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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Insurance Litigation. Settled.

Chicago, Sept. IA settlement of
the litigation which has involved the
Northwestern Life Assurance Com
pany since last September was effect
ed today by the bid of Walter H. Lee
for the assets of the company. Some
time ago Mr.. Lee offered to pay 40 per
cent on all approved claims against
the company in return for the title to
all the assets. The claims which are
to be settled aggregate IL round ag-
ures 81 ,000, 900.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Spark Fell Into the Powder.

Altoona, Pa, Sept. S.-At Munson, a
mining town north of this city, Emanu-
ell Rinus, German miner, was empty
ing powder from one cask into another
at his home, when a spark fell from
his pipe into the powder. The explo-
sion which followed wrecked the house
and hurled the Rinus family in all di
rections. The father, mother and two
children were terribly burned and
mangled. All are living, but their
death is expected.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
WuI ConsoIIdate Governments.

Manila, Sept. 2.-Civil Governor
Taft returned here today from the
north. He is pleased with the con-
dition of the parts of the country
visited. During his trip he establish
ed civil governments at Launion, Illo-
COS (South and North, Abra, Caga-
yam, Isabella, Zambales and Bocol. He
intends shortly to amalgamate the
provincial governments, abolishing the
cumbersome machinery of the smaller
provinces.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
A Car Inspector Killed

st. Louis, Sept I'm an accident
on the Southern Railway at Firewater
Station, four miles from East st.
Louis, today, Frank Haefele, chief car
inspector of the road, was killed, and
Elmore Drumm, fireman, was fatally
and Scott Mulconnery, engineer, se-
riously injured.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
NEWS OFTHE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREGON.
Commercial and Financial Happenings Of I'm.
portance-A Brief Review of the Growth
and improvements of the Many Industries
Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth
Latest Market Report

U60u ulSCOV0T0Q III MdluGuT SOuuLy.
A pocket of so per cent pure gold
ore was uncovered in the Virtue mine
in Eastern Oregon.
Reports are current that numerous
Chinese pheasants are being slain un-
timely in the Willamette Valley.
Superintendent Ackerman holds that
Oregon voters have the right to say
whether more than eight grades shall
be taught in the public schools.
A Pendleton bicycle thief got safely
away with a wheel, then became
frightened, jumped off, abandoned his
booty on the street corner and ran.
away.
A chicken-raiding owl, measuring
five feet from tip to tip and with claws
as large as a mans hand, was killed
the other day in the mountains above
Weston.
Webb street, Pendleton, is to be i'm.
proved by crushing all boulders larger
than number seven hat, that can be
found thereon. The street was dress
ed with gravel some months ago and
has been impossible for teams ever
since.
Another rich strike has been made
| in the Copper Stain mine in the Mount
| Reuben district near Grants Pass.
! Workmen, while drilling, noticed glis-
| tening particles in the rock, which
| proved to be gold. The extent of the
vein is not yet known, but the rock is
worth many thousands per ton.
From parties who have been fishing
on Bear Creek, it is learned that some
unscrupulous persons have again been
dynamiting fish in that stream. One
man reports having seen any number
of dead trout along the banks where
the dynamiters failed to gather them
up. He says he measured one such,
which was exactly 26 inches in length.
Hop picking has begun in several
Oregon yards.
Another contest has been filed in
the Tillamook timber land case.
Cattlemen fired about 10G shots into
a band of sheep in Eastern Oregon.
Important changes will be made
among the traffic men of the o. R
& N, Railway.
i Hop pickers are said to be very
scarce in many sections Of the Viii
lamette Valley.
i Richard Downey has been appoint
ed marshal of Vale, vice Robert
Draper, resigned.
Construction of the Lakeview-Silvel
Lake telephone line will be begun
about September 1st.
A band of counterfeiter's captured
at Huntington had one of the most
complete outfits ever found.
A branch of the Sons of st. George
has been organized by the British
American citizens of Marshfield.
A dead infant was found in a mill
race at Salem, but the presence wa.
explained satisfactorily to the cor
oner.
w. S. Walkers threshing crew ru1
five days on spring grain and aver
aged $500 bushels. The largest ru1
in one day was 3100 bushels. Tha
is something big, and Mr.. Wake.
would like to hear of the threshel
that equals it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Smiths of Oklahoma.

