Vol. XVHI.-No. 11. CORVALLIS, OREGONV MAY 27. 1905. B. F. IRTIKI Editor ud Proprietor FREE! The Famous Busy Bee Grapheme. , 7e now have on exhibition, at our store the above Graphontj. Its excellence can better be appreciated by inspection. The pleasure of every family .can be added to by' having j one. Trads $20 with us and get the Graphone free. Only one given to each home. We have an immense line of merchandise , embracing all the , newest creations for you to make your selections. Big gest line of shoes. The "Bell: System clothing", highest grade. Call and See ; c ' - . Purchases to be madeby"June 15th. Fine Light Sample Rooms . Corvallis. J. C. Eammel, Prop. Leading B tel in Oorvallis. Recently opened. New 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 hous in the Willam ette Valleyr - Tv' , r-r w : '. Rates: $1.00, $1.25 and $2.00per day. Star Brand Shoes are Better ! For Shoes, Clothing, Hats, Gloves, Hosiery, Notions, Fruits, Meats, Staple and Fancy Gro . ' ceries, see . - ? & ' jfi : , WELLSHER 6c GRAY. Highest Market Price Paid for all Kinds of Produce ... Star Brand Shoes are Better! AN ACT OF CRAZY MAN CALIFORNIA LUNATIC KILLS HIS WHOLE FAMILY AND THEN HIMSELF. He Shoots at Passing Milkman and Pursues Him in- Early Morn ing After Slaying All His ;' Household Other News. Sin Rafael, Cal., May 2I Wil liam Stephens, of Ross Valley, Ma rio county, at 5 o'clock this morn ing killed his wife, shot- his five children, three of whom died in stantly, and two later in a hospital, attempted to kill a passing milk man, and then ended his own lite, after-filing two bullets . into himself.- i ' ' - ' ' - V Stephens was about 35 years old, and was formerly a book agent, bat latterly connected with a rubber good 8 house of San Francisco. The family also conducted a chicken ranch at their home in Koea Valley and had a flock of 1000 fowls. This morning a passing milkman , was startled to see Stephens emerge from hia home, . revolver in hand, and fire upon him. The milkman whipped up his horse and btphens pursued him for two hundred yards firing aa be ran. Stephens then halted in the roadway, placed the revolver to his -breast and discharg ed the weapon. The ballet did not end his-lifa, and he sent a second shot through his brain. When neighbors and officers en tered the home of Stephens, they came upon a shoc&ing scene, in alt of the beds were the members of the .unfortunate family, each with a revolver wound in the head. . The wife and three of the children were deadJl- The children ranged from 1 to It yeara m age. ' v. There is at present no known reason for the tragedy,, but the the and jumped up and down as if fran tic aThen he started for the milk man and fired the shot at him. When . Butterfield saw Stephens stop and shoot himself in the breast and then through the head, - falling into the road, he ran to the house, and in tlie " first room saw Mrs. Stephens lying dead on. the floor witli a bullet wound in the head. He rent into another room and found three children dead and two wounded in the head. Appalled by the ghastly: scene, Butterfield ran out of the house and notified the coroner. -All the victims were shot in the head. The two wounded Stephens chil dren; died at a hospital this after noon, . A DESPERATE, NEGRO killed; one:: man:: and wounded seven more.- Barricaded Himself in His House When He Saw Officers ap- proacbing Other . . . 1 News..-;: " ' Owensboro, Ky., May 22. Bob Shaw, a negro, supposedly insane, has killed one man and wounded jry is gdyaacatbaV; SepehahflM ktlleavitirifig TCie Popular Grocery & Crockery Good Things For Eating came suddenly insane, and bis mur derous attack on the unoffending milkman appears J to substantiate that belief. Stephens four years - ago under went an operation for appendicitis, and at times since had suffered greatly. . He was also afflicted with dyspepsia "and insomnia. Thn there were financial worries, due to the fact that the family had little 1 money and no credit. Not long ago Maud, the 8-year-old daughter, now dead, told her playmates at school that she and her mother and broth ers and sisters were afraid of their faeher bscause he was acting so strangely. - ; The S:ephens family came to California from Portland, Or., year and a half ago. His wife was I the daughter of an Eastern college professor. Stephens worked as I salesman tor a rubber company and bs a bicycle agent in San Fran cisco, but failed in both pursuits, presumably because of his health Eight moDths ago Mrs. Stephens received quite a sum of money from relatives in the East, and with this money she purchased a chicken ranch near Ross Station, in which the tragedy took place. Lint en Butterfield was the milk man who heard the shots and then saw Stephens run out-of the house The latter had a pistol in his baud . BekUj Causacia, May 2I The governor, of Baku, : Prince Naka-J chid z a, was assassinated at 3 p. m. todayby a man who threw a. bomb at his carriage.