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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-10
SOLD A FARM.

Buying Cattle-Loss of Stock Feared
Kings Valley News.
Farmers here have been plowing
and some seeding has been done.
Joe Brown was in the valley last
week buying mutton sheep. He
paid three cents per pound.
Protracted meeting has been held
at the United Evangelical church
for the last two weeks. w. L.
Price is converted.
Lloyd Chenoweth has sold his
farm to Budd Alcorn. The price
was $500.
Tom Alexander announces the ar.
rival Of boy.
Mrs. Isabel visited her new
grandson, Saturday.
spaulding logging crew has beer
clearing the banks of the Luckia'
mute of saw logs with a donkey
engine. They completed theil
work at Hoskins last week and
ha We returned the engine to camp
The hills are covered with snow
and snow has fallen il the valley
but melted as fast as it fell.
Should the present cold rain anc
snow continue very long the loss O.
cattle and sheep will be heavy. Or
some places feed has not been good
and cattle and sheep on grass are
in poor condition. UNo,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-10

London, Feb. 5.-Bennet Bur-
leigh, the Toxic correspondent of
theDailyTelegraph sasthis afternoon
that war is now inevitable and that
only hours may elapse before it is
declared.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-10

Baltimore, Feb. THE Ere
which broke out at q few minutes
before II o'clock this morning in
the wholesale dry goods house of
John T. Hurst & Co., has ragged
with unrestrained fury continuous
ly ever since and at midnight it is
still unchecked, but is steadily
consuming its way westward on
Baltimore STREET, after having de-
stroyed all the large stores and
warehouses in the wholesale dis.
trict around Hopkins Place, and
all the buildings on both sides of
Baltimore street from Howard to
Holiday streets, and Charles and
Baltimore to- Lexington, and on
Fayette street to Charles to Holi-
day, including q total of about 20
blocks Of the most modern and SUBJ
|stantial buildings in Baltimore, in
volving a loss which cannot now
be estimated, but which has GER
tainly already reached $4,000, 900
or $40, 600, 900.
Ever since about o'clock, when
darkness came, the fire department,
although aided by engines from
Washington, Philadelphia, VIII
mington and the surrounding SUBJ
urbs, has been utterly powerless to
make an effective resistance to the
consuming element, though for
hours as many as 400 streams of
water were thrown into the flames.
At Z o'clock the situation was SO
desperate that Chief Horton decid-
ed that the only thing left to do
was to dynamite buildings at threat
ened points and thus prevent, as far
as possible, further spread OF the
flames.
In pursuance of this plan, a num-
ber of buildings on South Charles
street between German and Lom.
bard were blown up. Subsequently
the splendid structure of ]. W.
Putback, notion dealer, at Charles
and Fayette streets, were dynamit-
ed, and then the Daily Record
building, Ross drug store and 9TH
ers.
However, this heroic remedy
merely delayed, but did not Serious
ly impede the onward march of the
confagration and for two hours or
more the fire department was prac-
tically helpless and resourceless in
the face of the roaring furnaces
which sent their fierce tongues in
the air and which filled the heav-
ems first with a pail of black funer-
cal smoke and then with livid sheets
of sparks and lurid cinders.
The whole city was notified of
the fire by terrific explosion some
minutes after II o'clock. A sharp
splitting roar went up with rever-
berating thunder. This was follow.
ed by peculiar whistling noise,
like that made by the shrill wind.
The churches in the central sec
ton of the city were filled with
worshippers, many of whom be.
came frightened and, though nc
panic ensued, hundreds of men
and women left their seats and
went outside to see what had hap
pened. In few moments th.
streets ALL over the city were
crowded with excited people.
i
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-10
MISS CLAIBORNE SHELDON
RELATES HER EXPERT
ENCE IN CITY OF NEW
YORK.
New York Officer Arrests Guilty
Driver Upon Vague Descrip-
tion-A Hard Fight With
Fifteen Woolves.