Guthrie, o. T., Sept. To-day
call was issued for a convention in
Guthrie October IL next of all persons
in Oklahoma by the name of Smith,
to effect an organization for annual
reunions. It is estimated that 1000
Smiths are in the territory.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
will Accent Offer of United States.

London, Sept. "A dispatch to a
news agency from Copenhagen today
says the new Danish Ministry has
decided to accept the United States
offer of 5000, 900 kreger for the Dam
ish West Indies, thus announcing as
an accomplished fact what the dis
patches of the Associated Press said
the Ministry would do.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Porto Rican Union Chartered

Washington, Sept. 2.-The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, with head
quarters in this city, has granted the
first charter for general branch of
that order in Porto Rico. The organ
ization in that island is treated like
any other state organization.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Drilled Into DYNAMITE

Shamokin, Pa, Sept. John Shen-
asky, miner, was killed today and
several others were badly injured by
an explosion of dynamite at the Scott
shaft here. The explosion was caused
by drill accidently running into
charge of dynamite.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
New OREGON postmasters.

Washington, Sept. s.-oregon post
masters were appointed today as fol-
lows:
o. McCleary, at Garrison, vice e.
Simms, resigned: F. G. Jones, at West
fall, vice C. w. Madden, resigned.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Declared the Strike Off.

Pittsburg, Sept. 2.-The seven hum
dred strikers at the plant of the Nc
Clintock- Marshall Company, at Ran
kin, Pa, met today and declared the
strike OFF. They go back at the terms
offered by the company.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Miners Refuse to Work.

Coal Creek, Tenn, Sept. About
1000 miners refused to go to work in
the Coal Creek district today. The
Coal Creek Coal Company and the
Black Diamond Coal Company's mines
are completely shut down.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
The Iowa at AcapuIco.

Washington, Sept. 2.-The battle
ship Iowa arrived today at Acapulco
on her way to join the Ranger in look
ing after American interests on the
Isthmus.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
A New Worlds Record.

New York, Sept. John Flanagan
threw the 36-pound hammar III feet
8 inches at the Irish Athletic Club
games at Celtic Park today. This is
q new worlds record.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Turkey Considering the Claims.

Constantinople. Sept. 2-The Tur-
kish Minister discussed the French
claims Saturday. 1t is believed that
full satisfaction will be given to
France
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06
Portland Markets.

Wheat = Walla Walla. nominal
561 &c per bushel; bluestem, $500
Sic; valley, 55K@56.
Flour-best grades, $2.65@3.50 per
barrel; graham, $3.50.
Oats-Old, ST.. 10@1. Is per GENITAL.
Barley-Feed, $15@15.50; brewing,
$15. so per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $27 per ton mid
dlings, $21. so; shorts, $40; chop, SIG.
Hay-Timothy, $11@13; clover,
$7@9. SO; Oregon wild hay, $5@6 per
ton.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 221k@25c;
dairy. 1s@20c; store, 11@12c per
pound.
Eggs-17@17Ac per dozen.
Cheese-Full cream, twins, 11@
11kc; Young America, 12ac per
pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, So. .0O@
8. rs; hens, 81. 50@5. so; dressed. LOG
lie per pound; springs, 50. 2.50@3 30
per dozen; ducks, So for old; So 90
@3.50 for young; geese, $5@6 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 8@10c; dressed.
1oSAA/2O POI E'oehbo.
Mutton = Lambs, SIC. gross !;
dressed, 6@7c per pound sheep,
$3.25, gross; dressed, 6@61ac per lb.
Hogs - Gross. heavy, $5.75@6; /;
light, $4.75@5; dressed, 7@7Mc per
pound.
Veal = Small. s@9c; large, Z
@71ac per pound.
Beef-Gross top steers, So. 50@4. 90;
cows and heifers, So. 25@3. so; dressed
beef, 61a@7Hc per pound.
Hops-12@14c per pound.
Wool - Valley, 11@131ac; Eastern
Oregon, 8@l2Ac; mohair, 20@21c per
pound.
Potatoea-$1@s1. 10 per sack.
Brazil produces $500 tons of cof
fee out of the worlds yearly crop OF
600, 900 tons.
The population of the United King
dom passed that of France for the
| first time in 1892.
Holland has 10,100 windmills, each
of which drains 80 acres of land, al
an average cost of rs cents an acre q
year.
Italy and Spain have fewer houses
Fin proportion to population than any
other country. The Argentine Repub
/ lie has most.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-09-06

