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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
DECISION ON SWAMP LAND.


Governor Receives the Text From the
Interior Department.
Salem-Governor Chamberlain has
received the full text of the decision of
the secretary of the interior rejecting
the claim of the state of Oregon to the
swamp lands within the Klamath In
dian reservation. Briefly stated, the
decision quotes the swamp land act of
1860. which specifically provides that
the grant to the state shall ttinclude
any lands which the government may
have reserved, sold or disposed of Gin
pursuance of any law heretofore enact
ed) prior to the confirmation of title to
be made under the authority of the
said act"
The treaty creating the klamath res
ervation was not made until 1864, but
the decision holds that the right or
title Of occuaancy of the Indians ex-
listed rrior to that time. as recognized
by the act of 1848, establishing the ter
ritorial government of Oregon, wherein
it was provided:
'That nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to impair the rights
of person or property now pertaining to
the Indians in said territory, SO long as
such rights shall remain unextin-
guished by treaty between the United
States and such Indians, or to affect the
authority of the government of the
United States to make any regulation
respecting such Indians. their lands,
property or other rights, by treaty, law
or otherwise, which it would have been
competent to the government to make
if this act had never passed"
The secretary of the interior holds
that this provision recognizes the title
or right of occupancy of the Indians
to all the country occupied by them.
and that the treaty of 1864 operated
merely to cede to the United States the
rights the Indians held IN lands other
than those set apart as place of resi-
dence-the klamath reservation. In
other words, the treaty of 1864 but re-
duoed the extent of the possession of
the Indians, whose right existed prior
to the swamp land act of 1860 and still
exists
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
SQUADRON WILL BIB READY.
America Can Send More Ships to Tam
gier II Emergency Arises.


Paris, June 14.-Informatlon has
been received from Lisbon concerning
the plans Of the American battleship
squadron. Rear Admiral Barker ex-
poets to leave Lisbon June 16 for Glib
raltar, where the squadron will remain
until the Moroccan incident is settled.
On the arrival there of the Illinois and
Missouri, the squadron will consist of
six of the most modern battleships, be-
sides the two squadrons of cruisers and
gunboats now at Tangier. Although
Admiral Barker does not expect that
the necessity will arise of taking the
battleships to Tangier, yet he will re-
main at Gibraltar for the purpose of
meeting any possible contingency.
When the American squadron leaves
Gibraltar it will not 60 to Villefranche,
as at first intended, but will go to Pie
raus and cruise through the Grecian
Later, the squadron will
60 to Corfu and Treste.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Robbers are Beaten OH.

Johnstown, Pa, June IA desper-
ate attempt was made this afternoon
by four masked men to rob Superin-
tendent W. Fl. G.. Ramsey and Secre-
tary Frank Howard, of the Johnstown
water company, of about $4,000 in
cash, which they were conveying to
the new Dalton Run dam, near this
city, to pay off the 400 men employed
there. The two men made plucky
run for it and escaped, but not until
two horses had been killed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Asks for Receiver.

Eugene-R. McMurphy, one of the
stockholders of the Willamette Valley
Woolen Manufacturing company, has
begun suit fol sequestration of the
Eugene woo.en mill property and ap-
pointment of receiver. This action
is the result of too small capital to be-
gin with and mistakes in building the
mill, so that by the time the mill was
in condition to become productive and
profitable the capital and resources
were so nearly exhausted that it suffer-
ed for operating money. This caused
the mill to be unprodcutive.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Big Insane Asylum Rolls.

salem-The monthly report of the
state insane asylum for May shows one
of the largest monthly increases in
enrolment in the history of the insti-
tuition. The total number of inmates
is now the highest it has ever been.
The report shows: Number of patients
April 80, 1928; received during May,
43; escapes returned, g.; discharged 1Os
died, g.; eloped, 5; number remaining
June l. 1850. The total expenditures
were $l4,245.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Believe Big Ships are Held.

Chicago, June 15.-A special to the
Daily News from Chefoo says: Accord
ing to the captain of one of the ships
comprising the Japanese blockading
feet, the cruiser Novik has been out of
the harbor on several occasions hunting
Japanese destroyers. The captain
thought the obstructions at the mouth
of the harbor prevented the exit of the
larger Russian vessels. The Russians
have three submarine boats which have
been put together at Paya.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Visits the Bandits Camp.

