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Vol. XX.-No, CORVALLIS, OREGON.' FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1907. 'By B. F. Irvine We Are Now Prepared to Outfit The Man arid The Boy Oui reciept of clothing this spriDg are nobby. Big assortment. Prices That Defy Competition! I Shoes P. B. Kerths" are up to date in style and I the best wearers I Our Lwe of Medium Priced Shoes 8 -B Are from the best factories in the country and all I are guaranteed shoes. Oar line of hats embrace all I the new styles. Our prices are right and we ask an inspection of the above lines. , ? Death arid Ruin BY MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE. Disturbances . Continue and Daatbs Multiply. is Call and See Corvallis, s 1 w ng nil no an Oregon This Man ou ght his Fishing Tackle of GUN HODE S A Complete Line of Spauld ing base ball goods at popu lar prices. ' ? I I s i li II am nn an mm no nn n I nn i nn tin nn n i tm pj I .1 The - "Pink Domino,; Burglar Apprehended and Lodged in Jail Other News. Galveston, Texas, April 16. For a whole day- the Mexican coast cable lines were silent aa the ; result I of the seismic disturbances through lout Southern Mexico. The cables ' 15- 1.31 :' ' .5 are sun worKiug naaiy, anu oper ators report the wildest rumors from outlying districts to the south of Vera . Cruz. .;, The .natives are panic stricken and report great loss of life. Along the coast below Tampioo one severe and three light shocks were recorded between 11 A. M. and 1 o'clock Sunday night. Ves sels arriving at Vera Cruz and Coot zacoalcos report a terrible upheaval in the southern gulf 'early eunday evening." ' Shipmasters declare the gulf rose like a mountain, and then sunk ia the'icenter like a volcano and that treacherous seas were run ning after this. The sky was clear but the gulf was greatly agitated Colima, the ancient volcano in the state of Colima, has been vio lently active for the past three days, according to dispatches from the interior. The natives are flee ing from the valley fearing tbfc downpour of lava. Earthquake shocks continue at intervals of about half an hour all over the affected territory. The towns of Chilpancicgo and Chilapa, farther down the coast, are reported to have been totally destroyed by the earthquake shocks. The death list in these two cities is placed at 500. Reports from, smaller towns throuchoat the southern part of Mexico indicate great damage and loss of life from the quake. The entire southern part of the republic, from Mexico City south and from coast to coast, has tell se verely the effects-of 4he earthquake The people of ' the destroyed towns are living in the open. and many of them have appealed to the Govern' ment for teote. . ,, .. t Telegraphic communication has been partly restored in many places connections being made by the lo cat operators wherever they can find the fallen wires and establish a circuit. Many Of the lower towns in the ' earthquake belt have not been heard from. at We Splicit Comparison.; Just received a full linsof Spring and Samper Novelties. The Famous Packard Shoe, Sold by A. K. RUSS Dealer in men's Furnishings. i Seattle, ApriL 16. Edna Court ney, 20 years of age, a waitress the family boarding-bouse conduct ed by Misb K. E. Taylor aged 26 at 124 Broadway, was in love with the same boarder that her landlady fancied. When the landlady die covered the fact, Miss Courtney claims, she spread unfavorab stories - about the waitress, at the same time witholding the girl wages, which have been unpaid since laBt September Today Miss Courtney demanded ouiant e a mm.-. .u. ' i..i. i : r l . i ii x landman a mus. means a wonaerrui eaten once m a blue moon. , But all moons are alike to the man equipped, from our superb Sporting Goods stock the latest in Rods, Reels, Dandy Minnows, Hooks, Bicycles, Sundries, ultery, Sewing Machines and Sewing Machine Supplies, Edison and Victor Talking Machines, Records and Supplies. The hunter will find himself in a paradise of his own when he lands in this fine Sporting Goods stock. You are welcome to buy, f or admire, just as you choose. Unmatchable prices now. . M. M. lOrJG'S an accounting, both in her love fairs and in tne matter or money The. waitress was willing to take the money and go back - to Missouri abandoning the affair of the heart to her employer. Bat, she claims, Miss Taylor refused the' money, and spurned the compromise. Thereupon Miss Courtney weut out and secured a revolver, return ed and shot thn e times at her em ployer, wounding: her in the jaw. One ballet fractured the jaw and MiBS Taylor was carried to the hos pital. '. , Miss Courtney went to a neigh bor's home and asked for a police officer to arrest her. She was accommodated. confronted by the three officers drew. revolver and fired, but , ma band was stayed and the weapon wrested from ; him. j :He waa -handcuffed, but in desperation reached ' toward his ; hip pocket and whipped out a second revolver, which was taken from him. With two pairs of handcuffs-on him, the prisoner tried to get?, a r third, weapon Into play, but waa defeated In .his plans and was unable to Injure any one, as he evi dently wished to. Davis, , not yet. willing to sur render, put up one of the most des perate fights in the, history of the police department. He smashed Captain Stovers glasses, catting the omoerjs nose, and : made . each, a. struggle for liberty, that it was necessary- for the . policemen to club mm into suomisaion Deiore ne would submit to go to headquar ters ' . ;. :; : ;V The police have no hesitation in branding Davis, the youthful pris oner, as tne celebrated "pint don inof burglar, and they declare that evidence is at hand to prove that he is the' man who, on March 26, entered the home of N. W . Roun tree, 60 Ella -street, and so brutally bea and choked Mrs. Nellie Roun tree, after she gave him her valu able diamonds to save herself from bodily harm at his hands. A re ward of $1,000 is oat for his arrest, that sum having been