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CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1895.
NO. 38.
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TRANS PORT ATION.
East and South
-VIA-
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Southern Pacific R'y Co.
EXPRESS TP.AINd RUN DAILY.
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Residence, two blocks west of courthouse.
Office hours, to 10 A. M., 1 to 8 p. M.
Sundays aud evenings by appointment.
DR. L. G. ALTMAN
H0M0E0PATHIST
Diseases of women and children and nneral
practice.
Office over Allen & Woodward's drag store.
Office boors 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 6 and 7 to
P.M.
At residence, earner of Srd and Harrison after
hoars and on Mondays. :.r j. .
BO WEN LESTER
DENT I ST
Office upstairs oyer First National Bank.
Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed
Corvallis, Oregon
F. M. JOHNSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Corvallis, Oregon
Does a general practice in all the conrts.
Aim agent for all the flrat-clau insurance com
panies. NOTARY PUBUC.
JUSTICE PEACX.
E. E. WILSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Office In Zeiroff building, opposite postofflce.
H. 0. WILKINS
Stenographer and Notary Public
Conrt reporting and referee sittings made
specialties, as well as tytie-writlng and other
reporting.
Office opposite postofflce, Corvallis, Or.
E. HOLOATE. H. L. HOLGATE.
Notary Public. Justice of the Peace.
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Corvallis - - - Oregon
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CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. WASHING
MILITARY BICYCLISTS
Success of the First Relay
Expedition.
FROM WASHINGTON TO NEW YORK
Conducted Exclusively by Military Rid
ers, Who Beat Schedule Time
by Twelve Minutes.
New York, Deo. 4. The first mill
tary bicycle expedition conducted ex
olusively by military riders was sue
cessfully oonolnded today. There were
ten relays of two men each, and the
last two riders, Lieutenant Frank Lib'
by and Private E. A. Pitkin, of the
Second separate company, District of
Colombia National Guard, dismounted
at the barge office at 4:48 A. M., 12
minutes ahead of their schedule time.
Twenty-four hours had been allowed
to cover the distance, 249 M miles.
Lieutenant Libby was the bearer of a
special message from General Nelson
A. Miles, at Washington, to General
Thomas H. Ruger, on Governor's isl
and. Libby and Pitkin rode all the
way from Washington, starting earlier
than the others, and arrived at New
Brunswick in time to rest before start
ing on the last relay. Libby said:
It began to rain as we came out of
New Brunswick and the roads were
vile all the way here. We came by
the plank road from Newark, but the
riding was bad. Some policemen
stopped us because our lights were out,
but let us proceed when we told them
our mission. My left leg is a little
stiff, but otherwise I feel all right"
Pitkin looked as fresh as if he had rid
den but ten miles instead of 260.
The Arrest Was Unjust.
Washington, Deo. 4. Counsel for
Major George A. Armes, whose sensa
tional arrest several months ago for in
subordination by order of Maior-Gen-
eral Schofield, then acting secretary' of
war, was followed by his dischagre by
Judge Bradley, with a scathing denun
ciation of the arrest, filed their briefs
today in reply to the government's ap
peal to the court of appeals. They ask
the discharge of Armes from further
liability, first, because no power what
ever existed to make the arrest, and,
second, because he was not informed of
the nature of the accusations against
him. ' Counsel say there has been . no
process of law in any sense and no
legal commitment, and believing,
therefore, that the arrest was unjust, a
violation of the law and subversive of
the liberty of the citizen-yeat . that
the judgment of the lowefTmrt be af
firmed. Military law, the counsel
argue, is supreme in military affairs,
not arbitrary imprisonment. The case
was argued in the appellate court to
day. Some time will probably elapse
before the case is decided.
Americans In the Conspiracy. '
New York, Dec. 4. A special to the
Herald from St Petersburg says:
Another disturbance broke out in
Seoul, the capital of Corea, November
28, during which the royal guard tried
to obtain by force entrance to the pal-
aoe. it appears, however, that they
were not suocessfuL It is stated on
authority that there were Americans
mixed up in the conspiracy. The Jap
anese deny that they have anything
whatever to do with this latest con
spiracy in Corea, but they are now in
clined to think that the retirement of
the Japanese troops will be the signal
for all the old troubles to recommence,
as in former times.
