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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1893)
T s H B. I. KIllKPATIlICK. rubllsher. LERAJiOX..... OREGON OCCIDENTAL MELAM The Mining Fever Breaks Out at Medford, Oregon. CRATER LAKE i SUMMER RESORT. Mat Owners of northern Idaho Threaten to Close Down on Account of High Freight Rates. The ice in the Fraser river ia breaking op. The Oregon 8enate bee peaaed a free- coinage resolution. An irrigation eompany proposes to dam the Monavs at Victor Narrows, where the river passes through a granite gorge 175 teet in height and not over 100 Met aeross at the widest point of the rimmed dam. A lake will be lormea nine milea long, three to five miles wide and ol an average depth ol thirty feet, with sufficient water to irrigate 250,000 acres of government land, now unoccu pied tor the most pan. Indian eaynses are dying by hundreds on the Umatilla reservation. The mow is reported to be three feet deep, and the caynsee are tumble to reach the grass. Their owners, true to Indian tradition, neglected to provide last summer for a possible cold winter. Many who were rich in ponies when the winter began will come oat in the spring on an eqnal ity with their poorest neighbors, so far as wealth is concerned. Petitions are now being circulated in all the labor centers in Montana for the enactment of a bill, animportanteection of which is as follows : "That it will be nnlawfnl for any officer of the btateof Montana or any officer of any town or city thereof to issue a license to engage in any kind ot business within this State to any person or persons not citizens or not having declared their intentions to become alliens of the United States." This is a sweeping blow at the Chinese and will, if it becomes a law, shut np every store, restaurant and laundry ran by Chinese in the State. The mining fever has broken oat in Medford, Or., and professional, business and laboring men are looking toward the hills and anxiously awaiting a settle ment of the weather with a view of tak ing a prospecting tour. Jiew impetus is given to the excitement each day by the return of prospectors with specimens of rich gold-bearing quarts and glowing ac counts of the possibilities of the mineral belt of Southern Oregon. Bat all pre vhias returns were totally eclipsed when D. H. Horn came to town with a pock etful of quarts. Many of the specimens eontained almost an equal amount of gold and quarts, some of the particles of gold being as large aa a pea. five pounds of this rock, when pounded out by a hand mortar, produced over $101, which would run the percentage np to the modest sum of MO.tiOO to the ton. It is reported from Central Point, a station on the Southern Pacific four mile Wt of Medford, -Or., that the railroad eompany has entered into an agreement with f. T. Fradenburgh to carry passengers between that point and Orator lake in the Cascade Mountains. The distance from the railroad to the lake is eighty miles, and a stage line is i to be established between the two points. Mr. Fradenburgh eays the railroad has guaranteed him 1,000 passengers at 18 each. He has already purchased snffi eient stsge coaches to accommodate this amber of tourists, and it is his purpose to erect a summer hotel at the lake. In good weather the road to the lake is all right for driving, and the round trip can be made in Ave days without a change of horses. It ia thought that Crater Lake will be a popular resort lor tourists and pleasure seekers this summer. The possibility of the reservation of this land by the government for a national park probably accounts for the action taken by the railroad. , ;. ,,'.,, I John Hayes Hammond, Geoeral Man ager ol the Backer Hili and Saliivan' sil ver mine at Wardner, Idaho, -has re ceived word'imra tiortfcem railroads which has about convinced him that he wili close down the mine. Nearly all of the 'Other .great; mines, will also close down. For some ninths past Mr. Hammond and others of the Mine Own ers' Association have been endeavoring to get a reduction of freights from the Northern Pacific and Union Pacihc rail roads, which carry their ores and con centrates to Taroma, Denverand Omaha smelters. Mine owners have gone so far as to oneraslidingscaleof compensation for carrying, so that when silver and lead come op again the railroads will re ceive more than they did before. To ' tneae overtures, however, the railroads