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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1891)
V 1 H. T. K IKK PATRICK., Publisher. LEBANON OREGON PACIFIC COAST. Vera Ava a'Spiritualist in California. TEACHERS' ONION IN NEVADA The Leaders of the Military Mob at Walla Walla Arrive Safety . at Aloatraz Prison. Travelers Bay there ie an active vol cano in the Cascades. A teachers' union ia being organized in Virginia City, Nav. The examination of Frank Heney for the murder of Dr. Handy ie going on at Tucson. The Indian scare in Idaho is not caus ing apprehension to army officials at Spokane. . .... " . The Juanita is the only sealer not re turned to Victoria, B. C", and fears are expressed for her safety. The semi-annual session of the South ern California Poniological Society is being held at Pasadena. ( The work on the jetties at the mouth of the Columbia is progressing. Rock is carried four miles out to sea and dumped. Thomas H. Horn, a Pinkerton detec tive, charged with robbing a faro tank at Reno last April, has been acquitted oy a jury. The Los Angelee Consolidated Elec tric Railway has commenced running electric cars on the road to Vernon, a distance of about three miles. There are reports that the Stonewall mine in San Diego county has struck a bonanza, ana tnat an option has been laser, on it in Chicago tor 1,500,0.10. An investigation into' the difficulty with the Claiispie Indians in Idaho shows it originated in greeiiv whites trymg to dispossess Indians of their laiuis ana to frighten the Indians away t tijraawueu to uriug in troops. The sixty-second eemi-annual confer- ence of the Church of Jeeus Christ of VLatter-Day Saints convened in the Tab ernacle at" Salt Lake Sunday, over 10,0i)0 lot tne laitnmi being in attendance. There'was a choir of (WO voices present. A-printer who is in the state prison at Carson, Nev., lor buying a bottle of whiskey tor an Indian, has appealed to the typos ol Virginia City to keep him supplied with tobacco, reading matter, etc., while he is holding down his pree ent "ait." . . ,, At San Francisco the "public admin istrator has asked Judge Coney to settle his tmal account as special administra tor of the estate of Mrs. Hopkins henries, fie states that the estate in California is valued at 2,000,000, and the rents amount to $5,000 per month. The Alaska Packers' Association, com prising the controlling interests in the ihirty-three salmon canneries of Alaska, has been formed at San Francisco. The association is controlled by the follow ing trustees: 8. M. Smith, ii. W. Hume, J. N. Knowles, Charles Hirsh and K. B. Keckwith, with D. B. Bradford as secre tary. The big suit of Alexander Badlam, Isaac Trumbo and other San Francisco stockholders of the Bullion Keck Mining Company against the directors of that . - companv, in which plaitititfs sue to re cover 360,000 damages, was dismissed in Judge Lane's court at Salt Lake re cently on plaintiff's motion. The attor neys refused to give any information as to (he terms of settlement, but it is said the directors are entirely satis lied with the terms. William G. Johnson of the United States geological survey, who discovered a remarkable glacier in the Big Horn ' Mountains, Wyoming, is in San Fran-. . 1 Cisco with Prof. Thompson, director of i map-making in the Western States. .'t Johnson is to have charge of tome map work in California. lie says that the region in the Big Horn intowhicn he penetrated had never before been vi.dted by a scientific man. Very rarely is it visited at all, and then only by prospect ors and hunters, wlio go everywhere in the mountain country. Johnson related how he climbed to the top ol a mount ain 13,600 feet high, wnicn hecalls Cloud Peak. On reaching the very highest pinnacle he saw a great glacier stretched out before him. The mass of ice was not less than live miles long, and at the bottom extended out into a lake about three-fourths of a mile. The lake is a small but very picturesque sheet of wa ter, in it tne explorer saw icebergs, which had broken off the glacier. The glacier in every way resembled those of ' the Alt, and was moving constantly, . but by infinitesimal degrees. The great quantity ol ice in the lake, too, seemed to lower the temperature considerably, and at the time Johnson was