The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-03
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
rERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In
Condensed and Comprehensive Forn

the New and the Old World In
Condensed and Comprehensive Forn
The celebration in honor of Oregon's
martyred missionary, D.. Marcus Whit.
man, was begun in Walla Walla, Wash.
Monday. Large crowds were in attend
ance. The opening address was made
by Rev. l.. II. Hallock. A monument
is to be erected over the grave of DIR.
Whitman.
Senator Lodge, of the committee on
foreign relations. was at the state de.
partment early in the week. He would
say nothing about the Cuban situation
exec pit that the committee had accom-
plished great deal. The first business
would be to confirm the annexation of
Hawaii, which would be done by rati-
flying the treaty, or by legislation.
Ex-senator Corbett and wife of, Ore
gon, have arrived in Washington for
the session. The Post, of that city,
says that the committee on elections
will hold a meeting the first week OF
the session and report favorably on Cor
belts case, and that party lines will
not be be sharply drawn, which will
mean that Corbett would get his seat.
Asphyxiation caused the death of
three men in the Grand Trunk railway
tunnel at Port Huron, Mich. The
train which was being hauled through
to the Canadian side, broke in two.
The engine backed down to get the de-
tached portion of the train. but for
hours nothing was heard OF the crew.
Finally a searching party found the
dead bodies, and also rescued two brake
men, in an unconscious condition.
Three members of the searching party
were also overcome, but were rescued
by another party. The tunnel gas
arises from the hard coal used by the
locomotives.
Colonel Domville, M. P, who went
north in the interest Of the Klonkide
Yukon Stewart Company, of London.
says his company will build a wagon
road through White pass, placing steel
bridges over the canyons. Work is to
commence Immediately, and the road
is to be ready by February. They will
build steamers to run from Lake Ber.
nett to White Horse rapids, around
which they will have a tramway.
From the end of this trawmay they will
have steamers to run direct to Dawson.
These steamers, he says, will be ready
when the river opens. The wagon road
through White pass is to be followed
Immediately by railway.
One of the bills that will be pushed
in the coming session of congress is
that introduced by Representative Sha-
froth, of Colorado, which provides for
changing the time when congress shall
meet. 1t is very. sensible bill, aud
ought to be passed. The first session
of congress after an election would be
in the January following the election
in November. This session could last
as long as would be necessary. The
congress elected in November could
legislate before another election was on
hand. The second session could meet
in December previous to the coming
congressional election, and the congress
would expire before the election took
place. As the matter now stands the
first session of congress is given over to
politics by representatives who wish to
be reelected. The short session is
often discredited and defeated con-
gress and oftentimes enacts very bad
legislation because it will not be called
to account before the people. Pos
sibly, Mr.. Shafroth's bill will get a
hearing, though such reforms as this
move very slowly.
Postmaster-G General Gary is receiving
many letters regarding the postal-sav-
ings bank proposition strongly urged
by him in his annual report.
The great trial of Arroyo's murder
ers is over, at the City of Mexico, hav-
ing terminated with the sentence of
death pronounced on 10 of the police
officers and policemen concerned in the
butchery of the hapless wretch whose
audacious attempt on the presidents
life caused SO profound sensation
there. The jury was out over seven
hours.
One of the most important features
of the Behring sea negotiations not
heretofore disclosed is that in the event
that Great Britain aud Canada consent
to a suspension of pelagic sealing for
one year, the United States for the
same time will agree to a suspension
of all taking of seals for one year ON
Pribyloff islands. constituting the
American seal possessions in Behring
sea.
Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
who was consul-general to Mexico
under the last Cleveland administra-
ton, announces that he will leave
Kansas City next week for San An
tonic, Tex, where he will be joined by
w. J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan, and that
the three will depart from San Antonio
on a weeks tour of Mexico. Aided by
the ex-consul's knowledge of the people
and country, Mr.. Bryan will make a
careful study of Mexico's financial sys-
tenn.
The discovery of many children
of very little if any Indian blood in the
government boarding schools through
out the country, leads to the recon-
mendation by the superintendent of
Indian schools that, inasmuch as there
seems to be no remedy underlying ex-
listing laws, it is imperative in the in
terests of justice to both races that con-
gress should early indicate by statute
what degree of blood shall constitute
Indian, and to what extent adopted In
dians shall be entitled to gov ernmental
support, in matters of education
According to Washington dispatch
to the Herald, China has appealed to
Russia to oust Germany from her terri
tory as the result of occupation by
German force of part of the Shan Tun
peninsula. As the Russian legation in
Peking is in charge of the secretary,