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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-04-19
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Orn rels'rter relates the followin;
experience OF one of our most rcl,r
stantial merchants, Deacon stephen 4, .....
MIR. Mason saya that from 1869 to ises .h..-
terribly from frequent very severe G,i -,
| ilanh"atory Rheuhmtisn,. I'll. As.a,y, J.,
winter Of 20 and so WAS severe rs tur,
F. him .upabio 90, sako.a s,epin fnc: rr,'t
ply aioiaus thought that one side a.
iyzed. and both knees became 500,
could not bond them. Tho doct,,rA i,..,t 4
his case incurahic, leaving hin. In a /, =.
d!ti"n lie was then induced tc ,ry ru,i. 49,,
ely. BY medical friqnd why toll! III: ,.,p,
whole hck,ess ami, ,pnhlc n,os.' isn *
disease, a,d convinced Mr.. M:..nnt::'
,tf, cese, and af,et ,ati"g !, six w ~
i.as:y cured, and is now in su".
cal condition that neither damp " t., IL
-fScf Affect Inn ifsagreca,i,, - ''
TINT his cure Is c"inpictr. aa !: i'H'.
years since lie has ii,,l III, ,i~ :,s,.
my most remarkable cure scici.,a :, $50.
edy. the Infalllble Kidney nn,. Iiv, Asies
Gays Mr.. Mason Prurilencr E-sp;.,y,.S &, !A;5l
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-04-19

WILLIAM II. w.rrsdS. NH, srri, Is
tcnCo ,9a.s Gays: 81 pfrscr.n,n ;"s.9,
eiy tn avompiicaresi casa OF rr"S., ;, =ss5s
been frssting for eiyhi yrars. bud M
Atpaeds y tho best medicine fsss sfF II Ss :s%
9ki kidneys have ever use.l." ~ ~ 81
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
SH.RIFF SALE.

Notice is hereby given, that by virture OF Decree
and Execution issued out of and under the seal of the
Circuit Court of the State Of Oregon for the county
of Benton, on the 22nd day of December A. D. 1882,
for the sum of s475.75, and the further sum taxed
s774o and interest at per cent per annum, from
the 21st day of December 1882 and and expenses
of sale, in favor OF W. o. Palmer, plaintiff VS.. Henry
Baldwin and Sarah Baldwin, defendants, execution
having issued therefor, commanding to sell the
hereinafter described real estate, towit: Lots No.
ten QO), eleven QD, twelve u2). in Block No. two,
n the town of Wells, in the county of Benton and
State of Oregon. have levied upon the above des-
crbed real property and will sell all the right, title
and interest the above named defendants had on
said Goth day of December, 1882, anytime there
after, on
SATURDAY THE 10th DAY OF FEBRUARY. 1888,
at the hour Of o'clock in the afternoon of said
day in frontof the Court House door in the city of
Corvallis in said county and state Of Oregon.
SOL. KING,
2o-2w5 Sheriff Of Benton county. Oregon.
Dated January 3rG 1888
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19

60 down; this was few minutes past $3.50
A. NJ; as got into the elevator noticed
very little smoke; I Immediately started
down to see where it came from; by the
time reached the Office floor the smoke was
SO dense could go no further in the eleva-
tor; throwing open the door rushed out
and started for the stairs, shouting to the
night clerk that there was fire below and /
was going to see about it; by the time
reached the bottom of the elevator shaft the
smoke was so dense and sitting I knew
something must be done; call to the engineer
who was in the eng inc room; told HIM to
rouse the servants; then I started back to
awaken the people; by the time I reached
the first floor above the office, and had rap
ped at Mr.. Crammer's door, the heat crack
ed the glass doors to the elevator, and in a
moment afterwards the flames poured out.
then rushed into the bank building and
aroused as many dodgers in that portion as
could. Afterwards rendered what help
I could in raising the people. I hardly
know what to say about the commencement
of the fire, but know it caught at the bot
tom of the elevator, and not the upper
floors. There was nothing anywhere around
the elevator that could burn so quickly, and
at half past three O'Clock there was no
smoke in the elevator. Either Elliott or
myself would have noticed it. After the
smoke was observed there was scercely time
to do anything before the whole thing was
ablaze. 1t might have caught in one of the
shops in the basement that back up to the
bottom of the elevator, but on the bottom
floor of the hotel part there was nothing
that could possibly burn that way, and
that could have been smouldering through
out the night. This is shown by the fact
that so many were around until such short
time before the actual blaze occurred. 1
don't know that the fire was incendiary,
but there is very queer look about it"
Nearly week since the fire and the
widest reports of the first day are fully re-
allied. Up to o'clock on the night of the
10th, 2S bodies were recovered, and three
more were found to-day by noon. All the
girls in the laundry doubtless were strug-
Cling to reach the passage out into the hank
building when the flames and smoke stopped
them.
Geo. Schiller, lessee of the bar of the New
hall house was arrested last Tuesday on
suspicion of having set fire to the hotel.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19