have been deaf, and as (so Mr. Ham mond tells) It is costing them nearly doable to work their mines than it doss Mr. Hagirin and other mine owners at Butte and Anaconda, near at hand, they cannot eontinne aria mast close down mat March 1.! Mr. Hammond said: "I don't see any other way to do. We have either got to cat on the expenses of mining or in freights. We cannot, however, eat enough to enable na to work. Any cat then would not make enough difference if we got no redaction on freight The ontlook is not encoar sriw lor silver mine owners and it seems only thing for mining in genr ; repeal Jr - -rnnan $M." PURELY PERSONAL The Only British Survivor of the Battle of Navarino LI Hung Chang, Viceroy of China. Mrs. Emmons Blaine ha given to the city of Angnsta, Me., $ lO.ft 0 to found a library in Honor ol her nneband'a mem ory. Catherine E. Con war. recently ap pointed one ol the Police Commissioners of Massachusetts, is one of the editors ol the Boston rUoL Fran K. F. Bosson, the first Russian woman to take the degree of doctor ol medicine, recently celebrated the twenty- nitn anniversary ol tnai event. The next Fourth of July will be a big occasion in rlewburyport, the colossal hronse statue of William Lloyd Garrison having to he unveiled at that time. Donna Isadora Cousins of South Amer ica, who is claimed to be the richest widow in the world, has an income of $80,000. per month from her coal mines alone. Henry B. Fuller is writing a novel on Chicago society life. If he knows much about it and tells what he knows, his book will have a great run outside ol Uhicago. A gypsy seercss predicted that the Archduchess Isabella ol Austria would have twelve daughters before a son and heir varied the monotony. She has got as far as Ho. 7. Charles de Lessens, in the Mssss orison at Paris, is required to make hie own bed, mean an his cell and wash his own dishes disagreeable duties for "a man of the world." Little King Alphonse of Bpain has pulled through his attack of scarlatina, and would he quite content to see doe tors, who dosed him with nasty physic, led away to be executed. Louis Jennings, formerly of the Sew York Timet, who has sat aa a Conserva tive for many years in the House of Commons, announces tnat be will soon retire from Parliament life. Emile Zola's aspirations to a seat among the immortals of the Academic rrancaue are not Hampered by a lacs ot ready money. He is very rich, and is said to have made over (400,000 from the sale of his novels alone. Li Hung Chang, Vioerov of China, is one of the moat important people in the world, althou'li bis name is so little known over here. He is first and last a patriot, and his watchword is China and her treasures and commerce for the Chinese. He has never sought popular ity, neither is he afraid of opposition. So far as is known, Admiral Sir Eras mus Ommanney is now the only British survivorof the battle of Navarino. Born in IBM, he was then a middy of 18. Sir Erasmus is best remembered in connec tion with the Arctic search expedition of I860, when be was second in command, and discovered the first traces of Frank lin. . For his services on that occasion be received knighthood. . A friend of the late Bishop Brooks au thorises the statement that the current reports as to his wealth are wholly with out foundation. Tne only use which Dr. Brooks eared to make of money was to distribute it among those who needed it and his daily life waa marked by open- handed and tender charity, bo tar was he from using his talents sa a means of accumulating property that at the time of his death he had not sufficient income beyond his salary to support his simple and unassuming manner ot life. INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES. The output of American manufactories for the past year was $7,216,000,000 in value. There are estimated to be over six hundred deposits of iron ore in the State ofMissonri. y.t Southwestern Missouri furnishes SO per cent of the sine on mined in the. United States. ...... It costs the United Skates government 11.600 a day for firing morning and evening salutes. , The Pennsylvania system of railway has now a length of main track aggrega ting 7,97K miles. ..i There were 180.000 person without occupations of any kind among the Im migrants ol ioDZ. , ..... ,,i ,., A single row of pearls as large as peas, and periectly round, were sold recently in Paris, for 120,(K. " Hard coal loses ft per