Vol. xxii. CORVALLIS, OREGON, APRIL 17, 1885. NO. 16. . . , Published every JFriday Morning BY GAZETTE P'JBLISfflN'j ID'JSE. SUBSCRIPTION RATfcS: (Payable iu Advance.) Per Year Six Months Three Months Single Copies i'er Year (when not paid iu advonce) $2 50 1 SU 1 00 10v ..3 00 'All notices and advertisements intended for pub aien should be handed in by noon on Wednesdays Rates of advertising made known on application. THE AMERICAN FARMER nd the Corvallis Gazkttk for $3.00 a year in ad vancu. We have jjerfected arrangements with thu ftublishers of the American Farmer, of Fort Way;c, uJ., that enabl? u to oSfei our subscribers a first-lass agricultural magazine at the bare cost of ths wliiu paper oo which it is printed. The American Farm; r is a 16 pay; e monthly nwzme which is rap idly taking- ran as one of the leading agricuHurul publications of the country. number wiil con tain useful information for the farmer, his wife, his sonjAud hisdau'hters. As it costs you almost noth ing, suppese you try it one year. Parties desiring valuable reading matter on farm, stock anil agricul tural subjec will Snd ttiu the mom pr j.itable and -.lea pest Way to get it. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES. CBBERJX NEWS GENERAL ORJ NT"3 CdtfEITIOK . little or no Chans. a Noticeable In t'ae Fait Twenty-four Eourr. New York, Apiil 13 8:4r .t. M. Gen. Grant slept in a chair from midnight until 5:30 A. M. He was disturbed occasionally by attacks of coughing with expectoration. He awoke expressing himself feeling quite comfortable. Has just taken nourishment vithout pain ami is resting quietly. Palm 72, temperature normal. 8ENATOR CHA'' TEE'S REPORT. Senator ChafJfc left the house at 9:1 A- M. He stated that the disease iv spreading. The senator was with General Oraut an hoar. Thfere was some pain this morning, attending the taking of food, and the cancer in the ilirnl was suppurating. The general seemed no weaker than yester lay, and during the hour of the senator':.: call the patient coughed ouiy once, and then the expectoration of mucus was accomphish d without dihiciilty. So long as the gen eral was nourished now, the senator be lies!, he would tu vivc until the grdual course of the cancerous disease produced death. SOMEWHAT IMPROVED. General Grant is somewhat improved in iisfgener.il condition since the last bullet:i . A slight sorewesi! of the throat during the morning wms relieved by cocoaine. The se c return of mucus hi:- diminished, and the cough becomes less troublesome. The pa tieut walked without assistance to an ad joining room, and sat iu -.be sun'ight. H's pulse and (temperature is unchanged. GEN. CRANT REPORTGO MUCH BETTY a.' New York, April 14. From midnight until 6 o'clock all was quiet iu Grant's bouse. Then the general -arose and had his throat treated. While Dr. Douglas was writing the first bulletin in the library, at 6:30 A. M., the general walked into the room an1 sat down near the physician. When the bulletin was finished Dr. Douglas read it to General Grant and said, "Is that right, general?" "Yes, that's light," re sponded the sick inlan. He brightened with the morning hours and at one time remark ed he felt better than ho had in two weeks. HE MAY LIVE MONTOM. A gentleman who', is thoroughly conver sant With Grant's ailme.it said to-night: "The marvelous improvement iu the gen eral's condition is nrjt at all surprising to me. He may live two ov'thret weks and ha may live two or three months. If he survives till the early part of the summer be will be taken out of the city, to mauu tains probably, as I do not think the sea sir would fcjjree jwith kim. If he had strength enough, I think he would like to go to California. If he improves in the same ratio during the next four days he -will be riding in the park this week. He does not require so much morphia now; only six drops of the solution were injected to-uight, instead of the customary ten drops. He partook of three varieties of nourish tnent to-day, and the general being in a facetious mood alluded to the food as his three courses." NORTHERS PACIFIC EARNINGS. New York, April 13. The Riilroad Journal -says Northern Pacific earnings for March show a deorease of 30 per cent, com pared with last year. The gain from Feb i uary to March was 90 per cent, last year, and only 20 per cent. this. The season has not opened favorably with northwestern roads. PUDDLER3 GOINNG TO NEW ZEALAND. Pittsburg, April 13. This afternoon 100 puddlers left this city for New Zealand to work in a large iron, mill just finished. The substitution of steel for iron iu the Pittsburg mills is fast taking away thei occupation and driving kheni to seek em ployment elsewhere. Within the last two years not less than 2,000 men in this city have been thrown out of work by the intro duction of machinery f.r the manufacttir j PLOT TO ASSASSINATE GOVERNOR HOADLY Clevelano, April 10. A special from Rochester says the Democratic Stardard