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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
FlEND IN HUMAN SHAPE.
The Man Who Wrecked the Alabams
Mineral Train COnfesses,

The Man Who Wrecked the Alabama
Mineral Train Confesses.
New Orleans, Jan. 20.-A special to
the Times-Democrat from Atlanta says:
Sam Palataka, cross-eyed, fend in
expression, revolving in countenance,
has confessed to having perpetrated the
horrible Cahaba bridge disaster, which
occurred three weeks ago in Alabama.
Stolidly and with immovable lines of
criminal harshness on his face, he ad-
mits that, single-handed, he sent TWEEN
ty-fve persons to a horrible death, and
wounded and MANNED score more.
There was no romantic reason back of
the work of this courageous coward, a
man who dared discovery, which, in
Alabama, meant certain death, to drive
a train to destruction in order to gain
q few dollars.
Palataka was arrested in Eaton, Put
nam county, in Middle Georgia. His
first captors believed him half-witted,
as he gave himself away. Those in
charge of him today in Atlanta, as he
was on his way to Alabama, say he is
absolutely reckless and entirely without
human feelings. Today he spoke of
the fearful wreck with no sign of emo
tion.
81 did it," said Palataka. II want
ed money. It's nobody's business what
I wanted it for. did it. 1 found it
very easy. say this for the benefit of
those who want to wreck trains. It's
just as easy to wreck freight train.
There's no money in freight. I did
not get any money out Of the wreck. I
moved rail, put it across the track,
and the whole business seemed to fall.
There were plenty Of dead folks with
money-one had $5O0-but before I
could get at the money the live ones
got up and then the crowds came and
I ckinnad ont -
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
WAS BLOWN 70 BITS.
Dynamite Explod ed in Miner Dendau:'s
Cabin.

Dynamite Exploded in Miner Dendau:'s
Cabin.
Seattle, Jan. 1S.-In attempting to
thaw out few sticks of dynamite by
placing them on hot stove, F. Den
dauf was instantly killed and horribly
mutilated at Black Diamond Thurs
day. Thursday morning about 10
O'Clock, Dendauf, who is in the employ
of Lawson Bros, took ten sticks of the
explosive to his cabin to warm them
up. From that time until noon he
was alone, and the exact manner in
which the accident occurred can never
be known, but during the noon hour,
when all hands were at dinner, ter
rifle explosion was heard. Everybody
rushed out and found the entire side
and part of the roof of Dendauf's cabin
had been torn away and hurled against
the side of another cabin sixty feet dis
tant. The interior of what remained
of the cabin was a total wreck, every
thing in shreds and fragments, with
the body of Dendauf in the midst.
Some flying missile, presumably bit
of the stove, entered his head near the
right eye, going directly through the
skull and leaving hole two inches
square; the right leg was broken in
two places between the hip and knee,
and the flesh of the whole right side
hung in tatters. Death must have
been instantaneous.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
THE DAY IN THE HOUSE.
Oratorical Tributes to the Late
Speaker Crisp.

Oratorical Tributes to the Late
Speaker Crisp.
Washington, Jan. 19.-Most of this
day in the house was devoted to ora
torical triubtes to the late Speaker
Crisp, of Georgia, who died during the
recent recess of congress. The speeches
were listened to by nearly all of the
Democrats, and large contingent of
Republicans, while many Southern
people filled the galleries. All of the
members from Georgia and several
leaders on both sides of the house de-
livered eulogies, which were unusually
impressive, and were listened to with
much more than the usual attention.
The bill authorizing the Columbia &
Red Moutain Railway Company to
build bridge across the Columbia
river, in Stevens county, Wash, called
up by Doolittle, passed. Delegate Cat
ron attempted to secure the passage of
a bill to give the deserted Fort Marcy
military reservation, at Santa Fe, N.
M, to the American Invalid Aid So
ciety, of Boston, for the establishment
of sanitarium for pulmonary diseases,
but it failed On objection.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
WOOLGROWERS MEET.
Resolutions Concerning the Foresi
Reserve Passed.

