The Lebanon express., October 09, 1891, Image 2

. T. KIKKPATKIOK, PublUrur.
LEBANON r. .OREGON
PACIFIC COAST.
Huge Cave Discovered
Near Shasta
IT IS LINED WITH RICH ORE.
Southern California Citrus Exhibit
' Will be Continued at Chioago
Until the Fair.
Spokane ie to have a medical college.
The raisin crop of California will be
the finest ever produced. ;
The verdict on the railroad accident,
.in which Mail Agent Quimbv was killed.
was that the road was not to blame. The
intense heat had spread the rails.
At a citizens' meeting at Needles it
was decided to prohibit the erection and
future maintenance in the town limits
of Chinese laundries and opium joints.
The Oregon and Washington Railway
Company tailed to file a statement at
Salem as required by law, and the Gov
ernor has been asked to have the law
enforced.
It is reported at Shasta that in run
ning a tunnel at Iron Mountain a mam
moth cave was discovered in the bowels
of the earth, lined with an 'exceedingly,
rich body of ore.
A special committee for the purpose
of drafting an ordinance for the planting
of trees and parking of streets has been
appointed in Tacoma. ,.
Graders are at work on the esctarn
end of the Lake Washington branch of
the James-street electric and cable line
street railway at Seattle.
Circuit Judge Boise at Salem has de
cided the suit brought by the Union Pa
cific against the Oregon State Board of
Railroad Commissioners for fixing a rate
for grain charges against the Board. (
The Southern California citrus exhibit
will be continued at Chicago until the
World's Fair in 1893. Many people, have
already been drawn to the southern part
of that State through the influence of
' the exhibit. - . !
It now looks as though the shipments
of oranges and lemons from Riverside
would foot up for the season very nearly
1,600 carloads. Already about 1,425 car
loads have gone, and there is still quite
an amount to go forward.
New Mexico has dedicated her first
public achoolhouse. It is located at Las
Vegas. Prize fights are, however, ad
vertised with the information portrayed
in glaring letters that " ladiee with es
corts will be admitted free."
Spokane is to have a regularly organ
ized and regularly equipped medical col
lege a maternity hospital and clinical
lectures three times a week, with free
prescriptions to all who wish to avail
themselves of the benefit of the treat
ment, i
In the book-bribery case in Washing
ton Judge-Calkins held that the mem
bers of the State Board of Education
were not executive otlicers within the
meaning of the law, and hence could not
be bribed in a constitutional sense. An
appeal has been taken to the Supreme
Court. ,
Los Angeles ie indignant at the man
ner in which the statistics for that sec
tion are given in the "Directory of Grape
Growers," just issued by the Board of
Viticulture! Comiesioners. It is claimed
the figures for Los Angeles and San Ber
nardino are incorrect and absurdly be
low the acreage under cultivation.
Robert Evans, an experienced pros
pector, has just returned to San Diego
from the Colorado Desert. He was
nearly all around the Salton Sea, and
save that the witter is about holding its
own in spite of the nonnous evajwra
tion. He does not believe there is any
likelihood of the sea drying up, but that
it will be largely augmented during the
comingwlnter and be a permanent body
of water. , ff
A remarkable juvenile offender has
come to light In the person of LewiB
Case, a filteen-year-old boy of Los An
geles. He confessed recently to setting
lire to the Figueroa Hotel. He now ad
mits having set fire to the Methodist
Church on Fifteenth street, a Chinese
laundry, a stable, a grocery store and a
tire-engine house, which he first bur
glarized while the force were away light
ing one of his conflagrations. He says
he set fire to the church because his
Sunday-school teacher was inconsiderate
to him.
A horrible murder has been un
earthed, com mit ti at the eastern corner
of San Luis Obispo county, Cal. On
June 7 last Martin Heinee disappeared,
leaving no trace behind him. Within
the last few days his blanket and clothes
were found sunk in a well, filled upwitk
stones and fragments of bones and flesh,
showing that he had been hacked to
pieces with an ax, which was found
buried in a hog wallow near the shanty
of John Silvia Uularte, a pr-einptor, for
-wlioin the man worked. "A Coroner's
mrv found Hemes was murdered by Gu-
larte. The evidence tends to show that
Uularte had killed Hemes by shooting
him in the back, and that he then
chopped him up and fed the pieces to
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EDUCATIONAL.
Garmanr la Exportta Teacher to Afrlee
luid rartuir Tliera Hlgii salaries.
The school population of Kansas is
800,1114, .
There are about 400 music teachers in
Philadelphia.
