The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, March 17, 1893, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextH. X. KIKKFATKICK. Publisher. LEBANON... . OREGON OCCIDENTAL MELANGE Fears of a Drought in the Salt River Valley, A. T. fflPRISONED IN i FOLDING BED. Puyallop Indians Commence the Construc tion of the First Railroad Built by Indians In America. Two of Oregon's Commissioners to the World's Fair are women. , . The Arisona House has passed the woman-suffrage bill by a vote of 17 to 7. Trouble Is reported at the placers in the Henry Mountains, Utah, and an or ganised warfare for the possession of land has began. Two schooners from Ban Diego have been seised by Mexican cuBtoma office re at Ban Qnintin and are held there pend ing investigation. The report that Dr. Perry of the Penis Irrigation Company, Ban Diego eonnty, bad disappeared is denied hy his friends. The report was started by the doctor's enemies. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re port twelve failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the past week, aa compared with eleven for the previous week and twelve for the corresponding week of 1892. The mill at the Virtue mine in East ern Oregon is running night and day on ore taken from the upper level. The new pomp is fast clearing the mine of water, and the prospects of the company are very nattering. The mat hioh-nnwnr nnmninir nlant which will supply Tnma and Yuma Heights with water, and which will irri-1 gaie 10,000 acres of land on the mesa near mm, naa started no. ana tnat ancuuu ia currespuoumgij nappy. The Pnyallnp Indians havf commenced the construction of the first railroad bnilt by Indiana in this country. The road will run through their reservation, and is believed to be part of the Ureal Northern and Union Pacific systems. The Salt river in Arizona rose four feet in two hours recently, showing that the enow m me mountains is meuing rapio- y. As yet no ram has fallen in the vat- ley, though it is time for tbe rainy sea- son to clow, and old timers to a drought, . . T . . . Apache Indian counterfeiters have been discovered in the Mogollorj Monnt- counterfeit silver dollar. It was com posed of lead washed with silver, but so , - -j - 1 - imperfect that it could easily be de lected. - Los Angeles complains that the South ern World's Fair Lady Commissioners have been snubbed by the Northern Commissioners. They have been told that they will have to pay their own way to Chicago, while the Northern Commis sioners aeeure passage tree. The United Btates revenue cutter Washington was so badly damaged by a collision with Pennsylvania annex lerry boat No. 8 tbat ehe sank in Government bay, north of the Barge Office, New York Harbor. Mrs. William Wilbur of Sowan, Ia., has been adjudged insane and sent to an insane asylum. The immediate cause of her mania was a graphic pulpit pict ure of hell drawn in a sermon by bar pastor, wnicn preyed upon tier mind. It is now definitely settled that the Hextcan International railway is to be immediately extended from Durango, Mexico, to the Pacific Coast. A anrvey has been made across tbe Sierra Mad re Mountains, the most picturesque and important railway route in the Bepublic. Mrs. . Griffith and her daughter Minnie at Portland, Or., were impris oned in a folding bed, and were nearly a mothered before they were extricated. A projection cruehfd Mrs. Griffith's cheat. The two were in the trap an nonr oeiore assistance came. It ia believed that a chair of eonstitn- ' tional law will be endowed in connection j m? Pwer, full of fire, pugnacione, scorn with the Chicago University, the salary ; ral sarcastic, denunciatory, passioanate to be $26,000 a year, and ex-Prendent ; masterful. Harrison will be invited to accept the According to foreign papers the Ameer position and lecture at least twice a I0' Bokhara, who has been on a visit to week to student of the Chicago Ed oca-1 tne ('Mr at Bu Petersburg, is seriously tional Institute. i considering a proposition to surrender A mining and development company j n" dominions over which Bosnia now has been incorporated with a capital exercises a prot wtorate to tbat country stock of $10,0 10,000. Tbe directors, and iaT 2600 000 ""h and an annual pen their subscriptions to the stock are: ,0D ' $50,000, to be paid during the John W. Mackay, $2,60l),0i:0; James