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VOL. XXXII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1895. NO. 27. TRANSPORTATION. East ancTSouth The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co. EXrRESS TP.AIN3 RUN DAILY. 38 30 p u Leate Portland Arrive! 8 10 a H 2 iup iave Aloanr Arrive; cini 10:45 a m Arrive 8. FraneUco Lave 6:00 r M A-wve trains son at. Eu-t Portland. Oreeon City, Wotidbarn. sul m. Turner, Marion, Jeffer sou, Albany. AlOuny Jauction, Tang u",Suedris, Haisey, H -rrisburg. Junction City, Irin?, Bu gene, Creswell, Drains, and all station, from Kjsebur to Asalaud, inclusive. KOSEBURG MAIL DAILY. 8:3.' a ill I,eave 12: -5 r J i.eave 6:2d p x I Arrive Fori land Alb ui v Kos -bnrir Air ve I 4:40 p M Arrive I 1:1) P h Leave I 6:00 a m Pullman B ffet t-leepers and second-flats sletpiug ar attached to all through train. SALEM PAS-1ENGER DAILY. 4:00 P J L-ave 6:15 p ji I Arr ve Portland S.aen Arrive Leave II 15 A u 8:00 A M W EHT SI UK M1VISIOW. Between Portland and Corvai:is. Ma i train daily ( xcopt Simdaj). 7-:0 a x Leave 12:li p H ! Arrive Purilmid Corral lia Arrive I 6:20 P M Leave I 1:36 P M At Albany and Corvalli. connect with traiw of the Oregon Central Eastern Ry. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except 8ui day) 4 "45 p X 1 I.eave Portland Ariive ' 8 2" a X 7:2j P x (Arrive McMinnville leave 5:t0 w Thronirh tickets to all poiiita In the Eastern statex, Canirla and Rnrone can be obtained at lowest rate from A. K. Milter, agent, Corvallis. R. KOEEII.ER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. & P. A., Portland, Or. E. McNElL, Receiver. TO THE IE A S T GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUT IE S VIA VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA AND AND ST. PAUL KANSAS CITT LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS -..FOR... SAN FRANCISCO For fall details call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Portland. Ob. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R. CO. 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JOHNSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Corvallis, Oregon Does a areneral practice In all the courts. Also agent for aU the first-class insurance com panies. NOTARY PDBUC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office in Zetroff building, opposite postoffice. M. 0. WJLKINS Stenographer and Notary Public Court reporting and referee sittings made specialties, as well as tye-writing and other reporting. unice opposite posiomce, uorvaius, vr. E. HOLGATE. Notary Public. H. L. HOLGATE. Justice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - - Oregon J. B. Bbtson W. E. Yates J. Fbko Yatis Bryson, Yates & Yates LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON WAY EAST N. GO.'S LINES-The Short Route . -n.....' iav fMnwmnlinAiiTal lino. - K.ntia nn fi Ar ,c.Uo - . - and dining cars, family tourist sleepers Northern Railway is free from dust, Ma SUMNER'S NEGLIGENCE Will Be Suspended From Duty for Six Months. THREE CHARGES ARE PROVED The Colombia's Injuries Due to the Captain's Carelessness in Docking Her at Southampton. Washington, Sept 17. The navy department today made public its ac tion in the case of Captain George W. Sumner, late commander of the United States cruiser Columbia, -who was tried by court-martial at the Brooklyn navy yard on charges growing out of the in jury sustained by his vessel in docking at Southampton in July. The first charge was culpable ineffi ciency in the performance of duty. The court found him guilty in a less degree than that charged, in that he did not have proper preparations made for docking. The court ignored that por tion of the charge alleging that as a consequence of that failure the boat was subjected to severe strains, causing damage to her hull and necessitating repairs costing about $1,000. The captain was found guilty on the second charge of suffering the vessel to be hazarded in violation of naval regu lations. He was found guilty of the third charge of neglect of duty, and the spoification that he paid the charges of docking without protest was proved. The sentence of the court is as fol lows: "To be suspended from duty only for a period of six months on waiting orders at half pay, and to be reprimanded by the honorable "secre tary of the navy. " THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION. A Protest From Washington in Behalf of the Negroes. Washington, Sept. 17. J. E. John-- son, secretary of the Atlanta exposition commission, for the colored people of the District of Columbia, has written an open letter to the exposition author ities in Atlanta, protesting against the