H. X. KIUKPA.TK1UK, PubMnlulT.
LEBANON , . .OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Thuntlor and Rain Throughout
the Colorado Desert.
1 C. S. PAYMASTER ARRESTED.
Another Rich Strike in Gold at
Baker City Damagesifor
False Imprisonment.
The Chino beet factory ie being en
' larged for the coming crop.
The Columbia-river canneries have bo
far packed 46,576 caeea of salmon.
Shasta's (Cal.) SiiDervisors have ap
propriated $1,000 for a mineral exhibit
ttne worlds air.
The contract has been let for a new
opera-house at Pendleton. It will have
sealing capacity oi aoout ouu.
Another wonderfully rich strike in
gold is reported lrom Bauer uty, ur,
The people are much excited.
For the first time in more than a year
(Southern flew Mexico nas uecn visited
by a rainstorm of some twenty hours'
duration.
Riverside so far has shipped 1,700 car
loads of oranges 600 more than last
season. About 600 carloads are yet to
be shipped.
Forty acres of ground have been lo
cated for placer mining at the mouth of
the Feshatin, Washington. It is expected
that the pay will he large.
Kid, the renegade Apache, has been
heard from. lie has just visited the
Kan Carlos reservation and supplied
himself with another squaw.
Old Chief John of the Sannich
Indians recently died at Baanich Arm,
B. C, where he had been quietly living
for many yean. He supposed he was
130 years old. ine present cniei is over
88.
Another irrigation and water-storage
enterprise is being surveyed on the Gila,
twelve miles above Yuma, A. T. The
nroDOSition is t put a sixty-foot dam on
the river at a point where it is crossed
by a natural ledge.
Grace Murphy has obtained a verdict
at Fresno, Cp., for (4,000 against Mrs.
Johanna Smith of Golden Gate avenue,
Ban Francisco, who had charged the girl
with theft. The suit was for damages
for false imprisonment.
It is reported that the Southern
Pacific will begin the construction of
the Black Canon line, surveyed over a
year ago, to connect the Maricopa and
Phffinix line with the Bullock road, a
distance of 110 miles from Pluraix to
Prescott.
For several days and nights thunder
and rain have prevailed throughout the
Colorado Desert. The Harqua Hala
' country in Arizona has met with heavy
rains extending towards Phoenix, and
on the Upper Gila it has amounted to
almost a nooa.
At Fresno a suit for (10,000 damages
has been begun by Miss Grace Murphy
. avainst Mrs. J. Bmith, widow of Captain
bmith, who died in Ban Francisco upon
his return from a whaling expedition.
The suit was brought on the grounds of
malicious prosecution.
Tnon teleeranhic orders from Wash-
ington Paymaster J. 0. Sullivan of the
receiving ship Independence at Mare
Island was placed . under arrest and his
sword taken from him. It is reported
that there are some irregularities in the
navmastera accounts, but theomcer's
friends believe that he will be able to
straighten out matters satisfactorily.
The proprietors of the proposed
woolen mills at Bandon count on secur
ing the wool of Coos and Curry counties
for their mill. They estimate there are
80,000 sheep in these two counties, but
that if the entire product of these is
secured it will not be sufficient for the
purposes bf the new mill, and that wool
must be imported from Eastern Oregon.
At Boise City. Idaho, Judge Beatty in
the United States Court refused the
motion of the Last Chance mine owners
forajiew trial in the case of the Last
Chance vs. Tyler and others. The
verdict of the jury, which was in favor
of the Tyler men, will stand unless
reversed by the Supreme Court of the
United States, to which an appeal will
be taken.
Thn deen-water stold trap recently in
vented by Simson of Cariboo, B. C, and
nrmwd successful in experiments, is this
season to be subjected to the test of
actual service, the scene of operations
being 'the almost inaccessible Nation
river, for which remote corner a Cariboo
party headed, by Bimson and his
moneyed partner, Fissault, have already
left. If the invention meets expecta
tions, it will revolutionize placer mining
everywhere.
