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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08


his action in fighting Branch, the
court has recommended, that the
secretary of the navy exercise leni.
ency in disposing of the case.
1t is evident from the findings Of
the court that he does not regard
Meriwether as having been entirely
responsible for Branch's death. Ap.
parently, it believes that he is the
victim of a condition rather thar
any intention permanently to harm
young Branch - ~
The court established to its salts.
faction that during the fight Meri-
wether several times offered to give
up, but the midshipmen, who were
interested spectators, urged him to
continue. 1t is these men who have
come in for the severe criticism of
the court, although it Is doubtful if
it has. referred to them by name
The tribunal was appointed to try
Meriwether, not to make an inves-
tigation into the conditions existing
at the Academy. 4..-.
The martinets of the service be.
lieve that, in spite of the danger OF
martyrizing Meriwether, it will be
advisable to dismiss him.
Odessa, Dec. 5.-The hooligane
are numbering Jewish families by
the Wholesale and destroying their
property. Jewish children are tor.
tured In the presence of their par;
ents and then killed, The parents
are also massacred. Hundreds o.
corpses are lying in the streets.
Even the nuns who have been Of.
|fering help to the wounded have
been killed while administering te
! the afflicted.
! 1T is stated that many Of The
! Russians nobility. have escaped te
Germany.
Victoria, B. c., Dec. 5.-Resi
dents of Vladivostok who left fol
Japan subsequent to the outbreak
Iof the soldiers there, reported, ,ac
cording to dispatch received today
by the empress Of India, that the
soldiers killed many people they
met without cause, and at one big
hotel a massacre took, place ir
. which Zoo persons were killed.
Viceroy Yuan Shih Kai received
a telegram from the Chinese com
mercial agent at Vladivostok tha
4ooo Chinese rffugees had taken re
fuge in the open fields after being
driven from Vladivostok, and b.
requested the Viceroy to order th'
steamer Haitin from Chefoo to taks
the Chinese out of danger
! The viceroy ordered the steamer
to Vladivostok and the Sha agha
Red Cross Society sent clothing
provisions, blankets, and Too taell
for relief purposes.
The Shanghai mercury publishes
a telegram from native, sources. q
Vladivostok telling of the murdel
of thousands of Chinese by soldier
at remote points in Siberia, ,
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THE FIRST'NATIONAL BANK
of Corvallis, Oregon,

of Corvallis, Oregon,
MAKES LOANS on approved Sc
curity, and especially on wheat
oats. -four, wool, baled hay,
81 chittim bark, and all other
classes Of produce, upon the re-
ceipt thereof stored in mills and
public warehouses, or upon
chattel mortgages and also
upon other classes of good Sc
curity.
DRAFTS BOUGHT. AND SOLD
upon the principal financial
centers of the United States
: and foreign countries thus
transferring money to all parts
of the civilized world. l..
A CONSERVATIVE general busi-
ness transacted in : all lines oi
banking. -
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08
CORVALLIS, OREGON. FRIDAY
Administrators Notice.

... Administrators Notice. :,
In the County Court OF tho State of Oregon for
Benton County.
In the Matter Of the Estate
Of ;
1. E. GLEASON, deceased. -
Notice is hereby given that the fual account
of the undersigned administrator of the estate Of
I. Gleason, deceased, has been rendered to
said court for settlement and that Wednesday
the Sd day of January, 1905, at the hour of elev-
en- O'Clock A. NJ. has been duly appointed bysaid
and the settlement thereof, at which time any
person interested in said estate by having
objections to said account may appear and file
his objections or exceptions in writing to said
account and contest the same
q. S. GLEASON,
Administrator Of the estate of 1. L. Gleason, de-
ceased.
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Administrators Notice.

In the County Court of the State of Oregon,
or Benton County.
In the Matter of the Estate }
of
MELISSA E. GLEASON, deceased.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08

London, Dec, GA dispatch
from St. Petersburg by way of
Eydtkuhnen says that three battal-
ions of infantry at Moscow have
mntinied, but no details are given.
The same dispatch says that
general strike bas been declared at
Kherkoff.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08
SAKHAROFFI. SLAM
WOMAN TAKES VENGEANCE
f. ON MAN WHO SCOURGED
+ PEASANTS
Was Ex-Minister of War-Moscow
Troops Mutiny and st. Peters,
burg Garrison Will soon
Do Same.

