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CORVALLIS GAZETTE v. Gazette Publishing Co. CORVALLIS. NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Easy Readers. Our A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week.

Strikes and peasant revolts are being renewed in Russia. Japan is raising the sunken Russian ships at Port Arthur. The president has announced his intention, to change the canal commission. Kuropatkin has been appointed commander of the Fiist Manchurian army. Russian bureaucrats are being driven to make peace by terms dictated for a new French loan.

The United States, government has called fp.r' arbitration of ihe Venezuelan (witb the alternative of forces Over 3,000 men live been thrown out. of employment as the' result of of the Havemeyer: sugar 'refinery in Brooklyn.8 "new. island, bas. risen in sea oi- Janan. bv the action of a voir cano.

mikado's has. been raised on Its top, which has a circumference of two and three-fourths miles 'Although, the city ordinances of New York "forbid the erection of brick-and stone buildings in frosty weather some 75 flat buildings have been finished since January 1, and now that the mor tar is thawing' they are falling down News of another crushing blow to the Russian army is being withheld. A Chicago judge says a woman has a right to-, kill her husband in self- defense. Italy has sent a warship to Santo Domingo to demand 1 the payment of her claims. An addition is being built to Presi dent Roosevelt's summer home at Sag-.

amore Hill, L. I. The war party in Russia is caricaturing Roosevelt andtrying to draw France and Germany into war. The. governor of Viborg province, Southern Russia, has been mortally wounded by a terrorist.

Two masked men held up messengers of the Pacific Coast Oil company near Berkeley, and secured $10,000 The Chicago council has taken away the franchise of the largest street The property is valued at One of the most perplexing questions confronting the administration is the Panama canal. It is admitted that the commission is a failure. The United States court of claims has awarded the Cherokee Indians $4,500,000 for lands secured in 1838 but never entirely paid for. Of this amount $1,111,284 is principal and the balance interest. Chinese complain of outrages by Jap anese.

There is a great rush of homeseekers from all parts of the East the North west. Porch, a small town near Hobart, Oklahoma, has been wrecked by' a cy clone. The armored cruiser Washington has been launched at the Camden, N. J. ship yard.

Secretary Hay's health has broken down and he may resign. He has gone to Europe for a rest. Root, Taft and Knox are three strong Republicans who "are already- being epokenh of as the next candidate for president. French faith in Russia's ability to cope with the Japanese has been severe ly shaken by the latest defeats to the czar's arms. The Missouri legislature elected Wil liam Warner, Republican, of.

Kansas City, United States senator to succeed Francis M. Cockrell. Oyama announces he will enter Harbin on April 10 and that Vladi vostok will also be in possession of the Japanese on that date. 4, A special wire will run from Poit- land to the White house and by press ing a button tne president wiu, open the Lewis and Clark fair next June lix-seuator Hawley, of Connecticut. is dead.

The czar is breaking down under the continued nervous strain. Japanese are pursuing the Rus sians beyond Tie pass and are inflicting terrible loss. Twenty thousand prisoners were cap tured Dy tne Japanese wnen Tie pass was taken. The Japanese minister to the United States denies any danger of his govern ment going to war with this country uovernor reaooay resigned as gov ernor of Colorado as agreed and Lieu tenant Governor McDonald has stepped in. An entire division of Russia- have been cut off from the main army and its capture is certain.

The main body is also in grave danger of being cut off from Harbin. DOINGS iN CONGRESS. Wednesday, March 16. Republican leaders of the' senate are all at sea, respecting the action advisable to take in regard to the-Santo Domingo Recognizing that the Democrats control more than- one-third of the and that two-thirds are required to ratify the convention, the Republican leaders think that the treaty should be. withdrawn by the president.

