The Lebanon express., April 14, 1893, Image 6

H. T. KIRKPATKIl'K. l'ubll.her.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
LEBANON..
: OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Bill Extending the Time of Cit
izenship in Arizona.
HIGH WATER CAUSES DAMAGE,
Brakeman on the Atlantic and Pacific
Becomes a Hero and Receives
a Purse Etc.
Counterfeit dimes, composed ol anti
mony and tin, are in circulation in Lane
county, or,
Mrs. McWhirter has begun suits at
rresno tor (3U,uuu insurance on tier hus
band's life.
The Astoria canners fixed the price at
1 a salmon, and the Fishermen's Union
demands ?l.lb,
The American Historical Eocietv has
instituted two libel suits at Portland
against the uregonian.
All the men charged with crime in
connection with the labor troubles in the
Uteur d'Alene are now at liberty.
There is talk of reducine the miners'
pay at Nanaimo, B. C. The union is
verr strong there, and a strike is not at
all improbable.
Bands of Apaches are away from their
reservation in Arizona. So tar the In
dians are charged only with frightening
people and being very saucy,
Governor Murphy of Arizona has ve
toed the bill passed by the Legislature
extending the time of citizenship from
six months to twelve months.
The whisky smuggling on the west
coast of British Columbia is not as ex
tensive as reported. The bulk of it is
from Victoria, not the United Suites,
Koports have been received at Phccnix
A, T., of new and rich placer diggings in
the southwestern part of Maricopa
county, about thirty miles north of Agua
Caliente.
Superintendent Hussey of the British
Columbia police at Victoria lias decided
to go nortn in connection with the In
dian excitement over the alleged Sorrow
island massacre.
The International Nickel Company,
which owned the great nickel mine at
, Kiddles, Or., has told a two-thirds in
terest in the property to an English syn
dicate for 600,00t).
The Bonanza mines in the Ilarq.ua
Hulas, Yuma county, A. T., cleaned up
i 150,000 as the result of the last month's
run. This is the largest cluink of gold
ever run into one bar.
During high water on the Gila river a
Assistant Secretary Spautdiiig Writes
a Letter to the Collectors on
; the Pacific Coast.
Secretary Hoke Smith gave a hearing
to the representatives of the Big Black
foot Mining Company and the Bitter
Root Development Company on the
question of the revocation of "their per
mits, granted some months ago, to rut
60 per cent of the timber on twenty-six
sections of land in Montana.
Secretary Morton of the Department
of Agriculture has devised a plan to test
the htness of applicants for positions
not governed by tfie civil-service rules.
Each applicant on tiling his application
will be required to answer a set of ques
tions as to moral and physical qualifica
tions and on the work which he will he
required to perform. He hopes bv this
means to secure a high standard in the
department.
A Republican Senator, who standi
high in the party councils. Bavs the nn-
posed Senatorial investigations of a pri J
vM3 ciiaracier anu me reonrumzatinn
schemes will come to nothing this ses
sion. They cannot be considered while
the contested seats are under considera
tion, and when that subject is disposed
of the Senate will nrobablv ailinnm. a
the quorum would otherwise disappear
niiuui two iiays aner me rresiuent no
tified the Senate he has no further busi
ness to pre- fit to it.
EASTERN MELANGE.
Florida Orange Crop Probably
the Largest Known.
THE PENINSULA OP MICHIGAN,
Nebraska Will Elect Her Presidential
Electors Herafter by Congres
sional Districts.
Western wheat-crop prospects are not
vuiAiuniging,
Another epidemic of irin is threatened
in New York.
In 181)2 the railroads in Peniinvlvama
l:n j i juji . J
Aiueu A,-tov ptJrMUIlH,
Secretaries Oresham and Carlisle while
looking into the expenditures of the
Behring Sea Commission reached anmn
allowances which were extravagant and
should be discontinued. It appears that
everybody connected with the commis
sion, from the stenographer down, have
been given very li bcral allowances, which
the officials of this administration in
clude under the head of " useless extrav
agance." There are, it is said, eight or
ten officials connected with the coinmis-
sion who are receiving more than double
pay oy drawing ?tl to S16 per day in ad
dition to regular salaries, which range
from 1,500 to $3,500 per annum. Ru
mors of these exposures have made
quite a stir in the department, and some
interesting developments are expected.
