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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

RUSSIAN peasants are starving and the gov
eminent is wondering how it will feed its mil
lions of hungry people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

AN nti-poligamy bill has been introduced
in congress Now, who's after the scalp of
the Sultan of Sulu?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

THE Sultan of Turkey is massing an army
of 24o, 900 men, preparing for war.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

resided until 1881, when he removed to
this community where he resided until
called to leave the shores of time and
enter the Beyond Mr.. Reeve was mar
ried to Angelina RI 6 RS. Ian. Z, 1871.
Seven children were born, four ofwhom
survive the father and mother; Mrs. ].
B. Rhades, of Colony, l. K. DIN, and
Mrs. Dr. RS Minckley. of this place. Mr..
Reeve was one of the most respected
citizens of this community. The funeral
services were held in the Nj. E church,
conducted BY Rev. Martin, assisted by
Rev. Carnine. The remains were laid to
rest in the village cemetery by the side OF
those of his companions who preceded
him less than two years ago.
1t is reported that Col. Chas. McCrum
has been recommendation place on the
board of railroad commissioners.
Vernon ]. Rose was in town Wednesday
on business
Mrs. A. H. McKitrick has purchased
the Springston property, lust east of
Curriers' umber-yard.
Mr.. Hunter, OF Lone Elm, has purchas-
ed the Wheelon property, south OF ]. A.
Bells residence.
The McAfce furniture factory has Just
completed a baptismal fount for the
Catholic church of this city. 1t Is a
handsome piece of work
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

KING EDWARD is sick again. The Emperor
of Germany is also on the sick list.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

HossoN has resigned retired from the navy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

IT is reported that when Speaker Henderson
retires from congress, he will take Thomas B.
Reeds place as member of law firm in New
York.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

IT is reported that Secretary Root will soon
retire from the cabinet.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

WOMAN SUFFRAGE was defeated in the house
Wednesday. Of course.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
CHINESE TRIcKERY.
Exaggerate Reports of Rebellion to Get
Aid from French Troops.

New York, Jan. 21.-In reference to
the reported serious rebellion in the
Kwang 81 province, a dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai by way of Lon
don says that the native press states
that the provincial governor, Wang Chi
Chun, purposely permits an increase
of brigandage, magnifying the opera,
tions of the local banditti into a SER
ious rebellion with the deliberate pur-
pose of afterward invoking the assist
ance of the French troops.
Stress is laid upon the governors
former record in the Nganwhis pro-
vince and elswehere, and his notorious
capacity for venality. His recent
decoration by the French government
does not escape comment.
The dispatch also announces that in
response to the memorial presented to
the throne by Viceroy Yuan Shih Kiki,
Sheng is permitted to retain control
of the government telegraph system to
allow of his winding up the financial
year.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat Walla Walla, 73c; blue
stem, SIC; valley, 76@77c.
Barley-Feed, $23.5o per ton; brew
ing, $24.
Flour-Best grade, $4,000. 20; grab.
am, $3.25@3.50.
Millstuffs = Bran, $1S@19 per ton
middlings, $23 q "a; shorts, $1,000,
chop, SIS.
Oats-No. l white, $1.15@1.17H
gray. $1.12M@1.15 per Genital.
Hay = Timothy, $11@12; clover,
$S@9; cheat, 5000 per ton.
Potatoes-Best Burbanks, 60@75c pei
sack; ordinary, 40@50c per GENITAL
growers prices; Merced sweets, 500
2.25 per Genital.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, 10@11c;
young, 10c; hens, 11@12c; turkeys
live, 13@15c; dressed, 15@ &c; ducks
$7@7.5O per dozen; geese, $7@8.50.
Cheese-Full cream. twins, 1910
171ac; Young America, 17R@1SHc
factory prices, 1@11ac less.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 3O@32At
per pound; extras, soc; dairy, 20@
22ac; store, 15@18c.
Eggs-22H@32k per dozen.
Hops Choice, 25@26Kc per pound
Wool-Valley, 12H@15c; Eastern
Oregon, 8@l43c; mohair, 26@2Sc.
Beef = Gross. COWS, 3@3Ac pei
pound; steers, 4@4Ac; dressed, TIC
Veal-7%@8Ac.
Mutton - Gross, 4c per pound
dressed, INC.
Lambs - Gross, 4c per pound
dressed, INC.
Hogs = Gross, exc per pound
dressed, 7@71lc.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
Union Pacific Strike spreadine.

