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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1893)
H. T. KIKKPATK10K, Pnbll.lun-. LEBANON. OREUON OCCIDENTAL KEWS. Shipments of Oranges Iiivrside, Cal. From AH IMMENSE CANAL PROJECT. Difficult; With the Union Sailors at San Pedro Unsettled Bogus Chinese Certificates. An armory will probably be built for the Giant's Paw uiibtia this summer. The discovery has just been made in Oregon that the Chinese pheasant feeds on wild oats. The liquor dealers at Los Angeles pro pose to fight the high license ordinances to the bitter end. In the election at Albuquerque, N. M., every Democratic candidate, from top to bottom of the ticket, was elected except one Behoof Director. The first through stage from ToBemite Valley has reached Wawona. The ac cumulating snow in the high Sierra guar antees nne watemus uus summer, Suit against the Southern Pacific has been instituted at San Bernardino for $10,000 by the brothers of Samuel Foley, who was run over and killed a few weeks ago, Kilev Hammeeley, a prospector in Jo-M-nhine countv. Or., has struck a two- foot quarts ledge on Jump-on" Joe creek, I sixty pounds 01 wmcn nas prouuceu $426. The ranchers in Lower California op- nose the free admission of Hour into FROM WASHINGTON CITY. The Cherokee Strip Will Not he Opened Before July. THE WEECK OF A GUNBOAT. Wheat Crop Prospects In Southern Illinois Grave of General Hancock Unmarked. Ten Thousand Chinese Actors Leave Shanghai on Their Way to the World's Pair. Secretary Smith has directed the re moval of twenty-five pension examiners now in the tiehi. It is said the politii of the examiner was not considered, aud that the only question taken into ac count was that of proficiency. The State Department has been in formed that the owners of the conces sion for building a railroad from the City of Mexico to the Pacific Coast have deposited $20,000 in bonds with the Na tional Treasury as required under the terms of the concession. The builders of the road are to receive a subsidy of $12,000 a mile. As a result of the controversy between Mark W. Harrington, chief of the weather bureau, aud J. B. McLaughlin, chief of the executive division of the burean, Mr. Harrington has demanded of Secretary Morton an immediate and full investigation of the administration of the bureau. McLaughlin was sus pended by Harrington for insubordina tion and recommended to the Secretary for dismissal. McLanglilin responded bv filing charges of corruption against iiarrington. An investigation by the management of the bureau will be made at once. The United States has taken vigorous action in regard to the outrages on American citizens at Marsovan in the Turkish dominions and the violations of the mails of the United States legution. Secretary tiresham has cabled to Minis ter Thompson at Constantinople a strong expression of the President's views on the outrages and demanding not only prompt reparation tor the oilmen semi nary, but the punishment of all parties guilty in the matter. The Minister is to act promptlvandiulyise the department mftkim, efforu) to nmKaa the pool bv cable. No effort is to be relaxed in rooms spring the legal rights of our cituen. 'g ,uinoi, . ,. , , ... inounce that the prospects for a good ?e?rei?.r;t Carl'"te. hm ved l"1 . wheat crop this season are most promis- J.-m TV 111 II niACl ) VIIUUI1UIUI UUIIIO V .Villi 1)111 mittee on Legislation of the florld's Co-, IadB which were selling two years lumbian Exposition, a letter raising nrTn ;n ,,., ui Pivo,. vuii'v N n fro- certain questions in regard to the sundry $10 to $12 an acre now bring double those civil act, m which is included the appro- jmirps priation for the World's Fair. He asks , Xhe pitai ot tho ramDor lrusti wlu!h toexim. Theirrawiniof breadstuffs onl'" . . seems destined to control the lumber U,e peninsula Eas heel, instituted on a j a? Jf? Hhis country, is understood ,, k ,a?mnwT we Denenl ? De. IB,r 8!"a Jav Gould's children are about to TTJTZZ:" P8811 7 o mnng t ne ollii , church to their father's memory veto power uiree uu uri i uro jirai- exposition must turnisn security tor the Knxhnrv Delaware countv N Y the t tirm of the r niu Leo alatnre. and 1 K7n uui .'