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
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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.
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