On this subject the senate and the president do not agree, and the idea prevails that, after one. or two days more of inconsequential discussion, the special session ol tne senate will oe allowed to adjourn without date, and the treaty lapse. But this plan is not popular in the senate and a way to avoid it is being sought. Thursday, March 16. Senator Morgan occupied practically the entire time in opposition to the Santo Domineo treaty iu the executive session of the senate today.

A new plan suggested is to let the whole matter go over until the next regular session of congress, when a joint resolution will be passed to authorize the president to do the very things that are proposed by the treaty. 4 Friday, March, In the executive session of the senate today Morgan continued his speech of yesterday. He spoke until p. Hen oraker tooK tne floor in aetense Adjournment is looked for tomorrow It is not determined whether the treaty will be recommitted or whether it will be allowed to lapse' without action of any kind. Senator TSpoOner brieflly the rlations between the-Philpipines and this country, and said he the time would come when the islands would have their own government.

Saturday, March 18. The special session of the senate was at 3:30 today adjourned without day. All the nominations sent in were con firmed with the exception of five, the most important of which was that of Judge James Wickersham to succeed himself as judge of the District court of Alaska. Several unimportant treat ies were ratified, but beyond these mat ters no legislative business was' transacted. Most of the session was devoted to the Santo Domingo treaty and at ad.

ournment no action had been taken on the matter and it was allowed to re main on the calendar. CHECK PUT ON DEFICIENCIES Congress Provides Against Expendi tures in Excess of Appropriations. Washington, March 20. One of the wisest acts of the late congress was the insertion of a provision in the general deficiency bill that became a law on March 3, that hereafter deficiencies shall not be created except upon some great emergency. Officers of the gov ernment have been altogether too free in making contrats and purchases without regard to the appiopriations on hand, trusting that the deficiencies would be supplied.

When a deficiency bill amounts to the enormous figure of $31,000,000, it gives the members of congress some cause for alarm, and it -seems some method was necessary to compel officers not to make these enormous expendi tures for which no provision of congress had been made. The creating of deficiencies was in a way unlawful, and if congress desired, it could repudiate these expenditures. But very seldom has any just expenditure been refused in a deficiency bill, although sometimes criticised. Small Hope for Kuropatkin, London, March The advices from the Far East are believed here to indicate that Genebral Kuropatkin and his forces in Manchuria will be forced to surrender to tne Japanese witnin a very short time. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at St.

Peters burg, telegraphing late last nightr says that advices received by the Russian war office indicate that a very large force of Japanese nave succeeded in carrying out Marshal Oyama's envelop ing movement and is now far to the northward of the fleeing Russian col Peabody is Seated. Denver, March 17. James H. Pea- body today won his contest for the office of governor, from which he Retired on January 10 after serving a term of two years, but his victory was achieved only after he had given his pledge to resign 1 and surrender the chair to Lieutenant Governor Jesse McDonald, The vote in joint conven tion of the general assembly by which Governor Alva Adams was ousted and Governor James H. Peabody installed was 55 to 41.

Ten Republicans voted with the Democrats for Adams. Calls Peasantry to Arms. Paris, March 17. Father Gopon, the leader of the St. Petersburg workmen in the demonstration of January- 22, who, according to the Tribune Russ, is still hiding in France, has issi el an other stirring appeal to the Russian peasantry, calling on them to follow the directions of the revolutionary com bative committee, forgetting all differ ences of religion and race, and rise as one man, armed for a general ineuxrec.

tion against czarism. Bomb for Pobiedonostsetf. London, March 17! A dispatch from St. Peterswburg to the News agency re ports that late last night a bomb ex ploded on the tramway line close to the residence of pro curator oi tne uoiy bynod. no one was injured.

EXPLODING BOILERS Kill "atdeast Sixty Persons at Brockton7 Massachusetts THEIR BODIES ARE CREMATED Shoe Factory Swarnvng With People Ripped Asunder by Bursting Boiler and Burned. Brockton, March 21. At leas. 60 persons were killed early today by the explosion of a boiler in a large shoe manufacturing establishment in the Campbell district conducted by the R. B.

