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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1893)
H. X. KlliKI'ATKIC'K, Publisher. LEBANON..... ...OREGON OCCIDENTAL NEWS. A Woman Accidentally Killed With a Target Rifle. THE WOOL GROWERS OF I'TAH, Rich Placer Mines Discovered on a Tributary of the Yukon River in Alaska. i A good rain has fallen throughout the ureal bait Lake and Utah Valleys, Hies Laura M. CIden has been admit' ted to practice before the courts of Ne- vaaa. It is reported that halibut have left the Flattery banks and gone farther nortn. Sacramento is to have a new water supply.' Two bids have been received for furnishing the water. Columbia river fishermen declare the trap contrivances are to blame for the disastrous year tney nave naa. ' The journeymen tailors in three union snope arxrat trie only ones in tne town of Victoria are out on a strike. The cause is a reduction of wages. Mew rich placer mines have been dis covered on one of the tributary streams on the Yukon river, a few hundred miles below lorty-mue creek, Alaska. Samuel J. Black, who was shot by Evans and Sontag at Camp Badger last May, is (retting along very well, ilis re covery is only a matter ot time. Magnificent rains have fallen all through Eastern and Southeastern Ari zona. All of the tributaries of the Gila and Salt rivers are running: bank full, S Grass is coming on in great abundance, i auiu live atw la uuiug wen. i It is rumored at Vallejo that Captain Uiay uorcoran ot tne united Mates ma rine corps stationed at the murine bar racks, Mare island, has been placed in suspension ty Major ilenry A. ttartlett, commandant ot tne marine Darracks. Prospectors from Yuma claim to have , discovered tne rums ot a prehistoric city on the Colorado Desert in search of Peg leg mine. It is stated the wind had laid bare the walls and remains of stone huildingB for the distance of 420 feet in I length by 260 feet in width. . Experienced irrigationists in the San Joaquin Valley think it is possible to work an improvement in the system in two directions. One is to make use of the hieh waters of winter and spring, which now run to waste; the other is to dispense largely with surface wetting of 4 the ground, which produces sickness and calls for much work that can be done away with. Mrs. Ruth Townsend was accidentally 4 shot and killed at salt take with a tar net. rifle in the hands of Levinia Hark ard. the sweetheart of Mrs. Townsend's son, Arthur. Miss Harkard was aiming at a target, and Arthur Townsend, who was endeavoring to steady ner aim Dy resting the rifle on his arm, suddenly ' dropped it at her request, changing the aim. Mrs. Townsend, who was standing . to one side, received the discharge of the rule, and died in ten minutes. At Astoria Attorney Warren has com- mencea suit in me iircmi. muii uguinsi Mayor tjrosDy ana we cii-y oi Amurus, enjoining them from levying and collect ing taxes for 1893. The complaint al leges that there is no City Assessor au thorized by law, and that the Council has qo authority to levy a tax for this year. The case was heard before Justice McBride. . City Attorney Hamilton de murred against the complaint, but the , Judge' overruled the demurrer and ' granted the injunction, saying that the county, and not the city, couid be al lowed to levy the tax according to the last State law. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Uourt at once. The Executive Committee of the San Francisco Midwinter Fair gives out the following information: H. Wallenstein, who has a large flour-milling exhibit at Chicago, communicates relative to the establishing of his exhibit at the Cali fornia Fair. Several additional otters have ten received from gentlemen who believe they can be of assistance to the fair and tender their services, free of any cost except traveling expenses, to work among the different Pacilic Coast States. A greal rdany offers have been received from paint manufacturers, offering to paint the buildings and also to cover the roofs with various materials. One con cern has requested tiie privilege of cov ering the office of the buildings at the fair for the costof the material and labor. Applications from mercantile houses of all sorts are coming in every mail. A local firm representing a large number of Eastern manufacturing houses say they iatend to get up a very elaborate exhibition of different proprietary arti cles. Some of these exhibits are promi nent features at the Columbian Exhibi tion. Many of these will be brought to California