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CORVALLIS GAZETTE Oazette Publishing- Co. CORVALLIS OREGON WEEK'S DOINGS General Review of Important Happen penigs Presented in a Brief and Condensed Corm. , Two more of the Billings, Mont., jail breakers have been captured. Unofficial estimates by Japanese offi cers place the number of their sick and wounded soldiers at 45,000. A Massachusetts justice fined an at tache of the British embassy and later found he had exceeded his authority. He has apologized. United States custom officials at Foitland believe that neaily 20 per cent of the Chinese population of that city are in this country illegally. The Vancouver, B. C, police think they have in custody the leadei of the three men who held up the Canadian Pacific tiain near Mission recently. The Philippine islands will not be able to exhibit at the Lewis and Clark fair unless aid is given. Too heavy Jan expense at St. Iouis is given as the reason. A passenger train on the St. Louis & Iron Mountain railway was derailed 126 miles from St. Louis and injured 35 persons, a number of whom are so badly nurt it is believed they will die. Reports received from near Shang hai say that the Boxers are openly dis tributing pamphlets couched in the tame language as those circulated be fore the rising of 1900. October 17 is fixed as the date for the extermination of all foreigners. The Chilean training ship General Baguedana is at San Fancisco. The Japanese are preparing for a flanking movement against Kuropatkin. Reports from Port Arthur claim that there is plenty of coal foi months yet. Figuies just published Bhow Japan's financial codition to be in good shape. Large numbers of Japanese rein forcements are being hurried to Muk den. The Port Arthur fleet is expected to make another attempt shortly to es cape. Senator Hoar is very low and his son says his death may be expected at any moment. Eussia is likely to again yield to the protest of America and remove cottton from the contraband list. The steamer Ciusader, from Port land, r ft nor ted caDtured bv Japanese, has been released and proceeded to Shanghai. President Reyes is meeting with much opposition in the Colombian sen ate to the resumption of amicable rela tions with the United States. The German navy is to bo increased. Russia will probably demand of Britain her intentions in Thibet. RHro at the Bethleham. Pa., steel works destroyed property valued at $250,000. A foreign cruiser was sighted 30 miles off Golden Gate, which may prove to be the Russian vessel Korea. The British steamer Crusader, from Portland to Chinese Dorts with lum ber, has been captured by Japanese Cruisers. General Orloff will be transferred mm tYia Manchurian armv on ac count of his blunder at Liao Yang, and may even be retired. Carrie Nation announces that she is about to begin another crusade at Wichita, Kan., and asks the women of that city to join her. The Japanese have captured six more forts at Port Arthur with a loss of 3000 men. One of the forts taken guards the water supply of the garri son and city. A Pennsylvania woman suffragist advocates that all married ' women should go on strike and refuse to cook for their husbands until given the right to vote. A freight train struck a wagon load ed with dynamite near Cumberland, W. Va. Two trainmen weie killed and nine persons injured. Japanese forces, " divided into four armies, continue to advance on Muk den. St. Peteieburg does not believe Kuropatkin will stubbornly resist the advance. Admiral Dewey has just celebrated the 50th anniversary of his entrance into the navy. Vesuvius is gradually becoming act ive. Ashes and sparks of fire rise oc casionlaly to a height of 700 feet. The eruption is the most spectacular in the last ten years. The Japanese are attacking Port Arthur in a much fiercer manner than tfver before. Whole battalions are killed by Russian mines. The squad rons of Togo and Kamimnra assist in the assault. v The new Russian minister of the in terior will adopt a liberal policy toward tbe Jews. Cholera has appeared at Port Arthur. Up to the present only a few cases "have been reported, but there are grave fears that the disease will be i come epidemic. Hungary has under a ban. placed Mormonism The Japanese continue to move to wn id Mukden. BLOCKADE TIGHTENING. Absence of News Prom Port Arthur Alarms the Slavs. St. Petersburg, Sept. 29. The entire absence of news from Port Arthur, it is feared, indicates a closer blockade there. Hitherto, dispatches from General Stoessel have been coming through eemi-weealy. The admiralty has not received any details of the re ported sea fight off Aniva, at tbe sooth eastern extremity of Sahalin. Tbe Vladivostok squadion, it is understood, is still in the harbor. The cannonad ing at Aniva was probably a Japanese attack on blockade runners. A telegram received here from Bat- oum reporting that reserves are being transported along the Caucasian coast brings the first intimation that troops are being mobilized there. There are only two army corps in the Caucasus, and one of them has apparently been ordered to the Far East. Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky was .re ceived in audience yesterday by the emperor. The prince will assume charge of the ministry of the interior today. The latest developments m the situ ation at tbe front is the definite estab lishment of the fact that Field Marshal Oyama has now begun to move up his left. General Kuropatkin's report shows that the Japanese have reached Davan, on the west bank of the Liao riwr. A considerable concentration of Japanese is observed at Sianchan, on the Hun river, 35 miles southwest oi Mukden, and Japanese cavalry is mass ing in the vicinity of the Pu river. The latter is a tributary of the Hun rivRT. which crosses the line of railway midwav between Tie pass and Mukden, and may furnish a natural line of ad vance from the west. Ovama's armies now apparently cov er a front of 60 miles for enveloping movements. HiB wings are extended to the northeast and west of Mukden. Thus far the Russians have found little strength of pressure from the Japanese center. Ojama seems to be moving with ereat deliberation, probably gath ering Btreneth for a rapid advance of both wings when an attempt is made to close the net. Althoueh the imaginary line connect- ine the extreme Japanese advance and west of Mukden still passes ten miles below that city, it is evident that the fate of Mukden cannot long be delayed. If General Kuropatkin intends to try to hold the city fighting on his flanks will begin almost immediately. ALEXIEfT TO COME HOME. His Position Will Be That of An Advisor to the Emperor. St. Petersburg, Sept. 29. Although an official announcement to the effect is not expected immediately, since it will lequire some little time to get Rus sia's second army in the field, the des ignation of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaevitch, the inspector general of cavalry, as commander in chief is re garded as practically settled. The Bit uation at the front, with two, and per haps ultimately three, big armies, is considered to demand, above all else, that the supreme commander be of such personal authority as to be be yond jealousies and the possibility of intrigue on the part oi subordinates, and such a man the emperor now rea lizes can only be supplied by a member of the imperial family. Grand Duke Nicholas is regarded as extremely well fitted for this great responsibility. Grand Duke Nicholas will not rely upon a single adviser, but on a staff comprising the ablest strategists of the general Btaff, who in reality will con stitute a board ot direction of military operations. Viceroy Alexieff is regarded as al most ceitain to return here. The re port that he may become chancellor of the empire, however, is explodtd. He is more likely to retain his title and come to St. Petersburg, nominally in the capacity of adviser to the emperor, and will thus efface himself as a factor of the military situation in the Far East. Threatened the President. -Des Moines, la., Sept. 29. Edward Dalhrmer was arrested at Emmetts burg this afternoon by a postoffice in spector, charged with sending obscene and threatening letters to President Roosevelt, Miss Alice Roosevelt, Helen Gould and J. J. Hill. He is believed to be insane, and he proposed marriage and demanded money from Helen Gould. He demanded money of Hill. His letter to Mi6S Roosevelt is not made public. That to the president was tilled with denunciation"in vile terms and threats. Carshops are Closed. Chicago, Sept. 29. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroadrompany today practically closed down its car and locomotive shops here. The en forced idleness came unexpectedly. The union boiler makers employed in the ehops had made demand for high er wages a few days before the shut down came. General Superintendent of Motive Power Reed, however, denied that the shutdown was in any way. at tributable to these demands. Torpedoboat Lost. London, Sept. 29. The British tor pedo boat destroyer Chamois has been lost off the island of Cephalonla, in the Mediterranean. All on board were saved. While going at full epeed on a trial yeBterday, a Bcrew tyade came off, pierced the botton of the destroyer and she sank. ARE AGITATED Continued Discussion of Fili pino Is Harmful. REVOLUTION BEING PREACHED A Speeches of Antis are Made Texts for fiery Editorials Report of General Wright. Washington, Sept. 