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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1891)
B. . KIUKPATHICK. Publisher. LEBANON ;..OREGON PACIFIC COAST. Wages at the Carson Mint Will Be Reduced. IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL. Los Angeles' Sunday Saloon-Dosing Ordinance Does Not Deorease Drunkenness. A strike at Gallup, N. M., threatens to shot down the mines at that place. The Eastern Oregon Co-operative As aociation, which lately embarked in busi ness, has increased its stock to $20,000. It is said the crew of the Charleston is much dissatisfied at their treatment, and that many will desert the first op portunity. An important railroad deal has been perfected at loe Angeles, which gives the Southern Pacific railroad an entry into San Bernardino. Prof. Henderson of Olympia, Wash., has been appointed assistant in charge of the forestry departmental the World's Fair by Esra Meeker, The last of Pomona's orange crop has been shipped, making a total Bince New Tear's of 127 carloads, valued at $58,000, an increase of (50,000 in five years. The Oakland (Cal.) Common Council has failed to pass an ordinance licensing the pool rooms. The measnre lacked one vote of the necessary two thirds. A railroad company has been organ ized at Spokane to open a line of trans portation to the rich mines recently dis covered near the summit of the Cascade Mountains. . A small red insect is said to be camp ing on the trail of devastating graasho per in some sections of California, and under the enemies' attacks the 'hopper is being worsted. Major Uandbury of the United States engineers expects to have the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia river run out ae far as necessary foaranda half miles by the end of August. A contract has been let to the Sun Francisco Bridge Company for grading and bridging fifty miles of the Great Northern railwav from Sand Point, Idaho, westward down thePendd'Oreille river. It is reported at Los Angeles that some ingenious persons are manufacturing three coyote acalps out of one hide in such a manner as to defy detection. The (5 a scalp bounty is likely to prove ex pensive. The Bradstreet mercantile agency re ports ten failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the past week, as compared with fifteen for the previous week and seven for the corresponding week of 1890. Word has been received from Wash ington at Carson that the entire force at the mint will tie retained at a seduction of 10 per cent, in wages, to be replaced at the old standard when the coinage of silver dollars is resumed. W. H. Bartlett, who is well known in I.OB Angelee and was married there in Infill has mvsterionslv disannenred from Tacoma, Wash. He dressed and went to a ball on the evening of June 13 laat, and has not been sesn since. The belief that the water flowing into the Colorado desert is from the Gulf is taking strong hold m the minds of many people, who have been watching with interest the phenomenon. The latest report say the waters are receding rap idly. It is now believed that a house-to-house search for arms in the coal-mining districts in Kings county. Wash., where there are strikers, will have to be en forced tn secure the arms held bv tbe men. The voluntary disarmament IB not success. The wheat crop in Eastern Washing ton is in danger of partial destruction by gophers and squirrels. In two prin cipal wheat-growing districts it is re ported that in the last five days 10 per cent, oi toe neias nave oeen uevasiaiea and the evil is daily growing worse. During the oast few months in which the Sunday saloon-closing oidinance has been in effect at Los Angeles the police report that drunkenness has largely in creased. Last month there were 102 arrests for this cause, a greater number than in any month during the past three vears. Most of these arrests were made on Sunday, Fish Commissioner James Crawford has gone to Okanogan country to put a fish rack across the Methow. This rack is m the form of a picket-fence stretched across the river to prevent the salmon going up. The Commissioner will make an approximate estimate of the number of salmon in the river for the purpose of deciding whether or not it will pay to put is a natcnery. One of the Indians killed in Kern .county, Cal., dnring a fight with a Con stable's posse, in which two whites and two Indians were killed, was Kiowa, the ehief of the band. He was a typical, bloodthirsty savage. The posse in search of the Indian band killed one and cap tured a son of Kiowa. The selling of liquor to the Indians is said to have orig inated tiie Houme. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Th Ootnmlmlonur Appointed tn gattle lite Bfthritiff 8 Mutter. Tbe Department of Justice at Wash ington has employed special legal talent to assist in the prosecution of the case against the ltata and her crew. The vessel will be libeled, her crew indicted and the case be brought into court to de termine whether there has been a viola tion of the neutrality laws. Attorney-General Miller has given an oninion to the Secretary of the Treasury that the Chinese restriction laws require that Chinese convicted of illegal entry into the United States slmll be returned to China regardless of the fact that they may have actually entered me unueu States from contiguous territory, such as Canada or Mexico. A census bulletin issued at Washing ton, 1). C, shows that during the last ten years the population of California increased 30.72 per cent, and the school enrollment 87.83 per cent.; Washing ton's population Soo.13 per cent., school enrollment 375.05 per cent.; Oregon's population 70.58 per cent., jciiooi enroll ment (SU!3 per cent. -Assistant Secretarv Nettleton has in structed the acting Superintendent of Immigration at ew York, in view ot the published fact in foreign newspapers that destitute Russian Jews are being sent to the United States at tiie instance of officials of foreign governments, to exercise especial care in their examina tion. The matter, be inn mates, may become a subject of diplomatic corre spondence. The American Commissioners to ex amine the condition of the seal fisheries in the Behring Sea have been named, and will soon be on their way to Alaska. The names as agreed npon are Prof. T. C. Mendenhall and Prof. Charles Mar riara. Prof. Mendenhall is superintend ent of coast survey, and is a scientist of the highest attainments. Prof. Marnam is an ornithologist of the Agricultural Department, and while a young man hns commended himself strongly to Secre tary Kusk for his rough scientific knowl edge. The Secretary of the Treasury has au thorized the acceptance of the offer of the master of the Chilian steamer ltata to pav $500 for a violation of the naviga tion laws in having cleared from San Diego, Cal., without the necessary pa pers. The settlement has no bearing on the other charges against the officers of this vessel, to-wit: Kidnaning a Federal officer and violating the neutrality law. The Attorney-General believes an action may tie still brought against the indi vidual officers of the ltata and Robert and Minnie for violation of this law. Although the officers of the ltata have compromised their offense of the navi gation law, they may still be amenable to legal prosecution on the charge oi kidnaping and also for violation of the navigation laws. CABLEGRAMS. The Berlin Pmw Highly Gratified With the Kaiser's Reception In Knicland. The gross income of the Church of England is 5,500,000. Prices of grain and rice are going np in India for lack of rain. Locusts in Morocco devoured two chil dren, and are devastating the green crops. There is little hope that the Sultan will consent to the Jews settling in Pal estine. The production of coal in India during the vear 16110 shows a large increase over the output of 1880. . The potato crop in Prussia is doubtful, but the yield of winter wheat will be 83 per cent, of the average and the rye5-,. Patti demands higher terms than ever to go to America with Abbey next win ter. She wants $5,000 each night to sing in opera. It is believed that France must import some $100,000,000 of wheat, to make np for crop deficiencies, and pay for half of it in gold. Dispatches from the Cameroone, West Africa, say Zintgroff, the explorer, is meeting with repeated checks by the warlike natives. Twenty of the members of the Salva tion Army, who latelv caused a disturb ance at Eastbourne, have been tent to jail for a month. The German government continues to diminish the working force at the Span- dau arms lactory.tNotice has been given of 1,000 more dismissals. The finest wine crop known in years in Alsace-Lorraine and Khenish Prussia has been almoBt totally destroyed by tbe ovemow oi me oaur river. Another trial will be made with the kola nut ae an article of food during the next trench maneuvers. The expert ment last year was highly satis actory. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that the budget estimates the revenue at $20,000,000 gold and $2(i,0O0,OO0 paper and expenses at $14,000,000 gold and $35,ooo,ouu paper. Moneignor Felchi, the Adminstrator at the Vatican. has been forced to resign. owing to the fact that he speculated in the Peter's pence fund, which is found to be $i,ouo,ouo snort. Liberia is reported to he in a prosper ous condition, making good headway in civilization and wealth, but the constant fear that the Republic will lie swallowed up by some European power greatly cnecas its progress. The police authorities of Berlin are trying to arrange with those of other Prussian towns concurrent action for the suppression of the Salvation Army, al leging its immorality, turbulence ana travesty on religion. The latest advices from Constantinople represent that the Sultan is in a fair way to lose all Arabia. The Wahaliees, who had been dormant for a number of years, have joined the insurgents, and threaten to drive the Turks into the sea. EASTERN ITEMS. The Total Coinage ot the Mints During June. ILLINOIS MINES SHUT DOWN. A United States Judge Ftonde'S a De oision Adverse to the Cherokee Tine to the Strip. All pool rooms have heen ordered closed in New York. Boston policemen now carry their clubs in their pockets. .A pearl-button factory has begun ope rations at Muscatine, la. The total coinage of the mints during June amounted to $4,lhiti,il75.