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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
REPORT BY MILES
TELLS WAR DEPARTMENT WHAT HE
SAW in PHILIPPINES.
Refers to Misconduct of Officers and Sol
diers In the Islands-Report Has Been
Asked for Several Times, but Secre-
tary Regarded 1t as Confidential-O Old
Story 'Retold.

Washington, April 29.-The war de.
partment has made public that portion
OF the report of General Miles which
refers to misconduct of officers and
soldiers in the Philippines. Secretary
RoLt has received several requests for
this report, some of them from per-
sons In Boston, who stated that it con-
tains much matter that never had been
brought out in the investigations,
The secretary has held that such re.
ports were confidential in order that the
officer making them might be free to
make such comments as he desired,
but as it was learned that General
Miles had no objection to the publi-
cation of the report, it has been made
public with brief comment by Gen.
eral Davis. judge advocate general, who
has charge of all matters pertaining to
the subjects referred to in this portion
of the report. The statements made
by General Miles are the result of his
tour OF inspection in the Philippines
last autumn and winter.
General Miles report on his Philip
pine observations is dated February 10,
Aooos anu ~ duuT0sscu 10 Gn0 secretary
OF war. In brief, it states:
That the people complained of the
administration of the water cure and
that one man was burned to death
that they were concentrated in towns
and suffered great indignities.
That 900 people were crowded into
one small building and come of them
we're suffocated.
He tells again the story of the killing
OF the guides in Cebu, of which Major
Glenn has been acquitted by court mar
tial.
He says three men in Samar, were
subjected to the water cure.
He states that Major Glenn and
party known as "Genn's brigade" were
moved from place to place to extort
statements by torture.
He has annulled all military orders |
which seem to encourage cruelty.
He condemns the sale of rice by the
authorities to the natives.
In reply to General Miles report,
Adjutant General Davis says all the
cases of alleged cruelty have been sub.
Ieets of Investigation and that the ricesl
sales were military necessary.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
WORK GANG RUN. DOWN.
Ten Greeks and One American Killed in a
Kansas Smash-Up.

Ten Greeks and One American Killed in g
Kansas Smash-Up.
Buffalo, KAN, April 20. - north
bound Missouri Pacific stock train
crashed into the rear end of . work
train just north of this town at z
O'Clock last evening and II men were
killed and rs injured, 10 of the latter
seriously and four fatally. All were
Greeks except one. The cause of the
wreck is given as misreading of orders.
The worktrain consisted of flatcars
and caboose, all filed with labor. re-.
The men on the fatcars escaped by
jumping, but hardly a man in the ca
boo5e escaped. The work train was
backing into town for the night and
running at good speed. The heavy
freight engine did not leave the track,
but plowed the work train off the track,
leaving little of it except the car wheels
and kindling wood. Doctors of Huffalo,
assisted by townspeople, did heroic
work among the injured until the
wrecking train from Neodesha and
corps of half dozen physicians ar
rived. The dead and injured were
taken to Coffeyville, the latter to be
temporarily cared for at the hospital
there. The scene of the wreck for
several hours looked like battlefield
by the dazzling light of the burning
debris, with dead men strewn about
on the ground, where they lay after
being taken rom the wreck.
The foreigners were nearly all mar
ried and had large families in the old
country.
At the Office of General superintend-
ent Gould. in Kansas City, the blame
for the wreck was placed on the con-
ductor and engineer of the construction
train. The freight, which was a regu
lar train, was on time and had the
right of way.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat-Walla Walla, 7O@71c; blue
stem, 75@ Sc; valley, 75@76c.
Barley-Feed, $2l.50 per ton; brew.
ing, s23.
Flour-Best grade, IS. 95@4 rs. grab.
am, $S.45@3.S5.
Millstuffs Bran, $19 per ton
middlings, s ID; shorts, $19.50@2O,
chop, $1s.
Oats-No. l white, $1.15 q l.2O;
gray, $1.12k@1.15 per GENITAL.
Hay = Timothy, $13@13.5O; clover,
$10@11; cheat, $11@12 per ton.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, soc per
sack; ordinary, 25@40c per GENITAL,
growers prices; Merced sweets, $50
$50 per Genital.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, 11@12c;
young, 13@14c; hens, 12c; turkeys,
live, 16@17c; dressed, 20@22c; ducks,
s7@7.50 per dozen; geese, $6@6.50.
Cheese Full cream. twins, 1910
l7c; Young America, II q 1716c;
factory prices, 1@1 14c less.
Butter = Fancy creamery, 22c per
pound; extras, 21c; dairy, cog 221c;
store, 16@1Sc.
: Eggs-16@17c per dozen.
Hops Choice, 18@20c per pound.
Wool-valley, 12I@15c; Eastern
Oregon, S@141c; mohair, 35@36c.
Beef - Gross, COWS, .3L@4c per
pound: steers. 44@5c; dressed, TIC.
Veal-8@8Hc.
Mutton - Gross, 7@7Nc per pound /;
dressed, S@9c.
Lambs Gross, 4e per pound /;
dressed, INC.
Hoss-Gross, 7@7Hc per pound
dressed ,S@SKe.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
NEED A STIR-UP.
Postoffice Officials are Lax in Methods
Too Anxious to Please,