there three weeks ago a portion of the body of water was covered with ice three or four inches thick. Another mountain loomed up less than two miles Irorn Cloud Peak, and from a distance it looked as ii it would be impossible for any man , to climb it without cutting a stairway in the rock. There were precipices thou sands of feet high, and even on the gla-cii-Nihere was one place where a man couldNtand and drop stones down into the Uer, a distance of 1,000 feet. WASHINGTON NEWS. Meeting of Superior Judges Will Be Held in Seattle to Formulate Uniform Rules. The postofficea of Whatcom and New Whatcom will soon be consolidated. The harbor atitouth Bend has been relieved of 83,400 cubic yards of mud by the Bowers dredger, Yakima Indians are reported to be willing to take up farms and throw open the reservation to settlement. Horse thieves are again at work in the vicinity of Spokane. Five animals were stolen during the past week. - The Tacoma smelting and refining works shipped 4,260 bars of bullion, val ued at 05,040, during September. Tacoma's wheat receipts now average 100 cars daily, or about 07,000 bushels; Seattle, 36 care daily, or about 24,000 bushels. There is a movement on foot to take the eastern portion of Clallam and Jef ferson counties, separated from the Sound by the Olympics, and form a iiew county of them. An adjustment of the loss of the Che ney Normal School, which was burned recently, has been made by the State Auditor and the companies, and (4,000 has been paid in by the latter. Silver Lake, one mile east of Medical Lake, is becoming quite a fishing resort, the Herman cam mit therein a few years ago having increased so fast that they now furnish excellent sport for fisher men. " Articles of incorporation of the Pnuel, Sound Vinegar and Pickle Com panv have been filed bv John Braun. Georire'Triok and F. W. Bergen as trustees. The cap ital is 10,000. The company proposes to manuiacture yeast also. Postmaster W. A. Rounds has received official notification that the South Bend postofiica has been promoted to the third class. The postmaster's report for the quarter ended September 30 shows 23.82 as the amount of Stamps can celed, i The Northern Pacific land department is uoing a uig oiisineas m me uiarae- county tract, rue tears that the com pany will lose the land have about sub sided, and much land is being sold. Those who settled on their land prior to joe-z get u ror fz.ou an acre. The lumbermen who met at Tacoma the other day to prepare plans for secur ing Washinzton lumber for the State ex hibit building at the Columbian World's Fair have decided to meet at Seattle within thirty days for the purpose of perfecting an organisation of the State Lumbermen's Association. The projected ship canal to connect Pnget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington at Seattle, if carried ont, will make Seattle one of the llnest har bors in the world, having a fresh water dock large enough to accommodate the commerce of any port ; but, as the im provement would cost 3.000,000, it is scarcely probable that it will be under taken for many years. A zinc ledge is the latest mineral dis covery made in the vicinity of Spokane. C. P. Carlin reports that he has discov ered a fourteen-foot ledge ol that min eral, and recently took samples of the ore to Charles Fassett for assay. Mr. Fassett has made a number of assays, and finds that the ore carries from 33 to 40 per cent, of the metal. The location of the ledge ia withheld. A writ of error to the Snnrenie Court of the United States has been allowed Chief Justice Anders in the Se attle Valentine scrip case of Milton L. naer v. Aloran Bros. Company. The transcript must be filed at Washington within sixty days. An attempt will he made to advance the case on the ground of its great public importance, so that it may be heard next February. Hoy Moya, a Seattle Chinaman, has secured a permit from the Health De partment ot Tacoma to exhume the bones of a hall-dozen Chinamen who were buried in the south part ol the city near Center street several years ago, be fore the Chinamen were driven from the city. Hoy Moya will work under the protection of United States Marshal Brown, and the bonea exhumed will be sent to China. I. J. Lichtenbere of the Sunerior Court of King county