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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1893)
& H. W KIHKPATKIOK. VaMlih.r. LEBANON , . ...OREGON OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Oregon's World's Fair Exhibit Attracts Attention. HER BIG FECIT AND FINE WOODS Judge Bellinger Eofuses to Issue Writs of Habeas Corpus in the Chinese Cases. SealBre getting thick in the Columbia nver. Not s gambling house is being run in bacramento. Weiser, Idaho, claims the largest Sour mule in the state. Counterfeiters are reported to be oper ating in the suburban districts of Fort- tami. r. i? itiii Kd tpnm. .mercial National Bank of Ogden, is a defaulter tor tw.uuu. A branch of the Theosophical Society of the Pacific Coast has been formed at run Aownoanu, n asu. The Nevada State Board of Pardons has refused to grant any of the many applications presented to it. A wooden ware manufacturing com pany of Michigan is guaranteed $35,000 bonus in lands ana money 11 it wiu erect a manufactory in Whatcom, Wash., and employ 100 men. The owners of the East Wellington (B. C.) collieries have telegraphed their unwillingness to agree to terms with their employes on the compromise offer ed by the latter; so the mines have shut down. . The canture of a woman named Mo- Caggett at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, who was engaged in smuggling opium iroin British Columbia, is reported. It was found in her berth, and amounted in all to sixty cans. Seluilte, the self-confessed shooter of ueorge Abranasm, a wayside saloon keeper near Stockton, was confronted bv his late employer. D. W. McCartv, who described him as being an easy liar who likes to pose as a hero. A deck band on the Australian steamer Warrimoo at Vancouver, B. C, was bitten bv a tarantula on the breast. The poisonous insect dropped from a bale of bananas into his open shirt bosom. A surgeon cut the flesh out all around the Dit Mariano Gearman, alias Bartolo Gar cia, was arrested at Tuscon, A. T.,and charged with the murder of Pedro Lopez in Tree Pinos, San Benito county, Cat., on. September 20, 1879. For over twelve years Gearman has lived in Tuscon and vicinity, working in the mines ami irmguuug. xau imn uwi known as Bartola Garcia, and bore the limitation of a peaceable and indus trious man and cared well for his wife and little daughter. Judge Bellinger in the United States JJwtnct court at roniana reiuses w iwine writs of habeas corpus in Chinese cases until the customs officers have decided on their rights to enter the country. He added: "The govern ment has appointed qualified officers to take care of Chinamen, and it is not presumed the courts are to take the nutter nnt of their hands. Chinamen are not imprisoned in the usual sense of the word, xney voluntarily piacea themselves in this position and knew perfectly well they would be subject to examination on reaching United States pari,1' Those who are skeptical as to the worth of Oregon's exhibit at the World's Fair will find in the following clippings abundant evidence that her Dig inill Mill UUO WUUUU uiv Bbwai.tuiK no small amount of favorable comment : Chicago Evening Journal: "A repre sentative collection of fruits from the growers of Oregon is arranged on the east side of the north hall in a glittering array of glass jars. Oregon prides herself on her prunes. Her soil uroducee with utmost im partiality Italian, German, French, Iliingarian and her own 'silver prunes.' When it comes to a matter of size the State is also well to the fore. There is a near in her exhibit which measures 9 inches and weighs A pounds; a irilHa Miin.li annln W0irhinr Z IWMimlH. a cherry 'i indies in diameter, and peaches V inches in circumference." Cliitmm Tribune: "In the horticul tural building, Oregon, which was the first State in complete readiness and which opened May 1, makes an exhibit which should be seen by all. It is a wonderful story of the resources of that Mate. Its plan ot display is remarx ably artistic, and shows its many varie ties of fruits in jar and on plate to great advantage. In all there are 400 plates of apples that make the mouth water , and 240 immense jars oi irnit in solu tion. Allen; are uiuuawri porno, IjUlllVCB, ultima, reaches, aoricote. cherries and grapes, any one of which, except the two latter, would -do for dessert for a ; mwlium-sized family, mere are ho cases of prunes, sun-dried apples, pears, plums, peaches and other fruits. Chi caffo Inter-Ocean : Sections