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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1891)
7 B. T. KIKKPATR1CK, PlMUhn. LEBANON , , OREGON PACIFIC COAST. Cocopahs Seeking Work in California. ; A RIOT BREWING AT GALLUP. Southern Paoifio Declines to Aooept the Reduced Freight Rate of the Commission. An expert in the Davie will case t Butte, Mont., holds that the will is of recent manufacture. The caring and canning of Pnget bound hemng is becoming an industry of some importance. A company to construct a single-rail and saddle-truck railway system has been incorporated in Oregon.' The creditors of the big cable company of Los Angeles are crowding it. A suit for a foreclosure on the second mortgage has just been entered. Portland is thoroughly discussing the proposition to overcome the CoSumbia nver obstructions by a portage, road around them at The Dalles. . There is trouble threatened at the Gal lup uV II.) eoal mines. A proposed at tempt to put in colored workers; it is thought, will produce a riot. The Southern Pacific Company will not accept the reduced freight rate fixed by the Oregon Railway Commission, and a test case will probably be taken into the conns. The Bear Valley Companv has com menced its work in San Bernardino county, Cal of building a new and ex pensive dam. Two years' time will be required to finish the work. Artesian water has been struck near North Yakima, Wash., at a depth of 400 feet, and the flow increases as the bore goes down. The large body of arid land in that section has consequently aesnmed valuable importance. Southern California proposes to fur nish the Eastern markets with winter vegetables. There are three months in the year when the Southern California producer will have comparatively no competition in the Eastern market. An art picture was ordered from the show window ot a store at Los Amcelea. and the proprietor substituted the por trait oi timet tiiass, wno is tne Anthony Uomstot'K oi coat city, ana oy wnose or ders the original picture was removed. The latest news from La Plata, the new muling town in Ogden Valley, is to the eflect that the hrst reports are fully confirmed. An immense body of ore has been discovered, which assays no- ward of 70 per cent, of galena and 44 to eb ounces ot silver. AH the region neighboring to Otrden. U. T., is excited over the discovery of lead deposits aboat twenty-five miles northeast of Ogden at the head of Para dise Canyon. The ore is found in enor mous quantities, and a second Leadville is predicted by the sanguine finders. Captain Pasqual and Captain Jose of the Coeopah tribe of Coiorado-river In dians, with forty-seven tonowers, are at ban Bernardino, Cal., for the purpose of getting work for the Indians, whose crops and homes had been destroyed by the great earthquake in their country. The discovery of gold on Soldier creek, four miles west of Harney. Or., consist ing of quartz and placer, bids fair to cre ate a little lever, lor it is now evident that there is gold to be found in paying quantities. Miners of experience say the placers will pay (10 or $12 per day and expenses to the man by sluicing. The City Council at Victoria, B. C, has decided to submit to the people by laws appropriating nearly $3,000,000 for railway subsidies, line minion is to me Victoria and North American Railway, or Northern Pacific, and the other to connect the Canadian Pacihc at New Westminster with the roads atBiaine. Indian Agent Cole has completed the work of enrolling the Camr d'Alene In dians entitled to a share in the distribu tion of 1600,000 paid by the government for the lands recently ceded. It is found that 426 Indians are entitled to a share of this money, and that each will receive 11,100. Many of the Indians are already well to do. Considerable stir is being caused in Wahkiakum county, Wash,, over the re cent demand of the government for an additional pavment of $1.25 per acre for patented land within the confines of the Northern Pacific land grant. The gov ernment now holds that the lands in question were double minimum lands, and that the price should have been (2.50 per acre to purchasers. The State Park Commissioner of Min nesota in a report to Governor Merriaiu shows conclusively that the true source of the Mississippi river is in the great reservoir nine miles above Lake Itasca, making the longest surface channel of the Mississippi river from the Gulf of Mexico to the extreme limit of this res ervoir 2,855.25 miles. The first surface flow in this great reservoir is a tiny brook connecting with Whipple Lake, to floating Moss Lake, thence to Nicollet Upper Lake, while sai leet west toe channel again appears in a continuous I surface flowage to Itasca Lake. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL An Abridgement of New Collected at Washington Cttr. Governor Toole of Montana has in formed the acting Secretary of War that in compliance with a petition of the citi zens of Custer county the cavalry de tachment at Tongue river is ordered from its camp there to the Indian agency on that river. In the opinion of mili tary commanders thiB force will be suf ficient to gnard the interests of both In dians and settlers. Acting Secretary Nettleton has signed an order dispensing with the services of Mtb. Catherine McGuire. an assistant keeper of the light station i t Marquette, Mich. A singular feature ot this case is that the woman's dismissal is based on complaints made by her hus band, who is keeper of the station. Me charges her with inattention to duty. In reporting on the case the inspector of mm; uisinci suggests mat tne appoint ment of a man as assistant keeper would be best for the interests of the service. Information has been received at Washington of a very important change made in the Mexican Custom-house reg ulations. Under the old system all goods imported were subject to two examina tions one at the port of entry and an other in the Custom-house where the goods were delivered. By the rule juBt adopted tne last inspection is dispensed with, the goods thoroughly examined upon their entrance into the country, sent to their destinations with due pre cautions and delivered to consignees upon presentation of proper documents. Statistician Dodge of the Department of Agriculture says: " The year prom ises to be one of abundance in almost all lines of agricultural production. Pre liminary returns of acreage made the wheat area about 40,000,0110 acres. On that basis the crop should not fall below 525,000,000 bushels. Oats are the least promising of any cereals. Acreage in rve is little changed, but the August condition is better, promising a larger crop. Barley acreage is apparently the largest ever seen, and the present condi tion warrants that the crop will be con siderably above the average." For some time Sir Julian Pauncefote has been anxiously endeavoring to ar range a basis of negotiation with Blaine with respect to reciprocal trade between Canada and the United States, but with indifferent success. Premier Abbott sent a secret commission a few weeks ago to make an effort to establish an en tente cordiale. This agent when at Wash ington submitted Sir Julian Paunce fote's memorandum to the effect that the present Dominion government was willing to have a reciprocity trade with such articles as are not imported into Canada in largeqnantities from England. Sir Julian now feels in a position to offer the United States reciprocity in coal, grain, meals, cattle and live stock, leather of all kinls, glassware, agricult ural implements, flour and meal, paper manufactures, kerosene oil, cars, car riages, tinli, metal goodB, fertilizers. earthen and china ware and a number of other important articles. CABLEGRAMS. fcrptlan Ophthalmia Prevails in Some sections of ilennan?. Verdi, the composer, will endow with $80,000 a hospital at Milan for poor and aged artists. The German government will estab lish a telegraph system on the German East Atrican coast. Sir Julian Ponncefote, British Minis ter, thinks the Chinese situation more serious than reported. Belginm consumes nearly 4,000,000 cartridges and forty tons of powder a year in testing firearms. The crofters of 8kye in the Scottish Highlands do not take kindly to the idea of emigrating to Canada or America. Egyptian ophthalmia has prostrated half the children and many adults in Arbergen, Mahndorf and Uemeiingen in Germany. Tbe German autumn military maneu vers will be postponed on account of the condition of the Emperor, who cannot mount a horse. A. Stanley Williams of Sussex, Eng land, has just discovered three delicate but distinct markings in the equatorial region of 6aturn. Brazilian capitalists have secured the services of several experts from Pitts burg, who will bore wells in the hope of obtaining oil or gas. A movement is on foot in Norway for the raising of funds to provide visits to tbe country during the summer for poor and bard-worked women, M. Henri Lecomte, the Director of the Meteorological School of Aerostation at Paris, proposes to endeavor to cross Af rica by balloon, starting from Mozam bique. The German government proposes to prohibit clergymen taking fees for bap tisms or marriages. The government has set aside $6,000,000 to pay the preachers. The movement in favor of Roman in stead of Gothic type is rapidly gaining ground in Germanv. Many medical and scientific periodicals are printed in Ro man characters. Die Gennan method of dealing with Turkish brigandage is complete. 