...j j... at koxi un, uuaware county, n. i ,,iue Inebcase the bill hasbeen K-S TheTrecSoritoex. T"??". r over hie head. , sition arc in doubt as to how to construe , alP Jme , "V,!?1. , i.i. .1 : si i Lu. . n . i has been awarded $450 b San Pedro is unsettled, owing to the op- the question to the AtWney-Ueneral for SlhhX position to the execution of warrants by decision. to0'11 """-an 01 a aecayea one. a Justice, who favors the cause of the striking seamen. EASTERN MELANGE. The Michigan World's Fair Board will make an exhibition of its newspapers. The grave of General Winlleld Scott Hancock in Norristown, Pa., is yet un marked. The building of electric roads in Ohio is said to be " developing the proportions of a erase." The Colorado Senate has passed the Railroad Commission bill over the Gov ernor's veto. It will require forty cars to carry Krupn's exhibit for the World's Fair from Baltimore to Chicago. t A great flow of natural gas has been struck at Cherryvale, Kan., and the cit izens are expecting a boom. Secretary of the Interior Smith does not expect the Cherokee Strip to be open to settlement before July 1 next. Rev. Dr. Parkhnrst ot New York ha organized a cor, whose business it will be to see that all local laws are obeyed. .The Legislatures of New York, Con necticut and several Western States are PURELY PERSONAL. Yale University's faculty has t (see against gambling among tin dents; so there is a possibility tha football will have to lie played sim; fun. Since 1755 Harvard has filled ? laces in the government as fo wo Presidents, two Viee-Prosi fifteen Cabinet officers and thirty 1 ters Plenipotentiary, 1 . Gossip has It that Queen Victor leave the bulk of her wealth, esti at $25,000,000. to the Duke of Conn and Princess Beatrice, leaving the . of Wales out in the cold. Three of the building-society swi ot London wuo rouuea poor peo some millions of dollars of their su have been sentenced to penal ser two for twelve years each and ( five yoars. There are twenty-four freezing lishments in New Zealand, with pacity not far short of 4,000,000 si year. Nearly all the frozen me ported from New Zealand and An goes to England. Last vear witnessed the constr of 170 Mchoolhouxes in Kansas at of $151,020.- There are in tlieStati organized school districts, and a population of 408,801. There were 4,870 students at th versity of Berlin last winter, the 1 nnnilHir in the history ot the instil This is alwut 2,000 more than attendance at Harvard. United Rtrs rnnmil Rovmrair t Han. The nCW rettUlatlOnS fOT tllO BOVOTn- ton, China, has cabled the State Depart- ment of the navy provide, among other Khi,,, of nne from Riverside I ment that 10.UUO Chinese actors, etc., "", imv. ui...:cni are now being pushed vigorously Up belonging to rival companies, have left as correspondents tor newspapers, to date over 900 carloads have been i Shanghai for the United States to visit The Chicago packing firm, which t: j i :t win.tj ti.Uf i mm . the World's Fair, where thev will land started thirtv veani aim m a little huteh- MllUUVU. HUU Jb IB cowiuoitv. ,vuu . .. i . -, . ; .. . . V 1 " . ... carloads remain to be sent East I Vancouver, lacoma, rortlanu, Ban er-shop with one wagon, mcreasea its The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-1 "tancisro and other places. In accord- capitaf stock last week to $15,000,000. ports sixteen failures in the Pacific Coast " ,w,thK tl",8.. mroJm!,UT Aa"ll,t?nt Evidence has been secured of whole hl es and Territories for the past week, hfetary bpauldmg of the Treasury De- 8alc registration frauds in Chicago. Of lrrU wi h for KS f?-'1- te egraphed the customs sTtames added to the list 6,0W and ... .. j JV..i;.... .omcers on me racim: i.oast ana nortn- nnMU;i,k-s issi ro to he Irani In ent. era frontier to exercise the closest seru- tiny that none but bona-fide exhibitors It is reported from Guthrie, 0. T or emplovee whose services are required that hundreds of Texas cattle are being bv the exhibitors at the World's Fair unloaded at Ponca in the Cherokee Strip Exposition be permitted to enter this to graze, and waiting settlers are indig- country. This exemption as to the Chi- nant. nese exclusion act in favor of exhibitors, The Massachusetts Senate has 24 to9 etc., was made by Congress to cover just passed a bill providing for the Bubmui- such cases as this. sion to the people of a constitutional lector Osborn from the Treasury Depart-1 Chief-Justice Fuller has announced amendment establishing biennial elec uient, not only