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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
To Vote for Free Roads.

The people of jefferson County, Ken
tucky, are asking for an election to de-
eide on the question of free turnpikes,
which may be secured in the following
way:
The roads can be either leased, given
to the public, or purchased. The magis-
trates and the county judge are the
officials to appoint appraisers to value
the respective roads; these appraisers
must be residents and property owners
On the road to be valued 10y them.
Bonds may be issued for the purchase
If the roads at the price agreed on by
the appraisers. These bonds will be
spread over term Of thirty years.
All taxes, which cannot exceed 25
cents on each 500 worth Of taxable
property, must be used to keep the
:oads-turnpike, gravel and all others
in good repair; to pay interest on the
bonds issued, and to provide sinking
fund for the redemption Of the bonds.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

Two bottles of Pisos Cure for Consump-
ton cured me of a bad lung trou ble.-Mrs.
j. Nichols, Princeton, Ind, March 26, 1895.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
MUCH SICKNESS

Particularly throat and lung difficulties
wrongly attributed to other causes, is the re-
suit of unsanitary conditions OF walls and cell
ings, Think of having bedrooms covered with
layers Of molding -four paste to feed vermin.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.

A treacherous wretch in Pennington,
N. J., entered the stable of Solomon
Gale and poured nitric acid upon the
eyes and ears of a valuable horse.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

The name of Nebraska is an Indian
word, which means shallow water.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

Rural Mail Delivery and Good Roads.
There is prospect that the national
government may get behind the good
roads movement in a peculiarly effec-
tive way. If the price of free mail de-
livery to the farmers Is to be the con-
struction and maintenance of macada-
mized country highways it Is believed
that the thrifty agriculturists will not
hesitate to pay it.
If the experiments in free rural mail
delivery to be inaugurated by the pos
tai department are a success, they will
establish a basis Of cooperation and
reciprocity between the government
and the farmers that will lead to a
general movement in the building of
lnterurban highways all over the coun-
try.
With the view of testing the efficier-
cy of different styles Of roadbed Post
master General Gary has authorized
the opening Of routes for free rural
mail delivery through portions of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, which en-
brace macadamized, gravel, clay and
common dirt roads. The routes are in
tended to be experimental, and will
show relatively upon what character of
roads the best results can be obtained
in the way of prompt and efficient SER
vice.
There is little doubt that free mail
delivery is just as practicable in many
Of our more thickly populated rural
communities as it is in England. The
continuance of the service, If success
full, should be dependent upon the prop
er maintenance of the roads. If the
farmer wants his mail delivered at his
door he must contribute his share to
the building Of passable highways
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

Greater New York has ! =, 100 churches
within its limits, and over 1870, 900
dwelling houses.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

cIIe Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness
sls0 after first days use Of Dr.: Kine's Great
Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $500 trial
bottle and treatise. DIR, r. q. KLINE, Ltd, $50
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

Indications multiply that the gold
fields of Alaska will turn out to be
richer than those of the Klondike
region.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

The egg of the queen been Is about
one-sixteenth of an inch long, and as
large around as fine cambria needle.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

This getting married is like renting a
door for the purpose of keeping wolf
from 1t.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
WHAT ARE KALsoM1NEsq

Kalsomines are cheap temporary preparations
nauufactured from chalks, elays. whiting, etc.,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
Bad Roads Are Cost1iest.

In the spring cleanse your system by
using DR.. Plumbers Oregon Blood Purifier.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

Love may laugh at locksmiths, but it
never giggles at the plumber.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
ALABAS III
TO DEALERS.

Alabastine is sold by paint dealers every
where. Ask your dealer for card of tints.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
PithY Anneal.

