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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
An Appeal to the Gear.

Berlin, Oct. 17.-The Chinese minis.
ter to Russia. Yang Yu, who visited
Emperor Nicholas at Lividia yester-
day strongly appealed Tor the interces-
sion of the emperor in his favor and
presented to him letter from Emperor
Kwang Hsu, together with documen-
tary evidence going to show that the
Chinese ruler and court are less to
blame for the anti-foreign outbreak
than the Russian emperor had been led
to believe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
Fir. I'm an Indiana Town.

Sullivan, Ind, Oct. 17.-Fire to-
night destroyed the large building in
the public square occupied by Barton
Bros department store. Loss, $780,.
600.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
WAR IN SOUTH CHINA.
Reformers Continue Their
Victorious Progress.
DEFEAT TROOPS ON EAST RIVER
SUN Yat's Army Is Now Investing the
Prefectoral City of Hui Chou
Activity in Canton.

Hong Kong, Oct. 17.-Sun Vat Sem.
according to reports from Canton. has
taken the town of Kiu Shan, on East
River, and is now investing the prefec..
toral city of Hui Chou. A force of inn
perial troops from Canton was defeated
by the reformers, 200 being killed.
The advices say also that there is
great activity in Canton in preparation
for dispatching troops to the disturbed
districts.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
Progress. of campbelrs Column.

Tien Tsin, Oct. 1.-THE British col.
umn under Lord Campbell, which
forms part OF the expedition against
Pao Ting Flu. and is making detour
to the south of the Pao Ting river,
reached Tu Liu, on the grand canal.
yesterday.
Sir Ernest M. Satow, who succeeds
Sir Claude Mcdonald as British minis.
ter to China, has started for Pekin.
NJ. de Giers, the Russian minister, is
likely to return soon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
CANTON IS ALARMED
Spreading of the Revolt in
Southern China.
FEAR OUTBREAK IN THE CITY
Six Districts In the Wei Hal Wei Pre-
lecture Are Now In the Hands
of the Rebels.

Hong Kong. Oct. 15.-The reformer
Sun Vat Sen, according to dispatches
from Canton, has unfurled the reform
flag in the Important town of Wei
Chou, on East river. This act has
given rise to considerable ex citem emit
in military circles in Canton, as it is
believed the object in raising the flag
in Wei Chou is to denude Canton of
troops, SO that they can seize the city.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19

London, Oct. 15.-The Times has
the following from Hong Kong:
"The situation in the Wei Hal pre-
lecture is serious. In six districts the
cities are in the hands of the rebels.
Ii an outbreak should occur in Canton,
it's suppression would be difficult.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19

Berlin, Oct. ia dispatch received
here today from Shanghai says very
serious view is taken at Field Marshal
Count Won Waldersee's headquarters
in Tien Tsin, of the revolutionary
movement. At Canton a false alarm
October caused the Chinese officials
to protest aaginst any occupation of
Chinsese territory. The Yangtse vice.
roys, the dispatch adds. openly affirm
that they will oppose any advance of
the Germans into Shan Tung province.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19

Road improvements has begun in the
Philippines. with money collected
from customs at Manila.
Lorin Pease, of Hadley, Mass, died
at the age of 100 His father lived to
be 90, and his six brothers and sisters
all passed 20.
James Ellis Tucker has sailed for
Honolulu to revive the customs law
and service of the Hawaiian islands so
as to bring them up to the standard OF
those at home
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19

White blackberries and green roses
have been propagated in louisiana this
year.
Seventy-two new coal mines have
been opened in Prussia this year, in.
creasing the output for 1900 by 2.500,-
600 tons.
What promises to be the best apple
crop in the history of Canada-not
merely the quantity, but quality-is
now fast approaching the harvest sea.
son.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Trials of the War
Correspondents.
Julian Ralph speaks interest:
ingly Of his experiences.

