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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1893)
H. I. KIBKPATRICK, Fubll.h... JJSBANOX , ... . .OREGON OCCIDENTAL NEWS. CoMlle Indians Congregating to Hold & Death Feast THE TEEKITOKUL ENTEfiPKISE A 8ix-Foot Vein of Coal Discovered in Southeastern Arliona Hew Trial Refused. The courts at Salt Lake have been a askad to appoint receivers for the Utah Central. Victoria sealers are much disheart ened over the low price quoted for seal skins in London. The publication of the Territorial En terprise is to be resumed at Virginia utv, flev., next montn. Testimony in the opium smuggling eases at roraana tenas to snow tne ring's profits were (300,000 a year. The three naval convicts who made their escape from Mare Island Daly, Hall and Cliffy have reached Canadian territory. Delegates are in session in Pkenix. A. T from ten of the twelve counties of the Territory to posh the matter of Statehood. Northern and Central New Mexico are enjoying the biggest mining boom ever known, and all tne wore seems to oe m the placer gold diggings. A six-foot vein of coal has just been discovered in Southeastern Arizona bv Dr. Theo. B. Comstock, Director of the Arizona School of Mines. The coal IB semi-anthracite of excellent fuel quality. Many of the farmers of Pullman, Wash., will fatten hogs with their dam . sued wheat, and are securine them as fast as possible. It is estimated that a bushel of wheat will produce ten pounds of pork. A case it now in progress in the Fed eral Court at 'Yuma which affects the bonndarv line between Arizona and Cal ifornia, and it is believed by some that it will result in showing mat initials in California. Owing to the sickness of one of the ' jurors in the Evans case on trial at Jack son, Amador conrty, Cal., the trial bas been postponed until January 22. The jnrore.wno were sworn m are now De manding their pay. Hixty settlers on the south fork of the Kern river in California have been served with an injunction by Walter Bankin, who claims priority in the use of the water, which has men diverted by these settlers above. The Supreme Court of California has refused Charles Weiger a new trial. Weieeriathe drv-eooda merchant con victed in Sacramento of obtaining goods bv false and fraudulent pretenses trom the Philadelphia firm of Sbarpless Bros. Later reports from the ship Gosford state that verv little injury has been done to the hull bv the action of the water, and that the attempt to raise her, which the turn Fearless and Belief will undertake, will probably result success fully. The officers of the City of Toneka re port no epidemic of the grip among the Indians in the vicinity of Juneau, Alaska, who were reported as dying by the hundred. Aleuts, 1,000 miles from Juneau, are suffering from a grip epi demic. Twentv stamps of the great 100-stamp i mill of the Phcenix Mining Company started work at l'hoenix, A. I. lue mine has been ODened extensively in the last ten months, and will now take rank as one of Arizona s main hullion nrnflnrara. Judge Lorigan of the Superior Conrt at San Jose has declared unconstitu tional the law nassed bv the last Legis lature requiring City Councils in cities of not less than 10,000 nor more than 26,000 population to fix by ordinance at the Brst regular meeting in July the salaries of the policemen at not leos than 100 nor more than $125 per month and that of Chief of Police at not less than $125 nor more than tloU. Work on the various buildings at the Midwinter Fair grounds has been some what delayed, owing to bad weather, but will be pushed as rapidly as possible from this on. One of the most attrac tive exhibits to be seen in the mechan ics' building will be that made by the (ieneral Electric Company. This ex hibit will be equal to some of the grand electric displays made at Chicago. Word has been officially received by Director-General de Young through the Consul of the French government to the effect that the Minister of Beaux Ar'B had given permission to all French artists who were represented at the Co lumbian exposition to avail themselves of the opportunity offered in the fame connection at the coming Midwinter Exposition. Among the concessions which have not yet made much showing on the grounds is the Equiroax village. The village will contain about fifty persona, men, women, boys and girls. There are now over seventy-five build ings under course of contraction at the exposition grounds. April 4 is the day set for the press congress. This date has been fixed throngh the medium of the Press Club of San Francisco