The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-15
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
amt Happenings OF the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past weel
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
The Washington legislature met
Monday at Olympia, and promptly pro.
ceeded to organize. w. II. Plummer,
Of Spokane, was elected Temporary
chairman of the senate; Dudley Eshel-
man, of Spokane, secretary of the SEN
ate. The election of minor employees
was proceeded with until number of
places were filed. The house was
called to order at noon by Assistant
Chief Clerk Alexander of the last ses-
sion. The election of officers and en-
ployes followed, and C. E. Cline, of
Whatcom, was chosen speaker, and
Judge Carusi, of Clallam, chief clerk.
A committee was appointed to test the
contested places, and the house ad-
journed
The nineteenth session of the Ore
gon Legislature met in Salem Monday
and failed to organize completely be-
cause of disagreement between factions
in the senatorial fight. The evident
purpose seemed to be to delay the elec-
tion of United States senator for two
weeks and they were successful The
senate organized without friction, but
the house not at all. A vote for SEN
ator can not now be taken until Tues
day, January 26. Joseph Simon, of
Multnomah, was chosen president of
the senate without opposition.
The four presidential electors of Ore
gon met in Salem and cast their ballots
for William Mckinley and Garret Ho-
bart. Hon. T. T. Geer was elected
messenger to carry the vote to Wash
ington.
A dispatch from Nice says that
eighty-two persons, including the
mayor and the mayors assistant, to-
gether with many prominent citizens,
have been arraigned for corruption in
the municipal elections.
Advices received from Manila show
that the Philippine insurgents who
were deported to the Landrane islands,
the Spanish penal settlement in the Pa
cific, recently made a desperate attempt
to escape, but were overpowered by the |
garrison and Spanish marines. Eighty
of the convicts were killed and forty
wounded.
A passenger train ON the Burlington
jumped trestle near Omaha, and five
people were injured. one fatally.
William Dobbs, of Union, Or, has
received the Maui prize for raising the
largest table beet for 1896. The con-
70 111 Al \
United States and Canada The prize
consisted of $50 draft The beet
weighed seventeen pounds.
Some boys while hunting near Peta-
luna, CAL, shot a pigeon on a tree,
and the bird dropped with broken
wing. A message tied to the birds
wing proved that it came from Walla
Walla, Wash, four days previous.
The note was addressed to San Fran
cisco firm. o.;
Important papers showing the
amount due the Pacific roads sinking
fund, on account of subsidies paid the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have
apparently been lost. The senate
adopted a resolution calling for them.
The acting secretary has replied that
they cannot be found.
The Columbia river salmon packers
held meeting in Astoria for the pur- {
pose of fixing the price to be paid for ]
salmon during the coming season. It .
was decided to offer cents pound, ]
and communication to that effect was
sent to the Fishermen's Protective I
Union. The union met later, but no
xoIv4 =
Gamers proposition. l
A thousand warning Poles, in Bay :
City, Mich, were determined that Fa- {
ther Bogacki should not off1ciate as
their priest. They attacked the par I
sonage of St. Stanislaus' church, and 1
stormed it for over an hour. They de-
molished the edifce and one man was r
shot and several others wounded with q
clubs. The priest finally surrendered,
and the police quelled the riot.
A Chicago paper says that President
elect Mckinley will select Colonel John ,
Hay, of Washington, as ambassador to =
Great Britain. Colonel Hay has been !,
of the legation at Paris, q
Vienna and Madrid and was often ..
charge d'affaires ad interim at each of Il
these capitals. In Hayes adminstra- L
tion he was first assistant secretary of n
state. Hay was one Of President Linz !,
clon's secretaries.
Sir Charles Tupper at a dinner in -
London is quoted as saying: 81 feel :,
great admiration for the United States,
but do not desire to possess their insti-
buttons. feel that there is greater
security under British institutions for q
life, property and liberty. CanadiansI u
ire greatly fattered at the desire of :. q
he United States to possess Canada,
,ut SO deep is their loyalty and SO u,
lnited are the Canadians that the uues- ol
ion is impossible" The speech of the b
was received with great ap- te
,lause. o
The Southern Oregon Fair Associa.
ion has filed articles of incorporation @,
n the Office of the secretary of state. ~
The capital named is So, 600, divided ~
nto shares of $40 each. Medford will h,
'e the principal Office. r,
Frank Hoyt, who so brutally assault w
d and robbed Agent Hoopengarner, at la
dyrtle Creek last week, has been tried DE
n Roseburg, Or, and bound over to hi
be grand jury, in the sum of 81, 900. re
n default of bondsmen he is now in ia
be county Jail. ell
In the supreme court in Washington,
J. c., an opinion was rendered by JUS
ce Gray, in the case of the Harvey
alley Stock Company VS.. Hoke Smith, vi
scretary of the interior, and S. w. 81 sa1
amoreux, commissioner of the general la
md Office, in favor of Smith and Lam wv