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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1891)
' , a a. Jgitacn tfxpwss. B. Y. KIRKPATR1CK. Fabllsher. LEBANON OREGON PACIFIC COAST. A Jewish Rabbi Works Foreign Masons. ' CAUSE OF MOQUI TROUBLES. ... .. ... -',', The Cultivation Of Bew Zealand Hemp Being Advpoated in South ern California. A railroad from Port Ballona to Santa Monica is contemplated. i , V ' , ..." "IvT" i . reported favorably to the reciprocity pro A mill to grind 1,d00 barrels of flour a TUn011 0f the tariff of 1880 of the Con day is projected for Spokane. j Rrc8B 0f me United States and has con The Port Town send Y. M. C. A. has ferred upon the President of Venesuela raised $900 for their new building. jfull authority to enter with the President The Seattle authorities are taking steps ' tue L'nited States upon a commercial to fence in the Whitechapel district. arrangement, and put it in operation The Olympia assessment roll for this "out further delay vear is $6,3ij4,tli, against $2,363,420 last The Commissioner of Pensions has re year ' wived a number of dispatches from pen The cultivation of New Zealand hemp 1 f I a"" ""exPfded baJ IjJ, advocated in Sthern U -J- ftf .... , , , . . have not yet reported, hut theindica Olympta'e harbor needs dredging out, ! tions are the balances will be about $5. and the Board of Trade is moving to 000,000. Tbis, added to the amount in that end. the Treasury unexpended, will make James Bell is a claimant against Los $6,000,000. i'nder the law the balance Angeles county for the site of the new .unexpended is turned into the Treasury, courthouse. j which will be done at once, and will in- Mayor Hazard of Los Angeles has ve- creMe tn Treasury balance by about toad the retrenchment ordinance recent- 10,000,000. ry passed by the Council. i Advices have been received at the The United States Examiner of Mints Navy Department from Admiral Belknap, has expressed much gratification at the commanding the Asiatic squadron, to audition of the Mint at Carson Citv. e mple precautions have The schooners Mascot and Otto have tjJ' ailed from Victoria for Behring Sea, "f"1 JLP " ! their eantain. will mn the c.Ln. ,n th ng-tse-kiamj nver, and that no "7" v r trouoie is teared at present. The report, capture. ; the Admiral save, of the outbreak near Portland's citizens' committee of 100 Shanghai had its origin in the maltreat- has permanently organized to procure ment of a native by a policeman at- puriheation in politics as far as possible taehed to the French colony. The police and destroy ring rule. ' man was spirited away before the day A petition to the San Jose Council and set for his trial to the great exasperation Supervisors asks for a franchise to ex- of the Chinese, who threatened the tend the iiaden road through San Jose to the line of San Benito. " Thin ib be- heved to be in reality the Santa Fe line. ( The steam collier Willamette will take ' a oarnn nS BiinTiIiiM fmm ben Vptaniiiiuvn for tbeGermaiwar snipe Leipzig, So- phie ana Alexandnne that sailed about v - L . ( c-n V (.. lquioue. " ' n u P.,l.,,. wij aJ'iTi; rJZTA'JZZ VZr:Z borrowine money from the overnment. ! Although he paid it aU back, the offense wiU probablyaUihim the loss of his motion. The Tacoma (Wash.) Water Company u th. Mnu.n Sr., ' .Wh h.ve . Hail. rinl u iumi . n, n TkJ air fine from the bity, and water will be piped by gravity. . i The Needles Eye says: Seedles has a 1 tandem team now. A tiny burro works in the shafts, and a huae Moiave snnaw in the lead. They draw well "together, too that is, they draw the atteution vervbodv in the neiirhborhood. It is stated at Los Angeles that com-' iKnif.an.hRin forrd in Anm,. and k'ew Mexico who will ship coyote scalps i Counterfeiters at New York have sent to friends in California. The County out large sums of money for Brazil in Clerk of Los Angeles bat nearly 400 imitation of the paper money recently scalps filed, and from ten to twenty are printed by the New York Bank Note received daily. -Company for the Argentine. Tnited States Surveyor Royal A.1 The German foreign office attaches Johnson, now at Plwnix, A. T.j states considerable importance to the coming that the real cause of the Moqui Indian i vint of the young King of Servia to the troubles ia over the survey of Indian ; Czar and to the arrangements made to lands recently begun to establish the gi the visit a distinct political signifi Indians on land in severalty. The tribe ; cance. ia divided in favor of the proposition. A dispatch from Buenos Arres aavs Miners who have crossed the divide . tntwmn the Cascade district and tha Okanogan recently pronounce tlie pass tatdly obstructed nv snow and very difr KVU "reeieu aim mrceu to sign nis res ficnlt of passage. They made some dia- ignation. coveries, and