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H. T. K1KKFATKICK, Publlahat.
LEBANON OREGON
OCCTDMTAL KEWS.
Flood Predicted in the Potkteh
Country Next Spring.
TBI CUSEEST OF THE 8A8TIAM
Preetott and Ariiona Central Bail
road Withdraws Its Trains
A Partisan Eemoved.
An effort is being made to organise
union oi sealers at Victoria, B. C.
Captain Cochrane at Vallejo, recently
eourt-martitled, hag been restored to
dnty by secretary Herbert.
A survey oi the Boston's bottom at
Mare Island finds it remarkably well
preserved, notwithstanding the vessel's
Kmg exposure at riawau.
Many o! the delegates to the Irriga
tion Congress, recently in session at Los
Angeles, are studying the irrigation sys
tems ol tnat section 01 tne Male.
Warbnrton Pike, the English explorer,
has returned to Nanaimo, B. C from
the interior oi Alaska by the steamer
Bertha, having made a journey of over
4.UU0 miles in a small feter borough
canoe.
The Prescott and Ariiona Central
railroad has withdrawn its trains. The
road is seventy-two miles long, bnt since
the bnilding of the Santa Fe, Prescott
and Phoenix road the latter has all the
business.
Mrs. Books in the Evans murder case
at Jackson, Amador countv, Cal., testified
that Sheriff Thom offered her fdOO if she
would swear that Evans was not at
home on the 16th of June, the day Mes
senger lovey was snot.
Chris Evans, the train rubber and
siiurderer, has been removed from his
cell into one more secure, owing to
rumors which reached the rJlieriff that
an effort to release the prisoner was be
ing made. Evans says there was no
plot to release him; that the story was
originated by "cowardly detectives."
The changing current of the Bantiam
is threatening to render useless the San
derson bridge. It has already cost about
(20,000, and the Linn county (Or.) offi
cials are debating whether it will be
cheaper to keep following up the chang
ing channel or tear the bridge down and
rebuild it at some point where it is more
permanent.
For being an offensive partisan J. W,
Kavanach. a writer in the steam engi
neering department at the Mare Island
navy yard, has been dismissed by Secre
tary Herbert, and E. J. Stoddard of San
Francisco appointed in his stead. This
is the third removal daring the present
administration.
Some sensational evidence was pro
duced at the trial of the libel snit against
the Bee at Sacramento instituted bv
(ieorge P. Boyster. The deposition of
ex-County Clerk Keynolde oi ban r ran-
Cisco was read, showing some of the
methods he had employed to defeat the
ends of justice on his second and last
tnal for being short in his accounts with
the Bute.
Old settlers in Idaho State predict a
flood in the Potlatch country next
spring. Fourteen years ago the ground
was soaked with rain before the snows
came and when'the snow melted it filled
the rivers to overflowing. At Kendnck
the ice was piled fifteen feet high alter
the waters subsided. Eight years ago it
was impossible to travel from Juliaetta
to Lewiston on account of the flood.
The attorneys for Sidney Bell, the
highwayman, now serving a sixty-year
term at the State prison atFolsom, have
filed a brief in the Supreme Court,,
which is the first step toward securing
Bell's release. The grounds taken are
that the indictments on which Bell was
anility were not good, having been al
lowed to lapse and the cases to drop
from the calendar. This was due to a
murder charge which was hanging over
the prisoner, on which it was expected
to secure eonviction. The prosecution
was disappointed in this, and then
charges of robbery were taken up and
pressed. It is believed among lawyers
that the conviction of Bell on a charge
of murder would be extremely difficult.
so that if the technical point is sustained
the footpad will be at liberty in the near
future.
There will be a great many davs at
the Midwinter Fair, but not the least of
them will be San Francisco day. This
will be March 19. All San Francisco
will that day turn out to do honor to the
day of the city, and while the three-
quarters-of-a-milliou mark of Chicago
day win not oe striven lor, tne managers
hope the attendance at the park will
break all records for Pacific Coast gath
erings. San Francisco day there will be
much to attract, but the most attractive
will be the Mardi (iras festival, which
will be bald there. A company has been
formed in San Francisco to provide
a festival of the Mardi Gras class. It
was at first thought that something of a
local character could be secured, but
owing to tne snortness oi tne time al
lowed it was decided to take advantage
of the work already done on the New
' Orleans festival and bring it hither
bodily. It will be brought. AJ1 its pa
geantry and its mirth-provoking features
are to be shown, just as they have for
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
The making of chinaware-ie the oldest
industry.
Clinton, la., claims to have the largest
saw mill.
