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III IB! IIS Vol. XVIII.-NO. 17. CORVALLIS, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 2, 1905. B.F. IKTIHB dlt it anl Proprl H Summer Clearance Great Bargains in a 1 1 Departments BigStoGk to make your selections . . . Get our Prices and make Gomparison. X CHARMS. Fine Light Sample Rooms. Hotel Corvallis J. C. Hammel, Prop. Leading Hotelin Corvallis. Recently opened. New bn'ek building. Newly furnished, with modern con veniences. Furnace Heat, Electric Lights, Fire-Escapes. Hot and cold water on every floor. Fine single rooms. Elegant suites. Leading house in the Willam ette Valley. $IX), $1.25 and $2.00 per day. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware, Eyes tested free of charge -and glasses fitted correctly at prices within reach of all Fine watch repairing a spe cialty Pratt The Jeweler 6c Optician. PEACE NOW JAPAN MAKES CONCESSIONS THAT MAKE FINAL AGREE MENT POSSIBLE. Ask Your Dealer for Economy Jars And take no other Economy Jars are sanitary, no zinc, no poison, no mould, no separate rubber ring. Vesuvius in Eruption Fear That a Momentous Outbreak of the Great Volcano may be Im minentOther News. - Portsmouth, Aug. 29 The long and bloody war between Japan and Russia is ended. The terms of peace were agreed upon - by Mr. Witte and Baron Komura at the session of the conference this morn ing, and this afternoon the prelim inary arrangements for an armis tice were concluded and the actual work of framing the "Treaty of Portsmouth" was turned over to Mr. DeMartens, Russia's great in ternational lawyer, and Mr. Danni- son, the legal adviser of the Japan ese foreign office. The treaty is ex ptcted to be completed by the end of the week. For the sake of peace Japan, with the magnanimity of the victor at the last moment, yielded every thins io issue. Russia refused to budge from the ultimatum of Em peror Nicholas given to President Rooeevelt. No indemnity under any guise, but an agreement to di vide Sakhalin and reimburse J a pan tor the maintenance ot pris oners were his last words The Ja panese met the ultimatum of ,, the czar aDd abandoned their demands for reimbursement for the cost of the war and for the repurchase of the northern part of the island of Sakhalin, Russia agreeing to a di vision of the island. The Japan ese at the same time withdrew their demands for the cession of interned ships and for the limita tioo of Russian naval power in the far east. . ; Salem, Oregon, January 31, 1904. err Glass Manufacturing Company. Portland, Oregon. Dear Sirs: ' ' J I used six dozen of your fruit jars last season and am very much pleased with them. The Economy Jar is 'the nicest Rooking and the best jar I have ever used. ;y -I canned all kinds of fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, pickles and chicken, and hadjfine success with the Economy Jar. - . , I was awarded all the first- prizes, consisting of 8 blue ribbons, at the Oregon State Fair, 1903, for my exhibit of canned fruits and jelly. Albaoy, N. Y. Aug. 28 Evid ence as to the identity of Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers who went out of Hotel Tenevck here Fridav even ing leaving two sons, one a baby of six months and the other six years old, in care of a chambermaid is steadily accumulating but there whereabout is as much a mystery as ever. ' There is nothing to show why they should wish to abandon their children. Thus far nothing has developed to indicate that the Rog era are fleeing from justice. One theory upon which the police are working is that ; perhaps, finding themselves without means they committed suicide. St. Petersburg, Aug 30. The peace news was received here with out any manifestationt of joy. The city 3hows absolutely no evidence of the receipt of the tidings. It can safely be said however, that the general feeling among the more intelligent classes is that justice has been done at Portsmouth. Expressions of relief are heard that there will be no further blood shed, but the "inglorious peace is a disappointment to many. The suddeneBs with which the Japanef finally accepted the Russian rl matum makes manv neonie believe that the cession of the island of Sakhalin would have been prema OFFICE OR J. W. BAILEY state: dairy ani ROOM -19, FOOD COMMISSIONER BREEDEN BLDO. - Portland, Oregon, Oct, 25, 1905 The two Mason Jar caps has been examined. Upon examination the metal of the new Mason cap was found to be pure zinc. The small, pin holes in the old Mason cap were undoubtedly caused by the action of vegetable acids. As a result the fruit in the jar must have been greatly contaminated with poisonous zinc compounds. 