A certain reverend gentleman in Lon
don, having to preach charity sermon,
said nothing on the subject until the
sermon was ended. He then told the
congregation that this was mere mat
ter of business, and as such he would
talk of 1t. They knew as well as he
that they had certain poor to provide
for, who looked to their purses. He
then read the text, 'sHe that giveth to
the poor lendeth to the Lord" and add
ed, eff you approve of the security,
down with your money"
The pleasure in receiving a letter
lasts no longer than 1t takes to break
the seal. After that, comes the worry
Of answering it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
Early Beliefs About the Great Lake

w. 5. HarWOOd writes OF The Great
Lakes" in st. Nicholas. The author
says: All that region to the north Of
the lakes and Immediately skirting
them from Quebec to Lake Nipigon, and
around to and beyond old Fort William,
was the exploring ground of the
French. 1t was their new country-the
place where they were to found a
mighty empire, their "Nova Francia," !"
or New France. The French explorers
and the French priests believed, and
their belief was strengthened and sup
ported by the tales of the Indians, that
away beyond the Kitichi Gummi, or
Big Lake-our present Superior-there
was a vast salt sea. 1t is hardly possi-
BILE In these days to understand how lit
tie they knew of that region They
talked about a northwest passage to
Cathay; and they not only talked about
1t, but they wrote learned and laborious
t1eatises, and spoiled many valuable
reams Of paper, and made very many
amusing volumes. in their efforts to
prove that just beyond the. head of Lake
Superior there was a great and short
river, whose mighty course led to a
mighty sea, which was certainly not
more than 1,5OO miles from Japan.
Tell Reporters the Truth.
In his address at the New Orleans
Press club recently Cardinal Gibbons
said:
'If had one piece of advice to give
a public man more than another 1t Is,
be frank with the reporter. 1t has
been my privilege and pleasure to come
in contact with and to know a great
number of reporters. have steadfast-
ly adopted a policy Of absolute frank
ness with them, and have yet to have
confidence betrayed. They have
never proved themselves unworthy Of
the estimate placed on them as gen.
tlemen. 1t IS the public man who con-
ceals, whose very act of concealment is
perceived by the reporters (for in the
very nature of their business they must
be quick to perceive), 1t Is this very
concealment which induces the reporter
to further conduct his Investigations
and often to get wrong what, had he
been in the condolences of the man
whose manner provoked investigation,
he would have understood and written
intelligently about. And 1t Is In this
very manner that much of the COM
plaint against the reporter originates.
Tell the reporters the absolute truth.
Never deceive them."-Baltimore Sun.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22

For the speedy, safe and permanent cure of all
Nervous, Chronic and Special diseases, even
In their most aggravated forms. There is no man
in the world who has effected so many permanent
cures In both Men and Women of troubles which
other physicians of acknowledged ability had given
up as hopeless as this eminent specialist.
NERVOUS DEBILITY and all its attending
ailments, of YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGED and OLD
MEN. The awful effects of neglected ilnprop-
erly treated cases, causing drains weakness of
body and brain, Dizziness failing memory, lack OF
energy and confidence, pains In back, loins and
kidneys, and many other distressing symptoms,
uniting one for study, business enjoyment Of
life. DE- Ratcliffe can cure you, matter who
what has failed.
WEAK MEN. He restores lost vigor and VI
tality to weak men. Organs of the body which
have been weakened through disease, overwork,
excesses or indiscretons restored TO full power,
strength and vgor through his own successful sys-
tenn of treatment.
yARICOCELE, hydrocele swelling and ten
derness of the glands treated with untaflng
SPECIAL DISEASES, inflammation, dis
charges, etc, which, if neglected or Improperly
treated, break down the system, cause kidney and
bladder diseases.
DISEASES OF WOMEN. Prompt and es-
pecial attention given to all their many ailments.
WRITE If you are aware of any trouble. DO
NOT DELAY. Call on Dr. Radcliffe today. Ifyou
cannot call, write him. His valuable book free
all sufferers. CONSULTATION FREE and conf
Dental at office or by letter.
e, M, RADCLIFFE, 73 first sye SEITTiE WASH
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-04-22
Blood
Is Life
Pure Blood
Is Health.

