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
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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.