Julian Ralph, the war correspOn-
dent OF the London "Daily Maily
in South Africa, is on his way home
after seven months experience
which has almost completely wreck.
ed his constitution. Before start.
ing to return he said: tsBattered
externally, disordered inside, unable
to digest food for soeeks, nursing
ailments and bruises half dozen at
once, I look upon this war as having
ill repaid me for the kindly and jub-
liant tone in which I have dealt with
it." This war has killed or disabled
moro newspaper correspondents than
any other. At the rate at which
they were being used up by our Spa
nish war, the recordImight have been
broken if the conflict had continued
longer. They went to South Africa
by dozens urged on by the competi-
ton of newspaper enterprise, and
they had to traverse great distances
under most trying climatic condi-
tons. what made their lot more
trying was the rule of the censor
though since Lord Roberts took chief
command the rules aoere relaxed a;
little in their favor. Still, making
the necessary allowance for that, it
is safe TO say the war has done much
to change the character Of the cor
respondents work and to take away
much of the enthusiasm for it. He
is an encumbrance to strategy when
large operations depend upon the te-
legraph, and belated dispatches
which we're written under stress and
excitement are enough to dull the
interest of the public. They are not
news, as they were in Forbes's time.
The censor has made them back
numbers
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Large Customs Col
leCtiOnS at
Havana.
Other Interesting Port
Statistics.

The division of customs aud insu
lar affails of the War Departmnt
has made public thestatment that
the totsl collections at the port Of
Havana for the twenty-three working
days of April were 5000, O,357.41.
The amount vas divided as follows:
import duties, $S13, 4OS 64; export
duties, <s41, 1882; tonnage dues,
$23, ,999 IL; special harhor improves
meut taxes, $14,S05.S6; cattle ms
pection fees, sl,9l9.9O; storage and
carriage charges, $l,46O.1S; capita
ton taxes, 81, !95; fines, confsca-
tions, ETC., $29..7O; overtime work
of customs employees, SS49; consul
lar fees, SOL, and miscellaneous,
S5975O.
The total amount of duties liqui-
dated at Havana during the month
scas 1902, ,25l.S4. The total amount
Of duties collected on pOstoffice de-
clarations was $lO5.4O. The sum j
of $1,942.71 was refunded. &
During April 2,7l7 passengers
from points outside of the island we're
landed at Havana. OF that number
7I5 came from the United States,
/, ,495 from Spain, and 5O7 from
other countries. During the same
period here departed from Havana
for ports ouside Of Cuba 2,79O pas
sengers, Of whom 725 sailed for the
United States, 1,7ll for Spain, and
354 for other countries.
During the month there were inn
ported into Havana 1A216 domestic
animals, including q, ,S9S steers, 2S5
horses, 445 mules, !, 1903 swine, 96z
COWS, $50 calves, and 5 bnllss
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
South African Rec
obstruction.
Discussed In The British
Reviews.

just noe the British reviews have
little space for anything except the
army and South African Recons :
truction, and the latter theme is
bringing out some weighty expon-
ents. Discussion seems divided bet.
ween the legal and constitutional
writer's and the diplomatists who
have practical experience to enfor
ce their opinions. One of the ablest
Of the latter, Diplomaticus, a writer
who is supposed to have exceptional
sources of information and to repre-
sent the best element of the service
in which he has been enaged, dem.
ands as an essential condition Of re-
construction that Cecil Rhodes and
the financial clique be ignored alto
gether. Nor does he agree with
Prof. Dicey that federation in South
Africa should wait upon the stimuli
us of local feeling, for her intimates
that there will not be enough OF it,
and that matters will have to be for
ced by Great Britain if a political
fabric is to be erected for British and
Dutch in South Africa. Whether
he is right in that respect or not, his
advice to eliminate the Rhodes lac
tor in the settlement is entirely
sound. The Dutch hate Rhodes and
his friends most heartily, and as
long as their feelings are Of prime
Importance in bringing about conci-
liation, it would seem that so posc
erfuI an ercitant Of their antagOnism
as the name Of Rhodes VIII be must
be carefully avoided. This perhaps,
is his punishment. He 50 vitiated
the politics Of South Africa by stock
jobbing greed that confidence in him
and political cooperation with him
ara impossible.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Republican National
Committee already
hard at work.
Campaign OF Education
h1augurated.

