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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29

HOMESTEAD has a population of
nearly $1,000 of whom over 5000
are men over 81 years old; yet at
last falls state election it cast only
a few more than 500 votes. This
is because the bulk ofits males are
foreign. This is a
fact worth pondering.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29

We have just received nearly four tons of
paper at this office, including letter heads,
note heads, bill heads, statements, envel-
opes, and fine line of typewriter paper.
We believe this is the largest and best line
of paper ever brought to Corvallis. and those
wishing job printing or stationery will do
well to give us a call. First-class work in
all lines Of job printing at reasonable prices.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29
THINGS HlFE cRANGED SINCE 'SS

1 u Il
We find the following in the
New York World above the sigma
ture ~ Member of the Democratic
County Committee:'
Knowing that The World is just
now in search of the truth regard
ing the great question. "Can
cleveland carry New York 2" a
few observations are hereby sub
mitted by a democrat desirous Of
party success.
The fact that the state organ'za-
ton would be loyal to Cleveland
does not settle the question. The
members of the state committee,
even if enthusiastic for the eX-
president-when of course they
are not-could not save the state
for him if a sufficient number of
democratic voters refused to 60 TO
the polls and cast their ballots.
This statement needs no demon
stration, so the question resolves
Itself into one. Would democrats
refuse to vote for Cleveland to
such an extent as to bring about
his defeat? The writer sincerely
believes that they would, and fol
that reason earnestly opposes the
nomination of Cleveland as in the
highest degree disastrous to the
democratic party.
From four years of careful OBJ
servation and mingling among the
democratic voters of Northern
New York I have found that the
following classes will, with a few
exceptions, refuse to support OF
vote for Mr.. Cleveland:
1. The old soldiers.
9. The Irish Catholics.
3. The Hill men, whose party
spirit cannot overcome the indig-
nation they feel at the offensive
arrogance and abuse of the mug
wump supporters of Cleveland.
4. The iron and ore companies.
with their employees, and the
wool growers, who believe, rightly
or wrongly, that Mr. Cleveland's
tariff policy would be detrimental
to their business interests.
In Clinton county the writer
can name a score of men, sup
porters of Senator Hill, who have
become so disguised and indignant
at the persistent abuse and arrog-
ant assumptions of the Cleveland
mugwumps that under no con-
sideration would they vote for
Grover Cleveland.
In the contingency of his nomi'
nation they would consider it a
party duty to rid it of the mug
wump incubus by defeating their
candidate.
These leaders will Loyalty sup
port the nominee of the Chicago
convention, but with Cleveland
as the candidate they will be pow
erless to control the rank and file.
Organization can do a good deal,
but it cannot plot out the deep
resentment of the Hill democrats
against the mugwump partisans OF
Cleveland, who for some years
have bounded Senator David B.
Hill and capped the climax by the
insult of the Syracuse convention
and separate state organization.
With the situation in New York
fully explained the party cannot
fail to make a wise and strong
nomination.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29
SUMMER EX CURSIoNS TO YAQUINA A

The Oregon Pacific railroad company
have placed on sale their regular summer ex-
cursion tickets to Yaquina and return at
the same rates and limits formerly.
These tickets are ON sale on Wednesday and
Saturday only.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29
WAGES HERE AND ABROAD.

Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Steven
son both denounce the Homestead
riot as an object lesson which
proves the worthlessness of the
protective tariff to American labor.
Holding this view OF course Mr.,
Cleveland ard Mr.. Stevenson must
logically favor the removal of the
present iron and steel duties, aud
unlimited competition between
American and English workers,
This repeal OF the iron and steel
duties would be, We suppose, Mr.,
Clevelaud's idea of how to maze
the tariff under a democratic ad,
miniStration ~ boon" to the work
ingman. What would be the
effect Of this "boou" upon the
wages at uomeSteadg 7 According
to the Iron Age the lowest wages
paid ut Homestead for a days
work of eight hours to any roller
were SITS, and the highest $l9.76.
The English wages Of rollers aver
age about $3.50 per day of eight
hours. The lowest wages paid for
a days work Of eight hours to any
heater was $5.S3, and the highest
$9.SS. The English wages of
heaters average $1.60 per day Of
eight hours. The pay of blast
furnace keeper has been 1926 per
day under the scale hitherto
in force in the Pennsylvania
mills, and 50 in England. Ladle
men have received from $2.75 to
1915 in the United States, and
from 81 to $1.15 in England.
Converter men are paid from $3.50
to $3.50 in the American iron
works, and $1.45 in England.
Rail straighteners earn $40 per
day under the Amalgamated scale
in America, and $1.35 in England.
The lowest priced labor employed
in mills running on the Amalga-
mated scale receives $3.50 per
day. Its counterpart in England
is paid 62 cents.
What sort of ''boon'' to labor
the removal of the iron and steel
duties prove to the Homestead
mills, where "the hopes Of toll are
mocked," says Cleveland, by wages
which are more than double those
paid for the same work in the
English mills. Corrol d. Wright,
the leading statistician of the
country, says that the cost of the
labor in every ton of steel ingots
produced in the United States is
200 per cent. more than in En-
gland.
Mr.. Cleveland finds labor at
Homestead receiving more than
double the wages paid in foreign
mills, and he proposes to repeal
the iron and steel duties as
"a BOOM to ''hopeless toll that is
mocked'' by the receipt of the
highest wages paid in the world.
Mr.. Cleveland, because American
labor at Homestead is suffering
slightly from internal competition,
because over production has
caused slight reduction of wages,
of these workmen by opening their
market 10 the competition of En-
glish and Belgian mills. And
this is Mr.. Cleveland's "boon" to
American labor; he finds him sui
fering transiently from over-pro'
duction, and he proposes to relieve
him by forcing him to permanently
suffer from foreign competition,
too.
This is good deal like propos-
ing to relieving a man from the
annoyance of musquito bite by
burning him with a red-hot iron.
This kind of stupidity ON the part
of Cleveland is worthy of a man
who persists in saying "the tariff
| is tax"
The free trade press is fearfully
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29


IT is probable that nothing more
will be heard of the little free
trade bills passed by the house.
They went to the finance com
mittee Of the senate, which, so fan
as can be learned, has not even
considered them. 1t was sup
posed that the committee would
make the bills the text of a strong
high tariff report, but it appears
that it chose to dismiss them in
contemptuous silence. Congress
is probably within a week of ad-
journment and nothing has been
heard of them yet. One reason
why these bills have been neglect
ed is said to be that the republi-
can members interested in tariff
matters have been engaged for a
year and a half upon a report
directed by the 51st congress upon
the effect Of the Mckinley bill on
retail prices. This report is about
finished, and may be submitted
this week. The report will cover
about sixty pages, with some
1000 printed pages Of price quota
tions. Its general argument is
that the temporary advance OF
prices in 1880 was not due to
the details of the bill so
much as to the excitement
caused by tariff agitation. 1t will
insist that the general tendency
in prices has been downward dur
ing the past year, while in
European countries prices have
been advancing. There ought to
be a deal of valuable campaign
material i'll this report.-Ore-
gonian.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29
THE CHITWOoD NURSERY.

J. E. Wilson, proprietor of the Clitwo
nurscry, Chitwood, Oregon, has fine di>
play of Fruit and Ornamental Trees. E'e'
green's Grape Vines, Shrubs. etc, etc. FEEi
FRM INSECT PESTS. Address,
j. E. WILSON, Chitwood, Oregon.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29

In DECLARING "we have had a
hundred years of funexampled pros
perity," the democratic platform
forgot that the last thirty odd years
Of it were under protection.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29
MONEY TO LOAN.

