H. T. KIBKFATltlGK, I-ubllihn.
LEBAHOS ..OKEGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Sensational Mining Snit Com
menced at Boise City.
LIBERALS OF OGDEN DISBAND,
The Consolidated Virginia Mine on
the Conintock Lode Begins
Active Operation!.
Three Loe Angeles mashers were
sonndly whipped a few days ago.
Two hundred families are reported to
have moved away bom Astoria, Or., the
pan two montns.
An overhauling of the Ranger's en
fines at Mare Island has led to a oorreo
uonof the defect
George P. Royeter, who sued the 8ac
tamento Bee for (20,000, charging libel,
got a Terdict for $260.
Btrenaons efforts are being made to
have a fruit growers' convention assem
ble in Spokane in February.
Active operations in the Consolidated
"Virginia mine on the Comstock began
the other day with the repairs of the
shafts. The news is gratifying to miners.
The Liberals at Ogden, U. T., have
disbanded as a party. They were com
posed of gentiles or non-Mormons, and
have long bitterly opposed the Latter
day Baints.
The charge of arson against Trotter,
the owner ot the dye works at Spokane,
bas been dismissed. This is the case
where an explosion killed Mrs. Beane
and the works were set on fire. It was
stated that Trotter had fired the build
ing in order to obtain the insurance.
Tiptop has heretofore been the most
prosperous mining camp in the Terri
tory of Arizona. It was a chloride camp,
but yielded from 50,000to $100,000 year
ly. A company organised last spring to
work the properties in the district on a
large scale gave up the enterprise three
months ago on account of the low price
of silver, and the camp has been totally
abandoned. Six months ago it was a
prosperous little village with a school,
store and the hum of industry. To-day
nothing is left bnt two lonely individ
uals, who remain to look alter the prop
erty. C. J. Wetmore, Chief State Viticult
arist of California, reports that the vint
age of the present season will be about
18,000,000 gallons, or about 3,000,000 gal
lons in excess of last year's yield, and
will be of good quality generally. About
4,000 tons of grapes will be used in the
must factory at Healdsbnrg, the product
of which is in great demand abroad.
During the next ten years, however, it
is expected that the State vintage will
show a decrease, owing to the ravages of
phylloxera in various sections ana also
to the recent check in the planting of
vineyards caused by the low prices that
have generally prevailed during the past
few seasons, the growth of the industry
in the past having been too rapid, so
much so that the output in one year rose
from 9,000,000 to 18,000,000 gallons.
A sensational mining snit has been
filed in the United States Court at Boise
City, Idaho, by Arthur Neal of Seattle
against Fred Page-Tustin and H. F.
Parker of Seattle and several Boise peo
ple interested in the Eldora Mining
Company, operating in the Neal district,
about twenty miles from Boise. Neal
(old two valuable mines to R. P. Plow
man, a Boise capitalist, for (10,000, re
ceiving half in cash and the balance in
notes secured by mortgages. Neal al
leges that Tuetin and Parker got hold of
him in Seattle and kept him under their
influence for over two weeks by means
of drugs. During that time he signed
what be thinks is a power of attorney
authorising Tustin to forclose a mort
gage. He says he might have signed a
deed to everything he possessed. Tnstin
fordosed the mortgage in his own name
and, it is claimed, never paid neal a
cent. The Eldora Company was formed,
purchasing mines from Plowman, agree
ing to etve him (15.000 and one-half of
the stock of the company. Neal asks
for a receiver to take charge 01 the prop
erty. Plowman clainiB that no money
has been paid him by the company.
