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THE SCIO PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY T. L. DVWER, AT SCIO, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, AT $2 00 per annum, in advance, The ri ver and harbor bill has passed the Senate, and now goes to the House, where it will no doubt be concurred in, as Senator dolph has been made a member of the confer enee committee. The appropriations for Oregon were largely increased in the Senate, only twd Statesman the Union getting larger sums. The bill as; it passed the Senate contains the following appropriations for Oregon: Improving entrance .to CoòS Bay, $125,000., Tillamook Bay, $500.. Nehalem Bay, $10,000. ’ Yaquina Bay, $185,000. Re-examination of Port Orford to ascertain if the estimated cost for the harbor of refuge can not be ma terially lessened, $5,000. Cascades, Columbia river, $450,000. Upper* Columbia and Snake,.$20,- 000. Mouth Columbia river, $500,000. Lower Willamette and Columbia rivers, in front and below Portland, $100,000. . . Upper Willamette, $11,000, $5,000 -of which may used in the discretion of the Secretary òf war in improving the Clackamas rapids and Ross island. Coquille river, $30,000. ■ Umpqua river, $9,000. Siuslau river, jetty system, $50,000. Young’s and Klaskanine rivers, $1,600. The totals aggregate $1,497,100. Washington did not fare so well, getting a total of-$92,000. Prof. James Bryce, of England, author of the American Common wealth, who arrived in New York on the 13th, when asked concerning the opinion in England regarding the Behring Sea controversy, said : “There is not any opinion. Our tel-: egraphic, advices.from, this side of the water have been so -scant„that they have had no influence at all up-. on public opinion, arid apparently the British, public is absolutely and woefully ignorant of the merits of the case. I do not believe there is the slightest danger of à rupture be tween the two great nations,; which stand as the foremost representatives of the Anglo-Saxon race.” ' * • ' ------------------- Mr. Thomas J. Vivian, of San Francisco, has been appointed.spccial agent of the eleventh census, to col lect the statistics of. water transport ation' on the Pacific slope, the terri tory of Alaska excepted. The ves sels that come within his jurisdiction are such as are enrolled ' in customs collection districts'96 to 103, inclu sive. All cprresQondenpe which managing owners of vessels have heretofore had with,, the* census office has been turned oyer to Mr. Vivian, and all further correspond ence may bè carried on with him. Oregon has -been honored; again. State School Superintendent Me- / Elroy has been appointed a member of the international educational com mittee of the United States for Ore gon, California, Montana, Washings ;ton,' Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Newi Mexico. There are six commission ers—one for the Pacific const, one for the New England Strifes, one for the Middle States, one tor the South western States, and two for the Mis sissippi valley and the Eastern States. , • The work of the commissioners will embrace the preparation of an educational exhibit for the Chicago world’s fair. The commissioners will report on plans and schedules of Work,to the National Teachers’ Association at Saratoga, N. Y.- In the fall they will begin active work. In a recent conversation with an Oregonian representative Mr. McEl roy said: I shall have charge of the Pacific coast exhibit and shall make the su perintendents of public instruction in each of the States and Territories in my district as my deputies. They will necessarily have deputies. I will begin my preliminary corres pond e nee this year, and next year enter actively upon »my wprk. It will be my aim to make the finest exhibit possible? In this I shall ex pect the hearty co-operation of the educators in the several States. In the exhibit a specialty ; will be made of school products,' such as school apparatus invented on the Pacific coast, mechanical drawings, industrial work, maps, chart^, plans, methods of teaching, crayon work and school reports and record^. I do not know how much space’ will be allotted us, but it will bedarg,e- Such was the case at the Centennial Expo sition and at the New Orleans World’s Fair, Indiana led In 1876. So far as