The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-06-14
THE PACIFIC COAST.
sEArrLE's, THE QUEEN cITY, LAID
IN ASHES.
Colored Masons--A sardine Factory.
immigration From scotland-A
Lumber Combination
Fruit-Gro ers.

pHtiIt Dupd stiioui cchS"n H"o"o ok"n'
OF III,
Last Sunday was Children's day in
Il Portland.
Santa Paula, in Ventura county, has
ten saloons,
The Castrovile Gazette has ccasad
publication.
Tucson was shaken by an earthquake
on the 3lst.
A lumber combination is reported at
Helena, VI. I.
II costs $3.50 to destroy shade tree at
Olympia, W.T..
Tulare has reduced the liquor license
to $40 quarter.
The hills near Reno, New, is swarming
with grasshoppers.
Red Bluff has refused to issue bonds
for Il new town hall.
The Napa Cannery has begun work
with cherries the first
Smartsville, Nevada, county, is with
out telegraphic service.
Saiicoy, Ventura county, is 10 have Il
meal station on the railroad.
Contracts for grading and sewering
Redding have been awarded.
7 Several cases Of smallpox have been
reported from WALTON, N. NJ.
Every town in the Northwest have re-
sponded to Seattle's call for aid.
4 j. W. Check has been sentenced to the
State prison from Napa for forgery.
! Woodland, Cal, is to have tirst-class
lawn tennis club in the near future.
A sardine factory has located at Rose
vile, across the bay from San Diego,
The estimated losses by last Thursdays
fire at Seattle, is placed at $40 ,OO0,OOO.
The Grand Lodge OF Colored Masons Of
California, met at Marysvillc on the 81.
Two barges made successful voyage
over the Cascade Rapids a few days since.
THE last heavy rainslorn in Walla
Walla county, w. T., destroyed 10000
sheep.
Marysyille sent shipment Of black
berries and pears to San Francisco, last
week.
Pomona dedicated the st. Joseph
Church, Roman Catholic, sunday, the
"a inst.
Los Gatos viii close all saloons on July
lst and prohibit the sale OF intoxicating
liquors.
Chinese are said to be pouring into
California over the Mexican border, near
San Diego.
G.. p. Ferry, whost vile caused a great
scandal i'll Paris, is suing her for divorce
in Tacoma.
The John Wieland Brewery Associa-
ton, Of San Francisco, refuse $2,0OO,OOO
for their plant,
Work on the addition TO be made to
the State Printing office at Sacramento,
.has commenced.
"a bridge was burned near Hood river
on the 3D. delaying the Eastern trains in
reaching Portland.
The life-saving crew at Cape Hancock
has for the ninth time been successful in
saving life and property.
The threatened locust plague OF East
Riverside has been stopIel by burning
over the uncutivated lands.
The entire business portion Of Seattle
was burned on Thur day, the 9Th. Not a
business house left IN the CITY.
The little 9-year-old daughter OF Geo.
f. Johnson, was thrown from buggy at
Portland, last week, and severely injured.
A company to encourage immigration
from Scotland, has been formed at
Spokane Falls, with capital Of 100000.
At Ainelee, w. T., the ID, the large
sawmill Of D. J. Ainslee, with a capacity
Of 1000 feet day, was destroyed by fire.
r.. skinner, Of Cowichen, Victoria,
father-in-law Of Hon Mr.. Dayie, the
premier 81 British Columbia, died on the
I'd inst.
The fire in the Idaho mine at Grass
Valley has been extinguished and the
bodies OF the two burned victims re-
covered.
The German singing birds that were
liberated at Portland, Or, recently, have
settled down to business. They have
begun to build nests.
Track-laying has been commenced on
the Spokane and Northern Railroad.
The work is expected TO he finished to
Colville by September.
The railroad depoto; the Oregon Trans
continental Company at Slaughter, in
King county, near Tacoma, W. r., was
burned on the Sd inst.
@. M. Pyke and Martha Lancaster, the
"Louise Manfred,p Of the TiyoIi theater,
were married at Martinez, on the 2dinst.,
by a Justice Of the Peace
Denis Hayes, ex-Coioner at Marys.
viii, Cal, and VIM Potts, were thrown