are having assays made, i Kibot, French Minister of Foreign Af- The ore is of the same character as that found in Cascade and Silver creek, with she exception tbat the percentage of gold squadron at Cronstadt August 3, and is higher and lead lower. i that the Czarowitz, on his return from William C. Graves, one of the Donner 8iberi. ' the fleet, party, visited Tmckee June Hi to make ' Minister of the Navy Yice-Adiniral a formal demand for the money recently Saint Bon is producing an excellent im fonnd by Edward Beyn)de and Amos pression in Italy by his energy in en Lane. The coins are rec gnized by him forcing discipline and improving the as being of the same character as those standard of the navy. Italy's nvay buried by his mother in March, 1846. was never in as good condition either as He went to Donner lake and pointed to vessels or men. cot the spot where his mother and the;. The chief of the Chilian insurgents, second relief party camped on the nieht 'ex-Captain of the Chilian Navy George before she concealed tlie coins. It was Mount, has notified the American Ad wry close to the spot where the money mini gt Unique that crews of American was found. Mr. Graves will consnlt the : TeSael oogut not to go on shore, as they ther members of the family as to the I would run the risk of being assaulted by advieabiuty of instituting legal proceed-. revolutionary mobs. "The Supreme Court of California hash Pf"" to inquire decided that corners in commodities are , J"10 th P,1" "i typhoid fever in against the public policy, and tbat con- $he 3 f' r.kre'. ltal7. con tracts for supplies to form a corner , exiting supplies of water in aot binding. The decision was the re- lo" . fd recommended that all vis salt of a suit of the Pacific Factory Com- "" fniJ dnnk blled wte. ."f pany against A. A. Adler for breach of ! " not d"re "'tract typhoid contract. Adler entered into a contract j to sell to the company all grain bags in his control op to a certain date. He broke bis contract, and was sued for ! damages. lie claimed that the company who fled to their homes, which they bar was endeavoring to secure a corner in Headed against their persecutors. As a grain bags so as to increase the price, result of these attacks an edict baa been The lower court decided in his favor, and issued threatening a declaration of mar ine Supreme Court affirms tbat dacision. 1 tial law for excesses against Jews. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. rrtj ztasnlnyM Dlsohanrea FroK thf 8aa fnuKilao Mini. The President issued proclamation providing for granting a copyright in the I united State to citizens or subjects of Belgium, France, Great Britain and Switzerland. Secretary Foster baa announced to a Knights of Labor representative in re gard to the labor trouble at the bureau of engraving and printing that Superin tendent Meredith would not be dis missed. Forty employee in the TJnited States i Mint at San Francisco have been dis charged by Superintendent Diamond, Secretary of the Treasury Foster having ordered the discontinuance for a time 01 the coinage of silver. Assistant Secretary Chandler has di rected on the report of a snecial awnt that an investigation be made ia the limner una entry ot Martin r. Kelly in I the San Francisco land district A tim- ; ber patent was isened to him, but a spe- cial agent who investigated the case re port the land to be agricultural, which is corroborated by several affidavits; hence a rehearing. The Department of State has received a cablegram from the tnited States Min- 1 ?" 9':' conveying the infprnia- x rencn colonists, CABLEGRAMS. tB' faTaIT Loot Jewish Booths Bec4nB of tD bad condition of crops in Russia it is proposed to prohibit the exponauonoicom. ...H.yt,!u, lndlcte tnl,t H.vppo- iHe'" ." "i"?8' 01 Maeln"'"1. ,,eehn a m against him. I American agents in Wales are said to f Af h '"-r. double what they have been receiving. L famotlfl Cuban bandit, Antura Garcia, is said to have been found dead. J" bullet and BUb womld8 on fx?- .General Williams of biwearat notoriety once had an income of ,lo0,000 a year, M"?00""0" w"h m hM P,uPer' 1,80 nim Consul-General King learns from lead ing champagne houses in f ranee that ?" wi" te higher thieautnmn, owing to a tiireatenett scarcity oi the vintage. tbat bloodless revolution has taken place in the province of Santiago, and that Senor Delestero, the President, has fairs, has obtained assurance that the Czar and family will visit France's The noonlation attacked and lnotiuf the Jewish booths in Scherwifska near Odessa, and maltreated the oennnanta EASTERN ITEMS. Mrs. General Logan De . nies the Report SHE IS TO MARRY LEMON. A Soheme on Foot to Transnon the Entire Population o: loeiaiid ' u Alaska. Logan C. Murray has resigned as Pres ident and Director of the United States