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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1891)
U. . KIUKPATH1UK. Publisher LEBANON..'. . . . .......... iJ. .OREGON PACIFIC COAST. Wages at the Carson Mint Will Be Reduced. IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL. ' ' v;'':-1 .' Los Angelos' Sunday Saloon-Closing Ordinance Does Not Deoreasa Drunkenness. A strike at Gallup, N. M., threatens to shut down the minee at that place. The Eastern Oregon Co-operative As sociation, 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 Ioe Angeles, which gives the Southern Pacific railroad an entry into Ban Bernardino. Prof. Henderson of Olympia, Wash., hBs been appointed assistant in charge of tlie forestry department at the World's Fair by Ezra Meeker. The last of Pomona's orange crop has been shipped, making a total since New Year's of 127 carloads, valued at $58,000, an increase of (60,000 in five years. The Oakland (Cal.) Common Council has failed to pass an ordinance licensing the pool rooms. The measure 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 di- covered near the summit of the Cascade Mountains. A small red insect is said to be camp ing on the trail of devastating grasshop per in some sections of California, and under the enemies' attacks the 'hopper is being worsted. Major Handbury of the United States engineers expects to have the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia river run out as far as necessary fourandahalf miles hy the end of August. A contract has been let to the San Francisco Bridge Company for grading and bridging fifty miles of the Great Northern railway from Band Point, Idaho, westward down the Pend d'Oreilie liver. It is reported at Los Angeles that some ingenious personB are manufacturing throe coyote scalps out of one hide in such a manner as to defy detection. The d a scalp bounty ia likely to prove ex pensive. The Bradstreet mercantile agency re port 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 form at the mint will be retained at a reduction 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 Los Angeles and was married there in 1889, has mysteriously disappeared from Tacoina, Wash. He dressed and went to a hall on the evening of June 13 last, and has not been seen since. The belief that the water flowing into the Colorado desert is from the Gulf is taking strong hold in the minds of many people, who have been watching with interest the phenomenon. The latest reporta 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 nave to be en forced to secure the arras held by the men. The voluntary disarmament is not success. The wheat crop in Eastern Washing ton ia 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 bent, of the fields have been devastated and the evil is daily growing worse. During the past few months in which the Sunday saloon-closing ordinance 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 years. 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 in the form of a picket fence stretched across the river to prevent the salmon going np. 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 in a hatchery. -One of the Indians killed in Kern connt-v, Cal., during a fight with a Con stable's posse, in which two whites and two Indians were killed, was Kiowa, the chief of the band. He was a typical, bloodthirsty savage. The posse in search of tlte Indian band killed one and cap tured a son of Kiowa. The selling of liquor to the Indians is said to have orig inated the trouble. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The CommfMtonera Appointed to Settle (lie Hehrlnx Hen Hatter. The Department of Justice at Wash ington has employed special legal talent to assist in the prosecution of the case against the Itnta 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 opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that the Chinese restriction lawB require that Chinese convicted of illegal entry into the United States shall lie returned to China regardless of the fact that they may have actually entered the United States from contiguous territory, such as Canada or Mexico. A censiiB bulletin issued at Washing ton, D. C, shows that during the last ten years the population of California increased 311.72 per cent, and the school enrollment 37.33 per cent.; Washing ton's population 3U6.13 per cent., school enrollment 375.05 per cent. Oregon's population 7H.63 per cent., school enroll ment 89.23 per cent. Assistant Secretary Nettleton has in structed the acting Superintendent of Immigration at New York, in view of the published fact in foreign newspapers that destitute Russian Jews are being sent to the United States at the instance of officials of foreign governments, to exercise especial care in their examina tion. The matter, he intimates, 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 an agreed upon are Prof. T. C. Mendenhall and Prof. Charles Mar riam. Prof. Mendenhall is superintend ent of coast survey, and is a scientist of the highest attainments. Prof. Marram is an ornithologist of the Agricultural Department, and while a young man has commended himself strongly to Secre tary Rusk 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 Itata 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 : Kidnaping a Federal officer and violating the neutrality law. The Attorney-General believes an action mav be still brought against the indi vidual officers of the ltata and Robert and Minnie for violation of this law. Although the officers of the Itata have compromised their offense of the navi gation law, they may still be amenable to legal prosecution on the charge of kidnaping and also for violation of the navigation laws. CABLEGRAMS. The Berlin Pre Hlfrhlr Gratified With the KaUer'e Reception In England. The gross income of the Church of England is 5,600,000. Prices of grain and rice are going up 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 year 1800 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 rye 75. 