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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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- dav e ause In tbe farmers' and Mnmbantf' FA RM