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PACIFIC COAST.
Wages at the Carson Mint
Will Be Reduced.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL.
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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.