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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-07-16
Murder and Suicide.

Vancouver. B. c., July IA dou-
BILE tragedy OF the most sensational ma
ture has just taken place on one of the
principal streets in this city, when W.
]. Immel shot and killed his sweet
heart, Kitty Askew, at the corner of
Pender and Richards streets, and then
shot himself.
Mrs. Cox, Of Nebraska, has taken
the $3.50 prize offered for the best and
simplest invention; this invention is a
work table
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-07-16
ORDERED TO SAN FRANCISCO
The Batt1e-Ship Oregon's Destination
After Taking on Coal.

The Batt1e-Ship Oregon's Destination
After Taking on Coal.
Port Angeles, WASH, July 14.-The
battle-ship Oregon has been waiting
impatiently for two days for coal to ar
rive from Comox. It came this morn
ing, and the custom house inspectors
were asked to hasten their inspection
as much as possible. But 800 tons
came and 500 were expected. This
may prevent the Oregon from getting
away for two or three days. 1t is now
definitely known that she is ordered to
San Francisco. The officers are of the
opinion that the monitors Monadnock
and Monterey will be able to cope with
anything the Japanese may send to Ha-
waii, and that the Oregon will only be
called upon in case of extreme necessi
ty. This is borne out by the fact that
the harbor at Honolulu will not ac-
commodate the Oregon. and she will be
under the necessity of lying outside in
a heavy sea. 1t is said to be so rough
outside the harbor that the battle-ship
would be unable to load coal from
barge.
The department evidently expects
crisis at Hawaii, for the orders for
every man-of-war on the coast have
been changed during the past week.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-07-16
Big Contract Awarded.

Washington, July 14.-The war de-
partment has awarded the Pacific
Bridge Company. of Portland, Or, the
contract for constructing the mortar
battery at Marrowstone Point, Puget
sound, at $163,45O,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Odds and EpfIs

II India rubber bands are put around
bottles carried in a sachel or packed in
a box they will prevent the bottles from
grinding together, and perhaps break
ing,
Soap for household use will last as
long again If, after it has been cut into
blocks it is put by for a few weeks be-
fore being used. New soap melts SO
quickly and is extravagant where much
is required.
The rubber rings of fruit cans will re-
cover their elasticity if soaked for n
while in weak ammonia water. This Is
quite an item when canning is being
done and the rubber rings are found to
be stretched out of shape.
A coloring for white flannel or other
goods to be used for rugs or hangings
may be easily obtained by gathering
from stone walls or rock work the thin
moss that grows there and boiling It
with the goods In an iron kettle. 1t will
make them a tan color.
washing grained woodwork use clear
water or weak cold ten. Where there
are finger marks to be removed. such
as around the door knob or on the win
dow sill, a little fine soap may be used
but only just enough to do the work.
for soap should not be used on this
woodwork II 1t can be avoided
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Weeds and Good FARMING

Occasionally a farmer is heard to
ask how the weeds can be killed. but
he does not realize that If by some
rapid process they could all be dis
patched new legions would Ill their
places at once IL the conditions which
they enjoy remain. What farmers
need to comprehend Is that without
some radical mistake in the manage
ment of their land the daisies never
would have gained such a fcothold
All plants, including weeds, settle and
thrive where the competition for life
is such that they can enter into 1t pros.
per. A good stand of grass leaves no
room nor any hope for weeds. 1t is
not in well-tilled fields that Canada
thistles flourish, but in neglected mas
lures and by the roadsides. In the
contest with the best agricultural
practice they cannot prevail. The rem.
edy for weeds is to keep the land busy
with good crop on it, and this means
that the farmer must give persistent
and connected thought to his business.
If the daisies crowd out the grass it
Is because the meadow has been neg
lected and the grass has begun to fail,
and wherever there is a vacancy by
the failure of the grass every enter
prising weed finds rightful oppor-
tunity to establish itself. II the farm
err asks, therefore, what will kill the
daisies, there is one answer: better
farming and Forest.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
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a Tire tor His Pillow.

