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CORVALLIS GAZETTE Octette Pabiiahlnz C. CORVALLIS-. OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening of the Past Week, Presented in Condensed Form, Most Likely to Prove Interesting. Perdicaria says the brigand Raisuli it posing as a patriot. London papers praise Admiral ' Togo for bis latest victory off Fort Arthur. Russians are said to bave been de feated in a decisive battle at Tashicbao. Count Tolstoi inveighs against the present war and holds the czar up to ridicule. The body of another woman hs come to the surface from the General Slocum disaster. I. H. Amos, of Portland is -a possi ble candidate for president on the Pro hibition ticket. Heat prostrations have been numer ous the past few days in New York and Washington. John Aleanxder Dowie has returned to the United States. - Harriman is said to be about to se cure control of the Santa Fe system. The American Federation of Labor has entered into the Colorado miners' strike. - Russia has redoubled her efforts to get the Baltic squadron in shape to sail for the Far East. The Kansas wheat harvest will be delayed many days on account of the recent heavy rains. What is thought to be a final report on the General Slocum disaster shows that 1,031 ilves were lost. Eleven persons were seriously injured and many more slightly in a collision of two street cars at Chicago. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Trans-Mississippi Commerical congress at St. Louis September 10-17. Chinese bandits are helping the Jap anese bv giving movements of troops, attacking outposts, and blowing up bridges. Fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed $300,000 worth of DroDertr in the lumber district of Cleveland. Generals Oka and Kuroki are be lieved to have joined their forces. A decisive battle between the main armies of Russia and Japan is expected shortly. France will send a warship to Hayti to enforce a redress for the attack on her minieter. A boiler valve on the United States torpedo boat Biddle blew out eeriously burning two men. Perdicaria and Varley bave been re leased by the Moroccan bandit and have returned to Tangier. The former has agqd graetly from the hardships suffered while a captive. Fire destroyed the Hoo-Hoo house at the St. Louis fair and for a time en dangered the Oregon, Texas and Ger man buildings. The loss is placed at 1000,00 and insurance of 20,000 tar ried. Five more bodies have been recov ered from the General Slocum wreck, mailing a total of 912, of which 824 have been identified. It ia believed the casualties will reach 1,000. More than $100,000 has been subscribed to the relief fund. The president has announced the fol lowing cabinet appointments: Wil liam H. Moody, of MasBachusletts, at torney general ; Paul Morton, of Illi nois, secretary of the navy; Victor H. Metcalf, of California, secretary of commerce and labor. Thirty persons were killed and many injured in a train wreck in Spain. H. E. Huntington has resigned as vice president of the Southern Pacific. Perdicaria and Varney are believed to have been liberated by the Moroccan bandit. The hull of the ill-fated steamer General Slocum has been raised but no bodies found. Palace guards at Port au Prince, Hayti, threw stones at the French and German ministers. A packing company has completed arrangements for placing a $500,000 plant in Portland. Russians attacked Japanese 50 miles from Feng Wang Cheng and were re pulsed with considerable loss. The national '05 board has decided on five buildings at the LewiB and Clare exposition with an immense floor space. The Citizens' alliance of Cripple Creek has ordered 3.000 buttons for coat lapels bearing the inscription "They can't come back." The total number of known dead in the General Slocum disaster is now 907. Conditions at Port Arthur remain unchanged. Admiral Alexieff has been decorated a Knight of the True Cross. Russian torpedo boats have captured a Japanese schooner laden with pro visions. Fire at Patterson, N. J., destroyed proprety valued at between $200,000 and $300,000. PASSAQB PARTIALLY blocked. Russian Fleet Has Great Difficulty in Leaving Port Arthur. Tokio, June 29. The detailed report received from Admiral Togo of the op erations before Port Arthur, which re sulted in the sinking of another Rus sian battleship, shows that the en trance to the harbor at Port Arthur is still blocked to such an extent that it is impossible for tie Russians to maneuver. The operation of bringing the Russian fleet into the open, ac cording to the report of the officers of the Japanese scout vessels, lasted from 11 a. m., till 3:30 p. m., and was diffi cult in the extreme. When first seen by the main fleet the Russian ships were in a double column formation, the first made up of four cruisers and six battleships, with the battleship Czarevitch in the lead. The second column was made up of the cruiser Notvik and seven destroyers. That the Japanese did not attack in force and attempt to sink the entire Russian fleet was due to the fact that 4 nightfall arrived before the ships could be brought within range, and nothing was left but for the torpedo attack. It is generally believed now that another attempt will be made by the Russians to escape. FLEET FAST BEING MADB READY. Russia Redoubles Her Efforts to Oct Baltic Squadron Ready. St. Petersburg, June 