known as MoHatt, mas just Deen
held for trial on a charge Of robbery
made by Miss Clayborne Sheldon,
OF Buffalo, who told the magistrate
a remarkable story of her arrival
here as a stranger, and her attempt
to reach a reputable Broadway Ho-
tel through the medium of q cab.
Miss Sheldon came from Buffalo
Januaty Is, she said, to seek po-
sition, having achieved at home
something of a reputation as vo-
calist. She had been directed to an
uptown hotel, but at the Weehawken
terminal of the railroad took the
ferryboat for Franklin street, in
stead of West Forty-second, and
landed down town.
II told the first cabman I met
that I wanted to 90 to the hotel D
said she. ''He said it would cost
SIS and I got into the cab.
I do not know how many miles I
was driven, but hours passed, and
it seemed to me as if I had made
the circuit of the city several times.
Every time I spoke to the cabman
he said that we were getting near
the hotel.
s'I could not understand what the
cabmen meant, and after we had
passed familiar corner, I stopped
the cab, determined to get out
Where am ~ I said. you are
near the hoteL,' he replied.
| "sWell, I will walk the rest oi
the way I said; then I tried to gel
out. The cabman seized me, and
forced me into the seat.
"You will not leave this cab,
said he, until you pay me $780,
II asked what for, and he tolo
Fme to give up the money to avoic
trouble. I screamed and he seized
me by the throat. He told me tt
keep quiet for my own good, but
kept on fighting as we'll as I could
Then he threw handkerchief owe
my face. I think it was saturated
with chloroform. It made me sick
I ceased to struggle, and do not re
call anything until some time after
ward 1 found myself lying ina gut
ter; I was dazed and sick. After a
while I was able to walk, and fount
that I was at Forty.ninth ant
{ Eighth avenue, two miles from tn
hotel"
The 1oman Immediately sough
a policeman, to whom she told he
story. She had been robbed of al
her money, $45, a ring worth SIZE
her watch, and many small articles
Perhaps the most remarkable par
of the affair, which had occurred il
a street which is crowded night an
: day, then developed.
From the woman's description
the policeman Immediately recog
: nized the cabman, and set out t
find him. He had just arreste
Moffat in distant part of the cit
! and learned be had retired fror
1 the cabdriving profession Januar
F. 16. the day after the holdup. Th
officer fully confirmed his part {
the adventure. and Moffat was ider
q titled in court by the complaintan
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-10
For Exchange.

A fine residence in Los Angeles,
good location, will rent for $50 per
month, value $4,000, for improved
farm about same value.
J. 6. Simpson,
1850 N. Sichel st.
Los Angeles, Cal.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-10

Are You Restless at Night?
And harassed by bad cough? Use Bal
1ard's Horehonnd Syrup, it will secure
you sound sleep and effect prompt and
radical cure. 25c, so and $I.oo. Sold
by Graham & Workman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

Tor thl. purpose. Sometimes the sudden-
" famous who have advanced the hun
dred dollars get restless when the bio
graphical volumes do not appear -
quickly as they expected, and sometimes
suits are threatened. Sometimes very
harsh terms are applied to people VINO
have collected money for this purpose.
But fame, it is then pointed out. is mat
ter of slow growth, even when stlmu-
lated by the most modern and scientinc
methods, and the newly famous must Do
patient In most cases, the subject OF the
assisted biography prefers to be silent
when the game is slow-even when moth
ing at all happens. It IL dimcult TO ap-
near to good advantage In q controversy
over the publication of ones lie, ano
ones MISUNDERSTANDING portrait.
Hence the temptations to enterprise.
There has just been row in Wall streee
over q History of the New York STOCK
Exchange" which is declared to be an
entirely legitimate publication. inc
promoter of the enterprise has said to An
interviewer: The engravings are not
my property, but the property OF the men
who advanced the money to make tnem'
and If any Of them are dissatisfied they
can have them back. The fact that they
have advanced the 500 does not entftie
them to a copy of the book which VIII
cost $25 more after it is published. so
you see that none of these people have
any claim upon me.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

