The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-11-30
PACIFIC COAST news.


A COW killed at Chelatchie, Clarke
county, w. T., dressed 9l2 pounds.
At Cheney there are no vacant
houses and constant demand for them
Wheat is worth 65 cents bushel at
Cheney, sacked, at the elevator.
The new foundry at Colfax began
work November 10.
Tacoma has new company of ca.
diets, 10 members already, Is to II
years old.
The Tom Paine is turninh out large
quantities OF $40 ore.
The Worley mine at Robinsonville
will be operated all winter.
Many new companies will operate
III Baker county next season.
The Pandora at Huntington is Civ
ing great encouragement to its owners.
Miners are happy with the prospects
Of a large water supply The coming
season.
Nose Saxon, of the Pantheon sa-
loon, Colfax, fell off bridge and
broke his left arm.
At Wa Wa.Wai, on Snake river, j.
B. Holt grew a sweet potato that
weighed II pounds.
Uniontown is to have distillery.
The company is organized and it will
soon be running.
Over fifty men arrived at Farming
ton, w. IT,, in one day. Hotels
crowded and restaurants.
The Tacoma Jail has thirteen pris-
oners in SIX cells. Criminals Increase
rs fast as the town.
Stoekmen in Umatilla county COM
plain OF short grass and hard frosts
make it shorter.
Little George Roder, of Brook6eld,
Claisop county, is in the hospital with
a broken bone.
Charles Cowan has been bound over
at Salem charged with bestial crime
and not furnishing 800 bail is in the
county jail.
Tacoma is to have a street railway
of the electric motor sort, run with Il
wire over the track. They are said to
work well.
P. ]. Smith, one of the most promi-
nert farmers OF Squawk, was prob
ably fatally hurt by the breaking CT
g hay press.
Two new anchors and buoys are on
the way from San Francisco for Ia
coma harbor. The anchors weigh
500 pounds each.
Several valuable horses have died
near Sherman, Lincoln county, of a
new and unknown disease, which
seems to affect the lungs OF mares
only.
The new tug Sea Lion is soon TO ar
i've from San Francisco to engage in
the Puget Sound business. She Is
one OF the most powerful tugs on the
coast.
The Cornwall Company, at What
com, will push the railroad over the
Cascades; also will build to promising
coal beds on the Nooksack early in
the spling.
The Pennington Register tells how
L. benson uicked quarrel with one
Barnum, working man, and got
knocked down. He tried to shoot
Barnum and got into jail for it.
John Lochfelm fell off train and
had his fingers crushed so that ampu-
tation was necessary. He was in
charge Of car Of stock going from
Chehalis to Tacoma. He nearly died
from cold and exhaustion before he
was found.
The new mill of the St. Paul &
Tacoma Lumber Company, will be Of
colossal size, being just twice the
length of the present building, and
will have capacity of 100000 feet Of
lumber per day, being the largest out
put of any lumber company on the
coast.
Messrs. Harris and Young, owners
of the Tom Paine mine, now have
seventeen men on their pay roll
Their Salmon mill has been kept run.
ming on very rich ore for the past sew
eral weeks until the late cold weather
froze up their water power, which
compelled them TO order an engine
and boiler from Portland, which will
arrive in few days. This will enable
them to keep their mill running all
winter.
William McCloud, living FIVE miles
west of Pullman, with his family, got
up at clock as usual, went out and
did not return. He was found hang
ing by the neck to a beam in an old
barn mile away. The pains he took
to splice old ropes and leather straps
to hang himself by, and the fact that
it broke once and he tried the second
time, show 1t was deliberate suicide
He was to move into new house in
Pullman that week. He was very
dyspeptic and had severe spells of
sickness.
Theresa Barados, of Oakland, Cal,
is seeking divorce flom Francisco Bar
ddos, on grounds OF cruelty. The
latter was married in 1916, and is now
the father of twenty-five children,
eighteen OF whom are boys and four
girls. He came to this country and
settled in San Leandro, where the
mother of the twenty-five children
died. He again married, and now his
present wife says it is hard enough to
! take care of his little family without
being abused and beaten by him.
There are 5000 women telegraph
operators in England earning any
where from $500 to 81 900 year. The
telegraph being branch of the Civil
Service in England, it is necessary for