en (Srxpirss; . T. KlKKPATItlCK. rnbll.brr. LEBANON.. OREGON OCCIDENTAL -SEWS.. Oregon's Excellent Display at the World's Fair. TLATTEKISG KASTEKK COMKEST Model Hydraulie Flwter Mine Attracts the Attention of the Immense Throng. . The total Colnmhi river salmon nek will b abort 276,000 awes, 173,000 short of last veer. An international irrigation convention ia called to meet at iteming, K. M., on November 7. A colony of thirty families ia reported traveling with iu teama overland from Nebraska to the vicinity of Olympia. The Indiana in some parts of Oregon, notably at Grant, have been offering po niea for sale at from (2.50 to $7 apiece. A. D. Childress, manager of the clear ing home at Loe Angeles, hae resigned at the solicitation of the clearing-hoose banks. The people of Yuma and vicinity held a niaai meeting recently, and onani nxnuly agreed to request United States A ttorney-Vieneral Olney not to appeal to the United States Supreme Conn the AJfodones land-grant case, recently de cided in favor of the claimant by the United States Land Conn of Private Claims. The reasons given are that the settlers on the grant are perfectly satis fied with the decision. A fisherman on the Lower Colombia had his net in the river, and was mak ing a drift, when the steamer T. J. Pot ter passed on her way to Astoria. The captain did not see the net, and in pass ing one of the vessel's big wheels picked it op and woond it around the shaft, taking the fisherman and part of his boat with it.; Fortunately he was so completelv tangled in the net that he was held irmly in one place and carried around, and escaped being dashed to pieces. Hie outcries for help wore heard and the steamer was stopped, and he was released. In speaking of Oregon being unrepre sented in tbe National Board the Chica go Tribune of a late date remarks: "Or egon ia without representation in the deliberations of the National Commis sion, and in this incident there is an other feature of the old Clevelami-Pen-noyer tend. One of Oregon's National Commisgioners is ill, and bin alternate resigned. To this resignation the gov ernor paid no heed. Oregon's other Commissioner ia not in tbe a ty, and the Governor's refusal to notify the Presi dent of the vacancy in the commission loaves Oregon without a spokesman. Oregon ians are fearful that tbey will fare ill in the apportionment of jurors of awards, and have aeked the National Commission to take such action as will result in Oregon having a voice in the body's deliberations." One of tbe most important features presented to visitors is tbe magnificent educational exhibit, now fully open and complete, in the department of liberal arts. Kearly all of the States and Ter ritories are creditably represented. Par ticularly am the most distant States well represented, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and of these no exhibit is more attractive than that presented by the State of Oregon. Its specific character istics an numerous and many of them unique, and at once hold the attention of the passer-by. In the department of ornithology there is a magnificent dis play of ail the game birds of Oregon el egantly mounted. There are free-hand and mechanical drawings and photo graph work illustrating all features of public-school work through the several grades. Of the higher institutions of learning the State University, the Stale Agricultural College and tbe Willamette University lead in their exhibits. The entire exhibit is a tribute to the enter prise, skill and abilitv of tbe teacnere and schools of tbe Web-foot State. Chicago Inter-Ocean. - One of the most attractive exhibits to the public in the mines and mining building is the model or miniature hy draulic placer mine in tbe Oregon sec tion, which as a drawing card to the general public is only surpassed by the silver statue of "Justice. " The placer mine consists of a bed of gravel about fifteen feet long and six feet wide, with sluiceway through the middle. A small hvdraulic ram throws a vigorous stream of water against the gravel bank, carry ing tbe dirt down in the sluice where the gciid is caught by tbe riffles placed cross wise in the box. A number of Oregon f iacer-mining properties gave the gravel, 110 sacks of 160 pounds each coming from the following properties: Ingram & Baker, Centennial and Willow Springe in Willow Springs district, Davenport in the Davenport district; on the opening day some gravel from the Basin mine, the property of Captain Cioogb of Port land, was worked over; a clean-up