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H. T. KIttKPATKICK. 1-nbll.hft.
LEBjLNOK.
.OREGON
OCCIDENTAL SEWS.
The Colombia River and As
toria Bailroad.
CHINESR ORDERED DEPORTED.
One of, the Gnns on the Boston Fonnd
Defective Baa Bernardino
Herehante Bilked.
Han Darnuilino merchants haw-been
victimiied bv men who made small
purchases anil paid for them in bogus
checks, receiving the difference between
the ranis ailed for by the checks end
that doe on the porchaaes in caan.
An ernlorins and banting party re-
rantlv returned from the wild Olympic
Mountains in Washington reports that
the timber line disappears at about
6.000 feet, and at the base ol the higher
peak, on the 5,000 and 6,000-foot levels,
is a system of meadows and lakes, where
grass ana nowers grow iu grati, w
nance and splendor.
George C. Center, a Vancouver (B.C.,)
undertaker was called upon to embalm
a whale which was recently caught and
whirh the neoole desired to exhibit.
Be secured a piece of gaspipe, which he
drove into the bodv of the whale. To
this pipe he attached a beer pump, con
nected it with a barrel ol Utopia em
balming fluid and emptied it into the
arterial svstem of the nan. Decomposi
tion was checked.
The trial of James M. Xeary for wife
rniminr has tawmn at banta Ural. This
is a case where it is alleged by the de
fense Neary and wife were at ainner,
n4 Kaarv. becoming irritated by s
remark of his wife, struck Hie butcher-
kniie, with which he was carving meat,
haavilv on the table and it bounded off,
striking Mrs. Neary in the side, she
being seated with her side to toe taoie.
The wound proved muu.
Unvrf Tevis has brought suit at Stock
ton to foreclose a mortgage of (tiU.oOO
on the property of lira, llowell, wile of
M. D. Howell, charged with counter
feiting. At the same time suit was
brought by W. A. Wallace to compel
Howell and his wife to dispose of part
i ih monnrtv lor M2L0UO. as by an
alleged agreement. It is thought
at Stockton that the two suits have
some connection, it having been stated
tliat a svndicale is working to secure
the Howell property.
Detective Hume, who was present at
the trial of Evans, charged with killing
Messenger Tovey, and which trial is now
niirn nnat Jackson.Amadorcounty, Cel.,
was advised by the Court that not being
counsel or assistant counsel he could not
suggest questions to the defense. Hume
tried to explain, but the Court said none
but attorneys would be permitted to ad
dress the Court, so Hume indignantly
took his hat and walked out. Fred
Boise, a witness, admitted that he had
lied, and that he had been paid to give
certain evidence. This caused a sensa
tion.
Tk- TVrmera' loan and Trust Com
pany baa filed a petition at Corvallie, ask
ing that the order appointing Joseph
Himon referee to examine into the status
of the certificates issued by Receiver Hogg
be vacated. The grounds on which the
petition is based is that they were never
served and that the order was obtained
without their knowledge. It is also
claimed that the order looked to the
reversal of action had in the case after
careful consideration, and that it would
involve protracted litigation when the
railroad was running behind. Upon
tki natitinn an order was entered sus
pending the proceedings until November
la.lewt, When a run awing wumu
bad.
The Bailroad Gasette says: "The
Columbia Kiver and Astoria Railroad
Comnanv was incorporated in 1801, but
bevond having preliminary surveys
made along the Columbia river baa not
succeeded In doing much work upon the
line. It is now reported, however, by
one of the officers that arrangements
have been nearly completed for begin
,.. tha work north of Portland, and
-that the contracts will be let during the
winter or early in the spring. It is
rnmaul to bnild alone the south bank
of the Columbia river from Portland to
Astoria, a distance of aliout 100 miles.
The line was surveyed by W. H. Ken
nedy of Portland, and some of the right
secured. Hr. Kennedy is still
chief engineer, and the chief executive
officer u waiter j. cmiwi ui -ruruauu,
Vice-President.