lias issued a call to all bupenor J udgea of the State to meet at the Courthouse m Seattle November 27 for the purpose of formulating nniform rules for the government ol the Superior Courts. Although a wide diversity of opinion is expressed concerning the ob ject of the meeting, nineteen of the Judges give approval of having it. Each . uukb ih expeeteu to select a inemner ol the bar from his countv. and the attor neys so chosen will confer with the Judges. ,lt is expected that there will be a good attendance, and it is probable the guests will lie entertained by the Bar Association of King countv. A California company has leased for a tcrm of years a coal mine near Kelso, almiit half a mile from the Cowlitz river and three miles from the Columbia, in Cowlitz county, 'and is preparing to de velop it. A tunnel has been run in 200 leet on the upper vein, and from this point a shalt has tieen sunk eighty feet, passing through five strata of coal. The first is seven feet in thickness, the sec ond two and one-half feet, the third four and one-half feet, the fourth five and one-half feet and the filth seven and one half feet. There is coal enough in tin) upper stratum to last for a generation or so. lidward Kimball, an agent of the company, has had a working test of the coal made at the power-house of the cable-road company at Portland, which nroved verv satismctorv. Tt la ..n! quality of lignite, bard and clean, carry ing 45 per cent, of fixed carbon, which is a littlfcbetter than the best Washington con!.-! - EASTERN ITEMS. Electrocution' Reported to Be a Success. NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING. ' ;: t Minnesota's Supreme Cmirt Dolares Wheat Futures A Illegal and Contraots Void. Real estate in Oklahoma Is booming. The grip ia making its appearance In New York again. Neither St. Paul nor Minneapolis has a single horse-car line. - There is a fine of 500 for practicing hypnotism ie Cincinnati. The Arctic Ice Machine Company at Cleveland, Ohio, has assigned. ' A 300,000 union railway station has just been opened in Louisville. A syndicate has offered to buy the Washington monument for a shot tower. Pennsylvania fanners, irrespective of Alliance orders, are holding wheat for i i.nu a ousnei. . Beacon Mil! in Boston is to be ex plored by diauiond drills in the interest ot rapid transit, England and Germany have each an plied for 2!K),000 square feet of apace at the Columbian Fair. Strong resolutions were adopted at a public meeting at Windsor, Canada, fav oring commercial union with the United States, Cadets Griffith of Maryland and Kav- anaugn ot Nebraska at the Annano Academy are to be court-martialed for hazing, Thomas Kdison. the electric wizard ha a new system of applying electricity to cars that does away with the trolly or i tie siui, The Minnesota supreme court declares wheat futures are illegal and operators on the wrong aide can repudiate their contracts. - The Odd Fellows in the United States can mast of a membership of nearly 700,000 and an anuual revenue ol more than 17,000,000, The official report on the executions by electricity at New York show them to nave been a como ete success, as was designed by the law The Boston Herald has a dispatch sav ing that ex-Speaker Keed will give up pontics ana enter a large business cor poration at flew ork. it 1b probable that the scheme of transmitting mall in lame cities bv pneu matic tubes will be abandoned on ac count ol the great expense. It is estimated that the Western rail roads have earned 250,000 the past year irora me transportation ol Mormon mis sionaries and their proselytes. new. i ore will soon have a score or more of practicallv free public hatha. unless the plans of the trustees of the riaron de Hirach lund miscarry. The water is so low in the Frio canal that boats are grounded all along the hub. ine c-eeKB anu leeners nave not tieen so low as now in some years. There will be more than an averaire yield of corn and buckwheat in New York. A targe tobacco cron has near v wen secured in excellent condition. The . excitement at Clearfield. Penn. over the suspension of the'Clearlield and Hontziiale bank still continues, and tne uiouMing oi tne bank was ieared. The Mexican government is nrenarinc- iu mem. an revuiutiuiiHTv lorces tnat cross the Kio