28. President Roeevelt is in receipt of a letter from Luke E. Wright, governor of the Phil ippines, in which the governor, diecuss- es frankly some of the conditions which he encountered in directing the govern ment of the islands. Under date' of August 15, General Wright wrote in part aa follows: "The effect of the continued discus sion of the capability of the Filipino for self government is having its effect here, and makes our task more difficult than it otherwise would be. Unless a man is equipped with intelligence and those qualities which make for good citizenship, the more easily can he be persuaded that he is the possessor of all these qualities. These people have their full share of reckless, half-formed characters who are ready for intrigue in any direction which promises them profit or power. It is this class which has largely given force and direction to the Aglipayan movement, and has recruited its ranks from the ignorant and dangerous elements. "In this general connection, I may say to you as a matter of information that- the agitation in the United States for Filipino independence, and the spoken and written utterances of prom inent men who are urging it, are all brought here and pubished in the native newspapers and are being maoe the text for editorials insisting that the Filipinos are now ready to become an independent nation.. "The effect of all this is distinctly injurious. Its tendency is to renew the the influence of old" insurrection leaders and make them active in preach ing the old propaganda. This, in turn, has the effect of demoralizing and weakening the more conservative and.thougbtful Filipinos, who fear if they speak out as they really think thev would be considered the enemies of their people and lose their prestige with them. Those of the more prominent and best educated class, and who, nat urally, have the:r ambitions, are in clined to join in the general cry." UNIONS FEAR WAR. Large Plants are Adopting "Open Shop" Policy. Chicago, Sept. 28. The opening of the plants of the International Har vester company and the Pullman com pany on the "open shop" basis, free from labor union regulations, has alarmed Chiago labor leaders. The fact that ,000 union men will ingly returned to work for the big har vester company, under tbe new condi tions, is admitted to presage disruption of theh unions. Fear is expressed that the recent de feats of laboi unions, and the reduc tions obtained in wages, may be fol lowed by many other large concerns. That a giave crisis is felt in labor union affairs seems to be certain from the failure of the stockyards, the ma chinists and the garment workers strikes. All these walkouts have re sulted disastrously for the union men and women. In addition to this, tbe following companies have reduced their wage scale and established the open shop: Inland Steel company, Illinois Steel company, 'Republic Iron & Steel 'com pany, and concerns in the Chicago Metal Trades association. Aftr being closed down since September 15, the car shops of the Pullamn pompany re opened with a force of 2,000 men, out of a total of 7,000, who agreed to ac cept a cut of 10 to 20 per cent in theit pay. The union leaders are inclined to lay the blame on "lack of proper organiza tion," and government officials for fos tering the policy of the "open shop" by their action in the case of employes of the government printing bureau. Race Riot in Mississippi. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 28. Two negroes were killed and thiee fatally injured in a race riot near Lynchburg, Miss., 15 miles south of Memphis to day. The shooting took place on the plantation of J. J. Johnson, who with his eons and two friends, went into a field to gather a load of corn. As the white men were driving their wagon from the field a fusillade from a party of blacks met them. The fire was re turned, with the result that two ne groes were killed outright and three were fatally shot. In Miners' Pavor. . Scranton, Pa.. Sept: 28. Judge Gray, to whom was referred the con troversy of the coal miners on the check weighman question, and which had previously been adjudicated by Carroll D. Wright in favor of the min era, has also decided the i-sue in the same way. Hia decision was received by both W. L. Connell and T. D. Nich- oils, of the board of conciliation The former represented thex operators and the latter the miners. Winter May End righting. Mukden, Sept. 28. Doubts are be ginning to be felt as to whether it will be possible to continue the campaign through the winter, which begins in November. The Chinese have been unable to harvest their crops, and there probably, will be much distress, as it is very difficult to bring np stores' from China or