Grover company. The explosion was immediatey followed by a flash of flame which consumed the factory, a long, four-story structure, as if it were a house of and incinerated an unknown number of men and women who were unable to extricate them selves from the mass of tangled wreckage formed 'by the terrific upheaval in the boiler room. More than 5Q of the employes in the building were maimed burned or bruised by tne time they reached safe ground. The fire extended from the factory to seven other, buildings in tne vicinity and destroyed One of these buildings was a three-story wooden the of small 1 value and a "blacksmith shop'. The wooden' "dwellirigg- near the 'engine room'were practically demolished by the flying boiler, but "none- of their occupants' were seriously injured.

The total financial loss" is estimated at $250,000, which falls the R. B. Grover company." It may never be known just how many persons perished' in' the wreckage jno one knows exactly now many per sons were in the factory. The number has been estimated at 400, but Treas urer Charles O. Nelson said tonight he doubted whether there" were so many at work.

Two hundred and fifty survivors have been accounted for, and at midnight the remains of 50 bodies had been recovered from the ruins, the search being continued all night. SAY AMOUNT IS EXORBITANT America and Britain Hold Out Against Paying Samoan Claim. London, March 21. The Associated irresa understands tnat there are no prospects of an early settlement of Germany's Samoan" claims. A tentative offer of $40,000 has been declined.

Germany's claim of $120,000, when divided betweed the United States and Great Britain, is conceded to be not worth haggling over, but the two gov ernments stand together on principle on the refusal to settle. The claim for $120,000 includes moral damage, and the American and British experts to -whom the accounts were submitted report that the claim represents ten times the actual losses Germany has been informed that the two governments are anxious to settle and would be willing to pay any reasonable as other claims are await ing the result of thiB settlement. BIG GUNS MAY TALK. French Warships Ordered to Proceed At Once to Venezuela. Washington' March 21.

The French Cable company complications have reached a crisis, and Minister Bowen has informed the State department that the French minister at- Caracas, by in titructions of his government, has noti fied the Vennezuelan government that there must be no further proceedings on its part toward the cancellation the company's franchise or interference with its property. Further, Mr. Bowen reports that two French warships the cruisers--Dupleix and Jurien de la Graviere, have been ordered post haste to Venezuela to act in accord with the instructions of the French minister. The warships now in the Caribbean sea. A Fighting Hawaiian Forest Fires.

Honolulu, March 21. Five hundred or more persons, mostly plantation laborers, were today fighting the forest fires at The fiie is now be lieved to be under control. About 2, 000 acres were burned, being mostly land recently acquired by the United States for a military reservation. trail 30 feet wide was burned around it. The forest is being patrolled to night.

The fires in Olaa and Kona are also 'believed to be under control Rain helped to extingish the fires the Olaa district. Extra Session in October. Des Moines, March 21. Senator Al lison is authortiy for the statement that President Roosevelt will call congress in extra session October 1, two months in advance of the regular, session, for the purpose of considering the railroad rate investigation. Senator Allison also expressed his own views relative to the rate question.

He stands for empowering the commission to adjust rates, declaring that there are many abuses which are subject to correction Witte Asked Peace Discussion. March 21 In the course of an interview in the Matin today, Vis count Hayashi stated that M. Witte, when in Berlin last.Juiy, sent an emissary to London asking the Japanese minister there to meet him to discuss peace. Minister Hayashi consented, but received no' further communica tion. CONFERENCE ON IRRIGATION.

Experts from" Western Government -jL-lStations Meet in California. -San FrancisooMarbh 21 -At a small but yery significant conference of half a dozen irrigation experts connected with the experiment stations of the United States Agricultural department on the Pacific coast, held yesterday and today at the University of California, import ant plans were made for the future of irrigation and drainage investigation in all the western states. The meeting was attended by Professor Elwood Mead, chief of he irrigation bureau of the Department of Agriculture Profes sor Samuel Fortier, of Montana; Professor G. H. True, of Nevada; Professor 0.

