M. Y. K tl KI1 ATKIf'k. rnlillftlmr.
CCCIDESTAL MELANGE
Catholic Priest Overpowered and
Robbed by a Mexican. .
ANOTHER CALIFORNIA RESERVATION.
The Strait ol Fuca Reported to be Stocked
With Drift Logs An Editor
Acquitted ot libel
' Phoenix, A. T., has free-delivery
postal system.
The National Bank of Pocatello, Idaho,
has beat authorised to do business.
. Los Angeles' Connoil has voted to per
mit the building ot a emelter inaide the
city limita. '
The diamond field in Idaho an creat
ing intense excitement at Nam pa and
neighborhood.
The fonr-masted barkentine Jane L.
Stanford, the largest wooden sailing Tea
sel ever bnilt in California, was succeas
fnlly launched in Htunboldt Bay recent
ly. ... .
Turnkey French was attacked in the
Idaho penitentiary at Boise ny Bamaei
Hatton, a desperate convict, and in self
defense French stabbed and killed Hat-
ton.
The Chamber of Commerce at Los An-
BOMNtsS AND lbl'Sl !UL.
The Arid Region of the United States
Incandescent Lamps Rlculausly V
Cliwp m iiweJeii. ... .
St. Louis leads m alios distribution.
Oysters cost 40 cents a quart in Den
ver. .. , - " '
There are over 7,000 saloons in Chi
cago. '
Agriculture employs 3,000,000 Italian
women.
Electricity is applied to the Slacking
of boots.
Paper aocks are made and worn in
Germany.
Baden has a 2,000-hone-power electric
locomotive. ,
A sable muff of approved style costs
aahighas $390. r - . .
An enormous rice orop has jost been
narvestea m liOuisiana.
About 10,000 gross of pens are pro-
unceu irom a ton oi steel.
Fifty thousand Missouri mules are
sold in St. Louis every year.
Minneapolis is making 38.000 barrels
ot Hour on an average a day.
Great Britain has enough coal stored
in her mines to last her 900 years.
Rixteen women are eronlnved as ticket
agents on the Brooklyn elevated road.
According to statistics U.S03.000 bales
of cotton were used by the world last
year.
Bkates which sold tor t6 and (8 a few
years ago can now be bought for from $2
to $4. ..
Bicycles are used by some of the Chi
cago policemen in the discharge of offi
cial fluty. .
Hon than l.nOO.000 CaiAfians have
migrated to the United Btatee since the
year im.
The product of American distilleries
of all kinds last year amounted to 117,-
I8e,n gallons.
The old-time quill pen is still used in
BETOXD THE ROCKIES.
An Advance in Stocks Increases the
Value of Gould Property.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
The New Nicaragua Canal Bill Increases
the Opliffations of the Canal
Company ttc.
BOOMERS READY FOR A RUSH.
Application fur an Injunction Restraining
the Commissioners From Qnslng
the Fair on Sundays.
EAST AND SOUTH
SOUTHERN " PACIFIC V ROUTE.
Kw iMianlniinn hu vannMiiwt thm
Uovernor to recommenu ion a prancfl f " v, ....
of the 6taJeJnmy-besiaBdshed in
ast city.
Citiiens of Florence, Or., desire that
that town shall be incorporated, and a
i-hartar is now being prepared for sub
mission to the people before the Legis
lature meete.
In the court-martial at Mare Island on
the Mohican ease the testimony so far
taken goes to show that there was some
. friction among the officers at the time
of the accident, and also that the Mo
hican was inefficiently manned.
Grangeville, Idaho, propows to make
an active fight to secure the location oi
the Btate Agricultural College at that
point. The experiment station on Camas
prairie is in excellent condition, and ex
periments will be begun next spring,
mainly with grasses at first.
The big government dike at tinag Isl
and in the Columbia river has been com
pleted, and the gangs of workmen were
taken to the mainland. The dike is 19,-
iM feet in leniftb. and is placed in the
river so as to mree the current into the
old river channel and to keep the river
frithin narrower bounds. Frequent
- xtundinge at marked points show that
: the channel, is steadily increasing in
Tha Wolcntt reports that in the recol
lection of sea-faring men on tne Coast
there has never been so many drift logs
in the Btrnit of Fuca as at the present
pen is unknown.
It is estimated that about 150.000 in
candescent, lamps are burned in Sew
Yoik every night.
The linen manufactured yearly in
England could be wrapped around the
earth seven times,
A single row of pearls as large as pess
and perfectly round were sola recently
in fans lor JUD.IWU.
An apparatus that economically jde-
livers grains of corn to poultry only as
last as used is a late invention.
Europe consumes upward of 124,000,
000 worth of gold and silver annually
for plate, jewelry and ornaments.
- The arid reeion of the United States
comprises l,3UU,UJU square miles, or
nearly one-third of the entire country.
