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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1891)
H. T. KIliKPATRICK, Fnblliher. LEBANON OREGON PACIFIC COAST. The Utah Legislature is Democratic. ALASKA AND PROHIBITION. The Wild Man of Arizona Delivers an Address to His Fellow Pris oners at Tombstone. Los Angeles is to have a $60,000 ice plant. Fine native strawberries have appeared in the Juneau (Alaska) markets. The salmon pack in Northern British Columbia is a failure. It will reach about a three-quarter pack. The next Territorial Legislature of Utah will be composed of 23 Democrats, 11 Liberals and 1 Republican. King county, Wash., must pay the ex penses of the militia that was' ordered to the mines to suppress riotous strikers some weexs ago. The contractors on the Tintic Range railroad line in Utah have Btruck three ; bodies of ore in tunneling in the mount ains at nomansville Pass. The saloonmen of Spokane have or ganised a society to protect and uphold all personal, civil and religious liberties - oi us main hers ana to De known as the League of Freedom. . A cowboy killed an Indian in a dis pute at the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, and the Indians are in hot pur suit of the murderer and his compan ions. A deadly encounter may result. After working for some months and expending several thousand dollars the World's fair Commission from the State of Washington discovered that its mem bers were irregularly appointed. Thev will reorganise at once. At Silver Bow Basin, three miles from Juneau, Alaska, the old abandoned placer mines have attain proved their richness. Hydraulic machinery has lieen placed in the old diggings and nut to work, ana tnenrst clean-up realized $30. 000. The steam sealer Eliza Edwards has returned to V nncouver, B. C, from Behr- ing Sea. The eaptain says that Rteam sealers are no longer an experiment in the Behring Sea, and predict that next season will see a great many more of them. The International Company denies that Mrs. Burton's suit has been decided in her favor by the Mexican Supreme Court. The court has decided her ap peal was taken in time, and that is all. The valuable estate in dispute is still in litigation. Alaska has rebelled against the liquor prohibition adopted by the United StateB for that Territory. The press and the citizens urge that prohibition cannot be ; enforced with thousands of miles of sea - coast. A stringent license law is advo- .twed with a severe penalty for selling liquor to Indians or minors. The bill to be introduced in Congress at the instance of the War Department providing for San Diego's formications will cover the expense of five military establishments at Coronado Heights, North Island, Point Loma and Ballast Point. The filth, which is not located, win oe the military post proper. News has been received from Omineca district, B. C, of the death of two vet eran miners of California and British Columbia John Robinson, a native of Harbor Grace, N. F., and Gideon P. Hathaway of Taunton, Macs. Both went from San Francisco in 1858, and were well-known characters in Cariboo and Cassiar. The California express was ditched i steer at Kiordan, seven miles west of Flagstaff, A. T. The engine, mail and smoker went down the embankment twenty feet, causing a delay of fourteen boars. Fireman Dowries was badly scalded ana Durnea. All ot the passen f gore escaped injury. ' " ' ' ,, , The Portland Southern Railway Com pany has tiled articles of incorporation at Portland, Or. The capital stock is ' 4)0,1)00,000, and the objects of the com pany are the buying, building, establish ing and maintaining of all ways and means o! transportation and communi cation, both by land and water, and the producing anil dealing in light and - .power.' ,r . . The California claimants under the rill of William Westorlieid, who died at ilooiiey Flat, Nevada comity, Cal., leav mjsfln'estate of $40,000, have defeated '. the Eastern' claimants in a trial just 'ended ayNevaJa City. The heirs are Mrs. Mary B. Smith and Mrs. Emma ' Daiiueer of North Sun Juan, Fred Wes : terbeld of Maryaville and Charles Wes- tejiieid of Oakland. . - O. Homo, as the wild man of Arizona ". njs himself, delivered an address to his iiw prisoners at Tombstone recently, discourse showed the traits of good , jiarship. He walks the corridors of i, bail in a perfectly nude condition, v; only clothing is his skull cap. He treat favorite with his fellow prison- ; ..ll nI. nf tito uhlllf., HI- ;.!.. I till surrounded in great mystery. ' THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Th RiiMlau Jews Will Be Allowed to Heinaln In the United Blates. It has been decided to allow the Rus sian Jews detained at Boston under the immigration law to remain in the United States upon the filing of bonds in the sum of $2,500 for each person that such