Horseshoes are made of cowhide in
Australia.
There are nearly 9.000 women farmers
in Wisconsin.
There are about 8.000 banks in the
United States.
Over 1.100 cows are Quartered in the
city of Dublin.
Lobsters are the sole product of one
rarm in Maine.
Chili iB having twelve locomotives
DniltinKew lork.
A shorthand typewriter is the result
ol a late invention.
An English corset firm made 838 cor
sets for men last year.
The average wages of the coolies of
India is 8 cents a day.
Last year 1.260.000.000 bananas found
market in this country.
The first electric underground railroad
is in operation in London.
A net to catch whale has been patented
at Auckland, JNew Zealand.
More than 600 electric railroads are in
operation in the United States.
Women are crowding the men out of
Clerical employments in Canada.
A new pie plate has holes in the bot
tom to save the pie from sogginess. .
Now there are farmers who are satis
fied witn electric power for plowing.
People in the United States consume
nearly 600 tons of nux vomica yearly.
A Holland woman is eneaired in the
making ol wooden shoes in rairhaven,
vtasn.
Flour is made from bananas, and may
become an important food supply of the
world.
- A London lanndry, owned bv women
and employing only women, earned (30,-
uuu last year.
Pittsburg and Jersey factories manu
facture glassware tor a prominent dealer
in Hongkong.
Nearly 6,000 chimney sweeps are con
stantly engaged in sweeping the 1,000,000
cnimneys in lonuon.
PUKELY PERSONAL.
John Wanamaker has contributed (1,
000 to the cititens' permanent relief
committee to help the unemployed peo
ple in the mill districts of Philadelphia.
Queen victoria's fifty-five pet dogs
have a dining-room that is handsomely
carpeted and ornamented with the por
traits ui weir ancestors ui ous anuwaiei
colors.
The Duke of York pays great attention
to what the newspapers say about him.
TT i i i ! i- i : . i
fie Keeps a uuua tu wuicu inponusu every
reference made to him in the public
press wmcn tails into his hands.
Attorney-General Olney is an enthusi
astic tennis player, and has constructed
a court nearhis residence in Washington.
On iair afternoons he indulges in the
sport, in which he shows great proficien
cy and expertness.
Mrs. Cookesley for painting the por
trait of the Sultan's seven-year-old son
has been decorated with the diamond-
studded star of Chefakat. She is a San
Francisco artist, traveling in the East
with her husband, Captain E. A. Cookes
ley.
A new chapter of the Daughters of the
Revolution, organised at Bound Brook,
N. J., has among its members Mrs. Sa
rah Van Kostrand, whose father was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, and
who is now luo years old.
That clever English novelist. Mrs.
Alexander, has been lame for two years
from a curious cause. She suffered seri
ous hurt to the knee, owing to her
cramped position in the dresB circle of a
London theater one evening, and she is
unable to walk without a stick.
Camille d'Arville was born and edu
cated in Holland, and is proud of the
fact that she came from the old Amster
dam instead of the new. Still she is
glad she made the change, and claims to
be quite as much American as Dutch.
Those who have seen her only upon the
stage will be surprised to learn that she
has a son at the military school at Sing
rung.
Emperor William has struck out in a
new venture. Ever intent on turning
an honest penny, he has now taken steps
to nave toe tunc produced on nis larm
at Potsdam sold at Berlin. Carts bear
ing his name may be seen in the streets
of the capital, the drivers of which re
tail the fluid to any one who chooses to
bay it, and as the milk is uncommonly
good, the sales are quite large.
Mrs. Ann Walsh, a decrepit old wom
an, hobbled np to the bar in the Circuit
Court in St. Louis to apply for naturali
zation papers. Her case is thought to
be without precedent. She is the widow
of James Walsh, who had declared his
intention to become a citizen, but died
before securing his final papers. He had
made an entry of land, and Mrs. Walsh
becomes naturalized to secure the claim.
During his recent visit to Schonbrunn
the German Emperor went to church in
a costume which attracted great atten
tion, as well it might. He wore a gray
tunic witn green lacings ana oroaa epau
lettes, a green leather belt from which
bung a hunting kniie, the handle adorned
with an imperial gold crown, ntgn var
nished boots and spurs and a Styrian
hat with an enormous plume that shook
at every step.
Miss Mary Garrett, the daughter of
the great railroad king and sister of the
present bead of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad system, makes ner nome in Bal
timore, bat spends much of her time in
New York. She is worth (20,000,000.
