Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-09-04
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90 tho United States from Spain.
The treasury department has paic
out $4,000, 900 on sccount of penslpn,
this month.
The Knights Of Labor boycott on tht
Wabash and Missouri Pacific roads .ha.
been raised.
During the first seven months of tn,
present year $40 Chinese landed al
San Francisco.
There are thirty insane patients from
Idaho who are cared for In the state
asylum at Salem.
/ It is claimed that 800 acres of Che
Blalnck farm near Milton, Or. yielded
| $4,000 bushels of wheat.
The Tory party of England is at
logserheads, and a disruption of the
new ministry is not unlikely.
| So strong is The belief in London
that Gordon is alive that mission has
been organized to search for him.
/ Canadian mails coming into the
| United States have been ordered to be
funigated to ohv;ate the danger Of
! Transmitting smallpox.
An increase of wages, amounting in
some cases to twenty per cent, has been
made Ill the iron IN Ills of Ellis l. Lessig
ut Put5stowa, Pennsylvania.
A telegram from New York to the
Boston Advertiser says Mi. Billings
scouts as ridiculous the report that he
wanted Mr.. Willard to be president of
the Northern Pacific.
/ French, cattle king of Grant coun-
i ty and son-in-law of the late Dir.
Glenn, of California, shot and killed a
sqaatter who was endeavorino to secure
homestead rights within Frencl's en-
closure.
Pres dent Cleveland keeps scrap
book Of e> >cerpts FROM the newspapers
in order to be informed of all sorts Of
public opinion. II is one clerks sole
employment to collect and preserve
these things.
A reduction of one cent per pound
in the freight rate on hops from the
Pacific coast to eastern points has been
made by all trahsconGlnental roads.
The old rate was three cents. Tho new
rate goes into offect September 2
Helen Hunt Jackson, just dead, was
an authoress whose style was particu-
larly siuap!e, ,liiect, and clear, suggest
ing to an inexpeft reader that she
wrote with easy rapidity, but her man
uscript was always a mass Of ensure
and interlineat;on.
! Nevada is happy. John Mackay
has SHE'D his hat into the ring and SAYS
he wants the United States senatoiship
JAS. Fair says he wants TO keep it
Both are worth $25. 100000 and mean
business. A vote at Carson next WIN
ter will DO worth SIS, ,000.- Astolian.
A decision was rendered at San
Francisco by Superior Judge Mcguire.
against Joseph Bradenstein, Esberg,
Bachman 4 Co. etal, and in favor OF
Wllrher Jones, in which millions of
dollars are involved. Jones sued de-
! fendants, who were his former partners,
for mismanaging and destroying the
business and freezing him out.
Final arrangements between Enslsnd
aud Russia for the settlement of dis
putes arising from the Afghan frontier
question are progressing satisfactorily.
Lord Salisbury is carrying on negoti
ations from Chalet, France. Barren de
Staal, the Russian ambassador, is so
constantly occupied that he is unable
to leave his post for short holiday.
A gentleman who lately returned
from trip to the GraY's harbor region
reports that two large saw-mills are in
course of erection. Messrs. Hawthorne
& Co, company of Michigan lumber
men, are putting mp one mill, and a CHI
cago firm are engaged in building the
other mil Both, when complete, will
have capacity Of from sixty to seven
ty-fve thousand feet a dav.-Standard.
Coast Mail: The black sand bus;-
ness is booming at the mines near Ran
dolph. 1t is reported that Boston
company, with abundant capital, has
purchased and IS preparing to open and
work the Eagle mine. The gold is
there, the only difficulty being in saving
it, which obstacle to wealth in that way
it is conid 'nty believed has been SUI.
mounted by some of the new processes
for working black sand, which is now
III high demand.
One difficulty which our troops labor
under in their pursuit of the Apaches
has just been illustrated in the ex
perienee of Lent Davis. This Officer
was on hot trail in Sonora, with hi
company of Indian scouts and twt
troops of the Fourth Cavelry, whri
the Indians unexpectedly halted an.
asked for council. When Lieut.
Davis refused this aud urged them OF
i. half dozen Of them moved off TO th
t hills aud were fired upon by the cavalry
WHO killed three and caused the rest I,
! surrender. If to the natural dificul
!. ties of pursuit is added treachery or IN
/ difference on the part of Indian allies
= 10 wonder that success is hard t
! achieve. One consolation for Lieut.
Davis's disappointment is found in tn
fact that Chatto, the chief OF scouts
was among those killed. He WIS
> leader in previous outbreaks, and
J was his camp that Gen. Crook captures
: in the Sierra Madres. With Chief
Mana and Chatto dead and Geronim
. wounded, the border already feels