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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1891)
H. T. KIKKFATRH'K, rabllsher. LEBANON . OREGON PACIFIC COAST. Frost Lays Low Potato Vines in Nevada. THE ARID LAND CONVENTION. Southern California Counties Adopt Graduated Schedule for As sessing Fruit Trees. A ten-mile pipe line to Santa Monica from the oil wells near Los Angeles is proposed. The attendance of school children at Spokane this vear is 3,721. Last year it was 2,7t4. Horsethieves are again committing depredations in the eastern part of Washington. More than 1.000 notaries public have been appointed since Washington be came a State. The Ashland Tidings says that 60,000 boxes of neaches will be shipped from that thriving locality this season. J Various counties in Oregon are issuing bonds for required improvements, and these in every instance are sold at a pre mium. The schooner Premier has arrived at San Francisco from Pirate Cove. The T6el was reported wrecked, with total loss of the cargo. J. M. Burke has won his suit against the Snnker Hill and Sullivan Mining Company of Wardner.Idaho. It involved title to property valued at several mill ion dollars. Governor Toole of Nevada has ap pointed thirtv delegates to the Arid Land Convention, which meets in Salt Lake City September 15 to discuss the irriga tion question. Workmen are employed in the Vir ginia and Truckee railroad shops night and day on machinery for river mills, which are now running at fall blast on Comstoek ores. . Sixty men are at work on the Heniet reservoir in the San Jacinto Mountains. When completed it will create a lake of three square miles, with an average depth of thirty-live feet. The Indians at Arriba, X. M., defy the United States authorities, and a strong force with HotchKiss guns win pmoa, . In sent to make arrests ot Indians who nave oeen aomg uauiagc ing lives. Warrants have been issued at San Di ego for the members of the Seamen's Union who assaulted the captain of the steamer Hounslow and cruelly beat two others who had assisted the captain in securing a srew. President Woodruff and George Q. Cannon of tlie Mormon Church in an interview have defined the position of the church in regard to polities, which they say will no longer attempt to seek power in that way. San Diego is delighted over the fact that Prof. Karnes of Pittsburg, the well kxown iron manufacturer, is prosrcting at the former place with the view of es tablishing an iron plant there of 100 tons daily capacity. The Rrnditreet mercantile agency re ports twentv-seven failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the past week, as compared with fifteen for the previous week and sixteen tor toe cor 'Feepondins week of 1800. The proposition for an outfall to the nf the sewerage of Los Angeles is being discussed in the City Council of that city. It is believed that the propo sition, although twice defeated at the polls, will eventually ue carneu. A $100,000 endowment fund 1s being raised for the Pacific Methodist Ollege. Dr. Kelly of Nashville, the newly elected President, win taxe cnarge oi uieoci-uui, nmvialed the endowment is raised. Sev eral Eastern professors have also been engaged. Three Pint Indians one buck and (it Hinaws convicted in the District Court at Winnemucca, Nev., of killing the Indian " witch," have been sentenced .in ton vears each in the State prison. It is the first conviction in Nevada for snch an offense. Rrnirhern California counties have adopted a graduated schedule of rates for assessing fruit trees, which they will recommend to the Assessors of the State, with the request that prior to the next assessment the Assessors of fruit-producing counties meet in convention to discuss the same. The San Antonio Electric Light and Power Company has been formed to sup ply Pomona with power for lighting and manufacturing. Water wheels and gen erators will be pnt in at the mouth of San Antonio canvon, thirteen miles from Pomona, whence" power will be conveyed over a heavy copper wire. ' In the United States Circuit Court at Los Angeles Judge Boss in the two cases of the United State against the Sooth cm Company, being suits to set aside grant of land, bas dismissed both bills without costs. On motion of counsel for the government aa appeal was allowed Id the United States Supreme Court, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Arleona IndluM Tkmlra to Kill the White Populetion. The Bum of $1 ,204,716,000 has been paid to the survivors of the war of 1812, the Mexican war and the war of the Revolution, . Acting Secretary Rpaulding has di rected that the three Chinamen arrested at Detroit for entering this country in violation of law shall lie sent to Ban Francisco for deportation to China. The Chinese legation at Washington has