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to-? Vol. XVIII.-No. 17. CORVALLIS, OKEGON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14. 1905. B.T. IBVOT EH tor and Proprietor DO YOU WANT mool Dress Goods It KOSt? If so, you can have an immense and up to date stock from which to make vour selections. No reserve. To heavy stock in. this department the cause. Don't fail this opportunity to save dollars. Call and See. J H. HARRIS, STILL MORE FRAUDS ABANDONED BALLOT BOXES FOUND IN. DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF CITY. are made to Con- StMdemitsl Don't Be Hlatwd!! 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 Goods. Get one 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. Wanted Butter and Eggs at Moses Brothers Sworn Charges of Fraud Citizens Called Upon vict- the Guilty Hearst Promisee to See that the Guilty Are Punished, Eight more ballot boxes, aband ooedsin poilicg places by variotiB election boards in defiance of the law, were found today in the search that is laying bare in constantly in creasing volume the amazing frauds of Tammany. Two of the boxes were found in a barber shop at 6o2 East Third street'. Sworn charges that 31 protested ballots in a single election precinct in the lower east side were count ed illegitimately for Mayor McDellan on Tuesday were made today by Walter Alexander, Wa- trias & Polk of 3o Nassau street, who was one of the Jerome watch ers. Mr. Alexander declares that if this is a fair sample of what was done in other election districts, Mr. Hearst was elected by an over whelming plurality. In a letter to Mr. Jerjome, Mr. Alexander asks that steps be taken to eee that all cases where the facts warrant prosecution are brought before judges who will not ba dis posed to let the offenders go. This much he claims is due to the men who watched at the polls. Mr. Al exander's report was carefully pre pared and sworn to. Four ballot boxes, one of which was marked ''Defective ballots," which supposedly contained such ballotf, while the others contained ballots or stubs, just which, does not appear, were discovored ihis af ternoon in some of the polling pi a ces in the Thirty-fourth assembly district in the Bronx by Christo pher Wigow, a driver for MacCau ley 's express on Elton avenue. Wigow was employed to collect the voting paraphernalia in the va rious election districts. He found many ballot boxes all of which he thought were'unused, but when he unloaded them at the police station it was found that four of them were filled with papers of some kind. They were uns altfd, but the po lice did not feel authorized to open and examine them and turned them over to the Bronx office of the eleo tions board at 138th eighth street and Paik avenue, in the condition in which they were found. One of the boxes was plainly marked de fective ballots and is believed to have contained what the label indi cated. 1 he election law requires that defective ballots be placed in an envelope after the count and turned over to the elections board. This evidently was not done in this case. The police of the Alexander av enue station refused today to say from what election district came the apparently forgotten boxes. the oath as mayor, announce hie appointments and demand posses sion of the mayor's office in the City Hall. Inasmuch as Mayor McClellan has decided to fight his adversary at every point, this city may have a dual government on New Year's day. The decision of the Hearst men to install their candidate as mayor January 1" was reached yesterday, it is said, but nothing officially will be faid about their intention for some days yet. Mr. Hearst'scoun ael ha3 told him one sure method of having his title to the mayoralty either confirmed or denied is lor him to take the oath of office as major and thrust the coctest into the courts. The lfgal procedure necessary for the validation of Mr. Hearst's claim to the mayoralty muet be made within the next 15 davs. IF YOU WANT A GOOD TENDER STEAK, VEAL, MUTTON CHOP, ; HAM OR BACON, CALL AT The City Meat Market of We keep on hand all kinds of fresh and cured meats, lard and sausage, We have our own delivery wagon and goods will be delivered at your door on short notice. Op posite Turners Grocery. Both Phones CADY & SCHWINGLER SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. GO TO THE Office for Your Job Washington, Nov. 11. The post office department has confirmed the action of the postal authorities in seizing the postal cards Bent out by Tammany Hall in its fight againBt William R. Hearst in bis contest for the mayoralty of New York, de claring them to be unmauable The postal cards represented Mr Hearet running from a lighted bomb at the feet of a shadowy picture the late Pres. William McKinley The entire consignment, 250,000 filling 27 large -mailsacks, reached Washington today and were sent to the postofnce department, where they occupied considerable room First Assistant Postmaster-Genera! Hitchcock aBked the assistant at torney-general of , the postoffice de partment for an opinion on the stat us of the case as a matter of record He said he wanted a decision once and it was given. It declared that the postal cards were unmaila ble. Mr. Hitchcock immediately Issued orders that the entire con signment be destroyed, and they have already begun to teed the poet' omce furnace under guara to Bee that none are "pinched out" as sou venire or for other ulterior purposes St. Petersburg, Nov. 11. General Klingberg, civil governor of the Po lish province of Mogobileff and a member 01 the privy council, nar rowly escaped assassination at the hands of a woman. lhe latter gained access to his presence on the pretense of presenting a petition. When she was ushered into the governor's room she drew a revolv er and fired three shots, wounding him dangerously. " Los Angeles, Nov. 11. Through great underground fissures rent by earthquake ehockp, the waters of the