Preserved fruits. in a state fit to
have been eaten, have been taken
from the ruins of Herculaneum.
English cement manufacturers,
finding their trade threatened by the
American product, decide to adopt
the Yankee methods and machinery.
The Southern Pacific railroad now
has 95 engines equipped for the burn
ing Of oil as fuel. It takes 81 barrels
of oil TO run locomotive day, but
the cost is small compared with coal.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
.SetDase Plants for Cities.

The disposition of sewage, including
the drainage from all the sources OF
pollution, in large and small cities has
become one of the most importont
health problems of the age. The most
pressing part of the problem relates
to the deposits of matter in which the
germs of disease may lurk or be in
active form.
Where there is chance for great
drainage system like that of the Chi
cago sanitary channel the problem Is
easily solved. The highly diluted sew
age is disinfected by the action of the
water flow with which in mingles and
It becomes harmless after a short
time OF friction with continent waves
of the current. This fact in science
has been proved by the effects of the
current in the sanitary channel on the
sewage from Chicago.
But no satisfactory solution has been
offered for method OF disinfecting
Gbe sewage of large and small cities
bt connected with the currents Of
Considerable running streams Tho
question has become very serious in
the populous towns of the lacustrine
regions at the west and at the east
Some lakeside towns have local popu-
lation of thousands. Many have sum-
mer resort hotels, where greater
temporary and uncertain population
than that of the town are accommo-
dated. At these places the sewage Ii
run into the adjoining lakes. In time
the lakes will become mere cesspools.
breeding bad odors and malarial dis
ease.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
Science and Malaria.

Professor G. B. Grassi of the Univer-
'sity of Rome describes in the current
Independent the recent victory of sci
snce over the diseases known as ma
iaria." The results obtained were such
as to promise the banishment at no
distant day of these harassing mala-
dies from all communities willing to
take the simple measures required. An
accompanying benefit is the opening to
human use OF many districts hitherto
deemed uninhabitable.
Space will not permit even resume
of the successive steps of patient in
vestigation by which the character and
manner of propagation of malaria were
established. Suffice it to say that ma
larial fevers on this theory are caused
by parasites implanted in the blood of
fp,an by the anopheles species Of mos
'%NSto. These parasites exist only in
Ihs human body and in this mosquito.
They can propagate in the latter only
in the warm months. The disappear
ance of the disease during part of the
year is due to the fact that there are
then no infected mosquitoes. But the
parasites survive in the human body,
and are taken from the latter by the
next crop of mosquitoes. to be injected
into new human victims. and SO on
from year to year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
One Cause for Thanks.

If anybody is looking for something
to be thankful for let him ponder the
fact that there are about 100000
children attending school in the United
States. This is a showing that no 9TH
er country in the world can produce.
One-fifth of our whole population is
enrolled in free schools. AS compared
with our school figures, the most in
telligent nations of Europe are far in
the rear. But even the public schools
give but n faint idea of the extent of
educational work among us. All manner
of trade and technical schools are
growing up. libraries are being found
ed in every considerable town and dis
trict, until the cheapest thing in Ameri-
ca is an education.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
GiO,ne rvay 10 Civriizaf.on.

Transcontinental railroads ended the
days of the buffaloes. Great swarms of
hunters were carried out by the rail-
roads across the prairies and plains
and vast numbers of the buffaloes were
killed out of sheer wantonness. Next
to the Indian himself the buffalo was
the most picturesque and distinctive
feature of the American landscape in
the wilder regions from the earliest
days down to a comparatively recent
time, but both-the Indian by seclu-
sion in reservations and the buffalo b.
death-have been overwhelmed by ths
vAvU Il sivilisation.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
Should Learn Work.