| Too Anxious to Please,
Washington, April 29.-It is the con.
census OF opinion among fair men who
have watched the postoffice department
of late years, and who are familiar
with it's officials, that there is much
more smoke than fire in that depart
ment just now, and that the investiga-
tion that has been under way for sew.
eral weeks will make far less sensa-
tlonal disclosures than have been pre-
dicted. Not but what the business
methods of the department. will be
shown to be lax in many respects, and
that remedies will be recommended, for
this no one doubts, but it is rea easonably
certain that very few officials will lose
their positions as a result of the
charges that have been filed and are be-
ing run down. Tyn-r is, of course,
already out, and Assistant Attorney
General of the Department Christiancy
is suspended at his own request pend
ing Investigations
The postofffce is the biggest and
most extensive OF all the government
departments. 1t employs more men,
and is more generally distributed over
the country than any other branch of
the government, hence, the chances
for fraud, for wrongdoing. and for evils
arising from lax methods are greater
than in any other department. At the
same time, with 80 many employees on
the rolls, and so many officials with
varying grades of authority and re-
sponsibility, it will be an extremely
difficult matter to fasten onto any one
man the responsibility for she rtcomings
that may be found.
The service will benefit from the in.
no doubt, for its moral in
duence is good, and serves as warning
to all employees that the postmaster
general is after wrongdoels, and is
ready to prosecute all he can find.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
GOVERNOR RICHARDS DEAD.
Chief Executive of Wyoming Cleaned by
the Old Reaper.

Chief Executive of Wyoming Cleaned by
the Old Reaper.
Cheyenne, Wyo., April 20 Govern
or De Forest Richards died at his home
in this city at o'clock yesterday, of
acute kidney. disease.
Governor Richards was born at
Charleston, N. H., August 6, 1916.
His father was Congregational min
lister. After finishing his schooling at
Phillips Andever academy, he went to
Alabama and engaged in cotton raising.
There he was sheriff, lawmaker and
county treasurer in turn. In 1885 he
established himself at Chadron, Neb. /,
organizing the Chadron bank. In 1885
he came to Douglas, Converse county,
Wyoming, and established the Fret
National bank. He was elected mayor
of the town, then state senator, and in
1898 was elected governor on the Re-
publican ticket, succeeding himself in
1902.
The governors chair now falls to
Fenimore Chatterton, secretary of state,
as there is no lieutenant governor in
Wyoming,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
WANT HIGH PRICES.
rlarion County Fruit and Wool Men Or
ganize Unions for Mutual Benefit.

