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Vol. XVIII.-No. 17. CORVALLIS, OREGON. OCTOBER 21.1905. B.F. IRVTMM and Proprl Alt & DO OU WANT Wool Dress Goods at gost? If so, you can have an immense and up to date stock from which to make your selections. No reserve. To heavy stock in this department the cause. Don't fail this opportunity to save dollars. Call and See. k - I I, HARRIS. x - - A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY 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 fall line of Jewelry, 0. A. C. Pins?. Optical G1. Get, one of our self-filling Foun tain Pna. We uv 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. Bare. FIGHT A DUEL TO DEATH AT MARSHF1ELD, COOS COUNTY. J. A. Armitage Slays Mrs. J. O. Stoops B cause She Would Not Return Hie Love, and Is Himself Killed Other News. ;lf ike r "Hy STEM Double -Breasted Sack WILL PROVE TO BE A VERY POPULAR SUIT FOR Fall and Winter Just the snap, grace and swing to make you look right. Call and examine our elegant line of The Bell System Suits, Single and Double - Breasted, Overcoats and Raincoats. Designed and Made by Stern, Lauer, Shohl & Co. CINCINNATI, O. SOLD BY ' J. H. HARRIS 1 Marehfield, Or., Oct. 17. A double tragedy occurred hereabout 3 o'clock this afternoon when J. A. Armitage was shot by Mrs. J. O. Stoops, a neighbor's wife, but lived long enougb to shoot toe woman through the heart, caueiDg instant death. Armitago reached bis own borne, threw himself on the bed and died in a short time, without giving any reasons for theBhooting Mrs. Stoops has four children and Armitage bas a wife and five children living on a ranch near Eugene. Stoops and familyrnoved to this place about three years ago from near Eugene, acd shortly af ter they came here Armitage arriv ed on the scene and rented a house near the Stoops. He left his f am lly ou the ranch in Lane county, and lived here ' alone. There baa been more or less talk about the at tendons paid Mrs-. Sloops, by Ar mitage, but Stoops evidently had faith in h's wife, and no trouble grew out ofjthejgossip. About three months ago . Mrs. Stoops told Armitage that she ; did net want him to come to her house-. His reply angered her brother,, who was in the loom at the time, and be started to shoot . Armitage, but Mrs. Stoors threw up bis arm and the ball went wide of its mark. Ar mitage threatened ; to : kill Mrs StoopW and was arrested and placed under $500 bonds to seep the peace Stoops was away from home today and Mrs. Stoops and her young children locked themselves in the house, fearing that Armitage would fo.rce himself upon her. Armitage sat at his window all day smoking with ' a rifle at his side. The woman Dot coming out side the house until nearly time for her eon to come from school, he took bis rifle and went to her door. When Armitage tried to force it in Mrs. Stoops fired at him through the door, but the ball missed its mark. He then went to a window, broke in the lower fash, entered the tome J and started upstairs, where the woman bad taken refuge. She fired at him as became up the stairs, the ball entering bis head jnet above the left eye. He also fired, the ball taking effect in the heart. Armitage crawled through the windew and went back intohisown bouse. He was still alive when the first persons arrived but died soon afterwards. According to a state ment trade by Armitage soon after the first trouble occurred between the couple, the intimacy between them he and- Mrs. Stoops began while Stcops and his family were living on Armitage's laoch near Eugene. -, He was very , much in love with the woman, and claimed that the feeling was reciprocated. Armitage owns considerable prop erty here besides a fine ranch in Lane county, where be bas a large and respected family. The. fell m - 1 . . . r 1 a . ing letters were iuuuu ou iimusgoo table: - J "To the coroner: Please have my body fixed in proper shape and phone to my brother, F. . L. Armi tage, at Eugene, Or. - J. A. Armitage. "To the Coast Mall: I will make a statement in regard to this affair. I am not doing it because I fear the outcome of a trial, but I think it would be more of a disgrace for me to appear in court with such peo ple than to commit this deed. In regard to ber complaint, it is abso lutely false. I never presented a gun, nor threatened her life. She made the remark 'You want to threaten my life.' I said I did not want to do any such a thing, and now they are not satisfied , while I am attending to my own business, but they are tormenting me in eve ry way because they think they have the advantage of me for a few months, v Yours truly, .J J. A. Armitage. "P. S, She told ma one lime when we lived in South Marehfield that if she ever caught ms with another woman she would kill me Gotha, Ducby of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Oct. 16. The suit by Prioce Pbillippie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha for a divorce from his wife Princess Louise and for ajdust- mect of joint proDerty intereets be gan here todav. ' Lieutenant Ke glevitch Mattaisch pianos, it would be impossible, ab. with whom the princess eloped was soiutely impossible to get better pi