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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1893)
. 1 V:--..:-o.-.,-:-ii--:--iv.:?:i' FROM WASHINGTON CITY. PURELY PERSONAL EAST AND SOUTH H. T. KIKKPATKIOK, Publisher. LEBANON...... OREGON A Tacoma Man Falls Heir to a Fortune in Teias. SODTHERH CALIFORNIA ORANGES. Analyse of the Body of a Los Angeles Married Woman' Prow That She Was Poisoned. Idaho hu appropriated $30,000 for the World fait. Southern Califoraia Is shipping bat few orange. It ia waiting for the Flor ida crop to baeome exhausted. J. D. Kaiser, ex-Ohief of the Fire De partment of Tacoma, naa lauen neir w kiortune in Tezaa estimated at $400,000. T Kutam Onnm the Intenn cold. together with the heavy anowfalla, ia eaming peat nuTering among the itock on the ranges. Five women were arretted and eaoh fined $1 and costs at Pruanix, A. T.. for riding aatride om honeback, dressed in Mather Hubbard. Dolores Oehoa, a Mexican resident of Fhomix, A. T., and one of the oldest men in the eonntrr, ia dead, having reathed the age of 116 years. The Stockton Association lays there la nothing in the atory that stamboul's rec ord el 2 &1H waa obtained by band. The hole matter ia to be thoroughly inves tigated, The large irrigation ditch to be eon itrncted in Owyhee eonnty, Idaho, will be 160 milea long, and will irrigate 350, 000 aerea of deeert lands. Water will be taken from the Bnake. , The analyses so far of the body of Mrs. ' Kordholt-Bentley at Los Anaeles show that she was poisoned. Bentley, it is believed, had accomplices, ami a sensa tional trial is anticipated. The eonrt at Fhomix, A. T., has de aided that a hall where drinka were sold and music played by three women on a stage, one of whom was dressed in male attire, ia not a variety show. Sacramento's Chinatown is in a fever of excitement over the shooting by high binders of a Chinaman while coming oat of the Mission School and the stab bing of Ah Wing on the streets. The Oregon State DemocratlcCommit tee regrets the attitude of Governor Pennoyer toward Mr. Cleveland, and considers his utterances against the President-elect aa unwarranted and sen sational. The Southern Californian Smelting and Betining Company at Los Angeles t... Wtm the work of Drenaring ground for a smelter, and expects to have the machinery In place ana reaay rar open, tion early in April. The owners of sealers and masters at Victoria, B. C, have been notified that they most have the names of vessels maintarf All both sides of the bow and at the stern. On the latter there mast also be the home port or port of register. The Ballona Harbor and Improvement Company, Los Angeles county, Cat., is toing the Bant Fe for the recovery of the road to Loa Angeles and terminal privileges, which had been granted on auditions that the road has not com plied with. n.. Tka Harriet Water Company in San Bernardino county, Oal., has at an enormous expenditure erected at their teservoir site in Hemet Valley a colossal masonry dam, which in pointof eise and -i,h,lii ia not eaualed on the Ameri can Continent. The fntnre development of the San Jacinto vauey in iueunu i t .fnttiiM wilt be denendent on this water supply which is notoontrolled by the caprices of the season. The Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune learns that the prospect for extensive devel opment work being done in the Elk City riiitrict this summer is exueeo- inalv good. It states that three claims raw and 2.6O0 respectively. These ZliL h.oaamnaed the greatest excite ment in the eamp, and everything bear ing mineral oi the remotest, u i iZ iti in tha hnne of sharing in the general favor with which that country is now regarded. Klamath county Is the latest seat of gold excitement. A settiw named Took, on the soath tide of the Klamath river about one and one-half miles from Keno, wss digging a well, and at a depth of sixty feet he strnck a formation from .UU, nannarl ont tl.fk) 10 gold With an ordinary skillet. The gold was prob ably from the stratum of blue gravel, which underlies a large portion of the lake and Klamath river country, and it may lead to the development ol some rood drift mines there. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re--.t fnrinn failures in the I'acitlo Coast States and Territories for the past week, as compared with fourteen for the previous week and eleven for the corre sponding week of 1892. There were sev enty failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the montn oi janq .ith aaaata of 1269.540 and .liabili ties of 477,030, as compared with eighty two for the previous month, with assets of 1646,366 and liabilities of $881,353, and ijrhtv-six for the corresponding month oi IKttt, with ateetaof U9,4u6 and 11- -" t)illUeaoffo7,0il&. Negotiations for the Settlement of the Neve Case Progressing Very Satisfactorlly-Etc. Senator Dubois has introduced a bill making Bonner's Ferry a port of entry. The bill is indorsed by the Treasury De psrtment, and may pats this session. The neootiatlona for the settlement ol the Neve ease is proceeding so satis factorily that the war ship Atlanta nas been recalled from her special mission to Port-au-Prince, where she waa sent to enforce the demands of this government. Fithian of the Committee on Census baa made a minority report to the House, protesting against the passage of the bill providing for a permanent census bu reau. Baker of Kansas and Lawaon of Georgia signed the report with Fithian, The House Naval Committee decided to make no provision in the naval ap propriation bill this year for new cruis ers or battleships. One new $400,000 gunboat is the only vessel provided for. The total appropriation is $2,000,000 less than last year. The best informed people believe there will be an extra session not later than the middle of April. It is believed the Democratic leaders think this, and for that reason they are not attempting to crowd some matters of legislation they feel are necessary. The Civil Service Commission, It is al leged, summoned Collector of Customs T. G. Phelps of Ban Francisco to Wash ington for the purpose of answering the charges that he removed certain customs emplovee because they had re (used to contribute to the Republican campaign fund. It is also stated that the San Francisco Examintr hss been called on to furnish testimony in the ease, having published serious charges of offensive partisanship against Phelps. No date has been set for hearing so far aa known. Oates' renorton the Homestead trouble is accompanied in its presentation to the House by minority reports, expres sing the same general conclusions in a different way. Hope is expressed that the thought ol the age win uevise some means to secure an equitable division of the nrofits between emnloves and em ployer. In conclusion the opinion is expressed that the evils disclosed by the investigation are entirely beyond the reach of Federal power, and the reme dies, if any can be devised, must origi nate with the Btate governments. The naval annronriation bill as agreed upon by the Committee of Naval Allaire carries an aggregate amount in round numbers of 120,007,000. The appropri ation for the current fiscal year is 23,- 643,266, and the estimates for next year 124,773,998. There is no appropriation in the bill for the pro nosed naval review next May. The Senate, therefore, will have to be looked to for the appropria tion to carrv out the promise implied in our invitation to foreign nations. One new gunboat is authorised, and for the payment oi vessels neretoiore entnor ujed to be built S6.16O.0OO ia appropri ated, including 1260,000 under the head of "equipment." Among the ap propriations for new public works u S2o6,ouu lor the continuation oi tne ru get Bound dry-dock work. Secrete rv Foster of the Treasury De partment has Men nocmeo tnat tns American flair will be formally raised upon the Inman steamers City of New York and uity oi rans at new ioti on Washington's birthday. The event will be celebrated with great pomp. Many distinguished people have been invited. The President, who regards me act oi the City of New York and the City of Paris in taking American register and sailing under the Stan and Stripes aa the orowning act of his administration, will himself pull up the Sags. He will be accompanied to New York by all the memneH ol me uaDintrt. ana on tnu oc casion will also be present the members of the Senate and House Naval Affairs Committees, distinguished members of Congress and the principal officers of the Navy Department as toeir invitea