and after consultation with the California ! bute Press Association and others who interested in newspaper work. FROM WASHTNOTON CITY. Konresentative Holman favors an in come tax as a just and equitable mode of raising revenue. , Recretarv Herbert has appointed as chief clerk of the Navy Department his son-in-law, Benjamin Alteon ot An niston, Ala. Secretarv Herbert in his forthcoming message will ask Congress to appropri ate money for one more battle snip and fonr torpedo boats of Ericsson type. Attorney-General Olney has rendered the opinion that certain notes isBned by corporations during the recent currency "famine "are not taxable 10 per cent under the bank circulatioa law. The opinion was addressed to Secretary Car lisle. The Treasury Department is some what concerned over the prospect of Chinese registration under the new law passed upon the eve of adjournment of the extra session and under which the department has just issued regulations. The supposition is that the Chinese will comply with the law, but no one can say definitely until the experiment is tried. Officials themselves are as much in the dark as any one. If they should again refuse, the situation would be awkward. It is said the intelligent Chinamen gen erally did not object to registration and really looked upon it as a means ot per sonal protection, but the bulk of them would be controlled by their employers now as formerly. They do not as a race take kindly to having their photographs taken for the purpose, but there is no reason to suppose that this objection will long stand in the way of compliance with the law if the Six Companies and their attorneys be not obdurate. The annual report of the Secretary of War gives the usual review of the condi tion and operations of the army, and in addition much space is devoted especially to the progress ot work on tne sea-coast defenses. Now that Indian warfare is practically at an end, the gradual con centration of the army on tne sea coast and frontiers should follow. The work of fortifying thirteen of the larger sea ports renders manifestly necessary the conversion of a portion of the infantry to the artillery arm. The total strength of the army is 2,144 officers and 25,778 enlisted men. The Secretary recom mends the repeal of the law fixing tea years as the maximum period of enlist ment and a reduction of the period of first enlistment to three years. The adoption of the new magazine rifle is the most important step since the close of the civil war. 1 he entire infantry force will be equipped with the new arm be fore the close of the coming new year. It has been definitely determined that the income-tax system to De reported Dy the Wave and Means Committee will be confined to a tax on the net incomes of all corporations and on successions and legacies. Bryan, McMillin, Whitingand others made a strong: fiiht for a plan broad enough to include ail incomes of individuals in excess of (6,000, but have been forced to acquiesce to the will of the majority and to abandon a graduated income tax in favor of one applying only to corporations and successions. It can be confidently announced that the tax system will be narrowed down to these specific limits, unless the recommenda tions of the committee are upset in the House. The tax on successions and leg acies applies only to personalty and moneys. The Democrats ot the commit tee have also decided to increase the rates radically on cigarettes and to im pose a tax on nlavinn cards. Both of these points have been definitely decided. The internal-revenue tax on whisky is still an open question, ine committee is maintaining a studious reticence on this subject for fear of the manipulations of speculators on the stock exchange. The annual report of Commissioner of Navigation E. C. O'Brien, which proves to be his valedictory, is full of matters of public interest. The tonnage ot the conntrv exhibited an increase from .76,861 in 1802 to 4,825,071 in 1803. There was a decrease in sailing tonnage, but an increase in steam tonnage. American tonnage engaged in domestic commerce, which is absolutely protected against foreign competition, showed a gratifying increase. On the other band, American tonnage engaged in our foreign commerce, which is exposed to the free competition of foreign nations, exhib ited a considerable decrease. The ton nage of both American and foreign ves sels entered at our ports shows a decrease as a result of the general depression of trade. The shipping interests of the Great Lakes have prospered greatly dur ing the last six years. The tonnage