The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-04-26
THE PACIFIC COAST.
SALMON BOATS ON THE COLUMBIA
RIVER.
The New System OF Balloting In Call.
fornia--one OF the Canon Diablo
Robbers Escape-State Fruit
Growers Convention

Redding has twenty four saloons.
Fresno win have a swimming bath.
Sacramento bas the pugilistc craze.
San Diegois to have pi~kle factory
Bees are. mot permitted in Los Angeles.
Shasta Is TO have military company.
Kittitas county, w. T., has 10000 pop
ulation.
Santa Rosa win have a fire tournament
May Sth.
AT Lodi. 5000 acres are planted to
watermellons.
Salmon boats on the Columbia river
are catching few fish.
Butte county has planted 100000
orange trees this year.
The East Oregonian, at Pendleton, was
burned out last week.
DR.. Gray Of Colusa, has thrifty olive
orchard of | 800 trees.
The Knights OF Pythias finished its la
bors at Fresno last week.
A large hotel to accommodate tourists
is TO be built at Santa Rosa.
Cherries have been shipped from the
Briggs orchard at Marysyille.
Chinatown, at Borden, Fresno county,
was destroyed by fire recently.
The State Fruit-growers' convention
began at San Diego last week.
The criminal charge against Borchers,
at Stockton, has been dismissed.
Sonoma has taken the preliminary
steps toward establishing cannery.
The sleeping Swiss at Santa Maria
shows unmistakable signs.of insanity.
The Navajo Indians raise about one
million pounds of wool yearly for market.
Anew railroad is soon to be built from
Helena, III. t., TO the Canadian Pacific.
Hundreds of jelly-fsh of new species
have been driven ashore on the Oregon
coast.
The San Francisco baseball players has
lost but one game since the season
opened.
John Bronkee was shot dead in bed in
Grant county, Or, last week, by Peter
Sullivan.
Montana will hold a special election for
members OF the Constitutional Conven-
ton May l4th.
The new system of ballot counting, re-
Gently adopted in California, proves to be
dismal failure.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company viii run boats from Portland
to Puget Sound Ports.
The Santa Rosa ranch in San Diego
county, is said TO have bean sold to an
Englishman for $750,0O0.
The acreage sown to wheat this year in
San Benito county is $4,000. The acre
age to barley is about $4,000.
Severe earthquakes are reported to have
occurred at Guaymus, Mexico, on the 7th,
but no damage is mentioned.
Jacob Hommel, aged 65 years, at Los
Angeles, took dose of poison and then
shot himself through the heart.
Butte, NJ. T., has elected its municipal
officers. The democrats carried all the
offices by from 100 to 400 majority.
The trial Of John Oaks for the murder
OF Cashier f. H. Morse, at San Bernar-
dino, last December, began last week,
A. c. Hamilton has brought suit in
Winnemucca, New, against the Southern
Pacific Company for 100000 damages.
Thirty thousand orange trees have
been planted in San Diego county this
season. Most Of them came from Florida.
J.J. Smith, one Of the Canon Diablo
robbers, escaped by jumping through a
car window with his shackles on, near
Ration, n. Nj.
Two coaches filed with negro emigrants
from the Carolinas, passed Cotton on the
overland train last week, bound for North
ern California.
Details of the investigation in the Port
Townsend custom house, show that fraud
has been practiced very extensively for a
number Of years.
The defeated candidates at the Fresno
election talk Of contesting the result, on
the ground Of the illegality OF the procla-
nation calling the election.
Leslie Cullom, acting collector Of GUS
toms at Port Townsend, has telegraphed
his resignation to the treasury depart
ment, to take effect May l5.
A suit to set asid the deeds made by
James B. Stephens, Of East Portland,
lately deceased, has been brought by his
daughter, Mrs. Lizzie McCalla.
Captain John Mullan left Portland, Or,
for Washington last week. lie has been
collecting evidence to establish the claims
Of Oregon against the government.
The rumor is again current that the
Southern Pacific has purchased the At
lantic road in Pasadena, with view TO
extending 1t to Junction. with the line
at Alhambra
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