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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-09-28

very little whether he is perched on q
six inch plank in mid air or walking
along solid pavement on mother earth:
Mrs. Linnie Linville leaves tomorrow
for her home in Portland, after visit of
several weeks with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Lenger, in this city.
The gang of youngsters that has been
in the habit of hanging about the Q. Y =.
depot and awaiting the arrival OF the
evening train has been practically broken
up by the police, and the effort to entire
ly abate the nuisance will notsbe abanT
doned until the ''gang" is routed. These
Youngsters have been pest for long
time and the police are determined to
end the trouble once and for all, and
youngsters hanging about the depot pre-
misses hereafter will probably find the
trouble for which they seem to be in
search. "te4
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-09-28

Stiff and Soft Hats in the new
Autumn shapes at 81. so to $3. go.
Autumn Cravats, Shirts, Gloves,
Hosiery, etc., from the leading
makers of the country shown here,
deserve your inspection.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-09-28
Come and Bring Friend to Our Open
ing Display Of Mems Fall Clothing -.

Tomorrow and every day this week we will have
"open house, to show you the largest and most mag
ncent collection of hghclass apparel assembled
here. If you wish to be posted" regarding the cor
rect styles and fabrics and what constitutes GOOD
Clothing, then you shouldn't miss this showing of
widely known
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-09-28

in all the new styles and light weight overcoatngs of
fashionable weaves ranging in price from s12 to $685.,
and better value you saw than offered in the
shaped-towast Chesterfeds Of medium and dark gray
chevots at
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
other looters of responsibility for at
least S1,000,000.

other looters of responsibility for at
least $1,000,000. -
The defaulter made this statement
through his son Theodore:
Fear of my life, more than any
thing else, prompted me to run away
from this country. l am sorry for the
thousands of depositors, but unless
others have looted the treasury more
than have they will be reimbursed
when the banks affairs are finally set
tied.
II think l can upon my return to
Chicago find way of forcing others
to make restitution of stolen bank
funds and l am going back with that
intention uppermost in my mind.
Il am not forger in the exact
sense of the word, though technically
l may be guilty of that crime. l know
that others were forging signatures.
Some work of this sort was done I'M
der my direction, but from what |
have heard from States Attorney OIL
son there were others doing the same
thing without my knowledge.
with the hope of having the court
deal leniently with me, / am going to
plead guilty to such of the indictments
against me as l am actually response
bic for. and in other ways | am pre-
pared to render every assistance in
my power to aid in the prosecution of
those more guilty than | am. In this
way l believe that others may be
forced to make restitution, as my son
has done for me by turning over my
property.
Il have not employed counsel, l
have never attempted suicide and l
have never signed statement for
newspaper publication since my cap
ture at Tangier l have told all the
minute details of my peculations TO
Assistant States Attorney Olson.
have given the names of all persons
connected with the bank wreck to Mr..
Olson. but he is pledged not TO reveal
them uutil. the proper time comes
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
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Reinhold Begas, probably the greatest
living German sculptor, has just passed
his 10th birthday.
Benjamin Turner. who is believed to
have been the last survivor of the wreck
of the troopship Birkenhead in 1852, died
at Portsmouth recently at the age Of II.
BY the will of the late Count A. Ka-
rolyi of Hungary, who was 10 years of
age at the time of his death, something
like SG000.000 is available for philan-
thropic purposes.
United States Senator William Pinck-
ney Whyte of Maryland is the only man
living who was a member of that body
and voted against negro suffrage when the
fifteenth amendment to the constitution
was passed by it.
Denver Stout, pilot on the Ohio and
Kanawha rivers, is the first white child
born in what is now the city of Denver.
He was born forty-seven years ago. His
parents travelled by OK team from Omaha
in 1859 and reached Denver in six weeks.
Sir Charles Tenant of England.
though an octogenarian, has four daugh-
tiers, the children Of his second wife, the
piutSk VI NhiAh - anu llit AOuBEeSI Is
still a mere infant.
L. p. Abrahams, headmaster of the
Jews free school at Spitalfields, England,
has retired after ffty-three years of SER
vice. He is 81 years old, and Israel Gang
will was once his pupil.
William Scott of Carlton-in-L indrick.
Motifs. claims to be the oldest postmaster
in England. He is So years of age and
was appointed in 1859, and at that time
was .slso village schoolmaster.
Sisananda. the rebel Zulu chief, who
has been court martialed and sentenced,
is 10T years old. His captive sons are
verging on 90. and many Of his grand
children have passed the allotted span.
Eben Messerve. a veteran of the Cri-
mean war. has just celebrated his seventy
third birthday at Milford y. II. He has
a gold medal presented him for bravery
at Sevast0pol. He also fought in the civil
war.
waladotta. or Grey Eagle, an Indian
chief who took part in the Custer mas
sslere. and. like many others Of the victor
ious force. took refuge in the Canadian
northwest. died recently at Prince Albert.
Saskatchewan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
DEtz zlAl2IE7S
@GS<R,. 600

