Y St TO Vol. XVIII.-No. 17. CORVALLIS, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 27.1905. B.F. IRVINE dM and Proprl Sltttfi. em aflncl Beys Our line of clothing this year is more complete and comprise some of the best weaves the market produces and our prices will interest you. Our boys line of suits and overcoats have lots of style and good material. Greatest line of Shoes in City J.'-'S. fiARRIi 'till I 3 !".--' H'n Fine Light Sample Rooms. Corvallis J. C. Hammel, Prop. Leading HoteHn 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. $ iM), $1.25 and $2.00 per day. Don't Be Alarmed ! ! Unless it is by one of our Alarm Clocks, . and you will be spared the annoyance of an alarm at the wrong time. Clocks guaranteed. A full line of Jewelry, 0. A. C. Pins, OptLal Coode. Get ne.of our self-filling Foun tain Pens. We do all kinds' of optical work. Eye strain, headache, relieved by a pair of our glasses. Pratt The Jeweler 6c Optician. Licensed to Practice Optometry in the State of Oregon. MAY BE ASSASSINATED BARON KOMURA. HELD IN DERISION IN JAPAN Ask Your Dealer for Economy Jars And take no other Economy Jars are sanitary, no zinc, no poison, no mould, no separate rubber ring. Held Fast in a Sewer Pipe Land lords Insists on Race Suicide in New York Other News Victoria, Sept. 23. R. Kayahara editor of Yorodzu Choho of Tokio, who arrived hera today by the Iyo Maru, said there is a great outcry against Baron Komura in Japan, and it is probable that he will be assassinated. Newspapers have published cartoons of him with a rope around bis neck, others with Samurai handing him - a dagger to kill himself. . The Yorodzu was suspended for making a bitter personal attack on Baron Komura advising the people to "turn their backs" when he re turns. The Osaki Asahi published a car toon showing Admiral Togo being borne io triumph on a portable shrine of coolies, and a companion picture of Komura being buried The Baron is seated, dead, and borne by beirers with tall hats and cadaverous faces. Another cartoon shows men with massive closed fists ehakine them in the face of Baron Komura wha is returning by train. Salem, Oregon, January 31, 1904. Kerr Glass Manufacturing Compa'rry". 1 - , ' ; . 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 my exhibit of canned fruits and jelly. Keno, JNev., Sept. A. man with drafts and checks amounting to several hundred dollars, togetb er with a large amount of money on his person, was arrested while drunk on the streets of Truckee last night. Three hours after ' he was locked securely in the jail, the officer went in to see if he was safe and found him tightly wedged in the sewer pipe. io his drunken fancy, he thought he could escape through the 12-inch Dine, and attempted to - force -his way through. At the first joint his shoulders caught and in this position he was found by the officer. His limbs had swollen and be could neither move one way or the other. A block, tackle acd five mfen were brought to his aid. Their combined efforts could not move him. Then it was decided to tear away the brick and iron of the jail building. In this manner the pine was reached and forn away from around the man. He suffered agony. It was found necessary to cut his shoes from his feet. The checks found on his person are on a New York bank, in favor of John Ray. The man refused to give his name. Reno, Sept. 23. Wadsworth once the liveliest railroad town of Nevaea, with a population varying from 3 rao to 4ooo, but now a de serted pile of shacks has been tak en possession of by thousands of wildcats. Thev are roaming the stroets making their abode in ram- shaekle buildings. At the sight of human beings, they scamper over each other, hundreds of them, their mad flight for safety. This j condition is caused by the fact that the railroad people when leaving, left the old family cats to their fate Two or three hundred of them wre abandoned in this way more than a year ago and the thousands of wild felines today are the result. 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 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 Wadhams 6c Kerr Bros. Distributors Wholesale Grocers. Portland, Oregon By the use of wigs and paints in an artistic manner, be makes his char acters . live before his audience. Mrs. Day who appears with him iB a reader of ability. The fifth programme is a musical one by the H. T. Butterworth Co. Mr. Butterworth has toured the country as base soloist, with Thom as' famous orchestra, and is now winning fame with the present com pany, including Miss Hattie Rood Grace, who has a pure soprano voice trained by some of the best teachers of the day. She is not only a sweet vocalist, but a remark ably good whistler. Miss Eliza Rosentomer of Berlin, Germany, is a violiniBt. Miss Mabel Wal lace, the fourth member of the com pany, is a graduate of theCumnock School of Oratory, acd a reader of ability. The sixth entertainment is a lecture on "The Great Paintings of the World" illustrated by several hundred stereoptlcon reproductions of great paintings, and of the great art galleries of the world. This lecture will not only give views of the great paintings, but will also portray the artists, and outline the history of art from ancient times to the present. be exact, six in the" four