The Senate Committee on Foreiirn Re
lations held a meeting the other morn
ing. It is understood that, while favor
able to making public the text of the
Aueemn uvutv, h was unauie to agree
upon a favorable report bv reason of dis
agreements relative to the correspond
ence accompanying the convention. A
well-known Senator, who is the cham
pion of general humanitarian lerisht
tion, states that, when published, the
treaty will be found neither more nor
less objectionable than several other
treaties wnich have been m operation
for some years. The criticisms, he savs,
are due to a conception of the effect of
the instrument upon the garbled ex
tracts of a surreptitious publication of
me treaty nrat sent to tne (Senate.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding has
written the following letter to Collectors
on the Pacific Coast : "The department
is informed that the practice obtains
among Chinese laborers in this country
few days ago a large section of thedam of entrusting money to merchants, which
of the Gila Bend Irrigation Company's
canal, sixty miles southwest of Phienix,
was washed away. The damage is
stated to oe not less man aiuv.uw.
Oregon has five live ex-Governors, and
all are Democrats but one Hon. Z. F.
Moody of Salem. The Democrats are
Hon. L. F. Grover of Portland, Hon. W.
W. Thayer of Portland, Hon. John
Whiteaker of Eugene and Hon. S. F.
Chadwickof Salem.
In the suit of John Doe against the
Waterloo Mining Company, tried in the
Los Angeles United States District
Court, involving the title to disputed
ground in the mining claims at Calico,
Judge Ross rendered a verdict for the
plaintiff. Several suits are practically
settled by this decision.
The advent of a Chinaman at Great
Falls, Mont., who proposed to open a
laundry there, created much excitement,
and caused a mass meeting of laboring
men, who sent a committee to consult
with the authorities. Police protection
was given the Chinaman, but he was
forced to forego his design and leave
town.
The Planz murder case at San Jose is
again before the people in the shape of
hints at evidence being found, and that
sensational arrests will shortly follow.
The theory of suicide has never been
popular, the appearance of the clothing
and the shoes tending to show that the
body had been dragged to where it was
found. The murder was committed last
November.
The Arizona Legislature has passed a
bill which provides that upon the peti
. Hon of the parents of fifty pupils in in
v coriorated cities and towns a teacher
must be employed to teach Spanish. The
strongest opposition was from the sec
tions where Mexicans predominate. The
ground of the opposition was that the
result would certainly be the exclusion
of English in many schools..
The great project of irrigating the Mo-
)ave desert by means ot a mammoth
dam to be built at Victor Narrows, on
the line of the Southern California rail
road, appears to be an assured tact.
Ixxuments for the formation of a com
pany have been completed and signed.
The capitalists interested are Eastern
men from Duluth and elsewhere. The
expenditure involved is about 1,600,000.
"There's more whisky on the west
coast than in Victoria," remarked Frank
Adams, who has just returned to Vic
toria, B. C, from that section. "The
Indians are all drunk, and the sealers
iiave a hard time in getting a crew.
Whisky is being smuggled in by the
wholesale, and the red men are having a
high old time. The whisky is coming
from the American side. 1 never saw so
much drunkenness on that coast. There
dons not seem to be any government
control there at all." i
is treated as a part of the capital in the
v...: ii.:! it ' , ,
uueiuoea. iimiem laoorers wno nave
made such a disposition of , their savings,
although not actually engaged in busi
ness, have claimed to be merchants, and
say they are thereby entitled to leave the
country and return at pleasure. The de
partment desires you to closely scrutin
ize the certificates which may be pre
sented at your port by returning Chinese
and to require evidence of the standing
of the holders as bona-tide nietvhanta
actively engaged in business. In no case
should Chinese be permitted to enter as
merchants unless their right to the priv
ilege is clearly established, and where it
appears the practice herein referred to is
attempted the certificates presented
should be ignored, the holders arrested
and the facts reported to the department."