eerrt in balk per annum when exposed to the weather. Soft coal loses 1Z per sent. ,,-;,.,.. Ohio brickmakere are using a clay- digging machine that does tne work of from seventeen to twenty men. More than one million two hundred anurtwenty-Bve thousand persona live in tenement bouses in New York. In the southern provinces of Knssia a drink resembling brandy iroblained by distilhmr the joiee of watermelons. Tire vatue-of Pennsylvaniara.silk pre: duct last year was nearly tai.uw.uoo, or six times what it, was ten years ago.. The lanest needle manufactory. in the world ja in Kdditch, Worcester, Eng land. Over 70,01)0,000 are made weekly. The Langnedoc Ship Canal in France, bv a short passage of 148 miles, saves a sea voyage of 2,000 miles by the Stnits ofibraltar.:;.vi, lSfja, i?i in spite of the McKinley bill the an nual report of the Welsh tinplate-mskers shows that 20,000 tons more tin were shipped to America last year than the year before. ... -!- i -.. The largest telegraph office In the world is at the General Postoffice, Lon don. In it there are over 8,000 operators constantly employed, about one-third of whom are women. ; , , , On the farm of J. W. Fltsgerald. near St. Mary, Kan., there are three artesian wells that vary in depth from 600 to 1,200 feet, and about 2,400 gallons of brine pet hoar flow from them. mm THE ROCKIES. Governors of the Southern States to Meet at Richmond. TAMMANY BRAVES IN THE VAN. Clgtrettr-Uannfactnrlng Knocked Out In Pennsylvania Negroes Opposed to Lynch Law. A sewing-machine trust Is being formed in the East, Half a million a year Is to be spent to protect New xork's water supply. The amount of tobacco chewed in the United States last year waa eighty-five tons. Crusades have been started in Georgia and Massachusetts for the extermination of dogs. The Vanderhilta are said to be alter control of all the railroad traffic in New England. The city of Philadelphia is likely to be sued by immigrants for goods ruined in disinfection. To a shortage of natural gas is attri buted a great many pneumonia deaths in Pittsburg. A big Bt. Louis trader is making heavy bets that this year's crop of wheat will be larger than last year a. A biU is pending in the Missouri Leg islature fixing a maximum price of $40 a year for telephone charge. The Virginia Bute building at the World's Fair will be a copy of Washing ton's home at Mount Vernon. The street railway system of St. Joseph, Mo., will be sold under foreclosure of mortgages the first week in May. Reports show that the prices of farm ing land in nearly all sections of Western New York are steadily decreasing. Governors of Southern States are asked to meet at Richmond, Vs., April 2, to consider plane to develop the South. Testimony has been Introduced before the special grand jury at Newport, Ky.. to show that eight Councilman divided $8,000 among themselves for the granting of an electne-light contract. The colored citiaena of New York city have started a movement in opposition to lynch law, and they intend to form branches in ail large cities for the par pose of arousing publie sentiment. A bill bae been introduced In the Mis souri Legislature dividing penitentiary convicts into three classes and allowing them a certain pay per day, to be saved for them till the end of their terms. . Senator Berry of Arkansas ia influ enced by ex-Representative Berry of California in bis action on the debris bill, and declines to make a change in the penal clause that has been suggested by Gaminetti. A eompany Is being formed for the purchase of the New Tork Tima. The present company ia capitalised at $100, 000, but the new company will have 11, OCO.OOO capital, of which, it is said, $000, 000 will be paid for the 2'iims. A Minneapolis Legislator has taken the bail by the horns. He otters a bill tusking it an offense punishable by a line of from $6 to $26 to manufacture or offer for sale "hoopskirts or anything like thereunto, within the State of Minne sota.",, The molders at Whitely's reaper and mower works at Muncie, Ind., demand an increase of wages, and say that if the company does not accede to their de mands the whole factory will be tied np and 1,000 hands idle. Tammany's banners, so ingloriously borne in Chicaso when Cleveland was nominated, will appear in the van of the inaueurating parade, it la estimated that Tammany' expenses for Cleve land's glorification will aggregate $106, 000, refreshments