granting of a concession for the sale of cheap whisky in the negro building at the exposition. Mr. Johnson says, in part: The entire commission having in charge the exhibit of the colored people from the city of Washington are sur prised and chagrined to learn that- all of its work to procure for your exposi tion a good display of the articles collect ed must be placed in an exposition groggery. Yon should have advised us long ago if such were the aims and ob jects of your commission. Why did you not have this whisky-guzzling an nex placed in some of the other build ings? The whole management must have known, where you crowd to gether, as it is hoped to do at Atlanta, thousands of colored people of all classes in a cheap barroom, trouble is bound to ensue, perhaps in the shape of murder or lynching. If this conces sion must stand, then you ought not to expect the white and colored press of the country to induce our people to go to the exposition. On the contrary, every respectable and influential news paper will vigorously advise all color ed people to remain away." A Life for a Life. Shanghai, Sept 17. Chinese offi cials at Ku Cheng are proving obsti nate over the results of the inquiry into the outrages upon missionaries and are unwilling to sentence the guilty. They offer one life for each European who was killed, and no more. New York, Sept. 17. A World spe cial from Foo Chow says: The Chi nese refuse to execute a - single mur derer implicated in the massacre of misionaries unless they are assured that with the execution of the men ac cused all other demands shall cease. The work of the British and American joint commission is therefore stopped. Without the presence of a foreign fleet no punishment for the massacre is probable. The vegetarians are rely ing on official sympathy to begin seiz ing and torturing Christians. G.R. FARRfl, M. D. Office in Farra & Allen's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court house. Office hoars 8 to 9 a. m ., and 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 p. x. All ca.ls attendel promptly. Joseph H. Wilson. Taoxis E. Wilson WILSON 4 WILSON ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Office OTer First National Bank, Corral! Is, Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public. Con veyancing. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT ': COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton "County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty, r Money to Loan on Improved City and ; - uountry iroperty. J. R. MARKLEY & CO., Proprietors Main Street, Corvallis. CLAIMS AGAINST CHILI. Those of McKinstry and Shields A gain Attracting Attention. San Francisco, Sept 17. The claims of Andrew McKinstry, and the heirs of Patrick Shields against the Chilian government are once more arttacting attention here. McKinstry and Shields were sailors on the American ship Keeneewa and in 1891, while in Valparaiso, they were brutally beaten by . Chilian police. Shields afterward died from his injur ies. A claim for damages against Chili was instituted by , the United States in behalf of the injured sailors, and President Harrison, in his annual message, made special reference to the oases. .The cases were considered by a tribunal in connection with the United States steamer Baltimore sail ors, but it was found that McKinstry and Shields were British subjects, though serving on an American ship. Consequently their claims were thrown out Lord Rosebery, the late premier of England, championed their cause, however, and another tribunal, : com posed of Germans, British and Chili ans, is now considering the claims in Valparaiso. ; A copy of the demurrer of the Chil ian government has been received here, and the endeavors of Chili to avoid re sponsibility are considered remarkable. In the demurrer, the attorney for the government states that - the police rec ords of Valparaiso contain no mention of the beating of the sailors, or of the reasons for such treatment, if they were injured. : Chili also objects to a foreign tribunal to try the cases, ' as it is considered humiliating to Chili. The allegation is also made that the sailors, the day they . were arrested, drank a bottle of pale beer in a saloon, and that possibly their minds became clouded so that they imagined that they had received injuries when in re ality they had not been " hurt at all. This statement is made in spite- of the fact that the men were covered with wounds and bruises from . which they never recovered. " A DETECTIVE'S -SUICIDE. One of San Francisco's Ablest Police Officers Kills Himself. San Francisco, Sept. ' 17. Detective Daniel Coffee killed himself shortly