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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
SET BURGLAR UP IN BUSINESS.

Novel Experience of Physician Who
Dressed Housebreaker's Wounds.
'"The strangest patient ever had"
said prominent physician of this city
the other evening. was a burglar. My
acquaintance with him began In q sim
gular manner. -
AFTER l was graduated I was en-
gagged at night in one of the largest
hospitals in New York, where | saw
many strange sights. One night our
ambulance brought in prisoner pa
tient, accompanied by two policemen.
The officers said that the man had been
surprised while attempting to rob an
apartment in large fathouse. A DO
l1ceman was called. who chased him
into room with a window opening on
an airshaft ......-.
ut was warm weather and the shaft
W1nuoW was open, as was also the
window in the apartment on the op.
poslte side. Finding himself closely
pursued, the burglar. who was young
and athletic, jumped from one window
to the other, jumped across the airshaft.
He landed in the other apartment
all right, but fell plump on a man who
was asleep in bed close to the shaft
window. The sleeper SO rudeIy awak-
ened gave yell and attempted. to seize
the burglar. The latter, in seeking to
elude him and at the same time avoid
the policeman, who was at the opposite
window, threatened to shoot, fell down
the airshaft and was badly injured.
i made an examination and found
that he had broken his right leg at the
ankle, was considerably bruised, and
also suffering from shock from his
fall. fixed him up all right and he
remained prisoner in the hospital for
several weeks. At first he was morose
and surly, but gradually he began to
show gratitude for the kind trea atment
he received. He became a favorite
with all the doctors and we gradually
learned his story.
He had been an honest, hard work
Ing man In another city and had come
to New York to better himself. Hav-
Ing no friends here, he was unable to
obtain work and soon spent all his lit
tie savings. He kept getting poorer
and poorer, and while penniless and
almost starving attempted his first
burglary by breaking into the fat
where he was caught. -
I'VE took such an interest in him
that, although he was convicted, the
judge suspended sentence upon our
proving his previous good character
and that it was his first offense. He
was an expert tinsmith and we raised
subscription and set him up in busi-
ness in a little shop. We sent all our
friends to him and he prospered and
now has a large store here. He mar
ried and has several children and |
have been his family physician for
years. Although all the doctors at the
hospital helped him at the start, be
showed his gratitude especially to me-
as l received him and fixed up his
broken leg the night he was brought a
prisoner to the hospital
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
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Railway authorities of the Mexican
government have been ordered to use
certain safety appliances. All the pas
senger cars must be so equipped before
the end of. 1904.
Forty-one gas engines using blast-fur-
mace gas are working in Germany, the
total horse power aggregating 2l,9oO.
The horse power of such engines in
Belgium is 3,700, France $3.50 and En-
gland 2,060. =--t-
"A company formed by English and
American capitalists is about to build
the largest wood-pulp plant in the
world at Grand Falls, New Brunswick.
The works are to cost $6.OOO.OOO, ana
they willE.be capable of turning out
$500 tons of white newspaper, 20 tons
Of ground wood pulp and 1I5 tons Of
sulphite pulp daily. .... .-..-. s.
A Russian chemist has found that
copper is dissolved by an alkaline soiu-
ton of gelatin, the copper going into
solution as colloidal copper. The old
rule that the metals are insoluble IN
water is being widely disproved, solu-
tions of metallic gold, mercury and Sill
yer, and now of copper, having been
prepared quite recently. In all these
the metals are in very fine condition,
but are true metallic solutions.
In painting or papering the walls OF
room the question often arises, What
color reflects the most and what the
least light? Recent experiments IN Ger
many gave the following results: Dark
blue reflects 61a per cent. Of the light
falling upon it; dark green about 10
per cent; pale red little more than IL
per cent. dark yellow, 20 per cent;
pale blue, 80 per cent; pale yellow, ~
per cent; pale green, 461a per cent;
pale orange, nearly 30 per cent; pale
white, 20 per cent. Glossiness and var
nish of course increase the amount Of
light reflected.
The play of Robinson Crusoe" Is
now given in one of the Paris theaters
with four animals in the cast Of actors.
These are goat, monkey, paroquet
and chief of all, dog who enacts the
part of Robinson's faithful companion.
Toby" The dogs real name is Faro,
and writer in La Nature says ehe will
respond to that name only when In the
street or at his masters home. but ON
the stage heanswers promptly the call,
| Toby" When Robinson shoots bird,
Toby" runs and picks it up, climbs up
ladder into Robinson's hut, and gives
the bird to Friday" who acts as cook.
This vapor in the air is entirely in
visible until the air is brought to tenn
perature just below the dewpoint, when
fog is formed. How often dense
! fog in the morning is dissipated by the
sun, and we say the sun has burned
off, the fog. Fog rarely forms except
in perfectly clear, still air. This per-
mits intense radiation from the ground
and smoke particles, and this cooling
| finally brings the air to its saturation
point, when the vapor either condenses
on the smoke particles or on moisture
particles, thus becoming visible in fog.
When this fog occurs far above the
earth 1t is cloud.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
Portland Market.

