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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1893)
a crrcrrss. 15. T. KlKKPATttlCK, Publisher. lkbanon. OEJSUON OCCIDENTAL MELIM Census Bulletin of tlie Pacific Coast States and Territories. THE SAS JUAU PUCER DIGGINGS. Genera! Clarke Declares That the Incom ing Legislature of Nevada Will be an Illegal Body. It cost Idaho $21,400 to suppress the Cceor d'Alena not. Important extension in Santa Boat's street-railway system are projecteu. It is predicted that the Burlington will be running into Portland, Or., in two - years. The mineral production of Idaho for my wss 13,075,01)0, a falling off of over M.utiU.OW. Another large bitumen deposit has been fonnd about twenty miles from Banta Barbara, down the coast Fig trees on s ranch in Washington nrantv. Idaho, an said to be prolific bearora, This i at an altitude of 2,51(11 feet. Oregon's assessment roll is badly mixed, there apparently being no regu lar method adopted by Uie Assessors in the various counties. There have been crave diarge made of bad treatment of patients in the hos pital at San Uietto by H. Phillips and wife, who were norae. J. A. Musici has sold his one-fourth interest in the Los Angeles and Defiance mines in Bohemia to hie partners, Cook, irady 4 Co., for 6U,0Uu. Tlie Ectrablican and Democratic Ter ritorial Central .Committees of Arizona have passed a joint resolution urging Congreae to admit the Territory as a bum..- A new steamboat Is to be built to ply on the Kootenai river in Idaho next samroer. It will have a speed of twenty miles an hour, and will be the finest ves sel on Kootenai waters. The Savaio Indians resent the nub of white men to the Han Joan gold fields in Bonthern Utah, and there is some indi cation of trouble. The Indians claim the gold for themselves. Baptists Pipeyno, an Italian aged 2 years, at IVapa made a bet that bo lo in mlH rMiilt to him bv touching a live electric wire. When he placed his hand on the wire be was instantly stuiea, The renorted fight between miners at tli rvw ban Joan planer diggings is probably sensational. Heturned pros iiav reached Flagstaff, A T., ajid mow some fine gold, bn report no tumble yet. A petrified man is reported to have been dug up in the western part of Bait Lake City by Blaine Sills. The figure is wrrfMt. and was found four feet below the surface. The weight is abont 700 ixramlu. A showman ottered 6,000 for the iiad, which was refused. General K. M. Clarke in the Eeno Gar iriu declares tnat the incoming Legisla- inrt-of fievadawtilbe an illegal body, the reapportionment at the last session not having been made in accordance with the reonirenient of the State. The (la- alU agrees with Mr, Clarke. The Taknde Drise of the Paris Acad emv of Science was awarded to Prof Harnard of the Lick Observatory on De. cember 19, 1892, tor his work in astron omy, and especially far his discovery of the flitn satellite ol Jupiter. V.. Gilliam, stock inspector of Uma tilla county, Or., reports in that county Jw;,0i!i) sump, which are in good condi tion, being Iree from scab. JTne number i joitt. InnrMuinff over nrevious years. Woo) and sheep are worth more than for years, The quality is being fast im proved by the introduction of higher hnuaiii. nrincinailv Merinos. The aver age weight of fleeces is from eight and a half tn nine pounds, making between 1,700.090 and l.inTO.ftOO pound ol wool for the season just Closed. Kniwrintendent Porter has itsned ennue bulletin covering the western di of the States and Territories. In this bulletin is a condensed table giving Ui general remits regarding population srdinr to the sex, native and foreign i'.ro, white and colored. California, wit a total population of 1,208.130, bas mau ana mm.uvi lemaies; ott, " "" were born in the United Suttee and SW)wee foreign born, and it con , i 96,488 eolored population, which nejrroes, Ohiuese, Japanese and Indiana. Arisona- Total pop- "b'iO; sils, 80,671; femi), ie, vi.iim: lorsign, i,uo population. '4; colored. TO, 4b,?! ,7; native. ed. 6.077 j6; males. (7. Wash- 380; males. itive, . fr. ti". Ur- : niaios, ft t " VI fl fwn Jar H0.4C3V' 0 tWa INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES. The Cotton Mills of the South and New England Close Cine of (he Most Prosperous Years. Venr few boots and shoes are imported into Mexico, There are many tanneries in Mexico and asnperabnndanceof shoe makers making to measure. A drying house for timber has been erected at Ottawa, in which electricity is the heating power. This is the first establishment of the kind in the world. The eod-Iiveroil magnate of the Loffc- den Islands, off Norway, Is Peter Mai ler, who employs 70.000 people tn fish eries, factories, bottling, packing and so on. Champagne owes Its quality to the soil, a mixture of chalk, silica, light clay and oxide of iron, and to the great care and delicate manipulation in manufact ure. Mrs. Increase Samner of Starke, Fla. raises her own tea. one gathers three crops a year, and the boshes furnish her tea which in China would cost her a large sum. An unsuccessful attempt has been made ia Paris to employ women in the telegraph office in the Avenne de l'Op- era, bat the work was found much too heavy for them. The new brewery tax is causing gen' eral depression in the beer business in Germany. The Altona Brewery Union has already raised its price three pfen nigs tne nan liter. In England clerks of a large provincial bank jointly own a cottage by the sea, fifty miles awav. where all pass (heir holidays, occupying it in detachment daring the summer. ; Bishop Burst says that ninety-two acres, bought in Washington for a site for the proposed Methodist University, have increased in valae nntil they are worth nan a minion. The fact was developed at the hearing of a case at the Tombs, New York, that hod carriers can be found in that eity willing to work for 25 cents a day and work on Monday at tnat. Waco, Tex., ia reported to have the largest artesian well in the United States. It is 1,850 feet deep, with a diameter of ten inches, and throws 1,500,000 gallons a day of perfectly pare bat not water. It Is estimated that England's wheat crop for this year is about 56,000,000 boehele, or less than two bnsbels for each inhabitant. She most bay at least 160, 000,000 bushels more from some outside source. This season's traffic through the Sanlt fits. JUarie canal exceeds bv ZU per cent. the tonnage of any previous year. In October alone 1,135 steamers, 305 sailing vessseu and 71 rafts passed through the RanlL Aluminium is found combined with 195 other minerals, and therefore con stitutes a large part of the crust of the earth, but until recently has been very expensive because of the difficnlty of separating it. it is estimated teat it costs tne weii- to-do people in this country 125,00O,00O annually to support cnaritaDie institu tions, while at least 1500,000,000 is in vested in permanent buildings where the needy are cared lor. The people of this country used dar ing the last fiscal year more than 12,000, 000,000 postage stamps, and paid nearly $30,000,01X1 lor them. They are all man nfactcred by the American Bank .Note Company in flew I ork. The cotton mills of the South, as well I those in New England, have closed one of the most prosperous years in their history, w ithin tnree years mere naa been a development in the industry amounting to tally lib per cent. The Vanderbilts are making strenuous efforts to extend the Wagner sleeping car service beyond the" Missouri river. Heretofore the Pullman Company has virtually had a monopoly of the sleeping- car business west of Kansas City. The State of Oregon has thirty-six nurseries, covering 1.67B acres and con taining about 9,000,000 young trees, and orchardists have upward of 100,000 acres of growing trees. One-half of this acre age is in prunes, one-fourth in apples and the remainder in various kinds oi trait. L. 6. Coffin of Fort Dodge. Ia., state that be has distributed 30,000 white oat- tons among trainmen since last May, The button is symbolical of total absti nence from intoxicants. The rales gov erning the Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers are very strict. iMt montu there were nearly thirty expulsions. The oldest whaler In the United States is said to be the Koussean, now lying dismantled at a New