Omaha, Neb. Jan. 22.-Seventy-five
men, comprising the entire force in the
woodworking and steamfitting depart
ments of the Union Pacific shops in
Omaha, went on strike today because of
the Inauguration in their departments
of the piece system. These branches
were not affected by the order of last
July putting the shopmen on the piece
work basis. On the posting of an order
today stating that the woodworkers and
steamftters would be paid by the
piece, they walked out.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
WRECK ON GREAT WESTERN.
Engineer Killed and Ten Passengers Ser.
iOusly Hurt.

St. Louis, Jan. 2l.-A special to the
Republic from sycamore, ILL.,, says:
In wreck near here today on the
Great Western railroad, one person was
killed and 80 others were seriously in
jured. OF these, several may not re-
cover.
ST. Charles and Sycamore hostipals
are crowded with the injured tonight.
Many escaped with broken fingers and
bruises, while others are suffering
merely from the nervous shock.
The Des Moines and Minneapolis
special, running at high rate of speed =,
struck broken rail just as it was
about to cross bridge. The speed OF
the train carried it across the bridge
on the ties; then the entire train
pitched over 20 foot embankment. the
cars turning on their sides and being
jumbled in hopeless mass.
The passengers who were not injured
succeeded in pulling out the other pas
sengers through the car windows, and
as soon as all were taken from the de-
bris they were carried to neighboring
farmhouse, where they were cared for
until one of the party walked to Waco
and telegraphed to Sycamore, two miles
away, for help.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
NINE MEN ARE MISSING.
Five Charred Bodies Taken From Ruins of
Burned Hotel.

Spokane, Jan. 21.-A special from
/ Morrissey, B. c., says' four men were
burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed the Pioneer hotel there last
night. 1t is believed there are other
bodies to be found, as Eve men who
were known to have been in the hotel
last night have not been accounted for
today.
The hotel was large wooden struct-
ure and had about 20 guests in it when
fire started in the saloon on the ground
floor, through the overturning of a
lamp, the flames of which quickly COM
municated to the wooden partitions and
stairway. The proprietor, A. johnson
seeing that the building was doomed,
ran upstairs and hastily aroused the
sleeping men while the flames were
rapidly eating up the lower floor wood
work and coming up the stairway. In
their Rightclothes, dazed by smoke and
flames, the guests rushed from the
burning firetrap. It was impossible to
reach all the rooms and Johnson final
ly made his escape after heroic rescue
work. He was assisted by his bar
tender.
There is practically no fire fighting
machinery in the little town and the
horror stricken citizens could only stand
idly by and wait for the flames to SUBJ
side. The wind was blowing away from
the town and no other buildings were
endangered.
AS soon as the dying fire permitted,
a search Of the ruins was made. Four
charred bodies were taken out but were
so badly burned that Identification is
practically impossible. The prophet
or's loss is $4,000, half insured.
Morrissey is small town with per-
haps 500 inhabitants. 1t has sprung
into being since the opening of the coal
mines operated by the Great Northern
railway company. 1t is about As miles
north of the international boundary
line. About 500 miners work in the
coal properties. The guests at the
hotels were largely miners, timbermen
and prospectors.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
ISLE OF PINES NO MANS LAND.
American Residents Say 1t Is American
Went Pay Taxes to Cuba.