'The brigand is paid all he demands, and then Berlin draws on Constantinople at sight for the bill. Lord Donoughmore recognizes the malady of which St. Kilda children die as one well known on the west coast of South America, where medical skiti has been totally unable to grapple with it. The India press is greatly worked np over the execution of the two principals in the Maninar massacre bv the English government, and are endeavoring to s- tabush a sentiment unfavorable to the latter. EASTERN ITEMS.. Mexieo Will Make a Big Exhibit at Chicago. 1,000,000 NEW VOTERSIN 1892 Arizona Wi!l Ask to Be Admitted Into - the Union as a State at Next Session of Congress. Chinese immigration is being solicited py Mexico. Alligators have appeared in the Mis souri river. Mexico will have a $2,000,000 exhibit at the Vvorld'BFair. There will be eighty-five buffaloes in the World's Fair oo.' Kansas papers speak of the corn crop as practically assured. There are to be 887 polling places in New York city this year. The agricultural building for the World's Fair will cost 1800,000. A million young men will cast their first vote for President next year. At the next session of Congress Ari zona will ask for admission as a State. Complete census returns give Iowa a population of 1,011,806, a gain of 287,281 since 1880. The irrepressible George Francis Train proposes a tour around the world in forty days by a party of 1,000 petrous. Connellsville, Pa., will drop natural gas and use coal for fuel. The gas is nearly all exhausted, and rates are high. It is reported that 000 acres of land in Cape May county, Md., have been pur chased on which to colonize Russian Jews. A German doctor, advertising in New York an "Institution of Euroean Staff Physicians," has been prosecuted for fraud. Senator Warren thinks the United States should rale the arid lauds under proper restrictions to the States and Ter ritories. Bellew is fnrions about the report of his alleged marriage to MrB, Potter. He says she cleared $100,0110 on her Austral ian tour. An advance of 15 cents per ton on an thracite coal has been ordered from Sep tember 1 at New York by the producing companies. There are more boat" now running on the Missouri river than at any time dur ing the last ten years, and every one of them is making money. More than 3.000 clerks, salespeople. teamsters, porters, janitors and other 1 wage earners are oat ot work because of the recent big tire in Chicago. The drought in the Lower Rio Grande has put all the ranchmen in debt, and the great scarcity of money is causing, the sacrifice of cattle and sheep. According to the recently published statistics there is one pauper to every 643 inhabitants in this country and one to every thirty-eight in England. James Pbelan of San Francisco has sold the historic Stevens House, 21 to 27 Broadwav, New York, to W. H. Mairsof Brooklyn for $1,000,000 partly in cash and partly in Harlem property. An estimate received by the Bureau of American Republics places the value of wool which will be available for ship ment to Europe in October and Novem ber for the Argentine Republic at $30, 000,000. Charles 8. Wolfe, who was elected Executive Commissioner of the World's Fair by the Pennsylvania State Commis sioners, dropped dead within an hour and a half after his election from heart disease. The new chinch-bug remedy by inocu lation discovered in Kansas has been tried with Bpparent success in Wisconsin, some of the imported infected insects causing the death of millions of the bugs is a wheat field. One of the little bands of Russian He brew refugees sent out from New York to homes in the country by the trustees of the Baron Hirsch fund complain that they are starving and have been swin dled and abased. The emnleves of the Union Pacific having entered into a contract previous to tne passage oi tne eigtit-nour law in Nebraska and the contract still being in force, they are not taking part in the struggle to enforce the law. There has been a great deal of exag geration regarding the dismissal of vet erans from the New York Customs house. Out of eighty-three employes dismissed only sixteen were veterans, and of these three have already been re instated. Poetoffice Inspector Stuart at Chicago iff in receipt of many letters which show that the National Capital Savings, Build ing and Loan Association was even a greater swindle than at first supposed. Victims are being heard from all over the country. Owen Murphy, a former Tammany of ficial, who stole $5!!, ICKI of the funds of New Y'ork citv and fled to Canada in 1877, turns up as one of the principals! in the corrupt dealings that have been brought to light by a legislative commit tee at uttawa. Amos Howard Fiske of South Frnm ingham, Muss., bos been appointed chief engineer of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University. Otto Willweber, late man ager of the Southern Pacific restaurant at Sacramento, has been appointed stew ard of the boarding ball of the university. PERSONAL MENTION. Baron Kruno nenltates About Showing Hla Bis Cannon at tbe World'e fair. The King of Sweden is a great swim mer, and wears gents de Suede in