L. j lifetime of himself and his son. Flood, 2,4SM,000; James . Walsh. $10,- Fatti created a great sensation quite 000. The other directors are William j unpremeditated! not long ago while Lyle and George E. Weils. It is stated j isnging in Milan. "Traviata" was the the purpose of tbe corporation is to own, j opera, and just after rendering the pass ecntrol and deal in mines, lands and i age "Amami, Alfredo," she started to water rigb'a, and it is generally under- make an exit. But, treading upon ber woo tne conipmy is rormea io mriner develop the Comstock mine. Edwards Lopes, one of tbe most noted desperadoes on tbe border, having served two terms in tbe penitentiary at Yuma and a similar time at Hermoeiilo, has for some time been confined in jail awaiting exlradiVon papers to take him to Fron treraa, Mexico, where he was wanted for the murder of a prominent citisen. Be cently six officers arrived to take charge of the prisoner, and he was turned over to them. When a few hundred yards across tbe Mexican border the prisoner vas tied to a post and riddled with bnl lera. A brother of the dead desperado has gone to bring the body to Bisbee, A. T., for burial. INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES. Nashville One of the Greatest Milling Centers In the United States Al abama Bituminous Coal. England is worth $43,600,000,000. Kansas beef is popular with London ers. The Pennsylvania railroad owns 90,000 oars. A hog trust is being organised in the West, Canada has over 14,000 miles of rail roads. Alfalfa teed is selling for $5.25 a bushel in Kansas. Milwankee millers are not in the pro posed big trust. Oar manufactures in 189! were valued at $7,216,000,000. Aluminium in 1869 cist $18 a pound; now it costs 70 cents a pound. English capital is finding opportuni ties for investment in Florida, Chinese cheep labor ia eeeking a mar ket with aome aaeceee in Africa. The (hipping; interest la depressed at all the principal European porta. The first cost ol the old Groton aque duct of New York wae 112,600,(100. The woman horse doctor la working np a practice in several Eastern cities. Buttons made of potatoes seem to be cheap and good enough for ordinary use. Bilk was first manufactured in the United Bute at Mansfield, Conn., in 1S2V. It is proposed to smntor 500 college students aa guides during the World's a air. The greateit English landholder, the unite ui Buinerland, owns l,3i,M) acres. English investments in American breweries aggregated Decern her 1 tiU.- mm. False teeth are now made from nauer. ana are saia to wear well and to hut a lifetime. Aluminium cooking ntenaila are just coming on the market, and are likely to oe popular. During 1892 there were impor'ed into the United elates 19,085,000 bottles of franco cnampagne. Works for the manufacture of alnmin- i inm cooking ntenaila are being erected by an Illinois company. Wallace Porter of Ashland, Wis., has sold 00,000,000 ol pine stumpage to Chi- cago ana Bb ixrais parlies. Tobacco stems are selling for $1.25 per 100 pounds in Kentucky. 1'hey are used in snnn ; also as lertuiiers, Nine New Bedford (Mass. ) cotton mills Isat year paid $718,000 in dividends, av eraging 7.40 per cent on tbe capital, There were 4,300,000 tone of bitumi nous eoal mined in Alabama in 1891. In lm tn, production wae 6,272,000 tone, an increase of nearly 22 per cent, . , . .. "J" if Tr n centers in the united Btates. It now gr:od, mon than 7,000 barrels of flour pgr day, ,nd i, constantly increasing it onersuona. Tbe largest sheep ranch in the world is in the counties of Dimmit and Webb, Tex. It contains upward of 400,000 acres, and yearly pastures from 1,000,000 to i.ow.uuu sneep. Borne of the cotton mills in Booth Car olina earned as high as 42 per cent on tneir investments last year, and all ail it was the most prosperous year in the history of cotton-manufacturing in tnat mate. PURELY PERSONAL. . Prof. . E. Barnard of the Lick Ob servatory often devotes twenty hoars oat oi me twenty-lour to wort at the tele scope and in the computing room during ciear weather. It ia said that Robert Louis Stevenson has been paid more tor his Polynesian story now appearing in England than same rmonnt of "eonv." The recent ro- mora of Mr. Stevenson's ill health have been contradicted. - The little Crown Prince of Germany promises to become aa