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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1893)
B. T. KIKKPATR1CK. PaMUhar. IXBA.NOK OREtiOK OCCIDENTAL SEWS. Big Scandal in the Affairs of the Stearns Rancho. THE TACOSA SKKLTKE OUTPUT. Silver Salmon Go I'p Paget Sound in (ireat Knmbers Willapa Oysters for the Fair. The Dealing vesHels have discharged for the season at Victoria, B. C, oti.tH" Utah's population is estimated by Governor West at 233,806, an increase of !K,0U0 the past year. A "gas-bill saving association" has filed articles of incorporation at Tacoina, with a capital stock oi $20,000. The onion miners at Can von Citr. Idaho, have decided to continue their strike against a redaction of wages. One hundred and twenty-three thou sand sacks of rVillapa (Wash.) oysters will be shipped to ban Francisco for the Midwinter Fair. Judge Ross ordered Charley Ah Him, a highbinder at Los Angeles, to be de ported. The decision was received with -cheers by a crowded courtroom. The Treasury Department has sent the United States Marshal at Los Angeles two drafts, aggregating a large sum, to defray the expense of the deportation of Chinese under the ruling recently ren dered by Judge Boss. It is proposed by an irrigation com pany to reclaim a large area of the Mo jave Desert in the vicinity of Daggett by means of a dam across the iMojave river ' ssds submersed flume for the purpose of tapping the underflow. Judge Shaw has denied the motion for a change of venae in the case of Kichard & Heath, charged with the murder of Louis B. Winner at Fresno, and set the first Monday in January as the time when the date for the second trial of Heath will be resumed. At Bpokane Judge Moore has appoint ed H. E. Houghton and J. W. Binkley executors of the estate of the late Mrs. Jennie F. Cannon. No bond was re quired, and the executors under the will also act as trustees. Judge Houghton filed a statement of the value of the es tate. Community real estate is put at 1700,000, and community personal prop erty is given at (600,000. Mrs. Cannon's separate estate is given at (60,000, of which (40,000 is real estate and $20,000 personal property. Silver salmon are reported as going up Paget Sound in great numbers. It is claimed that a steamer was brought to a foil stop in the Straits recently by run ning into a school of them. There is a tradition among the older fishermen to the effect that a hailstorm always pre m1m hiir ran nf the fifth. A storm of this nature was reported on the lower j Hound, and the report of the arrival of j immense scnoois oi toe nsn in toe ; Straits immediately followed. At Tacoma the other day Miss Cam eron was conducting an experiment in the chemistry class of one of the public schools to produce musical sounds by burning hydrogen in a flask. The hy drogen was generated by putting acid on sine Miss Cameron neglected the cau tion of the instructor, and set fire to the gas immediately after opening the flask. The air entered", and as soon as the fire was set an explosion resulted and two of the pupils were severely cat by the flying glass.' . The Great Korthern Express Company has completed arrangements for doing business both in Alaska and Asia, and has issued a tariff of rates to those coun tries from Seattle. To Yokohama, Hong kong, Hiogo, Nagasaki and Shanghai the rates for packages valued at (60 or less range from (1.50 for fifteen pounds or under to (6 for forty-five to fifty pounds, with additional rates for pack ages of higher value. There is an addi tional charge of (1 to (2 to Amoy, Foo ehow, Swatow, Bombay, Eatavia, Cal cutta, Manila or Singapore. The rates to Alaska are 46 cents per 100 pounds to Wrangel and 66 cents to Mtka, the busi ness being carried by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. A big scandal has been developed at San Francisco in the affairs of the Stearns rancho, a corporation which at one time owned 130,000 acres in Califor- ma and is still one of the heaviest- landed corporations on the Pacific Slope. The story is that a committee of three disinterested bosiness men nave been for three or four months investigating the eondnct of the manager of the busi ness of the corporation, Colonel R. J. Northern, who is a member of the Gov ernor's staff and one of the best-known public men in the State. The committee lias