present. lanos than we have to sell, simply The president opened the pro- because we have tbe best that mon- ceedings by suggesting that the par- ey can buy, Chickering, Weber, ties seek to bring about a reconcil- K-imDau and otters, over thirty iation, not with any expectation of makes in all iving together, but to agree to an We nive placed the selling of our amicable separation and eatisfacto- pianos in the hands of Prof. Tail- ry aciustment of property, lanaier,. neaa oi tae piano depart- A recess was taken dunrg which meet oi tne uregon Agricultural the attorneys reached an 8gree- Uollege. Prof, laillandier s entire ment that the prince make an al- reliability and excellent judgment lowance of $18,000 a year and pay are well known to the people of this the lump sum of $3o,ooo providing vicinity, riano buyers win doubt the princess assumed tne name, less oe giad ot ins opportunity to Princess Louisa of Belgium. consult him in regard to their se- Aoother recess was taken to I lection ot a piano communicate - with tbe princess. lie will be more than pleased to Later in the day the princess at- give you all the information deeir PIANOS AT SMALL PRICES. iornevB at ticked the competence of ed and can be seen at his residence the court, after which the court ad- on College Hill on Saturdays and iourned to October 30 to consider every evening of the week. A the matter. Prince 8 bill of com- telephone call will bring him to plaint. besides allegirg misconduct I your house. Independent 185 says tbe princess contracted debt amounting to- over $744,ooo and that ber wardrobe was found to contain 75 pairs of silk shoes, I2O pairs of other shoes, bU parasols and loo hats. The Eilers way of Selling and why they can do it A few Figures that Illustrate how it can be done Your Opportunity to get a Paino No Home Need be Without one. Cut rates on pianoel You l ave heard of cut prices on groynes, but cut prices, on pianos, how is it possible you ask. That is jo-Vit. Before euch a thing could be lf ct ed there must have been a combin ation of very unusual conditions. In the first place it means buy ing in largequantities, getting out ol the small way of doing bush i-ss. It means the cutting out of ever useless and unnecessary expose. It means the shipment ofpianos without boxes in special oars which saves big Eums on freight charge. Then it means the selling of pi anos so excellent and satisfactory. that the public demands them. We have accomplished just t ese things. We buy for the largest and busiest etores on the Pacific Coast, in Portland, Astoria, Salem, Pendleton and Eugene, Ore; San Francisco, Stockton and Oakland, Cal.; Srobane, Seattle and Wai'a Walla, Wasb.; Boise and Lewiston, Idaha. We buy the beBt pianos t'-t money can secure. If we went all over the world with hundreds tf thousands of dollars to spend EILERS PIANO HOUSE, Largest leading and rrost res ponsible dealers in the Northwest. Prof. Taillandier, Special Representative. on Chicago, Oct.' 17. It wasdiscloS' ed today that 49 American girls have been sold into slavery in Chi nese harems, most of them loet to civilization, and can hope for no re lease save by suicide, as they are helpless prisoners in Chinese interi or towns subject to the whims of -mandarins, who were able to pur chase -tbem through the connivance of a woman whose identity is well known to the government. Tbe dealer who delivered the girls into slavery resides in Chicago, and lias a woman confederate in Shanghai who is known to the secret, service agents The government says it must re ly upon the police aod state author ities for punishing procurers, , be- HER LETTER CORVALLIS WOMAN WRITES TO THE TIMES FROM THE GERMAN CAPITAL. A University Witb Fourteen Thous and Studeots How the Bride at an Aristocratic Wedding Came to Town. 10. Berlin, Germ., Sept ILditob Jimes: Since the fates have led me fortb, cause their is no federal law against 1 h.aya take,D Ipng journeys from the at Rhnno-hn! Va Pnlistflrl thfino-nn- lX ul mcago wnere.aiier aDOUl iwo f ho nnnii.h anA ohir.,c years study, I took a degree. Af a n t Knrif lofl fif that mrir Kwirfonnft r.fo.Un.Wihot mnv Amfrimn I taught in a college and was pnnci and Canadian girls were procured. Pal of a !chooL .Itbf 1 The authorities have ucquestiona- 8Pent Pe 8DmJ? a North ,Mlc.hl- ble proof of the incarceration of at g a one ijntu ma 1 unoer tne leaet I2 of the 49. It u known that Ealm?. on the Atlantic shore of South Hilda Anderson, aged 2o, commit- "oiina. mere tne ocean jim w .,1 onioirta o ffr iB rni na f el,., r.r. a low eandy beach and the tide nfB fnr wirh aK w.a hnina sBnt. ebbed and flowed calmly as that of f " " . I . 1 1 in iL . mri 1 ;i to Qhina. Many have been Bold a 18Ke f f?