The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-05-10
THE PACIFIC COAST
TEE WILLAMETTE CoLlEGE GETS
A$l6 600 LEGABy.
A Collision In the Bay at san Francisco
Fishermen Drowned Heavy
Rains in the Northwest
-Newsy Items.

Il fuha city is 70 nave planning mill.
Real estate prices are improving in
Santa Rosa.
Santa Anas Flower Festival ended on
the 18th inst.
| The next G. A. r. reunion will be held
at Red Bluff
The salmon pack on the Columbia is
declared unsatisfactory.
d. L. Hackett OF the Napa Reporter, is
still reported TO be missing.
Susanville, CAL, experienced sharp
earthquake shock last week.
-Four fishermen were drowned in the
Cascade Falls, Or, last week.
A Philadelphia firm win put up glace
fruit at Santa Cruz this season.
The terracotta works at Elsinore are
daily turning out 5000 feet Of pipe.
Work on the Monterey and Pacific
Grove Railway is to begin at once.
Woodland has organized Business
Mems Association and Board Of Trade.
| On the 18th inst, Benicia honored
Minister Mizner with public welcome.
| In five years the Fresno raisin-growers
expect to harvest yearly l,5OO,OO0 boxes.
| Her Majesty's ship ESaiegel, sailed
last week from Victoria, B. c., Tor Homo
lulu.
San Bernariino county EMPLOYS four
teen more school teachers this than last
year.
Tacoma is making great preparations
Tor the rowing matches, 70 come of this
month.
ElsinOr claims to be Matching chickens
by aid Of the hot water Of the sulphur
springs.
David G. Harky was run over by q
street car last week at san Jose, and died
the next day.
Seven men have been arrested for
tarring Gus Brannan, q Swedish Lathario
Of san Pedro.
A lodgin-bouse and cottage adjoining,
were destroyed by fire, in San Bernar-
dino, the 30th inst
J.B. Hailstone, engineer at the Agnews
insane asylum, dropped dead on the 18th
from heart disease.
George Walty, Norwegian, committed
suicide few days ago at San Diego by
blowing his brains out.
Willamette College viii get a $4,000
legacy from the Late Father Wilbur,
noted Methodist missionary.
Two tramps broke into the station
house at Fountain, Col, killed the oper-
ator and robbed him OF So.
H. L. Storey denies publicly that he
has sold his interest IN the Coronado
Beach Hotel to the Spreckels.
Francisco Martino, cook at Gallup, n.
NJ, attacked his his empl0yer last week
and was shot, probably fatally.
Rose Bennett has been sentenced TO
twelve months imprisonment for killing
Frank Graves at Anaconda, NJ. 7.
The Mount Shasta District Society viii
hold fair IN Yreka, commencing Octo-
Der I'd and continuing four days.
CaterpilIars are infesting fruit trees in
the vicinity Of santa Rosa. 1t is feared
that they viii ravage the orchards.
Archbishop Goss, head OF the Catholic
church OF Oregon, has gone to Rome 70
confer with Pope Leo on church business.
A sandstorn blew along the river be-
tween Arlington, Or, and The Dalles,
last week, blocking the railroad track
near Wallace.
August Dietrich tried TO sell beer at the l
Odd Fellows picnic at Lakeside, San
Diego county, last week, but was driven
away by force.
The Canadian Pacific steamer sar-
donyk, loaded with cannery supplies, was
beached in the Skeena river, having
struck rock.
At Seattle, W. T., last week, Vim. d.
Kelly was shot and mortalk wounded |
while attempting to rob the cabin of two
salOOn-keepers
The recent heavy rains all through the
Northwest give promise Of the largest
crops ever raised in Oregon and Wash
ington Territory.
The band Of hostile Indians that was
reported few days ago as having killed
a rancher at Deer Greek, near Deming,
n. NJ, is without foundation.
William WohIfrom killed Matt Fiegle,
near Blacks Staten, Cal, on the 18th.
The quarrel originated in the smashing
Of buggy and the payment Of damages.
Charles Schmidt, editor Of Nord Cali
lornia Herald, in Sacramento, while run
ming in the fat mems race at picnic, on
the 18th inst, had oneof bis legs broken.
At San Francisco on the 28th COLI
sion occurred in the bay between the