Grand, and the nroimra- uuus uiuicnu tnat tne government is mucn aiarmeu. All the Northwest railroad comnanies are caning attention to tne critical situa tion in the North Dakota wheat fields where the wheat ia lying in stacks for want of threshers. No rain worth mentioning has fallen in Norwalk, Conn., since early in the spring, As a consequence her reservoirs are empty, and arrangements are being made to tap the mains of a neighboring town. Development in the Christman bank failure at fans, ill., make the situation more serious than at lirst supposed. It is stated that the loss will not be less than 160,000, and the assets may not exceeu iu,uwi. i . -. . , Chairman Coimel of the board of directors of the Denver HioUrande railroad has issued a circu nr announ cing the appointment of E. J. Jell'ery, formerly general manager of the Illinois Central, m president and general man ager. The Lee countv. Ark., troubles are probably at an end unless a mob et- tempts to hang the negroes ,now in the Murianna jail. It appears that no less than liftflen negroes were killed ont ol a gang ot nineteen who commenced the trouble. The wharf strike at Savannah, Ua,, is gradually extending to all branches of colored labor, 'Ilia business of the city is at a standstill. Money is tied up in cdtton, which ia piled up in the yards and sidetracked along the lines of the railroads. The banks are unable to ac commodate their patrons. The strikers are quiet and orderly. The distillers at Peoria, III., the great est whisky-producing city in the world, have decided to use tlieTakaminefJaoan- ese) process of making whisky. The new pian greatly reduces tne cost of manufacture, A queer feature is that a specie of bugs found on the rice is used instead of iveast for the fermenting process. ' . . i , I OREGON MELANGE. Horrible Butchery of One Chinaman by Another Occurs at John Day The Wheat Fleet. The Sumpter Valley Kailroad Com pany is now running passenger coaches regularly for the accommodation of its patrons. The river bottom two or three miles from Pendleton is alive with rattle snakes, of which there are more than have been seen for years. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany proposes to extend its line from MarshHeld to Florence, if the people of the Sinslaw Valley are willing to share the expense. The grain fleet from Europe is arriv ing at Portland. The warehouses are crowded with wheat, and the fleet of vessels coining to carry it away is larger than ever known at Portland. . There 1b considerable talk of organis ing an athletic club in Portland for the purpose of promoting friendly glove con tests with large pillow gloves as an in centlvetogreater proficiency in the manly art of aslf-defense. The Oregon State Insano Asylum ap pears to have been in an unfortunate condition before the present manage ment assumed control. The sleeping rooms were filled with vermin, and the sheets from the beds were used as towels. T. B. Trevett, William L. Ladd and Lewis KiiBsell, who were judges ol the recent regatta at Portland, have decided that the Willamette and Portland senior four.oared crews must row again. This race was protested on the ground of foul. A number of Astoria's athletic young men, who attended the regatta in Port land a few days ago, are contemplating organizing a Iwat club. There is a fonr mile Btraight-away course of smooth water on Young's river, from the old mill, that ia unexcelled for racing pur poses. The slate quarry recently discovered in Josephine county, twelve miles from Grant's l'asa, is the only one in the Northwest south of British Columbia. and there is only one in California, so it is bound to be of value. The slate is of suierior kind, ahead of nearly all slate fonnd in the East. William A. Pinkerton, General West ern Superintendent of the Western di vision ol Piukerton'a national detective agency, has decided to establish a Pacific Northwest branch in Portland. He has rented a suite of rooms ia tiie Marqtiani building, and the branch office will lie opened at once with Charles Mapplestein in charge. The Oregon Board of Commerce has 'ected the loltowingofiicers: President, T. F. Oshorne: Secretary. Charles Ran dolph; Treasurer, Henry Failing. Ten Vice-Presidents Irom various Boards of Trade throughout the State