In answer to some questions pro-
pounded by us few days ago to the
state board of school land commits
sioners in regard to loan, the sec
retary replied to our queries in the
following language, TO wit: ''The
Board may loose few good loans
but there are plenty of others. The
Board could loan a million Of money
at the present rates. Money o"
mortgages is worth little more
than per cent now and will con-
tinue to advance until there is some
change in the law &c."
We simply quote the above to
sho W that what-we have said in re-
gard to the untruthfulness of those
pretended public spirited. quacks
who are entering into newspaper
correspondence and denouncing the
management of school loans when
their object is due to disappointment
because they cant get their fingers
on the fund on their own terms and
they rush into print and announce
that a "Daniel hath come to judge
meHt," and other titles over different
nondeplumes.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
THE muRpERER.s CONFESSION

For the murder ct E. H. Cummins
the O. r. N. Cos. agent at New York
Bar, w. r., last summer, Canady
Owenby who was recently tried for
the offense which resulted in a hung
Jury after which Owenby made a
confession in which he implicated
Ezra Snodderly and J. M. McPher-
son who were examined before JUS
tice of the Peace L. D. Drake, at
Dayton, sW. r., and were bound
over 10 await the action Of the grand
jury.
In Owenby's confession he also
implicated johnson Porter formerly
of this place, on the ground that
Mcpherson had told him that he had
to give Porter 5000 for pistol and
to keep his mouth shut. This will
be taken down as being very thin by
most people in and about Corvallis
who have known johnson Porter
during the last several years. AT
least they will wait very anxiously
for some proof more creditable than
the bare statement of those murder
ers before they will believe that
young Porter was implicated in the
affair. Young Porter grew up to
manhood in and about Corvallis and
was kuown as a quiet inoffensive and
Industrious boy until few months
ago when he went to w. r., where
he has been in business with couple
OF his uncles. Il is contrary to the
very nature of things for boy of
this kind to step suddenly into the
commission of the worst of crimes.
Hardened criminals do not become
so sud denly, but on the contrary they
are made SO step by step. by degrees
from bad to worse until the worst be-
comes of them. When last here
Porter was engaged with his uncle
10 work in the warehouse as he had
been for years before steady and
industrious ard to think now that he
has changed from that kind of life in
the short space Of five or six months
to entering into murderous conspira-
cies with condemned criminals to
murder his fellow men for money
is certainly contrary 10 all human
experience and revolving to human
nature. And then again it is under
stood that young Porter was in easy
circumstances and did not need
money but had plenty OF his own.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
AMENDMENT TO TIE CONSTITUTION.

A western lawyer is engaged in
preparing an amendment
to the consti: ution, which will be
offered for congressional action this
session, that will make it possible for
citizens of any state to bring suit
against any other state. This amend
ment is being prepared at the in
stance of holders of state bonds is
sued by states, such as Tennessee,
which have endeavored to repudiate
their obligations, and the gentleman
who has it in charge says the Ten
nessee delegation in congress are in
favor of such action. The proposed
amendment contemplates the resto-
ration of the condition of affairs prior
to the adoption of the 11th amend
ment to the constitution in 1878,
when citizens could bring suit against
any state but their own.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
GREAT CDNFLAGRATIoN.
Amphitneatre Burned at ST. Petersburg
400 Lives Lost.