was made after each bag was worked, but the gold was allowed to remain in the boxes in order to give visitors an insight into the system of placer-mining. A final lean-up was made late in the afternoon, which netted about one ounce of gold dost and two nuggets weighing about one-eiehth of an ounce each. This spe cial attraction is in charge of F. U.Kowe, superintendent of the Oregon mining einibit. New York Engineering and juuing ioomat. BUSINESS BREVITIES. The tin-plate factory at Elwood, Intl., has resumed work, giving employment tc 500 men. .Canada supplies nearly all the plum bago used by Anirican manufacturers of lead pencils. , . Font hundred and forty persons in this country live on the labor of every 1U0 workers. . There are seventy-seven sine mines In Prorata, which produce one-half the world's line It is stated that women hold 1(16,081 shares in Philadelphia building and loan associations. The distance from Dew York to Hal bourne via San Francisco is 12.365 miles ; to Hongkong, 10,590 miles. Glass bricks are made so cheaply that it seems only a matter of time when glass houses may come in fashion. During the last three veers English capitalists bare invested 213,000,000 in Mexico and American capitalists 1345, 000,000. British manufacturers of agricultural machinerv and hardware acknowledge that the United States ia In keen com petition. Fifty-six years ago the block on which the Chicago postoffice now" stands was sold at auction for 606. It is now worth (6,000,000. The Amoskeag mills, which hae closed for the month of Angust according to vote of its directors at Manchester, K. H., employs 8,000 hands. Tbe most expensive fur is the skin of the black fox of Kamtchatka. These an imals are scarce and hard to kill, and a single skin sells for about $1,000. Toboggan expresses have been a feat ure in the bowlder district of Montana the past season, and have been very use ful in conveying freight to paints off the main road. The smallest horse in the world is named General Tom Thumb. Be be longs to a museum out West, lie w three feet high, and weighs only eighty-! five pounds. The salaries naid to neraona in the civil service of the United Htates amount ' to 190,000,000 annually. This amount, pave the wages of 180,000 persona. The average is too a year. The fast train over the New York Cen tral and the Lake Shore between New York and Chicago muBt, it is stated, carry seventy-five through passengers to Hnnmw juuuiugib tt enb ugiuia una nuuenju irum a In round numbers the total amount of long-continued drought, but a recent vi life insurance written by tbe different ole storm has ended it. insurance companies of the world is ! In tbe Brooklyn elevated railroad sys (12,000.000,000. Of this sum i 6,600.000.-! tern steam as a motive power is to be 000 are placed in toe United States. Soil in Egypt is tilled by exactly the 1 same kind of plow as that used there o.uou years ago. ine turrows made are , extremely shallow, and the clods are further broken up with a big wooden cudgel. Notwithstanding the world's great me- chanical progress there arewinedistricte grapes are still trodden with bare feet under tbe idea that the wine is better when made so. The British insurance companies dur ing the year 1802 received in premiums 17.516,067, and paid out in losses 11, 662.907. The expenses and commissions paid bv fortv companies are placed at over 6,700,000. Electric street railways in the United States have in operation amileage which exceeds the sum of street railways run by other powers, vis. : S,930 miles run by electricity. 4.460 by horses, 648 by cable and 620 by steam. A writer has figured out that the United States produces 2,2(10 pounds of grain to each inhabitant; Denmark, 2,005; Canada, 1,500; RnsBia, 1,200; Koumania, 1,150; Spain, 1,100: France, 990; Sweden, OHO; Argentine Republic, 850; Australia, 760; Germany, 700; Bel gium, 600; Portugal, 550; Ireland, 500; Scotland, 490.; England, 360. PURELY PERSONAL. Attorney-General Hendricks of Ken tucky prides himself on tbe fact that he rose from a laborer to his present place of dignity and honor. Charles Foster, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, is meeting tbe nsusl fate of tbe unfortunate. Now he is charged with gross mismanagement, if nothing worse, of the financial affairs of those who bad intrusted their interests to bis care. A horseback ride to last three years and to extend from Texas to Patagonia has been planned by Colonel E. F. John ston of Philadelphia, Philo Beveridge of Chicago, M. C. Picking of Ottumwa. Ia., and R. Edgeeonib, nephew of Lord Etlge somb. Hme. Laboudy, widow of the great French sugar refiner, who left her a for tune of (30.000,0 0, lives in asmall house at St. Cloud, and spends about (1.000 a year. Her son, however, is compensat ing for this maternal economy by squan dering the fortune with a prodigal hand. Iu the marriage of Hiss Catherine Weed Bames to I lenry Snowden Ward, editor of the English photographic mag azine, New York loses one of its bright est women, and the " riht little tight little island " will gain one of the best women amateur photographers in this country. Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of tbe founder of tbe New York Tribune, is married to Rev. F. M. Clendinin, pastor ot a fashionable church at weatcliester, N.Y. She active in all the charitable work in the parish, and has done a great deal toward building the hospital, whicb is now nearly finished. Baron William von Faher, the onlv son of Baron Lothar von Faber and part owner of the world-renowned lead pen- cil factory in Nnrembenr. died in Ger many a lew clays ago. 1 lie family is one of the wealthiest in Germany, and its members stand high among the patri cians of old Nuremberg. EASTEBN MELANGE. Trouble Brewing in Railroad Circles in Nebraska. AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IS FLORIDA Suspended Pensioners (riven More Time to Which to Make Proof of Their Rights. The wheat crop of Dlinole is the small est ever known. Chicago's unemployed number more than ever before. The troops will soon be removed from the East Tennessee coal mines. Tbe biggest gas well in America was struck near Pittsburg last week. It is said all the members of the Cab inet will keep house this winter. The Mormon Tabernacle choir will go East to sing at the World's Fair. Work will be begun on a new Federal building at Burlington, la., at once. Hot weather has given East Tennessee the best cotton crop in twenty yean. The Board of Trade of New Orleans is working to secure a better mail service. There was an increase of over $17,000, 000 in tbe amount of currency during July. A plague of grasshoppers is sweeping down on the farmers in the Tennessee Valley. Aluminium car tickets are In nee on a Michigan-street railway, and are quite popular.' The United States Watch Coiunanv " aJulm umea worx, out cut down pay. Labor day in St. Louis, it Is predicted. iU furnish the greatest procession ever seen mere. More hard coal has been mined so far this vear than ever before in a corre sponding period. Girls may legally smoke cigarettes on the streets, bo reads the decision of a .Louisville (Kv.) court. superseded by electricity. Secretary Smith says tbe Cherokee Strip will probably be thrown open to seuiemeoi on oepwuuuer a. New York is bavins no end of trouble with its cable railroad on Broadway. It breaks down every day or two. Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio an- jounces that under no circuuistanuee wiii he be a candidate this fall. Returns from recent school elections in Kansas show that women are fond of exercising the right of suffrage. Advices from Labrador report tbe cod fishing excellent and salmon-fishing fair. There are no reports of distress. The property in the county of New York which was exempt from taxation last year amounted to (004,000,000. A Baltimore asphalt company has dis charged 1,000 bauds because die banks would not discount its city warrants. The new postmaster at Dundee, Mich., among bis other qualifications has a mustaclie stVK inches irom tip to tip. There is trouble brewing in railroad circles of Nebraska over the in junction proceedings in the maximum might law. A company bas applied for incorpora tion which nrouosea to construct a shin canal from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie. The Australian ballot was used for the first time in Florida recently at Jackson ville, and gave unqualified satisfaction. New England farmers are reported to be nnable to harvest crops that are re markably fine because of insufticient help. The railroads centering in Boston suf fered a depreciation of more than (10,- 500,000 in stock valuation during the month of July. There will be no more deaths from " heart failure" in Philadelphia, for the Board of Health bas declared that there is no such disease. A colored people's insurance company, which had no existence, has been vic timising the colored people in New Jer sey out of large sums. Taunton, Mass., some years ago deeded a site to the United States for a Federal building and, having lost patience wait ing for the latter, wants the land back again. It is rumored in New York that Will iam B. Horublower will be selected to till the vamncy on the United States Supreme Bench caused by tbe death of Judge BlaUbfurd. A nlot of trrouud. 