were elected, A committee ot seven was chosen to have full charge of raising funds for the World's Fair exhibit. At Astoria O. W. Dunbar and George Hibbert, publishers of JWn Talk, have been arrested on an indictment Irom the grand jury, charging them with criminal lilwl. The complaining witness was Samuel Elmore, and the article which he deemed a libel was published in 7Wn 7'iijt over fourteen months ago, It re flects quite seriously on Mr. Elmore's character. The men gave bail for their appearance. The case is looked un bv the leghl fraternity as a huge joke, and the two editors state that thev have abundant proof to substantiate the arti cle in question. A mo t horrible butchery of one Chi naman by another occurred at a mining camp near John Day, Urant county. Ah rue nan loaned Alt now am, and when the former afced to lie repaid, the bor rower replied by drawing a hnire knife and hacking away at How as he might chop down a tree. Not one ol a dozen or more wounds inflicted readied a vital part, but great chunks of flesh from arms, hips, chest and back were sliced off, and in a very abort time the butch ered Mongol bled to death. Other Chi namen in the camp succeeded in dis arming their murderous countrvinan. and kept him in captivity nntil Sheriff uresap could tie sent lor. The murderer is now In jail at Canyon City. The 'mill of the Willamette Vallov Milling Company at Salem will be reiidv to begin operations in two or three weeks. ' The delav has been caused bv the failure of the rolls to arrive, A rail road has been built down Front street to connect the mill with the Southern Pa cific lines. This will enable snpplies of grain to he received and flour to be shipped to milch better advantage, Not so much wheat is now brought into Sa- iem uy larmers irom tne surrounding country, as a great deal of land has been planted to fruit. With a railroad and the river alongside, the mill will be ahli to obtain supplies from all parts ol the Willamette Valley. It will use a large quantity, as its capacity is 8IJ0 barrels peroay. ., Word has just been received of a dar- ing robbery which was perpetrated upon the National- Bank of 1-mtcrprise, Wal lowa county. Cashier Holmes was alone in the tank, when a man entered and said : " How much money has John Smith of Portland on deposit -here?" Upon Mr. Holmes saying that no euoh man had any money there, the visitor :iuueu out a pistol, and sticking it in his ace, said : " You are a d d liar." By this time two confederates had come up on horseback, and while one. sitting on his horse, with a pistol in each baud warned the people back, the other an. tered the tank anil pushed all the money on the counter 3.500 into a sack. The three then escaped to the mountains in tne direction of Cornuco pia. A posse was organized and sent in pursuit: but. as the countrv is snnrudv settled, their capture is doubtful. Four thousand dollars more was in the till uader the counter, and could have been had as well aa not, had the robbers taken (the THE ARBEITER KOLONIE, (ItrniAiiy's Attempted Hohitliuiorthnprob. leu. of llettlliiir Willi tlifl UiiamiiloyfaL For several yen a movement has been urogrrBaing in Germany to solve logically the problem of dealing with the unem ployed, inde)endently of alms giving and charities. Though little has been re ported of the societies having the work in charge, there liavo boon very Bntisfa' tory results attained ill the past three yeura, and the success of the ArbeiUT kolonie. of Ilcilin. the moat Importiuit colony, has been of a cluti'iictci- to recom mend the plan to til liu'gcoities of Euiie and of the United Sun as well. How to iloul with men out of work without making them a charge upon the countv is ii question for must serious considera tion j yet it lias never lieen squarely met nor studiously investigated, Any one who will take the trouble and look bito the lulsir and mil statistics of a largo city, even in bounteous America, will be aston-. ihed at the large fierociitage of iersoiw ciqiihlc of doing work who are, never theless, objects of common charity, or nre on the dependent rolls of the country. The condition la promrfioiiately worse In many European countries, but Our many is the only country in which ho been undertaken a practical plan of ditU ing with the