The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-11
EASTERN ITEMS.
Camel Coal Struck at
Bath, Maine.
WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS
Ontario Confscates Short Weight
Bread and Gives i; to Chari-
table Institutions
WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS

opium-smoking is increasing in Phial-
delphia.
Only one Indian left in Illinois says
the census.
A vein Of camel coal has been struck
at Bath, Me.
The Peoples party in Kansas invites
penny contributions.
1 Mr.. Blaine thinks Of improving his
property at Bar Harbor.
The Mayor of Philadelphia cannot be
elected to second term.
The owners OF apartment houses in
Boston propose TO organize.
| Separate cars for blacks and whites in
Texas have proven failure.
The assessed valuation OF real estate
in Pennsylvania is $7s2 ,SO0,S72.
The Wyoming Legislature has passed
q law taxing bachelors s2 year.
General Butler is having some grim
enjoyment in reading his obituaries.
The Alliance speakers who are to
stump Ohio will :" live on the farmers. T"
| In Ontario short weight bread is con-
fiscated and given to charitable institu-
tions.
Doodle charges are now made in con-
nection with the harbor works at To-
ronto.
Mr.. Wanamaker is thinking OF intro
ducing pneumatic postal service in st.
Louis.
The Upper Mississippi is rapidly get
ting into an unsatisfactory low-water
condition.
1 Guatemala will probably reproduce at
the Chicago Fair one OF the old palaces
in antique.
The Francklyn cottage, where Presi-
dent Garfield died, has been bought by
the Trustees.
The farmers near Terre Haute, Ind,
want the $l05, 900 stallion Axtell assessed
at that figure instead Of 5000.
Connecticut is overrun with skunks;
they even peregrinate into the cities and
cause many unpleasant incidents.
! A cotton trust is forming in the South,
the object being 10 save the present large
crop from being sacrificed to low prices
| Canadian authorities have prohibited
the circulation through the mails Of that
country OF sixteen papers printed in
| this country.
A leading hotel at Asbury Park, n. j.,
has been fined slOO for serving oleomar-
garine to its guests, who did not detect
the imposition.
Following the suggestion Of General
Booth in England, the Salvation Army
in this country is proposing TO go about
the streets ON bicycles.
| The ProhibitiGnists Of Nebraska have
placed Mrs. Ida NJ. Bittenbender, fe-
male LAWYER OF Lincoln, in the field for
Supreme Judge Of the State.
A new dry dock is proposed for the
BROOKLYN navy ward, to be 900 feet long
and JAG feet wide, to be of wood and
concrete and to cost s600,0OO
The New York Press announces that
the old John Roach ship yard has re-
ceived the contract for an s.0O0-ton mail
steamer from the Pacific Mail Company.
Premier Abbott says the scandals un-
earthed BIZ the Investigations at Ottawa
are very serious, but he adds the govern
ment proposes to punish the guilty par
| ties.
The citizens OF Stevens county, Kan,
in which the county-seat question has
caused some bloodshed, want an investi-
cation Of the finances BY State author
tiles.
Boston has good evidence Of the large
ness OF the peach crop. The Transcript
saws that already the Hub has received
more Of the fruit than it sometimes gets
in an entire season.
1 A glut in the New York lemon market
has been brought on by immense impor-
I tationg. A week ago there were in port
\ three steamers with $1,000 boxes on
board. with no sale for any OF them.
II is said Claus spreckels is TO be pros
ecuted for engaging Austrians to come 70
this country under contract to work in
his reineries. Two Of the men reached
1 New York last week, and are to be re-
turned TO their country.
| Indian lands in the Indian Territory
purchased during the past year by the
government will be opened to settlement
4 by proclamation by the President Sep
\ tember 10. The knowledge Of this TACT
has attracted many boomers already.
4 A New Orleans dispatch says; The
4 Texas Farmers Alliance il responsible
for the injury to the trade OF Galveston
The Texas Railroad Commission, which
lhas fixed cotton rates, and the Texas
I, alien land are both the work Of the ALI.
ance, and both are showing their hurtiul
4 effects.
4 The Keeley cure for drunkenness made
j famous by the publicity given it by Ed.
| itor Medill Of Chicago is not an unmixed
4. blessing. Ii Is claimed that bichloride
Of gold, which is the remedy, not only
removes the taste for liquor, but during
4 the period Of active treatment paralyzes
4 the memory. Patients, they cay, forget
the names Of their friends and their own
4 names and the names Of places