I know the Pacific coast made no exhibit then. , ■- I will look after Oregon in person. Portland will make a: fine exhibit. Oregon’s schools are now in a flour ishing condition. I estimate that there are 103,000 children of school age in the State, ■ There were a few less than 100,000 when the school census was taken last year, arid there has been a large gain since then. At St. Louis, Mo., on the 18th, Ed ward Hake shot and killed his .wife while she was sleeping. ’ and then shot himself, inflicting a mortal wound. A short lime,ago he stole ■frdm his father $4,'500, but was ar rested and the; money recovered. On Hake’s promise to sue, for â di vorce from his wife prosecution for the theft wa& withdrawn. Hake en tered Suit for divorce, but finding he loved his wife so much, he preferred killing her and himself rather than bè separated from; her. It was a cowardly thing tor him to do, how ever, as she. may have preferred to live, even if a separation was: to be the result. The La Grande Gazette published this item, which is of especial inter est to surgeons : “Some two months ago John Mummey had his hand sawed off below the wrist, which hung only by a shred of flesh. The attending physicians desired to cut it off, but Mummey insisted that it be replaced and dressed as good as possible. Now the severed member has grown together and can be mov ed slowly.” " The latest from the war amongthe Southern Republics, is to the effect that peace negotiations were pro- . grossing, and Gen. Ezeta said they would terminate in a manner favor able to both sides. In the meantime Ezeta had been successful in nearly every engagement; had 20,000 men and plenty of supplies, while the Some of the foreign powers are Gautemalans were 30,000 strong, but were kicking because of non-pay trying^ little more protection just to- see how it works. France adds three ment and the shortness of grub. francs to corn and six to corn meal, À train on the Missouri Pacific, and continues to exclude our hog near Tipton, Mo., was taken in by product altogether. We noticed last train robbers, and $30,000 taken from summer these French then selling in the Pacific Express Company’s safe. their market-houses snails, horseand The robers, satisfied with their haul, mule meats, etc. They have'drawn skipped. the line on hpg 'and hominy appa Of the land grant to the.Northern rently. Well, there is no accounting Pacific, 6,000,000 acres, it is claimed, for tastes. are mineral lands, and an earnest Miss Knowles sued and obtained a effort is being made to prevent verdict against Lester Frazier Dun patents issuing for the land. can, of the London Malniiruyni.al The German embassy at Paris have News, in London, obtaining a verdict been instructed not to isecognize in for £10,000- ($50,000) for breach of any way either the Prince or Prin- promise. Duncan fled at once to , cess Hàtzfeldt, oi Huntington noto France, hoping to evade payment, selling his paper and other prop riety. erty probably during the prose The Government made arrange cution of the suit. It is doubtful ments to put down tile threatened whether the young lady collects the riot in the Chickasaw Nation on the judgment Or any part of it. 15th—-election day. -, The statue of Lafayette, presented Prince Khilkahoff was killed by the by the French government to the bursting of a steam pipe on board United States, arrived at New York the Russian man-of-war Tebesinia. on the 8th. Including the pedestal Six others were killed. it is 50 feet high, coSt $200,000, and J. B. Purdom, an old and highly is. a beautiful work of art. It will respected citizen, of Albany, died at ornament Lafayette square, Wash ington, D. C. The pedestal bears on his, home in that City on the 17th, its four .sides bronze groups emble aged 71 years. matic of Lafayette’s career while in Baron Leon, of Vienna, fell d.own America. a precipice in thè Aljbs recently and The Linkville stage was held up was killed. and robbed two miles west of Lake The cold dip at Winnipeg, Mani view, by twô masked men, on the toba, on the night of the 17th, 16th. They secured the express box, mail bags and $40 from the two pass marked 33 degrees. engers on board. Supposed to be ElijalFSaltmarsh, an aged pioneer, small treasure only in the express died near Waterloo, Linn county, and mail. last