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H. T. EIKKPATK1CK, Publlaher.
LEBANON OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Minister Sues His Congrega
tion for Damages.
APACHES OFF THEIR RESERVE.
More Complications in the Failed
City Bank at Los Angeles
An Old-Style Suicide.
A contest is on at Olynvpia for title to
Steamboat Island.
The Fritter river salmon pack is the
largest ever put up.
The Apaches are again off their reser
vation. The news has just been brought
to Tombstone, A. T.
Tillamook (Or.) hoodlums put in their
evenings cutting the legs ana tails from
eats and enjoying their miserable death.
The four national banks at Portland
which closed their doors recently are de
clared solvent, and they may soon re
sume business.
The Succor mine in Gold Hill (Nev.)
district has discovered that the Justice
mine has been taking ore from its ground,
and a heavy suit for damages is likely to
fojlow.
Rev. David B, Taylor, ex-minister of
the First Congregational Church at Sau
salito, Cal has Drought suit against hie
former congregation for damages amount
ing to $3,262.50.
The Olive Orchard Company at Sacra
mento is going in the business on a large
scale. A contract to place 11,000 trees
on the ground the coming season has
been entered into.
More complications are developed in
the affaire of the failed City Bank at Los
Angeles, and a complaint charging fraud
has been entered against parties con
nected with the bank.
At Victoria, B. C, the Printers' Union
has reduced the scale of newspaper
work 10 per cent. Machine hands will
get (22 per week; hand compositors,
night, 46 per 1,000; day, 40 cents.
William Young, who threw a lighted
oil lamp at Irene Mansfield at Los An
geles, causing death from the frightful
burning she received, has been found
guilty of manslaughter on the third
trial.
The Washington National Bank at Ta
coma has been placed in a receiver's
hands. An attempt was being made to
get it out of the Comptroller's hands
when the latter checkmated the bank
officials.
The present progress of the Southern
Pacific extension justifies the expecta
tion that the road will reach San Luis
Obispo in six months and make a through
route to the East in six months after
that time.
Seven San Francisco Chinamen, know
ing Tacoma was anti-Chinese, became
frightened while being driven from the
Portland train to a boat at the wharf at
Tacoma at the sight of crowd assembled
at a fire. Without waiting to consult
the driver of the gurnev they cut the
straps on the doors and, breaking them
open, ran back to the depot and hid.
They left their baggage behind.
At Hot Creek, Hye county, Nev.,
Richard Gluyaa, superintendent of the
Hot Creek and Rattlesnake Mining and
Milling Company, an Eastern corpora
' Hon, committed suicide. He went to
the mill and set fire to thirty cords of
wood, climbed onto it and shot himself.
He was entirely cremated, only two
small pieces of bone and the fragments
of a pistol being found. He left a will
disposing of his property.
In 1872 the exports of prunes from
California amounted to nothing. So
rapidly has the industry grown since
that date that last year the exports of
this fruit from California reached 30,
000,000 pounds. Numerous orchards are
coming into bearing year by year, and
still more are being planted. This as
regards California. In conversation with
fruitmen from Oregon we find tliat or
chardists in certain sections of thal8tate
have caught the fever and are planting
prune trees by tens of thousands. So
with Idaho horticulturists. Right and
left these same fruit trees are being set
. out, and as in all these localities named
this fruit thrives and yields abundantly,
one can imagine the condition of this
industry in coming years. Here is some
thing for planters of new orchards to
consider.
Another attempt may yet be made to
rescue thesteam collier San Pedro, which
went ashore near Victoria nearly two
years ago. This time the Moran Bros,
of Seattle have taken the matter in
charge, and if they find that it will be
worth while to try and save the San Pe
dro, they will make one final effort to do
so. The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, which is the owner of the San
Pedro, has, it is said, been in correspond
ence with the Moran Bros, for some time.
The company is anxious that the San
Pedro shall be saved. She cost nearly
(250,000, and it will lie a heavy loss to
the company if she is not recovered.
However, the company does not care to
upend a lot of money in removing the
collier from her present quarters and
then find that she has been down so
long as to become absolutely worthless.
In order to determine her value the
Southern Pacific has arranged with the
Moran Bros, to make a personal inspec
tion of her.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Over 100 kinds of vine are made in
Australia.
An aluminium bridge over Gibraltar
is proposed.
There are 37,000 lady telegraphers in
the United States.
New South Wales has over 5,000,000
acres of tin-ore fields.
