Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-28
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OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review of the important Hap
peninss of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.

Condensed Form.
All the ministers at Pekin havs
signed the joint note.
England is alarmed over the Boer
invasion of Cape Colony.
The senate committee made many
changes in the army bill.
The Morans, of Seattle, will not get
the contract for new warship.
Speaker Henderson is opposed to en-
largement of the Portland postofice.
The river and harbor bill will not be
made public until after the holidays.
Martin Stickel, the self-confessed
Castle Rock assassin, will be hanged.
A company has been organized in
Iowa to build fish cannery in Alaska.
Anna E. Smith, was appointed post
minstress at Camas valley. Or, vice
II. Allison, resigned.
Thomas Parker, a native of England,
was frozen to death near the mOlth of
White river. Klondike.
Samples of two dangerous counter felt
silver coins have been obtained flom
Portland and Sopkane.
A collision occurred on the Sumpter-
Baker City road in which two locomo-
tiyes were slightly damaged.
Memorial services were held at the
Oregon university in honor of Henry
Willard, one Of the colleges greatest
benefactors.
It is announced that the total tax
able property in the city of Salem,
Or. will be approximately $3.50, 900
less than last year.
A pitched battle is imminent be-
tween the British under General Cle-
ments, who has been reinforced, and
the Beers under General Delarey.
The clearing house banks at Tacoma,
have decided that after January J.,
they will accept Canadian silver at par.
Heretofore it has been taken at per
cent discount.
ALI attempts to float the British
steamer Laura. Captain Yule. from Sa-
vannah via Norfolk for Bremen, ashore
un the coast of Holland, near Petton,
have been unsuccessful.
The steamer Sarah Dixon coIlided
with the breakwater near Mount Coffin,
on the Lower Columbia, and now rests
in Is feet of water. This is,the steam.
er's second experience under water
In Panay, $1,000 persons have sworn
allegiance.
Morocco pays the American indem
nifty claim.
Ashland, Or, voted against icens-
ing saloons.
The Beers raided Cape Colony at two
separate points.
The misunderstanding at Pekin was
due to cable error.
Only 35 lives were lost in the found
ering of the Gneisenau.
The French chamber of deputies
adopted the amensty bill.
The return of volunteers will cause
renewed insurgent activity.
Colorado capitalists have bonded the
Olu oOu lA4AC, Al 1InotOAh o4OSoAs
Reapportionment bill reported gives
Washington no extra congressman.
Railway brotherhoods will ask the
Santa Fe to re-employ its operators.
The naval construction board recon-
mends four awards for warship CON
struction.
superintendent Calbreth, of Oregon
insane asylum, has submitted his an
nual report.
Farmers institute was held at Stat
ford under auspices of the Oregon a9ri
cultural college.
Washington county, Oregon, hal
offered $500 reward for the arrest o
the murderer of Andrew Dahlberg.
The schooner Pioneer, lumber -lader
for San Francisco, went ashore on th'
Nestucca beach during the recen
storm.
Associate Supreme Court Justic,
Jersey, died at his residence in New
Brunswick, N. j.
Two transports will start in a few
days from Manila for San Francisc,
with 1000 sick and wounded soldiers
The stranded bark Poltalloch, OF
Willipa harbor, wlthstood the recen
gale good. In fact she is in better po
r sition than before.
Fire in East Providence, r. L., de
stroyed wharf on which there wa
1000 tons of coal. The loss is esti
mated at 5000, 900.
Two highwaymen who stopped
buggy near Portland, upon discover
ing that 1t contained two ladies, apollo
gized and allowed them to drive on.
Twenty five terra Gotta statues Il
the Boston museum of fine arts prov
to be bogus.
To the naked eye not more thai
5000 stars are ordinarily Visible. !
owerful telescope will reveal 5000. OF
stars at once.
In China anyone who writes an i'm
moral book is punished with 100 blow
of the heavy bamboo and banishmen
- for life. Anyone who reads it is ais
punished.