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GOOD VINEGAR, 31sC..SGALLON GEO.
L., HAYNES &iCO., lis NJ Eighteenth
Street. Stf3t5yE NJ " s3 i!i lf}S

DREw's NEW WAY TO, REPAIR
no nails to tear THE sock: Mems. 81: 1
Ladies sIeRhoge -, 2eS7 cr sa1l ane
SHOE FACTORY. TIC =. Main.
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FOR SALE,

FOE SALE-A FARM. 5E1 ,S4s ACRES;
a house, S rooms; good outhouges. For
information address p. H. D., Belsches,
Sussex county, Va. ~ y. 4.
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CREAM puFFs.
FOR SALE BARGAINS.

iLARGE BOTTLE GOOD TOMATO CAT
SUE, 1oc. GEO. u. HAYNES s. CO.. lib
N. Eighteenth Street. q
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IT,s A \ CINGH-A SUIT OF CL0THES
b free with each $50 worth Of seens an nd
hardware from r.. j. KING g Co, wv
East Marshall. zstE
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A LIMITED QUANTITY. OF BLACK
Minorca and White LeEhorn Eggs for
setting; fifteen for s1 alsp few settings
or Plymouth Rock HARPER DEAN,
z near Fair Oaks Station, Va. a.'L
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MISCELLANEOUS.

LARGE JAR CHOW c1Ioy FOR l !! !.
4 regular $50 size. GEO. ~ HAYNES &
II CO.. lis N. Eighteenth street.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12

Trinidad, Colo, D G. The
sheriff with a posse and blood
hounds, left tonight on a special
engine for Primo, in response to a
message that party of five nonun-
ion miners going from Berwind to
Primo were ambushed on the trail
this evening. One Of the nonun-
ion party was shot in the foot, but
made his way to Primo and gave
the alarm. He did not know
whether the rest of the nonunion
party had been killed or wounded,
but they had not arrived at Prim-
ro at 8 o'clock tonight. The non.
union party was being escorted by
Frank Jennings, brother of Superin-
tendent Jennings, of the Berwind
mine. The sheriff was joined by so
deputies at Primo.
Word reached here at midnight
that a pitched battle occurred at Sc
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12
Is NOW ON THE HEAD OF A
MAN WHO PAID FIVE
THOUSAND FOR IT.
Was cut off thelS sller's Head by a
=, Surgeon and Grated on the
Had of the Buyer-First
Operation of the Kind
Ever Accomplish

As a friend of DR.. Andrew L
Nelden, was PERMITTED to-day tt
view his celebr ated patient. upor
w bonn he has grated a Giving
ear ON the head of man who
sold his ear for So, ,0OJ. Except fol
DR.. Nelden and the physicians and
nurses who have been attendant or
the case, I was thu Fl st person
to see the panient. whose identity
i is kept pr found secret.
DR.. Nelden como ucted me to the
operating room in his residence on
East Twenty ninth street, where
the patient was being treated at the
time. The man was lying in the
operating chair, with the grated
ear exposed. DR.. Nelden assured
me that unless unlocked for con-
tingencies arose the operation
would be an unqualified success.
Except for slight swelling and
inflammation, the ear had a perfectly
normal appearance. So far as ''it''
was concerned, Or. Neldon has
copied nature with scrupulous ex'
actness. From lobe to tip there
was no indication that the tissue
had shrunk, and the healthy red
nessof the member showed that
complete circulation had been estab-
lisbed.
DR.. Nelden removed with inf
nate care a silver needle which had
been passed through the side of the
ear and under the cuticle, thus
holding it in fiat natural position
and a silver wire which had been
f q ened t,tbe tip of the ear and
secured over the head to prevent it
from 'lopping" until the increasing
circulation had sufficiently strength
ened the tiseues.
After DIR. Neldon had removed
these supports I saw the ear retain
of-itself a normal position. The
scars Of he stitches which had held
the ear to the patients head are
still apparent, but Dr.. Nelden says
they will not be visible when the
wounds heal. There was much
congealed blood about the ear, as
no attempt bad been made to wash
the wound for fear of disturbing,
even in the slightest degree, the
uniting tissues. SwelliDgs were
noticeable both above and immedi-
ately back of the ear. and at the
side of the face just below the cheek
bone. DR. Nrlden said these swell
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12