intact. The Chinese Six Com panies have subscribed $6,000 to theMid wmter Fair. In addition to this they will bring the Chinese exhibit from the Chicago Fair to San Francisco, and will have a number of new features. Among the things promised is a floating Chinese village. The Executive Company will appoint an international jury of awards. The general reception of exhibits will commence October 16, and no article will be admitted after December 10. BUSINESS BREVITIES. Japan talks of building fourteen rail roads. There are 6,466,000 owners of farms in France. On one ranch in Texas there are 1,600, 000 sheep. The tire losses for June last exceeded lli,300,000. Women are commencing to drive cabs in New York. . Looms are successfully run by electric ity in Saxony. Gas motors are proposed for running uuicago street cars. A bank still doing business at Barce lona was tounoed in 14U1. Italy has 47,000 miners. The marble quarries employ zu,uuu more. Mulhall estimates that the civiliied nations annually pay (13,000,000,000 for food. . Silver dollars are shipped direct to inina rrom Mexico by Chinese mer chants. Philadelphia has 1.632 retail liquor sa loons; in 1887 there were 6,773 licensed saloons. The United States acreage in grain is greater than the entire area of the Ger man Empire. PallnlniH M nan. Al,a,;.N .-,..l reduced again to pulp and then moldet? into its final form. For the labor temnle to be established in Philadelphia a fair will be arranged to open October 2. The Railway Age believes that the to tal construction for the whole vear will be about 3,000 miles. Horses are not so much used as before the age of steam, but the world still has need of KI.UoU.UUU ot them. Since 1860 the value of Grain cross has steadily diminished, while that of pas toral products has increased. Five methods of anchoring bolts in stone were recentlv tried at the Worces ter Polytechnic. Tne best test was borne Dy sulphur setting in a straight hole. In 1844 the averaee waee of a London neeoie woman was atjd an nour. The wages of many poor needle women in London do not now exceed l!d per nour. The Provident Savinirs Bank of Boston the greatest institution of the kind in this country, has 00.000 depositors and deposits of (36,000,000 in sums of $1,000 or less. The statement is made on apparently gwxi authority that f;t4,uuu,iM)ol Amer ican capital has been invested in busi ness enterprises in Mexico within the last three years. PURELY PERSONAL. Only three members of the Berlin lOngrese of lb7 are now alive Bis marck, Salisbury and Waddington. Samuel Edison, the father of the great inventor, will be 91 years old m August. He lives in Port Huron, Mich,, and has a little daughter 9 years old, of whom he is exceedingly proud. The resemblance between Colonel Fred Grant and his father grows more marked daily, and some friends who have seen mm since ms return trom v icnna nave been startled at the first glance. When Gladstone was dined by the benchers of Gray's Inn, London, last January he astonished them by his knowledge of abstruse law points. Mr. Balfour was almost as much of a surprise when entertained by tne same legal fra ternity recently. It is not generally known that the Co- rean Minister and his wife are member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. re determined to identify them selves with Christianity shortly after the death of their first child. Except on State occasions they wear American clothes. Among Mrs. Cleveland's most hiirhlv prized possessions are a num her of paint ings which Joseph Jefferson presented to tier. Tney are all Irom bis own brush, and Mrs. Cleveland takes especial de light in exhibiting a bit of woodland scenery on Kip Van Winkle's southern plantation. Mr. Labouchere announces in bis pa per that Mr. Bayard, our Ambassador to England, obtains a great increase in precedence by being promoted from the rank ol Minister ot legation. Mr. La bonchere declares that Ambassadors have precedence over Dukes, and seems to think that Mr. Bayard ought to be much elated over tue lact. . Ward McAllister and his fellow noo dles are preparing for a grand display of toad-eating at Newport. The Grand Duke Alexander of Russia is to be the guest of Mrs. Edward S. Willing at her cottage by the sea, and all the snobs and snobesses in New York city are buying tickets and checking trunks so as to bask in tne renecteu rays oi tue royal splen dor. William Lawrence Poole of New Or leans is said to be the oldest editor in the country. He is now 89 years of age. He