1 regard the nse of jars with zinc caps as very unsanitary and even dangerous. Yours very truly, ' , ; j. w. bailey', , ... State Dairy and Food Commissiqner. The Oregon commissioners bought all my fruit to represent Oregon at the St. Louis Eair. I have been requested to put up fruit for the Lewis & Clark Centennial' Exposition 1905, and I will nse your Economy Jars, They are a sure seal, easy to open, and I prefer Item to any jar I have ever used. Yours very truly, Mrs, S. R. Foster. It is worth your while to know YOUR preserved fruits and vegetables are free from poisonous compounds? You know this if you use the ECONOMY JARS they are endor sed' and used by 'the OREGON AGRI. COLLEGE, LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY, CALIF f and other Colleges and Universities. . Prof. Snellof the Oregon Agricultural College especially recommends ECONOMY JARS because the cover is Sanitary and free from any Possibilities of Forming Poisionous Com pounds with the contents of the Jar t . , ' . Wadhams 6c Kerr Bros. Distributors Wholesale Grocers. 1 Portland, Oregon ture, while a large element of the people seem ot the opinion that an other trial at arms with its chances of victory would be preferable to the present peace. The reception of the news here today shows plain ly that the war has been foreign to the masses, who in no sense have been in sympathy with its objects. e.p, which will abstract the current. The invention might be farther im proved by the employment of mice so that the cats could be drawn through the chute by induction. Jaet how much feline Dower is re quired to light an incandescent lamp has yet to be ascertained. Luther Burbank's efforts in the cultivation of flowers and vegeta bles have been eclipsed by a res ident of Tolland on the Moffit road says the Denver News. The cham pionship in chicken breedmg has been won by F. J. Frances. He has discovered his new phase of the chicken industry quite by accident. Mr. Frances claims to have pro duced a chicken which is ail white meat: The condition of the meat he ascribes to the altitude. He avers that if a chicken couid be baised above timber line it would ze perfectly white from Bkin to giz rard. Near the top of the contin ental divide is' the place where be has been conducting his experi ments. Rollins pass is the highest pois.t on the Moffit road. It is 11,- 660 feet above the sea. Here there h no timber, no vegetation of any kind, except a few scattering sptcks of drying grass and hardy sagfl brush. ' I found out what I claim about the chickens by observing the fish," said Mr. Frances in discussing his discovery. "I noticed the texture of the flesh of fish in the lake of Tolland was dinerent trom mat in Teller lake, which is several hund red feet higher. The flesh of the fish in Yankee Doodle and Jenny laBes, wnicn are sua nigner, is whiter still, and if there was water at a higher altitude that contained fish I am sure that you would find the flesh to be entirely white. My theory is that chickens laiaed at a high altitude will contain no dark meat and will be as tender and juicy even when old as the chicken used for spring broilers on the bill of fare. . ' We have 100 chickens now at Teller lake that are being raised with a view to proving what I claim. We learn from an exchange that an Indiana genius proposes to mil ize cats for the generation of elec trie current for lighting. His pur pose is to round up the cats and drive them through a chute so that they-will pass under rotating brush Portsmouth, Aug. 30. The act ual work of drafting the "Treaty of Portsmouth" began today. It is being done by DaMartens and DennisoD, the legal advisers of the respective sides. While the bases have been accepted by the pleni potentiaries considerable detail re mains to be worked out in the el aboration of the articles nf the treaty. A verv anomalous situation ex ists as to the impression created by the conclusion of peace. ' While the outside world applauds, in Ja pan there is evidently great disap pointment in the terms and in Rus sia the government seems to - have received it coldly. It is an open secret that when the emperor ap pointed Witte, the chief plenipo tentiary the military party expect ed him to fail or make a 'bad peace' and either would have spelled po litical ruin. Witte succeeded in securing a treaty honorable to Rus sia. This has exasperated his en emies and an intrigue is again at work to ciscredit him. Not a word or line about the receipt of the news comes out of Japan. In view of the situation both in Tokio and St. Petersburg, the alarmists are continued onpage 4 Good t Health 0 the (shild rem Children especially are fond of dainties, and the housekeeper must look carefully to their food. As good cake can be made only with good eggs, so also a cake that is health ful as well as dainty must be raised with a pure and perfect baking powder. Royal Baking Powder is indispensable in the preparation of the highest quality of food. It imparts that peculiar light ness, sweetness and flavor noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, doughnuts, crusts, etc., and what is more important, renders the food wholesome and agreeable to young and old. . ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.