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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1893)
B. X. KIRKPATRIOK, Publisher. LEBANON... . .OREGON Pennoyer Vetoes the Salute on Isauguration Day. EXTENSION OF THE OREGON PACIFIC Tray of Diamonds Stolen From a Jewelry . Store In Sacramento Marine Ingtoeer Pardoned. Riverside paekera and growers m holding the orange crop back until the Honda trait ie well oat of market. The contract for the construction of the Booth Gila canal haa mat been let to Loa Angeles parties. The work when completed win coat I2,UW,(XN. The wife of B. T. Earle, late snperin tendent of the Stockton combined bar mater works, believes he haa gone to Mexico with a married woman. 0. W. Holleubeck, the Auburn (Gal.) banker, baa been acquitted on an em- benlement coarse, owing to a variance Detween me inutcuneni ana rae proou The Gage canal, which furnishes the water supply lor tne new cable settle ments of Riverside, is being cemented for a distance of six miles, and the work is nearly completed. Phomix, A. T., is apparently In earn est in an endeavor to doits share toward bnilding the proposed Ban Diego and rnmnix railway, nan uiego oners to baud to the uolorado river. The Loa Angeles Board of Supervisors favor the passage of a State law provid ing tbat new counties cannot be formed without the consent of a maioritv ot voters residing within the area of the original oonnty. The Bradstreet mercantile agency re ports fourteen failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the past week, aa compared with thirteen for the previous weea ana sixteen lor the cor responding week of law!. The ease of the Illinois Trust and Sav ings Bank of Chicago against the Los Angelee cable road has been opened in the Superior Court at Loa Angeles. This an euon w lorciose i,oi,uuy worm 01 ontstanamg mortgages. The Governor of Washington has par AnnoA 1 ninm iinnaamnl Q.. L' , a marine engineer. Goniales has served two yean in the penitentiary, but recent circumstances prove bim innocent of the crime lor which he was committed. Traces of strychnine have been found in the atomach of the wife of Henrv Bentley at Loa Angelee. Bentley mar ried tne woman, who was quite wealthy, and it is charged that he had boasted she would be dead at about the time she ded. A small bird inhabitants the valleys and canyons putting into Death Valley, making his home in the mesqnit groves abounding there, ills principal occupa tion seems to be a war of extermination against scorpions, which he is very skill ful in Killing. The Bee Hive, the old residence of Brigham Young at Lake and recently owned and occupied by bis son, John W. Young, haa been sold out on judgment for $67,413.44. The Bee Hive brought 162,607.78 and the other property enough and more to satiety tne judgment. J. A. Pilaster of Loa Angeles, who waa thought to have been murdered, has turned np in Ban Francisco, rflaater disappeared about a year ago and much talk was occasioned over the fact tbat a barber waa accused of killing him and burying him in the yard, which waa dug over to una evidence. A railroad contractor haa just arrived in Albany, Or., from California, where, is stated, be gave up a contract to do so, and will to to work shortly on the ex tension of the Oregon Pacific, which is to connect with the Chicago, Burlington and Qaincv railroad. Ue says it is busi ness this time and no more foolishness. Sergeant Levin of Victoria, B. C, who was suspendedowlng to his investigation into the manner of the death of A. 1. Davis, the Montana millionaire, has been reinstated. The Sergeant believed that the daughter-in-law ol Davia pushed him while he waa drank, and be fell down stairs and was killed. No criminal in tention was discovered. A tray of diamonds was stolen from H. Wachhorat'e jewelry store at Sacramento the other evening. One man broke the piate-glasa windows and another covered the clerk with a pistol, while the first grabbed the tray, when both men dashed np the street and disappeared in Chinatown. They had false whiskers and eouid not be identified. The prospects for an early resumption of operations at tbe Temescal tin mines in San Bernardino county, Cal., are not very encouraging. During tbe past week the Sheriff baa sold at auction a quantity of the movable property of the company to satisfy the accounts of parties to whom the company was indebted when the mine waa closed down some months ago. The arrest of Mrs. Yesler at Seattle. Wash., on the charge of having destroyed the will of her husband, is now believed to be a part of a conspiracy to prejudice the appointment of Mrs. Yesler'a choice as administrator of the estate, and Low man, the disgruntled heir, is the head of the conspiracy. There is much feeling in the city, the Mayor will not involve " the suit. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Postmaster-General Wanamaker Creates Something of an Innovation in Official Life. Senator Dolph has the Bllets Indian reservation bill in proper shape and ready to pass aa soon aa an opportunity occurs tor caning it up. Benator Cullom has introduced a Joint resolution requesting the city authori ties of Philadelphia to lend the United States the Liberty bell for exhibition at the world's Hair. By direction of the President Secre tary Foster of the Treasury Department naa directed tne collectors ot customs at New York, Philadelphia and Boston to suspend the refund of duties upon bat material until turtuer advised. It is understood that M. K. Bell, su perintendent of the Chicago public building, against whom a report of mal feasance in office waa made by Assistant secretary jjamDertaon, naa tendered his resignation to Secretary Foster. It will probably be accepted. The experiments In the treatment of lumpy jaw under the direction of the Department of Agriculture are com pleted. Results ahow tbat of eighty-five cattle treated sixty-eight were complete ly cured. Secretary Rusk Is highly de lighted with tne showing. The Oregon delegation has been in re ceipt ol numerous letters recommending 11. ii. Kees ol Oregon lor appointment aa paymaster In the army, and have in dorsed him for the place, but the Presi dent ia very likely to name some of his personal mends for these places. Benator Mitchell haa introduced a joint resolution providing that where an officer of the United States has been pre sented with a medal and the medal has been lost or destroyed a duplicate should be issued. This is meant to secure a du plicate medal for General H. B. Comp son of Lakeview, whose medal for dis tinguished services waa stolen bv tbe Indiana. The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce has ordered a favorable report on the Senate bill ap propriating 1260,000 for the construction of a ship canal to connect Lakes Union and Washington with Paget Sound. The bill waa reported with an amendment striking out the proposed route by Smith's Cove, leaving the route to be decided upon by the secretary ol War. The rumor la in circulation that. If the present Cjngresa does not repeal the Sherman act, Cleveland haa said that he will convene tbe fifty-third Congress In special aession within thirty days after March 4. Representative McMlllin, a member both ot the Ways and Means and the Rules Committees, says he has been over the ground carefully, and can no possible chance of the repeal of the silver act. The Treasury Department at present holds lees gold than at any time since the resumption act ol January l, 1S7H and in the language of a Treasury offi cial the gold obligationsare greater, with less than S,0iX),WXI free gold to meet them, and $2,600,000 gold engaged for shipment from New York lor Hurope, Treasury officials do not venture a pre diction when the outflow will stop, but state that they see nothing serious in the situation. The Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee baa appointed the following subcommittee to consider the Nicara- guan canal bill : Patterson of Tennes see, Kavnor of Maryland, Price of Lou isiana, ueary oi ualitornia, U'Nellt ol Pennsylvania, ctorer of Oblo and Honk of Obio. At least one member of the committee is strongly opposed to the canal bill. Ibis is Kaynor ol Maryland. some others are believed to be lukewarm. and Genry cannot be relied upon with certainty to favor the bill according to some men who are laminar with the sit uation. Postmaster-General John Wanamaker created something of an innovation in official life recently by giving a reception