about completed its work, and will in a few days report to the stockholders. The committee consists of Barclay Hen lev, George B. Polhemus and E. VF. Mc- liraw. it is reported inert will r a ma jority and a minority report. The ma jority by Henley and Polhemus will state that (100,000 of the income of the ranch has been illegally diverted. It is : not rhanred that there has been anv em- hralamRRt- howovery In his minority report McGraw fi defend Colonel i Bortham in his acv me as custodian of i "aihe property of thCompany. I KDPCATIO.NAL ITEMS. Cornellhaf512freeM:holanihina, which aggregate (160,000. Italy in 1887 had 70.607 schools, 86,400 teachers and 3,0, 1,000 attendance. Joseph PuliUer has given (100,000 to UHumoia uuiege, iew ion city. This country has fiftv-two law schools, with 346 teachers and 3,000 students. Kew York opens five evening high schools for the use of advanced pupils employee oaring tne day, The first normal school ever estab lished for women was that opened in July, ikw, at Lexington, ilass. There is probability that there will he ao schools held in the Chickasaw nation this year on account of lack of funds. Religious teaching in public schools was oeciareo atxniuteiy necessarv Dy the Church of England Synod in Canada. Of fifty-three young ladies who grad uated this year from a famous female educational institution not one has a pet name. The Brooklyn Board of Education has decided to increase the school hours in that city over an hoar a day for the sake of physical culture. The French Minister of Public Instruc tion has inued acirenhtr which will have the effect of greatly stimulating the study of the English language. Miss Lillian Stephenson is the Renub- lican nominee for School Commissioner in the First Oneida (K. .) district. Her Democratic competitor is Miss Laura F. Mavhew. At the end of the second week the Missouri State University had enrolled 476 students. This is forty more than the number enrolled at the same time lest year. The Mechanic Arts High School in Boston promises to be so much of a suc cess from the rush of pupils that more land and a larger building are impera tively needed. Oxford is to have another' college for women. St. Hilda will soon be opened under the auspices of Miss Dorothea Beale, a worker in the cause of hizher education in England. mere are now SMI students at the University of .North Carolina, and at least 100 more are expected. The num ber of students at the opening is the j largest in thirty-three years. The new Searles scientific building at Bowdoin College will cost (160.000 in stead of (60,000, as was first planned when Edward F. Searles. hnaband of the late Mrs. Mark Hopkins-Searles, an nounced the gift. J. Grant Cramer of Oranire. X. J.. son of a former United States Minister to Switzerland and a nephew of General Grant, has been appointed instructor of French and German in Lehigh Univer sity, and has entered upon his duties then. There are a doxen colleges of more or leas importance in Kansas, and so far every one that has opened reports an in creased attendance this year over last. This is one of the best possible indica tions that Kansas is all right. Women belonging to a Baltimore cook ing school have offered to train in the culinary science 100 saris attending the grammar schools of the city without' cnarge, nopmg therapy to demonstrate the utility of establishing a cookery de partment in connection with the public schools. . Ir. G. C. Grandison, a colored man and late President of Bennett College, Greensborough, K. C, who spoke at the recent memorial exercises at Hampton Institute, is described as one of the fore- orators, not only of his race, but of the day. His address was eloquent in " camdiuc, u ug uh wuiuuuu ui an the resources of the public speaker. He naa a uasn ot Indian Diood in him. PCKELY PERSONAL. Rose Coghian, the actress, has paid (27,000 for a home in Kew York city near Central Park. Susanne, Hme. de la Ramee, mother of " Onida," died a short time ago near Florence, Italy, from the effects of a (all. She was by birth an English woman named Sutton. Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins, who presides over the " live-letter " department of the dead-letter postoffiee in Washington, is the most expert reader of illegible handwriting in the country. William B. Bate, Senator from Ten nessee, never lights a cigar. He has al ways one in his fingers or between his ups, out no maicn is pat to it. rie ad vocates what he calls the "dry smoke." Edwin 8. Filler, ex-Mayor of Phila delphia, mentioned eighteen months ago as possible candidate for the Presidency, begins the fall campaign with eighty pairs of trousers and nftyeaitsof clothes. Geronimo, the cruel and once powerful Indian chieftain of the West, is now a timet and peaceful prisoner at Mount Vernon Barracks, an army post upon the Alabama river, a short distance above Mobile. Jerome K.Jerome began lifeasaclerk. Then he went on the staee. which uanli- fied him for play-writing, to which in conjunction with novel-writing and co editing a magazine he has since turned his attention. , forty years ago a mulatto boy of Chat ham county,;. C, was sold into slavery, and was taken to Georgia. A few days ago he returned, a venerable-looking man and worth more than (600,000. His name is Nathan. Edward II. Watson of California, a naval cadet at Annapolis, carries a time piece which is a historic relic It is the watch which was presented to Admiral Parragut by the citizens ot Yalleio in 1858. At the time of the presentation Farragut was a Captain in the navy, and had iust been relieved as commandant iof the Mare Island navr vard. The ! watch is a plain gold timepiece, and was ' presented to young Watson by Loyall I Farragut, son of the Admiral. I EASTERN MELANGE. The Eiphty-fonrtL Parallel of the Pole Reached. MARY WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Large Number of Deaths Canard by the Recent Storm Below New Orleans, Louisiana. The new public building at Omaha will be built ol granite. The cotton crop is 40 per cent t rt of last years yieiu in mioiuweet J tu t. For 10 cents each children nm ir 14 are now admitted to the World's I ir, Dengue or break-bone fever has i aade its appearance at Corpus Uhnsti, m. Ex-Treasurer Green MeCurtin of Ok lahoma is short (104,727. He has dis appeared. A nnhlir Hhrarv and Htararr ntanrt ex clusively for the blind has been opened in micago. The Ferris wheel at the World's Fair has taken in the (300,000 it cost and (100,000 beside. Kew York city will spend (20.000 to mane tier day at tne worms fair a memorable success. Many railway bridges have been swept awav by floods in the Indian Territory and Northern Texas. Denver has contracted to ship to Eu rope bv the way of Galveston, Tex., 6,000 tons of Colorado hay. The Welsh in the United States claim that they are in number as many as their countrymen in Wales. The manufacture of cigarettes Bhows a remarkable and steady increase over other forms of tobacco. The cruiser New York will be the first United States vessel to receive a battery of Whitehead torpedoes. Eight thousand men are employed on the canal thai will carry the sewage of rn.: .k. Tit;..,.;.. In New York the grand jury has made a presentment recommending that the office of Coroner be abolished. Francis Murphy, the temperance worker, has induced over 000 persons to sign the pledge at Tuscola, la. A Portland (Me.) furniture man, who has failed for nearly (KO0.OUO, shows up with less than (6,000 worth of assets. The employes of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad have agreed to accept a 10 per cent reduction in wages until Jan nary. The chilly autumn weather has brought sickness and death to the Orientals on the Midway Plaisance, Chicago. The diminished price of silver has caused the shutdown of many Mexican mines and also greatly decreased the revenue. Contracts have recently been made for between 600 and 1,000 cars in Nebraska for transportation of last year's corn and hay crop. Mrs. Samuel Bennett of Tanner, W. Va.. gave birth to ber twentv-nintb child a few days ago. All the children j winter, and only a small garrison is re are alive. ' quired there in time of peace. Fort It is safe now to number the deathe in I fwn, on the opposite or southern the recent storm below New Orleans at I ?' of " "r '."I"0 !"' of great 2.000 and over, and the loss in property i importance, and General Carlin urges will be many millions. The bouse of the late Justice Bradley, formerly the Washington home of Ste phen A. Douglas, has been purchased by Papal Delegate Satolli. The Texas Associated Press has con tracted with the Associated Press