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He who thinks to please the World is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. VOL V. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19. 1891. NO. 15. WB. DON AC A, -DEALER IN- Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacco, Etc, First Class Goods at . GIVE ME A TRIAL Countrv Produce Taken, in. Exchange for Goods. KEEP ON HAND A STOCK OF Shingles. Posts, Boards and Pickets. W. C. Petersox, Notary Public PETERSON & GARLAND, Real Estate Brokers HAVE ON HAND CHOICE BAEGA TNS In Large and Small Farms. Best Fruit tne woria. improvea ana tmmprovea iana, irom per Acre ana up. Satisfact ion Guaranteed. Have on hand some CHOICE CITY PROPERTY, Residence and Business. Bargains in all Additions to the Town. Houses Rented and Farms Leased. I JST S UliAN C JC AGENTS London & Liverpool A Globe Insurance Co. Guardian Assurance Co., of London. Oakland Home Insurance Co., of Oakland, Cal. State Insurance Co., of Salem. Oregon. Farmers and Merchants' Ins. Co., of Salem Collections Receive Prompt Attention. Notary Business a Specialty. We take pleasure in giving our patrons all information desired in our line of business. DR. C. H. DUCKETT, DENTIST LEBANON, OREGON. J.K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. ALBANY, ..... ORF.GOK. W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBAVVOBEOiW. J. I. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. Exchange sold on New York, San ratieiteo, Portland and Albany, Org Collections made on favorable terms G. T. COTTON, Dealer in Groceries and Provisions. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Oueunsware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Lebanon, Oregon LSM DJ Meat Market ED. KELLENBERGER, Prop. Fresh & Salted Beep, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. BACOS AND LAED ALWAYS ON HAND Hate mm. f iniw. Ore Furnishing Goods, Etc Reasonable Prices. AND BE CONVINCED. Bast M. Garlaxd, Attorney-at-Law Land in Valley. Finest Grain Ranches in FOR- EAST AJSTD SOUTH Southern Pacific Koutc. THE MOUNT SHASTA ROUTE. EXPBESS TRAINS LEAVE PORTLAND DAILY : 7KP. ,Lv 10 rf3 P.M. I Lv io as A.M. 1 AT Portland Ar j 9;S A. m. Albany Ar 6 -.15 a. w. San Francisco Lv ) 9 :00 P. M. Above trains stop only at the following stations nortli of Rosehorg : East Portland. Oregon City, Wood burn. Salem, Albany, Tangent, Shedds, Halsey, Ham 9 burg, Junction CI; y, Irving and Eugene. Rosebara; Mail Daily. 8 :00 A. X. I Lv Portland 12 :20 p. H. Lv Albany 6 :40 P. K. f Ar Boseburg Ar 4 :00 P. AT J 12 KM It Lv 6:20 A. Albany Local Daily- (Except Sunday.) Ar I 9:00 A. M. Lv 5 .-00 A. II Daily Kxcept 2 :36 P. M. Lv Albany Ar 1 9 :23 A. X 2:2b P. Be Ar Lebanon Lv j 8:40 A. M 7 :30 A. M. Lv Albany Ar 4 :26 P. H 8 :22 a. M. Ax Lebanon Lv j 3 :40 P. M PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Sleeping Cars For accommodation of Second-Class Passengers, attached to Express trains. WEST SIDE DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS. Mail Train Daily (Except Sunday.) At Albant-. and Corvallls connect with trains o Oregon Pacific Railroad. . , (Express Train Daiiy Except Sunday.) AT Lv 5:45 A. M. y Through tickets to all points East and South. For tickets and full information regarding rates, maps, etc., call on Co'b agent atLebanon. K. KOKHLEK, K. P. ROGERS. Manager. Asst G. F. tit P. Agt I: R. BORU3I. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair Cut, Cleaned or Dressed. Hot and Cold Baths at all Hours. Children Kindly treated. . Calland see me. . R, L. McCLUKE (Successor lb C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon. Oregon. Shaving', Haircutting" and Shampoo ing' in the latest and best style. Spec ial attention paid to dressing Ladies' hair. Your patronage respectfully so-icitad. Farm Notes. Pertinent Paragraphs. The proposed dairymen's union was formed at San Francisco June 1 with B. H. Franklin of Cambria, San Luis county, as president. Louis Tomassini of Petal uma vice-president and C. P. Marti secretary. A depot will be established in San Francisco where the members will send their butter and it will be sold direct to retailers without the aid of commission men. The union will make war on oleo margarine, which is largely sold butter, and on the system of putting up butter in rolls weighing less than two pounds. . To Poison Grasshoppers. The grasshopper plague has been more threatening in the early spring on this coast this-year than ever be fore. The Plural Press reproduces an account of the most successful way of combating it in vineyards, as follows : " A mash composed of bran, arsenic, sugar and water, the proportions being one part of sugar, one and one half parts of arsenic and four parts of bran, to which is added a sufficient quantity of water to make a wet mash. A common washtubf ul of this mash is sufficient for about fi ve acres of grape vines. Fill the washtub about three- fourths full of bran, add six pounds of arsenic, and mix it thoroughly with the bran ; put about four pounds of coarse brown sugar in a pail, fill the pail with water and stir until the greater part of the sugar is dissolved. Then pour this sugar-water into the bran and arsenic, and again fill the pail with water, and proceed as before until all of the sugar in the pail has been dissolved and added to the bran. Now stir the latter thoroughly, and add as much water as is necessary to thoroughly saturate the mixture, and it is ready for use. "Throw about a tablespoonful of this mixture upon the ground beneath each vine infested with grasshoppers, and in a short time the latter will leave the vine and collect upon the bran and soon commence feeding upon it. Those which are upon the ground six or eight feet from the bran will soon find their way to it, appar ently guided by the sence of smell, as those to the leeward of the bran have been observed to come to it from a greater distance than those which were upon the side of the bran from which the wind was blowing. After eating as much of the bran as they desire, the grasshoppers usually crawl off, and many hide themselves be neath weeds, clods of earth, etc., and in a few hours will be found to be dead. 'The mixture costs from 35 to 40 cents per acre of vineyard, including labor of mixing and applying it. In orchards the cost will be considerable less than this. One man can apply it to eight or ten acres of vineyard in a day. " The addition of sugar to this mix ture is merely to cause the arsenic to adhere to the particles of bran, and not for the purpose of increasing its attractiveness, since it was found that the grasshoppers were not attracted to pure sugar. Middlings or shorts have beerused in the place of bran, but are not so desirable, since in dry ing they assume a solid mass which the grasshoppers cannot eat, whereas bran in drying never assumes a solid form." There is some little difference of opinion as to the proportion of arsenic which is best; also as to the advisa bility of using a little middlings to make the mixture more compact. One prescription is as follows : Forty pounds of bum, lo pounds of middlings, 2 gallons cheap syrup, 20 pounds arsenic, mixed soft with water. Others reduce the arsenic to 15 pounds and others to 10 pounds, with the same weights of other ingredients. To enable one to gather up the remnants of the poison after its work is done, the practice is adopted of placing the poison on shingles or other thin pieces of wood which can be easily seen and emptied. All such surplus poison should be deeply buried in the ground. Naturally there was much appre hension of evil from such free use of arsenic when the remedy was first put into practice. Very careful analyses were made at the university labor atory of the washings of vine leaves. Srapes, and of the soil beneath the vines, ana no dangerous amounra oi arsenic were found, nor did there appear any danger of contaminating wells or other sources of water. Of course domestic animals: and fowls must be faithfully looked to while the poison is exposed, and it is chiefly for their protection that the use of shiRgles in putting out the poison, instead of throwing it on the ground, is advocated. No man need neglect his fruits or his garden crops or his poultry be cause he makes a special feature of some class of stock, but he should feel that some one thing which will consume the raw material on the farm is the leading business. Some are holding that a cement floor in a creamery is not the great shakes it was once supposed to be, for it absorbs the drippings of milk and becomes foul. Brick floors do the same. A flagstone floor that is cemented at the ioints keeps sweetest of the three kinds. But those who put a tigtit plank floor laid on a thin coating of cement with sills bedded in the earth and cement, and paint it well, find it is most easily kept sweet and clean of them all. The English or house sporrow of Europe is in every way a nuisance, and snould be destroyed at all times and in all seasons in every possible way that is safe to other life. One good way to kill them by wholesale is. to bait them with millet seed or other small bright seed that they like for a few days, and