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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
RIVERS AND HARBORs.
Oregon and Washington Both Fare Well in
the Bill as Reported.

WS oiu dS NSPOFte0.
Washington, March 4.-Oregon and
Washington both fare we'll in the riv-
ers and harbors bill as reported to the
house. The mouth of the Columbia Sc
cures 500, 900 more cash than last
year, and The Dalles and Seattle canals
are both granted greater recognition
than in the last bill. The following
are the appropriations for Oregon and
Washington:
Mouth of Columbia, cash for contin-
uing improvement, $3.50, 900; for au-
thorized contracts, 81 600, 900; Lower
Willamette and Columbia below Port
land, for continuance, $50 900; for the
construction of dredge, $175 900;
gauging Columbia river, 81 900; Till
nook bay and bar, maintenance and
completing improvements, $27 900;
Coos bay, maintenance and continuing
improvements, $40, 900; Couquille, con-
tinuing improvements from Couquille
City to the mouth. $50, 900; Coos river,
maintenance, $4,000; Siuslaw, contin-
uing improvements, with re-examina-
tion of existing project, $26, 900; CO.
lumbia river at the Cascades, complet-
ing locks, $4,000; Upper Columbia
and Snake rivers, $25 ,25O.
To this latter item is added $12,75O
transferred from unexpended funds for
the improvement of the Clearwater,
making total of $37,754.s2. OF this
10000 is to be expended for the i'm
provement of the Snake river above
Lewiston.
The Willamette river above Portland
and Yamhill river get $4,000, of
which $37 500 is to be used in the con-
struction of revetments opposite Cor.
Wallis and below Independence.
The appropriations for the Columbia
are to be for the continuing improve
ments according to the present approved
plan, with such notifications as may
be approved by the secretary of war,
tue eSGlutdeu COSG OI SAID Improve
ments not to be increased.
Puget Sound and tributaries, SIS, 900;
Swinomish slough, $4,000; Cowlitz
and Lewis rivers, $500; Okanogan
and Pend d'Orielle, $40, 900; examina-
tions and surveys, inspection bridges,
etc., in Washington, $250.OO0; emer-
gency fund, 5000, 600; Olympia harbor,
$25, 900; Tacoma harbor,, $4,000;
Whatcom harbor, $25, 900; Grays har-
Dor and Chenalis river, $4,000.
The committee allows $160, 900 for
the Seattle, Shilshole and Salmon bays,
along the route of the proposed Lake
Washington waterway, and authorizes
survey to finally determine which route
shall be adopted for the canal, and an
estimate of the cost of such canal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
HELD BY THE MOB.
VA, IN THE HANDS OF
STRIKE SYMPATHIzERS.
Street Cars Guarded by Soldiers-Numerou
Clashes Between the Military and the
People Additional Troops Called Out to
Suppress the Disorder - Non.Union Men
Arrested for Carrying Weapons.

Norfolk, Va, March Ga mob OF
500 strike sympathizers today held the
streets of Norfolk on which the main
line of the Norfolk Railway & Light
Company's cars are run, and the police
we're unable to cope with it from noon
until after dark, when the cars, which
were guarded by detachments of mill
tary and had run with difficulty all
day, were housed in the barns. Cars
were repeatedly derailed, wagon loads
of stones were piled on the tracks and
free fights between the military guards
and the crowd occurred at frequent in
tervals.
In one difficulty a sergeant ran a
bayonet into the arm of III. H. Har-
mansef, barber. Mrs. Harmansef,
who was standing by her husband at
the time, knocked the sergeant to the
ground with both fists and discolored
the face of lieutenant who was near
her. Several soldiers were struck by
missels thrown through the windows of
cars. A number of arrests have been
made both by the police and military.
Eight companies of militia are on
guard. The police force of 100 men
has been on duty for 4S hours, and is
unable to meet the emergency.
Martial law will be declared in Nor
folk in the morning. Four more infan-
try companies from Emporia, Suffolk,
Smithfeld and Franklin, making the
entire Seventy-frst regiment, has been
ordered out.
The strikers tonight cut a mile of
trolley wire in the city. The troops
are now guarding the power plant. A
detachment of Newport News COM
pany is on duty.
At a meeting tonight the Central La
Dor Union boycotted the street cars.
Common Councilman S. III. Kelly, also
a leader of the strikers, offered res
olution at tonight's council meeting to
revoke the street railway franchise for
lapse of two days in running cars. The
resolution was referred to a special
committee.
Tonight six nonunion men from
Knoxville were held up. The strikers
overpowered them. They bore arms
and were arrested for carrying con-
cealed weapons.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
EXTENSIVE BoER VICTORY.
British Lost 632 Men dIled. Wounded and
Prisoners-Also Lost Two Guns.

