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Vol. XVIII.-No. 17. CORVALLIS, OREGON. SEPTEMBER 6. 1905. B.F. IBTIKB aol Proprl dtt 1 Summer GlearanGe Sale! Great Bargains in all Departments Big StoGk to make your selections . . . Get our Prices and make Comparison. X fi. HA: Fine Light Sample Rooms. Corvallis J. C. Hammel, Prop. ' Leading HoteHn Oorvallis. Recently opened. New brick hnilding. 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. " ; $1X), $1.25 and $2.00 per day. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry . - and Silverware. , Eyes tested free of . charge. 1 and glasses fitted correctly at prices within reach :of all . " , Fine watch repairing a spe cialty ...... '. Pratt The Jeweler 6c Optician. SANTIAM FIRES LAY FINE TIMBER LOW AND BURN RANCH HOMES. Earthquakes in Southern Califor nia All the Terms of the Peace Protocol are Agreed to Envoys Soon to Sign. Portsmouth, Sept. 4. A clause has been added to the treaty which which provides the armies .shall have 18 months in which to evac uate Manchuria. This decision was reached only after the fulleet discussion. Military experts with the commission produced 'data to uphold tbeir claim that it would be a physical impossibility for an earlier withdrawal of the enormous forces now in tbe field. The de sire of the envoys was to . remove the armies at as early a date as pos eible, but they became convinced the position taken by the experts was correct and decided according- ly It comes from authority of un doubted reliability that the Rus- ians will be permitted to maintain a railway guard of. approximately ten men to about a mile, or a total of from 15.O00 to 2o,ooo in Man churia. The Japanese are given the right of policing Manchuria. Clauses to that effect have been ad ded to the treaty. Portsmouth, Sept. 3 The sev enteenth and concluding atticle of tbe treaty provides that the ex change or ratifications shall occur within 50 days after its Signature by the plenipotentiaries. The Bus sian ratification will be com muni cated to the Japanese government by the French minister at . Tokio and Mr. Meyer, the American am bassador at St. Petersburg, will communicate the Japanese ratifica tion to the Russian government. If the Russians are ready the treaty will be f-igoed tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock, this date having ben euggeeted by Baron Komura. Ask Your Dealer for Economy Jars And take no other Economy Jars are sanitary, no zinc, no poison, no mould, no separate rubber ring. Salem, Oregon, January 31, 1904. Kerr Glass Manufacturing Company. Portland , Oregon. Dear Sirs: I used six dozen of your fruit jars last season and am very much pleased with them. The Economy Jar is the nicest looking and the best jar I have ever used. 1 canned all kinds of fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, pickles and chicken, and hadfine success with the Economy Jar. I was awarded all the first prizes, consisting of 8 blue ribbons, at the Oregon State Fair, 1903, for mv exhibit of canned fruits and jelly. . 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 use your Economy Jars, They are a sure seal , easy to open, and I prefer, them to any jar I have ever used. Yours very truly, , . Mrs. S. R. Foster. New Yoik, oepi. 2. The hund red of thousands who saw what ap peared to be a gigantic skyrocket shooting across the 6ky above New York last night may be assured that they witnessed the flight of the most remarkable shooting star that has bseo turned loose in this vicinity in many years. The fact that the meteor broke just as it ap peared to be about to strike the earth, resolving itself into thous ands of wbiriing fragments, con vinced nearly everybody that saw it that it was a piece of fireworks. Confirmation of the fact that the spectacle was furnished by a me teorite comes today in the shape of letters from different sections of the city indicating that it was seen in an area practically comprehending all of New York. People on the Btreet3 were at tracted by the swiftly moving me teorite at about 7:30 o'clock. At the same time it was seen by many residents in Brooklyn. . In the northeastern heavens an immense ball of white fire seemed to be drop ping from the zenith. It was mov ing wi h t emendous speed and leaving a white nebulous tail tht faded Blowly. While the. epecia tors gazed spellbound the projectile broke like a gigantic shell, frag ments weie hurled in every direc OFFICE OF" t J. W. BAI LEY STATE OA I FRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER ROOM -IS, BREEDEN BLDQ. , Portland, Oregon, Oct, 25, 1905' ' The two Mason Jar caps has been exainined.'SUpbn 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. t . ' ' V ' 1 regard the use of jars with zinc caps as very unsanitary and even dangerous. Yours very truly, J.7. BAILEY, State Dairy and Food Comrnissiqner. 