In a recent address on Common
School Problems" President Draper
of the University of Illinois, said:
There is undoubtedly very wide
spread feeling throughout the land that
the work of the elementary schools has
grown unreasonably complex and con-
fusing: that it is being subordinated to
some interests or theories which are
not of general concern. 1t is not certain
that the tendencies of recent years are
wholly wrong. The fact probably is
that the trend OF events is good enough,
but is being carried to an unreasonable
extreme. Old DR.. Lernard Bacon used
to say at Yale that 'some people must
squeeze n good thing till it has to
squeal." We will do well II we do not
forget that most children are going to
earn their living and gain their happi-
ness with their hands If they do it at
all. and that we will be giving strength
to the country by so much as we digni-
fly labor and enhance the common inter-
est in the agricultural and mechanical
industries"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
Lone Martyr m .stirfs.

1t is amusing to read of the mar
tyrdom of lone Boston woman to her
theater hat, which she persisted in
wearing at the play in defiance of a
city ordinance and against the now
universal custom of her sisters in all
civilized cities. This particular wom-
an-the wife of musical critic at that
left the theater on one occasion rath-
er than remove her headgear. and on
another night accepted transfer to the
managers box to avoid scene. What
can possess the mind of woman who
at once defies law. rejects fashion and
disregards the rights Of people who
pay to see the play and not to get a
rear view of her millinery? Boston
ought to send her to kindergarten in
altruism-and courtesy.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01

power to move the brush and thus
tighten the labors of the scrub woman
or man almost to a point of extinction.
Below we show his machine, which is
very simple affair comprising a ro-
tary wheel set inside casing and
provided with a series of buckets
around its periphery, together with
small .toothed wheel engaging toothed
disk secured to the back of the brush
The water supply comes from hose
attached to the end of the handle. or
the pipe may be directly connected to
tube in line with the revolving
buckets. The gearing reduces the
speed of the brush in comparison to
that of the motor, and thus consider
able pressure can be applied to the
machine without interfering with its
efficiency. 1t can readily be appreciated
that there are other uses besides clean
ing the floors to which this machine
can be applied, chief of which is the
cleaning of windows and woodwork
which is out of normal reach. The
escaping water from the motor may
be allowed to flow through the bristles
or return through a pipe paralleling
the feed pipe to a convenient point OF
discharge
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01

The Shetland pony, the smallest OF
his race and family. the greatest prize
and possession of our childhood, says
the Spectator, is now becoming quite
a parsonage on his own account. His
birthplace and bringing up, his career
and obsequies, are unique in the his
tory of the worlds domestic animals.
Born in hyperborean islands Of a
diminutive father and still more dim
inutive mother he passes from pasture
to pasture in boats, till he goes to the
south in ship in company with hun
dreds of his companions. Then he de-
scends thousands of feet into the earth
where he works by artificial light all
his life, and at his death he is brought
above ground to be buried. To work
in the mines is the destiny OF the ma
jority of Shetland ponies. Lord Lon
.donderry kept famous stud Of them.
presumably for use in his collieries.
This stud has been dispersed, but there
are several in the south of England in
which, by careful breeding, the ponies
are kept small. These are mostly bred
for home use and for ladies' and chill
dren's pets.
But in the pits the Shetland pony is
stin Indispensable. If it were not for
him coal would be even dearer than ii
LIE DtNtI EbtS Oh StIlht. hlS
per is admirable. he never grows res
tive. even if he bumps his head, which
is the only accident which commonly
afflicts him, and to guard against which
the more thoughtful coal owners pro-
vide him with IL leather helmet. Now
that the pits are lighted with electric
light the ponies sight does not suffer.
They have fine stables, with movable
! oarded floors. so that they never suf-
sr from thrush or cracked heels, and
as the temperature is uniform they do
not catch cold. Pure Shetlands are the
only breed which keeps small enough
to work in the seams, even Iceland
ponies proving too big and excitable.
There is no room to jump about in a
? coal gallery and the conversion of the
diminutive "Sheltie" into an equine
mole is one of the greatest tributes to
its placid disposition and to the deter
mination of its race never to be any
thing but ponies. In the quaint phrase
of one of their admirers, there are no
ponies small enough to push the Shet-
lands out of their deserved position"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
Will Wed a Prince.

