Hi Ti KIKKPATKICK, Publisher.
LEBANON.. OREGON
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon Naval , Reserve
Incorporated.
"WASHINGTON IRON INDUSTRY
Deady Decides in Favor of a Chinese
Merotant's Wife Without a
Certificate Eto.
The pine-nut crop is short in Nevada.
The iron industry in Washington gives
great promise.
A copper-smelting iurnace at Ban Di
ego is being diseased.
The Oregon naval reserve has been in
corporated at Portland.
Riverside is talking of a co-operative
kitchen on the Bellamy plan.
Nevada people want the Governor to
call an irrigation convention at Reno.
' Ogden's street-car system has been
changed from steam motor to electricity.
J. de Barth Shorb is to represent Los
' Angeles county in the California Board
of Trade.
All the railroad washouts in New Mex
ico have been repaired, and trains are
moving regularly.
Two hundred Tucson ladies have signed
a petition aBking the Constitutional Con
vention not to discriminate against wom
en's civil rights in the constitution. ,
The work of construction on the Santa
Fe, Prescott and Phcenix railroad, which
will connect Phoenix, A. T., and the Salt
River Valley with the Santa Fe system,
has begun. '
The grand jury at Reno is unable to
find the slightest evidence upon which
to indict any one for the hanging of the
ruffian Ortig by vigilantes, and asks to
be discharged.
Lot Angeles complains that the Chino
beet-sugar factory has not made sugar
cheaper there, owing to the fact that
only three finns handle the sugar and
no one else can get it in carload Iota.
Mrs. Maillard, who disappeared from
her home near San Rafael. Cal., several
weeks ago, was found at Fortune, Cal ,
where she has been living with W. U.
Ingram, a hired man formerly employed
by her husband.
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports
twenty-seven failures in the PacificCoast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with twenty-five for the
previous week and ten for the corre
sponding week of 1890.
The Ban Diego Sun says: They are
having daily showers of rain at San Ja
cinto, which come from the evaporation
of the Saltan Lake. Their origin and
drift have been watched from the sum
mit of San Jacinto Peak, and there is no
further room for doubt as to the effect
the lake is having upon the rainfall.
The Itata't officers testify that the ves
sel when she came to San Diego had no
sailors, soldiers or arms on board. The
vessel changed captains three times be
fore leaving Chili, and four breech-loaders
that she carried were put off at Arigo.
The arms were taken on board at San
Clement.
The Iowa Hill hydraulic miners have
asked for a removal or modification of
the injunctions which will permit them
to clean up the bedrock. The miners are
operating in gravel which is not washed
into the river. The Sacramento Super
visors will take the matter under consid
eration of permitting the miners to work
the lower gravel beds.
It is reported on what seems to be good
authority that a large plant for the man
ufacture of tin plate will soon be located
in San Francisco by a wealthy manufact
urer, a resident of that city. It is ex
pected that 1,000 hands will be ' at work
manufacturing tin plate before the .end
of the year. The material will come
from Australia, San Bernardino and the
Black Hills.
Archbishop Gross has called a provin
cial council of the prelates of the Cath
olic Church to meet in Portland October
18. The prelates who will attend are
Bishop Junger of Washington, Bishop
Glorieux of Idaho, Bishop Brondel of
Montana and Bishop Lemons of Van
couver Island. The object is to take ac
tion looking to the unification of Catho
licity in the Northwest.
The new building of the Concordia
Club, the leading Hebrew institution of
San Francisco, was thrown open for in
spection the other night, and was visited
or fully 3,000 people, who were hospita
bly entertained in the luxurious quar
ters. The building has been erected and
furnished at a cost of about $600,000,
and is beyond doubt the handsomest and
most elegantly equipped house in San
Francisco.
The water in Saltan Lake has fallen
fourteen inches in the last live days, and
the amount of water supplying the lake
does not equal the evaporation. The
greatest depth of the lake is thirty-six
inches and its area thirty miles long by
ten wide. Recent visitors do not think
it lias changed the climate of the sur
rounding country, and that the humidity
in that neighborhood has been increased
only in a modified degree, now register
ine 00 degrees, while the ordinary hu
midity of San Francisco is 76.
EDUCATIONAL.
Sweden Stands Behind No Country In
Popular Kduoatlnn.
Of Sol towns and cities in Massachu
setts 248 have free public libraries.
The average salaries of the mistresses
in the I-ondon board schools is $050.
It costs the teachers of Kansas $21X1,
000 a year to attend the Normal Insti
tutes. There are 230 Normal Schools, with an
attendance of 60,000 students, in the
United States.
