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Late News.
' Santa Barbara, Cal., haa decided to
"ild it Bower festival during the third
: 10 April.
, A bar of gold valued at (63,000 from
, "Vine uonanaa mine m the Harqua nalae
i was shipped to San Francisco from I'Iki-
lui, A. X., recently.
Two employes of the Washington State
printing otfiee have purchased tiity acres
ol land live miles east oi uiympia, and
win atari a prune rancn.
The cloud hanging over the title to
' land at isogales, A. 1., has been removed
by the Private Land Claims Court, and
mere is great rejoicing at iogaie.
A number of prominent merchants at
Boise, Idaho, are indicted for having
made false returns on the amount of
; business done upon which a State tax is
levied.
Barney Valley ranchers are in hopes
of being well rid of the cricket pest.
During the warm weather of early fall
the eggs hatched bv millions, and later
on hard frosts killed the young hoppers.
B. P. Burgees, Treasurer of the War
ner Grocery Company at Phoenix, A. T.,
M missing, and with him funds of the
company estimated longmy at ?z,uuu.
Burgess went to Phoenix from Portland,
Or., a year ago with a young woman who
leitwitnnim.
a... The Northwestern Steamship Com'
ny has been incorporated by several
settle capitalists representing several
; iillions of dollars. It is the intention
so purchase the City of Seattle and the
City oi Kingston, now owned by the
itoruiera racing juuiroauiAiiupauy, aiiu
with other boats controlled by the com
panyone on the Sonnd and one in San
Francisco to control business on all the
principal Sound routes.
V Mrs. Jane Stanford, widow of the late
; Senator Leland Stanford and executrix
oi his, vast estate, has confirmed the
r telegraphic report that Leland Stanford
(Jr.) University is to receive an endow
ment of at least $300,000 from one of the
- brothers of the late Senator. In the
tatter's will $300,000 is bequeathed hie
brother, Thomas Weldon Stanford of
Melbourne, Australia. This bequest
has been turned over to the university.
FROM WASHIXKTON CITY.
The Navy Department has ordered the
cruiser New York and the monitor Mi
amoinoh to get ready for sea.
Senator Peffer introduced a bill pro
viding funds for immediate use in reliev
ing want and distress in the country.
Representative Hermann has intro
duced a bill to pension Kalph Summers,
who served in the Oregon Indian wars
in 1857.
Representative Wilson has introduced
a bill to validate all outstanding soldiers'
additional homestead entries. This bill
will atlect numerous settlers in Oregon
and Washington.
Representative Hermann has present
ed many more protests from Oregon lum
bermen against the Wilson bill. There
is no possibility of defeating the bill in
the House. The Senate mav kill it.
Representatives Wilson and Doolittle
have prepared an amendment to a Mon
tana bill for selecting lands granted un
der the enabling act for State institutions
This bill will allow Washington to make
selection on nnsurveyed lands; to secure
title when surveys are made.
Secretary Carlisle savs there is mnch
difficulty experienced' by the officers
charged with the duty of assisting the
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
laws by reason of certain nractices re
sorted to by the Chinese coolie, and
adds: "I am of the opinion that, as
onr laws prohibit the landing of Chinese
lanorers, tne privilege oi passing through
our territory jannot De salely granted,
and should at once be revoked. If this
privilege is continued, tt will be imnoa-
sible to secure an efficient execution of
the laws passed by Congreas for the ex
elusion of Chinese laborers."
TBKV .ID WINTER EXPOSITION.
The Supreme Court has rendered its
opinion declining to pass upon the con
stitutionality of the dispensatory law of
South Carolina, by which the State con
trols the sale of liquors. The case came
up on a writ ot nabeas corpus to release
a State official, who had seized a barrel
of liqnor under the law. Chief JuBtice Ful
ler said the court did not think it neces
sary to pass on the constitutionality of the
liquor law. The officer was in contempt
in seizing tne liquor neiu by a receiver.
For this reason he should be punished
witnout reierence to tne constitutional
question involved.
C. F. Crocker, Vice-President of the
Southern Pacific, denies the published
statement that the directors of the com
pany have determined to put armed men
brose lrreenlarities. amounting to
millions of dollars, are stated to have
been discovered in the New York custom
house by a special agent of the Treas
ury Department recently detailed to
make an investigation. His report,
whicli is elaborate as to detail, was laid
before Secretary Carlisle, and was the
subject of several hours' discussion be
tween him and Assistant Secretary Ham
lin, in charge of customs matters in the
Treasury Department. The report re
fers principally to tobacco refunds, in
which the irregularities are alleged to
have occurred. The amount involved is
on their freight trains. He says tbe ( Btated as high as 6,000.000, and gross
negligence or worse is charged againBt
tne Aew lore custom-Douse omciais.