then toak a good big feed of the same kind of seed in a solution of arsenic and place it for them. This will kill the little pests by the wholesale. Great care should be taken with the poisoned feed, and any that is left after the sparrows are aeaa snouiu u unstroywi. Woman's World. Current Comment. The committee on temperance of the Presbyterian general assembly reported encouraging progress and added ' the women's temperance societies are the main factor in bring ing about this result." Progressive Women. At a meeting of the executive Loard of the Women's National Couneil at Indianapolis a telegram was sent to the General Assembly at Detroit ask ing that Presbyterian women be al lowed a voice in the ratification or rejection of the creed. :- A committee was appointed to ask that women be admitted to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church; to ask the next triennial of Sunday school workers of the United States and Canada that they be placed upon the committee on Sunday-school les sons; that they be placed on the National Reform Divorce League of Boston, and to press upon the atten tion of the next and each succeeding congress a bill providing that all the government employes be paid equal wages with regard to work and in viting the International Council of Women to meet in Chicago during the Columbian Exposition of 1893. The National Council will assume the en tertainment of all accredited foreign delegates. No American delegates will be recieved into the International Council except from organizations that have come into the National Council of the United States. A committee was appointed to pre pare a symposium on dress to be published under the auspices of the National Council in one of the popular magazines during the coming year and to report to the conference of the executive board of the council in May, 1892, its idea of a business dress. The president was authorized to form a committee to collect funds and secure plans for the erection of a woman's temple at Glen Echo. At the next meeting of the National Council in : 1892 each state council may send two : fraternal delegates, and in every state where no council is organized the local councils organized in cities may ! send one fraternity delegate. Where j state councils are organized further j steps will be taken to lead local organ- : izations to aggregate themselves into : a national organization. - j Christian loans Womei The Pacific coast committee of the Young Women's Christian association held a parlor conference June 2 at the residence of Miss Mindora Berry, 1812 Van Ness avenue, San Francisco. Mrs. Edward Thomson, chairman of the executive committee of the Young Women's Christian association of the Pacifie coast, told of the need of extending the work for young women to every city and town west of the Rocky mountains. It was not in large cities alone that young women needed help social, intellectual and spiritual. There were already 10,000 members of the association, and there were 3o0 branches in the United States, but the speaker felt that the work was scarcely begun. Miss Berry spoke of the associations lately organized in the State Normal schools and young women's colleges. Eight new associations had been started in Sacramento, Chico, Los Aageles, Pomona, Ontario and Irving- ton. But the speaker thought that the work for young women ought to be carried just as far as it had been already for young men. H. J. McCoy, secretary of the Young Men's Christian association, said that he was impressed that both associa tions ought to go together, shoulder to shoulder. One of the saddest truths of to-day was that, while ayoung man might be easily forgiven for a down fall, it was not so easy for a young woman to win forgiveness. The time had come to save and Christianize the young women of California. J. P. Fay of San Jose said that people do not realize either the needs of young girls or the power of the association. The latter would put a greater value upon a girl's service and raise her in the social scale by developing in her a higher type of womanhood. The greatest need of to-day iB sympathy. The secretary of the executive com mittee Is Miss M. Berry; treasurer, Mrs. William O. Gould. Before Von Clean House "; Long before the calendar says it is time to begin nousecleaning, says the Ladies' Home Journal, you should look over the magazines, papers, dis abled furniture, discarded garments and household ornaments which even twelve months accumulate so wonder fully. Be brave, and do not save an indiscriminaie mass of articles against the possible