The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-01-25
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTH
WESTERN MINING DISTRICT.
A Los Angeles Detective shoots Himself
Prospectors Find watery Grave
In the Colorado River-Ne-
vada's Miners Home.

ing beet factory.
Stockton, Cal, has organized a ma
tural gas company.
Lydia Thompson is i'll at Los An
geles with pneumonia.
Additional murders of Arizona
shepherds are reported.
w. ID. Saals, of Red Bluff, Cal, has
failed. Liabilities, $21 900.
| Washouts on the Southern Pacific
are reported west of Ynma.
The late smallpox scare at Mersed,
CAL, cost the county $1,000.
Sam Jones, the reviyalist, is hold
ing meeting at Los Angeles.
Santa Rosa orchariists have planted
100. 600 trees the present season.
Cattle and sheep, caught in the
snow in New Mexico, are starving.
Parties in Nephi, Idaho, propose
shipping rabbit carcasses by the car
load
The saloon license OF $50 has been
repealed by the supervisors of Marin
county.
Wild hogs are plentiful in the tules
/ --O-S VIC AuhAOO4utt AcdL DAblie
Mountain.
Watsonville, CAL, is making efforts
to secure the location OF q fax mill at
that place.
It is said that Fort Candy, at the
mouth of the Columbia, will again be
garrisoned.
The Indians of Saline Valley, Cali
fornia, are raising fine fig, apple, pear
and peach trees.
/ A bill has been introduced in the
Nevada legislature to provide home
for INDECENT miners.
A Portuguese sheepman was acci-
dentally killed by his brother in Fres-
no county, last week.
Charles Gordon, who was TO have
been hanged last week at Fort Ben
ton, Montana, was respited.
Articles OF incorporation have been
| filed by The Dalles Portage company,
with capital stock Of $500, 300.
Mrs. Sarah Sniver, OF Glendale, w.
t., was burned 10 death recently by
the explosion of a coal oil lamp.
A carload of Holsters has been
shipped to Puget Sound. Scow bay
has been chosen for lobster raising.
E. H. Dunn escaped from the Napa
asylum last week and was found
shortly afterward hanging to tree.
Detective A. B. Lawson at Los An
geles shot himself while taking re-
volver from his desk recently. He will
recover.
The Portland water-works want to
issue 81 500, 900 mere bonds TO enable
it to supply 100000 gallons OF wa
ter day.
Miss Nellie Reche, living near Col
ton, California, was terribly stabbed
last week by an unknown man, who
made his escape.
]. r. Moody, of Colusa county, who
tried to kill his wife short time ago,
has been sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary.
1t is reported that Senator Hearst,
of California, has purchased the now
F, famous Harqua Hala mines, in Ari-
zona, for $25O,000.
There is good reason to believe that
the klamath Indian reservation in
northern California, will soon be
open to settlement.
A pension has been granted to J.
H Eaton, of Portland, a Mexican sur
vivor, and an increase to Garrison
DAtson, of Grants Pass, Cal.
Stephen I. Morse, prominent fruit
grower OF Sacramento county, Cal,
while loading hay from scaffolding
last week, fell and broke his neck.
The man employed by the San Ber-
nardino county grand jury to expert
the county treasurer's books has
since gone to Jail for petty larceny.
A warrant was recently issued for
the arrest of John Hall, prominent
architect OF Los Angeles, on a charge
of perjury in timber culture claim.
San Diego has received an order
from Colima, Mexico, for twelve miles
of rails, twenty-four cars and other
necessary equipments for horse-car
line.
Engineers are now at work on the
proposed peninsular railroad leading
out of San Diego. The line will be
completed to Yuma, Ariz., in very
short time.
While several prospectors were en-
route to the new gold fields in Ari-
zona their boat was capsized in the
| Cororado river, below The Needles,
and all were drowned.
Louis Wanderer, boy, was found
not guilty of stealing Mrs. Scmidlin's
chickens at San Jose, and his guar
dian has brought a suit for $4,000
against Mrs. Schmidlin.
The legislature of Montana has
adopted resolution, almost unani-
mously, protesting against the adnlis-
sion OF Utah Territory as State on
the grounds of polygamy.
Owen Brown, son of old John
Brown of Kansas, died recently near
Pasadena, Cal. He was seventy-four
years old, and is said to be the last
survivor of the Harper's Ferry affair.
Isadore Lewis, tobacco and cigar
dealer in San Diego, has commenced
suit for $4,000 damages against the
Bradstreet Mercantile agency. The
agency had declared he had made an
| assignment.
A bill has been introduced in Con-