ITS bicycle, bicycle, no matter which
way you turn" he growled.
The girl in boomers nodded.
II chose place for the summer" he
continued, where boating and fishing
We're the only sports advertised, and
Inside Of twenty-fou- hours man
showed up with a water bicycle"
"Of course" she returned
There's to be bicycle sled on the
market next winter, ioo," he added.
Quite likely" she admitted.
II suppose the cranks will be taking
the machines to bed with them before
long, he said, sarcastically.
Only one thing prevents 1t now"
she answered.
What's thatw he asked.
"A pneumatic tire that's large enough
to serve as pillow. When some genius
invents a tire that can be made into an
air pillow l believe bicycles will even
supplant poodles and pug dogs."-Chl.
cago Post.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Dairy Dots.


How do you develop the helfer you
desire to keep for the pail?
One ounce of salt to the pound is a
good rule, but salt to please your Gus
toners.
Feed your cows twice per day at reg
ula? intervals, and have pure water and
salt always accessible.
TEirty-two States in the Union now
have laws prohibiting the sale of cleo
MI garine, when colored in imitation
of butter.
A cows stomach is not a complete
stra'ner that will separate all good
fro!J bad, ana all kinds of food and
drink cannot be given with impunity.
If winter dairying pays best with
you, breed most Of your cows in De
cember and January, and they will be
fresh in September and October follow
ing
DO not leave the butter exposed to
the mir after 1t is made Print or pack
1t at once, and put it in cool place I'M
til It goes to the market or to the Gus
toner. Deliver every week.
When salt is kept where the COWS can
help themselves, there is no danger of
Their eating too much. 1t is only when
1t is kept from them for some time that
there is any risk Of Their doing so.
Never let the sun shine on milk. New
er put 1t away without aerating It.
Neither let it stand open in the air af-
ter It has been aerated. Nothing is so
susceptible to evil germs in the air as
mix.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Commodore's Dying Joke.

Some reporters were waiting for
news after midnight recently of the
condition of Cornelius Vanderbilt 1t
is no fun to kick your heels against
the pavement until or 4 o'clock In the
morning, and the reporters grew rest
less. This reminds me-" said one re.
flectively, "of the death watch on the
old commodore, Things We're quite
different then from what they are now.
When the old commodore was just
taken i'll he used to send for us every
day and tell us all about himself. He
used to read the papers and he noticed
that a great deal of space was devoted
to him.
Well boys he said one morning,
I hope | live little longer for your
sakes. You seem to be making a lot
of space out Of me-
FINALLY, though, when he became
too Ill to see us, we had to camp out,
as we are doing now, and 1t soon be-
came tedious. We used to camp about
twenty feet from the front of the house
In which the old gentleman lay. and
sometimes you could hear what was
said in the sickroom.
Among us was a certain gentleman
who is now the respected father of n
family. He was rather inpatient. Ii
was late at night. He had voice In
him like bull.
'Oh, why don't he der he sudden
ly exclaimed, petulantly.
1--WE thought no more of his remark
until few minutes later, when trim
servant girl came out of the house. She
looked us over and watched us for
few moments. Then Doc. said some
thing and she came over to aim and
handed him note. He opened it,
wondering what it could be. On :he
paper was a score or so of words writ
ten in the old commodore's well-known
scrawl. They read:
:" I trust you will pardon me, put as
this is the first time have ever died,
l am little inexperienced and don't
exactly know how to go about it. II
you will bear with me little while,
however, l will TRIP to do my best
THE old gentleman had heard the
plous remark and 1t had been too much
for his grim sense of humor."-New
York Press.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Oversa1ting of Butter.

The habit of oversalting butter comes
from neglect to properly work il. If all
the milk were got out Of the butter, a
very little salt would suffice to keep il
sweet. 1t is the fermentation Of casein
in the butter rather than Of the fat it.
self that makes butter rancid. The
popular taste requires much less salt
on butter than it used TO do. One rea.
son for this probably is that butter
eaters have found out that the very
salty taste means an attempt to cover
mp defects in the butter, just as highly
sailed and spiced meats are open to
the suspicion that they have been made
so after beginning to spoil. In England
and Scotland there is a large demand
for perfectly fresh butter. 1t COM
mands a better price than the sailed
butter. for the addition of salt increases
weight without much increasing the
cost. But this unsalted butter must be
eaten within a day or two of making
or it will spoil.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Earn, Notes