Michigan University is to add women
professors and lecturers to its faculty.
Harvard is 255 years old, and has grad
uated 17,000 students. A little more
than half of them are living.
The ensuing term at Oxford will, it is
said, see a larger number of American
students there than ever before.
Germany is exporting teachers to Af
rica and paying them $1,1X10 annually a
high salary for German teachers.
Yale'B freBhman class this year sows
an enormous increase over that of last.
It promises to be nearly 200 greater.
The number of students in German
universities during the past summer was
27,1126, of whom the evangelical students
of theology were 4,273 more bv far than
in any other single line of study.
Deacon Price of Manchester, Mass.,
has had a longer experience as a school
teacher than any man on record in this'
country. He is 83 years old, and in his
time has taught more than 1,700 pupils.
A " school for domestics," the first of
its kind, is to be opened in St. Peters
burg. The object will be to teach poor
women all kinds of household work,
cookery, mending and sewing linen ; also
dress and shirt making.
Eugene Davenport, professor of agri
culture in the Michigan Agricultural
College, has been appointed professor of
the college which is to be established in
Brazil, tie is to receive $0,000 a year,
with a house and living expenses.
Mrs, Flora Mather of Cleveland, 0.. a
daughter of Amasa Stone, has given
$76,000 to the college for women of the
Western Reserve University. A part of
this sum will provide a college home,
and the remainder will be added to the
endowment fund. Mrs. Eliza Clark has
given this college a recitation hall.
The University of Zurich is considered
one of the best places in Europe for a
woman to study medicine, and has manv
American students. It has the usutil
four faculties, viz. : law, medicine, the
ology and philosophy, that of medicine
being the best equipped. Zurich also
offers fine opportunities for the study of
modern languages.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
The Great Powers Will At Jotntlr in
Protecting Ohlnee Mlailnne.
It is reported the administration is
considering the advisability of making
an overture for the acquisition of the
Island of St. Thomas as a naval and
commercial station.
Mrs. Blaine is constantly in receipt of
letters'Urgiug her to use her influence
with the Secretary of State to induce
him to correspond with Lord Salisbury
on Mrs. Maybrick's case.
Manv rumors are in circulation in the
neighborhood of the State Department
on the subject of Hawaiian annexation.
It is believed that in the near future the
question will become the most' engross
ing one before the American people.
There are those who think they can fore
see trouble between the United States
and Great Britain, in which the cluster
of islands in the Pacific ruled over by
Queen Ulinokalam will prominently
figure.
An order has been issued by the Com
missioner of the general land office for
the survey of the Fort Hall military res
ervation at Pocatello, Idaho, upon the
request of Senator Dubois, who is in
Washington. The survey is preparatory
to the allotment of the lands in sever
alty to the Indians on the Umatilla res
ervation at Pncitello. which have here
tofore been in the way of the develop
ment of that town. It is said the Union
Pacific Railroad Company ie considering
the problem of building shops at Poca
tello. A week ago Secretary Tracy remarked:
If the American missions and Ameri
can citizens in China are to rely upon
gunboats instead of the Chinese govern
ment, our fleet in those waters must be
very largely increased." While there is
no formal alliance, yet the United States
government has reached an understand
ing with the governments of Great Brit
ain, France and Germany, by the terms
of which, in the eventof thefailureof the
Chinese government to afford adequate
guarantee for protection of the lives and
property oi citizens oi inese nations,
that duty will be undertaken by the gov
ernments of Great Britain, France and
Germany, acting jointly. In case of a
riot or other disturbances the vessels Of
any of the four nations will afford a ref
uge to the citizens of the other nations,
and will undertake to protect their con
sulates and other interest!. ,
Treasurer Nebeker has issued a circu
lar, intended particularly for the Pacific
Coast section of the country, giving in
formation as to how persons can obtain
fractional silver coin from the San Fran
cisco subtreasury and the United Stales
mint at that place, the circular says
the fractional silver coin (halves, quar
ters and dimes) will be furnished in
sums of $200 or more by express, free of
charge, or bv registered mail in sums or
multiples of $50, registration free, for
drafts collectable at San Francisco or for
the deposit of currency or gold coin made
in the ban (ranciscosuntreasury. iiraits
in payment must lie drawn to the order
of the' Assistant Treasurer of the United
States, San Francisco, and should be
mailed directly to that oflicer. New
quarters and diuies in amounts of $200
or hiore, if desired, can be forwarded
from the mint of the United States at
San Francisco, and drafts in payment
therefor should be drawn in favor of the
Superintendent of the mint and mailed
directly to that oflicer, Silver coin will
not be shipped from Sun Francisco to lo
calities nearer to the subtreaeuries at
Chicago, Now Orleans and St. Louis.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Dog Census to be Taken
in New York.
