The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-01-06
COAST cULLINos.
Devoted Principally TO Washington
Territory and California.

hiehhieh IN ID Use tlty, IuInO.
A man named Lafayette Hood
jumped from the passenger train near
Dixon, Cal and was instantly killed.
William Schick and Hiram Good.
win were thrown out and q odwin run
over and killed by runaway team, at
Pomona, Cal.
The miners Of the Comstock now
work ten hours a day, receiving "a,
the price formerly paid for an eight
hour shift.
Ed. Emery, OF Emery, Mack &
Wood, sawmill operators, was drowned
At Aberdeen, w. T. He was aged 90,
and single.
A man named johnson cut Ellis
worth Benson's throat at Atusa, Cal
Benson fret sh q at johnson. Benson
died from the effects OF his wounds.
SesaIio Arniola, an Italian woman,
was burned TO death in her room. at
San Francisco, by the explosion OF
coal oil lamp.
There are sixty-four Touring mills
in Washington Territory. with an esti-
mated capacity OF 1855 barrels per
diem.
Claude Glenn, 50 years old, died at
Fehachapai, Cal, from injuries re-
eeived from a collision between horse
he was trying TO catch and one he was
riding.
irwin, who with John s. Prewett and
fourteen others conspired to kill DR.
A. w. Powers two years ago at Hol-
lister, Cal, has been sentenced ~ life
imprisonment in San Quentin.
A bill has been introduced in the
Washington Territory Legislature pro-
hibiting p,rsons holding the offices OF
Sheriff and IRE ,surer in any county in
the Territory for more than two terms.
Eva Cox, 3-year-old daughter OF j.
Nj. Cox, a farmer residing near Fresno,
Cal, wits scalded be death. The child
was playing in the kitchen and fell
backward into a tub Of boiling hot
VI ter.
Several young men of Moore's Flat,
Cal, went 10 Chinatown and attempted
to capture the settlement. Chinese
fired ten or twelve shots at their as
sailAnts, probably fatally wounding
Blsze Sullivan, aged 81.
VIM. Campbell committed suicide
at North Bloomfield, Cal by shooting
himself with a revolver. Campbell was
formerly clerk Of Tehama county, and
until recently was held in high esteem
by his employers.
The San Jose (Cal.), council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
sale Of tobacco to boys under sixteen
years and making it inisdemeanor
for boys under that age to smoke or
chew in public places.
Among the passengers on he steam
ship from San Diego which arrived at
San Francisco, was Frank X. whet-
more, in charge OF police officers
Nhetmore WAS a partner in the firm
uf Warren & Co, stockholders, and
absconded some time ago with several
thousand dollars belonging to the finn
While George Baker and Alexander
Goess were making some repairs i'm q
| Touring mill at San Francisco. A
large mass of flour and barley dust
was ignited by their torch and ex-
ploded, burning them severely.
On his whaling voyage just ended,
Captain Baldry, of the steam whaler
| OreA, San Francisco, killed thirty-five
whales, slowed twenty. eight Gall he
had room for) and brought into port
$500 barrels of oil and 5000 pounds
/ OF bone the largest Itch on record
and valued at about 1896, $50.
Governor Zulick has plrdoned Bar
ney Riggs, serving life sentence in
| the Territorial prison at Yuma, A. T.,
on CONDITION of his leaving the Terri
tory. Riggs was the prisoner who
assisted in keeping down the insurrec.
| ton Of convicts some time ago, and in
saving the life of Superintt ndent Gates.
A distr, ssing accident occurred at
the Tahoma mine, at Mountain Home,
Idaho, whereby Oscar @ Jble and Riley
| Bostwick were severely injured. While
in the mine some giant powder ex-
| ploded near their heads. How it came
/ to ignite is not know. II had the ef-
feet of destroying the sight of both OF
Goble's eyes and one OF Bostwick's.
AT Fresno, Cal, while Willy Buck,
10 years old, was trying to lasso dog
with a long rope by which he was
leading a mule, the moose caught him
around the body, and the mule be-
coming frightened, dragged him over
a field, breaking his back, and killing
him in view of his parents.
The body OF a s,ilor was found in
San Diego bay. A tub, in which was
full sailor outfit of clothing, all clean
and carefully cared for, was attached
to the body with a line, and the theory
OF the coroner was that the man de
sested from the ship, put his clothes
in the tub and attempted to swim
ashore, but his legs became entangled
in the rope and he had drowned.
NJ. D. Babcock, inventor of the fire
extinguishing apparatus bearing hi
name, died at the almshouse at Sar
Francisco, aged 10 years. The cause
of death was softening of the brain
At one time he was in receipt o
$4,000 a month for royalty on hi.
machines, but after selling paten
rights the money was soon spent, ant
for some years he wandered about tn,
State in d stitu.e condition. Abou
six years ago he was admitted to tn
almshouse, where he remained unit
hia death.
At Benton, the wife of Wesley Roy
a farmer, bore him a quartette of boy
and girls, two boys and two girls
This is remarkable as it Is the first O
the kind that ever occurred in thi