A daily oil massage, lasting fifteen
minutes, will eventually hide the bones
of the throat. Alcohol massage will re-
duce superintendent flesh.
Tne Southern COW pea is winning ia
vo" In the Northern States, and Prof.
Cocnel, of Texas station thinks the
Canada field pea will as surely win ia.
vor in the South. Plant in fall OF
spring, with oats. Hairy vetch and
oats also make good mixture.
1t has been demonstrated by the most
careful experiments that bees do not
pu ,cture grapes to get at their juices,
but attack them only after the birds
have done the puncturing. Plant the
vineyard and the apiary together; have
the stands sheltered by the vines, with,
out any injury to either.
We often deny ANIMALS the very
thi2gs which our natures crave, for
get ing that they are similarly consti-
tuted. Ashes, charcoal and salt sup
ply mineral elements essential to
health, and far better than resort to
condition powders and other medicines.
They will cleanse and purify the sys-
TEN in the safest way.
A few dollars expended in trees and
shrpbbery for ornamenting the farm
will not return an immediate profit. but
at some future time, when it may be
desirable to sell the farm, the addi-
tional value will then be quite large.
Paint and whitewash are also excellent
agents for increasing the value of the
farm at a small cost.
The most valuable man who labors
AMI who can always get work is the
experienced farm hand, not the one
who must be told what to do. but who
knows what is required and puts his
labor to the best advantage. Capable
and experienced men on the farm are
not numerous, and it Is not advisable
to allow good one to go If he can he
kept without less during the winter.
1t is never good practice to grow
two root crops in succession ON the
same land. 1t can only be done by verv
hea~y manurlng to supply the fertility
that the preceding crop has taken
away. Gardeners who grow roots gen
orally manage to grow them in alter
nas'on with crops that do not draw so
heavily on the land. The onion crop
can be grown on the same land In sue
cess'on, but the onion is not properly a
root
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

The Volunteer Army has reached the
point where the stability and success
of the new organization seem assured
The partial details Of Its growth in this
time were given to the public in spe-
cial united rally of the forces Of the
Northwest, and the statement then
made by Col. Fielding, the head of the
Western contingent, must be gratifying
to the hosts of friends of the plucky
little band. When the new movement
was started as an independent and
strictly American body the headquar-
tiers In Chicago consisted Of small
room, one chair and one table, all do
mated. Now 1t Is announced that nego-
tiations practically have been COM
pleted by which the Volunteers will OBJ
tain possession of a building on State
street consisting of twenty-six living
rooms and fitting equipment, and be.
sides this two city lots, valued at $10,-
600, have been presented to the army
by Miss Julia DAILY. This material pros.
perlty has complemented rapid and
large numerical growth, for Col. Field
ing reports that the army now Includes
nearly 1000 members, scattered among
l06 posts, of which forty-seven are In
the Northwest. In Illinois alone there
are twenty-five organized posts and 1876
commissioned officers. In New York
the army has fine building on Union
Square, from which 1t publishes its
weekly and monthly literature. The
striking feature of this conspicuous sue
cess Is that II does not appear to have
been achieved Mt the expense of the
parent organization. A few of the
leaders who We're closely allied with
Ballington Booth are known to have
left the Salvation army with him, but
in most of the cases the recruits have
come from the outside. There seems
no doubt there is room for both armies,
and perhaps the rule of competition
that Is so effective In business may
have similar results in these religious
associations, and stimulate each to
greater endeavor and bring to each
a richer harvest than 1t would have en-
joyed alone,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