The St. Petersburg correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph in dispatch
dated December 5, sent via Eydtk-
uhneD, East Prussia, says:
Lieutenant. General Sakharoff,
ex-minister of war, was assassinat-
ed today.
The government has deputized
General Sakarof to visit the prov
ince of Saratof for the purpose of
quelling the agrarian riots there.
A woman belonging to the So
called flying column of the rev.
olutionary movement, called at the
house of the governor of Saratoff at
noon and asked to see General SAX
harof.
She fred three revolver shots at
the general, killing him on the spot.
The; tidings reached st. Peters
burg tonight, Count Witte charged
Lieutenant General Rudiger. min
lister Of war, with the task Of break
ing the news 10 Madam Sakharoff.
II .ti ,...4~-- 1.,t-Ai A,ali u. ~!
Moscow, Dec. 7.-Nicolaieff ii in
darkness and the population is fac
Ing starvation. The water supply
hassbeen entirely cut off.
A Warsaw, report. Gays, that, the
strikers claim that q, victory is near.
Eight hundred men struck in the
government distillery. Crave mil
itary excesses are reported at Ex-
worroniesz, where the regimente
burned the barracks. .s,'-.a
.r~s' 20 1 AZ
The Tageblatte's st. Petersburg
correspondent, in dispatch sent
by the way of Eydtkuhnen, De-
cember 6, says:
/ The situation Is visibly growing
worse. The critical moment for
Count Witte is coming when the
liberal elements will demand his
resignation. A resolution by the
sgriculturists at Moscow, demand
ing the immediate dismissal Of the
present cabinet, denotes the begin
ming of the. movement away from
Count Witte, and signs indicate
that this movement will gain in in
tensity soon.
London, Dsc. GA dispatch
from st. Petersburg, dated Deem
bee 5, says that % persons were
killed and 40 wounded at Kief
after regular battle.
Private accounts from Kief say
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08

Notice is hereby given that the final account
of the undersigned administrator of the estate
of Melissa E. Gleason, deceased, has been rend.
nesday the Sd day Of January, 1906, at the hour
of eleven o. clock A. NJ, has been duly appointed
by said court as the time for hearing objections
thereto and the settlement thereof, at4which
time any person interested In said estate by
having obj ectiohs to said account may appear
and file his objections or exceptions In writing
to said account and contest the same.-
i A-4T lSN ~ - l1s.Fs,.ti u. 8. GLEASON,
Administrator of the estate OF Melissa E. Gleason
deceased.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08
Notice to Creditors.

In the Matter Of the Estate J
of
WILLIAM KELLY. deCeased)
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08

London, Dec. GA dispatch
from st. Petersburg. dated Deem
bee 5, says that % persons we're
killed and 40 wounded at Kief
after a regular battle.
Private accounts from Kief say
that the mutinous troops there were
shot down In a narrow lane by Co.'S
sacks, the mutineers being caught
between two fires.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08
Notice to Creditors.

In the matter of the Estate }
of :
G. N. SMITH, deceased. }
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-12-08

Office up, stairs n Burnett Brick
idence on the corn -er' of Madison
Seventh st. Phone honseaud J, If
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-31
Six First=Class Battleships Were
Sunk and Two Were Captured
and Taken to Jap Ports.
Two Admirals and all the Staff Of
fiCers of the Russian Flagship
are Taken Prisoners

(l(7ASHINGTON, May 3O-The japanese legation
IVY tonight gave out the following cabegram from
Toxic:
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MINES ARE BELIEVED To
HAVE DONE DEADLY WORK
Commanders Who Surrendered Their
Vessels In Open Sea and Undam-
aged Are HarshIy
Criticised.

St Petersburg May 31.-4:25 a. m.)-The
Russian admiralty is literally stupefied at
the extent of the disaster suffered by Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet and its own
adyices paint the situation in even worse
colors than the Toxic dispatches
The Associated Press Vladlvostok dis
patched received at an early hour this
morning accounts for only two ships of
the great Russian ieet-the cruiser Almaz
and the torpedo boat destroyer Gronyz-
and in the absence Of news about the
battleship Navarin and the cruisers Oleg
and Aurora which are the only fighting
ships Of any value not enumerated In
the Japanese lists os destroyed or cap
tured, and which up to 4:30 o'clock yes
terday afternoon had not reached Vladi-
vostok, renders almost idle any hope that
they we're able to shake off the pursuing
Japanese cruisers and reached the shell
ter OF the fortress at Golden Horn.
The officers Of the Almaz dispute Ad-
mral Togo's claim OF victory with prac-
ticelly no loss, and declare they saw two
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WILD EXCITEMENT CAUSED
BY APPROACH or VESSELS