which passed throngh the Detroit river during the year 18112 amounted to 24, 786.000 tons, whereas the tonnage which passed through the Snez canal during the same year amounted to only 7.712,- 028 tons. The Lake Superior tonnage which passed through the canal increased from 6,130,859 ton in 1888 to 10,047,203 tons in 1893. The sugar raisers of the country, many of whom are not satisfied with the prop osition to gradually abolish the sugar bounty as intended in the Wilson bill, will continue the contest in the Senate and the House, with a hope of securing modification ot tne clause it they can not get it stricken out entirely. Thev assert that under promise of continua tion of the bounty granted by the Mc Kinley law, which they construed as a time contract, they had every reason to suppose the 2 cents a pound bounty would be continued for fifteen years from the time the bounty was provided, and say they will push their fight to the ut most limit with a hop of securing bet tor terms than the Wilson bill gives. They assert that they have made large out lavs on the strength ot this promised bounty, and have made contracts many years ahead, controlled by the same con sideration. They say that with the busi ness once well started the United States can produce all the sugar the people of this country will consume and thus keep at home over (100.000,000 annually now sent abroad for sugar. The sorghum and beet-sugar men of the West are in terested in the qnestion, as well as the cane sugar men of Louisiana. eastern melange. Edward Parker Deacon Now in the Social Swim. THE WHITECAP8 IM THE STRIP. Large Number of Idle Miners on the Gogebic Range-Illicit Stills Destroyed Etc. Another bridge across the Mississippi will be built near St. Louis. Texas people demand a cut in railway rates to attract immigration. Rhode Island has voted bv a large ma jority in favor of plurality elections. Several theaters at Cincinnati have sued a local union for damages for a boy cott. The drivewavs of Central Park. New York, are lo be lighted bv incandescent lamps. A " concise " report of the World's Fair in twenty-five volumes is to be pub lished. . The Kansas Btate Board of Dentistrv is prosecuting the unlicensed dentists of that State. The President has removed Postmaster Thomas of Topeka for violating the civil service law. The next session of the Ohio Legisla ture is likely to pasaan act providing for biennial sessions. There is one child dependent on char ity for support in every 100 inhabitants in New York city. The sale of Columbian postage stamps wss only (1,000,000 instead of (2,500,000, as had been estimated. A whaling captain savs 100 whales were killed and let go adrift in the Arc tic seas the past season. The widow of Jim Fisk is living in poverty in a little wooden house in a se cluded part of South Boston. Kansas City does not pay for her wa ter, and the water-works company threatens to cut off the supply. Whitecaps are making things lively tor ' sooners " and lot jumpers in the recently opened therokee Strip. There is a gigantic scheme to connect New York and Chicago with an electric railway. The time can be shortened ten hours. Pneumatic-tube mail-carrier service.1 which Postmaster Covenev favors adopt ing in nosion, can oe maue almost seii- sustaining. Officers of the Guarantee Investment Company at Chicago have been convicted of using the mails in the interest of a lottery scheme. Cincinnati's Mayor wants that citv'i population to be swelled by 22,000 bv annexing seventy-nve square mues in Hamilton county. Chicago hotel men complain that their houses are deserted. A house that had 3,000 guests a month ago now has but 3UU; and so it runs. It is estimated bv the Register of the Treasury that only about (18,800,000 of the registered oonusot the Unitedatates are now hem abroad. The discussion still goes on at Chicago about retaining the W orld's Fair struct ures in Jackson 1 art as long as they can be preserved against decay. The strike of catchers and hookers against a 10 per cent reduction in wages .throws ooo men out ot employment in tne uewpuri iny. i ruiiuig mum. As a result of alleged boodling the Mayor ol Omaha bas been enjoined from approving a franchise granted the local gas company by the City Council. The idle miners on the Gogebic Range in Wisconsin number about 16,000. Thev are in a helpless condition, and measures are being taken to give them rebel. The Boston and Maine road will ab sorb the Concord and Montreal and Maine Central, together with another road yet unnamed, by long-time leases. Prof. Marlowe of the High School