Wheat - Walla Walla. 54c
Valley, 55c; Bluestem, SIC per bushel
Flour-Best grades, $3.1O; graham
$2.5 superfne, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white, SIC; choice
gray, 35c per bushel. ssrs--.s..
Barley-Feed barley, $15. 5.00@ 1886
brewing, $17.0O per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $500 ton; mid
dlings. $40; shorts, SIS; chop, SIS pei
ton.
Hay-Timothy, $11@12; clover, ST. q
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $6@7 per ton
Butter-Fancy creamery, 45@50c
store, 271ac.
Eggs-17c per dozen.
Cheese-Oregon full cream, 13c
Young America, lac; new cheese 10e
per pound. se.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $3.00@
$50 per dozen; hens, $500; springs,
$2.50@4.0O; geese, $4,000 90 for old
$4.50@6.50; ducks, $3.O0@4.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 16@17c pei
pound.
Potatoes-4O@ q SOC per sack; sweets.
2@2Ac per pouno.
Vegetables-Beets,$ ST.; turnips, 75c;
per sack; garlic, 7c per pounds cab
bage, &c per pound; parsnips, ST.
onions, l Nc per pound; carrots, 90c.
Hops-2@sc per pound.
Wool-Valley, 15@16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 15 q Ice; mohair, 2s
per pound. 81
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, SIC; dressed mutton, 70
INC per pound; lambs, 51ac.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, $500;
light and feeders, $4.5o; dressed,
$5.00@6.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steers, $4.00@4.5 so;
COWS. $3.50@4.00; dressed beef, 69 q
THO per pound. sss- .-.g-s
veal-Large, 81 @71ao; small, SO
8 10 per pound. u
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24

three-quarters OF the sardines sold hero
are put up in ifty-one, packing houses
in Maine. These concerns are con-
trolled by trust company, which en-
ploys 5000 workmen, who can turn out
l 1,5OO,O 600 cases of the fish annually.
I'm Maine sardines are caught Off the
western shores of the st. Croix River
and Passamaquoddy Bay. The fishing
season commences early in May and
lasts until late In the fail of the year.
The fish are taken in brush weirs, re-
sembling ordinary pound nets, into
which they are led by means of large
leaders and wings, which terminate in
a funnel-shaped entrance. Their escape
is prevented by the extension of these
wings into the inclosure, thereby form
ing triangular hook at each end of it,
SO that the fish, as they circle inside the
weir, are directed past the entrance.
When the fish are. plentiful in the nets
quantities of scales appear upon the
surface of the water The nets are then
lifted and their contents are dumped
by the fishermen into their boats. The
fish make little squeak, when taken
from the water and die almost instant
ly.. An ordinary catch of sardines gives
to each boat anywhere from 1000 to
5000 fish, the price of which is from 81
to $3.50 per 1000, according to the
quantity of fish that are being caught.
Arriving at the packing-house, the
fish are carefully cleaned. This opera
ton over, they are sorted according to
size and carried into another part Of
the establishment, where they are put
into pickle. .-.y....
1.-The length of time required by this
operation varies according to the size
Of the fish. After this the fish are
washed and placed with care upon wire
nets, called 'grills,' on which they are
sent to the drying-room, where they
are edried by means of large fans or ven-
tilators run by powerful machinery.
When dry and while still upon the
grills the fish are cooked by plunging
them into tanks containing boiling
olive oil. After this cooking the sar-
dimes, still upon the grills. are left to
cool, and when cold the work of plac-
ing them In halves and quarter cans
filed with olive oil, tomato and mus
tard sauce is begun. This work done.
the cans are sealed with solder and are
ready to be put in cases, holding 100
tins. for the market.
Like canned goods of every descrip-
ton, sardines are cheaper now than
they formerly We're. and American sar-
dimes are sold for less than the i'm.
ported. American sardines are now
exported from this country to the West
Indies and South erica."-Washing-
ton Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
San Francisco Market.