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 Fram e must import some (100,000,000 of wheat, to make np for crop deficienoies, and pay for half of it in gold. . Dispatches from the Cameroons, 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 lately caused a disturb ance at Eastbourne, nave been sent to jail for a month. The German government continues to diminish the working force at the Span dau arms factory. Notice has been given of 1,000 more dismissals. . The finest wine crop known in years in Alsace-Lorraine and Khenish Prussia has been almost totally destroyed by the overflow of the Saar river. Another trial will be made with the kola nut as an article of food during the next French maneuvers. The experi ment last year was highly satisfactory. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that the budget estimates the revenue at $29,000,000 gold and $20,000,0110 paper ana expenses at $14,000,000 gold and $35,000,000 paper. Mansignor 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 $1,000,000 short. Liberia is reported to lie in a prosper ous condition, making good headway in civilization and wealth, but the constant fear that the Republic will be swallowed up by some European power greatly checks Us progress. The police authorities of Berlin are trying to arrange with thoee of other Prussian towns concurrent action for the anppression of the Salvation Army, al leging its immorality, turbulence and travesty on religion. The latest advices from Constantinople represent that the Sultan is in a fair way to lose all Arabia. The Wahabees, who had been dormant for a number of years, have joined the insurgent!!, 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 Renders a De cision Adverse to the Ciiorokee . , Titie to the Strip. , All pool rooms havs boon 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 $4,1)89,876.80. j 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 , ' ' Sidewalk obstructions promise to be made the subject of a vigorous fight at Chicago. A company to establish labyrinths as a form of amusement is to be formed in the East. The constitutionality of Missouri's new anti-pool-room law is to be tested at St. Louis. A new association in Kansas is ar ranging to fight foreclosures of farm murtgages. Allotment of lands to the Iowa Indi ans in Oklahoma Territory has been completed. There is no truth in the rumor that veltow 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 building for the first half of 1801 falls slightly snort of that for the corresponding period of 1800. According to the last census Alabama has taken Pennsylvania's place us leader in the annual output of iron ore. Hurrah for the new flag with forty . four stars, each star the symlwl of peace, prosperity and liberty among a self-governing people. The opposition papers in Canada say that President Van Home of the Cana 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 the Expo sition grounds. By a decision of the Supreme Court of Texas the State will recover title toover 6,000.000 acreB of land improperly pat ented to railroad oompanies. The teas company of Cincinnati has constructed the second iargeatgas holder in the United States. It has a capacity of 1,700,000 cubic feet of gas. . The annual report of the Eastern Pen itentiary of Pennsylvania shows that last year sixty-eight criminals sent to that institution had relatives there. The consolidated coal 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, Ind.,has caused considerable excitementin the neighbor hood. In deference to the prohibitionists of Maine the government lias ordered that liquor seized in the State for violation of the revenue laws shall be taken to Bos ton for sale. It will cost $0,478,517 to run the city of Brooklyn during 1802. This ia 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 Beay has rendered a decision adverse to the Cher okee title of the Strip, which, if eventu ally sustained, virtually extinguishes all rights of the Cherokees to those lands. Negro exhibitors are to have 25,000 square feet of space at the Southern Ex position soon to open at Kaleigh, N. C, in which to make manifest somewhat of the race's progress during the last twenty-five years. " It is stated upon 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 Houeatonic river in Connecticut, which was swept away by a freshet in January last, is being re placed by a new structure 080 feet long, 22 feet high and slightly curved in plan. The coat 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 Columbian Exposition shall be formally dedicated October 12, 1862, and that the exposition itself shall be opened not later than May 1, 1803. PERSONAL MENTION. A Woman Who Served Throuirh the War Antilles for a 1'enelon. Bunion, the French playwright, writes a hand so line that it almost requires a magnifying glass to read it. Lord Wolseley entered the British armv thlrtv-live'years ago at the modest payol $1.2.'i a day, and ont of that he was compelled to pay for his mess and uniform, George Kennon has consented to be come editor of the paper called Free Rimia, provided $6,000 cau bo raised to remove the publication office from Lon don to New York, Bacon was not willing to trust the present. He wrote In his 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. iouis, but will not let it go to Chicago, he says, Mary F. Dewey of Goshen, Ind., 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 ill religion, and until she waa 10 she was educated in a convent. Sir Honry Wotton, who lived and wrote in the seventeenth century, did not have much of an opinion of iliplo mates. He said: "An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth," Gordon Cumming will neither show his hand nor his tenth. The expected baccarat exposure has been suppressed. The reasons are supposed to be kept se cret, but this will not lie reliably known till Lady Brooke is heard from. j Ex-Senator Evart's hat is always worn on the back of his head, as if it wanted to hide from olwervution the fact of its being old enough to have heard the first gun at Hmutnr fired, Mr, Evaris ages fast, and has a decided stoop, indicating increasing weakness nnd lack nf vitality. Edwin Arnold in the days when, even though an active newspnper man lie was brimful of Hindoo philosophy and liter ature and thoughts regarding them, was often known to say to people whom he met on the street, " My dear friend, I am glad to see you, but really you have taken me out of the Himalaya Mount-. ainB," Rev. Melaiicthon W. Jacobs of Oxford, Pa., who has been called to the chair of New Testament theology in the Hertford Theological Seminary, preached for a number of years in the Central Presby terian Church of Pittsburg. He Is I he author of several works on Biblical sub