Hannibal, N. Y, Dec. 2.-Han-
nibal folk believe that all the bod.
les buried in their village cemetery,
have turned to stone. Two bodies
have been disinterred to be remov.
ed and both were found to be pet
rifed.
The last body exhumed was that
of Mrs. Rose Van Horn, who was a
beautiful young woman. She died
10 1896. When the sexton opened
the grave be found that the coffin
had fallen to pieces but the wo-
mans body was perfectly preserved.
Dr.. Acker, of Hannibal, who is
sued the permit to open the grave,
declared it to be remarkable case
of petrifaction.
The preservation was just as
nearly perfect as it was possible for
it to be-" he said. "The finger nails
were perfect The most peculiar
feature was the eyes. They were
open and looked precisely like those
of living person.
"The body had about the hard
ness of chalk, but few years more
would have made it as hard as flint.
| presume that the petrifaction is
due to some peculiar quality Of the
soil.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12
STATE OF OREGON,
Executive Department.
Salem, Oregon, December i, 1908.

SaIeM, Oregou, DecemDeTi, I5Oo.
In accordance with the provisions of an act
entitled, San Act submitting to tho electors
of the State of Oregon at the General Election
to be held on the first Monday in June, 1901,
the pending proposed Constitutional Amend
ment," fled in the Office of the Secretary Of
State February oath, 1908, 1, Geo. E. Chamber
lain, Governor of the state of Oregon, do here
by cause the proposed amendment to the
Constitution Of Oregon, hereinafter set out at
length and designated as "Office of State Of
Printer Amendment" to be published for five
consecutive weeks in the Corvallis Times a
newspaper published in the Second Judicial
District of the state of Oregon * q.
8 Done at the Capitol, at Salem, Oregon this
First day of December, 1908.
(Signed) GRO. E. CHAMBERLAIN, y
Governor of the State of Oregon.
By the Governor.
FL. DUNBAR,
secretary of State.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. I.

d
Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring
That the following article, as an amendment
to the Constitution of the State of Oregon, be
proposed and referred to the next legislative
assembly, and If the same shall be concurred
in by a majority of all the members elected to
each House thereof, and shall afterwards be
state. then the same shall be a part of the
Constitution of the State of Oregon:
ArticleI. That Article XII, Section /, of the
Constitution of the State of Oregon, be and the
same is hereby abrogated, and in lieu thereof
shall be inserted the following:
The Legislative assembly of the State of Ore
gon enl is Is hereby empoWered = to provide by law
for his compensation, and to prescribe his
powers and duties.
ADOPTED by the Senate January 10Th, 1901.
e. W FULTON,
President OF The Ssnate.
Concurred in by the House.
L; B. READER,
Speaker of the House.
Adopted by the Senate,
GEO. c. BRowNELL,
E President of the Senate.
oncurred in by the Ho use January 21st, 1908.
L, T, HARRIS,
Speaker of the House.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
STATE OF OREGON.
Office of the Secretary of State.
I, F. L Dunbar, Secretary of State Of the
state of Oregon, and custodian of the seal of
said State do hereby certify that have COM
pared the precedi ng copy of Senate Joint Res.
1901, "Office of State Printer Amendment with
the original copy now on file in this office, and
hat the same is a correct transcript therefrom
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed hereto the seal of the
State of Oregon.
Done at the Capitol, at Salem, oregon, this
First day of December d, 1908
tsigned) F. l. DUNBAR,
Secretary of State. y.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12
CORVALLIS, OREGON. DECEMBER u, -
lings presented no menace to the

