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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1891)
Express. a. T. K1KKFATS1CK. rakltolwv. LKBAWON.. ... . OREGON PACIFIC COAST. A Huge Block M Pure Asphaltum. COLD HILL'S CINNABAR VEIN, Heavy Business Done Along the Rio . Grande in Smuggling in Horses tad Cattle. Fresno is considerably agitated over the disposal of its niuuiruy One dav last week sixty trampe were pat off tfie train between Yuma and Cotton. Oregon's State funds are all exhausted. T)e last legislative lev; haa proved in sufficient, J. T. Hayne ol Portland has been elected Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon. A cinnabar vein, sixty feet in width, has been discovered near Gold Hill, Or. Tne ore it immensely rich. . The Chino sugar-beet factory will ran nntil Decern tier. Bo far 825 tons of gran ulated sugar have been tamed oat. In Nevada the total tax lew through out the Bute is over $3,000,0iM. The total levy on railroads is nearly $2,000, 000. It ie believed the property involved in the Davis will case at Butte, Mom., will lie divided among the claimants and far ther litigation will be suspended. The tailors of Vancouver, B. C, are on a strike because the bosses have refused to pay extra for all pockets over four in costal The bosses want five pockets al lowed. I The British sealers Otto and E. B. Marvin, seisedin Sehrine Sea, have been released at Vancouver, B. C, by direc tion ol the Lord Conuniegioner of the Admiralty. The Oregon Grand lodge of the Knight of Pythias voted that hereafter ..nn Ralmmmen ntta!! he admitted.to mem bership in the subordinate lodges of the - order in the State. A Fresno physician is recommendHig eucalyptus tea, made by boiling the leaves, to all his patients suffering from malaria) troubles, and the discovery ie thought to be quite an important one. The codlin moth has done great in jury to the Oregon apple crop. How to force orcbardists to spray their trees to cbeck the spread of disease is a serious question with the State Board of Horti culture. ' A block of pure asphaltum, weighing two and a half tons, was recently taken from the asphaltum mine near Santa Barbara, Cal. It is believed to be the largest piece of asphaltum ever mined in one block. 'Jack the Squeezer " is again fright ing women at Pomona, Cal. Hie mode '- neration is to lie in wait in a seclud- y (.'"liana residence street and snd- 'dei ish out on a woman and squeeze her aouut the waist From observations made by Prof. Is rael C. Kneseli, who was sent out by the I aitea States government ana tlie ra tional Geographic Society to explore the region about Mount St. Ebae. the mountain is between 18,000 and 19iUK feet high. :.. The case of C. W. Johnson against the Southern Pacific railroad for damages received in the Lake Lahisb disaster is before the court at Salem, and is attract ., ing interest, owing to the fact that John ton was traveling on a pass at the time i injured. Kloitne of New lork citv haa presented tl,UU0 to Jhe L ck Observatory for ( the itoritto8e pUmber 30, 18D1, were71, purpose of publishing a series of e-ml m kt!,in , exce8B o expendi- made irom the photographs taken with r . tbe great telescope. Reports from the gold regions of the Upper Yukon are very promising. Six teen men reached Jnneau before the To peka'a departure with a large quantity of iroid dnst and nuggets from the Yukon mines. The least any of tbe party had was $3,1100. One nugget weighed W and several from$40 to M). The gold excitement is increasing, and prospects re good for a big mining boom, - A smugglers' headquarters has been discovered on Lopes Island, a small un inhabited island in Puget Sound. A ves sel recently, landed fifty Chinamen on the island. ' From there they were taken to tbe United Suites by twos and threes in small boats, being put ashore in the woods and raided in by white men un- ir cover of darkness. From $50 to $100 is raid for each Chinaman eucceesiully la.v.ii-d. The United States revenue cutter Kieitani Hush has left San Francisco for i lonaiaaka. The veeeel is ordered back to t:ie sealing grounds, as it is reported x tit a simnlier of sealers, who were not ,! ..-in ! Kith their small catches, ate Htiiig to make a descent on the rook-- ,l ,en the revenue vesseisshall have , it BtUring fees. It ie expected the , will i'ms,ii hi fit vicinity of the !W IKS!:! ti-c. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Will Past the Winter in Italy Death of Mrs. Henrietta Lamar. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone have deter mined to pass the winter in Florence. Tennyson, who is in excellent health, haa just been giving sittings for a por trait. Mrs. Harrison has been chosen an honorary member by the Association of the King's Daughters. Lord Lytton ie in such precarious health that he has itunderconsidwation to resign his post of British Minister to Franca. Secretary Foster's portrait has just been painted for the Treasury Depart ment by Miss Blanche F. King, a young Washington artist. , Warner Miller has been, studvine the canal system of Holland and the water way that the German government is constructing at Kiel. He is to take part in the New York State campaign. The death of Bishop William J. Boone 'Episcopal) of China it announced. The Bishop, who was the son of Bishop Boone of China, did much to forward the cause of Christian missions in that country, and was entirely devoted to hie wort Mr. Spnrgeon was only 19 when he preached his first sermon. Even then his .eloquence was remarkable, and witmn a tew years lie Pad gathered about him a large congregation. At that time he was a pale ana slender stripling, with a noticeably large bead. His ro tundity ol body came many years later. After nuhliahin? a treat varietv of contrauictorr and alarnung stones abont the health of the Queen of Boumania the London newspapers appear to have reached tne conclusion that there nothing very terrible the matter with ber alter all. , Many of the valuable gems in the cot- lection of the Hohenzollerns are to be miiised in the construction of the new crowns recently designed by Emperor w iluam tor nimsett and tne r.tn press. Both crowns are to be of gold, that of the Empress a little the smaller of the two. William Cotter, Jr., of Hartford, Conn., must have a remarkable memory. He is a reinBtrar ot voters, and the J'imn savs that of 12.000 names on the list he claims to be able to tell Iron) memory the residence and politics of each one. and also in cases where a person has been aneent m turope, or staying in some other part o: the country, to tell where be went and when. Scurvy and tvphut fever are raging in the wake of the famine in Russia. The -Yoruti says that famine prevails in thir teen different governments of the coun try and 14,00J,OliO persons are in urgent need ot succor. The government is pur chasing corn for the use of the famisti- ing peasants, lhe government is atBO negotiating for the purchase of large quantities of breadstuff's in the United States. .. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Annual Report of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Postofhce Department. The report of Lieutenant Cowles upon the wreck of the United States steamer Despatch bat been received at the Navy Department. It is merely a brief state ment of the facte already well known and contains no comment nor explana tion whatever. It is customary in such cases lor tne omcer to reserve bis testi mony for later use under oath. In h is annual report to the Secretary of the Interior Governor Prince of the Ter ritory of New Mexico refers at length to the beneficial results which, he thinks, will accrue lrom a settlement ot the dis puted Spanish and Mexican land claims organized. The Governor insists from any point of view that New Mexico is entitled to Htatenooa. The annual report of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Poetoffice Depart ment, showing the receipts and expend itures of tbe department for the liscal vear ended June 30, 18M, has been tub- , ,t7.j, a : tnrM ntrffr mi revemiaa 01 fit.aiLtii. The amount placed with the Treasurer to the credit of tbe department, consist ing of grants from the general treasury in aid of postal revenue under the act of June 30, 18U0, was IL'.miWO. The ex cess of the expenditures over the grants is 3,530,77. . ,- Chief Harrington of the weather bu reau in the report of the operations of the bureau since its transfer to the De partment of Agriculture July 1 last says the service has been reorganized with a view of carrying out the ex pressed intention of Congress to especially de velop and extend its work in the inter est of agriculture. Since July 1 new service has been organized in Arizona, California, Utah, Florida. Kew Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyom ing. The most practical and the most, highly complimented portion of the ex clusive work of the State service is the issue of a weekly weather crop bulletin. On September 30 there were over 1.SO0 weather signal display stations in opera tion, an increase of about 100 per cent, iu less than three months. There are now probably 2,200 voluntary observers in tbe United States, reoorting to the weather bureau, and st;ps are being taken to cover every auction of each State and Territory, so as to leave no section without stations from twenty to thirty ayuw apart. . EASTERN ITEMS. Carter Harrison Buys the Chicago Times. JOSIE MANSFIELD MARRIES. The Itanner in Which the Ballots in , OhioAretoBeDistinRtiiihed From Each Other. i r St Paul care have letter boxes. Carter Harrison is said to have bought tne imtcago 1 mm lor t-uiu.uuu. Anthracite coal has been discovered in the district of Alberta, Canada. The Italian Consul in Boston it inves tigating