was born in Portland, Me., drifted South and in 1823 established the Che- raw (S. C.) Intelligencer. He bought the unariesion uty uazette to tight the " nullification " doctrine, and then went to New Orleans, where he was connected with several papers. At the' recent ceremony in Vienna of the conferring of a Cardinal's hat on the Bishop of Grosswardein a most impos ing ceremony because of the number of the church dignitaries m-esent and Via- cause the Emperor knelt there prostrate at the altar the most impressive figure was that of the young papal envoy, who attracted all eyes. This youthful pre late, the son of aSpanish nobleman, was easily the center of the brilliant scene on account of his youth, his manly beauty and the dignity beyond his years which lent effectiveness to his address to the Emperor. He is the son of Senor del Val, was born in England and is famous in Rome for the fine sermons he preaches in the English tongue, EASTERN MELANGE. New York City Disturbed Over Ite Water Supply. THE CORN CROP OF KANSAS. Grant Family to Visit the World's Fair iu September Cable Cars in Dew York. Seats are now reserved for women in the Philadelphia public squares. The Fourteenth Regiment will build in Jf ittsburg an armory for 1160,000. The- farm hands of Southern Kansas have organized themselves into a union, An old oilman says the number of dry wells in Western Pennsylvania is amaz ing. Some of the recently suspended Kan sas City banks are beginning, business Hguin. The engines of the big armored cruiser Maine are pronounced every way satis factory. The Argon Mine Company at Norway, Mich., has closed down. It owes (60,000 in wages. Caterpillars are numerous throughout Pennsylvania, and are doing great dam age to crops. New York's postoffice received (7,369, 200 for the year ended on June 30, an in crease of (486,446.67 in a year. The new Internal Revenue Collector for the Louisville district has already re ceived 3,000 applications for positions. Thomas Burns, Superintendent of Po lice at New York, is about to retire. He has accumulated a fortune of (700,000. New York city is much disturbed over its water supply. The water looks bad, and it has a very disagreeable, marshy taste. The resignation of Hon. William A. M. Manrick. Assisttjit Attomev-General. has been tendered to Attorney-General Olney, Kansas' com crop promises to be the largest in the State's history except for the year 1889, when it was 273,000,000 bushels. The Oxford Iron and Nail Comnanv at Belvidere, N. J., is in the hands of a re - ceiver. About 350 men are thrown out of employment, Governor Carr has commissioned fortr physicians as delegates to represent North Carolina at the Pan-American Medical Congress at Chicago. Powderly, it is stated, will resign as General Master Workman at the next convention of the Knights of Labor. The order is said to be in a bad way. The acting Secretary of War has ap proved the allotments of the Missouri River Commission for the improvement of the river to the amount of (700,000. TheMarnuis.de Barboles, brother of i the Dude de Veragua, wants a slice of the tund that It is proposed to raise in the United States for the benefit of the Duke. The Manhattan Bank at New York has ordered H. A. Weil, a broker, to withdraw his account, owing to false statements be has made about the insti tution. Since January 1 nearlv 200 national banks have closed their doors, against less than fifty during the same period hurt year; five have been United States depositories. New Yorkers have begun to write to their daily papers asking that the city tie protected Irom cable cars, complain ing that the lives of citizens are "in constant jeopardy," Juan Andreon. alias Juan Daodati. alias Giovanni Cavalero, said to be one of the moat noted safecrackers and all around thieves in Europe, has been ar rested in New York. Congressmen who were most inter ested in defeating the force bill, it is re ported, may aid their Western colleagues in opposing the unconditional repeal of the Sherman silver bill. The people of Ironwood. Mich., after about 400 had been prostrated by typhoid fever and many had died, found that the standpipe of their water works was part full of dead fish, crabs, lizards, snake and other carrion. Eleven hundred commercial organiza tions throughout the country have been invited by the New York Board of Trade and Transportation to send delegates to a convention which is to meet in Wash ington on or about September 1. John B. Koetinir. the cashier of the defunct South Bide