The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-04-12
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE MONTANA LOTTERY MANAGER
NON EST.
The Custus Mori OF Nevada City-sA. Coal
Oil strike The Lone Highway
man Bobs Up Serenely in
California.


House has begun
San Rafael has voted to disincorporatc
and extend the town limits.
Anew ice company with plenty Of cap
ital has been formed at Truckee,
Amutual building and loan association
il in successful operation at Giilroy.
Verona Baldwin was arrested in Los
Angeles recently hopelessly insane
The Republicans elected majority Of
the city officials voted for ut Helena, Nj.
n, last week.
The people OF New Mexico are pleased
with the selection OF l.. Bradford Prince
to be Governor.
A 30-stamp quartz mill is being
erected in San Francisco Canon, twelve
miles above Newhall.
The Montana Iron and Goa Company.
with capital stock OF 81 100000, has
Incorporated at Helena.
The force OF policemen in Sacremento
has been increased from sixteen TO twen-
ty-five men and captain.
Constable Frazer at Fresno, declares
positively that he viii capture the Pixley
train robbers and murierers.
Rev. Father Sullivan, pastor of st.
Francis Church OF Sonoma, was severely
injured by being thrown from his buggy
recently.
Strawberry-growers near Watsonville
state that they viii be shipping berries
within two weeks ii the clear weather
continues.
Mrs. Ben Holladay, widow Of the late
Ben Holladay, is lying dangerously i'll at
Portland, Or, and her death is momen-
tarily expected.
Herman Eggers mistook Maurice
Thompson, friend, for horse thief on
a ranch near Holbrook, A. T., last week
and shot him.
Thomas Crafts exhibited in lone last
week a magnificent specimen OF growing
wild oats, embracing some thirty stalks
four feet in length.
A well which was being bored for water
three miles west OF San Luis 0bispo
struck good flow Of petroleum at a depth
OF only twenty-three feet.
Two boys. seven and nine years old,
drifted out to sea at Cayucos Thursday in
a row boat and drifted ashore again at
Port Hartford next morning.
The daily stage service between Gilroy
and the Gilroy Hot Springs, which was
discontinued during the winter season,
will be resumed on Monday next.
The Atlantic and Pacific Road has let
the contract for large hospital at Albu
querque, N. NJ, which will be one Of the
finest OF its character in the West.
G. II. Smith and J. Marion Brooks Of
Los Angeles publish communications
showing the illegility Of the charter
under which Los Angeles is now work.
ing.
Louis Schloss, prominent real estate
man and insurance agent OF San Jose,
has, it is currently reported, left for parts
unknown, leaving many creditors.
Young prune trees are selling in Po-
mona right along this season at 70, 70
and even 80 cents This is about SO per
cent more than they sold for a year ago.
Fine horses are beginning to make their
appearance in our district. Our farmers
are doing their best, and it is surprising
to see their success in this line. In am
other year or two we will have as fine
stock AS can be found in the state.-lone
Valley Echo.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com |
pany will make the wished-for cut on (
wool rate from Boulder Creek to San I
Jose sometime this month, thus termi-
mating difficulty which existed and
caused much bitterness among the lum-
Der men OF San Jose
Patrick Mcclure has been boring for !
coal on his ranch at Doshville, two miles I
north of lone, Amandor county. He (
says prospects are very good. lie has I
gone down forty feet and will continue
his explorations until the prospect has /
been thoroughly tested.
4 quarry has recently been developed !
in the neighborhoOd Of lone which furn- |
ishes good quality Of sandstone for
building purposes, and an endeayor is
being made to have it used In the con-
struction Of the Preston School Of Indus
try 10 be located in that valley.
Twelve young men, self-organized
White Caps, or Moral Regulators, have
been terrorizing some Of the people at
Nevada City. They are also accused OF
writing anonymous and scnrriIous letters.
The identity OF the gangSs secured and
It is expected arrests will shortly follow
In the vicinity Of Santa Margarita is
what il claimed TO be the largest prune
orchard in California, or in the world.
Ita size il somewhere near three hundred
acres and III in very thrifty condition.
Prunes and olives have been found To do