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H. X. KH'.KPATUICK, Publisher.
1EBAJ.0K OREGON
OCCIDENTAL KEWS.-
Chinese and White Men Super
seded by Mexicans.
CAKXIX6 LOBSTERS AND FISH.
Strang!1 Complaint Prevalent Among
the Cattle in San Bernardino
County, California.
Flagstaff, A. T., has been wleeled ae
the site for ihe Territorial Reform School.
The Collector of Customs at Victoria,
B. C., haa paid oat in sealing chums
o0,123.
Prospectors ha reached San Bernar
dino from the Colorado Desert with
' pockets full of gold nuggets. "
Much activity is being manifested in
the canning of lobsters and fisb and
otherwise profiting from the tisheries
along the lower coast of California.
Oregon expects to clip 17,OUO,O0O
pounds of wool this rear, her increase
in sheep over last year being estimated
at 90 per cent," all of which is sheer gain.
The expedition from San Diego into
the Colorado Desert after the iilipave
1'egleg mine has been forced to return,
owing to the extreme heat encountered.
James Laruoreao of Idaho Falls has
brought suit in the Fifth District Court
against the Ensor Institute of Pocatelio
for (6,000' damages, because they tried
and iailed Wcure him oi the liquor habit.
The Pend d'Oreille river is risine rap
idly, being within six feet as hiph at
present aa at any time last year, kvery
indication points toward the water being
higher this year than ever known before.
The offices of the Southern division of
the Santa Fe railroad, heretoiure located
in San Bernardino, are being removed
to Los Angeles to take quarters in the
new depot recently erected in the latter
city.
Arrangements have been completed
for the right of way to construct a canal
on a cut-off at the month of the Yuba
river, the object being to relieve the
river daring high water and make the
channel more direct.
Work on the doable-tnrreted monitor
Uonadnock has been practically sus
pended during the past month, 2U) me
chanics having been taken off the work
ing force and assigned to other work
about the navy yard. '
The Chinese and white men heretofore
employed at fl.25 on the Southern Po
ntic railroad between El Paso and Dos
Angeles are being replaced with Mexi
cans from Chihuahua at f 1 per day. It
is openly stated that the spirit of the
contract law la oemg nrocen.
Ida Maude Kline, the bogus colored
widow in the McKinney will contest at
Stockton, Cal., who swore" that she was
the wife of tha old negro in the hope
tliat she could get his estate worth (40,
OuO, is in jail charged with perjury, and
A. J. Boss, an ex-police oflicer, who is
alleged to have worked up the evidence,
is under arrest on a charge of suborna
tion of perjury,,
W. A. Shaw, a real-estate dealer of
Saltan, induced Mrs. Elizabeth Joseph
to deed her home to him for as alleged
consideration of (6,000, that sum to be
paid her at the rate of (250 a year for
twenty-four years, without interest or
ecuritv. Shaw exacted a promise of se
crecy, but finally Mrs. Joseph consulted
some attorneys. Shaw's lawyere advised
him to deed back the property, and that
has been done.
Z. 11. Potter of San Miguel mesa, ban
Diego county, Cal., was ridiculed a few
months ago "when it became known that
he was to raise a crop of mustard Beed.
The crop will mature about July 1, and
it is estimated to be about 1,500 pounds
of seed an acre, or about sixty-live tons
in alt This is from about eight pounds
an acre of the seed sown. The total crop
is worth 110,41X1 at 8 cents a pound,
which is the ruling price. ?
Attorney-General Chamberlain has
rendered an opinion upon the Weston
Kormal School act, in which he says it is
evident that the Legislature did not in
tend that the appropriation should be
expended in the erection of new build
ings, bat onjy in the payment of salaries,
the purchase of needf ul and proper ap
paratus, and generally in settlement of
such expenses as might be incurred in
the successful arrangement of the school.