American Residents Say 1t Is American
Went Pay Taxes to Cuba.
Havana, Jan. 22.-The Americans
residing on the Isle of Pines deny the
general assumption of the Cuban gov
ernment that the United States has no
special interest in the island and is not
likely to insist on the eventual owner
ship of it. In any event, they seem
confident of having the support of the
United States, if necessary, in their re-
sistance to being governed and taxed by
Cuban officials, pending settlement
of the question of ownership of the
sland. The matter is expected to re-
ceive important consideration in con-
nection with the settlement of the loca-
tion of the coaling stations and other
pending questions between Cuba and
the United States.
Recently the American residents of
the island unitedly notified the alcalde
of the Isle of Pines and the Cuban gov
ernment of their intention to resist, by
force if necessary, the collection of
taxes or any assumption of authority
over the island by the Cuban govern.
ment. The taxes are now falling due,
and every American has pledged him.
self not to pay them.
The Americans contention is founded
on the section of the Platt amendment
which expressly omits the Isle of Pines
from the boundaries of Cuba and leaves
the title to it for further adjustment by
treaty. Some 800 Americans have
since the war taken up their residence
in the Isle of Pines, and it is estimated
that 500 Americans have interests in
the island. The American portion of
the population is not of an adventurous
character, but is largely composed of
people of mature years who have en-
gagged in the business of fruit raising.
Their desire that the island remain
American is not purely sentimental,
since, they claim, as Cuban possess
sion it would receive no more than 20
per cent tariff preference, while as ter
ritoly of the United States the islands
hope for freer trade with America.
The government, while acknowledge
ing that the matter of the ownership of
the island is open, holds that it has de
facto control over the island for. the
time being at least, and that it there
fore is authorized to levy taxes and per-
form other governmental functions. It.
is believed that the United States will
approve of this situatoin as against
the protests of the American residents
who refuse to pay taxes. y.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
CREW is MANGLED
TWELVE MEN KILLED in A COLLISION
ON GREAT NORTHERN.
Snowpiow Telescopes Freight Car Loaded
With Workmen In Okanogan County,
Washingt0n-EIeven Men are More or
Less Seriously Hurt = Only Two Es-
capped Injury.

Leavenworth, WASH, Jan. o.
Twelve men dead and as many more in
jured is the result of rear-end coIlis.
ion that occurred on the Great North
ern i've miles west of Chiwaukum at 5
O'Clock yesterday morning. An extra
from Skykomish loaded with lumber
and three cars containing laborers ran
into rotary snow plow, killing or in
juring all of the 25 workmen. Ten
cars are piled up in heap, with nine
victims of the wreck still underneath.
The names of the dead are not obtain
able.
The engineer, L. E. Adams, and
Fireman Lewis Becker, of the freight,
escaped only by miracle. The bog
cars that were used for transporting the
crew were coupled next to the engine.
with the cars of lumber following, and
when the crash came the lumber tele-
scoped the box cars loaded with their
human freight, killing and mangling
the entire crew. Only two escaped,
and they were thrown bodily into the
air, landing 80 feet upon an embank-
ment.
The men were in their hunks and
asleep when the accident occurred.
Those that escaped had little clothing
and were nearly chilled to death while
waiting for aid.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
MAY TRY ANOTHER ROUTE.
President Weary of Colombia's Demands
for Panama Canal Route.

Washington, Jan. 21.- Interest has
been revived in the prospects of the
Nicaragua canal, as it seems to have
become an absolutely hopeless matter
bia, because of the great demands of
that country, as we'll as the complica-
tions arising out of the purchase of the
Panama canal property.
President Roosevelt has begun an
investigation of the San Bias route.
which was championed by Senator
Scott, of West Virginia last summer.
This route means a canal 29 miles long,
five miles of which must be a tunnel
through solid rock. 1t also is en-
braced within Colombian territory,
and negotiations for this route would
probably be blocked as we'll as for the
Panama route.
Of course the president has an altern-
ative proposition in the Nicaragua
route, and the friends of that route do
not despair that it will be the route
finally adopted. Had a limitation been
placed in the bill upon the time in
which negotiations with Colombia
should be brought to close, it would
have given more assurance for the
Nicaraguan route. AS it is, the presi-
dent is unlimited as to time and he can
use his own discretion as to whether he
shall continue or break off the negotia-
tions with that government.
The assertion is made that the trans
continental railroads have turned to
the president and are urging him to
stave eff all canal negotiations, and
these roads are alsu credited with re-
vival of the San BIAS route. So.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
PLAGUE IN MAZATLAN.
One Hundred and Seven Deaths Recorded
Since New Years.