War Against the Railroads.
San Franoisoo, Deo. 4. Mayor Sutro
has resumed the war against the South
ern Pacific in its attempt to secure a
funding bill through the present con
gress. Today the mayor sent a letter
to a number of prominent citizens re
questing them to meet him at his office
in the new city hall Wednesday for the
purpose of arranging for the call for a
meeting to be held at an early date to
protest against the passage of a fund
ing bilL The mayor says similar mass
meetings should be held in every city
on the Pacific coast
G. R. FARRA, M. D.
Office in Farra & Allen's brick, on the corner
ol Second aud Adums.
Residence on Third street in front oi conrt-
house.
Offl -e hours 8 to 9 A. M., and 1 to 2 and 7 to 8
r. M. AU ca is attendei promptly.
Joseph H. Wilson.
Thomis E. Wilson
WILSON & WILSON.
ATTORNEYS-AT- LAW
Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, 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.
Money to Loan on Improved City and
Country Property.
V. E. WAITERS, Prop.
Office at Courthouse, Corvallis, Or.
AN ARMENIAN PARDONED.
The Sultan Acted Favorably Upon a
Request From This Government.
Columbus, Ind., Deo. 4. About a
year ago Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, of this
city, formerly consul-general to Con
stantinople, under President Harrison,
was asked to carry a petition to Wash,
ington, representing the woman's board
of foreign missions of . the. United
States, for the pardon of Sahag Madis
sian, an Armenian schoolteacher, who
translated a sentence of scripture for a
friend, who circulated it in the market
place of an interior Turkish town. For
this offense both were arrested and sent
into exile to Mourzeook, in the oasis of
Fezzan, in the desert of Sahara. : The
friend died, bat Sahag has lived
through great abuse " and suffering.
The Rev. Mr. y Sweeney, while in
office, opened up communication with
Sahag, and Bent -him money through
Sir Drummond Hay, the English con
sul-general at Tripoli. These mission
ary societies took tip his case, and
Elder Sweeney, in oompahy with ex-
Congressman George W. Cooper, pre
sented a petition signed by 400,000
Christian women to the ' state depart
ment at Washington, which forwarded
it to the sultan. News has just reach
ed here that Sahag has been pardoned,
and has reaohed Tripoli on his way
home. ' vl '---
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A Venezuelan Filibuster Con 'esses.
New York, Deo. 4. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says: Al
varez, the Venezuelan general, who,
with four companions, was captured
recently at Aquadores, near Santiago
de Cuba, has been 'examined by the
Spanish authorities, 'and has confessed
that he and his fellow passengers were
filibusters. They-were part of the Ca-
rillqexpedition. Alvarez said, which,
he added, came froxa Florida 'keys on
the Danish steamer Horsa. The party
comprised forty-two; men, who intend
ed to disembark at Cape MaysL There,
however, they sighted a Spanish war
ship and changed their course. A
landing was finally- affected between
Sigua and Santiagop The heavy arms
were not landed because of tbe haste
which the prisoners were in when cap
tured. Two Americans accompanied
the expedition, the .Venezuelan general
states. :-
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To Depose.the Sultan.
London, Dec. 4. -The Standard's
Vienna correspondent telegraphs that
he has learned from a trustworthy
souroe in Constantinople that the sul
tan is m hourly fear of deposition.
His couriers warn him that the powers
have decided upon this action, and that
they want the seSoud guardship ad
mitted to the Dardanelles, in order to
provide tne necessiijE? yrce 10 carry- n 1
The Berlin correspondent of the
Daijy News says the German ironclad
Hagen has been ordered co Turkish wa
ters. .. The Chronicle says the British
consul at Moosh reports to the foreign
office that the relief work at Sassoun is
at a standstill, and that the country is
in so disturbed a condition that cara
vans are not able to leave Moosh for
Sassoun.