(K). Prof. Le Baron Russell Briggs has as sumed his duties at Harvard College. Illinois has passed a law prohibiting the employment of children under 13. Chicago talks of erecting a theater into which only people in full dress can go. Sidewalk obstructions promise to be made the subject of a vigorous tight at Chicago. A company to establish labyrinths as a form of amusement iB to be formed in the East. The constitutionality of Missouri's new nu'i-pool-rooiu law is to be tested at St. Louis. A new association in Kansas is ar ranging to tight foreclosures of farm mortgages. - Allotment of lands to the Iowa Indi ans in Oklahoma Territory has been completed. There is no truth in the rumor that veilow fever has made its appearance at' Brunswick, Ga. Chicago is to have another electric railway, and one of its present suburban lines is to be extended. Railroad bnilding for the first half of 1801 falls slightly short of that for the corresponding period of 1800. According to the last census Alabama has taken Peansylvania's place as leader in the annual output oi iron ore. Hurrah for the new flag with forty- four stars, each star the symbol of peace, prosperity and lilierty among a self-gov erning people. The onnosition nnners in Canada sav that President V an Home ot the Liana- dian Pacific is practically the ruler of the Dominion. The officials of the World's Fair have given the Illinois Central railroad a mo nopoly of carrying people to tiie Expo sition grounds. Bv a decision of the Supreme Court of Texas the Slate will recover title to over 0,000,000 acres of land improperly pat ented to railroad companies. The gas company of Cincinnati has constructed the second largest gas holder in the United States. It has a capacity of 1,700,000 cubic feet of gas. The annual report of the Eastern Pen iteritiary of Pennsylvania shows that last year sixty-eight criminals sent to that institution bad relatives there. The consolidated coat mines in the Collinsville coal district of Illinois have closed down, and between 300 and 400 miners are thrown out of employment. The finding of a lump of metal sup posed to be gold on the farm of John A. Wright near bumsville, lnd.,has caused considerablecxcitementin the neighbor hood. In deference to the prohibitionists of Maine the government has ordered that liquor seized in the State for violation of the revenue laws shall be taken to Bos ton for sale. It will cost $0,478,5)7 to run the city of Brooklyn during 1802. This is at the rate of $11 for every man, woman -and child in the city. The rate in San Fran cisco is over $25. Extensive deposits of onyx have been discovered near Marion, Smyth county, Va. Four openings are reported to have been made so far. The stone is said to be of excellent quality. United States District Judge Seay has rendered a decision adverse to the Cher okee title of the Strip, which, if eventu ally sustained, virtually extinguishes all rights of the Cberokees to those lands. Negro exhibitors are to have 25,000 square feet of space at the Southern Ex position soon to open at Raleigh, N. C, m which to make manifest somewhat of the race's progress during the laat twenty-five years. It is stated npon good authority, and it is currently believed in naval circles at Washington, that Secretary Tracy will soon apply civil-service rules also to the mechanics ; in short, to all persons employed in the navy yards. The big dam on the Housatonic river in Connecticut, which was swept away by a freshet in January last, is being re placed by a new structure 680 feet long, 22 feet high and slightly curved in plan. The cost will be about $300,000. The Bank of Commerce of Sheffield, Ala., has closed its doors, having as signed. The failure was caused by that of Moses Bros.' bank in Montgomery, the two institutions being closely allied. Assets and liabilities are unknown. The bill passed by Congress provides that the buildings erected at Chicago for the World's uoiumhian Exposition I shall be formally dedicated October 12, 1 1802, and that the exposition itself shall be opened not later than May 1, 1803. PERSONAL MENTION. A Woman Who Served Through the War Jttiliftle for a renalon. Sardou. the French playwright, writes a hand so fine that it almost requires a magnifying glass to read it. Lord Wolselev entered the British army thirty-live years ago at the modest pay oi fi.xoa day, and