A strange complaint is prevalent
among the- cattle in San Bernardino
county, Cal. It is a disease of the bone,
similar to ray fungus, which starts inside
the bone and consumes it. Generally it
starts in the bones of the left shoulder,
gradually reaching other portions of the
bodv and invariably terminates in death,
fenerallv in from three to five months,
t is as fatal as glanders and is supposed
to be as contagious. It generally attacks
cattle pastured on heavy dark loam.
The Fresno Expositor says : An item
is going the rounds of the California
press that "millions of worms are de
vastating the vineyards of Fresno coun
ty." This is altogether an error. Worms
are not devastating the vineyards to any
extent. They have appeared at two or
three points outside tlie regular vineyard
rfintrii. but have done no material in
jury to the grape crop oi hub county,
t i,e worm that is doing the most of the
damage in this vicinity is the worm of
the suit
FROJt WASHIS6T0X CITY.
ActinglAnd Commissioner Powers has
rendered a decision in which he orders
canceled on the ground of fraud and col
lusion about twenty-three timber and
stone entries of valuable timber lands in
the Vancouver land district. Wash., and
now held by J. B. Montgomery of Port
land, Or., to" whom the lands were trans
ferred immediately after final proofs
were made.
The board, consisting of engineers of
the army and three engineers from civil
life, appointed to examine and report
upon the fcasibilitv of a boat railwav or
some other method of unproved naviga
tion at The Dalles has submitted its re
port to the War Department. I'p to the
present time the department has refused
to make it public, because the report was
ordered by Congress and, it is claimed,
most be made public in Congress.
Enough is learned about it, however, to
know that the boat-railwav proposition
has received a black eye; also the canal,
which, it is claimed, would cost too much
money. The only scheme recommended
by the board is said to be a portage rail
way. It will be almost impossible for
the Oregon delegation in Congress to
overturn this report.
The Department of State has not been
informed of the reported purpose of the
Chinese government to retaliate upon
the United States, evidenced by the re
ported prohibition of the purchase, nse
or sale of American kerosene in the prov
ince of Amov. Even if there has been
such a prohibition, it it not believed at
the denartnient that it can be reearded
. as a measure adopted in a spirit of retal-
iation, bat rather as an exhibition of the
extremely conservative character of the
Chinese, whose resistance to such an in
1 novation as the use of kerosene may
have been strengthened by some recent
casualties. Moreover, it is a fact that a
' mere Viceroy of a province would scarce-
ly be authorized to institute a policy of
j retaliation, which would rather be initi
! ated by the imperial government itself.
Secretary Smith was asked the other
day what would be the probable policy
of the Interior Department in reference
I to the approval of lists of Northern Pa-
j cine lands under the grant which was
: not earned in the time specified, but vet
to which the company assumes title. The
, Secretary eecnied to be of the opinion
i that, the lands having been earned, the
, company would undoubtedly be entitled
I to them, and that in the approval of the
lists, unless the statutes mud that they
, could not be approved if not earned in
, time, he supposed that he should not
take that question into consideration.
i He intended to follow the law, no matter
what the assumption might he of parties
j nneresieu. rie auueu: mere is no
doubt that the building of the road was
a great improvement It has been of
j vast benefit to the country, and the gov
'ernnieiit has had the advantage of sell
ing its lands, and the country has been
settled and developed. Of course, the
road has been built and the lands have
j been earned. I shall look into the law
Ion the subiect before makintr annroval.
: and shall act on the law, whatever it is."
j It was suggested that quite a large party
! in Congress was anxious to forfeit these
' lands. The Secretary said that he had
! heard of it, but that he would have to
i follow the law Congress had enacted
j rather than anything that may be in
nrosnect. The nrobabilities are tliat the
jiisus will be approved and any efforts
made to forfeit the lands will be defeated
' by the Democratic administration, as it
seems to be regarded that the road, even
if it did not complete its lyie in the time
specified, made every effort to do so, and
its intention was amply shown from the
fact that the road was really built.
CHICAGO EXPOSITION
The suggestion comes from Chicago
that the World's Fair may have to be
continued throughout next year in order
to enable the management to recoup it
self for the vast expenditures that have
been made.
