The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-30

The directors of the Oregon Railway ant
, Navigation company last Friday ratified the
sale of 81, ,50J, 900 per cent. consolidated
bonds. This is part of a new issue OF Sl5,
800, 900 in per cent. bon Is. issue1 at the
rateof S25. 200 per mile ON 700 miles of road
The bonds sold to-day will be used tc take
up 81, 200, 900 in scrip certificates bearing s
November proximo, and the other half
November l, 1856, but all of which will be
paid off November next.
Wall street has just transacted. the larg-
est weeks business on record. The sales OF
stoch amounted to 1928, 500 shares. This
unprecedented volume of business for the
brokers naturally enhances the value OF
their privilege of executing orders on the
Exchange, and S34, 900 has been bid for the
right to become one of the exclusive l, 100.
The buying craze continued unchanged for
the. first three days of the week and every
thing, good bad and Indifferent, went up.
A letter to the Globe Democrat from El
Paso, Mexico, says there is a good deal of
private talk among intelligent property own
inu Mexicans in Chihuahua in favor of an
nexation to the United States of the north
ern tier of Mexican states. No open move
ment has yet been made, nor has the press
touched the subject, but the letter asserts
that there is a strong undercurrent among
the classes above named in favor of linking
their destiny to that of the great northern
republic.
| A dispatch from Dennison, Texas, says an
attempt was made to lyncn Grimes, the col
ored man who was arrested, charged with
sssaultiny two little girls. the jailer frigh-
tened the masked visitors away by firing a
pistol several times. It is believed another
attempt will he male. Both children claim
to Identify Grimes
DR.. Young, Of the Maine state board of
health who visited the inspection st stion at
Morse River last week, says II large number
of French Canadians passing through the
place are not vacclnated, unless this has re
Gently been done, aud that many escape by
passing in the night. A night watch will be
employed to stop them. Dr.. Thornton Is
building, as speedily as possible, fumiga-
ting station, where clothing of immigrants
is to be disinfected.
Leading clearing house of the United
States report that total clearances for the
week ending Saturday, October "a, were
81, III, ,6l7 1899, all increase of 81 per cent.
compared with the corresponding week last
year -...'
The reported murder of Conductor Sam
ueI Dunbar of the Mexican Central railway
by Apaches, while prospecting in the Abb
nal districts, proves to have been untound-
ed He was in the vicinity of the hos'iies,
but evaded them. Many Apaches have
lately crossed into Mexico, and reports from
towns in Chihuahua shows that geat appre
hension exists that Indians will raid ranches
and mountain villages. One hundred miles
south of Ell Paso Apaches attacked ranch
and killed two Americans. Four lndlan
were killed in the encounter.
For some days there has been considera-
of the alleged striking off of names from the
lists of registered voters. The case came
up before Judge Phelps last Monday, and
Judge Duffy and Fisher concurring, rulr
Was made requiring restoration of all the
names struck off, unless the registers can
show that the persons whose names have
been stricken off are disqualified. The
names are said to amount to several hundred.
Issue of standard silver dollars during thc
week ending October "A was 9l6, 35S, lis
compared with $40, 409 during the CORE
spending period st year. Shipments oi
fractional coin from October to October "a
amounted to S7S2, ,3J3'
An official statement Of the Chicago board
of trade shows the amount OF wheat, corn.
oats, rye and barley III the United States
and Cana.la October "A. and the amount ot
increa Sc or decrease over he preceding week
as follows: Wheat. 40, $50, 224, an increase
of 656, 29I: oats, 4,O72, 236, decrease Of
333, l39; rye, 595, ,0SS. decrease OF 1873;
barley, $50, 52l, an increase OF 395, 46S.
The Brooklyn Eagle printed an interview
with Conkling, in which he merciiessly
scored the republican party, and denounced
the republican state ticket, The publ!ca
sion produced an immense sensation. The
Herald now says the interview never oc-
cured; that it is bogus from beginning toi
end. That it WAS published To bart Dtgen
port and help Hill. The Herald adds: oHrI
Washington dispatches contain Conkiins s
uthority to pronounce this alleged inter
view a preposterous, wicked fabrication
"A man who would prepare and utter a.
forgery says Conkling, ''is worse than one
who turns rattesnakes and mad dogs into
the streets to poison innocent people with
heir venom"
A St Paul special says: well Informed
,ilroad man from Winnipeg said, concern
ing the Canadian Pacific: ut will not be
many days before there will be a radical
change in the management of the road. A