out oi mat ne was compelled to pay for his mess and uniform. George Kennon has consented to lie- come editor of the paior called Frtr ttimia, provided aa.ooo can be raised to remove tiie publication office from Lon don to New York. - Bacon was not willing to trust the present. He wrote in nit will: "For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and to the next ages." The purchaser of the log cabin built by General Grant will move it only a short distance from its present site, the old Grant farm near St. Ixwis, but will not let it go to Chicago, he says. Mary F. Dewey of Goshen, Intl., served through the civil war, disguised as a man, in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Regi ment under the alias of Charles Dewey. She now applies for a pension under her real name. Sarah Bernhardt bears her mother's name. Her first name was originally Rosine, which she changed of her own accord. She is a Catholic in religion, and until she was 16 she was educated in a convent. Sir Henry Wotton, who lived and wrote in the seventeenth century, did not have much of an opinion of diplo- mates. He said: "An Amhassauor is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth," Gordon Cumming will neither show bis hand nor hia teeth. The expected baccarat exposure has been suppressed. The reasons are supposed to be kept se cret, but this -will not be reliably known till Lady Brooke is heard from. Ex-Senator Event's hat is always worn on the back of his head, as if it wanted to hide from observation the fact of its Wing old enough to have heard the first gun at Sumter fired. Mr. Evarts ages fast, and has a decided stoop, indicating increasing weakness and lack ol vitality. Edwin Arnold in the days when, even though an active newspaper man he was brimful of Hindoo philosophy and liter atnre and thoughts regarding'them, was often known to say to people whom he met on tiie street, "My dear Iriend, 1 am glad to see you, but really yon have taken me out of the Himalaya Mount ains." Bey. Melancthon W. Jacobs of Oxford, Pa., who has been called to tbe chair of New Testament theology m the Hartford Theological Seminary, preached for a number of years in the Central Presby terian Church of Pittsburg. He is the author of several works on Biblical anl) jects, and is said to be a man of great learning. Dr. W. H. Egle of Harrishnrg has been elected President of the Pennsylvania German Society, an organisation formed for the purpose of preserving the records of those hardy aud worthy Germans who settled in the state in an early day known to fame as ' Pennsylvania Dutchmen." Dr. Egle is a historian of national lame. Prince Bismarck doesn't write letters if he ran help it, but when it is imwra tive he has them written, and then adds his signature, at the same time inclosing his photograph. His object in doing the latter probably Is to inform his corre spondent that the real Bismarck and the Bismarck he may know from tiie cuts in the papers are two different persons. Emma Abbott's ashes are to be sur mounted by an $85,000 Gothic monu ment of Westerly granite, which is to be erected in Oak Grove cemetery at Gloucester, Mass. It will also serve as a tomb for the body of her husband, Engene Wetherell. "the monument will be fifty-seven feet high, and will resem ble the Prince Albert memorial at Lon don. Dr. Thomas Francis Gailor, newly elected Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, al though now only 35 years, has declined a $10,000 offer to become pastor of Trinity Church, Chicago, the chair of dogmatic theology in the General Seminary of New Yorkand the bishopric oi Michigan, to which last, however, he was not elected. His name was on the list of candidates, and he begged to have It withdrawn. Mrs, Wanainaker's chief object in vis iting Europe this season is said to be to see her grandchildren, the little son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Wa naiuaker, who make their home in Paris. The little four-year-old granddaughter is an especial favorite, and there is hardly a steamer leaving New York for the French ports during the season but car ries among the mail a letter or present for the little maid from her grandmother, CRIME ANDCRIKINALS. llalton, One of the Allln Train Kobbern, AoiiuUted at VUalla, Cal. James MoCarger, ad juster of the Flour City Life Insurance Company, has been arrested at Rochester, N. Y ., on acharge of forgery. Phil Green (colored) ehot and killed Policeman Clayton, and was in turn killed by Policeman Niedlingcr in a sa loon fight in Savannah, Ga, An attempt was made to burn the Piatt block, the largest brick block in Vacaville, Cal. The fire was extinguished bofore any damage was done. News was received at Vicksburg, Miss., of the lynching on the Palmyre planta tion of Henry Gentry, a negro. He was hanged for the murder of a colored com panion. A negro entered the store of an old man named Whitaker