person shall not become a public charge. Navy Department officials say the statement published that the Mohican has been ordered from the Behring Sea to China is incorrect. The Mohican will remain in the sea until the season closes, after which she will return to San Fran cisco. The President upon the recommenda tion of the Civil-Service Commission has made important changes in the rules governing the classified service. Under these amendments all promotions here after made in the classilied service will be upon strictly competitiveexainination conducted under the direct authority of the Civil-Service Commission. Promo tions, like appointments, will be made upon merit only. In examinations for promotion much weight will be given office records of clerks as to punctuality, diligence and efiiciency. Commissioner Rauni of the Pension Bureau in an interview with a United Press reporter emphatically denied the published statements that no original pension certificates had been issued dur ing the month of July and the eleven working days of the present month. He submitted figures showing what the pen sion office was accomplishing. The work for the fiscal year just ended shows that mere were 144,507 more certificates is. Biied than for the fiscal vear ended June 30, 1888. During the past month 2,852 original certificates were issued under the laws, while 25,414 original certificates were issued under the act of June 27, IBM). The issue of original certificates in Julv, 1888. wss 8.444. The Commis sioner said : " There is no understand ing nor agreement between Secretary Foster and myself that no more certifi cates shall be presented for payment un til after September 1. On the contrarv. all the agents are provided with funds to make daiiv pavmenta ot all pension certificates entitled to payment during the month of August. The work of aud iting the pension claims will go steadily forward. It is mv expectation that the office will issue 120,000 certificates from August 1 to December 1, or 148,000 for the tint five months of the nresent finan cial vear. CABLEGRAMS. An Attempt to Climb the Himalayas : Again Talked or. Smallpox is epidemic in Lima and Callao. Socialists are plotting to overthrow tl le Chinese dynasty. The settlement of Jews on unoccimied land in Italy is proposed. Sir John E. (iorst will make an official tour of Ireland and report on the condi tion of the laboring classes there. The present financial crisis in London has forced the suspension of work on the ship-railway canal at Halifax. The edict has gone forth-from heari- luarters in London that the women of the Salvation Annv must no longer wear iewelrv The Duchv of Gotha is so wosnerous that a bill has been introduced suspend- Colonel Olcott, the New York theoso iug all taxation for a period of three I phist, will go to Japan in October, where months. The fourth centennial of the discovery of America is to tie celebrated at Genoa, the birth place of Columbus, with many lesiiviues. A Chinese imperial decree calls for the arrest and infliction of capital punish ment upon the leaders of the recent mis sionary riots. The modest sum of 150.000 marks is asked for the recently discovered corre spondence between the poet Goethe and rruu vuii oieill, It is announced that the French fleet will visit England, and that no effort will oe spared to make the occasion memorable one, President Carnot's chateau at Presles has been ransacked bv burglars, who got away with everything valuable that the house contained, including plate. William Fullerton. a voting American graduate of Harvard, replaces M. de Blowitz in the head Fans office of the London Than. Blowitz will continue special contributions. It is said that Mine. Boulanger and her daughter have abandoned their re cently cherished purpose of entering a convent " in order to lighten the burden of exile borne by the General." At the Hvgiene Congress in London the subject of tuberculosis will bewidelv discussed, and papers will be read on the means of conferring immunity from bac teriological affections. The subject of rabies will receive close attention. Turkish brigands have captured a Frenchman named Raymond, and have demanded a ransom of $23,000 from the French Ambassador at Constantinople. who in turn has demanded of the Sultan protection and release for Raymond. Dr. Alice McLaren of London Univer sity has been appointed to Leith Hos pital, Edinburgh, this being the first time that a woman has been elected to the staff of a general hospital in Great Britain, and the first time'in Scotland to anv hospital. there is talk of a fresh attempt to limb the Himalayas, and the plans for the great project are now being laid by Mr. Conway, the author of "The Zer matt Pocket-book," and Harold Topham, who has climbed several of the mount ains in Alaska. The statement is made on what an- nears to lie good anthoritv that, nwinir to the critical condition (affairs in the fast, Fngland will add ten war shins to her Mediterranean fleet and hold the Channel squadron in readiness to rein force the Mediterranean fleet at a mo ment's notice. i EASTERN ITEMS. American Exports Venezuela. to THE CHESS TOURNAMENT. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Restrained From Running Dining Cars. A five-ton meteor will be exhibited at the World's Fair. TrainB will run through the Hudson- river tunnel in three months. The remains of a mastodon have been discovered near Oaklield, N. Y. The new poll-tax law in Mississippi assures tne wiuiee a oiear majority. A disease among the cows threatens a milk famine in three Western States. Colored people will erect an emanci pation monument at the World's Fair, The constitutionalitv of the alien- landlord law of Illinois is to be tested in the courts. The only country in the world which will have wheat to sell this year is the uniiea states. An English syndicate has bought up nearly an the leather-hoard lactones in the Eastern States. Gold has stopped moving outward, and the indications are that the return cur rent will soon set in. In spite of previous statements the F'lorida orange crop has turned out to be the largest on record. A New York lawyer, who three vears ago fled to Spain with $11111,000 stolen money, now inherits $200,000. Brooklyn is to have a fine new theater, to be operated by Charles Frohnuin, Al Haymau and Manager Knowles. Boston Aldermen propose to raiBe the atrical licenses to $1,000 and deprive themselves of dead-head passes. There ib considerable Buffering in the Rio Grande Valley among the Mexican population, owing to the drought. Of nearly flftv papers of all shades of opinions in Pennsylvania but eleven nave declared m lavorol a constitutional convention. American exports to Venezuela are said to be now ahead of all others, their aggregate in the last fiscal year having been $10,000,000. Aluminum in ton lots has been reduced SO cents a pound, making it as cheap as copper, considering the di Here rice in bulk of the two metals. James R. Keene, the California spec ulator, is making his presence felt in Wall street. He is said to lie rapidly retrieving his losses. The investigation at Ottawa into the bribery cases between the officials and I contractors continues to show avorvcor- '" ' ""'" he will lecture before a meeting of the high priests of tlieosophy. There has been an exodns of tramps from Mount Holly, N.J, .since the Board of Freeholders has had them sent to the almshouse and made to work. Diphtheria in its most malignant form has broken out in the South Dakota asy lum for the insane at Yankton. There are 300 people in the institution. A tremendous movement in favor of early retiring has been inaugurated in Chicago. The police have decided that an saloons must close at midnight, An excursion of 5,000 persons went from Cincinnati to Niagara Falls one day last week. It is claimed as the largest excursion ever carried on a railroad. Several large loans have been made in New York recently, in which the lend ers insisted upon a gold clause, accepting lower interest in consideration thereof. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union has adopted resolutions favoring the passage oi minuay laws and tne prohibi tion of liquor-selling at the World's Fair. The organized marble dealers of Ohio are asking for legislation permitting them to remove from the cemetery any already erected monument that is un paid lor. According to the census rsnnrts the total value of the church property in the United States, including edifices, ground on which they stand, furniture, etc., is $118,381,510. . Underground conduits for electric wires for various purposes have been a perfect success in Philadelphia. The first experiment with them was under taken six years ago. It is announced that the comnanv or ganized to build a bridge across the Hud son river to New York city has completed its organization and will commence work actively in October. A silver vein of marvelous richness is reported to have been discovered on Pmncrov MountainColorado, near Car ibou. This is in the midst of the rich silver districts of Colorado. In the chess tournament at Lexington. Kv..Showalter defeated Pollock in n lav ing off the tie, thus winning the cham pionship of the United States Chess Association for the third time in succes sion. The President has commuted the sen tence of Charles F. Amerman of Kan Francisco, who was convicted of tamper ing wnn me mans. A pardon was de nied, but a $150 fine was commuted to $100. ... . . .1 PERSONAL MENTION. The Governor of South Oarollna Explain why ll uimii KBIlnmn I'mhiiuii, Governor Tillman of South Carolina. who has been taken to tank (or using railroad passes, explains that he saved money for the State by their use, Philip D. Armour is said to be the largest individual commercial operator in the world. His transactions liiBt year reached the enormous aggregate of $03,- 000,000. ; : , :. The Shah of Persia is developing into a kodak fiend, and his courtiers all say that his picturesare wonderful successes. It wouldn't be healthy for them to say anything else. John A. Riley, brother of James Whit comb Riley, has been appointed Super intendent of the Bradstreet Company for the Pacific Coast, with headquarters at Ixis Angeles. The Czar is one of the few living ban queters, it is said, who can "drink a toast " according to the old Btvle. swal lowing toasted apple, liquor and ail from the brimming cup. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Packard, who re side on a farm near New Hartford, la., are the parents of twenty-nine living children. The eldest is 411, and the youngest is 10 years of age. Mile. Darnova. a wealthy and refined Russian lady and a relative of the Czar's Minister of the Interior, has commenced her big task of walking from Kiel! to Moscow and thence to Paris. i Robert T. Barker of New Bedford, Mass., read the Bible through for the first time in 1808. Since that date he has read it ninety-nine times. It usually takes him two montlis to read it from beginning to end. President Diaz is again well enough to attend to executive business, but he bears traces of recent suffering. His wife wishes him to go to Enroe for a rest, but his ambition keens him at home and will for some time yet. General Booth now has a large num ber of the lxmdon poor at work on his " home farm " at Hadleigh, Essex, and as soon as accommodations are ready the nuinbor will lie increased. The scheme is watched with a good deal of interest. The Pope does not speak English " bet ter than many Englishmen," as is stated in a paragraph now going the rounds. He does not speak the language at all. and holds converse with English-speak ing people through an interpreter in Latin. Lady Aylesbury is one of the most ex traordinary figures in London society. She is nearly 80, and wears a wig of corkscrew curls. She is noted as the possessor of a sharp tongue, and her language is at all tunes picturesque and vigorous. Bismarck since he has retired from his official duties' in Berlin has devoted him self largely to developing his business enterprises. La Frieurichsruhe, espe cially during the last venr, his factories have been enlarged and run to their full capacity. His potteries have had' more orders than they could till. John C. Calhoun, grandson of the noutti Carolina statesman of that name, declares that alternnte generations in his family smoked and eschewed smoking. He never touches a cigar himself, and he says the great apostle of nullification never did, either; hut his father and great grandfather were inveterate smok ers. Ex-Speaker Reed has apparently been getting gay daring his trip abroad. A New York paper records that on his re turn " his suit of clothes was distinct ively American in cut, wherever it was made, but his silk hat, with a narrow brim, was plainly built on a British block. He wore it on the back of his head." Secretary Foster'B fondness for base ball is saidtobedevelnpingintoamania. He goes out to the Washington ball grounds whenevor there is a game on, and when the Cincinnati team was play ing at the capital promptly on the stroke of 4 every afternoon the Secretary would make a bee line for his hat and coat. A moment later he could be seen chasing a car with the agility of a schoolboy. CRIME lm CRIMINALS. A Uenperate Clang of Criminal Arreftteil for Aliiluotlou. The Atlanta Journal printed a story to the effect that J. O. Wynne, business agent of the Georgia State Alliance Ex change, was over $20,000 short in his accounts. The body of Oora Farthing of Lewis ton, N. Y,, an unusually handsome young woman, was found in the Niagara river at Lewiston under such circum stances as to give rise to the theory of murder. Francois and Rosalie Schneider, living in the suburbs of Vienna, have been ac cused of decoying servants to their house by advertisements and murdering them. Seven bodies were found buried beneath the house. Princess Mileua, wife of the reigning ' Prince of Montenegro, has subjected nerseu to a severe surgical operation in the clinic of Heidelberg. The Princess is now 45 years old, but she has been married thirty-one years. As Mllena Petrowna BukotitiBCh in 1847 she was called the loveliest and most beautiful woman in Europe. The most desperate gang of criminals in Detroit has been arrested, charged with the abduction last March of Joseph Perrien, one of the wealthiest millers of the Northwest and a highly respected citizen of Detroit. The gang includes Johnny Considine, Billy Considine, Thomas Kennedy, Frank .Griffiths, .lames McDowell and Edward Kent. They