75x100 feet, on the corner of Fifth avenue and Eighty-first. street in ew I ora nas oeen soiu 10 Au gust Belmont for (286,000, or at the rate of (38 a square foot. In Milwaukee an old couple took fright and drew their savings a lew thousand doliara from tbe bank. Since then ene of them has sat up all of every night guarding the money. Judge Lochren, Pension Commissioner, has extended until October 10 tbe period within which pensioners whose pensions have been suspended may make proof ot wieir right to receive them. A great scheme of changing many of the important surface railroads iu tlie section of New York city above Twenty- third street into roads opera tea or ca bles instead of by horses is agitated. wolves and coyotes are increasing in J numbers on tbe stock ranges in boutn- em Alberta as in the JJakotas and other Northwestern States, and are causing serious trouble and loss to the ranchera, FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Preparations (or opening the Cherokee Strip are about completed. It ia th present expectation of Secretarr Smith to have the opening day set between September 1 and September 15. Upon inquiry at the pension office it is learned that up to dale there have been 6,472 pensions suspended, which were granted under the act of June 27, 1890, averaging 170 daily. A large pro portion of these cases, it is said, were suspended pending a medical examina tion, , H. H. Gilfry of Oregon has not been displaced in the Senate, as erroneously staled. He is one of the men designed to remain. He is a Democrat. It is scarcely to be expected that Charles Newell will remain. Gilfry has served during the Republican ascendency in the Senate with satisfaction. 8. H. Boyd, the United States Minis ter to Siain, has not tendered his resig nation to the President as a result of tbe Eublication of a personal letter which e wrote to Mr. Holderman, expressing views on the Siamese situation in very undiplomatic language and reflecting upon Secretary Gresliam. While Oulonel Boyd will not be asked to resign, it is understood his tenure of office will be ended by the appointnientof a successor. Mr. Holderman called ou Secretarv Gree- bam to explain whv he made the Boyd letter nnhlic. hnt tlia Wn,t.arv derlimJ to hear him, stating that be was whollv luaiuerent on the auujeut. Dir. Ikivu was appointed Minister to Siam October 1, 1890. Tbe salary of the position is (6.000. Secretary Gresham of the State De partment needs (100,000 to pay tbe ex- Sensee of his office. A good part of this elicit is due to the expense incurred in tbe entertainment of foreign visitors, notably the Duke of Veragua. While the Duke was in Chicago being luxuri antly provided for, he wrote to the Pres ident expressing his regret that he would be delayed in reaching Washington to pay his respects to the chief executive. He was informed in reply that tbe Pres ident would release biro from any obli- fation he might feel in that direction, ie wag farther advimtd that arranto) mvnta bad been made fur bis nitnrn to it; mi .., ti.. ti-i.. 1..1. ..! . '!-.... v-. wu,m ,v a.'uv wot mil w ux the date himsell, but there was no mistaking the anxiety of thedeiiartnient to have his visit come to an early end. The expense of tbe entertainment of the Duke will not fall short of (40,000. not to mention the entertainment by private persons. Senator Vest has introduced a bill to fix the number of grains of gold and silver in gold and silver coins of the United States, the silver dollars to con tain 404. 4 grains of silver or 610 grains of standard silver. Vest also ottered a joint resolution setting forth that the American people from tradition and in terest favor binietalisni ; that it is the established policy of the United States to maintain the parity between gold and silver, and that it is tbe duty of Con gress to speedily enact such laws as will effectually maintain these objects. The most signflcant bill introduced in me donate pemaps was one ny nenator Hill of New York. The measure be pre sented leaves no doubt of his position on the financial issue. While repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, it unqualifieulv pledges the cnuntrv to bi metalism. It is "A bill to repeal certain aectious of