National Bank of New York. George C. Gorham is engaged in com piling tne private papers ot Secretary Stanton, preparatory to writing his life. Farmers are traveling by the score to Mystic, Conn., to get a lo-'k at a grape vine on wnicn a potato vine is growing. The wheat harvest in Oklahoma is al most complete. The yield is estimated at not less than twenty-five bushels per acre. Mrs. General Logan denies that she is to marry Pension Attorney Lemon. uumip uau nut leu uiai uie marriage ar rangements had been formed. Harvard will not accept Oxford's chal lenge for a boat race on the Thames at London. The Harvard's crew is, of course, out of training and disbanded. Since the beginning of the vear twelve New York fire insurancecoinpanies have gone ont oi nuBiness, ana many ot those remaining in the field are laid to be los ing money. ' The Chief Quartermaster of the De partment of the Platte has been ordered to cut down the civilian force of em ployee in his department by a reduction of 25 per cent. The American Bank Note Company, New York, is printing $12,000,000 worth of paper money after the style of the American " green hacks" for President Balmaceda of Chili. Texas by a ruling of its Supreme Court on tlie right of railroads to land grants on account of Bluings and switchings will recover over ,00ii,000 acres to which patents had been improperly issued to railroads. A company composed of New York and Southern capitalists has just been organized, with a capital of $1,000,000, for cultivating a farm of 112,000 acres in Florida. Sugar cane and cocoanuta are the contemplated crops. The deplorable condition of the streets of New York can be inferred from what the World says : There are no signs an nouncing Broadway as a street closed, but in view of that thoroughfare's con dition there ought to be. Tlie Secretary of Agriculture has re yoked hie order imposing a quarantine affecting Canadian sheep and swine. Sheep and sine may, therefore, be im ported into the United States from Can ada, subject only to tlie regular inspec tion. The Bureau of American Republics re ports that estimates of the Brazilian cof fee crop of 1KW-1, now coming in, con tinue to diminish. The first estimate was ,000,000 bags, next 3,500,000. and now it is believed that the crop-will sot exceed 2,200,000 bags. Orders have gone forward to the New York navy yard for the preparation of two new wooden masts for the cruiser Philadelphia to replace the steel masts on the vessel. The ship is top-heavy as at present rigged,, and rolls to an uncom fortable degree unless water ballast is carried. Experiments are being made by the Agricultural Department at Washington by exploding balloons charged with gases at a considerable height in the air, the object being to determine the practica- uiuiy oi expioaing uynamite in a uae manuer and its enect in producing rain in cases of drought. Hereafter a board of promotions, eon- Bistuig oi cieras oi tne various depart ments in the Postmaster-General's De partment, will inquire into the fitness of clerks for promotion whenever a vacancy occurs. The examinations are to be com petitive, and the findings will be reported to the Postmaster-General. A reign of terror exists among the col ored population of West Philadelphia, who neueve inui tne medical uouege ot the University of Pennsylvania has a paid gang of powerful men whose busi ness it is to lurk about the streets at night, with hoods and chloroform, and capture negroes for subjects to be dis sected by studenta. Judge Gary of the Annellate Conrt at Chicago has rendered a decision which denies the right of the city authorities to permit pool-selling or book-making upon the race track and not allow it elsewhere. He decided that there can be no discrimination, and if the oitv insitta upon prohibiiing pool rooms it must stop betting at race tracks. Chairman Smith of the Tranamisaonri division has oidered the Atchison road to divert to the Bock Island 000,000 pounas oi salt irom tne Atchison Kan- and tbe Missouri Pacific to divert 1,570,000 pounds to the Kock Island. Atchison has applied for a division of the bullion at Pueblo, and Bock Island for a division of the bullion at Denver. Ludwig von Dolcke. a noted Icelander. who has been living in Detroit a number of years, is on his war to bis native country where he will interview the government authorities upon a scheme of transporting the entire population of Iceland to Alaska and there establish a colony nnder the government of tbe united Slates. It Is understood a num ber of capitalists are backing the scheme. PERSONAL MENTION. Laar MaertoBtlfl, Widow nf tit CaaaHlaa , I'malar, Kals4 to tbe Peerage. Henry Irving expects to visit America this summer. Prof. Lebaron Russell Briggs has as sumed the duths of Dean of Harvard College, succeeding