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THE GAZETTE JOB BOOMS are headquarters for all kinds of COMMERCIAL PRINTING-Irftisr-Eeidj, Kett-Headi, BUl-Stadt, Statement!, ZbtsIspm sol Society Printing cf AH Ends. BY J. 3. FLETT. OUR ARTISTIC PRINTER. GAZETTE STATIONERY STOKE Is well stocked with a full line of Blank Books, legal Blanks, Inks, Plain and Fancy Box Papers, Fens, Pencils, Tablets, and All Kinds of Writing Materials. VOL. XXXI. COKVALLIS, BESTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1894. NO. 23. j Wilson-Handy Wedding. In this city, August Sth, 1894, at the Presbyterian church, Mr. Joseph H. Wilson and Miss Effa M. Handy were united in marriage. Rev. E. J. Thompson officiating. Both of the contracting parties are residents of thi city and hold a high place in the esteem of our citizens. The groom is a popular young attorney and the son of ex County Clerk B. W. Wilson. The bride is the daughter of A. K. Handy and is one of Corvallis' most beautiful and accomplished young laclies. - It is customary to soothe the conscience ot the newspaper man in affairs of this kind with a liberal donation of real cake, but Joe found our weak spot when he pre sented us with a number of pure Havana cigars. The fragrant odor from one of the same tickles our sense of smell as we write this no tice. The Salary Law. The new salary law is not meet ing with such general favor as was expected. From over the stale re ports are coming in that indicate jts workings are quite as disap pointing in other counties as in Benton. Besides causing a very noticeable check to litigation it is proving an expense to the taxpay ers far in excess of what was an ticipated. In this county the ex cess of salaries to officials in the recorder's, clerk's and sheriffs offices over and above the lees col lected by them and turned over to the county during July amounted to nearly $300. True these offi cials have performed services for the county which, under tha fee system, would be charged to the county and paid for in warrants, still there ought not to be such a discrepancy between the receipts and disbursements of these several offices as the first " mont h under the salary law has indicated. Another pioneer has passed away in the person of Mrs. N. J. Cook, who died in I his city last Monday morning. The . deceased was born march 17, 1818, and at - i .at the residence ot tier daugiuer,; Mrs. M. M. Jacobs, was largely at tended. UNVERS1TY OF OREGON. EUGENE. V) EXT SESSION BEGINS THE 17TH ll of September, 1894. Tuition, free. Board, $2.50 per week. Five Courses: Classical, Scientific, Liter ary, English and Business. D-iRMITORV. The Boarding Hall fur young ladies and the Boarding Hall fur young gentlemen will he under the personal supervision of Mrs. Maura, a lady of refinement and large expe rience. For catalogues, address ' . J. J. WALTON, Secy. Regents. Tired and Run lown. O. W. K. Mfg. Co., 315 Front Ptreet, Portland, Oregon. Dear Sirs: I was completely worn out from overwork; could not sleep at night, and felt that I wis approaching a serious condition ; but, thanks to Dr. Grant's SarsapariMa and Grape Root, I am almost an entire new person, as I never felt so well in my life; and it was the cheapePt doctor'--bill 1 ever had, as I only took five bot tles. . I cheerfully recommend it to all afflicted. Yours respectfully, MISS EMMA LEE, 227 Eleventh street, Portland, Oregon. Dropsy and Heart Disease. 1he time of her heath was in her1" 'Vs ca,cV T l" 77th year. She was widely andjdo" .wuerf, !he 6kuis ,aie soU at favorably, known. The funeral I fiction, lhis year he expects which occurred Tuesday afternoon j "Ie" 'o arrive there in time for Gentlemen: For two years 1 was af flicted with Dropsy and Heart Disease, mid my Huiferiugs were terrible. I com menced taking Dr Grant's t rsaparilla and Grape Root, and by decrees my pain feemed to leave my. After taking nine bottles I was restored to my former health, and now feel as thongh I never Siad been ill. Yours truly, JOHN CURRIN, Spokane, Washington. PH" fil wne Sit .W " For Sale bj Corrallis JQrngists. OVER SIX HUNDRED SKINS Captured by Sealing- Schooner Kate and Anna Notes of the Voyage. Captain Charles Lutgens, who has gained considerable distinc tion of late on account of his con nection with the schooner, Kate and Anna, which was held last week at Astoria by custom offi cials and about which a sensa tional article appeared in t