The question of sheathint our naval
vessels is one to which Secretary Herbert,
it is said, proposes to eive some earnest
consideration. Naval Constructor Hich-
bom has prepared some important data I a year.
A case of malignant tvuhus has an-
peureu hi iiiucinnau.
The World's Fair has taken in 1200.,
000 in admissions already.
A syndicate is reported to have nur-
M.n..,.l un V m:
.iHHniuiniigw lum aiuiub.
Nearly 400 applications for patents
were made last year by women.
The Treasury Department has plenty
ui gum iur an practical purposes.
Arkansas proposes to tax all Bleeping,
car, express and telephone companies.
The new iron-pipe combine in the
ooutnwest win nave aj,ouu,oou capital.
Americans can now buy bait in New
foundland without taking out a license,
An artful New York Italian has made
about f8,UU0 by raising 1 bills to 16 bills,
A bank, exclusively for the colored
race, has been organized at Anniston,
Aia.
Cattle in the Colorado country win.
tered exceediiurlv well durimr the late
com speu.
New York's Board of Electric Control
is still laboring to get the wires under
grounu.
The Cherokee Strip will not be opened
to settlement in time for the planting of
eprwg crops.
The Atlanta Constitution is anr-mur. In
declaring that Georgia is entitled to 2,500
federal omces.
Two ex-Auditors of Illinois are being
sued for the recovery of interest on State
money placed in banks.
Thomas Helm of Austin. Tex., offers
louu to any one wno will secure his ap
pointment as Postmaster at that place.
Governor Northern of Georgia-is tired
of politics, and has become enamored
with the life of a religious missionary.
The right of a saloon-keepor to eject
female crusaders from his premises is to
oe tested in me Illinois supreme Uourt.
The trial trip of the cruiser New York
has been every way successful. All
cruiser speed records have been sur
passed. ,
A Chicago syndicate of capitalists is
contemplating the establishment of an
extensive packing-house plant in the
City of Mexico.
It is learned positively that a dispatch
has been received from Oxford by the
Yale Boat Club opening negotiations for
an international race.
The Citv Electrician of Nashville.
Tenn., states that it would be very dan
gerous for women wearing crinoline to
cross the electric car tracks.
Rumors of a shortage have led the
Randolph County (Mo.) Court to beirin
an investigation of the books of County
Treasurer Matlock of that county.
For along time hitherto New York
citv bonds have sold at a nremium in all
the markets of the world. Some new 8 '
per cents have been selling at par.
A Washington special to the New York
Herald savs that President Cleveland has
finally made up his mind to call an extra
session ol Uongreiv next September,
The Union Club of New York has en-
gaged Captain Charles Perry Smith, late
of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, as
its buperintendent at a salary of f6,0U0
PURELY PERSONAL.
Senator Frye will deliver the eulogv
on Blaine in" Boston, May 8. No mail
knew him better.
President Howe, of the American In
stitute of Mining Engineers, is a son of
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Mr. Gladstone would be the favorite
boarder in an American private hotel.
He is fond of rice pudding and prunes,
Mrs, Lamont, wife of the popular Sec
retary, will remain in New York until
the close of the school year liberates her
children.
During 18H2 there were 1,W strikes in
the State of New York, involving 25,704
persons.
More than five hundred street rail
roads are operated by electricity on this
Continent.
The Bessemer iron miners of Michigan
admit the formation of a pool to limit
their output.
More gold has been obtained from
Spanish America than from anv other
part of the world, !
A new wire, called the Hungarian,,
is covered with three coats of thread and
two coats of celluloid.
From all sections of the Southern cot-
Susan B. Anthony has weathered the ton bolt come reports of a largely in-
gales of adverse criticism for forty yeurs,
and still clings to the hope that she wiil
yet be permitted to vote,
Mrs, Langtry has made a sunless nf
her display of good clothes. She has a
SUO.uuu yacht in which to enjoy her sea
sickness and be fashionably miserable.