Clement I. Smith re signed. Prof. Smith bad been Dean since 1882. The Czarowitz has been a most indus trious student, and is now one of the best informed men of his age in Eastern Eu rope. He is especially well versed in the higher sciences. F. U. Keller has resigned from the postnuuttership of Centerville, Mass., after a service of fifty-two years. The surprising tiling is the resignation not the length o( service. The King of Ashantee is allowed S.333 wives. Many of them are the daughters of the chiefs of tributary tribes over which the King has jurisdiction, and are sent to him as hostages. P. T. Barnum left a personal estate which inventories $1,585,500, and 6 per rent, of that snm, less the $1,000 limit, amounts to $'t4,220.5, which tlie State wilt get as its share of tbe sum total. Jonathan Trumbull, the famous Revo lutionary' hero of Connecticut, is now honored with a souvenir snoon bearing his name and statuette of " Brother " Jonathan for its chief decoration. Pierce N. Welch of New Haven is tbe donor of the proposed new dormitory at Yale. The building will cost $180,010. Mr. Welch is not a Yale graduate, though interested in the university. Juat now Oliver Wendell Holmes seems to be a favorite topic with the magazines. The current issues of both llarprr'i and tortbner'i contain articles about him and also portraits of him. Archbishop Tascbe, who for two dec ades has been the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Canadian North west and the foremost Canadian prelate, is lying at the point of death at Winni peg. General Butler's "Autobiography and Reminiscences" will lie published in French, English and German ; but not more than one language will be really needed for tbe General to make himself understood. Hon. Stephen Coleridge, son of the English Chief Justice, is an artist of no mean ability, and has a collections of paintings of the Lake country on exhi bition just now. Uimkfu commended some of bis landscaiea. King Milan recently won $35,000 at baccarat at one sitting. He scooped in the Parisian gamblers of the Cercle de la Kovale in a kingly manner, and would have had no scruples about clearing out a Tranby-Croft comfiany. As a reward for his services in explor ing the Mackenzie and Yukon river dis tricts in the far-away Northwest William Ogilvie ot the Dominion survey has been awarded the Murchisnn medal by the British Royal Geographical Society. John Burns, the British Socialist and labor agitator, is a man of wide reading and great cultivation. He was educated at one of the famous English public schools, and was an early and profound student of Raskin, Carlyle and Adam Smith. Princess EUzalieth ot Ratihor defies aristocratic prejudice and confesses her purpose to niary Carl Miller, a forest keeper. Berlin society is shocked to its foundations, wbiie the father of the dar ing Princess is compelled to give bis consent to his dsughter's marriage to her choice: The old Duke of Ratihor ia bead of tlie bouse of Ratihor and Corvv and brother of Prince llohenlohe, Statt- n alter oi Aisace-ixirraine. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. An Abhreylated Amount ef the Weekly Uuingt or (he Bad. Daniel Bnrch. a negm. was lvnci.ed by a mob at Port Gaines, Ga., for attempt ing to outrage the daughter of his em ployer. Tbe latest development In the Brook lyn tragedy is that Theodure Larbig, who was xuieu ny jiarwin Heaerole, was heavily insured. J. H. Doane, a well-known clothing dealer of New Bedford, Mass., has left town, and it is said be is a forger to the extent of $15,000. The jury in the case of Hugh West, charged with the murder of his brother. Major John West, returned verdict of not guilty at Raymond, Miss.' At Lawrence, Mass., John Ranscbe shot and killed his sweetheart, Mary Burket.and then killed himself the same way. Jealousy was the cause. Two men who had been arrested near Freeport.Cal., attempted toescape while handcuffed together. They were fired upon. One was badly wounded. Charles Bigelow, assistant cashier, and Norman Perry, chief clerk of the Amer ican Express Company at St. Louis, have been arrested and charged with embez zlement, ! John Baker (colored) shot and killed hie wife at Huntsville, Ala, He then mutilated her with a razor in a terrible manner, and cut bis own throat. Jeal ousy was the cause. Hale, who assassinated Mrs. Lottie McDowell and was recently convicted at Merced, Cal., of the crime, has received a life sentence toEolnom. An appeal win ue inaue in nis case. Clarence Busline. Assistant Treasurer of the Buena Viala Saddle and Harness Company of Lexington, Va has skipped. xue auiunuiMi uissiionageisnotKnown. He is a native of North Carolina, where he is said to be highly connected. Charles Sweeney, formerly a Well- known baseball player, and a street-car conductor named Leek came to blows e ver a worthless girl of 16 in San Fran cisco. Jek was so badly beaten that he is now lying at the point of death, 1 FOREIGN LANDS. England Annexes An other Island. A GERMAN SPY SENTENCED. The French Senate Aooepts July 10 as th Date for the Grain Rate Re duction to Take Effect The coats In the baccarat case were $350,000. It Is proposed to bnild an underground railway in Paris. Wales reads the American papers to see what Miey say about him. Paris is grumbling almit a plague of mosquitoes, due to wet weather. The harvest in Austria and Hungary will be helow those of late years. An underground railway for Berlin ia being discuased by German engineers. 