Philadelphia turns out more medical
students in a year than any other city
in the country.
President WarAeld of Lafayette Col
lege, Fa., is taking vigorous measures to
stamp out haiing.
Pittsburg is trying industrial courses
in t(,e pHBiic schools, and their success
reported to be marked.
Albert G. Lane has been chosen Su
perintendent of the public schools of
Chicago, vice How laud resigned.
The Kansas University is a good deal
set np because a Harvard graduate is
sending bis son to Lawrence this year.
The number of students registered
this year in Sibley College of Mechan
ical Engineering, Cornell University, is
something like 450, including a consid
erable number of graduates from other
colleges.
Superintendent Anderson of the Mil
waukee public schools is talking about
getting up a procession of children of
school age who are denied an education
from the lack of school room in that city.
They number about 2,000.
It is said that Miss Mary E. Holmes
of Rockford, III., proposes to invest from
$76,000 to $100,000 in establishing in
Missouri a colored women's literary and
industrial school to accommodate 150
pupils as a memorial to her mother.
The fall term of Oberlin College has
opened very auspiciously, there being
nearly 1,800 students enrolled. Prof.
James Craig of Lane Seminary and Miss
Lotbrop of Harvard Annex have been
added to the already efficient corps of
teachers.
Within recent years the rush into the
professions has been so great in Ger
many, Denmark, France and Greece that
these States can utilise only a small per
cent, of the university graduates. Since
1870 the growth of the attendance at the
German universities has increased from
14,000 to 29,267. , '
Accordim to an educational journal
the number of illiterate persons in Rus
sia, Siberia, Roumania and Bulgaria
form 80 per cent, of the population, in
Spain 63, Italy 48, Hungary 43, Austria
39, Ireland 21, France and Belgium 15,
Holland 10, United States 8, Scotland 7,
Switzerland 2 and in the greater part
of Germany only 1 per cent.
Sweden stands behind no country
not even the United States in popular
education. To this may perhaps be due
the snperiority of the Swedish emigrant
to this country over emigrants from
other European countries. The number
of school children per 1,000 inhabitants
it 140. Technical instruction, especially
of woman, is a great feature. The diffi
culties in the way of school attendance
are very great, not only because of the
severe Northern winters, but also because
the people live to a large extant on iso
lated farms.
Prof. Michaelson has just returned to
Boston from California, where he has
spent a large portion of the summer.
He has been working at Lick Observa
tory, experimenting there with his recent
invention the refractometer. This he
attached to the smaller of the telescopes
at the observatory, and during the sum
mer be made numerous measurements
of the bodies of the solar system, partic
ularly oi me satellites oi Jupiter. The
results of this work were highly satisfac
tory, and the mean of the measurements
made varies from the maximum and
minimum measurements by but 1 or 2
per cent. a variation many times less
than is obtainable by other methods.
The refractometer will be used by the
staff at Lick Observatory during the com
ing year, and in that time Prof. Michael
son hopes to perfect his invention still
further. The refractometer bids fair to
be an instrument of great importance in
future astronomical work.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Secretary Proctor Bsc Approved the New
;V 'SFnetlcs for the Ann?.
Secretary Proctor has finally approved
the new tactics for the army, and they
will be put in practice as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be made.
The President has passed upon the
record of the court-martial in the case of
Colonel Compton of the Fourth Cavalry,
who was charged with failure while in
command of the military post at Walla
Walla to take steps to prevent the lynch
ing of a man named Hunt under arrest
for killing one of the soldiers under him.
The court found him guilty, and sen
tenced him to suspension from rank and
command for three years on half pay
and to be confined in the limits of a mil
iary post. The President approved the
proceedings of the court, but mitigated
the sentence to suspension from rank
and command on half pay for two years.
The Director of the' Mint, with the
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury,
has issued instructions to the superin
tendents of the assay office in New York
that in cases of deposits of foreign gold
or bars such an approximation of value
as in the discretion of the superintendent
may be regarded as safe, not to exceed
90 per cent, of the value, will be paid
pending the melt and assay. The pur
pose of this regulation is to encourage,
so far as can be legally done, the govern
ment importation of foreign gold into
the United States by allowing the im
porters spot cash for foreign gold so soon
as received instead of requiring them to
wait while the deposits are being melted
and the exact gold determined.
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Coal Product of the
United States.
GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS
Arrangements Complete fbr the Poly
technic ' Excursion to the
, World's Fair.
The Twin City (Minneapolis) Athletic
Club has assigned.