L. Waller, of Washington; Professor J. H. Withycombe, of Oregon; and Professors E. W.

Hilgard, R. H. Lough- ridge, and E. J-Wickson, of the agricultural experiment stations at Berkley. The chief task of the conference was the preparation of plans' for- experi ments to determine the quality of water which will give the best results in irri gation under dfferent conditions.

This an undertaking almost limitless in extent. In addition to this," a cam paign of education is being arranged." Professor Elwood Mead, who has just arrived in California to. commence bis series of annual lectures at the State is very hopeful over the' future of irrigation 'on the coast. Professor Withycombe- reported on the work and its possibilities in Oregon. He return north and continue the measurements of streams.

Today's conference is considered as opening new possibilities in irrigation on the Pacific coast, LAUGHTER BY BULGARIANS. Greek Village Attacked and All. Male Inhabitants Constantinople, March 21. Advices received from Salonica state-, that the Bulgarian- bands are again causing trouble, and that reports of outrages are coming in rapidly. The result of thiB is that the relations between Greece and Bulgaria are again stretched near to the breaking point, the former government alleges that the Bulgarian government is not making any effort to keep these bands under control but permits them to ravage at will on con dition that they confine- their assaults to Greeks and Turks.

At a monastery near Vodena a band of armed Bulgarians attacked a party of Greek priests and the latter must have been killed had not a party of Greeks come to their resue and attacked the Bulgarians. The latter were beaten back, leaving 15 dead behind. Angered at their losses the Bulgar ians attacked tne villages of Mossi-merion and ruthlessly massacred all of the male inhabitants and carried off the women and children. They then terrorized the entire district of Vodena and so far have managed to escape the troops that were sent to punish them. CASTRO SEIZED COAL MINES.

Protest Entered by Italian Government for Operating Company. New York, March 21. The Herald this morning prints the following dispatch from Port of Spain, Trinidad: News has reached Port of Spain that the governor of Barcelona, Venezuela, has received from President Castro orders, to take possession at once of the coal mines of Gnantanaricual, situated ar Barcelona, and leased, in 1898 for 33 years by the Venezuelan government to an Italian company. The same day the Venezuelan troops took possession of the mines by armed force, as in the similar case of the New York and Bermudese company, this, notwithstanding the protest of the Ital ian The action has been taken without a judgmnt of the court of Caracas. The Italian legation has been notified and Baron Aliotti, Italian charge d'affaires, is represented as having entered a protest Runs on a Rock.

Block Island, R. March 21. The steamer Spartan, of the Boston and Philadelphia steamship company, ran aground on the southeastern end of Block island during a fog early today while on her way from Providence to Ph lalelphia. A 15-foot hole was stove in the ship's bow and soon the vessel sank so her decks were awash Tonight th vessel is rapidly -breaking up. The crew of 23 remained aboard the ship during the day; but were taken off tonight.

Wreckers have been sent to lighter the cargo. Mistake Over Damage Claim. St. Petersburg, March 21. The Russian press is bitterly attacking the claim for damages for the sinking of the Brtish steamer Knight Commander, on the theory that the demand is for exemplary damages put forward by the Brtish government in violation of inter national law and entirely apart from the owner's claim, whereas the fact is that it is simply the owner's claim, the misapprehension having, been created by erroneous report in English papers.

Meat Too High for the Poor. Mexico City, March 21 Meat dealers are exercised over the rise in the price of meat, which has been advanced from 25 to 50 per cent in: the last month, and charge that there is a meat trust at The situation is: serious, as meat is almost. beyond the means of the lower classes." i I OREGONrSTATElITERlS OF IiNTEREST" I 1 -n RESUME WORK ON UMATILLA Irrigation Project Has Attention Government Engineers. Pendleton John T. Whistler, gineer of the reclamation bureau of en-for Oregon, says work will be resumed on the Umatilla irrigation project in a short time.