She is rather stout, about 6 feet 6 inches.
with pale complexion, blue eves and
gold-rimmed glasses. She is 82 years of
age, and every summer goes to feurope
with her maid, traveling Irom on plain
EASTERN MELANGE.
Action of a Mayor Commended
by the Grand Jury.
IDAHO HININtt EXHIBIT BOBBED
ttrand Chief of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers Indicted by an
Iowa Grand Jury.
Tobacco has been found growing wild
in nee county, lex.
The endowment orders are likely to
be driven out ot Texas.
The State Treasurer of Missouri holds
(30,000 in cash awaiting distribution
among unknown heirs.
The establishment of an ostrich farm
on St Joseph's Island, near Rockport,
Tex., is being agitated.
A Kansas Judge has decided that
whisky contracts made in Missouri can
not be enforced against residents of Kan-
a.
New York State enloys a pretty reve
nue from its collateral inheritance tax.
The sum reported at Albany is (3,071,
678. It takes 1,000 men all night and late
into the morning to clean up the debris
left behind each day by the World's Fair
crowds.
Prof. E. B. Clapp of the Greek depart
ment of Yale has accepted a call to the
Greek department of the University of
Uahtornia.
A Burlington (Kan.) woman is going
to start a crazy quilt with the ribbons ol
her husband's sheep secured at the
World's Fair.
Since August 1 there have been twelve
railroad disasters of mors than ordinary
severity, involving the loss of 127 Uvea
and the injuring of 3H8 more.
Exhibitors at the World's Fair are
complaining that the electric light given
them is not such as was promised, and
threaten to close tneir exhibits.
The Arkansas Valley Irrigation Com
pany is sowing wheat in 20,000 acres
along its ditches, and will use the result,
il lavoraule, to Doom irrigation.
Mrs. Grant, it is reported, intends to
make her home in W ashington in the
future. Mrs. limine has ottered all her
Washington real estate for sale.
The New York State building at the
exposition may be sold to the Chicago
Yacht Club at the conclusion ol the lair
and utilized as a naval academy.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is to build a piazza of glass around its
new liroad'Street station in 1'hiiadelphia.
This unique porch will extend two blocks.
The Union Pacific has declined to take
off its rate of too.60 from the Missouri
nver to the Pacific Coast in compliance
with the proposal made by the "boo"
line.
The insurance companies doing busi
ness in Omaha have made an advance
in rates of 'il per cent. The action is
based on the inadequacy of the fire pro
tection. The Idaho mining exhibit at the
World's Fair at Chicago was robbed Sun
day night of gold nuggets and a bar of
silver bullion from the La Mar mine.
The loss is (6,000.
Santa Fe employes have appointed a
grievance committee to wait on the offi
cers of the road and ascertain when they
will be paid their September salanes. A
strike is threatened.
In a ballot taken in Boston to decide
apon the most popular names for babies
Helen led the list for a girl with 1,373
votes out of the 16,000 cast, and Harold
was first favorite for a boy.
The Union Pacific receivership makes
a total of 26,877 miles of railroad track
placed under charge of the courts thus
lar in iihm, or it) per cent oi tne wnoie
railway mileage of the country.
F. G. Ramsay. Grand Chief of the Or
der of Railway Telegrapher, has been
indicted at Marion, la., by the grana
jury of Linn county. He is charged
with tampering with the wires of the
Burlington during the strike one year
ago-
The mand mrv at Roanoke, Va sum
moned to investigate the riot on Septem
ber 20 and 21, made a report commend
ing the action of the Mayor and censur
ing the notice for their laxity in protect
ing the negro, Thomas Smith, from the
mob.
A gang of outlaws has been discovered
In Hraoken countv. Ky. There are fully
100 of the gang, and in order to become
a member one mnst take an oatn to sen
every dron of whisky furnished them by
the manager, John Boone, and break up
all religions meetings possible.
Jacob Schoefer, a dealer in notions at
Williamsburg, N. Y., was held in (6,000
bail on the charge of having swindled
Joseph Frese out of (3,000, Max Fischer
(3,600 and Mrs. Catherine Frese (6,600
by selling them brass filing for gold dust.
Mrs. Frese dropped dead when she found
out she bad been swinaiea.
Suit has begun at Tiffin, 0., against
the estate ot ex-iiovernor ana ex-necre-tary
of the Treasury Foster. In thecom
olaint it is charged that the Foster firm
was insolvent two years ago, and that
deeds to property to nis wile had been
made by Foster at that time and only
recorded on the day oi assignment.
Among the whltecaps arraigned at Os
ceola, Neb., for whipping women was
Mrs. Heald, the wife of the President of
the Bank of Polk county, a leader in the
Osceola church and several societies.