be fore 8 o'olock tonight His family are unable to ascribe any motive for the deed. The detective had been quieter than usual at the dinner table, and had gone upstairs afterward to his room. He had undressed, but had not gone to bed. Instead, clad only in his under clothing, he had gone to the bathroom and lighted the gas Apparently he had sat on the floor and shot himself. His head had fallen back and death was instantaneous at the second shot. The first shot had missed. Detective Coffee was - one of the ablest members of the San Frncisco po lice force, and many of the most des perate criminals who are now serving sentences in the state prison owe their captivity to his untiring efforts to put an end to their wrong doing. He was born in Limmerick, Ireland, January 16, 1840. When a boy he came to America. Eearly in the '60s he arriv ed in San Francisco After serving an apprenticeship as cooper, he obtained employment in the cooperage depart ment at the old sugar refinery at Eighth and Brannan streets. He worked there at his trade until ap pointed on the police force in 1869. Nine years later he was made a detect ive. Imports for August. Washington, Sept 17. A bulletin issued by the bureau of statistics of the treasury department shows an excess of imports of merchandise over exports for August of 115,215,529, and for the eight months ended August 21 of $26,- 505,518. The same period last year showed the exports to be in excess by $9,058,075, and $64,777,257, respect ively. Gold to the value of $16,667, 261 was exported during August, 'mak ing $55,766,217 for the eight months of the year. The excess' of exports over imports is placed at $15,159,583 and $27,702,341, opposed to $1,915,303 and $54,233,281 for the corresponding per iods of 1894. Gold ore showed a total export for the eight months of over $1,000,000. The silver export includ ing coin, bullion and ore, was $4,500, 000 and $35,000,000 opposed to $4,500, 000 and $29,000,000 for 1894. The immigrants during the month numbered 27,199, and for the year to date 23,733, as opposed to 17,448 and 166,581 during 1894, respectively. Italy la Celebrating. Rome, Sept. 17. The fetes in cele bration of the twenty-seventh anniver sary of the occupation of Rome by Ital ian patriots began today.. The actual date of the entraoe of the troops under Cadoran is September 20, but the events immediately leading up to the occupation are included in the celebra tion. . A procession marcned to the Phanteon to visit the tomb of Victor EmanneL The fetes continue till Sep tember 29. There are to be congresses of different kinds, including the Ital ian Historic society, the patriotic vet erans and the retired soldiers, lasting from the 19th to the 25th. The 20th the column ' at Porta Appia and the monument to Garibaldi will be dedi cated. - - What Dan Stuart Says. fihinncrn. Sfint 17. In snortinsr cir nlnn riftrn it is rerjorted that if Fitzsim mons adheres to his determination to claim a part of the proceeds on the var innn concessions or refuse to bo into the ring, there is a probability that the big fight between mm ana uoroett will not take place at alL Dan Stuart RATA that the uioture : nriviletre' had been Bold to W. A. Brady when the ar ticles of asrreeemenfc were signed. The nth at nrivileses are his own. and' he would not surrender a part of them to any one, - no matter wnat tne conse quenoes. PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Condensed Telegraphic Re ports ot Late Events. BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES '' appenings of Interest in the Towns and Cities of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. There are now said to be 1 2K.nnn fruit trees in Hood river valley. 90.000 of which are aorjle trees. O. M. Moore, of Seattle, has bonorht the Pvthian Herald, and will rnmnvn its publcation from Ritzville to Se attle. It is said that the board of regents of the Oregon agricultural college will dock teachers whenever they are absent Thomas' W. Potter, the new superin tendent of the Indian training school at Chemawa, Or., is expected to take charge in a few days. ' The Taooma city council has passed an ordinance prohibiting the employ ment in city work of any person not a citizen and voter of Tacoma. The consolidation of the Bellingham bay, Wash. , towns is still being talked about There is not much sentiment in favor of it apparently outside of Fairhaven. George W. Van Fassen. of Tacoma. has bought forty acres of land in the Puyallup reservation, and proposes to divide it into five-acre tracts and sell it to his A. P. A. friends for homes. In The Dalles the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company