Amphisneatre Burned at ST. Petersburg
400 Lives Lost.
A circus at St. Petersburg caught fire and
burned last Saturday from the carless hand
ling of fire arms. The audience of 800
rushed to the front door which opened in
wards. The crowd pressed forward and it
could not be opened. They then made for
compelling the people to take to the win
dows, from which many sprang into the
streets with their clothes sheet of flames.
The fire brigade arrived within half an hour,
but it was impossible to extinguish the
flames, as the water in the tanks was frozen.
The fire lasted two hours. An eye witness
states that when the doors was finally open.
ed a mass of burning persons were visible
destroyed. The circus was wooden struc'
ture. The horses running about wildly in
creased the confusion. 1t is stated now
that 400 persons were suffocated, crushed
or burned to death.
The ice broke while the fire brigade was
crossing the river, thus preventing them
from reaching the fire more promptly.
It is estimated 80 men, l20 women and
60 children lost their lives. The Victims
include the colonel of police and vice pres
ident of the Berditschef bourse. The au
dience consisted mainly of Jews.
Another account says the fire was caused
by groom having thrown lighted ciga
rette on the straw in the st .bles, setting il
on fire. Another groom tried to stamp out
the fire, but strong draught famed the
flames and caused them to spread. The
author of the fire persisted, also two clowns,
believed to be Englishmen.
Yesterday man, whose wife and three
children are among the victims, stabbed 6
senior member of the merchants guild in
the street and then tried to cut his own
throat. It is supposed the murdered man
abandoned the assailant's wife and children
in order to effect his own escape from the
building.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
HORRIBLE FIRE AT MILWAUKEE,, WIS.
A Six Story Hotel Burns to the Ground
One Hundred Lives Lost in the
. Terrible Conhagration.

A Six Story Hotel Burns to the Ground
One Hundred Lives Lost in the
= Terrible Conhagration.
On Wednesday of last week at about 3:47
in the morning. the alarm of fire was given
was on fire. By the time general alarm
could be given the whole south front of the
building was in flames. So rapidly did the
fire spread that about one hundred of the
unfortunate inmates perished in the flames
or were killed in attempting an escape.
The scene in the alley west of the burn
ing building was sickening. As early as six
o'clock the bodies of seven unfortunate wait
er girls we're stretched upon the snow and
ice, with broken limbs, writhing in agony
until death ended their sufferings.. After
almost superhuman efforts ladders were
stretched from the roof of the bank to the
sixth story of the hotel, and the brave fire
laddies carried ten girls across the fraiI
bridge, four of them dead.
The telegraph wires inclosing the building
on the south and east sides played sad havoc
with those who made the frightful leap for
life. Several bodies were fairly cut in two
by the wires, and the torn and bleeding
forms would drop to the ground. Others
would hit the wires crossways, rebound and
be hurled to- the ground with a dreadful
crash. '
To the unfortunate waiter girls, all lodged
in the sixth story and attics, the saddest lot
has fallen. OF the sixty young girls only
eleven were heard from alive as late as yes
terday evening. 1t is feared the estimate
Of fifty lives lost, as formed yesterday morn
ing, is far too low, and fully double that
number are burned or smothered to death
in the blazing fire.
Since the fire, intense excitement prevail
ed and workmen have been busy removing
the debris and taking out the charred re-
mains of the unfortunate victims. Nearly
all of whom cannot be recognized from what
remainedof them.
-Wm Mckenzie, a night watchman at the
hotel makes the following important state
ment: On the night of the fire 1 made my
rounds as usual, visiting the different lodg-
ing floors and basement rooms, and saw
nothing unusual; observed the bar room
open till two o'clock in the morning; George
Schiller was there tor about three quarters
of an hour; after had been to the wood
room, about A. NJ, and in opening the
door leading to the bar-room, saw that
place still occupied; at later hour ran
the elevator down to the bottom landing to
take up a gentleman who came from the
bar; at $3.50 O'Clock in the morning T. B.
Elliott came on late train; 1 was in the office;
he asked me if the elevator was running.
told him / would take him up. and did SO,
letting him ont at the third floor; then went
up, to-the top floor, taking a railroad conduc-
tor MP from the third to that floor; looked
round tho balls and got into the elevator to
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19

