The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-01-18
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters OF Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit OF Our Readers.

Aiouquerques N. M, built 5UU nous ss
last year.
wallula and walla walla are now
connected by rail.
John p. st. John will make his resi-
dence in California.
Traver, Tulare county, Cal, now
boasts a cheese factory.
The penitentiary OF Washington
Territory is now heated by steam.
A gang of hoodlums at Victoria at
tackled the salvation army recently.
North Yakima is soon 10 have a
sy stem of waterworks TO cost $lu0, GOO
Attempts have been made to rob
people while ge ting on trains at Col
ton.
j. C. Leisure, OF Pendleton, has re-
signed the position of deputy district
at orney.
An effort is to be made in the Ne
vada legislature to obtain a charter
fer lottery.
Many arrests have been made on ac-
court of the recent riot at the New
castle mines.
The sealing schooners are all pre-
pairing to leave British Columbia ports
for the north.
The repairing shops of the Oregon
and Washington Territory road are TO
be located at Walla Walla.
The lone highwayman appears to
be busily engaged in holding mp stage
coaches in northern California.
The wind from eastern Oregon
blows alkali dust which settles on the
glass of the Fort CAnby lighthouse.
A colored man assaulted a pretty
Pasadena girl last week, and il he
had been caught the mob would have
lynehed him.
Large numbers of miners are flock
ing to the gold mines in the Harqua-
Hala mountains in Yuma and Mari
copa counties, 4. I.
John and Fred NJ re, who attempted
10 murder their father-in-law, Henry
Caffery, at Santa Rosa, will have to
serve one year in San Quentin.
A Chinaman at Sacramento at.
tempted to tike stone from a rail-
road track, to prevent what he Thought
would be an accident, and was killed
by passing train.
The wife of Charles Allen, of Grass
Valley, has been sent TO the insane
ASYLUM. She fancies she is a bird,
tries TO initiate its twitterings and at
tempts to climb trees.
John Barry, drunken scoundrel
at Portland, was arm sted recently for
whipping his wife's dead body and
dragging it from the bed to the floor
because it would not rise at his bid
ding.
At a recent meeting oil the Column
bia River Fishermen's Protective
Union at Astoria, the price of salmon
for the next cannery season was set nj
81 per fish if caught in cannery nets
and 81 25 if caught in private nets.
The colored church in Sacramento
had sensation last week, VIII N the
janitor found a number of loud ciga-
arette pictures in the sett which has
been occupied the previous evening
by par y of young female members.
John Foster, who stole horse from
the neighborhood of Elk Grove, S,c-
ramento county, Cal, last month, and
who LETT piece OF doggerel after him
t. induce a believe in the proximity
of Black Bart, has been sentenced to
ten years at San Quentin.
While passengers were being landed
from the steamer Point Arena at Lit
tie River, Mendocino county, las'
week in boat, the latter was ,psize
and Mrs Kildsy aud the daughter of
an assist mt keeper at the light house
At Point Arena were drowned.
Last week, at Bonita, Graham
county, A. T., several sheepmen were
grazing their fiocks neal the range OF
some Chiricahua cattlemen, who
wanted the sheepmen to go elsewhere
A b4ttl ensued and five sheep-herder-
were killed and one cattleman
wounded.
There is trouble over land claims al
Los Olivos. Squatters are docking
in from all quarters and taking
possession of land on the Brinkerhofl
and Laguna extension, near the town
The land in dispute is claimed 10 be
part os the Bell ranch, between Lo.
Olivos and Lompoc, Santa Barbara
county.
The little daughter of L. s. Kenne.
! dy, living at Pilot Rock, had mar
row escape fIom death last week. Two
school-boys were shooting at mark
and while crossing field on her way
to school the child was struck by .
passing bullet, infiicting painful
| though not serious wound above the
right temple.
Charles Johnson, recently an In
mate of the British Columbia peniten
tiary, and now a resident of Portland
was engaged last week in circulating
a paper IN Victoria headed, "Prison
reform and hidden secrets, a brief ac
count of the tyrany, injustice and op
preston practiced in the British Co
| lumbia penitentiary." The charges
made against the officials are very Sc
rious.
! George Vanderbilt, the millionaire
son of the late VIM. III. Vanderbilt
has purchased tract of 5000 acres o
valuable land in North Carolina. /
is believed he intends to erect {
wcman's college.
Western spoitsmen complain tha
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