The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-02
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Dispatch from Deiner, Colorado, says that
Cockrell's ranch was last Friday surrounde!
by Indians Settlers have taken refuge al
the ranch, and prepared to meet an attack.
Horace F. Page on beng interviewed re.
Gently in New York said: ''The silver ques-
tion will come up III Washington this winter
but no bill will be passed. The west is al
most unit in favor of keeping silver just
where it is. The south and the west are for
silver. while the east are opposed to it. Peo-
Pile of the east are money lenders, and wish
to make 1t scarce. Western people are bor-
rowers and wish to see plenty of money in
the market. That's all there is to it,
On the civil service Mr. Horace w. Page
sail: 81 am not in favor of civil service re-
form in its present form. Cleveland great
est mistake has been in removing officials
because they were offensive partisans. If
ne would come out and say frankly when
making removals, There, | want your place
because you are not in harmony with the ad-
ministration,' he would have made no
trouble.
I Samuel N Brooks will soon start from
England for ST. Louis to ascertain definitely
whether the man now held in Jail there as
the murderer of G. Arthur Preller, and
known variously as Hugh NJ. Brooks and
Walter Fl. Lennox Maxwell is his son.
The leading clearing houses of the United
States report that total clearahces for the
week ending September 26, were S69l, 1872, :
Alb, decrease oI Is pei. cent. compared
with the corresponding week last year.
| information is given out from official
sources that there will be no strike on the
Union Pa :ifc railroad. The reason given is
| that the knights of Labor, by organizing a
strike, would practically indorse the killing
Of Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming. The
| Knights have determined to settle the
trouble by other means.
The corn crcp of the United States having
passed the critical stage, and whatever of
danger menanced the cereal from frosts being
now ended, owing to maturity Of the grain,
the Farmers Review of Chicago has called
in reports from it's 400 correspondents. Civ
ing the area and probable yield in the ten
leading corn producing states, and has COM
lied from these close estimate of the ap-
proximate yield OF the crop of 1885. The
estimates have been based on comparison
with the yield of 1884, taking the figures of
| agricultural bureau at Washington for the
yield of last year. Comparisons by states
of the probable yield in the ten states
named shows an excess over the year of
lS4, 640,000 bushels. On the basis that
states and territories outside of the ten
named will produce rs much corn as they
did last year, or 543, 100000 bushels, and.
of the reports, it will give total crop of
l,979, 639, 900 bushels from which total it
is safe to estimate that the yield will not
vary in any appreciabie degree either way.
| The announcement that Roswell P Flow
er had refused to be candidate for lieuten-
ants governor of New York was received
with great surprise by the democracy The
effect of his refusal to run has been disas-
trous, for it has given cold chill to the
| Wall street party, who would have been
willing to support one of their own men.
The leaders have nothing to say Flower
himself talks about a majority of 40, 900 for
the republican ticket, and he never once
wavered in his refusal
She Staats Zeitung, the leo,ling German
mocratic paper in New York bolts
Hill. Its editor says: ''rhe democratic con-
vention has seen fit to nominate, yes nomi-
nate, a candidate whose election must from
the beginning appear to be more than doubt
full, and the leaders who brought about this
result must be held responsible for the de-
feat of their party, which seems to be almost
| inevitable"
A series of explosions Saturday afternoon
felt at and near Pitsburg, Pa, supposed to
have been caused by shock of earthquake,
are thought to have been the explosion
of a meteor. Inquiries have been sent to
The city from points thirty to forty miles dis
tant asking the cause of the explosion There
were five or six detonations in rapid success
sion and the course of the sound was from
northwest to southwest At Mansfield about
five miles distant, the greatest CONSERVATION
prevailed, particularly among miners at
work in coal pits in that district Thus far
the place where the meteor fell has not been
discovered
| Zephers ana Yarns.