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Douuty Ulwrk Omi Vol. XVIII.-No. 17. CORVALLIS, OREGON. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29. 1905. b. f. ntmn Editor and Proprietor Our Greatest, Aeeinal Jaoiuiary Sale! Never before have we placed on sale such an immense stock of goods at such a sacrifice in prices. The line comprise too many articles to enumerate, but all Dress Goods, Domestics, Gent? furniseishing Goods. Shoes, Umberellas, Trunks, Valises, and Sewing machines in fact every article in the big store has a price set to entice the buyer. Our Middle counters are full of the very choicest bargains. . All competition safe prices will be net on all domestics. II will cost you nothing to inspect ,our goods and prices and Very little if you buy. Call and see X S. HARRIS. BATTLE GOES ON REBELS GET REINFORCE MENTS FROM NEIGHBOR . ING DISTRICTS. Bring Your Watch Your spectacles, your clockor any jewelryyou may have that is in need of repairs and we will do it quick ly and satisfactory. ' ! . The 550 Diamond Ring will be drawn Jan 6th. Tickets given with all 'purchases until that date. A complete line of watches and jewelry. Eyes tested free and glasses fitted by the latest and most scientific optical instruments. Pratt The Jeweler 6c Optician. About to Attack St. Petersburg The Strike Daily Extending Plao to Mass Rebel Forces at the Capital. Atcbinson, Kan. Dec. 26. Rob ert Led i og ton, who disappeared from his home in Atcbinson 26 years ago, leaving his wife absolute ly destitute, came back yesterday. He is now aged and feeble and was shaking with ague. ' His wife took him in, gave him the best room in the house and is nursing him back to health. She has been alone all these years, but by industry ehe has- made a com" fortable living and ons her oto home. Ledington says that when he left here he went directly to Oregon where he has been ever since, work ieg as a coppersmith in the South ern Pacific shops at Portland. Berkeley, Cal..D3C 26. Such hope as was inspired within the breasts of the police department and the federal officers of San Fran cisco by Mrs. S, A. D. Puter's state ment last week that Mr. Puter, earn estly desired by the authorities in connection with the . Oregan-fraud cases, would arrive trom the North last Saturday night, has died. " Puter was on the steamer Pomo na from Eureka. His wife said he was "up in Mendocino county on business." He would "surely be back on the Pomona by Satur day night." He has not arrived yet and the secret service men are at sea. The hunt, for Puter alleged to be a liod swindler cn a big scale, ie now on in earnest. It is feared Jtbat he was warned in sufficient time -to permit him to the leave the coun try. . . - . , . Astoria',' Of.,De"c. -26. Herman F. Prael, secretary of the Clatsop Mill Company, of this city, return ed yesterday trom a trip to Chica go. W bile in that city he mtt S, A. D. Pater, of Oregon land-fraud fame, at the Auditorium hotel. ever the city is comparatively qui et. Encounters with the strikers in the suburbs have' lately caused the death or injury of several hun dred victims. The chief city sur geon, M. Rosen, says be examined the wounded and killed and found among tbem many school boys and youug girls. This fact affords fur ther proof of the cruelty of the Cos sacks. The general strike is developing from day today. Many workmen are waiting until next Monday, when they will receive their holiday pay before striking. From that time the strike, it is asserted, will be strictly enforced, telegraph wire being cut and railway bridges blown up to prevent communication. The government is asserting that the revolutionary movement is for eign and anti-patriotic, this having obliged the revolutionists to begin operations in Moscow, which is ex clusively Russiao, instead of in towns of mixed population where success might have been gained more easily. Tbe government or gans insist that the revolution is definitely crushed and that the gen eral strike is a failure. These claim b have embittered tbe revolutionists and made them eager to demon strate their power in bloody encounters. It is the general opinion among the liberals that, if Count Witte overcomes the strikers, Russia's lib erty will be gone, because the czar will never give free government vol untarilv. Before the October man ifesto Count Witte helped on the revolution, m order to obtain power, but now. he is against it and against the grant of further liberties in or der that he may stay in office. THE PIANOLA PIANO A Piano that will give you Ten Times More Actual Pleasure: Than any Piano you have Ever Owned There are two accepted ways of playing the piano today: 1. By hand. 1. By the Pianola. Both of these methods are united ! in the Pianola. You can turn from one method to the other Immediate ly. The pianola is built into the piano itself, eo that there is nothing to move up to or away from the keyboard. - Both piano and piano- j la are just as effective as though in separate instruments. Never has a piano been represent ed to the public which has met with such a remarkable and