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.
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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.