Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-04-21
news OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
4 Resume Of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

Nevada state health officers report
conditions improving at Tonopah, the
new mining camp.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce has commenced its hearings
on railway legislation.
Commissioner Garfield is holding
night sessions examining into Standard
Oil methods in Kansas.
John A. Benson will have to stand
trial in Washington on land fraud
charges, the United States supreme
court having denied his right to be
tried in California.
Chicago teamsters' sympathizers have
mobbed the negro drivers for Mont
gomery, Ward & Co., and other dis
turbances are daily occurring in con-
nection with the strike.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided the care involving
the removal of George W. Beavers from
Brooklyn to Washington against Bea-
vers, holding him subject to removal.
The preliminary legal battle is on at
Portland in connection with the land
fraud cases. Hermann, Mitchell, Will
Hanson and the smaller offenders are
all in attendance at Judge Bellinger's
court. The best legal talent of the
state is arrayed against Prosecutor
Heney and they will be augmented
later by some of the best lawyers of the
nation.
Chicago will own the city's car lines
within three months.
Carnegie will soon distribute $12,-
100000 among so colleges in II states.
Minturn, small Colorado mining
town, has been practically wiped out
by fire.
Bids have just been opened by the
Navy department for the construction
of three cruisers.
Indiana's anti-cigarette law is in
force and cigarette cannot be pur-
chased in the state.
Further violence on the part of the
strikers has ended peace conferences on
the Chicago teamsters' strike.
The revivalists who have Just left
Portland and gone to Seattle say the
latter city is the purer of the two.
Russia accuses British ships of spy-
ing on the movements of the Baltic
feet and reporting to the Japanese.
Omaha retailers have had the price
of beef raised on them. They are now
paying SIS to 500 more per carcass
than they were two weeks ago.
A nmber of Chicago beef trust wit
nesses have fled to Canada and their
wives have been summoned before the
grand jury to tell what they know.
The Russian army is retreating to
Kirin.
Another earthquake in India has
wrecked two towns.
The Russian feet has changed its
course and gone eastward to coal.
Bloody disturbances are expected
throughout Russia on May day.
Paul Jones' body has been fou nd in
Paris and will be brought home for
burial.
The czar has announced his inten-
tion of revising the land laws in order
to quiet the peasants.
The Winnebago Indians, in Nebras-
ka, have protested to Washington,
claiming to have been robbed of their
-ands by agents.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company will spend $500, 900 on new
lines in Utah, Idaho, Montana and
Wyoming in 1905.
A commission has been appointed to
decide the dispute on international
rivers. The waterways in question are
the Rio Grande and Colorado on the
south and the Milk river on the north.
Cader Powell has assumed office as
marshal at Nome, Alaska, pending. in
vestigation.
An unknown malady is killing many
people at Tonopah, the new mining
camp CT Nevada. Hundreds ale fleeing
from the district to escape the disease.
Japan has been called upon to pun
lsh Formosans who murdered eight
American sailors.
Four beef trust officials have been
indicted by the Federal grand jury at
Chicago for spiriting witness away.
Both parties in the Chicago strike
refuse to confer and the employers have
adopted plan by which they hope to
win.
President Roosevelt has left Okla
homa for Colorado. He may be in
duced to cine on to Portland and at
tend the fair.
The two hostile fleets in Asiatic wa
ters have not yet come together, but
they are fast approaching each other
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