The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-30
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DE-.
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Cid World In
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
1t is reported that the Oregon delega-
tion in congress has recomm ended Pro-
fessor H. B. Miller, president of the
for diplomatic appointment to Ger
many.
Company G, Oregon National Guard,
Allan j. Walker, captain, has been dis
banded by order of Governor Lord.
The company's headquarters were at
Myrtle Reint, Coos county. The
resignation of2, Captain Walker, made
necessary by his removal from the
state, was the cause for making the Or
der.
The president has sent to congress the
report of the boundary commission ap-
pointed to locate the boundary line be-
tween Mexico and the United States,
west of the Rio Graude river. The
presidents message merely transmits
the papers filed by the commission
with the state department, consisting of
printed volumes and maps.
The Odd Fellows Of Walla Walla
royalty observed the seventy-eighth an
niversary of the order. Excursions from
the surrounding towns swelled the
crowd present. Business houses were
closed and all buildings were beauti-
fully decorated for the occasion. The
main part of the programme was the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
Odd Fellows Home.
A dispatch from Coulee City, Wash.
says that while Griff Jones, Charles
Deeter and Ray Weston were rounding
up band of young horses on lower
Crab creek, they undertook to swim the
horses, below Rocky ford, across the
stream. While crossing the horses be-
came entangled and unruly, and Jones
and Weston were thrown into the water
and drowned, while Deeter managed to
reach the shore.
Private John N. Stamm, O. Walla
Walla barracks, was accidentally shot
during target practice, and it is not
possible for him to recover. Sergeant
Names pistol snapped while aiming
at the target. He returned to where
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ing to him the reason why the car
fridge failed to explode. In doing this
he pulled the trigger, and the revolver
was discharged, the bullet striking
Stamm in the groin, and passing entire
ly through the body, perforating the
intestines, and coming out of the back.
The governors of Oregon an.l WASH
for the annual meeting OF the trans
Mississippi congress, to be held this
year in Salt Lake City, July IA to is,
with request that they designate a
number of citizens to represe',t the
states, including, sat least one speaker,
who will be prepared to present some
general subject in which the state is in
terested." The objects of the congress
are to secure closer trade relations and
national legislation of benefit to states
west of the Mississippi. w. J. Bryan
has been made president of the congress.
A number of japanese have left San
Francisco for Mexico, where colony
will be formed on land granted them by
the Mexican government.
The body of Captain Evan Davies, of
the British four-masted ship Delcairnie,
who drowned over four months ago in
the harbor at Astoria, has been picked
up by fisherman. The remains We're
positively identified by papers found in
the pocket.
The great coon and varmint hunt on
Fox island, Washington, in which sew.
eral hundred hunters participated, was
anything but success as varmint-
killing bee, though all who attended
were we'll satisfied, as the courtesies of
the islanders made the outing a most
enjoyable one.
Seth L. Milliken, representing in the
house of representatives the third dis
trict of Maine, died at Washington.
For some time he had suffered from
serious affection of the bronchial
tubes, which last week developed
alarmingly, and was accompanied by
kidney and liver complications.
A dispatch from Baker City, Or.
says that Powder river is higher than
it has ever been known to be, and is
doing great damage. Only one bridge
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weather continues, it will go cut. The
Sumpter Valley railroad is flooded for
miles, and trains will not be running
for weeks. The northern residence por-
tion of the city is inundated.
Chief Justice Fuller, of the United
States supreme court, has refused a
writ of habeas corpus in the case of Ell
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fused to testify in the sugar speculation
investigation as to whether senators
had speculated in sugar stocks while the
Wilson tariff bill was before that body.
The sentence of the supreme court OF
the District of Columbia to 80 days in
Jail and 800 fine was affirmed, and
Chapman's application for writs of GER
tiorari and habeas corpus were denied.
As result of terrible accident in
mining camp near Rossland, B. c.,
six men We're killed and several Others
injured. Twelve men were asleep in
the camp when landslide, 800 feet
long and six feet deep, and fifteen feet
wide, overwhelmed them.
A train near South Lyon, Mich.
struck vehicle on a crossing and in.
stantly killed Harry Clark and Miss
Sarah Fisher. Miss Ethel Just was
seriously injured Clark was student
at Ann Arbor, and Miss Fisher attend.
ed the state normal school at Ypsilanti.
Reports from the wheat-producing
regions of the Northwest-Potlatch
Palouse and Big Bend-are that fall.
sown grain is as far advanced as it was
at this time last year. The sudden
wave of warm weather tended to make
vegetation grow rapidly. Colfax,