The abundant water supply that is
promised by the melting snows will
afford the means of working many an
old gulch or ravine which years ago
yielded, handsome returns and which
have been practically abandoned await
ing a season like the one that is now at
hand, and throughout Baker and adjoin
ing counties there will bean activity
manifest that will result when the final
cleanup is made in the fall in distribut
ing many thousands of dollars of the
golden treasure into the channel! of
trade.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
No official advire 00110001018: the ap
pointment of L. M. Thurstun to repre
sent the government of Hawaii to suc
ceed J. Mutt Smith has been received
at the State Department.
The Secretary of State bos received
official information of the purpose of the
government of Siaui to establish a lega
tion 111 VV aslnngton, and tnat cue onieer
to be placed in cliiirgo of it is now await
iniraii opportunity to present his cre
dentials to the President.
Negotiations between the United
States government and the government
of Spain, looking to u settlement of the
claims made ujion that country for in
demnity by the representatives of ' Rev.
Mr. lWn. who died of ill-treatment in
the Caroline Islands several years ago,
and other missionaries, have been satis
factorily adjusted.
Tlieetnet ot tne Dureau 01 statistics
in his statement to the Secretary of the
Treasury reports that the total value of
the exports of merchandise from the
United States during the twelve months
ended April 30, 18IW, were K48,6IH,427,
a decrease of (lti2,748,74t from the pre
ceding year. The value of imports
during the same period was (026,151,988,
an increase 01 1h,uuo,uiy.
Cleveland's experience with ofliceseek-
ere has convinced him that the present
method of appointment to offices through
political influence has become a scandul,
and he is revolving in his mind a scheme
to do away with it entirely by a complete
reorganization of the system, and that
ne will probably recommend to congress
the framing qf a law for a commission
on appointments as far removed from
political influence as the Supreme
Court, lnoy are to make all tne ap
pointments, except Foreign Ministers
and certain hiirh officials nearest the
executive, qualification for the place to
be the only question in maKing tne ap
pointments.
Representative Caminctti of Califor
nia had a long conference with the Pres
ident recently, and left the White House
feeling assured it was the intention of
the President to see the Chinese restric
tion act enforced. Caminetti denied it
would take anything like the sum of
money which nas been mentioned to en
force the act, for the reason that those
Chinesowho are entitled to remain would
secure certificates at their own expense,
and those against whom the law is really
aimed will be frightened out of the coun
try the moment an honest attempt is
mode to enforce it. Caminetti is of the
opinion thatwhat additional money may
be needed will be voted at the next ses
sion of Congress, and he fears no repeal
of the law. ,
Borne time aso the immigration bureau
was informed that a great number of
Japanese were coming into ditierent
carta in w asiunuton to work on tne
railroads in violation of the immigrant
laws. Superintendent Stump accord'
ingly sent Thomas M. Fisher to Port
Townsend to make an inspection. Mr.
fishers hrst report was received at the
department one day last week. Ho
shows that the nine Japanese contract
laborers were landed bv the Canadian
Pacific, bonnd to different parts in
Washington. Six of these were males
and three females. They were all sent
back, flight others were also found to
be contract laborers and had their fares
paid. Mr. Fisher arrested the person
who paid for their passage and brought
them into the country. The man was
held in the sum of (1,000, and the eight
aliens in the sum of 600, as witnesses,
to await the action of the grand jury.
Inspector Fisher will Bend a detailed
report of the trial.
CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
The exposition postoffice ' handles
10,000 letters a day, and sells about
(260 of stamps.
' The fair expenses during the first few
days after opening were (45,000 a day,
and the daily deficit was nearly (40,000.
Hereafter the World's Fair will be
open every day in the week. The Chi
cago directors have boldly met the issue.
Three carloads of exhibits for the Cal
ifornia building have just reached the
fair, making thus far a total of seventy
one cars which have arrived from Cali
fornia for the State exhibit, not includ
ing the shipments by private exhibitors.