Th one of four Tacaville Chinese,
charged with failure to comply with the
provisions of the Geary act, was heard
Cfom Jndire Morrow in the United
fitatee District Court at San Francisco
the other day. The defendant' attor
ney stated that to hear testimony would
only be a waste of time, as the bill ex
tending registration had already passed
u. uZ,. and wonld in all orobabilitv
wotu. law in a very short time. The
hmnwer. ordered the examine-
nation to proceed, and evidence having
been submitted to the effect that all four
defendants were laborers within the
meaning of the act, and bad not reg
istered, the Court ordered them de
ported. Judge Morrow also intimated
tiT.r. ha wonld in future ;ssue warrants
-.,). i-t for the irrest of high-
Lien and others of ; the criminal
It is estimated that the average net
earnings of the electric lamps in London
about 10 shillings each a year.
In the production of glass jewels Hun
gary leads the world. The work is done
almost entirely by the peasant class.
About 1100,000 worth o! pearls have
been taken from the waters of Wiscon
sin streams during the last few years.
A new invention is an attachment for
horse's bridle, bv means of which the
animal may carry a lamp on its head,
Daniel Harbold of Berks county, Pa.,
has a peach tree on his premises which
has Dome good trail lor seventy years.
The Manufacturers' Record of Balti
more nubliBhes a list of (02 industrial
anncerns established in the South since
July 1.
Idaho has nroduced nearly 132,000.000
of gold concurrently with (42,000,000 of
silver. The two product are mined to-
getner.
Forty thousand boxes of fall-made
cheese have hurt been sold by a Mon
treal dealer to an rjigiuin nouse lor
1300,000.
Rhode Island has more abandoned
farms relatively than Massachusetts.
New Hampshire and Vermont have fewer
than hve years ago.
There is a nie factor in New York
that rune from 2 a. h. to 2 r. h. six days
in the week and turns out 20,000 pies
dav for the local trade alone.
B. F. Shuart of Yellowstone county,
Mont., began farming in 1883 with (800
capital. In may, HW2, he sold out rancn.
buildings and stock for (40,000.
One of the first companies to nse the
vast power which man has harnessed
Niagara Falls to supply him is a concern
to produce aluminium on a urge scale.
A firm in Palestine is engaged in the
new industry of supplying water from
the river Jordan to churches. It is put
up in sealed bottles, and is sold by the
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Young Apostle of Anarchy
Sent to the Ten.
THE 6IN-BCRN1S6 WHITKCAPS.
Hlssourl Downcast at the Low Mar
ket Quotations for Mnlve
Milwaukee Firebugs.
How time is passing in all parts of the
world ia the interestins storv which
every day is being told by twenty-two
clocks in the Terminal building of the
World's fair.
The croD of the New York vineyards
this year is the largest ever raised
about 8,000 carloads. A quantity of
grapes will be sent to England. The in
dustry is very profitable.
Ihirinz the fiscal vear ending June 30.
1883. the brewers of the entire United
(States produced and disposed of a grand
total of 33,822,872 barrels of malt liq
uors, a net increase over the previous
year of 2,176,396 barrels.
It costs the English people (2,000,000
i taxes each year to pay for the trans
mission of the press messages over the
government wires, ss the press rate of 2
pence lor each 1UU words noes not oegin
to pay the cost of sending the matter.
The quantity of salt inspected in Mich
igan this year to October 1 is 2,717,50
barrels, being 415.000 lees than was in
spected during the corresponding period
last year. 1 he price is the lowest in lue
history of the manufacture of salt in
that State.
Kerosene oil is rapidly growing in fa
vor as a cheap illuminant in China. The
consumption, which was 8.256,000 gal
lons in 1882, had risen to 40,348,000 in
1891. Of this amount 80 per cent was
Imported from America and 20 per cent
from Hum la.
The Federal building at Chicago is de
clared to be unsafe.
Harrison county, Ohio, has had no
saloons for eighteen years.
Labor Commissioner Carroll D.Wright
will have charge of the completion of
the census.
A movement is on to have a United
States Circuit Court established
Northern Texas.
At Lincoln, Neb., railroadmen boycot
ted a hotel because the female waiters
were discharged
New York is considering a resolution
forbidding policemen to carry pistols
when not on duty.
There is in New York an organised
gang of thugs who levy tribute from the
motormen every pay day.