not included. The Railway General Managers' As sociation has given official notice in ad vance of any 0 em anas irom tne employes that thee will not be disposed to con-' eider any demands for an increase of wages. lue - esBUL'lBUiMi rcprvwiiiH! twenty-one railroads entering Chicago;.) r TV, a batata iaft Kv Tfr. Norvln Green.. iPmJm! nf th Western Union Tele graph Company, is estimated at $750,000. mostly in stocks and bonds. He owned four fine places of real estate in Louis ville, two terms in uarroiiwtunv, nr., another four miles Irom Louisville and le near Madison, ino, ... . , . , ., .u nlaMUnit Kan hmwivmI a letter from President Harrison, couched in, the nut Irionfllv terms and nrnfTeririe' the hospitalities of the White House before ttie inauguration, air. oarrison aisuwi ferod to assist Mr. Cleveland in every way in bis power in regard to publie trainees and matters of state. Thepnhllcation of a dispatch announc ing a Triple Alliance between the United States, Russia and i'ranse, has caused oonsidenme talk, bat there is nothing more in the faot.than that treaties have been entered into, but they do not ma terially differ from those- entered into wfth Great Britain, Germany and other Powers. ...-,-( i-..- i" -,. Tb new West-bound tariff, which alter a month's session the Transconti nental Railroad Conference formulated, has been given ont There is an average reduction of 20 per cent on all freight rates irom St Paul to Spokane, a reduc tion of from 12 to 10 per cent on Coast rates, and from ! to 7 on rates to Mon tana, while the only East-bound redno ti ia to be on lumber, from 56 to 60, and the East-bound lumber rate U. Obv- eago and St. Louis remains at ou ana 773 rssweetifely. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. The Prospects for Annexation of Hawaii Not So Bright as When the Ev olution First Occurred. The sundry civil bill ss reported to the Senate carries the total appropriation up to HU.3ftO,ll, an increase of fWM.lril over the bill ss passed by the House. The corresponding bill last year appro priated $27,oOa,075. The President has approved the quar antine bill, officially known as the "sot granting additional quarantine powers and imposing sdditional duties upon the marine hospital service." He also ap proved the act providing for lighthouses and other aids to navigation, known as tne " omnibus lighthouse bill." If the Geary exclusion act, providing that all Chinamen who have not regis tered May 5 next shall lie shipped to China, is carried into effect, it looks aa if very few Chinamen will be left in New York city. So lar only two China men have been registered in that city sine ths Geary aet went into effect. Senator f-qnire has been successful in getting amendments incorporated in the snndry civil bill and having them agreed to by the Senate.' Among those which be has secured are the following: Ma rine hospital at Port Tnwnaend. $30,000; amendment to Wilson's Gray's Mnrbor lighthouse, a provision that it shall be contracted lor; establishing a log ball at Marrowstone Point, Puget Sound; $3,500 increases lor repairing lighthouses, and increases for lighting Puget Sound ; also an increase for surveys for public Isnds. Bids were opi ned in the office of the Secretary of the Navy the other day for 6,700 tons of nickel-steel and Harveyisrd steel armor plate for the vessels being constructed for the navy in conformity with the act of Congress appropriating $4,000,000 for the purchase. Contrary to expectation, there were two bidders only, the Csrnegie Steel Company and the Bethlehem Iron Works. On sccinnt of the complicated nature of the bids submitted it is impossible at this time to give a comparative statement of them. Tne price asked for nickel steei ranged Irom $525 to $026 per ton, according to the shape of tbe plate, and for Hnrvey iaed steel from $575 to $075 per ton. The prospects lor Hawaiian annexation are not so bright ss when tbe news first leached this country ol the revolution on the islands. Senator Sherman is quoted ss not being Bare of voting for annexation, while there are enough Democrats opposed to It to mske it doubtful if a vote csn be reached this season. Of course if it could he imme diately taken up next session tbs treaty might be accepted. The opponents say that in times of peace this country can maintain a coaling station on the island, while in case of war England could take the island away from