at bis residence to the employee and at taches of every department of the Post office Department, as well as of the local poe to nee. Tbe event was preceded by a dinner, to which qnite a number of the friends of the Postmaster-General and his wife were invited. This is the first reception of the kind that has ever been given by a member of the Cabinet, and it la expected to lorm an interesting precedent that will be extensively fol lowed in years to come. What is considered in Washington as one of the most significant moves in the entire Hawaiian discanslon was tbe ear nest speech made by Senator Dolph the other day in favor of the United Statee assuming control of tbe Islands. Sena tor Dolph is one of tbe most influential members of the Oommitttee on Foreign Relations, and bis action in these mat ters carries great weight. Tbe speech was full of statistics, giving everything of any value concerning the commercial advantages of Hawaii, and will beatext for tbe discussion that will ansae after the arrival of the Commissioners. It is replete with such information aa both House and senate will need to act in telligently upon the great question. The report of tbe Biletx Indian Com mission, with the draft of a bill for the adoption of the agreement which has been reached with those Indians lor the cession of a portion of their lands, has been received In tbe senate, and upon the reaneat of Senator Dolph. immedi ately sent to the printer, so that it may be considered at an early date. The Senator aays be is going to make every effort to push the bill through, although it is so late in the session tbat be may find it difficult The bill provides that the land shall be thrown open upon the proclamation of the President, but Mr. Dolnh is of the opinion that this will be stricken out and tbe lands opened so soon aa the agreement is ratified by Con gress. He considers the agreement reached wnn the Indians very eutisiao- tory. BEYOND THE ROCKIES. The Large Amount of Natural Gas Wasted in Indiana. NEW YORK BEGGARS TO BE ARRESTED A Negro Hanged In Delaware Nineteen Tears Ago for Criminal Assault Was Innocent Northwestern Iowa la liable to be In volved in a meat famine. Oltlaens of Memphis are endeavoring to suppress tne gambling evil. About forty employes in the New Or leans Mint have been discharged. Kansas sends in the beat wheat report oi any oi toe wneat-growing states. An investigation of the ex-officials of the Illinois Penitentiary la asked for. The Michigan Liquors-Dealers' Asso ciation haa organ tied an Inauranos order, Small game is reported to be very aounoani turougnoui manama mis year. Extraodinary precautions against the cholera have been taken at tbe city of Mexico. Philadelphia capitalists are figuring on starting a new bank in Wall street with $1,000,000 capital. A Philadelphia syndicate haa made extensive purchases oi coffee lands in tae state ot uaxaca, Mexico. The manage of the Chicago Fair are counting upon $6,1 UO.OUU in receipts for concessions granted Dy mem. Mexico's exports to the United Btates during the past nsoai year aggregated $4,049,688 more than during the previous year. The fifty-cent Columbian stamps, It is discovered by a St. ixmis pussle nend contains the picture of a man smoking a agar. The Union Pacific threatens to make the rate from Ooden to Missouri river points $20, and a hot rate war is ex pected. Barbers in Ohio are agitating for a law which shall make it legally possible for a white barber to refuse to sbave a col ored man. Six of the public schools of Milwaukee have been closed bv tbe Healtb Com missioners because of their unsanitary condition. r In Louisville a man named Manning has been arrested who is charged with selling charms warranted to cure all sort of illness. The Senate baa passed the bill to re fer to the Court of-Claims tbe claim of Jessie Benton Fremont to certain lands in San Francisco. A Chicago lawyer haa suggested that ex-Presidents, when they possess the legal requirements, be named lor su preme Court Justices. Fonr saloons were erected in the mid die of the Ohio river, which wasentlrely frozen at Louisville, and did a thriving business tor many days. As the result of a recent order by the government the immigration commis