Vol. XlX.-No. 3 CORVA3LLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20. 1900. B. F. TBTISK Editor and Prpprlcto." a I s I I -hi- 1 DOBS IT PAY TO INVESTIGATE? 73UIMUUUU1MUUIU1UR " When you want anything in the line of Clothing, come and see our' line, get prices. IWe balance 6ur-rqtfaHty, andi prices defy,1 competition.' Our clothing sales has made big strides in the past few years and this has justified a big increase in our buying. Never before has our store received such a big ship ment as this spring we have clothing Nob by clothing for sale. Investigate. SAN FRANCISCO HAS BECOME A PILK OF ASH ES BY AN EARTHQUAKE o AND HOLLOCAUST. . Corvallis, Oregon Great Line Mens Tine Shoes. -HH- UiUa Chase k S No Prizes go with our - aiorn High Grade In fact nothinz gops with our coffee but cream, snar and SATISFACTION P. M. ZLIEROLF. trole agent for Chase & Sanborn Higb Grade COFFEE HE OLDS The Best on Earth. ill , M?Mk,sM dm M. M. LONG'S Cilifomia Shaken to Its Very Cen ter and Other CitiesBurning Terrified People Rush into Streets to be Felled by Falling buildings 2,ooo Killed. San Francisco, April 18 Earth-, I quake and fire r today have put neatly half of Sin Francisco in ru ms. 1 nousanas 01 people are nome less and destitute and all ; day long streams of people have been fleeing from the stricken districts to places ofaafeiyi, " .".V s'-tf'( It was 5:15 o'clock this , morning when a terrific earthquake shook the$ whole city and'; surrounding, country. , Oner shock apparently, lasted two minutes and ahere was an almost an immediate collapse of flimsy structures all over the city. The water supply was cut off, and when fires broke out in various sec tions there was nothing to do but let the buildings burn. The various fires have been rag ing all day and the fire department has been powerless to do . anything except to dynamite the buildings threatened. HU day long explo sions bavi- shaken the city and add ed terror to the inhabitants. All efforts to prevent the , fire from reaching the Palace and Grand Ho tels were unsuccessful, and both were completely destroyed. All of Sin Francisco s best play houses, including the Majes'ic, Co lumbia, Orpbeum and Grand-Opera house, are a mass of ruins. The handsome Rial to and Casserly buildings were burned to the ground as was everything in that district. The city ball, built at a cost of $16,oco,coo, is completely ruined. Two thousand dead, hundreds of millions of property damaged, a sea of flames consuming the ruin3 and wrapping 6tately structures in a maLtle of fire, the boom of dyna mite need to stay the progress of the flames, the crash of the collapsing structures, the screams of the panic stricken mingling with the hoarse shouts of thejir men, is the Bum mary at noon of the havoc wrought by the most disastrous earthquake in the history cf America, which shook the inhabitants frcm their beds at 5:20 o'clock this morning. and wrecked the business portion of the tity by the Golden Gate. Fires are raging in a score of the different sections of the city- Along rrarket street from the ferry to Seventh street, 5O different fires are raging. It is impossible to se cure water enough to fight the flames to advantage, as all mains ware cracked by the earthquake shock. Street-car tracks were bad ly twisted, many costly buildings have sunk four and five feet, crev ices have been torn in streets and sidewalks and all thoroughfares are thronged with people fleeing from the scene. Gas and electric lamps were snap ped and huge water a-a!ns crasked, flooding the streets. At least 5O blosks south and east of Market street in . the region in cluding Saosome, Mission Froot, Davis and Drummond streets were destroyed. Houses tumbled in all directions. The police are carii g for the dead, but many are thought to have been lost in the fire which consumed the debris evidently a fact that the city is burning as reported. It is believed that Palermo is burning. Firemen are dropping from ex haustion. For SO hours they have batiled with the holocaust, and ma ny of them are sleeping under wag ons, carelees as to the approach of fire. The situation could not be worse, unless a volcano began pour ing molten lava over the city. A correspondent of the Oakland Tribune, writing from San Francis co at 1U o'clock, says: At this writing there seems to be practically no hope of saving the city. The firemen are fleeing from the flames in despair. Many peo ple are being buried alive, impris oned in the doomed - buildings, where the rescuers could not reach them. The last : big structure 1 to barst into flames was Grace church which was totally destroyed. ; - The war department has receiv ed the following telegram from Oak land: -"Los Angeles says buildings :at rocking like a boat. JuBt lost connection with Los Angeles im me diately after this report. Men prob ably left building." c-i : ........ . ' . .. ...... . . ct: .. ' - - 1 Portland, Apill 16. Evening Telegram: Senator Clay was talk ing about an important bill. It is too delicate a measure, he said, "to be treated so harshly. Knocked about like that, it would come to the same pass as the Paint Rock man's razor." "The Paint Rock man's razor?" "Ye?. : A Paint Rock man arose one morning, and slipped into the bathroom, and turned on the water for his tub, and then, taking down his razor and strop, shuddered and gave a great cry of despair. "Oh!' he shouted, 'oh, my razor! Who hbs been tampering with my razor?' "The little son of the Paint Rock man spoke up bravely, coming to the bathroom door. " 'I was using your razor, fath er,' he said. T used it to open some oyesters with yesterday afternoon.' " 'Oh, did you?' said the father, Here. then, take it and give it a lick or two on a cobblestone, or I'll never be able to get a d' ceDt shave this morning.' " 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 WAITERS , - Real Estate, Loan and Insurance . Gorvallis and Philomath, Oregon. A PROM'S OPINION. Oakland, April 19. All efforts to check the flames in San Francis co are now abandoned. At noon there is absolutely no hope of pre venting a clean sweep of the city by fire. The flames continue to spread. Buildings on every street north of Market from the ferry to Twelfth are burned. Thousands of balf-crazsd people are trying to cross to this city. Scores are iy ing dead at San Jose and Santa Rosa, while here and there a seaside resort has been wiped out of existence. The Cliff House, San Francisco Famous Pleasure Resort, wa3 hur ed into the sea by the earthquake shock. , Nothing remains to mark its site but 6tubs of timbers. Chinatown was swept away by 10 o'clock. Reports from along the coast are coming in slowly. ; Wires are down and news is secured only by the use of automobiles. Not a word i received from Santa Roea, and it ! Johnstown, Pa., April 17. O der again reigns at Windber, after a night of riot and bloodshed, in which three lives were lost ana a dozen men seriously injured. With daylight arrived the state constabulary ordered to Windber by Governor Pennypacker. The town is now practically under mar tial law. ' ) The miners did not return to wotk in great numbers this morn ins. although four mines of the company are in operation with lim i ted forces. A short time after 6 o'clock this mornieg Sheriff Begeley and a force of deputies escortea the J 1 men ar rested last night to the street-car line and started them on their way to the jail at Somerset. The efficera were all armed with rifles and formed a cordon around the prisoners, who were handcuffed together. Curtis Kester, the boy bystander, who was shot through the bowels, was erroneously reported dead dur ing the night. The physicians be lieve he has a fighting chance for There were many altercations and boirterous arguments on the streets through the day, but no ee rinns clash occurred. A large mass uiteii ar was ntia wunout any ais- oider until Deputy Sheriff W. M. McMullen appeared. The foreign ers are apparently antagonistic to McMullen. He was for five years chief of police of Windber, and dur ing his administration, made him self unpopular with the miners. The sight of McMullen infuriated them, as he was looked upon as a spy. Many of the men rushed for him and threats were made against; his life. He fled, taking refuge in the home of Chas. Davis. A mob surrounded the Da vis home and stoned it until the oc cupants were obliged to seek refuge with neighbors. During the riot about 20 of the t& mors were placed under arrest and landed in jail. After a Thorough Investiga tion of the Subject, He Con cludes That Saloons Are Not Necessary. Editor Times: Having been up to the first of the current month almoet a daily visit or to the bustling little city of junction, we could not help but no tice the general - improvement that was in progress there. Kemarking this condition to an old timer on the Street one day he waxed eloquent, and with unbound- edenthueiasm set forth the following: Junction i improving ahead of any town in the valley. We built more new houses last year than we ever built in on season. We will build more this year than last per haps twice as many. Fifty acres of commons that : have , only been ' utilized for cow pasture for the past 1 s or 20 years have been fenced in to lots ard are being utilized, culti vated and many of them will be built upon this summer. In fact, more lots have been fenced and im proved during the past winter than in any period of five