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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
Woman's S World.

Ihe san FrHncteco homemH Exchange.
The Women's Exchange is an in
stitution in San Francisco whose OBJ
ject is TO afford market where
deserving women can dispose OF their
handiwork and where buyers can be
assured that they are bestowing their
patronage upon those who deserve it.
as well as where worthy women desir-
ing permanent employment may find
situations. At the sixth annual meet
ing. Feb 20, Mrs. John Currey, pres
ident, reviewed the work accomplished
by the exchange during the past year.
The total receipts for the twelve
months ended Jan. / were $40, ,613 05.
The expenditures amounted to
$40, i3s As, leaving a cash balance in
bank at the end of the year of s3474 60.
During the year over 24o women
availed themselves OF the privileges
offered by the exchange, and fifteen
others were found steady employment.
More would have been done, said
Mrs. Currey, had it not been for linn
tied Accommodations. In this connec-
ton the necessity OF the exchange
having building Of its own was
urged with much earnestness.
Mrs. David Bixler, the treasurer,
reported that on Feb. /, 1890, the ex-
change had cash in hand to the
amount of s9429 10, and on Feb. /,
1891, it had s12,5 "a in the bank and
1891 45 with the bookkeeper, a total
of S12, ,903 10
Mrs. Ella W. Morgan, chairman of
the admission committee, reported
that i'm the exhibiting department of
the exchange 1897 articles have been
sold and the amount received for them
is $9O94 rs, showing an increase over
the previous year of 1885 30. One con-
signor of decorated china alone has
received in the past six months 1901 75,
another consignor of dolls has re-
ceived in the past year S51s IS, and
still another of fancy baskets and
other smaller articles 1886 IS. The
new year begins with the names of
22T consignors on the books for this
department and 1905 articles for sale.
The report of Lavina Wetherell,
chairman of the committee on pre-
serves, was read, showing that the
total amount realized during the year
from the sale of preserves and jellies
was $1204 rs, an increase of $276 65
over the previous year. One of the
consignors was paid 1922 As for calves
foot jelly alone. The sale of flowers
amounted to $2SOS 10, while at the
counter where pies, cakes and bread
are sold SI3, ,307 35 was taken in, maxi
ing total of $17 1920 30 from the three
departments.
An informal building talk followed,
which resulted in the president being
authorized to appoint a committee Of
five gentlemen from the advisory
board to inquire into building affairs
and make a report to the lady man
| ayers.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
Small Fruits

There is considerable interest be-
ing taken among fruit growers of
Fresno county, and particularly the
colonists, in the culture of strawber-
ries, blackberries and raspberries.
The strawberry in particular has re-
ceived considerable attention during
the past year. One of our colonists
ing the variety known as the "pine-
APPLE 1t has fine flavor and grows
luxuriantly. During last spring he
furnished several of the local dealers
of Fresno with the product of his gar
den, amounting to several thousand
boxes. The most profitable results
can be obtained by planting out be-
tween rows of fruit trees, and they u.s.
ually provide more plant food in the
way of fertilizers than they take off.
They usually produce best and grow
more readily when placed upon ridges
where they can be irrigated from the
bitches. The profits derived from
the strawberry are very large, as the
home product, being fresh for the
market, is always preferable.
Biackberries are being produced ex-
tensively in the orchards, and like
the strawberry, they provide fertiliz-
ing food in excess of that which they
consume when planted and cultivated
with fruit trees. Several of the small
land owners in the colonies have
adopted the plan, and the results have
been very satisfactory The Kitta-
tinny and Lawton are the favorite va
rieties, and are found to produce very
largely.
The New Rochelle raspberry has
been favorite with the producers,
but the best results have not been OBJ
tanned, owing to the sun heat, which
overtakes them before the ripening
season. In shaded localities they
mature and are delicious.
The experience of the producers of
small fruits is that no scale of para
ss.sf common to other localities has
attacked the vines or plants in
FYpositor.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
Farm Notes.
Pertinent Paragraphs.