granting permission to tiie decision of the Supreme Court of "omu the County of Antrim to discharge at , tne ijmti States in the case of the I According to the report of the Auditor KuntA Mnnica. but extending the nrivi- . vl.nvn pnn;i;.. u.M;nat U7..ltM of Vinrtniu the nctmes of that State nnv lege to all vessels containing bulky goods, .' Countv Auditor, ct al., from the Court taxes on real estate valued at $0,426,085 TJ under the provisions of Section 20, Act 0 Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The and on personal property valued at $3,- 7,1 of Congress approved June 26, 1881. j imy company in 1800 began suits 342,050. week and thirteen for the corresponding week in 1802. James Mcintosh of Coos River, Or., having satisfied himself that he would eventually die of consumption, placed a lific to his head, touched thetrigger with a stick and blew out his brains. He was well otf financially. A telegram has been received by Col The gold medal which the Queen has given to Richard M. Hunt, the architect, is the first of the kind evur received by an American. Horlxsrt Spencer began his literarv ca reer in the columns of the Independent and Nonconformist at the age of 21. He wrote first on the "1'roper Sphere ot Uov- ornments." The younger Dumas has given up smoking. Fur the last five years he has confined himself to cigarettes, but even these, he thinks, retard instead of stim ulating his mental processes. M. Mnnkacsky is at work in his Neu illv studio on a nicture uf such dimen sions that the canvas has to be raised and lowered bv a machine made for that purpose. It is 13 feet high and 45 feet wide. Prof. Martin Kellogg of the University of California has been granted the hon orary degree of LL.D., by the Yale cor poration at a special meeting, rai. Kellogg is a graduate of Yale iu the class of 1850. A visitor to Marshal McMahon says that the Marshal is still a great sports man. He starts out with gun at 6 in the morning, and walks twelve or fifteen miles a day. His hand is firm and his aim sure. The Archbishop of York has an nounced to his archdeacons that he will contribute $5,000 a year one-tenth of his gross stipend to the fund formed to increase the incoraii of the poorest bene fices of the diocese" Governor Northon of Georgia has an nounced that he will be in the race for oenator Colquitt's seat next year. It seems to be taken for granted that Mr. Colquitt will not seek re-election on ac count of poor health. Thomas Allen, who served under Wel lington in the war with Nannleo? and under General Scott in the Mexican war, and who enlisted at the age of 72 for service in the civil war, is still alive at the age of 103 yeare in Tyler county, W. Va. Mrs. U. 6. Grant will snend the sum mer at Highlands Falls. A suite of I ; whm Mw rowwal allyi rooniB overlooking ttie Hudson has been ' 7:D0 r. M.i.v.....Fnrtlaiio.. Ar.i 7: engaged for her. and is now receiving a I ' ! VT .i .l. nn i s."1- bliunjli;ii uveriiuuiiii. xiio irciftiiiiui- hoou of West Point has a strong fascina tion for the widow of the great soldier. The Princess Edward of Kaxe-Woimar, the Duchess of Leinstcr, the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Countess Silencer, Lady Carew and the Countess of Shrews berry are among the ladies who have promised to preside at stalls at the dis play ot tne lnsn exnioits lor tne uni cago World's Fair, which is to lie held on March 3 and 4 at Mr, Astor's house in Cariton House Terrace. Sir Andrew Barclay Walkor, who died recently at Oateacre near Liverpool, was one of the richest commoners in Eng land, and was widely known in connec tion with the famous art gallery at Liv erpool, which bears his name. He wu a brewer and public-house owner, be came largely interested in mines, and had an income of 250,000 a year. The cost of the Walker art gallery was about 40,800. He gave 20,000 to University College, Liverpool, and tens of thousands in other directions. EAST AND SOU! The Shasta Roi SOUTHERN PACIFIC ......Hnu Krannlirit. l.T.I 7 Tim Nlxivu trams (top uuly t lie tt, tmlonn llnrttl at Hovelmnr Kami I'orll egon Dlty, Woislliurn, Salem, Allwny. 