The Spanish caravels are on their way
to Chicago by a king water route, and
wiil probably not reach the World's Fair
before Julv. They will be objects of
I great interest to the people who encoun
ter them in tne et. .Lawrence or the
Lakes.
Much-needed money is now Bowing
into the treasury of the exposition as a
result of the largely increased attendance
of visitors. Ko one welcomes the change
more than Treasurer Seeburger, whose
position since May 1 has not been an
enviable one. The exposition has been
short of ready money to liquidate its ob
ligations to contractors and employes,
and it is not out of the woods yet bv any
means. Bank and commercial failures
in that region and the panicky feeling
among savings-bank depositors, which
has just subsided, have made it impos
sible for the exposition corporation 1o
borrow any large sum of money, and the
directors have stuck manfully to the pay-as-you-go
policy, having confidence m a
speedy and permanent change in the
number of paid admissions. The 100,
000 mark has been passed at the gates
several times, and is accepted as an in
dication of an era of prosperity and a
plentitude of canti to pay off all out
standing bills. There is a standing order
at tiie finance department for Auditor
Ackerman to hold all vouchers for money
due on April and May contract work in
his office until there is money to spare
in the treasury for the payment of it.
It means that only March bills have
been paid on contract work, but the em
ployee of the exposition have been paid
promptly. There is much discontent
among the workmen on the pay roll of
' luc lair on Huiuui vi me oruer juni, is-
i sued by the director of works reducing
1 the force to an eight-hour basis and eight
i hours' pay. They have been working
ten hours and for eleven hoars' imv.
There is talk of striking, bat sach a step '
l is likely to result in the strikers being '
i put on an indefinite vacation basis with- j
oat pay.
EASTERN MELANGE.
Onr Imports From China Over
top Our Exports.
MOTKXIKG AMONG THE GYPSIES.
Cholera Raises Havoc Among the
Hogs in Iowa, South Dakota
and Nebraska.
There are in Pennsylvania over 6,000
members of the Sons of Veterans.
Virginia Populists are making prepa
rations for an active campaign this fall.
Twenty-three illicit distilleries were
raided in North Carolina week before
last.
Residents of Lake George are very
anxious to have a fish hatchery located
there.
An electric railway, several hundred
miles in length, is to be built in Ten
nessee. The sentiment against ball-fighting is
spreading to nearly all the States of
Mexico.
Floods in the Tombigbee and Saxa
puiia rivers have injured the Mississippi
cotton crops.
Moonshiners in Pickens county, Ala.,
disguised as whitcaps, murdered a wit
ness again Bt them.
Five thousand people in and "around
Hope, Ark., were left homeless and des
titute by the recent tornado.
" A peculiar characteristic of Washing
ton's death rate is the excessive mortal
ity among infants and children.
The last letter written by George
Washington has recently been sold at
auction In Philadelphia for (850.
Western roads are paying commissions
of (5 and (0 each passenger to get the
immigrant traffic from New York.
Forty-two foreign nations are now
represented at the World's Columbian
Exposition by 327 representatives.
The Connecticut Legislature has re
pealed the Btatute requiring drunkards
to tell where they bought their liquor.
The sheriffs of Kansas propose to make
a fight for the commissions on sales of
property cut off by the last Legislature.
Ex-Labor Commissioner Feck of New
York has fled the country. It is said he
feared punishment for burning his office
records.
In the last two months fully one-half
of the young hogs in Northern Iowa.
South Dakota and Nebraska have died
of cholera.
Passenger business over the Pennsyl
vania lines is now so heavy that the
company declines to furnish cars for pic
nics or excursions.
The merchants tailors of Texas have
formed a State organization to fight com
petition of agents from abroad who take
orders in that State.
The Massachusetts Commission on
Highway Improvement finds that half
the towns of the State cannot afford to
improve their roads.
Suits for (150,000 against the various
branches of the Standard Oil Company
have grown oat of the big flood and hie
on Oil creek last summer.
