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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
TWO GRAFTERS
PLEAD GUILTY
Frightened at Verdict in Ellen
Case, They Decide to Take
Their Medicine.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Jan. 21.-Ex-
Alderman James o. McCool to-day
pleaded guilty to the charge of ac-
,cepting bride from Liant x. SAILS
bury for aiding the water deal. His
trial was to have begun to-day, but
it is said that as a result Of yester-
DAVIS verdict of guilty in the Ellen
case, McCool decided to change his
plea. Soon after ex-City Clerk Isaac
r. Lamoreaux also changed his plea
of not guilty to guilty. He was
charged with conspiracy in the water
deal also. having acknowledged the
receipt Of money from Salisbury. y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
LEHR AND CHORUS GIRLS

Society Pet Makes His Appearance Among
the CHERRY, Merry"
New York Sun Special Service.
New York, Jan. 21.-Harry Lehr and
Marc Klaw were on an electrical bridge
at the New Amsterdam theater among the
200 chorus girls last night when the cur
tain went up, and had to remain there.
turnout the scene,- in full view of the
audience.
Lehrs friends, in a box, laughted at
his predicament, but the rest of the audi
ence was puzzled by the sight of two
men in evening clothes among the chorus
girls. The play was Mother Goose.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
CRIME CARNIVAL
LAID TO POLICE
Personnel of Force Good but Off
Publishes Report of Its
Investigations.
The Police Department Said to Be
Almost Entirely Without
Discipline.
Citizens Association of Chicago
GERS Much Given to Cheap
Grating.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-An almost total
lack of discipline in the Chicago police
department is blamed for the reign of
crime in Chicago in the bulletin just
issued by the Citizens association. II
gives a record of the work that has
been done by the association, especial
ly that part of it relating to the graft
committee in it's investigation of the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
WORRIED TO DEATH
Pathetic Note Left by John F. Hess, a
Suicide.

Special to The Journal.
LIE Roy, Mimi, Jan. 21.-John F. Hess
was found dead in his place of business
this morning. He was found lying on the
floor near his workbench with revolver
near him and a wound in his head.
On his workbench was found a note ad-
dressed to his dear ones. in which sorrow
was expressed that he must leave them
and asking their forgiveness. The note
further read: "God will direct my chill
dren to be good to their mother and not
mourn for me. I will meet them ir
heaven. I cannot make expenses and il
has worried me to DEATH
The dead man left wife and severa
children.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
NoRDICA LEAVES NEW YORK

Famous Singer Moves Her Lares and
Penates to Chicago.
New York Sun Special Service
New York Jan. 21.-Mme. Lillian Nor
dica has gone to live in Chicago until her
divorce suit against Zoltan Doeme comes
to trial in this city in the spring. The
singer has given up her apartments, and
it is said will never again make her home
in New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS
Russia Has Maintained the Intention
of Holding Manchuria.

New York Sun Special Service.
London, Jan. 21.-The correspond
ent of the Telegraph at Toxic outlines
the program of the negotiations be-
tween Japan and Russia. The first
divergence between the two powers
was limited at at a council held on
June 20. Constant exchanges after
that date did not result in progress
until Oct. 80, when the japanese pro-
posals were telegraphed to st. Peters
burg. During the following forty days
Russia hurried her preparations for
war, Japan remaining quiescent.
Russia presented her reply on Dec.
H. She made no concessions and
showed herself overbearing. There
upon Japan began her war prepara-
Continued on Second Page.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
TESTING TORPEDO BOATS