1arion County Fruit and Wool Men Or.
| ganize Unions for Mutual Benefit.
Union among producers to compel
competition among buyers was the
watchword at the meetings of fruit
growers and woolgrowers in Salem last
Saturday. The produ ers propose to
stand together for their mutual benefit
and to compel buyers to bid against
each ether for the produce they have to
sell. To secure he highest price the
market will warrant is the purpose,
and those who are identified with the
unions feel confident of a successful
outcome of the cooperative movement.
About so owners of sheep met and
organized the Marion county woolgrow-
ers' association. A sales committee
was appointed. Committees were also
appointed to draft resolutions as basis
for the organization and to prepare a
constitution. A large committee, COM
posed of residents of different parts OF
the county, will be appointed to solicit
membership.
The Salem fruitgrowers' union, which
was organized last year, held meet
ing to discuss the methods of disposing
of this years crop of berries and cher
ries. 1t was the general opinion that
competition must govern the prices, but
after the early fruit has been disposed
of The Salem cannery will be given the
preference at the same price that shall
be offered by shippers.
The growers we're unit in voicing
their loyalty to the cannery and assert
ed their intention to give the cannery
their patronage, provided that the pro
prietor would meet the prices of ship
pers. Some of the early fruit will be
shipped fresh, while the prices are
high, put after that the fruit will be |
offered to the cannery in preference to
shipping fresh, the price being the
same or better. An earnest desire for
the success of the cannery was ex-
pressed by many, for the reason that |
this enterprise furnishes market for
the fruit and prevents a glut lin. the
local market. A determination to pro
luce better quality of fruit was also
expressed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
VIII Fight to a Finish.

Butte, Mont. April 2s.-Jndications
now point to fight to a finish between
the Western Union telegraph company
and the striking messengers. The
striking messengers have, in mea sure,
dropped from view, and the struggle
now is over the recognition of the
union, which organization the Western
Union officials announce will not be
recognized or treated with under any
consideration. 1t is stated that tho
Western Union is willing to grant the
scale of wages asked by the boys, or
to employ them on commission basis.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
FRAUD IN LAND ENTRIES.
Reports on Suspension Show Them Gen.
eral In Coast States.

! Graz In coast states.
Washington, April 2S.-The secre-
tary OF the interior is beginning to re-
ceive reports on the suspension of tim
Der and stone land entries in Catli.
fornia, Oregon and Washington, and 80
far as they go they confirm the order of
suspension which was made last fall.
There is a thorough conviction on the
part OF the officials of the interior de.
partment that many, if not most, of
the entries under the timber act which
were made in the Pacific Coast states
during the year 1902 were made in the
interest of syndicates, and the protests
received since the issuance of the order
strengthen this conviction. Since then
not single entry under the law in the
states covered by the order has been
allowed to go to patent without thor
ough investigation.
There are many special agents in that
field, and the new law permitting the
compulsory attendance of witnesses in
connection with land entry investiga-
tlons is expected to prove of great as
sistance to them in establishing the
validity OF lack of validity of such ell
tries.
In one state alone last year there was
an increase in the entries amounting to
about 100000 acres in the course of
three months.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
Yield to Prophecies.

Battle Creek, Mich, April 30.-After
a fight lasting more than a week, the
stockholders of the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist publishing house have decided
to move their plant East, the name of
the city has not yet been decided on.
This action shows that the majority of
the stockholders believed Mrs. Ellen
White, leading prophecies of the So
ciety, who predicted disaster if the
plant were not moved and the Advent
lists colonized here failed to scatter to
various parts of the country.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
Half Million from Britain.

London, April 28.-The first meet
ing of the royal commissioners for the
st. Louis exposition will take place at
Marlborough house today under the
presidency of the prince of Wales.
Little, however, lie expected to be done
until Secretary Watson returns from
America. whittier he expects to start
next week, to arrange details for a site
and complete otner details. Pallia-
ment, it is expected, will appropriate
at least $500, 900.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
POWER FROM SIsKlYOuS.
Harnessed Streams Will Give Light and
Motion to Southern Oregon Cities.


Harnessed Streams viii Give Light and
Motion to Southern Oregon Cities.
An agreement for the sale OF the en-
tire plant and equipment of the Ash
land electric power and light company
to the Siskiyou electric power and light
company has been entered into between
representatives of the two companies.
The California company. it is under
stood, takes over the entire stock of the
local company and pays a substantial
premium over the face value for it.
The California company is developing
extensive power. on Fall creek and
Klamath river on the south side of the
Siskiyou mountains which will be
transmitted across the mountains to the
valley, supplying mines and small
towns on the way with light r'and pow
er, including the towns of Klamathon
and Hornbrook and number of quartz
mills in that vicinity.
The Churchill Bros, bankers, of Sis
kiyou county, and Alex s.Rosenborough,
of Oakland, Call, are the controlling. in-
huences in the new company, and they
claim to have available in the waters
of Fall creek and klamath river total
horsepower resources of $4,000 which
it is proposed to develop and with it
promote electric railways and manu-
featuring enterprises throughout South
ern Oregon and Northern California.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
FOR A GREAT STATE FAIR.