The way Arizona has been changed
from desert to "A land OF fruits and
grains by "A return to the Irrigation
practiced by its prehistoric inhab-
itants Is one OF the wonders OF the
century. Only few years ago Arizona
was the home OF the Apache and the
tarantula, the horned toad and the
lizard, and its best crop the cactus
and the sagebrush. Now a census
bulletin tells us that there are 1915
irrigated farms In Arizona having a
total area of G5, ,S2l acres, or an average
OF sixty-one acres each. The average
cost of land, including the purchase
price, fencing, plowing and water
rights SIG SO per acre, of which 81 07
represents the cost of the water right,
and the average valuation placed upon
the land by owners is S4s Gs per acre,
including buildings. The average
annual cost "a water is 81 SIS and the
average annual 'salue of the farm
products Is s13 92 per acre, ranging
from 80 26 in Maricopa county to S31
in Yavapai county. The acreage now
under irrigation approaches the max
:mum possible with the present water
supply, but the conservation of food
waters that annually run to waste
would enormously increase the area
susceptible OF successful cultivation.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
How Indian Corn Grows.


Corn has been grown ever since this
country was settled, and yet very little
is known about it or the best method
OF growing. 1t has been noticed, vet
little thought of, that the suckers and
tassels appear about the same time.
As the suckers or ears enlarge, the
cob develops, and the tassels stretch
up and the silks appear. The first
silks to appear are those at the but
of the cob, and then follow others
above in succession, as the cob de-
velops, until the top is reaehed-a silk
for every kernel of corn 1t requires
usually twenty-four hours, saws the
Manchester { n. H. Mirror and Far
mer, after the silk appears before it
reaches maturity, the lower ones, of
course, maturing first and so on up TO
the tip of the ear. While these changes
are taking place, tassels are under
going corresponding development,
the central spike maturing first, the
lower whorl around il next, and so on
TO the last As the but-siIks are first
AtfNcoRNNs Co int NEkAAlttt td-Et1 IL tlISI
developed and bears pollen, the pro-
gression of both sets of organs deyel-
oping together, the corresponding
ones on the tassel being about twenty
four hours ahead of the silk, the male
principle thus leading.
Then successfully the silks receive
the pollen; and as there must be a
silk for every kernel. so a grain of
pollen must fall on every silk, to
fructify it, or there will be no kernel.
In the order OF development. the poll
len from the central spike naturally
falls on the but silks, and the pro-
cess goes on in order to the top silks
and the pollen from the upper spikes
As soon as the pollen gives out, frueti-
fication ceases, and the more or less
completeness of the operation is shown
by the more or less development of
the kernels over the tips of the ears.
The report of the Iowa station SAYS
that when the lowest silks appear four
ends of ears the lower grains of corn
will be old enough and sufficiently
strong to rob the younger and weaker
upper grains, and cause them to die
from starvation. Therefore, when
there are such differences, the ears
will not be properly filed at their up
per ends; but when the difference
is only twenty-four hours or less, the
ears will be as fully developed at their
upper ends as at their lower ones. 1t
is important, therefore, to have the
pollen and the silk develop as nearly
at the same time as possible; and with
this in view varieties ought to be very
carefully studied.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
Current Comment.

The San Francisco Kings Daugh-
ters' home for incurables association
limits membership TO Protestants.
Catholics who contributed to the funds
under the supposition that, as it was
announced to be non-sectarian, Cath
Ollie ladies could become members
and vote on the use of the money, are
not pleased with this. The home for
incurablss, however, is open to per-
sons of any religion, or of no religion.
The recent entertainment in aid of the
home took in S1s05 rs and paid out
1921 SO. When few sums yet uncol-
lected are taken and a few unsettled
bills paid the society expects to have
$1o0s GO in bank
A demonstration of the power for
good of organized women was the
entertainment given on the evening
of Feb. "a by the Young Women S
Christian Association of San Francisco
to working girls. The names of girl
employees were obtained from the
owners of stores and factories until
the list was as large as could be accom-
modated, and then invitations were
sent out which were responded to by
100 girls, who enjoyed rich musical
and literary program. A lecture hr
Rev. Robert -'e was .
- 4 b.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
Responsiba.f : of \.


