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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1905)
I - IB I IE B - 'SiV I II I I I I I III I B 1 IBB III I W 4 - v. 1 W Vol. XVIII.-NO. 17. CORVALLIS, OREGON, SEPTEMBER .13. 1905. B.F. IRVI1TB dlt aal troprt Summer Clearance Sale! Great Bargains in all Departments Big Stock to make your selections . . . Get our Prices and make , -1 : - ; ; , Gomparison. Fine Light Sample Rooms. J. C. Hammel, Prop. Leading Hoteljin 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 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. JAPS JOKER Ask Your Dealer THEIR ENVOYS GAVE UP IN DEMNITY BUT FOR SOME THING BETTER IN CONCESSIONS. Komura Played his Hand Well Thousands Killed and Injured in Earthquake Much Property Loss Other News. Washington, Sepl. 9. As with all things jap arjcee, there is a little joker hidden in the recent peace treaty put there by the wily Kom ura and the shrewd Takahira. It means that, while Japan was, little by little ceding her rights to an indemnity for war costs, she was covertly preparing a way to wrest from the Russian bear a greater money prize than he would have ever been able to pay in the name of an indemnity. The prize and oker is contained in the ninth and eleventh articles of the treaty: To night all Washington is laughing in its sleeve at the way that Rus sia has handed over through these clauses of the treaty, over $30, 000,000 annually, to Japan. - The clause reads: - ,. "Russia cedes to Japan the south ern part of Sa kalin Island as far north as the 50th degree of north latitude, together with the -islands dependent thereon. The right , of free navigation is assured in the bays of La Perouse and Tartare." This seems to be very simple in its phrasing but read article 11 and you will see : the fine and craf'y hand of the Japanese when the clause states: "Russia engages herself to make ao agreement' with Japan giving to Japanese subjects the right to fish in Russian territorial waters, the eea of Japan, the sea of Okhotsk and Behriog sea." . Both of these clauses it is assert ed here by eminent authorities, are nothing less than giving to Ja pan paramount power in the Paci fic placing her in advance of the United States there and giving her fishery rights in the seas of Behring Okho'sk, Tartare and La Perouse, worth a third more than are fish ery uebts in the Pacific worth to the Uuited States. . Japau's rights an now under the treaty, said to be worth $3 0,000,000 annually or more than those of the United S ates there. If an indem nity had been assented to, Japan would not have gained these rights. Uoder an indemnity clause all she would have ever been able to get from Russia is 5 per cent inter est on the $600,000,000 she demand ed. This would have amounted to $30,000,000. If the firBt demand had been accepted by Russia, a sixth of it would have satisfied Japan, Finding that she could not get the indemnity reqoired, she, Japan fashion, got it by fashioning this joker and having it put in the treaty. This is why Washington smiles diplomatic Washington, at least. 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. I 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. 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 . v 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 dom pounds with the contents of the Jar Wadhams 6c Kerr Bros. Distributors Wholesale Grocers. Portland,. Oregon Toledo, O, Sept. 10. Norman B Ream took another whirl at high finance in a poker market on the Kaiser Wilhelm, a week ago, and OFFICE OF" J. W. BAIL-BY E DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER ROOM IS, BREEDEN B L DO. x - 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 use of jars with zinc caps as .very unsanitary and even dangerous.' Yours very truly, J. W. BAILEY, State Dairy and Food Commissioner. got away with a lot of gold that be longed to several other exponents of high-finance business. George Westinghouse, the man who invented the airbrake, and the man recently selected by Thomas F. Ryan as one of the three trustees of the Equitable Life; Henry C. Frick, the Piitsburg millionaire, steel man, and F. Augustus Heinze the Montana copper king, fell be fore Mr, Ream's expert system . of playing poker. I be Kaiser Wilhelm landed in New York last Thursday morning and Mr. Ream was just $9o.ooo richer than he had been a few hours before. The night before, the last game played in the saloon did the trick. The four financial stars played to a crowded saloon. The game had been going on steadily for four or five days, but Wednes day night the limit was taken off, and the financiers loosened their belts and fell to. The betting, started low enough, but as the time left for play dwind led the stakes grew. Big hand fol lowed big hand, and at last the watchers got a universal headache every time they tried to count the money. Some of the men in the crowd .decided that the United States mint had turned loose, and formed a combination with the hink of England, with the joint riches of both on the gambling ta ble. After several small jackpots of $25,000 and other such trivial sums the quartet of gamesters, after try ing to quit for a long time, and falling down before the fascination of the