(ft Vol. XIX.-No. 2 CORVALLIS, OREGON. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 9. 1900. B. F, IKVIH Editor and Proprleto a 1 a I 1 a 1 mi mi iih iiii mi iin J. Ho Harris p For the 'Early Spring Beyers naoy Receipts Of the very latest spring wash fabrics iare to be seen at our store. This spring brings the prettiest and mdstf 'attractive cotton fabrics and the loveliest wool and silk dress goods of i any1 previous years. Oar -store is filling up on these things. Come and get acquainted with what the spring and summer has to offer. Pnees are the lowest o " " o o X. Oorvallis, MM II 11 II II- Are You Would you like to see inaide a human eye? Call at Pratt the Jeweler & Opical store at any time and he will be pleased to show you the nerves, veins and arteries as seen through the latest and most scientific combined Opthilmascope and Raf ru isoope. If you have trouble with your eyes call on Pratt The Jeweler 6c Optician. Having secured the services of J. K. Berry, who has eight years experience in. bicycle ! and general repair, work, I am now prepared to all kinds of repair work on short notice. All Work Guaranteed Come and see the Olds work. M. M. LONG'S HOME-SEEKERS If you are looking for some real good bargains in Stock, Grain, Fruit and Poultry Ranches, write for our special list, or come and see. us. We take pleasure in giving you all the reliable . information, you wish, also showing you over the country. AMBLER 6c WAITERS Real Estate, Loan and Insurance ! ;" " Corvallis and Philomath, Oregon. . nHi iib mi- Oregon! -1111 H 11- Curious? ALL INDICTED BY THE GRBND JURY EX CEPTING ST. JOHN, FED ERATION ORGANIZER. Arrests Made Before Names Are Published Defendants Wants Immediate Trial Jury Completes Its ' Work. Boise," Idaho, March 6. At li o'clock this morning the grand jury Died id to the courtroom at Caldwell and Foreman Moses delivered "into the bands of Judge Smith a large package of legal documents having the appearance of indictments.' The court cautioned the members of the jury against talking, of , their V.Wqrfc especially ot the persons, against whom indictments had oeen return-; d. ' The -iury .then returned . for. further transaction ol business. .'. When Judge Smith looked over the papei s banded' him, it was seen that 11 different instruments con stituted the report of the grand ju ry. To an earnest request for such information aB might safely be giv en out Judge Smith said that! the aw prohibited information - Of in dictments being made public ' until me tar ties informed against bad been arrested and arraigned.. It is, however stated on good au thority that' Mercer, Hey wood, Pet? tibone, St. John Orchard, . Adams and at least three others have been indicted for the murder of ex Gov-- ernor Steunenberg. Sheriff Nichols is on bis way to Boise ; and it is be lieved he is carrying warrants tpr all the men in the penitentiary that are awaiting grand iury action. The , defendants ... attorneys will demand , their immediate arraign- rreat in order to begin to raise'- ob- lectibns to the indictments and probably all the indicted men will be taken to Caldwill tomorrow. F. E. Richardson of Denver,, at torney for the Western Federation will be in B use the night of March with an tmwer in the habias corr pus case. Clarence Darr'ow, the Cb'cago lawyer, will not come nntil after he date of the trial is set. Thirty-eight strangers got off of the train at 'Caldwell last night, and there are more unknown people in that county than ever before in its history. No explanation of the influx can.be given, unless they are there for the benefit of the Western Federation' men under arrest. The town is. very quiet, , but many fear trouble is brewing,- for .conditions are considered desperate for the im prisoned meD. r - - ;. " While, not a member of the pros ecution will give a reason for ; the failure for the indictment of St. John, it is 'understood all along that tbe sute t ai little direct informa tion against St. John. Just why be was arrested the prosecution has never seen fit to make public. It was rumored that his arrest was made at the request of the mine owners' . Association . because the; considered bim a . dangerous' man The fact that Simpkins was in dieted along with the rett' sets at rest the Story that he' was already in lbe hands of officers working for the prosecution. The story has had it that Simpkins bad been arrested and bad. made a confession, and that it was this confession that was di rectly the cause of breaking Adam; down. Washington, -March 7. General J. M. Schofield was buried this af ternoon with full .military honors. The president and the highest gov ernmental 'officials participated in the services. . , Seattle, Wash., March 7.5-Judge William Hickman Moore, municip al ownership candidate for mayor of this city, has bem elected by a majority of I5 votes after one of the closest fights in the history of the city. John Riplinger, republican candidate, was badly cut in . many of the' wards and ran far behind his ticket. The leaders ol the muni cipal ownership party charge gross frauds in several of the wards, and had their candidate been defeated would have contested the election. The election of Judge Moore is tbe most remarkable political vic tory that has baen achieved here, and came like a thunderbolt to tbe republican leaders, who at all times were confident of a sweeping victo ry. '.'' - Judge Moore is a strongman and has always been a demociat, but his official record has been such that he ba9 bad many warm supporters among King county republicans. New York, March 6. A real gold mine whose quartz assays very high has been discovered on lower Broad way, within a stone's throw on Wall street. The "strike" was made. 174 feet under the street level under ahandsome new building being erected for the Title Guaran tee & Trust Company at 176 Broad way. . To equip the building withplung er'elevators, four holes, each about nine inches in diameter, wert drill ed. At a depth of 174.