Larger Appropriations for Agricultural
Premiums Increasing.
The state fair this fall will mean
mure to Oregon as an advertising medi-
um than it ever has before. The large
immigration now corning to this state
gives the people of the different sections
of Oregon an opportunity to represent
their resources and advantages to a
large number of newcomers at compar-
atively little cost. A majority of those
who come to the coast seeking new
homes do not invest until after they
have spent several weeks or even
months looking around. Their desire
is to find the locality that will suit
their individual preferences and occu-
pations best. Through the annual state
fair it will be possible to present, in an
attractive form. information regarding
the industries of every county in the
state, and by visitingsthe fair, strang-
ers will learn more about the different
localities than they could in any other
way at the same expense.
Tie last legislature increased the
state fair appropriation from $4,000
year to SIC, 900, and it is provided that
all this sum must be offered and award
ed az premiums for agricultural and
other industrial products. The increase
in the appropriation for premiums is
sufficient to make it certain that if the
season be favorable to crops, this years
fair will be ahead of anything yet had.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
READY FOR WAR.
Russia Has Long Prepared Tor Opposition
Never Meant to Evacuate.

Victoria, B. c.. April 30.-The Rus
sian demands regarding Manchuria die
not come as surprise to Japan, accord
ing to advices received here today b,
the steamer Oansa. Japan had beer
preparing for the crisis and dispatches
to Japanese papers from various sec
tions indicate that Russia has also
been making warlike preparations
Officers of the Oansa say that fol
months large importations of rice have
been made by Japan and all export is
forbidden. From New ChwaBg it is
reported that 3,O00.O 900 taels have been
forwarded to Port Arthur to buy pro-
visions, and from Nagasaki comes the
news that Russian agents have bought
up Is 900 tons of Cardiff coal there,
and at Chefoo, all on hand. Large
purchases of foodstuffs are also re-
ported.
AS for the evacu 4tion Of Manchuria,
dispatches to Japanese papers say it is
patent that Russia had no intention of
evacuating, although one dispatch Gays
that the garrison of Moukden was en-
trained for Port Arthur when a sudden
telegram from Port Arthur forbade the
departure and the garrison marched
back to it's barracks. A Pekin dispatch
of April l says the Russian troops in
Manchuria gave some sign of moving
when the plans were changed. Those
stationed at New Chwang were moved
mile further from the town and seem
to be settling down in the new location
and making ready for hostilities.
Moreover, says dispatch from Pekin
to the Jill, there are kilograms coming
to Pekin from points along the coast re-
porting most suspicious actions on the
part of Russian warships. The big
battleships coming to reinforce the
Russian squadron in Eastern waters,
consisting of the 12,700-ton battleship
Retvian, the cruisers Pallada and Diana
and five torpedo boat destroyers, passed
Hong Kong on April IS for Port
Arthur.
Another Pekin dispatch to the Asahi
says that numbers of soldiers are being
moved into Manchuria, garbed in civil
ian clothes. Other dispatches tell of
the cutting of the telegraph lines in
Manchulia by Russian officers and of
the cutting OF the cable between New
Chwang and Chefoo by Russians.
An official of the Toxic foreign Office,
by Japanese paper, says
that Viscount Aoki has been constantly
shadowed by Russians during his Off
cial visits at Pekin. This official also
told of Russia's warlike preparations,
of the suspicious movements of Russian
in the gulf of Pechili, and of
the buying up of foodstuffs by the Rus
sian agents.
Another sensational dispatch, pub
Iished by the Japanese papers is that,
Japanese having set fire to the forests |
at the mouth of the Yalu, Russia has
force of l 900 troops over
and to that point. It was intended to |
send force OF 1000 by the steamer
Wuchan, plying between Port Arthur
and Taku, but this vessel is British,
md permission to carry the force was
refused. It was increased and sent |
overland. Russia obtained lease of
:hese forests in 1896 on the occasion of |
,he flight of the Korean emperor to the
Russian legation.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
Cutting Down Forces.

