The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-01-11
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
M~t'ers or Local and General import
Gathered from AN Sources for
the Benefit ofour Readers.

Walla Walla has postal delivery.
Riverside, CAL, has paid ell its city
taxes but SO.
Colusa has four and halt miles Of
graded streets.
Newcastle's fruit shipment this year
was 5000 tons.
The county hospital at visalia was
burned recently.
The population of Washington ter
ritory is 240, ,l40.
The penitentiary at Walla Walla is
lighted by electricity.
An olive tree i'm Tnlare has grown
eight feet since last August.
Timber claims are being rapidly
taken mp in Mariposa county.
An apple orchard in Lassen cleared
COCO the past year from 1900 trees.
Packers are ifering at Riverside SO
!, box for navel oranges on the trees.
There were erected at Tacoma last
year l0l4 houses, valued at s2,4S9,-
572.
The windstorm last week brought
down a good many trees in the Men
docine woods.
Yuba county is shipping apples TO
southern California and sending orang-
es to the north.
A fiume 80 miles long will bring
I,...,t,4,. - ea.,.a Is-xs,,.N ..N,,,,t,- fyn,.,
the Giant forest.
The output of gold, silver and cop
per in Montana the past year is put
down at SEC, ,4S7 900.
At walla Walla dense fog pre-
vailed during the eclipse and at 2
o'clock lamps were lighted.
The police OF San Diego is con-
demned by committee of the city
council as corrupt and inc ffieient.
S. W. Reed, of Fresno, picked 80
pounds of Flaming Tokay and EN-.
peror grapes from his vine the list of
January.
Delegates met at EIlensburg, w. T.,
ON the 3d of January and began the
work of securing statehood to the
territory.
Large paintings OF shad aud speck-
led catfish will be made in the streams
OF Utah next June by the Z. S. fish
commissioner.
The first carload of 0roville oranges
was received in Sacramento last week,
and two carloads were being packed
at Oroville for shipment east.
N. ]. Mcconnell. chief justice Of
Montana, has forwarded his resigna-
ton TO the President, finding the du-
ties of the Office too burdensome.
The Teachers convention which
ciosed at Sacramento recently, recon-
mended kindergarten instruction and
the admittance of children four years
of age.
The new Brotherhood Of Railway
Conductors, organized at Los Ange-
les some weeks ago. is said 10 have in
specisl view revenge on the Blrling-
ton Railroad company.
San Bernardino's grand jury report
condemns the county courthouse as
inadequate and the Jail as disgrace
TO dccemcy. Slack business manage
ment Of county officials is also con-
demned.
The approach of the Southern Pa
cific railroad toward San Luis Obispo,
is giving quite an impetus to travel.
The road was completed TO Santa
Margarita, ten miles distant, and
-. -. :. ~, -, tl,a XIII Of Ta,,,ary
At Bakersfield there is a field of
alfalfa from which five cuttings were
obtained the first year, and ethe
ground was so thoroughly impre G.
mated with alkali that the surface is
white with the salt"
A flock of nine mountain sheep has
| recently been seen among the cliffs
of Stein mountain, Elko county, New.
A patriarch of the flock is reported TO
be as large as a Spanish mule and his
horns resemble the gnarled roots of an
old cedar.
The lumber cut Of Washington Ter
ritory the past year was 700,000,000
/ feet, valued at 100000. OF this
amount, Puget sound cut 450000,000
feet and shipped by ocean $4,000 600
feet, valued at $3,7OOo,000. The for
eign lumber shipments were 81 ,2O0,-
600.
Richard Hall, of Dixon, a we'll
known citizen, early Tuesday morning
OF last week, while going home from
Sacramento, heard the whistle for his
station, rushed while nalf asleep from
the car, and stepped off while the
train was ia motion. He was seriously
injured.
Portland shows great progress. Her
wholesale and retail trade in 1885
foots up between $90,000,000 and
81 ,000, 900, 600, compared with S75,
100000 in 1887 and $42 100000 in
1888. The manufactures of the city
and vicinity aggregate nearly SD 600,
600, and the value of buildings erected
S., 100000.
David Hart, blacksmith and train
ing with the Salvation army at Port
land, took morphine and told the sum
moned physician that he had had the
drug for two years, but had not haC
the courage to use it before. He sale
he wanted something given him tC
make death easy, and when askee
why he didn't jump IN the Willamett,
l,a J;I 1,orry 4,