The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-07-21


/ visited all hospitals and cannot speak tt
: highly of the devotion displayed by the sis
ters of charity. While some inmates ,
hospitals, including both sisters of CHART
: and patients, were being escorted by Ge
, man marines to the beach, they We're cha
!. lenged by the English sentries. As the
were unable to give the password. the Ems
lish fred. The Germans returned the fire
but happily no one was hurt. English sal
ors to-day fogged ten Arabs guilty of arson
rape and pillage. Five men We're publicl
shot, four for murder and one as spy
Hundreds of persons are houseless an
starving.
New York, July l5.-Lieut. Commando
Gorringe, who spent over eight months il
Alexandria preparing to remove the obelisk
has been interviewed by the World. H
thinks the bombardment a brutal and un
justifable act; that the British government
wanted a pretext for war on the nationa
party of Egypt to get control of the Sue
canal.
Washington, July 1.-THE announce
ment Saturday night that the government
would submit portion of the Salisbury anC
Parker star route cases to arbitration caused
much comment here. Mr.. Salisbury helG
contracts at the time the star route fraud.
were first unearthed the pay of which was
more than 81, 100000 annually. Brady
granted large increase of pay on several o.
these routes for increased trips and expe-
dition of schedules. 1t was asserted that
Salisbury was member of the ring and
that he would be one of the persons indicted
for conspiracy. There is much gossip about
the manner in which the government pres
ented the Salisbury and Parker cases before
the grand jury before. Bliss says that he
discovered the jury would not indiet either
of the men at a time when they were in
great trepidation lest presentment should
be found and that he accepted their offer to
arbitrate gladly. People here who have
| lost confidence in the ability of government
to sustain the charge of conspiracy against
the Dorsey combination say that it seems
who were marked for criminal prosecution,
whose offer to compromise was prima facie
evidence of their guilt. The total amount
of service held by the Salisburys and the
Parkers was very great.
Washington, July 1.-THE Gazette of
this city to-day says: The house last week
voted down an amendment offered by An
derson, of Kansas, requiring the Kansas Pa
citic, one of Jay Gould's roads, and other
corporations located in that state, to pay
cost of land surveys, and compelling them
to take out patents for lands donated them
by the general government 1t is the prac-
tice of the great land grant railroads to hold
vast bodies of land without securing or TAX
ing out United States patents, because Just
so long as the final title does not vest in
them they are able to avade taxation by the
state or territory. In California the South
ern Pacific holds a vast body of land, of
which many acres are under irrigation, pro-
duclng largely, and being sold at high
figures. This land pays the state no taxes,
because patents have not been issued.
The navy appropriation bill has been re
jected, but it is the present intention of re
publican managers to hold that bill back
until the internal revenue bill is disposed
of. The impression among senators and
representatives of both parties is that the
session will not be prolonged much after
August lst. Beck will repeat the tariff
speech he has already said three times this
season, but debate upon the bill is not ex-
pected to last more than four days, latter
which voting will begin. Representative
Whitthorne said to-day that he thought
discussion of senate amendments would oc-
cupy very little time in the house because
there was such general desire on the part
of the members to adjourn. The conference
committee on the river and harbor bill will
begin work to-day and the senate will push
the naval and sundry civil bills through rs
soon as the revenue bill is disposed of A
republican caucus will be held early this
week to take definite action regarding the |
of settling one or two of the |
pending election cases before adjournment.
Washington, July l7.-Among the bills |
now ready for introduction i'll the house is
one to permit consideration of Pacific rail
roads, intended to facilitate the efforts of !
certain magnates to control the system of
trafc. The Capital of this
city, in a long article, maintains the bill is
= job in the interest of Gould, Huntington
& Co., and says its title should read 'A
bill to confer upon Jay Gould, G. P. Hunt
ngton and their confederates and everiast-
ng monopoly of transportation across the
continent" The writer adds, congress is
asked to allow Huntington to consolidate
his California, Arizona and New Mexico
charters under United States charter.
That is all; but by the agreement already
made with Gould anterior to the times
when his land grant expired, the 22nd of
asst May, one consolidated road is also con-
olidated with the Texas Pacific and takes
of its land grant, claiming that
he entire road was completed within the
time. The bill provides in the
IESU SeCClOu CDstC parallel FOdoS snail DE
and it virtually consolidates
hree parellel roads across the continent,
nd the Could Huntington agreement pre-
ents building of other competing parellel
Dads in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas
he number of acres of land granted to the
'exas Pacific to be IA, 800, 760, which. valu-
at the lowest government price for rail
bad lands, 50. so per acre, is WORTH $35,-
IA, 400. The length Of the road through
he land grant in New Mexico is l6O miles,
rizona 37S miles, and California l5O; total
S8 miles; and its cost as shown by the I
yreement with Gould and Huntington, was
20, 600 per mile, or a total of Sl3, 76O, 600.
ut little more than one-third the value of
lie land grant. To distract attention from
lie effects of this bill, and prevent its true
laracter from being known, another bill
IS been introduced III. R., p. 1921 with
me "whereases," +" the eighth of which re
tes the agreement between the Texas Pa. f
fic and Huntington's road, and claims that |
7 this agreement the grant was saved to
e company. This was bill 6262, which
,enly does what the one which it is pro-
'sed to pass on Monday accomplishes COW
t1y. Of course it was not expected to
Iss, and it was only intended to draw at
ntion from the other bill, Mo. 559l, which
all that is asked for in bill
g.
Spokane Fails, July l6.-The following h
'lfax special was delayed: At one Friday
orning fire broke out in Osborne Co. 5 :
ricultural warehouse. and by o'clock A.