The receipts at the World's Fair from
Daid admissions and concessions on Chi
cago day amounted to Roo.uw,
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
It is understood that the Treasury will
undertake to build-up the gold reserve,
now reduced to (85,000,000, by restrict
ing the payment of gold by the New
lork sumreaHury.
Secretary Lamont received the annual
report of Brigadier-General K. Brookes,
commanding the department of the
Platte. Sneaking of the Indian as a
soldier. General Brookes says the
principal difficulty seems to be thai the
Indians do not speak .ngnsn.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap
proved the decision of the Assistant
The Committee on Pacific Railroads, of
which Senator Briee is Chairman, has
been preparing, Bince the appointment
of receivers of the Union Pacific rail
road became assured, to undertake an
investigation into the condition of the
government's security. Senator Briee
has been in consultation with the Attorney-General,
and they have procured
the appointment of George 11. lluadley
as special counsel to represent the gov
ernment. Curtis of Kansas introduced a bill to
discontinue the office of Collector of
Customs at a number of ports in the
United Ntates. Among the places
Attnrnav-tinnarai that halNhraeus who . . tIh...!!,) rnH,t.a i"'l
paid scrip under the act of 1854 are not Anthem Oregon, Coos Bay, Or!, and
now entitled as "Indians" to allotment,
The case came up under disposition of
the Sioux lands under the act of 1889.
The Treasury has issued an advance
statement of the imports and export
for the first nine months of the present
vear. Value of imports, (25,.186,828 ;
exports, (608,164,188; excess of imports
over exports, (22,221,440. For the first
nine months of 1602 the excess of ex
ports over imports waa (39,204,000.
In the case of the United States
against Bailey and others, involving
twelve timber land cases near Seattle,
Wash., Secretary Hoke Smith reversed
the decision of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and holds that tiiese
entries were fraudulently made for the
purpose of speculation, and therefore
he directs the entries to be canceled.
The lands involved are said to be very
valuable.
An important decision baa been
rendered by the Secretary of the Inter
ior on the appeal of James R. Daniel,
involving the right to purchase certain
forfeited lands in the La Grande district.
He holds that the purchaser is entitled
to purchase a technical half section of
such land when so surveyed, irrespeo-
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany made net profits in tlie year ended . tive of the actual acreage, but if the
PURELY PEH80SAL.
Queen Victoria has been photographed
634 times since she came to the throne.
The Due de Galliera is said to possess
a collection of stamps valued atlbO,00u.
The Czar of Russia despite his great
Bixe is a very plain eater. At State din
ners he rarely takes anything but soup
and dessert.
Mrs. Abram Hewitt has inherited Pe
ter Cooper's old Dutch Bible, which with
its data of family history makes very cu
rious reading.
Ex-Secretary of War Endicott ia bav
ins the old Peabody mansion at Danvere,
Mass., repaired, and'Jie intends to make
it his permanent home.
The oldest soldier in the British army
is Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant. He
is 89 years old, and Joined the army in
the very year the Duke of Cambridge
was bom.
Miss Ames Melbv of New Richland,
Minn., who recently graduated at St,
dial's College, Northfield, is the first
lady to take a full course at a Norwegian
American College.
Horace Boies has never used tobacco
in any form, and is unacquainted with
the taste of liqnor, and perhaps his only
profanity was when he swore in as the
Governor of Iowa.
Mrs. France Crosby, authoress of
Safe in the Arms of Jesus " and 8,000
other hymns, is 64 years old. She lives
in New York, and has been blind since
she waa 6 weeks old.
Miss Lucille Rodney, who has won i
waser by walking from her home in Gal
veston, Tex., to the World's Fair, count
ing the ties all the way, made (500 on
the journey, selling ner photographs,
Mrs. Cleveland commenced while at
Gray Gables to collect shells and East
Indian curios, which were picked up by
the old sea captains and presented to
her. Her collection is said to number
many quaint object.
Prof. Benjamin Sharp of Philadelphia
ia visiting the bandwich islands in the
interest of the Academy of Natural Sci
ences of the Quaker City for the purpose
of collecting specimens of natural his
tory. He ww visit the aoonginal Dunal
eaves.
