iff r t: t: . Oil rWa K rrf 0 rV ITV AV -A-iTID SS1I Vol.:XIX.-No.3 CORVALLIS, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 24; 1906. b,, Htvrra am Bad Proprietor I Offerings Great reductions made in all our departments on price of every article. Big stock from which to make your selections. A Lot of childrens shoes sizes 1 1-2 to 2 1-2 at 50c. A big lot of boys clothing, age 4 to ially low price. All Summer dress goods goes our offerings and J. Corvallis, j No Prizes go with our Chase & Sanborn Higb Grade COFFEE In fact nothing goes with our coffee but cream, sugar and SATISFACTION P. M. ZIEROLF. .. cole agent for Chase & Sanborn Higb Grade COFFEE New Sporting Goods Store. A new and complete line consisting of Bicycles, Guns, Ammunition. Fishing Tackle, Base Ball Supplies, Knives, Razors, Hammocks. Bicycle Saundries In fact anything the sportsman need can be found at my store. . Bicycles and Guns for rent. General Repair Sho. All "Work Guaranteed. M. M Ind. Phone. 126. 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. i for July! the 10 years at spec- s ! at a big discount, get prices. See Oregon LONG'S Corvallis, Oregon. SUGAR TRUST TYRANNY OVER ITS MEN WORSE THAN THAT OF THE "JUNGLE." The "System" ot the Sweltering Refineries What Goes to Make the Little White Lump From Cuba to Dirty Wharves of Wil liamsburg. . This ie the p'ain story cf .sugar land its slaves in New York. They , make that pretty crystal lump of ' bweetness which jou drop ioto your morning cup of coffee. It looks so clean and teems eo pure white that never a suspicion rises in the mind of the taints mixed therein and the horrible conditions under which it is produced. Wnat really goes to make this little lump is: Ona ounce of sugar cane, One dash of dirt, One pound of fieeh, One quart of human sweat, Twelve hours or slave-driven la bor, One half-starved family, , One corrupted United States Sen ate and One hundred per cent, trust profit. If you look along the Brooklyn shore of the East River just above the new Williamsburg bridge you will see a series of tall, dingy, red brick buildings lining the water front. These are the refineries of the Sugar Trusts, of which the Havemeyer are principal owners.' In the United' States senate are men who have ' profited by Wall street transactions in Sugar Trust stock. Eiverton R. Chapman,! a broker, once went to jail for refus ing to tell the senhte who of thcte mm were his customers iu sugar SDeculatioLB when favored legisla tion was being micted. 'Under the Bbadow of the tall re fineries are hundreds of small hous es of mtan and equalid type. They shelter a swarming population of workers that go and come in day and night ehifts from the great es tablishment. The man who leaves hid home at 6 o'clock in the morn ing to btgin work gives his bed to the tired laborer who has just end ed a nighi' tour of duty and sleeps all day. Neither factory or bed is ever empty. The hours of labor aie Continually measured only by human endurance. :' Twelve hours are reckoned an easy day, but when fourteen, sixteen and eighteen hours are passed under the spur of driv ing loreman, your lump of sugar contains very nearly a human life. It has had other ingredients, too. It was not always so clean and white and so delicately handled. It came from Cuba, or perhaps from far-off Java, in the hold oi a ship. The cane that prew on' the tropical plantation was crushed in a mill and tbe sweet juice flowed out to be boiled aud cryetalized into coarse brown euga-. It was packed in bags, and finally laid on the dirty wharf in trout of the sugar refiner ies. There it was turned over to the Lithuanians and Poles, the su gar slaves, for refinlog. They 6hovi-led the tugar like coal. They handled it as they would sand it reremtiles. It was dumped into bin?, it was boiled in caldrons, it was run through pipes, it was mix ed with bone dust to clarify it, it was run over dirty floors, trampl 1 aod often times ground with dht. At I2 o'clock noon yeterday the whistle blew on the tall refinery. Half an hour was given for dinner. Hundreds of men, clad only in un dershirts dripping with sweat and blue overall trousers, rushed out for a breath of air and a can of beer, . Their months parched for beer. It eeems to be the only thing that quenches the thirst. Ice wat r gives them cramps and makes their heads hurt in the intense heat. Various drinks have been tried, but beer still remains the favorite. The av er ge worker who earns $10 per week spends $2 of it for beer. "Half of you stay here and clean up," ordered the foreman on each floor. - - .- -. - . v ,- ":"-7 ": Then began the weekly "cleaning of the refinery floor. It is no easy job of sweeping and scouring. Pick and ax take the place of broom and mop: The hot,; sticky sugar that has spilled and leaked in the pro cess of refining dries into a hard maBS on the' cement and iron floors. It is tramped on by the' men and mixed with the dirt and debris' of a great factory. Many of the workmen chew tobacco and spit freely on the floor., On rainy days their boots bring in the mud of the street. On some floors the men wear no shoes and go about in bare feet. Drawing-room manners are hardly to be observed, where the temperature is always above . loo degrees' and men are working day and night with brute strength. On the mixing floor, where the raw sugar first is dumped from the bags, and on the packing floor, where the refined product is run in to barrels, the refuse is deep. It is like a hardened bed of cement, a sticky brown mess that has become solid as a street pavement. The men dig it