the act of July 14, IHIKI, en titled an act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasurv notes thereon and for other nurnoaes." This repealing i however, " is not to be construed as abandoning bimetaliHtu, but it is berebv declared that the nolicr of using both gold and silver as standard monev of the ninntrv shall lie estsli- Ittthwt. ami IA Ihn amitnmliulimMnt f I that end the efforts of tbe government flhall be Hteadilr and aitft'I? directed." The WcHtera people are feiiciutinjf themseivw on the ponition aiumnied by cenator nm. i ney are pleased that lie j flltBAHY v FOHKITUHE v CO. H. R. HYDE, -A full Furniture OF EVKBY DE8CKITOON AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Carpets! We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered uigbt or day. Baltimore Block. Albany, Or. W. F. ItEAO. President. ORO. f. SIMPKOU.VIea-PrwiaeBt. J 0 VRIDKAK.ttmlirr Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company OF ALBANY. OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK . . . . . . . ... : 8500,000 BOABO Of Iloa. B. 0. STttAHAK, t-fief Jnirioaof suannw Court. Hon. 1. W. CUBIC K. haiiter. Unci..'. K. WKATIIKItHiltli. AtuHnsr-at-Uw. J. 0. WUTruM AK. bq., c.nll.Mrt. vriiiameue vaner i.sna vomvtnj. Ho two thtr.ii. ihreo (cmr.ria, ibirtr or AixiMr (ftaiife in the rarmtm nd Merchant' FARM pnlleH. Th Kam.tr-' ami Merchuu' IitauratiRr:oinNiiir tm the full amoant ot Iom Tin t t eatnoaat liMiired, TheiiihMrtben to the capital tH-k (too.! of lafmen.imrrhauii taiikfrT fapitatlnu. atUtfiwyt. pkjuKmna ami aachaaitti, lb UnMt uboiuu said by tUasie iitdivuiuml. should havo so unqualifiedly pledged himself to bimetaliem as to indicate lii willingness to favor sulweqnout Ingisla- i tion looking to the restoration of silver as money metal. , CHICAGO EXPOSITION. The Duchess of Marlborough expects to revisit her native land in September, and will attend tbe World's Fair. What Is claimed will be the largest flagstaff1 ever erected is to he dedicated to the World's Fair by the State of Wash ington in September. Governor Leweliing of Kansas will soon appoint a commission to lay his gulf transportation scheme before for eign representatives at the World's Fair. The British government has sent Ma jor Cragie to Chicago to report on the agricultural statistics accumulated by the various governments at the World's Fair, It is now conceded that the stockhold ers of the World's Fair will not get any of their monev back. It is also conceded that in addition to their (5.500,000 the citv of Chicago will not gut any of its (6,000,000 back. At a meeting of the National Commis sion Couiniiwuoner Goodell of Colorado precipitated a lengthy and heated de bate bv a resolution mlucini the sala ries of Commissioner St. Clair and Mas- ' members of the Council of Admin- I 'ttion. to (2 600 a year. Now they are getting (500 per month. Tbe matter was finally referred to a special commit tee. EAST AND SOUTH The Shasta Route -or THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. KxpiMM traliw Mare Portland dally: 7:0f. i.t ...Portland -.Ar.l ...Albaiir .Ar. ..(KH KranoNcH. l.v. vm t. a. t o a. a. ? -.to r. a. ?" ''' , Hl jfi a. N ! r...... Tht.iime trains nun mily at tlu folltiwlug nation, minh nl Hmvlmf: KHl Portland, Or u City. WtKKlhurn. Salm. Altai)?. Taiisenl, rthi-dft. Halrwy, H.rri.lurt. Jutlout:ltjr. irvlaf autl Kujeiit. Hwhnrc mill Salt.- htQ a. a fl.v ...HnrtlHUit..n 13:4 r. a. I. Albany 6:30 r a.'lr Krw.-linrr... i to r. m. 12 i r. a. 7:00 a. a. Alnaiiy Incal dally eaertlliiulayl. 6:00 r. M.:Lr I'nrtlalnt Ar.!l0:80 A. a. r. a iAr... Allmny.. ,.I,T :. A Lncal imn.ensrtran ilally it arttin Sunday). I:U r. a.,U Albany Ar. IS M A. a. 2:i r. M.:Ar.. Ubaimu Lv. :30 A. H. :l. a.ll.r All.. ii ...Ar. 1 r. a. g:lA. M.;Ar Ulmiinn.. hi. a.igl r. a. Hull) Cttnt mn tg4mu Bout. PULLMAN HI rrCT HLKBCEKH MwHsnnd-Oa-ft Hltmpluv i'mn At tacts ) to All Til roust. Tmliw. WKMT MltK IMVIMOK. HKTWr. J'orrLAND AND UURTlIaLM. Mull tntlu -fltly teiewpt Hmirttj'): ?:8nV m. i i.ir....,ortlmid.....Ar. f Mfi a. m. r. n. I Ar CorvHilm I,r. I 1M r. m. At AliMllV salifl CtlfVaVlli ROIIlWCtt With UftiiU nl OruNou Wc.ftf mltruad. .ilA,.., - ! A'... .. I'urtmdti Mi'Mifinv-l... Hr.b a. I f: a. I j THROUGH TICKETS l"v ad", I and Ktimiwmn (wotitatintd fttiowwtrmmlrom nu, mm, m t p rookrh. a.l a.V S" ml Awut1' Proprietor. link of- OIKXCTOKs. Boa. J. L. COW AX, rreniaeDt Mdr Owmv National Ban. St. BTRKNBKIiU. iiq., MsrcSsaL I. H MONTKITH. CahilawIi.. em., tITH. G. f H(-IPliON,Eq;iiI.iiiit1it.