The other women are wives of prominent
business men. All are members of the
local Women's Christian Temperance
FROM- WASHINGTON CITY.
Robinson of Pennsylvania has Intro
duced a bill to abolish the office of naval
officer at all ports of entry.
Wilson of Washington lias introduced
a bill for appropriating (376,000 for two
revenue cutters for the Pacific Coat.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed P.
Luttrell of California special agent of
the Treasury Department in charge ol
the salmon fisheries of Alaska. M. B.
Felly was appointed Chinese inspector.
The House Committee on Banking- and
Currency ban postponed until the regular
sossion in December the further nonsid-
eratlonof the bills to suspend the tax
a - s"j-
Senator Sonire has been Informed hv
the Indian Commissioner that hereafter
other cities on the Coast than San Fran
cisco will have an opportunity to furnish
Indian supplies by being designated as
depots where gooUB may be delivered.
Colonel Charles Haywood, command
ant of the United States marine corps,
says in his annual report that bis force
iB too small. Because of this the ma
rines are overworked. Colonel Hay
wood recommends that the five corps be
increased 600 men. He also wants leg
islation to remove the stagnation in the
gratis of Captain, and cal 1b attention to
the omission from the new navy regula
tions of provision for salutes to the
commandant of the marine corns. The
good work of the marine detachment at
Honolulu and the bravery and fortitude
of the marine guard in rescuing life at
I'ort itoyal, B. (J., during the August
hurricane are commended highly.
The State Department has received
from Anthony Howells. United StateB
Consul at Cardiff, Wales, a statement
prepared by the Cardiff Board of Trade.
showing the exports of tin plates and
sheets from the United Kingdom during
the nine months ended September 30,
1803. The statement bIiowb that during
the period named 212,241 tons of mater
ial, valued at 2,778,686, was shipped to
the United States, against 214,637 tons,
valued at 2,867,787, in intra, and 284,
316 tons, valued at 4,672.213, in 18111,
The total amount exported to all coun
tries in the nine months ended Septem
ber 30, 18113, was 801,681 tons, valued at
3,980,218, making the amount exported
to tne unitea mates alone nearly three
fourths of the total export product.
In replv to a complaint of the Chinese
Minister in Washington the State De
partment lias made representations
which indicate that the United States
ffovernment will not ftccont commlar ' ..., lUJiwy, lUirlihunt. Junmlm. City, Irr
certificates m conclnsive evidence that I IffilSiSTiSiKw1 "
me vninese suDjecis presenting tnem
are merchants or artists, and therefore
entitled to admission in this country.
Kecentlv in New York, at the instance
of the Chinese inspectors, two Chinese,
who presented certificates from the Con
sul at Havana that they were actors and
not amenable to the restriction law,
were refused a landing, Inspector
Scharf insisted that the men were labor
ers and that their certificates were
fraudulent. The detained Chinese took
the matter into court, where it is still
pending under writs of halieas corpus.
and further made complaints to the
Minister, wno brought the matter to the
attention of the State Department.
Secretary Greaham called on Secretary
Carlisle for information, and received a
copy of Inspector Scharf 's report, with
an intimation that the inspector, in the
opinion of the Treasury authorities, was
acting in the line of his duty and seemed
not to have exceeded his authority in
the premises. Secretary Gresham ac
cordingly has transmitted this informa
tion to the uninese Minister. The
Treasury Department's stand on the
question is still lurther emphasized by
Attorney-General Olney, who has di
rected the United States District Attor
ney at New York to prosecute the cases
on which the Chinese Minister's protest
was based. Mr. Olnev gave this direc
tion at the request of Secretary Carlisle.
AhBflJlY v FUHillTUUE 7 GO.
H. R. Hyde,
-A FULL
Furniture
OF EVEKY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF
Carpets! Carpets!
We make a specialty of UNDEKTAKING. Calls answered night
or day.
Baltimore Block. Albany, Or.
W. T. READ, President. OEO. F. S1MPHOM, Vioa-Pretident. J. 0. WKITOMAN.naorslarr
J. L. COWAN, Treaiurer. .A.lIUiER.
Farmers' and IIerchaIlts, Insurance Company
OF ALBANY. ORECON.
CAPITAL STOCK ... - 8600,000
BOARD or OIBBOTOBI.
Hoo- B. 8. RTRARAN.
(-hiaf Jattloeof SuprsneConrt.
Ron. J. W. CV8ICK. Banker.
Hon. J. K- WKATHEKKOKU, Attornsr-et-U.
