Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-18
WEEKS DOINGS

General Review of important Happen.
penigs Presented In Brief and
Condensed Eorm.
Pension Commissioner Ware has re.
signed.
The Japanese continue to gain ground
at Port Arthur.
Austria favors an arbitration treaty
with the United States.
An extra session of congress to re-
wise the tariff is probable.
Count Cassni again declares Russia
will carry on the war to the bitter end:
The new $50, 600 900 Japanese loan
has been oversubscribed several times.
Ten scouts have been killed by Fill
pinos in an ambush on the east coast
Of Samar.
The American Federation. of Labor is
holding it's annual convention in San
Francisco. :.-'7
Delegates to the National Irrigation
congress declare themselves in favor OF
meeting in Portland in 1905.
The house of "Hoo-Hoo," which was
such a success at the St. Louis fair,
will be feature of the Lewis and
Clark exposition.
The fifth trial of A. A. Ames, ex-
mayor of Minneapolis, has been set for
November %. A special venire ot 100
men has been made to select a jury
from.
The Pearson boat plant at Duluth,
Minn., burned, causing loss OF $780,
900.
John H. Hall has been 1e-appointed
United States district attorney for Ore
gon.
Russia has completed arrangements
for floating loan of $3.50, 100000 in
Berlin.
Russia's best friends realize that she
is ste on fitting and that there is no
hope for mediation at present.
The chief of engineers, in his annual
report, asks for over $4,000, 900 for the
improvement of livers and harbors OF
the Pacific Northwest
The Fourteenth U. S. infantry, now
in the Philippines, will sail from Ma
nila March l5 and go to Vancouver
Barracks, Washington.
There are likely to be three new
members in the presidents cabinet
alert March next. Shaw, Taft and
Hitchcock are the ones expected to 60.
General A. Mackenzie, chief of en-
gineers of the United States army, in
his annual report, recommends that
$4,000, 900 be spent on sea coast work.
Chicago il to have municipal mu-
scum. So
Half of the new 10000, 900 Japan
ese loan is to be offered in New York.
President Roosevelt will visit the St..
Louis fair the latter part of this month.
Carter H. Harrison says he will not
again become a candidate for mayor OF
Chiago. He was first elected in 1897.
Three nations, Great Britain, Mexico
and Denmark, have signified their will
ingness to participate in second peace
congress.
1t is said that President Roosevelt
has been asked to become president Of
Harvard university in 1908 and that he
has agreed.
France will not suggest mediation to
Russia. as it would be distasteful to
the cza1 and might impair the alliance
between the two countries.
Secretary Taft will ask the next con-
gress to reduce the custom duties on
goods entering the United States from
the Philippines. He believes it should
be two-thirds less.
The annual report of the auditor of
the postoffice department shows that
for the last fiscal year the revenues of
the service amounted to $14, ,5S2, ,624,
and the expenditures $152, 1862 .l16.
Both armies south of Mukden con-
tinue to prepare for battle.
Frank Crocker, a New York auto
mobilist, has made 20 miles on track
in 1882 1-5. His fastest mile was
:56 3-5.
A severe earthquake on the island OF
Formosa caused immense damage to
property, killing IS people and injur-
ing % others.
British Columbia engineers are find
ing good places with the Grand Trunk
Pacific, the new Canadian railroad
building to the coast.
John Svoboda, Nelson. B. c., man,
left Dawson eight weeks ago for his
home with $40, 900, and has not been
heard from since. Foul play is sus-
pected,