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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1891)
. KIBKPATKIOK. Pablleaet. XJiBANON OREGON PACIFIC COAST. The Apaehes Again on the Warpath. 1 OLIVE CULTURE IN SAN DIEGO The Brain Tunnel in the Ontario Mine at Park City, U.T., Cuts Into a Water Vein. The Arizona penitentiary hae 164 con victs. Boise City, Idaho, has a female faro dealer. The old Virtue mine near Baker City u to start np again. Cattle thieves are numerous about the Umatilla reservation. Olive culture in Ban Diego is to be ex tensively indulged in. " Elmnf heuatlghttlWWIWTised on the southern Pacinc. Napa's wine product for the season will reacn nearly B,oUU,uoo gallons. Work is to be commenced soon on the railroad between table and Astoria, Or. Oregon and Washington are being thoroughly organized by the Prohibition ists, Coyotes are plentiful in the vicinity of Forest Grove, and a wolf bunt will soon occur. The California Fruit Association hae just shipped seventeen carloads of dried trait from Vacaville, Cal. Astoria is to celebrate next May, the centennial of the discovery of the Co- lumDia river Dy uaptain uray. American wreckers will not he per mitted to attempt the raising of the Ban Pedro, recently wrecked near Victoria, B.C. The State Constitution of Arizona will be adopted by alxrat 5,000 majority. The Arizonians who favor statehood are pleased with the vote. The gross valuation of property in Multnomah county, Or., for 1891, as re turned by the Assessor, is $01,119,135, as against (54,680,496 in 1890. Nine English partridges have been re ceived at Portland. They are in size between the Oregon qnail and pheasant, and will be turned loose to increase, but in what portion of the State has not yet been determined. . ,. T. W. Carpenter, assistant cashier lor the A. P. Hotaling Company at Port land, has disappeared, and there is no clue to bis whereabouts. It is charged that he forged a check and secured $5,000 on the paper. In view of the expected visitation of grasshoppers in some parte of California next year the State Board of Horticult ure has arranged for a supply of para sites from New South Wales to be ready for distribution in March. The report sent out that Apache In dians had killed Daniels and wounded Major Downing in the Chiracnhua Mountains in Arizona, turns out to be 'false. The shooting was done by a man named Fay, who wore moccasins. Two new veins of rich ore have been pierced in the mining operations of the Temescol tin mines, near South River side, during the past week, and the most sanguine expectations of the miners have thus far been realized. The trustees of the Congregational College of Pomona have decided to use the recent gift of $75,000 to that insti tution in erecting a dormitory and laboratory building for the college, and work upon the structure will begin in February, Keeper Joseph Hodgson of the Coos Bay life-saving station has been pre sented with a gold watch and chain by the Oregon Coal and Navigation Com jiany for assistance in rescuing passen gers and saving a steamer when stranded off Coos Bay. Tiie Apaches are reported to be on the urnnth in Arizona airain. K. H. Dan- was killed by them the other night ace about tmrty-nve mue irom x, and Major Downey wan am hed and shot at the same point. at excitement exist among the eet s, who fear a raid from the Indians he Uhincunua mountains. j Bradatreet Mercantile Agency ts ten failures in the Pacific Coast ' Territories for the week, ae for the urevious respond- PERSONAL MENTION. The Kaiser Will Not Tolerate Gam bling Among the Officers In His Army, Joseph Jefferson will play a season of only ten weeks next year, and "Rip'.Ven Winkle " will be the only play in which he will be seen. It was through the influence of Bishop Phillips Brooks that the Salvation Army was allowed to parade the streets of Bos ton with music. Another monument is projected in New York. This one is Cleneral Han cock's, and it is proposed to erect it in Hancock square, Harlem. The wife of General A. W. Greely has recently been so seriously ill as to occa sion her friends great anxiety, but her condition is now much improved, Bismarck is in Germany what they call a "chain smoker" that is, he smokes from morning till night without a break, lighting one cigar with the end of another. A son of Joseph Je'lereon, the famous American comedian of " Rip Van Win kle " fame, has been in London on a visit to his sister, who is the wife of B. J. Farjeon, the novelist. Walt Whitman hae of late refused to see the visitors who come in numbers to call on him. He has been compelled to take this precaution in self-defense against the idle curiosity which brings tiism to his doors. The Beau Bruramel of New York's middle-aged millionaires is D. O. Mills, who follows the fashions in male attire very closely, wears his clothes well, and is altogether a model for a metropolitan Croesus to pattern after. The Duke of Leinster's country house is said to have passed into the owner ship of an Irish farmer, who was former ly his tenant, nnder the operation of the new Irish land laws. Ti.is is the build ing after which the White House at Washington was modeled. Sir Edwin Arnold's resemblance to Charles Dickens attracts genetal atten tion among New Yorkers. If Sir Edwin is so