J. O. WKiTBMAN, Kaq., Capllallit.
Willamette vauay Lna uomaany.
No twothln!s, Ihree-lotirltia, thirty or aixly-day clatiM In the Karmara' and alerohanta' FARM
pollolaa. 1'ba Kannen' and Merchtuu' lnauranoa Company nava the full amount ol Ion nn to
ttia amount Inanrad. The auhMrlbara to the capital atouk cnnalata of fsrm.ra, mr-rfhanla bankera
capllallau. utoiiuys, ahialiilaua and auMluuiint, Uis larian amount hald by atng Is individuals
The Houbo has passed licpresentiva
Hermann's bill confirming title to W.
P. Keady and other lot owners of the
town site of Ixwploop in Washington.
The entry was cauceled by the General
Land Olllce liecause of the entry being
covered by Valentine scrip, which could
not be located on land such as this was.
Secretary Hoke Smith the other day
heard argument of counsel for Oregon
and Idaho in a case involving the right
of these States to select double minimum
lands as indemnity under the school
grants. The existing rule of the depart
ment excluding State selections from
belts ot douhle minimum lauds has. it
was claimed by counsel, impaired the
w" ' ""
Mississippi offered in
the House a bill amending the civil ser
vice laws so as to provide for an equal
division of offices among the States, ac
cording to their Congressional districts.
The heads of departments are to report
the number of their employes in their
respective departments from each State
to the President, and when a State has
not its quota all appointments made to
it are to be from that State nntil the
quota is filled. Heads of departments
are also to apportion the salaries among
the States as nearly equal as possible.
United States District Attorney Speed
is striking it rich in his investigation of
the Strip land office, Judge Kale's de
cision that Chief Clerk Handland mnst
testify before the grand jury brought
things toa focus, and testimony is piling
up rapidly tending to criminate many
ot the land officials. It has been shown
that at the Perry office a number of
bribes were taken, and the papers were
received and filed ahead of time without
the filer appearing. Places were openly
sold in the line. The investigation will
continue for sume time, and a good list
of indictments will follow.
EAST AND SOUTH
The Shasta Route
-or TI1K
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.
Kiprew Iralui hmve Purt.Ki.il dally:
t0:iffl t. M.jliT,,.,,,,.. Albany Ar. A. M.
10:1ft. h. Ar Hrtt) Kntticluro I.v.l 7:0(1 f. H.
fhMb4ve trnliw atoiV n't tilL ileUitm. from
Portland to Allmny ncltiitlve: uiso Tmnrmii,
Krwliunt mall daily :
h:;io a. a il.v H..l'urtiiiiiil at. 4 iu r. a.
11 1! r. U Albdiiv Ar. VIM r. .
iMT a.ur Kim-iinnc l.v. ?: i. a.
Iwisl psitwiiswrtmlns dully (i-3H'itHninlar).
l:-m r. a. l.v Aliwuy Ar. in -il a. a.
2:0W r. M- Ar talmmin hv. V:;w a. m.
S:I0a. a. l.v Albanv Ar. r. a.
S:U- a. Ar iBImiioH.... hv. -.'ittf r. a.
lllulna liars oa Oailsa Kouia.
Pullman uurravr si.aareKn
Saaunrl-OlR ainvvlnv liars Attaehvd to
All Through Tralua.
WKBT NIUK DIVISION.
BSTWSSK rORTLASO AHl) UUSVALU.
tUhtrftlii-rlally (exrit Hmiday):
$ a. M.'i lv. l'(irtliid...Ar: T'Si iTa.
12:16 r. a. I Ar Corvlll.L.....l,v. r. a.
At Albany asrl Curvallts cotiuetlt wltli trains
uf uresou raoiflc railroad.
Bar-raw train dally ipawrtt Snndnrl:
..... I'ortlamt Ar. ,
..Mi-Mllilivllle. . l.v. 1
A. a.
VW a. a.
Kaatortl Hlalua. Canada
and Kunitm san be nutaliitxl at lowest rala Irom
1. A. Beuuett, aiteut, UUaimn.
K. KOKIM.EH, Manaiar.
I. P. BOttEBS. Awl . . A Casa. A rem
Proprietor.
LINE OK-
Bon. i. L. COWAN,
r-rejiident Mnn Ooanty National Bank.
M. BTRRNHKKO, Kaq., Merohaut.
W.P.RKAU.K.O., Merchant.
D. B. MONTKITH. i:.,,I..H.i
O. T SIMI'tjON, Kaq.. Caidlallit
years in tua uratuant uty.
to another quit lnoependanuy.
Union.