the last cannon begun to echo from the
surrounding bills when Won Jessen's flag
ship, the cruiser Rossia, answered the
salute and minute later the guns Of the
fortress took up the cannonade.
Excitement beyond description seized
the thronging spectators who, with fran
tic "huzzahs'' tossed high their caps. Cit
izens embraced each other and danced
jubilantly upon the pier while the crews
of the ships in the harbor Joined in wild
cheering.
In trice the boats were dropped from
the davits and in moment the officers
of the cruisers and torpedo boats in the
harbor, and the military officers from
the fortress were swarming on board the
Almaz to learn news of the fight.
The story was short. According to the
officers of the Almaz the fleet under
Rojestvensky met the Japanese in the
Strait of Korea, near Tsu Island, and
the opposing fleets Immediately closed
In Being lightly armored. the Almaz
as had been ordered by Admiral Rojest-
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TWO RUSSIAN SHIPS
REA CHED DVLADZVOSTOK

m)T %
" RI IN torpedo "a u II a incl oda In the hrbo o
Horn the from III h n erysn o the uwhch the
traits ad n 10 d u speed t
nd the ~ "
at an n Man H on the Amaz dopzys
IA the G : tue hehoNln
the Jpne~ tive h gone NJ We cruisers h h
+ the ewere eemed edrsdyopu 0 head foremost t. the o fHe esa
ssan Hey saw W n flagship, knaz
esoed% %
Alexander Hpnu
swarm tp a 0 tn lsan Emple Torpedo
dns in gain
Monday
o " g gengge flor
been
advta ecnem
nva ew % M hd va thandarp
ee from Europe ne that RusLncr hd
every
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vladivostok, May 800 p. m.)-When
1t was learned that the cruiser Almaz
from Rojestvensky's fleet was approach
ing the harbor there was the greatest
excitement
The inhabitants clustered in the streets,
thronged the waterside, or climbed the
frowning hills overlooking the harbor for
a better view. Finally towards o'clock
in the evening. graceful cruiser with
two snowy white stacks. shot In view at
the entrance to the Golden Horn, and
rounded to an anchorage beneath the
bristling guns of the curving promotory.
From afar the broken stump of her miz-
zen mast and a shot hole showing black
upon the white paint of one stack. indi-
Gated that the cruiser had encountered
the Japanese. AS the anchor chain rat
tied in the hawse holes. the vessel
wreathed itself in smoke-it was an ad-
mirals salute in honor of Rear Admiral
Won Jessen. Scarcely had the boom of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-31
Cruiser GrOnObOi From VladiVOstOk
Going to Rescue Strikes Mine
and Sinks With all Hands.
Captured Russian Battleships Are
Taken to Japanese Navy Yards
For Necessary Repairs.
Nine ROjestvensky Receives Message
Stating That the Admiral Reach
ed VladivOstok Wounded.

oNooN May sThe Toxic Daily
that
nearly
hope of Joining the that
a hands
srydoH
Gromobo.
EXPLOSION
kAMTcHATkA SANK BEFORE THEIR
Toxic,
chatka
sixty When
explosion the ship
killed during the
Three other
bateshps nothward enyoope
ese. Seemingly they badly damaged"
NINE. RoJEsTvENsKY RECEIVES TELEGRAM
HUSBAND AT vLADWosTok.
Rojestvenky,
vadosok by her husband
saying Almaz
severly wounded in the neck
CAPTURED BATTLEsHIPs ARE TAKEN
JAPANESE NAVY YARDS.
Toxic, 3O.-5:40 m.The battehp
defense
slightly damaged.
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yensky before the battle, separated itself
from the main feet at the first opportun-
ity and headed for Vladivostok soon after
the commencement of the action, but not
too soon to observe that the losses on
both sides in the titanic combat were
great.
Early in the battle an officer of the
AlmaZ, while watching Ro1estvenslxy 5
flagship, the Kniaz Souvaroff, for a sig
nal saw the flagship shudder from stem
to stern as II under a blow from a gl-
gantic hammer and hesitate in her course,
while the waves rose high from her ar
cored sides. Then she commenced to
list and sink.
The officers believe that the debut of
the submarine boat as an effective agent
in naval warfare, or perhaps large
mine, caused the disaster to theh Kniaz
Souvaroff The damage, however, was so
extensive that the flagship soon went
down. leaving the deck officers and many
OF the crew struggling in the waves.
One of the Russian torpedo boats,
-~---~~>--~-------~,---- -~--->--s~,----------->-
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RUSSIAN OFFICERS TAKEN.

