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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1893)
1 W 1 Etlaata (fxprrss. H. T. KIKKFATRICK, 1'nbll.hi.r. LEBANON .OREiiOX OCCIDENTAL KEWS. Beach-Combers in Old Tacoma lUise Tiieir Shacks. PORTLAXD OP1TM-SEIZCEE CASES Xaek Digeaasion and Alarm Among Southera California Baemen Over Bee Disease. Astoria capital will erect a salmon cannery at Paint Roberts in time tor next seasons ran. Ko damage was done to the govern ment jetty at the month of the Colum bia ty tlie recent norm. The work of raising the San Pedro, wrecked off Victoria three yean ago, luu been definitely abandoned. Operations in the West Consolidated Virginia and California mine were begun recently through the Consoh dated Virginia shaft. There ie only one woman among the 36S sonnets at the Oregon penitentiary. She was sent from Morrow county for cutting a harness to pieces. At Focatello, Idaho, an edict has gone forth that henceforth no married woman or unmarried man shall be employed in the public schools as a teacher, A man named Agilar deliberately threw blazing kerosene on bis wile at Los Angeles. She was frightfully luuned, and is not expected to live. A test is to be made of the legality of Bacramento'e new charter, it is be lieved a decision can be secured from the Supreme Court by the first of the year. The party in search of Mr. Winston, 'who is thought to be lost in the bierra Aladre, has returned to Pasadena. A search of the Arroyo Seco Canyon is sow to be made. Toe statement of the Southern Pa cific railroad freight office showB that the total fruit shipments to the East from ban Jose for the season up to December 2 was 65,482,700 pounds. An active volcano on the American side of tho straits was one of the scenes witnessed by the passengers on the steamer Maud, which returned from Al tera! to Victoria, B. C, recently. A break in the main water pipe in a street in Tombstone, A. T., last week was found to have been caused by the roots of a tree, which had grown around the pipe and crushed it so that it burst. It is understood the government in tends to return another indictment con taining more specific charges against the defendants in the opium seizure cases at at Portland, and also that several other persons will be included. The Canadian Pacific railroad will take the business of the Canadian Navi gation Company the first of the year, and will place a new aide-wheeler with speed of eighteen knots an hour on the route uetwgen vtvturi ami imiuuu. A woman at Spokane, Waah., was fined 2U a few days ago lor practical joking. She perpetrated the exceed ingly humorous, though not exactly new, joke of mixing the sugar and salt on the table of a public dining-room. The court called it disorderly conduct. Since the waters of the Coquille have receded it is learned that the damage to the Coos Bay and Boseburg railroad is found to have been overestimated, but as it was nearly ail backwater with no current, the receding floods leave the track only slightly damaged. There was a heavy wash at Cedar Point, which twisted and shifted two small span bridges, which were only temporary structures. Ko rails or ties were dam aged, and there was not a particle of damage to any of the bridges built on piling. The greatest damage was done to the ballasting, which had just been completed before the rainy season opened. The total damage will not ex ceed 6.000. Samuel P. Morse, formerly a wealthy merchant of Omaha, came to San Fran cisco last September with high indorse ments. While at the Palace he pre sented several checks to different people lor various sums of money, the checks being drawn on Omaha banks. These checks were sent back for collection, and have been returned as worthless, with the additional information that the signatures to them are lorgeries. The Keeley Company denies that Morse holds any stock in that corporation, and tlie Omaha banks state that the S. P. Morse Com pan v has been out of exist ence for two vears. Meanwhile Morse has left the Palace Hotel. Parties who bave lost by him are of