Admiral Dot. the Lilliputian, who
now a cigarette advertisement in Chi
cago, is only 48 inches high, but he re
ceived a telegram the other night that
made him feel as big as G rover Cleve
land. It was dated new lork, and read
"It's a girl, and weighs six pounds.
Mother ana may aoing well."
June 30 last of over (7,000,000,
Chicago will hold a chrysanthemum
show in the Horticultural building on
the Fair grounds, November 7.
Suite against 208. St. Louis corpora
tions for noncompliance with the Trust
law have created much comment.
There are flftv-six postoffices within
the corporate limit of Chicago. But
Chicago is big enough for a small State.
Joseph Jefferson has been elected
President of the Players' Club, in New
York, to succeed the late Edwin Booth.
The International Cigarmakere' Union
in session at Milwaukee has declared its
opposition to the National Guard system.
The thirtieth anniversary of the intro
duction of the Turkish bath into this
country has just been .celebrated in
Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn, N. Y., water supply
contains twenty-eight kinds of hve
animals and eighty-four species of
vegetables.
Missouri is downcast at the low
market quotations for mules. Electric
cars have interfered sadly with their
usefulness.
A stare in Coke county. Texas, was
held up recently by two highwayman,
who secured (3,000 from the registered
mail pouch.
The scheme for a permanent Pan
American exhibition in New York gives
promise of achieving important com
mercial results.
Canadian Exnlorar R. G. McConnell
has discovered that a lake at the head
of the Finlay river is the source of the
nacxenzic river.
Kentucky has granted to married
women the right to will their property
as they may see fit. The new law took
effect October 7.
A Western railroad company has in
tracted its men. when meeting train
robbers, "to shoot first and do the
apologizing to the dead."
Twenty men are eusDected of having
set some ol tne irequem nrus in Mil
waukee. Wis., within the past six
months to getinsu ranee money.
Jamas Smith, who was crowned some
years ago Watermelon King of Boone
county, mo., nas tnis year raisnu
pumpkin eight feet round the waist.
Governor Matthews of Indiana is
after the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
with a hot stick for bringing a trainload
of pugilists and their admirers into bis
State,
Fire Chief Nicholson and several mem-
ham nf tha fire denartment at Council
Blnffs, Ia., are under arrest and charged
with being the authors oi several incen
diary fires.
Some 800 renorts from forty-one Htatee
show the volume of trade to be half of
that of last year, over (1,000,000 less
paid in weekly wages and 100,000 men
out of work.
There have been 108 cases of appendi
citis m Chicago since the fair openea.
Iu extraordinary prevalence nas given
rise to the theory that it may be a germ
disease after all.
An nnnmal race has been arranged
between the English locomotive, "The
fcmneror." now on exoiuuion at. sue
World's Fair, and the New York Cen
tral flyer, No. vuo.
"Oin-hnrninc Whitecane" In North
Carolina are causing trouble. They
propose to bum all gins that are used
to gin cotton. The object is to prevent
the farther ginning of cotton wherever
nossible until the price of cotton
reaches ill. cents a pounu.
Yaquinn, Or. The work at these ports
is to be completed in thirty days and
consolidated with ailioining districts, as
the Secretary ol the Treasury may ueem
prudent. Curtis says that the receipts
at these points are less than the ex
penses. Samuel Blackwell, Third Auditor of
the Treasury, in his annual report
states that during the past year there
has been an enormous Increase In the
pension disbursements, The number
of vouchers paid by the pension agenta
has increased year bv year from 1,226,
119, involving (59,90)1,001, in 1883, to
3,689,009, involving (165,071,5011 98, in
1893. This is an increase of 200 per
cent in ten years, while the clerical
force has increased from 49 to 64, 30 per
cent only, in the same tieriod. At the
clone of the fiscal year there were in the
office unexamined 1,2X4,310 pension
vouchers, representing about four
months' work.