pure will come out in broad day light
and support his opinions with the
presence of his countenanee and not
bide himself in darkness behind a
nondepluthe. The board were in
formed as much as a year or two ago
by the present. examiner of titles for
this county that if there was any
person here who would do the work
of examining the value and titles to
the land for school loans SO as to bet.
ter advance the interests of the funds
the present incumbent would step
down and out at any time. But as
to examining the titles and valueing
the lands and making the certificate
required, which virtually amounts to
waFranting the titles, the present in
cumbent OF this county will not per-
form such duties for any trlfing sum
to be dictated by parties whose mo-
tives are to get their long bony ting.
ers into the fund, and whose dis
pleasure is occasioncd simply because
they can not accomplish such all un-
worthy object. The school funds in
Benton county are not suffering and
under the present management no
loans have been made but what can
be called in at aEy. time after they
are due, and the interes: is paid
promptly and no such thing can be
said of those made prior to that time.
Under the present management such
loans are made in the interests of the
fund and not particularly in the in
terests of the borrower. In, former
years during those good old times
such loans were generally made in
the interests of the borrower and
that is what poor Nasty and the
rest Of the people at the GROSS roads
long to see again. =
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
SHERiFF'S SALE.

Notice is hereby given, that by virtue Of exec-
tion issued out of the Circuit court of the state of
Oregon for the county of Benton, the 9Th day Of
December A. D. 1882, upon certain judgment rem
dered entered and docketed said court, the 5th
day of September A. u. 1872, and upon which leave
to issue execution was granted, and entered and
docketed as Judgment in said court on the 1st day
of December A. D. 1882 in favor Of 3. W. Wilson,
plaintiff and against E. D. Thorn, defendant, for
the sum of 1892 40 and twenty dollars costs, with
interest thereon the rate of per pei annum
from the first day of december 1882, and the costs
upon said execution, to me directed and delivered
and commanding that out of the personal proper
ty OF said defendant, E. D. Thorn, or if sufficient
thereof cannot be found, then out of the real pro-
perty belonging to said defendant, E. D. Thorne.
in said county. to satisfy said sums of money. Not
being able to find any personal property of said de-
fendant, f. D. Thorn, subject to satisfy said exc
cuton, as above stated and in order to satisfy said
sums of money herenbefore named. have levied
upon and viii sell for cash in hand at the Court
house door, in the city of Corvallis in Benton county,
State of Oregon, on Saturday,
THE goth DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1858,
between the hours of O'Clock in the forenoon and
o'clock in the afternoon of said day, namely at the
hour of one o'clock in the afternoon of said day. all
the right title and interest of said defendant, E. d.
Thorn in CT to the following described real proper
tS to-wit
That piece of land known as the west half Of the
Oystervle claim of 16i 60100 acres situated on the
Yaauina Bay, in the county of Benton and State Of
Oregon, more particularly described in Certificate
No. $50 of the land office at Oregon City, Oregon,
dated Dec 13, 1870, viz: Commencing at stake
20. 90 rods west of the Oystervie House, formerly
iad hvC arr Drr
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
MEXICAN TREATY.

There are thirty-two articles OF
import from Mexico which are pro-
posed to be admitted free of duty in
to the United States. Of these, "a
are already on the free list and six
are not articles produced in our
country. Only two in the list-sugar
and tobacco-are products of the
United States. In return for these
the Mexican government proposes to
admit free of duty all hard ware, woods
and machinery adapted to the mining
and agriculture. 1t is said that Mex
leo produces only about one fourth
the amount of sugar necessary for
home consumption.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19

The potato crop of 1881 was agener-
aI.failure throughout the United States
and the price of tubers rose to such a
height that it was found profitable
to import them in considerable guam
titles from New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Scotland and Ireland. But it
is not probable any one had an idea
ofthe magnitude of the business.
The books of the Customs Bureau,
however, show that nearly nine mil
lions of bushels were imported during
the last fiscal year, their value being
s4,5Oo,oOo, and the duty on them
Slls,476. 1t is almost Incredible
that in a country of such vast terri
tory as the United States, and with a
soil and climate unsurpassed for the
growing of this edible, we should
be put to the necessity of importing
ffine million bushels Of potatoes in a
single year..
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19

