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Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
TAKES NEWS CALMLY.
No Disorders in Paris Followed til
Death of Fauro.

No Disorders in Paris Followed tn.
Death of Faure.
Paris, Feb. 20.-Everything is quiet
in Paris tonight. There is no danger
of coup d'etat. The favorite candi-
date for the presidency is M. Emile
Loubet, now president ct the senate.
Still the ministers think Faure's death
is misfortune at the present juncture,
and this is the conventional talk.
They had all looked forward to his re-
signing. and they spoke today of the
possible effect of his death on the
courts of Europe.
If M. Loubet be elected, European
sovereigns would soon transfer to him
their friendly regards. He is good,
unaffected, level-headed man of hon.
est, open life, and of far more intel
lectual culture than poor Faure. He
is an advocate and practiced at the
Montilemar bar. in the department of
the Drone. Montilemar is his native
town.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
manv Prt.ou.r, Re,e.sed,

Havana, Feb. S2.-One hundred and
sixty prisoners in the Havana Jail,
whose release was recommended by
the board of pardons, were liberated
today, The United States government
10 under obligations to return them
home. Many Of the prisoners are
Spaniards. and the majority of these.
after consideration. decided that they
would prefer to be sent to Santiago to
work in the mines rather than 60 to
Spain.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24

Spain Once Owned IL.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 21.-The Post
Intelligencer today publishes the fac
simile of Spanish document which
shows that the Spanish were in actual
military possession of Vancouver island
between 1890 and January 1, 1902. 1t
is stated that the document, if it had
been in the possession of Emperor
William of Germany when he arbi.
trated the Canadian boundary between
England and the United States. would
have incontestably proven the right Of
the United States to Vancouver island.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
Low Rates for Homeseekers.

st. Paul, Feb. 20.-The Northern
Pacific and Great Nothern have decided
to sell half-fare homoseekers' tickets
February 81, March 1 and 2, on simi-
lal< rates as made by the more southerly
lines to the Pacific coast. Heretofore
the rates have applied only to nearby
states, and it is now intended that
they shall apply to the entire length
of the roads named.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
Steamers to Manila.

Tacoma. Feb. 20.-James Ward, OF
the shipping firm of Saunders & Ward,
has returned from visit to England,
and announces the establishment by
himself and others of steamer line
between this port and the Hawaiian
islands. The British steamer Manau-
ense will be the first vessel out. and
will sail next week.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
Estimates Output at s1e, 900, 900.

Vancouver. B. c., Feb. 20.-M.
Marks, an Australian expert direct
from Dawson, places the output of the
Klondike at $19. 900, 900 this year. His
estimate is as follows: Eidorado and
Bonanza creeks. $4,000, 900; Big and
Little Bonanza, Gold and French
ureeks, 5000, coo; Hunker and Quartz
creeks, $5,0O0,00
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
Expected bx Lord Rereafnrd.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 21.-Admiral
Charles Beresford was seen while pass.
ing through Detroit tonight in refer.
ence to the battle reported at Talien-
Wan between Russians and Chinese.
Lord Charles said that such a battle
was only what he had been expecting
for sometime. Its effect. he believed,
would be to shake the Chinese govern
ment more than anything that occur
red, and he asserted that trade would
also suffer as a result of it.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
aomez Goes to cardenas.

Havana, Feb. 2o.-A dispatch from
Cienfuegos says that Major General
John G. Bates. military governor OF
the department of Santa Clara, and In
spector- General Breckinridge, yester-
day paid visit to General Gomez,
who was expecting to leave today for
Cardenas.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
waterworks for Dawson.

Los Angeles, Feb. 20.-J. A. Acklen
of this city, has been granted the privi-
lege of maintaining water works at
Dawson City by the Canadian govern
ment. He will tap the Klondike river
four miles above Dawson.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
RUSSIA AND CHINA.

First Rupture Occurred at Taiisp- W an
800 Chinese Killed.
Peking, Feb. 21.-A seriors conflict
has taken place between the Russians
and Chinese at Talien-Wan, 500 of the
latter being killed.
The trouble is said to have originat-
ed in a question of taxes.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
Nearly Frozen to Death.