ie Ore gonian last Saturday, was a bay bound passenger on Tuesday's train. He was seen at the depot by a Gazette reporter, who plied him with questions until the de parture of the train and learned that the captain had just returned from a nine-months' sealing cruise on the Japan coast. The schooner carries fourteen men, who have to their credit COS skins thai will sell tor from $10 to $15 each. The trip was exceed ingly rough throughout and on several occasions such severe weather was encountered that all that saved the Kate and Anna from going to the bottom was the dispatch with which the crew ex ecuted the orders. Captain Lutgens reports that the story regarding the loss of the Louise Olsen, Rufus Guilliams, master, is a canard. The schooner. however, lost two of her hunting boats one night in the log but they were subsequently picked up bv the Penelnpe'aiid returned to their own vessel in safety. Will Emery was among one of the boat crews thus rescued. Ora Copeland, of Toledo, who was with Captain Guilliams last season as hunter, is acting m the same capacity this year, aid at last accounts had more skins to his credit than any of the other hunters with the Olsen, of wjiom there are four. Seal hunting this season has proved an extremely hazardous ; occupation, besides being less re- j mnnerative than heretofore, owing ; partially to a scarcity of seals and j partially To a price of skins. reduction in 'the Captain Lutgens i t i i . . - t r "- ' Ammiir ih S.,. Kranciscn ali fleet, the Mascot. Captain Charles flagman, master, was lost with all on board. Mr. Uagman was well known on the ay, having been associated with Captain Winant for several years on the Mischief. Probably Captain Lutgens is the best known seafaring man on the northwest coast. He has been continuously engaged in the coast ing trade since coming to Yaquina, twenty-four years ago. In 1879 he built the Kate and Anna at Oneatta a'nd has since plied the waters along the coast, between Astoria and San Francisco until 3H0 'CHYUVSOd'SS'lsiUVJO juJuar of tiie Go3pei S3311VH '321 CIO AVO SEVENTY-THREE YEARS OLD. Council Valley, Idaho. December 1, 1893. 0. W. R. Mfg. Co., 315 Front street, cor. Clay, Portland, Oregon. Dear Sirs About two months ago your salesman, while traveling through this valley.found me, an old man seventy-three years ot age, almost dead with bruises caused from a fall ; and I feel that I am in duty ixtund to testify that the balf bottle ol "Hattee's" Congo Oil "given to me by your agent and two others that I after words bought, have helped me to such an extent that I am almost able to wulk, and I must say it is a great remedy. Be ing very thankful for the relief it has given me and hoping for your success, I remain yours, REV. A. MORRISON. " Prine BOc, anfl $1 per iJQttlB. For Sale by Corvallis Druggistp. embarking in the sealing business aoout lour years ago. Juany resi dents of the bay country can dis tinctly remember when tin's little schooner afforded the only mean3 of transportation for their incom ing merchandise and outgoing pro duce. And they will also call to mind many threatened famines that occurred before work began on tne jetties when the little schooner lay bar-bound within Ya quina bay for days and sometimes for weeks at a time, thus cutting off the regular supply of provi6-! ions. Regarding the detention of Cap tain Lutgens at Astoria and the sensational s'ory about the cap ture of skins within the prohibited territory the Orego'iian of the Sth has the following interview with Collector Page of the port of Astoria: "There is no question as to the seals being caught outside the pro hibited teiritory. Captain Lut gen has filed his manifest in this office, and has also produced his logbook, which shows conclusively tiiat all the sir. us on board were captured in the Japan seas. It is true that I wrote to United States Attorney Murphy thai the captain of the Kate and Anna wished to unload 608 skins at this port for transshipment, and I asked lor in structions in the matter. 