It is said Canada intends to reimpose
an export duty on logs.
Ohio this year produces the largest to
bacco crop in her history.
A cooking school is a part of the public-school
system of Milwaukee.
' The validity of the convict lease sys
tem in Tennessee is to be decided by the
courts,
Turkev's Hag has been the first to be
unfurled on the Chicago World's Fair
grounds. .
The waters of Lake Erie are to he
piped to Cincinnati, taking in many
other cities en route. v ..
Most of the fires In Wisconsin were
confined to districts burned over last
spring. The rains have checked them.
A factory is to lie built at Minneapolis
by parties who claim to be able to tem
per copper so that it can be made hard
as steel.
The Millionaires' Club of New York
will erect a $750,000 house. The proposed
site is on the corner of Fifth avenue and
Sixtieth street.
The people in Emmons countv, N. D.
who lost their property bv prairie fires
are said to be in a deplorable condition
without food or shelter.
I Since the passage of the American
copyright law it is said that one New
York song publisher has paid $6,000 in
London for manuscripts.
i France, it is believed, will next month
I rescind the pork prohibition laws. Italy
promises to rescind her prohibitory reg
ulations after France acts.
I It is stated that the government has
realised $0,000,000 from the sale of lands
in that part of Kansas which is beyond
the line of certain rainfall,
1 In the Red River Valley, N. D., far in
. labor is very scarce, and the railroads in
' that section carry men free to various
points where they are needed.
' The large yield and high price of wheat
will, it is estimated and expected, make
this season's Dakota crop equal in value
to those of the five preceding years,
I A railroad surveying party that went
up the Big Horn Canyon in Colorado
nearly two months ago has not been
heard from, and there are fears that the
members have been lost.
Vessel agents and mariners on the
Great Lakes are urging the establish
ment of a branch hydrographlc office on
the lakes to look out for the vast mari
time interests centered there.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. 6. 0.
I V., has voted down the proposition that
members could become eligible to the
degree of Patriarchs Militant without'
going through the encampment. ,
I ' Genroiftf In ffninor tn tnv haidiAlnre A
bill for that purpose has been brought
into uie ueorgia legislature, anu me
House Committee on Hygiene and Sani
tation has reported it favorably.
" An extra session of the Pennsylvania
Legislature hoe been called with a view
to remove the Auditor-General and State
Treasurer, whose connection with the
financial scandals has been charged
openly.
The Sovereign Grand Ledge of Odd
Fellows has voted against the eighteen-
year limn to eligibility to join the order.
The vote was 107 to 58. The question
regarding liquor sellers was postponed
until next year. .
In a drunken fight on a train from
Mount Vernon to Carmi, 111., William
Robertson stabbed Sheriff Williams
slightly, and a man named Stanley, who
went to Williams' assistance, was badly
cut ana win aie.
The conductors, switchmen and brake
men on the Southern Pacific Atlantic
system have demanded an increase in
wages, and a strike at an early day is
possiDie, as me company reiusee to ac
cede to the demands. ....
Florida's 8ecretarvof State. Mr.CraW'
ford, refuses to attest the commission of
ex-Gongressman Davidson, appointed bv
ex-Governor Fleming to succeed Senator
Call. Mandamus proceedings will be
taxen oy tne uovernor.
A secret organization is terrorising the
people in the neighborhood of Tellvllle,
Ark. It is composed of " moral regu
lators," but they are brutal in their
treatment of those who come under the
ban of their displeasure.
A committee of physicians at Louis
ville is examining the case of Mrs. Stuck
enburg, who, it has been widely pub
lished, on rriuays goes into a trance,
when the stigmata or bleeding wounds
similar to those of the Savior when on
the cross are said to appear.
At the Gravesend race track at New
York an ingenious trick, by means of
which the bookmakers got news of the
races, was discovered. A " coachman "
with a big hat was arrested in the field
for carriages, and it was found a battery
was in the hat and small wires around
the man's body, while in the rear of the
carriage was an operator who sent mes
sages dictated by the supposed coach
man, f
PERSONAL MENTION.
A Man and HI Wife are Nominated for
Judicial Position In Nebraska.
Mr. Partridue. the tculntor. is niaklnff
a heroic bust of James Russell Lowell.
Mrs. Macksv is the possessor of a
string of flawless diamonds two yards in
lengtn.
Georse A. Plllslmrv of Minneapolis
has presented a soldiers' monument to
Concord, N. H., his native town. ,
The renort that Bismarck hod recentlv
a slight stroke of paralysis is pronounced
untrue, and his health is said to be fair.