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50 hogs, prime heavy, $500
to S6.75; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat No. 2, TIC to 73c; corn,
No. 2. 46c to 47c oats, standard, &c to
Soc; rye, No ., 64c to 65c; hay, timo-
thy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, $500 to
$14.OO; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
24c; eggs. fresh, zoe to 24c; potatoes,
30c to 4Sc.
anapols-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $3.50 hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$685. sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
5000; wheat, No. ., roc to re; corn,
No. 2 white, 4Sc to 49c; oats, No, 2
white, SIC to 33c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $6.25;
hogs. $500 to $685. sheep, $500 to
1915; wheat, No. ., 73c to 74c; corn,
Nc. ., 45c to 47c; oats, No. 2, Bic to
33c; rye, No. 2, SOC to 60c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $5.25;
hogs. $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
S4.75; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn.
No. . mixed. Acc to soc; oats, No. 2
mixed, SAC to Soc; rye, No. 2 &c to
64c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50: sheep $3.50 20 $500;
wheat. No. ., re to 74c; corn. No. 3
yellow, soc to SIC; oats, No. white,
34c to 36c rye. No >, Soc 10 Gle.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
76c to roc; corn, No. 8, Acc to 47c;
oats, standard, &c to 34c; rye, No. j,
soc to 63c barley, standard, 53c to sac;
pork, mess, S16.S0.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to 1925; hogs, rqir to choice, $500
to $685.; sheep, comrAon to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500
New York Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 1913; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 7Gc to 7Sc;
corn, No. 2, SIC to 5Sc; oats, natural
white, CSC to 40c butter, creamery, 1Sc
to 25c eggs. western, zoe to 23c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, TIC to
74c: corn, No. mixed, 49c to Soc;
oats, No. mixed, 33c to Doc; rye, No.
., 5Sc to SOC; clover seed, prime, S7.SJ.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
FOREIGN TRADE GAINS.
Imports and Exports for the Past
Year Exceed R2.OON. 900 900.


The foreign commerce of the United
States has crossed the $3.000.000.000 line.
In the twelve months ending with August
the imports were $1,254, 800, 73J, and the
exports $1,7J9, HI 1913, a total for the
twelve months of $3,013,S17 ,633. These
figures are supplied by the bureau of sta
tistics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor which in a bulletin says in
part: The August figures of both imports
and exports exceeded those of any preced-
ing August in the history of our com
merce. Meat and dairy products exported
amount to $16,76S,067, against S14,212,-
21S in August of last year, and 11,219,-
51S in August, 1904. This growth in the
expectation of meat is shown in nearly all
articles except canned beef. which shows
a marked decline compared with the COR
responding months of earlier years" Other
figures exceed those Of the corresponding
month of last year. fresh beef being "a
100000 pounds, against 1S.500,000
pounds, sailed beef little less than
6.5O0,000 pounds. against 100000
pounds; bacon 32,000,000 pounds. against
Z3,3O0,000 pounds: hams and fresh pork
practically the same. and lard 56,500,000
pounds, against 53.000,000 pounds. y
Breadstufs aggregated S13,000,00O,
against 100000 in the same month of
1903, and $5,500000 in the corresponding
month of 1904
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
SALUTE TO GEN. PIKE.
1T is FIRED ON PEAK BEARING
HIS NAME.
Extraordinary Honor Marks One
Hundredth Anniversary of Dis
covery of Mountain-Trust Com
pany's Novel scheme.