for a period of ten years and severed its con nection with the United Press. A correspondent of the New York Tri bune suggests the holding of a great World's Fair at New York in 1900 tocel t brate the closing of the nineteeth cen tury. There if a movement in Canada for having a national park created in the Nepigon country, in order that the trout fishing there may be eternally per petuated. The New York Herald announces that President McLeod of the New England railroad has secured an entrance to the center of New York city with good termi nal facilities. Fourteen members of the Board of Freeholders of Patterson, N. J., have been convicted of making (20,000 fraud ulently in the purchase of a courthouse for that town. At present there are seventy-one pub lie buildings in course of construction in the United States, and the plans for forty-nine new ones, for which appropri ations have been made, are being pre pared in the Treasury Department. Representative Caminetti has discov ered a way to avoid the heavy expenseof deporting Chinese who refuse to register. He proposes that the government send some of the old war vessels going out of commission for that purpose. The Standard Oil Company has bought 3,000 acres of land near the lake front at Ashtabula, 0., with the intention of erecting a big steel plant capable of turn ing out 2,000 tons per day. The location is favorable for securing supplies of cheap coal and ore. The Old Mary Washington monument at Fredericksburg, Va,, was pulled down and the box in the corner-stone turned over to the officers of the Monument As sociation. The box was filled with water and a confused mass of pulp. None of the objects could be distinguished. The nt,na nf the old monnment will be nlaced in the foundation of the new one alxiut to be erected. The same eorner-etone will bi used. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Senator Dolph believes that silver may he maintained, but not by the Sherman law or free coinage. Cuminings from the Committee on Naval Allaire presented to the House and bad passed a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Navy for informa tion as to the amount of premiums paid contractors for the construction of war ships developing speed in excess of re quirements, etc. After this the bill to remit the penalties on the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius came up, and Savers of Taxon vianmmb nnnmuut it itkiminn the Vesuvius was worthless for the pur-1 growth in the other parts of the Terri posee for which she was built. Talbot tory. of Maryland read a letter from Secre- tary Herbert declaring the claim an equitable one and saying if the dyna mite guns did not show improvement the Vesuvine would be fitted with other armament. The amount involved Is (30, 000, The bill went over without action. In the Supreme Court of the United States ex-Attorney-General Garland asked the court to advance for hearing the appeal of the Northern Pacific Rail road Company vs. J. I.. Patterson, Treas urer of Gallatin county, Mont, from the Montana Supreme Court. The proposi tions contained in this case involve ulti mately the question of the taxability of all the unpatented surveyed lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific, South ern racitic, union Pacific, Central Pa cific. California and Oregon. Oregon and California, Atlantic and Pacific, Texas Pacific and all other various land grants made by Congress to aid in the construc tion of railroads. These lands now amount in the ease of the Northern Pa cific grant alone to over 17,000,000 acres, an area rapidly increasing as the surveys are farther extended. The area of lands in the same condition included in simi lar grants will more than double this. These lands are to be found in almost every State west of the Mississippi, and their taxability has been one of the great sources of revenue in those States. The Southern Pacific Company, controlling the land grants of that road, of the Cen tral Pacific, Oregon and California and California and Oregon, refuses to pay taxes upon unpatented portions of those grants. The States along the line of the Northern Pacific have sustained the claims of the County Treasurers, and tax the lands within their jurisdiction ; and the railroad company comes to the Su preme Court lor relief. The report of