The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-16
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The citizens Oi lewiston, luano, |
have organized board OF trade.
The steamer George w. Elder viii
run between Portland and Alaskan
ports.
Washington Territory has 1000
acres Of coal lands, and 2,000, 900 tons
have been marketed.
George w. Lewis, Of Elko, Nevada,
was sentenced ID ninety nine years IN
the State Prison Tor murder.
A boy named James Hooker, son of
4 widow who lives in Sacramento,
CAL, was run over by the cars and
killed.
Captain IL. W. Mcdonald, late of
the whaling brig Hidalgo, committed
suicide at San Francisco by taking
carholic acid.
The Spokane Falls city council has
adopted an ordinance taxing Chinese
W. shhouses at the rate of 500 per
quarter.
During the eleven months ending
December l, 1881, the shipments of ore
from HALEY, Idaho, aggregated ~
S29,S77 pounds.
Carl Kruse, tunnel man OF the
Clovereiale & Ukiah railroad, near
Cloveriale, CAL, was drowned in Rus
sian river by boat capsizing.
The charred remains of Louis Glib
bons were found among the ruins Of
his burned cabin IN the Huerhuera
region, near San LUIS ohispo, Cal.
The President has nominated Edwin
Eells, Of Washington Territory, to be
agent for Indians of the Puyallup
agency Cconsolidated) Ia Washington
Territory.
Sufficient money has been sub
scribed in Goidendale, w. T., TO build
an armery for Company B. The
building will be about 40x100, and
sixteen feet high.
While the freight train bound for
Garrison was switching AT Deer Lodge,
Montana, it baeked on TO and killed a
man named john Ganles, from Helms
vile, who was walking on the track.
Montana has an area of 92,0l6, ,64S
acres; a population estimated st l75,-
600, and taxable property valuation
IN 1856, OF $55, 076,S3I. Indian res
ervations in that territory comprise
20,574, ,64S acres.
Joseph Garcia de Cadiz, aged 81
years, formerly professor of mathemat-
les, while sitting on n window sill IN
his room at San Francisco, lost his
balance and fell His brains were
dashed cut on the sidewalk below.
At a meeting of Alaskan fishermen
held at san Francisco, a resolution
was adopted fixing the rates for the
coming season as follows: Wages, $50
a month, and ten cents additional for
each king salmon, and half cent for
each small salmon caught.
The Governor of California has ap-
pointed James #. Houghton and
Colonel @. #. Croker, as regents OF
the State University, the former in
place Of A. L. Rhodes, and the latter
in place of John Swift, the terms OF
both gentlemen having expired.
The area of Washington Territory is
placed at A, 796, ,l60 acres, of which
LOT ,55S are Indian reservation lands.
The population in November last was
estimated at 150, 600, and the taxable
property Ia 1857 was given at about
$4,000, 900, not including railroad
property.
Ia the Chewala mining district,
Washington Territory, shocking ac.
cident IA reported. A man named
Louis Gilmore and his partner Heneha
were working in the aSam Slick" mine,
and a blast WIS prepared, but it failed
to explode. Very soon after Gilmore
reeklessly went to the shaft to ascer
tain the trouble, and commenced an
investigation. The blast exploded Just
before him. His head was nearly
blown away, and the body was shock
ingly manglca. Hencha, who was
standing near, had his face and head
very seriously injured by flying frag-
ments of stone.
Black measles are creating frightful
havoc with the Nez Perce Indians oi
Chiefs Joseph aud Moses bands, on
the western side of the Colville In.
dian reservation. Forty-two are dead
from the disease, and fourteen more
are at the point of death. The medi
cine men there treat it with hot steam
under a blanket, and then dip in the
river. The treatment Is attended with
fatal results In nearly every case. The
mites in that section have it, but tht
disease yields to treatment in theil
cases. The Indians affected are thos,
transferred from Indian Territory OF
account of their i'll health, some tim,
since.
During a gale the steamer Alic,
Garrett, which was anchored in SaI
Francisco bay, having on board seven
teen passengers from the Chin:
steamer City of Peking, dragged he
anchor and drifted to and against tn
Spear street wharf The Alice Gar
rett was in quarantine on account o
smallpox which had developed anon,
the passengers and the City of Peking'
crew while en- route frcm China. From
Spear-street wharf the steamer drifte,
down to Stuart wharf, breaking OF
several piles e2z~route. The passen
gers, mostly women, scrambled ashor
ezbest they could. Some took des
perate chances and made recklas
leaps. Others climbed the slipper,
piles, and more hauled themselves III
by means of chains. Every one es
capped. The Relief tug came to tn
rescue and had towed the steame
scarcely a hundred yards from tn
wharf when the Alice Garrett sank
She turned completely over, nearl
swamping the tug, and appeare,
shortly after on the surface, bottom ur
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