Theodore Thomas has been asked by
Director-General Davis to .turn over the
keys, documonts and everything else
pertaining to the musical bureau to the
chief of the department of liberal arts
and to tender his resignation to the
same official.
Attorney-General Olney rendered an
opinion in which he holds that the laws
of Congress providing for the World's
Fair prohibit the opening of the branch
postoffice located in the Postoffice De
partment exhibit Sundays. In accord
ance with this opinion the postoffice and
other government exhibits will probably
be closed Sundays.
The ladies of the congress came near
having a serious row on account of the
alleged slight put upon Helen M. (,ou
gar. it seems the lady's name was omit
ted from the official programme. Her
friends resented this as an insult, bat
when it was reported that Mrs. May
WrightSewall, President of the National
Council of Women, had issued a verbal
order to the Presidents of the various
department meetings to exclude Mrs.
Gougar from participation in the speech
making things became decidedly warm.
Mrs. Gougar started on a slill hunt, and
President C. C. Bonney hod to step in as
peacemaker. The upshot of the whole
affair is that Mrs, Bewail, while declin
ing to talk to reporters on the subject,
intimated that she had issued no such
order. Mrs. Henrotin, the Vice-President,
wrote a letter to Mrs. Gougar, say
ing she knew nothing of such order, and
President Bonney poured oil on the
troubled waters to that all wai Nrn
gain.
EASTERN' MELANGE.
Bears and Panthers Ilampant
in Arkansas.
SALTATION ARMY MEN 60 WRONG
Colored Democrats Want Tliolr Re
publican Brethren Turned
Out of Ollice.
The Dakota wheat acreage has beon
reduced about 14 or 20 per cent.
The proprietorship of the Now York
Herald has been invested in a stock com
pany. The cable rates between this country
and China have been reduced to (1.06
per word.
The Now York Board of Education is
hard up for money to pay the salaries
of teachers.
It is estimated that the new buildings
erected in Philadelphia during 1803 will
cost (28,000,000.
Eighty bodies of paupers and unknown
persons were lying 111 the Chicago morgue
one day last week.
Bkin from a dissected convict was
made into purses for a dozen Mulligan
University medical students.
A law and order crusade has been
started at Nashville, Tcnn., and gam
bling houses will be suppressed.
The Judiciary Committee of the
Michigan House has reported in favor
uf a return to hanging in that State.
The only States in the Union which
hold more silver than gold in theii na
tional banks are the Southern States.
In the annual report of the Cincinnati
Banitarium it is asserted that the gold
curt( 'Intakes lunatics by the wholesale."
James K. Keene is said to have made
(1,600,000 by the big crash in National
Cordage on the New York Stock Ex
change. The Northwestern Guaranty Loan
Company of Minneapolis is in troublo,
and suspension, it is said, cannot be
averted.
Joseph Jefferson, the distinguished
comedian, has had an abscess on the
back of his neck cut. He had been
suffering very much.
Governor Flower of Now York has
vetoed tl act appropriating money for
the establishment of a colony for epilep
tics in that State.
The Massachusetts Legislature is con
sidering a bill requiring all road wagons
of burden to be provided with tires from
three to five inches wide.
The crevasse at Lakeport, Ark., is in
creasing in width, and the whole laud
in that section is being covered with
water from the .Mississippi,
St. Paul takes a day off, or rather
three days off, beginning June 7, and
celebrates the completion of J. J. Hill's
Great Northern road as a transcontinen
tal line.
A Minnesota engineer is seeking to
obtain a charter from the Canadian
Parliament for the construction of a
ship canal to connect Lakes Erie and
St. Clair.
The house-to-house inspection, which
was begun by direction of the Phila
delphia Board of Health Borne weeks
ago, has already abated thousands of
nuisanees.
Bears and panthers, driven by floods
from the lowlands of the Saline river in
Arkansas, are making life miserable to
farmers. Many domestic animals have
been killed in pens.