has a gang of men repairing the bridge from First street to the company's house. All the piles are being replaced by new ones. C. P. Moody is under arrest in Pendleton charged with forging two checks, one for $14 and one for $16, drawn in the name of George Per- ringer, of the First National bank of Pendleton. Work of ditch construction is to be commenced at once at the Travillon & Mann gravel mines at Parkersville. The length of the ditch is to be about two miles, and it will be an extension of a big ditch already built The Spokane council in a spasm of economy, took out of commission the North Side's chemical engine, and now the insurance companies give notice rates will be advancd 20 per cent un less the engine is replaced. - A colony of North Dakotas, with six prairie schooners and thirty head of cattle, passed through Palouse, Wash. , Tuesday on their way to the Nez Perce reserve. They report that hundreds of families are leaving the Dakotas for the West Whitman county's assessment roll has been made up and equalized by the county board, and shows: From realty, $5,635,185; railroad track, $1,741,648; town real property, $1,- 653,872; personal property, $2,205, 670; total assessed valuation in coun ty, $11,236,375. . - Judge Denny, of the supeiror court in Snohomish county, Wash. , has de cided that United States court com missioners have no authority in the state to make acknowledgement of deeds, or similar instruments, and no authority to administer paths outside of United States court matters. It is said there are 16,000 sheep scat tered along the hills from Catherine creek to Cornucopia, without a sheep herder, the herder having notified the owner by posting a notice on a tree that he had better get another herder, and then left the sheep. The owner is said to live in Umatilla county. Or. Hillyard, Wash., has two sets of school teachers and a promise of much litigation on hand. Three of the teachers hold contracts from the old board, while the new board have em ployed others. Those holding the old contracts have demanded their full sal ary, after expressing willingness to teach. ;. Rev. Francis L. Palmer, the coming rector of St Paul's Episcopal church of Walla Walla, will be married about the 1st of October to Miss Payne, the accomplished daughter of a wealthy manufacturer of Oshkosh, Wis. Mr. Palmer, accompanied by his wife, are expected at Walla Walla about Oc tober 15. Deputy Fish Commissioner Hawkes arrested three Puyallup Indians Tues day for maintaining a net in the Puy allup river contrary to the state law. The Indians will fight the case on the grounds that under their treaty rights they are entitled to hunt and fish re gardless of the state law. - Just such a question was the cause of the Jackson Hole trouble. Some large horses were shipped from Benton county Tuesday for heavy work in the coal mines around Seattle : The largest of the five animals was a mare sold by James Edwards for $80, and she tipped the beam at 1,810. Henry Dunn sold one horse that .weighed 1,560 pounds for $110, and Fred Whit by's horse, weight 1,635- pounds, brougth $80. Engineer C. M. Foster, of Baker City, Or., is surveying the Grande Ronde river between Island City and ' Oro Dell, for the purpose of compiling 'a plat of the river channel, irrigating canals and other data in behalf of the Island City Milling & Mining Com pany lor use in the suit recently insti tuted by the company to determine the status of water rights along the river, THE STATE OF TRADE. Little Confidence in the Government Crop Reports. New York, Sept 16. R. G. Dun & Co., in their Weekly Review of Trade, say: ,. A slight setback, which may mean much or nothing, according to the final outcome of the crops, is not unexpected at this season. If the government crop reports were correct, the situation would not be encouraging, but not much confidence is placed in the re duced estimate of corn, none at all in the estimate of wheat, and even the most enthusiastic bulls do not think it worth while to quote the government as to cotton. The fact is that we are beginning to market not far from 2,200,000,000 bushels of corn, though about 500,000,000 bushels will not be moved from the counties where it is grown; about 450,000,000 of wheat, of which the farmers are unwisely hold ing back a large proportion, and about 7,200,000 bales of cotton, if the cotton estimates are not erroneous, as they may be, to add to the stock carried over. Xne commercial stocks of cot ton September 1, here and abroad, amounted to 2,100,538 bales, and do mestic mill stocks were 360,618 bales, allowing not a single bale of increase of stocks at Southern mills. Prices have settled