needs of the seventh year of which we hear so much. Give away the best of the old garments and sell the remainder to the junk man. The magazines and papers which you do not intend to have bound or to utilize in your scrap book will be eagerly read in some hospital or other institu tion. Even the furniture and orna ments will greatly brighten the dreary surroundings of some poor family. Have the courage of your convictions in dealing with the contents of trunks and boxes. Dispense ' with non essentials and systematize the re mainder and your reward will be a delightful sense of space and a feeling of almost physical relief. . The striking miners at Franklin have appealed to the courts to disarm the guards who protect the non-union miners. - . John Allen, who keeps a house of ill-repute over Sol Wood's saloon at Spokane, shot Wood four times June 7, perhaps fatally. Both are colored. General News. UNITED STATES. The Nicaraqua canal is being pushed vy uu men ana a areager. John A. McDonald is dead. Jjebel, inventor of the rifle which oears ms name, is dead. John and Henry von Bremen were Kuiea oy tneir orotner Jaice in a quar rel near Watervllle June 3. f The attempt to prohibit, on the ground of fraud, the sending through the mails of paper which spiritualist aidto oi xtoston was selling as mag netized paper which developed spirit ualistic Dower in the believer. failed. The UnitedStatescourtoommlasloner lield that as Albro s customers be lieved they had got what they paid lor me cnarge oi iraua wouia not noiu. imair ago constituted tne uutinam Equipment company in New York, dealt in railroad patents and was worth $150,000. drank his Dropertv all away and died In an inebriate asylum June 2. -- The People's oartv has nut a ticket in me neia in lowa. The police raided the rooms of the Aipna lseita ni ciud at Harvard June 2 and seized beer, brandies, champagnes, whiskies and wines enough to stock a hotel. Mayor Shakespeare of New Orlaaris received an infernal machine through the mail the other day. but it failed to explode wnen opened and He escaped aeatn. The largest number of immigrants ever landed at New York in one day was wau, i une a. All the oatmeal mills of the country have been gobbled up by a trust. Valentine Beck s house near Beaver City, Neb., was burned June 1 with a noy oi ana a gin oi I in it wnue ikh-k and his wife were absent. The Bath iron works of Bath. Me.. got the contract for cruiser 13 for ,6w.u(J0. The union iron works or San Francisco bid $2,793,000 and the Cramps $2,745,000. Massachusetts has repealed the law compelling persons drinking at saloons to do so only while sitting at tames. A rthjir W SfA-l n olorlr in thp rtnftrt letter office at Washington, has been arrested for robbing letters which passed through his hands. Young's hotel and the Parker house. two of the best-known hotels of Bos ton, have announced that on account oi tne riotous conduct or Harvard at those houses. The Miehiiran Women's Christian Temperance Union re pledges its in fluence to the political party which shall, by its platform, demand the abolition of the liquor traffic, and urges vigorous efforts in pushing the woman franchise question and exhort ing women to closely follow legisla tive proceedings and statutes relating to schools, ana to avail themselves of every opportunity to vote at the school elections. Sawtelle, convicted of the murder of his brother in New Hampshire, who has always insisted that he did not commit the crime, confesses that his brother was killed in his presence. Three steers bitten by a mad doer in Atchison county, Kas., bit three Van derburg brothers, all of whom have died of hydrophobia. Archbishop Corrlgan interprets the pope's latest encyclical letter as con demning the single-tax proposition. A tiger escaped from a menagerie a couple of years ago in Fulton county, 111., and is now killing horses and cattle for the farmers, who occasion ally hunt it but run when they see it. A large number of Chinese birds were broughtoveron the bark Colo ma to be turned loose in the woods. The imported European songbirds are multiplying fast. A man has been arrested near McMinnville for shoot ing skylarks. FOREIGN. A hurricane in Susa valley, Italy, June 3, wrecked many houses, killed nine people and injured many. Pope Leo has willed all his property to the holy see. The czar declares his determination not to mitigate the vigor of the ex pulsion of the Jews. There was a riot at Savonia, Italy, June 1, in which the police killed two rioters. The New York lumber-trade associ ation has made the lumberyards non union yards. The