' London, May 31.-The Daily Mails
I. correspondent cabling under date
!. of May 30 says:
, when the Kniaz Souvaroff was
) sunk Admiral Rojestvensky was Z
, transferred to another vessel, but
|, was captured off Fumi today. He
is said TO be severely wounded in the
!, arm.
; "Admirals Nebogatoff and Voelker- I
!, sam also are prisoners.
!, "All the ships of the Russian I
. fleet have been either sunk or cap I
!, tured.' I
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Fifth report from Togo received afternoon May 3d.
THE main force of combined fleet upon accepting
surrender of remaining Russian main force Lancourt
Rocks in the afternoon of May 28 already reported
stopped pursuit and while engaged the demonstration
of surrounding ships found four southwestern direc
tion including the Admiral Ushako coast defense ship
Thereupon the Iwate and Yakumo Immediately dis
patched in pursuit. and invited her surrender but she
refused, and sunk at p. Her of over 300
were rescued.
Cruiser Dmitri Donskoi was also found in the
northwestern direction at p, and iately
overaen and fired upon vigorously by fourth division
and second destroyer hota She attacked that night
by the second destroyer hoa and the next morning
found aground the southeastern shore of Urung Island
off the Korean coast
Our destroyer Sasenani captured, toward the
ing Of May 27 in the south of Urlung Island the Russian
destroyer Piedovy wherein found Admiral Rojest
vensky and another admiral both severly wounded to-
gether with eighty Russians including staff officers from
the flagship Prince Souvarof which sunk at 5:29 p
m. May p. They were all taken prisoners
Our cruiser Chtose while cruising the northward
the morning of May 2S found and sunk another Russian
destroyer Our cruiser Nitaka and destroyer Murauma
attacked also at May % Russian destroyer
which finally went aground According to various reports
hitherto received and statements of prisoners the result
of the battle from May 81 to May % is follows:
prince Souvarof Alender III Borodino, Dmitr Don
skoi, Admiral Nachimof, Monomach, Zemtchug, Admiral
Ushako one cruiser destroyers sunk
Nicholas I, Orel Admiral Apraxin, Admiral Senia-
vim and destroyer Bedovy captured According to the
prisoners Osliba sank about p. and the Vavarin
also sunk.
"Amaz May 81 observed in a disabled and
sinking conditions but her final fate yet unknown. The
full particulars regarding the injury to ships not
yet in hand but far could ascertain
ously injured all being still engaged in operations. The
whole casualties not yet ascertaned Casualties of
first division are little four hundred Prince Yorhto
in excellent health Admiral Misu slightly wounced May
27
Sixth report, received afternoon May 80:
Loss of Oslbia and Navarn confirmed Sisso Vel
Xxi definitely reported to have sink the morning of
May 2S
Official statement of Russian losses far ascer
tanned:
Following six battleships sunk:
prince Souvarof, Imperatur Alexander III, Borodno
Osibia, Ssso Velik and Navarin
Following five cruisers sunk
admiral Nachimof, Dmitri, Donskoi, Vladimir Mon
omach, Svietlana and Zemtchug
Coast defense ship Admiral UsIakof sunk
1.-TWO special service ships and three destroyers also
sunk.
"Two battleships Ore and Imperator Nicholas L two
caast defense ships General Admiral Apraxue and Ad
miral Senavn and destroyer Biedovy captured.
"Thus Russians lost altogether p ships the aggre-
cruiser ALI suspected to have sunk
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battleships go down before their eyes.
and that two cruisers ware on the point
of laundering when they last distinguish
ed the battling fleets. But they admit
the distance of their ship from the scene
of battle and the fog made the view diff
o,,lL
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viii Inferno Golfers.

Russia has agreed to disarm and in
terne the big fleet of golfers and trans
ports sent to the Chinese coast when
Rojestvenslsy determined to try and force
the strait of Korea. 1t is believed that
the admiralty did not want to be ham,
pered by big convoy in the sea fight and
>~~~~~~~~~>~~~~
(contlnued on Seventh Pauel
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Bycicle Repairing.
Found

Wanted-To purchase home in
Darlington. Apply at tins office. If
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-04-06
Gap, was here Monday on bust.

