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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1893)
pkuim (frprrss. H. T. KIKKPATK1CK, rubllahoi. LEBANON' OREGON OCCIDENTAL SEWS. Backward Season in Nevada Protects the Fruit. HEW GOLD FIND IN ABISSOKA. A Ulne Ribbon AVar in Progress at Ran Diego A Deputy Sheriff Killed by the Kid. The Southern Pacific U to build to San Diego ironi Yuma. Victoria (B. C.) lumber dealers have formed a lumber combine. Peach Springs, A. T.( is in the throes of excitement over a new gold find. A wonderfully rich Btrike has been made in the Eagle Tail Mountains, A. T. The Clatsop Mill Company at Astoria now has a drvhouse, with a capacity of 200,000 feet a' day. The Chasms' ticket at Phoenix, A. T., has been elected, with the exception oi City Marshal. The San Diego County Horticultural Commissioners have organized and com menced the atudy oi fruit pests. 'There are rumors of a big opium eom bine, working through Canadian ports and having headquarters at Portland, i ur. The backward season in Nevada has protected the fruit, and the pasturage will be exceedingly fine, owing to heavy rams and snows. There is much excitement in Graham county, A. T., over the indictment of several cituens tor raising tne registra tion to make tne county brat-class, Kid, the Apache, has killed Jake Bow man, Deputy tshenn ot Cochise countv, in Uuaualupe Canyon, A. T. Bowman started out to hunt for and kill the Kid. An Albany paper asserts that people going to the W orlcT's Fair from the coun try thereabout will take at leant 150,000 away that will never return and be a complete toss to tnat community. The clerk hire of the last Legislature cost the State of Oregon 2tt,02tt.lO, or , over (IS00 a day. The lowest paid any one clerk was io, Dut very tew ot tnem drew less than $125. There were 108 clerks on the pay roll. , A blue-ribbon war is in progress at Kan Diego. Bands of Christian men and women visit the saloons in a chosen quarter of the city and hold gospel meet ings inside the saloon if invited, as is oiten the case, or on the sidewalk if de nied entrance. The Phomix (A. T.) bankers have de ckled to contest the legality oi the Ter ritorial law taxing all banks, national, State or private, on the same basis as other property when the bank doee busi- ness solely within the Territory, whether organized under the laws of Arizona or any other State. Chester Ayres, with traps baited with cotton saturated with a nostrum whose odor is pleasant to the nostrils of coy otes, lias been able to capture and kill within five weeks forty-six coyotes in Mendocino county, Cat., whose scalps bring him near $l,4o0, the bounty from the county and the sheepmen. At Phoenix, A. T., the grand jury has just ignored the charges against five prisoners who have been in jail for from four to six months. These men were too poor to give bonds, and were com pelled to remain in jail until the session of the jury without a shadow of evi dence to indict,' much less convict them. A fish wheel is now in operation in the Umatilla river a mile above the town of 'Umatilla. It is the first one ever tried out of the Columbia, and seems to be doing pretty well. B. C. Hinton, who put the wheel in, is also the inventor of an irrigating wheel which is now being used successfully at several points along the Umatilla river. Preliminary arrangements have been completed for the establishment of the Australian steamship line to run in con nection with the Canadian Pacific rail way. The first steamers will leave Syd ney May 11 and June 8, and, returning, will probably leave Vancouver June 8 and July 6. A petition has been put in circulation tlmmghont the mainland of British Co lumbia, addressed to the (iovernor-Gen-eral oi Canada, suggesting separation of the mainland from Vancouver Island as the surest means of relief from tiie ex isting evils of the resources of the prov ince being spent in unproductive under takings. , Miss Harriett Woodruff, Superintend ent of Schools in Umatilla county, has sent in her annual State report. There are at present 6,132 children of school age in the countv, an increase of 156 over last year. The spring apportion ment gives this county (24,043. In all IW.WH.oo have been spent in the last year for school purposes. Captain Van Bramer has returned to shafts and tunnels of treasure-seekers. 