na. The oppo nents of snnexation are also insisting that the seal of secrecy shall be taken off the treaty and every th Ing con nected with it- and pnbiic opinion beard through the newspapers before the Senate eclB. Senator Stewart haa given notice of a substitute to be offered by him to the Nicaragua canal bill. It authorises the President lo contract with the govern ments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the riiht of way lor an interoceanic ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on th route proposed by tbe Maritime Canal Company ot Nicaragua, the canal to be constructed, equipped and put in operation within ten years. It authorises tne rreement to negotiate with the canal company ior tbe purchase of all it rights and p no pert v; also to issue bonds not exceeding $100,000,000 in amount, and bearing interest not over 3 per rent, not over ,0 KI,00I of which shall be paid to Nicaragua and Costa Kica and the canal company. Ilia hec- retary of War, throngh the engineers corps of tbe army, is to build, construct and equip the canal. , AIiBflllY v FURNITURE v CO. H. R. Hyde, - A FULL Fu.rnitui.re -OF EVEKT Mio-CHUriON Cstrpets! Z '.We utVaiiurniitty .3r.tijbjEBTAKIlMJ Call answered wteb.t , r. Baltimore huock, AiDany, or. '-, r W f. IlKA-D. Frsslillilll. fIRO. F. STJI lAWVIcs-llresliliilu. . J. O WKIWIUN. ftraratary v journ. trntmf , a. X. milneii. ,. ' - ..... - .; ' ; ... .- v ' . ft , Fanners' and' Merchants'- Insurance Company OF ALBANY, OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK . , Hon. B, 8. BTRAHAM, . 1 A liiiivi JiisTuvwwj anyivrnv bvuit. Hon-J-W. fllI8ICK..rtaiiiiTr. v iinn j tt wKATUKKKwKlf, AnoritejratXaw., J. U. Wttl'IBM'lh, ,uliiBiisil. VOAKU OV UIKKCTWRTi." Ha tns.thtnli. thre.fonrthi. Uiirtr or nixty-tiay Ul I ! I m SSI I ft VSSIIRW MIIU URD1DIU1. nnllaisM. The Parmer' tail Murcbnutu' llnturano Oo,-uy rtayi ttie full amount of iowi Qp tat xiie ammint loaurwl. Tbe mlmtiUen to the oniiitaJ nUmk RotniiM u( farmrn, me hanta. Imuken. iaviallt aitorueya. piiyaioUia ucl uUiaitlM, tb iargaai awouni baid by uila liiaUldiai French War Office experts are divided in opinion conodruing the value or dan ger of Eitrm's tower in care oi a seige of I'aris. German stud ollijers havewritten quite freely about the matter, principally holding the view that the tower would afford a fine target. A proposition is made to connect Great Britain and Ireland by a tunnel driven under the North Channel of the Irish Sea at its narrowest part, between Coun ty Antrim in Ireland and Wigtown In Scotland. The length of the tunnel would be some twenty-seven miles. Cesare Orslnl, whose appointment as Italian Envoy to Mexico Is announced, is a brother to the leader In tbe at tempted assassination of Napoleon III, while the latter was driving to the opera Felice Orslnl, whose name was given to the kind of bomb used on that occa sion. All Europe, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, Is experiencing a winter severity this lesson such as It liss not known for many years. It is necessary to go back forty or fifty years in most I regions, even In tbe far north, to find a precedent, while in some pert th weather is unprecedented. Vienna Is sending invitations to all i European nations to attend an Interna tional Health Congress to formulate ' some plsn ol fighting tbe common foe, and in England Southampton Is beg- : ging Parliament to vote money to keep up a rigid quarantine. The signs of a coming planus are seen st St. Peters- ; bnrg, Hamburg and Marseille. EAST AND SOUTH The Shasta Route SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. 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Mail unit -dally xf.Ht)tr4mi(ayr: 7rt A. V. I JT.....r'ortlaii(. Ar. I 6:30 A. i" 12:10 r. K.j Ar, (iorvailla Lv. I Vitforji. At Albany and (Ntf-valll eoiiuuvl wltb Lralna of Oregon hii'ilic railroad. Kxnree train flatly 'pxwitt Hnnrtay): 4:40 p. K. I V I'nrtlainl MrMlnnvlllf.. Ar , :D a. u. hi. MA A- . Kaatoru Miattn. Car-ada and Europe win r ohtatnt'd at luwrni ratw from L A. Btjiiuett. aireiit, lanon. . K. KOKHI.ER. Manager. . P. BOUERfl. AMU (i. r. A Faaa, A grunt Proprietor. LINE -Oj? VI. AM) ALL JMS OK Qpeis! 8600.000 Hon.J.JU'OOWAN. ' . : ., ff V. HTKKNHKIiii. E.i(.. Mt.'MliauL W. r. RKAft. K-4.. Merrham. .. U.JI.alllsMTKIXH, Ciimllat, . . u. r. Hisifwn, p.sq., (tintaiiH,1 utante In the timet1 and MviuhaiiUi' Pa m .,. -i i . .1