Tangier, June Isl. W. S. LANCER
man, commissioner of the Moroccan
section at the st. Louis exposition, ar
rived here today from the camp of Raj
suli, the bandit. In an interview Civ
en- to the Associated Press, Mr.. LANCER
man said: "I met Raisuli and his
band fully armed and suspicious of the
visit. For few miutes the situation.
was critical, but all passed off WE'LL
Ion Perdicaris is much better and in
good spirits over the prospect of his
speedy release
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
REVOLT AT PRISON.
Four Condemned Men In Ohio Penitenti
ary Attempt to Escape.

Four Condemned Men In Ohio Penitenti-
ary Attempt to Escape.
Columbus, O., June 15.-An attempt
was made by four of the nine con-
demned men at the penitentiary to es-
cape at l O'Clock this morning by over
powering the guard. The guard was
badly beaten, but two guards from the
hall came to his assistance and the pris-
oners were forced back into their cells
and locked up.
The prisoners in the plot to escape
were Moses johnson, of Scioto county ;
Philip Nagle, of Wyandotte county ;
Lewis Harmon, of franklin county !;
and Ben Wade, of Lucas county.
Guard Richards, of Williams county,
was in charge of the prisoners. He
was unarmed, no weapons being al
lowed in the annex. The prisoners
beat him down with their fists, and
secured the key to the cage in the an
mex, but failed to find tie key to the
outer door.
Guard Richards made such an outcry
that two guards in an adjoining hall
were attracted, and they came to his
rescue. The prisoners were overpow.
cred and locked up. Guard Richards
was badly beaten, but his condition is
not considered serious.
It was evidently the purpose of the
prisoners to get out of the door of the
annex which leads into the prison yard
and scale the walls. They had no
but expected to secure them
from the guald. It is not believed
that the five other men in the annex
were party to the plot to escape.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
or Great strateeical Importance.

Toxic, June 14.-The town of Stu
yen, now occupied by the Japanese
army, is of great strategical import
ance, being situated about 40 miles
east by south of Kaiking and As miles
southeast of Haicheng. 1t commands
perfectly the roadstead of both places.
Saimatsa is also an important point, as
it controls the roads to Lao Wang and
Mukden. By following this route, the
Mao Tien Lin pass, a strongly fortified
and almost impregnable Russian strong
hold will be avoided on the advance of
the Japanese army northw ard.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Port Arthur Left to Fate.

st. Petersburg, June 15.-Relief is
felt in militry circles at the removal of
dlssension in military circles. 1t is
understood that the sole responsibility
devolved upon General Kuropatkin,
and that no serious attempt will be
made to relieve Port Arthur. 1t is re-
ported that the Vla6ivostok squadron
now consists of three cruisers and four
ironclads. 1t is therefore presumed
that the squadron has effected a juno
ton with Port Arthur vessels.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Pestilence In Siberia.

Paris, June Is Letters received
from correspondents who have investi-
gated the conditions prevailing in ST.
IBERIA show that the natives are suffer-
ing severely as result of the war. An
epidemic has broken out among the
laborers who live around Lake Baikal,
and it is feared the disease, the exact
nature of which has not yet been as
certained, will affect the troops who
are passing through on the way to Man
churia. The unfortunates affected by
the disease usually die within forty
eight hours after being first attacked,
and SO far all known remedies have
proven useless.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
WhlppIng-Post Regime Revived.

Lexington, KY, June 15.-Police
Judge John J. Riley today revived the
old whipping post regime when he SEN
fenced Simon Scarce, 15-year-old
negro lad to be whipped in the public
square. Scarce had struck a white
boy. The court decreed that the boys
mother take the boy to the public
square and give him 20 lashes with
buggy whip. The mother, in the pres
ence of large crowd, administered the
punishment as directed. This is the
first time such an incident has been
witnessed since the Civil war.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Good Strawberry Crop.

Salem-The strawberry harvest is
now in full swing in this vicinity and
one of the largest crops ever seen is
being gathered. The bulk of the crop
is going to the Salem fruit cannery,
where about $50 persons are employed
packing the fruit. The berries are ex-
ceptionally good this season. They are
now coming to the cannery at the rate
of Il, 900 pounds per day, and uni
form price of 81 cents per pound is
paid. .....
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Hay Crop Is Short.