Gulf of California are pouring into the old Salton basin and re eistlessiy forcing the new Saltan Sea to tea level. Doubts no lorgr exist as to the origin of this vast inland sea, which now skirts the main line of the Southern Pacific for . nearly loo miles and stretches away on either side of the track 25 miles to the foothills. Attempts to stem the tide have ceased after ten months of persist ent effort by the railroad and the expenditure of upward of $loo,ooo. Southern Pacific engineers now ad mit, for the first time that this strange tide cannot be stemmed by the hand of man. With 00 miles of their main line already under water, and with spur tracks melt ing away before the waves almoBt before the steel is spiked to the ties, they haveretreated to the mountains and are surveying for a new route which shall be well beyond the reach of the destructive elements. One hundred miles of new track must be laid. It will parallel , the old submerged track on the north and it will run from ten to 15 miles back from the fourth "shoofly" now being hastily thrown together. To day every building at Salton, with the exception of the depot is sur rounded by water and most of them are partially submerged. The tide is within Bix feet of the depot and new accommodations for the rail road are being constructed on, an elevation 50 yards back from the present Bite. Fifty miles of temporary .track are now in commission and only for short stretches la the original line safe for service, the ties being bolstered by sacks of Bock and constantly watched by track walk era. Ties work New York. Nov. 11. The Trib une eayei William. R. Hearst wil it tne contest for mayoralty is pro longed in the courts beyond th first of next year, it. is said, take r 1 WITS AT CORVALLIS re ar at Portland, Nov. I3 Oreeonian A lone desperado entered a caboose on a Northern Pacific freight train at Gobel, Or., .at midnight and at he muzzle of a revolver forced the conductor and a brakeman to main in the car until the train, rived at Portland. . ? T. F. Ramsey, : the couductor managed to write a note while be ing guarded by tne tree passenger, and dropped it on at Soappoose lhe note was found and the con tents telephoned to the police here, The man did not try to hold up the occupants 01 tne caboose but merely demanded a ride, without molesta tion. The passenger dropped off the car before its arrival here and escaped in the darkness. He is de scribed as being six feet, three inch es tall, weighing about 180 pounds roughly dressed and dark complex loned. - - All kinds of fresh grass seeds for ale at Zeiroll's. - - - Good for - Stomach Trouble - and . T Constipation. " "Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets have done me a great deal of Rood. says C Towns, of Rat Portage, Ontario, CanadaT Being a mild physic the after Httecls are not unpleasant, and I can recom mend .them to all who sufler from stomach. disorder." 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Call to order '. by the president. Addresses of Welcome: Thomas M. Gatch. president Oregon Agricul tural College: A. J. Johnson, may or of Corvallis; B. W. Johnson, president Citizens' League; Virgil E. Walters, county judge, Benton county. Response and review of work of past year, John H. Scott, president Oregon Good Roads Asso ciation. Address, "Good Roads Bring Homeseekers," Tom Rich ardson, manager Portland Com mercial Club; address, "Roads to Rabbitville," A. Bennett," editor Ir rigon Irrigator. Wednesday, Nov. 22, 8 P. M. Address, "How to Get Better Roads in the mean time," T. T. Geer, ex governor of Oregon; address, Jas. B. Meikle, secretary Washington Good Roads Association; address, Convict Labor on Public Road?, " Lionel R. Webster, county judge, Multnomah county; address, "Good Roads a Factor in Progressive Agri culture," Dr. James Withycomber director experiment station, Oregon Agricultural College. Thursday, Nov. 23, 9 A. M. Ad- drees, "The County Road as a Feed er for the Common Carriers' Routes of Transportation," Isaac A Man ning, managing editor Daily States man; address, . "How Much Can We Afford to ' Spend to ' improve Our Public Koade," Henry B Thieleen, C. E., Secretary Oregon Good Roads Association, address, "Advantages of the District Special Road Tax' Curtis J. Trenchard, county judge, Clatsop county; ad dress, W. E. Coman, general freight agent, bouthern Pacific company address, "The Road to Market Be gins at the Farm," John H. Albert president Capital National Bank. Thursday, Nov. 23, 1:30 P. M. Address, "Rock Characteristics, John Fulton, metallurgist Oregon Agricultural College; address, "The Care of Roads," Virgil E. Watters, county judge, Benton county; ad dress, "What the 'King" Split Log Drag' Is and What It Will Da for Dirt Roads," John H. Soott, presi dent Oregon Good Roads Associa tion; address, "Necessity of System in Making and Maintaining Dirt Roads," Thomas F. Ryan, county judge, Clackamas county; address, ' 'Some Suggestions for the Improve ment of the Public Highways," Gordon V. Skelton, C. E., Oregon Agricultural College. Thursday, Nov. 23, 3 P. M. Ad dress, "Good Roads as a Factor la State Development," George E. Chamberlain, governor of Oregon; address, "The Training of Road builders," P. L. Campbell, presi dent University of Oregon ; ad dress, "The Right of way," T. G. Hailey, Pendleton, Or., Paul Shoup, assistant general freight . agent Southern Pacific company. Friday, Nov. 24, 8 A. M Re ceiving reports of committees; elec tion of officers; general discussion. Delegates should not forget to have the secretary to sign their cer tificates, enabling them to obtain return transportation at reduced rates. "Memphis, Tenn, Nov. I2. A special to the Commercial Appeal from Arkansas City, Ark., reports that wrecking of a circus train near that city tonight. Several employ ees are reported missing and a number of animals killed. 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