A Speed of $50 Miles Day Maintained by
FiotiIla.
New York Sun Special Service.
Las Palmas. Canaries, Jan. 21.-The u.
6 torpedo boat fotilla, consisting of the
destroyers cambridge, Barry. Dale, De-
catur and .Chauncey, conveyed by the
cruiser Buffalo, arrived here yesterday on
it's way to Manila. having left San Juan,
Porto Rico. on Jan. s.
The fiotilla maintained speed OF 80
miles day. No repairs are needed by
any of them. The test voyage is being
watched by all the nations Of the world
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
LAUGHS A1]I'|l]DElA
0FlANNEXAII0N
Sir VIM. Van Horne Says Canada
Is Already Well Salts
fed.
Predicts, However,, That the Do
minion May Annex United
States.
And Adds That Canadian Laws
Are Better Enforced Than
American.
sew York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Joliet ILL.,, Jan. 21.-Sir William
Van Horne, the railroad magnate who
put thru the Canadian Pacific and was.
Victoria, now opening up isssys-
tenn of railroads in Cuba, and who
spent the. earlier years of his life in
Joliet as messenger boy for the Mich
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
CLEARING WEATHER EAST
Blizzard Which Ragged All Night Has
StODDed

Milwaukee. Jan. 21.-The blizzard
which started last evening and ragged
all night has ceased. The street rail-
way line between Milwaukee, Racine
and Kenosha is blocked by huge
drifts. The Goodrich steamer
Georgia is icebound mile out in the
lake Several passengers are on
board. The field of ice extends as
far as the eye can reach.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
A THREAT OF FLOOD
Pennsylvania City Is Threatened
with Destruction by Over
flow Of Water:

Pittsburg. Jan. PA report has
inst reached here from Meadville, Pa.
saving that the city is in the grasp of
the worst flood in its history. The en-
tire fire department has been called
ont to assist in saving property.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
A LOUD ZIP
FROM The EAST.
Eastern Cordage Interests Kick
Hard on Frye Philippines
Bill.
It Requires That Philippine Trade
Be Carried in American
Bottoms.
This, It Is Charged, Would oper-
ate Greatly to J. j. Hills
Advantage.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
washington, Jan. .21.-Representa
tives of the cordage companies Will
be heard to-day before the commit
tee on Philippines in opposition to
Senator Frye's bill, which, in effect,
extends the coastwise laws of the
United States to the Philippines and
prohibits, after July 1, 1904, the trans
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
Four Inches at saltwater.

Special to The Journal.
Saltwater Mimi. Jan. 21.-The snow
fall here amounts to four inches. Business
men welcome it, believing it will help
business -------..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
RUSSIA WISHES
PEACE In EAST
Will Give Way as Much as Pos
sible to Spare Japanese
Feelings.
Has Hitherto Maintained It Will
Be Impossible to Vacate
Manchuria.
Korea Would Prefer Chinese SUI
premacy-Fears Both Rus
STA and Japan.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 21.-A dis
patch from VIadivOstOck says:
'The news received here from
Japan has dispelled fears OF war.
Peace, apparently, is assured for
u long time to come"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21
ONE RuILDINe BURNED At HIeELow

Worthington, Mimi, jan. 21.-Fire at
$50 last night at Bigelow burned two
story frame building owned by M. De-
boos of Sibley, Iowa, and used as res
taurant. aPrt of the stock and. fixtures
was saved. There was not a dollar OF IN
surance The fire threatened the whole
town for a time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21

Representative Grosvenor, chairman of the.
committee ON merchant marine and fisheries. pre-
,ented n report to the house yesterday In which
ne urged the necessity for ship subsidy Dill.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-21

St Louis-The will of the late James L. Blair,
esta te to his wife.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
Nah ara's Ministries.

The famous Mahara's Ooeratic
Minstrels announced for one night
Tuesday March I4th; next is a su-
perb combination of all the best and
most popular features of opera,
travesty, vaudeville, with the lar
gest and best colored chorus in
America. 1t is the climax of all
popular musical entertainments. It
abounds in catchy music, snappy
specia1ties, beautiful costumes, fun:
ny comedians, novel dances, special
scenery, brilliant electrical effect,
pretty girls, picturesque ensembles,
bewildering drillsIand all the latest
song hits of the East, and many
new and original stage novelties.
The entire performance is presen-
ted by a metropolitan organization
of the foremost co1ored singers,
comedians and speciality artistic of
the race in America. More bright
music, entertaining. vaudeville NUM-
bers and hearty laughing are crow
ded into two and one-half hours of
Mahara's Minstrels than would
supply half dozen of the average
musical farce comedies.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
THEY DISCUSS IT.
Best way to rid Main Street of Ugly
Surface Water.