lings presented no menace to ths
ear.
The patient still wore over tn.
side and back of his head the plas
ter of paris shield which had served
as a foundation for the solid plaster
of paris cast which had held his
head TO that of the man from whom
he had purchased the ear. Pus
had collected in the ear but the
ear itself was withou,
blemish OF any description except
for the high coloring and fullness
The dressing was performed with.
out the use of any anaesthetic, and
the patient did not appear to be
seriously inconvenienced. He has
been made restive by the enforced
inactivity of the past two weeks,
but the knowledge that a false
move may shatter the success of the
operation nerves him to uucsasing g
vigilance.
Announcement Of the successful
accomplishment of grating the ear
of one man to the head of another
was made by Dr. Andrew L. Nell
den of No I3 East Twenty ninth
street, last night. The patient upon
whom Dr. Neldeu grated the ear is
now2being cared for in the physi-
clans home. He is overjoyed in
physical possession ofa ear which
another man wore little more than
two weeks ago.
The man who sold his ear for
IS, 900 is now in a private sanitari-
nm in Philadelphia. where the oper
alton was performed. He will be
released in two days and will go
immediately to his home near Pits
burg where his wife and child are
awaiting him. He is perfectly sat-
isfied with his bargain, DR.. Nelden
Gays. and will use the SIS 600 to
start life anew. The patient was
brought to this city yesterday.
Wide attention has been attrac-
ted to the case around which great
secrecy has been thrown 10 prevent
rev lation of the names of either
the patient or the ear seller. This
secrecy will be maintained, but in
the interest of surgery DR.. Nelden
decided to make public all the
other facts in connection with the
case.
This is the first time in the his
tory Of surgery, as far as tbs rec
ords go, that the grating Of an ear
has beeo accomplished. DIR. Els.
march, the celebrated German sug-
geon, has striven repeatedly to
graft the whole or part of an ear,
but in no instance did the tissues
unite. Plenty of subjects were
furnished to him from among the
German students, whoee ears are
frequently manned in the sabre con-
tests. The failures of SO emient
a surgeon as DR. Ismaech led sur.
geons the world over to believe that
ear grating was practically impos.
sible.
DR.. Nelden advertised in The
World OF Nov. 3 an offer of $4,000
for the right ear of a man or
woman d inches long, II inches
wide with perfect curves and full
lobe. More than four hundred
persons including several women,
were anxious to sell their ear. Off
era came from almost every state
in the Union and many from
Europe. DR. Nelden was author
lied to make the offer by a rich
Western man who had lost his ear
in mining accident. One of the
conditions imposed was that the
name of the man muet never be re-
yealed.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12
AT SING SING ELECT ONE OF
THEIR NUMBER MAYOR
A Strange Custom in Which the
New Official Serves Year Un-
less observation-disclosures
Mayor of Death House
Was Put to Death
His Duties.

new YORK, dec. 4-Albert Il
Patrick was reelected Mayor of the
Death House in Sing-Sir G prison
yesterday. His second term of ser.
vice is to begin from January 1
There is absolutely no appeal from
his rulings. There are nine prison
ers confined in the death-house. bat
only eight votes were cast. Police.
man William H. Ennis, of Brook.
lyn, under sentence of death for
wife murder, refused to participate
in the ballo.ing.
Patrick, being lawyer, is looked
upon by his Observation-Disclosures as
their proper leader. Not only has
he prepared his own case for the
court Of appeals but he has aided
the other condemned meu in their
efforts to secure new trials. All
questions of Importance are referred
to him, and he passes upon them
jest as city magistrate would un.
der other circumstances.
A chief executive of the death
house is elected for one year, but in
the event of the removal of the
mayor another election is made ne
cessary. Patrick's first term was
what is commonly called an unex-
pired one. He succeeded Arthur
Flanagan, who killed keeper in
the West Side Prison and who was
put to death last spring. Even
during Flanagan's administration
Patrick was the chief adviser, and
he prepared Flanagan's letters of
appeal to Governor Odell. The ap.
reals were SO strong that Flanagan
obtained two weeks respite.
The nine men who are now con.
fined in the death house are Pat
rick, William H. Ennis, Thomas
Tobin, Arthur Hopping, William
Spencer. Charles Jackson, James
Breen, Raffaele Cascone and Oscar
Bergstrom. Tobin, Ennis and Berg
strom are to die a week from next
Monday. Ennis is believed to be
insane, and Governor Odell has
been asked by Warden johnson to
appoint a committee of experts to
examine him.
A clergyman who visited the ccn-
demned cells yesterday was present
at the election. Patrick thanked his
fellows for the confidence they had
in him and assured them that he
would try 10 rule them with fair
ness and to their entire satisfaction.
The powers of the mayor of the
death-house are great. If two of
the inmates want to play checkers
it is necessary for all the others to
be quiet. In case the majority
should object to game the ques-
ton is referred to the mayor, whose
decision is final. Absolute silence
is necessary, because the two per-
sons playing do not see each other
nor can they play on one board.
Each has board marked on paper
in his cell and the moves are called
off across the hall. 1t is the same
with chess.
Whistling concerts are INDUCED
in now and then, but only when the
mayor permits. All matters of Ell.
luette and all points of law are
passed upon by him.
William Spencer, the negro, who
killed superintendent Macfarlane,
If the Goddard Society, was cam
lidate for mayor, but be withdrew
rom the race when he learned that
Patrick had the majority with him.
It is said that the election was
made unanimous.
Trinidad Coin d q 7Tha
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12

