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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
DEAD LETTERS INCREASE.
Receipts for Year Just Closed Were
Largest In History of Nation.


Washington, Sept The animal
report of the operat of the dead Let.
ter Office for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1908, has been prepared and will
be embodied in the Forthcoming rencrt
OF First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne. The report states that it. is
made to appear that there has been
large and steady increase in it's annual
receipts, which is due, it is said, to the
great and constant increase in the vol.
ume OF matter passing through the
mails.
The total receipts for the year were
something over 1000 900. pieces. the
largest in the history of the Office. ex,
ceeding those of the preceding wear bv
some $4,000 pieces. OF the aggregate
number, 1896, 205 pieces were opened.
The money found in opened letters
amounted to $48, ,634, but this sum in
Guided money generally coin) found
loose in the mails or in postoffices and
consigned to the dead letter office.
Commercial paper found, such as
drafts, checks, money orders, etc rep
resented face value of 81 ,493, ,563.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
WAR CLOUDS LIFT.
Bulgaria Takes New Hope in Macedonia
Porte Lessons Apprehensions.
new reservt

OA ~ A~So~hS fzPPAShGuSkOhSs
Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 3O.-The situ-
alton here is much brighter today, and
the war clouds appear to have lifted.
The porte's assurance that the so pat
talions recently ordered to proceed from
Monastir to Adrianople will not be
moved has lessened the apprehensions
of the Bulgarian government. Further
satisfaction is derived from the fact
that M. Natohovitch is going 10 Con-
stantinople in the capacity OF Bulgarian
diplomatic agent. He conducted the
negotians with the porte last June, and
after their failure returned to Sofia.
The committee appointed for the pur
pose at the time OF yesterdays demon
stration of Is, 900 Macedonians in this
city waited on Premier Petroff today
and asked him if the government in
tended to do anything to help the Mac
edonians. NJ. Petroff replied the min
istry was acting in what it conceived to
be the best interests of Bulgaria, and
would continue the same policy. The
spokesman OF the committee told the
premier his reply would not be satisfcat-
ory to the people, and the committee
thereupon withdrew. -
The Dnevnik, commenting on the
situation, says:
Although the Bulgarians remain
quiet, it is not true Indication of the
national feelings, but it is owing to the
approaching elections
The paper adds it will snot be long
before everybody will try to force to
government take acticn."
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
DYNAMITERS WANT MONEY.
Demand $4,000 From Northern Pacific
for Immunity From Outrages.

Demand $50, 900 From Northern Pacific
for Immunity From Outrages.
Helena, Mont, Sept. 30.-It has de-
veloped that the recent attempts to dy-
Mantle bridges and track on the line cf
the Northern Pacific between Livings-
/ ton and Missoula are in furtherance of
plot to force the railway company to
pay $4,000 for immunity from the
outrages.
In August the company received a
letter demanding $50, 700 and it was
threatened if the terms proposed were
not agreed to dynamite would be used
on the line. kNo attention was paid to
the demand, and shortly after, the rail-
cad bridge at Livingston was partially
wrecked by dynamite, and few nights
later another stick of dynamite was ex-
ploded near Bozeman under a passing
train.
Other letters followed, and the dyna-
$50, 900 and if it acceeded to the de-
mand it was to carry white flag on
engines hauling trains and Septem ber
22 was to run light engine from Butte
to Missoula, and at point on the road
was to stop on signal, and an agent of
the company was to pay over the
money.
The company, hoping to catch the
men, put out the white flags and on the
night agreed upon ran the light engine.
Behind it followed another engine pull
ing two cars. One was filed with
armed ssheriffs and deputies and the
other contained horses and blood
hounds. The run was made from Butte
to Missoula, but there was no signal,
and it was thought the men had been
scared off.
Soon after, the letters began to ar
rive again, the dynamiters making the
same demand and telling the railroad
if it agreed to the terms to put the flag
on the engines. This the railroad
company has not done and in the past
two weeks there have Deen four at
tempts to damage the line by the use
of dynamite. ,.zz,,,x, -
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
VALUES ARE HIGHER.
Taxable Property of State Is Worth
About $175 ZOO, 900.