swim ming to keep his hands from tanning. Sara Bernhardt lias promised to con tribute a painting to the women's gallery of pictures at the Chicago Exposition. ' Austin Dobson, the poet, is likely to visit the United States next autumn and give a series of readings from bis own works. Carl Streitmann, who now seems to be the king tenor of the comic-opera stage, is a Viennese, whose family fortune was lost by a bank failure. Officer Rollings of Philadelphia is said to be the largeBt policeman in the United States. He is 6 feet H inches in height, and weighs 340 poundB. Ingalls receives $500 for each of his lectures. Financially, at least, be finds it more profitable to lecture the people than to scold the Senate. Kate Field, who has made Washington her home for the last eighteen months, calls both New Y'ork city and Boston " idiotically Anglomaniacal." Fran Wagner will probably he invited by certain people in Milwaukee to hold a musical festival in that city in 1803 as an annex to the World's Fair. J. Lamb Doty, United States Consul at Tahiti, is the youngest Consnl in the service of the United States. He was. only 20 years old when appointed. Baron Krupp is hesitating about ex hibiting some of his great cannon at the World's Fair but there will be plenty of big gunson hand there, notwithstanding. The Marquis of Lome is said to cher ish a secret passion for cock-fighting. He is never so happy as when a groom gets up a rattling set-to for him in a sta ble loft. Jules Simon, the celebrated French economist, detests tolmceo.and savstluit he is an inveterate enemv of alcohol. I Jules appears to be quite a simple Simon in ins nuuits. Edison is now at work on an electric motor to replace the ordinary locomotive. It iB designed to take up electricity from a central rail and to develop nt least 1,000-horse power. Channcev M. Depew is in Athens en joying himself in seeing the sights. He says it is all stuff about Demosthenes having practiced after-dinner oratory with ids mouth full of classic iehbles. Ex-Senator Ingnlls tells a Chicago re- reporter that he is reallv and trulv out of politics and is not even watching the course of events. He is quite absortiod in agriculture interspersed with lectur ing. Mrs. Langtry owed some of her popu larity as well as one of her soubriquets to the late Frank Miles, the London art ist. When he was in Jersey he painted her portrait, and named it " Tbe Jersey Lily." Dr. Frederick M. Fling of Biddeford, Me., has been elected Professor of Eng lish History in the University of Ne braska in place of Prof. Howard, who has gone to the Leland Stanford, Jr., University. It isn't often that two members of one family are Governors of two States at tbe same time, but it seems to be the case in WeBt Virginia and Florida, in each of which States the Governor's name is Fleming. The Queen of the Sandwich Islands In her passion for music has organized a band of trumpeters. There are a few street bands and piano organs in this section of the world that she is welcome to if she wants them. A Church of Englund clergyman was recently asked why he engaged iu out side rrork. " To increase my Btarving," was the odd reply, which lie explained by saying that he called an income of fOfi ($478) a year a "starving" rather than a "living." A very fine portrait of Henry Clay iB on view at 40 Pall Mall, London. It was painted in 1850 by David A. Woodward of W?shington for Dr. Chapin of Balti more, Cluy's medical attendant. The Portrait is said by those who knew Mr. Clay to be ac excellent likeness. Jesse D. Grant, the youngest son of General Grant, who has recently been living quietly in California on a large frnit ranch and farm, has lieen given control, with a large contingent interest, iu a group ot silver mines in Mexico, from which over $1,000,000 have been taken in five years. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. One Man Kills Another Because He Per secuted Ills Daughter. Edward Lambert, Jr., bookkeeper of of the San Juan Smelting and Mining Company and Mayor of Durango, Col., is a defaulter in the sum of $I10,IW0. Antonia Carasci, a notorious bandit chieftain near San Antonio, Tex., has just killed his ninth man, a Deputy Sheriff, who attempted to arrest him. Dr. J. E. Clements, who was arrested in Memphis, Term., charged with chlo roforming and robbing Colonel Dudley Frazer, has been discharged, Frazer hav ing failed to identify him. John G. Howell, who killed Robert S. Colvin, the young stenographer, for the alleged persecution of Howell's daugh ter, was held to answer the charge of murder without bail at Oakland, Cal. Thomas Gillespie, who was mixed up in the row which resulted in the killing of Sailor Brown of the cruiser Charles ton at San Diego several weeks ago. lias been held to answer before the Superior Court. He is out on bail. John Zwald, who a lew months ago confessed to