Belgium has 150.000 "schnapps"
houses and 5,000 schools.
Europe has 6,345,000 acres in beets,
producing 40,400,000 tons.
Wine clarifiers in France use more
than 80,000,000 eggs a year.
More than 3,000,000,000 cigaretteB
were sold in this country last year.
The soldering of glass and porcelain
with metals is a novel French process.
The average wages paid in the Clyde
ship yards are reported at 7 cents per
hour.' 4
The State of North Carolina has mined
nearly $10,000,000 worth of gold since
1874.
American cotton goods are gradually
taking the place of the English product
in Hayti.
It costs but 25 cents to transport a ton
of coal bv water from Buffalo to Duluth,
1,000 miles.
The weight of the rail used on the
American roads has been increasing
steadily during the last twenty years.
Sixty million dollars' worth of leather
is required every year to provide boots
and shoes for the inhabitants of Great
Britain.
The steam engines of the world repre
sent the work of 1,000,000,000 men, or
more than double the working popula
tion of the earth.
The three Northern States of Now
England will receive government boun
ties amounting to (70,000 on this year's
maple sugar crop.
The cigarette smokers are doing their
best to keep the government in funds.
They dropped (2,000,000 into Uncle
Sam's strong box last year.
Chill is the most prosperous agricult
ural country of South America. There
are 7,010,000 acres under cultivation, of
which 1,100,000 are irrigated.
In the opinion of the Portland Oregon
ian this is a good time to pav small debts,
as " (100 will pay (1,000 of 'debts in one
day if kept moving actively."
The total product of the Mexican sil
ver mines from their opening by the
Spaniards to the independence of the
country in 1821 was (2,308,052,000.
By the tenth census 23,010,000 inhabi
tants of the United States were sup
ported by agriculture, 11,620,000 by
manufactures and 15,020,000 by com
merce. Homestead farmers in this country
earn 8 per cent of' the total earnings of
the nation, and their farms and stock
represent 7 per cent' of the national
wealth.
Chamberlain, 8. D., has the largest
artesian well in the world. The flow is
8,000 gallons a minute. The well is eight
inches in diameter, and the water is
thrown fourteen feet above the top of
the pipe.
The French government, controlling
the pearl islands of the Pacific, has re
cently prohibited the use of diving ap
paratus by pearl hunters. This is be
cause there has been such a demand for
the beautiful pearls of the Pacific that
the supply is being depleted, and in a
little while apparently there would be
naneleft.
PURELY PERSONAL.
The Belgian King hates music, and
whenever a piano is opened he vanishes
from the room.
Dingley of Maine, Dolliver of Iowa
and Burrows of Michigan are seated
side by side in the front row of the Re
publican side of the House this session.
Little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland
is credited with the possession of a par
ticularly intractable temper, which she
inherits from her disreputable old papa.
Peter Rossegger, the bard of Styria,
as Austria's most popular poet is called,
and who had a public or rather popular
celebration of his 50th birthday recent
ly, is the son of the poorest of peasants.
Miss Emily Faithful, the well-known
English apostle of woman's work, lives
in the dreariest part of Manchester. She
is an inveterate smoker of cigars, which
alone relieve the asthma from which
she suffers.
Mrs. Lucie C. Carnegie of Pittsburg,
sister-in-law of Andrew Carnegie, has
given an order to the Maryland Steel
Company of Baltimore for a steel steam
yacht, which she will use in cruising in
Southern waters.
William A. Pledger, the negro politi
cian of Georgia, is to apply for admission
to the bar at the next session of the Su
perior Court in Clarke county. Four
teen negro lawyers have already been
admitted to practice at the Georgia bar.
Prince Victor Napoleon, who lives qui
etly in Brussels, is a great student of
works on the army, military tactics, con
stitutional government anil French his
' tor)' during the consulate and the two
Emperors. The Prince is now 31 years
old, and his demeanor is grave beyond
his years.
The Princess Maud, who has always
been the favorite of her father, the
Prince of Walee, has blossomed out into
quite a beauty this seawn, the foreign
correspondents state. The Princess Vic
toria is the useful member of the fam
ily, and plays the part of the peace
maker always.
; The assertion recently made in an
English periodical that Miss Braddon
had realized (500,000 from her novels
was generally regarded as preposterous,
but Henry Labouchere says in London
Truth that he " is inclined to think that
they have brought in a good deal more
tlian the sum stated."
EASTERN MELMGE.
Huge Hailstones Fall in the
State of New York.
RADICAL METHOD FOR RELIEF.