idle classes that are willing to work but are unable to find employ went. , - . The colonies refornil to, of which that of llnrlin is the fittest example, were or ganized "to employ industrious and un employed men of nil professions and classes, so fur as they are really capable of work, in agrarian and other labor nntil it is possible to procure them re munerative work elsewhere and to help them to quit the life of Itinerants, mid nlso to remove the excuse of lazy vaau Ismda tluit they have no work. " The Berlin colon was founded In 1HHX It has a plot of land several acres in ex tent, on which fruits, flowers and vege tables are cultivated, and sevenil shops. tunnies lodging and eating iqurtiucnui. where various trades and general work may lie engaged in. An investment of more than H.'i.llllO marks is represented. Divides the garden and fruit culture the occupations arc straw plaiting, cnrien tering, shocmiiking and copying, and all kinds and conditions of workmen am represented, including tradesmen, clerks tind writers, apothecaries, engineera, teachers, servants, etc. There nre tlmi systems of employing colonistawork on the premises on bclmlf of the institution, work on the premises for outside irt-s, who furnish their own tools and raw. ma- terinl, and work on the outside under apcciiil agreement. The cost of keep is six shillings half penny a day, but all earned in excess of this goes to the credit of the workman who receives his Btirplus earnings on quitting the institution. Some, of course, do not earn their keep, nnd the colony ia not reimbursed for excess of ex'n hiure on their behalf.- The proportion of !'! is not large. The two objects of tic colony, to do away with begging and indiscriminate alms giving, and to give the honest unemployed a chance to work till liettiT employment can l secured for them, are doubly encouraged by the public. That is to say, the householder gives to the beggar nt his dour ticket eniitling him to admission to the colony, where work may lie had, unit general employer! pve preference to the applica tions of th colony. So well has the plan worlsed that, despite its comparative newness in the reformatory Held, the Hei-iiu colony hue received 5US colonials, all of whom were relievctl from pressing wmt and most of whom were helied to sailed emaloymcnt at their own trades. Hmiill a these figures are in them selves, thr,' are large when taken into account with the fact that there is less mendicancy in Berlin than in any other great city of the world. Indeed, Uor mnny is exceptionally free from beggurs. Moreover, the colouieu nrff only for those who i nn and will work, but lire unable to find employment. We hardly need mornlizo on the good results possible to lie accomplished ,by on institution that steps in between niu'iiiployed workmen ami beggary or starvation,"or the crime of desHiriition, Nor need it be urged t" .lit there are few better ways for th utility of practical philanthropy, The moral influences of such a movement are incalculable, and the material good to lm accomplished not incoiisideruhle. An in stitution of the kind could quickly bn made self supportinc;; or if it were not the indiscriniiuuto charities now so 111), rally dispensed could lie turned wisely to iih maintenance. Chicago .Inter Ocean. - - the ArlilKr of rib (Ion Kut " Tennyson N. TwIgga-iWoukl it make any' difference If 1 uliuulil read this puom to juu or leave It hero for yuii to twntli i -. V The Editor Yesfl tliinklt, woulii If you leave it, you'll go out of the door; but if you read it you may go out of tlin wlnduw. Lip piiicott's. , ' . . . smith si lilt, llr. Judge What's tile charge, olllcerf , Officer lie was examining doors. - Judge What ia your busiasss, Mmithf . :. Sautli 1 am a locksmith. Judge Jailer, lock-Smith up. Wlioruupoo Smith made a bolt, Nbw York Herald. - UiiKr AltBud. Youth da deep, passionate, tender tone How can I tear myself awayf Young Lady's Pa IwratMullyi The tear ing won't Iw done away, ft will be dons right hsra. Wait till 1 loote tl dog, Bo tou Courier. In tlta Simp. "Thank heaven! that mew Insect powder worked. The cockroaches about the house have come to grief at last," said the landlady "Yes," assented old Hlubljiun, "tlisy'it i0 0i soup." Merchant Traveler. . time. , i I ... ! f -V