29. Work on the Baltic squadron designed for service in the Pacific ia being pushed with re doubled vigor night and day. Ad miral Birileff , the commander-in-chief at Constadt, is co-operating with Vice Admiral Rojetsevnsky, in command of the Baltic fleet, to hasten the work. The captains of the battleships Navarin and Sissoi Veliky . and the armored cruiser Admiral Nakimoff , the first ves sel to go out into the roadstead in com mission, have been publicly compli mented for their diligence. In order not to impede the work, the crews are not mustered to salute the commander-in-chief when he visits the veeeels. A strict guard is maintained at Cron stadt. Even the warships' Punches are not allowed to enter the naval basins after dusk. Lieutenant Vavil lor, in charge of the naval labroatory, was arrested recently and confined to a fortress for bringing a relative to the laboratory without permission . MORMONS QBT MEXICAN TRACT. Half Million Acres Will Be Purchased to Sonora or Chihuahua. Mexico City, June 29. A report is being circulated here to the effect that the Mormon church would be quite ac tively engaged during the next few months in securing land in vraious por tions of Mexico foi the purpose of colo nization. The assertion is made that it was recently decided to purchase a tract of 500,000 acres in Sonora or Chi huahua, to be used as an extension of the colonies of Colouia, Dublan and Diaz. The arrangements are about completed, it is said, and within a few weeks the deeda will be ready for transfer. In addition to these lands, it is learned, the Mormon elders have taken hold of several other land offers recent ly made to them. Among these are said to be large tracts of land in Sinaloa and Chiapas. Japan Seeking No Gain. Vienna, June 29. The Allegemeine- Zeitung says that according to a diplo matic note received here the Japanese government has resolved, in case peace is restored, to demand nothing else than was mentioned in the govern ment's note of December last; that if even if Port Arthur be taken by the Japanese, to restore it to Russia, re specting the Russo-Chinese agreement, and that Japan will regard Russia as economically predominant in Manchu ria. Japan demands only that she be considered with the other great powers in the solution of Asiatic questions. Hulk Towed to Dock. New York, June 29. Crowds, with heads bowed and uncovered, lined both Bides of East river today as the black ened hulk of the General Slocum was towed to a dock in Erie Basin, where it is to be inspected by the Federal au thorities. The flags on the tugs having the wreck in tow were at half-mast, and when passing Barreto Point, where the Slocum sank and where so many lost their lives, the flags were dipped. All the craft in the harbor dipped their flags as the flotilla passed. Dies of Heart Failure. Manila, June 29. Mgr. Gnidi, apostolic delegate to the Philippine islands, died today of heart failure. The funeral will take place here next Friday and the remains will be interred two months later at Rome. Mgr. Guidi was sent to the Philippine islands nearly two years ago as the representative of the Vatican in the ne gotiations with the Philippine com missioners for the Bale of the iriar lands to the American government. More Firing at Port Arthur. Chefoo, June 29. There was firing at Port Aithur last night, and tonight. The booming of big guns was distinctly heard here tonight. Eighteen Japan ese transports have been Been going west along the Corean coast. GET EVERY VOTE ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS HEAD REPUBLICAN TICKET. Announcement of the Choice Was Ac companied by a Resounding Demon stration Ex-Oovernor Black, of New York, and Senator DolUver, of Iowa, Make Nominating Speeches. Chicago, June 24 The swift, sure current of public opinion for the sec ond time in the history of the Republi can conventions, yesterday resulted in the selection of a national ticket with out a dissenting vote. Theodore Roose velt, for president, and Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana, for vice presi dent, received every vote in the conven tion. Regardless of the fact that the nomi nation of one had been assured for THEODORE ROOSEVELT Republican Nominee for President months and the other for days, the an nouncement of the choice was accom panied by a resounding demonstration which attested the candidates' uni versal popularity. The cheering was led by figures known through the breadth of the land and echoed by a mighty throng of en thusiastic men and radiant women as sembled in the Coliseum to witness the crowning feature, as well aa the close of the national convention that marka the seim-centennial of the Re publican party in the United States. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS Republican Nominee for Vice President No less than 10,000 men and women participated in the ratification of the party program, and the consequent roar of cheering and handclapping was deaf ening. The band stationed high among the girders of the hall waa drowned by the tumultuous, unbounded demonstra tion. Hats were tossed into the air. state emblems were waved and flags, beautiful, tri-coolred, shimmering silken flags, fluttered from every hand as though stirred by a gale. The roll was called and the unanim ous vote of the delegations recorded for Mr. Roosevelt without incident until the name of New Jersey asked unanim ous consent that the roll be dispensed with and that the secretary of the con vention be instructed to cast the entire vote for Mr. Roosevelt. The objection was general and every state accepted the opportunity of casting , its entire vote for the president. Pandemonium broke loose again when the speaker announced that there were 994 votes and 994 had been cast for Roosevelt. A great picture of the president was carried about through the hall. Ex-Governor Black, of New York, made the speech nominating Roosevelt, and Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, nomin ated Fairbanks. Cloudburst In Colorado. Granada, Colo., June 24. A cloud burst on Wolf creek has flooded the town. The screams of women in the houses on the lowland in the west part of town summoned the citizens, who rescued all who were in danger. The streets were flooded. At least a half a mile of the Santa Fe was washed out west of here. Reports from Dry creek are that it is a river, and it is feared there was loss of life among the ranch men living near the creek. More Troops Passing Southward. Liao Yang, June 25. Further drafts of troops are passing southward," where constant skirmishes are reported by the wounded men who are returning home. y ; ! AMERICA TO DROP IT. No Demand For Redress Will Be Mape in Perdicarls' Case. Washington, June 28. The state de partment does not contemplate any re clamations upon the Moorish govern ment on account of the Perdicaria inci dent. In its view that tne government has suffered severely, both from a financial point of view and in national humiliation, through its compliance with the demand of the use of force, by appearing to the powerful influences of the Shereefs Mouley Ali and Mouley Ahmed, who headed the escort sent to bring the prisoners to Tangier. More over, France practically furnished the money from which - the ransom was paid, as the recent French loan of $12, 500,000 gave the sultan the means to meet Raisuli's demand for $70,000 ransom. The Raisuli incident is going to have an important effect on the adoption of a firm French policy toward Morocco. The correspondent of the Associated Press learns that definite steps have already been taken to inaugurate French authority. M. Dekasse has se lected M. Raindre, the ex-French rep resentative at Geneva, to take up the organization of the Moroccan customs at the ports, including Tangier. The recent French loan to Morocco is guar anteed by the customs leceipts. There fore, M. Raindre will oversee the cus toms administration. He is now or agnizing a large staff. The next step will be the organization of french po lice or gendarmerie at Tangier. It appears by all accounts, including that of Perdicaria himself, aa set down in hia letters, that he did not suffer undue hardship ; that he was treated with kindness and consideration by Raisuli and that he haa no ill-feeling toward that, to him, agreeable bandit No sufficient reason exists why any fur ther demands should be made upon the sultan of Morocco either for indemnity or the punishment of the kidnapers If the sultan chooses to take vengeance upon Raisuli, that is hia own affair. PLANNED A DASH. Japanese Struck Russian Fleet In the Nick of Time. Tokio, June 28. Admiral Togo, re porting further on his success at Port Arthur, says his patrol boat discovered the battleship Peresviet and seven other vessels, accompanied by nine torpedo boat destroyers, near the entrance . to Port Arthur harbor. The patrol boat warned him wirelessjy, and he imme distely advanced his entire fleet, except those engaged upon special duty. The admiral then discovered that the Russian fleet consisted of six battle ships, five cruisers and 14 destroyers, the commander having evidently plan ned a dash by sundown. The Russians stopped outside the en trance to the harbor, and after night fall a fleet of Japanese torpedo boat de stroyers resolutely attacked the Rus sian ships, and succeeded in torpedoing and sinking a battleship of the Feres viet type, and disabled the . battleship Sevastopol. A cruiser of the Diana type was ob served burning. It was towed into the harbor and it was evident she sustatm ed serious damage. The torpedo boat destroyer Shirakumo was hit by a shell, which fell in the cabin, killing three men and wounding three others. The Chidori, a vassel of the same class, was hit behind the engine room, but no casualties resulted therefrom. Tor pedo boats 64 and 66 were slightly damaged. Apology Not Sufficient. Paris, June 28. Hayti's apology for the insult to the French minister at Port au Prince, M. Deprez, who was stoned by the palace guards recently, has been received by the foreign office, but does not give satisfaction. It ap pears to seek to make light of the in cident. The officials here are not dis posed to assume a belligerent attitude toward a small power, but they expect Hayti adequately to realize and redref s the offenses. This contributed to the decision to send a warship to Haytian waters. Butte Miners Will dive $25,000. Butte, Mont., June 28. The Butte Miners' union has decided to donate $25,000 to the Colorado miners to as sist them in pressing the legal test to be made on the Colorado supreme court decision upholding the habeas corpus, and allowing President Moyer, of the Western Federation of Miners, to re main in jail without charges having