One Hundred and Seven Deaths Recorded
Since New Years.
MazatIan, Mexico, Jan. 21.-There
have been 107 deaths from the plague
since January 1. The deaths on the
18th numbered seven, and many new
cases are reported. The number of
wooden hospitals burned is LOG.
A young workman's mother died
from the plague at the family's house.
Some sanitary inspectors entered the
house and took possession of the corpse.
and the young man was sent to the de-
partment of observation. His wife and
sister were absent at the time of the
inspector s visit, and afterwards disap-
peared, fearing they would be taken to
the lazaretto. This morning one of the
women was found dead from the plague,
and the othsr has not been heard Of.
The yonug man has become insane.
Most of the women have left the city,
and hardly any women are seen on the
streets.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
CHINA ANSWERS THE POWERS.
Says She is Absolutely Unable to Pay In
demnity i'm Gold.

oSHHiSy hH NoAd.
Pekin, Jan. 22.-China's reply to
the note signed by all the ministers of
the powers here, with the exception
of Minister Conger, announcing that
the failure of the Chinese government
to fulfill its obligations in refusing to
pay the indemnity on a gold basis
would entail grave consequences, was
received today. 1t declares that China
would accede to the demand if she were
able to do so, but that it is impossible
to make the paymetns demanded.
The Chinese note quotes the mes
sages of the viceroys detailing the i'm
poverished state of the country. 1t
asks the ministers to suggest plans for
relief and renews the request that the
customs tariff be placed on a gold basis,
suggesting that the average rate of ex-
change each month be made the pay
ment rate for the following month.
The ministers are awaiting instruc-
tions from their governments.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
TO LAY CABLE TO MANILA.
Pacific Cable Company Preparing to Fin
ish Great Pacific Line.

Pacific Cable Company Preparing to Fin
ish Great Pacific Line.
San Francisco, Jan. 2l.-The steamer
Ventura arrived today from Australian
ports, via Honolulu. Among the pas
sengers from Honolulu were nine of the
Pacific cable company's staff, including
S. s. Dickinson, who had charge of the
preliminaries attendant upon the laying
of the cable at the Hawaiian end and
made his headquarters at Honolulu for
more than six months. He is on his
way to his home at Canso, N. S. Cap
tain Patterson, the chief inspector of
the cable company, and his staff, are
also passengers.
They are on their way to London to
join the cableship Anglia, which will
soon leave the British port with the
long stretch of the cable that is to be
laid between Honolulu and Manila.
The Silvertown will remain at Homo
lulu until about the end of the present
month, when she will sail direct for
London in ballast. She will make her
first call at Coronel for coal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
BIG ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED.
Distress Prevailing I'm London is Almost
Unprecedented.

Distress Prevailing I'm London is Almost
Unprecedented.
New York, Jan. 22.-There can no
longer be any question as to the extent
and gravity of the distress now prevail
ing in London, says the Tribune's cor
respondent in London. Many thous-
ands of men in excess of the usual aver
age are out of employment this winter,
and the work houses cannot accommo-
date all the people demanding shelter.
Things have reached serious pass in
the east end of the metropolis, while
the tide of alien immigration is steadily
rising higher and higher.
A serious state of affairs exists also
in other parts of Great Britain. An
endless stream of country-b bred folk is
pouring into the overcrowded cities,
while Canadian farmers organize expe-
ditions to search the old country for
much needed labor and offer good wages
for efficient men without satisfactory
results.
Official statistics show that the Brit
ish emigrant does not generally elect to
make his home in the British colonies.
Of 205, ,910 emigrants from this country
last year, 10S, sol went to the United
States. This condition of things in
duced one newspaper to declare that the
future of the British race is imperiled
by the drafts made upon it-from Amer
ica and that the greatest and most ben
eficent work British statesman could
perform for the welfare of the nation
would be the Inauguration of some
scheme for redistributing the British
people in the British empire.
Seldom has legislation met more inn
mediate success than the new licensing
act. For once the law would seem to
have got even with the great army of
topers. Touched in their tenderest
spot, these interesting individuals are
forswearing drink with an alacrity
which seems to show conclusively that
there is alter all some virtue in what
was once contemptuously called by
great statesman 'grandmotherly legis-
lation,'
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
New Idea for Submarine Boat.

Winsted, Conn.,, Jan. 21.- Clarence
B. Gillette, aged %, who served in the
Spanish-American war, has been grant-
ed patent for Improvements in SUBJ
marine boats. He has been expert
menting along the line of submarine
navigation since he left school, several
years ago, and claims that his torpedo
boat is far superior to all others, being
quicker, easier and safer. The Gillette
boat is designed to stay down 15 hours
and longer if desired.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
Highwayman Robs Ticket Office.