Advices from Washington state
that:
The rooms of the national Repu-,
blican committee are assuming a
lively aspect. Secretary Charles
Dick has force OF clerks and mes
sengers actively engaged. 9
An active Champaign of educa
tion" has been started, under the
direction of corps of skilled news.
paper men, with the personal super
visien of Chairman Hanna and Mr..
Dick. At the present time the COM
mittee is serving fifty daiyly news
papers aeith interviews and statistics.
OF the smaller papers in the country
5 500 are being served with special
matter each week to the extent OF
from $500 to 6 900 sOords, and 5000
other papers are reached through
sspatent inside" concerns.
1t is the present plan of the com
mittee to devote most of its energies
in the line of argument and active
work to the west. That is indicated
by the proposed removal of head.
quarters to Chicago as well as by
the frank statement of those IN char
ge of the committee work. Most of
the campaign literature which is
being sent out to the press is turnis,
he'd by western senators and repres.
entatives.
Within the next week the COM
mittee will make special investig-
alton of the conditions in the Miss.
euri zinc country. As far as the
results bear oD Republican legislat.
ion and management the facts obt-
aimed will be made public.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
American Press
IN Various interes=
ting topics.
The Beers The Philippines,
Cuba, etc.

!. The Halifax n. 81 Morning
Chronicle, referring to the modicum
of popular sympathy the Boer en-
voys will meet with in America,
Observes
sIt will not stop Roberts advance
nor weaken in the least England's
determination to assume sovereignty
over the Boer republics"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
Boer Army Has Split Up.
Guerrilla Bands with Foreign officers in
command
Beers have resources to Sustain many years fighting.
New York June 18th, 1900.

N6W IOrK June IILn IJUU.
Dispatches from Berlin that the whole Boer army
has been broken up into guerrilla bands each commanded
by an officer of the Foreign Legion.
These dispatches add that for tas reason the will
be widely spread andhat the Beers have great
ces for fighting many years
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
National Common Sense.

The Minneapolis Times says:--
nAre we ready to take up arms
for the Boerf OF course not, and
national feeling must be held in
allowance to national sense. Mean
.ohile, it is deeply 10 be regretted
that the Boer ENJOYS have been
pIaced in a false position by self
saa1;no political mounte-banks.y
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Cuba.


The Press says
1.-THE dispatches from Cuba telling
OF unrest because Of fear that the
United States will annex the island
ere not surprising in view Of what
some Of our statesmen are saying
he homs.1
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Kreutz zeitung Advises Triple Al
lance To Look To Their
Interests.
In danger in China Seas.
Russian Navy Department working night and day
People believe war imminent.
New York, June 18th, 1900.

The German newspaper the Kreutz Zsiting advises
the Triple Alliance take energetic to defend
their interests menaced than in the China
seas.
The correspondent Of the Times in ST. Petersburg tee-
graphs that they working without intermssion in the
Navy Department in that city, and that the Russian people
fully believe there will be immediate breaking out Of
hostilties with Japan
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Wall Street Speculation.

The Philadelphia Times, referring
to the failure of Price. Mccormick
& Co., Observes:
"The speculators understand the
risks quite as we'll as the lockers on.
But the particular form Of specul
alton represented in this latest New
York failure is SO generally disas
trous that each fresh instance oc-
casions surprise--not that it failed,
but that different result was ex-
pected.n
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
A BOer Ambush.
Troops under Colonel MahOn surprised.
Thirty killed and large number wounded.
New York, June thll | 1900

kilograms from Pretoria state that Boer Guerrilla
force caught in an ambush troops Of the British Army
commanded by Colonel Mabon killing 80 and wounding
many more
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
More Disturbances In Spain.
Riots in San Fernando,
FerrOl and Carthagena.
Stirred up by Navy Department reforms.
New York, June 18th, 1900

Desptches from Madrid published by the press OF this
city state that several munes have occurred in San Fer
nando, account of the reforms instituted by the Navy
Department
These dispatches add that in Fero and Carthagena, it
feared that other disturbances of public order have
red although of serious character also because of the
reforms mentioned.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Philippine Police.