The story in circulation to the effect
that the bureau of engraving and print
ing is quietly printing bonds with a view
to having the same ready for issuance
shortly is without foundation.
An act passed by the Alabama Legis
lature prohibits the killing of ring
necked Mongolian pheasants in the
State for a period of eight years, begin
ning June 1 of the present year.
The National Negro Democratic
League wants all the negroes appointed
under Republican control turned out of
office, and has addressed a letter to the
President suggesting such action.
George Hallett and George Mason,
two Salvation Army men, at Bouix City,
la., have been arrested for counterfeit
ing. On their confession large quanti
ties of metal and dies were captured
Belva A. Lockwood was admitted to
the bar of the State of New York at
Poughkeepsie a week ago. This event
marks the termination of a long struggle
on her part to secure judicial recogm
tion.
The Texas Legislature has passed a
law providing that the money received
from the direct tax refund shall be re
stored, as far as possible, to the persons
who paid the tax or their representa
tives. The New West Education Commission
has received (10,000 from Nathaniel
Gordon of Exeter, S. xl., tor the perma
nent endowment of Ogden Academv.
I Utah, which will hereafter be known
as the Gordon Ataoemy.
The recent recommendation of Acting
Register Smith for the destruction of
(152,000,000 of unissued registered i
per cent bonds of the funded loan of
1801 has been approved by the Secretary
of the Treasury, and the bondB will be
destroyed.
The Ladies' Memorial Bazar, which
has been in progress at Richmond for
several weeks, has closed. The object of
the bazar was to raise funds for estab
lishing a Confederate museum in the old
home of Jefferson Davis in Richmond.
The bazar netted nearly (20,000.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
A-now medicine bottle indicates the
hours at which the drug is to be taken.
The deposits at American savings
banks amouiitedinl801to(l,UM,000,000.
Sixty per cent of the shoes used in the
United Statesaromade in Massachusetts.
The ami and coke business of Colorado
is now in the hands of four great com
panies. The exports of potroleum from the
United. Suites lost year were 582,200,000
gallons.
It is estimated that Butte, Mont., will
produce 130,000,000 pounds of copper
tins year.
The gold and silver .product of Mexico
Is about (70,000,000 pur annum, princi
pally Bilver,
The cost of boots and shoes worn out
in the United States every year is more
than (400,000,000.
Sovonty per cont of the peoplo of Cey
lon live by agriculture. The percentage
in Britain is 15.44.
Glassworkers are bo scarce at Pitts
burg that employes dictate what kind of
glass shall be made.
During January and February of this
year 002,002 bunches of bananas were
imported to this country.
Near Cordoba a Mcxicau syndicate Is
experimenting with tea-planting, Chi
nese labor 1b used in part.
Steamers and sailing vessels under the
British Hag number almost 12,000; un
der the United Slates Hog, 3,207.
The newspapers in Germunyare large
ly Bold by women, and the small newsboy
of Amurica iB unknown in Burlin.
In the Island of Ceylon 760,000 acres
ore devoted to the cultivation of cocoa
nuts and 40,600 acres to ciunumon.
The Edison Electric Illuminating Com
pany of New York has increused its oup
ital stock from (6,500,000 to (10,000,000.
The Chapin iron mine at Ishpeining,
Mich., has decided to odd Slid men to its
force and increase production to 800,000
tons a year,
The product of pig iron in this coun
try has vory greatly increased during the
past few years, while that of Engluud
lias largely decreased.
In Witu, bast Atrial, tliov are making
sugar from cotton seed that is said to lie
fifteen times sweeter than that made
from Louisiana sugnr cane.
Senator Mills says that for ten venrs
the railroads of Toxus have been oHir
ated at an actual loss of (1,000,000a year
to the railroads themselves.
. For the twelve months ending April
30, 1803, 150 national bunks were estuli
lislied in the United States, with an ag
gregate capital of (14,325,000.