What undoubtedly was the highest off
eial military salute ever fired was the
brigadier generals salute of eleven guns
from the summit of Pixies Peak, nearly
three miles above sea level Wednesday
morning. 1t was given by guns from the
Twelfth artillery in honor OF Brig. Gen.
ZebulOn Montgomery Pike, who in 1906,
at the head of the Southwest expeditiZl
sent out by the War Department, made
the first record of the existence and loca-
ton Of the mountain that now bears his
name Incident TO the formal dedication
aud christening of Pixies Peak, of which
the salute was a feature, there were ad-
dresses by President w. f. Slocum of
Colorado College. Gen. Irving Hale of
Philippines fame and Mayor f. e. Mich
OILS of Manitou. a handsome bronze tab
let was unveiled by Nicholas Caldwell. a
little nephew of Mayor Nichols. Vice
President Fairbanks spent the day at
Denver.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02

A PENNSYLVANIA mail train broke all
records on that line by the run from Har-
risburg to Altoona, 1872 miles in 10 min
utes.
The Illinois Central will soon have its
own laundry in Chicago, where will be
washed all the linen used on the 4,375
miles of this system.
A San Francisco report says that the
Gould lines have secured right of way
across central Oregon to some point on
the Snake river as a terminus for the
Corvallis and Eastern road.
The preliminary statement of the Erie
railroad for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1906, shows gross earnings of over
$50,000000, an increase over the previous
year of S42z7,000, and an increase in
net of 81, 547,000 The company incurred
an additional expense of only 100000 in
conducting the transportation of over ST.
100000 additional gross earnings. This
is an indication that improvements which
have been completed are producing the
desired results in lessening the cost of
transportation.
1t is a curious fact that the American
style Oh pdSStuStI tOdNlis WIN IiA NOOlSS
a center aisle and seats on either side,
was an English invention, while the Eu
ropean railroads cling to the side-door
compartment car and use comparatively
few of the end-door coaches.
The Canadian Pacific is tie first rail-
road in North America to serve afternoon
tea on its trains. Those who wish the
beverage purchase tickets at % cents each
and in the afternoon tea, rolls, cakes and
so on are brought into the sleeper. This
custom, which is English, WI be adopted
on transcontinental trains only.
The Postofice Department announced
that the Pennsylvania railroad had agreed
to put in operation on all its lines 70-foot
all-steel postal cars, with a view to pro-
tecting the lives OF postal clerks.
James J. Hi, president Of the Great
Northern system, now on the Pacific coast
on a tour OF inspection, appeared before
The corporations committee Of the City
Council of Seattle and protested against
the route which had been selected by the
Union Pacific railroad for its proposed
entrance into that city. He said there
was traffic enough for all, but that the
route selected was Objectionable to the in
terests represented by him.
Two japanese railroads have placed Or
ders with an American company to sup
ply them with mechanical block-signal
safety devices. This is believed to be the
frs. time the Japs ha looked to US for
safety appliances.
tFhe Illinois Central is to operate
farmers special train south of the Ohio
river. For several years the railroads
Of the North have run seed and soil spe-
Gals through the middle West States and
now farmers Of the South are 10 be given
the benefit of lectures on methods Of in
creasing the Diversified crops of Dixie
land As farming in the South differs
materially from the North, the talks wiz
be of an entirely different nature.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02

PAUL o. STENSLAND. SiStant States At
torney Harry Olson and other Chicago
officials, by the Twentieth Century
limited at 3 80 o'clock Tuesday after
noon and arrived there at $50
Wednesday morning. Stensland de-
clared he woum plead guilty and turn
States evidence. He promised to tell
enough to convict the men who were
his conspirators or who worked with
their knowledge of his guilt to stack
up forgery on forgery on the founda-
ton of wrongdoing which he had
built
II want to straighten out matters,
said Stensland. There is a good deal
behind this case, and l want to show
the public that l am not the black
sheep l have been painted"
Stensland made a voluntary state
ment to Police Inspector Mclaughlin
in New York. Trembling with emo
ton, and with tears falling down his
cheeks, the ex-bank president said:
II made some bad investments and
they did not act as quickly as /
thought they would. They were not
paying. iChe man under me-the cash
Ter, / mean-took advantage of the sit
uation, and he got more than I. All /
got was 100000, but I don't know
what the other man got. The money
/ went away with was a few thousand
dollars that l made in real estate
speculation last summer. 1 had been
always in hope of paying the money
back, but 1 suppose all is lost am
suffering from asthma. Il want to get
back to Chicago just as quickly as pos
sible.'
Stensland said soon after leaving
the Prinz Adalbert:
"My transactions with the bank in
volve 100000 All deficits, defalca-
lions or losses over that amount have
been the work of Herring, his cocoon
spirators and other men who can be
proved guilty."
AS the total amount involved in the
bank failure is placed at over $4,000
600, Stensland's charge accuses the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
Wore HinpIe securities.