Money to loan at S per cent interest OF
Tar ming land in Benton county. Enquire 81
J. r. Markley & Co. Office oyer the pos
ntiice, Corvallis, Oregon.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29
A SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR RHEU
N5ATISM

81 have trade for ten miles around on
Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism,
and believe it to be perfect success" q
M. De L. Smith, Middleway, w. Va. For
sale by T.. Graham, druggist.
Evening journal., 1892-10-10

The cave is heaped with bodies Of the
dead"
The others looked in TO find that his
words We're true. IL was a chamber
sixteen or eighteen feet square and ten
or twelve feet high, and it was solidly
packed with grayish mass. That mass
was the shriveled and mummifed bodies
Of the lost race--dead men, women and
children who had been laid away for
perhaps two or three centuries.
"Well, we have had our labor for our
pains, said Harkins as he stepped back.
"And we don't want TO discover any
more caves" added Joe with tinge Of
bitterness.
IF they followed the rule in burying
these dead we shall find a fortune in
here" said the captain as he braced his
torch against u rock. Lets see what
can discover"
He entered the opening, thrust his
hand into the mass of dust, worked it
about for a moment, and then backed
out holding in his fingers an anklet
weighing at least four ounces. He
rubbed the metal briskly on his sleeve,
and lol the shine of gold caught every
eyel
Worth at least seventy-five dollars, ="
said the captain as he held it up, "and
there ought to be bushels of them in
there. Take it with you to camp and
give 'em the news, and send up two Of
the men with shovels. Everything in
there has got TO be thrown out"
So will it be a century hence. The
dust of those who live today will be
treated as earthly clay in the search for
wealth.
AT the end of the third day there was
a council Of the wagonmen. The cave
had yielded an amount beyond the Wild
est guess. 1t had been cleared Of the
last shovel of dust, and every ornament
and relic had been carried to the camp.
Each member of the party would have
thousands of dollars, and the council
was called to determine what next step
should be taken. The unanimous de-
cision was that the party should make
its way back to civilization as soon as
possible.
Since the Indians passed down the
valley not a redskin had been seen, and
it was hoped the way out was safe and
clear 1t was a long and dangerous
journey across the plains, but If at
tackled the little band must make the
best defense possible. 1t was a peril
that must be encountered in any event
and there was just a chance that tine
train might be left unmolested. The
men were feeling exultant over theil
good luck and the hope of q safe jour
Evening journal., 1892-10-10
TeLeeRAPHIc RREvlTIEs.

Efforts are being made to buy the birth
place of John Brown, the hero OF Harper's
Ferry, at Torrington, Conn, 70 remove It
20 the Chicago fair.
Twenty year franchises for gas, electric
light, street railway and telephone COM
panies have been granted in Providence
and suburban towns, the street railways to
use the trolley.
Nora Swift, a young girl Of Bridgeport
Conn, complained 10 the police that DR.
Lynch had tried 20 cut her eyes out She
is crazy.
The people of Torrington, Conn, have
been victimized by an eloquent preacher
who called himself Rev c. H. Scott. but
was never ordained, and who acted as pas
tor Of the church there during the summer.
The Provident Building and Loan asso-
citation founded in Newark, n. j., in 1889
has suspended. Every member will be
paid in full.
Charles Beale, six years OF age, while
stealing ride on u truck in Newark, n. j.,
fell under the feet Of horse which fol-
lowed. The lads head was SO badly in
jured that he will die
James DAILY, or James Fay died In the
Newark CN. j. City hospital from the
abscess covering a partly healed bullet
wound received by him in Martinsburg, w.
Va, three months ago. He had been found
unconscious on Commerce street.
Evening journal., 1892-10-10
A CRASH AT SEA IN A FOG.
Five Persons Are Dead and Twenty-fv
BADLY Injured.