1 yne party estirna the cost of the work tunneled 100 feet, i t j uwt v Hi: r 1 3 ;led 100 feet, but thfiir charte wes 0.1 yiOU.UKf. Thft Kramer nttrtv . evmenuy wrong, uiey claimed. luv wmocr II HT I dtntMt t PROM WASHINGTON CITY. Representative Outhwuite or Ohio is the latest to verify the report that Con gress will .convene in extra session in tseptemlwr next. Outhwaite dues not take any stock in thestatement that im mediately after the appointment of the House committees a recess will be taken until the first of December. He said : '"It is my opinion that Congress will be in continuous session, barring the usual Christmas holidays, from September until the following June." It whs learned at the State Depart ment that the refusal of the Kussian Consul in New York to vise the pass port issued to Mrs. Sadie Schwartz by the State Department, on the ground that she is a Jewess, is in accordance with the laws of Russia. If Mre. Schwartz should make complaint to Secretary (.Trcalium, she will, oi a necessity, be in formed that he can do nothing in the matter, because the rules governing the Russian consular officers prohibit them from countersigning any paper intended iur use m itussia oy jews. The danger of an uprising in Corea against the Christian missionaries in that country has passed. The news that mohs of natives had threatened to ex terminate the whites was received by the state .uepartment some weeks ago by cable. Protection from the United States government was requested, and accordingly the Navy Department Bent the steamer Alert from Shanghai to Corea, with orders to remain until af fairs had assumed a peaceful aspect. Admiral Harmony cabled the depart ment that the Alert arrived at her des tination April 24. The other dav an other dispatch was received from him Btating the Alert had returned to Shang hai. While nothingconcerning the con dition of affairs was contained in the dispatch, it is certain the Alert would not have lett Corea if anv serious trouble had existed. The International Monetary Confer ence, which adjourned to reassemble in Brusseli the 30th inst., will not reas semble on that date. The general feel ing expressed by the representatives of the leading powers is that the end of May is not a suitable time for recom mencing the labors of the conference, andasa resultaconsultation was held be tween the President, SecretarvGresham and some of the delegates of the United Males. It was determined to cable the announcement that the reassembling of the conference would be postponed until some time m nextNoveniher. governor McCreary of Kentucky, who, as well senator Jones of Nevada, will con tinue to serve upon the commis sion, expresses much gratification at the cnange ot oate, and Believes it will in crease the prospect of the conference ac complishing some solid results. CHICAGO EXPOSITION. A congress of bankers from all parts of the world will be a World's Fair feature in the week oi June 18th to 25th. The Duke of Veraaua. when he saw tne tast river bridge, remarked: "If pity uoiumous is not here to see it." In the exhibit of hand-made laeessent from Great Britain to Chicago is an apron given by Queen Elizabeth to Lord fainax. The report of Director-General Davis shows that a grand total of nearlv $33, 500,000 have been raised for the World's Fair, exclusive of the cost and value of the exhibits, A general wail is heard all over Mich igan about tne scarcity ot hired girls. due in a great part to their departure for tne w orld's r air, where big wages are onerea tnem. The Harmony Societv of Beaver, Pa.. among the first to operate a successful silk industry in this country, has sent to the world's Fair an exhibit of dress silks manufactured sixty years ago, The Chicago Tribune estimates on the present scale of prices that a temperate. economical man can get along in that city on $3 a day. This will include lodging, board, car fare and admission to tne exposition, The big Kmpp gun, now at Chicago, contains aiO.OOU pounds ot wrought steel. and it is the greatest implement of de- stmction tnat tne world lias ever seen. It hurls a mass of steel weighing 2,300 pounas sixteen miles. Arc you busted?" is now thecommon salutation of the World's Fair people and visitors from the