Hansbrough explained his Russian
thistle bill. The bill provides that the
Secretary of Agriculture shall employ
the necessary help and so direct it as to
company has not determined whatconrse
i to pursue in combatting the tramp 'nui
sance. It is believed, however, that the
Pinkerton agency has perfected arrange
ments to put gun-fighters on the South
ern Pacific trains not only in California,
but in Arizona, Itew Mexico, Texas and destroy and exterminate the Russian
dear through to Kew Orleans. Armed , thistle in everv part of the United States
men were recenUy put on trains pulling j wherever found, and carries an appro-
m,4 nl PnvtlonH fir hnf nitor a four Aa i, . . ...... . 11
V "" """ -r -..,,. -ipriauon oi l.uuu.uuu to pav tne ex
were taken off. About thattimeWiluam penses. The Senator said he had hesi-
Pinkerton was in ban irancisco. tated to introduced this bill because it
John McNnlty, a 'longshoreman who smacked of paternalism, but after a
five years ago murdered Patrick CollinB, careful consideration of the question
another 'longshoreman, at ran Francisco, and after making a personal inventiga
was to have been hanged December 29. 1 tion while in North Dakota recently he
It now appears that after the date of i had reached theconclusion that national
execution has :been set five different assistance was necessary to the eradica-
timee McNulty's neck will yet be saved I tion of the thistle, and Iiib object in in
through: the efforts of the Daughters of
the liood Shepherd of that city. Gov
ernor Markhamwas notified that the
Sheriff had granted McNulty a reprieve
; until January 26, and the probability is
that his death lenience will be com
muted to life imprisonment. The Gov
ernor announces that he has received a
petition Bigned ,by 8,000 people asking
troducingthe bill and calling for this
appropriation tins early in the session
was to secure action during the winter,
so that the Agricultural Department
might proceed in conjunction with the
several states early in tne spring to at-
uca uie monster an along the line,
The annual report of Hon. John G.
Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, has
that this be done. Among the signers -J' ry me ireasury.nas
"re united States Senate White' -and , fei .im! u."
government for the fiscal year, which
Perkins, Archbishop Riordan, Irwin C,
Stump and eight ol tbe jurors who con
victed the prisoner.
A peculiar lawsuit has hut been
brought by the New Zealand Fire Insur-
willend June 30. at $430,121,000. and
that expenditures for the same period
will amount to (458,121,000, leaving a
deficit of $28,000,000. During the first
ar.ee Company against the Standard Oil fjve months of the present fiscal year
iWmm I an vrarw aim tltn nil mm- .1 j:. -r .1
w"i . ... ,., me expenuiiures 01 tne government ei-
pany sold a i certain quantity of coal oil eeeded the receipts 2iM18,U5. This
to retail dealers in belma, F resno county, wae brought about by decreased receipts
Cal., representing it to be non-explosive and increased expenditures. Compared
and peifectlv safe with a hre teat of 160 with the corresponding months last
degrees rahrenbeit. The retail dealers year, the customs revenues fell off $23,-
in'turn sold tbe oil to their customer. 68,82; internal taxes, $7,866,867. The
mnr. may xwiie crown, a iiousewiie oi . expenditures in the War Deparment in
rmia,waamongthepurchaser8. VVhen theexecution of contracts made in the
Mrs. Brown used some of the oil m till-1 lagt fiscal vear increased 6 162,132 ; the
ing-alamp the kerosene exploded and Bvy, for the same reason, $1,12.28.
burned the house. She was insured for , with other minor increase. There have
$1,000 m the New Zealand Company, been reductions in other branches of the
Mrs: Brown has joined the insurance public service of $6,352,206. December
tuuipo.,, in fM,n. ..re omuu- j me net miance in the T-eaurywas
ard Oil Company for the amount o her 0nlv $11,038,448. Of the total amount
loss.1 The complaint alleges the oil was
found to explode at 85 degrees Fahren
heit; It is reported other suite similar
in nature Will soon be filed.
James A. Talbott, administrator of
the J. 'Davie estate at Butte, Mont..
over which. a great will contest is pend-
held, $12,347,517 was in subsidiary silver
ann minor coins.