A FAT MAN'S ASSOCIATION.
Oklahoma Territory Yearns for State
hoodMissouri Corn Sells
for $20 Per Aore.
The supply of natural gas at Pittsburg
is becoming exhausted. t
Jay Gould Is said to be after the Den
ver and Rio Grande road.
Sixty-two convicts are awaiting death
in various United States prisons.
Corn in the Held in selling as high as
$20 an acre in Platte county, Mo.
The story that the Atchison has con
trol of the Rio Grande is denied.
Oklahoma yearns to be invested with
the dignities and attributes of Statehood.
The New England tobacco orop Is big
ger and better this year than ever before.
The Methodist Michigan Conference
has voted to admit wonc-n as lay dele
gates. ,
, A census of New York dogs will be
taken, as Mayor Grant wants every one
.licensed.
! A little over $14,000,000 of per
cent, bonds remain to be extended or
redeemed. 1
The State National Bank at Boston
has had $18,180 returned to its consci
ence money.
Thirty sod growers from different parts
of the country have put in bids for dec
orating the World's Fair.
A Baltimore grand jury haB declared
that the prevalence of gambling there is
due to negligent city ollicials.
Chicago traffic officials are grumbling
because the bulk of the wheat trallic
from Kansas and Nebraska is going to
St. Louie.
Secretary Tracy awarded the contract
i for building torpedo boat No. 2 to the
Iawa iron Works bf Dubuque, la., the
lowest bidder, at $111,600.
! Texas has a fat man's association, the
initiation fee of which is a cent a pound.
Men who weigh lees than 226 pounds
are ineligible to membership.
The deatli of a large number of Indians
in Oklahoma as the result of eating wa
termelons emphasizes the great dissimi
larity between the red man and the
negro.
United States 2 per cent, bonds are
quoted at 90 and British 3 per cent,
consuls at only 95. We certainly have a
right to boast of the splendid credit of
our government. .
I The opening of the Monterey and Gulf
railroad to Tampico, Mexico, has pro
duced wonderful activity in trade. The
exports at Tamnico, it is predicted, will
exceed those of Vera Cruz by January.
! It is probable that, as soon as a new
system of inspecting cattle has been
thoroughly tested, Ame-ican cattle will
I be allowed to enter British ports free
! from the ten days,' quarantine now lin-
posed.
Commissioner Owen of Washington,
D. C, has directed that fifteen Russian
, Hebrews, who entered the United States
at Suspension Bridge, N, Y., be returned
to Canada. They were in an utterly des-
, titute condition. ,
j The arrest of Manuel Seona, attache
of the Spanish legation, for overdriving
a horse at Cape May is likely to cause
serious trouble, as it is claimed there was
no cause of action, and the Spanish Min
ister haB taken up the case.
Asmalloblongsteelbox passed through
the Chicago Customs-house a while ago.
It didn't look like much of a box, but it
contained $150,000 worth of diamonds
and rubies for an Illinois waich com
pany, and the duty was a smalt fortune.
In the treaty with the Sac and Fox
Indians the words "open to white set
tlement " occur. These words are apt
! to cause some trouble. The Indians say
they will insist on their stipulations and
will not permit negroes to take land in
their country.
Chinamen are making great efforts to
enter the country at Kichford, Vt., and
the customs officials are on the alert.
Quite a colony has been at Sutton, Que
bec, for two weeks, awaiting a favorable
opportunity to smuggle themselves into
the United States.
The American Ayrkultumt declares
that the half has not been told about
the European shortage in breadstuff's,
which not even a bountiful crop this
year would have relieved. The conti
nental powers, especially Russia, have
Buppressed the facts.
The wealthiest insane asylum in Amer
ica is said to be the Sheppard Asylum
in Baltimore. It was endowed in 1867
with $5110,000.. Since that time the trus
tees, using the interest alone, have ex
pended $880,000 in buildings and land,
and still have a capital of $000,000.
It is reported that Mies Vera Ava, who
has created so much noise in the East
over her mysterious disappearance Irom
Chicago and final reappearance at Cin
cinnati, lived at Pomona, Cal., at one
time, and that her brother was the au
thor of the celebrated Murchison letter.