-" uni "e Han-ie from one master to another until Fowcr J lU0 " "l a they are so far in the interior that l! Poun8 dashes in fury against it is impossible to locate them. American girls, betrayed into the hands of rich Chinese by the two women, bring from $5oo to $looo, tbe price fluctuating according to beauty and accomplishments. Two intended victims escaped at Sbaog hai and sought refuge in a place frcnnonlffl hv Amnrlrin oirl 1T!na- liah sailnrc nrf tnM r rvflSoBr nf 8t a paSSOHger, in TTn;0.i ri.u. no,r. f tk.i, cannot be drowned pettence Tokio, Oot. 18. The navy de partment has announced that tbe Russian battle ship Psbieda, which was suLk at Pott Arthur, has been successfully refloated. St. Louis, Oct. 18. The mining town of Sorento, Illinois, was wip ed out by a tornado last night. Ev ery building in the town is report ed to have been demolished or,at least paitially wrecked. Eight per sons were killed and more t,hn 4n injured. Forty buildings are cj pletely wiped out. First class vetch seed 2 1-2 miles of Philomath. Address E. Conger Corvallis, Or Bell phone no : the rocky cliff?. : It Is now about a year since I made farewell visits to relatives, in the Sunny South Land and em barked at New York with two lady cousins for a trip abroad. I went on the English, the Cunard line for this company bas sailed the seas seventy years, and has never fact a person from one of these ships. People have tried it and failed. On the previous voyage of our floating city I say city for our ship could ' have held all the people of Corvallis unless the pop ulation has greatly increased since I left. An Irishman, who was under in dictment in his own land was being returned for trial, on this ship. As the ship neared the Irish, coast he jumped over board, at a costcf 500 to the company; the ship was stop ped, and the fellow rescued. When they landed him. dripping on deck, loud acd furious were hie invectives egainst his rescuers. He was tbor- trying to 10m- his rire- baft laily on dis- Notice. Notice is hereby given that there is money on : hand at the coUnty treasurer's office to pay all orders endorsed and marked "not paid for want of funds" up to and including those of June the 12th 1905. In terest will be stopped on same from this date. . Corvallis, Oregon, Oct. 18, 1905. ' ' . V. A. Buchanan. Treasurer of Benton countv. tant. The last morning at our plates at the breakfast- table lay the news of the week. We landed at Liverpool at night and had some difficulty finding quarters for the races bad just closed and the king bad been preseet. We were first ecccuLtered, of course, by the cus toms officer who wanted to know if I had any tobacco or liquor; as I had just come from the world's greatest tobacco belt I was afraid my baggage might smell of it; but when I said no, he let me pass without evening opening my valise. The next morning we a'e our Eng lish breakfast of bacon, eggs end jam and set out from the "city of masts" for a zig-zag journey acr ss England. We first saw tbe old-walled town of Chester The walls are still standing in a good state ot preser vation and are used as an elevated sidewalk. The spike-like home made nails still bristle upon the edge of tbe wall-like rows of .sharp edged teeth ready to dutch the ic vador, who, in this glorious era of peace, comes not. On these wal's, in a tower that still stands, the un fortunate Charles. I stood, and saw Crcmwell defeat his army, a disas ter that caused him to lose bis head. Our next stop was at Warwick Castle. After paying the gate keep er a fee we entered tbe gate acd took our way across the yard or park that is inclosed within the walls and entered the caBtle hall. It was full of old armor, Ewortie, spears, shields and the cemplete harness of the Knights of old, on through galleries of rare old paint ings, saloons furnished with rich eilks acd plushes, through the din ing room, and finally we were con ducted into tbe chamber filled with the red plush furniture that wai once Queen Anne's, and in the room that was always occupied by Quem Victoria when she made ber visi'8 to this castle. The king does nit visit tbe present Earl, because, it is said, the Earl is jealous of hn beautiful wife. The next most interesting place were the ruins of Kenelworth Cas tle; here, then, in the crumbled walls, tbe wide-gapping archways, and tha lofty, vacantly staring, eashless windows was the place where the stormy lover's quarrel between Elizabeth and her heart's favorite, Earl of Lieceeter, took place. There the park, now a po- . tato patch, where the queen discov- ered the Earl's secret marriage with Amy Robsert, and yonder tbe very rcom in the castle where the iufu riated queen took her lover to taek. However, htr memorable visit to this cstld ended her love affair with her favorite; and the walls that reverberated with her wrath now echoed the tinkling cow bells from tbe meadows below. After a short ride from this place we reached . Stratford oa-Avon, the home of Shakespeare, and the mecca of liteiary . pilgrims. This is a town of about 8,000 inhabitants, and is about as Shakespeare left it some four hundred years ago, ex cepting the donations of fountains, memorial windows and other things that admiring Americans have be stowed upon the writer of their choice. Thirty thousacd visitors come here yearly, and they say the popularity of the town is due to Americans. There is the plain home in which the great writer was born. We at tend churchSunday morning where, by the sl'ar under a r lain, long white elab, repoees the sacred duel of Shakespeare and by Lis side are his family. Near the wall is a bu-1 continued on page 4