the native population. " DEATH LIST GROWING. Sixty-Two Victims of Wreck on the Southern Railroad So Par. Knoxville, Ten., Sept. 28. The death list, as a result of the fearful wreck on the Southern railway, near New Market, has grown tonight to 62, and it will probably exceed 70, as many of the injured are in a serious condit ion and more deaths will occur at the hospital. .Today there were six deaths at that institution. A force of 150 men toiled -all day long at the scene of the wreck. Be fore 2 o'clock the track waa clear for through.trains, bnt it required many houis to clear the debris. Small fragment of bodies were found today, but it is thought that they be long to bodies already found and brought to this city. One little baby was found by the wreckers, but that was all. Tbe cause of the teirible loss of life on the heavy east-bound train was ex plained today. It seems that the sec ond-coach plowed its way into a bank in such a manner that the other cars were jammed into it and pushed on by the weight of the heavy Pullmans were crushed like egg shells. x The physicians at the hospital state tonight that of the long list of injured which they have in their care, it is probable that not more than four will die. The complete list of injured aa given by tbe railroad officials shows a total of 162, but this included all per sons who were slightly hurt or scratch ed. PEACE MADE WITH REBELS. Uruguayan Government Now Has War Claims to race. Buenos Ayres, Sept. 28. Confirma tion has been received here of the re port of the conclusion of peace between the Uruguayan government and the revolutionists under General Munoe. In explanation of the government forces surprising the insurgent camp, it - ap pears that notification of the recent rupture of peace negotiations was com municated to Fernandez, a revolution ary political leader, but not to those nnderarma; and up to the morrent of the unxepected attack by tbe gov ernment forces, the commanders of the rebels had not been informed that a rupture of negotiations had taken place. The fact becoming known that the revolutionists were not actively hostile led to the resumption of con ferences, with the result that terms of peace were agreed upon. There is general rejoicing here and in Uruguay over the outcome. It is expected tha claims will be presented by diplomatic representatives of foreign governments for damages and losses to foreign residents to tbe amornt of sev eral million dollars, and the financial outlook is, consequently, gloomy. VESUVIUS VERY VIOLENT. Curious Tourists Kept Back from Danger with Difficulty. Naples, Sept. 28. The eruption of Vesuvius continues to increase in force, and is now more violent than any time since 1872. Red hot stones are hurled to a height of 1,600 feet, falling down the flanks of the mountain with a deaf ening sound. The director of the obseryatory says that between 5 o'clock this morning and 6 o'clock this afternoon his instiu ment registered 1,844 violent explo sions, and that one stone thrown out weighed about two tons. Lava flowing from the crater has melted the metal of the Funicular railway, and destroyed the wooden huts In which the guides live. All vegetation within a radius of one mile of the crate has disappeared Several earthquakes were felt today Some of the people in tbe surrounding villages hae left their homes and are camped in the open air. The curiosity of tourists to approach the volcano is such that a large number of carbineer guards have been detailed to prevent them from pressing beyond the pre scribed limits. Molten Slag Scatters. Prescott, Ariz , Sept. 28. An ex plosion of molton slag last night caneed the total destruction of the Valverde smelter, 20 miles east of Prescott. The smelter employes were engaged in drawing slag from the furnace and were unable to get a plug m to stop it, When the molten mass ran . on to the wet floor an explosion followed. The building and machinery were destroyed. The plant was of 300 tons capacity and cost between $150,000 and $200,000, with insurance to the amount of $60,- 000. Split Rail Did It. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 28. Several people were injured, one fatally, in a wreck on the New York Central rail road a short distance east of Lyons early this morning. Three sleepers on the Western Express, a fast train bound from New York to Chicago, left the track because of a split rail and threw the passengers to the floor of the coaches. Just as the train came to a standstill a fast freight train east bound ran into the derailed cars. Drinking Soldiers Start Riots. Berlin, Sept. 28. The Tageblatt'a Kiechinei correspondent telegraphs that during the mobilization, anti-Semitic outbreaks occurred in many parts of Bessarabia owing to Jewish traders sell ing drink to the soldiers. OREGON NEWS ASYLUM NEEDS AN ADDITION. Steady Increase of Insane Is Crowd ing Building's Capacity. Salem The steady increase in the number of patients at the state insane asyum wilF make necessary the con struction of a new cottage next year, with room for 100 patients. Such a cottage, to be constructed at the asy lum farm, will cost about $25,000 and the legislature will be aksed to appro priate money for that purpose. -.The growing population will also necessi tate the construction of a new dining room at a cost of f 3,000, the new. ad dition to be 40x40 feet and two stories high. The last legislature appropriated money for the expense of replacing a number of wornout lavatories and that work has been attended to. Other old lavatories and stwar connec tions have become faulty with age and must be replaced. To put these in good condition will require an appro priation of $15,000. The asylum building has not been painted for many years and because of that fact it is rapidly showing the effects of time add storm. Superin tendent Calbreath will recommend in his biennial report that the main building be repainted throughout. This will cost about $12,000. AH the permanent improvements needed at that inetitutiton will cost in the neigh borhood of $55,000. At the leftrm school, mute school and blind school only minor repairs and improvements will be necessary ana not very heavy appropriations will be needed for them. At the state pris on many improvements have been made in the past year without definite apropriation and not much in the way of large improvements will be needed at that institution next year. The last legislature passed an act providing that the proceeds of convict labor shall con fititute a betterment fund, which may be expended for repairs and improve ments under the direction of the gover nor. By virtue of this act money has been expended from time to time and the prison property has been put in good condition. ELECTOR I AL TICKETS TILED. Reoublicans. Democrats, Prohibit ionists and Socialists Take Step. Salem The presidential electorial tickets of four politcial parties have bene filed in the office of Secretary of State Dunbar. The parties represtnt ed are Republican, Democratic, Prohi hit.inn and Socialist, and it is under stood that the Populists will also file petitions nominating an electorial uck- et. John H. Simth, one oi the nomin enn on the Democratic ticket, resigned. and hia place was filled by the appoint ment of W. S. Hamilton by the state cential committee. The electorial tickets filed are as follows : Republican G. B. Dimick, James A. Fee. J. N. Hart. A. U. Hough. Democratic Thomas H. Crawford, John A. Jeffrey, W. B. Dllard, W. 6 Hamilton. Prohibition Leslie Butler, I. H Amos. W. P. Elmore. T. 8. McDaniel Socialist S. H Holt, William Beard, C. W. Bargee, J. V. ilerrmgton. Coming Events. Wallowa Fair association, Enterprise, Octobei 3-8. Eastern Oregon District fair, The Dalles, October 3-8. Portland PreBbytery, Fairview, October 10. Baker County fair, Baker City, October 11-15. Klamath Counly Agricultural asso ciation, Klamath Falls, Octobei 12-14. Oregon W. C. T. U. State conven tion, Portland, October 18-27. Inland Empire leachers' association, Pendleton, October 19-21. Teachers are Scarce. Pendleton The Pendleton public schools have opened with a large en rollment in all the grades. Almost all the rooms are crowded and Superin tendent E. B. Conklin is looking for suit able houses to lelieve the congestion Three new school houses will be ready for occupancy before the first of the year. At the present time scarcely one-half of the county schools have been suppl ed with teachers. County Superintendent of Schools Frank K. Welles is being besifged daily by di rectors asking for teachers. Surveying for Trolley Line. Eugene Three crews of surveyors are making the preliminary eurveys for the Willamette Valley Electric Rail way company. One crew started from Corvallia and will work toward Eu gene. One is working in the direction of the Siuslaw and the third is work ing eastward up the McKenzie river. It is stated by the manager of the com pany that this preliminary work will be followed by permanent surveys and then the work of construction. Enrollment at Agricultural College. Corvallis The registration of stu dents at the Oregon Agricultural col lege breaks all former records. The enrollment to date is 406, against 320 last year. The increase is 86. The freshman class is largey increased, the number registered being 197, or, in cluding subfreahmen, 209. Wheat Market. Portland Walla Willa, 8081Mc; bluest em, 85c; valley, 86c Tacoma Bluestem, obc; club, oic. Colfax