From what can be learned in unoffi.
cial advices from different counties oi
the state, it seems probable that the
total value of the taxable property OF
the state as shown by the assessment
recently completed will be in the
neighborhood of $175, 100000. This
will be in round mum bers $25 ZOO, 900
greater than last year.
From Almost every county comes the
report that valuations are being ad-
vanced and that new property is being
added to the assessment rolls, so that
the total increase for the entire state
will be large.
The highest assessment ever made in
Oregon was that of 1898, when the total
valuation was over $16S, 900 900. The
valuation had grown to that sum by
steady advances from $S4, ,000,000 in
1887. From 1898 onward the counties
began to vie with each other in reduc-
ing assessments in order to escape a
portion of the burden of, state taxes.
The state taxes we've apportion6d among
the counties in proportion to the as
sessed valuation and as each county
controlled its own assessnent it could
gain something by reduction. In 1900
this process of reduction had brought
the total assessed valuation down to
Sly ,000,000
In order to put stop to this rivalry
in reducing assessments the legislature
of 1901 passed an act providing that
state take shall be apportioned among
the counties at fixed ratio. The ben
efcial results of this change were seen
the first year, for the total assessment
that year was $l41 ,0OO,O and in
1902 it had grown to over 148, ,000, 900.
If it shall reach $l75, 900, 900 this year,
as now seems prob BILE, the valuation
will then be the highest in the history
of the state.
Nearly all of the advance indicated
this year could have been made upon
timber lands without placing an unjust
valuation upon that class of property.
In nearly all the counties where there
is considerable area of timber land
subject to assessment, increased valua-
tions have been made this year. In
cities, where both business and resi-
dence nIoperty has found ready rental
at satisfactory rates, the valuations
have been put up.
Reports. received from various sources
indicate that the valuation of farm
property has not been radically in
creased, but only in accordance with
Improvements made.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
COMMISSION TnR JUDGE.
Spending of Lewis and Clark Fund In
Its Hands.

Attorney General Crawford has rem
dered an opinion at the request of Sec
retary of State Dunbar in which he
holds that the state commi ssion for the
expenditure of the $500, 900 appropriate
ed for the Lewis and Clark fair, must,
to great extent, if not entirely, be the
Judge of what expenditures are author
lied to pe made py them.
This question was presented by the
incurring of an expense of $3.50 for
printing resolution presented to the
Trans Mississippi congress requesting
an appropriation from the national
congress in aid of the Lewis and Clark
fair. The secretary of state was in
doubt whether the commission could
use the fair appropriation in trying to
get other appropriations. and referred
the matter to he attorney general,
with the result above stated.
Judge Crawford says, among other
things, that neither the title nor the
body of the Lewis and Clark fair act
attempts particularly to define the pow
ers and duties of the commission, but
in every instance confers general pow
er to carry out the purposes for which
it was created.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
OREGON is CHANGING.
Forestry Officials Find Reserves Are
Now Wanted.

Washington, Sept. 30.-"Contrary
to what appears to be popular belief,
there is steadily growing sentiment
among the people of Oregon in favor of
forest reserves" said Fl. D. Langille,
the Oregon man who is now forest in
spector in the bureau of forestry, and
who has just returned from a summer
spent in examining lands that have
been withdrawn in that state.
81 spent large part of the summer
comforting with people living in the vi
cinlty of various Withdrawals" he
continued, "and I find they generally
indorse the reserve policy, and want
more reserves established in Oregon. l
talked to farmers, to lumbermen, to
stockmen, and, in fact, to all classes,
and the overwhelming sentiment fav-
orable to the reserve policy was very
gratifying"
Mr.. LangilIe spent several weeks in
the Rogue river country and the re-
mainder of the season in the vicinity of
the other Withdrawals in Oregon, save
that in the Blue noun tains, which he
visited year ago. In Southwestern
Oregon he found the people divided,
half favoring a reserve, halt opposing.
In Eastern Oregon, the sentiment was
strongly in favor OF new reserves at all
localities where Withdrawals have
been made.
He believes the examinations made
this year by the various representatives
of the bureau of forestry who have been
in Oregon, will furnish sufficient data
to guide the secretary of the interior in
marking the boundaries of the prope sed
new reserves.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02

Called for October 2O-23 at Salem-Rates
for Delegates.