population of Ireland Is 2,706, IC2 males and 2,317,076 females, a de crease of 468,674 since the previous census. The czarowitz at Vladivosfoek June 1 broke ground for the overland rail road. " The Japanese policeman who cut the czarowitz has been sentenced to life imprisonment. , - Brigands tore up the track and wrecked a railroad trait near Tche reskei, Turkey, robbed the passengers and held the engineer of the train and four Engligh and German tourists, including a Berlin banker, until the German government paid $40,000 ran som. - Tcheng Ki Tong, formerly secretary of the Chinese legations in London and Paris, swindled a large number oi creaitors oeiore ne went Dome, ana now he has been condemned to death for it. - Gold has reached 325 per cent pre mium at Buenos Ayres. The government stipend to Catholic Sriests in Germany, withdrawn under is mare k, has been restored. The population of London is 4.211.- 056 according to the new census. A famine is imminent in Madras. Aberdeen is to have water works costing 29,209. - To the committee on the new busi ness dress at the Woman's Council, Miss Willard furnished the following unique suggestion : Arrange for and build tne dress around one dozen pockets. " A man who has practiced medicine for 40 Tears ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says: TOLEDO. O., Jan. 10, 1887. Messrs. P. J. Chenev & Co. Gentlemen : I have been In the general practice of medicine for most 40 years, aad would say that In all my practice and experience have never seen a pre paration that I eould prescribe with as much confidence of success as I can Hail's Catarrh Cure; manufactured by you. Have prescribed it a great many times and Its effect is wonderful, and would say In conclusion that Z bave yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure. If they would take it according to directions. i ours truiy, L- L. GORSTJCH, M. D., Office, 215 Summit St. c e will give $100 for any case of Catarrh that nnnot be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken Internally. T. J. CHENEY CO., Props,, Toledo, O. 4VSol4 by Druggists. 75c Coast News. CALIFORNIA. The state controller refuses to draw a warrant for the $5000 appropriated by the legislature for the relief of the sunerers Dy tne xia Juan a floods, claiming the act was unconstitutional. ALAMEDA COUNTY. Berkeley licenses saloons at $50 a quarter ana allows tnem to remain open ounuays. Pool rooms are licensed in Oakland at $600 a year. AMADOR COUNTY. Li Rabolt, a Sutter Creek brewer, hanged himself June 6. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. The San Ramon and Martinez rail road is completed and trains running. EL DORADO COUNTY. Mrs. Calwell. acred 60. was burned to death in her son's barn at Lotus May 31 while she was alone on the larm. HUMBOLDT COUNTY. . Daniel Murray got drunk at Eureka Tune 4 and fired a shotgun into the faces and necks of James Craig and Mrs. Z'iok Graff. Craig's wounds were serious. Jackson Rhoades, who murdered Principal Shull near Greenwood, has been arretted. KERN COUNTY. Fruit bankers have itist mimhnsed of C. A. Maul, near Bakersneld, all of his ore ne:e eliner peacHes of this year's crop at $40 per ton, but will take no peaches that measure less than two and a half inches in diameter. The orange clings ripen in August, and tnev exoect to cret at least two car loads that come within the contract.' Ihey will be pnt up m glass jars for me zancy eastern maricec : - LOS ANGELES COUNTY. Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeek of Los Angeles, who last year gave $750,000 for a home for aced ueoDle. has donated ten acres on Boyle nights to tne city lor a parte. Preacher Fleniiner of Los Angeles has been sentenced to three years in the state prison for indecent assault on his servant girl. He appeals. George Miles, arrested for the mur der of his partner in the saloon busi ness, Oeorge All tier, at Los Angeles, was examined and discharged. A company has been incorporated to build an electric railroad from Pasa dena up mount Wilson. Los Angeles' school census shows an increase of 203 for the year. George W. Howard of Santa Monica was drowned while bathing at the Deacn j une 4. Deputy Sheriff Seoulveda h is been discharged for attempting to make arrangements with the chief of police to let fifteen tan games run in China town for $200 a week. The supervisors have fixed county liquor licenses at $15 a month. Committees of taxpayers have been appointed in Los Angeles to examine the books of the city officers and the county officers and to look up the cost of governing eastern cities of the