The tragedy occurring at Paris sew
-eral years ago in which Edward Park
er Deacon of Boston bore leading
part has been recalled to mind by the
recent engagement of his daughter
Gladys to one of the most distinguished
inoblemen of Europe. Mr.. Deacon Is
'hopelessly insane at Waverly asylum.
where he is attended by his wife.
The marriage of this beautiful young
girl, Oldest and loveliest Of the four
daughters, to a man of such rank and
standing as the prince Of Lichtenstein
will do much to relieve her family
from the scandal which has shrouded
IT ever since the famous Deacon-Abeil-
lie tragedy ten years ago. And any
body who has ever seen Mr.. Deacon 8
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
AR as Source of MofiOe
POtNer,

Joseph Knight, young marine en-
gineer on local English packet,
claims to have discovered a method of
utilizing air instead of coal as a
source of motive power. A London
dispatch states that the admiralty has
already taken up the invention for in
vestigation, and this fact is accepted
as proof of its probable genuineness.
The remark is volunteered in the dis
patch that if young Knights expecta
tions are realized the introduction OF
the new source of power will entirely
revolutionize naval and ship construe-
ton generally.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
LADY LEE

Some years ago Mrs. De Wolf Taylour
of New York married Austin Lee. a
young English diplomat of promise.
He has just secured the order of
hnighthood from the queen and his
wife becomes Lady Lee. She is one
of the most beautiful and brilliant
women of the English-speaking col
ony at Paris, where her husband is
second secretary of the British lega-
tion. Formerly she was the close
friend and confidante of the countess
de Castellane and helped the latter
through the intricacies that beset her
when she went to France as bride
and entered Paris society.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01

Over 100000 worth of thorough
bred stock was on exhibition at the
greatest fat stock show that was ever
held in any country. at Dexter Pa
vilion. Chicago. Dec. 1-8, 1900. Nearly
100000 was paid to exhibitors in
prizes. Advance" the champion fat
steer. was sold for s1.50 a pound. live
weight, and weighed on the Chicago
Scales Co.'S scales. the official scales
of the show. This is the highest price
at which any animal was ever sold for
beat
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01

BIRTHPLACE OF BUCHANAN.
70 1861, first saw the light of day on
the 23d of April. 1880. This humble
domicile was situated in the midst Of
! wild and romantic mountain gorge,
which with its beautiful scenery may
have served to imbue in his mind SEN
timents of lofty aspirations.
Several years ago, however, the hut
was moved from its original site, and
now stands near the edge of Mercers-
R1rg. Its occupants at the present
dine aFe . sslsrsd family.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
CAPITOL BUILDING. SALEM, OREGON.
A Letter from the Executive Office of Oregon.

The Governor of Oregon Is an ar
dent admirer of Pe-ru-na- He keeps
it continually in the house. In re-
cent letter to DR.. Hartman he says:
State or Oregon.
Executive Department,
Salem, May 8. 1898.
The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus,
Ohio:
Dear Sirs:-I have had occasion to
use your Pe-ru-na medicine in my
family for colds. and it proved to be
an excellent remedy. l have not had
occasion to use it for other ailments.
Yours very truly, w. M. Lord.
Any man who wishes perfect health
must be entirely free from catarrh.
Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost
omnipresent. Pe-ru-na is the only abb
solute safeguard known. A cold is
the beginning of catarrh. To prevent
colds, to cure colds. is to cheat ca
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
Beware of oIntments for catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering 1t through the mucous surfaces
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is tenfold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Cntarrh
Cure. manufactured by +. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo. O., contains no mercury, and Is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine
1t is taken internally, and made In Ioleuo, Qnlo;
by F.. j. Cheney & Co Testimonialsfree Soio
by Druggists. price &c per bottle.
Balls Family Pills are the best
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-01-01
Best for tho Bowels.

No matter what ails you, headache
to a cancer, you will never get we'll
until your bowels are put right
CASCARETS help nature. cure you
without a grippe or pain. produce easy
natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the
genuine, put up in metal boxes, every
tablet has C. C. c. stamped on it. Be-
ware of limitations