much better a sneaker accordine to American ideas than most of tie other lecturers Great Britain has sent or lent us, it may he because he is so much bet ter a journalist. One thine: the Kaiser will not tolerate is gambling. He says no man can either win or lose money on a quiet game and be an officer of his. and he sneaks bv the card, too. He has already had aev- eral officers dropped for the offense, audi the games are now quieter than ever among the officers. Governor Jones, the head of the Choc taw nation, is a pacific savage in store clothes, which look as if he had donned them with the aid of a pitchfork. He wears a stubby gray mustache, a porten tous watch chain and a diamond pin nestling in a sky-blue cravat. He talks very little English. Dr. Gatling save his famous sun should be regarded as a philanthropic inven tion, tor it has saved no end of lives by scaring riotous people into submission. So he calls the deadly gun "the peace maker." The Doctor is growing old, but he is still one of the handsomest men that .visit Washington. He is tall and portly, with snow-white hair and whisk ers and a kindly eye, and in thoughtand action he is youthful and vigorous. John Ruskin will soon comulete his 72d year, and for sixty-five of those years ne lias been a poet, though for the most part using proe as the vehicle of expression for highly poetic thought. At tne age ot 7 ne wrote in Wank verse a singular essay on "Time." The next year he wrote an invocation to the sun to shine on his garden, which is an amusing, almost a pathetic, mixture of poetry and pathos. At the age of 20 he gained the Newdigate prize for English poetry, ana soon alter abandoned the muse because, as he said, he could not express his ideas in verse. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Commodore Ramsey Devotes Much Attention in His Report to the Naval Academy. Purine the last four and a half days of last week the general land office issued 4,252 land patents. This is the highest record ever made by the ollice. Ihere are now approved for patents 820 min eral entries in various parts of the West, and a force of cierks have been detailed to write these patents, so that within ninety days it it is expected the whole number will be in the hands ol the en trynien. In reply to inquiry the Treasury De partment has informed a Philadelphia nrm mat tne aepartment noius that im ported black plates dinned in this coun try for the purpose of making tin and tin plates are included within paragraph 143 of schedule G ol the tariff act, and black plates rolled from imported bars or ollletfl should De similarly classified, " no provision in the law restrict- lfacturerf Amei, EASTERN ITEMS. Diphtheria Rages in an Illinois City. JACK DEMPSEY, THE SLOGGER The Amount of Wheat America Has Shipped to Europe in the Last Two Months. There are 2,000 women school teachers ol Philadelphia. An epidemic of diphtheria is raging in Beiievine, in. Illinois offers a bounty of 2 cents (or each English sparrow head. The First National Bank of Damaris cotta, Me., has resumed business. A girl at Brenham, Tex., was found to be alive after having been placed in a coffin. It is reported that the old town of Alexandria, Va., has a boom and is growing. A new herring fishing bank hae been discovered off the west coast of New found and. Two large freight houses are to be erected at St. Louis, with a capacity of 100 care at a time. Minneapolis is already estimating the work necessary to take care of next June's convention. Iowa farmers who experimented with sugar beets the past season are enthusi astic over the results. The Vanderbilt lines propose to run tourist Bleeping cars through from New York to San Francisco. The Island of Nassau will be connected with the coast of Florida by cable about the middle of January. At least sixteen men have been killed thus far in the work of drilling the new tunnel at Niagara Falls. Evidence is accumulating that New York has been heavily swindled in the erection of school buildingB. The sufferere by the great Boston fire nineteen years ago who still survive were paid $2,3o0 during the past year, 'le nex.t Republican National Con- vention will be composed of 8118 dele gates, or 900 in case Alaska ih repre sented, W. K. Sullivan, who recently resigned the editorship of the Chicaiio Evtnim Journal on account of ill health, has been appointed United States Consul at Bermuda. David T. Beals. the Kansas Citv banker, has recovered his child, which was stolen, on paying $5,000 reward for its recovery. In Kansas durine the past five months and a half there has been a net reduc tion in the farm-mortuaue indebtedness of $2,300,000. The survey of the United StateB au thorities from Atlantic Citv to Cane Mnv has established an inland channel for torpedo boats. Commodore Melville of the steam en gineering bureau recommends that the number of engineer officers should be increased to 300. Reciprocity with the United States is growing so strongly in public favor in Canada that many of the Tory papers now advocate it. The State of Massachusetts has de cided to give financial and other aid to 10,1 of its towns that they may secure free public libraries. America has shipped 87,000,000 bush els of wheat to Europe in the last two months, and has received about $85,000.