-V'A lieutenant who was accompanying governor, and a bystander, were also, killed by the explosion, and the coachman is be lieved to have been fatally injured. St. Petersburg, May 25,-Though no details of "the assassination ; of Prince; Nakachidza, governor of Ba ku, Caucasia, at Baku, Wednesday, have been received, the impression here is that the outrage was the work of the Armenian revolutiona ry committee in revenge for the at titude, taken by the, prince during the racial war between. Armenians and Tarterff-in 'February last," and is not attributable to the RuBsian terrorists, even . though the latter are at present extremely, active, in many partB of the empire. . The Armenia ns'laid the respons ibility for the death of those Blain in February at the - door of the Prince, and only yesterday suit was begun against the prince before the senate tribunal at St. Petersburg"; in behalf of the children Lalaieff, a Bak a -millionaire, whose house was stormed and hurnedV -and ; himself, his witp, parents and children were damages to the amount of $i2,500 were claimed, if being maintained that the governor, instead of- per forming his duty by stopping the massacre actually incited the Tar tars to attack the Armenians Notice Of Final Settlement In the matter of the estate' of Emily A. Wright deceased. Notice is hereby given that I, Tohn M. Wright, as administrator of said estate of t-muy A. Wright, deceased, nave bled my final account as such administrator with tha clerk of the County - Court 01 Benton county, State of Oregon, and the said court has fixed Monday the 5th day of June, 1905. at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. of said day as tbe time and the county court room in .the court honse in Oorvallis, Benton County, Oregon, aa the place for hearing and all objections to the said final account and for settle ment thoreof. John M. Wright. Administrator of the estate of Emily A Wright, deceased. and died while being removed to a hospital. - ; v ;- VAs B9rnetein and his companions were leaving the scene two colored men seized the ; bartenker and a scuffle for possession of the revolver began. ' Special Policeman Tinsley colored, came running up. Seeing the colored policeman approahing, Bernstein swung the revolver to ward him, and, according to Tins ley, discharged the weapon twice. ;. Tinsley returned the fire, Bhoot ing four bullets into Bernstein's body. Bernstein fell unconscious, and a crowd that had gathered made toward Tinsley and the '.wounded man V With the assistance of anoth er negro, Tinsley picked Bernstein seven m ine past, twenty-tour hours 1 up and ran into a near-by saloon near-wanman. ine body ot tnei- Tinsley stood in the doorway dead man lies in front - of. Shaw's with A uuubo, auu vuo ucgiu wuunuBs to , which was ' comcosed of defy the officers who are seeking' to arreet him. --- ," ; ; ;' Yesterday afternoon. Shaw was terrorizing tne community around Waitman and a petition , was sent here for help. -A posse was imme diately formed, but as; soon as it approached the madman's house he opened fire. " Marshal Wateori. was shot in the face and Deputy -Marshall in the back. J"; ,i, t, : This morning a posse, heade'd by Sheriff Kelley, went fronxLewiston to Whitman and found Shaw sitting on his front porch. Shaw quickly barricaded himself in . his house. The posse tried to storm the house, but, tbe negro opened fire. ' He ap parently : only - shot small " shot which saved . the lives of those he aimed at.. Shaw was shot at twice. He had two revolvers, but announc ed that he would save them for work at close range. A great crowd gathered around the house, keeping a safe distance away.' ' inis alter noon Will Brown, deputy sheriff of -Hancock county, volunteered to go to the house and take Shaw.v When - he 'waaCvvithin fifteen feet if-Shaw the -srazy man firw. blowiDgr'Brown'r head com pletely ' ;At.6 o'clock tonight a ' mob " of ime aaiihrjH j s.utroicadfijifes.w's house ana set it oa nre. Vbnaw re mained in the burning -house as long as he could stand the beat, and finally leaped out and - trii to es cape. Nearly 100 shots wWe fired, and Shaw's body was riddled with bullets. ' . neero9a- was crying for vengeance ; for r IbeA killing of Gray, and,Tin8ley 'Be'eing that he wouldjiot be able;:to vkeep them ' back unassisted shut - and barred the door. - . - A Good Suggestion. Mr. C. B. Wainwrighf of Lemon City, Fla.,. has written the manufacturers that much better results are obtained from the use of Chambeilain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhosa Remedy in cases of pains in tne stomacn, colic and cnoiera mor bus by taking it in water as hot as can be drank. That when taken in this way the effect is-double in rapidity, "It s ems to get at the right spot instantly,'. h: says. Jor sale by Graham & VVor- iham. : Gozads Gal Dog and Pony Shows Will Exhibit on S. P. R. R. Lot CorvallisrMonday, May 29th. . Prescott, : Ariz. May, 22. Mil lions of tons of rock and earth caved in at noon today in Senator