-feet Sanuel C. Pyle of Wilmington, Delaware, who, besides, being, foreman of, , the bricklayers, is a mechanic, mineral ogist; geologist-and metallurgist, noticed stray bits of t stone brought up from the plunger boles and pock eted several pieces, .ri He.took them home and worked r tbe specimens until h had a nice .little j lump; of pure gold. --'. . .-: "Since then Pyle has aesayed sim ilar' samples of the ore .found, in the fame borings under Broadway fcnd says that in some of them the gold runs as high as. $2,000 a ton. . The immediate surface, value of the re alty thereabouts precludes tbe pos sibility of a gold craze following the strike. ' Cottage Grove Western Oregon: Paragraphs have, been appearing In the state papers relative to. the' -Oldest officers . who .' . administered -. tbe civil laws in Oregon . iu territorial days.- Cottage .Grove is able to do something along that line. . L. L. Wbitcomb, whose postoffice address is Cottage Grove, Is mentioned aB the oldest assessor now living in the state.. . He was elee'ed assessor of Washington county, at the June election in 1854 .and - assessed the county that year. . That, was before Multnomah county , , was formed. Hillsboro was tbe county seat where all county business originating in Poitland was transacted. In IO50, Mr. Wbitcomb was elected commis- siooea for Washington county. , Af ter serving hrs term , he moved to Yambi I county, where in 1864 and again in 1766 he was elected sheriff, serving two full .terms. , It is be lieved, until further returns are re ceived, that he is the oldest living ex-sheriff. . Boi&e, Idaho, March, 4. Assas sinating those whose .hands were against the Western Federation of Miners, and those who. refuted to join the association, are not the on ly crimes for which the members of tbe Inner Circle will be called upon to answer, v Not only were, nonun ion miners murdered 1 a outright, bombs placed for state officials, but the poor tools wha committed the revolting crimes for the inner circle were" themselves victims : of this committee of death. . . Harry Orchard was among t e tools of the Inner Circle marked for destruction Had he managed to have escaped arrest after having as sassinated Steunenberg, he wculd not have lived .loDg to enjoy the $3,800 he was to have received for doing the job. The confession of Steve Adams, it is said, shows that the members of the Inner Circle were suspicious of Orchard, and that he bad been shadowed for a long time before he went to Caldwell for the purpose of rhc!ng the bomb which killed ex U ivemor Steunenberg. . Sentence bad been passed upon him, and it is said that whether he succeeded as he did, or failed, he would have been added to the list of the tcols that have baen put out of the way. Crimes within crimes wasTthe sys tem which the Inner Circle carried out. When dupes of the Inner Cir cle bad performed so . many deeds for the Inner Circle that they knew too much they were quietly put out of the way, and it is believed that the confessions cf Orchard and Ad ams will prove this.' Orchard had reached the point where he knew too much for the peace of mind of the members of the Inner Circle, and he, like others was elated for destruction. Portland, March 6,Oregocian: One of tbe largest of natural wond er8 of South America is the swing ing rock of Tandil, la pledra hove dlza. i he stone lies about Halt an hour's walk from the city of Tan dll, province of Buenos Ayree, Ar gentine Republic, upon the highest summit of a little , rocky ridge. Continued on page 4. HIS REPORT PRESIDENT CITIZENS JOHNSON TELLS OF LEAGUE PROSPERITY AND , GROWTH. In Corvallis More Buildings Than . Ever' Before More Railroad Tonnage Greater Receipts at Local " Postoffice ' Other News. . Corvallis. sold more .gqodp,., .built more houses, shipped ' and received more freight and used 1 the local postoffice far more -last year than during any year in her past history . The facts were brought putt In the annual report : , to the . .Citizens League by President Johnson Tues day night. E His report says in part: ' In 'the first place I want to con gratulate the. business men. on the substantial , increase in , business in, all lines, during, the past year. L am advised .by different mer chants of . the city that business of the past year has shown an in crease of from 10 to to 100 per cent, anc I feel certain that con siderable of this .increase . is due to : the . .affective , work of. the league, , The. postal revenues are generally, conceded, .to, be an ex cellent (barometer of business con ditions. , During the past week the Portland papers have given much space to telling the world of the wonderful increase of postal revenues of . the Portland cost office during the month of February,1 claiming that such in crease was, a trifle over 25 per epnt. -Corvallis, however, can make 1 much better showing . than Portland. The revenue from the sale of stamps for the Corvallis post office for February, 1905, was $555, lor February, 1906, 755 again ot $200, or a trifle over 36 per cent. . For the year ending February 28, 1905, the revenues of the Corvallis post office were $7,157.80, and for the year epding February 28, 1906, the reveuues .were . $8,095.55 showing again for the year of 13 per cent.' I believe this showing is a fair index ot the prosperity that the community has enjoyed during