at that place has private information of a plot to assassinate Gov. Hoadly list Monday It says the governor received through mai a small wooden box, from oue end of which hung a string. The governor's suspicion being aroused, he caused the cover of the box to be removed, and a care fully art-aimed infernal machine, loaded with dynamite, slugs and spikes, was dis closed. The striug had been so adjuster that to have pulled it the governor would have caused ari explosion and doubtless have lost his life. It is said authorities ar at work on the case, and for that reason the facts have not before been made public. TO BKVIVETBe .'WICAS MERCHANT JfVNE New York, April 14. At a meeting ot the maritime association yesterday the com mittee on the revival of commerce submit ted a memorial to be sent all commercial bodies iu the country, showing the decay of the American mercantile marine, and urging the necessity of takim; steps to re vive foreign commerce. The committee favor the Freuch system of 30 cents per ton granted bv the government for every 1C30 miles sailed by French vessels, sail or steam, built and owned in the United States and engaged iu foreiga commerce, the payment to continue a number of j'ears, after which it is to he reduced 10 per cent, annually. Other commercial bodies are asked to join in asking congress to pass such a law. THECH1CACO ELECTION. Chicago, April 10. There has been practically no change iii the first estimates of the majorites growing out of the muni cipal election here on Thursday. The face of rhr leturus gives Harrison (democrat) for mayor 334 plurality over Sidney Smith, (re pub; 'can. ) The republican managers claim to have discovered numerous evidence of fraud ana declare that they will contett she election. The situation since has been complicated by the theft yesterday of oue f the ballot-boxes from a strong republican irecinct. Twi men have been arrester! jharged with this crime. Republican can li lat.es for city clerk and city attorney weir sleeted. The democrats elected the citj reasurv. CALIFORNlANS CALL ON MANNING. Albany, N. Y., April 10. A delegatio of Calif oinians, headed by General (Jinny tnd Christopher Buckley, and accompanied by Hubert O. Thompson, called to-day on Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Manning at his residence, in relation to federal reve nue appointments on the Pacific slope, and particularly in relation to the coliectorship of the port of San Francisco. Thompson introduced the delegation, numberiug ten persons, to the secretary, and a long and iu formal talk on matters took place, the se ret try carefully avoiding Wtoiring any men tion of who may be the future collector of San Francisco, but trivins the delegation the impression that the appointment would be of a character to meet their entire approval. ANOTHER STRIKE TlI-iATENED. New York, April 13. A special from Dallas says: It need surprise no one if an other strike occurs on the Gould system in .Texas at an early day. Railroad companies are gradually dismissing parties implicated ia the last strike. Orders were to-day re ceived by Missouri Pacific and Texas and Pacific officials to notify their laborers that in thirty days fiom date their wages would be reduced twenty-five cents each per day The men talk of another strike. PACIFIC COAST. RUMORS OF A DISASTROUS FrCHT. Winnipeg, April 12. While no reliable information can be iiad to-niht from the west, rumor has it tiiat the Nineteenth batailion had a skirmish with Kiel's party within thi.ty miles of Huniboidt, and that eighty men were killed, hut dispatches just received do not confirm the statement. More troops go west to-morrow, and al though this is Sunday nothing can be seen on the streets but soldieivi and cannou. The 112WS of the battle between the Nine teenth batailion and half-bree Is is not eon- firmed, but is stiH be'ieved on the streets here, though it can be traced to no reliable source. All wire irom tne west are con trolled by the CrtrVdian Pacific Kail oad Company, and telegrams from the seat of war are inspected by officers in command. Official messages are sent to the government in cypher. Much uneasiness is felt here over the report, although the rumor is dis- redited by the authorities. NOTHFR ILLINOIS LEGISLATOR DIKS SUD DENLY. Springfield, 111., April 12. Death has .igaiu interfered with the plans of the sen sorial managers. To-day Representative J. Heury Shaw of Ue irdstown, Cass county was found dead in hid rocjm at the hotei. He had been snlfering fiom heart disease, but had been able to take part in the legis lative proceedings. It is believed Governor Oglesby wid to-morrow issue a w it for a new election. Dispatches were sent to re publican members to-night, urgiiig them to meet in joint assembly Tuesday. The Mor lison niou, however, claim no vote will be taken. Speaker Haines says there will not be a full meeting during the remainder of the session, and the impression