The presence of a large guam
tity of water collected at hesides of
the business portion of Main street
has caused much speculation as to
the best means of draining it away.
Six-inch glazed sewer pipes extend
the length of the street on either
side and it is covered to a depth of
three to six feet with coarse gravel.
The supposition was that the sur
face water of the street would drain
through the gravel and flow away
through the pipes. The plan worked
well for some years, but when there
was much traffic the gravel became
ce1nented and would not allow the
water to pass through. Removing
the cemented gravel and replacing
it with new was an expensive and
only temporary relief. The plan
now in favor of draining the streets
is to place atintervals, vertical pipes
connecting with the underground
drainage, the surface openings to
be covered by CRATES.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
WITH LITTLE BUGS
They Flavor Butter now and Make
il Taste Always the Same-C College
Experiments.

- .5sL7
They control the flavor of butter
now with what is known to the
trade and dairymen as 1'Butter
starters The practice is au EVIL
olutiop that bacteriol gical inves-
tigation has brought out, and many
a man who sma .ks his lips over
the excellent taste Of the butter
that he is eating. does so in COM
plete Ignorance of the fact that in
it is multitude of living organ
isms that makes his butter taste so
good.l In fact the flavor of all
butter, good or bad,l as well as he
| flavor or cheese is the consequence
of the presence of these organisms,
and in the butter starter" there
i is employed only material that has
always existed, but is now intelli
gently directed by the superior and
technical knowledge that men by
use of bacterio1ogy have acquired.
Butter starters though but re-
Gently discovered in the East, has
already become an article of com.
merce. 1t is put up in bottle, the
fiuid containing multitudes of a
single kind of organisms. A small
quantity of the fluid is put in the
cream shortly before churning time.
The fluid with its mul,itudes of
little living creatures gives the but
| ter desired flavor. the result is
always the same. Out at the college
they are experimenting with the
.'starter' and persons who have
eaten the bu ter produced by use
of the method, have nothing but
praise for the product 1t IS GER
tain that in time all butter manu-
factured will have it's favor con-
trolled in this way, instead Of allow
ing the flavor to develop by chance
with half dozen or more kinds OF
organisms entering into the pro
ductinn as now
In the experiments at the college
Prof: Pernot is endeavoring
to simplify the present method fo1
use of starters. so that dairymer
themselves may, instead of buying
!. the organisms in the market, pro
: duce and perpetuate them, by SOM
. system akin to the practice OF tn
housewife who ge:s her start @
: yeast and by methods known te
: herself keeps it alive from day t.
t day. using it now and then fo1
: making bread,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
HooDLUM1sM AGA3
The old Gang has Resumed Operations
Pistol Shot Mystery.

There Is undoubtedly trouble
ahead for certain Corvallis boys,
whose doiugs in the past have
more than once brought them into
public notice. 1t is not long ago
hat some of these boys were in
the courts as a result of behavior
that was hum;liating to their pas
ents aud disgraceful to themselves.
After that their conduct was COM
paratively respectable for time,
but for some time now they have
been up to the old practices. Acts
of the most disgraceful charactee,
rampant with hoodiumism and fla
grant with rowfvisn have follow
ed each other in rapid succession
with n the past two weeks Last
Sunday evening. members of the
gang wantonly insulted two young
couples on College Hill, Carrying
their conduct so far that one Of the
young men attacked discharged his
revolver TO let his assailants know
that he wasprepared to de'eFdhmself
that he intended to do so. The par
ties assai1ed were molesting nobody,
and the insults heaped upon them
were wanton and wholly malicious.
Because they resented the insult,
the gang is now making all kinds
of threats, and are nightly dogging
the steps of the students, for it was
a couple of college students on whom
the indignity was heaped by the
Towdies. The incident was moi
widely different from a case II
which a college student from Coos
county was attacked by members
Eof the same gang, about year age
and his leg broken as result ot
fracas that followed. He wa:
compelled to leave college and nat
urally enough has never returned
In the past, these hocdlums have
enjoyed comparative immunity from
prosecution. For the sake of thei:
parents, in more than one instance
the sentence Of the court has beer
much lighter than the ofense de
nanded. 1t appears, however
that all these things have been Ii
vain, and that the gang proposes il
spirit of pure hoodlurnism to keel
! up the practice of terrorizing ane
otherwise insulting orderly people
; The signs on the horizon are hare
to read. .Lenience with these often
ders is nonsense, promises are idle
and patients has reached it's limit
The parence of these hoodlums mus
expect the worst, for the public i
tired of the condition, and the off
GERS propose to end it.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
PAID LODGE DUES,
With Family Heirloom-A Town boy,
a Five Dollar Piece and an officer.