The Rumored Cabinet Crisis
Berlin, Deo. 4. The newspapers
state that Baron von Koeller, Prussian j
minister of the interior, has been
granted an indefinite leave of absence '
and will undoubtedly be dismissed.
Herr Zuoulis, councilor of state and
framer of last year's anti-revolution
bill, which failed to pass the reichstag,
in spite of strenuous efforts in its be
half by the government, is designed as
his successor. -
Dissatisfation with the cabinet has
seemed to center for some time past on
Baron von Koeller, and Emperor Will- j
iam is said to have been displeased
with his recent maladriot prosecution
of socialists for les majeste.
This action towards Baron von Koel
ler gives confirmation to rumors of a
cabinet crisis, which have been current
for some time past. -
Reducing Its Bxpenses.
San Francisco, Dec. 4. The South
ern Pacific Company today abolished
its detective department The detec
tives in the general offices in this city
and also those at Sacramento, Bakers
fietld and. Tusoon have all been dis
charged, and the company will here
after look to the police departments of
the various towns for the work that
has hitherto been performed by the
company directly. Fourteen clerks in
the auditor's office have also been dis
charged, as well as six . clerks in the
general freight office. Needed econ
omy is the reason given by the manager
for the general dismissals, whiph will
effect a saving of over $4,000 a month
to the company.
.Iiovr Rate for Immigrants.
Taooma, Deo. 4. The Northern Pa-
ciflo railroad, acting with the counties
of this state, has taken up the matter
of inducing immigration to the North
west - .
Offloials of the road announced at a
meeting this evening that they believ
ed a f 20-one-way rate would be made
from St. Paul to the coast for actual
settlers. It will be the lowest regular
rate ever made.
Russia's Claim Waived.
London, Dec 4. The Times will to
morrow print a dispatoh from Berlin
which reports that the Frankfurter
Zeitung's Constantinople correspondent
says that, in response to the sultan's
personal appeal, the czar has waived
Russia's claim for the passage of a sec
ond guardship through the Dardanelles.
ieadvllle's Ice Palace.
Denver, Deo. 4 Over 100 "workmen
are engaged in the construction of the
Leadville ioe palace, which will be
opened to the publio Christmas day.
Fifteen million tons of ioe, or enough
to build a wall one foot thick and six
feet high about the entire city, will be
used. . ... -
GROWING NORTHWEST
Items ot General Interest
From All Sections.
PROGRESSIVE MANUFACTURERS
A Knmber of Irrigating- Enterprises In
Oregon Government to Have An
. other Cutter on the Coast. ' "
Another salmon oannery will prob
ably be established at Rogue river in
the spring.
Grant county has an abundance of
hay and feed for the stock of that
neighborhood.
A number of Indian " war veterans
at Ashland have formed a permanent
organization.
Pendleton is organizing a boys' brass
band. The members are to be from 10
to 15 years of age. -.
A wholesale grocers association has
been organized at Portland "by the job
bers of Oregon and Washington.
The Dallas woolen mills have offer
ed the Thomas Kay Woolen Mills Com
pany, of Salem, free use of their new
mill until the latter rebuilds.
A number of water enterprises have
been set on foafc by the incorporation
of the following companies: "The Poe
Valley Irrigating Company, to erect
dams and divert water from Lost
river, in Kalamth county; the Mt
Hood Water Supply Company, of Hood
River; the Valley Improvement Com
pany, of Hood River; the ' Lost River
Irrigating Ditch Company.
Washington.
Bitinmuons coal has been discovered
near Ooldendale. '
Davenport's brewery, which was re
cently burnt, is to be rebuilt.
The tax levy at Davenport has been
out to mills for next year.
Walla Walla shipped over $300,000
worth of fruit and vegetables this sea
son. Walla Walla has instructed her ju
diciary committee to , codify the ordi
nances of that city.
The Northwest Mining Association
will hold a great convention in" Spokane
early in February next
Taooma expects to soon have a new
tannery for the manufacture of lace
leather and belting." It will be erected
by a California tanner.