The following nominations have been
continued bv the Senate: C. H. Simon-
ton. South Carolina, United States Cir
cuit Judge of the Fourth Judicial Cir-
ffllitr II. M. 'Kilnurriolr AuEm.i.I T.l
ing, ut uii (tiiirii, n.. a. nrer united States mint at New Orleans ;
Davis. Jr., and the First National Bank. James B. Stevens, California, Assistant
of which Davis is cashier, who has not Appraiser of Merchan.lise for the district
turned over to the administrator 950 of San Francisco. Collectors of Customs
eliarea of bank stock, worth $1,000 a A. M. Dahlgren at Pearl River, Miss. ;
s ,re-j. X0"" Dwl? ' 'lon Frank B. Barimt. district of Corpus
clarAea that his uncle gBve lum Mm Christi, Tex. Surveyors of Customs
to'a short time before his death, and , George W. Hayne, Port Kvansville Ind. :
leiuma tareforlit mthi UM the iieor u. Tanner, Indianapolis: Will
estate. . Mw court authorised Talbott 'iEm n. Enulish. nortof H.n P
to brintrsuit and employ special cuunxel
Several leading attorney- have been en
gager! by mm. men wnonave been conu
iml Job- contestants in the will case.
Collectors of Internal Revenue 0. M
Wellhurn, First District of California:
Joshua Jump, Seventh District of Indi
ana: James Phelan, First District ol
lliereis. no legal recoro oi tne uean Michigan; 8. M. McMillen, Eleventh
ii.jiiaii,e.w ...yi iga en owim-pnew "i)j4,rll t of Ohio; U P. Olilinger. Eight
dtoclt. It is said that Xalboit and eenti. District of Ohio; J Kdard Kauf-
haychad alallingoiitovermattera .njan, Third IHstrict of Texas. Receiver
riru ..... iiitawc, neuce ine 0f Public JHonw-rMward R. Monk.
It nascmiiminiiiiinsururiBe. The T.,m,.,n i T
Jiat Mie, beira have compromised Frank Vl'"
,jtn of Land Otfuw
on, A. T. J Henry
fWnekly Oroolar Lttr-No. I
The Exposition management has re
newed cause lor congratulation on each
succeeding day in view of the fact that
the fame of the Midwinter Fair is
spreadingso rapidly and so satisfactorily
iu the East that the number of Eastern
visitors who are to be expected during
the winter seems sure to succeed their
most sanguine expectations. The news
papers of the large Eastern cities, and
those of the small towns in that part of
wie country as well, seem to have tackled
as kindly to our Exposition proposition
as those who are near by, and who might
therefore be expected to reap a more di
rect benefit from it. But among all the
nice things that have been said in the
Eastern papers in this connection none
has proven more valuable as an adver
tisement than an editorial utterance in
the latest issue of the Review of Re
views, one of the most conservative
periodicals in the country. This utter
ance was as follows:
"Th Exposition will hi-lp to give dullnito
form to many a man vague pluui lor rUltinf
the PuUb Coaat. and that nerlmm will ba ita
fraataat aarrica to ita country. Everybody la
the Eaat iutenda aometime to make a trip to
uiunua, out toe aistanoe la formidable, and
aid men are dying every day who had meant
ainue 1S4S toaee the Golden Gate some time or
other, but had never got started. The (ut of
the Midwinter Fair ahoold transform general
Intentions Into epeoiflo plana. Patriotiam. If
otmng else, abould Impel every American
who ran poeaibly afford it to aee for himself
the wondera that lie upon the western margui
f thia glorioua oonntry."
The above paragraph most assuredly
echoes Eastern sentiment and goes a
great way towards dispelling the idea
which some California still cling to
that the influx of Eastern visitors will
not ba large. The railroad people have
long ago recognixed this fact and are
now making elaborate preparations for
transportation. Strangers are certainly
coming to the Pacific Coast this win
ter by thousands, and when they get
here, thanks to the eleventh-hour rail
way arrangement, they are going
to have an opportunity to visit the
entire Coast, so that San Francisco
can not justly be said to reap
even the flon'B share of the advan
tages at hand. This fact is becoming
more widely recognized as the date for
the opening of the Fair draws near, and
there is a general feeling of pride in the
coming Exposition, and of determina
tion that it should be everything that
has been promised for it.
An experiment was made on Sunday
last in the way of charging admission to
he Exposition grounds. The only
special attraction offered was a balloon
ascension and a parachute jump from
the airship when it was at the height of
1,000 feet. Otherwise there were only
the buildings to see and the workmen
pushing them along toward completion,
yet nearly 4,000 people jiaid 28 cents
each to gain admission to the grounds,
and several hundreds have paid the
same admissii a on each succeeding day
during the week. This is accented by
tne management as unmistakable evi
dence of the fact that the drawing pow
ers of the Exposition have not been over
estimated. When once the Fair is started
there will be no doubt about liberal
patronage.