the condition of Italians. - The public schools of Oawatomie. Kan., have been closed for want of funds. Chicago will erect a building in mem ory of Columbus at a cost ol (1,000,000. The postmaster o' Philadelphia has ordered bis subordinates to stay away from the races. The government is about to begin tbe work of preparing a hydrographic Burvey oi me ureal utaea. A Justice of New York has itist de cided that yon need not pay for a meal at a restaurant unless you eat it. The financial str.ment of the Pull man Palace Car Company shows a sur plus lor the past year ol A moonshiners' church in Alaliama and a secret oath-hound moonshiners' club in Georgia are promoting lawless ness iiv wholesale. In the fi.000,000 letters that reached the dead-letter office last year there was monev amounting to f2H,f42 and checks and notes of tbe value of '1,471,871. Four men were shot by the Mexican military authorities a few miles across the border fiom Eio Grande City, Tex. They were charged with being revolu tionists. J. and F. D. Mollenhauer will start a new stimr factnrv in Hmnklvn. with a capacity of 1,200 barrels refined per day. It will open next July. It will be inde pendent of tbe trust. Tbe September statement of the Santa Fe Kailroad Company shows that the gross earnings of the system for the fourth week in September were the larg est in tbe history of the company. The validity of the new constitution o! Kentucky is to be contested on the ground that the Constitutional Conven tion made numerous chanties after the instrument was ratified by the people. Jaeie Mansfield, whose relations with, Jim Fiek and Ed Stokes brought her into pnblic notoriety in New York twenty years ago, was married recently in Lon don to Kobert L. Keade, a New York lawyer. A statement prepared at the pension office shows that the pensions issued during September numbered 27,044, on which the first payments aggregated 4, 072,470. The average first payment in each case was (137.32. M. K. Hanson, reputed to be a wealthy lumberman at Hanson. Wood county. Wit., is alleged to have signed the name ol George titles, a Milwaukee million aire, to $50,000 worth of fraudulent pa per, uanson nas uiaappearea. There are thousands of dead fish along the shores of the L pper Mississippi. The river fell lower than for twenty years, leaving large numbers of fish in pools which gradually dried up. and the fish have since died on the bed of scorching sana. The Bank of Columbia and the Colum bia Banking Company of Columbia Tenn.. have assiifned. the capital stock of the former is tlOO.UOO and that of the latter (110,000. It is claimed that the creditors of both institutions will lie paid in tun. . On each ballot to be cast according to the provisions of the new election law m Ohio are to be these distinguishing de vices that haze been adopted by the par ties: Kepublican, eagle; Democratic. rooster; Prohibition, rote; People's, piow ana nammer. The influx of Chinamen Into the United States from Mexico continues. and it is only those who are unaware of the prohibitory law that are captured Those who know they are breaking the laws generally evade the omcers. Fif teen were arrested last week. The Cramps will enlarge their plant for ship-building on the Delaware river to eight times its present area. Seven launching ways are to tie constructed large enough to admit the hnilding si' multaneously of seven vessels of the size of tbe war ship Philadelphia. One of the recent evidences of a grow ing interest in trade with the United States on the part of the countries to the southward is to be seen in the announce ment that a permanent exposition of the products of Mexico and Central America is to ue opened in iew iura James A, Bradshaw, engineer of the Eagle Lock Company works at Terry ville. Conn., approached W. A. Honirli. aged 17 years, and ordered him to go to another part oi the stiop on an errand. Bradshaw had no authority over the men, and tbe boy refused to obey. Bradshaw picked the boy up in bis arms, and car rying him to a vat of vitriol in tbe room, dipped him in, bead downward, before the other employes in the room could interfere. The boy's hair was all burned off, bis scalp is raw, bis face and neck were horribly burned, and both eyes were burned out lirndsnaw has disap- iwarcu.. EDUCATIONAL An Iowa Public School Gives a Holiday That the Children May Attend the Races. Wellesley College opens this year with 700 students. New Y'ork has turned away 10,000 school children that cannot be housed. President Angell threatens to close the University of Michigan if gambling is not stopped. The gain in population in the United States Irom 1850 to 1800 was 128 per cent, and in the school enrollment 196 percent. There are said to be over 2S,000 In dians in the United States who can read English and over 10,000 who can read Indian languages. Sorthwestern University at Evanston, 