Hillsboro-The Washington county
hay crop W ill not be more than a half
yield this season, owing to the extreme
dry weather during the month of May.
In the lowlands along the Tualatin and
other small streams the timothy is
much better than on the plains, where
in many places there is not a third of
a yield. The way things look, Wash
ington county. which has always sent
out thousands of tons of timothy each
season for Philippine shipment, will
appreclable extent.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
PORTLAND MARKETS,

Wheat-Walla Walla, zoe; bluestem,
7Sc; valley, 79c.
Barley-Feed, s2s per ton; rolled.
$24.5O@25.
Flour-valley, $a.so@4.o5 per bar
rel; hard wheat straights, $4@4.25;
cleans, $3.85@4.10; hard wheat pat
ents, $4.40@4.70; graham, $4,000;
whole wheat, $4@4.25; rye -four, $3.50.
Oats-No. white, 1925 gray, 81 20
per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $1,000 per tons
middlings, $25.50@27; shorts, 5000
21; chop, $1s; linseed, dairy food, $40.
Hay-Timothy, $15@16 per tons
clover, 5000; grain, sl1@12; cheat,
$11@12.
Vegetables-Turnips, $1.25 per sack;
carrots, $50; beets, $1.25; cabbage,
2@2Hc; lettuce, head, 25@40c per doz;
caulifower, $1.75@2 per doz; celery,
75@ 9Oc per doz.; cucumbers, 1880
so per doz; asparagus, SOC; peas, &c
per pound; rhubarb, &c per pound,
beans, green, 121ac; squash, 81 per
box; green CORR, 6Oc per doz.
Honey-$3@3.5 per case.
Potatoes-Fancy, 75c@$1 per centals
new potatoes, $1.75@2 per GENITAL.
Fruits-Strawberries, Oregon, 4@5c
per pound; cherries, 50c@$1 per boxs
gooseberries. &c per pound; apples,
fancy Baldwins and Spitzenbergs,
81. .50@2.50 per box; choice, $l@1.50s
cooking, 75c@$1; canteloups, IS per
crate; apricots, 1925 per box.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 171s@20c;
store, 13c per pound.
Eggs-Oregon ranch, 18@18hc per
dozen.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, 12@12Rc
per pound; small, spring, 20@22c;
hens, 12@121ac; turkeys, live, l6@17c
per pound; dressed 10000; ducks,
$7@s per doz; geese, live, 7@8c per
pound.
CLeese-Full cream, twins, new
stock, 12h@13c; old STOCK, 1Ocs
Young America, 14c.
Hops-1903 crop, 23@ Nc per pound.
Wool-Valley, 19@20o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 11@15c; mohair, 3Oc
per pound for choice.
Beef-Dressed, 5@714c per pound.
Mutton-Dressed, 4@6c per pounds
lambs, &c.
Dressed, 6k@7e per pound.
Pork-Dressed, e@7c per pound.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
100000 POUNDS OF WOOL.
dwinn-isaacs Livestock Company DIS
poses Of Immense Clip.

dwlnn-tsaacs Livestock Company Dis.|
poses Of Immense Clip.
Pendleton-Two hundred thousand
pounds of wool have been sold by the
Gwinn-Isaacs livestock company, of
which j. II. Gwinn, secretary of the
Oregon Woolgrowers' association and q
resident of Pendleton, is a partner ;.
The Gwinn-Isaacs company is consider
ed an Idaho sheep firm, although a.
large portion of its animals range in
summer in the western spur of the Blue
mountains in Grant county. The COM
pany is one of the largest sheep con-
Germs operating in the Northwest.
Late as it is, some of the Gwinn-
Isaacs bands are not yet even sheared.
Eight bands were trailed into summer
range in Grant county from the Snake
river country in Malheur county.
Here the company has over sc, 900 acres
leased from the old Dalles military
land company which secured control of
an immense area in Grant and one or
two other counties for cutting a road
through the interior in the early days,
and the Gwinn-Isaac people have 80
sections on long lease. As govern
ment sections alternate with each Sec
tion granted to the military road COM
pany, the sheepmen have an immense
territory available. In spite of the
normally overcl DIVIDED condition of the
Grant range, no trouble is experienced
with settlers by the Gwinn-Isaac peo-
pie, partly because their land is leased
and partly because there are few or no
settlers in the district they occupy. In
addition to this, their sheep trail is
through sparsely settled and barren
country.
The remaining five bands of this
company are in the Wood river country
in Idaho.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
No Word of Land Office Change.