The indications are that there will be
lack of space in all buildings at the Han
Francisco Midwinter Fair except the
agricultural and horticultural. It is not
known just how much space Chicago
exhibitors in the various departments
will want. Arrangements have been
made with the Director-General and
Viscount Cor My in Chicago. It is
known,' though, that the demand for
space exceeds the amount the fair man
agers have to give. The manufactures
and mechanics buildings, large as they
are, will be inadequate to hold all that
bas been ottered, and it is already appar
ent that the walls of the fine arts build-
in will not hold the works of art and
alleged art that will be offered. The
agricultural and horticultural building
is the only one that gives promise now
of aecommodatingallcomers. This would
be filled to the dome if it were not that
so many of the counties have their own
buildings. The managers have found it
necessary to exact agreement from the
various county commissioners to con
tribute toward the general horticultural
and agricultural display. There is fear
that the natural products of the State
will be so distributed that the general
effect will be lost. If possible, this will
be prevented. ,
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Popper is second only to rice and tea
as the principal export from Slam.
The railway mileage In this country
to-day amounts to 171,663.52 miles.
The State of Illinois has used this year
more than 4,000,000 barrels of beer.
Trusts are a coming power in business.
They already control over (2,000,000,000.
It is estimated that the civilised na
tions pay annually for food $18,000,000,-
000.
New York has over S.0OO hackmen.
Tokio in Japan has 20,000 jinricksha
men.
Last year no less than 3.000,000,000
gallons of beer were Imbibed in Europe
alone.
Nebraska has raised 100 bushels of
com for every human being in the State
thiByear.
During the next seven weeks It Is ex
pected that the mint will coin (15,000,-
000 of gold.
Canada supplies nearly all the plum
bago used by American manufacturers
of lead pencils.
More than 25,000 women are employed
in the United States alone in the decora
tion of china and pottery.
Manufactured gold is worth (1 a pen
nyweight, and any value in excess of
this represents workmanship.
In Zanzibar alone some 500,000 pounds
of ivory are marketed every season from
the tusks of 10,000 elephants.
The steamers between Europe and
North America carry on an average
about 70,000 passengers a month.
The most useful insect is the silkworm.
It is estimated that 6,000,000 persons
gain a livelihood by raising the worms.
Farms In interior New York are worth
now little more than half their value in
1870, and no more than before the war.
The property owned by New York city
is estimated to have risen in value from
(277,000,000 in 1871 to (550,000,000 in
For the first six months of 1803 the
mines of the United States mostly gold
and silver mine paid (5,700,000 in div
idends.
British coach and carriage builders
Import from America their choicest
spokes, hubs and ribs for wheel manu
facture. Georgia is rapidly developing as a
fruit-growing center. Within a few yearn
thousands of peach and pear trees have
been set out.
The King of Portugal has the most
costly crown in the world. The gold and
jewels of which it is composed are val
ued at (6,500,000.
It annears from a Treasurv statement
that there are 36,880 (10,000 oills, 14,806
(5.000 bills and 47,324 (1,000 bills in cir
culation in this country.
During the first nine months of the
vear over 2,000 milee of railway were
built, and It is expected that possibly bv
January 1 the mileage will reach 3,001).
Types are not used in printing Persian
newspapers. The "copy" is given to
an expert penman, who writes it out
neatly, xnen tne won is utnograpned.
The world's hop crop this year is esti
mated to be 7,000,000 pounds less than
last year, although the United States
crop is 4,000,000 pounds greater than
last season.
The operatives in Japan mills work
every day, there being no Sunday. The
hours range from twelve to seventeen,
bnt the pace is slow and there are fre
quent holidays.
Mrs. R. E. Willani has a barber shop
in Chicago. She runs six chairs, and
each one is in charge of a woman barber.
They are paid (12 a week, with a half of
what they take in over (23.
A bar of steel costing (1 may be worked
up into (360 worth of needles; made
into anile blades, it is worth 13.286;
made into balance springs for watches,
the same Par would ue worm izw.uuu.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Miss Dod. the best of the English
women tennis players, won the West of
tngland championship when she was
only 16 years old.
"And how do yon do, Mr. Justice
Holmes?" was the greeting Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes gave his son, Judge
Holmes, last week when the "Autocrat"
visited the rourtbouse in Boston and was
met at the door by hie son.