gundo, a Colorado Fuel & Iron
camp, between 9 and 10 o'clock to-.
night, between about 80 striking
Italian miners on one side and sew,
en- of the company's guards on the
other. Three of the strikers were
shot and two of them will probably
die. One was shot in the groin,
one in the head and the other in
the leg. None of the guards was
hurt, though one had his hat shot
off. \.
The fight occurred at the coke
ovens at the edge of the camp. The
miners went to the ovens, but were
ordered to stop by the guards. Al
most Immediately the shooting be-
gan, each side claiming that the
other fred first. After the affair a
mass meeting of strikers was called,
but dispersed shortly afterward.
Sheriff Clark with posse is now
on the ground.
At midnight nothing had been
heard from the nonunion men who
were fired on earlier in the night.
Burns, Or, Dec. S.-The jury in
the trial of Harry Egbert, who
murdered Deputy Sheriff Saxton
and John Weston October 4. return
ed verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree. Sentence will be-
passed Thursday.
When the jury came into court
at p. m. today Egbert was perfect
ly cool and he listened to the YER
dict which meant death to him. Five
days of last week were used up in
securing jury and the taking of
testimony was begun yesterday
morning.
Egbert relied wholly upon an at.
tempt to establish self.defense as
the cause for the killing the two
men. This is the first verdict in
volving capital punishment ever
rendered in Harney county. 1t is
highly commended by the public.
John Saxton, well-known at
torney at Burns, Or, and John
West, rancher, were murdered by
John Frost, alias Harry Egbert, in
Wild Horse Valley, 125 miles south
Of Burns, in Harvey county. Wild
Horse Valley is one of the most
isolated spots in Oregon.
Egbert was fugitive from JUS
tice, wanted in Douglas county for
burglary. Saxton, as deputy sher.
if, went from Burns to arrest bim.
West went along to help. October
4 they came to ranch house in
Wild Horse Valley. In this house
were Egbert and his wife. Egbert
opened fire with a rifle and the wo.
man fed.
West was shot down at the frst
fire. Saxton followed the man into
the house and furious battle en-
sued through thin board petition.
Saxton heard West cry for water,
and while attending to the needs of
the mortally wounded man was shot.
A large reward was offered for Egg
bert's capture, and after q long
chase Constable Mccoy caught up
with the villain at tRockland, Idaho.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-12-12

We are capturing the gilt makers.
Our line of diamonds, watches, rings,
and silver novelties, is full of quality and
merit. 3. M. French. the jewe1er.
Albany,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
FLORIDA.
THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY

The City Council of Jacksonville
has heard, through the president of
the Home Trust Company of New
York, that the $4,000 for the Carnegie
Library building will be available as
soon as certain formalities are attend
ed to, and of course these matters of
detail will be completed with all pos
sible dispatch. The bill to provide for
a board of library commissioners, re-
Gently prepared in Council will proba-
bly, be brought up at the next meeting,
and this important body will be named
as soon as possible. AS was announced
some weeks ago, the fine lot at the
northeast corner of Ocean and Adams
streets has been bought and paid for.
and will be made over to the city of
Jacksonville for the location of the
Carnegie Library at once. The con-
ditions under which Andrew Carnegie
consented to build a $4,000 library in
Jacksonville included the appointment
OF commission to take charge of the
matter; also the city was required TO
enter into a compact for the donation
of $1,000 per annum for the mainte-
nance of the library. This was under
taken by Council, after an expression
OF popular sentiment by the people at
the ballot box.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
The onion ns a Market Crop.