A SIS gold piece with history,
a Juvenile lodge and several small
boy members of the latter furnish
ed the local police with a job in
detective work this week The
coin, smooth from use, and bearing
the date of 1884 was paid over the
counter at a local establishment un
der conditions that excited sus-
picion. The young lad who pre-
sented it and the things he bought
with it were SO out of joint as to in
terest the proprietor in the trans
action. He called the attention of
Chief Lane to the incident. aud the
latter set out on stunt of discov-
cry. After day or two of patient
and effective investigation. he un-
earthed these facts: The ancient
coin was All heirloom in one of the
families in towu, where twas high
ly priced and in whose possession
it had been for many years past. In
the family is a son of dozen sum-
mers or more. and he belonaed to
one Of thejuvenile lodges, now very
popular and widely prevalent IN
Corvallis. All sorts of mysterious
ceremonies and awful secrets are
among the things in vogue at the
lodges, the meetings of which tran
spire in old shacks. in barn lofts.
and in one case on top of the wood
in the family woodhouse.
In the lodge in question, the pay
ment OF dues in cash is one of the
features, and it was in this way
that the precious gold piece found
its way out of the family bureau to
the lodge room, and thence through
various boyshands over the counter
of a local tablishmfnt in exchange
for some of the things that small
boys like to eat.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
PAID BUT PART.
C. & E. Taxes-Tender Made Sheriff
Burnett by Company's Lawyer-Whatss
OF the Balance?

The effort of the C~& E. rail
road company to effect a reduction
of taxes in Benton, took shape
Wednesday, when attorneys of the
company appeared in the sheriff S
Office and made a tender of the
amount they held to be proporti-
onate to the assessments of other tax
payers. The amount was 81, ,5o3.I5,
and they proposed it should be in
full payment of the company's taxes
for the year. They were told by
Sheriff Burnett that he would not
accept the money in full payment,
but that he would take it i'll part
payment. This they agreed to, and
the amount was paid over, and
placed to the credit Of the company.
The balance, according to the as
sessment aggregates over $500. The
amount rendered, foots up to about
what the company's taxes would
have been, if the raise in their val
uation had been proportionate to
the general raise, which was about
II per cent. They express will
lingness to pay a proportion equal
to the general raise, but object to
their assessment as it stands, be
cause it is a raise of over, I3o per
cent,
It is not known what the next
move of the company will be. 1t
supposed that the attorneys will
wait until the court attempts to sell
the property for the balance of taxes
and that then the sale will be enjoi-
ned, and the matter be thereby Ian
ded in the circuit court for adjudi-
cation.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12

The contrast between the simplicity
of the old time entertainment and the
luxury and extravaganza of today is no.
where more striking1y presented than in
profusely illustrated article on Modern
Banquets" in the Cosmopolitan for
March. Gorgeous dinners at which
guests dine on horseback, or in huge
Easter eggs and kettles constructed for
the occasion in great ball rooms, ban
quets in cellars. and on roof gardens,
amid bowers, and flower banked grottoes
make up striking series of pictures
showing the mad rush for the novel
which the wealthy American host has
entered upon.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
THE SETTING HEN.
She is in Demand in Preference to ar
tificial Brooders. =,