Mark Twain is thinkint of descending
the River Rhine In a boat with his cou
rier and working up his adventures for
his new book. ,
Moorfleld Storv. who was at one time
Sumner's private secretary, has agreed
to write his biography for the "Amer
ican Statesmen Series."
Secretarv Foster la the hast crnniiAt
plnver in Washinutnn.and Is so far ahead
of all competitors that they don't try to
pu tneniBeives against him.
The man thonirht most llkelv to suc
ceed the present I.ord Mayor ofLondon
is Alderman David Evans, a manufact
urer and a Welshman, aged 42 years,
Francisco Cortisl, the great Itolian
singing teacher, lives alone in a little
villa just out of Florence, where an , old
housekeeper prepares his spaghetti and
his wine for him.
James S. Sinclair, a farmer of North
Dakota, a distant relative of the Earl of
Caithness, has received word from Eng
land that he has succeeded to the title
and estate of that Englishman,
The teat which Mr. Edmunds has been
occupying in the Senate will not be taken
by Mr. Proctor. Senator Dixon of Rhode
Island gets it by the assignment of old
Captain Bassett. Mr. Dixon was the first
applicant.' . .
Mrs. Ingalls is unite unlike her tall.
thin husband in figure. She it rather
short, with a tendency to stoutness. Her
complexion is fair and rosy, and her face
is animated by t pair of bright and ex
pressive eyes.
The new Duke of Cleveland comes into
a rich income of $300,000, derived from
the estates in Shropshire and Durham,
vast properties of which he will have the
unincumbered rent rolls without having
to sell an acre of their broad lands.
On account of the nhvsical infirmities
of Bishop Galleher of Louisiana his du
ties have for the most part been assumed
by his assistant, Rev. David Sessums,
who it to all intents and purposes the
Bishop of the diocese. At he is but 33
years old, Mr. Sessiime is probably the
youngest Bishop in the United States.
It is declared on authentic British au
thority that there is but one British offi
cer left who fought at Waterloo, and all
pretenders are warned to rimr off and die
as modest folks as they were born, Tins'
one officer is Lieutenant William Hewitt
of the Rifle Brigade, born in 17115. Of
late he has been in failing, health. He
lives at Southampton.
Sir A. Paget is the senior member of
the British diplomatic corps, and has
neia appointment nnuer the loreign Sec
retaries acting for thirteen Cabinets. He
recentlv celebrated the fiftieth anniver
sary of hit appointment as an attache.
His present position at Vienna w 111 be
shortly vacated, the wily old diplomat
Having determined to retire Irorn the
service.
The last Kronen survivor of the battle
of Trafalgar, Louis Cartigny, has just
completed hie 100th year. He was a
cabin boy on the Redoubtable in 1803 at
the time the lata! shot was fired from
that vessel at Lord Nelson. Cartigny is
still hale and heartv. in full nossesslon
of his faculties, and spends most of his
time in the open air., nothing delights
him more than to converse about his ex
periences. Grace Greonwood writes to the Uome
Journal from Washington to say that she
is not blind, as has been reported in the
newspaper press. She says she can see
to thread up her sewing machine and
even to find her wav across Fifth avenue
at an hour when the millionaires are nut
in force. She adds: "1 am not blind,
neither to my neighbor's sins nor to my
own little human frailties. . I can still
' read my title clear ' to more good for
tune than has ever come my way."
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
German Annrahlcts Sentenced for Circu
lating I'rolilbltecl Literature.
Charles Mock (colored) was taken from
jail at Swainsboro, Ga by a mob and
hanged. Mock a few days ago criminally
assaulted a white woman of that place,
Sheriff Simons whipped seven crimi
nals in the jail yard in Newcastle, Dal.
There was but little interest shown in
the affair, and only a small crowd gath
ered. . - -
A quarrelsome negro shot and killed
the Mayor of Spartanburg, S. C, and a
mob surrounded the jail at last accounts
with the purpose of hanging the mur
derer. Six Anarchists, who wese tried in Co
bleiii, Germany, have been sentenced to
terms of imprisonment from six months
to two years for circulating prohibited
literature. , . :. ,
Thomas O'Brien, a well-known all
round crook and confidence man, has
been arrested at New York, charged
with robbing a wealthy citizen of Al
bany of $10,000 a year and a half ago.
Andrew Gage, clerk of Madison coun
ty, was assassinated at his home In the
suburbs of Hnntsville, Ark, Gage was
standing on his bock porch, and the as
sassin fired from the shadow of a house.