Seattle, WASH, Feb. 20.-A special
to the Post-Intelligencer from Forty.
Mile river. Alaska, says that William
Matheson, formerly of Los Angeles,
CAL. narrowly escaped being frozen to
death recently. It was necessary tf
amputate both his hands and feet.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
OVER ENTIRE GROUP.
The American Flag to Cover the Phil.
fppine Islands.

The American Flag to Cover the Phil
ippine Islands.
Washington. Feb. 2O.-The admins
tration has determined to extend rap
idly the jurisdiction of the United
States over the Philippine group in its
entirety, acting on the theory that de-
lay in this crisis is dangerous, and
that anarchy and general paralysis of
such interests as the islands support
would be brought about through failure
to replace promptly Spanish sover-
eighty over the islands with that OF
the Unnited States.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
Four Manila Transports.

San Francisco, Feb. 20.-A feet of
four vessels will leave San Francisco
for Manila within two weeks. No less
than $500 tons of freight of all de.
scriptions will be taken.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
CANAL PROVIDED FOR.
Senate Committee Adds 1t to the River
and Harbor Bill.


Washington, Feb. 2O.-The senate
committee on commerce decided today
to put the Morgan Nicaragua canal bill
on the river and harbor bill. The ac-
tion of the committee was preceded by
brief argument by Senator Morgan.
in which he went over the general
grounds favorable to the construction
of the canal.
Aside from the Nicaragua canal, the
committee increased cash appropria-
tions to the extent of about 81, 900, 600
over the house cash appropriations.
while the amount of continuing con-
tracts is increased to the extent of
about $40, 900, 900.
In the senate the only business oi
Importance was the consideration of
bills on the pension calendar, which
was begun under special order.
Among the bills passed was one provid-
ing procedure in certain pension cases.
1t provides that no pension shall be
withheld, modified or cancelled except
for fraud, or mistakes in facts. and
provides scheme of procedure. The
private pension calendar was complet.
ed. "a bills being passed.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
Guerrilla Tactics.

Manila. Feb. 21.-The enemy have
apparently realized the hopelessness of
attacking the American position, and
are occupied chiefly by occasional
sharpshooting from the jungle. when
ever feasible. Fortunately, their ig-
norance of the use of sights minimizes
the effect of their guerilla tactics.
The retirement o. General Kings
advance posts upon San Pedro Macati
has evidently been construed by the
rebels as sign of weakness, as they
pressed forward along both sides of. the
river. persistently harrassing the occu-
pants of the town.
Last night the rebels poured volley
after volley into San Pedro Macati
from the brush on the adjacent ridge;
but fortunately without effect. Gen.
eral Kings headquarters in the center
of the town was the target for scores of
Remington and Mauser bullets.
The rebls are using smokeless pow
der, and it is extremely difficult to 10.
cate individual marksmen.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
AFFAIRS At MANILA
Oregon Soldiers Sent to ths
Fighting Line.
REBELS NOW CONCENTRATING
Cruiser Buffalo Bombards tho Insur.
gents, Driving Them Inland-Heat
Intense and Increasing.

Manila, Feb. 21.-The California
church at O'clock this morning, which
has since been set on fire, and retired
to San Pedro Macati. The rebels still
hold the country in the vicinity of
Guadaloupe, Pasig and Patero, despite
the efforts of the gunboats to dislodge
them from the jungles on both sides of
the river.
The heat is intense. and is increasing
perceptibly daily. Under present con-
ditions, it is impossible to provide
shade for the stroops in different part
of the line, particularly McArthur's
division. Kings brigade is also ex-
posed from San Pedro Macati to Gull
Gull, where it joins Ovenshine's brig
ade.
In view of the fact that the enemy
were concentrating on the American
right preparations were made last night
to give them q warm reception in the
event of attack.
General Ovenshine's line, consisting
originally of the North Dakota volun-
teers, the Fourteenth infantry. and two
troops of the Fourth cavalry, stretching
from the beach at Camp Dewey to Gen
eral Kings right, was reinforced by two
battalions of Oregon volunteers aAd
three troops of the Fourth cavalry. as
infantry.
The Buffalo's searchlight discovering
the rebels unusually active about 10
o'clock in the evening. signaled the
flagship for permission to fire upon
them, and. this being granted, bonn
barded the enemy's trenches for 90
minutes. The only effect of the fire
was apparently to drive the rebels fur
ther inland.
Beyond few Intellectual volleys from
the trenches, which were returned
with interest. the enemy made no dem.
xnstration, and all is quiet along the
at of the line.
Scouts claim to have seen General
Pho del Pillar. who commanded the reb-
els at Paco, with his arm in sling,
directing the troops. General Monten-
egro, the insurgent commander-in-
chief, is reported to be personally con-
Quoting the movements in front of
General Kings line at San Pedro Ma.
cati.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
IN tho House.