An appeal to the methods of chance
in any disagreement or perplexity is a
foolish thing. Ii one Is sure of n point
he should stick to 1t, no doubt. or il
he Is willing-as one should always be
when no principle is involved-to give
1t up to another, 1t is far more graceful
and satisfactory to give it up outright.
A story told by an orator who re-
Gently spoke on the currency question
lit does not matter on which side
satirlzes the arbitrament of chance, as
invoked In that or any other dispute.
Two young men, it appears, were
suitors for the hand of a young lady.
One of them said to the other:
Both of wish to offer ourselves to
this LADY,"
That is evident"
"But we do not wish 10 fight n duel
over herr"
Il think not"
Then | will tell you What we can
do"
"What?"
let us toss up for herr
The other looked moment at his
rival, and then said:
Very well; will toss up brick,
and IL II stays in the air the young lady
is yours. II 1t comes down she is
miner
II there is anything in character, or
in feminine discrimination. 1t must
have been the last speaker who won
the young lady.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

After ten years trial of Sunday law
In New Orleans, 1t has been decided to
abandon it as impractlcable. During
these ten years however, the law has
been enforced only three months, and
that spasmodically, couple of Sun
days at the time. The city officials
have testified unanimously against the
law, saying that 1t took the entire po-
lice force to support It, and that in the
criminal courts the murder and other
more important cases have been crowd
ed from the docket by the immense
number Of Sunday law violations. A
Sunday law-such is the general YER
diets impracticable In community
where only 20 per cent of the popula-
ton is Anglo-Saxon and less than
per cent Of New England stock.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

Bees will at times bid adieu to home
and apiary and leave for parts un-
known. This occurs more frequently
In early spring, and arises principally
from starvation. They seem to prefer
swarming rather than to stay in the
hive and starve to death. A cure for
this may be affected at once, by giving
them frame of brood and hohey from
some other colony, or they may be
brought about by feeding. Swarms
all abscond occasionally, and after be-
ing hived will reissue during swarming
time. This frequently occurs from the
cause Of acknowledgement in hiving
them.
When having swarms, the hive should
be so arranged as to admit an album
dance of ventilation, and in excessively
hot weather the hive should be shaded.
When bees swarm they fill themselves
with honey to the utmost limit, and in
this condition they cannot staHd close
confinement in hives, with the sun
shining directly upon them. Every
swarm thus hived should have a frame
of newly-hatched brood given them
from some other colony. This is prac-
ticed now and by almost all apiarists,
and Is sure preventive of absconding
swarms.-Colman's Rural World.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
Fortunes from the Sea.

But the great romance In this connec-
ton lies with the professional divers.
One Of the most extraordinary instances
of fortune found In the sea concerned
the wreck of the Spanish treasure ship
AlfonZo XII, which was sunk off Point
Gando, Grand Canary. A SINCE diver,
David Tester, employed by the we'll
known diving experts, G. Il. Heinke &
Co., of Great Portland street, recovered
Spanish gold coin Of the estimated
value of 100000 The depth from
which this specie was recovered was
twenty-six and two-thlrds fathoms. or
100 feet.
One of the most difficult operations
ever performed by diver was the re-
covering of the treasure sunk in the
Malabar off Gale. On this occasion the
large iron plates, half an Inch thick.
had to be cut away from the mailroom.
and then the diver had to work through
nine feet of sand. The whole of the
specie on board of this vessel-upward
of $500, 000-was saved, as much as
$4,000 having been got out In one day.
1t is an interesting fact that from
time to time expeditions have been fit
ted out and companies formed with the
sole intention of searching for buried
treasure beneath the sea. Again and
again have expeditions left New York
and San Francisco In the certainty OF
recovering tons of bullion sunk off the
Brazilian coast, or lying undisturbed
In the mud of the Rio de Ia Plata. 1t Is,
however, an everyday occurrence for
divers to be sent from the Great Port
land street establishment to the Aus
tralian coasts to fish for pearls; and,
likewise, to all parts Of the world-or,
rather, to all parts of the ocean-where
sunken vessels are to be entered, and
their valuable cargoes recovered.
At the end of 1856 the large steamer
indus, belonging to the P. and o. Com
pany, sank Off Trincomalee. having on
board very valuable East India cargo,
together with large amount OF specie.
This was another case of a fortune
found in the sea, for very large
amount of treasure was recovered
London Mail
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