guests. When the Senate Committee on For eign Relations reported the Russian ex tradition treaty, it was with an amend ment that attempt to murder the Caar or any member of the royal family shall be considered non-pouucai onenses, re eardleaa of what the motive of the crim- inai mnitii uu. nuu iiwv uviuk uuu-uuiiit iral thev should be extraditable. This clause was productive of a great deal of debate. Tarnie was the champion for the right of asylam, but the committee was finally sustained. Turpie was not satisfied with this action, and intro duced a resolution recently intended as an offeet to the terms of the treaty. The resolution declares it is the sense ot the Senate that jurisdiction in what ia known as political offenses ought not to be extra territorial, and no treaty should be anDroved which proposes to mice irotn the courts ol the United States the right to determine whether or not an offense is political under the law ol nations. Business men in public life fear that financial disturbance is near at hand. It ia said that Secretary Foster has pre pared to avoid any difficulty in the Treas ury by purchasing gold by issuing an enormous amount oi bonds. As high as t2U0,0O3,O0O rumor places the amount. This statement is made flatly, and goes so far as to say that the bonds have al ready been placed ana an agreement reached for their immediate exchange for gold, the arrangement being made in anticipation of the result of the silver vote in the House, which it is feared will precipitate a criais. Whatever may be done by the present Secretary of the Treasury, it is now conceded that Cleve land will early call an extra session of Congress to repeal the Sherman law and by his own personal power and actual patronage and persuasion force the bill through, beginning by having the House organised under common-sens rules, which will bring the Hoots to a vote. Boomers Along the Cherokee Strip Suffer From Cold. CARNEGIE REDUCES WAGES AGAIN. Ad Immense Ledge of Lithographic Stone Discovered Near St Louis Sword of Cortes. Nebraska will send 300 cowboys to the World's Fair. In Baltimore the lowest fine for policy gambling ia 1200. Boston wants authority to light the city with it own plant. The brass manufacturer of Canada have formed a combine. An antl-Plnkerton bill was Introduced In the Wisconsin Legislator. Boston is taking subscriptions for a monument to Phiiitps Brook. Lieutenant Peary will set out on hit Arctic expedition about July I. The Western farmer: are holding on to 104,000,000 bushels of wheat. Hall a million a year is to be spent to protect New York's water supply. The sword of Cortes will be among Mexico' exhibit at the World's Fair. Oamssie has reduced wage at the Ed gar Thomaon Steel Work at Braddock, Pa. The old New York Hotel In New York city ha been sold to a syndicate of cap italists. Canadian estimate for the ensuing year contain appropriations of $4,630,200 for canal. Nahraaka'a Legislature will mo be the frauds back of Lincoln' Capital National Bank failure. The United State foreran commerce for the last fiscal year amounted to over 2,0OO,OO0,0O0. Through the medium ol a matrimonial paper a Pittsburg man became engaged to his own daugnier. Oklahoma farmers are tubllant over the late snows, which will prove very beneficial to the crop. The railroads centering in Chicago will expend at least 160,000,000 in prepara tion for the World's Fair, The Harrison Telephone Company, with (80,000,000 capital, has been incor porated under the laws of Illinois. A ledge of lithographic stone sufficient to supply the world for 600 years ha been discovered near St. Louts, mo. The boomers camped along the Chero kee strip have suffered intensely Irom the raid, several nave irosen to aeain, Professor W. F. Whitlook has been se lected Chairman of the Book Committee of the Methodist Church of the United States. Hanlan and Qaudanr have signed ar ticle to row for the championship of America and $1,000 a side in Toronto on July 22. St. Louis feels good. Beer Is selling at $3 per barrel, 2 cent par schooner, and her 4-per-eent bond are nabbed up by capitalists at 101. There will be in the neighborhood of 326 consular position subject to appoint ment by President Uleveiana ana nis Secretary of State. For over $2,000,000 the