Called for October 2O-23 at Salem-Rates
for Delegates.
The state convention of the woman's
Christian Temperance Union will meet
in Salem, October 20 to %, inclusive.
A fine program will occupy the time
from the evening of the goth, Tuesday,
until the close. Miss Lillian g..
Phelps, of Canada, woman of fine rep
utation, is to be the principal speak ker.
A gold medal contest will take place
one evening. All persons wearing the
W. @. I. U. or Demorest gold medal
will be permitted to enter this contest.
Send the name, with age and title of
selection to be used at this contest to
the. state president, Mrs. Helen D
Hartford, Newberg, Or, at once, 80
that the contestant can be notified of
date of contest and the rules governing.
Rates will be granted those who at
tend. Delegates will be entertained.
Visitors can secure reduction in board
by writing to the secretary of Salem
union, Mrs. Clarkson Reynolds.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
TRIES TO STEAL GIRL.
Oldest Daughter of Governor of Nebraska
Nearly Abducted.

Oldest Daughter of Governor of Nebraska
Nearly Abducted.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 29.-It deyeJ-
oped today that an attempt was made
last night to kidnap the s-year-old
daughter of Governor Mickey. While
four of the governors children we're
playing in front of the mansion ar un-
known man came along and tried to
carry the Oldest girl away. The other
children clung to his clothes and
screamed. The man was SO badly
frightened when he saw neiehbors
coming that he dropped the child and
ran.
Governor Mickey says the warden of
the penitentiary, Mr.. Beemer, reported
to him twice that kidnapping attempt
had been protested by the convicts.
One convict said some time age such a
plan had been formed as way of get
ting revenge upon the governor for his
refusal to interfere when William Rhea
was hanged last summer for murder.
A convict today said that one of his fell
lews soon to be released had been as
signed to kidnap one of the children to
teach the governor lessop.''
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
PORTLAND MARKETS.

WaIIa Walla, 73c; blue
stem, TIC; valley, TIC.
FIour-Valley, s3.7a@3.85 per bar
rel; hard wheat straights, $3.75@4.10;
hard wheat, patents, $4.20@4. 4.50;
graham, s3.3s@3.75; whole wheat,
$3.55@4. .00:- rye wheat, $3.50.
Barley-Feed, $19.00@2O. 90 per ton
brewing, $21; rolled, $21@21.5O.
Oats-No. white, $1.10; gray,
81 .00@1 .O5 Fer Genital.
Millstuffs-Bran, $40 per ton; mid
/, dlings, $24; shorts, $40; chop, $1s;
linseed dairy food, $19.
Hay = Timothy, $500 per ton
clover, nominal; grain, $40; cheat,
n 4minal.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 25@271ac
per pound; dairy, 1S@20c; store, 15
@16c.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, 1I@
11Ac per pound; spring, 12H@13c;
hens, 11@12c; broilers, $1.75 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 14@15c per
pound ;dressed ,16@18c; ducks, $5@6 100
per dozen; geese, $6@7.00.
Eggs-Oregon ranch, 24c.
Potatoes-Oregon, 65@75c per sack
sweet potatoes, 21ac per pound.
Beef = Gross steers, $3.75@4.25;
dressed, 6@7c per pound.
Veal-8c per pound.
Mutton-Gross. So; dressed, 5@
51ac; lambs, gross, $3.50; dressed, &c.
Hogs Gross, $5.50@5.75; dressed,
Sc.
TalIow-Prime, per pound, 4@5c;
No. 2 and grease, 21k@3c.
Hops 1908 crop, 24@25c per pound.
1902 crop 20@21c.
Wool - Valley, 17@l8c; Eastern
Oregon, 12@l5c; mohair. 35@375<c.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
SAD PLIGHT OF INDIANS.
Strong Drink Is Causing the Impover-
ishment of the PuyalIups.

ishment of the PuyalIups.
Washington, Oct. 1.-The first re-
port of Henry F. Liston on the Puyal-
lup consolidated Indian agency near
Tacoma, WASH, seems to indicate a
deplorable condition. The granting to
the Indians of full power to sell their
lands and chattels has worked great
evil. The Indians, it is said, will sell
their birthright for the price of few
drinks, and even the boys and the girls
are alleged to be acquiring the drink
habit. Drunkenness, according to Lis
toms reports, prevails to shocking de-
gree.
Liston urges congress to take away
from the Indians the right to sell prop
erty, the proceeds of which are now
being used to purchase alcoholic stimu-
lants of the most vile sort. Some
means should be devised, Mr.. Liston
suggests, to prevent the utter impover-
ishmnet and destruction of the Puyal-
lups through strong drink.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
BREAK THEIR WORD.
Turks Kill Refugees Who Had Been
Promised Protection,