Salem, Or, Jan. 19.-At a meeting
of the North Pacific Sheepbreeders'
and Woolgrowers' Association, held a,
the state capitol, pursuant to call
from the president, Hon. John Mimic,
the following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:
Whereas, The congress of the
United States has authorized the presi-
dent to proclaim as forest reserve
1000, 900 acres of the Cascade range OF
mountains, extending in an unbroken
body across the state of Oregon, there
by creating physical division of the
state; and
Whereas, This immense body OF
land has been placed under the care OF
the department of the interior, to be
protected from the injury of it's forest
growth by the aid of the United States
district court and by it's officers, and
citizens of the United States, residents
of Oregon, have been arrested and put
to cost on the assumption that grazing
stock (sheep especially within such
reserve is an injury to the forest
growth thereon; and
Whereas, By an experience extend
ing over fifty years, in some cases,
members of this association know that
despite grazing of sheep or cattle upon
the grass lands of Oregon, whether on
the mountains or in the valleys, the
reforestation of open land has extended
is extending, over all pasture land,
near enough seedbearing trees for the
seeds to be carried by the wind; and
the truth of this statement is we'll set
forth in papers now published by the
state board of horticulture, by persons
who have seen these processes going
forward for from forty-four to fifty-two
years. observation; therefore, be it
Resolved, These prosecutions Of
stockowners, whose stock has in past
years ranged on the mountains of Ore
gon, is totally unjustifable, on the
ground of injury done by such grazing;
that we, as citizens of the United
States, residing in Oregon, claim all
the right of the citizens of other states
to the full benefit Of the use of the
public domain, and of the general land
laws of the national government, and
believe it an oppression, unjust as well
as unnecessary, to harrass stockmen by
trials in the United States court for
acts of technical trespass, where benefit
rather than damage has been done;
that we heartily indorse the concurrent
resolution introduced by Senator Null
key, in the present legislative assembly
of Oregon; that we are unanimously in
favor of the restoration of a reasonable
tariff duty on wool, adequate for the
encouragement of woolgrowing, and
also favor an import duty being placed
on shoddy, sufficiently high to dis
courage the importation of said ar
ticle."
Senator Mulkey's resolution, pro-
vides for three reserves, instead of one
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
BLUE CUT ROBBERY.
Alleged Leader Claims There is a Con.
spiracy to Convict Him.

Alleged Leader Claims There is a Con.
spiracy to Convict Him.
Kansas City, Jan. 1S.-John Ken
nedy who was indicted as the leader
of the gang which twice held up and
robbed Chicago & Alton trains at
Blue Cut, wrote out and signed a
statement today charging that there
was a conspiracy to convict him. There
seems to be some grounds to substan-
tiate his statement as regards John
Land, an important witness against
him. 1t is given out, moreover, from
authoritative sources that the robbers
secured almost $50, 900, and not 3d.
800, as first claimed by the express
company. For the conviction of the
men concerned, it is also said big re-
wards have been offered. In 1882,
Land, who lives in the Blue Cut local
ity, was convicted of perjury in falsely
swearing that three of his neighbors
had been connected in the Jesse James
train robbery of that year near Inde-
pendence. Land is state witness in
the present case.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
At n Hunearian wedding.

New York, Jan. 20.-John Ornis, a
rejected suitor, caused riot and blood
shed at the wedding of Agnes Hafri,
whom he had loved in vain. The
bridegroom, Michael Roman, and three
guests, were stabbed before the police
moved upon the wedding feast, which
had become riot, and arrested the
enraged and disappointed lover. Ornis
is tall, powerfully built Hungarian.
When Roman and Agnes were be-
throthed he concealed his chagrin and
was the first to congratulate the couple.
After the ceremony last night, how
ever, the guests turned to Ornis and
chided him for his i'll luck in not win
ming such fair girl. A second later a
scene Of wild confusion ensued. The
furniture was overturned, women fled
shrieking from the fiat, and some of
the men tried to overpower Ornis, who
cut right and left with knife.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22

Princeton, ILL.,, Jan. 19.-The waters
of the Illinois and Bureau rivers rose
rapidly last night and today, and have
caused much damage. A portion of
Hennepin canal embankment, thrown
up along Bureau river, to turn the river
from its natural bed, was washed out,
and the overflow is now running
through the unfinished portion of the
canal, causing much damage. 1t will
be some time before the flow can be
stopped, as the locks of the canal are
vet without gates. Along the Illinois
river, farm lands have been overfowed,
and large numbers of horses and cattle
are reported drowned.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
LEADVilLE'S RUIN.
Pumps Pulled and Mines Allowed to
Fiji With Water.

Denver, Jan. ia special to the
Times from Leadville, Colo, says:
1.-THE crisis in the troubles Leadville
has undergone since June has been
reached and calamity far worse than
the strike of metallic miners here has
overtaken the camp. For the first time
in fifteen years the immense pumps
that drained the mines of Carbonate
hill, the wealthy center of Leadville,
have been entirely pulled out, while
the pipe line connections are to be re-
moved at once. The Maid of Erin
pumps had capacity of 1900 gallons
of water a minute, and depending upon
them were nearly all the great mines
of Carbonate hill. There are miles of
workings on Carbonate hill, and these
will probably fill slowly, so that the
downtown workings may not be
reached by the rush of waters for
month or two. 1t is, however, only
question of time, and one month will
undoubtedly find many mines idle as a
result of the flood"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
Has Discovered No Lymph.

