The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-08
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF FARMER
AT sANTAQUIN. UTAH.
Antagonism Between the Governor anc
Legislature OF New Mexico-Pros-
pectors on the Island of Tex
ada-Minor Mention.

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Helena.
osgood, San Diego county. has new
postoffice.
Redding is to have a new three-story
hotel and opera house.
Forestville, Sonoma county, q 10
build $4,000 hotel this spring.
Fires of unknown origin are becom-
ing quite frequent at Los Angeles.
A three point buck was lassoed while
swimming in Putah creek last week.
A Mrs. Gublemau is charged with
the crime OF numbering her infant
child at Woodland.
4 James Corrigan, lately from Kansas,
while drunk, was kill by the cars at
Fresno recently.
For 25-cents the hack drivers at
Walla Walla, w. T., will take a person
to any part OF the city.
Thirty thousand acres of grain will
be planted in the San Jacinto Valley,
San Diego county, this season.
The boys at Sonoma celebrated the
arrival of the hook and ladder truck
by torchlight procession.
The cantilever bridge over the Ump-
qua river at Winchester, Or, has been
accepted it is said to be fine struci-
ure.
Bannock Indians, now visiting Pi-
utes and Washoes, in Washoe county,
gave a peace dance at Reno on the
26th ult.
The dedication OF the Odd Fellows
hall, at Redding, was attended with
impressive ceremonies and proved a
great success.
The Arizona legislature have moved
the capital from Prescott to Phoenix,
where the legislature will assemble in
about ten days.
A new steamboat, to be named the
Mount Tacoma, which is TO run be
tween Tacoma and Whatcom, w. T.,
was contracted for lately.
Governor Ross and the New Mexico
legislature are at swords points. All
his vetoes are passed over his head and
nearly all his appointments are pigeon
| holed.
Prospectors are stalking off all of the
island of Texada, where the recent
gold find is reported. Many miners
from British Columbia and Puget
Sound have gone there.
The child of William Allen was
burned to death at the Stonewall Mine
settlement, San Diego county, yesteI-
day. The clothing of the child W. 8
ignited in some unknown way.
Mrs. E. Parks, who lives near Ban
gor, Butte county, fell into the Forbes
town hume Sunday. She shot the
flume, distance of three quarters of
a mile, without injury.
| The survey of the Blackfoot, Fort
Belkpap and Fort Peck reservations,
in Montana, has been advertised for.
About IL ,000, 900 acres will be thrown
open to the public.
A move is being made in New Mex
leo to increase the liquor license from
800 to $1,000. The legislature is
urged to pass bill to that effect. The
liquor men are making savage fight.
Eight tons of butter, eggs, cured
meat, etc, were shipped from Port
Hartford on the 22d ult., the greater
\ portion of which was sent south to
feed the citizens of Los Angeles and
San Diego.
In Utah the census of children of
school age, between six and Is years,
shows that there are in the Territory
941 boys and 364I girls of non-Mor-
mon parents, and 34,0S2 boys and
23,zS9 girls of Mormon parentage.
The result of the Laguna de Taehe
grant land suit at Fresno, it is said,
will be to transfer a water monopoly
| from one party to another. Nothing
will be gained for the public and the
interest is more of curiosity to see
who will win than to anticipate bene-
fits.
Farmers in the southwestern part
of Grass Valley township, Nevada
county, are organizing fer the purpose
OF constructing an irrigation ditch to
take water from the South Yuba Canal
Company and lead it over Dress Sum
NIT, by Osborne hill, through Forest
Springs, and then on down the coun-
! try.
At Santaquin, Utah, ]. Anderson,
| aged 33 years, has for some time past
trained his year-old girl cousin to the
use of fire arms. He would place the
muzzle of an empty gun to his head
and the girl would pull the trigger and
snap the weapon. Thursday he loaded
the gun with buckshot and playfully
placed the muzzle in his mouth, ask
ing the child to pull the trigger. She
did so, and Anderson's head was blown
to pieces. He was respondent and
had taught the child to act as she did,
with the deliberate intention of being
killed.
Elijah Smith has accepted the pres
idency of the Seattle, Lake Shore &
Eastern Railroad. This road, with the
Union Pacific and Manitoba and Ore.
gon Railway, have formed pool, with
Smith as president. The Oregon will
build to Spokane Falls from Rockford
"a line of 25 miles) Immediately. The
material fer the Seattle road will come
by the Oregon line, and the Seattle
road will be pushed to completion
within a year, if possible, regardless
of expense. The Oregon will unite
with the Union Pacific and Manitoba
at Missoula as soon as the line is com
pleted.
Sweet potatoes will fatten pig
sooner than will corn. The small tu-
bers can be used, as well as those that
1 NAV be damaged by cooking them for