The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-09
Dog Census to be Taken
in New York.
"A FAT MANS ASSOCIATION.
Oklahoma Territory Yearns for State
hood--Missouri Corn Sells
for $40 Per Acre,

is becoming exhausted.
Jay Gould is said to be after the Dem
yer and Rio Grande road.
sixty-two convicts are awaiting death
in various United States prisons.
Corn in the field is selling as high as
$40 an acre in Platte county, Mo.
The story that the Atchison has CON
troll of the Rio Grande is denied.
Oklahoma yearns to be invested with
the dignities and attributesol Statehood.
The New England tobacco crop is big.
ger and better this year than ever before.
The Methodist Michigan Conference
has voted to admit women as lay dele
gates.
I A census OF New York dogs will be
taken, as Mayor Grant wants every one
licensed.
A little over $l4,000,000 OF an per
cent. bonds remain to be extended or
redeemed.
The State National Bank at Boston
has had $lS, ,ls0 returned to its consci-
ence money.
Thirty sod growers from different parts
Of the country have put in bids for dec
Grating the Worlds Fair.
A Baltimore grand jury has declared
that the prevalence Of gambling there is
due to negligent city officials.
Chicago traffic officials are grumbling
because the bulk Of the wheat traffic
from Kansas and Nebraska is going to
st. Louis.
Secretary Tracy awarded the contract
for building torpedo boat No. 2 to the
Iowa Iron Works Of Dubuque, Ia, the
lowest bidder, at $lll,500
Texas has a fat mans association, the
initiation fee OF which is a cent pound.
Men who weigh less than 225 pounds
are ineligible TO membership.
The death Of a large number Of Indians
in Oklahoma as the result of eating wa
termelons emphasizes the great dissimi-
larity between the red man and the
negro.
United States 2 per cent. bonds are
quoted at 99Ja and British 3 per cent.
consols at only 95. We certainly have q
right to boast Of the splendid credit Of
our government.
The opening OF the Monterey and Gulf
railroad TO Tampico, Mexico, has pro-
duced wonderful activity in trade, The
exports at Tampico, 1t is predicted, will
exceed those Of Vera Cruz by January,
1t is probable that, as soon as a new
system Of inspecting cattle has been
thoroughly tested, American cattle will
be allowed to enter British ports free
from the ten days quarantine now i'm
posed.
Commissioner Owen Of Washington,
d. c., has directed that fifteen Russian
Hebrews, who entered the United States
at Suspension Bridge, N, ", be returned
to Canada. They were in an utterly des-
titute condition.
The arrest Of Manuel Seona, attache
Of the Spanish legation, for oyerdriving
a horse at Cape May is likely to cause
serious trouble, as it is claimed there was
no cause OF action, and the Spanish Min
ister has taken up the case.
Asmalloblongsteelb box passed through
the Chicago Cnstoms-house while ago.
1t didn't look like much Of box, but it
contained $l5O,0O0 worth Of diamonds
and rubies for an Illinois watch COM
pany, and the duty was a small fortune.
In the treaty with the Sac and Fox
Indians the words "open to white set
tlement" occur. These words are apt
to cause some trouble. The Indians say
they will insist on their stipulations and
will not permit negroes to take land in
their country.
Cinnamon are making great efforts to
enter the country at Richford, Vt, and
the customs officials are on the alert.
Quite a colony has been at Sutton, Que
bee, for two weeks, awaiting favorable
opportunity to smnggle themselves into
the United States.
The american Agricuiturist declares
that the half has not been told about
the European shortage in breadstufis,
which not even bountiiul crop this
year would have relieved. The conti-
mental powers, especially Russia, have
suppressed the facts.
The weathiest insane asylum in Amer
lea is said to be the Sheppard Asylum
In Baltimore. Itwas endowed in 1867
with $560,000. Since that time the trus-
tees, using the interest alone, have ex-
pended $3.50, 900 in buildings and land,
and still have capital Of 100000.
II ID reported that Mics Vera Ava, who
has created so much noise in the East
over her mysterious disappearance from
Chicago and final reappearance at Gin
cinnati, lived at Pomona, CAL, at one
time, and that her brother was the an.
thor Of the celebrated Murchison letter.
The proclamation Of Garcia, the Mex
ican freebooter, calling upon the people
to assist his revolutionary project, con-
cludea by charging President Diaz with
being "the arch traitor, assassin and
criminal Of the nineteenth century,
and that he has practiced great despot-
ism since his election as President.