Five Persons Are Dead and Twenty-Five
Badly Injured.
SEATTLE, Wash, Oct 1O.-The tug Goliah
brings news a terrible collision between the
steam collier Williamet and the Canadian
Pacific Navigation company's steamer Pre-
mier. Five persons are dead as the result
of the accident and twenty-five more are
badly hurt.
The accident occurred of WILDLY island
about ten miles south Of Port Townsend,
during a thick fog. The vessels were going
in opposite directions when the crash came
The Premier which is a passenger vessel,
was struck nearly amidships by the vii.
liamet, which was heavily coal laden. Two
persons in the premier's cabin were crushed
TO death, as was the steward, who was din
ing in the saloon. A large number Of the
passengers were jammed in the debris and
badly hurt One Of these died shortly after
ward. The fifth person to die was a woman,
who became frantic when the crash came
and sprang into the sea. Her name is un.
known.
The Williamet's stem was deeply i'm
bedded in the Premier, and It was found
impossible TO clear the vessels Of each other
after all the Premier's passengers were
taken aboard the collier. IL is fortunate
that the vessels were welded so firmly TO
gether by the crash. But for this the Pre-
mier woTd have gone to the bottom and
the loss os1ife would have been very heavy.
The Williamet and the Premier have since
been beached.
The tug Goliah brought the passengers
of the Premier 10 this city, besides three OF
the dead. Another body is in the wreck
but is so firmly wedged in the debris that
it was found impossible to remove it.
Evening journal., 1892-10-10
CHAPTER 81

And how Jared the renegades?
The girl Lizzie had been cut loose
from the tree to which she was bound
within thirty feet Of them so carefully
that Harkins had her quarter of a mile
nway before she was missed. A rush
md search was made, and no one
questioned that she had got off alone.
They consoled themselves with the
thought that the wild beasts would have
her lie before morning, and when Bob
rtrolled down the valley it was with the
expectation of finding some evidence of
her death.
Well it was for the girl and the wagon
men that Taylor had been kept in igno-
ronce Of her rescue and arrival. Had
the renegades known she was in camp
they would have shed blood to recapture
her. Having no suspicion that she had
been seen or heard Of, they had no par
ticular animosity against the gold hunt
ers. When Taylor, burning for revenge,
wanted to head a raid to steal the horses
or attack the camp, Bob met him with
the reply;
"They drove you out, and I reckon
they did right, but we don't propose 10
burn our fingers to help you git back at
em. We cum yere fur that gold, and
the fust hard work we do will be to look
for it, If we don't troutnS shat gang
they won't trouble u.s."
Taylor had to be satisfied with that.
His standing among them was not pleas
ant. His excuses and explanations did
not 90 down. He was looked upon as a
traitor who had received his just deserts,
and he very soon realized that he was
being endured for the sake Of what he
might know about the cave Of gold.
This knowledge imbittered him, and
the hour he rode by the camp hidden in
the wagon he gritted his teeth and whis'
pered to himself;
These outlaws want me to help lind
the gold, but what viii happen them
They won't sickle to shoot me down
like a dog. They have no notion of di
viding with me. They own the team
and will have all to say"
Evening journal., 1892-10-10
RAILROADs.

