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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1891)
t H. T. KIKKPATKIVK, l'obll.her. LEBANON .......OREGON PACIFIC COAST. Forest Fires Raging in the Cascades, ' THE WASHINGTON MILITIA. Sealing Poachers Are Reaching Vic toria, B. C, Every Day With Fine Catches. A (6,000 ice plant for Riverside, Cel., it projected. The Alaska aalmon pack exceeds that of lastBeaBOn. Santa Barbara, Cal., has voted to build an outfall sewer Bystem. The entire system of Portland street railways is now owned by one company. Coal has been found at Hollywood, three miles onteide of the city limits of Los Angeles. Terrible forest fires are racing in the Cascade Mountains in the vicinity of Hot Springs, Wash. The carpenters at Vancouver, B.C., are striking against the employment of non-union men. Frank Chaves, Sheriff of Santa Fe . connty, N. M., is said to be short about $33,000 in his accounts. , Portland hae inst voted (30,000 for a municipal building, (45,000 for sewers and $55,000 for water works. Koseville, five miles from Ban Diego, is to be the site for the new iron plant so long talked about in tbat section. Low wages and poor food are causing large desertions from the railroad gangs at work on the Great Northern extension in Montana. .. Coal of good quality has been discov ered by aecident at Cbemainus, a little village about midway between Victoria and Nanainio, fi. C. - ; j The Washington militia is to sue the State to compel it to settle the pay rolls lor services auring tne late troubles in the mines in Jung county. The news from the Pine Nut region by way of Carson continues to be of an ex citing nature to prospectors and miners. Hew strikes, all rich, are reported. lhe Union Pacihc instituted a suit against the Oregon Railroad Commission to annul the rates adopted by the board, wnico are w per cent, lower tnan those fixed by the railroad. The owners of the Bonanza mine at Tombstone have come to no conclusion concerning the resumption of deep min ing. The Contention-mine people have we suoject under Deliberation. Prof. George H. Bryant of the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute has been ap pointed director of the work shops and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engi neering in the Stanford University. The steamship Zambesi df the Upton line has been libeled for $20,000 at Vic toria, B. C. Damages are claimed by the schooner Fanny Dutard, with which the Zambesi collided in the Straits of . Fuca. :: V Sealing poachers are reaching Victoria every day from Behring Sea, and some of them have fine catches. Tbe Sap phire has 2,435, the Walter A. Earle J.Ozl ana the schooner Carmelite 700 skiiiB. .... .. Tbe midsummer harvest number of the Los Angeles Timet is brim full of in teresting reading and statistical facta of a reliable character about the progress of Southern California and its great re source. The Portland Council, which was I elected on a platform of economy and reform, is attempting to increase the sal aries of city officers, including their own, some $39,000 over the old list, and their conduct is severely criticised. The customs authorities have selected a site on Mary's Island, Alaska, near the British Columbia boundary for a custom house and other government buildines, A schooner leaves Port Townsend in a few days with material to construct the buildings at a cost ol $80,000. Charles Raskin, editor of Le Gauhm at Los Angeles, and J. P. Goytino of Le Progrei have not been friendly for a long time. Raskin left for Europe, but pre pared an edition of his paper for circula tion, charging Goytino with innumerable crimes., (joytino got out a warrant, and the officers arrested Raskin at Barstow. He was taken to Los Angeles to answer the charges of criminal libel. The following cities in the State of Washington have over 1,500 population : Seattle 42,837, Tacoma 36,006, Spokane Falls 19.922, Walla Walla 4,709, Olympia .,oimf rorc xownsena 4,000, fairhaven 4,076, Whatcom 4,059, Vancouver 3,546, Ellensburgh 2,768, Centralia 2,026, Sno homish 1,993, Dayton 1,880, Puyailup 1,732, Sprague 1,689, Colfax 1,649, Aber deen 1,638, Montesano 1,632, Blainel,503, North Yakima 1,535. The Yuma Sentinei claims that at the mouth of the Colorado river and the upper end of the Gulf of California are to be found sea base that weigh from 250 to 750 each, clams as large as a common dinner plate, millions of sardines and smelt, oysters small but delicious, mill ions of soft-shelled crabs and other shell fish, myriads of wild geese, brants, lucks, cranes and other sea fowl and birds. It is a paradise for fish and game, EDUCATIONAL. Or the Five IflirliMt Graduates at West Point the South Him Kuur, 3 He Fuu le in Out of 250,000,000 people in all India less than 11,000,000 can read and write. The receipts at Chautauqua this sea son were 25 per sent, above those of last year.. . A high school is to be established at Oat aadaga Lake, X Y., in connection with