The investigation of the affairs of the
wrecked Real Estate Trust Company of
Philadelphia disclosed more than $780,,
600 in bad loans outside of the Segal
operations. These notes were part of
deals worked solely by the late President
Nipple. Receiver Earle made public his
reorganization plans as follows: The de-
positors to receive one-third of their de-
posts in cash and to agree to accept pre-
ferred stock for the remaining two-thirds,
this preferred stock to be retired by cash
payments later on when the company de-
clares the s per cent dividend; the direc-
tors to subscribe $2,500O00. This plan
has been approved by the directors and
waits the approval of the depositors and
stockholders.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
TO RESTORE GREAT GAME.
Government Proposes to Establish
Natural Preserve.

Nearly 10000 acres in one natural
game preserve! Such is the new enter
prise which the national government is
establishing in Oklahoma.
As far back as tribal tradition runs,
the Wichita mountain region has been the
favorite hunting grounds of the Comanche
and Kiowa Indians, dawn thither by
abundance of game and delightful eli
mate. But now game, like the Indians,
is largely a thing of the past. 1t is pro-
posed to reprodSce in this splendid nat
ural park all the best species of game
animals and birds that once made the
great West the hunters paradise. Deer,
antelope, bear, the otter and beaver, quail
and doves. prairie chickens and wild tur-
keys will be given protection and eneour-
aged TO increase and multiply.
Probably the most interesting feature
Of the undertaking will be an effort to
have, in the course of years, large herds
of buffalo again roaming the plains
within the reserVation-as they did before
the pitiless warfare upon them was car
ried so nearly to the point of extermina-
ton.
At present the preserve is tenanted only
by such game bids and animals, pitiabiy
few in number, as have escaped the horde
of hunters who have overrun that region
ever since Oklahoma was opened to set
Element. The animals of Importance are
deer, antelope. small black bear, mountain
lions, bobcats, wolves, coyotes, otter and
beaver. Before the adjacent country was
opened for settlement deer and antelope
were plentiful but both have been slaugh-
tered almost to determination. The deer
are usually found on the high ridges, while
the antelope feed in the prairies. Both,
however, can still be found in sufficient
numbers TO form a start for large herds,
if they were given the necessary protec-
tioD
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN HIT.
Dissolution Comes at Summer Home
at Nnrra gansett Pier.

Robert r. Hit, Representative in Con-
gress of the Thirteenth Illinois District,
died Thursday at Narragansett Pier, X.
l., aged u years. His demise followed a
weeks severe illness from heart disease,
from which he had been a sufferer foT
some months. Representative Hit occu-
pied a prominent position in Illinois Re-
publican politics for more than thirty
years. He has been the head of his party
in his district and its Representative at
Washington since 1882, passing to that
office from the post of assistant Secretary
of State. He was one of the most widely
known Americans his activities in public
life embracing diplomatic career as well
as that of a legislator. The Congressman
was born in Urbana, Ohio, in 1884, and
three years later moved with his father to
Mount Morris, ILL.,, where he has lived
ever since.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
TRADE BALANCE CUT.
NOT AS LARGE IN 1905 AS IN
PREVIOUS YEARS.
Exports of American Farmer SHOW
Advantage of $2I5,0O0,0oO-Min
nesota Homesteader Is freed by

Although The imports of farm products
were larger in 1905 than any year since
1890, says report of the Department OF
Agriculture in Washington on exports OF
farm and forest products, the value of the
exports exceeded that of the imports by
more than one-half and there was bal
ance of trade of S2S5, 100000 in favor of
the farm products. The report adds :
During the last sixteen years the bal
ance of trade for all products was S3,O92,-
100000, while the balance of trade for
farm products was $685. 100000. In
1903 the balance of trade in favor of
farm products was the lowest since 1898,
due 10 a falling off in the grain trade and
to the increase in the quantities and in
the average import price of certain arti-
cles imported in large amounts, as srsar,
WOOL hides and skins and coffee"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
PRISON TERM FOR pEoNAGE.
Seven Found Guilty in Missouri
Trial Also Are Fined.