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 m ' OREGON AGRI. COLLEGE, LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY, CALIF . and other Colleges and Universities. Prof. Snell of 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 1 Wadhams 6c Kerr Bros. Distributors Wholesale Grocers. Portland, Oregon tion. Portland, Sept. 2. Portland was plunged into total darkness for 35 minutes follawing the hour of 7:30 last night. A cross circuit on the wires in the power plaDt of the Portland General Electric company in North Portland, caosad the switchboard, on which were con nected all the feed wires supplying the city with power -to burn out. Business houses were, without lights, streets were in darkness, a dark pall hung over the Exposition street car traffic was stopped and all lines of business dependent on electric power were demoralized for more than an hour. The accident occurred at the busiest hour of the evening, when thousands of people were on their way to the Lewis and Clark Fair, the Oiks and the theatres, or were in tbe city doing their shopping. The Exposition grounds . were crowded with people and when tbe lights went out consternation reign ed. The same state of affairs ex isted at the Oaks, where thousands of people bad gathered to see the pvrotechnic display at the "Fall of Pompeii." At both resorts the grounds were in total darkness for more than halt an hour and at the 1 tter place the lights were so dim that the attractions were unable to run after 9 o'clock. Albany, Or. Sept. 2 The forest fires up tbe Santiam river are re ported to be pretty well under con trol tnis evening, a lorce or men have been busy fighting the flames and while considerable damage is yet being done, the danger to small towns along the line of the railroad is about over. The track of th6 railroad has been repaired and the trains made the usual runs today. , People interest ed are hoping for raid as nothing can stop the fires. Six farm houses and three barns, with . all their con tents were destroyed by fires, , the occupants barely escaping with their lives, between Mill Citv and Gates. Lorain, O., Sapt. 2 On the point of capture by the sheriffs posse Peter Pitts, the man who terrorized the country from Avon Beach to Lorain for three days is dead by his own nana.: He shot himself in the head in full view of the band of armed farmers who were pursuing him, and sank dead on the ground. The three days ia which he ran amuck through a territory m les in extant, firing upon men and women burning farm bouses, and driving the population from their homes to places of safety in the city, marked one of the strangest and most sensational episodes in the history of the county. Friday night 500 men patrolled the high roads, waiting for Pitts, their guns sacked and loaded. The climax came when word wa? received that Pitts, still armed and raving had been seen at his grand father s home at French Creek. Thither a posse of a 100 men gal loped without sleep. At a turn of the road they saw Pitts in the .dis tance and they formed ready to fire He turned and watched the squad a moment, drew his revolver and vaulted a fence and then, while the posse grimly - watched, he shot himself four times and fell a corpse Cincinnati, Sept. 2 Pay ' check forgeries on dhe Baltimore & Ohio Southern railway are said "to be turning up along the entiie dis tance of the road from Washington Ind. to Baltimore. It is said also that a number of checks have been floated aloug the line of tbe Chica go division. The aggregate amount all over the system may reach $4o,ooo. society, and for years ranked Bee ond to none of the socitty leaders. Mrs. Caton not only inherited tbe estate of her husband, but a larg portion of the estate of her father. She is reputed to be worth between $1,000,000 and $2,oooiooo. Los Angeles, Sept 2. An unus ually heavy earthquake shock was experienced here at 9:30 tonight. The disturbance was of about - six seconds' duration. The police wa besieged with telephone calls from people who believed that a " dyna mite explosion had occurred. At Second $ Spring streets a crowd of 2000 persons had congregated, be lieving that a terrific explosion,had occurred in the vicinity.' Several small fires resulted from the shock. At one restaurant the flue was tumbled down and a blaze started which brought out the fire department. In making the run the engiae ran down a garbage wagon and a pony and phaeton, the latter being dragged under the engine for more than a block. Assistant City Electrician Col burn, sleeping in the tower of the City Hall, was thrown from his bed and pinned beneath it by a falling bookcase. He telephoned to the police tbat the City Hall was being dynamited- Lindon, Spt. ' 2 Marshall Field,' the wealthy Chicago merch ant, has been granted a special li cense to marry Mrs. Delia Spencer Caton, also of Chicago. The wed ding will be solemnized at St. Margaret's church. . ; ; . Mr. Field has bean a widower for years. Mrs. Caton's husband, a well known whip and sportsman, died suddenly at a hotel in this city during the borseshow last win ter. .. Chicago, Sept. -.2 There have been frequent rumors tbat Marshall Field and Mrs. Dolia Spencer. Ca ton, who is the widow of Arthur J. Caton, would marry Marshall Field whose wealth is estimated at be tween $loo,ooo,coo and $15o, 000,006 was 7o years of age on August 18. Mrs. Caton who was Mrs. Dalia Spencer daughter of the man who founded the hardware establishment of Hibbard .Spencer, Bartlett & Co., is 46 years of age. '' She is one of the leading figures in Chicago' HongKong, Sept. 3 The trans port Logan with Secretary of War Taft and paity on board, arrived bere at 10, o'clock this morning. All the party are well.. Owing to the unpleasant anti-American dem onstrations and the display of post ers in'Canton, as planned or not. Consul-General Bragg advised that the visit be not made. Secretary Taft, however, decided to go at 9 o'clock tonight. He will arrive there in the morning. Only men will be guests at the banquet which will be given by the viceroy, who will be absent. Interesting developments are liable to result as an outcome of Mr. Taft's visit. Miss Alice Roosevelt, having obtained the consent of Mr. Taft, will leave at 3 o'clock this . after, noon for Canton, on a visit to Con sul General Lay. Miss Roosevelt will be accompanied by Miss Boardmau, Miss McMillan, Mrs. Newlands and Representatives Longworth and Gillette. They will return to HoogKong Tuesday. The governor of Hongkong Sir Matthew Nathan, and tbe British continued on page 4