1 also slated that I would be pleased to have him come down, if he could conveniently do so; not that I an ticipated anything wrong, but sim ply that this being the fir.t case of tHe kind since I have been in office, I desired to have all the in structions possible concerning it. However, Captain Lutgen made such a sati factory report that I immediately wired Mr. Murphy not to come. I think it a very nnofficer like proceeding on the part of the assistant United States attorney to nuke public the busi ness ot his office in order to start a sensational report- which is en- tirely without foundation, and which can only be annoying to the parties concerned." Everybody who can scratch tip a hundred and fifty cents are going on the excurs on to Newport next Sunday. Among the pleasing fea- . lures ot tne tup already in con temptation are a male quartette who will be accompanied bv a number of players from the Marine oanu. mis quartette nave nad their voices in training several weeks and good music is assured. Remember that a $1.50 ticket will entitle the purchaser to a continu ous passage from Corvallis to New I port and return wnn tne oppor tunity of spending seven hours on the beach Miss Ilattie Gaines goes to Al bany to-morrow to spend a week with her friend. Miss Edna Luper. JMiss Leona uilmore ot fialem is visiting Miss Gertrude Cauthorn for a few daj's. mm ma Oiabstes Cured! Wonderful Work. A Hew Being Created! Dear Sirs: If yon could see the writer of this letter and note the wonderful change that has been effected in his case by taking Dr. Grant's Kidney and Live Cure, you would certainly be astonished I was a most wretched sufferer for three, years, trying all kinds of medicine and getting no relief. The flow of urine na. very excessive. I was very constjpated and also covered with carbuncles, and felt at war with myself and the world at large; but, thanks to your wonderful medicine, I felt as though 1 was a new being, and I consider a wonderfuT cure has been e fleeted in my case. With ray best wishes for your furthei success. I remain Yours respectfully, a. Mcdonald, j Ashland. Wis, For Sale by Corvallis Druggists. V. VI x Li It 3 fos. flEWS AT THE METROPOLIS Doings of the Week as told by the "Gazette's" Special Correspondent. Portland, Aug. 8, 1891, About the boldest effort for free I . - . 1 . w puipn auverusing that lias ever been made in this citv was that of Dr. AValace at the First Congrega tional church last Sundav week Mrs. Potter and Mr. Jiellew had been presenting a series of French plays at the Marquam during tiie week, and Dr. Wallace announced that he would give his opinion of them and their plays on Sundav evening. As was expected, there was a large audience. Scandal, gossip and personalities of any kind always draw a crowd, even to church. Wallace emptied his vials of wrath upon the French drama ami seasoned his discourse by the relation of alleged scandal ous conduct on the part of the per sons named, believing at the time he did so that those individuals were in his audience, having mis taken two members of the com pany for the principals. Finally those indignant persons left the church, quietly and quickly aspjs sibie in passing through crowded aisles, and the preacher, fearing he had not insulted them enotiirh rubbed it in by calling the atten tion of the audience to them. This was not enough, lor the next day he went in person to the Ore gonian and related the incident for publication, in order lo secure (he lull advertising benefit. This brought out a storm of indignant protest against this 'orm.of pulpit advertising, and the preacher was roundly scored for his boorishuess, lack of Christian charity and gen tlemanly instincts. It soon trans pired that the persons who left the church were not Mrs. Potter and Mr. Beilevy, but as : Wallace thought, they were at the time, and still asserts I hat they were,, the fact makes no difference so far as criti cism of his behavior is concerned. This same preacher endeavored to attract, attention to himself during the recent strike, bv going to the plaza on Sunday afternoons and talking to I ne crow is upon eco nomic, social and other questions in an effort torefufe the arguments of the agitators to whom the crowds were accustomed to listen The reverend gentleman is a re cnt importation from Chicago, and his congregation will soon move into a new and elegant stone edifice whose empty seats he is expected to fill in opposition to two other big stone churches, and for this he courts notoriety and puvsues sensationalism as a busi ness proposition. He got his ad vertising free and all the notoriety he could hope for. but has scarcely gained the popularity that fills empty church - benches perma nently. It is but a short time since the O. R. & N. Co. was taken from the control of the Union Pacific, but events