Auionut and Mileage of Railroads
in the Hands of Receivers
at the Present Time.
Grasshoppers are doing great damage
to crops in Iowa.
A conference of Anarchists is to be
held in Chicago September 15.
A Kansas editor boasts of being a
graduate of the Keeley Institute.
The rate of taxation jnst fixed in New
York is the lowest in thirty years.
Active measures are being taken to
enforce the health laws of Kansas.
Another gas well with powerful flow
has been struck at Stronghurst, III.
Governor Turney of Tennessee is out
in a proclamation denouncing lynching.
About 12,000 men who were idle in
Pittsburg two weeks ago are at work
again.
During this veur 714,036 silver Treas
ury notes have been redeemed in silver
dollars.
Senator John Sherman has decided to
say very little at present upon the money
question.
A sea turtle, weighing 1,000 pounds,
was captured near Portland, Me., the
other day.
Frick, the Carnegie manager at Pitts
burg, has had his salary of (50,000 a year
reduced to (35,000.
Senator Peffer has asked that the sal
aries of all government officers above
(1,000 a year be reduced.
Atlanta is about to celebrate her fif
tieth anniversary. Her population is in
close neighborhood of 120,000.
Much dissatisfaction is found with the
registration requirement by intending
settlers in the Cherokee Strip.
The counties of Western New York
report a plague of grasshoppers that is
doing much harm to the crops.
Last year the total valuation of the
railroads of Kansas was (50,000,000.
This year it is increased (10,000,000.
R. D. Kathrens, Secretary of a large
oil company, says that the supply of pe
troleum in Wyoming 1b inexhaustible.
Railroad Commissioners of Kansas
have not yet been able to secure seed
wheat for the western part of the State.
Francis Murphy, the well-known tem
perance advocate, claims that the exces
sive use of intoxicants is on the decrease.
But 1,000 men are now employed in
the Santa Fe shops at Topeka,' Kan.
Last year at this time 2,000 men were at
work.
There is an organized kick all over
Kansas about the celerity with which
the State Board of Pardons is letting out
criminals.
Secretary Hoke Smith has declined to
execute asphaltum mining leases on the
Indian reservation in Utah. He says it
is illegal.
Railroads with a mileage of over 10,
000 miles and capital of (1,000,000,000
have gone into receivers' hands in this
country this year.
The Javanese village in Midway Tlai
sanre at the Chicago Fair is unable to
meet the exactions of the management
of the fair, and will close.
The city of Cleveland has filed a claim
to land on the lake front occupied by the
Pennsylvania, Lake Shore and Big Four
railroads and worth (2,000,000.
Rome, N. Y., reports a fall of hail
stones weighing one quarter of a pound.
Every exposed window was broken and
roofs damaged. Rain fell in torrents.
The New York Sun has been making
a study of the debt of thevariousStates,
and finds that in the last ten years there
has been a total decrease of (10,000,000.
W. W. Ogilvie, the milling king of
Canada, estimates the yield in wheat in
Manitoba and Northwest Canada this
year at about twenty bushels per acre,
or a total yield of about 10,000,000 bush
els. The recent "hunger riots" in New
York had their comical side. One of the
loudest ciamorers for bread, who was
taken into custody by the police, was
searched, and was found to have (35 in
his pockets.
New York's Dock Commissioners have
built on several different piers people's
pavilions. In these structures iron pil
lars Bupport the roof, the building being
open on each side to let the breeze enter.
The pavilions cost (3,500 each, and are
to serve as public promenades.
Dr. Warner's corset factory at Bridge
port, Conn., employs 1,000 women. It
now is running only part of the time,
but for all of the workwomen who do
not make enough to pay their living ex
penses Dr. Warner furnishes the meals
until the factory shall be running full
time again.
A movement is on foot in South Caro
lina to have John C. Calhoun's body,
with the sarcophagus erected over it by
the State Legislature some years ago,
removed from St. Philip's neglected
graveyard in Charleston to Fort Hill,
where was his home and where the col
lege he wished for has lately been estab
lished. Typographical Union No. 10 of Chi
cago, including all the large English pa
pers of that city, adopted a radical
method for the relief of the unemployed
in the shape of a rule, to hold good for
five weeks, that none of the regularly
employed shall work more than four
days each week, putting on " subs " the
- other three.
CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
In the Oregon display is an exhibit
that attracts much attention. It in
cludes a working model of a gold placer
mining outfit. A large amount of guld
huaring dirt is ut hand for demonstrat
ing the whole process of panning out the
gold, and at stated intervals the plant is
put into operation. Thin exhibit is not
surrounded with glass, and it is an amus
ing sight to see iwople hunting over the
saiid and dirt for particles or appear
ances of gold.
Near the north end of the forestry
building are shown 6ross sections of trees
from Oregon. Thore is a yellow fir log
six feet in diameter. Tlie yellow fir
grows all over the Northwest Coast
Range Mountains, It is of superior ex
cellence for ship-building and spars. It
ranges from two to ten feet in diameter.
A cross section of a trunk of tide-land
spruce is shown. It is nine feet nine
inches in diameter. The butt was six
teen feet in diameter, the tree being 305
feet high and 300 years old. Great slabs
of noble fir, spruce, lovely fir and yellow
fir are shown.
Baron de Maraja, Commissioner from
Brazil, and S. Suwa, Secretary of the Jap
anese Commission, have through O. 8.
Whitniore, editor of Hardwood, offered
forestry exhibits at the World's Fair to
to the city of Chicago for a permanent
museum. Said Mr, Whitmore the other
night : " Both the collections are com
plete and large, the former being one of
the largest in the forestry building. Mr.
Suwa's is large and exceptionally will!
arranged and perfectly classified! Dr.
Niederlein, Commissioner from the Ar
gentine Republic, and lr. Hassler, Com
missioner from Paraguay, both have
splendid collections, which they have
given me to understand they would pre
sent to the city if they could lie assured
they would be' appreciated and cared for
as they deserve. No such collection of
forest products has ever More been
shown as is now in this exhibit, either
from domestic or foreign sources. 1 have
discussed the matter with others among
foreign exhibitors, and am satisfied the
hulk of the foreign exhibits can be se
cured by the city. American exhibiters
also are prepared to make handsome do
nations. I think the Jessop collection
can be secured and some other private
collections. Dr.Charles Millspangh,the
botanist who has charge of the West Vir
ginia collection, intimates that a large
part of that exhibit can be secured. It
is one of the finest shown, is complete
and thoroughly classified. Kentucky,
Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michi
gan, Washington, Missouri and others
have complete, well-arranged and well
classified exhibits which they would
gladly donate in whole or in part."
Secretary Carlisle has ordered that the
United States mints at Philadelphia and
San Francisco be fully manned and the
full capacity of both mints utilized in
coining gold bullion. The Treasury De
nartnient nosseSHM from 180.000.01)0 to
(110,000,000 in gold bullion, which is part
of the gold reserve of (100,000,0110. Gold
oars cannot no used as currency ; so it
has Been deemed in the present need to
coin the bullion on hand. The bullion
will be coined into (10, (5 and (2W gold
pieces, preference being given to the
first two denominations. The coining
capacity of the Philadelphia mint, it is
stated, will be between (5,000,000 and
(0,000,000 per month. The San Fran
cisco mintwili also tie utilized, but fortu
nately nearly all bullion possessed by the
government is in the East. There is
(20,000,000 of gold bullion in the Phila
delphia mint, (15,000,000 of it being in
one vault, where it has remained un
touched for fifteen years. Acting Di
rector Preston visited Philadelphia the
other day, and completed arrangements
with Superintendent ilosbysheil to begin
work at once. The Treasury is now pay
ing out gold coin all over the country,
and as a consequence stands more in
need of gold coin than heretofore.
JUiBJUlY v FUHHITURE v CO.
H. R. Hyde,
A FULL
Furniture
-OF EVEKY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF
Carpets! Csirpets!
Wb make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered night
or day.
Baltimore Block. Albany, Or.
W. r. RKAI). Prealdent. Olto. P. SIMPSON, Viee-Prealdent. J. O. WltllUMAN, Secretary
J.kCOWAN.Treaailrer. B. A. M1LNKK.
Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company
OF ALBANY. OREGON.
CAPITAL STOCK 8B00.000
BOAKI) OF
Hon. R.8.WRAHAN,
chief Jaitlce at fluprorje Court.
Hon. J. W. CIWICK. Banker.
Hon. J. K. WKATHP.KFuUIl, Attorneynt-Uw.
J. O. WUl'fSMAN, Kaq.i fhllat.
Nn two lhlnli, throe-fourths, thirty or nljtyoiy clauiio In Iho Parmcrs' and Merehaota' FA P.M
Sntloles. The Farmer' and MerohnM' In.aranoe Company pya the lull amount ol low op to
i. amount initired. The sHhttrlbera to the capital .took conataui of farmer., mernhanut, hanker.,
capiullau, aiurnyi, phyalcuiu anil maohaiiita, the Unieit amount held byaiugle individual.