8ix-lmndred-yar-old Switzerland, old est of Republics, will celebrate this year. It is said the Princess of Wales has never uttered a word of reproach to his Royal Highness. The Jewish persecution is extending to all foreigners in Russia, especially to Germans, Poles and Tartars. According to the last census the pollu tion of Hamburg, is K2J,5,'I0, a gain of more than IUO.OuO since 1885. Tbe Sultan has prohibited Turkish la dies from wearing French costumes in the streets of Constantinople. It is stated in Tangier locusts fall in the streets like rain, and the sound of their falling resembles a heavy shower. Dispatches received at Madrid from Manilla say that England has annexed the Island of Hi buy an, which is claimed by Spain. The Marquis of Lome, who has alwavs been snubbed by the Prince of Wales and has the Queen's ear, sympathizes witn summing. The Duke of Edinburgh, who is said to be too mean to gamble, laughs at the scraiw into wliich his extravagant brother has got. A commercial treaty with the United States has been signed at Madrid, Spain. It will be published August 1, and goes into operation September 1. The Tribnnal of tlie Seine at Paris has sentenced a German named Schneider to five years' imprisonment fur taking photographs of French fortifications. Coal in the province of Allneria in Kpain is so dear that there is greai joining over the discovery of an inferior quality in large vein near Albanrhea, The French Senate has accepted the bill of the Chamber of Deputies fixing July 10 as the date upon which the re duction in grain rates will go into effect. The Hamburg authorities have de cided to enlarge tlie docks at Wandrahm Island. The work will cost 20,0.10,000 marks, but will be of immense value to tlie port. De Lessepe is to be prosecuted for pushing his Panama canal scheme, and yet his Suez canal shows by its last re port a-profit of $i,25,000 on the year s business. The Germans recently captured by Turkish brigands and released a few days ago have staid at Dresden. Banker Papa has died in consequence of wounds inflicted by the brigands. The importation of opium from Persia into the Tranacaspian districts hitherto has been free. In consequence of this the natives have become opium smokers to a very large extent. A law has been promulgated, therefore, prohibiting tlie importation of opium in any part of tbe Trauscaucasian region. Belgian railway officials, after three years of investigation, report, that nnder ordinary circumstances the average rail way train in passing over one mile nf track wears from it two and one-fifth pounds. This natural destruction of track amounts for the whole world to about l,330,0oV pounds daily. The vigilance committee in London Whitechapel has been reawakened to activity by an undoubted warning in the sliape of a letter, in which "Jack the Ripper" announces that he is about to perform another "operation." He adds he has been nearly caught twice but will never be taken alive. ' An nffinial disnntj,!, (mm Chili, received at London, asserts the revolt makes no progress, and that the government's forces have taken posses sion of the porta, without opposition, in the provinces occupied bv the reliela. The rebel army is asserted' to lie discon tented because of bad food and lack of pay- Turkey that the Sultan, following the Mohammedan law, has been enabled to arrange forthecereuionyof circumcising his three youngest sons. Five thousand poor children, according to tlie habit vtivr; WI ujHiraLiou uie same day in different parts ot the city. Illumina tions, rlist.rihnlirin nt auiaun...... - ., . .... ...... u. nn.iiuram ailQ festivities attended the event, which, in all, cost $100,000. Aeeordinv in t.l,A tola , H.IV ,,clu iimrimaj the year 1802 should see the final solu tion oi tne present ivuropean situation and, the renewal of the Triple Alliance is likely to provoke the orisis. It is further alleged that Count von Moltke submitted his views to the Emperor on the occasion nf fit fnnn-nl.i. . -- ---- v. "..'.Hi i. ii 0 visit so Lubeck, and that tine is tb explanation of tbe peuaimirt speech made by WitJ- ia.au i At tn vumv uiue.