The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-01
THE PACIFIC COAST.
INHUMAN TREATMENT OF PRISON
ERS IN A PENITENTIARY.
Mrs Langtry's Importation OF Blooded
Stock-The Lake washingtou Ca
nal-Survey of Reservations
Brute's Deserts.

Numerous burglaries are reported
from interior town in California.
The smoking of opium by the white
people OF Spokane Fall is increasing
The rediscovery of the lost PEN
hachapi mine in Arizona is an
nouncsd.
Articles OF incorpor rttien have been
fled by the Drain & West Coast Tele-
graph company.
The Southern Pacific is believed TO
be building into San Diego behind the
Ocean Beach and Delmar railroad
Reports from the III trqua Hala
mines in Arizona are now di. courag-
ing, and many prospectors are return
ing.
Charles Lumsteller was arrested ut
Port Townsend last week, charged
with the murder of his wife in Mime
sofa.
An examination of the great regis
Ter 1T San Diego gives promise of evi-
uence of fraud of sensational char
acter.
The leading men in New Mexico
say that the Territory is more in need
Of public schools than State govern
ment
Arlee, chief of the Flathead Indians,
| proposes to inaueurate important re
forms on the reservation among the
tribes.
The bill to remove the capital of
Arizona from Prescott TO Phoenix
| passed the Territorial council Thurs
day
w. B. Reynolds, of Healdsburg.
has been appointed inspector OF Chi
nese for the Coast, as provided by the
Scott law.
Mrs. Langtry has purchased an inn
ported thoroughbred stallion and four
imported brood mares, for her Califor-
mia ranch.
The police OF Spokane Falls made
raid last Thursday on the opium dens
of that city, and captured twenty-fi We
Cinnamon.
There is great difficulty in landing
provisions on Destruction island to
supply the men building the light
| house there.
The mail service on route from
Hillsboro to Portland, commencing
February l, has been increased to six
times week.
John I. Black, under indictment
for the murder Of his brother last May.
died in the county Jail at Virginia
City last week.
Reports from Helena, Montana, say
that indications point TO the fact that
there will be no little activity in rail
road enterprises in that vicinity the
cemipg season.
The estimated cost of cutting a ca
nal from Lake Washington to the
| Sound, so as to admit deep sea vessels
to the lake, is 81 100000.
Miss Nellie Re ,ch, who was so
frightfully stabbed by an unknown
man at her home near Cotton, Cali
fornia, recently, will recover.
William Johnson while trying to
| discharge a gun at Hillsboru, Friday,
received the whole charge in the side
OF the head, killing him instantly.
The grand jury OF Eiko county, Ne
vada, calls upon the Elko delegation
to the legislature to vote againss the
lottery bill contemplated by that body.
Resolutions were adopted at mass
meeting held at North Yakima, last
week, urging the Governor to call n
constitutional convention to adopt
State constitution.
The Pullman palace CIR company
has acquired control of all perl,r car
companies doing business in thi-
country, with the exception of the
/ "A ,ol~ ~ u
bilt lines.
The badly decomposed body of a
supposed Germ an, about sixtv year.
oi age, was f. und near San r ,fael,
California, last week, an tree, about
fifteen feet from the ground. A raised
umbrella was above the body.
About $4,000 Of the $4,000 re-
quired for the establishment of
watch factory at Otay, San Diego
county, which company of Illinois
capitalists have been talking of start
ing at that place, has been subscribed.
Surveyor General Green, pursuant
to instructions from the land depart
ment at Washington, has posted no
tices calling for bids for the survey of
the Blackfoot, Fort Belknap and Fort
Peck Indian reservations in northern
Montana.
i The Union of Walla Walla is pub
fishing communications from convicts
in the penitentiary concerning the in
human treatment of prisoners in that
institution. If the charges are true
the prison authorities should be re-
moved forthwith.
A requisition has been issued by
the Governor of Oregon to the Gov
ernor of Washington, for the delivery
to the sheriff of Multnomah county OF
Morris johnson, William Ashton,
Dick Rogers and Agnes Woodward,
charged with the murder of Cunning
ham, in Portland, last year.
i Arminta Gardner, of Union county,
has been placed in the insane asylum
at Salem. She is but sixteen years
old, and has been mother for the
past fifteen months. The author of
her ruin, an also of her insanity, is
named Virgins, and is serving ten
years sentence for the outrage.
Jacob Wilkerson, the colored man
who was sent to San Quentin in 1872
for forty-five years, for the murder OF
a woman in SIN Francisco, was par
doned in 1875 on the condition that
he would leave the State and never
return. He went to Honolulu, but
returned few days ago, and wa