Clark's United Verde copper mine, at Jerome, Ariz., the ground drop ping from the surface to the 700- ioot level. uracKing timbers gave the alarm, and 300 miners fled for their lives and escaped uninjured. For several days the ground has been settling and timbers creaking. Today with a mighty crash the earth caved, carrying with it the new shaft, levels, drifts and slopes. From fissures on the surface came clouds of sulphur smoke from that part of the mine which has been on fire for several years. The extent of the damage cannot as yet be ascertained, but if it is as bad as feared the . great property will be cbsed and the existence of Jerome will be doomed. The hoist ing works which are over the mine, have settled, and th6 machinery cannot be worked. The smelting plant has also been shut, and all activity ceased.,, ; The officials of the 'company take an optimistio view of the situation and say the damage is not irrepar able, and the smelter will be work mg again within a month. . At Monroe-' ' WjSiam Hdggips is able to walk without his-crutchea: for the first" time since hie fall from - a load of hay three weeks' ago. - ' . Irr Hues la still . improving and is ablet'5 superintend hiB butcher, business in Monroe. " , ' I vim Rams transferred hls cattle to his Siuslaw . ranch two weeks . ' ago. . The foundation for the Wilhelm -residence is being laid. Mr.- Wil- helm is : preparing to build a new , store also. '. ; . . .: : -1 Monroe continues to progress. Brown's, school will hold an.-' ice-' cream social on Friday jjvenmg, June 9th, for the purposa-'ofr paint ing the interior of the-school house. in.. us' 1 to do the painting. John Fauver ma " beens laid up with 'as' bilious' attack ' the nast - JTranfi: Klckard; - deputy roadmas- ter, has been workiag roads the past week, when weather would permit. There will be a picnic in Junc tion City, May 27th, in interest of Junction band boys. - John Brown has moved in the Fritz Schlee house. Mr.Schlee has about finished moving everything . to hia ranch, about six miles west of Cottage Grove. ; Mrs. Reed has been kept busy sewing the past few weeks. Sherman Simpson is gardening thisspring. Sherman, who is the lucky girl? Miss Eda Martin returned from -Portland recently. v Mrs. William Hoggins is prepar ing to visit relatives in Eastern Or egon this summer. She is going for improvement of her health. Mrs. Clarence Lemill has return . ed from Portland, pronounced cured. Butter Always Fresh from the Dairies, tasty and good. Pickles. Sweet and sour, bottle and bulk.' Hienzes Eggs. Fresh and always" from the hens. . r direct See our Garden Truck, nothing but best, grown by good gardeners. "V The best canned Fruits and Vegetables on the market. OUR METHODS OF BUSINESS ' All appeal to the thrifty housewife who wants the very best ' - - groceries for the least. money. ; .. - HERE IS THE STORE P. M. ZIEROLF. Grand Street Parade at Noon; Performances afternoon and evening. Prices Children 15 cts Adults 25 cts. Chicago, May -23. Chicago is threatened with a race war of seri ous proportions. Embittered by the shooting of : Enoch Carlson, an 8-yearo d boy, last week, by two negroes, the residents in-the vicini ty of 29th and Deerborn streets have armed themselves, and clashes be tween white and colored men, have become so frequent since the Carl son murder that it has been found necessary to detailjscofes of police men in the district to preserve peace.v Even this precaution has been unsuccessful in keeping the opposing factions apart. In a riot that broke out in this district tonight between the whites and the blacks, James Gray, color ed, was killed, Harry Bernstein was m oi tally wounded and a building in which Bernstein was being held a -captive, suffering fronij ballet wounds, was stoned, and , partially wrecked by a mob of 1000 persons. - Bernstein . who is. a bartender, drew a revolver and fired four shots. Two of the bullets : took . effect - in uray's body. Me teil .unconscious At Beflfoontain. Showers and sunshine have been the order of the times for the past few days, weather cool, grass and grain growing fine, but too cool for gardens. , Preparation for the coming picnic has commenced in earnest. A gcod time is expected. Every one invit ed to attend. ' N. Clem purchased a new buggy while in Corv His last week, as a surprise for hia wife. ... . Miss Bertha Coon, of O. A. C, spent Sunday at home wfitb. her parents, T. M. and Mrs. Coon, of South Belllountain. ; - Supt. Den man passed through this place Monday en route home from Alsea. Mrs". Ingram and daughter Ethel cams home Tuesday from a visit with Corvallis friends, v , Marcus Gragg ' was a Junction visitor Sunday. , E. N. Starr, road supervisor, is busy scraping and leveling up the roads. Let the good work go on as it is much needed.; r Subscription papers are in circu lation for money to helppay for the picnic grounds, recently purchased, from the Methodist church."" 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