It is the intention of the management,
however, that special features shall be
widely advertised during the entire du
ration of the Exposition, and it is to
that end that days have been set apart
for special observance under favorable
auspices for the entire term. In this
way more than half the days of the Ex
position have thus been programmed.
For the first month the programme is
not an elaborate one, inasmuch as the
opening days of the Exposition are nat
urally supposed to take care of them
selves. The California Pioneers, how
ever, nave their day in January, having
selected the 24th. Stanford university
will celebrate on the 26th, and Butte
county will turn out her entire popula
tion on tne w. in i ebruary there will
be a grand musical festival on the 8th:
the Pacific Coast Association of Fire
Chiefs will celebrate on the Sth, North
Dakota day the 14th and Idaho the 15th.
The Benevolent Order of Elks will con
duct a very interesting observance of
tbe 17th of February as their special
day. Southern California will turn it
self loose on the tilth. The Young Men's
Institute will have the 20th, Santa Crni
county the 21st and Washington's birth
day will probably suffice as the special
feature for the rest of the month.
In March there will be another grand
musical festival ou the 8th, the Teach
ers' congress on tbe 18th, a geographical
congress on the 10th and a characteris
tic celebration of St Patrick's day on
the 17th. Tbe state of Michigan and the
state of Nevada have the 12th and 22d
of March, respectively, and Sierra
county will celebrate on the 14th. In
the month of April the university of
California has its day; so also does the
Order of Chosen Friends and the Knights
and Ladies of Honor. The Native Sons
of the Golden West also hold forth in
April, having selected the SOth for then
day. The Odd Fellows have selected
April 25 and the Grand Army of the Re
public the 27th.
Tbe programme for May is the most
complete of all so far, beginning on the
1st of the month with California dav.
and inclnding between that and the 21st
a half dozen county days, to say nothing
of a grand San Rafael rose festival on
the 7th and German May festival on the
(th, Knights of Pythias day on the 10th,
a tl v fgr the Ortjer ot Druids on Je
16th, Good Templars' day on the 57Ii
and a characteristic Decoration day ob
servance on the 80th.
The closing month of the Fair In
cludes a Foresters' day on the 9th,
United Workmen's day on the 19th and
a day to be observed under the auspices
of the San Francisco Federation of
Women on the 31st. In addition to these
the Italians will celebrate the 2d, Santa
Clara college the 8th, Santa Clara county
the 14th, Sonoma county the 15th and
the Bunker Hill association the 18th, the
entire enthusiasm of the Exposition to
reach Its climax in a grand closing cele
bration on Sunset day, June 80, 1W4. .
FOREIGN FLASHES.
EASTERN ITEMS.
St. Petersburg has another outbreak
oi cholera.
France contemplates a new raid in
juauagascar.
One-third of all the landed oronertv
oi jiusBia is mortgaged.
Sir Edwin Arnold savs that there are
about 30,000 " poetesses " in Great Brit
ain.
Thirty relatives of the Paris homh-
thrower will likely be expelled from
France.
Grafting American on French vines
promises to save the French nlants from
destruction.
A mine of pumice stone has been de
veloped on Tcnerifle Mountain. 2.000 feet
above the sea.
Russia's sending of an agent to Abvs-
sinia is construed as an act of direct
hostility to Italy.
The Hungarian Prime Minister has
succeeded in re-establishing a Royal
Court in Buda Pestii.
A single hour's frost in the district
aronna uognac, france, destroyed $15,
000,000 worth of vintage.
Five-sixths of all the girls who went
into domestic service in London last year
i i i i. ... . -
iiau never neara oi a tooitiuruBii,
Statistics show that Russia produces
and consumes a smaller quantity of beer
tuan any otner ol tne great nations.
An electrical launch from the Chicago
Fair parades the canals in Venice, where
it has created a favorable impression.
The Woman's Suffrage League has is
sued a manifesto protesting against anv
woman working to support her husband".
The first general election in New Zea
land in which women had the franchise
resulted in the defeat of the government.
i,n.,uan i t -I i-
been subscribed in Paris for the Gounod V'TU ln 'n "' '""ouse off New
memorial, the .Municipal Council giving
1,000.
There are 281,000 registered voters in
Chicago.
Baptising through the ice has begun
up in Maine,
Chinamen are being brought to Flor
ida from Quba,
A phosphate combine is being organ
ised in Florida.
The Kansas State exhibit at the
World's Fair cost $62,800,
The Cherokees have sustained th.