have long been the tenor of De troit, and the Oonsidines, at least, have criminal records in Cleveland, O., Mar quette, Mich., and other places besides their native heath. Perrien, it will be remembered, was released bv the nam alter twenty-four hours' captivity, FOREIGN LANDS. Phylloxera Destroys the .Tokay Vineyards. A GOVERNOR TO BE BOILED. Lord Salisbury on the Continent Emperor William to Visit the World's Fair. The projects to draw Switzerland into the dreibiind have failed. Dillon and O'Brien are meeting with good receptions by the Irish people. The German budget for the fiscal year shows $!l,020,040 over the estimate. The famous Tokav vinnvarda In Hun gary liHve been almost destroyed by puyuoxera. France will paint all her gunboats a dull sulphurous gray to render them in distinguishable. Prince Bismarck thinks the reduction of the corn duty in Germany a disaster or that country. Italy has concluded a loan of $10,000.- 000 with a Berlin syndicate. Triple alli ances come high. Chili threatens to declare war against Bolivia, because the latter has recognized the CongressionahstB. The government has prohibited gam bling in the casinos at the watering placoB in the north of Spain. Sir William Gordnn-Cuiiiiiilng'B rela tives and friends are being socially ostra cized for their loyalty to him. The Dominican government hue made no offer to the United StateB in regard to the leasing or cession of Sainiina Buy, The Governor of the Bank of England sayi there is no basis (or the report that financial disaster is impending in Eng land. Lord Salisbury has departed for the continent, where he will spend part of his vacation in interviews with conti nental statesmen. If Europe is at peace at the time of the Columbian exhibit, it is believed at Berlin that Emperor William will come over and see America, The adultaratioa in coffee in France has reached such alarming proportions, that it has become a subject for investi gation in the Chamber. Cuba's total production of sugar and molasses for 18110 was 7118,550 tons. Of the exports from the island over til) per cent came to the United States. It is reported that General Propbete has sailed from Kingston with a bouv of men to inaugurate a revolution against President Hyppolite of Hnyti. Several British vessels which harbored refugees during the Congressional attack on Pisugua have demanded compensa tion from the Chilian authorities. It Ib suggested that the whole of Eng land's 100 first-class torpedo boats, which have been replaced by larger boats, be turned over to local volunteer orewfl. M. de Frovcinet, French Minister of War, has decided to cushior all officer of the French army who act as agents for firms maiiiiliictiiriiig war materials. The British government is said to be taking active steps toward learning from the inhabitants of Wales where they would like to have their national capital. The Indian government has notified its intention erecting a memorial at the public expense to mark the spot where the victims of the Mampur massacre are buried. Achargo of drunkenness and disorder ly conduct against Lady de la Zouclie, a society ludy in London, was dismissed by the Court amid great applause bv the visitors. Moltke's diary will appear serially in a London illustrated weoklv. The priv ilege of making extracts from the diary was fimt offered to the London Timet for 1,000. A letter from Teheran sovs that the Shah, having become enraged against Abdullah Khan, Governor of Mazander Inn, has condemned that ruler to be boiled alive. Queen Victoria has caused some sur prise bv the emphatic demand ilmt ti.o greatest honors shall be shown to the French naval visitors when they arrive at Portsmouth, This vear the normkiinn nl 1 ,ir, has increased in a somewhat lower ratio than that of England and Wales as a whole, the first time that such a circum sUmce has occurred. The European residents in the li. tricts in China that are threatened by mobs have organized for defense, and pi if to pose to uittKe it warm lor the rioters tuoy make an attack on them. The German Emperor's palace has hitherto depended on candles for its lumination, no gas having been admit ted. Now, however, the whole of it has been fitted with an electric-light plant, Prince BorgheBO and fumily have (lis appeared from Italy since his failure be came known. His liabilities amount to 27,000,000 lire. The crash is causing failuresamongotheraristocraticfamilies. A report from Paris says mireh concern is felt in Berlin at the bad health of the Kaiser. It is stated the abscess in the Emperor's case is continually growing worse and is gradually developing in the brain. The London Newt says it is not many years since Europe was practically inde pendent of American supplies. This season it is clear that without America's help Europe would be on the verge of starvation before next harvest.