of horti .ctilttiral hall contain fruits and vines, or more properly speaking, the displays ot the bureau ot viticulture and po mology. Of the latter Oregon, Call' fuming Utah and Nova Scotia have ciwlmgly line exhibits ready for in suactiiin. : ' BUSINESS BREVITIES. Florida's orange crop 5,000,000 boxes. Spanish laborers average 40 cents a day. Rat-catching is a paying London occu pation. Scotland uses American spinning wheels. The principal food export of Sweden is butter. World's annual coffee consumption 650,000 tons. Over 2,000 printers are employed by one concern in Paris. Black tea and green tea are the prod uct of the same plant. There are nearly 1,700,000 seamen em ployed on the high seas. Hartford (Conn.) electric linemen use bicycles on their rounds. Many large bells are now being made of steel instead of bell metal. Paper-making ranks fifth among the industries of the United States. Bussia has the greatest amount of live stock of any country in Europe. The aluminium . buggy, pneumatic tired, is the latest record breaker. Some rich men sleep well on silver plated bedsteads coating $500 each. One-fourth of the world's silver is sup plied by the mines of this country. It is said that 127,000 working women in New York support their husbands. Great Britain has but one medical journal, while this country has over 200. Over 10,000 persons are employed by the telephone companies of this country. There are nearly 600 laundries In Phil adelphia, 357 being operated by Chinese. Canes, particularly of the higher class, are chiefly made in the East End, Lon don. , The value of farming lands in this country is said to be greatest in New Jersey. . Two-thirds of the gold now In use in the world was discovered during the last fifty years. PURELY PERSONAL. William Deharity, Mayor of Elwood, Ind., is only 22 years old and probably the youngest Mayor in the country. The wife of Parke Godwin of New York, who died recently, was the eldest daughter of the poet, William Cullen Bryant. She leaves four children two Boris, Harold and Bryant, and two daughters. James Pavn, the English novelist, writes: "Which of all the heroines of fiction, if you had your choice, would you prefer to take to dinner?" For him self lie thinks that Becky Sharp would be his choice. ' Thurlow Weed's granddaughter, Mias Catherine Weed Barnes, the best-known woman amateur photographer in this country, will wed Harry Snowden Ward, editor ,of the London Practical Photog rapher, and live in that city. No woman fears a mouse mora than Lord Roberts, whom Queen Victoria re cently decorated, dislikes a cat. His nervous sensibilities are such that he can detect a cat's presence when unable to see it, and be is ill at ease until the animal is removed. Mrs. Lewis Bice of Frederick, Md., has collected enough money to place a more imposing monument upon the grave of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," than the flat marble stab which now marks it in Mount Olivet cemetery, Georgetown. Miss Mary Mann Page Newton, daugh ter of Rev. Dr. John B. Newton of Rich mond, Va., is being much complimented for a patter upon " Colonial Virginia and Its Part in Molding American Civiliza tion," which by request she prepared to read before trie Historical Congress of the World's Fair. A Spanish Jenkins declares that the Queen Retrent of Spain is so fast a swim mer that she often distances therowboat which accompanies her when she goes into the surf at San Sebastian. II this is true, her Majesty is certainly a re markable swimmer, or peahaps th men in the boat are excessively Dad oarsmen, Attorney-General Olney, who was at first supposed to be frosen up in a crust of Massachusetts dignity six inches thick, turns out to be a very genial gen tleman. He attends all the baseball games in Washington, and whoops and yells for the home team as vigorously as the humblest occupant of the " bleach ers." When President Dwight of Yale con ducts services in the college chapel he usually preface his prayer by saying: "Let ns unite in prayer." At the close of the last term, however, he rose in his dimmed manner and observed. " Gen tlemen, this is the last time we shall meet for devotional exercises. Let us therefore unite in prayer and thanksgiv ing." The Yale men are wondering if he really meant it. A successor to Father Damien has arisen in the person of Pere Sauton, a Benedictine monk, who has been com missioned by the French government to study up as to leprosy. He will visit