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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1893)
B. T. K.IKK.FATR1CK.. PnblLher. LEBANON OREGON OCCIDENTAL MELANGE Massacre ' of Seventeen Indians ob Sorrow Island. (HE YOUNG LADY KILLS ANOTHER. Considerable Sorft Wind Throughout a Large Section of Southern Cal ifornia Does Good. . The bin for a soldiers' home has passed both Houses of Uie Iaho Legis lature. Henry Bentley hu been held for tril at Lot Angela on the charge of poison ing hit wire. Every town in Eastern Oregon is n earnest applicant ior the location ol the branch insane asyram. Phomiz, A. T., ja mnch excited over the midden dentil 0? a woman, me in dications are that ah waa poisoned. The Indian agent at Alert Bay baa hnen notified oi reported massacre of seventeen Indiana on Sorrow Island by the Kit Kati tribe. The Bonanxa mine at HarquaHala, A. T., baa for some time been systematic ally robbed by Mexicans, who carried oat nuggets and on worth (6 a pound in dinner pans. ' Pkrwbwbv means of the base traction engine need last fall fog this porpoee is to be scon begun on the Cmstilla reser vation. Six five-furrow plows will be panted at one by this means. There is the prospect of a clssh be tween the Santa Fe and Southern Pa cific, and as a remit the Pacific Coast public wUl get cheaper fares. A general , demoraiiaation of rates ia predicted. There has been eonriderable north wind throughout a large section of Southern California daring toe past week, which has rapidly dried np the excess of moisture. So damage of con sequence to tbe orange crop reported. There has been incorporated in the sundry civil service bill a paragraph fix ing the limit of east for the ban Fran 4suko public building at 3,000,tOUi This action of Congress will render available the $21,000 remaining from the purchase of the building Bite. The Chinese cook of the Chinese crew of 130 men at tbe Palo Aito etaiile was bonnded and gagged the other morning by two white men and a Chinaman, and the rooms in a Chinese boarding house were ransacked and between (4,110 and ib.900 in coin takes, riuperintendent Clark of the insane asvlum at (Stockton. CaL. has permitted a newspaper man to aee Sarah Althea Terry in the madhouse. He found her a raving rrt and subject to the re straint necessary in such a esse, but otherwise kindlv treated. Eastern capitalists have negotiated ior the purchase ol water right and mtit nf max tor a eanal to irrigate 200.- 0U0 acres in the northern part of ban Joaquin county. Cel. Tbe water will be taken from the Mokelumne river near Valley Spring, and will be run on both aides of tbe river. Quarrying of Oregon stone, heretofore an almost unknown industry, promisee to come prominently to the front during -the coming nilding season. Tne Pacific .Stone Company with $250,000 of eapi tiimtinn is going to work with seal and energy to develop the valuable stone enarry at Albany. , ' Mas Ines Estrada, Mexicw girl 20 seers 'of age, wsa shot and killed almost Instantly by her friend, Mica Christina Zamorano near Ban Diego. The girls were spending tbe day together, and chanced to pick np a loaded gun, which ja accidentally discharged with fatal tewlvViil t,!i;v V. ': y The sealing schooner Pioneer hu ar rived at Victoria, B. C, after a very "stormy voyage. Bhe brought inlorma tion of the'locatioB of the wreck of the sealing schooner Maggie Use, the fate of him has fawn a mvstery for over a year. Two storekeepers on Quatsino Sound report having found fragments of the Maggie Mac in small cove just wthofOapeSeotV -j Tne Manxona almond plantation in .Antelope Valley, Loa Angeles county. 'mntinnes to expand. Two years ago " there were perhaps thirty acres set to '-trees.' Now there are about thirteen hundred acres planted, and carload lota ol trees are arriving rmj kjw . promisee to become, if it is not already, the largest almond plantation in tbe world. - The trees, if planted in a single tow two feet apart, would reach nearly from Los Angelet to Ban Francisco. ,! Two schooners from Han Diego have ! been seised by Mexican customa officers - at Ban rutin, and are held there pend ing investigation. It is claimed the : boats were engaged in Selling and aba ' lone cabining in Mexican waters, in which cam they will undoubtedly be confiscated. Two more schooners were snspected and steps taken lor their ap prehension. Four schooners are known "to he in those waters. The Mexiean of "nciaie have reported to their home gov- 7U A wn,Tintttiatagreai arooom vi auius- itnv it carriea on vr means oi iuumi uu-:x trom Ban it woitu m , to he sees off ( eoaet, oeten- on fulling; trip) ucauon nas tnm email ner to pa- FROM WASHINGTON CITY. President Sends to the Senate the Report of the Delegates to. International