The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-09-29

drove the Indians OFT. The Indians now
openly threaten to murder Steel or any 9TH
er white person they can.
Grand Forks, Sept, 25-Great excite
ment has been created in DEVILS Lake
tcounty by the survey of strip of land ON
he north shore of the lake, forty by twenty
| miles, now in pro oyress under direction of
Lieut.. Scott, with view Of Incorporating
| it in Fort Totten reservation. The land
| has already been seized upon by suuatters.
who have male extensive Improvements
for speculative purposes. Indignation
meetings are being held and protests will
be entered at Washington as orders came
| from the war department to General Terry
and the survey is being made under his di-
rsction. A reporter called at Fort Snellin
| to-day, where it was learned in the absence
of Gen Terry, from officers there, that the
intention OF government in setting aside th..
reservation was to protect the rights of actu-
al settlers and not permit clique of a few
persons to gobb,e the choicest tract of land
| in all Dakota.
View York, Sept 25.-The steamer Edam
| belonged to the Netherlands Royal Mai
line sliled from Jersey City for Amsterdam
on the 10th of September. Another a.
| cunt says: As soon as the collision occur
red heartrending appeals to be saved filed
the air. Boats Were lowered and sent
| through the fog in search of the stricken
| vessel, l.ut ere they returned some 80 per
sons reached the Lepanto in strange boats
and requested to be taken on board, as their
ship was sinking A few moments later
the remaining passengers arrived and were
taken aboard. The Lepanto's boats re
turned unable to find the sinking vessel J.
The captait of the latter was j. FL. TAFT,
He called the roll of the passengers and
crew an found two seamen missing, John
Forgt and Nicholas L"udtr,.er. He carried.
he saId 80 passengers, four ladies and
miscellaneous cargo. While calling the roll
an explosion was heard. which told the
tlam hal blown up. The Lepanto's boats
| crulsed for hours in search of the missing
amen, bat fai' to find them.
New York, Sept. 25.-The Sun saws: jaw
G"u'd IS going to leave New York for two
years on voyage around the world. He
Is making all necessary preparations for it
lie says he his been studying John Ruessell
Young's book, Round the World with
General Grant, and he is building or going
to build the largest and fastest yacht afioat
and hopes to be really for his trip on the
LIST of December next. Whether such a
circumstance is spoken of to accumulate
stocks or dispose of those he has got is for
the great minds of Wall street to decide.
New Brunswick, N. T.. Sept-The lower
part OF the city is delused anil thousands of
dollars worth of property lost. The rainfall
for IS hours is Is inches
New York, Sept. 26-Beginning to-mor.
row and until further notice. the secretary
| of the treasury will pey any called bonds
without rebate of interest at the rate of
S.. 900, 900.
New York. Sept. 24-The steamer Lc-
panic, Capt. Rodgers arrived to-day from
Hull, England anil reports being in col
lision on Sept. 81, with the steamer Edam.
which foundered.
New York. Sept. 23.-At the coroner's
inquest toni s.t concerning the disaster at
the tunnel of the N. Y. Central road, Rob-
inson. the telegraph operator, testified in
effe.t that he was hurried and excited with
the multiplicity of reports, and that his
flag signal was out of order on account of
rain, and dill not unfurl when he wanted it
to; that other operators were using the wires
and san'ling signals and that l9S trains
passed his station daily. He was held
in $4,000 bail, and one brakeman and tie
conductor in $1,000 each
Chicago, Sept. 23.-The New York
World prints an interview with Henry C.
Murphy, president of the board Of trustees
of the Brooklyn brilge, in which he denies
his authorized Tweed to bribe the New
York common council to issue bonds for
the briige. The interview is accompanied
by Tweed's testimony in 1877, in which
Twee'l states be paid counsel $3.50, ,OoO or
SGO00oO as bribe for issuing SI5 900, 600
bonds and that was done with Murphy's
knowledge.
Washington, Sept. ga curious rumor
is afioat this evening which is neither affirm
ed nor denied at the department of Justice,
that bill has been presented by the hotel
keeper who entertained the star route iurv
for over $500 and that part of the charges
was for SO bottles Of wine. The jurors have
always denied they had liquor of any sort.
A special agent of the department of Justice
said to-day these bribery charges in the
star route case were the oddest he ever
knew. There were bushels of affidavits on
which the arrest ou ,ht to be based under
ordinary practice, yet no arrests are made.
He did not understand it.
Washington, Sept. 24-Frank H. Fowler,
whose name is mentioned in connection
with the fixing If the star route jury, denies
that he ever attempted to influence any
Juror to vote for the government, or that
he was authorized to do so by the govern
ment, and he asserts that all his acts while
acting for the government was duly re-
ported to the proper officers of the govern
ment MIR. Fowler states that he has no
fears of full AMI complete judicial investi.
CATION, and is willing to respond when
called upon.
New York. Sept. 23-Wm. c. Rowson,
~ o,,or,tor ,,n tho Harlem