leprous districts in Norway, Lapland, Finland, Turkey, Greece and Egypt, aft erward returning to France to report the results of his investigations to M. Pas teur. Subsequently lie is to set out for Molokai in the Sandwich Islands, where be will remain for a time. The originator of the Concord grape Is still living in Concord, Mass. lie is Ephraim W. Bull, now 87 years old and one of the prominent men of the his toric town. He was a friend of Emerson and Alcott, and lias been greatly hon ored bvdistinituished visitors to Concord and by horticulturists at home and abroad, in nis gamea in uncuru lie still shows the old mother vine of the (Joncoril irrane. which he developed f rom the ewds'of a native wild grape planted just fifty yean ago. EASTERN MELANGE. Kissing Debarred in the Parks of Baltimore, Md. SOUTH CAROLINA BONUS SOLD, The Assessed Valuation of Property la New York City-Mrs. Rod ' ney Ahead of Time. The big Catholic Congress will as semble at Chicago September 4. There are 7,817,4M.9D in the Penn sylvania State Treasury. Five women were qualified as notaries public in Philadelphia last week. New York city has spent C12.000 in entertaining the Infanta Eulalia. The Treasury Department has decided that the tomato ib a vegetable and not a fruit. Kentucky farmers are talking abont feeding wheat to hogs because of the low pneu. The assesed valuation of propertv In New York city is approaching the $2,000, 000,000 mark. Oklahoma has quarantined airalnst Texas cattle, owing to Texas fever among the herds. Many Eastern towns are now making use of the electric cars for keeping the streets sprinkled, The Grand Armv neonle of Ht. Louis propose to raise a fund for a monument to General Sherman. The silver bought by the government under the Sherman law is worth (56,- 000,000 less titan was paid for it. Hinckley, the crop expert if the St. Paul road, says the spring wheat crop will be me poorest in twelve years. It is said that neither Cleveland nor Hill will take any especial interest in the campaign in flew York this year. The now vacant position of Chaplain of the House is going a-beggiug, but one candidate having appeared so tar. A decision of a Baltimore Judge that "no kissing" be allowed in the parks of that city has been sustained by a higher court. The syndicate which boueht South Carolina's bonds has completed the $5,250,000 payment, and the State feels richer. The ravages of the chinch bug in Kan is this year have aroused the farmers to a more general trial of the infection remedy. The Mexico Land and Improvement Company of Kansas City will experi ment with conee-raising on a large scale in Mexico, Mrs. Rodney, who is walking from' Galveston to Chicago on a $2,000 wager, is ahead oi time, she sells Iter photo graphs en route. , A physician in Brewsters, N. ., has invented an electric disinfectant that promises to be of great importance in killing disease germs. Jerry Simpson denies that a deal has been made by which he is to run fur Governor of Kansas and Governor Lewelling is to become Senator, Of the thirty-four counties of South Carolina only seven have complied with the regulations of the new liuuor law of the State, which went into ellect July 1, Successful experiments have been made in several States in stimulating the srrowth of such plants as wheat, com and tobacco by means of electric currents. . Panama has bad a water famine. The aguadores, or water carriers, were compelled to pay about 20 cents each to have tneir pipotes, or barrels, wasueu and disinfected. It is estimated that there are 50,000 men idle in Pittsburg and its immediate vicinity, awaiting agreements as to a new scale of wages for the coming year in the iron mills. ; The New York Central will furnish transportation and sleeping-car privi leges to all its employes who wish to visit the fair. Each employe can tuke one member of his family. A Harvard law student, who acted as his own attorney -in the case against him, was sentenced to five days in the Boston House of Correction for causing a disturbance in a horse car. In New York the Health Board has appointed what is designated a "sum mer corps of physicians," fifty in num ber, whose duty it is to visit tenement houses during July and August anil give medical attention to sick children anil poor people who are unable to pay for it. A significant feature of the Treasury statement is not a cent of the receipts for last June were paid in gold certifi cates, and the May statement.was little better