Wool-Spring-Nevada, II q 13c pei
pound; Eastern Oregon, 1O@14c; Val.
ley, 16@18c; Northern, 9@10c.
Hops-1899 crop, Hobo pei
pound. -.
Rutter-Fancy creamery gag nc;
do seconds, 21@21c; fancy dairy,
19c; do seconds, 16@ 18c per pound.
Eggs-Store, l7c; fancy ranch,
22c.
Millstuffs = Middlings, $17.OO q
90. 90; bran, $12.50@13.50.
Hay-Wheat $s@12; wheat and
oat 5000 11.00; best barley $8.50@
alfalfa, $6.00@7.50 per ton; straw,
l25@371ac per bale.
Potatoes-Early Rose, 30@75c; Ore
gon Burbanks, 9Oc@$1; river Bur
banks, s0@60c; new. N @2c.
Citrus Fruit-O Oranges, Valencia
Mexican lines, 81 COG
500; California lemons 75c@$1.5O
do choice $l.75@2.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas, $1.50@
$50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian dates. 6@6Rc PEI
pound.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
Honor to White of selborne,

Gilbert White, the father of all the
nature lovers and observers who are so
common since Thoreau, is to have an
ideal memorial. The forest of Wool
mer, one of the crown properties of
England, is to be made into an asylum
for the wild creatures of England, and
surrounded by defenses to keep out all
intruders, though the forest will be al
ways open to men of Whites sort. A
statue Of the Selborne parson will
stand at the main entrance, with hand
raised in the act of liberating bird
that has been trapped. Gamekeepers
and watchmen will guard the forest
night and day; cat nor dog will be al
lowed to enter the paradise of free life.
This is a wonderful thing to contem-
plate in this day of indiscriminate and
exterminating slaughter, and it is a
beautiful honor. to Gilbert White
Springfield Republican.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
ALL ARE EAGER TO BUY.
Country Is Actively Preparing for the
Fall Trade.

Country Is Actively Preparing for tho
Fall Trade.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review OF
trade says: After great wave of ad-
vancing prices, optimism as to business
is generally dangerous. But the top
was reached the middle OF March, since
which time reaction has come to every
great industry, so that consumers are
asking whether in some directions the
decline may have not been reasonably
large as was the advance, and whether
buying ON the present basis OF prices Is
not fairly sure. There are fresh evl-
dences of weakness in raw materials,
notably the break in structural iron,
but each one is availed of to place
heavy contracts. New York is well
coming buyers from all over the coun-
try in larger numbers than for many
years at this season, in drygoods, gro
ceries,- in jewelry and in hardware,
and if contracts are not placed to as
large volume as expected. it is be-
cause of the conservatism of those who
think they may compel some further
shading of prices. Reports this week
from other important points of dlstrl-
button show the same eagerness to buy
when the time seems right. 1t is be-
coming more apparent that the bottom
has been reached in prices of ilon and
steel. The decline was severe and re-
covery must be slow, but gradual ad-
vance and moderately increasing activ-
ity ere more healthy than violent
changes. In no single division is the
improvement more striking than in any
other. Except steel rails, all forms OF
iron from the ore to the finished pro.
duct are being sought more eagerly and
with less effort to secure further con-
cessions in prices, but when the secre-
tary OF agriculture was reported as pre-
dieting "dollar wheat" before the end
of the year, the market showed an in
clination to disagree, and the Septem-
ber option fell below 80 cents for the
first time in two months.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
GUIDED BY HIS SONS GHOST.
Successful Gold-Seeker Was Piloted t
a Find by a Spirit,