Incandescent lamps are ridiculously
cheap in Bweden, the price of those
with all voltages up to izo being about
20 cents. , . ., ,
Ten thousand pounds worth of pearls I
were in three years' time during the last
century taken bom mussels in the Tay
near Perth.
A single mahogany tree in Honduras
was recently cnt into boards, which when
sold in the European markets realised
nearly (11.000.
During the last six years 1,600 novels
nave been puDiienea wmcn nave sno-
Btrait oi rues as a ie pw.. . . . - ,h . k . ,
time. Tke high , treehets nave ewep . ....
down the fallen logs oi agss ana sent
them adrift to the sea. Logs that have
been buried in the sand tor years along
toe beach below Port Crescent have been
wished up, and in some places great dame
of logs are formed, rendering it danger
ous tor navigation.
The monster whale that came ashore
at Elk Creek about a month ago is rap
idly melting away over hot fires at Mr.
Logan's ranch. A large force of men
are rendering the blubber, which is in
an excellent state of preservation, and
the result wiU be nearly 100 barrels of ex
cellent unrefined oil. The whalebone,
which averaged three feet in length, wae
taken out some time ago, and foots up a
total weight of about 300 pounds. The
skeleton, a soon as cleaned, will be set
tip in front of the Logan house at Elk
Creek. . ..
Articles of incorporation of the North
ern American Navigation Company were
the other day at Ban JTrancisco ny
a number of the prominent residents of
that city. The corporation m lormeo
i.h a capital stock of I3.000.0UO and
i for the purpose of p'nrchssing or build
ing vessels to carry on business as com
mon carriers between Ban Francisco and
Panama and then to make connection
with the Panama Bailrosd Company's
Una or other asencies that afiord com
munication with New York and another
Atlantic ports. The term ol the corpo
ration is given as five years.
On a charge of criminal libel at Fort
land Geonre H. Moffett. editor of the
TeUoram. has been acquitted. The al
leged libel consisted in an article pub
lished prior to the city election last J one,
hMvinn a number ol persons with levy-
ing assessment on gambling houses and
J I U,e inmates of the houses of ill repute
j to be used in carrying the election lor
7 the Republican ticket. Judge Bhattuck'
instructed the jury that the levying of
pi assessments to be used in a political
(campaign was not a crime, and that,
V therefore, no libel had been committed.
The other night an individual called
Vat the residence of Father O'Rielly, a
j Catholic priest of Colton, Ban Bernar
" idino county, Cal., and asked him to
- hnrrv with him to the bedside of a dy-
'ng man beyond Colton. The priest bur-
nwily made arrangements, and got into
- w buinnr of the stranger. After they
' .passed Colton the stranger, who was
; mean, overpowered uie prieer,
' ' .him of his watch and money and
i " him out in the middle of the
.. V ng him to find his way back
" . The robber was afterward
at the libraries.
The historical egg which Columbus
made stand on its little end has been
made the model of a pipe which has just
been put on the market.
The platinum beds of the Ural Mount
ains are the only ones in the world in
hich this metal is round in grains.
Platinum is found in Braiil and in the
Cordilleras in the hard seipentine rock
but never in the lorm ol grains.
Sew York is the richest municipal
government with one exception in the
world. Paris alone surpasses it in the
amount of its revenues and in their pur
chasing power. London has a divided
authority and a doable system of gov
ernment.
The tobacco trust bar captured the
Lorillards,
The Supreme Court of Mississippi bss
decided that alcohol is not a beverage.
New York health officers are preparing
to receive the cholera again next sum
mer. About 4,000 men are without employ
ment and on the verge ol starvation in
Toronto,
Secretary Foster estimates a deficiency
of 6fl,000 in the quarantine estimates
for 18DS-4.
Justices of ths United States Supreme
Court bar cigarette-smoking from their
apartments.
The Iowa corn crop is reported to be
far short of the usual average, caused by
the wet weather.
The Citv Council of Dubuque. Ia., has
decided to buy the plant of the Dubuque
W ater Company.
General Bovnton asks the House Ap
propriatione Committee lor $180,000 for
the Chickainauga National Park work.
For the fun of chasing tiarsa, the Mei-
ican border bandit, the United Btares
government has thus far paid 1200,000.
A New York syndicate is trying to buy
for $7,000,000 all the rolling-mill and
heat furnaces in and about Youugstown,
0.
The Hudson nver is to be dredged to
uniform depth of twelve feet from
Trov southward at an estimated expense
of 2,tWO,000. "
The recent advance in stocks has made
the Gould property worth about 16,
006 000 more than it was an the day of
Gould's death.
The packing in Chicago since the
opening of the winter season is 032,000
hogs, or 50 per cent, lees than the same
time last year.
Anioni the Missouri exhibits at Chi
cago will be twenty-four varieties ol to
baceo from the experimental farm of the
State University.