of Terre Haute, Ind., who sent his young wile to her parents recently, telling her he no longer loved her, has been dis missed. The number of distilleries operated during the year was 4,748, a decrease of 1,182 compared with 1802, but the de crease was wholly in the class of fruit distillers. Predictions are made at Philadelphia that the Knights of Labor as an order cannot long exist. The way the manage ment has conducted business has been very unsatisfactory. According to the last report of the State Auditor of Iowa there were 134 farmers' mutual insurance companies in the State, which in 1802 carried over (100,000,000 of risks. The persistent ravages of diphtheria in Philadelphia and the heavy resulting mortality during thefjast two -years make it imperative that no means should be neglected which will give promise of emciencv in tne euort to stamp it out. On each day of the Chicago Fair the net receipts averaged iu ,um. The total receipts from all sources were (28,151.- 168; total expenditures, (25,540,637; balance. (2.610,631. From this are de ducted obligations to the amount of (748,147, leaving net assets, (1,882,483. Governor Tillman of South Carolina roasts the Supreme Court, using en th expressions as " the toil waes the dog" and "judicial insolence." Referring to railroad litigation the Governor says the , nntucay marriage iwevn me uignuy of the Federal Court and these corpora- tions must be annulled and the owners 1 of bonds most be made to understand j that there is a point beyond which the patience of a State will not permit them logo. PURELY PERSONAL. Considerable stir has been caused in London society by the conversion to Ro manism of a niece of Rt. Hon. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Iieland. Colonel Ingersoll closes his lecture on Lincoln with these words: "Lincoln was the grandest figure of fierce civil war. Lincoln is the gentlest memory of our world." A little lad named Otto Freisel, but 5 years of age, is delighting Viennese audi ences with his elocutionary and mimetic powers. He is an infant prodigy in this respect, they say, When a child of 5 Lord Claude Ham ilton, the new Chairman of the lireat Eastern Railway Company, resented a supposed affront by obstinately refusing to kiss the Queen when she was on a visit to his parents. Mme. Blanc, the widely-known writer of Paris, who is in Chicago, will remain six months in this country, spending portions ot tne time in various cities, including a stay in Boston as the guest of Mrs. James T. Fields. The announcement has been made that Captain Horatio McKay, the com mander of the record-breaking Cunarder Lucania, and Miss Elizabeth Swan, the daughter of Edward J. Swan of Oyster Bav, L. I., are to be married some time Wore Christmas. John H. Miller, son of William the Prophet, who founded the Second Ad vent sect, long known as " Millerites," many of whom have prepared to ascend uouuy to ueaven at various times, uieu recently at Whitehall, N. Y., aged 71, strong in his adherence to the views of his father, who died in 1840, Few things are too insignificant to en gage the attention of the German Em peror. He recently decided that the gavotte lander should be known in the future as the court dance in his capital rather than the " quadrille a la etimr," which bas long had that distinction. The revival of this empire dance is due to tne petition ot tne association ot uer man dancing masters. James G. Blaine, Jr., the grandson of the late Secretary of State, is now 6 years old. He has been under the care of one nurse since he was 2 years old. The lad attends a kindergarten in New York, and it is said that he has some marked traits of his father's family. He is very slow to make friends witii grown-up persons, but hoys will chum with him instantly. He is quite a sturdy, healthy lad. Sir Benjamin Richardson, the eminent London physician, has been interviewed about bicycling. He expressed the opin ion that the sport was decidedly injurious. The spine becomes almost an arch ; the chest bone is then affected by the unnat ural pressure, circulation is impaired, and no doubt the lungs are interfered with, too. In fact, there- is hardly any possible evil effect it does not produce. The railroad chapel-car evangelist. Rev. Boston Smith, is meeting with Ct success in the Northwest. Mr. th was the first missionary to utilize the railway car as a chapel. The one he uses now was built for him by John I). Rockefeller and others interested, It will seat 100 people. It is sidetracked at lonely settlements, where services are held on Sundays and often