The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-11-10

The coinage eff the United States mint
In October was 81 1856, OLA, of which
| 81 ,05O, ,O50 were silver dollars.
| Business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for the week
ending November Sd number 215.
The reduction of the public debt dur
| ing October was $40. .104, ,798; decrease
OF the public debt since June 40, 1888,
$39. .5S4. .47O.
Recently an express from Liverpool
to London, while running at the rate OF
fifty miles an hour, collIded with an
empty car. Two persons were killed
and many were injured.
| The prime minister of Spain replying
| to an address of the anti-slavery society,
said that the government had decided to
| abolish stocks and fetters for slaves In
| Cuba, and would do all possible towards
the destruction of the patronage of slave
| holders
The Post and Tribune and the Free
Press, two morning dallies of Detroit,
announce reduction in the price from
| $40 year to ST, and from five cents a
single copy to three cents. No reduction
is made in the size or the amount of
reading matter.
Delegate Singiser of Idaho says in the
course of four years the territory will
| apply for admission into the union.
Mormonism is the great drawback there.
It's increasing strength is al
ready menacing the best interests of the
territory and harsh measures should be
employed to check them.
The stearmer Holyhead came in
collision with the German ship Alham-
bra, bound from Liverpool to New York,
when twenty-five miles off Holyhead.
Both vessels sank. Thirteen of the
Alham bras crew and Holyhead's were
drowned. The remainder were picked
up and landed at Holyhead.
At London, Oct. 30th, as passenger
train was passing through a tunnel q
| heavy explosion occurred, wrecking the
| two rear coaches and injuring about 40
persons. Upon investigation it was dis
| covered that the accident was due to ex-
| plosives put on the track, and is sup
| posed to be the work of Fenians.
Alexander Forbes, of San Rafael, and
| of Forbes Bros, of San Francisco, died
| Oct. %, at his private residence near San
Rafael, after short illness. Deceased
has been identified with Marin county
| for 27 years, and owned large section
of the entire county, his fortune being
estimated at from three to four millions.
A Cincinnati dispatch of October Goth.
says: Fourteen persons in different
families, living in the western part OF
| the city, have been attacked with symp.
toms of poisoning. One child died to-
day, apd number of others are serious.
| ly i'll. It is thought poison was admin
istered in some way through food
bought at grocery.
A Chicago dispatch of October 28th
says: George NJ. Wright and W. H.
Weed, of the United States geological
survey, returned to-day from spending
the summer in the Yellowstone park
gathering material for q geological and
typographical map of that park. They
also had special eye to the character
and origin of the geysers. They express
themselves surprised at the few evil
dences of recent volcanic action. They
found 500 geysers and 5000 hot springs
within the limits of the park. They have
many instantaneous photographs and {
large collection of specimens, including
petrifactions of interest for the Nationa
museum.
The commissioner of the general land
Office, Hon. N. G. Mcfarland, in his an
nual report, states that the disposed o1
public land during the year embraced
1903, 789 acres, and Indian lands 1896, ;
235 acres, an increase over 1882 of abou
five million acres. Receipts, from al
sources in connection with the disposa
of public lands were $11 ,088 .479. ant
from the sales of Indian lands 1926. .404
Total, 1918, ,883. Public lands wer,
disposed of as follows: Public sales. 273,
069 acres; private entries, 2.179, ,95s
acres; pre-emption entries, 2,285, III
acres; mineral entries, 81 $50; home
stead entries, 8,171 ,914; tim ber cultur
entries, 3, l10, $50; entries with mill tar,
bounty land warrants, 45, Ala acres; en-
tries with land claim scrip, 10, ,5O8 acres
, Total number of entries and filing
posted during the year, 251 ,685, aggre
eating &c, 900, 900 acres. The increase i
the number of claims recorded in 186
was 55, ,548 over the year 1882.
j: The general superintendent of tn
! railway mail service has issued the fol
} lowing order: All lines east of the Mis-
? sissippi river will send mail for Oregon
3 Washington territory, Alaska and BIRTHS
i Columbia via st. Paul and the Norther
| Pacific railway. Division superintend
: ents will issue special instructions
) lines west of the Mississippi river an
: east of the Rocky mountains, SO tha
: mail will go via the Union Pacific {
/ Northern Pacific railways, selecting th
4 line that makes the best time. Lines
q Oregon and Washington territory wi
n send mail for noints east of the Miss
9 ssippi river via the Northern Pacific raj
4 way and st. Paul. The superintender
9 of the eighth division of the railway ma
n aervice will issue instructions to dive
at Blackfoot Junction mail for lines WEI
8 of the Mississippi river and east of tt
n Rocky mountains that will make bette
. time via the Utah Northern division
the Union Pacific railway.
q Superintendent Thompson of the raj
+ way mail service has submitted his al
y nual report, from which the followin
: figures are obtained: Number of raj
e way postofices in 1883 was 993, an il
It crease of twenty-four over 1882. I'll
If number of miles of route for which raj
q roads were paid was 1O9, 1927, an increa.
II of 1864 over 1882; number of miles
is railroad travelled by clerks sc, ,180, ,43o, a
y increase of 10, ,438 $50; number of piec.
. mail matter handled, 1881, $50, $50; il
Il crease ,429 ,922 over preceding yea
b The superintendent asks an increase
n S318. 900 in the appropriation for railws
IS postal clerks, and $50, COO increase +,
le postal cars. He recommends that ii
d postmaster general be authorized to pc
y the widow or the guardian of minor chi