back a little during the week, notwithstanding the gloomy de partment reports. The wheat crop is evidently larger than the department has estimated, though nobody knows how muoh larger, and is coming forward with more encouraging rapidity. The price declined sharply about 2o per bushel, with little indication of recovery. The price of corn ha3 also yielded, with a prospect" for the largest crop ever grown, and at 3 80 at New -York, a large proportion of the crop will be of little profit to farmers. If we are to have a large crop of grain and a small crop of cotton, it is natural to infer that manufacturers may find large transactions at the West and South. There is in fact a very large ' demand for goods at the South, and west bound shipments are - unusually large. The market for finished products is a little weaker, with indications of hes itation on the part of buyers, at Phila delphia and Pittsburg, although prices are on the whole fairly maintained. There is a weakening in the prices of structural products and plates, but bar iron is still quoted at Pittsburg at 1.45 cents, and tank steel at 1.19. The rapid shipments of Marquette ore dur ing the past week have some influence on prioes of .Bessemer products. Nothing of importance has occurred in the minor metals, although tin has been stronger at times, with - London buying, and copper has been helped by the report of a bigger sale "'of lake at 12 1-4 cents. Sales of wool have been 6,147,900 pounds for the week, against 11,311, 200 pounds for the same week in 1892, and there are indications that the do mestic market is quite overloaded by the speculative purchases made some time ago. Failures for this week were 187 in the United States, against 219 last year, and 34 in Canada, against 44 last year. FISHERMAN'S RIGHTS. They Cause Little War at Tomwater Opposite Celilo. Goldendale, Wash., Sept 16. At Tumwater, opposite Celilo, on the Co lumbia river, in Klickitat,- there has been during the last few days turmoil among . the fishermen. It seems the right to fish for salmon at that point is in dispute between Bunnell Bros." and Seufert ' Bros. The former reside in Klickitat and the latter on the Oregon side. It seems the Seuferts have fished and realized great profits hitherto from this point, and it is with great re luctance that they gave way to the Bunnells, who are said to have acquir ed rights from the state that they are now exercising. D rom the eaten tne Bunnells made Septemebr 10 they real ized $1,000. Seufert Bros, sent their guard yesterday to prevent John Bun nell by physical force from going to his nets; but John .Bunnell was equal to the occasion and succeeded in pummel ing the guard and giving F. A. Seufert a Columbia river bath. It seems about this time a boatload of twenty-five fishermen came over from Senfert's and later guns were drawn and the combat was said to have been a draw for the time being. It is feared by friends of both parties that blood will be shed be fore the disputed rights are ' settled. Some friends of both parties are trying to have the difference left to an arbi tration committee. Captain Sloenm and the Spray. Washington. Sept 16. Captain Sprague, writing from Gibraltar to the state department, reports the de parture from that port of the small sloop Spray, in which her owner, Cap tain Slocum, started from Boston to circumnavigate the globe alone.' He arrived at Gibraltar August 24. Slo cum sailed from Boston to Gibraltar in thirty-two days, and could have made better time. He had intended contin uing his journey through the Red Sea, but had decided to 'change his course on account of his fear of thieves after passing the Suez canal, and to go via Cape of Good Hope. An Heiress to a Large Estate. . Los Angeles, Sept, 17. Mrs. Charles Jenkins, wife of the chief clerk of the Hollenbeck hotel, has discovered that she is a direct descendant of the late Lord Antrim, of Canada, who left an estate of $80,000,000. She will leave for the East at once to establish her claim to a portion of the vast estate. Mrs. Jenkins says she has absolute gen ealogical proofs. Mr. Jenkins is one of the best-known hotel men in , the West,. a pkpitp for onrr tt liiiUiiiu 1 mi iiiiuuu His Case Will Go to the United States Supreme Court. WASHINGTON'S EX-TREASURER The Federal Question Is, Does Seattle Derive Power From the Enabling. Act or State Constitution? Olympia, Wash., Sept 14. James Hamilton Lewis was in the city today, and has succeeded in securing an appeal to the supreme court of the United States of the case of Adolph Krugg, tne aeiauiting treasurer of Seattle. Pending appeal, Krugg will be allowed to go on $10,000 bail. The case was first