The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-20
Colorado Miners Unfayorable to
a Sliding Wage Scale.
THE POPULATION OF OKLAHOMA.
immigration Into Canada Choice
Lands in the Red River Val
ley of North Dakota.

Alac loliiultUCtu.
A dispatch from Fall River says that
all the mills are running.
Horses and cattle are dying OF drouth
in various parts Of Texas.
The Indians are costing the govern
ment about 81 ,000, 900 per year.
Mob law was strongly condemned by
the Knoxville Tenn Presbytery.
4 James A. Garfield is to have a mopu-
ment in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia,
4 Congressman de Armond proposes a
tax on all incomes in excess OF $4,000.
The report of the Utah Commission
says that polygamOus marriages are a
thing Of the past.
Over ole-fifth of the whole number of
people in the United States have visited
the Worlds Fair.
/ Georgia negroes will form an associa-
ton to prevent lynchings and other out
RACES upon the race.
Secretary Lamont has appointed n
board to appraise Fort Bliss in Texas,
with view to its sale.
Ex-President Harrison is said to have
received 81 $3.50 for recent magazine ar-
ticle on the Worlds Fair.
More than 4,0O0, 600 words have been
used in Congressional debate since the
silver repeal question came up.
Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang
ing from . to II years old, have been ar
rested ior carrying revolvers to school.
More than one-half OF the Cherokee
Strip boomers have already left their
claims and gone back to their old homes.
Virginia comes up smiling with the
largest peanut crop for years. Norfolk
reports 100000 bushels more than last
year.
The Missouri State Board OF Railroad
Commissioners and the express eompa-
MES are preparing q new schedule of
rates.
Railroad trains will shortly be lit by
electricity. The New York Central rail- |
road is probably the first to use that
system.
Representative Cooper OF Texas has
introduced resolutions in the House re-
ferring the question OF silver to vote
of the people.
immigration into Canada has proven
a failure the past year. decrease Of 25
per cent compared with the previous
year being shown.
Kansas farmers have been taken in BY |
swindlers, who sell a compound alleged (
to double the amount Of butter from
given amount Of cream.
A Kentucky Congressman wants the
government TO pay rent for the school
houses and churches used as hospitals
by the armies during the war.
The canal between Georgia Bay and
Lake Ontario, which will shorten the
Chicago route to the seaboard by over
| 900 miles, is nearing completion.
In Maryland the finest varieties Of
peaches are selling in the orchards at 25
,ents bushel, Prices are so low that il
ioes not pay to ship them to market.
The Chicago grand jury has found in
iictments against twelve men, who are
,barged with arson. They were com
Dined to insure houses and then burn
hem.
A whistle that will make itself heard
or twenty-five miles has just been fin
shed by John Bowman, and ii will adorn
he car shops at Third and Berka street,
The Indebtedness per head in Colorado
1906. Even Kansas, which has always
,een an insatiate borrower, has only
in running upa mortgage debt
II $40 per head.
A Rochester man has devised a plan
" which trolley street car can be
topped almost instantaneously, or with
n space Of three feet, while the car is
'oing at full speed.
Bartholdi's magnificent statuary group
Vnlch Is at present on exhibition at the
rorli'e Fair will be kept at Chicago.
ne work lie Of bronze, and Ia composed
\ heroic figures Of Washington and La
ayette.
The ailver-mine overs at Aspen, Col.
ave proposed q sliding scale Of wages
o the men, but the latter are not dis n
'osed to accept it, and work will not be
esumed until the price Of silver justifies
he old wages. .
Elder Roberts Of the Mormon Church
omplains that he was barred from par v
in the proceedings Of the Par
ament Of Religions at the Worlds Fair,
Notwithstanding the belief was enter I
aimed that all religions could have the /
ight and privilege to be heard. :
1t is reported that the crops Of peaches
nd grapes in Michigan this year are too
reat to be moved. The various trans
ortation companies that are engaged in
arrying the product to Chicago and c
ther markets are overwhelmed with Of
rings Of material to be carried away.
A party Of negro miners passing
trough Chicope, Kan, from visit to d
Tier were called "scabs" by lot Of H
oys, and stones were thrown at them, 4
hen one Of the negroes fired his pistol Y