| city of any size and hardly week
passes, winter or summer, without find
ing him here. His relationship to Sen
ator German and Senator Elkins and
his business connections with John r..
Mclean and other district miilionaires
have brought him here even more often
than would otherwise be the case. Seen
in the company of any of these men he
does not seem to be their senior, although
there is no one of them to whom he
cannot show a score of years in retro
spect He has the sturdy form and the
springy step OF youngster Of 60, and
there is not sign that can be observed
Of the Entertainments of extreme age.
An early life ON the farm and hard
work on the railroad undoubtedly have
had much to do with this, and an alb
stemious life has had more.
With all his millions-and Senator
Davis is credited with fortune rang
ing all the way from $2O,O00,O 900 to $780,
900 according to the Imagination of
the chronicler-he has never yet been
known to indulge in extravagances of
any kind. His tastes are as simple as
those of Russell Sage. When he was in
the senate and had rooms atsthe Ar
lington hotel the members of his fam
lily used to make their own dresses and
= sewing machine was constantly run
ming in their modest apartments
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03
HIS PATIENCE SNAPPED OFF
And What He Said to the Young lady
Was Sufficient for the
Occasion. Flfs y

There Is a young man in town who
is newly come out of the west. and II
you ask certain Rhode Island avenue
girl about him you will be very likely
to hear a most disparaging account of
his manners. 1t happened this way,
relates the Washington Post: Last
summer the, Rhode Island avenue girl
went out to the western town where
this young man was born and brought
up to visit friends. Everybody was
exceedingly cordial to her, and posi-
bly, this gave her an undue idea of her
own Importance.
At any rate, she took it upon herself
to criticise the west and western ways
in a fashion that is far from pleasant
to westerners, though, goodness
knows, they've heard it long enough
to be pretty well hardened. The young
man l am telling you about took her
driving one evening, and it happened
mood She made fun of the town and
the people and pointed out wherein
they were lacking in the essentials OF
civilization till the young man felt
that her remarks were getting on his
nerves
Things are so different here from
what they are in Washington" she
said why, at home really nice girls
never 50 driving in the evening with
men"
The young mans patience snapped
off short He looked at the girl with
smile.
Its the same here" he said coolly.
That's why we fellows have to taka
girls from out of town.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03
PLANT CREPT TO SUNLIGHT

Though it has never been proved
that plants have brains, declared the
Baltimore Herald, it has been proved
often that there is some power within
them whereby they combat evil conoi-
tons and seek what is Nest Tor their
good. A resident of Castle Valley, Pa,
has vine that showed itself last
month to have, if not brain, a sub
stitute Of equal value.
This vine, a young one. grew IN q
clay pot. A stick stood in the middle
of the pot and the vine curlea up it. 1t
was about two feet In height; In
length, uneurled, it would have meas
ured four feet
Usually the vine was placed In
south window every morning, where It
absorbed light all day. It happened
however, through an oversight, that
one afternoon shutter shaded hall
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

agricultural department.. Tho young
man is no longer in the government
service, but is one Of the most success
ful business men in the District of CO.
lumbia. OF course Morton was glad to
see him and after the first greeting the
talk drifted to politics. Pretty soon the
former private secretary began to make
complimentary remarks about the pres
ident II didn't know you had changed
your politics" remarked the new secre-
tary of the navy. when did that hap
penn" "Oh, no, / haven't changed at
ALL" was the reply. Il used to be a
]. Sterling Morton democrat. Now
am Paul Morton republican. It's all
in the family"
Morton is going to take house out
on Massachusetts avenue just beyond
the splendid mansions OF Thomas F.
Walsh and Larz Anderson, but very
modest establishment compared with
those places and he is counted on to do
a good deal OF entertaining next win.
ter
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

famous reaches its height in New
York Every possible sort OF book
for setting down who is who having been
legitimately incubated, it remained for
the ingenious to get up new plans for
setting forth those who would not be
set forth in any other way. Especially
profitable, OF course, are those plans
which include pictures, for pictures SO
obviously cost money that the promo
tors have brilliant excuse for asking
money wherewith to introduce this form
of establishment. II it is worth any
thing to have column biography anc
: portrait in a great biographical his
tory, it surely is worth hundred dol
lars. Many the thousands that are spent
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