up in cakes and blocks. From other floors come the drippings. Not a pound of su gar is wasted. , The rough brown bags that have brought the raw product from Cuba are put through a steaming process and every drop of clinging sweetness drained from them. - Is this sticky, dirty mess of sweepings of tbe refineries thrown away or put to some baser use? No,' indeed. Back into the boiling vats it g'oes; on through the clarifiers and the drying drums it runs until it comes out the white lump of su gar that you drop in your morn ing coffee. You touch it only with tbe silver tongs and handle it eo daintily. The treatment of that lump has not always been so care fol. : ; -: ' Labor in the sugar refineries is as near to slavery as can be devised by modern bueinsss methods. No man is forced to work there,' nor is he obliged to remain. So far as physical restrain is concerned,' he is free; but once caught in the meshes of the sugar system he be comes a slave, body and soul, sweat ing his life away tor pittance wages and struggling every waking hour to make monay enough to buy food and shelter. The Poles no longer write home urging their country men to come over and enter the bu gar Dens. "Will your son go m'o the sugar houses when he grows up? was atked of one worker. The man raised bis eyes toward heaven and stretched out his arm in a jesture to shield the lad "God forbid," he said. "Any thine but that. Out in the jungle of Chicago's stockyards there are other Pnl-s and Lithuanians. They slaughter cattle snd pack meat. Their life and their hardships have been pic tured in minute detail recently They labor bard for 10 hours a day but they are able to nee to better nay positions. Yet tbe whole world has raised in indignation and hor ror over their condition. There is no jungle around the re fineries of Brooklyn. There is dirt, but no indescribable filth.' There is no decaying of meat nor eicken ing smells. But the Lithuanians and Poles who labor here suffer more than their brothers in Chlca eo; they work harder; they work longer hours for lees pay, and in tbe heat of their factory the giaot of the jungle would become as weak as a babe. . In these torrid days 01 summer the refineries become boiling, siz zling caldroDs of intense heat, in which thousands of men are labor ing with might and main, stripped almost to natceaness. inenot air seems to scorch their lungs as they breathe it in. The sweat runs from them in tiny streams. Their skin ji bai( ed white. Their muscles become tired and weak. I heir heads grow dizzy; things begin to go round and round before their eyes. Then they diop to the floor. "Get him to the ice-box, com mands the foreman. The uncon seious sufferer is thrust into a rough box packed around with ice. Tbe boiling blood inside his veins is cooled. Sometimes he revives sometimes he does not. The am bulance dashes deep into the re fin ery. It is only three abort blocks to tbe hospital. The foreman mere ly notes the hour. The victim's pay stops when be lalls. The refineries are simply huge steam kettles. Always it is boil boil, boil.' steam, bake and dry with temperatures of loo, ld,; 2oo and even 24o in the great caldroDs vats and pipes. Around them 'stand the workmen, who . earn 14 1-2 cents per hour, or $1.74 per day, if they work frbm 6 A." M. to 6 P. M. without stopping. In these mid summer days, when even the shad Bp offices, stores and shops are op reepsively warm, the sugar-worker amid his boiling caldrons and on Continued on page 4. WAR CONTINUES A LIEUTENANT AND TWELVE PRIVATES AND A SCOUT ARE KILLED. Regulars Ordered Out Major Ne ville Reports That 400 to 10C0 of tbe Insurgents are in the Field Other News. Manila, July 23, A detachment of Constabulary, Lieutenant .Wil liams commanding, encountered a band of 600 Pulajanes near Buraen, on the Island ot Leyte. yesterday mbrning. Lieutenant Worswick, I2 privates and Civilian Spoilt Mc- Bnde were killed. The constabulary were driven back. . The Pulajanes secured I4 rifles and two revolvers. The bod ies of Worswick, McBride and . ten privates were recovered. Reinforce ments of constabulary have been sent from the nearest station. Major Nevill, commanding the military, has ordered a company of tbe Twenty-fourth regular infantry to be hurried to tbe scene. . Major Neville reports that there are from 4oo to looo Pulajanes in the field. Lieutenant Worswick was a grad uate of the University of Kansas, and was appointed to the , constab ulary last February. He graduat ed from the constabulary school June 4, and this was his first bat- tie, uuraen is situated in an iso lated portion of Leyte. Los Angeles, July 20 Sacrifice by fire is the latest symptom of fa- naticiem, of which the Holy Rollers have given evidence. Immolation of the oldest children is tbe pro gram, unless tbe authorities inter fere. This extreme manifestation of religious frenzy has aroused the little town ot Monrovia to a degree that Marshal Miller has made it his business t J attend the meetings of the eect every afternoon and eve ning, not knowing in what form the lrenzy will break out next. Neighborhood gossip has stirred the townspeople because of the ru mors that the eldest children of certain families of the faithful are being segregated to go through an ordeal of purity, later to be paschal lambs of slaughter. A wave of Holy Rollerism has swept along the Pacific coatt, but it remained for Monrovia to reach the radical stage. Two of the best known adherents . of tbe faith are known to have kept their oldest children locked up at the home for some time; and out of this has grown the story