The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-07-23
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
Condensed and Comprehensive Form

OOl. ". L. OTOCkeI, NlCe- VI
the Southern Pacific railroad, died at
his home in San Francisco.
Sheep owners in Eastern Oregon are
organizing to protect their f1ocks from
the merciless gun of the cattlemen.
The miners strike in the Eastern
states is assuming a desperate aspect.
The miners have appealed to the rail-
waymen for help.
c. NJ Shultz, of Chicago, has bought
the Tacoma Ledger and has placed j.
NJ. Bradley IN editorial management.
The price paid was $4,000.
There is a great rush from Seattle
and the Sound to the gold fields at
Clondyke. One miner SAYS that many
will go there who will never return.
John Durbin, one of Oregon's Oldest
pioneers and citizens, died at the home
of his grandson, Duncan Ross, near
Salem. He was nearly 103 years old.
The pioneer jubilee has been ushered
in at Salt Lake, and this week will be
witnessed one of the grandest celebra-
tions ever seen in the inter-mountain
country.
is probable that the Japanese govern
ment will agree to the proposal of Ha-
waii and submit the dispute between
the two countries to arbitration.
The famous Broadmoor Casino,
100000 pleasure resort at Colorado
Springs, Colo, was burned to the
ground. The entire loss will be double
that amount. There was scarcely any
insurance.
Two masked men robbed the Sac and
Fox postoffice, so miles from Guthrie,
o. T., and secured a quantity of regis
tered letters, stamps and small sum
of money. They were after $780, 900
being paid the Indians. .-
W. A. Bellwood, a well-known
Philadelphia merchant, has been ar
rested for obtaining jewelry under
false pretense. He pawned the jewelry
to get money to bet on horse races, and
in this way lost $13, 200.
The Central Labor Union of New
York, after a long wrangle, adopted the
following resolution: Resolved, That
the appointment of T. V. Powderly as
commissioner of immigration is tie
greatest official insult ever offered by
the federal government to organized la
: Dor"
Lieutenant Peary, the famous arctic
explorer, has left Boston for Greenland
on preliminary voyage. The object
of the voyage is to establish station at
northern point in Greenland which
shall be used as base of supplies for
an expedition in search of the North
Pole under Lieutenant Peary in 1898.
The National Republican League con-
vention met in Detroit. Delegates were
present from nearly all the states
The departure from Portland of the
British ship Glenelvan brings the grain
fleet for the present season up to II
vessels compared with 68 the year be-
fore.
Advices from Constantinople indicate
that the sultan is -obdurate regarding
the acceptance of the peace proposals.
Edhem Pasha is fastening back to Do
mokos, and the furloughs of all Turkish
officers have been Cancelled, in readiness
for renewal of hostilities.
Advices from the south of France
show that the destruction by the. floods
there was greater even than earlier re-
ports indicated. The losses are esti-
mated at 200, 900, 900 francs in the aggre-
gate. Hardly village has escaped
damage, and the number of persons
drowned is nearly 800.
E. NJ. Waite, about 70 years old, who
was the oldest printer in Oregon.
dropped dead in Salem. The printers
were to play the BARRIERS a game OF
baseball Waite carried a printer q
towel as banner for the printers in
the parade He tainted from the heat
and never regained consciousness.
The parliamentary South African
commission, which has been inquiring
into the Transvall raid, has agreed
upon its report. The report will ex-
press an emphatic opinion that what
ever justification there might have
been for action on the part of the peo-
pie of johannesburg, there was none
whatever for Cecil Rhodes conduct in
subsidizing, organizing and stimulat-
ing an armed insurrection against the
government of the Transvaal.
Henrique Laidley, Portuguese vice.
Cal, at the request of the Portuguese
minister at Washington to make thor
ough investigation regarding the dis
turDance over the hauling down of the
Portuguese flag from the pole above
Manuel Ortin's grocery store and the
burning of the flag. Ortin's notifica-
tion to the minister at Washington re-
suited in the investigation Laidley
declares if the affair is not satisfactorily
explained the Portuguese government
will demand an apology from the Unit.
ed States.
The ninth session of the trans lis
sissippi commercial congress is being
held in Salt Lake. Every state and ter
ritory west of the Mississippi river will
be represented.
A statement prepared at the mint bu-
reau shows the number of silver dollars
coined at the United States mints dur.
ing the fiscal year was 1908, 701, ON
which the seigniorage, or profit to the
government, amounted to S6, 1856, 104.
The profits have been turned into the
treasury from time to time, as the coin
age progressed.
A large deputation. headed by for
mer agent, General Beeton, of British
Columbia, waited upon Sir Wilfred
Laurier, the Canadian premier. and
urged upon him the expediency of open.
ing up route to the Yukon district.
The porte has dispatched an ultima
tum to Persia, demanding the withdraw.
al of the Persian troops from Turkish
territory near Kerbela. The ultima
tum states that refusal to comply