1 Sli(li1, HalMty. Hurrlsbum, JavutlouOlt) and Kuseue. HiwulmnT mull-dally: s:0 a. a. I.t I'ortlsiia At. 1 1 K-.V. r. a. I.v Albany Ar. It I 6:a0 r. a. Ar Hiwelmrn I.v, 7 EDUCATIONAL BREVITIES. The people are much pleased at the fact that they now have an open port. More bogus Chinese certificates have turned up at Astoria, lliis time the sig nature and seal of Judge Cleveland has been forged. A month ago a certificate that had been presented on the Cana dian borderwas sent to Astoria. On ex amination Mr. Cleveland found that his name and seal had been placed thereon in a rather clumsy manner. The new black-sand enterprise, by which the iron is to be extracted from the sand, bidB fair to become an import ant business. Works are to be immedi atelv established at Rogue river, says the Tort Orford Tribune. Their success means various factories along the beach, and they will furnish employment to a ; large number 01 men ana nuKe uener times. I An immense canal project has been inaugurated in the western part of Inyo county involving the irrigation of a strip of land eighty miles in length, and it is now stated that a railroad is projected to begin at Bishop's creek about twenty miles north of Independence and ten miles from the upper end of the canal. The line will pass through Independ ence, Lone Pine, Olancha, Rose Springs Vallev and Indian Wells Valley. Thence it will bear to the west and end at Mo jave, the total ength being 140 miles. The Southern Pacific has decided to at once begin the construction of its line north from Santa Monica to Montalvo, on the branch from Saugus to Santa Barbara. Thus when the line now being built from the latter place to Ban Fran cisco is completed the company will have a through road to the Golden Gate, un pamlledfor beauty of scenery, freedom from heat and dust and shorter than the present route by several hours. A real California lion, measuring be tween live and six feet, is declared to have taken up his quarters within the domains of some of the residents who comprise the hamlet of Rose Valley, it is stated that he has been encountered hv Will Kittle. Captain Griffiths and everal others. Since the new visitor has made his appearance outdoor enjoy ment after sunset has in general been discontinued throughout the entire val ley. A reward of 50 has been offered for the animal, dead or alive, against the Auditors of twelve counties I The wreck of a gunboat which was in iVorth Dakota for injunctions to re- sunk during the late war, and which lies strain them from assessing tuxes against in the regular channel near the Cape certain lands, the title to whioh vests in Fear bar in North Carolina, will soon be the county. The Chief Justice stated removed. the amount involved in any one county Thc krge purified snake, claimed to was not sufficient to give the Circuit hftve beea unued in Colorado some Court jurisdiction, and indeed the rec-;time a 0 Um outtobe a fossilized ords show that the total amount in the twelve counties is not sufficient. The judgment of the Circuit Court was there fore reversed and the cases remanded for further proceedings. No disposal was made, the Chief Justice explained, for the reason that by the time the cases are returned the amount involved may be sufficient, in some one of the counties, to give the court jurisdiction, but it can not obtain jurisdiction, he said, bv com bining the amounts of issue in two or a dozen counties. The Assistant Secretary of State has been directed by Secretary Gresliam to examine more thoroughly than has been customary into the personnel of the State Department, with the view, it palm tree which grew in that State be' fore the climate changed. The three vessels of the United States and Brazil Steamship Company were sold at auction at New York. The Alii-' ance sold for $83,000; Virginia, $81,000, and the Advunce, $04,000. The petition for the rehearing of the celebrated Chicago lake-front cases was overruled by the Supreme Court of the United States, but a second petition will be filed if opportunity oilers. Philadelphia members of the Sons of the Revolution are about to start a move ment against the removal of Liberty Bell and the original Declaration of In- is understood, of determining the fitness I dependence to the World's Fair. of the employes for the positions held by A brakeman on the Central Railroad them. It is reporteu, anu on gooa au-' oi new jersey naa outameu a veruici thority, that tradition and precedent ; against the company for $25,000 for the will not obtain in the State Department : loss of a leg which waB crushed by some during the