Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-29

Likely to Prove Interesting.
St. Louis has been warned to expect
food.
The house has passed the bill Civ
ing Alaska delegate.
The Vladivostok squadron has sunk
small Japanese steamer at Gensan.
Kouropatkin is to be made COM
mander of land and sea forces in the
Far East.
A dispatch from Port Arthur denies
that 20, 900 Japanese troops have land
ed at Dalny.
The foreign military observers as.
signed to Japan's first army in Corea
have been ordered to leave for the
front.
The Japanese are landing much ma
terial and other supplies and preparing
to build bridges IN the neighborhood OF
Wiju.
The powers are expected to back
Russia in declaring the use OF wireless
.telegraphy constitutes espionage. The
certain reservations.
The tomb of the famous Livingston
family, near New York, was broken
into and the bodies of several removed,
while the bones of others were scat
tered over the floor.
The house has passed the senate bill
providing that when the United States
district judge of the district of Oregon
is absent or unable to hold court, the
circuit Judge may hold district court
and perform other duties of the district
judge.
The cazr has signed an order recall
ing Viceroy Alexieff.
The Japanese lines on the Yalu river
now extend for 80 miles.
Bank robbers at lola, Wis.,, secured
$1,000, but overlooked $4,000 in their
haste.
The Panama canal property has been
formally turned over to the United
States.
An American doctor and eight nurses
have arrived in Japan to assist In Red
Cross work.
Alaska Indian children will be
brought to the Chemawa, Oregon,
school or education.
Kouropatkin has forbid his generals
to engage in any battles and even op-
poses small skiImishes.
Rumors of fighting on the Yalu, in
Lo 1or hoo
tinue to come from Port Arthur.
George A. Hammond, consulting en-
gineer, has been ordered to Eastern
Oregon to assist in the examination of
the Malheur irrigation proposition.
The Indian agent at Colville, WASH,
and the bonded superintendent at Nez
Perces, Idaho, reservation have been
let out on account of indiscreet actions.
Neidermeir, Marx and Vandine, the
Chicago carbarn bandits, have paid the
penalty of their crimes.
Russia may not send her Baltic feet
to the Far East, as it would leave her
European ports unguarded.
A Port Arthur report says an entire
Yalu river. No confirmation is obtain
able.
1t is reported that two Japanese, dis
guised as beggars, attempted to assassi-
nate General Kouropatkin while he
was in Niu Chwang recently.
Russian troops en- route to the Far
East have been denied LIQUOR as there
is a determination on the part of off,
GERS that the army shall conduct itself
we'll.
The Hansbrough bill recently passed
by the senate repeating the timber and
stone act, and authorizing the sale Of
government timber to the highest bid
der, has been practically killed in the
house public lands committee.
Many floating mines have been seen
off the Shan Tung promontory in the
path followed by vessels bound to and
from Shanghai and Che Foo and Tien
Tsin. This is extremely dangerous to
shipping and probably will cause an
increase in marine insurance.
Twenty Russians engaged in planting
mines in the entrance to Port Arthur
were killed by an accidental explosion.
The senate has passed the pension
and the river and harbor bills.
The cost of the war to Russia, up to |
April 5, is placed at $46, $50, 900.
St. Petersburg is in receipt of q re-
port that Niu ChWang is being bonn
barded.
Colorado militiamen dubbed the Sec
retary of the Miners Federation for de-
flying their chief.
The house has passed bill provid-
ing a temporary government for the