Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-02
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Happen
penigs Presented In q Brief and
Condensed E0rm.

A ferryboat in Poland capsized,
drowning 20 persons.
A hail storm at Prineville, Oregon,
smashed most of the windows in the
town.
Bids on the Grand Ronde, Oregon,
Indian lands are found to be over twice
the minimum fxd by law.
The Japanese are believed tc have
cut the Russian line of communication
between Lao Yang and Mukden.
Japanese military experts declare
that General Kuropatkin is cornered so
effectively that escape is impossible.
Chicago employers, now that the pack
ers appear sure of winning the ir strike,
are considering general campaign
against unionism.
Senator Clark, of Montana, was
threatened by maniac who ran after
the senator declaring that he had
broken the state game laws
The fighting at Port Arthur continues
to be of the most desperate character. i.
Positions ara repeatedly taken, lost and
retaken by the Japanese with a heavy
loss of men.
The Russian vessels at Shanghai
have been disarmed.
The rush incident to the opening of
land near Lew iston, Idaho, is setting
in early.
A cloudbuist in Montana caused con-
siderable damage to the Northern Pa
cific railroad.
Snow has fallen near Duluth, Minn.,
and crops have been damaged greatly
by heavy frosts.
A Laramie, Wyo., mob took a negro,
who attacked a white girl, from Jail
and hanged him.
Russia denies that she is discrimi-
mating against British ships in search
ing for ccntraband of war.
General stoessel has informed the
car that the Port Arthur garrison can.
not hold out over six weeks longer at
the most.
The city of Binang, on the island of
Luzon, P.I., has been wiped out by
fire. One hundred lives we're lost and
5000 people are homeless.
st. Petersburg deems crisis at hand
in the Lao valley unless Kuropatkin
can retreat. Continued rains, it is
feared, will greatly impede the move
ment of heavy ordnance, which may
have to be abandoned.
The battleship Nebraska will be
launched at Seattle October Z.
The Russians lost about $500 men
in the recent battles in the Lao valley.
Cloudbursts in Southern California
have washed out much railroad tracks.
Genrals Kuroki and Oku have COM
bined their armies to cut the Russian
line near Anashan.
The Japanese have captured more
forts at Port Arthur and are now with
in the very city at one point.
General Funston has notified the war
department that he will relinquish the
command of the department of the Co.
lumbia ON October l.
Investigations of the navy depart
ment have shown that our waIshIps
must dock ofteneI than once q year to
have their bottoms cleaned.
France holds that powers like Amer
lea should act together to avert incras-
ing danger of Japan becoming the dom
inant power in the Far East.
The general land office hss withdrawn
so, $40 acres in the Durango land dis
trict, Colordo, on account of the Las
Anamas, N. M, reservoir site and irri-
CATION works.
The Russians have repulsed the
Lao valley.
The japanese are preparing for
great battle at Lao Yang and heavy
guns are on the way.
AN is quiet at Shanghai and the
incident of the disarmament OF the
Russian ships Is closed.
Georgia militiamen declare the
sheriff was in collusfon with the mob
which lynched negroes.
The efforts of the Chicago alder
manic ommmittee to end the packers
strike has come to naught.
It is stated that the Corean govern
ment has agreed to engage Japanese
advisors and borrow money to carry
out much needed reforms.
Placards are being scattered in
Tsinanfu Province, China, urging the
massacre Of the foreign devils"
The native Christians are fleeing.
The Japanese war office has con.
cluded that Port Arthur cannot be
taken by direct assault and has order
ed that no attacks be made which
would entail heavy loss.
The Russians really command three
forts of any importance at Port Ar.
thur.