The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-10
GENERAL NEWS.
GREAT DAMAGE TO CROPS.


continuing all through to-day. 1t seems
general throughout eastern Kansas and
western Missouri. As this is the sixth sday
of almost continuous cold rains. the work
of gathering the wheat cropi is brought to
standstill Wheat in sacks has been ruined
and estimates place the loss IN Kansas alone
at ], ,OOO, 600 bushels, besides damage to
grain yet in the fields. Corn will probably
sustain little injury, but is backward twenty
days, as compared with the latest season
for twenty years. The state boards last
estimate of 10, 200, 600 bushels of wheat was
based on illegal improvement in southeas-
tern Kansas. which was texpected to par
TALLY offset disasters in the great wheat belt
of the center. This estimate took no ac-
count of the weeks storm and immense
damage to stacked wheat on the more IA
vorable localities. Further west there Is no
wheat to be injured by storms OF anything
else. Fears are now entertained that pota-
toes will rot in the ground. Minor crops
will suffer in like ratio. 1t is not drouth,
| but too much rain and cold that Injuries
Kansas this year.
wATERsPoUT's MAD PRANK.
SAN ANr,NIA, TEX, July This morn =
ing near Weldon, l5O miles west of here, a
| freight train was struck by waterspout.
The engineer saw the waterspout approach
ing, bounding along like rubber ball, tear
ing up the earth and uprooting all vegeta-
tion in its way. He reversed the train, to
| avoid the waterspout, whose course was tor
! tuous, with the column inclined and with a
rotary motion. Just before the spout
| reached the line of the road it changed its
course and spun along parallel to the track
with frightful velocity. When opposite the
| train the waterspout burst, delnging the
engineer, fireman and brakeman, who aban.
doned the train and climbed some trees, to
avoid the wave of water. eight feet high
and one hundred feet wids. The locomo-
| tive and fourteen cars were raised bodily
and carried nearly 200 feet from the track.
| while the road had been completely obliter-
ated. No one was hurt. The extent of the
damage is not yet ascertained. /.
THE OHIO STRIKE.
CLEVELAND, July 6.-Twelve hundred
striking iron workers marched into the city
this morning and drew up at the general
offices of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Com
pany. Several men spoke to officials OF the
company in Polish and English, demanding
a return to the old wages and semi-monthly
pay day. w. B. Chisholm, manager of the
idle mills, said the wages decided on to be
paid July would be adhered to as long as
business was in its present depressed condi-
tien, and that settlement in full for wages
every two weeks was not possible. Our
1 managers at the works are instructed only
to employ such men as are best fitted fol
the successful operation Of the works. The
last sentence was called out by demand OF
the strikers that ii they returned to tbs
1 works none of their leaders should be dis
charged.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-General Schofield
has forwarded to the war department dis
patch from Colonel Bradley. in which the
latter saws the Mescalero Apaches in the Vi
cinity Of southeast New Mexico, are becom
ing restless because their supplies are givini
out. At present they have nothing but bee
and short rations. In communicating tn
above dispatch to Adjutant General Drum
. General Schoield said as there were as man,
Indian difficulties as the troops were able t
handle. he thought if the Indian bureau
would not furnish supplies to these peopi
;, that the army had better feed them out q
: their stores and charge the amount to tn
Indian bureau. Secretary Lamar consente
to this prop ,sition, and General Schofel
u was directed to issue rations from the mill
tary stores at pests where trouble is threat
ened.
Il THE CHEYENNES.
WICHITA, July 6.-The Eagles dispatche
d from Fort Reno and Darlington, the seat 9
r the apprehended trouble, say: Sixteen com
r panies are now upon the ground. The Indian
e in speaking of the probability of their bein
e disarmed by the government, say they wi
}. die before submitting to that. as it would b
v death in either event. There is little dout
L but that white men have had q hand /
j. working the Indians up to the present wal
r like attitude. The Cheyennes were consid
/ erably excited to-day over the quartering
n some newly arrived troops in the vacate
Arapahoe school building, and since the a.
c cidental killing Of an Indian at the lodg
:. their medicine dances have been incessan'
= The special says such heathenish practices
. as are now going on daily have not bee
n witnessed in many years, and old India
/ fighters say a renewal of these war dances
Iinexplicabie. So far as the presence OF sil
teen smpanies is concerned, the Indiar
!. seem to care little. believing themselves ab