Northwest. The opening day hotel rates and restaurant charges were more than doubled, and great diesatislaction prevails. U. V. Calhoun, executive ot the Washington Commission, wired the following to the upokane neview: "would not advise anv one to visit the fair for the present. Xothing ready ; weather bad ; everything oniusion ana insolence. When asked for an expression of opin ion regarding his visit to the World's Fair President Cleveland replied : " We received a very cordial welcome, and everything that could be done was done for our comfort and pleasure. It was an occasion I shall always remember with a sense of genuine pleasure. I am much gratified at the enterprise, skill and taste displayed in the arrangement and appearanceof the buildings, and the re sults so far attained bespeak to my mind a great success for the World's Fair." From present indications the music trouble at the World's Fair is about to become a scandal. Evidence was pro duced at a recent meeting of the Na tional Commission which tends to show that Musical Director Thomas, notsatis fied with using a contraband piano, is of such forcible nature that the com' mission adopted a resolution directing i .vo.mw.v j.iuiDi w a Hummi , committee of nix to investigate the mat- V.,,,.. P., I..,.- ; .1 t tnr. EASTERN MELANGE. The. Troops AVithdrawn From the Mexican Border. FINED P0B NEGLECTING TO VOTE Naval Militia Hoys 11 ust Go to Sea and Lire and Act Like Sailors Rebel Millionaire. The Illinois law against ticket scalping has been declared unconstitutional. J. K. Ohoate has been elected Presi dent of the Colorado Tratlic Association. Chicago's demand for domestic help has created a corner in the servant-girl market. An ordinance for purification of the city water was introduced in the St. Louis Council. The apple crop of Northwest Missouri and Northeastern Kansas will be an al most total failure. A committee of prominent citizens has started a Minaay-ciosiiig movement at San Antonio, Tex. By direction of the Council in New Haven, Pa., the sale of Sunday newspa pers has been stopped. Troops have been withdrawn from the Mexican bonier, showing the authorities fear no more trouble there. The Arkansas river in Texas is eight miles wide, and along the river's course much damage has been done. Tbe season's catch of the Newfound land seal fisheries amounts to about 140,000, as against 1)50,000 last year. The sum of nearly $100,000 is to be collected from the male residents of Kan sas City as fines for neglecting to vote. General McCook, commanding the Territory of Arizona, savs the report re garding the Navajo outbreak has been exaggerated, , , Crooks from all over the world will seek safety at the World's Fair this year. Four hundred detectives will be on the grounds on duty. There is a man in Griffin, Ga., who is hoarding ll.OOO.OOU ot Confederate monev in the hope that it will become valuable some day. The Chicago police officers have blos somed out in new helmets and coats and other articles of spring attire in honor oi tne vtonu srair. It is now stated the bovs at Delaware. 0., who wore hazed and branded with an acid solution, will bear no scars. Their wounds have healed. The Upper Mississippi river is boom ing again. Steamers from above St. Louis have considerable trouble in pass ing turner tne onuge. Last year there were 400,000 immi grants landed at Ellis Island, N. Y.,and only 41,557 of them went to the South ern States to find homes. It now turns out that it was the mug wump members of tbe New York Union League Club who brought about the blackballing of young Seligman. On the run from Caie Henry to Balti more the cruiser Detroit covered the dis tances HfO miles in eight and a half hours, the fastest on record over this course A message has been received at the Department of State from the United States Minister at Constantinople res pecting the settlement of the Marsovan incident. The United States hvdrotiraphic office has obtained a set of 2,500 British ad miraltv charts, the only collection of of ficial English charts in the possession of the United States. : Mrs. A. M. Mankly has bequeathed to the city of Washington a large sum of money for the erection and maintenance of a home for destitute women as a me morial to her mother. The official announcement has been made of the rehabilitation of the Phila delphia and Reading Railroad Company by a syndicate headed by Drcxel & Co. and Brown Brothers & Co, Chnuncov Denew. representing a syn dicate, has been trying to buy the New York Mail and Express. Dr. DcpeW has often said that he regarded himself as competent to perform the duties of a good all-round reporter. High license has reduced the number of saloons in St. Paul, Minn., from 708 to Ml. 