received advices slating that quiet and that the Chinese government nasi bag been restored at Woo Hoo, wima, taken steps to prevent further outbreaks. Captain Colton, Commissioner of the Latin-American Department of the World's Fair, and who is now m British Honduras, renorta to the government that the colonv has given him much en couragement in regard to his mission and agreed to accept the invitation irom the United States at the next meeting of the Council. Commissioner Morgan of the Indian Bureau has received a telegram horn Su perintendent of the Moqui Pueblo In dian School in Keam's Canvon, A. T., in which he states that the Indians are threatening to kill the whites and forci bly take their children irom the school The Commissioner referred the telegram to the War Department, with a recom mendation that additional reinforce ments lie forwarded and the ringleaders in the present trouble be arrested and held pending the difficulty. The present trouble has" grown out of the fact that the Indians are opposed to having their children attend school. The Chilian insurgent commissioners, it is said, have letters from Minister Egan which will insure them a hearing at the State Department. One thing the commissioners want to explain is that the failure oi Minister bgan's oner ot mediation is not due to them, as the Bal maceda partisans claim. They will ask the United States to recognise them as belligerents. France and other European countries are ready to follow in the wake of this country, it is said the Chilians will ask the restoration of the arms taken on board the Itata on the grounds that the neutrality laws were not violated, and that the only penalty to which the vessel is subject is for a violation of port regulations. The Department of State has been no tified of the appointment by the British government of Sir George Baden Powell and Mr. Dawson as agents to visit Alaska and collect information respecting the seal fisheries. The statement coming from London that these men had lieen appointed arbiters is erroneous. The negotiations looting to the arbitration of the claims made by the United States have not yet progressed to a point that would permit the appointment of an li tem, and in fart the nature of the arbi tration itself has not been agreed upon. It mav be that Powell and Dawson will hereafter serve as representatives of the British government upon the expert commission, which the two nations are bound to send to Alaska, hut it is alto gether improbable that they will be ap pointed arbiters.ae their previous duties . , . .nnnoaed to nnfit them io , ,,,.,, ; ' matte. ,.here fo - , rt , M Mrti8an expertB, CABLEGRAMS. Ophthalmia Prevail to an Alarming- Ex tent at the Causae of Cosier. The Jesuits are abont to start a news paper in Rome. The British Parliament will be pro rogued August 6. General von Schallendorf, formerly German Minister of War, is dead. French engineers are discussing the possibility of a railroad across the desert of Sahara. ' The French Cabinet is discussing an appropriation of $200,000 for the Chicago jrairuispiaye. The Arabs in Yemen have again de feated the Turkish troops and cut the telegraph lines. Mrs. French-Sheldon, who started on an exploring expedition in Africa, has . Li ... '.....i,. u;nnaiv ;n France will compel Hayti to pay an indemnity to the widow of Rigaud, the Frenchman recently shot by mppoiite. Pern refuses to recognise the belliger ent rights of the insurgents of Chili not withstanding the promise of large terri tory. It is claimed that the Prince of Wales, not being a newspaper reader, is unaware ol uie storm oi journalistic uHiigDatiou aroused by the baccarat anatr. The French millers have been canvass ing the wheat eituatio.i at home, and re port that France will have to import at the lowest hu,uw,iksj puBneis oi wueai, There are 150 cases of ophthalmia among the students of the College of Goslar, Germany. The malady has taken an almost epidemic form, and is causing much alarm. Sir John E. Gorst in the debate in the British House of Commons on the Man- inor massacre declared that Senapatty was a manof brains ; that his real crimes were independence and originality, and that the government prefered amenable mediocrity. The grand military maneuvers are pro jected lor 1802 to take place in the pres ence of the Ctar. They are to include the investment of Moscow by an army corps, the occupation of Vouiynia and the repulse and pursuit of the corps to the frontier. A dispatch from Constantinople gives an alarming account of an increase of brigandage in various parts of the Turk ish Empire. In the Turkish province known as Old Servia the brigand chief, Mihran, has established himself in the mountains with about eighty followers, and lives in princely fashion on bleak mall