Bed lord wharf. This vessel was built in 1801 for Stephen Girard of Philadelphia by Nicholas Van dnsen, and was lanncbed on the Dela ware, its last vovaae was maue in iitoo, when it returned with 1.360 barrels of sperm and 180 barrels ol wbale oil, PURELY PERSONAL The Prince of Wales writes all his pri vate letters on light-bine paper. These are ones he doesn't want generally read. General Troche's estimate of Bismarck is that he might have been a great man, but he bas only become a great Prussian. Mr. Carnegie is said to be a great ad mirer of Herbert Bpenner. to whom he has made a nnmhsr of gift. The latest is said to be a line piano. Only three men who ware members of the United titate Senate in 1848 are now living James W. kradhnry of Maine, Fx-GovwTtor Felch of Michigan and (ituiexal W. Jones of low. The Moscow taonnmant to the late Emperor Kiciiola o! Jineaia, winch has twen seven years tn construction, now approach! completion, and it is ex-pvcti-'d to be reauy lor dedication ia the spring. EMI THE ROCHES. Great Lack of Space for Exhibits in Machinery Hall. AFTER GUERRILLAS ON THE BORDER Mineral Productions of Colorado During Last Year Business Suspended on the Ohio River. The city ol New York cares for 18,030 lunatic at a cost ol iozo.uuu a year. Two nnmnaniss in opposition to Car negie are to be estaniisnea bi ruuuurg, Mexico Is preparing to receive the Im migrants which this country will refuse. In trying to corner wheat the North west is 50,000,000 short in the Chicago market. . The United States produced 10.000.000 gallons more of wine last year than Ger many did. The total valne of the mineral pro ductions for Colorado for 1892 is 41r 886,114.23. The Adams Exnreea has supplanted the American Express Company on the Burlington system. More murders were oommitted in the State of Michigan last year than in any previous like period. The hnnndarv line between Nebraska and South Dakota is to be marked with block of jasper ston The Treasury Department is gradually recovering the gold it lost by the recent heavy shipments abroad The cigarette trust bas blacklisted all anti-trust dealers with the purpose to drive them oat of the business. The Order of Bailwav Conductors do not anticipate any trouble with the roads now or daring the World's Fair. It is expected that 16,000 carloads of exhibits will be received at the grounds of the World' Fair between now and Mayl. Postmaster Harlow of St Joseph, Mo., ha inaugurated a system of electric street-car mail service to sn bur ban mints. Thirteen eomnanies of United States troops, aggregating 700 men, are now in the field against guerrillas on me one inkn hnrder. The Alleghany, Monongaheia ana unio river are frozen over, and river trBthc is entirely suspended for the first time in many years. A company is being organised in New York city, with a capital stock of $-V 000,000, to improve the dockage facilities of Buffalo harbor. .T. H Wade has nresented the city of Oleveland, O., his lather's estate, known as Wede Park, containing lour acres, valued at (100,000. Thnv are talking in Washington of pensioning Jefferson Davis' widow ; not tor his services w sue tAiutvuviavr, uu, in the Mexican war. Tha Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolutions calling on Con gress to provide for tn completion ol the Nicaragua canau Negotiations are reported to be nnder wav in Chicago for the consolidation ol all the elevated railroads of that city nn der one management. Tha Mlrnad construction of last year in the United States is footed us as 4,002 milee, which is a boat 10 per cent, less than the total for 1891. Tha nackinff houses of Chicago have reached a stage of dullness unparalleled in years. Over 6,000 employee have been discharged recently. The dilticnlty is that the nooses naa it lmpossiuie hi gei. hogs., Klaratnr nennle in the Northwest esti mate that about 40,000 0OJ bushels of wheat remain in farmers' nanus in uie Dakotas and Minnesota, against 80,000, UU0 bushels a year ago. fine cause of the sadden influx from Europe of home-coming Americans is the current belief abroad that cholera will break out in devastat ing issliiuo in many baropean oiuee next