DkNNsYLvANIA RAILROADS.&C.
Il ARD Railway OF America-P rejected
Throughout by the Interlocking switch and
BFLpiliHe' Wi iN9;TaN V s ana RAJ
TlMORk RAILROAD. $50 a. M, Oct. 1, 1879.
Trains VIII leave Wilmington as follows:
90 90 800, 947 10 O5, 10 i6, Ii 10. ii s ii 81.
m, sl2 ~, 80, 3 %, 8 O4, s 10, IL, s., sos.
10 q, 06, Is, 3 y pm.
~ ~, 2 25, 345. 4 25, 3 ~, 9 40, 20, lO30p m.
Chester, express. s., 20, 30, Z 45. : So $50.
aQg, g5, l0O5, II 20, l15l, a m, 5 o. 8 50. 7O8,
ACCOMMODATIONS 90, e65,7 o5. 3 os. 10 5. 11s3
m, II 49, 20, As, %, 8 20, 40,7 40 10 Dj d m
II G9w n n9rs NO s 10 o. 90 20 s9 % ess 80 l29
8 %, Q %, t6 q, 7 O6, z 1s, 9 l2. 10 Bpm.
Boston, without change, 10 l6 a m, 10 pm.
West Chester, via Lamokin. 30 rs IN.
Newark Center and intermediate stations,
2 40 IN, IL "a, 683pm.
Baltimore and intermediate stations. 10 10
a m. l2 70. 2 AZ, 4 45. 0 08 d m, ~ u3 night.
Baltimore and Bay Line. 23pm.
n Baltimore "a 4, e and sMashiqgt9ns 80 si,sll,
0 bs, Z 40. s 20 p m. IL 40 night
Trains for. Delaware Division leave for:
New Castle, 10, II ga m, 50, So 4 40. 9 IS,
lewes, Is a m. 81 pm.
Harrington, Delmar and way stations. 8 Is
N. Harrington and way stations, 2 90 pm.
Express for Dover, Harrington and Delmar.
II IL m, 81 m, u OF night.
Express for Wyoming and Smyrna, 80 d m.
Express for Cape Charles, Old Point COM
fort and Norfolk, IL IS m. 10 on night
Leave Philadelphia, Broad street for Will
mington, express, 50, 20, q, s31, Q 10 10 ~,
10 33, II Is m, si2 80, 5000 3 Oi3 96 q R940i
A. gst ~ 90. 80, II, 81, 40, II Is, II 90
Acsq@meaetlen, ss7 20, 1898, li@sm. s.
2e IA, 4l 40, y, a8 10 O8, 10 40, II 3S D m.
Sunday Tralns-Leave Wilmington FOR:
Philadelphia, express, 1 SO. SO, ~, 800, 100.
l0Q1,ll 81 MI 1913 O5,5 Oib iO,5 b8 10 O6 08, 25
" p m. Accommodation, 20. 500 A IN, u 10.
Chester, express IS, 20. 80, co. 10 o5. II 81.
OO O5 m, I2 10. As 05, 90 2S' 10 80 m
New York, express, 50, 2b5 4 20. 90 i BO
| II 81 am, " 10 80, 3O5, 405 3 10, 90, 90,
20 q, 2 o., 10 30 m.
Boston, without change, 3 b6 pm.
West Chestor,via Lamokin, 90 am, 8 20 d m.
New Castle, 10 p m, u 90 night.
| Cape Charles, Old Point Comfort and Nor
! folk. l2 Oh night.
Middletown, clayton, Dover, Wyoming, Fell
ton; Harrington, bridgeville, Seaford, Laurel
Baltimore and Washington, A46, sO1, 10 10
q m, ~ 90. =, 70 Oh, 40, $40 D m, IL 80 night
| Baltimore only, 606 j. m, ~ l3 night
Leave Philadelphia, Broad street, for VIII
mlngton, express, 3 20, z ~, 910, n 1874 m. 4 Al
3 Os, ST. 4Ob rs, II 10, II 30 D m, II O3 night
Accommodation, 35, 10 SO a m, l2 85. 3 05. 10
! s 3S 10 O3 and II aa m.
] For further Information, passengera are re-
/ ferred 10 the ticket Office az the station.
Congressional Limited Express trains. com
posed entirely OF Pullman Vesubule Parlor
! and Dining Cars.
sIimited Express trains, composed OF Pull
man Nestihule Parlor Cars, Nestibule paasen-
ger Coaches and Dining Cars.
VHAs; aaasrn f eSSasi hSSH Genera, r. MOOD
Evening journal., 1892-10-10