British Lost 632 Men KIled. Wounded and
Prisoners-Also Lost Two Guns.
London, March 5.-A dispatch from
Pretoria contains details of the disaster
to the escort of the convoy of empty
wagons at .Vondonkop, southwest of
Klerksdorp, Transvaal Colony. The
British casualties in killed, wounded
and men made prisoners reach the total
of 632. In addition tie Beers captured
two guns.
Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, whs
commanded the British force and who
has returned to Kraaipan Cape Colony,
with nine officers and 245 men, reports
that when his advance guard was with
in 10 miles .of Klerksdorp, during the
morning of February 25, the Beers
opened heavy rife fse on the troops
from the shrub. These burghers were
driven off, and the convoy resumed its
march, when more determined attack
was made ON theT Tconvoy's left flank,
the Beers getting within a hundred
yards and stampeding the mules har-
messed to number OF wagons. The
attacking forces were again driven off.
At about 6 80 in themorning the rear
guard was attacked by strong force of
Beers and simultaneously another body
of Beers boldly charged the center of
the convoy and stampeded the mules in
all directions, throwing the escort into
confusion, during which the Beers
charged and recharged, riding down the
British units. The fighting lasted for
two hours, during which the two Brit
ish guns and a pom-pom almost ex-
hausted their ammunition. A detach-
ment of 200 mounted infantry from
Klerksdorp attempted to reinforce the
British, but were held in check by the
Beers.
Lieutenant Colonel Anderson adds
that the strength of the Beers was esti-
mated at l 200 to 1000. Comman-
dants Delarey, Kemps, Celliers, Lem
mer, Wolmarens and Potgieters were
all present. Commandant Lemmer is
said to have been killed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
MAssAcRes OF MISSIONARIES
Two Outrases Reported From the Interior Of
the Chinese Empire.

Victoria, B. c., March 6.-Reports
of two massacres of missionaries in
China were received by the steamer
Empress of India, which has Just ar
rived in from the Orient. In Riane
Su, two priests were murdered by a
band of Chinese, including soldiers, who
attacked their mission. 1t is stated
that the attack was made in revenge
for the deposition of the son of Prince
Tuan by the dowager empress at the
request of the foreign ministers. The
magistrates of the district being friend
ly to foreigners, warned the mission
aries, but they were attacked before
they could get out of the way.
The other massacre took place in
Kiang 81, priest being attacked while
he slept and cruelty murdered. His
body was mutilated, both hands being
cut off His two servants were also
killed. The viceroy has sent troop
to hunt Tor the murdererS.
Two pirates of band who had cap
tured two junks in the West river, and
were guarding the prisoners taken in
the raid, suffered a terrible death.
They were attacked by band of out
laws and the pirates were buried alive.
The Kobe Herald is authority for the
statement that 200 fishermen from the
village of Wugo were drowned in
storm off the coast of Mijikan, Febru-
ary II. The boats had gone a long
way out, and being overtaken by the
storm, we're lost. Only 13 out of more
than 200 fishermen from that one viii
lage returned, and they came in on an
upturned boat. Fleets from other vii
lagos also suffered.
A Toxic dispatch says that the Brit
ish subjects i'll Japan have decided to
order two silver vases in commemora-
tion of the Anglo-Japanese alliance,
and to present one each to the sover-
eigns of the allied nations. The Brit
ish consul at Yokohama, who is the
chief mover in this matter, has already
ordered the vases, which are about 26
feet in height. The flags of the high
powers, the territories and
seas of Great Britain, Japan, China
and Corea, are said to be shown in the
design for these vases. Other Japan
ese papers comment favorably upon the
treaty.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
Record Breaking Floods in Eastern States
Waters Now Receding.