Washington, Feb. 20.-In the house
today several railroad right-of-way bills
were passed. Among the bills was one
to authorize the construction of the
Clearwater Valley road through the
Nez Pelces reservation.
The census bill was sent to confer
ence. A bill was passed authorizing
the president to appoint five addition
al cadets-at-large to the naval academy.
The sundry civil bill was then passed.
The naval appropriation bill was for
mally reported. The house went into
committe of the whole and took up the
bill. No general debate was demanded
on the bill. and its reading for amend
ment under the five minute rule was
Immediately commenced.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24

A barge loaded with large quantity
OF cordwood, consigned to Portland
dealer was lost during the recent
freshet in the east fork Of the Lewis
river.
A carload of green onyx marble. the
first shipment OF dimension stone from
the quarries of the United States Mar.
BILE Company, near Valley, in Stevens
county, Wash. was on the track in
Spokane recently for few hours, en-
route to Chicago.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
In the House.


In the house long discussion occur
red on the bill to adopt the Torrens
system of land title. The bill, when
put upon its passage. was defeated.
Bills passed were: To authorize
construction of skids across county
roads for logging purposes; to provide
for submission to the vote of the peo-
pie the proposed constitutional amend
ments; to authorize the sale Of agri-
cultural school lands on the market for
% years at less than the price fixed by
statute; to provide for payment of
taxes in coin. instead of county war
rants; to provide for the manner of Sc
curing the release as surety upon
bonds; to reduce fees to be charged by
| county clerks in probate cases; to
make the law prohibiting the fraudu-
lent use of labels or trademarks more
effective; to fix the salaries of county
clerk, sheriff and recorder in Wash
ington county; to amend the code 80 as
to give parties the right to give notice
of appeal without assignment of error;
to authorize the printing of 800 copies
of supreme court reports at $3.50 per
copy; to prohibit the running of push
cars upon railroad tracks; to create a
state board of equalization, consisting
OF the governor, secretary Of state and
state treasurer; to authorize the work.
ing of county prisoners on county roads;
to fix the salaries Of county treasurers,
after amendment increasing the salary
of the treasurer of Lane county from
$500 to $500. and the salary of the
treasurer of Wallowa county from $3.50
to $3.50; to amend code relative to at
tachments making the filing of writ
with the county clerk answer the pur-
pose OF posting notice on property;
to amend the code relative to action for
adverse possession; to fix the compen-
sation of county commissioners after
amending the bill by increasing the
per diem in Union county from 81 to
$5; to reduce the mileage of jurors and
witnesses in cities of so, 900 population
or over, from 10 to cents; to give
preference in the employment in pub
lie service to honorably discharged SOL
diers and sailors; to appropriate
1900, in aid Of the Oregon Historical
Society. and to authorize printing at
the states expense to the same amount;
to provide for the payment of certain
fees to recorders of conveyances; to
constitute six days. publication of
notice weeks notice; amending the
law relative to the appointment of off,
cial stenographers; to abolish the Office
of recorder of Clatsop county, and re-
quiTe that the duties of that Office be
performed by the county clerk; to leg-
ulate the purchase, sale and transfer of
stocks of goods, by requiring the pur-
chaser to exact from the vendor a list
of creditors and the extent of liabil-
tiles; to prohibit the running at large
of stations.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24
LEGISLATURE ENDS.
Much Work Crowded In the Closing
Hours OF the session-The Last
Working Day.