been placed against him. The right of Governor Peabody and General Bell to deport miners without trial will also be tested by the Butte miners. Wul Make Mre Miners Go. Cripple Creek, Colo., June 28. The miltiary commission held an ad-day session to dispose of the cases , of 100 union men now imprisoned in the vari ous jails and bull pen 8 in the district. Colonel Edward Verdeckberg.command ing officer, said today that upon the im mediate return of General Sherman M. Bell from Denver tonight or tomorrow, arrangements will be made for deporta tion of prisoners against whom no criminal charges are made. Fears Cholera May Spread to America, Washington, June 28. Vice Consul John. Tyler, . at Teheran, haa notified the state department that there are 250 cases of cholera at Sultanabad, which is the principal center of the- Persian carpet trade with. America. ' The con sul has warned agents not to make ship ments for the present. MUST SOON FIGHT JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN OUr POSTS ARE IN TOUCH. - Battle WU1 Be One of the Most Decisive of the War Oenerals Kuroki and Oka Have Merged Their Two Armies Into One Kuropatkln Is Very Much on the Alert. St. Petersburg, June 29. A dispatch from Lieutenant General Sakharoff to night, telling of numerous skirmishes, confirms the belief that the great de cisive battle of the campaign between General Kuropatkin's main army and the armies of Generals Kuroki and Oku is imminent. The three armies aggre gate 300,000 men, and their outposts are today in touch all along the line. The Japanese evidently tried to draw Kuropatkin as far south . as possible, holding out as incentive a check to the advance of Oku's main army. Mean time, Oku swung sharply to the east ward to join Kuroki toward the Chapan pasB, Kuroki at the same time moving a strong force by the right flank toward Haicheng. The main Japanese ad vance continues along the main Feng Wang Cheng-Liao Yang road, avoiding the Mao Tien pass by a detour to the northward. Nothing is known here of the exact point at which Kuropatkin'smain force 18 concentrated, though it ia believed that a large part of the Liao' Yang force has been moved to a point be tween Kinchou and Ta Tche Kiao. BELL COMBS OUT PLAINLY. He Will Deport More Men if the Gover nor Will Only Direct. Cripple Creek, Colo., June 29. Gen eral Sheiman Bell, who is governing Teller county under martial law, has issued another statement for publica tion, which in part is as follows: "There are 10,000 lies being written about me. I am acting under orders of the governor of the state of Colorado. He stands for peace and quiet and good government, and has instructed me to see to it that the Western Federation ot Miners shall not directly or indirectly murder any more men, and they shall not. "So far as placing Denver under martial law is concerned, that rests solely with the governor. Provided he should see fit to do bo, I am his adju tant general, commanding the military forces of the state, and will see to it that hundreds of bad men are deported, and after martial law has been called off, if the citizens permit the cattle intend to deport to return that will be their business. No man who wants to work will be molested, but the person who lives solely and only by his mouth, provided Governor Peabody gives me the word, will have to emigrate. The time for temporizing talk in Colorado has passed. What we ought to do now is to act, and I guess we are going some." LEOAL FIQHT ON OIL TRUST. Ohio Man Begins Suit to Dissolve the Standard Oil Company. Trenton, N. J., June 29. Chailes J. Henderson, Jr., of Jersey City, and Jospeh M. Newhn, of Philadelphia, counsel for George Rice, of Marietta, O., today filed in the court of chancery a bill for the di solution of the Stand ard oil company, a New Jersey corpora' tion, charging that the company is il legal, and that it exists in violation of the anti-trust laws of the United States, and of the statute relating to monop olies. The bill charges that the Standard oil company m Ohio was declared il legal by the courts of that state, but that the company, instead of dissolv ing, in obedience, to that decision, has, by subterfuge, evaded the Ohio deci sion, and that the New Jersey corpora tion ia merely a holding compariy for the Ohio concern. The bill asks that not only the company be dissolved, but that its assets be distributed among the stockholders as paying off its outstand ing securities. For the accomplish ment of this purpose, it is asked that a receiver be appointed. To Discharge Four Thousand Men Philadelphia, June 29. Four thoi s and men will be discharged from ihe Baldwin Locomotive works within the next few days. Six thousand have already been dropped from the com pany '8 service and the working force will be reduced to 6,000. The greatest number ever employed is about 16,000. These statements were made by aa officer of the company today. The places made vacant by the strike of 300 men in the boiler shops last week were filled by the management from 3,000 men recently discharged. Condemned By Prize Court. Vladivostok, June 29. The prize court has condemned the British steamer Alanton, captured by the Rus sian Vladivostok squadron recently in the straits of Gorea, for carrying contraband of war, and has confiscated the ship and her cargo of 6,500 tens of anthracite coal, valued at $50,000. The