The onion is readily grown from seeds
in the South. but it seems that this
is not generally known. For twenty
five years We have grown various va
rieties experimentalIy, and have found
certain kinds more profitable than
others. The Italian and Bermuda va
rieties are much better adapted to our
soil and climate than those kinds
usually grown at the North. And as
a rule we have found the fiat kinds
TO give better results than the round
or globular sorts. There is no better
kind for Southern use than the Ber-
muda where genuine, fresh seeds can
be had. The Italian variety. New
Queen" is excellent. Most of the
Spanish and Italian kinds will give
satisfaction, but specially the fiat
kinds.
October and February are the months
for sowing onion seeds in this sec
ton.
The soil need not be deeply plowed
but the surface soil should be well
pulverized to the depth of several
inches.
At least a ton of frst-class com
mercial fertilizer should be broad
casted to the acre, and lightly har-
rowed in. The same quantity of bone
meal and ashes is also good. Fresh
stable manure can be used as a top
dressing after sowing the seeds. The
soil should be prepared for sowing by
the 10th of October or little earlier
and as soon as it rains sow. Press
the soil firmly to the seeds Sow
evenly in 20 or "a inch drills, using
four or five pounds of seed to the
acre. There will be no need for thin
ming out, unless the seeds fall in
punches. If they are fresh and are
carefully drilled along at the rate of
twenty-five or thirty to the foot there
will be need for little thinning. Those
thinned out can be set out elsewhere.
Onion plants are much to be preferred
to onion-sets. Too many of the latter
shoot to seed without making market
able onions whereas few or none O.
the seedlings do this A crop grown
from sets is very uncertain.
Now and then we have freezes in
January. severe enough to damage Sc
riously or destroy completely the fall
sown crop. In such case the sowing
will have to be repeated early in jan
uary. II the onions can De gotten
up by the Goth of october they will
get sufficiently rooted by January to
enable them to Withstand pretty Sc
we're cold and freezing of the soil. 1t
is only the heaving of the soil that
hurts them. A little mulchng will
prevent this. On very rich soil 1t Is
wonderful how thick the onions may
stand and make salable bulbs, If the
plants are not in clumps, but are
evenly strewn along in the row. While
the fiat onion is smaller they can make
1t up in numbers. Five hundred bush
els can easily be made on an acre of
rich land-with rows twenty inches
apart and ten or eleven plants to the
running foot If every seed could be
counted to grow and make a plant
there would be no need for sowing as
thickly as suggested, but many will
fail through one cause and another.
It is safer to SOW twenty-five to the
foot and thin out IL necessary.
Onions can be sown in seed-beds or
cold-frames all through the winter
and the plants be transplanted in jan
uary or February. This is the most
profitable way to grow this most ex-
cellent esculent.
6 A @
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

Few of us realize to what extent the
yield of corn may be increased. At a
recent meeting of corn-growers, Mr..
Coolidge of Illinois called attention to
the fact that the corn crop of Illinois
this year averages thirty-eight bushels
per acre. That means only three
fourths of a pound of corn per hill,
reckoning about $500 hills to the acre.
The gentleman mentioned picked up
an ear of corn that was marked
three-quarter pound" and said to the
writer:
THAT is the average product of a
good hill of corn in Illinois, even in
this year of big corn crop" 1t is ev-
ident that If we can make each hill
produce even two stalks of corn, each
stalk bearing a pound ear. we will
increase the average yield of corn in
Illinois and adjacent states to near 100
bushels per acre. A 100 bushel crop
is not such a wonderful thing after
all. 1t simply means no blanks in
the way of hills. Hitherto the def
cheney has arisen from several rea-
sons. Some of the seed was not good
and never sprouted, and the hills in
which they were planted bore no
stalks. Then some of the sprouts
that came up developed. into stalks
that bore no seed. These sapped the
ground of it's plant food, but gave no
grain. in return. Then a good many
stalks that bore ears had little corn
on the ears, this being due to the use
of a variety that had not been reduced
to what we call uniformity. The
work of producing seed corn that will
be prepotent and that will produce
ears of uniform size is one that is
bound to be crowned with success,
though it will take some years to ac-
complish very much in the way of I'M
iformity. The failure of much of the
corn planted is due to lack of prepo-
tency in the seed.
An increase of but one ounce per
ear, with one stalk to the HILL and
one ear to the stalk, will give about
forty-seven bushels of corn to the
acre with twelve-ounce ears. This is
not difficult task. In the growing of
corn we have hitherto paid no atten-
ton to the real value of the seed more
than to ascertain that it had germi-
mating power. Even this was not done
till recent years. We have supposed
that bushel of corn was worth about
the same for seed as any other bushel
Now we are waking up and recogniz-
ing the fact that the seed is a very
large factor in the production of
good crop of corn. Good seed and good
cultivation will most certainly give
us good stands when the season is not
unusually unfavorable. But with the
possible increase of corn the fullness
of the good years would we'll make up
for the leanness of the poor years.
During some of our recent years II
has been found that in some fields
there were IS per cent. of barren
stalks, while in other fields
the percentage of barren stalks
was less than per cent. We