The last working day of the Oregon
legislature was full of business, mostly
devoted to the rodtine of passing bills.
The general appropriation bill was
passed by both houses.
In the senate the bill to provide for
executions of murderers at the peni-
tentiary was indefinitely postponed.
because it carried Objectionable matter
relating to appeals.
Three bills touching military affairs
were passed, as follows: To cover into
the military fund all moneys received
from the United States on account of
transportation, etc.; to restore to the
military fund some $8, 900 expended in
suppressing fishermen g riots in 1896;
to reorganize the official staff of the
Oregon National Guard.
The following bills were passed: To
regulate license fire insurance COM
panies; to protect the fruit and hop
industry by requiring the destruction
of pests; to cure certain defects in ju-
dicial sales and deeds; to prevent the
maintenance of armed bodies of men
other than the duly constituted author
tiles; to amend the charter of Newbe
to provide for criminal prosecutions OH
information; to protect trout and GER
tain other food fishes; to relieve the
state of the necessity of advancing the
costs of giving bond in a proceeding
to which the state is party; to
amend the law relating to irrigation
rights and bitches; to amend the law
relative to liens against mines for la
Dor or supplies; to amend the cha, ter
of Arlington; to fix the annual salary
of the supreme court clerk at $3, 900,
with one deputy in Salem at $75 per
month and one at Pendleton at $50,
and providing that the fees be paid
into the state treasury; to fix the sal
aries of Columbia county officers; to
regulate the manner of sturgeon fishing
and making close season on the Co.
lumbia river from March to Novem-
Der /; to provide for inspecting sheep
brought in bands into Oregon from an
other state Game as the Washington
law; to amend the law relative to the
duties of public road viewers; to fix
the annual salary of the Linn county
assessor at 81, 400, including the pay
of deputies; to regulate the practice of
the vocation of BARRIERS; to provide for
the appropriation of water to be used
for mining purposes.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-24

A deposit of earth strontian has
been found on Put-inBay island in
Lake Erie. 1t is many acres in extent.
The nitrate of strontia is of pure white
color.
The Hamburg American line steamer
Adria arrived at New York Sunday
from hamburg after most tempestous
passage. During the night of January
80. Captain Levetzow, while trying to
60 from the bridge to the cabin, was
thrown down into the cabin passageway
and killed.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-22
The AIcott.' Concord Home.

"The Alcotts had bought a small piece of land and a farmhouse. once good, but fallen into decay, on the Great road to Boston, a mile east of Concord, !" writes Edward w. Emerson in The Ladies Home Journal "They made some repairs and small addition, greatly improving its appearance, and moved into it the following summer. The situation was extremely pictur- esque. It was backed by range of hills clothed in the rich green of pines re- heyed by tracery of gray birch A superb elm served as a great parasol in summer, and besides were apple trees, pink and white in May and red and yellow in September, which commended the place 10 the fruit loving father, who called it Orchard House. In front, be- twesn the house and the wooded hills about Walden, stretched 8 broad mead ow, said to have been an ancient bed of Concord river. A charming wood path led up little pass among the hills be- hind the house. sweet with the hot breath of pine MT. Alcott's hands, un- aided but by taste and skill, greatly beautiied the place by a little terracing of the sunny slope here and there, the planting of woodbine on the porch, and the building, out of sticks cut on the place, of a rustic fence and gates and a seat around the spurs of the elm by the door. l"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-22
PROPOSALS WANTED