Another appropriation for the govern
ment exhibit at the World's Fair of
(201,000 is aeked. making the entire ap
propriation tl.UTO.UJO.
A supposed ehost at Flathush Hos
pital, New York, turned out to he a live
man who had been hustled off to the
morgue as dead, but returned.
There is trouble with the Welsh tin-
workers at Elwood, Ind. They reluse to
permit the company to operate patent
machines with unskilled labor.
Boomers are already assembling on
the southern border of Kansas in antici
pation of the opening to settlement ol
8 000,000 acres of land in Cherokee Strip.
Telephones have been introduced at
the government rifle ranges at Fort Sher
idan, ill., as a means oi communication
between the firingpointsandtnetargets
Elmer Perrin of Long Branch, N. J.,
is reported to have vomited eight green
peppers, each an Inch ap.d a half long,
that had grown from seed in his stoni-
ach.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Value of the Signature of Three Great
American Generals in the Auto
graph Market Edison.
Oliver Wendell Holmes will be in
vited to write the ode for the opening of
the World's Fair.
General R. E. Lee's signature is worth
(10 in the autograph market, General
McClellan'a (3 and General Sherman's
(3.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has recently
riven to the eity ol Augusta. Me.. 1 10,-
K6 to found a library in honor of ber
husband's memory.
A costlv nine is that which the Shah
of Persia smokes on state occasions, it
is stated to be worth (320,000, and is set
with rubies, diamonds and emeralds.
Mrs. Sarah Kiple of Scranton, Pa., is
I years old. and has smoked since she
as 20. She has spent a thousand times
as much in tobacco as in doctors bills.
M. Legouve, the oldest member of the
French Academy, is 85 years old. Pierre
Loti. the vonnirest. ia 43. With the ex
ception of ten all the academicians are
60 or over.
Edison, the electrician, is satisfied
with cracked wheat and cream for lunch,
and dines as plainly ae if he was still
poor operator who had to count every
quarter ne expenueu.
Miss Celeste Stauffer. to whom 8amnel
J. Tdden was once engagedi and to whom
he ldft 4400.0'JQ. is a resident of Chicago,
still beautlm) and is reported to
relused many oners.
J. F. Lee. the American astronomer,
who has been studying at Berlin for lour
years with Prof. Forester, has been ap
pointed to the chair of astronomy at the
Chicago University.
Premier Gladstone will be invited by
the World's Fair authorities, they say,
to cross the ocean in order that he may
deliver the address at the formal open
ing of the exposition on May 1.
The Eastern railroads are getting
ready for the Chicago Fair. Car builders
are overrun with orders. One Eaetern
firm is turning out seventy-five ears per
day. and nas orders ahead lor o.uuu cars,
Kntnn ! to get ms for cooking, heat
ing and power purposes lor (1 per 1.000
feet, while that lor illuminating pur
poses is to have a caudle power of at
least twenty-five, instead ol sixteen ae
nnw.
Zinc miners at Webb Ultv, wis., navs
noticed lately that a shaft they were dig
ging has been growing hotter. At a
ri.nth of 1S feet the other day thy had
to stop work, as names onrsi lurougu iuu
the shaft."
A nnw aeroent mound, the largest now
known, has been discovered by Prof
Pntnsm near Fort Ancient, O. It is 1,900
leet long aad about ten thick, and is con
sidered one of the most remarkable of
prehistoric works.
An application for an injunction to re
strain the World's Fair Oommiesioners
Irom closing the lair on Mondays is to oe
made before the courts at Uhicauo. The
application is based on the assumption
that the Jackson Park is public or inert
hold hv the Park Commissioners in trnsi
for the people, nd that they have n
authority to deoar tne nuouc rom en
trance to it any day in the year.
Vnr soma time John Voorhis has been
a teacher in the primary departm- n of
the public school at Williamanurv. C d
He was also an amateur dentist. When
children were unruly he -xtracted their
teeth ae a punishment, thr-a'ening them
with greater punishment if they "hould
tell their parent. He extracted ten
teeth from one Italian boy, who told his
parents. This was the direct eanse of
the mob organising to lynch the roan.
Voorhis got wind of their coming, and
made his escape on horseback
There is to he an organism! effort In
the Houxe alter the h didays to bring
anoiu some financial legislation, prob
ably taking the shape of an attempt to
repeal th Kherman law. The oppo
nents ot free coinage believe- tins daily
menacing of the mummies of the gov
ernment is inevuablv leading to gigan-
tiu limes, t in tne o bar nanu, uie
friends of silver are not less active, aud
expect to see a free-couiHge bill forging
to the trout before manvdavsof the new
year have passed. Btewart's amendment
to the bill of Hill provides for a repeal
of the Sherman act, and makes that
measure practically a tree-coinage bill.