the opinion that he is mentally unbalanced. Prof. Wickson of the California State University recently made an examina tion of reclaimed tule lands near the mouth of the Kan Joaquin river, with toe view of selecting a site for the sugar culture experiment station. This was in accordance with an appropriation made by the Isst Congress. The pro lessor does not feel at liberty to make ' public his selection. He has reported to the proper officials at Washington. If the selection be approved by the Washington authorities, the experi mental culture of sugar cane under 'government direction will probably -gin in California during the coming on. It is probable that the station to established on one of the islands head of buisun Bay. BCS1SESS BREVITIES. An English syndicate has purchased 300 acres of mining lands in South Da kota ior 1500,000. The United States has 6S6 vessels en gaged exclusively in foreign trade. Great Britain tuts New Zealanders boast of an o ranee orchard one acre of which yielded $1,000 worm 01 oranges. The Waltham watch-making establish ment employs 1,800 women among its 3,UUU wora people. A single sponge has been found on the coast of Florida with a circumference of five feet six inches. One hundred vears ago the United States imports aggregated (31,000,000; to-oay, (ti,u,4i. The bituminous or soft-coal output in tlie l nitefl Mates now aggregates luu, 000,000 tone annually. Completion of the Tehnantepec rail road will open Mexico's richest coffee section to the u niteu states. Seven hundred and twentv tons of cardboard are said to he utilised every year in tne use oi postal cams. More roses are crown in tlie urettv Xew Jersey village of Madison than any- wnere eise in tne cnitea states. During the last fiscal vear the United States smoked up 3,000.000.1)00 cigarettes and borrowed about half of them. Until 1839 no nig iron was manufact ured in Pittsburg. In 18112 a total of l,i7a,za gross tons were produced. The total currenev of the United States is about 1880.000,000. Of this amount about (390,000,000 is in silver dollars. It is estimated that more than 1J00,- OOU.OUU worth of railroad property in this country is in the hands oi receivers. Aluminium is beginning to be utiiized for roofing, in sheets like tin, the cost of it for that purpose being about the same as copper. The assets of the life-insurance com panies of the United States arareaate 830,00n,000, while the gross income is 20,000,000. Something over 7,000 tons of silver were purchased under tlie act of 1800 bv the general government at a cost of about tldo.000,000. Thirteen vears arc the Anrentine Re public imported 6,000,000 bushels of wheat. This vear it has 40,000.000 bush els for export. The gold production of the United States for 1893 will be over CI5.000.000 an increase of 12,000,000 as compared witn tne previous year. The lumber export of the United States in 1892 amounted to 11S.000.00U. At the present rate of use our supply win UK exiiausieu in lou years. The carrying capacity of the cables be tween Australia and Europe is from 72.- 000 to 100,000 wordB a day. The actual traffic is about 5,000 words a dav. Excluding about 62,000 smalt crafts. the commerce of tlie world is carried on by 45,000 vessels of 20,600,000 registered tons, with a can-vine capacity of 48.000.- 000. The American Casualtv Insurance Company has got rid of 11,700,000 in its fonr years' existence, the company's losses ueing mainly ascribed to its rail road business. Upon a recent purchase of 10.000 tons of raw sngar, not more than two weeks' snpply, the American Sugar Kenning umipany wiu net, it is estimated, a profit of (236,000. Mr. Preston, tlie Director of the Mint, is quoted as saying that the world's pro duction of gold tins year will be fullv (145.000.000, to which South Africa will contribute about 24,000,0u0. A statistician finds that the averaee value of a mule it (7 more than that of a horse. In Texas the price of a mule is about twice that of a horse, and in other Southern States it takes a longer purse to buy the long-eared quadruped. PURELY PERSONAL. Queen