spiritualistic views ol emulation. The gain in school enrollment in New Mexico in 18W0 ib 2n3 percent., while the gain in population is only xtj per cent. Throughout France gardening iB prac tically taught in the primary and ele mentary schools. There are about 28,000 oi these schools. About 1,400 members of Cambridge University, England, have signed reso lutions protesting against the admission of women to the university. . The University of the City of New York has just added a school of the sci ence of education to itself, and hereafter win corner tne degrees ol Master and Doctor of Pedagogy. The school census of Louisiana shows that out of a total school population of 370,226 only 85,000 children attend the public schoolB, and many of these attend two months in the year. The Universitv of Unaala in Sweden during the present term bas an attend ance of 1,658. Of these 254 are in the theological department, 740 in the philo sophical, 443 in the law and 221 in the medical. ' Of the five highest graduates at West Point four come from Southern States. counting Maryland as of the South, and the fifth is from Pennsylvania. Charles S. Hines, who stands the highest in tac tics, is also from the South, being a Vir ginian. Eight institutions have each an enroll ment of over 1,000 students, and seven report from 500 to 1,000. Nor is it the old colleges in the East alone which draw their pupils by the hundreds, but Har vard's 2.271 students and Yale's 1,645 are paraiieiea Dy Ann Aroor s x,ua and Oberlin'e 1,709. The head mistress of the high school for girls in Birmingham, England, sug gests that parents who are anxious as to the career and future of their daughters should train them to be teachers of cook ery. She finds from the Liverpool cook ery school that there is a constant de mand for qualified teachers, and that more applications were received than could be satisfied. The remuneration varies from $7.50 to $15 a week excel lent wages for England. MisB Susan B. Anthonv iB authority for the statement that there is a project w Dana in rtocnester, n. i.,n new uni versity, which will be co-educational for the sexea. Miss Anthony says : " There are many wealthy people in Rochester who think it is a shame that daughters of workingmen cannot obtain a college education. The wealthy people can send their daughters to Cornell, University of Michigan, Wellesley, any of the State and nearly all of the sectarian colleges in tue n est. u is toe r,ast wmcn is conservative in closing the doors to girls. Even the wealthy, however, prefer to nave tne university training at home.' A plan for furnishing a technical edu cation to the boys who have to work is to be put into operation by the trustees of Bell-street chapel, Providence, the free-thonght institute which James Ed dy's money founded. The scheme is alter that in use in England, the science classes, which are carried on under the direction of the government and the guilds in London, and which are doing a large work in providing proper tech nical education. James Tribe, mechan ical engineer, graduate of the science classes and of Central institute, will be instructor, and there will be a committee to overlook the work, consisting of Isaac Whitehead, Robert Grieve. J. Bowie and George Whitehead. The first course will open Tuesday, October 2, students Jbeing required to pay only $5 for fifty-two lessons. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Rlotinr Chinese Destroy the American Jftisalnn at Xanana;. An additional proclamation, signed by President Harrison and Assistant Secre- tary of State Wharton, has been issued in regard to the timber reserve in Yel lowstone Park. The boundaries are the same as described in the first proclama tion. It concludes with a warning to all persons not to enter or to make settle ment in the section reserved for Yellow stone Para. The Department of State has received a telegraphic dispatch from the Minister at Pekin, reporting a riot at Ychang, on the Yang-tse-Kiang river, in the prov ince of Hoope, and that tbe establish ment of the American missionaries there has been destroyed. No further partic ulars are given. Ychang is about 200 miles above Hankow, which is about as tar up the river as vesssels of war can go. The Board of Managers of the Na tional Home for disabled volunteer sol diers has concluded itsquarterly meeting in Washington. At the last meeting a provision was made for the creation of medical boards at each branch to exam ine tbe inmates and ascertain what pro portion of them were able to maintain themselves and not disabled. These re ports are now under consideration. The board at the California branch reports there is not a single inmate who could be properly excluded. In the Central branch the board found thirty-three in mates who should be excluded, because they have a sutlicient income to main tain themselves, and seventeen because they were physically able. The Milwau kee branch has not reported. The board has not yet determined upon a line of policy to be pursued in these cases. It is the desire to rid the home of inmates really able to take care of themselves in I order to afford room for deserving veter ans, but so many considerations arise that it is not practicable to apply the general rule. EASTERN lTtMS Coinage for the Month of August THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND. Valentine Scrip Cannot Be Used In the Looation of Tide Lands on Puget Sound. - - Indiana saloonkeepers are forming a State union. Chicago unveils her Grant monument on October 7. The Vermont Legislature voted $15,000 to tne worm s rair. Old Crow, a Cheyenne chief, is trying to set up a MesBiah erase. Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton's theatrical venture has gone to pieces. The North German Llovd Com nan v will run a line of steainerB between New York and Genoa. The Cincinnati tax commission iB nn- earthing millions of securities not Disced on the tax duplicate. Typhoid fever has broken out in the State idiot asylum at Syracuse. Impure water is the cause for it, Only 5 per cent., or 18,270, of the total immigration to this country during the last nscai year settled in tne south. It iB estimated that 20.000-horae power will be required for the electric-lighting plant of the Columbian Exposition. The Delaware fish commission has placed 4,000,000 shad in the Delaware river at Bull Island during the present year. Additional instructions concerning the smuggling 01 lottery tickets into the United States from Mexico have been issued. The substitution of the cable for horses on the Broadway and Third-avenue lines will throw 6,000 horses out of employment. The Navy Department will at once issue orders concerning the survey of the Pacific-cable route. The Thetis will probably do the work. Some of the roads in the Northwestern blind passenger pool have been furnish ing erroneous statements of the business to the Advisory Board. An electricallv illuminated cross is to be placed on tne spire of a Methodist church in Minneapolis. Fifty-two in candescent lamps win be used. The South Dakota people are so jubi lant over their big crops that they have set about the work of raising a huge " grain palace " in celebration thereof. The land office refuses to restore San Clemente bland on the southwest coast of California to the public domain, ow ing to its futnre availability as a naval station. The Secretary of the Interior decides that Valentine scrip cannot be used in the location of lands lying between tbe high and low-watermark in Puget Sound district, Wash. Already apprehensions are beginning to be expressed at the possible fate of Peary in his Greenland explorations. There are fears that he and his party will meet me late 01 tne ureeiy party. The Boston Advertiser gives the partic ulars involving $1,000,000 worth of stock of the big Quincy copper mine in Mich igan and serious allegations reflecting upon the honesty of the managers. The census returns for Pennsylvania show that the unfortunate city of Johns town has increased in population since 1880 from 8,380 to 21,805, a growth which makes it now the thirteenth city in the State. Conservative estimates place the yield of Minnesota and the Dakotas at 125, 000,000 bushels of wheat, against 90,000, 1100 last year. It is asserted that the wheat crop of the three States would fill a train 250 miles long. Black ants threaten to take possession of Boston, and State street, the citadel of Boston's moneyed men. is literal) v swarming with them. They are on the streets, on the sidewalks and crawling up tne sine 01 Duuuings. A rumor has been published at Win nipeg that the Grand Trunk is about to extend its line to Winnipeg via Sault Ste. Marie and Dulutk, and that when the former city is reached the line will be extended te the facitic Coast. The coinage of the United States mint during the month of August was : Double eaeles, $1,000,000; eagles, $120,000; half eagles, $00,000; standard dollars, $1,180, 000; dimes, $584,000 ; 6 cents, $74,200; 1 cent, $40,200, Total coinage, $3,718,400. The Tennessee Legislature has decided that it is unable to abrogate the present lease 01 convicts, t ne session was called for the purpose of breaking the lease, and the call was necessitated by riots at the place where convicts were employed in the mines. All the reports received at the internal revenue bureau indicate that the pro duction oltaugar from beets, sorghum, maple syrup and cane will be up to the original estimates oi the producers, un der which the bounty was estimated at about $10,500,000 per year. , The local directory of the World's Fair has formally confirmed the nomination of J. M. Samuels of Kentucky, chief of the horticultural department: L. w. Kobinson of the United States navv, chief of machinery, and H. S. Pealiody of Illinois, chief of the department of liberal arts. PERSONAL MENTION. Oounlims of Caithness Is the Bxaot An tithesis of Mme. Hlavetakr, Austin Dohson thinks of