without blood circulating through your
veins you could not live. without pure blood
you cannot be well. If you have salt rheum,
scrofula sores, pimples, boils or any kind of
humor, your blood is not pure. If you take
Hoods Sarsaparilla 1t will make your blood
pure and promptly relieve all these troubles.
81 wish to add my praise for the merits
of Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t has cured ME
of a lung trouble and huttering of the
heart, and since l began taking it my
weight has increased twenty pounds, and
can now enjoy my meals and eat with
comfort. 1 recommend Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla as the best medicine that it is possible
to find."-C. w. Carey, Prineville, Or.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26

from the Klondike on the steamer Corona
10 important chiefly in that 1t is confirma-
tory of the discovery of the great mother
lode. w. III. Welch, III. Il. Coffin and III.
l.. Burt are authority for the statement
that the original strike was made at the
upper end of claim No. 3, Esdorado, while
two stringers, one at No. 81 and another
yet lower down, were subsequently, locat-
ed. Throughout the district the discov-
cry is accepted as assurance Of the perma-
nency of the district as rich gold mining
field. As to the placer diggings, they
continue rich. Powder Greek, an affluent
of Quartz Greek, has been having boom.
pans of 1915 and $4 being a common
thing. OF course the stream was located
as soon as the first important discovery
was made. All Gold Greek shows pans
of $40 to 500. while the miners on Hun
ker creek, Henderson, Dominion, the Big
Salmon and the Stewart all declare them
selves satisfied with the prospect. Reply
ing TO request for an estimate of this
winters gold dust of the Aamp, Joe Camp
bell, one of the returning miners, said:
We have done great deal of figuring
on that and il now appears that the out
put, Notwithstanding the scarcity of food
and light, will be from $12,000,000 to
$15,000,000." d. III. III. LittIefeld of Ska
quay came in on the Corona. He has just
closed contract with the Canadian Gov
ernment to pack provisions to Lake Ben
nett for 20 cents a pound. l.. L. Grady,
formerly banker of Fairfax, Mimi, paid
5000 for the privilege of walking from
Dawson behind brisk dog team. Muret
Anderson, al elderly gentleman of st.
Louis, made The trip after the same fash
ion
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to S5.75; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
tc s4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, Gle to CSC;
corn, No. 2, &c to 27c; oats, No. 2, 21c
to 23c, rye, No. 2, 41c to Acc; butter,
choice creamery, 1Sc to zoe; eggs, fresh,
19c to 2lc, potatoes, common to choice,
Soc to &c per bushel.
Indianapolis-Cattl shipping, $500 to
S5.25; hogs. choice light, $500 to S4.o0;
sheep, common to choice, $500 to $4.50;
wheat, No. 2, SIC to soc; corn, No.
white, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c
to 26c.
st. LoUis-C Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 to s4.00; sheep, $500 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2
yellow, 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c
to 25c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 46c.
Cincinnati-Cattle,S $3.50 to S5.25; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, 93c to CSC; corn, No. z
mixed, 2Sc to 30e; cats, No. 2 mixed, 24c
to 26c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to S5.25; hogs,
$500 to 1915; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50:
wheat, No. 2, Ole to 93e; corn, No.
yellow, 2Sc TO 29c; oats, 10. white, Zoe
to 26c; rye, 47c to 4Sc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red, Gle to 92c;
corn. No. 2 mixed, 27c 90 29c; oats, No.
2 white, &c to 23c: rye, No. 2, Acc to 4Tc:
clover seed, S3.15 to $500.
Milwsakee-Wheat, No. spring, SIC
to SSc; corn, No. 3. 26c to 2Sc; oats, No.
white. 24c to 25c: rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c:
barley, No. 2, 40c to 43c: pork. mess,
$500 to $3.50.
Buffalo Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $4.O0: sheep, $500 TO $500:
wheat, No. 2 red, 93c TO e5c; corn, no.
2 yellow, Bic to 33c; oats, No. white.
27c 10 29c.
New York Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to S4.25: sheep, $500 to $500:
wheat, No. 2 red, s1.01 TO s102: corn, No.
2. 34c TO SEC; oats, No white, 2Sc TO
29c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs,
Western. PC to DC.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
THE DAYS DOINGS.
SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS
BY WIRE.
EDISON AFTER GOLD.
HAS A NEW METHOD or Ex.
TRACTION.
The Wizard Turns His Eye Toward
the West and Sees Another KIondike
Two Men Confess Completely in a
Murder Year Ago.
Want New Mexico.s Wealth.