Oregon City-Register A. s.. Dresser,
of the Oregon City land Office. in reply
to an inquiry concerning the proposed
removal of the local land Office from
Oregon City to Portland, said he had
received nothing of any official nature
from Washington as to the proposed
change. People of Oregon City are sur
prised at the. proposed change in leca-
tion of the land Office, and will strive
to retain the Office here.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
GOOD ROADS.
A Few Simple Rules which Would Help
Our Highways.

A Few Simple Rules which Would Help
Our Highways.
Among the elements and forces OF
nature there are several enemies of
good roads, but the greatest of them is
water. It washes away the material
of the road. It soaks into the road and
softens it 80 that the wagon wheels cut
into the surface making ruts and holes.
It permeates and softens the fodndation
so that the surface of the road sinks or
breaks up. In the winter the water
that is in the road freezes, expands,
and loosens and disintegrates the road
material.
The most important thing in the
building of roads is to lessen or prevent
the ravages OF water; yet no feature of
the work is 80 neglected as this. Many
local road supervisors seem to give no
consideration to the question OF drain
age, and the result is a regular mud
blockage during several weeks or
months of the year.
The following are few simple rules
the observance of which would 60 far
toward lettering the roads of this cour-
trys
FIRST. The road should be so located
and constructed as to avoid steep
grades down which the water rushes
during heavy rains tearing up and
washing away the road material.
Second. The foundation of the road
should be thoroughly drained by open
side bitches which will carry off the
water and where necessary tile drains
should be laid in the foundation itself.
Third. The surface of the road
should be hard and smooth and have
sufficient slope toward the sides to shed
the surface wafer.
Fourth. Ruts and holes on the sur
face of the finished road should be filled
ss fast as made SO that no water can lie
on the surface to be worked up into
mud.
These rules are simple and easy to
follow, and any one who gives any seri-
GUS thought to the matter can see the
wisdom of following them. Still they
are almost universally ignored as the
condition of our roads abundantly
proves.
What this country needs is radical
change, a new era in road building.
The people have been moving in ruts
in more senses than one, and if each
local community is left to work out the
road problem alone, they will continue
to move in the same ruts, and every
year millions of dollars will be thrown
into the mud, to say nothing of the
losses resulting from the use of bad
roads. Lectures on road improvement
seem to do very little good. Books and
bulletins on road building appear to
have very little effect.
What the local communities need is
practical object lessons and actual as
sistance, and these can come only from
the state governments and the federal
government. It is for this reason that
road reformers everywhere are turning
toward state and national aid as the
only solution of the road problem.
The bad roads of the United States
are blight, curse, disgrace and all
patriotic, progressive citizens should
make a grand united effort to wipe
them out and put our nation on level
with the advanced nations of Europe
in the matter of roads.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Guns Drove Back Train.

Toxic, June 15-Rear Admiral Togo
reports that Tuesday part of the feet
bombarded the west coast of the Lao
Tung peninsula, near Kaichau, and
drove back military train that was
approaching southwark. No trains
have been seen since. The enemy was
moving in troops and erecting works
evidently expecting a landing of the
Japanese at that point and making all
preparations to prevent it. Small gum
boats sent in close by Rear Admiral
Togo bombsrded the Russians at
work.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Union County Seat Fight.

La Grande-The complete election re-
turns of Union county show majority
for the removal of the county seat.
The vote on the removal of the county
seat from Union to La Grande was g.
552 for removal and 1908 against,
making a total of 419 more than the go
per cent required.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
MILLION SHEEP RN ROUTE.
Going to the Blue Mountains for the
Summer Range.