land lies in different sections the acerage
muBt then approximate 820 acres. The
Secretary also decided that lands here
tofore patenteu toine iiaues military
Road Company were originally granted
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
and that the patents were without
authority. He orders the institution
of proceedings looking to their cancella
tion. In the Senate the Finance Committee
presented a report from the Treasury
llepartment in response to a resolution
for information as to the probability of
.deficiency in the revenues of the gov
; mat. The report shows the deficit
w ie first three months of the current
fiscal year is over (21,000,000, or at the
rate of over (84,000,000 for the entire
year. It shows the usual expenditures
of the Bret three months were over (im,
000.000. At the same rate the expend!
tores for the vear would aggregate about
(394,uuo,9UU, or atmut izi.uuu.wu more
than the estimated expenses, and wouiu
show expenditures over the supposed
actual receipts of over (77,000,000, The
Secretary says a definite forecast for the
whole year wouiu oe imposeinie, ma it
apparent that snouid tne present
conditions continue, the deficit at the
end of the year will be about (50,000,
000.
Senator McPherson, for the Senate
Committee on Coinage, presented a
statement from Secretary Carlisle, show
ing that the estimated receipts of public
revenues suumitteu to tne last iongrese
for the present fiscal year was (406,000,-
000, not including the postal service,
id the estimated expenditures, also
excluding the postal service, was (307,-
000,000, shewing an estimated excess in
receipts of (32,000,000 for the year.
The estimate shows average monthly
receipts of (33,750,000 and average ex
penditures of (31,000,000. The actual
receipts so far during the year do not
reach the estimated figures by over
(7,01)0,000 per month. The Secretary
attributed the falling off to the finan
cial disturbances. He says a careinl
inspection of the figures will show the
deficiency is due to the falling off in the
revenues and not to an increase in expenditures.
EA8T AND SOUTH
The Shasta Route
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.
Bryan of Nebraska in his bill proposes
that a fund should be set apart by the
national bankssotbatdepoeitorscouldbe
paid at once if they have occasion to de
mand their money. He thinks if every
depositor waa sure of his money be
would not draw it out, and this would
have the.effect of preventing panics.
Experiments in canal towage by elec
tric motor, for which the New York
State Legislature appropriated (10,000
last winter, have begun at Rochester
under the plan of the Westinghouse
Company, which proposes the suspen
sion of trolley wires over the middle of
the canal.
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Mlea. B.Ar I" Franclecc !.! 7:00 . at.
Toe above train, atop at all atatluue from
Portland to Albany tnrliuive; alMi Tanseiil.
Hberid, Halaey, Harrt.barv, Junction Wty, Irv
ine, augene anu an .uuuu. iruni nowuuri u
Aamauu incieeive.
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AMAIN v FDHTOE v GO.
H. R. Hyde, Proprietor.
-A FULL LINE OF
Furniture
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND ALL K1ND8 OF
Carpets! Carpets!
We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered night
or day.
Baltimore biock. Aioany, or.
W. F. READ, Pnsldenl. OKO. F. SIMPSON, Vlea-Presldent. J. 0. WKmwAN, Swralary
J.kOOWAN.Treaaanr. I-A-HILMKU,
Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company
OF ALBANY, OREGON.
CAPITAL STOCK ......... 8600,000
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OABO OF DinaCTOBS.
Hon. J. L. COWAN,
Pmndent Linn Coantr Natloaal 1
H RTRENBKKtl, lag... Merchant.
W. F. KKAD. Ku., Merchant.
D. B. MONTKITH. Caoltallit.
Q. T. SIMPSON, IU,., CapttalUt
Hon. R. 8- IrTUAHAN, .
Chief Jaettoe of Mpraau Court
Hon. 1. CTISIOK, Banker.
Hon. 1. K. WKATHItRPXillli, Attomey-at-Uw.
J. O. W BITBMAN, Ken., CaplUlin,
wtlUmsti VallAv lAnd IlAfnaanv.
No two-third., three-fourth, thirty or aixty-day cUniae In the Farmer.' and Merchant!' FARM
volloiea The Farmer' aid Merchant.' Inanrance Corananv neve the full anontit ol Uje np ta
tZe amount Inaured. The aubMMbera to the capital .took ooa.l.u at larmera, merchant., bankers,
eepnalliu, atuirn.yt, nbyilulan. and aMchawce, Uit larieat aatouai held kjauvls uullvulaaai
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