Club.71:; blueBteui, 76c. OP INTEREST r CATTLE WILL; STARVE. Farmers Did Not Rotate Crops, and are Short of reed. Salem "The unfortunate situation in which. Willamette valley faimera find themselves this year because of a shortage of feed for their stock is a cause for regret, epecially since it is entirely unnecessary. t When J. K. Sears said in an interview a few days ago that cattle will starve in the valley thia winter for want of feed he told the plain truth It is a truth we dislike to acknowledge, but it should teach us a lesson.' This is an asertion made by Director James Withycombe, of the Oregon ex perimental station, at Corvallia, while he was attending the state fair. "I don't mean that any large propor tion of valley livestock wi'.l starve, or that they will die because of the en tire absence of feed. What I mean. and what Mr. Sears evidently meant, was that feed is so scarce that many farmers will put their stock on very short rations, with the result that they will become emaciated and will die from disease or exposure. Call it what you will, it is starvation. "Now I refer to this only because I want to say and prove that it is a con dition that is as unnecesary as it is un fortunate. This has been a very dry season, such as Willamette valley farmers had no reason to expect, but this does not excuse their being unpre pared for it. Our experience at the agricultural college farm shows that if crops were rotated as they should be. the yield of hay would not have been light, and spring-sown grain would have produced well, notwithstading the lack of lain." Ashland Foundry Burned. Ashland The Ashland Iron works, foundiy and machine shops have burn ed involving a loes which may reach $10,000. By hard work the detached pattern shop building was saved, but tbe molding, macbino shop and office buildings, in which were much valua ble machinery, were badly gutted. The fire started between tha foundry and the machine shop rooms, from a cause unknown. The company carried insurance amounting to $6,500. The plant waa kept busy with orders, and employed a good sized force. Loss Is Remarkably Small. Salem "About two sections of good timber were destroyed by forest fires this season in tbe Santiam country," says Manager John A. Shaw, of the Curtis Lumber company, of Mill City. "There were thousands of acres of slashing burned over, but fortunately the amount of good timber destroyed was small in comparison with tbe quantity of danger of destruction. The Curtia Lumber company lost abour 640 acres of timber by fire." State fair Has Balance. Salem While not all the year's business of the state bboard of agricul ture has been concluded, Secretary Wylie A. Mocrea finds from Lie r cords that the state fair this year came out $2,500 to the good. The total receipts were $30,000 of which $10,000 came from the state appropriation for agri cultural premiums. Tbe - fair board paid premiums to the amount of $10, 500, the additional $500 being taken from miscellaneous receipts. Work on McKenzie Road. Eugene Reports from the superin tendent of tbe work on the McKenzie road show rapid progress and indicate much good to come from the $6,000 expenditure, half of which was appro priated by the county and half raised by subscription. Already 15 miles of the worst part of the road have been put in first-class shape, and the crew will work about a month longer. Coquille Sawmill Sold. Riverton A company has purchased the Coquille saw mill and also Peart's coal mine adjoining Coquille City. The company will make extensive im provements at once, it is said, in both the mill and the mine. It is under stood that the mill will start up at once for the purpose of cutting tim bers for the new bunker which will be at once constructed for the mine. Coalbunker for Fierton. Riverton The new coal bunker for the Riverton Mining & Development company is nearing completion . under the super vision of the McLeod Bros:, who have the building contract". This bunker has a capacity of about 600 tons, having an upper and a lower com paitment for shipping and local trade, respectively. Shelves for State Library. Salem State Librarian J. 'B. Pu nam baa procured four new oak book cases, with shelves on both sides, hav ing a capacity of 1,000 books to each The cases cost $125 each. This addition to the library equipment was made necessary by the accumulation of books which have been piled np on the floor, tables and shelves. Teachers Scarce in Linn County. Albany Schoolteachers arce scare in Linn county, and the probabilities" are; that some schools in the rural districts may have to remain closed during tbe year. Wages ranging from $30 to $55 are offered, but competent teachers are not to be found at the price.