Though the entire cotton crop of the
country was under 7,000,000 bales last
vear the enterprising New York Cotton
Exchange sold 52,450,500 bales.
Senator Sherman has just moved into
his new (150,01X1 house. Much of the
Senators wealth has been made by in
vestment in Washington real estate.
The exports of breadstuff's from the
United States the past nine months
have shown a loss of nearly (100,000,000
in comparison with the preceding year.
According to the Albany Law Journal
women are eligible as delegates under
the law providing for the holding of a
constitutional convention in that State.
The Civil Service Commission has been
called upon to decide whether the Postmaster-General
can remove a clerk in
the classified service for insubordination.
The cable cars on Broadway, New
York, appear to be a great success, tak
ing in, it is said, nearly three times as
much money as the horse cars they dis
placed. There !b mourning among the gypsies
because of the death in Illinois of Mrs.
Harrieon, who had been chosen to suc
ceed Mrs. Young as Queen of the Ro
many folk.
Mr. Jewell, the latest of the Kansas
rainmakers, whose fi rat attempts chanced
to be coincident with remarkable rain
falls, finds tliat he cannot play the trick
a second time. ....
P.ev. Mr. McAnnev of Tarrytown, N.
Y., thinks lu,000,UUu of the people of
this countrv will die of cholera before
fall if the W'orid's Fair should be kept
open Sundays.
Leading capitalists in Ea'rn cities
have been conferring with a view of
forming a company to establish electric
lines on large scale in a number. uf cities,
East and West ,
The New York Five Points, once re
garded as the wickedest spot as well as
the most densely populated, has been
condemned, and will be converted into a
magnificent park.
Among the West Point graduates are
Edward Taylor of Idaho, Frank B. Mc
Kenna of California, William K. Smed
lierg, Jr., of California, and Verting K.
Hart of Wyoming.
We bought of China last year mer
chandise, chiefly ta and raw siik, to the
value of near I v (20,000,000, while China
bought only (5,000,000 of goods, chiefly
cotton doth and kerosene, from us.
PURELY PEKSOSAL,"
Queen Mnrgherita of ltnlv on the oc
casion of her wedding dy received
among other tilings over 22,000 begging
letters.
Governor Hogg of Texas has delivered
another didactic addons to his people.
It seems to be Hogg and homily down
on the Mexican border now.
The entertainment to the Daks of
Veragua cost New Y'ork (37.000, it is
stated. That's why they emphasize ths
word over there when tliey refer to him
as hit Highness,
Senator and Mrs. Hawlcy of Connect
icut have given up their proposed trip to
England this summer to visit relatives
of Mrs. Ilawley, and will remain at their
cottage in Woodmont, New Haven coun
ty. Conn,
Dr. Julia Washburn of Lexington, Kv.,
is in charge of a bureau in the Kentucky
State Medical Society, and will deliver
the public address this vear at the meet
ing of that body in Danville on " Women
in Medicine."
Editor George W. Cliilds is fitting up
the Philadelphia Ledger with a band of
trained pigeons to act as messengers and
carriers of "copy" from distant report
ers. It is expected that the scheme will
be a great success.
The Duke of Edinburgh, it Is under
stood, is among the heaviest sufferers in
England by the recent bank suspension
in Australia. As the Duke is a very
wealthy man, he will not be embarrassed
by the misfortune.
Governor Kussell of Massachusetts lias
elected for his private secretary (to suc
ceed Samuel Koada, J r. ) Charles Warren,
a Harvard graduate of 188!l, who, though
onlv 25 years of age, has already shown
ability as a TOnpaign organiier. Warren
is an independent in politics.
Some of the wealthy American women
who are now Londoners have in hand a
project to endow in perpetuity a cot In
the Victoria Hospital in memory of
young Abraham Lincoln, whose death,
following a painful illness, occurred dur
ing his father's residence in London.
Lord Roberts' services in India are to
be commemorated by an equestrian
statue on the Maiden at Calcutta. Al
ready between 3,000 and 4,000 has
been Bubscrilied bv the native Princes
and personal friends, and it is thought
tliat the fund will reach a large amount.