Lord Houghton, the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, has Celtic blood in his veins
(one of his ancestors was the fourth Vis
count Galway), while his children are
descended through their mother from
Ricbard Brinsley Sheridan.
Whitelaw Reid has been entertaining
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ballev Aldrich
and General and Mrs. Lew Wallace at
his country-seat, Ophir farm, in West
chester comity. His visitors were fre
quently seen at the county lair horse
show.
Massenet told an interviewer the other
day that he could play a Beethoven so
nata on the piano when only 4 yearsolil
The composer is now but 61, and will
soon celebrate the thirtieth anniversary
of the production ot " David Kuaio," his
tint successful hid tor lame.
The Archbishop of Canterbury re
ceives a salary of 475,000. Next to the
Queen he occupies the position of head
of the church. The Archbishop of York
and the Billion of London receive 160.-
000 each, the Bishop of Winchester
nearly as much, and other salaries of the
episcopal body range lrom iiu.uuv to
('ft.uuu.
Prince Komatn, a near relative of the
imperial family of Japan, with his wife
is about to begin a journey to Europe to
oav his respects to the various crowned
heads there. In all probability he will
alto visit this country. The Prince is a
vouni man. not more than 30 years old.
and an officer in the Japanese navy. He
was formerly attached to the Japanese
Embassy in Berlin.
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Kauam Han Convicted on
v Tliirty-flve Counts.
APPENDICITIS ON THE INCREASE
An Effective Measure Being Taken
to Close Gambling; and Pool
Rooms In St. Paul.
Large beds of porcelain clav have been
discovered in the Cherokee Strip.
A war of extermination against oleo
margarine has begun in Pittsburg.
Omiosition to the electric railroad at
Gettysburg has apparently died out.
Nearly (10,000 Is paid for pensions to
firemen in New York city every month.
The grand jury of Baxter county, Ark.,
has indicted sixty persons for Bring.
A. C. Bnrnham of Champaign, 111.,
has given (10,000 to found a limrital in
me town.
New York is developing a bountiful
harvest of cranks since the Harrison
murder in Chicago.
Cron failures and the oneninir of the
Cherokee Strip have almost depopulated
Bontnwestern Kansas.
Survivors of the recent floods In Lou
isiana propose to establish a colony of
1,000 families in Colorado.
The tobacco crop In the Housatonlc
Valley, Conn., has an estimated value of
(3,000,000, the highest on record.
The exportation of coke has recently
become a feature of Baltimore's trade,
A large supply is dispatched every month
to Mexico.
The United Press has taken up Its
abode at Washington, D. C, in a suite
of ten o( the handsomest newspaper
rooms in the country.
A society has been formed in Balti
more, the avowed object of which is to
assist in perpetuating the memory of
VJU a tUfrUlSIJQi UUIUUI Villi
There is talk of transporting the New
Hampshire State building at the Chicago
Exposition to Manchester, N. H., and
turning it into a public museum.
It has been suggested that the many
duplicate volumes in the Congressional
Library be made the nucleus of a free
circulating library for Washington.
C. O. Beardsley has been convicted on
thirty-five counts of selling liquor ille
gally at El Dorado, Kan. His fine will
be (8,600 and his jail sentence 1,050 days.
Alter a careful investigation the New
Orleans Times-Democrat states that the
oyster industry of Louisiana was not se
riously injurea oy we laie severe storms.
Encouraging results are said to be ob
tained from the exploration of the Pie-
dras Negras coal mines of Mexico, which
IB being made tor the U. Jr. iluntington
interests.
Within twenty-four hours after the
Battle Creek disaster on the Grand
Trunk railroad fifty lawyers were on the
ground looking for damage suits on the
percentage plan.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has decided that a man is justified in
stopping a dog fight, and if he gets bit
ten while doing it, the master of the dog
is liable for damages.
The Medical Society of New York has
adopted a report calling attention to the
danger of drinking water from the aver
age water tank, as found in railway cars
and other public places.
