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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.