Promised Protection.
Monastir, Turkey, Sept. 29.-snow
has fallen on the higher. mountain
ranges, and the refugees must either
leave their hiding places or suffer the
greatest hardships
The Turkish troops continue to
slaughter refugees who return 10 their
former homes at the invitation Of the
government, which promised them pro-
lection. Near the village of ZeIatan,
in the neighborhood of Resta, troops
found l5 returned refugees working in
field. They bound their hands, drove
them into ditch and massacred IA of
the peasants. One of them survived
his wounds. A refugee woman subse-
quently discovered the bodies and car
ried the survivor before the lieutenant
governor of Rosna. who refused to hear
his story.
One hundred and twenty Bulgarians,
including four priests, who had been
exiled by the Turkish authorities. left
Monastir yesterday.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
BOUGHT BY EASTERN MEN,.
Cornucopia Group of Mines In Eastern
Oregon Sold for 100000.

SUEHuSOpAd u NAIucS EdSlSFN
Oregon Sold for $6OO,OO0.
A telegram received at Baker City
by Lack & Schmitz from Trenton, N.
j., announcing the incorporation of the
Cornucopia mines of Oregon company,
with capital stock of 5000, 600.
This announcement closes one of the
largest mine deals ever consummated
in Oregon. It involves the purchase
of the famous Cornucopia mine in the
extreme northeastern portion of Baker
county, which ia included in the Union
Companion group, the Red Jacket, the
Last Chance and 15 other patented
claims, together with the mills, mill
sites and extensive water rights. This
property belonged to the j. E. Searles
bankrupt estate. The price paid for
the mining property was 100000
cash. These mines have been worked
since 1885 with varying success, owing
to the lcng distance from railroad
transportation, all ore and supplies
having to be hauled distance of IS
miles over difficult mountain road.
A portion of the ore is very rich, while
there is great quantity of low grade
ore, which it will not pay to transport
by team.
1t is understood that one of the first
moves of the new company will be the
construction of railroad from Baker
City to the mine. A tunnel over one
mile long has been surveyed for the
purpose of opening up all of the claims.
bernard Mcdonald has been appointed
general manager and has taken posses
sion for the new owners.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
Eirebug at 1904 Fair.

st. Louis, Sept. 30.-It is believed
that an attempt was made late last
night to burn the agricultural building
at the worlds fair, one of the largest
exhibit structures now in the course CT
erection there. About 10 o'clock one
OF the Jefferson guards observed a man
acting suspiciously about the building.
He attempted to arrest the man, who
escaped, although several shots were
fred at him. Guards thoroughly in
spected the building and near one of
the walls found straw and kindling
material with oil.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
VIII Cut Much Timber,

Mayor F. T. Kane and E. J. Hub
bert, of Forest Grove, have purchased
50,000,0 900 feet OF yellow fir timber
north of Forest Grove and will at once
put in camp of35 men getting out
logs to fill the 100000 which they
have contra cted to deliver each year to
W. II. LYDIA, who will st once move his
mill to the Bellinger bridge on Dairy
creek, three miles north of town, where
there is good pond with storage ca
pacity OF 5000. 900 feet. The first de-
livery of logs will be made early in De-
Gem Der.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
Bored Through Rock for Water.

A we'll 10 feet deep, 152 feet of
which penetrates solid rock, and con-
tanning an inexhaustible supply OF
water of the depth of 25 feet, exists at
Stafford, Clackamas county. Lee Bros.
of Candy have just finished boring the
we'll on Sharp Bros farm. An attempt
to pump the we'll dry proved futile.
This is the tenth attempt the Sharp
Bros. have made to reach water on their
farm that would supply necessary water
for farming purposes.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
threatened Strike OF Coal Miners.

