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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):
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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.
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