WUiameiie r."nj mim uuinpnij.
Miss Thornton, Queen Victoria's old
est servant, who has been state house
keeper at Buckingham Palace, has just
resigned at the age of 80 years. She has
been forty years in her Majesty's Bervico.
The occurence of two cases of cholera
at Northafen, on the canal fed by the
Spree, leaves little doubt that the river
is infected. The German government
has ordered the closing of all river baths.
At Montpelier, Fran, during mass
an elderly lady entered the pew of Jean
Jouissant, a prominent lawyer, and shot
him four times, killing him,' She claimed
he hod refused to return a sum of money
intrusted to his care.
The Infanta Eulalia's spun-glass dress,
of which an American manufacturing
company made her a present while she
was the nation's giieat.has aroused great
curiosity among the ladies of the Span
ish Court, who very properly regard it
as something very remarkable in the
way of feminine attiro.
I lndon is to have a tobaccoshow from
September 17 to October 7, a dahlia and
gladiola exhibition for three days in the
beginning of September, three chrysan
themum shows, one in October and the
others in the two Bumwdiug months; a
cage bird show the last of October and
a bull-dog show In Novombor,
Right Honorable Henry Chaplin holds
the English government 'mainly respon
Bible for the failure of the Brussels Mon
etary Conference, and charges that it
willfully threw away an opportunity for
promoting a settlement of the silver
question affecting all parts of the world.
EAST AND 80UTH
VIA
The Shasta Route
-or Tint-.
SOUTHER PACIFIC CO.
Kxprea. trains leave Portland dally:
"S:l t. ,I.v..;..l'ortiiiil,!!Ar.! :Jo"i. H.
mts r. k.Ii.v Albany Ar.l :u a. a.
111:1ft A. M.IAr Hnn Francl.eo.Lv.: 7:110 ! M.
The Kliovu trnliis ittcp id til Matinns from
I'iimImhI In Albany inclutiive: nlo Tiiiwnt,
Shet!, lialiiey, HtirriiiimrK, .lunetlim City, Irv
Iiik, KiiReite Ami all Hnttiinii Until llOMil'urjr. to
Anfilaiul Inclusive.
RoaeoBrg mull-dally;
h:;io a. M.IIft Portland ,.Ar.; i:& r. a.
11M r. K.ll.v Albany Ar. WHO p. a.
6:60 r. a.,Ar Hiwehnrg U.t 7:00 A. U.
Local pampnicaTtraln.-dally (except Hmidayl.
120 r. M.l.v H..Allmny.. .....Ar. 1U.21 A. a.
2-.0M r. a. Ar.......LebAiinn. ....... l.v.l n:;io a. m.
li lt) a. x.ll.v Albany Ar. !:. r. a.
9:00 A. H.iAr Ulmm Lv.1 2: p. a.
lllnlug Cara on Oadea Routii.
PULLMAN IIDrriET IXUI'KKS
AND
Naoond-Vlaaa HlfKiplnr Vara AtUohad to
All Through Tralna,
WKT HIUB DIVISION.
BrrwiNN Portland anii (!obvau.ib.
Matl tralh-daUy except Sunday):
72n a", a. I l,tT.i'ortlaiid.;;...;Ar. I o:JSa.h.
12:16 r. u. I Ar Corvallla l.t 1:U) r. a.
At Albany and Cnrvalll. connwitalui tralna
of Oregon Paulfle railroad.
KxproMM train dally 'except Sunday):
4:40 r. a. 1 Lv Portland Ar. , :'.! A. a.
7:36 f. a. I Ar....McMlonvllle....I,i. 1 fcM a. a.
Kaalerii Hlatea, Canada
and Kurone eau be obtained at loweelratet, (rum
I. A. Bennett, aireut, Uhnnon.
H. KORHLKR. Manajw.
I. P. ROHKR8. Aat. U. t. A Paat Aneul.
Proprietor.
LINE OF
DIKIEOTUKI).
Hon. J. I. COWAN,
l'reu'lnut I.Inu (losnty Natloual Batik.
M. rWKEN iwkci, Km,., Merchant
W. F. RKAI). Kni MereJianl.
!. B MONTKITll. C.iMUll.t
CI. F. SIMI'SIIN, Ituq., C,lUll.t.