Want New Mexico's Wealth.
Thomas a. Edison. the inventor, has be-
rome largely interested in the gold fields
of South Santa Fe County, New Mexico,
and he proposes to construct n plant,
fashioned after the style of his remarka-
bic mechanical device for extracting iron
from the gravel beds of New Jersey,
which shall just as readily save the gold
in New Mexico. This is the announce
ment that comes by private letter from
New York. The wizard has been engag-
ed at his laboratory for the past year in
making experiments with the lowgrade
gold ores which abound in unlimited guam
tity in South Santa Fe County, and he
has been so far successful that he has be-
come one of a strong syndicate of New
York and London capitalists who have
leased the Ortiz mine grant for period
of two years, with the expectation of
purchasing it at an agreed price of 81 $780,
900. The tract of land conveyed thereby
to Edison and his associates consists of
54,O00 acres, every acre of which is rich
in either placer or lode gold Indeed, it
is all historic ground, for it covers the
Oldest gold-producing region on American
soil, and in it's midst, near the town of
Dolores, st. Louis capital is to-day sue
cessfully operating the oldest gold mine
in America, the famous Ortiz mine In
that vicinity, and for miles around in any
direction, placer gold may be washed from
the dust shoveled from the public high
ways; the gulches and ravines are filled
with gravel yielding from $1.50 to $2.65
In gold per cubic yard to an average depth
of go feet, and the symmetrical slopes of
the surrounding mountains expose great
porphyry dikes hundreds of feet in
width, which carry gold values of from
So to So per ton.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
{:AlSs:!:/> g: Size Size
The .NevIS.E :

Candles in the Klondike are S1.6O
apiece, thus making the miners light ex-
pense heavy.
Young Mr.. Letter has raised at least
100000 bushels of wheat right in Chi
cago this winter.
William Terriss' funeral drew crowd
ed house. Here's a valuable pointer for
several actors in this country.
The Emperor of'China says he is ''6lled
with forebodings." He's in great luck not
to be filed with lead.
1t may have been .mean trick for the
Luetgert stenographers to quit, but per-
haps they saw no other way to escape
from the expert witnesses.
Very satisfactory trials have been re-
Gently made of a lifeboat made of pumice
stone, which it was found would remain
afoat with load Why not try it on the
Texas?
Frank Stantont thinks there is nothing
remarkable in the fact that Nansen
speaks English fuently for 81 600 night
A great many of US could do the same
thing.
Theatrical Note-Owing to the legal
measures undertaken against him, Actor
Ratcliffe will not appear again this sea-
son in his private family drama, "The
Wife Beater."
The serial entertainment we havetwith
us always. The recurrent Durrant incl
dent being at last permanently closed it is
quite fitting that the Andree balloon
should be discovered again.
1t appears that David Il. Hill popped
out of obscurity last week just long
enough TO announce that he is a Demo
crat and then popped back without Civ
ing anybody chance 10 prove it.
Sarony, tho i2mous New York photog
rapher, died a few months ago and his
widow has just consobad herself with his
successor. Sarony's negatives evidently
were better developed tnan his wife's.
1t is to be hoped that the offer of 500
600 for the discovery and ide,:tihcation Of
Mrs. Luetgert alive win encourage some
of the various persons who are finding
that estimable lady, almost daily TO bring
her into camp.
A Missouri woman who had .inadvert-
emily made a souvenir collection of two
husbands confessed thz1 fact the other
day. The husbands Immediately met and
exchanged 32-caliber compliments, and
within an hour that woman Instead Of be-
ing one bigamist had become. two, widows.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
DRY DOCK A SHAM.
I.... e.. a.. q

