Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-16
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review of Important Happen.
penigs Presented in a Brief and
Condensed Form.


Condensed Form.
Fire destroyed an immense coal bun
ker at Buffalo.
The real work will not begin until
early in January.
John D. Rockefeller has given Chi.
cago University 100000.
The second trial of the Oregon land
fraud case is in progress in Portland.
The nomination of Governor Brady,
of Alaska, has been held up by the
senate.
The national convention of Travelling
Passenger agents will meet in Portland
in 1905.
The international commission to in
quire into the North sea incident is
expected to meet in Paris Dc cember %.
Barbed wire stretched in front of the
Japanese trenches is proving the worst
foe of the Russian army in Manchuria.
A number of Boxer leaders in North
ern China have been placed in prison
and it is thought probable that the in
tended uprising has been nipped in the
bud.
At the last cabinet meeting Secretary
Hitchcock spoke briefly of the land
fraud cases, indicating that some start
ling developments in them might be
expected in the near future.
The Rough Riders will have place
.of honor in the inaugural parade.
A Chinese capitalist declares that he
knows Port Arthur has provisions for
three months.
Of the 100 locomotives ordered for
the Hartman lines. 30 are for the
Southern Pacific.
Dowie has paid the last installment
on his debts and Zion City is again on
a sound financial basis.
The Russian battleship sevastopol at
Port Arthur has not been sunk and is
adopting defensive measures.
The Japanese have turned their at
tention to Golden Hill fortress and
some damage has been inflicted.
A dispatch from Mukden says the
Japanese have driven the Russians on
the right bank of the Hun river west
wsrd.
The president has sent the nomina-
tion of C. P. Neill to succeed Wright as
commissioner of labor to the senate for
confirmation.
The British American arbitration
treaty has been signed by Secretary Hay
and the British ambassador. It is ex-
pected that the Italian treaty will be
ready soon.
A Russian captain has been arrested
for criticising the admiralty.
Washington has four aspirants for
the Office of fish commissioner.
The Southern states are flooding
Roosevelt with invitations to visit
them.
The remains of Kruger, the ex-presi-
dent of the Transvaal, have arrived at |
Pretoria.
Severe skirmishes have occurred on
tAO IINcI III hulCH tuc mug
slams were defeated.
A Japanese cruiser struck a mine at
the entrance to the Port Arthur harbor
and sunk. OF the crew only 80 were
lost.
A number of pl prominent Russian off,
cials have resigned on the czar declar-
ing he will stand by the new ministe,
of the interior.
Twenty years ago, when both were
stationed at Paris, General Kuropatkin
and General Teruchi, now Japanese
of war, met and became fast
friends. On the eve of the present war
an exchange of swords as presents took -,
place between them. |,
The first snow of the season has fall
en- in Eastern Oregon.
St. Petersburg authorities deny that
a famine exists in Southern Russia.
The torpedo boats at Port Arthur
have not been sunk, and they may try
to escape.
1t is reported that the czar las order
81 the Baltic fleet not to proceed to the t
Far East. c
Governor elect Douglas will appoint
General Miles as adjutant general of
the Massachusetts, militia.
The School coal mine, near Peoria, a
illinois, is on fire. There were 100 i
men at work at the time the flames c
we're discovered, but all escaped. The g
property loss will be heavy. t
The house committee on rivers and d
larbors has decided to send for some of g
he district engineers, as they desire to r
hear from them on the needs of rivers r
md harbors in their respective dis n
Iicts. :