firm at Singapore to which the coal waa consigned is the same concern that supplied the Japanese-Chinese war. Wyoming Irrigation Project Approved. Cheyenne, Wyo., June 29. The state land board was today advised by wire that the interior department had just approved the segregation of 150,000 acres of land in the Oregon Basin irri gation project. By the Oregon basin improvement and several allied enter prises several hundred thousand acres of desert land will be converted into productive farms and thriving towns. SUNK BY SHELLS. Japanese Send Russian Battleships to the Bottom. Tokic, June 27. Admiral Togo re ports an engagement at Port Arthur last Thursday in which a battleship of the Peresviet type was sunk and a bat tleship of the Sevastopol type and a first-class cruiser of "the" Diana" type were damaged. ' - f The report ia general here that the Port Arthur fleet came out of the har oor Thursday and engagedlhe"japam?se fleet. Fire for Twelve Hours. Chicago, June 27. A special to the Daily News from Chefoo says: "Another demonstration took place off Port Arthur Thursday. Firing be gan from the forts about 10 a. m., and continued until 10 p. m. The program was about the same as on the previous day. . "The destroyers and torpedo boats pursued the same tactics, and an aux iliaryjcruiser lay off the islands until mo uuug uttu ceasea, wnea it proceed ed eastward at full speed. 4 "At 8:30 p.m., the same evening, firing began heavily from the bluff, with much activity of the searchlights, indicating the approach of torpedo boats. A little later the sound of more dietant firing waa heard, evidently from the land aide of Port Arthur, con tinuing until 2:30 in the morning. "During that period there waa an almost uninterrupted thunder aa of field guns and volley firing, punctuated with clasbea as of siege guns. "It is probable that what took place was a general shore action .with a naval demonstration. It seems as though the Japanese intend to wenrout the de fenders by continued night activity, be fore making a final simultaneous sea and land attack." MAY LEAD TO REBELLION. President Moyer Says Miners Will Re sent Policy ot Bcu. Cripple Creek, Colo., June 25. In reply to a telegram from the New York World, Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, who is now a prisoner in the county jail here, Bent an extended statement of present conditions in the state from his standpoint. Mr. Moyer said in part: "The deportation of the union men and others, being in my opinion un lawful, the Western Federation of Miners will use all lawful means to re establish their members in their homes. No violence will be resorted to, but such legal steps as may be nec essary to bring about the desired re sults will be taken at the nrorwr time Pending such action, deported mem bers and their families will be sup ported by the federation. "General Bell alleges that his policy has been successful, and that ether states are expected to follow suit. If this be true, then rebellion is not im probably, as the great majority of the American people are today condemning such a system, and, regardless of union ism, would bitterly resist any attempt to put the same into practice. 1 disa gree with the genera as to the labor troubles being settled in Colorado, but do believe they will be settled by the ballot in the month of November."" Places Not to Be Had for Asking. Washington, June 24. D. I. Murphy secretary of the Isthmian Canal com mission, today gave out the following! "Applications for places under the commission have been filed by thous ands, and are still pouring in. It ought to be understood that no one not possessing special qualification will be appointed for the work of the com mission. The work will be largely of a technical character. "Those applying for service on the isthmus, in addition, to the possession of exceptional qualifications, must pasa a rigid physical examination, under the direction of the public health and marine hospital service to test their fit ness for service in the tropics. Probably not one in a hundred of those applying have even a remote chance of appointment." Kuropatkin Addresses Troops. Kaichou, June 25. General Kuro patkin inspected General Stakelberg's troops and addressed them, saying: I shall see you soon again. We must settle with the Japanese prompt ly. Till then we are not going home." The men responded heartily. The gen eral also addressed the regiments which specially distinguished them selves in the recent fighting, and pre sented the St. George cross to 250 offi cers and men. The reports of the Jap anese treatment of prisoners and wounded are marked by contradictions. Icebreaker to Start for Far Bast. St. Petrsebrug, June 27. It is stated that the icebreaker Ermak, designed by the late Vice Adimral Makaroff, is preparng to start for the Far East. Grand Duke Cyril, cousin of the em peror, and Captain Jakovleff , who com manded the battleship Petropavlovsk, which was sunk off Port Arthur, have been presented with gold sworda in recognition of their bravery and ser vices at Port Arthur. Relief Fund Reaches $90,000. Nw York. June 27. Jacob H. Schiff , treasurer of the committee ap nnintArl Viv the mavor to solicit sub- f j : . - scriptions for the relief of .the victims of the General Slocum disaster, report ed today that the committee had thus far received over $90,000.