Pendleton-Tens of thousands of
sheep are en- route to summer range in
the Blue mountains ac1 oss various
parts of Umatilla county. Between
20, ZOO and 900 travelled last week
up the Walla Walia river road through
Freewater and Milton, numerous bands
went up the Umatilla, and focks are
moving southwark up Birch and simil-
ar creeks into Southern Umatilla.
Tne mountain range of this county,
and portions of Union and Grant coun-
ties, are the ultimate destinations.
The annual protest is also beginning
to go from water users in the irrigated
sections, who are afraid that the flow
of their various streams will be lessened
through sheep eating out underbrush
at the headwaters of these streams.
Whether the increasing deficiency in
flow during the dry seasons is due to
extra demands made by the constantly
growing number Of irrigators, or to the
disappearance of mountain shrubbery
and consequent lack of anything to 'e-
tain the snowfall is disputed issue
between sheepmen and water users, an
issue which brings up the old conten-
tion about whether sheephe1ders burn
out the underground to help grass for
the next season or not.
Meanwhile, the bands whose aggre-
gate will fill the Blue mountains of
three counties mentioned with nearly
1000, 900 sheep are pouring in, and
can be encountered on any mountain
highway.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Dowie Coming Home.

London, June 15.-It is announced
that John Alexander Dowie has decided
to return to the United States by the
first steamer. In strongly-worded de-
nunciatory editorials, the London
papers this morning express unbounded
satisfaction with Dowie's speedy de-
parture.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Russians Killed Number 700.

Toxic, June 14.-The military COM
mission assigned to bury the Russian
dead in the battle of Nanshan hill at
Kinchou May 26, presented its final re-
port today. 1t was found that ten Rus
sian officers and 664 men who fell in
the battle, had been carefully buried.
and 80 men were buried by the out
posts, making the total number of killed
left behind by the Russians 704.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Wool Sells at High prie g.

Pendleton-Practically all the re-
naming wool Of Umatllla county was
disposed of at the second wool sale
under the auspices of the State Wool
growers association. Eleven growers
disposed of clips. aggregating $4,000
pounds. The clip of Isaac Knots Of
Pilot Rock, consisting of Is 1898 pounds,
topped the market at 1873 cents. The
average price was ID cents.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
RUSSIAN ARrIY SWELLING.
Hxulfation Over Victory ON the Feng
Wang Cheng Road.

6AuHaSsOu OVeE VsCIuFy ON tne Feng
Wang Cheng Road.
Lao Yang, June 14.-The army here
is increasing rapidly, fresh squadron
arriving daily.
There is no fresh news from Port
Arthur, nor has any confirmation of
serious events having occurred there
been received. On the contrary, ac-
cording to the best information, every
thing is going we'll.
The officers and men here are very
enthusiastic over the driving back of
the Japanese on the road between Feng
Wang Cheng and Haicheng June 9.
Only comparatively short distance
separates the Japanese and Russian
armies and the soldiers are all anxious
for active operations to begin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
Russian Prisoners In Japan.

Toxic, June 15.-The Russian pris-
oners in the hospitals in Japan number
$40, including 19 officers. Of these 3S
men and 10 officers are wounded. while
the others are suffering from sickness
of various sorts.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17

Niu Chwang, June 15.-Information
has been received here through hereto
fore reliable channels that part of the
Japanese force left at Pu' Lam Tien to
checkmate the Russians southwark
movement to relieve Port Arthur was
attacked southeast of Shung Mao yes
terday. After slight fighting. the Jap
anese made false retreat, the Russians
hotly following them, when the Japan
ese made flank movement. catching
the Russians in trap. The Russian
losses are placed at 500 men. They
then fell back on Kaichou and began
to retreat along the Baimatgu-Tsai
Chou road.
About 1000 Russian infantry from
Kaichou passed through Niu Chwang
yesterday, accompanied by large sup
ply and hospital train. Several carts
contained bandaged men. The troops
appeared to be tagged out, and showed
every indication of long, forced
march. The officers refused to furnish
any information, but noncommis
stoned officer told correspondent of
the Associated Press that ali the troops
were retreating from Tsai Chou. Be-
fore he could say anything further, he
was reprimanded by a captain. Strag-
glers are closely watched by noncom-
missioned officers to prevent them
from talking. The Russians have
abandoned the ground mines eight
miles south of here.
A native messenger just in from the
Russian camp west of here reports that
there are-many wounded. men there.