Verdi will have a gold mine in "Fal
staff." He has already received $32,
000 for the opera, and will have 40 per
cent of the performing and publishing
royalty rights.
Buffalo Bill now stands at the head
and front of American citizenship. He
told President Cleveland that he was
not an office-seeker and wanted abso
lutely nothing.
James J. Hill of St. Paul, the railroad
magnate, has a splondid collection of
French paintings bought on his own
judgment. He talks as understanding!'
of art as of railroads.
William Ordwav Partrid. the Rnston
sculptor, gets I0;O00 for his statute of
Bhakespeare, and will receive 127,000 for
his equestrian statute of Garfield. HeJ
is only 81 years of age.
The Empress of Austria has translated
"Lear." "Hamlet." and "The Timnmat"
into modem Greek, in which language
she is wonderfully proficient, talking and
writing it like an educated Athenian.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is sensible
enough to be very particular about his
diet and means of living, and to take
care that no unwise indulgence on his
part shall benefit the doctors or shorten
his days.
There is a fortune In store for the au
thor who has a long list of good-selling
novels. Ouida has written altogether
twenty-seven novels. Th?y still enjoy a
large sale and return large royalties to
their author.
If the Infanta Isabella of Bnain mines
to this country, she will bIiow the Chi
cagoans that a woman of fortv-two can
dance like a sirl. hunt like a M. F. H.
and drive a four-in-hand like the Presi
dent of a coaching club,
Among the latest of the prominent
actore to reply to Elhridge t, Gerry's
violent assault upon the women of the
stage is John Drew, who mint In nix
distinguished mother, who began her
Droiessionai ninwr mmm. u uiwn nf am.
He holds that the children are better off
on the stage than in any other occupa-
uuu uiat is open to inem,
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
creased cotton acreage.
There are quite a number of women in
New York who earn their living by tak
ing in "baby boarders,"
More than 500,000 lizard skins were
Bhipped to this country last year from
the State of Tobosco, Mexico,
The fish hatchery at Selkirk, Canada,
which has a capacity of 15,000,000 fry, is
said to be the largest in Canada.
The silver output of Colorado was in
creased last year by 8,000,000 ounces in.
spite of the low price of the motal.
There is 12,000,000,000 of life liiBur
ance written in all parts of the world,
and of this nearly one-half is placed in:
tills country.
EAST AND 80UTH
The Shasta Route
-or Tim-
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.
Klprea trahnueaye Portland dally:
jpr:ifc .'.Horturai:.. ;tt.irr.
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Tim above Iraiua .u, uy t le followlui
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Portland ..Ar.10:SOA. a.
Albany ,y, t:m t. u.
'.oral n.onarlrliii-iliilly (BUMut Sunday).
on the subject. He shows that the At
lanta on her trial trip with a clean bot
torn , attained a speed of 16.6 knots
hour with a 3.346-horse power.
while the Boston, her exact duplicate.
with a comparatively foul bottom made
but 13.8 knots on 3,3110-horse power.
Constructor Hichbom holds that the im
portance of the preservation of the bot
tom of steel vessels from corrosion and
fouling can hardly to overestimated and
is continually emphasized bv the renorl
of loss of speed and increased coal con
sumption received from our new un
sheathed steel vessels now. in commis
sion. Unless our cruisers are to be con
fined to cruises of short duration in the
neighborhood of our own ports, it would
appear that they are deficient in the
most important quality the ability to
umiiiutin iiign speea at sea lor long pe
riods. The additional expense incurred
in putting on the sheathing of wood and
copper is in reality a great saving dur
ing ine uietiine oi a snip, as it obviates
the necessity of frequent docking and
the largely increased coal bills when the
the metal bottom is foul. For a vessel
like the Chicago the cost would be be
tween $300 and MOO for ddckinm a one.
