The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-25
Coinage for the Month
Of August.
THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND.
Valentine Scrip Cannot Be Used in the
Location Of Tide Lands on
Puget Sound.

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State union.
/ Chicago unveils her Grant monument
on October Z.
The Vermont Legislature voted $l5 ,OO(
to the Worlds Fair.
Old Grow, a Cheyenne chief, is tryinl
to set up Messiah craze.
Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton's theatrica
venture has gone to pieces.
The North German Lloyd Company
will run line of steamers between New
York and Genoa.
| The Cincinnati tax commission is un,
earthing millions Of securities not placed
on the tax duplicate.
Typhoid fever has broken out in the
State idiot asylum at Syracuse. Impure
water is the cause for it.
Only 5 per cent, or 1920, Of the total
immigration to this country during the
last fiscal year settled in the South.
1t is estimated that 2O, 900 horse power
will be required for the electric-lighting
plant of the Columbian Exposition.
The Delaware fish commission has
placed 4,000,000 shad in the Delaware
river at Bull Island during the present
year.
Additional instructions concerning the
smuggling Of lottery tickets into the
United States from Mexico have been
issued.
The substitution Of the cable for
horses on the Broadway and Third-ave-
nue. lines will throw 5000 horses out Of
employment.
The Navy Department will at once
issue orders concerning the survey Of
the Pacitic-cable route. The Thetis will
probably do the work.
Some OF the roads in the Northwestern
blind passenger pool have been furnish
ing erroneous statements OF the business
to the Advisory Board.
An electrically Illuminated cross is to
be placed on the spire Of Methodist
church in Minneapolis. Fifty-two in
candescent lamps will be used.
The South Dakota people are 80 jubi-
liant over their big crops that they have
set about the work Of raising a huge
grain palace" in celebration thereof
The land office refuses to restore San
Clemente Island on the southwest coast
of California to the public domain, ow-
ing to its future availability as naval
station.
The Secretary Of the Interior decides
that Valentine scrip cannot be used in
the location Of lands lying between tie
high and low-water mark In Puget Sound
district, Wash.
Already apprehensons are beginning
to he expressed at the possible fate Of
Peary in his Greenland explorations.
There are fears that he and his party will
meet the fate Of the Greedy party.
The Boston Adpertiser gives the partic-
ulars involving sl,000,O0O worth Of stock
OF the big Quincy copper mine in Mich
igan and serious allegations refiecLing
upon the honesty Of the managers.
The census returns for Pennsylvania
show that the unfortunate city Of Johns
town has increased in population since
1880 from $3.50 to 2l ,S0b, a growth which
makes il now the thirteenth city in the
State.
Conservative estimates place the yield
of Minnesota and the Dakotas at l2b,-
900, 600 bushels Of wheat, against NC, ,000,-
600 last year. 1t is asserted that the
wheat crop Of the three States would till
q train 250 miles long.
Black ants threaten to take possession
of Boston, and State street, the citadel
Of Boston's moneyed men, is literally
swarming with them. They are on the
streets, on the sidewalks and crawling
up the side Of buildings.
A rumor has been published at Win
nipeg that the Grand Trunk ia about to
extend its line to Winnipeg via Sault
Ste. Marie and Dulutk, and that when
the former city is reached the line will
be extended to the Pacific Coast.
The coinage Of the United Statesminte
during the month Of August was: Double
eagles, 81 ,000, 900; eagles, $l20,0O0 half
eagles, 100000; standard dollars, 81 $780,
900; dimes, 1854 1000; cents, s74, ,2J0; / |
cent, $4,000. Total coinage, $3,7ls,40O.
The Tennessee Legislature has decided
that 1t is unable to abrogate the present
lease OF convicts. The session was called
for the purpose Of breaking the lease,
and the call was necesstated by riots at
The place where convicts were employed
in the mines.
All the reportareceived at the internal
revenue bureau indicate that the pro-
luction ofssugar from beets, sorghum,
maple syrup and cane will be up to the
original estimates oi the producers, un-
Ter which the bounty was estimated at
ibout SIC, 100000 per year.
The local directory Of the Worlds Fair
las formally confirmed the nomination
II j. M. Samuels Of Kentucky. chief Of
he horticultural department; 1. w.
Robinson of the United States navy,
;hief OF machinery, and H. s. Peabody
i Illinois, chief Of the department Of
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