A German journal states that in the
year 1880 the quantity of cotton pro
duced in the whole world amounted to
U.400,0110 bales, while in 1870 it reached
only 6,200,000 bales.
In the past twelve months (50.000.000
of the silver notes issued under the law
of 1800 have been added to the circula
tion, while the gold ccrtillcates in circu
lation have decreased (44,000,000.
There are three large porcelain facto
ries in Great Britain, viz. : Derby, Wor
cester and Stoke-on-Trent. The'ono in
Derby employs something like 400 hands,
and many eminent artists are engaged in
designing and painting for it,
The cocoanut tree is the most vuluuble
of plants. It wood furnishes heuius.
miters and planks, its leaves umbrellas
and clothing, its truit lood, oil, Intoxe
cants and sugar, its shells domestic uteie
sils, its fibers ropes, sails and matting,
The coffee fields of Brazil cover an
area of 2,000, IKK) acres, and contain tip
ward of 800,000,000 trees that is, 4110
per acre each tree producing on an av
erage one pound of hurries per annum.
The industry finds employment for over
800,000 men.
AkUft v FUWmJUE v CO.
H. R. Hyde,
A FULL
F u r niture
OF EVEKY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF
Ceirpets! Carpets!
We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answerod night
or day.
Baltimore Block. Albany, Or.
W. F. BKAD, President. HKO. K. SIMCHON, VIce-FreildMit. J. 0. WHITHMAN, Beorentrr
J. L. OOWAN, Treasurer, K. A. UlLNKlt.
Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company
OF ALBANY. OREGON.
CAPITAL STOCK... ...8600,000
- BOAKD Or D1BKOTOH8.
Hod. R. 8. ATRAHAN.
rh'et JiuiImo! Supreme Court.
Hon. J. W. CUHICK, flanker.
Hon. J. K. WKATIIKIiriiHI), Attornarit-Law.
J. 0. WIUTBMAN, Knq., CaiMlallH.
Wlllamelte Valley Land Oomnanv.
No two thlpli. OinNMoimtia, thirty or .ixtv -
Millolea. The firman' anil Merghviia' Inmranca "onipany navi the lull amount ol loan uu to
ti.e ainntint llunwl. The .ulMOrlbeni lo the capital, itoflk cnu.l.ta of (armera, ufrrhaitll hankera,
raplttll.u, attoruayi, phyaieuuia llul mwhalilea, lueuKi-ut amount bald byilni.li Individual
Mr. Scions, who gets a medal from tho
Royal Geographical Society this year, is
believed to have killed more elephants
than any one else. He is iHipularly re
garded us the original uf Rider Haggunl's
Allan (hiuturmain,
Nat M. Bi'lgliain, recently appointed
United States Marshal of Utah, will ba
remembered by Harvard men of atout
fifteen years bock as 0110 of tho most
noted tenors who ever sang in the Glee
Club, He is a eliiHKiimte of Theodore
Roosevelt and Josiuh Quincy.
Prof, Barnard has discovered more
comets than any other man living, hav
ing sixteen lo his credit, Ten years ago
he was a photographer's, assistant at
Nashville, his value as an amateur as
tronomer having boon first discovered by
toe uiiuioriuuH 01 vanueroui university,
Colonel Ward Hill Lnmon, President
Lincoln's intimate friend and uiihiiccchh
lul biographer, who died tho other dav
at Martinnurg, W, Va., is said to have
had another hook In preparation at the
time of his death. It wiib to he a three
volume compilation of his ruiiiinisiiiinceB
of Lincoln and the war.
Pauline Markluim, who is suing for
largu damages for a broken log in l-ouis-villo,
was photographed bo extunsivelv a
decade or so ago that noarly everybody
became familiar with her languishing eye
and Madonna-like face. She is now past
45 years of ago, but still a fine-looking
woman. There is not a wrinkle in her
face, 11111I the surgeon who set her broken
mem nor says Unit she has "the most
beautiful and shapely limb" ho ever
saw, and that " the flesh is as firm as
marble."
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