Victoria has presented to the Pitcairn Islanders a fine lifeboat, which will be taken to them from Esquiuiault, B. C, by the Pacific flag ship Koyal Ar thur. Chief Engineer A. H. Able, U. 8. K., who has recently completed bis sea duty on the cruiser Newark, will be Chief En gineer at the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia. William K. Smith, who for many years has been the Superintendent of the Bo tanical Gardens in Washington, has, it is said, personally directed the planting of more than 6,000.000 trees in different parts of the United States. General Jose M. Hernandez, who has resided recently in fiew York, but who is a revolutionist, a painot and a candi date for the Presidency of Venezuela, has been prominent in half a dozen rev olutions. Be has seen the inside of more prisons than any other distinguished man in South America. So fat is Lobengula, the Matabele monarch, whose lands England has suc cessfully coveted, that, although be is nearly ix feet tali, he seems to be much shorter. When in full dress lie wears a broad-brimmed lelt hat, with a bunch of monkey skins around his waist. " Toby, M. P.," who is the caricaturist of the Imperial Parliament with the pen for London Punch, as much as is Harry Furaees with the pencil, is famous fur his diminutive physical proportions. On the street or in the lobby of the House of Commons be seems merely a walking tall bat with a thin little pair of legs. General 0. O. Howard, commander of the Eastern Division of the United States army, is a frequent attendant at the Young Men's Christian Association meetings in Sum York. On a recent Sunday be delivered an address on the subject. " Loving Kindness Between Fa-.. luer and Boil, xie is one oi the nv noted christian workers in the U Suites ai army. , EASTERN MELANGE. Animal Report of the Comp troller of the Cnrreney. . DESTITUTE MICHIGAN MIX EES. Tbe Grows Receipts of the World's Fair Postoffiee The Virginia Marl Deposits. McPherson will lead the fight in the Senate for tlie Wilson bill. A Chicago company has cornered In diana's output of block coal. Iowa lines are to make an effort to have local freight rates raised. South Carolina has netted in four months (32,198.10 on her liquor. Chiefs of Police of many big cities are in league to stamp out anarchy. It cost Philadelphia (3.0119.91 to bring tlie liberty bell home from Chicago. The cable-car managers are giving se rious attention to hfe-saving devices. A new gold field, twentv miles square, has been discovered near Hartzel, Col. Kichard Mansfield declares that there are 8,000 starving actors in this country. A Southern newspaper says that nearly every house in Honolulu has a telephone. Oranges from the Salt River Valley, A. T., are now arriving in Eastern cities. The jail at Concord, Mich., has been utilized for a hotel by a lack of prison ers. Attorney-General Little is after the Kansas lottery companies with a sharp stick. The destitute condition of the people on the South Carolina islands demands relief. A Cincinnati man has been fined (50 and costs for abusing another man over tne telephone. A syndicate of American capitalists is said to be organizing to control Nova Scotia lime kilns. Four hundred coal miners at Ishpem- ing, Mich., have struck against receiving their pay in store orders. Gross receipts of the World's Fair postoffiee amounted to (04,388, and the expenditures were (29,614. Cincinnati capitalists will invest (1,- 000,009 in mining the marl deposits along the coast of Virginia. New York's World's Fair building.. which cost (150,0110, was bought by a ' wrecking company for (1,200. Bills providing for investieation of election methods in several counties of -New York are in course of preparation. Representative Loud believes that the prune industry of his district will be ru ined if the Wilson tariff bill becomes law. Cashier Louis A. Milliard, who emhez lied (15,000 from the Chicago Tribune I Company, will wear stripes for four years. A company has been organized in the new Territory of Oklahoma to put a Souring mill in every county in Okla homa. The free list will be enlarged by Rep resentative Wilson's bill, should it be come a law, by the addition of some 450 articles. It is not any longer " swell " to wear a big chrysanthemum in the New Yorker's button-hole, because it is regarded as a ' Western fad." This year surpasses anyone in history for railroad accidents, r rom November, 1892, to November, 1893, 2,318 were killed on the railroads. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette says Honolulu has a charming climate, but its pest is the mosquito, with no frost to cut short its career. All Chinese laborers in the United States must register before a Collector of Internal Revenue before May 3 next, or else be subject to deportation. The total American supply of oranges this year is expected to be 7,000,0110 boxes, and the greatest previous yield, that of 1892, was only 6,450,000 boxes. The National League for the Protec tion of American Institutions at New York has issued an address to tbe public in defense of the American free common school system. A doctor of Alleghany, Pa., kept a prematurely-born iulant, which the mother thought dead, in an incubator four months, and snrprised the mother byre storing it to her. A bill prohibiting prize-fighting in South Carolina has passed the General Assembly. The penalty is three years' imprisonment and (1,(JU0 fine for princi pals and seconds. It is stated at Chicago that Wells, Fargo A Co. for a cash bonus of $1,70.1, 000 and 40 per cent of the gross receipts had secured a new contract with the Southern Pacific Company. Maurice Bletz, a vote repeater, has been sentenced in the Federal Court at Kansas City to two years in the peniten tiary for fraudulent voting at the general election held November 8, 1892. The Erie road has cut the provisions rate from Chicago to Boston from 30 cents to 24'4 cents, and to New York and Philadelphia in proportion. The other lines will make tbe same rates. Nearly 500 groggeries in Chicago have been forced out of business since No vember 1 on account of the dull times, and it is probable that from 600 to 1.000 others will fail to renew their licenses. The Iowa Tontine Investment Com pany at Des Moines has failed. Presi- f;al Stone is missing, and so are tbe finds. Among the victims at Des Moines the President of one bank and two & three cashiers of others. i FROM WASHISHTOS CITY. Hermann has introduced a hill to iy tbe Vaalem band of Tillamook Indians (10,500 and intercut since 1851. Delegate Rawlins of Utah has intro duced a bill to extend the time ior milk ing proof on desert lands to five years. The snliconiniittee of tlie Honse Bank ing and Cnrreney Committee has agreed to report favorably tbe hill to issue cir culating notes to the full amount of the bonds deposited to secure circulation. In the Senate Mr. Mitchell of Oregon introduced a bill providing for tbe ap propriation of (15.000 for a lighthouse at Caie Arago, Or., and ffi.lKH) for range lights at the mouth of the Willamette river. Bland has introduced a new free-coinage bill, repealing that portion of the bill of October, 1873, preventing tlie coinage of silver dollars and re-enacting the coinage act of 18.17. Bland expects the Committee on Coinage will report an absolutely free-silver bill to the House. The pension bureau officials believe another neat of pension frauds has been discovered in New Orleans. The charac ter of the operations are believed to be identical with tbe frauds iu Norfolk, Va., and the newly-discovered cases at Buf falo. A special ezaminer is now at work investigating. Captain Kdmund Zalinski, the noted inventor of the pneumatic dynamite gun, is to be placed on tlie retired list of the army. The report of the board of army officers that examined Captain Za linski at Governor's Island. New York Harbor, was received at the War Depart ment recently. In it the board recom mends that "the Captain be retired on account of physical disability. The House Committee on Indian Af fairs has a numlier of bills before it, and the intention of Chairman Holman is to commence active work as soon as