gains ground that the legislature wiS adjourn without deciding the senatorial questn'n. Everyone seems at sea to-night. It will be at least three weeks before the vacancy caused by the death of Shaw can be tilled, and dernc crats do not want to force the fighting. L igau's friends are satisfied with the com plectiou of affairs, feeling confident that his election is only a question of time. Shaw s district is democratic by a large majority. THE M DANIEL MURDER TRIAL. Jacksonville, April Is. the murder cue, in wlnctt Lie wis :ilc Daniels was way laid and murdered at Ashland la3t Novem her, has thus far resulted in the nudimr guilty of Lewi3 O'Neil. who is under sen tence to he hanged Thursday, May 2lst. Mi" . McDaniel, wife of the murdered man. was given a hearing to-day in Justice p'oudray's court, arid committed to jail without bail, for being an accomplice in the murder. The evidence, which was revealed by O'Neil to two fellow-prisouers, is strong ly anaiust Mrs. McDaniel. J. J. Fryar, a brother-in-law of Mrs. McD tniels. who was accused of bribing witnesses at the last term of court, has be'a discharged. BILL TO RESTRICT CHINESE IMMIGRATION. New York, April 14. A special from Ottawa says: The long promised bill to restrict Chinese immigration into Canada, was brought down by Secretary Seat to-day. The bill provides that every person of Chi nese oriain shall pay into the Dominion treasury $26 on entering any Canadian port, except members of diplomatic corps, tour ists, merchants, traders, etc. Every Chi neie persen desiring to leave the country will be required to obtain a certificate, which, on being presented on his return, admits him free of duty tax. It was origin ally intended hat the rights of franchise be extended to such of Chinese as had com piled with the regulation, and who were worth 1000 clear of all incumbrances This section of the bi1!, however, has been of steel. j revoked. A PROMINENT MORMON Ri:XOtTNCE3 POL VGA M V Salt Lake, April 13. Orsou P. Arnold, a prominent Mormon, to-day pk'aded dilty to an indictment charging unlawful cohabi tation. He declared in open court bis in tention to abandon polygamy, obey the "laws, and live with his law'ul wife only, not neglecting to support his "second fam ily." Judge Zane said thase declaration had great weight with the court, and there fore imposed a fine of $:)03, without im prisonment. To-day the court began em panelling the grand jury for the April term. Polygamists and upholders of polygamy are excluded, a3 before. The work is only partly finished. DEATH FROM BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. Austin, Nevada, April 13 Last Thurs day a 2i year old daughter of Thomas Duns don fell, and hemorrhage of the nose com menced. Sur;;ical aid was summoned, but to no avail, for slie steadily bled, iid yes terday afternoon died. The bipod hail lost all its albumen ami fibrous tissue, .uddid not clot upon being exposed to air. It is a rare case, though mentioned in medical works. Two treses before she fell blood b otches were seen under the sk'n in many p!a ses. news items rr.OM victoria. Victoria, April 13. The political pot is boiling. New candidates for the local par liament are in the field. The election occurs Wednesday. One thousand men will be en'istod imme diately for service i' war breaks out. All the batteries are beiup; connected by tele- phono THE INDFAN SCARE A FARCE. Walla Walla, April 13. The Indian excitement in north Idaho resolves itself into an assault upon a notoriously bad white woman who was associated with indians, by an old squaw. EXCITEMENT AT WALLA WALLA. Walla Walla, W. T.. April 13. The Register and Receiver of the United States Laud Office at this pii.ee have received a telegram from Commissioner Si'arkes re voking the nr.ler bf A' ting Commissioner Harrison, dated M.treh 20th, changing the terminal limits of the Northern Pacific rail road iu this vicinity. It is believed that the revocation of the order has been secured by misrepresentation. Great indignation and uneasiness is every manifest. Settlers who have purchased railroad lands, who feel that their homes are imperilled, are flocking to town and discussiug various meaus of protecting their riglit3, and some even swear they will hang or shoot the first man or land-shark who tries to jump their lands. It was the settlers in the first place who demanded the- change and not the rail road company. SALT LAKE GRAND JURY. Salt Lake, April 19. The grand jury of the February term of the Third district court here was discharged to-night after a session of four days, investigating thirty-one polygamy cases, finding twanty-sevan in dictments under the Edmunds law. Four teen territorial cases were investigated auri eleveu indictment!) found. THE WHEAT OUTLOOK. Washington, AMU IU. itetums' ot April to the department of agriculjuro in uictue a reduction ot over 10 per cent, in lust year's area of winter wheat. The ag gregate