The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
COAST CuLLINoS.
Devoted Principally TO Warrington
Territory and California

The project for building a large
hotel in Ellensburg, w. T., is one
that is much talked Of lately.
Some fine nuggets were brought in
to Ellensburg, w. T., the past week
from the placers of the Swauk..
The Olympia CIV T.) board OF trade
is preparing circular TO advertise the
city. 1t is to be done by private en-
terprise.
A brakeman named A. A. Martin
was crushed to death by the Santa
Fe train near Santa Ana, Cal. He re-
sided in Los Angeles, and leaves a
wife.
What was left of the steamer Julia
which was blown up near Vallejo, |
CAL, several months since, was sold by |
United States Marshal Franks, as
trustee, for $615.
Richard Van Staden was killed at
Mountain View, Cal, by jumping, it
is supposed, from the Monterey ex
press train, and his body was horribly
manglsd.
A man with bullet hole near his
heart was found in Columbia square,
San Francisco. 1t is thought the
man was murdered, but it is strange no
one heard the shots in the neighbor-
hood,
I John Walton, waiter in restau-
! rant at Los Angeles, Cal, was acci.
: dentally shot by the proprietor, James
Wilson, while the latter was cleaning
!. q revolver. The ball passed through
Walton's abdomen. The wound is
probably fatal.
: Five young men OF SIM Francisco,
!, whose ages range from Is TO %, hired
:, yawl to take a row on the bay.
: : When near Government island the
. boat capsized and one man, George
Flannery, was drowned. The body
I has not been recovered.
Deputy Sheriff Alver,i, Of Cochiz
!, county, Ariz., had fight with three
: Sonora train robbers in the MILESTONE
mountains, sixty miles north of this
place. The officers succeeded in kill
II ing two and mortally wounding the
e other one.
Joe Wallace, a young nan, me-
!. with fatal accident on freight trail
- No. Is, between Hot Springs anC
Eagle Gorge, w. L. He fell between
u the moving cars and was horribly
j, mutilated. He was brought 10 th'
q Fanny Paddock hospital, where h,
Q; died.
. I. At the Coyote ranch near Spring
vile, Ariz., n shooting affair occurred
between William Magee and Henr,
&c jenkins. The latter was fatal,
e wounded, Robert Thomas, locker
oi on, was shot in the leg, shattering th
N bone and amputation was necessary
e Jenkins lived twenty-Eour hours. IL
~ leaves a wife and three children
Magee was arrested, examined an,
IN discharged ON verdict OF iustifiabl
IN homicide.
e, Bertha Schaefeld, girl 10 years c
u age, residing with her widowed mothe
y. in San Francisco, was sitting on
y stairway on the street, when the boon
of blast in the vicinity was hearC
IL and Jagged bit of rock came whii
II zing through the air, striking th
nd child on the head. The unconsciou
lp child was conveyed TO her home, an
ID, medical attendance was summoned
he Her skull was found TO be fractured
I'D and the physicians state there is IA
'r- hope for her recovery.
i DR.. L. c. Thatcher, a prominer
ee physician of San Diego, Cal, con
lei mitted suicide at Ramoua by piercin
III his lugular vein with a lancet an
en- bleeding to death. He was comnli
or stoned surgeon in the navy by Pres
ne dent Johnson in 1865, and served ii
lis 1878. he was a native of Pennsy
IN vania. Lately he was addicted to til
:, use OF morphine.
"a James Ahern, sewer contracto
ed paraded in the democratic demonstri
- ton at San Francisco, and returne
r. home at a late hour. He became
- at about 3 o'clock in the morning an
- starting for another room mistook a
open window for door and wake
III through it. A moment later a polio
man found him lying on the sidewal
with his skull fractured and covere
m with blood. He died an hour late
ea He leaves widow and five daughter
IA Harvey Weiss, one of the be
- known salesmen travelling out of Ch
cago, was found dead in Golden Gal
Park, in San Francisco, with a bull,
.,i hole through his head and revolv,
:: by his side with two chambers empt
- Developments proved that it was
case of suicide, and letters found O
lsa his person showed the cause was lo
wn from gambling. lie wrote piliful lie
in ters to his wife and children. Anon
me his other papers was contract el
he tered into with his firm, Kuhn, Natha
he & Fisher, prominent clothing fir
it'll of Chicago, dated ID -cember l, 1SS
Iri 1t shows that Weiss's salary was 81 !0(
rn- yeir on condition that he mac
rs. sales amounting to $S0,000
dy A singular shooting aflray occurre
Iat Mount Pleasant, Utah, the sequ
he to which was a marriage. Andre
at Romarro had called on young lad
ri to whom he had been paying after
er. ton, Miss Mortensen. While engage
he in a slight scufile she drew revolv,
IN from his pocket, and, pointing it
,ar him, said in a joking manner, 81
he would shoot him if he did not let h,
yas alone. "Look out, it's loaded" sai
N. Romarro. Just then Miss Mortensc
on pulled the trigger when bullet el
es- tered the left side of Romarro's fac
op Almost wild with frenzy, the gi
I'd threw the revolver away and began
nd run. Romarro, bleeding proiusel
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