argued here on the ground of the unoonsitutionality of the laws under which Krugg was indicted. Three members of the court decided that the prosecution was legal and the laws valid. Judges Anders and Gor don held that the indictment was in valid. Judge Hoyt concurred with the three judges, except that he was of the opinion that cities of the first-class de rive their powers from the constitution, and not from the legislature. Lewis contended for an appeal on the ground that laws concerning the government of the city of Seattle were derived from the act of congress admitting the- state into the Union, and not from the state constitution; that, such being the case, the test of the sufficiency of the laws under which Krugg was indicted was whether or not they complied, with the federal constitution, and that the laws were in violation of articles vi and xiv of the United States constitution; also, that as the decision by this court was based on a construction of the federal constitution, by a divided court, this raised a doubt as to its correctness in so far as the federal question was con cerned, and the whole case, under suoh a state of affairs, must be sent to the supreme court of the United States. One jndge said today that ordinarily he would not grant a writ of error, but in this case he was satisfied of the exis tence of a doubt as to the validity of the laws under which the prosecution was conducted, and, also, as to whether or not they were sufficient under the federal constitution. This is the first appeal of this nature from this court on the grounds urged, and will prove an embarrassing precedent if sustained. Military Training in TuMie Schools. Chicago, Sept 14. Patriotic train ing in a most acceptable form was added to the curriculum of the Chioago public schools last night when "th6 board of education decided that an op portunity be given to the male pupils of the high and preparatory schools who may desire to obtain instruction in military drill. In taking this step forward the board has only placed- Chioago in line with New York, Boston and other Eastern cities where instruction in military tactics has been found to be a valuable adjunct to the ordinary educational course. In the West, too, the new movement is proving popular. Denver has had her high school pupils organized into cadet companies and battalions for about six years, and no big parade in that city is complete without having these cadets in line. The Exportation of Meats. San Francisco, Sept 14. Collector Wise has received important instruc tions from the secretary of the treas ury as to the exportation of meats from this port The circular provides that on and after next Monday the col lector must withhold clearances for all vessels of every character whioh have on board any meats - not accompanied by an elaborate certificate by the meat inspectors of the agricultural depart ment In the absence of a certificate the packages must be so marked as to show that the goods are not within the laws of provisions. The meat inspec tor's tag must show that animals from whioh the export meat was obtained, were free from disease and that meats on board are wholesome. Hay Leave the Reservation. Washington, Sept 14. The Indian bureau has granted permission to Agent Teter, at the Fort Hall reservation, in Idaho to allow certain Bannock Indians to go into the Jackson's Hole settle ment, unaer military escort, in searcn of property abandoned there by them on the occasion of the attack made by settlers upon them. Agent Teter re quesed permission to grant passes to these Indians for the purpose indicated. and his request was referred to General Coppinger, who approved it The In dians probably will be allowed to go soon, and will be accompanied by a troop of cavalry. The question of hunting game is not involved, """""""" . - The Wisconsin Firebugs. Kenoshsa, Wis., Sept 14. Isaac Robinson, who is under arrest in con nection with the burning of the works of the Chicago Bedding Company, has made a confession, whioh, the district attorney says, Implicates all the men now under arrest This makes the fourth confession sinoe the case was pushed. Barney L Blooh, one of the men held on the same charge, who act ed very strangely in the jail the past few days was visited by his mother yesterday, but he failed to give her any sign of recognition. He also re fuses to eat and is gradually wasting away. - A Hog Tax Causes a Riot. Mexico, Sept 17. The imposition of a doff tax at Rosario. state of Sin. loa, has caused a riot - in which 500 men took part : The rioters were arm ed with rifles and a regular battle oc curred, in whioh many people and po nce were wonnaeo.