The proclamation of Garcia, the Mex
ican freebooter, calling upon .the people
to assist hie revolutionary project, con
cludes by charging President Diaz with
being " tbe arch traitor, aesssiin and
criminal of the nineteenth century,"
and that he lias practiced great despot
ism since his election as President.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Kit-Queen Natalie sues Her Hunband for
a Large Hum of Money.
Bret Harte is getting on finely. His
English publishers paid him last year
$16,000.
The King of Sweden Is a great swim
mer, and had an ambition in bis youth
to emulate the deedj of the Berserkers.
A bust of James Russell Lowell Ib
gradually growing into artistic coinplete
uesB under the deft lingers of the young
sculptor, Partridge. 1
Rosina Vokea is back In New York
once more fresh from her country place in
Devonshire. She has brought with her
several new plays and loads of new
dresses.
Ex Queen Natalie, who was expelled
from Servia, has begun suit in Paris
against her husband, ex-King Milan, for
8,000,000 franca, part of her personal
fortune.
Lady Aberdeen Is taking a great in
terest in the World's Fair. She wisheB
to have an exhibit of Irish industries
established at .the fair with a view of
.fostering them.
James Whtteomh Riley seems to have
made a most agreeable Impression wher
ever he went in London. He was the
espeoial protege of the aristocratic Sav
age Club, whose members feted him for
weeks.
Frank R. Stockton Ib accused of In
venting a still more fhutariiig phrase
than "lady help." In his last story
there Ib a nursery maid who Is a Vassar
graduate, and whom he calls a " blooded
assistant."
Francis Darwin, a son of the apostle
of evolution, is making a name for him
self in the science of niology. He was
recently elected President of the biolog
ical section of the Congress of Demog
raphy in London.
The young Duke of Portland is a. horse
owner and a betting man, having at
times lost as much as $100,000
in a day. He has immense estates in
Scotland, and is one of the largest land
holders in the British Kingdom,
JrVhen the wealthy have hearts to do
good thev should lie applauded fnr It.
Mrs. Lelund Stanford has given property
valued at $100,000 for the benefit of the
Society for the Relief of Orphan and
Destitute Children at Albany, N. Y.
The Cznr, who is now the guest of
King Christian at Schloss Fredensborg,
baa presented Prince George of Greece
with a gold medal in recognition of the
Prince's bravery in protecting the Czar
owitz when murderously attacked in
Japan.
Marion Harland is a large woman of
matronly aiqiearance, somewhat above
medium height. She has a brown com
plexion, black hair that is beginning to
turn gray and a broad forehead. She
began to write stories when she was a
child of 0.
Captain O'Shea, ex-husband of Kitty,
is reported tocontemplate wedlock again.
The young lady to whom he Is said to lie
engaged is a daughter of an English
'squire, who at one time occupied a
rather prominent position In the world
of politics.
The physicians in attendance upon
Cardinal Manning have ordered him to
cease work, and it is announced that the
Pope will shortly appoint a coadjutor.
Cardinal Manning is now about 81! years
of age. His episcopal jubilee was cule-
orateu JuneH, ikiiu.
M. Zola is anxious, it is said, to have
done with novel-writing that he may de
vote his time and energies to the task of
regenerating the stage. He is particu
larly anxious to "show Ilisen and the
lbsenitea how a realistic play really
ought to he written."
The Crown Prince of Prussia, like the
Prince of Wales, has a duchy at his dis
posal, and it brings him in a clear in
come of 200,000 marks annually. As
this income will accumulate during the
Prince's minority, he will have a large
fortune when he comes of age.
Prince George of Wales will under his
new commission as commander lie ap
pointed to the Anson, one of the most
powerful ironclads in the British navy.
And then Halifax will know him no
more. The Admiralty doesn't send ships
like the Anson to foreign stations.
A rumor was recently current in Lon
don that the eldest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Kendall was about to go oil the
stage, but it ie denied. Ellen Terry's
daughter, however, will undertake some
work in the Lyceum Company during a
provincial tour this fall. In some otiar
ters it is doubted if she will continue in
the profession more than a few weeks.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
TuHOott. the Murderer, Butd tfi bit With
the Turtle Mountain Indian.
Tascott.theallegedmurderor of million
aire Snell of Chicago, is said to -lie with
the Turtle Mountain Indians and to be
anxions to return to Chicago.
An investigation of the accounts of
Colonel Anthony, Boston agentnf Chubbs
& Sons, general agents for the Marine
insurance Company of London, has re
vealed a shortage of nearly $10,000.
The ollicers in pursuit of the Pacific
train robbers have overtaken them seventy-five
miles west of Muskogee, I. T.