Paris, Jan. 19.-In an interview, DR..
Roux, who is connected with the de-
partment of hygiene, denied report
that he had made experiments with an
anti-plague lymph. He would know
how to prepare the lymph, he said, if
it was needed, but he felt that bubonic
plague would never get hold in Eu-
rope. The Temps complains of the in
activity of the present Indian govern.
ment in dealing with the scourge.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
In the House.

Washington, Jan. 18.-The proceed.
ings in the house today were very
tame. It was private bill day, but the
whole time was consumed in passing
through the house bills favorably acted
upon in committee of the whole before
the holiday recess. The widow of the
late Major-General Gibbon was the
beneficiary of one of the bills passed
carrying 800 per month, and the
widow of Brevet Major r-General w. A.
Nichols, of another, carrying $75 per
month. The free homestead bill, which
came back to the house with senate
amendments, was referred under rul-
ing of the chair to the committee on
public lands.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
HOUSE MAY KILL IT.
Little Chance of Favorable Action on
Homestead Bill.

Washington, Jan. >1S.-The support
ers of the free homestead bill fear that
the measure has ben killed, so far as
this congress is concerned, by the ac-
tion of Speaker Reed in referring it to
the house committee on public lands
for the consideration of the senate
amendments. The house committee is
not strongly in favor of the plan. That
committee voted to report the bill to
the house by majority of only one,
when it provided only for free homes
for the Oklahoma settlers.
The senate amendments greatly
widen the scope of the bill, extending
its provisions to all public land states.
and it is doubtful whether the house
committee will sanction the changes.
The bills supporters fear that if the
committee does not make an adverse
report, it will keep the bill and take
no action on it before adjournment,
which course would effectually dispose
of it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
The Death of Maceo.

Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. ia let
ter has been received by one of the
representatives in this city of the Gu
ban junta, confirming the Associated
Press dispatch of Friday giving an ac-
count of the death of General Maceo.
The letter is from Lieutenant Colonel
Hernandez, who was encamped with a
company Of cavalry and other forces
near where Maceo was ambushed. The
Insurgents are reported to be encamped
nine miles east of Havans.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
Storms in Michigan.

Detroit, Jan. 19.-Unusually heavy
winds were experienced all over Mich
igan today. Conditions developed into
a severe blizzard in the northern por-
ton. At Marquette, the temperature
fell twenty-five degrees in ten hours,
and two feet of snow fell. In Western
Michigan, gales and snow storms pre-
vail. At Jackson, the roof was blown
off the malthouse of Haehnle's brew,
cry, doing 81 900 damage, and leaving
10. 900 bushels of malt exposed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22

Bozeman, Mont, Jan. 20.-Sheriff
Fransham on Saturday went to arrest
Frank Morgan for assaulting French
man near here. Morgan drew gun
on him and escaped. The sheriff,
with deputy Jack Allen, took the trail,
overtaking Morgan and his partner at
Carpenters cabin, in the Cherry creek
basin forty miles from here. The ref
ugees opened fire with shotguns, drop
ping Deputy Allen, who is probably
mortally wounded, and wounding Sher-
If Fransham.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
But win Help Us.

Paris, Jan. 19.-Delegates from the
silk and linen industries of Lyons and
Stettin today presented their views to
the minister for foreign affairs and the
minister for commerce relative to the
threatened increase of the tariff of the
United States, which they said would
cripple the great interests which the
delegates represented.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
FloZgiug ON Shiuhoard.

Cleveland, Jan. 19.-Senators Frye
and Hale, who were responsible for the
senate substitute for house bill No.
1868, which restored fogging in the
merchant marine, are being severely
condemned blythe 800, 900 members OF
the Western Seamen's Society and va
rious branches. At meeting of the
local trustees of the society, who are
prominent business men, resolutions
were adopted protesting against the
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22

St. Petersburg, Jan. 1S.-Today, a
ukase was published which refers to
the necessity of the resumption of the
mintage. It seems likely that the
councils decision on the currency
question will be prolonged, and as the
country is anxious to settle the doubts
which have arisen as to the cash values
of gold coins, it orders the minting of
imperials of value of 10 instead of 10
Eoubles, these coins, however, being of
exactly the same weight and fineness as
existing a MS.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22

Rossland, B. c., Jan. 18.-George
Braddon, Stag -pusher at the smelter
at Trail, while pulling away at a pot
today and walking backward, tripped
and fell into another red-hot pot of
molten metal that was in his path.
Braddon was burned from his neck to
the calves of his legs, and there is slim
chance for his recovery.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
ytcttm of Commodore wreck,