Stewart thinks that when it comes to a
vote it will pass.
Representatives Hermann of Oregon
and Wilton of Washington were greatly
disappointed at the failure of the bill in
Congress lor the increase of the lighl
noue service in the United States, in
which both Washingtonand Oregon were
largely interested. In the bill was a
provision lor twentv-five beacon lights
and buoys on the Willamette river be
tween Portland and Balem ; also lor a
light and fog signal at the mouth of the
Willamette, as well as lights for other
pknces on the Oregon and Washington
ciaete. There were other bills reported
from the same committee which were
sidetracked by the failure of this bill,
among them being a bill allowing the
Great Northern Railway Company to
build a bridge across the Columbia river.
Mr. Foster said recently that he thought
it a grave mistake to assume that the
Monetary Conference will prove to be a
failure. The taking of a recess was ex
pected by the administration when the
American dulcpNletf" leu nesuingiou
City. Rotbchild's proposition and his
declaration that nalesssomething is done
to insure the better nse of silver among
the nations serious consequences would
follow is in iteelt a bopeiui indication
that the prominent bankers of the world
feel the necessity of reaching an agree
ment oi such a nature as will secure ap
proximate uniformity the world over in
dealing with the question. The Secre
tary said that so lar as he was personally
concerned all he expected of the prelim
inary conference had been accomplished.
The general leeling of the conference
was even more favorable than he antic
ipated.
The new Nicaragua canal bill reported
by Senator Sherman is drawn on sub
stantially the same lines ss the bill re
ported from the committee to the last
Congress, including as It does the prop
osition to guarantee the hoods of the
company to the extent of (100 .000.000 to
am in tne coustrucuoD oi uie cauai.
The new bill, however, contains some
additions, which increase tne obligations
of the company as well as the security
of the government. For instance, the
real and personal property and the fran
chises ot the company are inciuuea in
the liabilities, it is provided that all
stork heretolore subscribed lor or issued
shall be called in and canceled ; all bonds
untied redeemed and canceled, and all
outstanding obligations satisfied before
the act takes effect. The date is chanted
to make the bonds iseue in January, 18Ua,
and mature in Wo3 bnt they are also
msde redeemal 1 at the pleasure of the
United States after 1913. The section
requiring tbecompanytoexecuteamorfc
gage to the United States as security for
the guarantee is amended ny me addi
tion of a clause requiring the mortgage
to contain a provision for s sinking fund
lor the pavment ol the bonds at matu
rity. If the company defaults in the
navment of interest or other respects
before the canal is put in operation, the
right of lorecloenre shall at once attach
in favor of the United States.
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TOintlKl HLKKI'ING CAKR
For I'Wrnim-.diiMnn ol SECOND OLAHB Msjd
Ktint suiewltud Ui KXt'KKHH TRAINS.
wkst hide iuvih10n.
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Mull train - dally (eximjit Honday):
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of OrtMfou i'amflo railroad.
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Tbrougb Tickets to ill Points East and South.
Vnv tifkttU and fnll Information iwrardlnr
rmtm, ma,, etc., nail on comiimiy n wft-iit at Lb
uoii. Or. R. KOfcHLKR. Manager .
K, V. KOWBKH. AM. U P. rM. A Kttllt-
G. I. COTTON,
-DKALKIl Iti-
GROCERIES
Provisions.
Tobacco, Cigars, Smokers'
tides, Etc.
Ar-
ftliBftllY v FUHHITUHE v GO.
Foreign and Domestic fruits and
Confectionery.
Queenswire mil Glassware, Lamps ind Limn
FUture!.
MAIM ST., LEBANON, OR.
H. R. Hyde, Proprietor.
A FULL LINE OF-
Furniture
-OF EVEKY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF '
Cetrpets! Cstrpets!
We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered night
or day. .
Baltimore biock, Aioany, ur.
W f BEAD rreslilimt. OEO.F SIMPSON, VlM-rretldont. J. 0. WUITSMAN, SmiroUnr
i. U- COWAN, Treatarer. K. A. M11.NEK, ,
Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company
OF ALBANY, OREGON.
CAPITAL STOCK
8600,000
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
llon.B.8 STRAHAN.
'h ef Jitatlee of Snptsnc Coort.
Hon. . W.OimiCK. Banker.
II a.. K. WKATHKKHliKU, Attonnj-t-Lir.
J O. WUllUMAK, Esq.. CaiillalM,
Wlliametis miwy ijiiiu uumpaur.
Hbn. J. 1 COWAN,
PriitiHlont Man Oounty Rational Bauk.
M. HTRF.N BKUU. Kq., Meroliaul
V. f. KKAll. KKfi., Merchant.
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. P. BIMI'SON, Khi.. i:,illl.t.
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ril ol.. Thf Fafiner' and MorehviM' liiHuranne Oomimoy liavi the lull amonut ol low up t
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