The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-12
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Little Missouri Range Swept
by a Prairie Fire.
The President Extends the Time for III,
Cattle Kings to Remove Their
Stock from the Territory.

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has declined the proffered Spanish Mis-
sion.
The population Of Rhode Island is
given as 345, ,343. In 1880 the population
was 276,531.
"A syndicate OF American capital-
lists is 10 spend $l0,O00,0 900 in railway
building in Jamaeia.
One Of the largest worsted mills in
Providence has been recapitalixed in
England and the stock sold.
A vast syndicate OF physicians and
others have a project of establishing a
health resort and sanitarium in Florida.
1t is believed at Washington that Be
nicia, CAL, will be selected by the gov
ernment at which TO establish an ord
nance foundry.
Mayor Frank p Schiff bauer OF KAN
sas City, Kan, has been arrested and
charged with embezzling about $4,000
of the city funds.
Official dispatches from Honolulu do
not show anything calculated to cause
alarm. The report that revolution is
rife is discredited.
Guests at ST. Louis hotels help them
selves since the walters strike, and the
best Of ii is they are not so long about
1t and they have no walters TO tip.
Statistics show that the cotton crop
this year is the greatest ever produced,
and that the growers are less in debt
than st any time for twenty-five years.
The Grant Memorial Association has
already raised 1896 and needs to
raise $3.50, 900 more in order 20 erect the
proposed monument in honor OF General
Grant.
A suggestion for a second Boston me-
mortal to John BOYLE O'Reilly calls for 8
charity farm OF 100 acres near Boston
for that city's homeless Roman Catholic
children.
1t is reported in Boston that note of
the Worcester Steel Works has been pro-
tested The capital of the company is
$500, 900, but the Commercial Agency
gives it no rating.
The committee having in charge the
adjustment OF the Virginia debt an
nounces that it has on deposit a large
majority of all classes of the securities
under the agreement.
The freight brakemen on the Pittsburg,
Shenandoah and Lake Erie railroad at
Mercer, Pa, have gone on a strike for an
advance in wages, and all freight traffic
Is suspended in consequence.
It is understood in Wall street at New
York that Noryin Green is about TO re-
sign as President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. He is to
be succeeded by George Gould
Mr. Morrow is not candidate for the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of First Assistant Postmaster General
CIarkson. Mr. Morrow SAYS he will
start for home as soon as Congress ad-
journs.
The first weeks engagement of Miss
Emma Juch proved the most successful
ever known in the history of Denver.
The gross receipts, which far exceeded
that of the Patti company, amounted
to nearly 10000.
John j. Knox. ex-United States Con-
troller, who arrived in New York from
France, said that the American silver
legislation, which has caused an advance
in the price of silver, was looked upon
with favor in Europe.
The President has agreed, upon the
receipt of written guarantee that half
of the cattle of Indian Territory will be
removed by November l, that he viii
extend the time for the removal of the
remainder to December l.
The Queen City Natural Gas and Fuel
Company has offered the city of Cincin-
natl 300 900 and 2 per cent. upon the
annual gross receipts of the company, or
free fuel for the city buildings, in con-
sideration for the franchise.
The city of Chicago is endeavoring to
secure the benefits from deposits of city
| funds in the banks, The interest has
for years been above $4,000 annually,
and the City Treasurer has claimed and
appropriated the sum as perquisites.
A New York evening paper says a pc
tition is being circulated among the
stockholders of the Illinois Central, urg-
| ing them to rise in rebellion against the
present management. The petition says
| the company is practically on the verge
of ruin.
Two st. Louis physicians have fled
complaints in the Probate Court for in
quiry as to the sanity of Mrs. Wood
| worth, the evangelist and leader of the
Oakland (Cal.) doom-sealers, who has
has been holding meeting at st. Louis
for several months.
1 About a dozen scientists, archaeologists,
botanists and biologists are about to ex-
plore Arizona and New Mexico to exam
| Inc the remains of ancient civilization,
antedating, it is said, that of the Aztecs
and existing principally in the Gila val
| lev, in the northwest part of Arizona.
The peculiar habits of the Zuni and
Navajo Indians will also be investigated.
A prairie fire ravaged thousands OF
acres along the Little Missouri river ten
days ago, and the great cattle range was
swept clear The fire was put out by
means of horses, which were killed and
used as drags to extinguish the flames.
The horses were split up the back and
i their carcasses dragged over the country
by long ropes. Twelve hundred head OF
horses were used.
The South Park Commissioners have
decided not to tender the Washington
park as site for the Worlds Fair as
requested by the Exposition Directors.
They add that they have already made a
tender of the unimproved portion OF
! Jackson park and will now add thereto
| the improved area of that park, making
a total acreage so rendered of go acres.
A mile and half of the frontage on the
lake shore is included in the tender.
The Senate Committee on Private Land
Claims through Mr. Colquitt has N a ie
an elaborate report on the bill to reim-
burse the grantees, their legal represent
atives and the assigns of the Punta de
| Laguna Mexican land grant in California
for lands of which they were deprived
by an erroneous survey made by the of
ficers of the United States. The com
mittee recommended that they be al
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