Savings Bank at Mil waukee, has disappeared, and simulta neously the discovery has' been made that the general ledger of the institution is not among the effects of the bank. Misses Lizzie and Emma Borden have voluntarily transferred, it is said, about (4,0U(I worth of property, which belonged to tneir murdered stepmother, to Mrs. Whitehead of Fall River and Mrs. Fish of Hartford, who were half-sisters of Mrs. Borden. Mrs. U. 8. Grant, who ie still at West Point, will be ioined later bv her son. and they will go to the World's Fair in September. In October they will be joined in Chicago by Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, her daughter, who is coming over to see the fair. In Shelby county, Tenn., the Criminal Court has susrwndal the Sheriff, and the grand jury has been called upon to in- vestitMt the lvnchimt of the neero Walker, who was taken from tail and1 hanged by a mob. Several men SUB- nected of comnlioit in the lvnchimr tT"' "PJ'y " " 'juuung uave uvea Arrested. I mm Washington city. Secretary Carlisle has begun the reor ganization of the Treasury Department. A numbor of clerks have already been dropped and others reduced as 'far as possible under the civil service rules. Much interest has been aroused among statisticians by the discovery that the ligures of the balance of trade against this country for the fiscal year ending June 30 last, as shown by the record of the bureau of statistics of the Treasury Department, were about (40,000,000 out of the way. Instead of an advorse bal ance of (93,000,000 the corrected returns have shown only about (60,000,000. Special Supervising Agent Tingle says that the Treasury Department is doing all It can with the money on hand for the enforcement of the Geary exclusion law. He claims that, if the (60,000 available July 1 should be broken into immediately lor the purpose of entering into the wholesale deportation of Chi nese very soon there would be nothing left to pay the special agents and other officers of the Treasury engaged in keep ing the Chinese ont of this country. He says that olficere of the government are at present engaged in gathering infor mation as to the Chinese who are ille gally here, and that the Treasury intends to enforce the law. The report of Chinese Inspector Scharf on his investigation of the fraudulent entry ol Chinese at the portol New York has been received at the Treasury De partment. No report from Collector Hendricks as to Inspector Scharf's alle gation of collusion by New York officials is yet received. It is alleged in Wash ington City that the customs officers at New York have been extremely lax in issuing Chinese certificates, and that whenever the Treasurv agents or inspect ors have undertaken to investigate mat ters they invariably have been given the cold shoulder. This state of facts is said to apply to no particular administration. To some extent the same condition of affairs, it is said, exists in other cities, wnere tne customs omcers seem to think the Treasury agents have no right to in vestigate their acta. So far as the State Department is in formed, there are no American citizens residing in Siam except missionaries. It is not believed to be necessary to take any special measures lor their protection. The United States has no representative in Siam, and the Consul-General at Bangkok, Mr. Boyd, is in this country at ' present, leaving the office in charge of ; " on, the Vice-Consul. If thewelfare of our missionaries should be threatened, which is unlikely, they can without douht 55u. Proi"n on application to. the ! """ oi some other nation, as will be : " rVr r" "''"? "e commercial interestsof the United States in Siam are insignificant, tho exports being very few and the imports being made up of teak wood, used in ship- uuuniiig, anu some triues ol Oriental and Malayneeian decorative work. It is said at the Navy Department that Admiral Harmony's recent retirement, for which the department has been crit icised, was in strict accordance with bis written request. He mbled the depart ment from Hongkong March 13, asking to be ordered home and retired upon his arrival in the United States. He sug- .x.ta.1 T... ... i -a . r. date (or biB departure. In a letter of March 7 lie after askimr for detach mpnt said: "Upon my arrival in the United States, which fact I will report by tele graph, I ask that I may be placed on the retired list, as authorized by the statute, having served over forty years continu ously in the navy of the United Ktates." April 24 the