enthusiastic reception as the Pianola Piano. Its great success was to be expected,1 for it represents the logical develop ment of the piano. It enables eve ry one to obtain from a piano ALL tbe musical enjoyment the instru ment is capable of. In the light of this important improvement in pi ano construction, all previous pian os seem incomplete. Hence the Pi anola Piano has become universal ly known as "The First Complete Piano.". Pianos of all makes taken in ex change for the Pianola Piano, Grands- and uprights in excellent condition, and bearing the names of the highest grade of manufacturers, are every day being received in part payment. That people everywhere should part with instruments which they have hitherto valued highly, is impressive evidence of the posi tion that the Pianola Piano has at tained among music-lovers. It is THE piano of the day. If you have a piano from which you derive comparatively little mu sical enjoyment why not exchange it for this new type of piano, which will be a daily source of pleasure for every member of tbe family? Write for terms on which such ex change will be made. Pianola Pianos are sold only by Eiler's Piano House, Portland, Or., end through its many stores and representatives. The people of this vicinity will undoubtedly be phased to know that any further information con cerning the Pianola Piano, Piano las, Pianos, Organs, etc., can be ob tained from Professor Taillandier, director of the piano department of Corvallis Agricultural College, and can be Been at his residence on Col lege Hill on Saturday and every evening of the week. A telephone call will bring him to your houBe, Ind. 185. flILERS' PIANO HOUSE. Pkof. G. Taillandier, Special Representative. X)OK OUT FOR- Moses Brothers . The Wide-a Wake and Up-to-Date Cash Store Open now for inspection our complete line of Hol flay goods. Toys and Dry Goods. Notions. Boots and hoe for Men, Women and children. Men and Boys Suits and Underwear, ladies Skirts and Underwear. Sill iaui aiy biiiug yuu wauu. ' Groceeies flour and feed. ''... .Neatest line of fancy Dishes in city. v 7 Fruit, Vegetables, Etc. Genuine Rodger Silverwae given away for a short fhile. We make a spscialty of quick delivery, look out br wagon, listen for the bells. Independent Phone 106. - Bell Phone 551. See our new store. We try to please. The City Market Kill furnish you with all kinds of FRESH or CURED LARD, or SAUSAGE, at lowest living prices e make a special effort to please our customers. 111 on us opposite 1 urners Grocery store. Le your orders., . . Both Phones CADY & SCHWINGLER . St. Paul, Minn., Dec 261b. Jas. J. Hill is to retire from active rail road work on Siturday next, and will r.e tucaeeded by his son, Lewis W. Hill, according to disclosurej made by Mr. Hill in an interview todav. Mr. Hill has been idling about tie Minnota club, of which he is a member, for several days, a thing he has never been known to de be fore, and the rumor is that he has perfected arrangements for droping out on Saturday and turning ov- his work to his son, Louis, pres ent vice-president of the road, who will then become president, while the elder son, James N. Hill, is to succeed his brother as vice-president. Mr. Hill said today that he in tended laying down the work, but that be had not yet announced the date. St. Petersburg, Dec. 26. The battle in Moscow is stiirraging, tbe victory being undecided. Consid erable reinforcements for the revo lutionists have arrived from the neighboring districts of Yaroslav, Vladimir and Tamboy. The loyal troops government now in Moscow number 8,000 cavalry and Cossacks while 'he infantry regiments there incline towards the revolutionists. The number of killed and wound ed in the fighting thus . far exceeds 10,000. The artillery and fires lighted by the revolutionists have destroyed many blocks of houses, and it is feared that Moscow will be involved in a conflagration be fore the present struggle is over. Members of the government are reported to believe, from informa tion which has reached tnem, tnat the Moscow affair is only a demon stration, and that tbe decisive bat tle with the revolutionists is to be fought in St. Petersburg before ma ny dayB. In this city and its sub urbs and oh the frontier of Finland are concealed large quantiies of revolutionary arms and ammttni tion. : Eighty - thousand laborers are expected to march on tbe capi tal from Narva and Reval at the appointed time. "7 At present, how- Chicago, Dac. 24. In contrast to the general belief of the laymen that the beef trust dictator of the price of the world s meat eupply is on trial in the federal court in Chica go; tbe real tacts are tnat toe gov ernment itself is on trial. By strategic move the packers have turned and placed tbe government on trial and temporarily escaped themselves. The beef combine- have- made charges agaiaet the legislature, against Federal Commissioner of Corporations, James R. Garfield, against the United States attorney general and against the president himself. It has filed sp?cial pleas accusing the governmeat of having promised its packers immunity if they would open their books and lead Mr. Garfield to discover wheth er or not there was a beef trust. It has accused Mr. Garfield of baving turned tbe evidence hs secured from the packers into the grand jury'e hands to be used in indicting the trust members. 