Weyerhouser syndicate has bought 600,000,000 feet of Minnesota pine lumber, planning to control the market. The Pullman Car Comsianv will have to pay taxes on property in Nebraska in future. Judge Dundy of the Federal Court has sodscided. Aiuordlnor to the estimate of the Poetr master-General, the receipts of bis de partment for the next fiscal year will exceed the expenditures. Three of the largest silk mills in the United States have formed a syndicate to control the production of line-grade silk good in the country. (tnvernment emoloves of the military anri nivil aarvicee are complaining bit terly of the losses they sustain tnrougn the depreciation oi euver. Misa Anna E. Dickinson has begun suit at Scranton. Pa., against eight per sons wbo were instrumental in having her placed in an insane asylum. RaoonoB and transfer comnanies along tha Naw York Central railroad have combined aa the Consolidated Transfer Company, with $1,600,000 capital. It is proposed to levy a poll tax of $100 per annum on all Chinese residents of Canada. Enough to psy fare by under ground railroad to all parts of the United States. Montreal is now at the beginning of the winter carnival, which will last until the close of Mardi-Uras. Tobogganing, skating and snow-shoeing will be in dulged in. The Department of Public Works at Ottawa will shortly call for designs for the erection ol a monument on rania- ment Hill to the memory of the late Bir John Macdonald. A movement is on foot to form a new traeiiim comnanv. with a capital of iiu, 000,000, out of the street car lines not now under the control oi tue jrmiauei- pbla Traction Company. The Senate has ratified the agreement entered into between the Northern 1'a cific railroad and tbePnyaliup Indians of Washington, whereby the railroad is given a right-of-way sixty feet wide across the reservation for a spur of its road 1,878 feet long. The agreement was amended in one particular by pro riding that the Indians shall receive not less than $l,ow an acre lor weir land, Lieutenant Totten Resigns From the United States Army Cyrus W. Field Place Sold. The lull name ol the Populist Gov ernor ol Kansas Is Lorain Demosthenes Lewelling. W. Clark Russell, the novelist, whom all Europe is raging over just now, waa born in tne old carieton Hotel on uroaa way, New York, in 1844. During the twelve years tlnce General Haves retired Irom the While House there is no record of hit having submit ted to a political interview. Senator Colquitt, of whom It waa said a few weeks ago that he would never re cover Irom his illness, expects to attend the Inauguration ol Mr. Cleveland, Burne Jones says that the only one ol his paintings which wearied him was his most famous painting, "The Golden Stairs." He declares that he got "so tired of those girls. Patti receives $2,000 a night for her operatic performances at La Scala in Milan. In England the diva' rates are higher, for she Is paid $4,000 for every concert in London and $2,000 for con certs In th provinces. The Cyrus W. Field place at Irvlngton has become the residence of A. L. Bar ber by purchase. The new owner has been for many years the principal stock holder in and President of the largest asphalt company hi this country. Lieutenant Totten, the New Haven prophet, has resigned from the army, to take efieot next August. He will then probably devote his entire time to the arrangement of the grand final cata clysm which ha so far failed to come up to his advertisements. Jenny Lind made many contribution to the Swedish Episcopal Church in Chi cago, St. Ansgarlus, which was founded in 1849. This is the oldest congregation of that nationality in this country, and he took a great interest in it. The com munion set ol this ennren, one oi ner gilts, is very elaborate. Prof. Crouch, the octogenarian niusl- ian and father of Cora Pearl, waa well enough to go to Philadelphia the other day from Baltimore for medical advice. His health la mucn improved, ana though now 86, he appears younger. He passes his time in Baltimore, writing lyrics (or the press and stage. Ex-Consul Alexander It. Webb, who is preparing to preach the true faith of the Prophet Mahomet to this Occidental nation, 1 personally a very genial and companionable man. He is polite, ena ble, witty, and makes