spring. It is renorted that the g vernment ha discharged Dr. Eastman, the Sioux, and his wile, fjiaine uoouaie poetess, for sending sensational reports from Pine Bulge that the Indians were preparing for an outbreak. Whan the Anal permits for exhibi' space in machinery hall at toe World's Fair are issuea a norm ui iirumjw h haarii Irnm every section of the coun try. Less than hall tne nun' uer ui iirms that made demands of Chief Kubinanri for room will secure it. More than 1 ,200 applications were received, and ouly 600 can be granteo. xue tw uimwuiuidy applicants, some of them the most ex tensive manuiacturere of machinery in the country, will naturally object lu Chief Kobinaon'e distrihuli n oi floor area, but they will not be a le to change his plans. Machinery hall, at first con sidered big enongh to accommodate al worthy exhibitors, has been found to furnish little more than half the space the machine buiidsrs wanted. That i why Chief Knhineon was compelled to decline so many requests for apace, A originally designed, tne hall was H42s4M feet. It was soon found that a largm building would be needed, end an annex 561 feet long was added, making the tntai length of the hall 1,892 feet and its width 494 feet. This was considered bi enough for e l demands that a cold be made for showroom ; hut as the appti cations name tu Chief Kobinon learner) that another extension wonid lie needed, so a machine shop !,!0:i iani Ion ami ti leet wide was added. Kvea with these additions the spat afforded I but hall nongh to at let the demand. FROM WASHINGTON CITY, The Pacific Railroad Department Question Again Before Congress Precau tions Against Cholera. Tlie fourth-class office at Kallepell, Mont., by reason of increased receipts has been raised to tlie Presidential class.' ... The Secretary of the Navy lias ap pointed a board to consider and report a plan for the equitable distribution of the Chilian indemnity fund of (76,000, Senator Chandler bas Introduced a bill making it unlawful for any body of men numbering ten or more to assembls, drill or bear arms as a military body unless called tor by the properly authorised civil or military officers. It makes it the duty of the President to disband and disperse iny such organisation, This bill is almi-d at the Pinkertons and semi military Anarchist organisations. One of the most valuable publications ever issued by the government is a re port on the sheep industry of the United States, prepared under the direction of tlie Secretary of Agriculture. It treats of ths history and conditions of tha in dnstry from the early settlement of the country down to the present day, and ia bandBomsly Illustrated, it is lor distri bution by the Secretary and through member of Congress. In view of the necessity for the utmost precautions against the spread of the cholera next summer Mr. Onthwaite has introduced in the House a bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to make the necessary regulations to secure the speedy and frequent redemption of all United states paper currency ano an na tional bank notes which have become soiled, impure, andean and otherwise annt for use, when presented in sums oi not less than 1109. and for the prepara tion and issue of new United States pa per currency In place of such bills as shall b redeemed. Fifty thousand dol lars Is appropriated, to become immedi ately available, to enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of ths bill. Investigation has shown that old greenbacks and bank notes contain the germs of disease to an nnasual degree, and there is reason for apprehension of them as the producer of disease. Tha Pacific railroad department ques tion is again before Congress, this time in a bill introduced by Senator Frye, authorising the appointment of a com mission to settle claims growing out of the issue ol bonds of the United States to aid in the construction of certain rail roads and to secure to the United States the payment ol all indebtedness of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific, now forming a part of the Union Pacific, tlie Central Branch of the Union Pacific, the Central Pacific and the Western