AS the pair stood together apart Har-
kins observed them with a start and
whispered to himself:
"Wen, well, but l do really believe
that my Bess has taken a liking to that
chapl How queerl"
He might more truthfully have said,
"How natural, and he might have used
the word Glove" for "liking" And when
the man looked upon the sweet face Of
the orphan he had so gallantly rescued
at the peril of his life, and felt his heart
beating faster, he might have discovered
another queer thing-that somebody else
had "taken liking"
The captain had given the men to un-
derstand that he was prospecting up the
canyon for gold, but had said nothing of
the discoveries made. When dinner was
finished and the trio were ready to re-
turn he renewed his caution about keep
ing steady lookout for danger, and
ordered that no one was to leave camp
on any pretext till his return. Then the
three set out for the scene of their labors
and began work Immediately upon their
arrival. They had no fear of their fire
being seen or their blows overheard, and
men who work to solve q mystery do not
tire.
After three hours of hard work the
crowbars secured such a grip on the
stone that it moved. One united effort
would heave it out of the opening. 1t
was then that the captain stepped back
and sat down and said;
LET us take breathing spell now,
and let Us prepare ourselves to be disap-
pointed"
what do you think is behind the
stone?" asked Joe.
"a cave of some Sort"
"And what shall we find in the cave?"
asked Harkins.
"The shriveled bodies of dead Aztecs.
That lost race always buried their dead
In caves, and when the place would hold
no more it was walled up. l have helped
to open three or four"
But why go to all this trouble to
open a cave of bone and dust| petulant-
ly queried Harkins.
"As the Indian of today places the
property of the dead warrior beside him
that he may have an outfit in the happy
land beyond, so the Aztecs placed the
wealth of their dead beside them in
these caves. l have seen many orna-
ments of gold and silver which came
from such caves"
"Then let us to work" exclaimed Joe
as he seized bar.
1--WE shall find cave Of dead If not a
cave of gold," added Harkins.
The bars were inserted on the left
hand side of the stone, each man drew a
long breath and at the word each threw
his weight on his lever. The stone trem
bled, moved forward. hung a moment
and then fell to the earth with heavy
thud, and an opening appeared into
which a horse could almost have walked
Evening journal., 1892-10-10
CHAPTER XXI.

"Phewl But we have struck cave of
the deadp exclaimed Joe, who was
nearest the opening as the stone fell out.
A rank, musty odor issued from the
cave and drove the three men down the
canyon a distance of a hundred feet and
kept them sneezing and coughing for a
quarter of an hour. During this time
the captain prepared couple of torches,
and by and by they advanced to find the
odor no longer perceptible. The cap
tain pushed his torch into the dark
opening for look at the interior Of the
cave, and after a moment he drew back
and said;
1--WE have got a find here, but there
will be some disagreeahle work about it.
Evening journal., 1892-10-10
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTERS / to IV-rwo gold hunters
named Harkins and Taylor, who are avel-
ing with party TO the Black Hills, have heard
from a dying man the story of hidden cave
of gold in canyon in the hills. Harlsins is
accompanied by his daughter Bess. Joe Blyn,
a brave young scout and ranchmRn. Is the
protector of Bess while her father Is off pros
pecting. V, VI, VII and VlII-Indians have
waylaid the train, and Joe gets ont of camp
in Indian disguise and brings help from the
soldiers. lN-Taylor and Harkins go off to-
gether prospecting, aud Taylor plots TO kill
his partner and get all the hidden gold. X
Harkins is mysteriously shot at and falls, an 1
Taylor disappears. Nl TO NlN-Harkins
rescues a young woman from a party of des-
peradoes, who had stolen her from passing
train. NN-TaylOr returns 10 the train and
reports Hdrkins' death at the hands of lndi-
and. Harkins returns with the rescued cap
tive, Lizzie Brown. NNI-TaylOr Is driven
from camp. The remaining chapters tell how
he falls in with the desperadoes. who are
hunting for Lizzie. He leads them 70 cave
where they get a wagonlOad Of gold, after
ward poisOns them and then dies an insane
wanderer.