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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
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EASTERN ITEMS.
Electrocution' Reported
to Be a Success.
NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING.
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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
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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
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" 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. .
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