Monetary Conference. Total receinte from the internal reve nue for the first seven months of the present fiscal year were i,414,7t6, be ing $7,715,577 more than for the same period last year. The President has issued a proclama tion revoking the tolls levied on Cana dian veseeiB and cargoes m the " Hoo canal in consequence of tbe Dominion government adopting an order in council removing the discriminations againat American vessels passing through the Canadian canals. The sundry civil bill has been so loaded up by the Senate that there are grave doubts about it passing the Uonse at ail. The bill has been known to iail in con ference. It would be very serious for many publis works and government in stitutions il the bill should fail and ne cessitate an extra session before June. The Committee on Immigration has submitted to the Senate its report on the bill establishing additional regula tions concerning immigration to the United States by increasing by three tbe number oi the excluded classes of aliens. The first includes the illiterate over 12 years of ae, and speaking of these, the report says, in view of the alarming changes taking place in the character of immigrants swarming into the United States, the measure is not a harsh one. Aged persons, however, are permitted to come and join their families. The sec ond class comprises persons partially or wholly disabled from manual labor. They are to be made the subject of a spe cial inquiry, and proof most be procured that they will not become public charges. The third class is made up of persons who belong to societies who favor or jus tify tbe unlawful destruction of property or life. Under the present law, says the report, they can enter the United States, but the measure proposed ia to remedy this condition of affairs. Springer of Illinois has introduced in the House resolutions for reference to tbe Committee on Ways and Means, set ting forth that tbe treaty of annexation with the Hawaiian Islands, if finally ratified, will require the government of the United States to pay the public deot of Hawaii and the amounts due tbe de- inaitors in the Hawaiian postal savings banks, which aggregate $3,250,001. be sides $20,000 per annum to the late Queen and a lump sum of $150,(109 to the rnncess Kaiauiam. it win also oo ligate this government to pav tbe inhab itants oi said islands a bounty upon sugar produced on said islands. The President ia requested to furnish the House with information showing the amount of said postal deposits and the debt of Hawaii, toe rate ol interest, etc. also any information about the amount of sugar annually produced in Hawaii and the amount of money required to nav the bounty in case ot annexation. besides the probable amount oi theotber obligations this government will assume as a necessary consequence of such an nexation. The annua! report of tbe Director of the Mint for 1892 ahows the value of the gold product in the United States to be $si,uuo,uuu, aDont tne average oi recent years. The product of silver wss 68, 000.000 ounces, of a commercial value of $50,750,000, a falling off of 320,000onnces from the preceding year. The amount of silver purchased by the government during tbe year was M.iat.B.' nne ounces costing $47,394,291. an average of cents per fine ounce. From it 6,333,245 silver dollars were coined dur ing the year. The imports of gold ag gregated $18,lbo,06 and the export $76.b46,wz, a net ices ot os.o,o. Tne silver imports were $31,450,968 and the exports isv.Mi, 3UL. tne amount of money in circulation (exclusive of the amount in the treasury) was tl.oll.JZl.- 673 January 1, an increase of $18,928,124 daring tbe year. There was aa increase of over f 12,l;OJ,000 in tbe gold product of the world during the iast calendar year. Of this $2,601,000 waa from Australia and over $9,000,000 from South Africa. Tbe total silver product of tbe world in creased about 7.660.000 oances, occa sioned chiefly by an increase of 4,690,1 W0 ounces in tbe product ot the Mexican mines, and 2,400,000 ol the Australian mines. The President has sent to tbe Senate the report of tbe American delegates to the International Monetary uomerence. After referring to the programme of the United States, which was discussed in all its phases, tbe delegates refer to tbe report of tbe committee of twelve, which reported affirmatively upon one proposi tion, that it was wise to withdraw irom monetary circulation all gold coins and all paper redeemable in gold of lees de nomination than 11, 20 franca or 20 mark and substitute silver money tor them. In the discussion of the various propositions the attitude ot nearly an the governments diselowd the general recognition in the conference that the monetary evil required aremeoy. Alter