111., has followed the example of Cornell and abolished the barbarous cane rnah between the freshmen and sophomores. The schoolmaster is going to be abroad in England more than ever. Tbe Lon don School Board is educating 20,800 more scholars now than they were three years ago. The management of the pnblic schools at Mason City, la., declared a recent Thursday afternoon a holiday In order that pupils might attend the races. The action has caused much conimeut. The census statistics show tbe rain in population in the United States to be 24.80 per cent., while tbe enrollment of children in the public school! is 2ti.54 per cent This is a healthful indication. The Cornell school of law has enrolled Mrs. Marr Kennedy-Brown, a graduate of Wellesley and a yonng widow, as one ot siuuen-.a. Mie is the ttrst lady whose name appears on the school list. The endowment of the new Chicago University is now over (a.OOO.OjO, and more than OHO students have already en tered the first year's course, which w ill oetrin, it is expected, in the autumn of 18H2. Prof. Totton in a military lecture at Yale remarked that the average age of tbe 110 men In the class was 21 years, and he added : " Upon graduation vnu will have before you about forty-eight years apiece." The largest Snndav-school in the world is iu Stockport. Eniriand. It be gan in 1804. It now contains 5,000 pupils and 440 teachers. It has registered dur ing its existence 70,000 scholars and 3,600 teachers. , Government schools are to be estab lished in San Salvador, where free edu cation will be given to women to fit t hem for places in the government oilices as postottice clerks, printers, telegraph and telephone operators. . Austria has not only a hiirb school of agriculture, but fifteen intermediate and eighty-three primary agricultural schools besides nine chairs of agriculture in pol ytechnic establishments and agricultural experimental stations. Prof. Harris, United States Commis sioner of Education at Washington, in a letter to Assistant Postmaster Sturgeon of St. Louis, who had requested- his views as to corporal punishment in schools, haa replied that tbe fewer the cases of inch punishment the better the schools are likely to be, and that en lightened sentiment it against the use of the rod. Cornell University has opened with an attendance in excess of that in anv pre ceding year. U p to date 1 ,370 students in all departments have registered, and a number are in attendance, especially post graaua es, Who nave not yet regis tered. A noticeable feature is the in crease of Undents in the courses in arts, puuosopny ana electrical ana mechan ical engineering. A remarkable career in the teaching profession was brought to a close some two weeks since by the resignation of Miss Lucy I). Bliss from the principal- ship ol the Plain Primary School, Stock- oriuge, mass. , Hue ttiiss began teach ing in town when Id years old, and taught continuously, with the exception of one year, lor about fifty-four years. Three generations in StocKbridge have beun their school life under the instruc tions of Miss Bliss. MISCELLANEOUS. Use of Chlorjde of Cold and Manga : nese Successful for the Cure . of Consumption, Governor Steele of Oklahoma has re signed. George William Curtis says Tammany is an organization for plunder and with out politics. Edward F. Searlee is to present to the town of Methuen, Mass., a tine statue of George Washington. There ie much excitement at Clifton Forge, Va,,over tlie threatened uprising of tbe negros , owing to tbe lynching of one of their number. ' The noted telescopa- makers, Alvan G. and George B. Clarke of Cambridge, Mass., who made the lens for the Lick telescope, have dissolved partnership. Mrs. Parnell proposes, if she recovers her health, to write a memoir of the great leader and relieve him from much of the blame cast upon him on her ac count. The original site of the old Valley Forge, Washington's headquarters in tbe winter of 1777-8, has just been sold for $10 per acre. The tract embraces fifty-one acres. There it a rumor at Washington that Governor Steele of Oklahoma is to su persedeCouiinistionerof Pensions Kauin. who, it isssserted, has resigned, to take effect November 30. The length of the twelve-inch gun for the Monterey is thirty-seven feet, and it 18 designed to prnpe.1 an KiXI-ponnd pw lect.iie twelve miles. nettesaitaMuy a now- I de.r charge of WHI pounds. ttane Powsr In Wliatoe. ' Sir William Turner, the eminent pro fessor of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, recently delivered a lecture to the members of the Philosophical in stitiitiun of thut city on "Wlialct; Their Structure and Habits,'' in tire course of which he referred to a point of consider, able ihtet-rtrt to engineers, wltic-h was the horse power exi-rUnl by the tail of alarfK' whale. Regarding the length of full 1 grown whales, Professor Turner re marked