shortage amounts to 3,000,000 acres. A decrease is reported in every state except Oregon, It is 15 per cent, ic California. The present condition of wheat is worse than in 18S3, being 77 per cent. against 96 last, year, and 80 iu 1883. The r-al status of the crop will be better shown a month hsnee. when the vitality of the roots has been demonstrated and the char acter ot the spring determined, On the present showing the reduction of the yield on aDasis ot last years product. on, promises to be nearly 40,0 )0,003 bushels, on account of area, and more than 60,0? J, 030 from win ter killing and low vitality. Whether the crop will exceed 400,000,000 bushels or fall short of it depends upon the reliability of present appearances, and on future condi tions affecting growth and ripening. The soil was in a bad condition at time of seed ing on the Atlantic coast, and from New Jersey to Georgia, and in Wesi Virginia and Tenuesee. It Was better in southwest Missouri, Illinois and Michigan. In the Ohio valley it is scarcely in a medium con dition. Damage by the Hessian fiy is not severe, though worse in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, where injuries occur red iu three-tenths of the reported territoiy. AN OREGON MAN LET OUT. Washington, April 10. To reduce the expenses of the inspection bureau of the postoffice department within the limits of the appropriation, the postmaster general to-day requested the resignations of fonr- t:en inspectors, including J. J. Murphey of Oregon. PRESIDENTIAL ArPOBTLMENTS. Washington, April 13. The piesidenl made the following appointments to-day: To be c'iansls of the United Stales: Charles T. Russell, Connecticut to Liverpool, Eng land; A. Haller Gros3, Pennsylvania, at Athens, Greece; William W. Long, Texas, at Hamburg, Germany; Henri Vignaud, Louisiana, aecreracy of the legation of the United S..atei at Paris; Augustus Jay, New ork, second secretary of the iegatiou at i ar:s. FOREIGN. RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS FOR WAR. St. Petersburg, April 10. Morning newspapers throughout Russia, with very few exceptions, commenting on the recent battle between the Russian &$d Afghans on the Bushk liver, are very bellicose in their utterances, and charge Earl Dnfferin and Sir Peter Lumsdeu with provoking war by advising thu Afghans to advance on Puli-Khisti, which British officials knew was a part of the Russian territory. The Afghans, they say, also fully understood Puli-Khisti was Russian" territory, and would never have attempted to advance their pickets to that point unless strongly urged to do so by British oilicials. The war party folly endorse the assertions' of those newspapers and are very pugnacious over the affair. A RUSSIAN VrSW 07 THE BATTLE. St. Petersburg, April 10. The Journal of St. IVterslmrg say3 that Genera! Kom aroll s return witinu his Hues after driving ff the Afghans indicates that the Russian attack wa3 caused bv the hostile actiou of the Afghans. Thus the affair assumes a less serious aspect and becomes merely an accidental conflict, diificult to avoid con sidering the extremely strained condition of Hairs and proximity of the Russian rnd Afghan outposts. The Journal expresses the hope that the confliot will not interfere with negotiations now iu progress between England and Russia. CABINET COUNCIL. London, April 13. 1 p. m. A cabinet meeting, summons for which were issufd yesterday, is now in progress. Nothing is known positively in regard to the character of deliberations, but the great war question is believed to be absorbing the attention of the ministers, and the reuit of the council is awaited with anxious eagerness. After the rising of the Cabinet Council this afternoon Earl Granville, foreign sec retary, sent a long dispatch to the British minister at Sc. Petersburg. The govern ment has received offioia' dispatches, fully confiriniu the report of the Russian ad- ance in force. NEGOTIATING FOR PEACE. Ottawa, Ont., April 14. Mr. Royal re tu ae.l yesterday, and simultaneously with his arrival a rumor was set afloat that ar rangements had been made by which a con flict with the half-breeds tinder Riel would be avoided. It is reported to-day that negotiations looking to peace were opened yesterday by telegraph between General Middleton and Louis Riel, hd that such negotiations are still proceeding. A GRANT Olf MONEY WANTED. Ottawa, April 14. --In the house of com- Lmous a message from the governor general was read, asking parliament to :-rant imme diately $700,000 towards defraviug tho ex- mm of nnfctuui down the noroiwst re- I u b'iou. WAR NOTES. London, April 13. Instructions have been telegraphed to Sir Peter Li msden to transmit to London as quickly as possible his report, and tfn'tt ot Captain Yates, of the conflict on the Kushk river. At various military aiid naval stations great preparations for war continue to be vigorously made. General KomarofFs explanation is regard ed inadequate in official circles. Earl Granville, British foreign minister, immediately after the adjournment of to day's cabinet meeting, had interviews with Fehmi Pasha, special envoy from Turkey, and Count Karolyi, Austrian ambassador. The government has ordered the transfor mation of the steamship Oregon into a man-of-war, instead of a troop ship, as? at first intended. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. London, April 14. The Telegraph, edi torially, remarks: "No diplomatic ailiauce en now rescue Degiers and the czar from their fighing generals." With few exceptions the press of London and the provinces, of all shades of political opinion, attack the tone and question the accuracy of General Koinaroff's statement. It is supposed the Russian minister of war shaped General Komaroll 's te'egroin. The Standard says the czar has, within the last forty-eight hours, telegraphed te Berlin an expression of his dtsire for peace. GENKRAL;KOMABOFF EXPLUINS. St. Petersburg, April 1$. The Official Messenger to -day publishes a further com munication from General Komaroff regard- : .u. . L.ul. u.. D : iu$ wre nwwi uata.ie ucmocu me wunhowi and afghans on the Kushk river. He as- erta in this telegram that the menacing at- j ti tude of the Afghans in advancing so close ly to his lines arid occupying several availa ble positions, together with the refusal of of the Afghan commander to pay any at tention to his protests, made him expect that the Afghans contemplated a night at tack on the Russian lines. RUSSIANS ADVANCING. Teheran, April 13. News has been re ceived from Askabad that liussiau troops to the number of 45,000 were on the march to Sarakhs. New This Week. J R- BALWIN, Attorney tit Law. Will practice in all "the Courts in the state. Collections promptly attended to (Offices Ea,t side Main street ) Corvallis, - Oregon MTSCEL LANEO US CA RDS. M. S. WOODCOCK, A.ttornev - at - Law, Corvallis; - - Oregon. F, M. JOHNSON. A ttorney at Law. Fire Insurancea Specialty,. Money Loaned on Good Security. C, H. LEE, M.D. Physician & Surgeon, CORVALLIS, OREGON. Office in Post Office Building, Office Hnurs: -8 to 9 a. m. , 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 p. n tS' In office nisrhts. "Si 21S2tI j. b. lkb, m. d. o. f tma, SL it. -LEE & FA.RRA, Fhvsicians, Surgeons And Acccuchers. Corvallis, - - OregoH. 20-31tf FRANCE UNFRIENDLY TO ENGLAND. New York, April 13. A London special says: There is a distinct disposition on the part of the French ministry to be unfriend ly to England in her present dilemma. Most of the Paris papers reflect this ten dency in bitter words about the English now reaping the harvest they sowed by allowing France to be dismembered fouiieen years ago. M. De Freycinet has already taken certain suggestive fcteps in Egyptian matters, and he has it in his power, through the fiction that the khedive i3 responsible, to make all manner of difficulties for Eng land by putting the screws on that dummy. Iu the existing state of English temper a very little of that thing would go a great wav. and if Germany or Italy gives the word, that they would just as soon make a general dance of it, John Bull would give the French ambassador his walkiug papers .vitli infinite satisfaction. BUYING AMERICAN STEAMSHIPS. New York, April 13. Employes of the National line of steamships state English government has bought the American out right, payint' 250,000. THE OUTLOOK MOKE PEACEFUL. London, April 15. The Daily News in an editorial this. morning, says: "The sit uation shows a more pnaceful tendency, but theugh the intentions of Russia are good now, we cannot assume that they will be carried out. Events ttn simplified Lng- (and's task. It war is to be avoided it must be show a that the Afghans, not the Rus- siaus, are blamabie loi me collision, wn also that Komoraff's action is no part of the BusBian advance. If Russia is as anxious for peace as England is, piiac ought to be secure." The dispatch from St. Petersburg al luded to by Gladstone yesterday carries forward the negotiations on the frontier question which wers interrupted by the Penjdeh affair. It is studiously conciliatory in tone. RUSSIA WANTS THE DOLPHIN. Philadelphia, April 14. The Times says John Roach has been offered $10,000 more for the dispatch boat Dolphin than this government has agreed to give. The offer comes frcm the Russian government, and Roach has demanded an immediate answer to his letter requesting final pay ment by the Uaited States. A HITCH IN THE ARRANGMENTS. London, April 14. Dispatches from Shanghai, received this afternoon, states that there is a hitch iu the final arrange ments for execution of the definite treaty ot neace between France and China, owing to soma concessions which China asks, and which the Freuch ambassador refuses to grant. THIS 0CT: and return te The Gazette Publishing House with an order for 1 any amount of . 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