same size. I. I. Boak of Denver has organized camps of the Order .of Woodmen and collected about $1000 which he now firomises to return if not prosecuted or obtaining money under false pre tenses. The order his camps were attached to is claimed to be only a seceded faction from the Modern Woodmen of America which the members of his camps thought they were joining. Mrs. Harriet Slosson's 13-veftr-old daughter has been given in charge of a brother and sister by the courts on the ground that the mother leads an evil life at Los Angeles, and has tried to force the little girl to do the same. A woman of the town has been ar rested foi poisoning ex-Policeman Dan Lynch with a dose of morphine ' which she is supposed to have pre pared ior anotner visitor to ner nouse , wuom sne mtenoea to roo. MENDOCINO COUNTY. D. E. Shull. principal of theCuffev's Cove public school, was shot and Killed Dy a stage a river named Rhoades, who wanted to marry a teacher named May Thurston and when she refused thought Shull was the cause of the refusal. MONTEREY COUNTY. The Junipero Serra monument at Monterey, made and placed at the expense of Mrs. Leland Stanford at a cost oi spiu,uoo, was unvaiied J une 3. It is a statue of the old priest and stands near the spot where he landed in ivyu. Lou Davis and Eugene Kidd fired shots at each other on the street at Salinas June 4 but hit nobody. Then tney cuncnea ana iougnt ana Dotn were arrested. Joseph Road house, aged 22. has been arrested for arson at Salinas. He was caught in the act. Burglars bored four holes in Frank Piercers safe at Monterey on the night of June 4 but failed to open it. NEVADA COUNTY. Three white men. two of them young and the other about 45. tortured a Chinese miner near Grass Valley to uia& liiui KvtI L,p muuwy ne was sup posed to have. They then ran a broom stick into his body and broke it off and disappeared. His life may be saved. ORANGE COUNTY. Ninety-five ostriches were sold for debt at the Anaheim ostrich farm June 1, for $1600. They are3under stood to have been bidden in for the company. Anaheim has voted $150,000 im provement bonds. The directors of the Anaheim irriga tion district will go into court and fight the Southern Pacific's effort to escape the irrigation tax. PLACER COUNTY. Beruice Kinder of Gold Run. aged 12, and her 11-year-old sister got hold of a giant powder cartridge and tried to take the cap off it, first pouring cold water on it. It exploded and took off one girl's right hand and in jured her left and slightly injured the otner gin in tne lace. SACRAMENTO COUNTY. Chinese are killing many fish in the American river with gunpowder. The Sacramento school trustee elec tion is being contested on the ground mat il was neia in a saloon. Miss Mock of the "Fakir" theatri cal company came down with small pox while in the capital. A Mrs. Spill man. who had separated from her husband, was assaulted by two men who broke into her house and beat her head into a jelly and then disappeared, June 5, after she had retired for the night. She is likely to die. -There is no known cause for the assault. An old man named Peyran, sleeping in the house of John Olsen at Sacra mento, was murdered in bed June 5 and the house set on fire. It is sup posed the murderers were after Olsen's money. The supervisors and the Anti-debris association have secured injunctions wnicn nave closed a number oi mines on the forks of the American river. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. Reservoirs will be built in the mountains north of San Bernardino to irrigate 120,000 acres between San xseraaratno and Pomona and tmeio. James McGowan was killed and Edward Moran and Thomas Eisler severely injured by a cave in the w atenoo mine at (jauco i une u. C. H. Dvar, an Ontario insurance man, has disappeared, leaving a letter telling nis wue mat ne nas gone to make money. His accounts are straight. SAN DIEGO COUNTY. The Carlsbad land and water com pany has donated the Carlsbad hotel and forty acres of land for a Methodist seaside resort. The superior eourt upholds the new charter of San Diego. SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY. A Sunday school institute for train ing teachers has been founded. James W. Kerr, who killed Edward Coogan by a shot fired at a crowd of siriKing moioers wno naa assaulted Kerr and one of the employes of Kerr's foundry, has had his trial and it took the jury five minutes to acquit him. The fire commissioners deposed Charles E. Broad, clerk of the corpor ation yara, out ne reiusea to go ana u'w tj(Jiieu w uie courts 1AJ restrain the board from dischartrincr him. alleging that that act is beyond the Doaru s legal powers. Dr. Samuel H. Hall has been held for trial for the murder through crim inal malpractice of Miss Ida Shaddock of Sites. - The Pacifie bank has paid the $18,250 23 taxes which the city sued ior. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. John Roberts, who lives in an ark on the river with his fifteen-year-old daughter, has been arrested at Stock ton on her complaint for an unnatural crime. The girl has been taken in charge by the society for the preven tion of cruelty to children. SANTA CLARA COUNTY. Walter Antoine of San Jose was drowned while bathing near the Lick Mills June 7. FRESNO COUNTY. William Coleman left a gun stand ing where some children were playing near Selma June 3 and they knocked it down and it was discharged as it fell, killing 5-year-old Fred Lin son. A break in the Fresno canal June 3 flooded the city. A gopher hole started it and it grew so fast it eould not be stopped until many acres of land and much of the city had been flooded and great damage done. MERCED COUNTY. J. F. Blanchard has been arrested for penury alleged to have been com mitted in support of Olsen's alibi in the murder case. PACIFIC COAST. The Indians in Alaska are d vine- off of the grip. The schooner Sadie F. Caller was wrecked on the Alaskan coast May 2. All on board escaped. Frank Cathem has been killed bv Apaches fifteen miles from Arispe, Mex., and the Mexicans have chased the redskins toward Arizona. The contract is let for the build inc of the railroad from San Diego to San Quintin, Mex., and again we are promised that it will be pushed to completion. ARIZONA. Jeremiah Gibbons cut his throat and then drowned himself in a tank of water at Tucson June 1. Four men have been convicted of the assault on the juryman who hung out and prevented the acquittal of Shankland in the murder trial at Tombstone. The Tombstone and Bisbee stage was robbed June 2 by two Mexicans who got $40. The irrigating pumps at Yuma, which are to put water on a large tract west of Yuma with water from the Colorado river, are completed and at work. IDAHO. Frank Bunting and Gordon, con tracting painters, collected about $2000 due them at Boise City and de camped without paying their bills, but they were caught at Pocatello and made to disgorge. ' NEVADA. T. D. Edwards, district attorney of Ormsby county, committed suicide at Carson June 3. NEW MEXICO. H. R. Barker of Oklahoma City fell from a train in a fit of apoplexy at Laguna June 2 and was picked up dead. A rock fell on Joseph Foscala in a mine at Gallup and killed him. Santa Fe has voted to incorporate. A beet sugar factory is to be built near Albuquerque. The wool clip is immense this year. OREGON. An effort is being made to improve the wagon road between Eugene and Florence and secure a daily mail to Florence. John B. Raub of Tacoma has got a verdict against the Southern Pacific for damages sustained in the lake Labish disaster. The company will : appeal. . j A. K. Belden and a man named i Loftus quarreled about 50 cents at Johnson & Butler's sawmill on the Grande Rondo river June 2 and Bel den was stabbed and killed. E. Laybourne fell from a log and was drowned in the pond near Hoyt's mill, Powell valley, June 2. Consolidation has been voted by Portland, East Portland and Albina. L. H. McMahon, editor of the Wood burn Independent, was assaulted June 5 by James Mento on account of something he had published. He put a bullet through Mento 's hand. What will be the largest salmon cannery on the Columbia is being built at Portland. Portland will issue $50,000 bonds and buy the bridges in the city and do away with tolls. Seattle has shipped to the Chicago fair a fir tree 52 inches in diameter at the but and 113 feet long. WIT AND I1UM0H The war with Italy seems to be all write. Washington Star. Where there's a will there's a way to bast it. Boston Herald. A bad boy Is often hand-cuffed by his parents. Brake's Magazine. The auctioneer is a thorough "go ;ng" man. Washington tost. A lazy man has to work bard to find an easy place. Barn's Horn. It is the men who pay compliments; the women pay for them. Atchison Globe. A good man or a good woman with out tact becomes a terror. Hartford Times. When the girl breaks a match off somebody is pretty sure to,-le fired. Pittsburg Post. A reporter's Hying is his commission on the notes he collects for the public Du Bois Courier. Beauty is only skin deep, bat it will fet a seat in a horse-ear every time. 