coming to the United States in the autumn to give ruauiugs irom me own wonts. The King of Italy takes great interest in raising camels when he is not occu pied in tiying to raise the wind t any rate 01 interest. Judge H, K. Douglass, who was a Ma jor on the staff of General Stonewall Jackson, will be one of the speakers at. the New Hampshire soldiers' reunion at The Weirs. Oscar Wilde frankly entitles his new est book a study of ''Christianity from the Outside." Home who consider'them selves in it could give only a real view of the subject. Mr. Kuskin thinks the English people ought to love the apple tree, " not for its fruit, but for its flower" a sentiment with which the parents of the American small boy will fully sympathise. The oldest jockey on the turf and still one of the best of them is William Hay ward, v? ho rode Preakness in the famous dead-heat race for the Saratoga cup in 1875, He Uvea at Eatontown, N. J. It is always a pleasure to know that a King is of some practical use. King Humbert is a cook of no mean order, and can boil a potato or broil a steak in a way that would make a dyspeptic feel Hungry. Gray hairs continue to crowd about the temple oi Will S. Huys, editor, poet and song writer, bnt his ebony mustache is resplendent wilh youth and vigor. He writes better than Joe Howard of New 1 ork, and tells more truth. George Haven Putnam, the New York publisher, has received from the French government the cross of the Legion of Honor, conferred upon him lor Mb serv ices in helnine to secure the nasaace of the international copyright law. The late Empress Augusta of Germany was very rigid in her onnosition to lieinir photographed. There is. however, a picture to be Been in tbe shops of Berlin representing a group of the royal family, with the Empress Augusta seated on the left, holding a book up so as to hide from view her imperial features. The Countess of Caithness, the new high priestess of theosophy, is the exact wiiitiiesis 01 ner preaecesBor, Mme. ttla vatsky. Her figure is slender, her man ners elegant and her tastes refined. She dresses in great taste. Her only resem blance to Blavataky lies in her fondness for diamonds, but that is a pardonable womanly weaaneBS. Oliver Wendell Holmes enters his 83d year with his characteristic good humor and cheerlulness unabated. The genial ' autocrat," who thought it " better to oe 70 yeare young than 40 years old," has the same feeling as to his eitrhties. except that a partial failure of his eye- eigut causes mm Borne trouoie. Captain Georse Dewev of the nun has lived for the last live veara with onlv half a liver. The other half was cut olf by an Italian surgeon while Captain Dewey was lying ill from liver disease at Malta in 1880. rora the day the opera- was performed his health bwan to im prove, and he has enjoyed life ever since. Ex-Judge John Erskine. who retired from the Federal bench about five years ago, is ranaeo as one ot the greatest ju rists in the South, and when he retired the bar of Georgia gave him a great ova tion. He was appointed by Andrew Johnson. He lives moat of the time now with his daughter, Mrs. Ward of New Yerk, and spends a few months each year in Savannah. The President's salary is paid to him in monthly installments of t4.16A.07. The warrant is brought to the White House by a Bpecial messenger of the Treasury Department, and alter the President has indorsed it as he would an ordinary draft his private secretary de posits it at the Columbia Bank. When the President is out of town the draft is mailed to him. The same method is pursued in paying the Justices of the supreme uourt. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. Young Man Fatallr Stub. Bin Brother With a Fenkulre. Catttlemen in Custer county, Mont., have captured and lynched several noto rious cattle thieves, who were caught changing brands, David Douglass, Township Treasurer at Youngstown, O., has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement, it having been discovered that he was short in his ac counts. At Alleghany, Pa., George Ott, aged 22, fatally stabbed his brother John, aged 19, with a penknife, driving the weapon into his left lung near the heart, the result of a quarrel. Burglars broke open the safe of the Sloan State Bank at Sioux City, la., and secured nearly $5,000. The (jorrection vtlle postoflice was burglarised by the same gang and $150 worth of stamps taken. The burglars stole horses, and escaped. At Haverhill, Mass., two masked men loreeu their way into the house of Mrs. Elkms, and demanded her money. She nanueu tnem $40i:; but, presenting a re volver, they tore open her dress and seized a bag containing $HO0 in money and $400 in notes. Both escaped. Charles R. Ege and E. L. Magnire, formerly individual ledger clerks at the Keystone Bank, Philadelphia, have been arrested and charged with making false entries in the ledgers and making such otatemente as would tend to deceive the bank examiners. Louis Bulling, the St. Joseph (Mo.) wife murderer, was hanged at Savannah, Mo, Bulling had obtained a pistol just before the execution from the miniNtAr and shot himself twice. Tbe wounds were not mortal, and he was taken blas Dhemimr and screaminir for uifrnv 1 ht. scaffold, held up by deputies long enough for the rope to be fixed and then dropped through the trap. His neck was broken. FOREIGN LANDS. Revplution Anticipated in Hayti. WALES TO VISIT, CHlCAGp. German Journals Disouss the Proba bilities of War as if They Are on the Eve of One. France claims 1,000,000 Socialists. The condition of the crops In India has taken a torn for the better. Flour has risen 3 shillings a sack at London, owing to the wet harvest. The Bank of England has nearly $20, 000,000 more than it bad a year ago, It is said that there are now twenty two ships of war under construction in Russian ship yards. Masons and bricklayers who build the mills of the Welsh tin-Dlate trust re ceive $1.44 a day in wages. Organised collections are being made in Russia for tbe relief of the starving and destitute in that country. tierman journals discuss war nrnlin- billties as if the country was on the eve of a gigantic strnggle for its very life. Smokeless powder is being used in the French and German military maneuvers, and the evolution! could be easily oh. served. The Sultan of Morocoo has directed that young girls shall no longer lie pub licly sold in the markets of Fes and other towns. The announcement that the Prince of Wales will revisit Tranby Croft this au tumn evokes loud outcries from the re ligious press. John 8. Durham has been appointed Minister Resident and Consul at Hayti. He is a eolored man, and is now Consul at oan toimngo. Peasants near Vilna, Russia, have murdered the wife and family of a Rus sian Jew who bought up several million roubles' worth of rye. Tea-growing is becoming one of the leading industries of Fiji, and it is an ticipated that a large traffic in the arti cle will soon be developed. A matrimonial alliance between the Czarowitu of Russia and Princess Marie o( Greece, his cousin, will be formally announced iu the near future. The London Cnontnfe savs that the Prince of Wales has all but decided to go to Chicago and is likely to be accom panied by Emperor William of Germany. Emperor William, anxious not to wound the South German feeling, will attend tbe Bavarian maneuvers under the Bavarian tlag as a guest, not as a sovereign. , Gladstone's objection to a labor party is on the ground that, " if every class (if the community exercised the right to form a party, we should have a queer Parliament." Emperor William is fully confirmed in his determination to have passed at all hazards at the next session of the Reichstag a bill to diminish and cumuli drunkenness. The Emperor of Germany has lie stowed upon Dr. W. J. Hoffman of the bureau of ethnology, Smithsonian Insti tute, the decoration of the Royal Urdu.- of the Crown. There are said to be about 22.000.0(10' acres of forests in Hungary. Of these the government owns aliout 8,500,000 acres, huys more each year and refuses 10 sen any cnat It possesses. The United States Consul at r,m denies the sensational reports to the ef- leciinai yenow lever prevails at Gnav maB and on the Pacific Coast of Meiim There has been no yellow fever there since 1887. The commerce of Italy, as oonmamd with the same period last year, shows the imports have decreased '$20,800,000 in value and the exuorts 4.000.(kk. During the same period the revenue from customs fell off $4,3il0,000. An attack unon Porkau-Prinne la Iwl n prepared by the Haytiau exiles at King ston, and so strong is the belief that a revolution will soon break out that many foreign residents have moved out of Port-au-Prince or are Bending their fam ilies awav. The announcement is made that tlm Sultan has dismissed the Grand V and the President of the Council, Kia mil Pasha. Djerag Pasha, Governor ot Crete, succeeds him. Six members of the Cabinet have also been dismissed. The Paris Team distinctly inrlieatoa that the Fremih government intends to support the Sultan's right to enter into a special contract with Kussia nermit- ting the entrance into the Dardanelles of armed vessels outside of the articles of the treaty. A largely increased trade is now being developed in the waste slag of the basic steel works in Staffordshire, England. The demand for this product from Ger man importers is extending rapidly, and they are buying up all available supplies. Iu England also the demand is increas ing for fertilizing purposes. Slag, which was formerly sold at 2s 6d per ton, is now realizing 20s. The German Minister to Chili notified the Admiral on the German steamer So phie at Valparaiso that he might lie re ouired to deliver the political refugees on his vessel over to the Junta. The Admiral said he would not comply with such a request unless itcanie direct from the Emperor or the Chancellor. A re ply to a diapatoliio the Emperor elicited an approval of die Admiral's aotion.