indicate that it is the best tiling for Oregon ihat has happened for a long time. With that sys tem independent it can pay more attention to local traffic and not be managed solely in the interest of through traffic of a road whose interests are chiefly outside the the state. It is in a position to afford entrance to Portland to three great overland systems,, in stead of being tied up to one. The traffic arrangement just made with the Great Northern, by which cars of that road will run into Portland direct from Spokane and through freight business be done over the same route, is a sample of the benefits to be derived. This will put both the Union and Northern on their mettle, and the result will be better passenger and freight facilities and in the end cheaper rates. The fruit industry especially should derive a benefit from the changed conditions. Word comes from California that anything that will pass mus ter as hay will command a high price this fall and winter. The long drouth this spring has cur tailed the hay crop alarmingly, and large quantities will have to be imported. So bulky a product can not be transported far without running the price up pretty high, therefore Oregon should have almost a monopoly of the market at good figures. One item in our large crop thus promises to bring us in a little profit. The highest offer ever made for Portland city bonds was . bid on Mondav bv .Ladd fc niton, as agents for Chicago and Boston houses. The bonds offered for sale were $500,000 water; bonds, bear ing five per bent, interest and due in 1923, and for these the highest ot nineteen bids was $549,450, a premium equivalent to a reduction of the interest to about four per cent. This competition to lend money to Portland at four per cent, at a time when loans on real estate ami commercial security can not be had at ten per cent. proves that the city's credit is good in the great financial centers of the country, and that there is plenty of idle money looking for a soft investment. It shows also, that while there is great distrust of present conditions there is am ple confidence in tiie future on the part of those having money to in vest. Ihey believe that thirty years hence the city of Portland will be sufficiently prosperous to repay and that there will be a gov ernment stable enougn to ensure the payment. How much of this distrust of the present is due to a fear that the populists may obtain temporary control and attempt to put their vagaries into legislation, how much to a fear of silver stand ard, how much to tariff uncer tainty, and how much to distrust of business enterprises because of strikes deeds of riot and anarchy, I leave others to say. P. P. B. Mountain Top. MissLillie Taylor, of Evergreen, visiting her sister Mrs. W. A. Gellatly, for a few days. Two young Salem men passed on wheels last Saturday on their return trip from Newport. The bold bear made his appear ance last week at 11. Wood's place and killed one of his sheep. W. H. Smith, of Polk county, passed through the valley, Satur day, enroute for Big Elk, to visit Ins sister, Mrs. J. Baker. Warren aud Rov Norton know how to harvest grain. Mr, atly's Geld looks well. Blodgett Valley. Come to the front ''Plow Boy" or disclaim all reiationsnip witn Jo." Commissioner Chambers was in the valley last week looking after a dangerous -bridge. M. Jacobs, of Corvallis, made a flying trip to this valley, doubtless looking alter his fine ranch. A fine mare belonging to W. A, Gellatly was seriously snagged last week while running in slashing. Ike Norton has gone to Toledo on business connected with his mother's estate. Lucius Norton being the heir. There seems to be quite a good natured but spirited rivalry be tween two or more young men in our val'ey for the possession of a valuable piece of "Timber." The Gellatly brothers start their new steam . thresher the first of this week. The separator is four inches longer than stated last week. Those desiring quick work and well saved grain will do well to engage this machine. I will guarantee it is not a lred and white string" that holds the key to the heart of "Jo." The effusion of poetry launched at this poor scribe has so completely over whelmed him that he can only say; There's naught foi "weuns" now to do But hide oar grief and dry our tears, And hope the intimation true Smith for our sheriff in two jeara. Homo, L. W. Deyoe, the popular pro prietor of the Elk City