families, and for that reason they were told to look elsewhere for a home. Andrew Garvin, one of the four, who has been ejected, declares that it is almost impossible to find the kind of a home that he desires. "My wife and I have hunted all over the city," he says, "and I am convinced that there is a general conspiracy against children among the owners of first class apartment houses. "We have been rebuffed time and again when we had found places that suited us. The fact that I am financially good for any amount that, I may agree to pay is lost sight of because I have children." OFFICE OF" . W. BAILEY DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSI ROOM 19, BREEDEN BL.DO. . r 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. New York, Sept. 24. It is yearly becoming more and more of a prob lem for New York families to know what to do with children. In only two clashes of homes are they welcomed, the cheap, dirty, uncomfortable tenements on the lower East Bide, and in private houses. - ' It is an actual fact that a man with an income from $60 to $200 a week, is compelled to put in- the hardest kiud of hard work, if he wants to secure a dwelling in - pro portion to his means, providing he has children. ; Landlords of the better class a, partments are gradually becoming converts. to the theory that chil dren are unnecessary evils, and tenants who have them are per emptorily ordered to move as soon as their leases expire. This fact has been accentuated during the past few days by the ac tion Andrew Bowsej owner of an apartment in the aristocratic River side Drive section, in visiting four of his tenants. Each of the men paid from $2000 to $36oo a year for their apartments and paid it promptly. But they had. one or two children a piece, to St. Louis, Sept. 23. The "mash er" has become such a nuisance in this city that it is proposed to en act an ordinance in the municipal assembly, fixing the penalty com mensurate with the offense. So great is the evil that women are not safe from insult in the Union station, the corridors of the post office or streets. Scarcely a day passes but one or more weak-kneed sissy boys are not hailed before the police, Monday one was fined $3oo for attempting to get up a flirtation with a woman who had gone ti the Union depot to meet her husband who was coming home on the ev ening train. The present offense is punishable with a maximum fine of $310 for disturbance of the peace. The or dinance to be iutroduced recognizes 'mashing" as a misdemeanor and provides that "'any male who shall disturb the peace of any girl or woman by winking or staring a her, or by making insulting re marks, attempting a conversation with any girl or woman without the formality of an introduction will be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall-be fined not less than $5 or more than $5oo- vision is progressing rapidly. Two hundred have already been built and 4ooo more will be necessary to shelter the homeless peopie who are sleeping in the depots. According to statistics, 20,000 cattle perished during the earthquakes. Rome, Sept. 24. Another tor nado today caused enormous dam age to Calabria. A gradual clearance of the build ings ruined by ths recent earth quakes, shows that tthe number of persons who perished was greater than in the firBt estimated. Large numbers of bodies are being discov ered daily. The work of constructfng wooden cabins under government super Portland, Sept. 24. Covered with scars and bruises as a result of a terrible battle with a wounded bear D. M. Roberts and E. E. Sleret of Gresham ar'ived in Portland this morning, from the south fork of tbe Santiam river. That they escaped from the infuriated beast and liv ed to tall of their experience is con sidered remarkable, for more than once during the sanguinary fight they were at the mercy of the bear. Roberts and Sleret with Charles Gedamke and Lonis Sdattuck, also of Gresham, made up a hunting party that started for the Santiam several days ago. Oae day last week Sleret and Roberts were "still" hunting for deer at a large huckle berry patch on the mountain aide. Sleret, who was some distance from his companion, suddenly came upon a large brown beat, and shot it at a distance ot 20 feet. Ibe bear fell to' the ground - and rolled over, and Sleret became excited and ran to it, forgetting that a wounded bear nearly always gets up and and fights. This bear being no exception, immediately arose and fiercely at tacked the hunter. He had shot at it several times, at close quarters and the magazine of his 3o-3o Mar lin was empty. He turned and shouted to Roberts to come to his aid. In a run of forty feet through the brush the bear knocked him down twice, and was about to kill him when Roberts appeared on the ecene. The animal left Sleret and attacked Roberts. The latter un fortunately, stood in a position where he dared not shoot at the bear for fear of hitting his friend. Before he could change his position the animal had attacked him, and there was a hand to hand battle of several minutes between the two men and the bear. Roberts received a severe wound on the right leg from the animal'a paw. The bear with decidedly the best of the fight, suddenly showed fear and fled. 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