jects, and is said to be a man of great iuarning. Dr. W. H. Eglc of HarriBhnrg has been elected President of the Pennsylvania Gorman Society, an organization formed for the purpose of preserving the records of those hardy and 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 dtasn't write letters if he can help it, but when it is impera tive he has them written, and then adds his signature, at the same time inclosing hie photograph. His object indoiug the latter probably is to inform his corre spondent that the real Bismarck 2nd the Bismarck he may know from the cuts in the papers are two different persons. Emma Abbott's ashcB are to be sur mounted by an $85,000 Gothic monu ment of Westerly granite, which is to lie erected ill Oak Grove cemetery at Gloucester, Mass. It will aim. serve as a tomb for the body of her hnslianri, Eugene Wetherell. The monument will lie fifty-seven feet high, and will resem ble the Prince Albert memorial at Lon don. Dr. Thomas Francis Gailnr, 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 York and the bishopric of Michigan, to which last, however, he was not elected. His name waa on the list of candidates, and he lwgged to have it withdrawn. Mrs. Wanamaker'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. Hodman 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 AND CRIMINALS. Button, One of the AIM Train Bobbers, Acquitted at Vlialia, Cat. James McCarger, adjuster of the Flour City Life Insurance Company, has lieen arrested at Rochester, N. Y.,on achnrge of forgery. Phil Green (colored) shot and killed Policeman Clayton, and waa in turn killed by Policeman Niedlinger 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 waa extinguished liefora any damage was done. News wae received at Vicksburg, Miss., of the lynching on the Palmyre planta tion of Henry Gontry, 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 Minister Denies the Report That the Late Emperor Intended to Fire Prlnoe Bismarck. The Socialist of Hamburg, Germany, and vicinity are building an enormous cooperative bakery, The French Chamlier of Deputies will be asked for $(RKI,IH).I to provide for France's exhibit at Chicago. Germany is considering the abandon ment of her possessions in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. An exciting discussion in tire French Chambers i anticipated over the pro posed statue to Danton at Paris. An IngeniotiB American proposes to build an elevator at Mount Ithuic, which will be able to carry 21(1 persons at once, The law passed in the Honse of Com mons prohibiting the employment of children under ll years affects 2 M,00l) little workers. Much anxiety has Wn caused In In dia by the discovery that Rnseian mer chants have succeeded in getting a foot hold In Afghanistan. The British Parliament has lieen pro rogued to July !)1 in order to give the Commons a holidny and let. everybody Join in the welcome to the Gennaii Em peror. ' On account of the disorganization of labor In Brazil it is said the coffee crop lias been so seriously affect eft as to cause a reduction oi several million nags in the yield. Count von Minuter has caused a de nial to he published of the report that the late EuqKiror William had ever in tended to diswne with the presence of Bismarck. Germany's new income tax law, nut published, com pels foreigners nmmged in business in Germany for a year or more to pay the same tax as is imposed on Germans. The Berlin Social Democrats are so well pleased with their schrails for work ing people that ell'orts are lining made to extend the system both in Berlin and other large cities in Germany. The Pope has decided to create in Mexico three archbishoprics to lie called Linares, Oaxaca and Duraugo and live bishoprics Ouernavaea. ilnltillo, Te pico, Tehuantepec and Chihuahua. The right of felling trees over no fewer than 805,000 square miles of the Keras solid forests and 4117,000 square miles of the Fireboli forests near Tiebizniid haa been granted hy the Turkish government to private simulators. A Clever Frenchman haa lust la-en taking the statistics of the charities of Paris, which are immense in volume, nnd he finds that three-fourths of colos sal sum which they represent is aliaorlivd by professional beggars. A steamer which arrived in London from Auckland recently brought a cargo consisting of 40,0110 sheep and 2.000 heaves, all dressed and frozen. This is the largest Hintde cargo of dressed meat that has 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 influence 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 the slave trade in the interior of that empire, where caravans from the Sahara are frequently bringing slaves nf both sexes and young lads to slave deal ers In cities like Fes, Mcquiuer. and Mo rocco. Writing by telegraph, now so much talked about, waa tried in France twenty years ago. Signatures were sent from Pan to Paris, and the experiment waa considered entirely successful. After that the whole matter was suffered -to fall into abeyance. There Is Btiiil to lie a good deal of un easiness among Christians in the Levant at the signs of increasing fanaticism among the Turks. Four Christian boyB and a Christian officer in the Turkish army have lately lieen found (lead under circumstances leading to the belief that they were sacrificed to religious bigotry. Five thousand four hundred Kalians, who left the ports of Naples and Genoa for Brazil week before last, were induced to go to Brazil by a company tha'. was organized in Kin de Janeiro last vear. This-lncorporated company, which has a nominal capital of $25,Xnj,00O, proposes to establish large colonieB on the Brazil ian public domain. The Italian government has already Bounded the leading Berlin bankers on the subject ot a loan to redeem that country from its present almost hoielese financial condition. The response, it is said, has buen favorable. The imierial government is earnestly desirous to see Italy put on a sound basis financially in order that Italy may remain free from French temptation. It is stated that the Pope has written to Cardinal Gibbons that he will never concede the demands made hv 1 lerr Ca hensloy on behalf of St. Raphael Socie ties for the protection of Catholic emi grants in so far aa the appointment of national Bishops is concerned, and that the Pone has also refused the petition of the Poles in the United States for the appointment of a Polish Bishop.