txaaua xrom people uu viuagss, EASTERN ITEMS. The President Will Visit Saratoga. ANACONDA MINE NOT SOLD. The Export; of Breadstuff From the i United StaViS Wheat Crop : in Kansas. President Harrison will visit Saratoga in August. There will be forty-four stars in the national flag after.July 4. A Philadelphia jurist has decided that piano-playing is manual labor. The Socialists and Hebrew unionists of New York will go into politics. Thev are beginning to talk about 00, 000,000 bushels of wheat in Kansas. Brooklyn gas companies are not obey ing the aw fixing gas at (1.25 per 1,000 feet. The Methodist Episcopal Church will hold its next quadrennial in May, 1802, at Uuiaha. The International Congress of Homeo pathic l'hvsicians is to meet in Wash ington, D. C, in im. Since the 1st of Januarv 153 men in positions of trust have Btolen $4,000,000, aua nave oeen caugut ai it. The Transcontinental Association is considering the propriety of reducing freight on Caulorma raisins. The Supreme Lodge of the A. O V. W. has decided to meet the second Tuesday in Jane, 1802, at Helena, Mont, Mrs. Samuel Mather of Cleveland, O., has given $75,0ttO to the Western Reserve University for its college for women. American tin on American public buildings. This is likely to be the text of the Treasury order at an early day. Census Sunerintendent Porter save he has not resigned and don't intend to un til the work he has undertaken is com pleted. The Indians are fighting among them selves in the Indian Territory over cattle-stealing. One Indian policeman has been kilted. - , President Polk of the National Alli ance predicts a terrible civil war unless the money power is speedily controlled in the interest ol the masses, A shipment of Canadian cattle has failed to pass inspection on arriving in England, and great is the consternation of our Canadian cousins in consequence. It is stated that the Delaware. Lacka wanna and Western will help itself to a different rote on a basis of 20 cents on tirst-class freight from New York to St. pui ... For about twenty-one vears General try village oi nigu aiuiuae m ioru iar Butler, S. M.Allen and others have been ' olina. He drives a spanking team of engaged in collecting subscriptions for a i horses, and when he has the spare time monument to Miles Sundish, and $35,- I he puts it in on the new play he is wnt mio haun raiuvl I ing for Stuart Robsun. Inalettertoa . .:i u . ft v l Business n Brazil is reported to be in I Xy EZXrm which is auspicious for the success of the first year of reciprocity. The First Massachusetts Cavalry As sociation has erected a granite monu ment in Virginia in memory of their comrades who foil in battle with Moeby's troopers near Aldice, Va. Among the rumors in Philadelphia about ex-i"resiueni fllarsn oi me r.ey tone Bank is one that he has been taken to Bea bv friends and is now bound for California on a yacht. St. Joseph. Mo., fears that it will soon he left two miles from the river, owing te the work of erosion by the water on the neck of land which separate the river north and south at Belmont. The exports of breadstuns from the United States in the last eleven months had a value of (110,000,000. or (.10,000,- 000 less than the exports of the corre sponding period of the preceding year. Judge Bartlett at New 1 ork has hand ed down a decision denying the second . motion on behalf of the i'arnellitee to. restrain Eugene Kelly from transmitting' any more money to the McCarthyitee. Several bove who were candidates for a naval cadetahip from a district in Mich igan were rejected because the examin ing physician found that their hearts had been affected by smoking cigarettes. The State Department will probably advise American Consuls to devote some attention to profit-sharing corporations on the co-operative plan formed in many countries in Europe between capital and labor. . The collateral inheritance tax is a very good thing for Connecticut, which will profit to the extent of (04,000 by the death of P. T. Bamum, that being the amonnt of the State's dividend from his estate. The prospects are that there will be something to eat in Great Britain next fall. Fortv steamships have been char tered in Baltimore to load with grain for porta of the United Kingdom between June and October. The riot among laborers near 8t. Louis was not a factional fight between Italians as was at first represented. American workmen drove the Italians from camp, and confiscated their goods. Several Americans implicated have been arrested, and a rigid inquiry la being made. Several of the widows of persons killed in the wreck at Hagerstown, Ind., last winter have been offered from (3,000 to $5,000 each by way of a compromise, but all have refused. They will bring suit for $10,000 ach against tbs Pennirlvania mad