in this respect. In June of 18112 8 per cent of the receipts were paiil in gold certificates and 2 per cent in gold join. At a recent auction sale of the per sonal propertv of the late Governor Samuel W. Hale, of New Hampshire shares of mining, electric ami oilier stocks having a par value of (2,700,1100 and promissory notes of a face value of $57,000 were sold to the highest bidder for less than $7. With a view to encourage immigration into the Canadian Northwest from the Western States the Canadian govern ment has decided to abolish the customs regulations which now provide that in coming settlers must own their stock and certain other elfecta one year before leaving the United Stales. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. The appraisement of lots and parcels of land in the townsite of Port Angeles, Wash., by the commission appointed by Secretary Noble has been approved by the Interior Department. The commis sion of the geueml land office is now preparing instructions to the proper Reg ister and Receiver for the sale ot suid lots anil parcels of land. The settlers uudur the law are entitled to purchase at the appraised value the town lot on which they live and any other on which they may nave matle valuable improve ments. The remaining lands are to be sold to the highest bidder above the ap praised vaiue. i ne wnoie townsite ag gregates about 3,000 acres. Tin) pension bureau has notified a great many pensioners throughout the entire country, who are drawing pen sions under tho act of June 27, 1890, known as the independent pensions act, that payment of their pensions will be suspended for sixty days, during which time they tiro required to show cause why they should continue to draw pen sions, this action is pursuant to (he re cent ruling of Secretary Smith that a pensioner under the act of J une 27, 1890, drawing a pension for total disability, must lie shown to bo physically Incapa- eie oi manual moor, n is estimated at ! the pension office, although the work lias recently begun, that something over 1,000 suspensions have already been mailt. I Enlisted men in the navy will now have the privilege of purchasing their discharge. Secretary Herbert has issued an order establishing rules and regula tions for the purchase of discharges au thorised by the last naval appropriation bill. No man is to be allowed to pur chase his discharge while in debt to the government, nor until he has served three months. The price of discharge during the fourth month of enlistment will lie 25 per cent of the yearly pay of the applicant; during the fifth month 80 per cent, and so on, increasing 5 per cent per month until tho fourteenth month, when the maximum price Ib reached. During the fifteenth month the price will lie 95 per cent of the max imum price; in the sixteenth month 90 per cent, and so on, decreasing 6 tor cent jwr month until the thirty-fourth month, when the applicant may apply for his discharge without payment. No man is allowed to piircnase his discharge a sec ond time, and those procuring discharges by purchase forfeit all benefits due to continuous service or honorable dis charge. A discharge by purchase is not an inherent right, but a privilege which may be granted by the Navy Department, The atmosphere altout the weather bureau has cleared off very perceptibly since the recent investigation, and affairs are running along very smoothly, with very little probability of any further changes lieing made in the near future in the bureuu. Secretary Morton said that he wished to make it popular; in short, he will insist upon a useful fore casting, so the farmer, miner, shipper ami commercial man can derive from it the greatest possible good. In addition to cutting oil a number of what he calls ''useless scientists" Secretary Morton proposes to save money in the matter of telegraph tolls. He also decided to dis continue the river and Hood-room work and at an early date place the river fore cast in charge of olmervors located on the principal rivers. As a result Carl Bams, F. II. Higolow and Thomas E. Russell, professors ot meteorology, will lie dropped from the rolls this month along with a number of clerks and other employe. In his forthcoming report Secretary Morton will make two Impor tant recommendations. One relates to the inilisiiriiiiinatedistrlbutlonol garden seed anil the other to the duplication of experiments by stations, now being done by the department. Chief Allison of the manufactures building of the World's Fair expelled R. if. iugerstill Hi Bro., a New York 'itoveltv linn, for persistently violating the rules against selling (roods. AIiBflHY v H. R. Hyde, -A FULL Furniture -OK 15VKBY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Carpets! We make a speoiitlty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered night , or dity. Baltimore Block. Albany, Or. W. K. KKAIl I'm.ldetlt. IIRO. F SIMPSON, VlM-Pmsldsnt. J. 0. WftfTHMAN, Saoralary J. I. COWAN, 'l'rea.rer. K. A. MI1.NKH. Farmers' and Merchants' Instance Company OF ALBANY. OREGON, CAPITAL STOCK. . ...... . ...... . 