years before. We have just installed an elec tric light plant and the S. P. is put ting in a $30,000 oil tank, and all our merchants and millers are busy, and there is not a vacant lot in in town." All these things we had noticed to be true but strange as it may seem he wound up bis epaech with the following remark: "When the railroad gets through with all she is going to do tor us there will b? but one thing necessa ry and that is to vote the town "wet" again and then we are all right." Do you think so? we asked "Think si, I knew it. Why! this dry business is kiliing us off. It is loosing to Junction thousands of dollars. The railroad boys all speed their money in Harrisburg now, so Harrisburg is getting thous anas of dollars that ought to be spent here." This put us to thinking and in vestigating. Inquiring atthe post office we lesraed that the postal re ceipts for the vear 1904 were $1,804, for I9O5 over "$2,800; were told the quarterjust ended far exceeded that. Business men informed us their trade hai increased wonderfully. We oniy found one merchant who seemed idle all the time. We asked a local editor if Mr. ever ad vertised. "Advertise!" exclaimed ing improved now. But one busi ness bad decreased; arrests for. drunkeness had fallen off about 9c percent. All this made us anxious to fee Hrrisburg where all the money was going to and being spent. We visit ed Harrisburg yestreday. While we did not have time to secure data as to postal receipts, R. R. tonage, etc., we observed the large flouring mills were idle for lack of business. We failed to see a single house built last year and if there is a rod of new fence in the city we could not find it. In fact, the town seemed to have imbibed heartily and gone to sleep. j . From the above facts which can-" not be refuted we draw the conclu-' sion that in order for a town to thrive and grow it is not necessary' to have saloons. ' John Hbnry. Suffered for Five Tears With 'Kidney "I Buffered for five rears with kidney and liver trouble, which caused severe pains across the back and a blinding headache. I had dyspepsia and was so constipated that I could not move my bowels without a cathar tic 1 was cured bv Chamberlain's Ktnmurk and Liver Tablets and have been well now for six months." savs Mr. Arthur 8. Strick land, of Chattanooga, Tenn. For sale Rf Graham &'Wortham. the astonished quill shover, "Why, he never reads tte paper." We found the bank deposits, in creased, the railroad tonnage had outgrown the accommodations so the depot had been enlarged to twice its former eize. The milis were running day and night on rush or ders, schools were overflowing and carpenters told us they were en gaged for all the work they could do this summer. We. found tiea real estate offices where as before local option there was but one. Here we found that sales, had in creased nearly loo per cent but that most of the sales were of heretofore unimproved property that was be- "Queer idea of Jenks in adver tising to trade bis auto for a mole. wasn't it?" "There was some logia in it. He says if it's a case of etern al swearing, he wants something' with ears to swear at." Milwaukie Sentinel. Chicago. Anril 1fi. Ten rinnra between Chicago and New York on trains operated by electricity, mak ing an average speed of 75 miles an hour, is the plan of incorporate rs of the Chicago & New York Elec tric Air Iine railroad. The scheme appears to ba far in the future, however. It is asserted that "eome of the right of way has been secured," but the projectors decline to say how much. They uupo iu uavc ma iudu iu uperauuu in five years. It will be a thirdrail proposition. The proposed road will sacrifice everything far speed and distance. Jonathan D. Price, president of the Co-operative Construction Compa ny, which was organized to build the road, says the line will be 742 miles long, or 2C0 miles shorter than any steam road now connect ing the two cities. Part of the line has been survey ed. The first section to be built will be out of Caicago,andthew6ik on this will begin soon. In choosing the route, no atten tion is paid to whether the line runs through large cities or not. As now surveyed, the road will be eight miles south of South Bend, Ind., and at that point it is pro pased to build a station and run a spur into the city. The same plan will be followed where the road pas ses any other city. These spur lines will be connected with the the street railway systems in each town, and it is proposed to run freight trains at night. . The details as to the kind of cars fo be used have not been thorough ly worked out. Embroidery Lessons. Mrs. M. P. Burnett will giveles sons in Eyelet . 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