game, agreed on one grand finale, where all limits of past were to be dwarfed and forgotten, and then the fun began. The hand was dealt around end the betting began. Before the players drew cards, for the final titanic struggle, there was over $2o,ooo in the pot. After the draw, the game con tinued to grow faster and fiercer. Somebody bet $looo and somebody raised back, and the raising con tinued back and forth, and every bet higher than the one before, un til somebody called. There was $9o,ooo in the pot when the call came. On the show down,. Mr. Ream had the high hand and he raked in the stake putting him away to the good on the night play, and making him one of the best bet candidates for the high honors so long held by John W". Gates. Portland, Sept. 10 A movement to initiate a number of amendments to the Oregon constitution has been started, and an organization is forming to boom them for th next June campaign when they will be submitted to the electors of the slate. The amendments will be initiated by petition of at leaet 8 per cent of the number of voters who cast their ballots for supreme judge in the June election last year. The first amendment on the list would give the people power to call the referendum on single items in an appropriation bill; at present, the referendum can be called only on a bill as a whole. The same amendment provides that the elec tors of any town or county or elect orial district in the state for which the legislature passes an act, can demand the referendum on the act. The latter half of hls amendment would give the people power to con trol salaries of county, district or city officers, end would take away from legislators their dictatorial powers over laws relating . to their localities, The legislature is accus tomed to pass local bills on recom mendation of the lawmakers from the affected district. This legislative courtesy has giv en large one-man power to legisla tors over charters and salaries of state and city officers. On the single item part of the amendment, the pamphlet sajs: "The referendum petition now filed against the appropriation bill for the current expenses of the in saoe asylum, penitentiary, deaf mute and blind schools, University, Agricultural College and Normal schools, principally because of ob jection to the appropriation for so many normals, proves the need for this amendment. In this case, appropriations for about $800,000 which are necessary and to which no one objects, era held up for the election because they are included in a bill with other appropriations of about $2oo,ooo to 'which many people do object. This causes in convenience and the loss of much money by the etat9 in the payment of interest. "We have not provided for ex tending jhe veto pnwer 01 the gov- eronr-to single items ot appropria tiou bills because 11 seems unneces sary when the voters can protect themselves as they can if this a mendmeut is adopted, and also be cause we believe it is unwise to in crease the one-man power in our government." Under the present law a public officer cannot be discharged un--less he has committed some crime, and says the pamphlet, "there is not a farmer or a business man who would hire -a laborer nnder such terms. Every public officer should hold his office only while his serv ices are satisfactory to the people. just as any other hired man who holds bis job while ho pleases bis employer. It often happens that sheriffs say they cannot and will not enforce the laws, Every yea some assessors say they cannot pos sibly make a fail assessment on taxable property that will make the burden proportionately- aa heavy for the millionaire and the great corporation as it is for the small farmer and the owner of a em ill house. If one fourth of the voters could bring such officers face to face with a public discharge for incompetency, the officers would do their work right or we should get men who could and would. ' Rome. Sent. 8. All Italv is suf- feiing from terrible depression be cause of the news from the south where one of the worst earthquakes ever experienced occnrred today. Although the earthquake was felt all over Calabria, and to a certain . : i . . comes from Plzo and Monteleone and from 18 villages, which are said to have been completely dea- According to the lateet news re ceived 370 ppcons have been killed and a great number injured. It is as yet impossible to even estimate the propertv losses. The shock was felt at 2,55 0 clock this morning. It lasted 18 seconds at Cantanzaro, and soon thereafter was felt at Messina, Reggio, Mon teleone, Martinano. Stefacomi'-Tri- paroi, Piecophio, Zammaro, Ces- saniti, Naida, Olivadi, and other points. SceneB of indescribable terror en sued. Woman aroused from their Bleep rushed half clad into the streets screaming with fear, carry lirtnrv tnAm Kahtao nn1 JvnMntnm along their other children and call ing for help on the Madonna and the saints. The men escaped in th9 open with their families calling ou their favorite saints for protec tion. The cafes, were taken by assault by the strangely garbrd crowd but as daylight broke with out a repetition of the earthquake, the crowd gradually melted away until by 8 o'clock the streets had almost resumed their normal ap- coutinuel onpage 4