Dansmuir, CAL, April 3o.-The gen.
eral management of the Southern Paci-
fc company continues to follow the
policy adopted lately of reducing all
forces to the very lowest possible limit.
Assistant Master Mechanic Hale. of
this place, received today wire instruc-
tions to reduce the mechanical force at
Dunsmuir by 40 men and at the close
of working hours ten machinists, one
car lahorer and 20 laborers, mostly coal
hea1 ers, were dismissed,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
OBJECTS TO TWO THINGS.
COnger Protests Against Russian Demands
Affecting Our interests.

COnger Protests Against Russian Demands
Affecting Our interests.
Pekin, April 29.-Minister Conger
has sent note to Prince Ching, the
grand secretary, protesting against two
features of Russia's proposed Manchur-
ian agreement, which are considered
particularly antagonistic to American
interests. The note objects to China
promising not to open more towns to
foreign trade, because negotiations are
proceeding in connection with the
American commercial treaty for the
opening of Mukden and Taku Shan,
and it objects to promising that the
foreign employees in China shall be
only Russians.
The United States withholds express
sion regarding the other demands, but
is prepared to insist on her treaty
rights if infractions incur.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
AIaska,s Wireless system.

New York, April Engineer
Richard Piund and Assistant Engineer
Herbert G. Welby, of the Marconi wire
less telegraph company, left New York
today for Alaska, to complete-the in
stallation there of series of,ewireless
telegraph stations for the United States
signal service. The apparatus original
ly sent to Alaska in charge of Stanley
Cook, of the company at Fort Gisbon,
will be returned and the new apparatus
substituted.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
SUCCESSOR TO TYNER.
Charles II. Robb, of Vermont, Gets the
Vacant Office.

Vacant Office.
Washington, April 29.-Charles II
Robb. assistant attorney for the de.
partment of justice, has been appointed
assistant attorney general for the post.
office to fill the place vacated by James
N. Tyner, who was dismissed. Mr..
Robb has assumed the new position
Mr. Robb, who is from Vermont, is
on leave of absence from the depart
>ment of justice, to which he will return
as soon as the investigation of the post
office is closed, and the postmaster gem
eral has time to choose permanent as
sistant attorney general.
Postmaster General Payne has grant
ed Mr.. Christiancy an indefinite leave
of absence.
The charges recently formulated by
the Central labor union, of this city,
against the mail equipment bureau
have been filed.
Mr.. Payne today forwarded to Attor-
ney General Knox additional informa-
tion regarding the abstraction of papers
from the assistant attorney general g
Office by Mrs. Tyner last week.. In
his letter of transmission he says:
81 am unable to conclude that no
other papers were taken than those
submitted and returned. Inasmuch as
it clearly appears that certain papers
of the government were taken, and
since, in my opinion, all of the facts
presented tend to show a willful vio-
lation of law, l recommend that the
matter be referred to the United States
attorney for this district, with instruc-
,tions to submit the case to the grand
jury, as decided in our recent inter-
uiou, ,,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
Balsley-Elkhorn TO Resume.

The Baisley- Elkhorn mine, which
has been tied up in litigation for more
than two years, will resume operations
May l. General Manager Hayes, who
is also the principal owner of the prop
erty, was formerly president and mans-
ger OF the Bonanza mine. He sold out
his interest in the Bonanza about a
year ago, and he was then in position
to take advantage of the opportunity
offered to become the principal owner
of the Bafsley- -Elkhorn. A tunnel
about l Il miles long is to be driven
into the mountain.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01
vasquez is Downed,

Santo Domingo, April 29.- As re-
suit OF the fighting between govern
ment forces and revolutionists here yes
terday the government has abandoned
San Carlos and Guida, and these
suburbs are now occupied by the reb-
els, who became possessed of the am
munition, rifles and cannon left by the
government forces. The fighting of
yesterday has entirely changed the sit
uation here, and it is hoped that peace
will soon be restored. The hospitals
of the city are filled with the wounded.
The losses sustained by the govern ment
were heavy.