Gap, was here Monday on bust
ness.
Pete Morgan, of Barnsley, was
in Madisonville Saturday.
Messrs. Thomas Walton and
James Bone, of Linton, Ind,
are visiting relatives here this
week.
Mr.. Colby Brown is firing at
No. 8 mine this week while Mr..
p. K. Hawkins, the regular fire.
man, is on the sick list.
Arthur Barnett, one of the
slack car drivers at No. 8 mine,
was on the sick list Monday.
Mr.. Robt. Gordon, of the No.
IL tipple force, has been i'll with
rheumatism for several DAYS dur
ing the past week, but is improv.
ing.
Mr.. @. j. Norwood, director Of
the Kentucky Geological Survey,
is preparing for early publication
a bulletin on the oil and gas
rocks of the State. Mr.. Nor
woods we'll known ability and
his long study of Kentucky geo.
logical conditions are absolute
guarantee that the forthcoming
bulletin will be both valuable
and interesting.
Mr.. Reuben Miles is on the
sick list this week.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-04-06

Burns, who has been stationed
at Lebanon, succeeds Mr.. Roberts
at Elizabet htown,
Theodore Schmidt, engineer
on the st. Louis Division, has
been confined in st. Mary's hos
pital, at Evansville, with rheu
matism
The various trains of this coun-
try cover about a thousand mil
lion miles in the course of a year.
The Guthrie coal hoist engine
which has been undergoing a
general overhauling, was return
ed and put up last Sunday.
There are enough freight en-
gines and cars engaged in the
traffic of this country to make a
string nine thousand miles long.
Fireman Frank Shehorn, of the
st. Louis Division, has resigned.
Mrs Mary Shannon is section
foreman. or "Boss," on the Erie
r. r. Company, taking her hus-
bands position when he died,
and has filled it we'll.
George Q. Langston, Of Dixon,
who has for several months been
employed at Howell shops, has
resigned to accept a position as
fireman with some road out of
Louisville.
Conductor John Lindsey was
slightly injured at Mt. Vernon,
H., on April 1st by falling from
a box car.
Thomas Walsh has returned
from Redding, California. One
half hour after leaving Sacra-
mento they were caught in a
snow storm. In Colorado there
had been heavy rain, Washing
away a bridge approach, so that
Mr.. Walsh was delayed a day at
Denver. Arriving home Mr..
Walsh found the weather IS
above zero. Thus he had a taste
of winter, rainy season and sum
mer in the course Of but a few
days.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-04-06
LOCOMOTIVE BLASTS


Wheatcroft was John 5. Loven,
a Chicago capitalist. Mr.. Wheat
croft proposed to build the
road providing the citizens Will
subscribe for $4,000 of first
mortgage gold bonds. The sub
scriptions Will be solicited by a
committee appointed by the
Commercial Club and the in.
dications now are that the road
will be built.
Hopkinsyille, KY, April p
The jury IN the case of II. w.
Deason against the Louisville d
Nashville Railroad Company for
$4,000 damages for alleged per-
sonal injuries sustained in fall
ing from train returned yer.
dict IN favor of plaintiff for
So, 900.
The Louisville and Nashville
RAILROAD Company has let the
contract to a local firm for the
erection of new freight depot
IN Hopkinsville to cost about
$40, 900. The building will be of
brick and the finest of its kind
in the State outside of Louisville.
S. S. Roberts, roadmaster of
the Elizabethtown division of the
Louisville and Nashville rail
road, has been appointed assist
ant engineer and rcadmaster of
the Louisville terminals. j. F..
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. THE PEOPLES COLUMN

Advertisements in this Column
will be inserted for one cent
per Word. Make your wants
known.
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Morganfield, KY, April IA
meeting of the citizens of Nor
garfield was held in the court
house tonigat to discuss and take
action on a proposition submit
ted by /. II. Wheatcroft to build
a railroad from Providence In
Webster county, which is on the
L. IL N, r. X. to connect with
the l. q. in this city. With Mr..
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THE ENGINES SONG.

arthur Guiterman in The Four
Track News
Through city and forest and field
and glen
! rush with the roaring train;
Ny strength is the strength of II
thousand men,
My brain is my masters brain
/ borrow the senses of him within
Who watches the cleaning line;
His pulses | feel through my frame
of steel,
His courage and will are mine.
hear, as swerve on the upland
curve,
The echoing hills rejoice
To answer the knell of my brazep
bell,
The laugh of my giant voice
And, white in the glare OF the gold
en- ray,
Or red in the furnace. light,
My smoke is a pillar of cloud by day,
A pillar OF flame by night.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1905-04-06

Burns, who has been stationed
at Lebanon, succeeds Mr.. Roberts
at Elizabet htown,