The responsibility of writer< : ably
discussed by Charles Dudley Warner in
the Editors Drawer in Harper's
Magazine. He says: 1t is difficult
enough to keep the world straight
without the interposition of fiction.
But the conduct of the novelists and
the painters makes the task of the con-
servators of society doubly perpIex-
ing. Perhaps the most harmful sim
ners are not those who send into the
world of fiction the positively wicked
and immoral but those who make cur
rent the dull, the commonplace. and
the socially vulgar. For most readers
the wicked character is Tepellent; but
the commonplace raises less protest.
and is soon deemed harmless, while il
is most demoralizing. Unfortun-
ately the world is so ordered that the
person of the feeblest constitution can
communicate a contagious disease.
And these people, bred on this pabu-
lum, in turn make books. If one, it is
now admitted. can do nothing else@n
this world. he can WRITE. and so the
evil widens and widens. No art is re.s
quired, nor any selection. nor anl
ideality. only capacity for increasing
the vacuous commonplace in life A.
princess born may have this. or the
leader of cotiilions- Yet in the JpS.r
ment the responsibility will rest
the writers who set the copy"
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
FOREIGN.

Domentrio Jauregui, the robber
who has long terrorized the state of
Jalisco, Mexico, with his band of muir
derers and robbers, has been captured,
with six of his followers, and all shot.
The priests are actively supporting
the government in the Canadian cam
paign.
Two watchmen have been killed and
eaten by wolves in the town of Kines-
var, Austria, and two clergymen
suffered the same fate near town.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13
EAST AND SOUTH
Nh
Southern Pacific Route

THE MOUNT SHASTA ROUTE.
KxpRIss TRAINS LEAVE roRrLAsp DAILY:
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-13

smokers should be smart enough to
know that the genU' Seal of North
Carolina Plug CUT theIr no more
than poo- Tobacco 1somf 'ers ~
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
RIVER STEAMER SUNK.
Nearly One Hundred People
Lose Their Lives.
PROGRAM FOR SHERMAN's FUNERAL.
Loss of a Patent Life Boat
On the Atlantic.
PROGRESS OF the REVOLT IN CHILL.
Funeral of Admiral Porter
At Washington.
PROGRESS OF the REVOLT IN CHILL.
STRUCK A PIER.

STRUCK A PIER.
| An Ohio River Steamer Sinks at Gin.
cinnat1-NearIy One Hundred Live,
Lost-The Boat at the Mercy OF the
Wind and Current-Several Killed
by Debris.
CINCINNATI, Feb. II The steamer Sher.
lock, with about thirty-fve passengers and
crew of from fifty to sixty men on board,
struck pier of the Chesapeake and Ohio
bridge tonight and went to pieces. She
sank at Fifth street and her cabin floated
down the river. Mrs. j. Mclean
of Pittsburg was killed and it is
not known how many persons were
nearly all the passengers were or
deck to see how near the boats chimneys
would come to the bridge. Their curiosity
was soon changed to terror as they saw the
boat apparently at the mercy of the winds
and the current. And in moment with
terrible crash in the darkness
the boat struck the stone pier
of the bridge and was utterly
helpless. At this writing no account of
drowned. The steamer was bound for New
Orleans. AS she approached the bridge
of the accident from any one on the boat
has been given. James Pickett of the Ken
ton club was on the Kentucky shore and
observed something unusual in the
boats movements. He saw her strike
She chung there for a short time
and gave distress signals. Pickett
manned boats with what help he could
command and went to the aid of the
passengers. He succeeded in picking off
SIX women and seven men, following the
floating vessel as she left the pier and float
ed down the angry river. He says he saw
some of the crew swimming ashore. He
saw them on raft of three boards and he
thinks he saw many struggling in the wa
ter. When the steamer reached the Fifth
street wharf after narrowly missing
Southern railroad bridge, leaving the cab
in with the passengers afoat. Here some
of the people managed to get ashore The
harbor steamer A. L. Martin was hastily
sent after the floating cabin and caught it
at Riverside, several miles below the city
left were hastily taken aboard and
returned to this city. Mrs.
Mclean of Pittsburg, was instantly killed
by falling freight at the time of the COLI
sion. The Sherlock was eighteen years
old, valued at $4,000 and insured for
$12, 900. She had 400 tons of freight,
of nails, paper, bottled beer,
glassware, etc. There were twenty-one |
registered passengers and nine not regis
tered.
LATER-It is now known certainly that |
Mrs. Mclean of Pittsburg, and her grand |
laughter, Margery Brown of Pittsburg,
we're the only ones of the registered |
passengers lost. The fate of the unregis- |
,ered passengers is not known. 1t is be- |
ieved every one of the officials were |
saved. In regard to the cabin and deck |
crew there is painful uncertainty.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
WANTEn

WANTED,
by young girl situation as nt,rse NJ xraftress
- Can or address former place.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
The war in Caroline Islands.