Frank Rockwood Moore, a promi
nent citizen of Spokane, whose name
is closely linked with the early history
ot. Washington and Idaho,; is dead. "
An ordinance has been -'introduced
at Spokane providing for $315,000 of 6
per cent bonds to take up outstanding
warrants and complete the waterworks
system, including the auxiliary pump
ing plant
Thirty thousand dollars has been ad
vanced by the Tacoma citizens, to make
good the difference between the amounts
of money now in the city interest fund
and the $54,500 due in New York
in light and water bonds.
All bids for the construction of the
water supply station at the government
quarantine station at Diamond point
have been rejected by the treasury de
partment on the ground that 'they ex
ceeded the appropriations, Nichols &
Crothers, of Taooma, being tbe lowest
bidders. New bids are invited and the
plans will be modified so as to make
the construction of the plant within
the amount of the appropriation.
The government is now advertising
for bids for the construction of a $200,-
000 cutter for the revenue service of
the Pacific coast Bids must .be re
ceived by the treasury department not
later than December 21 next, and the
vessel must be completed by January
1, 1897. It will be the finest revenue
cutter in the service, fitted with all the
latest applianoes and conveniences. A
cutter for harbor duty at San Franoisoo
is also to be constructed, to cost not ex
ceeding $50,000.
Idaho.
Electric lights are being placed in
De Lamar. .. . .
The Idaho Poultry Association will
meet at Caldwell December 18, 19, 20
and 31.
About two miles are ready for the
laying of pipe for the Ogden power
dam pipe line.
The stockmen of Idaho will have
plenty of feed for their cattle this win
ter, although many of the ranges are
not in very good condition.
A movement is on foot among the
local capitalists to form a company to
light by electricity the towns of Gem
and Burke.
A vein of coal of an excellent coke
ing quality, has been found on Smith's
Fork, near Cokeville. Cokeing ovens
are being constructed. -. '
State Timber Expert C. O. Brown
has so far estimated 20,000 acres, con
taining 320,000,000 feet, divided as
follows: White pine, 120.000,000 feet;
yellow pine, 6,000,000 feet
Montana.
Billings is agitating a complete
sewerage system.
Bids have been received by Anaconda
for the erection of a city halL
The Anaoonda mine was located in
1876. It has put in Montana $72,-
000,000.
Helena has voted to refund the $161,
000 of bonds that have matured at a
less rate of interest It has also de
cided to take up $418,090 of floating
indebtedness by the issue of 5 per cent
bonds.
Three important water enterprises
are already on foot One is to bring
water from Bear to Kane oreek, a dis
ease of twenty miles, at so estimated
cost of $15,000. Another project is to
bring water from Butte creek, over
iorty miles. This will be expensive.
It will give water all the year around.
James G. Birdsey, who has a large
holding on Kane creek, is at the head
of these enterprises. James Branden,
an Indian man, is at the head of a still
larger enterprise, to reconstruct an old
canal on Rogue river, first, fonr miles
to Gold Hill, and then six - miles to
-goote oreek. The canal will be sixteen
feet on top, eleven feet on the bottom
and five feet deep.
British Columbia.
A telegraph line is to be erected be
tween Northport and Rossland.
A lumber mill, at the head of Arrow
lake, is to be built next year. It will
out 70,000 feet per day.
The ice and cold storage plant at
New Westminster, is to be enlarged
and extensive improvements made.
The contract for building the water
works plant, at Rossland, has been let
Everything is in readiness for actual
construction of the narrow gauge road
Irom Kossland to Trail. It will be
completed in 100 days.
A British Columbia capitalist has
conceived the idea of putting traction
engines on the Cariboo road from Ash
croft to the Cariboo mining country
for hauling supplies and taking out the
product of the mines.
A big-gold dredging plant will be
put in operation in March in the Qnes
nelle river. Steel-toothed buokets of
cast-iron, weighing from 1,000 pounds
to a ton are operated on a reversible
cable stertohing from shore to shore.