citing copiously from tbe speeches made the delegates say the conference ia to re convene May 30, 1893, In the meantime it is expected that the propositions and d ans already submitted to the president ol tne convention ana oj mm imumtnv tod in the several government throngh their delegates will be considered. It is anticipated that the delegates upon the reassembling of tbe conference will be able t state definitely the views of their respective government a to what plans ra practicable to secure a greater o of silver as a part of the metallic money of the world. In concluding the report the delegate say it ia the earnest wiah of the conference that a plan lor the enlarged one of silver money, acceptable to the nations and adequate to tbe monetary situation, may result from it delibera ' tiotfs. No remmoiendatione or aagges n ni hit ki(i are made. BEYOND THE ROCKIES Considerable Excitement in Ohio Over a New-Big Gusher. A CRUSADE AGAINST KISSING. Chicago to Have an Eihibition ol tne Tactics and Maneuvers of tne British Army. Jefferson Davis' bortv may be moved from fiew Orleans to Richmond, a. The Milwaukee gasworks has been bought by a Boston syndicate lor $2, 500,003. The Supreme Court of Tennessee bas declared in effect that bucket shops are gambling bouses. All arrangements are now believed to be complete for the enforcement ol the tieary exclusion act. There are only about thirty members left of tbe once mighty tribe of Choc- taws near new Orleans. A movement is on loot in Rhode Isl and for the erection of a monument to the Indian Chief Haasasoit, A sweeting reduction baa been made m Canadian canal toila, greatly advan tageous to the United State. The Virginia Stat building at the World' Fair will be a copy of Washing ton's home at Mount V ernon. Tennessee will abolish the convict- lean system, build a new prison and work tbe men on state account. Brooklyn's alleged boodlers are said to have been reindicted to anticipate dismissal of the first indictment. It is reported that there is danger of a rabbit plagne in hansaa, and the inhab itants are rejoiced at tne prospect. The Missouri Legislature is consider ing a bill to compel circuses to exhibit what they represent on tneir posters. Illinois farmers claim that the late sleeting so inmred wheat in has tern Il linois that Were will oe scarcely nan a crop. ftL Louis has more miles paved with granite than with any material, and next to the granite comes tne xeuoro pave ment. Tbe Ohio State Board of Health has started a crusade against kissing, invok ing women not to kiss each other or their babies. The Commercial Exchange at Leaven worth, Kan., passed strong resolutions in favor of opening of tbe Cherokee Strip at once. The Georgia Agricultural Society has adopted a unanimous resolution urging the reduction ol cotton acreage ana Di versified crops. The Ohio Legislature proposes to put in an electrical voting apparatus, similar to the device used in the French Cham ber of Deputies. New York's Chamber of Commerce has appointed a representative commit tee to entertain prominent foreigners at tending the World's fair. Where leases on Broadway. New York. are expiring this year rente have been markedly increased. This ia especially true ol the retail oietrici. The Governors of Southern States are to meet in Richmond two months hence and plan to attract homeaeekore and capital to taeir respective oibibb. The Union Pacific haa not only paid off $10,0(10,000 of its collateral trust notes, bat it has managed to go tnrougn the year without borrowing a penny. The failure of gas regions Is attributed bv exoerts to overwork. In tbe new re gions which are being developed only one wen is permmeu w iony acres ui land. At Warfield. Kv.. reoentry, a girl, aged 9, who became offended at something a young colored man employed by her father had done, deliberately shot him dead. A bill haa been introduced in the Min- nmtfita Legislature nrovidtng a tine of $6,000 and five years' imprisonment for every member 01 mat ooay wno accepts a railroad pass. The American League of Wheelmen has passed a resolution providing that those iu Dominate leagues wisamg u may allow negroes to become members of ihe league ana tnoae not ueeiring u cau i them oat. The Arkansas Legislature is straggling with the convict lease question. A bill hu been introduced providing for the abolition of the whole lease system and requiring the State to take entire etiarge of it wards. Tbe Fall River Oresent Mills are to be sold. The stockholders bad discovered that the Treasurer had written nctitious assets in tbe books to overcome the losses by manufacture. Special treasury agent are looking into the large lnnnx oi vnmainen arnv i in the United States Irom Cuba and otuer West India