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:
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1 K-.V. r. a. I.v Albany Ar. It
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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.
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8:I0A. H.jl.V.....w. Alliany Ar.
9:00 A. H.IAr Lttbnnim l.v,
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Dining- Cart on f)ada Hnut
PULLMAN BUFFET MLKKf
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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)
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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.