The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-05-03
THE PACIFIC COAST.
HACKMEN OF PORTLAND ORGANIZE
AN ASSOCIATION.
Government Land Thro IN Open for Set
Element steamer sunk Railway
Notes Disastrous Collision
Items of Interest.

Frasno has organized a Tally-ho club.
San Diego complains Of the price paid
for ice.
Pneumonia is plentiful in Hawthorne,
Nevada.
The plant for the creosote works at San
Pedro has arrived.
1t has been so far bad year for bar
racouda in southern waters.
The hackmen OF Portland are TO or
ganize protective association.
The cutworms has appeared in some
some Of the California vineyards
Many Santa Rosa ladies' have been vic
tins OF endowment associations.
Konrad Frederick Wiemeyer, editor Of
the Sacramento Journal, died last week.
San Diego county bee men say the
prospects were never better than this
year.
There is report that the oil wells at
Sespe are not yielding as much OH as Tor
merly.
The mayor OF Portland and city council
are at outs respecting the location OF
city hall.
William Hamilton, prominent ranch
er OF Grub Gulch, Fresno county, died
recently.
Yosemite was connected by telegraph
with the outside world last week tor the
first time.
Santa Cruz has fixed the liquor license
at 5000 per annum, and the circus license
at $3.50 day.
Two female tramps, who carry their
blankets and sleep in barns, are doing
Yolo county.
Mulky's Tom DAILY, Little Dock and
Butcher Boy were the winners OF the races
at Fresno on the 18th inst.
frankie Joesink, l0-year-old hoy, fell
under moving freight train ut Sacra-
mento, recently, and was killed.
Los Angeles last year shipped away
s09o tons Of citrus fruits and imported
from the East 1921 tons of beer.
Mrs. George Lovelock was drowned
while fishing in slough near her resi-
dence, on Humboldt river, New, last
week.
The commission to fix site for the
insane asylum for Southern California
voted for locality last week, but as each
voted for his own county, no result was
obtained.
At Victoria, B. c., on the 23d, the cor
ner stone Of the Provincial Royal Jubilee
hospital was laid by Mrs. Nelson, wife OF
Governor Nelson.
Austin A. Bell, prominent and very
wealthy citizen Of Seattle, w. T., com
mitted suicide on the 24th inst, by shoot
ing himself through the head.
Corbett and Choynski, San Francisco
pugilsts, have signed articles 10 meet in
a fight to finish for purse OF $1,000 a
side, Queensberry rules 10 govern.
A disastrous cohesion occurred at
Thompson Falls, on the Northern Pacific,
on Monday last, in which the engineer,
fireman and brakeman were injured.
Charles Mint, an Italian fisherman at
Seattle, w. T., was arrested last Tuesday
for attempting to rape Mabel Clifford, the
5-year-old daughter OF laundryman OF
that city.
Hon. John +. Swift, the newly APP
pointed minister to japan, accompanied
by his wife, left San Francisco on the
steamer Oceanic, last week, for his new
field OF labor.
Governor Stevenson's call for consti-
tutional convention, to be held at Boise
City, July 4, has been unanimously en-
dorsed by the republican territorial cen
trail committee.
Albert ]. Cody, who bit off a portion
Of Joseph Morin's lower lip, in fight
last month at Portland, has been con-
yicted OF mayhem. The penalty is next
to that for murder.
n. Cooper was cut to pieces recently by
a California halfbreed Indian named Ben
Jones, at Colony ranch, Harry county,
Or. They were apparently very friendly
! few minutes before the killing.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
company is pushing its line through the
the Cmur d'Alene reservation and Cmur
l'Alene mountains to Mullen. About
two thousand men are employed.
The steamer Alliance, owned by the
Portland & Coast Steamship Company,
nad collision with the steamer Danube
1n Thursday last, near the Willamette
slough, In which the Alliance was sunk.
Frank Sanford who killed himself at
San Rafael last week, was son OF Hon.
stephen Sanford, and cousin Of Con-
ressman Sanford Of Amsterdam, IN. ",
which place he left TO avoid divorce pro-
,eedings.
a new railroad company, known as the
4 Spokane Falls, has been or
,anized to build from Rockford, twenty
i've miles. TO Spokane Falls. When com.