through the week. The Sultan bas contributed 700.000 francs from his private purse, to be used in the prevention of the spread of chol era in his dominions. Part of the money will be devoted to the construction of dwelling-houses in Hedsjae for the suf ferers and the building of a hospital in which several thousand patients can be accommodated. The running expenses of the hospital will be borne also by the Sultan. More copies of the Bible have been sold in the nast twentv-five vears than of any other book published. ALBANY v FURNITURE 7 GO. H. R. Hyde, A FULL Furniture OF EVEKY DESCRIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF Carpets! Carpets! . We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Calls answered night or day. Baltimore Block. Albany, Or. W. F. KtAD. rrwldenl. (IKO. T. HI M PHUN , Vioa-Presldeut. J. O. UI'reMAN.BwretarT Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance Company OF ALBANY, OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK... ............8600,000 BOABD Or Hon. B, B. STRAHAN. imief Jsttlo. of soprano Oonn. Hon. J. W. (IIIBICK. H.iikBr. Hon. J. K. WBATHKKKnKU, Attorney Law J. 0. WttlTSMAN. Kaq,, Oaplrallat. wuiamciu vauey Lana uomsatir. Mo two-thlrria. thn-foimR., thirty or .u!y-rfav clauM) in the barmen' Mid Merahaui.' FA KM nollciM. The Farm.r.' and Mrt!h4iiu' lnatlraiioe ''omimtty Wl the full amou t of lorn un la Ui. anioHnt itumed. The aubwrlbeni to the capita) lo fnoai.u of faimt-ra, m n'hanla lunk.-m oapiullflui. attoruejs, pnyilelaus aud mwoauius, the largest aatonal bald by .ingle luAlvutiuj. stilus ma. BUSINESS BREVITIES. Nearly as much fish is said to be eaten In London as meat. Several women are engaged in running elevators in Boston. Slate poncils are among the novelties made of aluminium. The depositors in American savings banks number 4,800,000. No days of grace are allowed in Paris on bills payable at sight. Texas has 5,000,000 Bheep, and clips 25,000,000 pounds of wool. The great ocean steamers use from 100 to 220 tons of coal per day. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany has 740,000 miles of wire. Pennsylvania has 200,000 farms, which produce over (200,000,000 in crops. Last year New York spent (60,000 In cleaning the streets of snow and ice. There are 1.823 railway coroorationa doing business in the United States. American pumps are known in China and Japan, ss well as in all parts of En rope. Two-thirds of the gold in use In the world has been discovered within fifty years. The Green Mountain boys sell (1,250, 000 worth of maple sugar every twelve months. Japan is importing live bees, and ex pects some time to make all the honey she needs. A drop of (6 a ton in steel rails is a very important advantage to railroad companies. The earnings of the Virginia peniten tiary the last year were (20,000 in excess of expenditures. Soldiers do not work, but Krupp keeps 21,000 men constantly employed making big guus for them. EAST AND SOUTH The Shasta Route -OF THB SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. Expnm tmlni leave Portland dally: "6:18 P. M jLv .Portland." .Ar. ft:') i. M. 10:'2H r, M.lliT Albany Ar. 4M A.M. 10:1ft a. H.jAr Hun Kranclp. U. 7.W r. tf. Thf Hbove trains mon at all ma tin m front Port hunt to A I ban v inHinlve: hIuo Tmiuunt, Slieiid, HnUey, Hn.rr.ibum, Junction City, Irv luir, Bujteiie and all NLatiuna from Kiwoburg t AhdIuiiu inulunivo. Row'lmrg mall-dally: s::h a. h.;i,v Portland Ar. 4 -x t. a. Yt-M r. u.t,i Aihaur Ar. i'l : r. a. 6:60 r. H.jAr Kon-tmrg by. 7:00 A. a. Loi;al vamettgertratlla-rtaUy (wKrojit Sunday). l:Hi r. n.iLv Albany Ar. IB it a. a. I'M r. M.lAr Ut I , by. 9:.I0 A. H. :10a. a.ll.f Albany Ar. Iflli r. a. 9:00 a. m.Iat Uimnon I.v. 't m r. a. Dining Can on Offdun Kout. PULLMAN KirrKT RLKKt'lCKH AND Haounrf-VlaM Hlittit(iiir )r Attach It All ThrniiKh Train. WKST Hit) IHVIHION. BatWRItl PilKTUNI) Attn UOM ALU. Mall train "dally (eicept Hmiday): 7: A. U. Lv.."......ortlaii(l.,.,Ar. f iVM A. M, r. H.jAr :orvaNiB...,.l,, IiOupm. At AlbaHV ami (IttrvaHli (toniiwii wlUi train ol Ore(ou I'm; i Ik railroad. Kxnrw train dall 'pxcurit HnmlaT): j i.v. I'ortlNiid Ar. , it '21) a. m. I Ar...,McMiiitivnk....U, 1 VNl A. M, 7::W r. THROUGH TICKETS K,,B7S.t.,5: lid KnrotiH ean tw nblntnwl at lowtMt ratun from I. A. Uminett, ainmt. lbaiion, K. KOKHMCR. MmiRgw. 1. 1. ROOKKH. AwL U. V. A Faia. A Kent Proprietor. LINE OF DIRECTORS. Hon. J. L. COWAN, PreHtdcM l.lnn Cahrc Nalloual Hank. H. STRENHKIUi. Kaq.. Mfr. Iiant W, F. KKAM. K.n.. Merchant II. B MONTKITH I'.iid.ll.t U. F. SIMPSON, Eiq.. (.'arllllt. J 1 i