Most of Wisconsin's fine (lsh exhibit
at the fair will be taken to foreign lands
to further experiments in propagation.
The Chicago public schools will receive
a portion of the display.
In view of the alarming snread of an-
nendicitis a prominent life insurance
company proposes to insert the ques
tion : " Do you swallow grape seeds?"
in its application blanks.
Rev. Edward Bagley. pastor of the
Christian Church at Washington, has
been selected to be Chaplain of the
House bv Democrats, to take the place
of Kev. 8. W. Haddaway, deceased.
The exhibits at Chicago of grain and
rice from Mexico. Liberia and Trinidad
are to be disinfected, with the object of
preventing the introduction in this coun
try of insect pests not native to our soil.
A Toronto capitalist is at Niagara Falls
trying to organize a company to build a
bridge acroea the river for the exclusive
use of trolley cars. He estimates that
the structure could be constructed for
(400,000. .
The Real Estate Congress at the
World's Fair developed the fact that the
site of Chicago was marked as a trading
post on La Halle's map, made in in 1690,
and that it was Uien designated " Bhe-kaw-gu."
Albert Abbink at the fit. Louis (Mo.)
cily hospital is suffering from a disease
culled anchyloetoinum dodenale, the ef
fect of which is to render him as white
as marble. Even his tongue, gums and
finger nails are devoid of all color.
W. II. Riley, senior member of the
large dry goods importing house of W.
H. Riley i Co. of New York and Paris,
has been arrested in the latter city and
charged with entering imported goods at
(lie cusiom-nouse uy means oi inise in
voices, by means of which the govern
ment has been defrauded.
News from Washington intimates that
the naval force of the United Slates in
Brazilian waters is being reinforced to
counteract the influence of Germany and
England, which is exercised in favor of
Mcllo and to the disadvantage of the
trade relations between Brazil and this
country. Minister Thompson has re
ceived instructions to protest against any
foreign intervention.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Secretary Herbert sayB that there Is
no truth whatever in the report that
Brazil has beon actively negotiating
with the United States for the purchase
of the new United States war ships
Machias, Montgomery and Marhleheait;
that the Navy Department is utterly
without power to sell the vessels, for
only Congress could do that. No nego
tiations to that end are pending. .
The Chinese extension bill, as It goes
to the President for his signature, re
quires all Chinese laborers in the Uuited
States, entitled to remain before its
passage, to secure their certificates of
residence within six months of the time
fixed by the Geary act. Chinamen fail
ing to register within six months shall
be deported under the formor act, except
that the requirement of a white witness
is removed. All proceedings for viola
tions of the Geary act as originally en
acted, except aB to criminals, are sus
pended. The word "laborers" in the
act is construed to moan skilled and un
skilled manual laborers, and the term
"merchant" is defined to mean a per
son engaged in buying and selling mer
chandise at a fixed place of business,
carried on under his name. It is pro
vided that the certificate shall contain
the photograph of the applicant, to
gother with his name, his local residence
and bis occupation.
The House Committee on Territories
has been buBy Bevsral weeks perfecting
a bill lor the admission of Utah. Though
the administration has not wished to see
the admisBion of the Territories pressed
just now, the fact that the men who will
come to the Senate and House from all
the proposed new States would be silver
men has caused the promoters of the
Statehood movement to pause. In ordor
to get around any such difficulty as this
Delegate Joseph of New Mexico has pro
posed to have the bill admitting his Ter
ritory changed so that admission will
not become operative until 1805. For
Utah, Arizona and New Mexico it is pro
posed to grant them double the amount
of land granted the last Territories to be
admitted. The reason (or this 1b there
were grants made for the purpose of es
tablishing a fnnd for various institutions,
and it is claimed the lands which the
three Territories now knocking at the
door will receive are mostly, if not en
tirely, arid and fit for nothing until they
have been made valuable by a costly
system of irrigation, The last six States
admitted received as grants for various
Bute institutions about 100,000 acres of
land each. The three Territories asking
for admission think thev will need at
least 1,000,000 acres.