Secretary Morton. didacy has been SO
long brewing that New Workers have
been made familiar with the different
ways of getting to the little hamlet on
the Hudson where the judge has his
farm. And the farm has not been de-
MED him. The present democratic
candidate has been truly democratic IN
his habits, and it has been easy to know
where and how he lives, and how hls
cattle live, and how his barn is ar
ranged and what sort of feed he be-
lieves in. The local gossips like Judge
Parker. Folks who sit on barrel In
the country store agree that he is fine
gentleman, very fine gentleman. AS
everybody now knows, the judges
daughter is married to High Church
Episcopal clergyman whose parish IS
In Kingston, few miles away from
Esopus, and Judge Parker drives over
to his son-in-law's church on Sunday
mornings. The democratic candidates
home is IN ample but unostentattous
place overlooking the Hudson. One of
his neighbors is famous in American
literature. John Burroughs, one Of the
most brilliant of American critics and
the greatest writer on nature s--1ce
Thoreau. raises grapes, and remarkably
fine grapes they are, on the slopes OF the
great river. A little farther off is Henry
Abbey, the poet, a friend of John Bur-
roughs and Of Judge Parker Every
body Whereabouts knows Judge Parker
as well as. everybody in the VI
cinity Of Oyster Bay knows Theodore
Roosevelt Also, Judge Parker and
Theodore Roosevelt know each other
better than most folks have suspected.
Their families have exchanged visits
and feeling of cordial respect has pre-
vailed on both sides.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

ers, the manufacturers. Chen it covers
the question of immigration, which is
bound to be one of the most vital and
insistent questions before the American
people for great many years to come
to say nothing of the lighthouses,
the coast and geodetic survey, the
steamboat inspection service and the
bureau of statistics. There is not one
Of these bureaus which II not destined
to expand greatly, with the additional
attention which they will all receive
from being placed under the jurisdic-
ton Of new department. had rather
be at the head of this department than
of any other department Ia the govern
ment"
Metcalf is the third man to be chosen
for place in the cabinet from the Pa
cific slope since the admission of CAL
ifornia. The first was George H. Will
iiams, of Oregon, whom Grant made
attorney general and tried to make him
chief justice of the United States. but
whom the senate refused to confirm
as chief justice. Williams was COM
monty known as Landaulet Williams
on account of the handsomely nphol-
stored landaulet in which Mrs. Will
liams used to drive about Washington
to the envy of less fortunate women.
After his. retirement no Pacific coast
man held place in the cabinet until
Mckinley appointed as attorney gen..
eral Judge McKenna, who served on
the ways and means committee with
him in the house and who, curiously
enough, represented the same district
in congress afterwards represented by
Mr.. Metcalf. McKenna g now q ius-
tice of the supreme court. -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03
The Old Method OF
Collection.

T-Jro
Away back in the seventies and the
early eighties they had in addition the
task of collecting funds from the un-
fortunate government employees who
were expected to contribute a certain
percentage of their salaries to the CAM
paign fund of the party which happen
ed to be in power.
Jay Hubbell, of Michigan, became no.
torious during the campaign of 1880
by his demands upon the government
clerks and by the systematic persist
ence with which he brought them up
to the captains Office to settle. Hub
bell worked in harmony with the ma
tional committee, but he was chairman
Of the congressional committee and
really achieved reputation which he
did not fully deserve.
That was before the days of the civil
service regulations, which made the
solicitation of campaign funds from
government employees unlawful ItAhas
been good many years since there has
been any suggestion of scandai of the
kind. A great many government off,
Gals contribute to the campaign funds
Of their party and their contributions
are always welcome, but such a thing
~ solicitation is no longer known.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