6OO,0OO BOAIP Of Hon. K. S HTKAHAN. h ni .hi.'ieeof snpreaie Cnim. IT.in J. w.itHHIOK. t-a kw. II tt, 1. K. WKATHKItlf..ltll, Attornsy-at Uw. J(. WIHTBMAS. Knag.. Ca.illall-I. Wlllameite aili-y ! and tympany. No twit fir I titri ourt ... thirty or Ixty-ttay elatnw In thti Farmer.' and Murohaiitt' FA KM p..) (.,.!. Tli. Ka-iuer.' and M rhn 't.' Insurance Company pay. the full amount of Iom np M t it mti'int ui irttd. T wlilwirlbf r. to tint capital toca coosl.U of (annum, mfrnhanl.. banieri, 'apiutHM . attiirinty., sttv.lciaii. and mmibauiw, the largest amuuut halll by .iuglu luUlvitlsaui Ih-.iu nit'iu- CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Auditor Aokernmn of the World's Fair has presented the financial state ment of the exposition to the directors covering the period up to June 80, A note accompanying the statement save the receipts Bi'nce July 1 were over $1,000,000, and a largo reduction was made in the flouting debt since that date. According to the statement the total gate receipts wore $2,121,8110, and the total expenditures $20,610,100. The operating expenses for May were $1109, 883, and the receipts $719,402. During June the estimated receipts were $1,600, 820, and the expenses $642,921, leaving a balance for the two months of $1,127, 417. Oregon Is one of the States that will1 receive daily shipments of ripe fruit and fresh vegetables In season to renew her exhibits at. the World's Fair. She Is now receiving cherries and strawberries, and the shipments have all come through in fine condition, establishing the truth of the statement that Oregon fruits are good Bhippers. In that State's exhibit in the fisheries building one of the most attractive displays of the whole fair has been holding the crowds about the Ore gon booth during the past few days. This consisted of fresh royal chinook salmon from the Columbia river. The largest fish weighed eighty-two pounds, and was the largest salmon ever caught in the West. These fish wore Ironm in side of solid cakes of ice before they left the Coast, and tlioy came through nicely in that shape. They looked beauties through the crystal ice. EA8T AND SOUTH -VIA- ' The Shasta Route -OFTHK- SOUTHER, PACIFIC CO. Kiprea. trahiatoatrs yortlaud dally t "7:00 r. EivT......Pmtliid Ar.T"':" A. . 10:28 r. u.lt.T ...Allmny Ar. 4:23 A. M. Sdfi'A. M.fAr Kstt KraiHtlww.l.v.l 7:00 r. H. Tits buvt) trains Hep only at tlie following utlo erlli of ItitMliiitt: out Portliuid, Or- won fllty. Wmallmni, s.iom, Allisuy. TmiKont, Bhttrld, Halasit, liarrUburg, jHuotlonOltr, Irviug sud Kusetis. Kowbsrs mtll rtstly: Sillll A. n. l.v.,,....l'ottuini ..Ar. i lU r. . 12:46 r. H. l.v.,.,.,...AIuaiiy. ,.,..Ar. I2:l r. V. tm r. . Ar Kunelmni U. 7:00 A, , Albany local-dally iMoopt Sunday), 1:011 r. K.lf.v ....Portland Ar.llO aO a. 1. D:00r. .Ar Alu.li; l.T.j : t. , Local pammgrtratn.-tlatly fexropt Sunday). 1:20 r, u. Li Allmny Ar. ID M A. u. 'iM V. h, Ar Lebanon.,,, l,v. -M a. u. 11:10 a. h. l. ...Albany ......Ar. :a p. h. 8:00 A. M. Ar.. Ulminitt.... l,v. 2:W p. a. IMnln Cars an Da-dan Houl. PULLMAN -ItVITBT SMMCI-ltltll -AND- aund-UlaM Maii!ii Vmn Attaohsd tm All Tlirouslh Tralai. WKST HlltH DIVISION. BrrwHS POSTLASD AN" UORVAU.H. Mall train-dally (eieaptHnuday): 7:J0 aH. hV..ortllld."....ArT I S:M A. M 12:10 r. M.J Ar...;.....t:orvlln, U. U:V, r. . At Albany and ftirvftiiia ouiiihmjI with traloi ot Oresuu PattiSo rallruad. Kxpress train dally tMtttpt flmalav ) : Thv t'cirtlstiil Ar. i : i. u. I Ar....MfttnnvlllB....l.T. 1 .VIII a. . THROOCH TICKETS M.K.,!.,, Md Kiirutm be ftbtitlnwl at loweii rUa Iron L A. ttenuett, gnt, Lebanon, R. KOKHI.KR. MDtfr. I. P. ROttKRg. Awl. Q. t. tu Anu v CO. Proprietor. LINE OF- DIIUCCTOKg. Hon. J. L OOWAN, I'reHiduit. Linn Comity National Bank. M. HTUKNHKKU, Em),, Meroliaut. . W. F. BRAD. Ins., Hmbani, . :. I). H. MtlNTEITH. UanltahaL ' Q. t. HKU'SON, Eng., CaplUlfft.