Reno, New, Jan. 22.-At 1890 this
morning a highwayman tered the
Southern Pacific ticket Office and held
up the agent at the point of a revolver,
securing all the cash in the money
drawer. The ticket agent had just
cashed warrant, and leaving the cash
drawer on top of the safe turned and
sat down at his desk. Hearing money
rattle he looked up and saw masked
man standing at the safe emptying the
contents of the drawer into his pockets
with one hand and covering him with
a revolver with the other.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
RIOT IN TROLLEY CAR.
Drunken Soldiers of "Fighting Sixteenth
Stab the Conductor.

SIaD the NOH0uCIOr.
New York, Jan. 2I.-Riotous soldiers
from Fort Slocum created panic on a
trolley car bound for Mount Vernon and
nearly murdered the Conductor, Louis
Ettinger. The soldiers, who are mem
bers of the Fighting Sixteenth, -
United States infantry, just back from
Luzon, were drinking from TASKS and
having boisterous time, and one OF
them made an insulting remark, which
Mr.. Mitchell, passenger, and Daniel
Long, former motorInan, resented.
Then half a dozen soldiers sprang on
Long and Mitchell and kicked and
punched them.
In the excitement several of the SOL
diers drew revolvers and began firing
through the windows. Women
screamed and tainted, while men ran
to the platform and jumped from the
car. The conductor, who was trying to
collect fares, received knife thrust in
the back and fell to the floor and
Mitchell was thrown bodily through a
car window.
Four policemen boarded the car at
Sixth street. When the soldiers saw
tie policemen they leaped off and scat
tered in all directions, bat three of
them we're captured. The prisoners
denied they did the stabbing, but after
they had been searched and nothing
was found on them, the police picked
up blood covered knife from the floor,
where one of them had dropped it.
1t is believed that Conductor Ettin-
ger is fatally wounded. The prisoners
we're held for trial.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
Wreckage Coming Ashore.

Victoria, B. c., Jan. 22.-The
steamer Queen City, from the west coast
of Vancouver island, brings news that
large quantity of new lumber, mostly
12x12 and planking, has drifted ashore
at several points. Esteven point, near
Hesquoit, and the islands outside Kyo.
quot, as well as the mouth of Quatsino
sound, are Uttered with lumber which
has evidently not been long in the
water, and at Hesquoit lifebuoy with
the name "Irving" on it.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
Castro Must Pay First.

Berlin, Jan. 20.-In the negotiations
which are about to begin at Washington
Great Britain and Germany, as the re-
suit offurther correspondence, are quite
determined that the irreducible condi-
tion of arbitration is that President
Castro shall pay or give collateral se-
curity for the sums already specified.
The powers will not consent to raising
the blockade until Venezuela complies
with this unalterable condition. The
allies place the responsibility for fur
ther delav upon Venezuela.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
Another New Trust Bill.

Washington, Jan. 90 A bill has
been introduced by Representative Bell,
of Colorado, providing that any pro-
ducer, dealer, transporter, agent or
other person in any territory of the
United States who shall join with any
other person or persons for the purpose
of raising the price of any article of
food or fuel, or its carriage or handling,
shall be guilty of extortion. A maxi
mum penalty of $5, 900 fine or impris-
onment for one year is provided.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
Calls ON Banks for More Bonds.

Washington, Jan. 21.-Secretary
Shaw has written to the banks that had
substituted state and municipal bonds
as security for public deposits that he
would like to have an extra resubstitu-
tion of government bonds. They were
accepted on condition that the banks
should use the bonds as basis for cir
cnlation. 1t is now expected that the
banks will retire this additional circu-
lation and thus release the bonds to be
used again as security for deposits.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23
Death Rate Declining.

City of Mexico, Jan. 22.-The official
bulletin from Mazatlan covering the "a
hours ending at P. M. gives the num-
ber of deaths from the plague as two in
the city and three in the hospital.
There were eight new cases during the
period, and seven patients were report
ed to be IN dying condition. The
stream of emigrants from the stricken
city continues and every one who has
the means and can get permission from
the health authorities is leaving.