The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-05-24
THE PACIFIC COAST.
BORING FOR WATER AND GAS IN
CALIFORNIA.



guests
Santa Rosa has applied for free mail
delivery.
The Eleventh District Fair viii be held
at Quincy.
The land-jumping trouble at FELTON, will
be amirably settled.
The building OF cannery at Ontario
will receive $500 bonus.
Five slloons 1T Santa Cruz paid $1,000
each for license last week.
The Glen Ellen, Sonoma county, post
oflice is money-order office.
The wheelmen have tournament at
Stockton on the Fourth OF July.
Pasadena and Fresno will have free de-
livery postal service from July lst.
Noted oarsmen are collecting at Ia
coma, w. T., Tor the coming regatta.
Governor Waterman has been to Ukiah
TO select site for the insane asylum
Helena, Nj. IT,, sporting men won Sl0,-
00O on the result OF the Kentucky Derby.
j. III. Wallace. mechanic at Seattle,
was sandbagged and robbed at Tacoma
last week.
The probabilities are that Kern county
has voted 70 issue s2J0,0O IN bonds Tor
improvements.
The saloon interest at Petaluma is to
make vigorous war against the High
Incense ordinance.
Four cowboys killed four Zuni Indians
near Wingate, A. T., last week. The
cowboys are IN prison.
A man supposed TO be I'll. Lucas OF
Oswego, Or, was killed by the cars in
South Portland last week.
The Fairhaven. steamer to run be-
tween Tac0ma and Bellingham Bay, has
been launched at Tacoma.
d. L. Hackett, the missing editor OF
the Napa Reporter, is in st. Louis. His
mind is evidently unsounS.
The steamer City OF Salem at Portland
has been mulcted in the sum OF $3.50 for
carrying too many passengers.
Wizards object in the Oregon Trans
continental Railroad deal is to obtain
control OF the Northern Pacific.
Acknowledgement Johnson has decided
that the Oregon steamers must pay the
quarantine tax at San Francisco.
Grain that was reported to be fiat three
slays ago Strengthened up under the
influence Of the warm sunshine.
A man named Coroles lost team and
load d goods by trying TO smuggle them
into Mexico at Tia Juana, recently.
Tie Nozthern Pacific win open road
from Renton to Billing, M. T., which viii
open rich section Of the Territory.
Seattle is excited over the discovery OF
galena silver lodges ON the line 0i the
Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern railroad.
Charles Shoemaker was killed by
Michael LanrOona, who was carelessly
handling pistol at Sacramento last
week
The farmers are now surveying the
field after the deluge Of rain, and they
think the benefit is greatly in excess OF
the loss.
Boring Tor water and gas is to begin
very sOon on the asylum grounds at
Stockton, proposals for the work being
advertised
Aisort one thousand song birds from
the Hartz Mountains are on their way to
Portland, Or, having left New York last
week by rail.
Frank Cody. who was reported to have
been killed and roasted by Apache
Indians in Arizona, it seems was killed
bythree Mexiuans.
Miss Maggie Quinn was thrown from a
buggy and dragged q block at san Jose,
last week SIDE WIS much bruised and /
1t il feared was injured internally.
Two burglars were detected at work at .
Butte, M T., last weeg, and one was
Killed. Before death he stated he was
known 10 the West as Pittsburg Jack.
John Wilson, a steyedore at Portland, X
wants 10000 damages from the Oregon
Improvement Company for injuries re-
eeived while In the company's employ.
Tie schooner Rosie Olsen, which left
Astoria Oh halibut cruise IN February,
should have been heard from tllreeweeks
arc, and fears are entertained Of her loss.
The contractors for building the big
dam as fhe mouth 81 the San Felipe
Canon, San Diego county, will have to 90
down 10 feet 70 get solid rock founda-
tion.
County Clerk w. J. Henley, Of Esmer-
aida, New, has been removed by the
Commissioners for malieasance in office,
and s. D. Rosenthal appointed to gil the
warranty