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.
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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.