To this sum must be added about (1,000
for scraping and painting, In Great
Britain competition has brought the
cnarges ior private oocks down to a min
imum, but the docks in India, China,
Australia and on the Pacific Coast are
very expensive. Captain Hichborn rec
ommends that all cruising vessels in
tended for general service in foreign wa
ters be sheathed if above 1,000 tons dis
placement, and that vessels of less than
1,000 tons displacement intended foreen-
eral service 'as cruising gunboats, etc., be
of a composite construction, with steel
framing wood outside, planking and am-
per sheathing. '
The Delmonico Restaurant at New
York wil have to move from its well
known stand in May. The Womiser
Brothers, bankers, have bought the
property. ,
A friend of the Pennsylvania Hospital,
Philadelphia, has presented the institu
tion with (60,000, with which to pay for
a new building tor the uut-patient Department.
A bill providing for the election of
tj :.i .r..i i f .... : i
t: rcBiueillUM AICIIWB wviiurenaiuuui
districts has passed the Nebraska House,
and is likely to pass the Senate and be
come a law.
The Lower House of the Kentucky
Legislature has declared against the
marriage of cousins on the ground that
children ot such marriages are frequently
weak-minded.
The United Brotherhood of Switchmen
held a secret meeting at Philadelphia.
No definite resolution was formed as to
a strike when business is crowded dur
ing the World's Fair.
There are on file in tiie Postoffice De
partment more than 5,000 resignations
of Postmasters, These cases will be
considered and disposed of before any
cases of removals are taken up.
The admission fee to the World's Fair
grounds will shortly be raised from 2K
cents to 60 cents, to discourage visitors
until the work, which must now be
pushed night and day, is completed.
The result of the effortB to increase the
trade of the United States with the coun
tries of South and Central America
seems to be an increase in the exporta
tion of American agricultural imple
ments, the figures of one country, the
Argentine Republic, alone showing an
increase from &27.000 to $1,301,000 dur
ing the year.
Paper barrels are a success.
The cigarette manufacture is decreas-
f.'ooomotives now have eltrin luuul.
lights.
England is building a ship that will
cost $4,760,000.
Europe is reported to have SiHMi
match factories.
There are over 21.000 Western Union
telegraph offices.
The kegs nsed for the exnnrtatinn nf
gold hold $50,000.
The annual production of nenner av
erages 21,000 tons.
Electric liirhts are extinoiiiHhml hv a
clock arrangement.
Twenty-five cents a day is good wages
for a laborer in China.
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All Through Trains.
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BlTWMK PORTLABD AND CeaVALMa.
Mall train-dally (eaoant Biuiday):
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At Albany and (lorvallii connect wllb tralai
of Oriwou Paoino railroad.
Ktpreta train-dally (exeunt Sunday I:
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THROUGH TICKETS
and Knrom ean be obtained at lowealraloi tram
I. A. Uonneu, agent, Lebanon.
R. KUKHMtR, Manaaw.
. P. BOHR !W. Ant. a. F. 4 Paia. Asent
JHMUY .v FWITII1E 7 GO.
H. R. Hyde, Proprietor.
A FULL LINE OF
Furniture
-OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KIND8 OF
Carpets! Carpets!
We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING,
or day.
Baltimore Block. Albany, Or.
Calls answered night
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Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company
OF ALBANY, OREGON.
CAPITAL 8TOCK
ssoo.ooa
Hon. K. S. BTRAHAN,
Chief Jutloeol Sopreue Court.
Hon. J. W. OtJBICK, Banker.
Hon. J. K. WrlATHKItrtlHI), Attorney-at-Law.
J. O, WHITOM AN, Kq Capllallit,
Willamette vauey Lean uompany.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS..
Hon. . L.. COWAN,
W.K.KKAI).K(1.,ltereh;,,t,
No two-thirds, Uiree-lonrthl, thirty or ilny-day claiiae In tbe'Fam'i'et." aiiS EL.I.....
pollcle.. The Farmer;' and Mercl.,HU' l,nr,noe,0oml"? wv, tK Jimm.'I'.'K
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