In contrast with the election In Mex
leo, that In Chill was holly contested
and very exciting, and the results were
for some time in doubt. The term there
is five years, and the retiring president,
Jorge Montt whose term ends next
December, was eonstltutionally ineligi
BILE for second term. Nevertheless
there are charges that the influence Of
the administration was unfairly ex-
erted. The candidates were FREDERICK
Errazurlz, who was supported by the
Moderate Liberals and Conservatives
and Vincente Reyes, the candidate Of
the Extreme Liberals. The latest re-
ports give Errazurlz 145 electoral votes
and Reyes 1877, with three provinces to
hear from, which are not expected to
overcome the majority for Errazuriz
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18
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Herbert Spencer and James Bryce are
among those suspected by English re-
viewers of having written the reply to
Max Nordau entitled Regeneration"
John Boyd Thacher's folio volume.
''The Continent of America; It's Discov-
cry and Baptism" which has just been
published by William Evarts Benja-
min, is limited to 275 signed copies.
The Macmlllans announce a transla-
ton from the Russian of A. P. Tvers-
kov entitled Sketches from the United
States of North America" A high Ger
man authority has called Tverskoy the
Russian Bryce.
President Paul Krugers library has
hitherto consisted of two volumes-the
Bible and Pilgrims Progress" Now
he is said to have become so fond Of
Mark Twain's humor that he has order
ed set Of the American writer's works.
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer al
ways were careful of the company they
kept.
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, the member
of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
who accompanied Peary in his north
polar expedition as meteorologist, has
issued a volume entitled 1.-The Search
for the North Pole" In which he sums
upall former expeditions and announces
his intention of organizing a new one
himself at an early day.
Kipling's Letters of Marque," de
scriptive of the old cities of Rajputana,
written when he was a reporter for the
Pioneer, were issued in pamphlet form
ia India. but could not hitherto be pub
llshed In England on account of some
copyright trouble. This has now been
removed, and the essays will soon be
brought out In London.
Surviving friends of Gambetta are
exceedingly wroth with Henri Roche
fort, who is publishing his own remin-
iscences In a Paris journal. Whether
Gambetta died of pistol wounds, and
whether these wounds We're inflicted
by woman after an all-night orgy, are
questions which Rochefort processes to
decide In the affirmative by new person
al evidence, but he has been promptly
met with categorical denial and scien.
tiflc refutatio
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

1t should be source Of general re-
joiclng that near the town Of Hudson,
Mo-, some enterprislng people whose
names have been discreetly withheld
have In a moment of leisure discovered
the largest cave In the world. The re-
port asserts that even "lf half OF what
has been told of 1t is true" 1t is he
largest cave, so there is no reason TO
doubt the accuracy Of the statement.
But the cave is remarkable not only IN
size but In interior decorations, for the
faithful ehronicler of the phenomenon
declares that cavern after cavern is
lined with pure onyx" and that there
are huge stalaetites OF nearly pure gold.
Aside from the material value Of the
discovery 1t Is probable It will have an
important bearing on the solution of
the financial problem in the State. No
object lesson could be more convincing
than a generous distribution of these
golden stalactites, and perhaps a slab
of onyx or two could be included as a
gift to every tourist. The accidental
discovery Of the largest cave In the
world" is an episode that any State
should be proud of, but when IL Is
found to be full of gold and onyx as
We the affair rises to proportions that
are~magnlflcent even for Missouri.
More details win be awaited with inter
est IL the correspondent happens to
continue in a condition that will enable
him to sustain his narrative at the pres
ent high pitch of interest.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-18

The apple crop in most localities is
this year large one, and, as usual, in
years when apples are abundant, the
sweet varieties are likely in many
places to go to waste. That they are
not in as good demand as the sour ap-
pie is due to their inferiority or sup
posed inferlority for cooking. A sour
apple in pie duly sweetened to take off
the surplus acidity, Is, indeed, better
than sweet apple put to the same use.
But farther than this we think the
superiority will be with the sweet APP
pie Many varieties are richer and
better for eating raw, while for bak-
Ing whole the sweet apple is certainly
superior. One of the best ways of
eating baked sweet apples is with
milk. Sour apples when baked are
too acid for this, and besides, they
break down in cooking, and thus their
juices dissolve in the milk, while the
slices of baked apple retain their shape
and distinctive flavor.