the authorities at Sacra mento that he had murdered two wives in the East and was locked up in the county jail, has been released, the East ern authorities having taken no action j iu tile uuabwji . FOREIGN NEWS. The Hyppolite Cabinet in Hayti Resigns. LABOR MARKET IN ENGLAND. Munioh to Be Lighted by Eleotrioity Alexis Angry at the Fuss Made Over Him. Russia meditates an increase of duties on importations of fruit. It is believed in Berlin that the Rus sian rye ukase will be rescinded in Octo ber. The forest fireB Bt Toulon, France, have been extinguished. The damage will be great. The tower to lie built nenr London will be only sixteen feet highor than the Eif fel tower of PariB. The present plans of the Japanese government will double the navy of that country within six years. In Paris a panorama representing the fall of Yorktown is tieing painted for ex hibition at the World's Fair at Chicago. The Eastbourne (England) authorities will not permit the Salvation Army on the streets Sunday with its brass IjhikIh. By means of pnenmatic tnhes letters dropped in a letter box in Paris reach Berlin often within thirty-five minutes. The European powers have demanded that China take immeiliute steps for the firotection of the Uvea and property of oreigners. China has just coined a silver dollar, which will lie accented in trade iu pluce of the Mexican ami Japanese coins here tofore used. The Jaffa-Jerusalem railroad is alsiut half finished, and tourists will lie able to travel to Jerusalem from the coast by next summer. It is denied that Countess Caithness has been elected "successor to Mine. Blavatsky" us the head of the Theo sophical Society. Mrs. John W.Mackay has inaugurated a serieB of river parties on the Thames during the summer months. They have lieen very successful. The city of Munich is to be lighted by electricity, the power to be furnished by the river Iser. Nearly six miles of streets are to lie illuminated. Tea-growing is liecoming one of the leading industries of Fi ji, and i, is antic ipated that a large tratlic in the article will soon lie developed. The metric system for England is fa vored by the Geographical Congress: also the compilation of a geographical pronouncing dictionary. . In a survey of the business situation in European journals they find no pros pect of immediate betterment anywhere except in the United States. The lalnr market in England iB in a disturlied condition. The demand has fallen off in the ship-building, engineer ing and iron and steel trades, Rome now sits upon her seven hills with what is positively a hrosd g in. King Huratiert sayB with emphasis that she is to be Italy's capital forever. The. French wheut crop is estimated at 90,000,1100 hectoliters, a deficit of 32,000, 000. The customs tax on wheat will therefore lie suspended for one year. Another scientific observer publishes a pamphlet to show that the European jaw is narrowing through the lesser se verity of its labors that accompanies civilized food. An epidemic of malignant malaria is afflicting the inhabitants of Ulogau, Neisse, Loewen, Kasel and parts of llres lau, and is supposed to have been caused by the recent Hooding. The members of the Cabinet of llvp polite in Hayti have resigned. They felt themselves iiisul'ed by the National Chamber refusing to grant a telegraph concession that they bad indorsed. The Manchester ship canal, which is to make that city a seaport, was expected to have been completed in August of next year, but the contractors have asked for an extension until the close of 18H3. In the Salisbury-O'Brien case an agree ment has been signed by which O'Brien promises to pay his debt, with the costs, into court on Salisbury's undertaking to facilitate, an appeal to' the British House of Lords. There will lie 70,000 troops engaged in the Austrian maneuvers, which begin shortly. Smokeless powder will be used exclusively, this being the most exten sive test yet mode of the efficiency of that invention. , The articles of George Kennaii on Russia have been translate! into the French, Danish, Dutch and Ifreek lan guages, and have stirred pub ic opinion in Europe more than any otlnr writings which have appeared. The London Newi says: H is not many years since Europe'ivas practically inde)iendent of American snppies. This season it is clear that without America's help Europe would be on the verge of starvation before the next harvest. According to recent Russian advices from Fjust Siberia the Russian sealers have already captured a conaiuerabie quantity of skins in the watflrscomrolled by the Russian government, and there is no apparent cessation of their tpera tions. The Grand Duke AlexiB, angry at the fuss made over him iu France, askid Ribot to stop the demonstrations At Vichy. Ribot was unable to do so, but had a telegram posted asking the people to strictly respect the Grand Duke's incognito.