that a sacrifice of children will happen if the author ities do not stop the fanatic ele ment. Laet night tbe sermon cf Evan gelist Cook advocated self-immalu-tion by fire. He said that it was a Christian's noblest fate to die by fire, to make himBelf a. living sacrifice to God. Fcrest Grove, Or., July 14. Forest Grove narrowly escaped a great catastrophe Friday night about iO o'clock, when the tele phone line got crossed with the trol ley wire of the new electric car line, thus sending over 550 volte over the telephone wire, burning out tbe switch and fuse board at cen tral, setting the office afire in pla ess, raising havoc, with over 5OO private phones, starting a blaze in Ssbultz's butcher shop and raising a great disturbance in general. The rope holding the trolley arm down and in place became detach ed. Tbe arm flew up and caught oa to the telephone line, which crosses the trolley wire in front of McNamer's butcher shop. This tore the phone wires from the insu lators and brought them in direct contact witn tne entire voltage re quired to run the car and electric lights. This was about o:15 and Night Operator Ray Williams im nediately felt the shock and lucki ly . escaped ' being: electrocuted. Young Williams is new at the bus iness and didn't think aboout rip ping out all the fuses, which would have prevented most of the dam age, bat instead turned the hose on the burning switch and insulation and caused a continuous current over the whole affair, as. water is a good conductor of electricity. The water covered the' office floor and the whole . room . became a strong electrio battery. Williams saw that he couldn't do anything with it, so sent for Electrician Hughes, the owner of tbe Hughes telephone.line, who cut ou the fuses and checked all further damage. Williams, die covering the blaze ' in Schultz's butcher's shop near by, broke into tbe building and extinguished the flames which might have caused the destruction of the entire busi ness block.. Salem, Or., Jnly 20 Eor the first time in the his o-y of the state, practically every dolkr of the com mon school fund is out oh interest. The report of the state treasurer. just fild, t-hows a balance of a little over $70,000 in the fund, but ap plications for loins to this amount have been approved and the money will be drawn from the treasury, in a few days. Three years ago there was idle money to the amouut of $750,000 in the common school fund. . The amount has gradually decreased until it is all out at in terest, chiefly on real estate loans. The total amount drawing interest is now elightly in excess of $4,ooo, 000, which sum is bringing 6 per cent interest. Lawn social at the Presbyterian church next week. Goats for Sale. 65 head. Inquire of G. Bareing er, or Ind. phone 51 Oakridge line Alsea party please notice. Fine Platinums and Aristo Plati no Photos at the Corvallis Studio. One dollar reward is offered for return of a lost cat, second-hand oil stoves and other articles are of fered at bargains, and many other interesting announcements appear in the advertising column?. Read everything in tbe paper. -Arthur Alexander has been given a position in the v General Electrii works at Portland. His mothei, Mrs. Isbell and sister, Mrs. Keith Brown left yesterday to join him, expecting totake op their residence there. GRAND Mid-week Excursion To Newport and Return Wed. July 25 From Albany, Corvallis and Philomath. Leaves Albany 7:3o, Corval'is 8, Philomath 8:12. Returning leaves Newport at 5:30 arrives Albany 10. Fare Albany. CorvalliB and Philomath 51.50, Children $1.00. For the benefit of those who do not care to go on excursions on Sunday the C. & E. has arranged to run the above grand mia-week excursion. Five and one half hours of fun and plea sure at the briny deep. Come and bring the children and enjoy the day. Summons. In the circuit court In the state of Oregon, for teuton county. Catherine Bcehtinger, Plaintiff, vs. Oregon and Calif.-rnla Railroad ;Co.. ana union Iru&i ixtaipany. .Den s. To Union Trust Company, the above named de- lenaant: In the name of the state of Oregon you are hereby summoned and reanired to appear and answer the complaint of the plaintiQ In the above entitled suit, la the above entitled court, now on rile In the office of the cleiE of said couit on or before the last day of the time prescribed in the order for publica tion of this summons made by the county j udge of Benton county, state of Oiegon (which order la hereinafter referred to) to-wit: August 31, 1906, and you are hereby notified that if you tail to appear and answer the said complaint as herein required, for want thereof the plaintiff will apply to the above entitled court for the re lief demanded in her said complaint, to-wit: that the defendent O. & C. R. K. Co. make a deed to plaintiff conveying the N. W. quarter of N. W. quarter of Section 29, Township 13 S., R. S W., In Benton county, Oregon; that defend ant Union Trust Company join in said deed, and that if defendants refuse to make sach deed then that the decree of the above entitled conrt stand In lieu thereof. This summons Is published In the Corvallis Times newspaper once a week for six succes sive and consecutive weeks, beginning with the . Issue July 20, 1906 and ending with the issue of August 31, 1906. In pursuance ol the directions contained in an order made by the Hon. . Woodward, county judge of Benton county, Oregon, dated July 16, 1906. Date of first publication hereof ia July . 20,1906. E. E. VflLSON. .- ; v Plaintiffs Attorney, ' Best line of postal cards, " comics and scenery, at the Bazaar.