Saturday,, aged 80 years. The Republicans of Idaho met in Mrs. Maggie Wills, of Albany, is Convention on the 20th. It is ex visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Cope pected that .Shoup, for Governor, land, in this city. Sweet, for Congress, and Dubois, for President Harrison was 57 years U. S. Senator, will be nominated, old on Wednesday, just six days the first two by acclamation. older than this scribe. Archduke John, of. Austria, is run-. George Ainslee will probably be ning a saltpeter mine in Chile, un the Democratic candidate for U. S, der a false name, and trying to earn an honest livelihood. Senator from Idaho. Socialist Burns says funds raised for his support is exhausted, and if a The “boom” spirit has taken such new collection is not made he will possession of the West that people have to go to work. Awful, ain’t it ? who are looking for locations have Miss Ollie Debord, of Marion coun become accustomed to high exagger ty, while out walking, received a ation* “Do you want to sell your farm ?” charge of shot in the breast. Cause —three young men out grouse shoot Was asked of an old fellow. “Wouldn’t mind it.” ing. “Land rich ?” Ex-Consul General to Calcutta, “Cream’s poor compared with it.” Hon. B. F. Bonham, and family, ar “Healthful neighborhood ?” “Ain’t nobody ever died here yet. rived at their old home, Salem, on Cal. Gruder’s son died some time the 11th, after an absence of five ago in Texas, and they fetch him years. home to bury him, an’ dinged if he Polk county kicks because the cen didn’t get weli before they got sus cusses give her less population through with the funeral sermon.” than in 1885. What an awful fraud “It must be healthful.” the census is proving, indeed. The “That’s whut it is. See that fellar census managers should be embalmed goih’ ’long yander ?” —in tar. ' “Yes.” John Miltop, of Frazier, says that, “Walks pretty well, don’t he ?” one of his horses, last week, de- “Fust rate.” J voured ten gallons of mineral header “Wall, I know something about him in connection with this’ere cli oil, a side of baedji,- and six cans of mate that will sound sorter strange.” axle grease; is a good workhorseand does his share of pulling. ■ “What’s that ?” “Wall, when that fellar come here To render paper or pasteboard he had only one leg.” waterproof, mix four parts of slaked “You don’t mean it ?” lime with three parts of skimmed “Yes, I do.” A; milk, add a little alum; then give “I have heard so much concerning the material two'coatings of themix- this part of the country that I am ture with a brush and let it dry. now prepared for almost anything, The Ameer of Afghanistan visited but I must confess that you astonish Cabul on the 11th, and was received me.” “It’s a fact all the same. Only had with enthusiasm. He was visited one leg when he come here, but put by the chiefs, military officers and ty soon another commenced to grow citizens, and presented with 60,000 rupees to be devoted to charity. out.” “Grew right on the stump of the The sheriff arrested William Bea old one, eh ?” ver at Arkansas City, Ark., on the “No, sir; never had a stump. Was 11th, for assault upon a young white homed with only one leg. Do you lady, and was taking his prisoner to know that thar ain’t a man in this jail, when a mob met, overpowered county that draws a pension from the sheriff, and hung the negro to a the government ?” tree. “No, is that a fact ?” W. H. Walker, of Staver & Walk “A flat-footed fack. Their arms an’ legs have growOd out till the er, Portland, was killed on the 12th Government has refused to give ’em near Folej* Springs, Land county. It is the same old story: He was out pensions.”. deer hunting with a youth named “Good fruit country ?” “Well, tolerable, but it ain’t good Powers; the two became separated; fur apples, fur the trees grow so high Powers heard the brush crack, and that the young apples die of the cold. fired at what he now says he sup See that long row of big trees over posed was a deer. What ought to be done with these fools who, almost yonder ?” weekly, are killing men whom they “Yes.” “When I came here they had just, take for deer! What’s the use in been sot out. They were telegraph building penitentiaries, anyhow? poles at first, but shortly after they Staver & Walker were the largest were put out, they