- 000 in gold in return. Jack Dempsey, the slogger, is being treated by physicians for incipient con sumption. He is in New York, and his condition is quite serious. The Executive Committee of the Na tional Conference of Charities and Cor rections decided to hold the next annual meeting in Denver on June 27. By the decision of the Supreme Court of New York in the Ogden will case the University ol Chicago loses $1100,0110, The decision may be reversed by the Court of Appeals. The beet-sugar industry in Nebraska has proven so successful and profitable that Omaha iB preparing to put up a large sugar factory and have it ready for operation next season. The blue book of New York shows more bachelors than married men in the ranks of blue blood and money. Mar riage is decried as too expensive by the members of fashionable clubs. The order of Confederate soldiers known as the United Confederate Vet erans, General John B. Gordon com manding, with headquarters at New Or leans, is to extend its organization. General J, H. Rice, the father of the Alliance arty in Kansas, has grown irv, ' ' of the practices of 'at organ H is w""- -"no- EDUCATIONAL. Four Hundred Young Ladies Unable to Gain Admission to Vassar College Miss Higglna. High schools will be added to New York city's public system. It is said that 23,1100 Indians can read English, and only 10,000 can read their own language. Sixty-three students are now said to be working their way through Yale Col lege and paying all their expenses. The scholarship which carries with it a permit to live Ave years In Paris on $900 a year was won the other day in lioston by J, B. Potter, Four hundred young ladies were un able to gain admission to Vassar College this season, the institution being filled to its utmost capaoity. A fine ten-inch equatorial telescope in Lawrence University at Applcton, Wis., was made entirely bv the colored pupils in the School of Mechanical Arte at Nashville, Tenn. The executors of the Fayerweather es tate now say that the bequests to the various colleges named In the will and the executor's deed of gift will be paid over about January 1, The statistics of university attendance in Germany show a gradual decrease. During the recent summer term the total was 28,025, while last winter it was 28, 711, and one year ago it was 20,317. The President of San Salvador, Cen tral America, has ordered that govern ment schools be established for tne free instruction of women who aspire to the duties of postoflice clerks, printers, te legraphers, etc. Chancellor Snow of the Kansas State University has returned from the East. He brought with him the Spooner be quest to the university of $91,018.03. It is said to be the largest gilt ever made to a State institution by a private indi vidual. The preparatory school for Yale, which Mrs. Maria B. Hotchkies gives $340,000 to found, will lie established in Salis bury, Conn., the most north we-tern town of the State and in the foothills of the Berkshires. The huildini is to tie of an ideal school character. The number of American studonts in Berlin this season is unusually great. At the university alone the numlier iB 204 out of a total of 6.547. Then there are many more than this attending pri vate clinics, Btudying Koch's methods, acquiring the German lanuiiage or pur suing studies in art and music, The honors, of entrance Into the Uni versity of 1inilon were recently carried off over l.tWO male students by a voung Scotch girl, Charlotte Higgins. Her fa ther died when she was hut 8 years old. and it is through the efforts of her mother that she has been able at 20 to be in possession of her fine education. A project for the introduction of a uni versity course into Boston's nuhiic-school system is before the Boston Board of Al dermen, It provides that the course shall be free to such scholars as exhibit the necessary proficiency, and that all tne expense ol it snail no borne hv the city. It is not unlike educational schemes that exist in France and Ger many. Last year the University of Michigan had 103 more students than Harvard University, which had 2.252: but this year Harvard has 118 more than Mich igan, which has 2,4115. While Harvard has gained Ml, Michigan has gained only 76. These two institutions of learn ing are the foremost in the country so far as their enrollment books are con cerned. A reference to the feminine students in Sage College, Cornell University, is made in the report of President Adams, who says: "A vast majority of the young women are not only earnestly de voted to the working out of great and noble purposes, but are also disposed on every occasion to exert their Inlluence in behall ol a cultivated and re inod so cial life." WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. France Asks for 160,000 Square Feet of Space at the Chicago Co lumbian Exposition. Up to the present time there have been over 1,700 applications for space at the Chicago Fair. The Mikado of Japan will, it is said, end some of his private art treasures to the World's Fair at Chicago. Governor Willey has appointed Jumee M. Welle of Kootenai county World's Fair Commissioner for Idaho, vice Dele mar resigned. Morocco will spend 450,0110 in showing manners, customs and products of that country at the Chicago Fair. There will be a full tribe of