friends a he hopes to make proselytes wherever he goes. Mr. Webb ha progressed from Presbyterianism through materialism to Buddhism, and now to Islamiam. Hs is a ready speaker, an amateur actor and a clever newspaper man. Jndge E. Bockwood Hoar while in Washington one day last week wit in the House of Representatives awhile telling stories to ex-Speaker Bead apropos of that aentleman's famous ruling. He said it made him think of an observa tion of President Lincoln on one occa sion. A de eaatlon ol colorea men naa waited upon Mr. Lincoln, and be, being at a lota to know just what to say to them, not knowing their exact mission, remarked: "Well, all who are here ap pear to be present." Ex-Secratarv Endicott has Inherited from the late William Endicott of Salem and London, the famous John Endicott farm of Salem, which is a part of the original grant to Governor John Endi cott, and includes tue old fiudieott Dury ing place and the Endicott pear tree. Judge Endicott, who now comes into nossees ion of the estate is a direct de scendant of Governor Endicott The property ha never yet been out of the Endicott lamlly since tne original gram, about jt)3U. ftliBAHV v FURNITURE v CO. H. R. Hyde, A FULL Furniture OF EVEKY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Carpets! We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls aimwared night or day. Baltimore Block, Albany, Or. W. F KKAD, Fraiident- OKO. r. SIMPSON, Vlce-Presldollt. J. O. WIUTHMAN.UtMlretary J. L. COWAN, Treakurer. It. A. MILNKK. Fanners' and Merchants Insurance Company OF ALBANY, OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK BOARD OF Hon- K. 8. STKAHAN. v.hmt Justice of Hupraais Court, Hon. J. W. CnaiUK, Bunker. Hon, J. K WKATIIEKKIKU, Attornes-at-Uw. J. 0. WBI'lUMAN, Knq., CapitaUnt, , wlH.mnir. U.IUif F.H.t.l lUimn.K. m .-n.thini. t)iM..fnHrih,. tiiirtv nt .iictv policies. The Farmers' aud Merchants' Insurance Oompsnr pays the full amount si low lip Ue amount Insured. The subscribers to the Mnltal slock consists ol termers, merohauu. hankers, canliallst.attorueyi,physlcUiuaudiluuiioi,UieuirseM eaouni held by simile ludlvtilwUa being l),W0. The Shasta Route SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. Kxpreu train, leave PortUMl dully; 7:00 . u ll,v "...Foftliiiid.."!...Ar.l 7:A. M. 10:2K p. H.tliT Albany Ar, 4:it a. U. H:iA a. H.Ar Hhu Kraimlmtfi.Lv.l 7-00 r. M. Thcdhove train niop uuly at tliu follow lug tntiotiH north of ItowburR: Kant For timid, Ot sMiou City, Wood burn, Halom, Albany, Taugent, NWriit, ((atrwy, IJarrUUurjit Jhu uiloyOtty, Mrvlug and Kufttjuij. Koni'hnrtrniall rtally: 1 '' v v KM A. M. IjV 1'ortlaiid Ar. 4;'i0 t. U. Vi:4f r. U, l.v Albany Ar. 12: f. M. 6:fi0 P. M, Ar .Howlimn... Lv. 7:00 A. M, AlPauy lonal--dalty (oxoept Hmidayj. tVOO fT M.ILv .77 lrtUnl."tV.7. A r. j 10 :J A. U. 9:00 P. M.Ar Albany .....1,v. 6:W a. K. lwiiliHiiiBi)pTarr.ralt)ii-daMy oxrontHimday). l:-20 p. M. l.v ....Albany t, lb.il a. m. 'i',09 r. H. Ar Utauuu l.v. 9Ma.u. I 8:10 a. h. l.v Albany Ar. iat p. H. 9:00A. M. Ar Uhai)OH...........Lv. T.'S p. H, Dining Can on Ofcdftn KuuUit PULLMAN HUFFKT BLKBPICJIIft Bfiupd-Ola NltmplPir Dam Attached U All Through Tntlna WHAT MltH mVlHION. UarwRKN Portland ahb Ooavam Hall train -Jally (fiwpt Hnuday): 7:S0 a7 H. I 'U...r..Vortlaiid.......Arri 12:10 P. M. Ar.. Corvalllw.. l.v. 12:5ft p. U, At Albanv ami (TiirvBllli connwitwlth tralni of Urexou htullli' railroad. KxprM train-dally Qgpppt Bnnrtav): 4:40 v. H. 1-M P. H. ....Portland Ar. i 8:) A. H. McMlmivllI....Lv. ' SAf, a. M. TUPfsllfiU TlfVPTI To "u Milt In the lMlUUbn ilLMUu KMtem Kiaian, Cat pad a and KnrntM aan be obtain! at lowtttt rata. Irom I. A. UuHimtt. urbiU, Uuwioti, n. kUKiii.KK. nauagw. K. V. ROOKHH. A ait, U. K. A Paaa. AtnuL G. T. COTTON, -UKALEK IN- GROCERIES Provisions. Tobacco, Cigars, Smokers' Ar ticles, Etc. Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Confectionery. Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. MAIN ST.. LEBANON, OK. Proprietor. LINE OK 8800,000 DIRKCTORB. Hon. J. L. COWAN, PreNideut Uun County Nallooal f 11. BTltP.N IIKKU, Kq., tloralwnt, W, F. RKAU. ttwi., Meranaut. II. B MONTMTH. L'anlUlllt. ' 0. P.SIMI'BON, Esq.. Capitalist. - ilitv ciIhiims in the Farmers' and MerflheuW FA KM f I IS