Colonel Bradford DnnhBm, general su
perintendent of the Alabama and Mid
land railroad, shot and killed James
Cunningham, 19 years of age, at Mont
gomery, Ala. .Domestic trouble was the
cause.
OHIO'S FIRST LADY.
Dim J. E. Campbell. Wire or the
' filler Kxeeutlve,
The wife of Uovernor Campbell, of
Ohio, has taken an active part in all
the efforts of her husband. She 1b a
handsome woman of about the medium
height, with very dark hair and a dark
complexion. 1 Her face and ugure are
well rounded, and the years und trials
Of motherhood have not aged hur. She
wears glasses, and looks out through
them witn a shrewdness and quickness
which her husband's eyeB have not
She likes tae game of politics and
knows its ins and onts thoroughly.
She bus a wothnn's instinctive know-
rv.eirmrM.
ledge of men, anil she has the farther
and most valnahlo ability to express it
in terms of of reason. Sue bus the
grace and simplicity uf manner to con-'
cilinte the ditllcult among those b r
husband wishes to have enlisted in hit
behalf. -
And like her husband, she has great
but not oppressive or stilted dignity.
It is impossible for one to be in the so- -oioty
of these two very long without
discovering that her husband Is still a
good deal of a hero to her. This dis
covery will be made more In the way
she looks at him than in anything she
may say. For she knows well that
men do not care to hear too many peans
to tome other man. And above all she
dues not talk politics. She listens, ab
sorbs and reserves her opinions for the
family council.
It has been said that If children have
the right kind of parents they do not
need much "bringing np." This seems
to have a goon deal of truth in it. And
certainly, with the exceedingly broth
erly and sisterly relations which exist
between the members of the Govern
or's family, parents and children, there
does not seem to have been any
stern family government. It has been
a sort of a mutual adorntio i society
all runnd. The governor s oldest
daughter, who is now just in society,
offers the first chance to the world to
judge of the governor in his home life.
This daughter 1b not only handsome,
but has much of her mother's charac
ter in her face. Nhe is very popular,
as her beauty, wit and laca of affecta
tion deserve.
ZULUS IN SHAM BATTLE.
Even the Initiation Warfare or Ike
tfavaaee Is Horrible.
A snam-flght among the Zulus is an
impressive spectacle. The dusky war
riors .;, are tine, muscular, fellows,
athletic and highly trained. The rank
and tile, untruminoled by ornaments
and dreg, move about with grace and
freedom. The officers, chiefs, and
head men, wear coronets of ostrich
feathers, which rustle freely
with every movement of the
body; circling their brows are
rolls of tiger Bkin, from which
descends fringes of coarse hair; from
the neck and shoulders to the knees '
their bodies are covered with the tails
of roonkej'B anil tigers und stripes of
various hidos strung toirether in gird
les: their waists ure girt about witn.
tufts of lions, mane uud cow hair.
Forming into line, their variegated
shields are so close und regular that
they appear Interlocked, whilst above
them bristle rows uf gleaming ussegai:
heads. . The foe is imaginary, as
even among their own tribeB they
are roused to such a pitch of
excitement that, hud they any oppo
nents, though only in mimic wurfuro.
they would be ho far carried away by
their feelings that at close quarters
bloodshed would inevitably result At
thevord of command they advance in
precise order, first slowly, then at a
quick march, then double, and with a.
shout of "Chichi!" (imaginury enemies)
the buttle becomes fust and' furious..
Brandishing their assegais, stabbing
nud and lunging with strength and
dexterity, each stroke accompanied
by a -fierce grunt ot satisla:tion,
tUtmping, gesticulating and gna thing
tlieir tenth, they work themselves Into
a mud frenzy, in which their features
are distorted and their eyes glare with
a fierce lust of blood.
Suddenly the command Is given to
retire, and.as victors shouting triumph,
they murch from the Hold. Then ap
pears upon the scene a horde of wild
looking creatures, running and leaping
from place to place, screaming demon
iacally, and frantically beating the
earth with thick heavy clubs. These
are the women and they are engaged
in the horrible awocity of killing the
wounded. After a sham fight the
night it spent in feasting and revelry.
The Festive Drummer.
Deacon Young man, I think I will give
you an order, but I much fear that you have
not told the exact truth regarding your
goods. . ; ,
Drummer Well, sir, the fact Is I have not
Why, sir (sinking bis voice to a whisper),
were 1 to tell all the truth about those goods -I'd
be murdered for my HiUitplas be 'ore I
reached the next town. Philadelphia In
quirer. . - v I
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