The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-04-06
COAST cuLLINos.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California

Palouse, w. T., has incorporated.
Rufus Ford shot and killed himself
at Silver City, Nevada.
A Christian Church Society has been
organized at Colfax, w. T.
About 5000 tons Of wheat are stored
in the Cotton, w T., warehouse.
A large barn, its contents and nine
horses, burned at Vacayille, Cal. Loss
$4,000.
A rabbit drive near Selma, Cal, re-
suited in the slaughter of 1920
rabbits.
The Booth, Barrett engagement of
three weeks realized $6S,000 at San
Francisco.
The east bound train was detained
at Stampede, w. T., about four hours
by a landslide.
t. J. Abbott, aged So years, resi-
dent of Santa Ana, CAL, was thrown
flom his buggy and killed.
A Mexican attempted to steal a ride
on freight train at Beaumont, CAL,
and was run over and killed.
David Wilcox, OF New York, has
been appointed Receiver of Public
Moneys at Walla Walla, w. 7. ].
L. B. Cornell, of New York, has
been appointed Receiver of Public
Moneys at Spokane Falls, w. /.
H. w. McNair, about SO years old,
committed suicide at hotel in Ia
coma, w. T., by taking morphine.
Twenty-Five logging camps and
seven canneries will be in operation
in Pacific county, w. T., this season.
Efforts are being made to secure the
funds necessary to finish up the col
lege at Colfax, w. T., for use this
season.
Samuel Stewart. well known resi-
dent of Cotton, W. T., committed
suicide near that town by drowning
himself In the lake.
A young man about "a years old,
named Joseph Greer. committed sui
eide at Snohomish, w. T., by shooting
himself IN the head.
The list of salmon canneries on this
coast now number l03, a considerable
increase over the number last year
when 997 900 cases were packed.
The town of Blacks, Cal, was par
TALLY burned. The charred remains
of man were found in the debris.
The origin of the fire is not known.
In saloon row at San Bernardino,
Cal, Henry Wilson and Oliver Grit
fifth were fatally shot. Officer Codoria
and a Mexican we're also badly hurt.
Julius Shocken, a stranger in Spo-
kane Falls, w. T., Gied rather suddenly
fIon a knife wound accidentally in
fiicted while IN state of intoxicatien
| While a gang of Cinnamon were
working in a large gravel bank near
Los Olives, Cal, the bank gave way
killing two and breaking the l, g oi
another.
| In the superior court at Sacramento
Cal, George A. Turley and Frank
Abbott were sentenced to three years
each at Folsom for voting illegally at
a recent city election.
The roundhouse at Stampede, w. I.
| with two engines, were burned. The
! ironwork will be taken to Tacoma for
repairs. Only one man was present
wheE the fire started, and he could dc
nothing.
The ship j. D. Walker reports that
during a gale on her TT p from Seattle
| to San Francisco, she lost two men
overheard NAMED Denis Nagle and
Thomas Kane. The men were swept
from the iibboom.
At Chico, CAL, yca--old child oi
VIM. Mare was drowned in a wash
boiler containing three inches of water
The mother left the chill for a few
moments, placing her near the boiler,
| and when she returned she found heI
dead.
According to the report of the com
| missioner OF navigation, the tonnage
OF the Pacific Coast, on June 80, 1887,
| was as follows: State of California
Number of vessels, S64; tonnage, 254,.
092. Oregon-V Vessels, 1873; tonnage
| 52,62I Washington Territory-Ves-
sells, 165; tonnage, 49. .460. Alaska
Vessels, 10; tonn rge. $50. Total
number of vessels, 1926; total ton
mage. 357 AS.
Con- racts were signed by parties in
Fresno, Cal, and man has gone to
North Carolina to ship to that county
800 negro families Most of these will
replace Chinese in the orchards and
vineyards. 1t is said that the women
and children in vineyards do better
than cinnamon, while the men in the
sweat and drying houses learn the
business Of curing raisins much better
and faster than the Chinese.
Ira Hummel, formerly a waiter in
| restaurant at Seattle, w. T., shot
and dangerously wounded John Mi
been drinking heavily, and Humme'
took Michaelson out on the street t.
show him some real estate which he
owned, and to buy which Michaelson
had previously said he had suffi .ient
money. 1t was evidently to obtain
this that Hummel shot his companion
The wounded man was taken to the
hospital.
DR.. J. B. q lngerle, OF Virginia City,
New, was arrek ted for concealing seven
cases of smallpox The President OF
the Board of Health discovered tn,
cases. Zangerle violated an ordinance
which requires physicians to repori
all cases of contagious disc a-e to the
Board of Health. The ordinance i'm
poses fine of $500 and imprisonment
for sixty days for a violation of its
provisions. 1t is probable that the
extreme penalty will be imposed in
Zangerle's case as the discovery of the
concealed cases has caused a general
sentiment of intense indignation.
During midsummer in Northern