The Public Ledger OF Philadelphia
says
"George s. Boutwell, and Carl
Schurz we're the principal speakers
at an anti-imperial meeting in New
York on Thursday evening. Both
made the administration the object
of attack, and urged that it be dis
credited now and that the republican
party be defeated at the polls next
fall. Their efforts, following SO clo-
sely upon those Of Messrs. Allen,
Tillman and Pettigrew in the Senate,
will help to make the Philippine
policy one of the great issues in this
years political contest
Cs,ha.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Russia Massing War Vessels.
In China.
Three cruisers at Taku.
Excitement IN Europe over Russas warHke attitude.
New York, June l1th, 1900.

New York. June l1th, 1900.
Dispatches from London announce the arrival at the
Port of Tau of three Russian cruisers which had been sta
toned in Corean waters.
There extraordinary excitement IN European circles
especially in London and Berlin account of the colossal
elements of which the Russian Empire has assembled in
the Gulf of Pechil
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11
Twelve Russian Men-OfWar Il
The Yellow Sea.
Three times more than Great Britain.
With Port Arthur garrison, number 10000.


These dispatches add that the number of Muscovite
warshps in the Yellow Sea is already than twelve
three times the number of those Of Great Britain stationed
in those waters.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-11

With the contngens Of these vessels and the strong
garrison Of Port Arthur Russia place footing
the enormous number of 30 900 men, sufficient TO fight with
advantage Of rupture until the arrival of troops
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-25
As to Foreign Policy.

"Without considering constitutional
questions. or even the principles of
liberty involved in this question, there
is evidently enough of treachery in
our foreign policy TO warrant the
people of the United States in turning
out of power the present administra-
ton, and installing one which will
think of our peoples interests first
and England's interests afterward.
Through what pusillanimous reason
ing. let me ask is England permitted,
and even encouraged, by this govern
ment, to eXterminate the two repub-
lies of South Africa, appropriate their
mines ana territory, and extend the
British dominion over the con
quered peoples. while we. the greatest
people on the face of the earth. and
boosting Il Monroe doctrine for the
protection of American soil, must
bend the knee to England when we
wish to cut Il channel across our CON
tinent, and at her dictation pledge
ourselves not to fortify or defend the
channel we construct?
God give us men TO deal with
Great Britain in these present emer-
gencies; God give them to us before
we have so far abandoned the prin-
ciples of liberty and the rights of our
people that we must be Inundated be-
fore the world
81 would that | might discuss to-
night the important issue of curbing
industrial monopoly, but time is not
permitted Let me, however, reafiirm
the statement | have SO often made,
that he who ignores the money trust
and protests against the industrial
trust does not see the giant over the
head of the dwarf The time will
come when every lahoring man will
learn that it is a single policy which
makes the Secretary of the Treasury
subservient to the Standard Oil Bank
of New York City and which makes
the War Department at the same mo-
ment SubServient to the Standard Oil
owners of the Occur d'Alene district.
"These policies of these men, my
fellow citizens, are knit together with
common views and common aim.
They represent not only Imperialism
abroad, but imperialism at home; not
only despotism in industry, but des-
potism in government; not only the
shedding of the blood of brown men,
but the shedding of white mems
blood; not only trade abroad in ave
nues cut by the sword, but govern
ment by the sword at home. Let us
not appeal to Republicans or Demo
Gratis in this emergency, but to n
higher citizenship, to a more exalted
patriotism, and with prayers to God
not only to forgive the wrong which
has been done but to guide us back
to the right principles which inspired
our fathers and gave this republic
life" - George Fred Williams at
Rhode Island Democratic Conven-
ton.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-25
An Intrusion of Military Anarchy.