unless pester wnrs an maw, PERSONAL MENTION. The M etropnlltnn Mlehael of Servls Con sent to Mllau'e Proposed Marrtaffe. Donald fl. Mitchell was ono of the class of 1X41 at Vale, and takos part in the semi-centennial observance this year.. Kaiser William pitches the tnnes In Fatherland. There is a Socialist song in Germany called "A Free Man Am I." A soldier sans it in barracks. He will be locked up five years. Mine. Adsm, the French anthor and magazine m riter. is nearlv 110 vears old, hut she has the spirit and enetvy of a girl. - Her tirst book was published thirty-two vears ago. Out in Keokuk, where Mark Twain was born, the old inhabitants remember him fairly well, hut declare he never he traved aiiv genius as a humorist while he lived among thein. Count Douglas, a member of the Gor man Reichstag, who has become a great favorite with the Emperor, is a descend ant of the famous Scutch family. He is now one of the wealthiest land proprie tors of Prussia. Judge George Hoadly, now a member of the New York har.'is attending Su- Ereme Court in Ohio. He is happier in is practice and a great deal more pros perous than when holding the office of Chief Magistrate of Ohio. The Metropolitan Michael of Servia hue given his consent to the proposed marriage of ex-King Milan. It is said that Milan sent 40,000 francs to the tailor of his mistrees after receiving the 1,000, 000 francs from the State. A yonng daughter of Joachim, the fa mous violinist, recently made her debut as an opera singer at Elberfeldt, and made such a brilliant success that Bhe was immediately engaged for the winter Beason at uiv iupeic open uuuo. The Servian boy King Alexander is a sturdy lad of 14, with keen eyes and an intellectual face, but he is as self-willed and stubborn as any royal child. He has been well educated, and speaks Ger man, French and English in addition to his native tongue. Dr. Bangh read a congratnlatorv dis patch from the students of Midland Col lege to the Evangelical Lutheran Gen eral Svnod at Lelutnon, Pa., closing with a classical quotation. When he had pnt the latter phrase into English, he found that it ran: " There are no Hies on us !" One would think Stanley awed enough black men in Africa to match just one Pullman porter just one. But he couldn't do it. A porter remarked in San Francisco the other day that when he finished a run with Stanley this stern ruler of men yielded up to the potentate of the Pullman just $100. Rev. Dr. De Costa is left in a 'suffi ciently humiliating position by the dis covery that his Boston correspondent, upon whose statements he based his cir cular letter to the Bishops and standing committees against Phillips Brooks, is no other than Miss A. A. Chevaillier, a woman who had a qnarrei with the new Bishop. Bill Nye is enjoying himself In a conn- trieno n iiiiair. save can now iiiiaKiiir KhakMotfuire'nHHd to feel about the he was giving birth to a new play. General Taliaferro, w ho has been tell ing the people of Richmond some inter esting reniiuisi-eiices of Stonewall Jack son, says that the great Southern leader never held a council of war. He was a singularly devout man, with a tendency toward fatalism, and in the early davs of the war he was personally b.-ipopular as well with his own staff as with the general officers of the army. Ellen Terry played for several vears under the management of Charles Reade, whom she characterises in one sentence ' dear, lovable, aggravating, childlike, crafty, gentle, olietinate and entirely de- Jightiul and interesting." During the progress of a play Mr. Keaue would eit and watch her, and between the acts send her little notes pointing out what he deemed the defects and merits o! her work. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. An Epitome of the lolnae of the Kx- eeedlnalr SV tened. The general belief is that the soldiers who are charged with the lynching of Hunt will be acquitted. John Mazue. aged 13, is charged with the brutal murder of Annie Brunder of the same age at Delano, Minn. S. K. Smith and William Mason, who robbed the depot safe atOceanside,Cal., tlie other night, have been arrested. Sixteen hours after Antono Granado was hung at Clifton, A. T., a respite for ten days was received trom Solomon vine. William B. Cook, late Police Clerk of Toledo, O., pleaded guilty to the embes slement of $5,000 city funds, and was sentenced to five years in the ieniten tiary and to pay a fine of $10,000. The trial of Henry K. Long, the first of those charged with the murder of Os car Crandall, at Red Bluff, Cal., resulted in a verdict of not guilty. It is probable an early trial of Rube Mitchell, Charles Hoyden ana t ran nugnes wui touow, The well-known American specialist in lnnacv. Dr. Walter Kempler, has arrived in Wales, wjiere he will testify on behalf