To all whom it may concern notice is hereby given
the undersigned VIM. J. Kelly the administrator
OF the estate OF William F. Bowen deceased has filed
his final account for final settlement with said es-
tate in the County Court of the state of Oregon for
the County OF Benton, and said Court has appointed
Saturday, the 10th day of February, 1888, at the
hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day at
which said court will hear any and all objections
that may be made to said account and said final set
tement The said day last aforesaid being day of
the regular February term of said County Court.
This the 11th day Of Jan A. D. 1888
VIM. J. KELLY,
Administrator Of estabe Of VIM, =, Bowen deceased
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
NOTICE 70 TAXPAYERS.

will meet the Tax Payers of Benton Co., at the
usual places of voting, as follows, to-wit:
Tum Tum, Dec %, 1882; Tidewater, Jan. 1888;
Lower Alsea. Jan. 2, 1888; Newport. Jan. 3, 1888;
Toledo, Jan. 4, 1885, Elk City, JAN S, 1888; Summit,
Jan 6, 1888; Kings Valley Jan. 8, 1885, Soap Creek,
Jan 9, 1888; Philomath, Jan. TO- 1888; Alsea Valley
Jan. H. 1888; Monroe, Jan. II, 1885, willamette Jan.
l3, 1883; Corvallis, Jan, Is to Is 1888.
After which time mileage and percentage will be
charged on all taxes unpaid at that time as law pro
vides
Dated this 7th day OF December 1882
SOL KING,
b2m2 Sheriff of Benton County Oregon.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19

The winter in England has SO far
been unusually mild and moist. Jen-
nings, the London correspondent of
the New York World, writes that
'sthe primroses are blossoming in the
country and the thrnshes singing
just as if it were spriEg." But there
has been deluge of rain, constant
down-pour, which has swollen the
rivers above their banks and placed
all the lowlands under the water.
This uncomfortable. drenching has
extended to the continent, especially
to Germany, Eastern France and
Northern Italy, where the rivers
have risen to flood height, and there
has been great destruction Of pro-
rsrty and considerable loss of ife
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.

The following are some of the
principal points contained in the bill
which passed the U. S. Senate last
W eek OH the subject of presidential
succession in the case of the death of
the one elected to Fill that position:
The bill to provide for the Office of
president, in case .of removal, death,
resignation or inability of both pres
ident and vice president, passed the
senate to-day. 1t enacts that in the
case fst removal, death, resignation or
|ity of both president and vice
president of the United States, the
secretary of state, or if there is none,
for in case of his removal, death, res
aGoh or inability, then another
cabinet officer, in the order of pre-
cedence, viz: secretary Of the treas
ury, secretary of war, attorney gen
eral, postmaster general, secretary of
the navy. secretary of the INTERIOR
shall act as president until the dis
ability is removed, or until the va
cancy is otherwise filed, such officer
being eligible to the Office of presi-
dent nnder the constitution, and not
under articles of impeachment by the
house of representatives, at the time
the powers aud duties of the office
shall devolve upon him, provided
that whenever the power and duties
oflhe president of tie United States
snail devolve upon any of the per-
sons named, if congress be not then
in session, or if it would not meet
regularly within twenty days there
after, it shall he the duty of the per-
son upon whom said powers and
duties shall devoive to issue procla-
nation convening congress in ex-
traordinary session, giving twenty
days notice of the time of meeting.
Sec. O.. That the preceding Sec
ton shall only be held to describe
and apply to the.e officers, who shall
he appointed by advice and consent
of the senate to Offices therein named.
Sec. 8. That section 146 Of the
revised statutes be hereby repealed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-19

Ii will be remem bercd that Presi-
dent Arthur, in his annual message,
urged upon Congress the considera-
tion of Civil Service Reform, and
pledged himself in advance to sup
port any reasonable plan for such re
form. The bill, which has passed
the Senate. will afford him an OPP
portun,y TO redeem his pledge. So
much will depend upon the DISPOSE
ton of the-Executive to give etfi-
cheney to the plan that it is cratify-
ing to know that the President re-
CARDS it with favor, and will strive to
make it success.