'inghamton Leader. Switzerland ought to be a free . country. There are so many passes in it, Tankers Statesman. The distant relative is the one who is afraid that yon are going to borrow $5 from him; Texas Sifting. The pussy-willow forees the season, but she's prudent; she always wears her furs. Binghamton Republican. It is a curious fact that when one is seized with a ennsnming passion one1! appetite fails miserably. St. Joseph News. There is one business industry that has some snap to it even in doll times the whip : manufacture. Lowell Courier. The bright lexicon of youth is una bridged. Nothing is too, big for hope to tackle and climb over. New Orleans Picayune. He "So Jack isn't devoted to Kate any more. Did they tight?" She "Yes; they had an engagement." Tale Record. When the plnmber sends in his bill the dancing and paying the piper hi done by the same person. Philadel phia Times. If some men had the nine lives of a eaV they would waste them in folly and then hare nine death-bed repentances. .V. T. Herald. When two girls meet they k isa. When two men meet they don't. This shows plainly who want kissing. Pottsville Republican. When a fellow has spent half an hour in a dentist's oater office he has had some experience in bearing a wait of woe. Buffalo Express. "So your miners have wrecked your property, Air. Baron?" i es. li s my fault. I didn't starve them long enougn." js. i. leecoraer. The farmer who undertakes to earn his bread by the sweat of a hired man's brow had better make np his mind to do without pie. --flaw's Horn. It takes U3 years to learn what little we do know and twice as long to un learn the great deal that we think we know, but don't. jV. Y. Herald. Briggs- 'Watts considers his wife a very superior person." Potts ' Yes; he takes himself as the standard of comparison." Indianapolis Journal. The man who is prond because his name is not Brown. Smith or Jones usual iy has nothing else in the world to be proud of. Somerville Journal. So many young men are promising young men until the age comes wnen they should be fulfil iiog some of the promises of their youth. Atchison Globe. "I have tried many ways of e4fcfrrg ahead, writes a subscriber. "Can yon give some advice?" Why don't you try mixing yoar drinks?" N. T. 'Recorder. Women do. not suffer as much as they used to in olden times from con traction of the chest. Jnst look at the size of the Saratoga trunks. Texas Siftings, This may be a highly moral Nation, bat honesty mast become more preval ent before it will be safe to jadge a man by the umbrella he carries. JV. Y. Recorder . "Is he really your rival?" "Yes." "Great Scott! If I bad a rival that looked like that, do you know what I would do?" "No." "IM give np the girl." Harper's Bazar. . Bridges "Do yoa suppose a man's evil deeds are written in indelible ink?" Brooks "I hope so." Bridges--Why?" Brooks ""Twon't last over six weeks." N T. Herald. "How did Toar soiree aro off. Mr. Von Woile?" "Simply magnificent; nobody but gentleman of the first society. Their clothes were all of genuine wool." Fliegende Blatter. SMdious Boy "Jerry Jndd asked. Which is the safest, ice yachting or summer sailing?' Is that correct?" Father "No. He should have said, -Which is the more dangerous?" Good News. Jip I call the policeman who promptly arrests a drunkard when he -sees him the right man in the right -place. Snip-And the drunkard would you call him a tight man in a tight place? 'Why is it that you write yoar bills on rose paper with perfumed en velopes?" "Because," answered the tailor, tbe young fellows will imagine it's a love letter and are sure to open it." Fliegende Blatter. "I liked yoar sermon so much to day," said the old lady to the clergy man. "Indeed?" said he evidently pleased. "Yes," she went on; it re minded me so much of one I read when I was a girl." Boston Post. Tommy "What's the difference be tween an independent and a mugwump paw?' Mr. Figg "He's d independ ent when he agrees with our party and a mugwump wnen ne agrees witn tn other fellow's." Indianapolis Journal. It is reported that a Yankee has in vented "a safety seamless trousers pocket." His glory will, be eclipsed only by that man who will invent a trousers pocket wfrlch will elude the search of the wife after small change. Cum so (reading) "A ship which re cently sailed for Africa had on board seven missionaries and 5,000 barrels of whisky." Mrs. Cuomo (indignantly) "Well, I do think they ought to send -missionaries who don't drink." Nl - X. Sun. Mr. Newbridge "Flight's rich wife intends to sue hiin for obtaining"" money on false pretenses." Mrs. New bridge -"Why, how is that?" Mr. Newbridge He told her he loved ftiVr before she married himv" H'htf '