commenced grow- dealers in agricultural goods in the in’. and they jest had to take the Northwest. wires' off of ’dm art’" let ’em rip; ■ Kemmler w»s executed by elec Wonderful country, ain’t'it ?” tricity in New York on the 6th., It “Yes ; by the way, what will you was the first execution by electricity take for your place ?” ■. in this country, and was not qu te up “I’ll sell it to you cheap, consider to. the mark, and some of the tender in’ the fack that they are about to feet in the East insist on abolishing lay off a town on it. You may. have the killing by electricity and falling my. fifty acres.for a.hundred dollars.” back on the old barbaric custom of “That’s certainly cheap.” hanging. The weight of authority “Reckon it is. What do you say ?” - strengthens the belief that death by . “It is suspiciously cheap. Why electricity is as quick as thought, are you so anxious to sell ?” and therefore absolutely without “Wai, as I tell you, they, air goin’ pain, while deatlufrom neck-break to build a town herean’ I don’t want ing and strangulation is often pro no noise an’ confusion about me. longed, and altogether revolting. What do you say ?” The first case was largely experi “Don’t believe I want to buy.” mental; the authorities will do a “Say, take it fur fifty dollars. I much better job nekt time, and all kan’t stand noise, reeolleck.” this howl and, maudlin sympathy “No, I don’t care to invest.” over the.death of a brute will cease. “How would twenty-five strike you ?” , A*prominent citizen said to us the Not very well.” other evening, while noting the gy “What would you s.ay to fifteen ?” rations of a “practitioner at the bar,” “No, I’m obliged to you.”/ that he was in fay’orof a law peni- “Wall, git qu ten here, now—git ! tentiarying for life any rich man You would paralyze any boom the that drank stimulants, for the reason country ever saw. Bill,” calling his that he was rich already; but ho de son, “fetch my gun out here, an’ if sired the law sO; framed that the poor this fellar’s in- sight three minits man may be allowed to go on a royal from now I’ll take a crack at him. spree once every three months for Git!”— Arkansaw Traveler,. twenty-four hours, during’ which time he should have the “freedom The fire at Dayton, Wash., on the of the town” or city in which he. 11th, caused a loss of $85,000; insur lived, io that he might be as “rich ance, $51,800. as a lord” four times a year—and that Was enough. If "he (the poor . Charles and Daniel Ellison, of Pat man) undertook to get drunk be tison, Texas, brothers, killed each tween whiles,he should after duetrial other in a quarrel on the 11th. and conviction, be “electroscooted,” . if it took a million volts to the square Joe Clark, 15 years, was killed by inch. a lot of boys on the 11th, al'Willows, Col. Over 80 shot entered his left The ire of the Celestial empire has side. been-aroused by the exclusive meas ures,, arid the Chinese, minister in Mrs. Lambert, of Lake county, Washington says his country will re was-badly burned recently trying to taliate if the exclusion acts are not save two children from a burning inodified. At present China is real building. She will probably recover. izing the importance of modern im The citizens of Springfield are try provements, and in building rail ing to raise $7,000, the cost of bring roads, etc., offers a good field for the ing the Oregonian railway to that investment of money. American capital is interested noW in building town from Coburg. railroads in the great-empire, and if Owing to the advance in price of retaliatory measures are adopted.our hides and leather, the shoe manu fellow citizens may find themselves facturers are advancing their prices at a disadvantage. There can be no 10 per cent. question that Cl.iina has as much O-- - ---- W. J. King and wife were drowned right from an international stand by the bursting of a waterspout near point, to forbid Americans immigra their home on the river, near Salon- ting to the empire, as the United States have to order Chinese subjects- ca, Colorado. out of this country. As a mere mat A party of gold hunters proceeded ter of financial gain, it is simply a to Rock creek the other day and pro balancing of accounts whether the pose to find out if there is anything country will gain more by opening in the reports