sions paid by railroads to steamship companies will be reduced. Governor Hogg of Texas, in his mes sage to tbe Legislature of that State. advocated the taxation of venders of deadly weapons and cigarettes. Senator Warner Miller says Hunting ton and the Southern Pacific interests are in opposition to tbe Nicaragua Canal, and their agents are at work in Wash ington. -A bill to orohlbit nriie-flghting In In diana, providing tbat principals should be fined $6,000 and the newspapers $3,000 for printing advance notices, was allien in tne uouse. The Geologist of Indiana says that enough gas has been wasted In its belt to supply every lamlly in tbe State lor two years, and tbat $22,000,000 is but a fair measure of the loss. Police Superintendent Byrnes of New York has issued orders to tbe police to arrest all beggara caught plying their trade. They had made general nuis ances of themselves. Fonr thousand new poatoffices were established during the last year, 557,046 nnmailable letters poured into the boxes, 32,012 of them wholly without any out side sign, symbol or address. An election contest in Massachusetts haa developed the fact that the success ful candidate for Representative in the Wellington district was naturalized only the day before he waa elected. The Minnesota Legislature is getting ready to try a sew form of paternalism. It is proposed to amend the State Con stitution so aa to enable the State to in sure all farm buildings at coat. To the British emigrants who will take up land in the northwest of British Co lumbia the Canadian government ia of fering through the London immigrants' Information Office bonuses of $6 to $10 a bead. Miss Nellie Ahem will be the next State Librarian at Indianapolis. This was decided at a caucus of the two Houses in which sixtv-fonr votes were for Miss A hern and only eight for tbe male candidate. A Washington disoatch lavs It has in formation from a thoroughly reliable sonrce that M. M. Estee upon the part of San Francisco has offered the Santa Fe $10,000,00,) if the road would build into the city. The Ohickamauga National Park Com missioners have offered $17,000,000 for eight acres of ground on Orchard Knob, Tennessee, where Generals Grant and Thomas stood and watched the battle of Missionary Ridge. INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES, The Gold and Silver Output of Mexico for the Past (Twelve Years -The Ivory Trade Increasing. . Four-fifths of the engines now working in the world have been constructed dur ing the last twenty-five years. In making champagne the grapes are squeesed six times, each pressure mak ing wine of a different quality. One ol the oldest and most conserva tive trust companies in Philadelphia holds $380,000,000 of trust estates. Electricity Is used for making forglnga, amen, railroad spikes, bail bearing and other articles hitherto made by band. The value of the honey and wax pro duced in the United States during the past year has been estimated at $20,000, 000. It ia said all the building trades of Chicago will on April 1 demand Increased pay and a contract excluding non-union workmen. Horses are so plentiful In Buenos Ayres that everybody has at least one. It is said that even the beggara beg on horseback. English capitalists are reported to have become interested in the coal fields of Ohio county, Ky., and propose to de velop them. The Languedoe Ship Canal iu France, by a short passage of 148 miles, saves a sea voyage of 2,000 miles by the straits of Gibraltar. The boors of 7,000 men on the Onion Pacific railroad system have been re duced from nine to eight and only sevea on Saturday. A druggist at Chicago believes that If he could secure the soda water privileges at the World's Fair his fortune would be made for life. An Ingenious Boston man has Inst nat- ented an electrical device designed to automatically play banjos, mandolins, guitars and harps. A year ago there were only fifty people In the mining settlement of Cripple Creek, Col. Now It la a thriving town of 10,000 inhabitants. Fonr hundred acres of land in Linn county. Mo., fenced and seeded to tim othy, but without buildings, was re cently sold (or $30 an acre. Tbe largest telephone center In the world Is that in the Exchange in Berlin, Germany, where 