Pacific, now forming a part of the Central Pa- cinc, ana tne cuoux iwy ana rauiui; i Railroad Companies. Under this bill 1 ths President is authorised to appoint a i commission of two Kepublicans, two Democrats and one mem lie r of the Pec pie s party lor a term of one year, with authority to extend to two years at an annual salary of (10,000 each and the necessary expenses. Tbeae commission ers ihall be required to devote their whole time to the work for which they are appointed, their salary to be paid jointly by tbe United States and the railroads interested. The commission is vee ed with authority to ascertain the amount of allvbluiatinns due or to be come due to tbe United State and to enter into an agreement with the com panies to adjust and extend the oonga tlons a mav seem equitable and lust. Tbe intention of the act is to confer such power as will enable the commission to settle with the companies, subject only to the approval of tha Secretary of the Interior and the President, All existing rights of the government are to be pre served, and the commission is vested with authority to take testimony and in voke the aid of the United States courts If T)W MiBAliY v FUflJilTlJRE v GO. H. R. Hyde, -A FULL Furniture OF EVEEY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Carpets! We make a epecialty of UNDERTAKING. Call aiiBwornd night or day. Baltimore biock, Aioany, ur. w v READ President. OHO. t. BIHIHON, Vice-President. 3. 0.WR1THMAN, Secretary W, r. BEAU. rrwiM COWASi TnaiUre, n, A. JULNKIt. Fanners' and Merchants' Insurance Company OF ALOANY, OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK BOARD Of Hon. R.8 BTaAHAM, Hon. J. w. ;tlIOI(. Hnr, 11 ,n. J K. WKATHmiKKHU, Attomoy-at-Law. I, 0. VaiTOMAN, Km., Oaitllaliid, m. .ui..i. .i.....r,.L,ha ibirivor mxtv Willamette vaiwy Bolleifl Th? Fanner' and BruAt' lusumnce r'oKnany pava the lull eutoout oi loss up te t amount Insnrwli The ituUMrihiiw u me oapitatslona coiisiwts ol lanners, rm mhauls. hankers,, capliaiioi". attoiuajs, physlclatis aud lnoouauios, UiaHtt amount hold by sinsui mdirwaal bUK-S. EAST AND SOUTH SOUTHEBN PACIFiC ROUTE. Tlie Bonn! Snosta Routt. kxprem trains leave Portland dally: lm i. "i ll.v..-.l,nrtliid...V.Ar.i; 7: . : . 10:1a r. H-il.v Albany Ar. 4;X1 t. u. H:l(i A. M.IAr ....Hiili KrwlniiH'n.l.v.l 7:00 r. a. Tliuatxiv.- trains atop wily at the fulltiwtng statiuiiH north of Konutmm: JtsNt i'ortlan-l, Or ejtuu Cltr, Wonilburn, Halem. Altianv, Tangent, Shn(l,1,llloy.llrrHliuni,Jur(:lloin:Ul,U-Hllg and Ktiwjue, Kottiuiirff mall dally: U A. H.:i,V rorMMld Ar.l.4:'J0 p. U. 12M6 r. a.;l,v -..Albany Ar. Ill:) r. . :M r Ar Hiwimrn l.v.l 7:i t m. Alnsuy localdally leioentHinnlayl. 36 1. .TCv........lWliS"..,jr.Ar.;10:ll0 i. . COO r. a Ar Albany l.v.l : . m. local nnsKHngartraliiK-dally (except Hiinday). 1:31 r. a. U Albany .,.r..i 21 A. I 3:UP r. a.)Ar.......Uilwliol .... Lv.i v:H0 4. 1:10 a, .,I.r Albany Ar.j IS) r. 0:011 A. a Ar Utlutnnu I,v. t.a r rultuiaii Buflat Nlaaiiara, TOIIKIHI SI.KKI'INO OAK For aiwmrnnoriatlon of IWOK1KH.AHM gun ailacliinl In KXI'ltlMtt THA INK. WKSI IUK IIIVIHK1N. , BSTWSSR POaTI.AHU AMR COKVAU.IS, . Mail train-dally leiMpl Mulder): T:S0 A. VrLZ.lortlaud,'Ar7r: 13:10 r. U. I Ar. .t!orvallla.....Lv. ta:6 r. M. . At Albany and Cnrvallli itonnwit with iralus of Oraxou rauiac rnllmad. Exprew train dally leiwnt Snnday): . 4:40 p. a. I l.v Portland Ar. i : a. a. as T. u. I Ar... Mcmmivllle... Lr. ' S:4 A. a. Through Tickets to all Points East ind South. for tickets and fall Information regarding rates, maps, etc., call on nomriany'Hasimr ai Ib anuu, or, u. KoKIH.KK, Manager. K. t. JtOQKHa. Asst. 8. f. A rim. Aboul G. T. COTTON, -BKAI.ER IN- GROCERIES Provisions. Tobacco, Cigars, Smokers' tides, Etc. Ar- Foreign and Domestie Fruit and Confectionery. Queensware tut Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. MAIN ST.. 1.EHANON, UK, Proprietor. LINE OF- 8000,000 B-IKKeTOB. Hon. J. I. now an. I'roMdnnt Mnn no-Hiity National Bauli. H. 8TRKN HKIIU, KHq., Merchant. W. f. KKA1). Kq,, liiirchiuit, D. B. MONTKJTH. Gaattalka. U. r. HIMP8UN, Kq Capitalist ' - dav e ause In tbe farmers' and Mnmbantf' FA RM