pos sible. Probably the most important measure is a bill introduced by Delegate Rawlins of Utah for the relinquishment of a portion of the Uintah and Unconi pahgre reservations in Utah, It is claimed that asphalt deposits, which are very valuable, are found on lands pro posed to lie ceded. There will lie great opposition in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to tlie resolution of Hittof Illinois on the ground that it would not be right, in view oi a ltirxiier promised: communica tion from tlie Executive on tlie subject, for the House to give expression to the sentiments contained in the Hitt resolu tion, llitt will make every effort to se cure a favorable report from tlie com mittee of his resolution; but, as it will take at least three Democratic votes to bring about such a result, it is doubtful if he will be successful. A decision upon the alien contract law was rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Brewer. In the United States Court (or the eastern district of Pennsylvania John S. and Jo seph Lees were fined (1,000 for violation of the law, and appealed, attacking the constitutionality of the act and the ju risdiction of the court Justice Brewer announced that the Supreme Court found the law to be constitutional and tlie District Court had jurisdiction. But the proceeding agsinst Lees being criin-! inai in its nature, the court below erred in compelling the defendants to give tes timony in favor of the government. This error was sufficient to warrant a reversal of tlie judgment and to remand the case to a new trial. Since the resignation of J. 3. Van Alen from the position of Ambassador to It aly, which took effect November 25, the date of his second letter to the President on the subject, Mr. Cleveland has had little opportunity to consider the ap pointment of his successor. It is said, however, that he has thought the matter over and will not long delay sending the nomination of a new Ambassador to tlie Senate. The presence iu Washington last week of Osisr Straus of New York has been coupled with the resignation oi Mr. Van Alen, and some astute New York politicians give credence to the story that Mr. Straus may be selected. It is also stated that the name of Judge Lambert Tree of Illinois, ex-Minister to Belgium, will be presented to the Presi dent by Hon. Don M. Dickinson, if he has not already taken action. Tbe contracts for three new gunboats have been awarded to the Newport News Company, the Board of Naval Officers having finished its considera tion of the plans. The Union Iron Works through its representatives made a strong effort to obtain a contract for one of the boats. They offered to build the two larger vessels for (292.000 each, and made a similar reduction from their bid on the third vessel. The ships will he built bv Huntington's Company for 1280,000 each. They are known as Nos. 7, 8 and 9. As finally settled upon by tlie department No. 7 will be 220 feet long by 36 feet beam, of 1,261 tons dis placement and 14 knots speed; Nos. 6 and 9 will be 250 feet long by 60 feet beam, of 1,313 tons displacement and and thirteen knots speed. All three will be twin-screw vessels with triple expansion engines, and will carry arma ment of six-pounders and under. W. F. KKAD. Preaideul OHO. T. SIMHSON, Vice-President. J. O. WK1T8MAN, Secretary J. L COWAN, Treamror. Jt. A. UllJiKK. Farmers' and Merchants Insurance Company OF ALBANY, OREGON. CAPITAL STOCK $500,000 BOAAU or DIRECTORS. Hoa. a. 8. STBAHAM, 'h?ef Jertloeof Bopnaia Court Hon. J.W.ODRICK.Bsuker. "" Hon. J. K. WKATHEHKuRii, Attorner-ai Uw. I. O. WK1THM AN. K (;.,,ll.llt. Ko rthW. three-loiinhi, tinny ot i iv il lllcieS. Th Pannera' SOd Merfltlnt.' InMiinnn wmameiie vanoy umo unoiMUf. tc amoant insured. The ietworlben lo thf .'apital itook coneleM of lamf n, ov rchautl bankVre I" "J l;.t,".?lM'"T' P0rtain aad awek.via. tk lMt aauaal held at liafle InaMTldufc FOREIGN SEWS, In spite of the notoriously had condi tion ot the lta'ian finances the civil list of the country is the largest in Europe. Jerusalem has been modernized by a