Wilkesbarre. Pa, March 5.-A heavy
rain fall and rush of water from its
upper tributaries caused the north
branch of the Susquehanna river to rise
rapidly, the gauge showing 81 feet 3
inches. 1t is thought there will be
another rise of a few inches before the
water recedes.
This mark is equal to that of 1865.
which was a record breaker. The
water is over the banks of the river
from Plttston to Nanticoke and resem-
bles vast lake. Nearly one-haif of
the city rs under water. At West
moor, Firwood and Riverside, nearly
all residents have vacated their houses.
The water has reached the first stories
and is gradually going up to the second.
Those who fingered too long had to be
removed in boats. The cellars of the
Sterling and Wyoming Valley hotels
and many mercantile houses in the GEN.
tral part of the city are filled with
water. The people living on River and
adjoining streets, which is the princi-
pal residence portion of the city, are
hemmed in by water and are unable to
leave their homes unless by boat. All
the streets in West Pittston are under
several feet of water.
Two hundred families living in the
lowlands in the town of Plymouth had
to leave their houses hastily, the water
covering the first floors and putting
out the fires.
Washouts are reported all along the
line OF the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, and many mines are flooded.
Nine lives have been lost SO far. The
casualties for the past "a hours were
three. The property loss is already
estimated at 81 900 900.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the important
Happenings Of the Past Week. Presented
in q Condensed Form, Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.

The worst OF the food in the East is
over.
Beers killed, wounded and captured
632 British in recent fight.
Pope Leo XIII celebrated the oath
anniversary of his coronation with great
pOmp.
American horses were praised in a
parliament paper on remount service in
South Africa.
President Roosevelt will visit the
Charleston exposition to show that his
action in the Tillman case had nothing
to do with feeling toward the state.
The work Of rescuing snowslide vic
Tins at Telluride, Col, had to be sus-
pended. Many new slides have oc-
CURED and heavy snow fall continues.
AS result of experimenting near
Chicago, it has been demonstrated that
telegraph wires may be used for tele-
phoning. 1t makes no difference if
telegraph message is going over the
wire at the same time.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
CAPTURED BY LADRONES.
Mayor Of a Morons Town Is in the Hands
Of Hostile Fipinos


Manila, March Awhile Governor
Flores, of the province of Rial, was
chasing Felizardo and his band of lad
rones over the hills of Cavite province,
Felizardo, at the head of 25 men, en-
tered Cainta, in Morong province, and
captured the presidente of the town,
Senior Ampil, and majority of the To-
cal police. Senior Ampil has long been
known ais an enthusiastic American
sympathizer, and it is feared that he
may be killed by the enraged ladrones.
A strong force of constabulary has been
sent to effect his release.
The correspondence captured with
General Lukbsn is of the greatest val
ue. 1t duplicates several Filipinos
who have not heretofore been suspected
of completely with the insurgents.
The United States, Philippine COM
mission has received a cablegram from
the governor of Cebu, saying that a
violent assault had been committed by
the municipal police of that place upon
the Spanish consul there. The gov
ernor says the assault was instigated
by the presidente of Cebu, Senor Reyes,
who has been suspended, pending an
investigation, which was at once Or
dered. The Spanish consul was pop
ular and we'll liked.
The American, Spanish, British and
German merchants of Manila and the
local press held meeting to remon-
strate against the prohibitive tariff,
which they declared to be crippling the
industries and resources of the archi-
poIapo
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
PORTLAND MARKETS,

Wheat-Walla Walla, 65@65Kc;
bluestem, 66@6619c; Valley, 64@65c.
Barley-Feed, s1e@19.5O; brewing,
$z0@20.50 per ton.
Oats-No. l white, s1.15@1.25;
gray, $1.10@1.20.
Flour-Best grades, $2.s0@3.40 per
barrel; graham, $2.50@2.S0.
Millstuffs-Bran. $40 per ton; mid
dlings, s21; shorts, $21.5o; chop,
$3.50.
Hay Timothy, s12@l3; clover,
$7.50@S; Oregon wild hay, $5@6 per
ton.
Potatoes-Best Burbanks, sl.10@1. .35
per Genital; ordinary, 75@S5c per CEN
tai, growers prices; sweets, $2@2.50
per GENITAL.
Butter-Creamery, 25@27Rc; dairy,
1S@20c; store, 13@15c.
Eggs-221a@25c for Oregon.
Cheese Full cream, twin., 13@
1890; Young America, 14@15c; fac
tory prices, l@11c less.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $500
4.50; hens, $4.5O@5.50 per dozen, 1O@
12c per pound; springs, lie per pound
1904 per dozen; ducks, $5@6 per doz-
en-; turkeys, live, 12R@13c; dressed,
15@16c per pound; geese, $6@7 per
dozen.
Mutton-Gross, 4c per pound; dress
ed, 7@71ac per pound.
Hogs-Gross, 5Ac; dressed, 6h@7c
per pound.
Veal-s@Sk for small; 7@7H for
large.
Beef-Gross, cows, 3A@4c; steers,
4@4hc; dressed, 6}s@7kc per pound.
Hops-11@1Se per pound.
Wool-Valley, 1S@15c; Eastern Ore
gon, s@12Rc; mohair, 21@21kc per
pound.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
NEWS OF THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREGON.
commercial and Financial Happenings Of In
portance-A Brief Review of the Growth
and improvements Of the Many industries
Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth
--latest Market Report.