7,000 wires are con nected with the main office. An Inventor who recently had an idea patented in every country of the world where the patent law exists had to pay jast $14,660 for the privileges. One hundred thousand tons of silver and 800 tons of gold, representing a money value oi $4,82U,oou,uwi. bave been produced in Mexico since 1881. A recent Invention Is a new type of refrigerator car tbat can be run for twenty days without re-icing. It is charged with Ice and certain ohemicals. There is a scheme on font for the estab lishment of a $5,000,000 steel plant at Galveston, Texas, similar to the steel works at Chicago, Pittsburg and Cleve land. In 1860 the United 8tates -produced 60,000 tons ol paper. In IrillO the pro duction was 1,200,000 tons or 160,000 tons more than the total product of European paper mills. Four million tons of the finest ice ever housed and 600,000 tons stacked for early use, is the Hudson river winter harvest. It has been gathered at an es timated cost of 20 cento per ton. A glass factory at Liverpool has "glass journal boxes lor all its machinery. a glass floor, glass shingles on the roof and smokestack 106 leet high, built wholly of glass bricks, each a foot square." AliBAJlY v FORTOE v CO. H. R. Hyde, A FULL Furniture OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Csirpets! We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered niirht or day. ; Baltimore Block, Albany, Or. W. P. HEAD, President. GKO. F. SIMPSON, Vloft'l'resident. ' J. O. WIHTOMAN, Secretary J..L. COWAN, Treamrer. : JC. A. U11.NKU. w Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company OF ALBANY, OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK BOARD OF Moo. R. B. STKAHAN, I f:iuef Jaatloe of Supreme Oourt. Hon. J. W. OTIS10K, Banker. Hon, J. K. WKATHKItPUHli. Altomovt-Uw. J. 0. WKITHMAN, Esq., CapllalUt, Willamette valley utna uompanr.. No two' thirds, three-lonrlhl. tlilrtv or sistv-d.v polleles. The Farmers' aud Merchants' Insuraiioe (lomiwny pavs the full amount ot loss up to the amount Insured. The subscriber to the eanlta) stoolt consists ol larmers. mf reliant., bankers. capitalists, attoiueys, pnyalclaus and uittuhauios, veins tMM EAST AND SOUTH The Shasta Route SOUTHER PACIFIC CO. Rxprea trtlui leave PorUtud dally: 7:00 r. H.Lv..V',J,nrtiitnd,7....Ar, f A."L 10:'2H r. H. I.T Albany Ar.l 4:2S a. U. HMfi 4. M.Ar Hun Krttllolnnn.Lv, 7:00 t, H. Tliu Above trttliifj tuip mily tu tli following lUtloiiH uurtli of KoaWbtirff: Knat for Hand, Of DKoii City, WtHKlbuni, Bttlem, Albany, TftiiRnt, riumlri, Hitlaey.ilKrriibunf, J auction UHy, liviug and Kuxornj. Koimhurtt mail da My : ;:10 a. l.v I'ortimid Ar, i.W r, M. Vi;if r. u Lv Albany A v. V2:W r. u. 6:W p. M, Ar. Niim'burg Lv, 7:00 A. M. A 1 rutty local-dally (except Humlay). 4:W t. M,Iv,.,.ioVUttiiI,.Arlib:I A. M. 9:9) r. M,Ar, Albany I.v. fl:HU a. U. I.wi.1 panwnrartralim dally oxraptHmiday). 1:'J0 p. h. Lv Albany Ar. 10.21 a. m. i!:W p. h. Ar liUbanou Lv. 9:30 a. u. 8:10 A. M. l.v Albany Ar. 1:26 p. M. :0U A. M. Ar Minium Lv. : p, M. lllnln Curt on Offden Kniita. PULLMAN HIirrKT HLHPKUM AND Haond-Olaa HI a phi Vmr AtUohod t All Through TritJnB. WEST HI1IK DIVIHION. Bktwkin Portland and Ourvalui. Mall train-dally (eicgittHnnday); 7 :S0 a ,'V V 1" . ....... 1'or tin n d.,...Ar7 J ft :J a . I 12:10 P. M. Ar Corvallli l.v. I Vi:ft p, I At Albany and Corvallli connaetwlth train of OrRuii rat-illto railroad, Kxpreww train dally 'wrapt Hmidayh 4:40 p. u. I Lv I'ortlatid I'M p. M. Ar,.,.Mt-MhmvMlft,. I,v." and Ktiropwean be obtained at loweatratea front 1. A. Uenuetts affQut, Lubanoii. H. KOKHLKR, Maoagar. E. P. UOOEKJi. Ant. U. K. A Paaa. Arhul .G. T. COTTON, DEALER IN- GROCERIES Provisions. Tobacco, Cigars, Smokers' Ar ticles, Etc. Foreign and Domeatie Fruits and Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures, MAIM ST.. MC II ANON, OU. Proprietor. LINE OF AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! 8600,000 U1BECTOHS. Hon. J. Jj. COWAN, President Linn Conutv National Bank. M. hTKRNRRKII, Esq., Merouaut. W. r. RKAP. Km., HarasaM. I). S. MtlNTKITlt. Oanltaltst. O. r. HlMi'BON, Esq., Capitalist elanso In ttie Farmers' aud slerohniiu1 s A RM lua largest amount uald by slusle individuals