After a short fight, in which one of the
Boltons was wounded, their capture was
effected,
Jack Thompson, a wood engraver of
Desplaines, 111., shot and Intally wounded
Aaron Minick, one of the village Trus
tees, and also shot Officer Robert Cain.
Thompson is a hard character. He did
the shooting while resisting arrest.
Joseph Scheide, a Now York tinware
manufacturer, is under arrest, charged
by Charles Brouse, who keeps a notion
store, with obtaining $75,0110 from his
firm for goods he bad not furnished by
duplicating his bills and making fraudu
lent charges. . Sohoide denies this.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Egypt's Cotton Crop the
Largest Known.
RUSSIA FIRES THE GERMANS.
German Government Will Repeal the
Restrictive Passport Deoree
in Alsaoe-Lorraine.
Bartholin's Btatue of Gambetta has
been finished.
The Kurds are murdering the Christ
ians in Armenia.
Egypt's cotton crop for this year is the
largest ever known.
The next British Trades Union Con
gress will sit at Glasgow.
Many telegraph lines are now being
extended into the heart of Africa.
Next month 874 estates of the Russian
nobility will be sold under foreclosure.
The London Timet calls on Canada to
check public corruption, whatever the
cost.
Berlin Is the only city in Germany
that has an excess of 1,000,000 popula
tion. The British steamer Ambassador from
Odessa has been stranded off Salcombe,
England.
The Russian government Is discharg
ing all Germans from government em
ployment. Alexander Jacques, the French faster,
has succeeded in living llfty-two (lavs
without food.
There are fully 1,0110,000 more sheep
in Great Britnin just now than there
were a year ago,
A serious outbreak of smallpox la re
ported in various districts within the
borough of Leeds.
England establishes her swav over
Manipnr by choosing a five-year-old Ra
jah with a British otlicer to administer
affairs.
The German government intends to
repeal the restrictive passport decree in
Alsace-Lorraine and abolish the regula
tions altogether.
A new and improved revolver for the
German army is being turned out in
great quantities at the government arniB
factories at Hpandau,
Frau Bismarck, wife of the stricken
ex-Chancellor, is a victim of hypochon
dria, and fancies herself in an extremely
delicate state of health,
The report of the Registrar-General of
Ireland shows that uiiward of 100,000
acres of land in Ireland have gone out
of cultivation since lHtll).
Germany expects to manufacture a
large qnaiitityof beet sugar this autumn,
which it will sell to the United States
in exchange for American pork.
According to statistical accounts the
astounding number of 647,U5H pilgrims
passed In front of the holv coat at Treves
between August 20 and September 2.
The County Council of Plymouth,
England, has decided to erect a memorial
tablet on the liarhicnn pier to commem
orate the departure of the Mayllower.
The Russian 400 do not approve of
flirting, and have therefore established
the rule that no man must waltz around
the room more than once witli his part
ner. It is generally believed in Europe that
the Czar's government is endeavoring to
elfect a compromise with Kngland with
the view of keeping her out of the drei
bund. i
There Is a rush of religious mission
aries to Africa from Germany, tlie Cath
olics leading. Ninety pur cent, of those
sent out die from tbe effects of the cli
mate. The committee formed to bring about
the release of Mrs. Maybrick from prison
bos retained Sir Charles Russell and Sir
Horace Davey to test the legality of Airs.
Maybrick's detention in prison.
Prince Bismarck through his high for
ester, Westphal, bus sued a tenant living
on his estate for, money and labor duo
under the feudal custom. The case has
attracted considerable attention.
A treaty is being arranged lietween
Russia and Persia to secure the exclu
sion of Persian-marked English goods,
1,000,000 roubles worth of cotton text
ures having crossed the Persian frontiers
in 1800.
The nnaihiirifl nre ltitnrw.ntu1 i.ritlt
their victory over the Germans, and are
attacking Unionists wherever missions
are established. As a consequence the
whites are lleeing to the coast to save
their lives.
The Koine Ttihuna announces that
England, Italy, Germany und the United
States have decided to make a naval
demonstration in Chinese waters, and:
that the command of the combined fleet
will lie given to the Duke of Genoa.
Six families living at Thann, Alsace,
have been ordered by the German au
thorities to become naturalized or leave
the province. It is (eared that this
means the inauguration of an extensive
movement to expul all families of French
Mrs. Kendall in an intorview'informed
an English reporter on a Ixmdon journal
that she considered American critics un
appreciative. , English critics on the
other hand were in many cases untrust
worthy and not always above boing im
properly influenced or allowing them-.,
selveB to be controlled by unworthy bias.
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