All kinds of dirt, even immense bould
ers, is taken out and dumped into a
flume fed by centrifugal pumps for
washing. An Ottowa firm is now at
work on the machinery.
Improvements going on in Kamloops
worthy of note are the new telephone
and fire alarm systems. Another move
of no little importance is the organiza
tion of the Imperial Brewery Com
pany, and it is proposed to secure am
ple oapital for the erection of suitable
buildings and the purchase of the re
quired plant wherewith to manufac
ture beer in such quantities as , to sup
ply the whole or greater part of the
large demand of the interior towns.
VIEWS OF LEADING PAPERS.
Editors Give an Expression of Opinion
on Events of the Day.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The notion that "a yellow dog" can
be elected on the Republican ticket
next year constitutes the first streak of
daylight the Democracy has seen since
the election.
sww. Republicans Willing. :
New York(rrss.J r
So far as the third term is concern
ed, the Republicans are willing to have
Cleveland run again if the Democrats
are. ,
That Eastern Question.
. New York Tribune.)
For the first time in the history of
Oriental politios, the six great powers
of Europe are thoroughly in accord and
acting in conert in bringing the Otto
man government to its senses. Their
combined fleets have sailed for Tarkish
waters, with the object of impressing
upon the porta that the civilized world
will no longer put up with mere prom
ises of reform, but requires the im
mediate execution of long-unfulfilled
pledges. The projected naval demon
stration of the powers at Constantino
ple may be relied upon to bring mat
ters to a crisis. For it will prove to
the Turks that Europe is in earnest as
well as in accord, while it may like
wise serve to strengthen the position of
the well-intentioned, but unfortunate
sultan, by proving to his lieges that if
he yields to the unbelievers it is not by
incliation, as they allege, but under
compulsion.
Pullman Should Come Down.
Minneapolin Tribune.
The railroads should push the move
ment to compel Pullman to reduce the
price of upper berths in sleeping cars.
An upper berth isn't worth as much
money as a lower one at least, people
won't pay as much for an upper if they
can help it At fifty cents less it' is
quite probable that the uppers in any
particular car would be sold as quickly
as the lowers.
For a Scientific Expedition.
New York, Nov. 30. The schooner
yacht Corona, owned by D. Willis
James and his son, Arthur Curtis
James, which defeated the schooner
yaoht Dauntless in a midwinter race
across the Atlantic in 1886, and which
has since sailed around the world, is
being fitted out at South Brooklyn for
a scientiflo expedition to the coast Ja
pan. On the afternoon of August 9,
next, at 3 o'clock, there will be a total
eclipse of the sun which will not be
visible in this part of the globe, and it
is for the purpose of observing this
phenomenon that the expedition is fit
ted out The chief observer of the ex
pedition will be Professor David B.
Todd, the eminent astronomer of Am
herst college.
Elisabeth Cad j Stanton.
Baltimore American
She is in many respects one of tbe
most remarkable women of her time.
She was never a wild reformer of im
aginary wrongs, but a sensible, prac
tical woman of superior mind, of un
questioned ability, a born leader among
her sex, seeking no notoriety, but al
ways devoted to the cause in which
she enlisted. ' One of the greetings sent
her by thirty members of the family of
John Bright spoke of her as "the
friend of the enslaved African, tbe
doughty champion of peace, of temper
anoe, of moral reform, and for sixty
years the eloquent advocate of the
claims of motherhood and women. "
DEPARTMENT OF WAR
Annual Report of the Secre
tary of the Navy.
A VERY EXHAUSTIVE DOCUMENT
A High Compliment Paid to the Excel
. leney of Construction of the
New Vessels.
Washington, Deo. 3. The annual
report of the secretary of the navy is a
very exhaustive document of 30,000
words with numerous tables.
After reciting the facts of the com
pletion and commissioning of the new
warships Olympia, Minneapolis and
Indiana, built by contract, and the
Maine, Texas and Amphitrite, built at
government navy yards, the secretary
calls attention to the failure of the
ram Katahdin to make the rate of
speed named in the con tract for her
construction, and refers the matter to
congress. He says the department ex
pects the Terror and Monadnook to be
in commission by February 1, ; 1896,
and the Puritan about July 1, 1896.