daring and expert a horseman as hia father is. lie races on tbe Arabian pony the Hultan of Turkey sent bimwith tbe Adjutant who gives him riding lessons, aud almost invaria bly wins. Discreet Adjutant Gladstone has again surprised his friends by a midnight speech in re ply to Bandolnh Churchill. The aneach of the Premier wae a splendid example of tbe best style of parliamentarv debat- gown, sue leu nesvuy to tne floor. The audience became wildly excited, for fears were entertained f iat thedivawaa badly hurt. She soon rose to her feet, how ever, and smiled in an unconcerned way amid rousing npplaise. General T. T. Eckert, who is to suc ceed the late Dr. Norvin Green aa Presi dent of tbe Western Onion Telegraph Company, is a native of Bt. Olainville, O., and 63 years of age. He began at the bottom of the telegraphic ladder in 1849, bad charge of the military tele graph at Washington during the war, and upon the consolidation of tbe At lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company with the Western Union in 1881 became General Manager of the new company. BEYOND THE ROCKIES. Salina Offers a Large Bonus for the Capitol of Kansas. TWO BORDER BANDITS CAPTURED. Bard Times for Working People In New York Bad Effect of Graphic Pulpit Picture of HclL The mining town of Oreede, Col., now naa a population oi o.ooo. A suicide club of fifty member has men formed at ilridgeton, a. J. It is now dsnied that a sole leather trust has been formed at Boston. Tbe present severe winter has been bonansa for the Florida hotelkeepers. The convict mining war troubles are tnreatening to break out In Tennessee. Missouri Commissioners are ordered to raise the figures of railroad valuation. Congress is to investigate the employ ment of substitutes by department merits. Ansonia, Conn., is to have a sidewalk made of imperfect pins and pin scraps rustea together. A Bt. Louis woman has applied for patent to cover the processes of making "sweet-potato nonr." jsaaea .on tne recent school census Connecticut's population is now 81,000 larger man u was in lauu. Two more of the followers of Catarlua liana have been captured by American troops on tne lexas border The Bethlehem Iron Works have been awarded a contract for over $2,000,000 worm oi neavy armorpiate. There has been unusual mortalitv among toe animals In the New iork Central Park "Zoo" this winter. Not one Chinaman in Boston has reo istered under the Gearv act. and oniv one in the Bute of Massachusetts. Allen G. Thurman has nronosed the silver aouar lor a national Dank note ha- ais as a solution of the currency question, The Chicago and Northwestern rail road will elevate all its tracks in Chicago i ne expense, so it is printed, ol 124,- UOO.OOO. Btrong anti-race meetings are heme held in New Jersey in opposition to tbe bill passed by tbe Legislature legalizing none-racing. A movement is on foot in Hoboken to pat the Catholic nsrochial schools of that city under the Fairbault system of Arcnoisnop Ireland. The Sayre election bill, which disfran chises 40,000 negroes in the State, has passea ine Aiaoama senate ana been signed by tbe Governor. Tbe citisens of Salina. Kan., have pledged taou.uou and twenty acres of land to the Btate for the removal of the Bute capital to tbat place. The people of Norfolk. Va.. are ar ranging for great times during the ren desvous of the navies of the world in Hampton Hoads in April and May. The topographical survey of Connect! cat just completed shows its area to be 5,004 square miles or 340 square miles greater man given oy some authorities. The recent town elections in the Btate of New York show that both parties re tain practically their relative strength ol last year In tbe Boards oi Supervisors. The dam across tbe Colorado at Aus tin. Texas, will cost $1,400,000. stand sixty leet soove low-water, and will sup ply n.mju-norBS power, besides the town's water. Telegrams have been sent to Sneaker Crisp, asking that the government open the Clierokoe Btripor appropriate mouey to feed the people who are starving wuue waiting. The colored teachers at Atlanta have passed resolutions declaring their grati fication because of the appointment of Hoke Smith as a member of Mr. Cleve land's (Jahinet. The Massachusetts Legislature lias made a iresh appropriation of $105,000 to he added to tbe considerable sum already expended