One of the unsolvable problems
OF poultry men in the past has, been
10 keep hens out OF the notion of
setting, and should they ilinthat,
toodispel the idea of drek.ng. tying
red string to the hens tail. or
other means more or less vicious.
1t is different now. There are not
setting hens enough in
this locality to supply the demand,
Whether the hens refuse to set. as
a measure of retaliation for the in
reduction of incubators. or wheth-
er they are subject to the charge
which Roosevelt makes, involving
alleged trace suicide" it is not
certain Indeed, the cause may
no. develop in either of The pos
sible assumptions. It may be that
poultrymen in this locality have
bred egg producers almost exclu
sively to the exclusion Of settlers
In aud about Corvallis, where
quality is more of an object thar
numbers. set ing hens are preferred
to incubators. lust now amons
our poultry fanciers there is a good
deal of borrowing Of Sc ting hen
from farmers. and many fancy egg!
are sent 10 the ,untry to be hatch
ed on shares. The usual arrange
n,ens is for the hen tO receive hal
the ha ching as remuneration TO
her services. 1t was suggested
this week by promipent poultry
! man that carload of setting hen:
would meet with ready sale il
Corvallis and vicinity. It seem
] that the once despised clucking hel
has finally acquired the respect du
her matronly instinct.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
To the Votsrs of Benton County:

Acceding to the wishes Of a large
number of patrons and friends of our
public schools, submit my name to the
voters of Benton county for the Office OF
county school superintendent.
Very Respectfully,
S. I. Pratt.
Philomath, Oregon, Mar. Z, 1904.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
Blackboard for Sale.

This is moderately heavy vehicle
with pole and will be sold cheap. Ap'
pip to J. D. Wells, court house, Cor.
Wallis.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12

Remember Nolan & Callahan's Rem.
nant and Rummage sale will close Wed
nesday evening Feb 23.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
Wells, Windmills and Pumps

\ '~A'' " "AhohiiS anu uADo.
I am now prepared to do all kinds of
we'll, windmill and pump work. See the
before you have your work done. Send
orders to Simpsons Hardware store.
A. n. Harlan.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
Wanted.

Girl wants place to do housework.
Inquire at TIMES Office.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
For Sale.

Best Plymouth Rock or Brown Lsehorr
cockrels or eggs.
]. B. Irvine. Corvallis.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12

Red cedar Star shingles at the-saw
mill. 81 go per thousand,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12

See Nolan & Callahan's special bar
gains for March.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
For Sale.

subject to register.
Alfred Bicknell,
miles north of Corvallis.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-03-12
LOCAL EoRE 7

Advertisements In this column charsed rror
" he sssf. offs cents le- line.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-01-07
PERSONAL POINTS,

Judge ]. w. Bennett spent yester.
day in Jesup.
T. mickey. Of Savannah, was in
the city yesterday.
M. McRae. Of McRae, was visitor
to the city yesterday.
c. K. Hendricks, Of Jacksonville
spent yesterday in the CITY.
G. B. Erewood, of Savannah, spent
yesterday in the city.
w. J. Lawton, of Atlanta, was a Wis
itor to the city yesterday.
w. s. Mcfarland, of Chattanooga,
was registered at the Oglethorpe yes
terday.
Staunton Scarlet, of Atlanta, was
among the visitors to the city yes
terday.
P. M. Johnson and Ira Benkley, OF
Thompson, were visitors to- the city
yesterday.
Bishop Nelson was in the city yes
terday the guest of DR.. and Mrs
WHY'S Rede. He was en- route to AT
lanta from Darien.
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-01-07

Requires no labor 20 wash ciothe.
IN "l.ayadura:" just PUT two table
sDoousful IN a large tub Of water; lei
the clothes soak n the treated water
all night; uhey will be cleaner thar
you can wash them by hand; no rub
bug; no scrubbing; nothing fades
lothing shriuks, just rinse them ou'
in clear water: that is all
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-01-07
Confessions OF a Priest.

Rev. Jno. S. Cox, OF Wake, Ark,
writes. For II years | suffered from
Yellow Jaupdice. | consulted a
number CT physicians and tried all
sorts of medicines, but got no relief.
en- | Degar the used OF Electric
Bitters and feel that am now cured
OF a disease that had me in its grasp
for twelve years" If you want re-
liable medicine for Liver and Kidney
trouble, stomach disorder or general
debility, get Electric Ritters. It's
guaranteed by all druggists. Only
soc,