DIMINISH the cOu>
slant stream of publications that is
stantly flowing from the government
printing presses.
The printing bills OF the United
States are something out IT all reason.
Documents are turned on. by the ton
on all sorts of subjects and on every
conceivable excuse. To say that three
fourths of this stuff was ever read by
anybody would not be perhaps an ex-
trayagant estimate. OF course every
document is read by somebody, but
there are not many that are read by
any except very few. Tons upon tons
of printed matter are slowed away or
thrown away year after year without
having been of the slightest benefit to
anybody.
Senators and representatives have
learned to use documents In the same
way that they use garden seeds from
the agricultural department. They
bundle them of unfortunately to
constituents whose names happen to be
on political lists Occasionally docu-
ments sent out this way reach an ap-
preciative destination. More Otter :hey
are thrown aside Off they are b,rnd
in boards-tran.formed into scrap
books. s.
It is proposed now in some Of the de-
partments to put nominal price on
all publications issued so that when
ever a document is sent out it will 10
sure to reach somebody who cares at
least enough about it to pay something.
Such policy would not make the doc
ument business self-supporting, for the
price fixed would be simply nominal,
but it would surely terd to lessen the
volume of printed material.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

the window apd the vine was set in
the shutters shadow. A foot away was
the sunlight. warm. glittering, life
giving, but where the plant stood
there was nothing but gloom.
During the t,ur days the vine stood
in shadow with the sunlight near it 1t
did something that proved it to have q
faculty akin 10 intelligence. 1t un-
curled itself from its supporting stick.
and. like living thing, it crawled
over the window ledge to the sun
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

| downtown business district facade al
most marked the end of century since
the famous duel that closed the life of
| this extraordinary man. Few American
statesmen are more protusely honored
in New York than Hamilton. This is not
to speak Of the tablet on the Jersey shore
near where the famous pistol encounter
| took place. The site of the Guel is not
yet built over. though railway track
cuts Though the spot. During the week
thousands of people have visited the re-
eion, and the relic hunter still finds
things to appease him the big duelling
pistols are still in the city have pho
tograph of them before me. Many Ham
| ilton landmarks remain unbiemished
The Hamilton house, to which the duel
list was carried after Burr's bullet had
inflicted its mortal wound, and in which
he died next day, is still standing. though
it is not standing where it stood when
Hamilton lived in it. The building is
now occupied as a private school. The
Did Hamilton trees" are looking much
the worse for age, and will soon give way
to the march of the builder unless res
cued by sentiment
Another centenary that has managed
to attract the attention of New York is
that of Hawthorne's birth. It is not for
q literary man, not even very greatl lit
erary man, to command the popular at
tention bestowed upon statesman,
though writer who fought duels might
do better than one who lived simple
uneyentful life. Fenimore Cooper came
near fighting duels; but no one, think,
has ever accused Hawthorne of being of
that disposition. Hawthornes fame
grows with the years. No one seems to
dispute his prominence as writer of
fiction. 1t is said that his romances, now
40 years after his death, are more widely
read than in his life time. Among them
all '"The Scarlet Letter" stands out as his
masterpiece, and one of the masterpieces
of American letters that might be count
ed upon the fingers of one hand. Curl
ously Americans bestowed romancer,
and our bestowed poet, Longfellow,
we're classmates in little Bowden college.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-09-03

people who live by being hurt, or what ID
easier, by seeming to be hurt. The case
has just been brought to light of q wom-
an who has never been legally punished
who has been living for years on fraudu-
lent claims She slipped on piece Of
meat in butcher shop. Thereupon It
was discovered that she had slipped on .
piece of banana skin in dry goods store
and collected $50. after having tried and
succeeded in variety of petty tricks OF
the same kind. Another woman has been
slipping on banana skins on ferry boats.
Another had speciality in ice cases, and
has met with great success. Nothing il
easier than to sprain an ankle or back
on piece of broken pavement or near An
excavation. 1t is possible to be hit or to
seem to be hit by piece Of wood falling
from scaffolding.
Chiefly available for the suit sharp is
the street car There are thousand
ways in which the ingenious can be hurt
on a street car-even those who are not
ingenious can be hurta trifle in the hurt
ling public conyeyanees Of New York.
The result is an avalanche of suits rum
ring into the millions every year, some
of which result in the exhibition of real
injuries, new or old. ard others. OF which
place big strain on tie imaginations Of
the fury. Just what SORT of lurch the
company shall be responsible for is =
question that comes up over and over
again. Naturally the companies become
sufficiently expert in human nature to
know which case had better be settled
and which may be carried to the jury.