posted by Mr. Kodutree. Davis is also declared by the po- ice to be the man who has contin ued to terrorize the residents of Nob Hill district as no other burg lar lias for years succeeded in doing and they declare him to be the per son' who visited the home of P. C. Patterson, 771 Everett street, April 2, at which time E, C. Giltner fired several shots at iinu - Another Sensational crime charg ed against him was the daring rob bery of Henry Hahn, at the latter's residence at the head of Loveioy street ,two s weeks ago, when . Mr. Hahn, after submitting to the af fair, turned his weapon upon the highwayman" and. emptied the con tents at the fleeing criminal. Numerous crimes, the complete number and particulars as yet un known, are counted . against the youth, but the latest and most sen sational of the entire Beries was the binding, gagging. and robbing. of J. M. Dufresne in the latter s apart ment in Moore's photograph , gal lery at an early hour yesterday morning. He tied the victim hand and fojt with strings,, quickly man ufactured from lace curtains; which he tore from the windows. He es caped from a cordon of police by a hair's breadth. Divis is also the man, it is de clared by the police, who entered the home of William Sherlock. Twenty-third and Washington streets, the night of April 3, and who was confronted by Miss Sher lock at the door of her room, and frightened way by her piercing screams. The intruder in that in stance wore the pink domino mask. Numerous Ismail crimes in the burglary line are said to lie ! at Davis' door.. He bad jewelry from a front-street store that wbs "bur- J 1. . gianzeo- several nignts ago. and a watch that is evidently stolen prop erty. , The revolvers are thought to be etoleh property also. There were two rifles in his room that were taken from the Portland Hard ware Store recently. . .Frank Davie, aged 19 years,; the notorious "pink domino" burglar, who has created a reign of tenor in Portland for two months, was : cap tured in his , room at the Cosmos house, Third and Morrison streets, at 2 o'clock this morning by Cap tain of Police Slover, Headquar ters Detective Hellyer and Tom Hammersley, formerly; a member of the police' force, but now proprie tor of tne bouse in which the pris oner was taken. ,' . ' Da via was trapped in his room juEt as he was entering it, and when What You See is Worth Twice What You Read! : As you are now coming to market with the opportunity of comparing values, we ask you to see our lines. ' We have a broken line of Ladies and hildren which we are closing out at remarkably low prices, fore your size is gone. om: Shoes, ! be- Also some remnants in Dress Goods, Wash Goods, etc. at bottom prices. Our new Spring and Summer Stock is arriving and is ready for your inspection. Make money by buying our lines, and save money by getting our.prices. Henkle & Davis. - A No Prizes go with our Chase & Sanborn High Grade COFFEE In fact nothing-goes with our coffee but cream, sugar and SATISFACTION" P. M. ZIEROLF. - . Sole agent for J Chase I Sanborn High Me San Francisco, April 16. A con spiracy which puts4ntoiheBbade the $5,UUU,UUU affair that recently arouBed. tbe .inmatss of the White House nae evolved trom tne pro ceedings in San Francisco, and, like the ; conspiracy in Washington, it has its headquarters in Washing ton. -. Moreover, one oi the leaders of the $5,000,000 conspiracy is one of the chief actors in this latest plot. - :' - . . - - I !In short, - the - big corporations, which have sighted the ' specter of indictment, have banded together against the common foe. ' Combin ed, they represent one of the most powerful .forces that America has known, and thy are prepared to expend, a large share of the unlim ited capital they control, iThe United. Railroads, ah $80,000,000 corporationr the Pacific States iTel ephone & Telegraph Company; the Jiome leiepnone ; Companv, 'and lastly the Southern Pacific Com pany, have joined hands to fight down tne graft prosecution. ; The plot was hatched shortly af ter tne arrival of Patrick Calhoun president of the TJ,nited Railroadc NEW FURNITURE STORE . , North of Hotel Corvallis , . I have a brand new line of Furniture, Carpetsi Matting Wall Paper, Window Glass, Trunks, and Valises. And I make picture frames to order. Please give me a ' t " , ' Yours Respectfully A H Kempin Corvallis, Oregon. This Isn't the Place Where they give something for nothing But, with every 50 cent can of Baking Powder, you can get FREE the Finest Piece of Decorated Ghina, you ever got in this city. Come in and b convinced T. A. Grocery Store Bbtuden Corvallis. with his atto.ney, P. D. Atterbdry. Mri Atterhury baa left fox New York, and be will manage : the de fense from that point until bis chief is brought to court. It is to be: one of the most stupendous legal battles the country -has ever known, and all that money and influence can do will r,be employed to discredit, intimidate and : block Francis J. Heney and Jbie co- workers. "Your leading citizens are your worst enemies", said Lincoln Stef fens, the well-known writer on civic degradation and reform, in address ing ; the students at Stanford Uni versity yesterday, aad the people of San Francieco have tegun to think there is some truth in this statement. The head and front of the pi it are reputed to ba Patrick Cilhoun and E.- H. Harriman It is no secret that above all others it is . the de sire of Mr. Heney to direct the fire of the prosecution against. Calhoun and the men who occupy the eeate of the mighty in the councils of the Southern Pacific. Harriman's rep resentative on thej Pacific, W. F. Herrin, is one of the .chief objects of Mr, Hehey's investigation. Mr. Herrin has always refused to come to the open and even ' now, with public attention centered upon him he remains in the back ground. In a remarkable interview given out just before he left for New York Mr. Atterburry, the United Rail roads attorney, tipped off his hand. ' SanFrancisco" the new song at Gearharts. 25 cts. per copy.