Probably the oldest illustrious pianist
in the world is Mine. Clara Schumann,
who is known abroad as " the queen of
filayers." She has been before the pub
ic nearly as long as the Biblically allot
ted lifetime, having mode her debut in
Leipsic three score years and five Bgo at
the age of 8.
Rev. Joel Swartx, I). D., pastor of Bt
James' Lutheran Church, Gettysburg,
who has 700 widely scattered members
in his congregation, thinks nothing of
doing his ten miles on a bicycle in pros
ecuting his pastoral duties, though he is
70 years old. He has three sons in the
ministry also.
Ex-Recretary and Mrs. J. W. Foeter,
when the Behring Sea arbitration pro
ceedings are finished, will turn their
faces to the eastaard for a vear of travel,
during which time they will make a tour
of the world. It is not yet decided
whether or not they will be accompanied
by their voungest daughter and her hus
band, who accompanied them abroad
and are at present with them at Paris,
A State Federation of Labor woe or
ganized week be lure last by the labor
uniotiK in Iowa,
In Primula incomes above flOO are
taxed. Oniv one peraon in forty-three
has over $750 income.
Over 25,000 women in thia country are
engaged in the decoration of different
kinds of ohina and pottery.
"A legal fence" haa been defined in
Kentucky as one that is "jng-tight,
nortKHtight and ball-strong."
AltBAlJY v FUltJITURE 7 CO.
H. R. Hyde,
A FULL
Furniture
OF EVEKY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF
Carpets! Carpets!
We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered night
or day.
Baltimore Block. Albany, Or.
W. f. ttEAU.Prcldciit ORO. r. 8IMI1!Oil,Vi.Prtil(lent. 1. 0 VumvXAH.fkcnUn
J.i, OOWAJiirMUUrer. , . A. HII.KKK.
Farmers' mi Merchants' Insurance Company
OF ALBANY. OREGON.
CAPITAL 8TOCK.. $600,000
VOAJBD OF UIBECTORI.
Hon. E.B.STEAHAK.
Cli el Jiu'lM of Supreme Court.
Hon. J. W. Cl'SICK. Hanker.
Hon. J. K. WP.ATIIKkr'uHl). Attornej-.! Ijw.
J.O. WK1WMAN. Ki.. CuniUHit.
wtii.tnette niur Lmia uomp.nr''
No two thtrrt.. tttrce-loiirttiK, tinny or ixi7-da claune in the Farmer.' and Merchant.' FA KM
pollcie. The Farmer' and Merchants' Insurance ''.ompaur pev. the full amount of low up t
toe antoaiit Ineurwl. The .utocrihon to the capital xtnek ron.i.u of farmers, in' r'haul. bankera,
capitalist, attorneys, vnjraiuuuij and nwenanlot, Uui large amount bold bj lunKi. tadivkLuaki
nauitluJWI.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
There are 552,720 telephones.
A self-operating bicycle is announced.
The bottle industry of England U de
clining, Washington, I). C, has underground
trolleys.
Our 1802 wheat crop was 510,000,000
bushels.
An Englishman claims toownatl.OOO,
000 yacht.
The Earl of Dudlev has the largest life
uibu ranee (6,000,(HK).
Boats on the New Y'ork canals are to
be propelled by electricity.
Over 1,000 steamships are traversing
the four great ocean routes.
The American Flint Bottle Company
is the latest projected trust.
The telephone lines of 8weden are to
be bought by the government.
Georgia raises more watermelons than
any other State in the Union.
At least (720.000,000 worth of British
property is always on the sea.
The revenue from the New York docks
is more than (2,000,000 a year.
It is said to cost (00,000 to get out one
nnmlier of Scribner's Magazine.
The English people consume annually
ovor five pounds of tea per capita.
At an average price of 8 cents ier head
an acre of cabbage will return (2U0.
The Johannesburg gold mines pro
duced, during 1802, 1,525,3)4 ounces of
gold.
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