Nrlal Also Are fIneus
Charles NJ. Smith his son, Charles NJ.
Smith, Jr., and five tenants on the Smith
farms in New Madrid county, Mo-, were
found guilty of peonage in the federal
court in Cape Girardeau. After overrul-
ing a motion for a new trial Judge Pol
lock sentenced the elder Smith to impris-
onment for three and one-half years and
fined him 5000. The son was given
similar fine and sentenced to imprison-
ment for two years. The five tenants OF
the Smith farms, who acted in the ca
pacity of guards and overseers, were given
terms of from one to two years and fined
IN amounts ranging from $50 to $500.
1t was shown during the trial that the
Smiths brought about forty negroes from
Memphis, Cairo and other river points to
their farms in New Madrid county for
the purpose of converting a vast area of
swampy land into tillable soil. The blacks
testified that they were worked and whip
ped by armed taskmasters from daylight
till dark, and herded like sheep in misera-
BILE quarters by night, their condition prac-
tically being slavery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02

applause which greeted this address show
ed plainly that a majority of the congress
was against the proposed amalgamation
with the dominant school of medicine.
DR.. William II. Diffenbach advanced the
striking theory that many cases of cancer
are due to the modern Introduction of
enamel ware in the kitchens. His argu-
ment was that chipping of the hard-coated
dishes caused dangerous particles of for
eign matter to become mixed with the
food, and that they started cancerous
growths in the stomach by abrasions made
in the walls of the organ. The mortality
from cancer was steadily growing. DIR.
Henry Z. Deem, the British army expert
on preventing the spread Of the bubonic
plague, assailed the generally accepted
theory that rats are the principal agency
of spreading this disease.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
con,,nuou. smeIt,nr Process.

Two Australian inventors have found a
new process for the continuous treatment
of iron ore, which is to be exploited
throughout the world. 1t is process for
directly converting the ore isto malleable
iron or steel, and is said to effect a saw
ing of % per cent. After the ore is con-
centrated it passes through a revolving
cylinder and is brought into contact with
the deoxidizing gas; thence it falls into a
bath of molten iron and is converted into
steel or malleable iron, the whole process
ha;po a11tomatic
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
c.s,ro SIN, , sick Ma,

President Castro of Venezuela, who for
several weeks has been in close retirement
on account of serious illness, was
brought in a guarded special train Thurs
day to suburb of Caracas, but the trip
was made with utmost secrecy, and the
official announcement was made that Cas-.
tro would receive nobody until his health
should be completely re-established. With
the support OF a servant, he was able to
walk from one train TO another at the sta
ton. thus contradicting the rumor that he
was suffering from paralysis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-02
SIX HUNDRED JUNKs SUNK.
Loss by TyphoOn at HOngkons
Reaches Appalling Figures.

Loss by Typhoon at HOngkong
Reaches Appalling Figures.
The entire fleet of 600 fishing Junks
sailing from Hongkong was lost in the
typhoon, increasing the death toll to TO-
900 persons. Practically all the Baluchis-
tan troops and 300 of the West Kent reg
iment are cooperating in clearing away
the wreckage of the typnoon. Prodigious
efforts are being made to recover the
bodies, which are being carried off IN
carloads. The full extent of the typhoon's
havoc is not yet known, but conservative
estimates place the material damage at
$20,000.O00.
Reports of disasters at sea are constant
" being received. The steamer Albatross,
with fifteen passengers on board, founder
ed near Futuamen pass. Only six passen-
gers and two of the crew were saved. They
SWAN ashore. The steamer Hongkong
also was lost, and its entire crew is miss
ing. The steamer Wing Fat, from Sam
chun, foundered and 100 passengers and
ten of its crew are missing. Only two
of the crew are said to have been rescued.