Representative Hermann has been in
consultation with the l'ostofiice Depart
ment as to numerous applications from
his State for contracts to carry the
United States mails for the next four
years and for the addition of many
routes not included in the published
proposals. In the course of the inter
view Mr, Hermann represented to the
department how in his State many con
tractors have heretofore bid so low for
the mail service as to be rendered unable
to comply with the law, and as a result
the people have received wretched mail
convenience. He stated to the depart
ment officials that should such low bids
again be accepted he proposes to see that
the contract shall be complied with both
as to the manner as well as the time con
tracted for. He says the people also
complain that contractors sublet at such
low rates as to compel persons to use ill
fed, overworked and unsuitable horses
and also cheap and exposed conveyances
and are unable to deliver the mails on
schedule time or in protected condition.
He believes that the law should be fear
lessly enforced in all cases of fine or
otherwise, and that postmasters should
be directed to report every violation or
allure ot schedule, and they should be
investigated in any case where thev
should fail to make report. He thinks,
it the law were more generally enforced,
reckless and unprofitable bidding for
mail contracts would cease.
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W. Y. HEAD. President. (IRO. F, HIMI'MON, VlwPrnldent. j. o. WIll'I'SUAM.aionluT
J, J COWAN, Tre.ur. JC, A. UlUiKU.
Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company
OF ALBANY, OREGON.
CAPITAL 8TOCK-
BOARD OF
Hon. R. 8. STRARAN,
I'h'sf JfliMosof Soprsns Oourt.
Ron. J. W. cltlSIOK. Bsnksr.
Hull. 3. K- WKATIIKUKOIUJ. Attomei-st-Uw.
J. 0. WKITHMAN, K)., CanllsllH.
ffijisnioite vmiey Minn unmpany.
Ho two thirls. IhKfrloimhi, thlny or aixiy-itar claiiw In lbs Parmera' and llerohauu' FARM
pollelaa. The Karmr' and Merchvtla' liunranoe rompaiir Pavs the full auioui-l of lou up as
b amount luaurad. The .iibftcrltwri lo the capital itoi'k conalau of fatmpr.. m. n'haiim Miiki,ni
capitalist", attorneys, phrilaiaui and bmmImukn, the larseat aaouut bald by alas Is Individual,
Postiniister-Ooimrai Blsmill has trans
mitted to the HeercitBry of the Treasury
estimates for the l'ostofiice Department
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1805.
The total amount is II0,.')II,-!8S, as
against (84,004,314 for the present Usual
year.
Advices received at the Treasury De
partment state that the United States
immigration arrangement with Canada
for inspecting immigrants at Quobeo is
working must satisfactorily. K very con
venience and courtesy has been extended
to the United States officials, The class
of immigrants is said to be Improving.
Brigadier-General I). W. Flagler, oliiel
of ordinance, Iiiih made his annual report
to Secretary Lamont. It shows the
amount of expenditiiresduring the fiscal
year 1803 was (3,702,202. Among the
first matters treated in the report is that
relating to the inadequacy of the gen
eral appropriation for arming and equip
ping the militia of the United States.
Senator Butler has introduced a bill
which has for its object the establish
ment of a government system of tele
graph lines. The bill directs the organ
isation of a board, to consist of the Sec
retary of State, the Secretary of War
and the Postmaster-Uonoral, who are
directed to arrange a system of trunk
line telegraphy connecting the various
sections of the country with the city of
Washington, - with connections along
these lines at such cities as shall best
serve the public good. The system Is to
be carried on as a part of the postal sys
tem of the country, and discrimination
in rates is prohibited, except that a less
rate is allowed for press messages than
for current 'business, The carrying on
of the telegraph business by individuals
or corporations is not prohibited. The
bill is voluminous, and deals largely
with the details of how the lines shaft
be constructed. An appropriation of
(6,000,000 is made to begin the work.
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