of gold having been wide the gates to these Mongolian found in that stream or in its vicin hordes, and our citizens enjoying the ity, by giving ita thorough prospect same privileges in the Celestial em ing. It is said they were furnished pire, or by excluding them be exclu the “sinews of war” by a California ded ourselves in turn. China may syndicate. be a good field for capital, but not for The Nicaragua Canal people have labor; and it makes no difference to purchased the plant used by the the wage earners of this country if American Contract & Dredging Co. the gates of the empire are forever at Colon, formerly used on the works barred to them; but to the million of the Panama, canal, and the plant aires it will be far different. By is being removed to Graytown. This keeping Chinese out of this country plant did the greatest part of the we give more labor a nd better wages effective work on the Panama.canal, to our own poor, and this certainly and its dredges are of exertional is a great cosideratiori in a free gov ernment. power and capacity. CASEOI BOOM-DESTROYING. ^>ugar Pine Door & Lumber CJó m a n ufact u re- Tr Doors Blinds And everything in the HOUSE FURNISHING line. Goods sr>!d cheaper than at Portland. AU work done with neatness and dispatch. Send in your orders.-' Office and Salesroom, : : : : ASL.3SANY, OlHEGON; Albany Furniture Company, BROCK & HYDE, I’ll Ol’li’S, s o— DEALER IN----o F U RN I TU R E. OF EVEKY »ESCRIPTION, PICTURE FRAMES, WIND O W SHADES, MIRR ORS, BRA CK* ETS, ETC., ETC., s s 8 OZEiZESGa-OJSr. One Hundred Choice Oil Paintings Jti^®tE{SEDa,'cirorsale*ttI‘e Holding's for Ficturs Frames sold at popiilar prices. ” OREGON LAND COMPANY. x ----- ?----------- -WITH ITS--------------- — HOME - OFFICE - AT : SALEM, : OREGON? (IN THE STATE ÎNSURANCE BUILDING,) And. Branch Offices in Èor-tlàaâ, Astoria Albany,- 2L4N FOR SALE A LARGE LIST OF GRAIN, STOCK AND FRUIT FARMS ; ALSO, ÔITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY. OH.EGONT Z> was especially organized fer the purpose of buying and subdividing large Yraefs of laiid,- and has, during the past two years, bought and subdivided over 3.200 acres: of Jahd iiltO’ from five to twenty-acre tracts. The sueeesSiti the luidertrikibg is shown in the tact that out of two hundred and eighty tracts placed on the rfiarRet. 225 have been sc d. We claim that ten acres of choice land in fruit, will yield" a' larger income than dfte' hundred and sixty acres lii wheat in the Mississippi valley. We also make valuable improvements in the way of roads; fences, etc. We can sell a’ small tract of land for the same price per acre yop would have to pay for a large farm; Of" Send for pamphlet, ma;ps and price list. ROUtE! TTIJEI O----------- Q ’ Oregon Pa c I fi c Rail road, OREGON DEVELOPMENT CO.’S STEAMERS! o------- o Short Line to California. Freight and Fares the Lowest. Accommodations unsurpassed for comfort and safety. Fares and freights via Yaquina and the Oregon Development Co,’s steamships 'much less than by any other route between all points in the Willamette Valley and San Francisco. Daily Passena-« r Trains (.except Sundays), Leave Yaquina at 6:45 A, M. Leave Corvallis^at 10:35 A,. M. Arrive at Albany at 11:10 A. M. Leave Albany at 1:00 P. M. Leave Corvallis at. 1:40 P. M. Arrive atYaquina at 5:30 B. Oregon & .(’aliiornia trains connect at Albany and Corvallis. C. C. HOGUE. * W m . m . HOAG, General Manager. i Act’g G. F. &P. Agt, Corvaljis, Ogn, Oregon ZDo-velopmcnt Company, Firsi Class Steamship Line between YA QUIN A and SAN FRANCISCO, connecting atYaquina with the trains of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company. The Company reserves the right to change sail days. C. H. HASWELL, Gen. F. & P. Agt., Montgomery-St., San Francisco, Cal. The Oregon Pacific St.eam'boats will leave Portland, south bpufid, on Mohday. Wednesday and Friday, atfi A. M.: arrive at Corvallis Tuesday. Thursday and Satur day at 3:30* P. M.......... .Leave Corvallis, north bound, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 8 A. M. Arrive at. Portland Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 3:30 P. M............ On l^onday, Wednesday and Friday, both north and south bound boats lie over night at Salem, leaving there at 6 A. M.’ In5 \ \ C. C. IIOQUE, A. G. F. & F. Age«t. .