Professor Joseph II. Croker, OF
Ann Arbor, in an analytical review OF
the Philippine problem, in the Spring
field Republican, takes the ground
that we have substituted an intruded
anarchy in place of a native govern
ment. He says:
"The following Is one phase of the
popular argument in justification of
our oriental aggressions: The obliga-
lions of humanity demanded that we
take possession of the Philippine
islands in order to prevent the
anarchy which would certainly have
followed had we taken any other
course than that which we did
But would a little native-grown
anarchy have been as bad as the
slaughter and destruction which we
have inruded? Let us remember
that we ourselves have already
killed and wounded thousands of
the inhabitants. We have arrayed
tribe against tribe; we have desc
lated homes and burned villages;
agriculture and commerce have been
prostrated; and finally, we have Gre
ated hatred of ourselves in the
breasts of millions of people to re-
main for years to plague us and them.
1t is not likely that if left to them
selves anything half so serious would
have occurred. 1t is perfectly clear
that some other attitude toward
those islands besides that Of domina
ton, which this nation most unfor-
tunately took, would have prevented
these results.
"And we are not yet at the end.
Recurring outbreaks against us as
intruders, by people DESTROYS of indie
pendence, will undoubtedly produce
more distress and disorder in the next
ten years df our present policy is
maintained than would have re-
suited from native incapacity. More
over, there are no facts in evidence
that warrant the assertion that
anarchy would have followed had
we left them more to themselves. This
is wholly an unfounded assumption.
1t would certainly have been well to
have waited and given them
chance before interfering. That we
did not wait, that we did not give
them a chance, is proof positive that
our national policy was not shaped by
consideration of humanity or
reasonable desire to benefit them, but
by q shirt of selfish ACKNOWLEDGEMENT"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-25
A Gift to Banks.

The first effect of the new gold stan
dard law is free gift of $24,000,000
to the national banks. They already
had, without interest. the use of $780,
100000 of government money; the pas
sage of the act gives them the use
without deposit of a dollars worth OF
security or any equivalent whatever,
of $24,000,000 additional. Ultimately
the safety of the bonds deposited by
the banks TO secure circulation and
the surplus public revenue deposited
with them by the government, rests
upon the wealth Of the coutry-upon
the farms, the town lots and build
ings. the mills, the manufactures. the
mines, the quarrief, the timber lands
and the merchants stocks. Yet while
the government lotns to the banks
without interest Gu the security of
bonds. it refuses to loan with interest
on the security of the wealth that Sc
cures the bonds. l. is not in the bank
ing business whea ii loans to the
banks. 1t would be in the banking
business if il loan 4 to others.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-25
Hanna's Bargain With Wall Street.

"In my opinion one of the worst
features of this act is the part which
cOnsummates the bargain made by
Mark Hanna with the national bank
ers of Wall street during the cam.
paign of 1896. They aided the Repub-
leans then, and now they receive
their share of the spoils. For three
years the Republicans have waited
and hesitated to pass this abomina
ton, fearing the wrath of an out
ragged and indignant people. But
another national campaign is near at
hand. They need help again, and in
order to get it have Internationally
turned the finances of great gov
eminent over to the national banks
"The powers this act gives the ma
tional banks are far-reaching and
most dangerous. 1t turns over to
them the finances of the people-the
lifeblood of trade and commerce-and
gives them the right to contract or eX-
pand the currency at will. This right
should never be surrendered by the
government L say, and time VIII
demonstrate it, that if you give the
control of the money supply to the
national banks they will soon absorb
the wealth of the people and own the
government. 1t is an enormous
power; power that can create panic
or prosperity, happiness or misery, tt
thousands and millions of people. ]
say it is too great power to be
given to any corporation, and if once
given and set in motion for selfish
ends and for sorGid purposes will be
a fruitful source of woe and misery
to hundreds and to thousands of our
fellow itizens-From Speech of Con-
gresham William Sulzer, at Detroit,
Mich, May 2.