3. A jury has been selected out of a venire of I48 Illinois farmers to try the government on these charges. If the jury decides tbe government to be guilty as charged, the packers will go free. Under snch circum stances they cannot be prosecuted even though they have violated the law by conspiring to regulate the prices of the world s beef supply. The constitution provides that a man cannot be compelled to testify against himself. This, in brief, is tbe exact and amazing status of the beef trust cases in the United States district court in Chicago. It is not the construction given, however, either by the attorneys tor prosecution or defense. It is the status found to exist by examining a mass of legal documents and sit ting through a day's session. Ihe faghtia undoubtedly one of the greatest legal battles of its kind that ever occurred in the United States. : Sixteen beef barons are struggling to escape the penalty of years' im prisonment in jail. All are fabu lously wealthy.; They have ruled the railroads, mastered the mark ets, dominated the world of finance. Thirty-five lawyers are battling In the courtroom in a last desperate stand to prevent their millionaire clients from being tried. These trust attorneys! combined salaries amount to $7,000 a day, or g2,5oo, 000 a year, if tteir services are re quired bo long. One attorney is arrayed against them in the coi rtroom in behalf of the governmen and the people. His salary is $5,oo a year. Two hundre of the foremost lawyers of the United States are aiding the com sel for the beef trust by advice and uggestion. Hordes 0 detectives ale scouring this fed eral district o look up the records SOMETHING NEW I Vegetagelatine A PURE SEA PRODUCT BH' II J' VEGETABLE GELATINE is pure and nutri tious. ... Ordinary-aaimal-gelatiaes - being made from bones, tissues, skins and hoofs of animals, containing little or no nutrition. Vegetable gelatine is a clean wholesome sea product and is recommended by prominent physicians for its high nutritious value. Glucose, Confectioners Sugar AND 1 Corn Husks always on hand Hodes' Grocery, Phone S03 of the jurors in whose hands the beef trust's case is intrusted. Victoria, B. C, Dec. 28. The British bark Pass of Melfort, Cap tain Cougall, from Ancon for Pa get Sound, drove ashore on the rocks of Vancouver Island a quar ter a mile east of Amphrltrite Point last night, and. all on board were lost. The vessel was making for the entrance to the Straits, when the terrific northwest gale drove her to a lee shore on Vancouver Island, and the doomed ship drove with terrific force onto the rocks, breaking up soon afterward. Bodies of the lost seamen are now coming ashore. The first body re covered was that of an able seaman dressed in oilskins and overalls. Two more were seen afterward, rolling in the heavy surf, but could not be recovered. A number of ship's backets, all marked "Pass of Melfort," . were found on tbe beach, and not far away in a small bay at the extremito of Amphri trite Point, which marks the west erly entrance to Barclay sound, the ship's barometer, broken boats, oars aid the figurehead of the wrecked bark, came ashore, together with other wreckage. Two spars were visible to watchers from shore, wash ing about as though held by other submerged wreckage. A torn piece of paper, which seems like part of the logbook , of Captain Cougall, was found on the beach, with the name "John Hous ton" on it, and not far away a water-soaked photograph of 15 seamen and apprentices of the Pass of Mel fort, taken at tbe break of the bark's poop, was found on the beach. Tonight at midnight Captain James Gauden, agent of marine and fisheries, received a diepatcn from Eolulet that, everything possible was being done to recover more bodies and to identify, if possible, the bodies that come ashore. San Francisco, Dac. 22. Lewis E. Aubrey, state mineralogist, said today: "The timber-land frauds exposed in Washington and Oregon are pet ty compared with similar frauds now being carried on in California. Hundreds of thousands hf acres of timber and richest mineral lands in the state are being seized by the timber grabbers. If it Is exempt from entry as timber lands, they file mineral location notices on it, take out a patent later and thus forever shut out the prospector and miner. When it is open to entry they file timber locations and swear the land is non-mineral, even where it is known to be rich in minerals. I know of timber grabbers gllng on land and swearing it was non-mineral when there were stamp mills crushing gold ore on the Bame land at the time the timber location was filed." ' Mr. Aubrey says that he will consult with the United States dig' trict attorney and that charges against a number of prominent men may be presented before the federal grand jury. Thatcher & Johnson have re ceived car of oil meal.