The engineers will continue their investigations of the John Day river proposition and ascertain if the river can be diverted from its chan nel over the desert lands of Southern Morrow county. The feat would be a difficult and, contrary to the belief of the one, pub- lie, who think the river would its channel at the headwaters of leave Wil- low creek, the canal would necessarily follow the deep canyon of the river for miles, emerging to the top at a point west of lone, Morrow county, and take an easterly direction toward Umatilla county until the grade- necessitated running north to the Columbia. This project would probably cost from $2,500,000 to $3,000,000, but Mr. Whistler states that should it be found that 250,000 acres-could be reclamed it -feasible. Should 'amount of land be much -smaller, than tnis it wince deterred until sucn a time as lands are of a sufficient' value to' warrant "the expenditure of -such-a sUmypr at least until the, reclamation ui reaches such an amount as to war rant, the commencement, of such a scheme.

Other investigations in the Umatilla project pifoperrwill be as site was found late last fall which might proye feasible. The character, of the soils in that district is such that great care is being exercised upon site. Some have proved after tests to be of such a nature as not to hold water through the hot season and would lose a great amount by the percolation through the sides and bottom of a reservoir. Instructions for Taking Census. Salem Secretary of State Dunbar has issued the blanks and instructions to county assessors governing the tak ing of the state census of 1905.

Sup plies will be sent to each assessor in day or two. The legislature, at its last session, having failed to pass any act amending the old census law, Secretary of State Dunbar has adhered closely to the law, out of date though it is. blanks are provided, one for the enu meration of inhabitants and the other for the enumeration of industrial pro ducts. For the convenience of assessors the military roll was included in the enumeration of inhabitants. The in structions given are very complete if studied and carefully followed and the census should give a very accurate col lection of statistics.

To Exhibit Sumpter Ores. Sumpter The building which will contain the permanent ore exhibit of the Sumpter mining district, is complete in its interior decorations and now ready for the reception of a dis play The object of the exhibit is the concentration at one piont of the many different kinds of minerals that are produced in this district. This will permit of inspection of ores without the, necessity of visiting the many different sections where they are found. Many visitors from the East, visiting the Portland exposition, are expected to stop over and inspect this section, and the mineral display will be one of the most important objects to attract their attention. To Import Black Percherons.

Pendleton A. C. Ruby- Co. this week sold to John Crow, the wheat grower, a "black Percheron stallion, making the eighteenth sale since establishing a distributing depot in the place. Mr.

Ruby is preparing to go to Europe to purchase another lot, and will leave the latter part of. May. He will first visit England to purchase a few Shires and then to France to purchase the black Percherons, which are more popular than other breeds. The animals will be shipped and will reach here about the first of July. Umaiilla County Booklet.

Pendleton The Commercial association is preparing matter for a booklet containing information of Umatilla county, to be distributed among the incoming homeseekers to induce them to locate in the county. A number of the newspaper men and business men haVe been asked to contribute articles for the book, and it will be printed as soon as possible. Fifty thousand copies will be printed for distribution among the visitors who pass through to the Lewis and Clark fair. this summer. Low Prices for Cattle.

Pendleton Stock growers of the county are disappointed at the poor cattle market and a few are selling regardless of the fact that only the lowest figure' of the season can be obtained. A short time ago the market promised to reach 4 cents for steers and cents for cows, and in one or two instances those figures were paid, but after those sales the prices immediately fell until only 3 cents is paid for the choicest animals. Wildwood Mill to Start. Cottage Grove The Wildwood Lumber company, which owns a large sawmill near the end of the Oregon Southeastern track, above Wildwood, has decided to put the mill into "active operation. --There are plenty, of logs close to the mill.

I. L. Smith, a well known samwill man, has been put in charge. 7 NUMBER ALL NOSES. New Legislative Apportionment to Be Made in 1907.

