest records ? for. sprinting in an effort to get away from a deg which was carrying a stick of dyna mite with alighted fuse attached. They got far enough ahead ' of tl- the dog to miss any seriouB resul s when the explosion came, but they were thrown prostrate by the ool cuseion and suffered many severe bruises. , Evane, wishing to entertain bis friends, took them to a deep hole in the Columbir river to fish wi'h dynamite. : Evans was accompaii- led by a fane bird dog. When lUv ans lighted the fuse attached to tl ' stick of dynamite and threw th misBile m the water, the dog imme diately jumped in after it. ? liivans and bis triends . Baw - tlf danger ot the dog ; and yelled ; fur him to come back.' This the di ji did, but with the explosive in bis mouth. : The men ran; but the dcg had no trouble jn keeping up aci refused to drop the explosive. Ev aasBaid they broke all '.records iii trying to get away, and kept scold ipg the dog to: discourage further, pursuit. ' .'.:., r--. . " 1 They only ran about" loo feet when tbe explosion came. The con . cussion threw the three ; men to th- earth,' jarred them' considerably and burned tbe clothing on their backs. There was nothiag to mark the place where the dog had bet n but one hind-leg and a hpledn tbe ground. Berlin, Feb. 4. German milita ry experts familiar "with', the "inner conditions of the Russian army de-. clare that the autocracy, cannot de pend 'on the loyalty of any of tie troops outside of the few -regiments serving as bodyguards to the czar and the grand dukes. ' - '- - Military men here, in the ligbt of history and .tradition, therefore, regard the recent mutiny of eol -diers an4 marines at' Sevastopol a? immeasurably the most "dangerous event of all tbe recent -turmoil in. Russia. V They proclaim their belief that it is the forerunner of widespread in-; subordination, fraught' with fdr reaching consequences, ' - : J v