Salem, Mass. Jan. 19.-The remains
of the late William Alexander Higgins,
who met his death with many others
at the fodndering Of the Cuban filibus-
tering steamer Commodore, off the
Florida coast, Sunday morning, Janu-
ary 8, arrived today. The funeral was
held at the undertaking rooms, and
was attended by large crowd.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22

San Francisco, Jan. 1s.-Oscar Low,
Victoria man, was buncoed out of
$3.50 today by the old dice game, trick.
Low lives at the Yosemite house, on
Market street, and started for the Bar
barry Coast for drink. He got into a
saloon on Sacramento street, and there
began shaking dice with stranger.
He lost $50, and newly made friend
told him he could beat the winner out
of all his money if Low could only get
some more cash. The victim went to
his room, and got 800 more. He re-
turned to the saloon, and soon lost
that. Then he complained to the po-
lice.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22

Washington, Jan. 1s.-Representa-
tive Spencer of Mississippi, has intro
duced in the house bill as follows:
"The secretary of state is hereby au-
thorized to offer to the government of
Spain sum of money not to exceed
5000, 900, 900 for the purchase of the
island of Cuba. And the sum of $1O,-
900, or so much thereof as may be
necessary to defray the expenses of
pending negotiations, is hereby appro-
priated."
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
Mi1ierr one, a Prize.

Washington, Jan. 19.-The German
millers have offered prize of $3.50 for
method of destroying the meal moth,
which has been ravaging the German
mills. United States Consul ( General
Dekay, at Berlin, offers to deliver to
the proper authorities any method for
warded by Americans.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
a sviss CIimbers Feat,

London, Jan. IA dispatch from
Mendos, Argentina. to the Chronicle
says telegram has been received from
the Fitzgerald expedition, reporting
that Swiss guide, Zurbiggen, had
reached the summit of Concagua, in
the Andes, over $4,000 feet above the
sea level, after the third attempt.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
New Bills Pour I'm.

Patterson of Marion has introduced
a bill making general provision for the
transportation of all insane persons to
the asylum. His bill provides that
the county clerk shall notify the super
intendent of the asylum that he has an
insane person to be conveyed to the asy-
lum. The superintendent then au-
thorizes some employe of the asylum
to repair to the county seat, where the
insane person will be delivered to him,
and he will conduct such insane person
to the asylum. All the expense is to
be borne by the asylum fund.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
Age for Retirement,

Washington, Jan. ls.-A bill fixing
the age for retirement from the CLASH
fed civil service was introduced by
Representative Gillette, of Massachu-
setts. 1t provides that any office in
the classified service held by a person
who at the time of the passage of the
act is over 62 years of age, shall be-
come vacant in three years. Any Office
in the service shall hereafter become
vacant when the person holding it be-
comes IS years old. Veterans of the
civil war and their widows are excepted
from the provision.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
c.rolin. Law uncon.t,tutional.

Washington, Jan. 2O.-The supreme
court of the United States had decided
that the portion of the South Carolina
dispensary law providing for the in
spection of liquors imported into the
state is unconstitutional.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
Powder-House Explosion.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 18.-As the re-
suit of an explosion in the tankhouse of
the Columbia Powder Company, locat-
ed in hollow a half mile from the
Ohio river, midway between boroughs
Shoustown and Shaopin, Mr.. stickney,
proprietor of the works, and his two
daughters were killed, P. McClusky
fatally injured, and Walter Crane seri-
ously hurt. By almost superhuman
efforts the flames were controlled be-
fore the glycerine machine ignited.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22

Chicago, Jan. 18. A millionaire
mine owner, George S. Hammond, of
the San Juan mining district, New
Mexico, is missing, and it is feared he
has been foully dealt with. Ham
mond left Albuquerque, N. M, Christ
mas week, for Chicago, to dispose Of
mining property. He had several
thousand dollars and quantity of
valuable jewelry. 1t is believed that
he fell into the hands of strangers and
was robbed and killed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
Heartrendin< scenes.

London, Jan. 19.-The Daily Mail's
Bombay correspondent says: In the
Banda district the famine conditions
are heartrending. The population is
without food, and is dying in the roads
rather than accept government relief.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-22
OREGON LEGISLATURE.

The first week of the Oregon legisla-
ture closed with but little accom-
plished. The organization of the sem
ate was effected promptly ON the first
day, and Joseph Simon, of Multnomah,
who held the same position two years
ago, was seated as president. The sem
ate was in session four days, during
which time eighty-fve bills were in
troduced, and then the senate ad
journed oTer until Monday, in order
to give the state printer time to catch
m