Berbers on exhibition. Prof. Ives of the art department re ports that the artists of Russia are deep ly interested in the exposition and have promised him to send to it a tine collec tion of their best work. The native flora of each State and Ter ritory will be shown at the exposition under the direction of Chief Thorpe, who has enlisted the lady manauers to uniirtake the '-llection of specimens. .esting exhibits I be the models AN ANTELOPE'S MIGHTY LEAPS. Vxpleal Tarn of the Champion Urn or the Mining Reaiou. In one of the old mining towns of thus part of California, away up on the slope uf the Sierra Neradas, there lived sev eral years ago, during the active work ing of the hydraulic mines, a celebrated character whose modesty, as be still Uvea in the land of the living, forbids my giving his name. His justly cele brated fame arose from his remarkable power of narration. He could take any trivial occurrence that happened in town, drees It up in such glowing colors and throw so many vivid sidelights upon It that not even the participants them selves could recognize it G. B. un doubtedly wore for years the belt as champion liar of that mining region, and one of his stories, that 1 happened to hear him relate, I think is worth pre serving. I will let him tell it in his own words: "It was in the spring of '50 that a train of sixty-five on us started across the plains for Cauforoy, The most on us were young men an' able to rough It, but we had three famblies, with about a dozen young nua among ns, an' ons baby was born on the way, Wal, of course, fresh meat soon got mighty sense, as there was so many trains on the trail ahead on us that all the game had been killed or seairt away. The young mother she kept kind o' pindlin like after her kid was born and got sick o' bacon an' sioh like, an' the young fellers that had houses o' their own to ride, there being half a dozen on 'em in our train, used to scour out on the plains for fresh meat for her. "One day three on us got arter a couple o' antelope early in the morula' wheu our bosses was fresh, an' we jest took after 'em, a yellin' like Conianchee jest to see 'em run. There was a couple o' hills on the plain that stood esprit, with about twenty rods o' ground be tween 'em at the fur end, and the crit ters made a break to go between 'cm, We was coinin' on nrtur 'em like we meant to catch 'em, when they see that this open place between the hills had grown up with tail chupparraL "Now un antelope won't run up a hill, nor into thick hresh if he knows it, so they stopped till we got a'uiont np to 'em, an' one mi 'em tried to ran back by us, but one o' the boys stopped him with a charge of buckshot. The other one, seein' what an almighty tight place he'd got into, jest made for the brash an' tried to jump over it. Wal, sirs, he made the all flmleat jump as ever I mo"; but when the critter gut up into the air he send lie hadn't jumped far enough, an' I'm a liar If he didn't gather him self in the air auT gin another o' the most tromonjous liumps that any critter ever did make, au' jest went a-euilin' right on over the hresh an' landed on t'other side on't slick and clean!" Cor, Forest and Stream. 1 Ueeeptlvq Falie Curls. Every one must have noticod the mun bor of ladies who wear short, curly hair at present. It may astonish yuu to learn that most of these charming cutis are false. Typhoid and othor fevers have nlaycd havoc witfu hair. After such an illness the hair Is; almost invariably se riously injured, Hud even if it does not. fall out it becomeki so dry and harsh that there is nothing U be done hut to shave it close and wait for a new growth. Un loss the hair grows very rapidly it will be two or three months before it is long enough to look well, and in the mean time a wig is a! necessity, The short, curly hair looks more natural than a dressed wig, and i easier to keep in order, so most ladies prefer them. El derly ladies, however, often use French twists and pompadours. ' Few people know how common wigHuro. 1 huvo some time sold five or six in one day, and a great many ladies say thoy are sorry when their own hair grows out, as tho wig has saved them so much time and trouble. Interview with Wigmakor. Inventor of the Detective Cement.' It was a Parisian who hit upon the novel idea of a dotectivo camera. Ha made a small camera, which he con cealed in his bat. A shutter in front ' was so cleverly arrauged that the joint could not be seen. At first, he used wet plutes, but he soon saw"cli8advaiitage he was laboring under,- About that time the lightning dry plates were put on the market and the Frenchman's hopes rose high. He could take his hat anywhere with him, and no one, at a glance, would suspect its double purpose. Placed on a table facing the person to be taken, the little button at the back could be pressed and the exposure made. In some re spects the hat camera waa immeasurably superior to the toys now on the market. -New York Evening Sun. A Gigantic Octopus. The officers and crews of the steamers plying between Taconia and Olympia are on the lookout for an immense octo pus, or devil fish, which is reported to exist in the waters between the mouth of the Nosqually river and Henderson's inlot The monster has been seen at various times for a week. Th " i, eteamers are ver 'J l,q f