He says delays have occur red in con
struction of vessels by the custom of
transferring workmen from the con
struction to the repair department, in
order to avoid increasing the foroe of
workmen. This custom has been abol
ished in the government yards, and
the secretary enters a protest against
the habit of congress of relieving con
tractors from penalties imposed tor de
lays by the department
The secretary pays a high compli
ment to the excellence of construction
of the new vessels.
Of the vessels now in oourse of con
struction, he predicts that the first
class battleship iewa will be completed
about October, 1897. Tbe first class
battleship Massachusetts is praotioally
completed, except as regards the
armor. It is estimated that the ves
sel can be completed in about eight
weeks after the delivery of her armor.
The first class battleship Oregon is as
far advanced as is practical before the
delivery of armor and gunmounts.
About six months will be required for
their installation. Tbe Brooklyn will
not be ready for trial in less than one
year.
No substitute for wood for some
parts of vessels having been found, the
department has adopted the eleotrio
fireproofing company's method of treat
ing the wood used.
'PULITZER'S GIFT.
Paris: la Presented With Statue of
Paris, Deo. 3. Bright weather shone
upon the ceremony today of unveiling
the group of statuary of Washington
and Lafayette, modeled by the well
known sculptor Frederick August Bar
tholdi, and presented to the city of
Paris by Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the
New York World. A notable as
semblage witnessed the unveiling. '
Among the company present were
Henry Vignaud, first secretary of
the United btates embassy; Major San- '
ford C. Kellogg, military attaohe, and
Lieutenant R. P. Rodgers, naval at
tache of the emabssy; the Hon. Will
iam T. Quimby, United States minis
ter to the Netherlands; Samuel E.
Morss, United States consul-general in
Paris; General MoCook; M. Bartholdi,
the sculptor; the prefect of the Seine;
M. Freimige, designer of the pedestal;
a number of French officials, and many
ladies. -
The site of the bronze group is at the
west end of the Place des Eatta Unis,
in the most fashionable quarter of
Paris.
Ballard Smith, London correspond
ent of the New York World, first made
a short speech, presenting the group of
statuary, and was frequently applaud
ed. He said:
"I am here today as the representa
tive of Joseph Pulitzer, who honors
himself and his country in presenting
this statue of Washington and Lafay
ette, kindred names in the deepest affec
tions of the two peoples, to this beauti
ful and historical chief city of our sis
ter republic. If he could have been
here, Mr. . Pulitzer would doubtless say
more than I can of the patriotic and
affectionate motives which inspired his
gift; but we can perhaps sufficiently
interpret Mr. Pulitzer's cardinal mo
tive by quoting the inscription that he
has prepared for the statue, which is
meant to be, as. he has written it, and
speaking as he undoubtedly may, for
all our fellow-citizens:
" 'Homage to France, in gratitude
for her generous co-operation in the
struggle of the people of the United
States for liberty and independence." '
Mr. Smith then alluded to the faot
that it was Mr. Pulitzer's good for
tune, as editor and proprietor of tbe
New York World, to inaugurate the
popular subscription which gave a
worthy pedestal to M. Bartholdi's
statue of "Liberty Enlightening the
World" in New York harbor, and in
conclusion, in Mr. Pulitzer's name, be
presented the group to the city of
Paris.
The military band that was present
thereupon played the "Marsellaise."
M. Bonrd, vice-president of the Paris
municipal council, in accepting the gift
for the city, briefly reviewed the his
tory of the two men thus represented
in bronze, and said that the union of
flags under which Washington and La
fayette stood hand in hand represented
really the union of tbe people of tbe
two republics. He hoped the echoes of
today's cheers would traverse the ocean
and unite even more closely the two
nations. He thanked Mr, Pulitzer
warmly, and also M. Bartholdi for
the manner in which he oarried out hif
eonoeption. '