Several new oil wells are being bored
in Malheur county.
= The business men of Harrisburg have
formed a board of trade.
EThe new Catholic church at Hubbard
will be dedicated March 9.
Two new one story brick buildings
are in course of construction at Athena.
The first IL days the Clackamas
county sheriff collected s20,6I0.68 OF
the 1901 taxes.
Samuel Engle, Clackamas county
pioneer of 1S47, died at his home at
Molalla, aged 20 years.
The Milton Creamery Company has
declared its second dividend. The
stockholders were paid per cent.
The next meeting of the Union
County Teachers Association will be
held in Union some time this month.
The county convention of the Union
county Democrats will be held April
in Union. Primaries will be held
March 27.
Secretary of State Dunbar is in re-
ceipt of many letters daily from persons
in the East, writing for information
concerning Oregon.
Prospecting of the vein of coal on
Lower Powder river. near Baker City,
which was recently discovered, will be-
gin in short time. Samples taken
near the surface show good value.
Clatsop county delinquent tax sale
will be held ct Astoria March 3.
Twenty-one bales of hops were sold at
Dayton few days ago at Is cents per
pound.
Last week 500, 900 salmon fry, from
the Coos river hatchery, were placed
in the Coquille river.
A board of trade has been formed at
Hillsboro. Its purpose will be to ad-
vertise Hillsbore and Washington
county.
At the recent Calckamas county ex-
animation for teachers certificates, %
applicants were successful.
A thief broke into the City hall at
Portland and stole the historical socie-
ty's collection of rare coins.
The members of the various oranges
of Multnomah county will take steps
to secure building in Portland for a
market place.
The Prohibition party will have no
place on the Multnomah county ticket,
the vote at the last election not reach
ing per cent.
AS the result of rousing dairy meet
ing at Dayton the establishment of
creamery there in the near future is
made certainty.
What few hops remain in the Will
annette valley are selling for Is cents.
Contracts for next years crops are be-
ing made quite freely at IL to 11H
cents.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
Riot Among Paris Unemployed.

Paris, March 5.-Following an excit-
ed meeting of the unemployed, held
this morning at the Labor Exchange,
the agitators attempted to hold an out
door meeting in the Place de la Repub-
lique. A fight with the police ensued
ia which IL policemen were severely
injured, and a score more sustained
bruises. A number of the rioters were
injured, and 90 were placed under
arrest.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
YenszueIa RepeIs an Invasion.

Willemstad, March 4.-According to
advices from Caracas, the Mochist lead
er Garbira, with 1 900 Colombians, at
tempted a new invasion of Venezuela
near La Frias, February "a. After a
bloody fight at Las Cumbres the insur-
gents were completely routed and
obliged to retire across the frontier,
leaving a large number of dead on the
field.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
Rich Find in the KIondike.

Vancouver, B. c., March Ga spe-
cial dispatch from Dawson tells of one
of the richest finds reported for year
in the klondike.- Richard Butler, own
er of Discovery Claim, on Bear creek,
was about to abandon his property
when he discovered an old bedrock,
many feet below the first one, from
which he took out SIS, 900 in one day
One pan of earth alone washed out 5000
in gold. Other claims are being pros
pected for this bedrock.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
Statistics on Bicycle Industry.

Washington, March 6.-The census
bureau has issued preliminary report
on bicycles and tricycles, exclusive of
repair shops, which shows that the pro-
ducts of the industry increased almost
$50, ,OO0, 900 between 1890 and 1900:
The figures show that in 1900 the num-
ber of establishments was 312, the cap
itaI $29, ,7S3, ,659; number of wage earn
ers employed 1926, total wages paid
50, 1s9 ,sl7, and total value of products
$31 .915. .9O8.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
British Casualties Heavy.

London, March 5.-An apparently
incomplete list of the casualties sus.
tanned by the British when the Beers
attacked and captured the convoy of
train OF empty wagons at Vondenkop,
southwest of Klerksdorp, February "a,
published this evening, says officers
and 54- men were killed and 6 officers
and 116 men were wounded.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
Rebellion in Arabia.