Successful Go1d-Seeker Was Piloted to
a Find by Spirit.
There was something uncanny in the
story that Albert Davis told at the
Union depot Albert Davis is a Blue
Mountain prospector, bound for his old
home in the village of Arkwright, N. Y.
Not far from his home is Casadagua
Lake, the assembly grounds of the
Spiritualist cult, and from association
with Spiritualists Mr.. Davis became In
time sort of lukewarm believer in
their teachings. He returns, he says,
true believer. He also returns with
story in the presence of several fellow
passengers at the depot. 1t was in sub
stance this:
Three years ago his only son died.
The father was all but heartbroken; he
would not be comforted by the prom
ises of his Spiritualist friends that the
young man would come back to him.
But one night the boy did come, and
again and again. After several of these
nocturnal visits, the son told of ac
quaintances that he had made in the
spirit world, among them, he said, being
one whose name was John Fremont.
This spirit told of his wonderful life in
the West, and among other tales, one
of rich mine that he mad discovered,
but which never had been found by
others. On subsequent visits the son
told more particularly of the. mine and
gave detailed descriptions of its situa-
ton, until Mr.. Davis became so deeply
interested that he resolved to go in
search of it. Two years age he came
to Colorado, and after a long search
found the range of mountains that had
been described to him. They were the
Blue Mountains, near the Utah line
But his search was not completed.
Weeks and months were spent in pros
pecting and hunting for the marks on
the surface that would disclose the
hiding place of the treasure. He was
on the point of giving up, and also of
losing faith in the spirits, when one
evening he came onto the very spot that
he was searching for. He knew it, he
said, as well as if he had been there be-
fore.
Mr.. Davis lost no time in making a
mineral location, and is now returning
to his old home to get money, when he
will return to Colorado to develop the
mine to which the spirit directed him.
He has not yet found ore, but he ex-
pressed firm belief that it was there
Denver Republican
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24

William Pett Ridge, the author Of
"Mord Em'ly"-a story of the East End
of Londen-has had his new novel, "a
Breaker of Laws" published in this
country by the Macmillan Company.
Mrs. Esther Baker Steele has built a
fine public library in Elmira, out of the
royalties from her own books and the
text books of her late husband, j. Dor
man Steele. This is to be called the
Steele Memorial Library, in memory of
her husband.
'The Enslavement and Emancipa-
tion of the People" is little book by
]. B. Herboldshimer, in which phases
Of a prominent question of political
economy are considered. The author
paints the present condition of the in
dustrial world, and suggests an original
and practical solution of its problems.
The work is published by the author,
at Gibson City. Ill.
An authors manuscript often has
strange experiences before 1t reaches
Its destined publisher-if it ever does.
Certain members of the new firm of
Doubleday, Page & Co. received the
other day the copy" of 1.-The Sea-Far-
ers, novel by Mary Gray Morrison.
Each remembered it as a manuscript
they had passed favorably on some
years ago, when they occupied the po-
sitions of under readers in separate
houses, but, alas, the head readers did
not agree with them, and so the manu-
script started on it's wanderings once
more. 1t will now travel no further,
for its date of publication has been set
for the near future.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
MINES AND MINING.
klOndike Output of Gold for the Year
1900 Will Reach Total of
S25,O0o.OO0.

.s, Dawson, Y. t., August 1S.-The
Klondike output of gold during the
yeal 1900 will reach $25, 900, 600.
Improved methods of mining, resulting
from the introduction of suitable ma
chinery, together with better knowl-
edge of conditions here, ETC., cheapen-
: ing the cost of production, and ground
!. that was formerly Improbable is now
paying. Wages are fairly good. 50 per
& day and board being the ruling pay,
and, while there are many idle men
complaining of dull times, one who
really wants work can get it. ga
The action of the Canadian govern
sment in prohibiting relooations on all
the creeks and closing Bonanza and El-
dorado to locations, is driving out the
prospector and small miner, and re-
: tards Development to that extent.
: Capital is coming in, however, and
: groups and blocks of claims are being
bought up for large workings. 1t is
:fhe old story of the individual miner
giving way to the syndicates, an
hunting new prospects, hundreds
these during the last spring have lei,
the Klondike and gone to American
territory, where, it is claimed, the poor
man has better chance than here.
Nome has taken the majority, but
many have gone to nearer points.
An early rush went to the koyuknk.
bat late reports from there are very
unfavorable. Parties just returned say
that very little gold has been taken out
in that camp, and the ground ais ex-
ceedinglv difficult to work: on account
of glaciers which overlie the bedrock.
The Forty Mile and Birch Creek dig
gings, both of which were practically
deserted in the rush to Dawson in 1897
and later in the Nome stampede last
fall, are again coming into favor, for it
as never been disputed that there is
much good ground there that will pay
wages and more.
The latest candidate for popular ia
vor is the Tanana district. Reports
from there are generally good. The
ground is three to seven feet deep only.
OVERLAPPING slate and porphry bed
rock, and there is plenty of water for
sluicing, all of which makes it an ideal
country for summer working. 1t is
said to be easily approached from the
Tanana river. One to four ounces per
day is said to be the usual amount per
man, shoveling into the sluices.
The recent action of the United
States government in surveying rail-
road and telegraph route from Valdes
to Eagle City, and its promptness in
pushing through trail with stations,
etc., along the line, is attracting much
attention here. The further fact that
the various civil officers for the eastern
division of Alaska, mbracing the Koy-
ukuk, Tanana and Yukon watersheds,
are now duly installed at Eagle City,
gives great satisfaction. 1t is long
step in the right direction, and great
developments may be expected in Alas.
ka within a few years. =
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets. d.