Salem A new legislative apportion ment, based upon the state census of 1905, must be made by the legislature of 1907, and for that reason it behooves each county to see that a full enumera tion of inhabitants is made this year. The growth of Eastern Oregon and the supposed to have been more rapid than the growth of the Willamette valley counties, and if the state census should show much of a difference, Multnomah county and Eastern Oregon may profit by securing larger representation in the legislature. From computations made bv Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff last summer.

that official reached the conclusion that some the older settled valley counties are not increasing very rapidly in popu- latiou. His report showing that opin- ion raised a storm of criticism from the counties that received an unfavorable' showing, but Commissioner Hoff assert ed that his computations were made ac- cording to plans approved by the best statisticians, and he anticipates that the census will bear out his figures. and representative districts is ways made in strict 4 4-: i counties' get a. larger representation than their population entitles them while other counties get less. Should the legislatureof 1907 he actuated by a desire to follow the constitution, there might be some important changes in 'the apportionment of representatives.

Water War Klamath Falls The Klamath Canal company ordered the headgate of its: canal opened on Link river and the -water went coursing down the canal through the tunnel, under Ankeny canal, down Eleventh street, in Klamatlk Falls and out onto the flats bordering L'ke Ewauna. Immediately Sheriff LObenchain served the manager of the company with an order from the court directing him to shut off the water, because the property owners on Eleventh Street brought suit against the company for damages, as the secretary of War-had notified the company that taking-water out of Link river would be illegal. The company will now undoubtedly have the attention of the United. States district attorney. Oregon Hops are Dirty.

Silverton Fred Arthur has just returned from a four months' visit in England, and among other things he brought back a sample of choice hops UpUU 1BUU WiLU 1 1 11311 Ut fl hops of Oregon are found to be less-clear and bright in appearance. Mr. Arthur says that although many of" Oregon's hops found a market in England this year theTiuyers there complain that the hops are too dirty and that instead of getting better they are-picked less clean each year. He fears-that the reputation of Oregon hos. will suffer unless there is an improvement in the picinkg.

Klamaths Must Pay Taxes. Salem Attorney General Crawford- ina rinf1ftrl fin nnininn in orViili holds that the Indians of the Klamath reservation, who have just received, their allotments from the government, are subject to government under the laws of this state, and are entitled to. eniov the same nrfvilpp-pR nn other oiti i zens. -This means that the" lands held' by these Indians are subject to taxation the same as those of white men. Although the act making this allotment; passed congress in 1899, it has just Plan for Larger Iron Works.

Ashland The Ashland Iron Works-company, whose plant was partially destroyed by fire a few months- ago, has let the contract for new buildings and machinery on a new site and on a greatly enlarged scale. The company hasp been reorganized with a nominal capital of $20,000, but the plant when completed will represent an investment of nearly $75,000, it is said. The new buildings are to be completed and the-new plant installed by May 1 Prune Trees About to Bloom. CorvalliH By the latter part of tbis week the Italian prunes in the big 155-acre orchard north of Corvallis will be-in full bloom. The event is nearlv a month ahead of time, the usual date-being about the middle of April.

Five-years ago the same orchard began blossoming March 11, and that season yielded a heavy crop. Peach, almond and apricot trees in the vicinity have-nearly finished blooming. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 86 87c; bluestem, 94c; valley, 87c, per bushel. Oats No.

1 white, gray $1.50 per cental. Timothy, $1416 per ton; clover. $1112; grain, $1112; cheat, $1112. Rges Oregon ranch, 18c per dozen. Butter Fancy creamery, 27)4 32Kc.

Potatoes Oregon fancy, 8595c; common, 6580c. Apples Fancy, $1.762.50 per box; choice, $11.25.. Hops Choice 1904, 23)24c per pound. Woo? Valley, 1920c; Eastern Oregon," 1217c per. pound; mohair, choice, 2526c.per pound-j 'ij.