hotel, re turned yesterday from Monroe where he ' purchased from S. G. Thompson his stock of general merchandise, paying therefor the sum $3400. The stock will be packed immediately and shipped to Elk City, where it is the inten tibn of the purchaser to open a large general merchandising es tablishment. Mr. Deyoe has had several years of successful busi ness experience and the residents of that section of Lincoln county are to be congratulated upon the fact of having so large and well selected a stock brought to such a sparsely settled neighborhood by one so thoroughly posted on all the jus and outs of mercantile life and who, is also well acquainted with the likes and dislikes of his patrons. The pleasure seeking throng at Newport will be augmented by the arrival of Dr. Bowen Lester, who leaves this afternoon for a ten days' recreation at that ever pop ular resort. : Until alter hisretu-n on the 20th inst., the doctor's den- M parlors will be closed. THE NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. The Eastern War and Other Incidents and Accidents. JAPAN WAR INTELLIGENCE. London. Aug. 6. The Shanghai correspondent of the Central News telegraphs that several Japanese transports, escorted by warships have been sighted in the Yellow sea. It is presumed that they were bound for Chemulpo. Groat anxiety prevails among the for eigners, lest anarchy, should break out among the natives in the event of- disaster to the Chinese forces, all the male Europeans have en- olled as volnnteers. Uneasiness is felt also in Chin Kiang, Tchang and other places. TREATMENT OF A MIMSTEB. Shanghai, Aug. 6. While the Japanese minister, accompanied by his suite and the Japanese counsel, were leaving Tien-Tsin August 3, they were attacked by Chinese soldiers, who seized their baggage and threatened them with personal violence, but Viceroy Li Hung Chang quickly sent a f rce of troops to the scene and suppressed the riot. He also sent a message to the minister, expressing egret for the treatment to wfrch he had been subjected, and promised that the offending Chinese soldiers woul l be punished. The soldiers in question abused and derided the minister and threw mud and stones at him. FEELING AGAINST FOREIGNERS. Tien-Tsin, Aug. 6. Jules Deu tril de Rhines, an eminent French explorer, has been murdered at Thibet and his body thrown into the river. The French envoy has addressed a protest to the, govern ment demanding the recovery and return of the unfortunate man's body and papers, also that the Chi nese government make an apology for the occurrence and proper com pensation for the murdered man's family. HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR TUB PLAGUE. Washington, Aug, 6 Some idea of the feeling entertained by the Chinese toward foreigners, which has caused anxiety Xor the safety of Americans, is given in the re port of the Canton plague received today at the marine hospital bu reau. Consul Seymour, writing under date of June 23, says: "Natives are trying to blame foreigners for the plague, and have stirred up fiots in Canton and the surrounding country." THE STATE APPEALED TO. Omaha, Aug. 6. An appear for the drouth-stricken porti n of Ne braska, signed by a committee claiming to represent large inter ests, was today sent to the gover nor. The committee explains that it has reason to believe, from what it has been told, that thousands of families will either starve, emi grate or be fed by charity unless the people as a whoie provide for them. The committee suggests as a solution to the problem that a special session of the legislature be called immediately to devise a state system of irrigation, and that those in the drouth districts be given employment in the ditches. ' Governor Crounse is at present out of the state. The im pression is that the crop failures are not complete, and with econ omy little actual suffering will result without state aid. TIIE VIGILANT WON. Cowes, Isle of Wight, Aug. 6. The Vigilant, Britannia and Sa taila started toay in the regatta of the Eoyal London lacht Club. The Satanita got a little the best of the start, and at Rye pier led the Vigilant 1 minute and 40 sec onds and the Britannia 5 minutes and 31 seconds. The times of tho yachts at the finish were:" Vigi lant, 5:06:15; Britannia, 5:14:27; Satanita, 5:46:15. The Vigilant consequently won by 8 minutes and 12 seconds, counting out her time allowance of 2 minutes and 22 seconds. JAPAN