ior tbe extermination of the gypsy muth. Suburbans find an argument for an nexation to New York in tbe fact tbat some great money-lending corporations are forbidden to invest m real estate out side of New York city. Btate Department officials at Washing ton disclaim any knowledge of the re ported defalcation in tbe office of Con sul-General New at London. Tbey place uu reliance in uie awry. Although they will cost $1,000 aniece. liquor licensee have been applied for by 3,300 people in Philadelphia. It is esti mated that considerably lees than one half tbat number will be granted. Some of tbe unsalable World's Fair coina have been bought by a New York jeweler and made np into various arti cles. A few have been made to serve as lida to little parses of silver mesh. The Michigan Gas Companv. engaged in piping natural gas to Detroit, and the Detroit and Mutual twligbt Company were last week consolidated, the new company having a capital of $4,000,000. Last year generously disposed persons in the United rtatea contributed in sums of $111,(100 and upward no lets than $29, 061,927 for purposes of education, char ity and popular entertainment in various forms. It is hard times for working people in New York when potatoes are selling for $1.50 per bushel, while pork or other meat are one-quarter higher than last winter. Wages continue low, and work is very dull. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Secretary Nuble Renders an 'Important . Decision In a Caw Against the Northern Pacific Railroad. The Court of Claims has rendered a de cision in the of case D G. Bwaim, Judge Advocate General in Hie army, versus the Gutted btates, for the recovery of nan nis pay lor twelve years. The de cision is adverse to General Bwaim. The can has been pending in the Court oi uiaiuis tor tne last two or three years. The Secretary of tbe Treasury has awarued tne contract lor banning a new wharf and repairing the old one at Tongue Bend near Astoria to Fostahend i Sanderson of Astoria at $9,925. He has also awarded the contract for bond ing a galvanised iron storehouse at the same place to Paqnet d Smith of Port land for $1,796. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has mailed to each postmaster in tbe country a circular recognising the important service they have rendered as postman tern under the administration of Presi dent Hirrisnn and begging tbat in the future they will continue their internet in tbe postal service and study to pro mote in every possible way its extension and improvement. Secretary Foster has amended bis re cent circular issued regarding the killing of fur-bearing animals in Alaska so as to permit vessels other than revenue cotters, as heretofore, to transport na tives to localities where sea otter is found. It also permits vessels having on board ana-otter skins to file a mani fest of snob skins at the first port of en try in the United States. When Senator Call introduced into the Senate a joint resolution to suspend ap proval of the lists of swamp and over flowed public lands in Florida until further action of Congress and asked for its passage, Senator Mitchell ol Oregon moved to insert the pr iviao that nothing in the resolution should be construed to extend to anv grants of land in anv Bute or Territory except Florida. The amendment was agreed to, bat the reso lution went over. Treasurer Nbecker. sneaking of th drain of gold that baa been going on lor the past year or mire, said it was lamely the work of speculators on the New York Stock Exchange. The export of gold had the effect of bearing stocks. Hv Belling the stocks and then exporting gold the profit made on stocks not only compensated for the freight charges, insurance, etc.. on the gold shipped, but left a profit. Then, too, as France and Aus ria are In the market after eold. specie found a ready sale on the other Bide. Secretary Noble has rendered an im portant decision in the case of A. H. uaiton ot the Uoseman (Mont.) and d if trict against the Northern Pacific Kail way Cnmpanv. which overruled tne cel ebrated Guilford Miller decision in one important particular. The Aldler deci sion held that lands within the Yakima Indian reservation were not excepted from tbe grant to the Northern Pacific. and that when the Indian title to the same la'ds became extinguished the right thereto wonld inure