Houe impeachment of Chief Harris.
Samuel Gomners has been re-elected
President of the Federation of Labor.
Twenty-two women have founded a
communal home on the Cherokee Strip.
A move is on foot looking to the de.
velopment of the coal fields of Ardmore,
The shootings and hangings of negroes
amount to about twenty jier dav in the
South.
Beaver county, Oklahoma, known as
No Man's Land, wants to be annexed to
Kansas.
Thousands of homeless and penniless
men sleep on the tiling floor of Chicago's
city hall
The national government is running
behind at the rate of about $6,000,000
per month.
Boston proposes to have closer cornier.
tion with her suburbs by means of elec
tric railroads.
Work on the erection of the Grant
monument at New York has been dis
continued for the winter.
Seventeen Pittsburg churches nnilwl
Snnday week in raising funds for the
jwor, and collected $5,000.
Hon. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill,"
is swaing me Republican nomination
for Governor of Nebraska.
The wheat crop for next year, as far
as observation goes, appears'to be in a
fairly healthy and promising condition,
ln North Tark, Routt county, Col.,
about two doiien buffaloes are protected
by the farmers, who feed them regularly.
It is estimated that np to December 1
the government made $488.1611 out ol the
World's Fair through custom-house du
ties. Georgia will try to recover $200,000
from the Federal government for terri
tory which is now Alabama and Missis
sippi,
A 240.000.000-ranille-mwor
light, the greatest in the world, will be
York.
Thenumlierof Buicides in East Side
tenements, New York city, has been
greatly increased by lack of euijiloy-
ment.
The female typewriters in British gov
ernment offices are about to lie made
permanent officials, with a riirht k, a
ienBion. A carload of beef was recently sent by
Father Hyacinth is preaching in a!''1"'116 Spalding, a Chicago hunk presi
French Protestant cliaiel still with the i l"nt. to the destitute of Iron Mountain,
spirit and aim, he says, of a Catholic i llich.
reformer.
The King of Corea has purchased an i
American incandescent-light plant,
which will lie used to light his palace
and grounds.
London and Berlin, tabulated as hav
ing the lowest percentage of deaths from
typhoid in the total mortalitv. use onlv
filtered water.
Spanish merchants and producers are
not pleased with the commercial treaties
being negotiated with Ennland. Ger
many and Italy,
The Paris illustrated papers are to lie
restrained from publishing pictures of
anarchists by au order issued by the
rreiect oi i once.
The first aluminium vessel ever con
AhIiIuiiu hialuitive.
Rim-lmf '-all ilatlv:
EAST AND SOUTH
-via-
The Shasta Route
-or th it
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.
XxpreM trains limve ruriiaud dally:
:16 r. a I.r l'ortlaiid.....r. lasTE
in-ffl r. K.II.T Albany Ar. :U A. a.
IQ lftl. M r...H Him KraticLc, ,v. 7:nfl v, M.
The shove trttlns stop .it all itatlimit trura,
Intruded, the yacht Vendenesse, built It ; siiodd, K;:iy, llnrfiabunt, Junntlun city, in.
; l omte utialiannee, has been launched at ! "", "" ami an utiuiia from Koniuurg to
. bt. DeniB, r ranee.
The Peruvian Congress has authorized
a loan, which will probably he taken at
home, of 1,000,000 soles (about $720,000
in American gold).
The hereditary throat trouble is fast
reducing the Princess of Wales to the
stone-deaf condition of her mother, the
Queen of Denmark,
Peasants of Bitonto, near Rome, sat
urated a customs officer with coal oil
and set fire to him for breaking np afete
they were observing.
Experiments are being made by the
French Department of Agriculture to
transform tree twigs and leaves into food
for horses and cattle.
In order to promote the interest of
yachting the Cercle des Beaux Arts has
put the use of its clubhouse at the nse
of the Yacht Club of France for the
present.
The Watkins tower, now being bnilt
at Wemhly Park, England, to ovortop
the Kihel tower, has reached a height of
seventy feet. Its total height will be
l.liw leet.
A grave scandal has come to light at
Indore, India. Treasure, which has long
been supposed to be guarded in the
Khasgi treasury, amounting to 900.000
rupees, is missing.
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K. KOKHI.KR. Manager.
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W. f. HEAD, Prealdeut.
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OF ALBANY, OREGON.
CAPITAL STOCK
8500,000
BOAKU OF KIKECTOKS.
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ch-ef Jnarloeof Bnprene Uoort.
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J. O. WK1T8MAX, Km).. Caiillallt.
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