Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-02-01
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Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
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20 end the Creek uprising.
A Forest Grove. Or, Touring mill
will be moved to Portland.
Enovys at Pekin reached an agreement
on the question of punishment.
- Volunteers who enlisted in the
Northwest may be mustered out at
Vancouver.
A bad train wreck on the Baltimore
& Ohio was caused by the engineer 60
ing to sleep.
The Cable Cove mining district IN
Eastern Oregon has taken on a new
lease of life.
Judge Caples has resigned his posi-
tion as consul at Valparaiso, and will
return home.
The crown prince of Germany was
decorated with the Order of the Garter
at Osborne house.
The Oregon supreme court has de-
ecided that the Multnomah county BIZ
cycle tax is illegal.
An intoxicated man. at Colfax,
WASH, attacked another with an ak
and seriously wounded him.
Premier Robin stated that the Man
itoba government was making attempts
to purchase the Northern Pacific Rail-
way in Manitoba but SO far, he said,
nothing definite has been done.
George W. Kingsbury and Anthony
SroQ q .T1fl Ill llol
Mont, in the l.. E. R. mine by fall
ing from the cage while being hoisted
toward the surface. 1t is supposed
they were overcome with gas.
Charles Fl. Ferguson, a we'll known
insurance man of Louisville, KY, and
president of the National Association
of Underwriters. is dead. Mr.. Fergu-
son had been in failing health for
year. He was born in Oswego, N.
Y. August 13, 1916.
Orders have been given to put the
cruiser New York in commission at the
New York fnavy yard. This vessel is
undergoing extensive repairs prepare.
tory to her departure for the Asiatic
station, which will be her cruising
ground for the next two years. She
has been selected as the flag ship OF
Rear Admiral Rodgers. who is to have
command of one of the two divisions
of the Asiatic feet.
At lilo lilo $4,000 Filipinos have
sworn allegiance.
The murderer of Sheriff Summers, in
Montana, was run down.
Recruits for Transvaal mounted police
are being enlisted at Victoria.
Filipinos in arms after March next
will be ineligible to hold office.
Baldwin has completed arrange.
ments for his Acrtic expedition.
In battle with Kentucky moon.
sinners two officers were killed.
Germans believe Roberts frank
avowals hastened the queens death.
Sixty skaters broke through ice nea,
Brooklyn, and two boys were drowned,
There is much speculation in Wash.
ington as to the probabilityof an extra
session of congress.
Fire in Washington hotel entailed
loss of $500 All the guests es.
capped uninjured.
A sympathetic strike, which mean,
a complete tie-up has been voted by
Northern Colorado miners.
The revenue cutter Grant has started
on one of the most perilous voyage.
ever undertaken. Shipping men and
underwriters of the entire Pacific coast
will anxiouslv await her return, fol
she goes in search of missing vessels
and distressed mariners. Twenty-Five
vessels bound for Puget sound and the
coast are missing, supposedly driver
north. Vessels from Alaska report the
entire west coast of Vancouver island,
250 miles of rocks and reefs, strewu
with wreckage. The Grant will ex.
anime every square inch of Vancouver
coast as far north as Cape Scott in
small boats and launches, and will
search every piece of wreckage for iden.
titication.
Emperor William of Germany, ha,
been appointed a field mar shall III the
British army as birthday token.
Owing to the famine, thousands
have died and there has been greaG dis.
tress in the province of Shan 81, China.
The leader of the Creek Indian up
rising has been captured and it 10
thought this means the end of the in.
surrection.
A bill providing for a bounty of /
cent per pound on sugar made from
Idaho beets has been introduced in the
house of the Idaho legislature.
Compulsory education in New Zea.
land is considered success.
The Georgia state university at Ath-
ems celebrated its centennial.
Yale's football association last year
paid out $1.294.9 95 for medical attend.
ance and $749.30 for ''shoes and re-
pairs"
The British ambassador in a com.
munication to the secretary OF state
praised Americans at the siege Of Pc.
kin.