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, at his office in the city of Prescott, territory of Arizona. will receive proposals for the purchase of seventy-fivs , per cent. water and sewerage. gold coupon bonds, until l2 o'clock m-, on the l4th day of March, A. D. 1899, each of said bonds being of the denomination of one thousand dollars. interest payable semi-annually in New York City. place to be designated by purchaser, said bonds to run for a period of fifty years.
 The City of Prescott reserves the right to begin liquidating these bonds after ten years and as funds may accumulate in its treasury ap- plicable to that purpose beginning with No. l.
 A certified check payable to the order of the City of Prescott for , per cent of the amount of the bid must accompany the bid, which IS to be forfeited in case the successful bid der shall for any reason fail to ac- cept or pay for said bonds.
 No bid will be considered Tor less than the par value of sand bonds.
 The successful bidder 10 designate the style of the bond and the City fl Prescott to pay for engraving same. The successful bidder to have the option on remainder oi authorized issue on same terms as those sold, provided the city shall deem it necessary to issue same.
 The right to reject any or all bids Is hereby reserved.
 JOHN P. BAUDER,
 2l4td City Clerk.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-22
ALIterary Coincidence.

Plagiarism is a literary crime the charge of which should not be made too freely, especially where a very eminent person is concerned. Retentive memo ries seem to be responsible for much that in an outburst of indignant emo ton we would lay to plagiarism This, however, can hardly explain the follow ing. which can merely be called a re- markable coincidence We have never heard that the genial autocrat. Oliver Wendell Holmes. was ever accused of stealing from Whittier, nor do we ever remember that any one has said that the Quaker poet borrowed from the phy- sician. Nor do the circumstances of the present case raise either issue.
 We picked up the other day at a sec ond hand bookstore a copy of The At. lantic Monthly of January. 1870 In il we found that the two eminent poetE above mentioned while writing on total ly different themes gave two lines that are strikingly alike. Mir Whittier's is Never by lover my lips be kissed, % and Dr. Holmes wrote, "Lips that lover has never kissed. |" It is rather an ex- traordinary coincidence, as we have said. How curiously and scientifically and mystically the doctor must have explain cd it all if his attention were ever call ed to 1t l-New York Times
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-22
ARIZ0NAJ0URNAL-MINEk
WEDNESDAY......FEB 2, 1899
Bills to be Resurrected.

The Phenix Republican gives the following version of the manner in which the bullion tax and other bills introduced by Sanders, pertaining to mining, were put 10 rest last week:
 sWhile these bills were still in committee a wealthy mine owner from the north came to Pheni1 to get a breath of warm air. Oa last "Wednesday morning, while the mine owner was still in the capital, mo- tions were made and carried which brought these three bills before the house. whereupon, by a vote of l3 ayes, or majority of the body, the further consideration of the meas ures were indefinitely postponed. That is to say they were killed a-bOrnin'. The cabal, or combina- ton of members who performed ths job, were in no sense graceful or ar tistic in the work. They advanced no reason, real or imaginary, why the bills should not take tLeir course and offered no explanations. The act evidently had been rehearsed. for the performance ID the house was given without a word from the prompter
 "Mr. Sanders was angry at the sight O his legislative offspring be- ing dragged out of their Legislative nests and murdered and he threat ened a hereafter. Mir. Parr said be had not lost faith in the virtue of a bullion tax law, and called attention 10 the fact that the session of the legislature was still young. Mir Sanders bid the northern mine owner good bye when he took the train for home, and advised him to buy a round trip ticket, as his pres enee would soon be required iD Phenix."
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-22
III. FIRhtInK Name.

An army officer here in town tells a story which throws e side light on the ways of recruiting officers In his oOm- mand during the Cuban campaign was a private who came every day Co ask for letters Joseph Murphy was his name on the roll. but the tang of bis tongue did not suggest even remotely the Emerald Isle Day after day and no letter came Murphy's face grew lon ger and his query more pathetic every time he appeared.
 "No letter. said the officer one morning. "No letter for you. There 6 only one addressed to-let me see-to Giovanni Paladini Castellazzia-or something like that; none for you.
 Murphy's face beamed with delight "That-a one for me-. |" be said My name hka that l go to the recruiting office. l am wanting to go fight Officer say, What your nameE l say, 'Giovan- nj Paladini Castellazzia, and he say: 'Oh, helladam, that DO name for you You not fight with name You fight with gun. All that name trip you up. You be Joseph Murphy 1 be Joseph Murphy now, and that is my letter. " Washington Post.