'I lie license now is 11,001) a vear. In 1887 the 708 saloons paid 70,W li cense. That year St, Paul had one sa loon for every 180 inhabitants. The South, which has only 28 per cent of the country's population, and which cast only 30 per cent of the popular vote for Cleveland, has thus tar secured sev enteen Ambassadors, Ministersand Con suls to fourteen given to the North, Armour's new grain elevator in Chi cago will have a capacity of 8,000,000 bushels, being much the largest in the city. Fifteen hundred carpenters are employed on the elevator, 8U0 on the day shift and 700 on the night shift. A real-estate syndicate, representing pillions of dollars, with a view of im proving tracts of Washington city sub urban properly is to be formed, Frank (i. Newlands, representing the Sharon estate, is the largest owner of propert y in the vicinity of the proposed syndicate improvement. ,; ; ; ,: The first woman to apply for and ceive a certificate to practice medicine in Virginia is Sarah 6. Jones (colored). I .!. .1,. Vlnn. Mlolo Last week she appeared before the State , Board of Medical Examiners at Kich muna, ana ptwweu a nuxM.m cxumim- ticm. In a claw of eiuhtv-flvc she stood ..f..i : ninth in surgery. .... " ITI1ELY PERSONAL. President Seth Lowe of Columbia Col lege lias inherited from his father a large estate at Newport. The Empress of Russia's physician when in attendance upon his august pa tient receives a fee oi 70 (700 roubles) a day. Rev. Dr. II . M. "Wharton of the Brent ley Baptist Church, Baltimore, has de cided to decline a $7,000 salary olforcd him by the Epiphany Baptist Church congregation of New York, The Register at Stanford University announces that ex-Presidont Harrison will begin his course of lectures on in ternational lua- next October, when the new school of law will be opened. ' The tombstone marking the grave of Rev. Wareham Williams, a leading preacher of colonial days, was unearthed at Walthum, Mass., recently. Antiqua rians hud long searched for 'the grave. That aBtute lawyer, Itufus Chouto, knew better than to' lie caught by Italian opera. " Interpret to me the libretto," said he to his (laughter at the oiwra, "lest I dilato with the wrong emotion," At the June commencement of Roan oke College, Salem, Va., a full-blooded Choctaw Indian will graduate. Ho is one of the best speakers in the college. Another Choctaw was graduated there in 1883. Princess Maria of Tarma is not pretty even for a royal bride. She has a long large countenance, disfigured by a very long and sulwtantial nose, and 'it is ungallantly said that her face looks like that of a horse. The German Emperor and Empress are accompanied by a retinue of seventy throe persons on their visit to Rome, No wonder the Italian court, with its re stricted finances, is a little bit anxious aliout the pipor'a bill. Alfred Mace, son of the once-famous English prizefighter, Jem Mace, has just closed a series of evangelistic meetings in Indianapolis. For twenty vears lie has been preaching. He canie to Amer ica about four years ago. The flagship of the British squadron is named alter Robert Blake, the famous Admiral who fought for the common wealth under Cromwell against the rov alists and subsequently beat the Dutch in a series oi brilliant engagements, j Rev. Dr. William H. Furness. nastor emeritus of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia and the oldest living graduate of Harvard College, celebrated his Hist birthday the other dav. Ho is the only survivor of the class of 1820. Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland and Ireland by birth, marriage or crea tion are free from arrest or imprisonment in civil process. In the event of a puer ess being charged with a criminal offense she would be tried by the House -of Lords. Sir Julian Panncefote's salarv has been increased from f 30,000 to Jlo.lHR) in con sequence of his promotion to the rank of an Ambassador to this country. This makes his compensation exactly donble that paid to our Ambassador to tiie Court of Kt. James. James F. Meline, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, many years ago wrote and published one of the most charming histories of Marie Stuart that is to tie found in the vast accumulation of literature relating to that lovely and unfortunate woman. The amount of wheat, consumed in the United States exceeds 300,000,000 bush els annually, Experiment in wheat-growing in Queensland have given twenty bushels per half acre. The manufacturing productions of the United States in 18112 exceeded 17.200.- 0110,000 in value. There were 324.S27 tons of oliiwoluiti. shipped from Florida last year a slight increase over 1801. MBAHY v. FOHHITOHE v GO. H. R. Hyde, -A FULL Furniture -OF UVEBY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF - Carpets! Carpets! We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. or day. Baltimore Block, Albany, Or. W. r. READ. PrMl(l,lt. OK". F. SIMI'HON, I- h. LUWAW, lrwuuror. Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company OF ALBANY, CAPITAL STOCK BOAKD OF Hod. R. 8. STKAHAN, Hon. J. w.ctistCK. Banker. i-d'el jnatioeol Supreme Court. fiJU!i!',AKmv',tFh,w - WKJTHM AN, Kq., lanital at. loi"0 PaTiosrM;;S,'in.VI '"'-d winamcile valley Land Company, Munia - i-w, h u.....:.. i. " r t mC -'' nmuramje' L itS? T J.n,"iS ISLES? .,0 H,e 2!l!l!'mlrMy ,'C1I',"1ll"'KlM''1"'t''elr'M' """"" llw J""lllB Individuals -I" BUSINESS BREVITIES. The dearest leather sells for $110 per dozeu skins. , There are over 800,000 telephones in this country. A telegrapher has sent 2110 words in five minutes. A diamond for cutting glass lusts aliout three months. There are only two lawyers doing busi ness in Iceland. The mines of Golconda once employed over 80,000 men. Beet-sugar production in this country has doubled in a year. In some parts ol the East steel teams are cheaper than pine. One Texas stockman will ship "5,000 head of cattle this year. Norway and Sweden export 20,000 tons of matches annually. Houston, Tex., will soon have its fourth cotton-seed-oil mill. The estimated value of the Chautau qua grape belt is (5,115,000. The great saw mill at Clinton, la., cuts 500,000 feet of lumber daily. The largest single loan made in New York last year was for 1,325,000. The diamond mines of South Africa have yielded a value of $:ifi0,0O0,0O0. Only almnt 0,000,000 acres of Michi gan's 30,000,000 are under cultivation. EAST AND SOUTH The Shasta Route -OK THE SOUTHER PACIFIC CO. Kxnreaa indmUmne Portland Mir: TtK t. a.ll.T ..I,nitltiil......r.l 7:aT.'lT UTS r. a. I,v Albany Ar, 4: A. M. s;l, a. a.iAr Still Kraiioliui l,v. ? .(Kl r. a. Tile above trailia MD), only at tliu following Mtliiim uortli ot Honoliiirn: ISM Portland, Or won llltjr. Wooilhnrii, Salum, Albany. Taintem, hl,llaly,liarrlauuri(,Jiiuuu(:lty, Irving ml Ktwona, Kowthnrg mull-dully: ssio 4, a ll.v... ,.l'ormnil........Ar, ..Albany Ar. ..ttoaehiirg l,v, !!!: r. K.il.v... 1 tM r. H.ir... 4 20 r. a. vi . r. a. 7:IB A. a. Albany lonal-ilally leznoia Bluntly). h-M p. a.i.v hmkau4. .ArlUl:A.. M r. a.iAr, Albany I.v.i 0:; a. a. Local iiMwnnnrtmhu-ilatly Mncpt. Similar), l:' r. .l. Albany Ar.llll '21 . a. i:m r, a.:Ar Ubanou l.v. :: a. a. :" . Albany Ar. l-.tt t. V. :!. a.iAr I."iin,m 2; T, , Iiiolor Cm on ll,du Boot. 1-ULLMAN mirrET SXEC1-EHK AND Suuad-Claii Sl.ti,la ar Attached to All Thruuvh Trains. WKST HI HI 111 VISION. KKTWMS POKTLASD AND GOlVALI.Ia. MalI traln-dally (except Sunday) : I X . a. i i.y;.";;Zl,irtliiit,;;"....Ar;T T:sti"I V 12:10 e. . I Ar. tlnrvalll U. lli:M r. a. At Albany anil Ootvallla mmumlwltti iralua of Oreumi J'at'ille railroad. Kxprew train rtallv inxeont HiindaT): Portland Ar. ) :0 A. ..MrMlnnrtll....t.r. 1 : . THROUGH TICKETS It BiSS nmt Kitroi-fwui heobtHiiiwI t uwwt ratutt Iron. L A. ittiimeli, fluent, llianon, H. KOKHLKIt, Mutineer, K. P. HOOKKH, AMI. U. K. A Prut. AbouL Proprietor. LINE OF- Vloe.pro,l0t. J. 0. Wltl'lHMAN, Smrslary K. A. 11ILNKK. ORECON. 600,000 DIKKCTOK8. Hon. J. L, COWAN, W.F.KKAIl.KKii..Meroliant. U. B. MONTK1TH, Japltaliat. (3 V UlUDUitU I?.. ...., 1" tlwV.rVr' and Merchant.' FA RB - iu flicniimiiw win puny imvi tne inn amount of oss w to lf,ik ' rrhm.i).. uLn,