that the porpoise was four cir five feet long, whereas the Greenland right wbnle was from fifty to sixty feet long, mid he mid that tbe gntot fhiner whale, which frequently visited the British sens, raiched tlic length of eighty feet or even more. An animal of the hitter sort was stranded at Lungniddi y, tome years ago. After sjieakiiig at some length on tlie structure of whales, the lecturer made tome remarks on the rate of speed at which they traveled, It had been esti mated, be said, that the Greenland wlmli could attain a apeedo nine or ten miles an hour, and that the tinner whale at tained even a greater speed. In all probetuiity, the Longniddry whale could proiiel itself through the water at the rats of twelve miles an hour, and the eierui wliale was capable deriving itself along at tbe same rate of speed. He bad asked John Hcndcrsoh, of Glasgow, the well known liuilder of tbe Anclnff lines, to assist him in arriving at tlie horse power which must lie exercised by'one of 'these great wlioles so as to acquire a speed of twelve mile an hour, and be put the case of tlie Longniddry wliale before him. It was eighty feet long, weighed seventy-four tons, and bad a tail eighteen to twenty feet scroti from tlie extreme ends of its flanges. With these data, Mr. liendt'fton calculated that a whale of the dimensions men tioned, in order to attain a speed twelve miles an hour, would require to exercie a propelling force of 140 borne power. bufety Voire. ' - Ilimtruetlua of UlM-aae tienus. Cleanliness is a great enemy of bacterial life. Secure, as nearly as possiUe, per fection in dminiure, ventUation and waier supply. Overcrowduig, stagnant water, decomposing animal and vegetable mat ter, and foul drains, fiirmsh very favor able conditions for tbe development, or rather the breeding, of germs; fur. re tncuilnr that tlie specific germs are never spontaneously generated. Bad hygienic surroundings may induce disease, but not tlie siiecilic contagious diseases to which we have referred. Finally the most Important point exclude tbe germs; for as a field, he it never to well plowed and fertilized, will not yield a crop without seed, so, however fa vurable tlie condition!--fur breeding fevers and diphtheria may be, they will not occur without the intro du:tion of germs. To exclude thein re quires constant and painstaking watch fulness. The enemy ui.,y gain admission through the milk su, ,ily, through im properly disinfected clothing, or through personal contagion, wliich it is almost im possible to avoid. Many germs possess freat vitality, and when once they have gained access to a house, or any of its contents, resist de struction most persistently. They may be destroyed in various ways. Bi chlo ride of mercury in solutions of 1 part to 2,000 to 6,000 is efficient; carbolic acid. 1 to 20 to 80, and heat, es pecially in tlie form of bat steam, are all useful. Fumes of sulphur are alio good in closed rooms; but nothing can take the place of cleanliness and watclifulnewi against the introduction of disease germs. Francis P. Whittlesey, !L V., in Good Bousaeeping, Mad by tb 1 Iu a Pullman car. 4 Biimuwr-lt Mnt to nw tbat tbii our i curwiy up to the fuUinan auiudard, Viu ure l'vtj nddifo iu mow coiufortabie railtvuj coiwuetf tbuii thii, Ti iruinor Dou't yau know ths refuuiii TlmiVi ttit apology on the door. Biiinmer don't aiideniiiaud, Trimtner loWt it nay: Built by "tii fuiXMAX Comcast. fuliu.au Hi. Towq Topic. A lt f Haiunivr and 'alU. k young oat rich ctuhtf to iu uiuthur, groau liig witb pttiu and with its wu.gw tigutly . crotSHd ukiu its stomach. "What have you haw watiugr the mother ajiktid witb Noltcttude. "Nothing but a keg of nalla," wut the re- p'y. "Wbat!"eiclaiined tbe mother, "a whole kg of nails at your age. Why, yuu wdi kill youm-if that way. iio quickly, my vitiid, and Htvatlow a hammer. fciuu Kraneisco Chronicle. , fur Kovonne Only, "You have a duutfhtor whom I love1 said tlie young oiau timidly, an lie approauhuti a business mail of yours and wtnlih. 'Tin glad to hour it. Which of the four do you luuau to rob mo of, young muu f" Abtwnt miufledly "It is itmawtaria. it loitti as X (get uue-quurUir of the boodle," "Young niflu. you are au honest follow. I admire you. You shall be rny suu-m-htw and. take your pick." Hartford) i'ost. CriMily to Animal, Funny Man (to young woman reading hit own jjoktm to him) There's one thing, Misi Kauuie, I'm not vain, and I am free to oou few It buret me to bare auy one read my ykm to tne. Mi Kami he (putting down the papr) Well, if what I've btn rending la a sample, I should think it would, Washington Blar. Comforting. Annette George, I don't want you to turn any more ntuxic for me at the pitmo. Owiii Way, what's the matter uow, pnf "You turn! two pages at once to-nigm, and I tfyiiMliud with a dirge berate I knew it." "Oh, welt, don't fret; nobody else noticttl It. "-Time. .' n