Bombay, March 5.-Abdul'A Ben
Feysul, descendant of the old Wafi-
bi Ameers, with an army of 2 200 men,
has captured the City of E'Raid, in
Central Arabia. He entered the city
by strategem at night, with SO follow
ers. Those fS1en rode to the palace and
killed the governor and 80 of his retain
ers. The garrison of the city then
surrendered, whereupon the. army of
Abdul Aziz Ben Feysul entered.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07

The end of the Boer war is again said
to be in sight.
A tornado at New Vienna, O., de-
stroyed much property.
Five persons were killed by the fall
ing of building at Cleveland, o.
The senate has agreed to the confer
ence report on the Philippine tariff
bill.
Three men were killed in q wreck on
the New York Central near Philmont,
n. Y.
Prince Henry is on his Western and
Southern tour. He will visit the site
of the coming St. Louis exposition.
A rebellion has broken out in Kwang
81 province, China. Missionaries and
other foreigners have been taken away
under military escort.
Officials in the Philippines have cabled
Governor Taft that the 25 per cent re-
duction in the tariff bill is not regarded
as sufficient and asking him to use his
endeavors to secure more substantial
means of relief.
During the recent student riots at
Moscow, Russia, 763 arrests were
made.
Six hundred Beers were killed and
captured in two days fighting in Or
ange River colony.
Japan is quietly colonizing Corea.
At least IA miners were killed in
snowslides near Telluride, Colo.
The Tillman-McLaurin episode has
been ended by the senate censuring the
South Carolina senators.
Colombia has interrupted the Pam
anna canal deal. She insists upon be-
ing considered in the negotiations.
The National Educational Associa-
tiOn, at it's recent Chicago convention,
condemned the teaching of Latin and
Greek in the high schools of the coun-
try.
Secretary Root has arranged for a
gradual reduction of the army in the
Philippines.
The New Jersey legislature has ap-
prrpriated $1,000 for the extermina-
ton of the mosquito.
Two men were hanged in North Car
olina for burglary, in which state that
crime is q capital offense.
The house sent the Philippine tariff
bill to conference, objecting to all the
amendments of the senate.
81
of the rebellion in Samar, Philippine
islands, has been captured.
The Columbia Valley Railway asks
congress for right of way across the
Vancouver, Three Tree Point and Scar
borough Head military reservations.
Blondon, the Boston wife murderer,
has been arrested in New York.
Fire at a Mace, Idaho, mine boarding
house resulted in the death of four men
and the injury of l2.
Tillman and McLaurin have been re-
stored to the senate roll to await defin-
ite action by that body.
Two New York Central passenger
trains collided near Auburn, N. Y.
Five trainmen were killed.
London consumes eleven tons of salt
day.
A Chinese dressed as woman at
tempted to enter Ogdensburg, n. Y,
rom Canada.
The dowager queen, Margherita of
Italy, will visit the United States un-
der the naine of Countess Stupinigi.
Chevalier Victor Zeggio, who repre-
sented Italy at the Columbian exposi-
ton, has been appointed commissioner
to Italy for the St. Louis worlds fair.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07

Prince Henry, soon after returning
from the United States, will celebrate
the quarter centenary of his service in
the navy.
A Kansas City judge granted Frank
James request to enioin the play in
which he and his brother are exploited
as train robbers.
A New York court has ordered George
J. and Helen Gould to pay $54, ,4S5
Judgment obtained in Paris courts
gsinst Countess do Castellans.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
Extradition Papers Issued.

Washington, March 5.-Extradition
papers were issued at the state depart
ment during the day to Detective Ser
geant Joseph Day, of Portland, Or, for
Charles and frankie Savage, colored,
now in the hands of the police in
Montreal, Can, for the alleged theft of
$1l 900 worth of cut diamonds, said to
have been stolen from A. L. Lowenthal.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
French Officer Killed.

Pekin, March 6.-The government
has ordered Marshal Su to resume COM
mand of the rebellious soldiers in
Kwang 81 province. 1t is doubtful if
he will be able to control them, as it is
necessary first to pay them overdue
wages. The French legation has re-
ceived a telegram saying that the rebels
have killed French officer near the
Tonquin border.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-07
LARGE Mine Sold.

Vancouver, B. c., March Sit is
reported here that the War Eagle mine
at Rossland, one of the most extensive
properties in the Kootenay country,
has been sold to a company of L0ndon
capitalists. No details of the deal are
given, except that the sale price is
about 100000.