Government Determined to Locate the
Blame for Family Construction.
The scandal in the construction of the
large timber dry dock at the navy yard,
official known as No. 3, continues to
grow, aud from present appearances there
promises to be livelyA and interesting
time when the engineers are brought be-
fore the court t. answer che many ques-
tions which are Low beirg prepared. AS
the work of making the repairs continues,
the weakness and faulty construction of
the big structure is met with everywhere,
and it is doubtful if the dock can be made
serviceable again. The blame for the
weak and faulty construction will not
alone rest with the engineers. Both the
contracting tirms-John Gillis, who start
ed the dock, and L. and A. Walsh, who
completed twill be brought before the
court. Civil Engineer Menocal, who rep
resented the Government, is ON his way
home from Nicaragua, having been or
dered by the Navy Department to return.
The other engineers who will be brought
before the court are u. s. G.. White,
Franklin G. Prindle and Lieut.. r. Il.
Peary of arctic fame. All are inspectors
of the work and it is to determine where
the responsibility is to be placed that they
will be called before the court.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES.

Hall Caine has been ordered by his
physician to go to Rome and abstain
from all work and worry.
William B. Howell, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury, was a messenger
boy In the department fifteen years
ago.
There Is a relic of Livingstone In the
Charterhouse school, Lon 'on, in the
form of an old battered coat given by
the great African missionary to one OF
his native followers.
Mime. Emma Eames, the great singer,
said recently that though she loved
America no singer could live there long
because the constant rush and hurry
soon told on the voice.
Pampeluna, his native town, has es-
tabiished a Sarasate museum, to which
the vlolinist has given all the presents
and jewelry he has received from royal
personages during his career.
When President Mckinley returned
To the White House recently he found
that one of the alterations was the fif-
ting out of hitherto unused room as
handsome smoking room for him.
A bust of Charles Stewart Parnell
has just been added to the National
portrait gallery, London. 1t is the
work of Miss Mary Grant, and was
hung in the great British gallery OF
celebrities on the sixth anniversary OK
the death of the great Irish leader.
Massenet's new opera, "Sapphe,
based on Alphonse Daudet's romance,
which viii be sung in Paris shortly
with Calve in the principal part, Is
another illustration of feminine Wild
blood. French novelists. composers
and librettists Of the day seem unable
TO find any other theme.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26

bles-~crackers and spices and potatoes
and all the other grocery goods which will
stand an ordinary temperature for a rea-
sonable length of time. There is fruit in
this room, too-a lot of it; and the wine
is kept here, because the Senators would
not relish wine room in the face of the
regulation which prohibits the sale of in
toxicating beverages in the capitol. There
is no difficulty, however, about getting a
supply of wine or of bottled beer.
In the kitchen proper there are two
big ranges. An OK could be roasted in
either of them; the larger is II feet long.
There is big soup kettle in one corner
one of the largest kettles in the world
used for keeping the beef stock, with
which every restaurant kitchen is pro-
vided. Metal steam pipes run through
this kettle and keep the stock warm. In
another kettle are kept the sauces TO be
eaten with meats-apple sauce and cram
berry sauce. They, too. are kept warm
by steam. There is q steambox for steam
ing oysters; grill big enough to broil
a pig or lamb, under which glows fire
of red-hot charcoal and patent turkey
roaster, which performs mechanically the
turning ami Sasting of the bird, which,
in the old days, absorbed the time and at
tention of two or three persons. There
are steem tables in the kitchen, az well
as in the steam room. 1t takes thirty
servants to run the kitchen and its appur-
tenances
Moon to 3 o'clock" explains the pecu-
liarity which is probably responsible for