The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-04-16

thought the Japanese were making
an attack and opened fire on feet
of pilot boats to merchantmen out
ward bound.
Two Chinese seamen were struck
by shell and killed. Several
shots were fired before the artillery
men discovered their mistake.
The incident shows the mental
strain under which the Russians
are faboring.
Feverish activity prevails among
the military, who are doing the
best they can to prepare for any
japanese assault.
Dispatches received here today
from Port Arthur state that few
erish excitement prevails owing to
constant fear and persistent ru.
mors that the japanese are ready to
make a final attack on the forts.
The Information contained in the
dispatches shows that nothing is
definitely known of Japan's inten-
TONS.
It is also stated that 10 miles off
Port Arthur several japanese war
vessels were seen early yesterday
morning lying inactive on a smooth
sea. The whereabouts of the re-
naming vessels Of this feet are not
known.
Vancouver, Wash, April H.
Sheriff Blesecker and City Marshal
Bateman today arrested and took
into custody Fred Armstrong, alias
Frank Strong. On charge of bur-
glary. Armstrong is believed to be
the masked highwayman who held
up atthe muzzle of a pistol the bar
tender and number of guests of
the Hotel Columbia, in the barroom
OF the hotel, about week ago, and
who also attempted to hold up G.
c. Grldley, an abstractor, at his Of
flee ia this city last night.
The attempt to hold up Gridley
was frustrated by the pluck and
presence of mind of Gridley, who,
when confronted at his Office door
about ten o'clock by a man wear
ing mask and with gun pointed
at his face, grappled with the as
sailant and threw him into the
street and then slammed the door
| in the robbers face and telephoned
for the police. Armstrong was for
mer1y sergeant in the Seventeenth
Infantry, receiving his discharge
aboat year ago. Afterward be
married a daughter of a prominent
farmer of this county. Later Arm
strong and his wife went to Baker
City, Or, where he was implicated
with two others in a number of
highway robberies in that place.
Armstrong was identified today by
two OF the victims of the hotel hold
up. He was also recognized by
Gridley.
Baker City, Or, April NV.
Gossett, of pleasant Valley, was
badly injured here this afternoon
while attempting to board an out.
going freight train on the o. R. &
N. He caught the caboose, but as
he swung on his foot slipped and
he was thrown to the ground, strik.
ing on his head. The scalp was
torn from the right side of his head
the frontal bone over the right eye
fractured, his nose broken, his neck
partly dislccated and cash cut
under the right eye three inches
long, down 10 the bone. The doc.
tor thinks he will recover.
Mr.. Gossett is the proprie tor o
the Pleasant Valley Lime Works
and is quite prominent in business
circles in this part OF the state.
Washington. April 13.-Shortly
after 10 o'clock this morning, Pres
ident Roosevelt affixed his sigma
ture t. the Lewis and Clark Fail
bill and made it law. Senator
Mitchell went to the White Hous.
especially to witness the signing o
the measure. As the President add
ed the last stroke of his signature
he turned and said:
"Senator, would be glad to give
you the pen with which l have
signed this bill as a souvenir, bu
Mr.. Scett, president of the associa
ton, exacted promise of me som'