at Whitaker station, Miss., clubbed the old man, robbed him and took to flight. He was captured and hanged, FOREIGN NEWS. The Slave Trade Revived in Morocco. FANATICISM AMONG TURKS. Count Von Munster Denies the Report That the Late Emperor Intended to Fire Prinoe Bismarck. The Socialists of Hamburg, Germany, end vicinity are building an enormous co-operative bakery. The French Chamber of Deputies will tie asked for $000,HOJ to provide for f ranee's exhibit at Gnicago. Germany is considering the abandon ment of her possessions in New Inline and the Bismarck Archipelago. An exciting discussion In the French Chambers is anticipated over the pro posed statue to Danton at Paris. An Ingenious American proK)je to build an elevator at Mount Blanc, which will lie able to carry 210 persons at once, The law passed in the House of Com mons prohibiting the employment of children under 11 years atiects 2 )1,000 little workers. Much anxietv has been mused in In dia by the discovery that Russian mer chants have succeeded in getting a foot- Hold in Aighanistiin. The British Parliament has Wen pro rogued to July 81 in order to give the Commons a holiday and let everybody join in the welcome to the Germaii Em peror. On account of the disorganization of labor in Brazil it is said tbe entice crop has been so seriously affected as to cause a reduction of several million hugs in the yield. Count von Munster hai caused a de nial to he published of the report that the late Euqieror William had ever in tended to dispense with tne presence oi Bismarck. - Germany's new income tax law, iust published, compels foreigners engaged in business in Germany lor a year or more to pay the same tax as is Imposed on Germans. The Berlin Social liemocrats lire so well pleased with their schools for work ing people that efforts are being made to extend the system both in Berlin and other large cities in Germany. . Tbe Pope has decided to create in Mexico three archbishopric to be culled Linares, Oaxaca and Durango and r've bishoprics Cnernavaca, lialtillo, le pico, Tehuantepec and Chihuahua. The right of felling trees over no fewer than (Kiu.utlO square miles of ihe keran snnd forests and 407,000 square miles of the Fireboli forests near Trehixoml has been granted by the Turkish government to private sieciilatora. A clever Frenchman has Inst Wen taking the statistics of the charities of Paris, which are immense in volume, and he finds that throe-fourths of colos sal Bitmwhich they represent isabaorljed by professional lieggars. - A steamer which arrived in London from Auckland recently brought a cargo consisting ot 40,000 sheep aud 2,000 beeves, all dressed and frown. This Is the largest single cargo of dressed . meat that lias ever been brought to England. The societies for the protection of ani mals in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have petitioned the Queen of Italy to exert her intlneiiee in protecting the northern birds which migrate to Italy in winter and are killed there in vast num bers. Advices from Morocco report the re vival of tbe slave trade in the interior of that empire, where caravans from the Sahara are frequently bringing slaves of both sexes and young lads to slave (leal era in cities like Fez, Mequinez and Mo rocco. Writing by telegraph, now so much talked alwut, was tried in France twenty years ago. Signatures were sent from Pan to Paris, and the experiment was considered entirely successful. jUter that the whole matter was suffered to fall into aWyance. There is said to lie a good deal of un easiness among Christians in the Levant at the sigiiB of increasing fanaticism among the Turks. Four Christian boys and a Christian officer in the Turkish army have lately been found dead under circumstances leading to the belief that they were sacrificed to religious bigotry. Five thousand four hundred Italians, who left the porta ol Naples and Genoa for Brazil week Wfore laat, were induced to go to Brazil by a company that was organized in Rio de Janeiro last year. This incorporated company, which has a nominal capital of $25,000,0110, proposes to establish large colonies on the Brazil ian public domain. The Italian government has already sounded the lending Berlin bankers on the subject of a loan to redeem that country from its present almost boneless financial condition. The response, it .is said, has Wen favorable. The imperial, government is earnestly desirous to see Italy put on a sound basis lluancinlly in order that Italy may remain free from French temptation. it iB stated that the Pope has written to Cardinal Gibbons that he will never concede the demands made bv llerr Ca hensley on Whalf of St. Raphael Socie ties for the protection of Catholic emi grants in so far as the appointment of national Bishops Is concerned, and that the Pope has also refused the petition of the Poles in the United States for the appointment of a Polish Bishop.