railroad, and now a concession to estab lish a water works is being demanded. The Hungarian vintage of the present year has turned out the worst since the appearance of tlie phylloxera and pero nospora. It 1b rumored in London that the de ficiencies in the Bank of England are about to he brought to the notice of Par liament. Last year according to the statistics recently compiled 24,000 men and 18,000 women left Japan to find homes for themselves abroad. All citizens of Ecuador now in Peru havo been placed under German protec tcction, owing to the departure of the Ecuadorian Minister. Iron visiting cards are among tlie lat est novelties iii Germany. Forty placed one on the other are said to he only one tenth of an inch in thickness. A Marseilles (Fran) cable from a laree importer of Russian wheat said: " Wheat very depressed liecanse of large stocks and likely to continue so." During the last year the property in London insured by tire insurance com panies and the underwriters at Lloyds amounted to more than (400,000,0110. It is reported that Milan, ex-King of Sorvia, is preparing a coup to overthrow his son, Ring Alexander, again ascend the throne and till his own exhausted purse. Sir Thomas Esmond, M. P., is conduct ing a crusade against the English lan guage in County Cork, Ireland. The effort is to make the English language unpopular. The banking honse of Du Fresno, one of tlie oldest estalilislied banks in Flor ence, Italy, has supended payment. Ein etaz, the manager of the bank, commit ted suicide. The Lord Mayor of London is manag ing a subscription for tbe benefit of the sufferers from the dynamite explosion at Santander, Spain. Lord Roscberv sent a check for (125. Lord Charles Beresford's proposal that within the next four years England shall expend 18,000,000 upon the navy has been received with friendly criticism by tlie Liberal press. The United Press correspondent in Paris has been authorized to contradict flatly and finally the report that the di vorced wife of Edward Parker Deacon it about to marry again. The following Italian Ministry has been formed : Zanardelli, Premier and Minister of the Interior ; Baratiuri, For eign Affairs ; Fortis, Public Works ; Kan Marzano, War; Racchia, Marine; Coce ortu, Husbandry ; Kiseis, Posts and Tel egraphs; Vacchelli, Treasury; Gallo, Education; Roselii, Finance. EAST" AND SOUTH -VIA- The Shasta Route -or TBK SOUTHED PACIFIC CO. Kxpnwft traltia leave rorund daily: :1 r. M jt-T,T,..J,ortltid........Ar.l 8:30 4. M. lo.ffl p. K.li.T Albany Ar.) a. m. 10:lfi . M.jAr .Hun f-'rlirljtiv l,r. 7:1 r. M. The nlmve milru Mop nt all MttUlom from Portland lo Altwur iiiftiifii ve: alno TmiKeiu, Hhetld, HaltHjy, llnrrfHbunt, JunnUon City, Irr tie, fci.gti.e ami all ilariuiin from Komi burg to Aahlaiid incluttive. RowhiifT mall -rtallT: V:ft) a- H jU Portland .Ar. 4 a) r. m. ViAh p. m.iUv ....Albany Ar. lii:IM p. h. j: r. M.jAr. Kiwu-biirg Lv. 7:00 a. m. Iw-al ,iaw-.tiiKirtraliiii-dally (.-xrerit rlmidtyt, p. Jt.,Lv Albany Ar. Id 21 a. m. 2:01 P. .,Ar Ulfamm, . Lt :40 a. u. 8'10 a. M-flif ....Albany Ar. 1:ii p.K. P:0A.MJAr U-lmuntt Lv. 2:8tf p. K. blnlug Can on Ofrtaa Kouta. PULLMAN UlirriCT BLEBFKKH AND HMfind-lfaa 8ltiliir Oar Attached to All Thrnittfli Tralna. WIGHT BIO It .UIV1MION. BTWIRH POKTUtHII AHI COBTAU.! Mall train -dally (eiraiiit Hmiday): 7:80 a. M. I Lf..".Zi..PoPtlaiid'.".";.Ar. I ft -88 a. K. W:!6 p. . I Ar :(,rt alii. Lv. l:Qt p. H At Albany ami dorsal I U oonuaot with tralui of Oregon Pacific railroad. Exjmww Iralti dfAllv excpptfliinrtftr: 4-M t. 1L I Lv... 7:3ft p. m I A'... ...tVirtlmil. Ar. Mr-Miiinvtllc.,.!,?. B2i a.i f :50 h. I THROUGH TICKETS EJSlsaS&.J X and KiirofM. ran lie oblfllnwt at lowest Mtes from 1. A. Buiinfltt, mhiiI, Irfibawm. R. Kuelll.HK. Msnsser. I. r. KOHtKs. am. n. r. a pm arm. Bon. J. L. COWAN. Pretdi.nt Man Oonntr Natloaal fiaua. M STREN BKHU. Eaq.. Jlm'haiiL W. t. RKA1). Emi-. Merchant. D.B. MOMTEiTi. Cantwllst 0. r. SIHI'HON. Knq.. CpilnILt olsuie In the Fsrrnun and MemhsuW pa RM !nMMn n. th hill .nmii.t al 1 V .4 . tl .).... , a ..f" - ... A