Briitadier-Genoral Will iam P. Carlin, commanding the military department of the Columbia, which in cludes the States of Oregon, Washington and a part of Idaho and the Territory oi Alaska, has been received at the War Department. The General devotee a large part of his report to urging the necessity for the abandonment of some Bmall poets in the department because of their inaccessibility and the estab lishment of larger posts in place of them at points near the railroad and the large cities and towns. General Carlin re commends the discontinuance of Fort Spokane, Wash., and the construction of a post near Spokane. Fort Town send, lie says, is useless to protect the cities and harbors of Paget Sound, and he thinks the garrison should be re moved to some important point. One, if not two, points in addition to these named could, in General Carlin's opin ion, be abandoned with advantage to the government. Fort Canby, at the mouth of the Columbia river, would be of great importance in time of war with a naval power, but it is inaccessible in that it be strongly fortified. General Carlin report that desertions in the de partment of the Columbia showed an in crease during the vear. He says that the attempt to enlist a company of In dians resulted is a failure. flltBiUlY v FURNITURE v CO. H. R. Hyde, -A FCLL Furniture OF EVEBY DEHCR1IT10N AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Carpets! We ruake'a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calk answered night or day. Baltimore Block. Albany, Or. W. t. KKAD. President. QUO. T. SIMPSON, VK-Pndeiit. 3 Q. WU1T8MAN. Bwrelan J.UCOWAN.TreaAmer. I. a. MILXBB. """"a" Farmers' and Merchants' Insrace Company OF ALBANY. OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK S500.00O BOAKD OF UIKEUTOKS. Hon. B. 8 STKAHAN, chief Jnirtlee of fhipreaie Court. Hon. J. W. CIIHICK, Hauler. Hon. J. K. WKATIIKWIKP, Altorney-al-Uw. J. a WUITSMAN, K.. Cnit.lit. wiuametie vaner lmi uomMnr. Ho two thint. ihree-loimln, thirty or niilyrlay claim io the Farmer.' and Merchant.' FA RM nollelM. The farmer, and Meroh.nM' Iniinrauiii. ComtiAxv ttf. th,. fi,n .mm..., .i : Hie amount luminal. The .uhmrlbeni lo the capital vaiii.ii". hwiiw; iw.hww wiu uwcuwuni, beluK 14JA0. v Postmaster-Genoral liissell is expected to devote considerable attention in bis annual report to the projected 1-cent postal service. lie believe the inaugu ration of the service is impossible at the present time, owing to a deficit of (, 000,000 in postal funds in the Treasury. Governor Caleb W. West ol Utah, in his annual report, states that the total population of the Territory is estimated at 233,806, an increase ol 26,900. Be cause of recent financial stringency and the decline of silver values, the popula tion of the mining districts baa ma terially decreased during the past six montns, wnne there has been a steady Anderson of West Virginia has Intro duced a bill to amend Section 6.628 of the Revised Statutes by striking out the words "unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States or to keep tlie peace at the polls." This is one of the Federal statutes not repealed in the Tucker bill, and the amendment is intended to prevent any army or navy officers bring troops to the polls. Representative Doolittle of Washing ton has introduced a joint resolution in the House providing for a commission, consisting ol three Senators and six Rep resentatives to go over the entire route of the Nicaragua canal and make a thor ough examination with a view of sub mitting to Congress a comprehensive re port of the existing: conditions and fur- I Dishing information upon which future legislation may be had. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Inter state and Foreign Commerce. EAST AND SOUTH -via- The Shasta Route -or Til a- SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. ZiprsM mini teae Portland dallj: ; ii.v.......Hortiii(j....Z.r.: ttmZ m. IOC r. . I.f -..Albany Ar.! 4:B i. u. 10:1ft A. m IAr Smi Pr.nrl.pii Lr.i 7-00 r. M. The above train, .top m all st.tjim. (root Portland 10 Alltatiy iiiciunlvr: hih Tmiikdih, rlhetld, llabier, HarrlnlwrK, Junctino nir, Irv ine, Kutcette and all itMlfuni, trcui Kiwelmrg to AHhlMnd liicltuive. Konelmrv matl-.dallr- A. M.II.T H..l'i)TtlNUd ,.At. 4 JO r. M. 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