SAN Francisco. Feb. ia private
letter from the Caroline Islands gives an
account of further fighting between the
natives and Spaniards in which the latter
were worsted. Last November the Span
ish governor sent an expedition consisting
of three gunboats and one transport
against the village of Metalamei. The
sailors and troops landed and after a loss
of sixty men made the natives retreat
The Spaniards were reinforced and six
days later attacked the natives. The latter
were behind a barricade and were armed
with muskets and two small cannon. The
Spaniards were badly repulsed with a loss
of 120 men. 1t is expected that general
uprising of the natives will occur and the
governor has despatched ships to Manila
for troops.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18

EtNTRY clerk for wholesale house wages 81
ll per week. Room 2, third floor
IFS Its GIG CHAPEL. STREET
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
SWOLLEN BY THE RAINS.

People Fleeing From the High
Water in Pittsburg Johnstown
Partly Inundated-Bridges Carried
Away BY Ohio River Feeders.
PrrTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 17.-At eleven
o'clock this morning both rivers were
twenty-six feet and rising at the rate of
seven inches per hour. The high water
was very unexpected and all the morning
families have been moved from their
houses in the lower part of Allegheny, as
several streets are flooded to the door
steps. The Pittsburg and Western rail-
road is covered in the city and all
travel at this end is stopped, while many
mills lining the rivers have been forced to
close down
Reports from the headwaters show
steady rains with rivers still rising and
lower towns flooded. Bridges are being
carried away in every direction and the
loss ia great
In this city, rivermen say the flood W ill
be fully as high as in 1884, when
thirty-two feet of water was reached, and
enormous losses inflicted in the low-lying
portion of the city and river towns.
The Stony Creek registers seventeen
and half feet. The prospects now are
ohoe ~ WILL 10 h1uSh hiShSI AL VI Sdhl-
bria is again under water, and also the
lower end of the main part of the city
from the Windsor hotel down. 1t is now
plainly observed that the arches of the
stone bridge are responsible for much of
the overflow, by preventing the water
passing through freely.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 17-At 10 o'clock last
night the Ohio river here was forty-six
feet above low water, and was rising half
an inch an hour. The rain on Sunday
night in southern Ohio was very heavy.
Mill creek was about as high as it was ever
known to be. 1t washed away bridge at
Ivorydale, and endangered another near
Cuttingville, both within five miles of the
business part of the city. At Loveland
the Little Miami was so high that bridges
have been guyed and weighed to save
them. kilograms from West Virginia re-
port that the feeders of the Ohio are full
and rising. If no more rainfall ensues
Immediately the river here will not reach
above ffty-three or fifty-four feet.
JoHNsrowN, Pa, Feb. I'm the First,
Fifth and Seventh wards the polling
places are flooded, and unless an order
from court is obtained there will be no
election held in these precincts
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
COLLISION AT RAILWAY.
Three Men Injured-Cars and a Loco
motive Wrecked.

NEW YORK. Feb. ia collision occur
red between freight and passenger trains
at Railway, N. j., this morning which re
suited in the wrecking of several freight
cars. the destruction of an engine and the
serious If not fatal injury of three of the
train crew. A freight train was standing
at the junction west of Railway when a
passenger train crashed into it's rear end.
The engine of the passenger train plunged
through the caboose and five cars before
stopping, tearing the cars into kindling
wood. The engine was wrecked, and the
engineer, Page, and the fireman, Mooney,
were seriously injured.
The express car, which was next to the
engine Of the passenger train, telescoped
the engine, scattering the load of express
matter in every direction. The express
messenger, named Parker, was found in
the wreckage, badly hurt.
The accident was caused by the telegraph
operators giving the wrong signals. Trains
we're delayed several hours
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
A Disorderly House R.tdsa

A disorderly house kept by Mrs. Eli "a
beth Phelan on Hill street was raided LAST
night by Officers Allen, STREET., Daley and
Beegen, and the proprietress, her two
daughters, Maggie and Mary Phelsn. and
one Michael Kelleher were arrested. Mrs,
Phelan was charged with keeping disor.
derby house, and her daughters and Kelle.
her were each charged with breach of the
peace and drnnkenness
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
THE FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS-.