the past year. During tne year just ended the league, has- received : directly and indirectly $655. Of this amount $450 " was contributed by the county and city; $140 was re ceived from subscriptions for Cor vallis Day at the Lewis and Clark Fair, and the balance of $65 was received fiom dues. One great thing the league has done during the past year that shows tangible results is in the matter of advertising. Last May the county appropriated $150 for the use of the league in adver tising. This, together with some cards that were printed for distri bution at the Lewis and Clark Fair, has brought to the secretary 1,450 requests for printed matter concerning Benton county. It is asserted .by those in a position to knowthat during thepast year fully $175,000 have actually been in vested in this county and it is pro bable that all told $250,000 ot out side capital have been brought to the county during the 12 months just ; passed.; So , satisfactory was. the work of the .'league that the county at the February term of court granted an additional $150 for the uses of the leaguers in furthering the interests of Benton county. Commenting upon the fact that John F. AlleD, secretary of the league, wrote one or more personal letters to every one of the 1,450 persons who inquired of conditions here during the last year, it may be properly said that the citizens of Corvallis should feel under lasting obli gations to Mr. Allen for hii faithful per formance of duty. . The apathy and lack of "interest dis played by the citizens of Corvallis toward this organization is discouraging to the officers and the results are nothing like so great as they might be if the organize, tion had the active co-operation of its citizens. I am not complaining, but I feel that tbe organization is essential to tbe development of this town'and county and that it has accomplished during the lust year a great deal of good, and that with the support which it. deserves .its work could be much more beneficial and effective. " To my mind the maintenance) of the organization at its highest state of efficiency is essential to the best iBterests of Corvallis. ,. In regard to conditions locallr the in crease in new ouildings was probably tbe most noticeable.. From figureB and esti mates obtained from builders and con tractors I feel safe in saying that lQQ.re -sidences were , erected . in . and around .Corvallis during thepast rear, and that these and other local improvements have resulted in a gross expenditure of proba bly $150,000. ' - - ' The (roBB tonage by rail in and put of Corvallis. for 1905 exceeded that of the previous year, by, 33 per cent, while ,the receipts ..from passenger business during the same period ,' even at tbe very 'low rates in effect during the Lewis and Clark Fair, show 50 per cent increase. ; . Eureka, Cal., March 7. As the culmination of the attack on. the Herald in the Californian of last Saturday, M. ;M. Vaughn, . editor of that paper, this afternoon, shot three times at Jttiles CJ. Hyatt, man ager, of the Herald, neitber bulUt, however, doing any injury. "' Vaughn, who is paralyzed in. the lower limbs and ' unable to wa k, drove Up in front of the Herald of fice abont 2 o'clock and . called- for some one taxome to the door.. Miss May (roddard. an attache, went to the sidewalk, and Vaughn asked her if Frank Parker editor of the Herald was in. : Mies Goddard was not sure, and went , in to inquire. Finding Mr. Parker ,wasl(put.T she returned to the carriage and eo in formed Mr. Vaughn. Vaughn then inquired for the manager, Hyatt, and tbe latter went to the door. : He was not ac quainted with Vaughn, and inno cently approached the carriage. As he did so, Vaughn sang out, "Arm yourself.1' Before Hyatt could bave armed himself, even bad he so desired, three shots rang out. When Hyatt saw what was coming, he immedi ately sought refuge behind a tele phone pole and Vaughn was ie stianad from further shootirg. Vaughn vra? arrested and , released cn bail. Cbicsgo, March 7. John D. Rockefeller was scored as a promt -ter of ' corporate,, evil by Andrtw Cook in an address to tbe students at the Univerity cf Chicago." The bold attack ' on the.fiuoder cf of 1 the.., university, .s who,., has given millions of dollars to it, cane, ed general surprise. . and dlscussim on the Midway. ' "Publicity will cire many evils if the Rockefeller aetem," stid Cook. "If John D. Rockefeller would tell the people just how much of tbe enterprise is Wotsr andjhow much represents real value,' people would bave notbit g to dr ith the se companies." After explaining the process ot forming a corporation and the method by which it does business Cook pointed out some of the abuets of the "syBtem" and scored tbe prac tice of watering stock. . Chicago, March 7. W. H. Cot don, who lives at the Palmer houte, is a firm believer 'in getting- his rignts oy rteourse to law. , Me is now suing tbe Chicago & Western Indiana railroad for $5,000,000, but bas also found time- to begin EUit against Tony Pacelli, a newsboy, for 7 cents. This followed a heated discussion, ending in Condon chas ing Pacelli through the corridors of tbe hotel, and then filing his. suit. Pacelli contracted to deliver the papers every morning to Condon. On March 1 Pacelli tendered a bill for 70 cents to Condon, which was paid. Sunday mornicg Condon told Pacelli be had been overpaid. "I "paid you 70 cents and I miss ed one Sunday paper," Condon is said to have declared. "Besides there are only 28 days in February and you owe me 7 cents." . Pacelli refused to refund and the suit is the result." Spraying andWhitewashing Done in first class manner. Montgomery & Tedrow Phone 374. 2-20-im