Altoona, Pa, Sept. 30.-President
Patrick Gilday, of District No. 2,
United Mineworkers, is authority for
the statement that strike OF the 49,
900 men employed by the Pennsyl-
vania Coal & Coke company. the new
ly formed soft coal combination in the
central Pennsylvania field, is threat
ened. He has given the officials until
October to agree to carry out the pro-
visions of the Altoona scale. Thomas
Walk ins. who was a member of the
Anthracite Arbitration Commission, is
vice. president of the company.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
NAVY Issues Ultlmatum to shipyard.

Washington, Oct. 1.-The navy de-
partment has submitted to the Crescent
shipbuilding company, of Elizabeth
port, N. j., the conditions on which
the orders cancelling the contracts for
the cruiser Chattanooga and the torpedo
boats O'Brien and Nicholson will be
revoked. These conditions are of a
confidential character, but involve the
resumption of work on these vessels
almost Immediately and its progress
without interruption. The representa-
tives of the company have asked ten
days to consider the conditions.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
Nab Counterfeit Money Men.

Mariette, Wis. Sept. 29.-Oficials
yesterday near Koss, Mich, on the
Wisconsin & Michigan railroad, con-
fscated one of the largest and most
complete counterfeit money making
plants ever taken in this country.
They also captured the leader and took
him to Marquette, Mich. The outfit of
the counterfeiters was a complete one
and consisted of dies for the manu-
facture of silver from 10 cents up to ST.,
and gold from IS to $40. The coin was
well made and hard TO detect, both sill
yer and gold being used.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
Canal Board Has No Hope.

New York, Sept. 30.-A Colon bian
senator who appears to have reliable
information says, according to Herald
dispatch from Bogota, that the COM
mission appointed to draft a new prop
osition for Panama canal will report
it to be useless. The senate will ex-
anime the legality of the canal COM
pany's extension of time on the con-
tract of Mancini Caldron before taking
any new action on the canal propo-
sition.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
.Jack the Ripper" at Work.

New York, Sept. 30.-With the dis
coveryss of the body of a boy IA years
old on : the bulkheads at Catherine
street and East river today, the police
are confronted with evidence of crime
that recalls the deeds of "Jack the
Ripper" Marks on the boys body
shows that he had been cruelty NAL
treated. and both the police and coro.
ner are satisfied that he was murdered.
There are evidences that woman was
connected with the crime.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
Arbitrator Is Named.

The Hague, Sept. 29.-The czar has
appointed M. DeMartens, professor of
international law at the university of
st. Petersburg, to be the third arbitra-
tor in the claims of the allied powers
against Venezuela for preferential treat
ment, in place of the Portuguese APP
pointee, whose illness has precluded
his serving. Professor DeMartens was
one of the arbitrators in the Pious
fund claims. The professor has been
awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
Treaty i'm His Hands.

New York, Oct. IA dispatch re-
ceived from Colon by newspaper in
this city says advices received here
from Bogota are to the effect that the
Colombian congress has passed a law
authorizing the president to conclude a
canal treaty with the United States on
certain basis without the approval oi
congress. Representatives in this
country of the Colombian government
have received no information on the
subject thus far.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
CATTLE MAY CROSS PARK.
Crater Lake Route to. Range, However
Will be Closed This Year.

Washington, Oct. 1.-The supeiin-
tendent of the Crater lake park at Kla-
math Falls, was today advised to per-
NIT AL Melhase, of Fort klamath, to
drive 1000 sheep over the public park
to the Fort klamath winter feeding
ground not later than October IA. In
the same letter, the superintendent was
again advised to warn cattlemen in
that section that such permits will not
be issued during the season of 1904.
The interior depar Sment is emphatic in
stating that other means will have to
be devised in future for driving cattle
to and from the several ranges than
across this section of the reserved pup-
lie domain.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-10-02
AMERICAN FLEET WILL STAY.
Beirut Is Quiet, but Leishman Says Af-
fairs Are Uncertain.

Washington, Sept. 2a.-Rear Admi.
raj Cotton, commanding the European
squadron. cables the navy department
that Beirut is quiet, and that the case
of the American vice consul is still
pending. Withdrawal of the American
warships seems unlikely for the pres
ent, in view of the cablegram received
at the state department. today from
Minister Leishman at Constantinople,
stating that although his advices from
Beirut indicate that the situation is
quiet just now, nothing like permanent
order has been established. Minister
Leishman says that the state of affairs
there may yet be regarded as uncertain.