Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-11
EVENTS THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Forn, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Cur
Many Readers.
Germany is much pleased with the
message of the president.
An Independent company to fight the
beef trust is to be established in St.
Louis.
After an elapse of 16 months the
Tracy reward is to be paid by thesstate
of Washington.
Dowie has Strengthened out his
financial tangle and the receivers have
been discharged.
Russia has made a counter proposit-
ion to the demands of Japan, which, it
is believed, will be accepted.
American marines have gone into
camp near Panama, and the Colombian
invasion has received set back
The secretary of war has asked con-
gress for s ! 800, 900 to deepen the cham
mel through Wrangel Narrows, Alaska.
Revenue figures sent to the senate
show that the nation can literally
recognize the fair, and then be still deep
ly in debt to Oregon on a revenue
basis.
The Panama canal treaty has started
on its way to the United States.
Japan has postponed the meeting of
the diet in the hope of receiving an
answer from Russia.
Both houses of congress entered upon
regular from special session without
any notable transition.
Dowie alleges his assets are four
times his liabilities, and makes an
offer to settle with his creditors.
Secretary Shaw estimates that the
entire appropriations needed for gov
ernment use for 1905 will be 1924 4,502,-
| 146.
The steel trust will reduce expenses
hundred thousand dollars a year by
dismissing a number of "Carnegie's
pets"
Minister Lifton, of Canada, declares
| that country is loyal to Britain and
regrets it's infantine attitude over Alas
ka decision. ...
| A party of Colorado nonunion miners
were ambushed near Trinidad. OF FIVE
only one escaped to give the alarm.
The sheriff with bloodhounds has gone
to the scene.
An epidemic of diphtheria at Stan
ford university has put ~ in the hos
pital. EH
Pope Plus is trying to secure more
cordial relations between France and
the church.
The British consul finds the outrages
in Congo Free States fully equal to the
first reports.
The wages OF something like $4,000
miners at Birmingham, Ala, have
been reduced.
More creditors of Dowie have come
to hisr escue and it is thought he will
yet come out all right.
Secretary Hitchcock refuses to rein
state Asa B. Thomas as receiver of the
La Grande, Oregon, land office.
Senator Foster, of Washington, has
introduced a bill giving the Puyallup
Indians the right to sell or lease their
lands.
Speaker Cannon gave the best house
committeeships to old members, and
Oregon got only minor positions.
Washington Jared but little better.
Edward L. Wentz, the young Phila-
delphia millionaire, who has been
missing since last October, has been
found in demented condition wander
ing in the mountains of Tennessee.
Martial law has been proclaimed at
Cripple Creek, Colo.
An international administration is
proposed for Macedonia.
Herbert Spencer, the famous writer,
is seriously ill in London.
Seven large creditors of Dowie oppose
the move to declare him bankrupt.
The simplest solution to The Dalles
canal right-of-way muddle appears to
be purchase by the state of Oregon.
Ex-Congressman William M. Spring
er, of Illinois, and a Democratic leader,
is dead.
In his annual report Secretary
Moody strongly urges general staff fer
the navy, similar to that at the head
of the army.
A forest fire which is raging in the
mountains northeast of San Bernar-
dino, CAL, has already destroyed about
5000, 900 feet of sawed lumber and
other property and is not yet extin-
guished. The loss will reach at least
100000.
Emil Roeski, one of the Chicago ban
dts recently arrested, will plead hyp-
notism.
The submarine boat Pixie has