incumbency of Secretary Gresliam. and that there will be less red tape and greater dispatch of business hereafter. Secretary Hoke Smith has already begun to carry into effect his policy of dispensing with the services of all incompetent clerks in his department, or those appointed purely for political reasons. Under the direction of Chief Clerk Wardle, the individual record of the clerical force of the census office is being thoroughly examined, and all the clerks found to be deficient will be dis missed. It is Secretary Smith's belief that the work of the census should be completed by the end of the calendar year without asking on additional appro priation from Congress, but to do this he is convinced there must be not only economy in expenditures, but each em ploye must do good and efficient work. It is understood, also, the clerical force of the general land office will soon un dergo the process of renovation, after which some attention will be given the pension and other bureaus, with a view of putting them on a strictly business basis. care "cut loose in violation ot the rules." The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted a memorial to Congress asking a sub mission of an amendment to the Federal Constitution providing for the election of the United States Senators by a popu lar vote. At West Union, la., there was a battle between the farmers and railroad men over the erection of a warehouse. Seven or eight wore severely injured, and one will die. The railroad won the point in contention. According to the Baltimore News the new city directors indicates an increase of population for Baltimore during the past year of 86,000. The gain is attrib uted largely to the growth of manufac turing interests in the city and suburbs. Senator Roach of North Dakota, whose record Mr. Hoar wants to have investigated, is accussed of embezzling a large amount of money from a national bank in Washington, of which he was an officer nearly if not quite twenty years ago, A $200,000 building is to be erected for the New York Teachers' College. The golden rod has been adopted as the flower of the Chicago University. It is stated that 214 of the 305 colleges in the United States are coeducational. Of the students graduated at Yale University since 1701, 7,62(1 arc dead and 820 living. The United States have 18,812,706 per sons of school age, of whom 13,010,130 are enrolled in school. Albany liwal ilally (eznept Sunday). 8:00 r. .l.v Portland .7..At.TS (:Olr. Ar Albany l.v.i t Lneal liMiBngartralini ilally (L-nrnptl 1:'A) p. M.JI.v Albany Ar. z:Oll p. H. Ar.. ....... ,ubaiu)ll I.v, 8:I0A. H.jl.V.....w. Alliany Ar. 9:00 A. H.IAr Lttbnnim l.v, III Dining- Cart on f)ada Hnut PULLMAN BUFFET MLKKf -ANB- Sacond-tilao Rliliia Vmn AM All Throua-k Tralut. WEST ll DIVISION. Bktwbrn Portland and Ookvali Mall traln-dally (eiceot Sunday): 7:80 a. a. il,y..7..Z.i,ortland....Ar.l i 12:10 r. . I Ar (lorvallu l.v. II At Albauv anil Cnrvallit vomit!! wil of orosou raiiitto railroad. Rxnrwn tralndallr 'exennl Sunday) I l.v 1'nrtlsnd Ar. , I I Ar....Mi'M!nnvlll....I,v. I THROUGH TICKETS r lid Kitrowaui be obtained at towtMUi I. A. ttuuutiU, agent, U'lifttinn. K. KOKHI.ER. Mi I. K ROQKKi). Ami 0. F. Put. Am H. R. Hyde, Proprietor, -A FULL LINE OF- Purnitur OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Carpel Wo make a Bpeuialty of UNDEKTAKING. Calls answered or day.' Baltimore Block. Albany, Or. W. P. READ, President. GKO. P. SIMPSON, Vlee-Prealdaut J. O. WKITSM AN. J. i COWAN, Treuurar. f. a. JUUJ1SK, Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Com OF ALBANY, OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK 86 JBOAKD OF DIBEOTOKt. Bon. J. L. COWAN, , Premdent I.lnn County Natlo M. nTRENUKKU, Sag., Merchant. W.F. KF.AD.RM.,Berohaiit. . u. D. myict it.ii n, uapitatlat. Hon. B. . WRAHAN, Chief Juticeof Bo.pnai6Coa.rt. Hon. J. W. CnfllCK, Banker. , Hon. J. K WKATHKRKIHD, Attorny Uw. J. O. WttlTHMAN, Kaq., Capltalllt, WlllamatlA Valley Land Comnany.' No two-tblrda, throe-fonrlhs, thirty or Hlxty-day olanae In the Fanner.' and Merfihan pollel... The Farmer.' and Merchant.' Inirarance Company pay. the full amount ol ) Uift amount Injured. The anbearlber. 10 the eapltal Itoek BODHl.M of farmer., mrrohanb capltallitK, attonutys, physllaiu and maoiuuilUB, Uia laraatt stsuunt bald byalugle it 0. t. SIMPSON, K( Capltallrt.