of t. U. Duncan oi Washington, D. (!.. who will then he placed on trial for having attempted the murder of his wife. Steve Daly shot and killed John Mc Carthy at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., the other night. Daly is a well known athlete and trainer of the Trinity students. He claims ha was assaulted by a gang of toughs, and that he shot in aU-41nM. FOREIGN NEWS; The Holy Coat to be Ex hibited in August BIOGRAPHY OF VON MOLTKE. Germany, Austria, Hungary.Ilaly and Switzerland Form a Great Customs League. Hog cholera is on the increase in Great Britain. Sermany will send two men-of-war to Chinese waters. Austria will build more forts to scare off tlie Russians. Emperor William will edit the biogra phy oi Von Mollke. Kaiser William will buy Carl Schurx' brotlier-in-law's country seat. Diamonds of the purest transparency have been found in British Guiana. French and German goods are driving those of British make out of Russia. Rndini says tlie dreihnnd compels great armanenta on the partof members. A choir of twenty natives of South Africa has gone to London to give con certs. A deficit ot $81,000 is shown in the punlic accounts ol Prince Edward Inland for the last year. President Carnot in a letter to the Pol expresses his high appreciation of . the lat'.er'e encyclical on social questions. Count Munster will lie retired from the German diplomatic service at Paris, and Count von Wedel is to be his suc cessor. The sum collected in Germany for a .church to be erected in memory of the late Kaiser William amounts to about 720,0110 marks. Another Manipur Prince, Sana, has been sentenced to death for warring against the Queen and for abetting the massacre of her officers. The French Chamber of Commen Committee declines to consider request tn obtain the government's assistance to complete the Panama canal. It it reorted that Sir Charles Topper will lie offered the seat in the Ilouae of Commons for Kingston made vucant by the death of Sir John Macdouald. William Walter Phelitt, the American Minister, who has been quite ill itli in fiuensa at Berlin, is still conKned to his bed. He has undergone a paiuiul oei tion. The report of the Leprosy Committee at Lowlon, composed of eminent physi cians, gives hope for the discovery of a cure for this hitlierto supposed irremedi able disease. The French Senate ejected the hill recently lutpsed by the Chain tier o( Dep uties remitting u.OtlO.iKHI francs of the tax on hind sown in wheat in the past spring season. Official opinion in France generally tends against the prosecution of le Les seps, hut Constans says the public feel ing demands that the famous engineer be placed on trial. , Sailors are so scare in Eng'and that it is doubtful whether the intend' d na val maneuvers will be held unless a suf ficient complement is obtained by the detention of war ships destined for In dia. A nugget of gold weighing thirty-five pounds has been lound in the gold dis trict recently discovered in British Gui ana, and has been sent to England as a specimen of the auriferous deposits in tne colony. The new model for the great national monument to the late KaiBer William, which is to lie erected in Berlin near the old royal palace of Schloss, will lie ex hibited in the royal arsenal filter den Li ndeu in July. A dispatch from Calcutta states that a war is threatening in Asia between the French and tlie Siamese Anamites, who are tributary to France, and have already come to blowe with the Siamese troops on the banks of the Mekgon. Comte de Montbello, who replaces De- Laboulaye as French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, will be specially charged to obtain definite information from the Csar aa to the action of Russia in the event of war between France and Ger many. The great event of the London season will be the murriage of the Queen 'a granddaughter, Princess Arihert of An halt, which will be celebrated at Wind sor Castle July 0, Tiie Queen lias con tributed handsomely toward tlie bride's dowry. Mr. Spurgeon, with a number of other ministers, has signed a manifesto declar ing for thorough Calvinism and accept ing both Testaments, on inpiration and Sabbath-keeping as the word of God, saying the two must stand or fall to gether, The Porte refuses to be intimidated by the threats of the French Embassy into hasty action in the matter of the recent riots at Jerusalem between Greek and Roman Catholic. The Porte ignores French interference, and is going about tlie investigation in a deliberate way. The Home Rulers of Ireland expect aid from the Queen. Tn one of her let ters which she has permitted to be pub lished it is intimated that she accepts the verdict of the country on home rule and will use all her power and personal inflnence to prevent the Lords from op posing it.