tn the railway company under its grant Tnis decision. involving a portion of tbe Crow reserva tion, holds In effect that the lands In cluded within the technical reservation at th date on which the grant becomes effective are absolutely excepted from the grant, and in the event of extinction of Indian title they revert to the public domain. The Commissioner's decision. bolding Dalton's homestead entry for cancellation for the reason that the lands covered by it passed to the Northern Pa cific road under its grant, ia accordingly reversed. This decision directly and In directly affects large tracts of land in Montana, the Dakota, Idabo and Washington. AIiBflflY v FUHHITUHE v CO. H. R. Hyde, A FULL Furniture -OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Carpets! We make a eneciultv of UNDERTAIfTXfl rilla on..u,i :i. or day. Baltimore Block, Albany, Or. Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company OF ALBANY, CAPITAL. STOCK- UOAKD or Hod. R. 8 STRAHAN, 'ti sf Jnstf oe of sapnme Court. Hon. J. W. OtraiCK. P.i.ker. 11..P.J. K.WKATHKKI'uKli, Attorney.! Uw. WKIT8MAN. Kq CanllalH. niuamedc valley l.ann company. polld... The Farjarj and W,SSZZS$ .. the "53 .To, Til t e amrnint liunreil. Tte .nlmrlber. lo tl.r oapital .tw-k oonslsu ol la .Sun,m "h. u ubanf NO !WO inirl.. Ulftt!' fourth., thlrrv iw niviu.tiav Representative Burrows Introduced resolution January 16, rectlng that war claims to the amount ol $7,0oo,o00 were pending haiora the department ; that it was clmrged that many dunhtlul claims were being allowed and calling ior a re- : port. SdcrcUry Foster prepared for sub- mission to Congress a reply to the reso lution, setting lorrn mat me total Claims pending in the Treasury Depart nmnt, inclndiug the direct tax and the cotton tax, amount to $174,H210H0, leas hy $.'),. 000,000 than the estimated amount al lowed by Congreas. He recommended that the so-called Bowman act, which allows such claims to be referred try Congi ess to th Court of Claims for ad justment, be repealed. Among th item contained In the conference report on the sundry civil bill are the following: Thirty thousand! dollars for tbe marine hospital at Port Townssnd, Wash. ; increasing the limit of mat of the fan Francisco public iiiilding to $2,500,000 Instead of $2,0. 0, 000 : making the limit of the cost of the public building at Portland, Or., $75:1, 000 instead of $1,000,000 as provided by . the Senate. The item of $6,000 lor the Willamette river (Oregon) Hgbi house and fog signals was stricken oat. Upon the subject of public lands the omferrrea agreed to 1200,000 instead of $100,000, as it passed the House, and $100,00j, a it passed the Senate. EAST AND SOUTH The Shasta Route -or tub SOUTflEltH PACIFIC CO. l:lrw tralu Umvt Portinnil dally: 10.23 r. M.l.T ..AUmi.v Ar. 4:ffl A. M. iV.Irt a. H.T Kit it Kram-liip.i.,,v,l 7rl)0 . M. Tiitfftiruii tin. mi $ito,i only hi lliu fiillowini Ntatluiif ll-.rth ol HiNwiiunc Kiwt t'ortlnnd. Or won City, WiHHtuMru, Bulem. Albany. Tantrum. Mi.'d.i, H alley, Hanialiurg, Jill'tttinnU'ty, irviug ami Kivtune. RiwhufaT tnalififtliT: (:.'(" a. H,l.v I'lirtiHiiU Ar. VlAtt p. u.lv -..Albany Ar. fe:u0 P. H.:lr HiwtinrR ,v. Ui P. H. I2;: p. H. 7:00 v M. Altmny Itnial dally (wutept Hiimlay), 5:oo p. M.tiiT lonifjiiti..M..M.jir.;io-l4. 9-.0UP. m (Ar. Aliwny Ia.) fi;i a. k. 1:20 p. H.;hv Allrnnv Ar.,IO'il a. M. 2H r. M.jAr Ulttiimi I.vJ 9::i0 a. K. B:Ia. M.!i.v Atitanv Ar.j P. M. 9:00 a. M.,Ar... I,'ijirtmi I,?. I 2:i p. u. 1 till tig (Jura on Ok1b KuitUi. Fl'LI.MAN UUrrCT MLKEIUtt 8Mtnd-Olaa ftlvilitjr Vara AtHolil tt. All ThroQKh Train. WKBT HIIK II1VIMION. Bktwrh Portland a hi Ushv Aktia. Mall train-dally jexcinttHiitiday): 7:30 a. M. I lif ........ Portland. ,...,.Ar. fi!IO a. if 12:10 p. h. I Ar cnrvallix hv. VM p. m. At Albanv ami Curvallla cuuiiect wllo traiua of oreftuti Vmtitiv railroad. Rxtnvwt train tatlr fextwitt Hmtdav): ... hirtlMml Ar. , M a. m Mi'Mtimvlll.... 1,t. 1 MA A. I THROUGH TICKETS Ks ?.', and Kuroii- an i .btattt at iotruat ratwa from I. A. btiitnett, aireut, U'bannii. K. KUKHIiER, Matiatftt. R. K KOOBHH. Ami. . V. A Ptua. AKe.it, Proprietor. U2E OF- AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! OREGON. 9600,000 VIKKGTOK8. Bon. I. L. COWAN, W.F. KKAn.m..Merehaiit D.B. MONTKITB. Genitalia!. . F. Slill-WIN, Kq.. t;,i!lit. .,l.-a ... T ..