Islands. It is believed that large numbers of Celestials trom Cub have been landed along the inlets of the Florida coast by Spanish smug glers, a ia done on the Pad Be Coast ol th United State trom crnua uoiuav hi Th investigation by order of the Mmiean eovernment into the cause of tbe recent uprising of the Yaqui Indians is till in nrorreaa. It baa already bean discovered, however, that tbe cause of the Indian brave donning their war mint was laraelr due to the action ol the government military officials, who were permitted to run general eupp'y stores lor the Indiana, whom they charged exorbitant prices. PURELY PERSONAL Ruskin Still In Firm Possession of Some of His Faculties Gladstone the Descendant of i King. Arcbb'shon SatoIU will be the lentnrer nn speculative theology in 'he Catholic University ol America at ttasnmgton. The monument to Phillips Brooks, which his lovers propose to erect in Cop- lv Vnnare. Ronton, will omit not lens i than $nU,HM, of which some t-t,u0 1 It al- j There are 300 shoe factories in Haver ready raised. ; hill, Mass. Pandits Ramans i. the Hindoo woman who is doing so much for the advance-: tiui mummy. ment of her sex, has recently started a j ljut Jf 0 niiroed, carried 600, cluli of King's Daughters among U8r ' ooo OuO ptople. x'vernorForakeri. obliged to de-1 Uil paving brick, are being cline hie appointment by Governor Mo- i mde ' ' tngland. Kinlev to fill the place on the State l 9rlwu" ntk' "Pi" Univereitv Board left vacant by tbedeath J"""' '"""rVl? tm of x-lWnt Hayea. 40 P". nt " imD"u imported Mrs. Warden ol Hanover, N. tt., i whose daughter waa murdered by Frank " ?' " most extensive concern. ,u Almy, has made a demand upon tue : Maine has been expenment Ing on an in State for the $2,500 offered for the appre-! PWT" ' """""a" "me w'lh oU hension of the murderer. , instead of with wood. Mrs. Arthur Stannard of London has formed a "no crinoline league." It al- j readv numbers 5,208 women, who pledge , . . ' i li..' ! wemee do. to wear uquppkith. cvcu , if these do return to fashion. Loli, the brilliant French novelist, in hia " Le Mariage de Loti " presents a life-like picture of the Hawaiian Islands and their native women. Just now re newed interest attache to this book. It is recalled now that Ulrike von Le- vetso, whom Goethe admired and wished to marry when he waa 70 and she 17, reached her 90th birthday recently at the eaetle of Treielita in Bohemia, but is the subject of Goeths'a " Triology of Passion." Charles Henrv Pearson, an English man, haa written a book, in which he claims to have proved that the great races nf the world are losing, and that tbe Chinese, the Hindoos and South American half-breeds are the coming leaders of civilisation. Mr. Gladstone claims direct descent from Henrv III, King of England, and from Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. It is thought that the reason why hs hat invariably refused any title or peerage ia because of bia knowledge of hia roval descent from the Kings of both England and Scotland. Ruskin ia still in firm possession of i soma of bia faculties. He playa chess ' with great interest and equal skill. Moreover, tt is said that be is in very excellent health mentally and physir allv. He walks out twice a day, eats and sleeps well, and takes an interest in what is going on. George Gould wants to buy all of tbe existing maps of Delaware county, N. Y., that were made by his father in 1856. Thus far be has succeeded in obtaining one from Erastus Root of Glovsrevllla, and haa beard of another owned by William C. Hanna of New York. Mr. Piant, a London chimneysweeper. is said to be the last living representa tive of the English branch of the Plan tagrnet line. Tne reason why hs calls himself Piant and not flantagenet is be cause he considers that the monosvl- lahic name ia more in accordance with his present aocial position. John Hay questions the statement that "Mr. Blaine inherited his eloquent, magnetic eyes from his mother." Mr. Hay thinks he possessed the Blsine eve and the Blaine nose of four geneatione ago. These, Mr. Blaine's most striking features, are said to be wondertnny like those of a brother of his paternal grand father, which have been preserved in a crayon portrait copied and enlarged from a miniature. A new cotton-picking machine ia an nounced, which picte (in the prospectua) 6,000 to 7,000 pounds of cotton in a day. This is as much work aa could be done by forty expert negro cotton-pickers. Mm FURNITURE v CO. H. R. HYDE, A FCU Purn .' r-OF EVEEY pESCKUTION AND ALL KINDS OF 1 Cstrpets! We make a gpecialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered niglit or day. ' ; Baltimore Block, Albany, Or. w KEiD Pawidenl. 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