SURE TO WIN. Tacoma, Aug. 6. Capt. W. R. Brigman, U. S. N., who has com manded the cruiser Baltimore for the last two years, returned here tonight on a two months' leave of absence, having left the Baltimore at Chemulpo, Corea, July 12th'. He regards the oriental was as an unequal contest with the odds largely in favor of Japan, which, he says, has a splendid navy ancl army as well organized as that of any European country. Japan, he thinks, is sure lo win unless; China is given time to make war preparations on a gigantic scale. FIGHT BETWEEN OFFICERS AND CAT TLE THEIVES. Walla Walla, Aug. 6. Particu lars of an exciting fight between cattle theives and officials near Dayton Friday night were received here this morning For some time it has been suspected that Petti- john and Lloyd were leaders of an organized band of cattle-thieves. Friday afternoon Sheriff Dixon, of Garfield county, and Dep. Sheriff Allen, of Columbia county, went out to a i rest them. The officers stationed themselves at a point above Dayton and awaited the coming ol the men. Uuon their ippearauce, the officers ordered them to throw up their hands, but instead, Pettijohn and Lloyd threw their Winchesters into view and commenced firing. A running fight then occurred, the officers? gradually gaining upon the men. About sixty shots were fired. Deputy Sheriff Allen was shot through the right leg by Lloyd. Both Pettijohn and Lloyd were shot through the legs, aud were finally captured and taken to Day ton. One of Lloyd's legs was broken and will have to be ampu tated. Several davs nism the offi cers learned , that arrangements had been made by the thieves with one Church to t'eliver him cattle," and this led them to make an attempt to arrest the men. Church having posted the officers, cannot now be found. It is sup posed he has been made . away with b' members of the gang. While running a thresher on a farm near the city, Mr. Nicholson's right arm was caught in a belt and badly broken and mangled. It will have to be amputated. . ALTO BRIDGE WRECK. - Walla Walla, Aug. 6. The train sent to the scene of the railroad wreck on the O. R. & N. at Alto bridge relumed to Walla Walla late last night, bringing W. E. Watson, conductor, aud David Wright and Fred Harrison, brake men, who were badiy injured. Additional particulars were learn ed as follows: The bridge, which crosses Jonas hollow is 300 feet in length and 96 feet high, was reached about'll o'clock. As the engine ran on the west end of the bridge it began to swing. Engineer Jesses pulled the throttle wide open and 'the engine and tender parted at the same time that a section of the bridge gave away, lhe engine passed over in safety, but the tender, 15 cars heavily loaded, and the ca boose went down, leaving the engine standing near the last bent of the bridge. Brakemen Harri son and Wright, who w. re stand- ' in .con the top of the cars, and Conductor Watson, who was in the caboose, went down with the train. The injured men are now in the hospital here. Watson has a com pound fracture of both arms, his right shoulder dislocated, ankle . sprained, and he is bruised and cut in a severe manner about the face and body. He will probably lose his left arm, but will recover. Three of Wright's ribs and his left arm were broken, his ankle dislo cated, and his head and body badly bruised aud cut. Harrison was bruised and cut about the face, head and body, but no boues were broken. Trees Looking Splendidly. J. R. Marklev returned from the TBellfountaine Prune orchard yes terday morning where he went on a tour of inspection with Deputy Horticultural Commissioner Dai ley. He says the trees are in a splendid condition and not one, planted on the 157 acres, has been winter killed. This is something remarkable from the fact that in the vicinity of Corvallis many trees were injured or killed, by the excessive rains of the past winter. These orchards, however, are planted on land lacking the super ior drainage facilities afforded by the hill soils which is causing or-, chardists to look toward the foot hills' for land upon which to plant their trees. This Bellefountaine orchard includes fifteen acres of trees that are now four years of age, of which Mr. Dailey is quoted as saying that within his extensive, observation of orchards through out the 6tate, he has never seen one that compares with this one, lor thrift, and general prosperous and healthy condition, of the trees