seattle n8rkotes
Onions, new, 1Ac.
Lettuce, hot house, ST. per crate.
. Potatoes, new. SIS.
Beets, per sack, S5c @$l
Turnips, per sack, 75c.
Squash-4c.
Carrots, per sack, $l.00
Parsnips, per sack, $1.25.
Caulifiower, native, 75c.
Cucumbers-10@2
Cabbage, native and California,
&c per pounds.
Tomatoes-50@ q CO..
Butter-Creamery,2 csc; Eastern 22c;
dairy, 15@ lSc; ranch, lac pound.
Eggs-24c. -
Cheese-l2c.
Poultry-l2c; dressed, lac; spring,
13@15c.
Hay-Puget Sound timothy, $11.0C
@12.OO; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $1,000.
Corn-Whole, $23. 90; cracked, $40
feed meal, $25.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton
$50.
Flour-Patent, per barrel, -$3. So
blended straights, 1925; California
1926; buckwheat flour, $500; gra
ham, per barrel, $500; whole wheat
-four. 1925; rye -four, $3.S0@4.00.
Millstuffs-Bran, per ton, $1,000
shorts, per ton, $l4.OO.
Feed-Chopped feed, $1,000 per ton
middlings, per ton, $40; oil cake meal
per ton, $4,000.
Fresh Meats-Choice dressed bee
steers, price INC; cows, &c; muttor
IN; pork, SC; trimmed, &c; veal, 90
lie.
Hams-Large, 13c; small, 13A
breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides
SIC.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
Minute Measure for Temperature.

Minute Measure for Temperature.
Prof. S. P. Langley, of the Smith
sonian Institution of Washington, has
recently improved his wonderful boil
ometer, an instrument for accurately
measuring the most minute variations
of temperature. He is now able to de-
tect variations in temperature as slight
as the one eighteen-millionth of de-
gree Fahrenheit. If the temperature
of the air were slowly and steadily to
rise at the rate of but one degree year
this instrument could measure the
change which would take place at this
rate in each second Of time. The ap-
paratus is kept shaded and fully pro-
tected in constant temperature room,
which is not allowed to vary more
tEan a fraction Of degree the year
around.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
A PLUCKY YACHTSWOMAN.

She Steered a Boat Long Distance
with Broken Wrist.
The heroine of the Long Island coast
is Miss Annie Il. Tinker, only IL years
old, and the daughter of Henry G.
Tinker, of New York. While out yacht
ing she was steering the boat when she
was struck by the flying spokes Of the
wheel and her wrist fractured. She
made no outcry, however, but remain
ell at the wheel as if nothing had hap
pened.
Mr.. Tinker's country residence.
"Briarcroft," is on the west side of the
bay at Port Jefferson. Some time ago
he had a yacht built, and when the
boat was finished announced that in
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24

the near future he would give lunch
con party to the men who worked upon
1t and their families. 1t was arranged
that the party should be carried from
the village of Briarcroft in one of Mr.
Tinker's launches, and when the party
got aboard Miss Tinker took her posi-
tion at the wheel. The minute the
craft got under way the wheel spun
round and struck Miss Tinker on the
right arm. But not word did the
brave girl say of the accident, and
steered the boat for mile and half
with her left hand, to her fathers land
ing.
When all were ashore she ordered her
horse hitched and drove three miles to
a doctors Office, where the bone was
set. Returning home; she made no
mention of the accident and assisted in
entertaining her fathers guests.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
southern Nfoonshiners.

The great majority of moonshiners
are to be found in the mountain fast
nessee, and here they live in conditions
of civilization as crude as their ances-
tors, most of whom We're English fugi-
tives from justice who reached this
country more than century ago. In
deed, in many respects these descend
ants have retrograded rather than ad-
vanced. Had they been surrounded
for century by Chinese wall they
ignorant of the modern convenienees.