The Diplomatic and Consular App
preparations in the Senate - The
House in the Committee of the
Whole on the Indian Appropriation
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18

The Diplomatic and Consular APP
proprfations in the Senate - The
House in the Committee of the
Whole on the Indian Appropriation
Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Mr Morrill,,
from the finance committee, reported back
adversely Mr.. Stanford's bill to provide
the government with means sufficient to
supply the national want of sound cir
culating medium, and it was placed on
the calendar.
Mr.. Dawes offered resolution (Which
was agreed toy calling on the secretary of
the interior for copies of all correspon-
dence between the secretary and the COM
missioner of Indian affairs and between
either of them and persons representing
different religious denominations, relating
to Indian contract schools since July 1,
1889.
The diplomatic and consular apprepria-
ton bill was then taken up, the pending
question being on Mr. Dolph's amendment
to increase the salary of the minister to
Portugal from s., 900 to $4,000. A num-
Der of amendments were passed and re-
jected, and the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The house was called to order this morn.
| ing by Mr.. Payson of Illinois.
Mr.. Thompson of Ohio, from the com.
mittee on the Judiciary, reported resolu.
ton for the impeachment of Alexander
Bearman, judge of the United States dis.
| trict court for the western district of Lou.
| isiana for high crimes and misdemeanors
| Ordered printed and recommitted
Mr.. Brewer of Michigan presented and
| after brief debate the house agreed to the
| conference report on the fertilization ap
| preparation bill.
Mr.. Spooner of Rhode Island called W
the senate bill increasing to 800 a month
the pension of the widow Of Admiral Casey
upon which measure the previous question
was ordered at the last session of congress
Some disposition being shown to discuss
the bill, Mr.. Cannon of Illinois Gin the in
terest of appropriation bills) asked Mr.
Spooner to withdraw it, and meeting with
refusal, raised the question of considera
ton.
The house refused-yeas 100, nays ia
to consider the bill and Immediately wen
into committee of the whole (Mr. Dingle,
of Maine in the chair on the Indian ap
preparation bill.
After debate the committe then rose ant
reported the bill to the house.
The previous question was ordered OF
the passage Of the bill and the house I'D
! joHSpsd,
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18

At Naturalization defeated Meriden
tonight to 8, each team losing goal on
fouls. Leyden butted Parsons and the
latter punched Meriden's centre three or
four times. 1t was almost a free fight.
when Referee O'Malley stopped the row by
filming Parsons and Leyden FIVE dollars
each. Curley and Swords each had thir-
teen stops.
At New Bedford-In game of polo to-
night the Bostons defeated the Brocktons
70 q
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
GRAND LODGE X, orr.
The Annual session Opened Yester.
day I'm Wallfneford.

WALLIsGFoRD, Feb. 17.-Tbe twenty.
third annual session of the Connecticut
grand lodge, K. of P, opened In this
place, this morning, with large attend
ance. Grand Chancellor G. II. Welch of
Torrington presided. After the routine
business was finished Grand Chancellor
WEIGH read his report in which he
showed what had taken place in the
past year. The showing was a most
favorable one and was received with en-
thusiasm.
Grand Keeper or Records and Seals ii.
o. Case also submitted his report. His
report showed q substantial gain in the
treasury
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
JEWELRY ROBBERS FOILED.
Three of Them Captured After
Lively Chase.

CHICAGO, Feb. Hast evening three
men entered the jewelry store of L. F.
Hussander as the proprietor was removing
the jewelry from the show case, prepare
tory to closing. A revolver was levelled
at him and he was ordered to deliver a
tray of diamond rings. He rushed back
to his desk and grasped revolver One
of the robbers fired at him and missed.
Hussander returned the fire and the men
rushed out of the store, the jeweler firing
as they ran. Outside the store the rob-
bers returned the f1e, inhicting serious
wound in Hussander's leg. Two police
men, attracted by the shots, came. and
after long and exciting chase caught
two of the robbers in a private house,
where they had hidden themselves under
a bed. The other man is thought to have
been wounded and escaped.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
PLAYING

CARDS were invented IN France in 1891 for the
amusement OF the king and royal family. In 1878
In the state Of Kentucky far better discovery
was made, l.. g., that a wholesome alcoholic slim
liant could be made for the use Of the people as a
public blessing, and the g.. o. Taylor Old Bour
bon and Rye Whiskey has proved such ever
since. It is bottled by CHESTER b. GRAVES &
soNS. Boston, and Druggists and Grocers have it
o. nj ~ WI iadosse ~ axcsllenps II