President approved the ap plication, to take effect upon the Admi ral's arrival in the United States, which was June 28, as reported by the "naval agent at San Francisco. An order was accordingly issued placing him on the retired list. The next day the Admiral telegraphed his arrival, and asked to lie retired June 29, bnt it was impossible to change the date, as the order had already been issued and was mailed to him. AIiBAJiY v FUMITURE v GO. H. R. Hyde, -A FULL FVii r n OF EVF.BY DESCRIPTION Carpets! We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered night lay. Baltimore Block, Albany, Or. W. P. RKAD. Prwldenl. OKO F. MM PgON, Vlee-ProHdent. J. 0. WHITHMAN, Seorelarr J. i COWAN, Trasturer. It. A. M1LNKH. Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company OF ALBANY, OREGON. CAPITAL 8TOCK 8D00.000 BOABD 0 DIKECTOB8. Hon, B. 8. flTRAHAN, Ron. J. w. CHHICK. Banker. I'mei jiuiimoi anpnne court. lZmuXri!lJ",i',,' 1 ' WB1Wn':iSSiSi?Ji!1 Nolwothlrda. three-foHrthi. thirty or ii.iv.ii .pellslss. Trw Karmerj; and MVrchviu' Inmranoa Company payi the lull amount ol loaa np to ' ''""ii'il Ininred. Tbiibwlber.iotbe(iatilulitockoonlalolfarmer,merohant.oau8ra, japlialiiii..aimyi,phyiloinisnlBi(inauloa,tholiit amount bald by iuile IndivldiuU bains IamMI. CHICAGO EXPOSITION. When completed, the Yorked feie-' Bcopo, which (ins been donated to the University of Chicago, will be the larg est in the world. The mounting of the telescope is now being put together in the manufactures building. The square iron pior supporting the ttilie was put in place in the north end of Columbia ave nue last May, It was alwut thirty feot in height, in four sections. The tube was in live sections, which together are sixty-four feet in length and weigh six tons. The head and axis weigh thirty tons. Chairman Thatcher of the executive committee of the bureau of awards, speaking of the system of awards, said: ''The bureau has intended from the start to cause a most complete and ex haustive examination to be made of the exhibits to the end that it might obey the injunction oi Congress requiring the bureau to disclose to the world the prog ress1 made in the arts, industries and Bcicnces. The commercial side of the awards question sinks into insignificance when compared to the instructive side. To know that John Smith received a prize for his exhibit tells the world nothing, What the people want to know is the specific merit or improvement over the past disclosed by his exhibit. It would have been easy enough to adopt the old-fashioned, meaningless system of making awards, and then everything would have been delightfully smooth sailing, but what educational results would there have been?" EAST AND SOUTH The Shasta Route OF THK- SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. Eipren traiiiajenye Portland dally: 7fl0 p. a.1!,v.7....".Portliid'"V"Ar i-iivTV 10:ffl r. a. I,t. Albany Ar. iM a. u. lf a. n,Ar.....Bmi KramMaon.l,v. 7:00 r. a. Til above train atop unlv at tlm rnllnwlnv talloim north of ItOMtbnrff: Hut Portluml dr. won City, woodbarn. Balam, Albany. Tanirenl, Bin-nil, Halnfly.Harrl.burif.JupationClty, Irvlas and Ku,ou. KoiKbnnt mall-itillr: M a. K.ll.v I'ortlHiiU .At, UM t. a. I,v Albany Ar. :60 t. ,Ar lloavlintg l,v, to r. a. t'JtSO p. u. 7:00 A. H. AlMny lomil-dslly (eicopt HllmUy). 5:00 r. n.ll.v.. :00 r. n.lAr... l'orlliitl A r. 1 10 30 a. a, Albany I.v.l S:a. . ,Wal paaiiongartralna-ilally (except Hnnrtay). 1:1 r. .l,v Albany Ar. 2:00 r. a. Ar ..Lebanon l,v, :10A. . I.T ..Albany ArJ 0:00 A- ,Ar U-liniiou l,v. 1 10 'Jl a. a. :: a. a. 1 . a. r. a. Dlalmr Can on da Houta. PULLMAN UlirriT aLKBfUKft AND SMond-OUaa Hloovlu 0ra Attuhaa to All Through Trains. WEST HIItB DIVISION. BuTwsan POKTUSU ah Costalus. Mall '.Mln-nallr (excnptHnnilay): Tai"a.T:S.orllanit;."...;.Ar. j 6:lA.af 13:10 r. a. I Ar,L.,...,.corvlln,..I..,l,v. um t. a. At Albany aHfl (Jorvallii connect wlto trains of Orasoii racing railroad. Enprew train-dally iszcopt Rnnday) 4:W r. a. 7:M T. K W.. I'ortland Ar. .McMliinvlllc.,..U. I K:'4 A. a. A:4A A. a. Ar. THROUGH TICKETS LS'r.,!. 'H md KuropM ran be obtained t .owMinUwliom I. A. itonoett, tfteiit, Letmuon. K. KOKHLKR.Ma.ntfw. P. BOOK Kg. Aui. 8. F. Put Agent. Proprietor. LINE OF- i t -la r e AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Hon. J, L, COWAN, , Frenident IJnn Connty National Bank. M. STBKNBKKO, Iq Merchant. W.F. ltKAn,Kq., Merchant. D. B. MONTKITH. Caaltaliat. Q. P. SIMI'bCN, Enq., Capital!.!. niaum in tha ir,;,.' V,,rt n,h...... .i,u