The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-01
COAST NEWS.
Squallers Jumping WashIngton's .
Military Reservation.
CHINESE TRYING TO CORNER CALIFoR.
MAS GRAPE CROP.
Boys at Dayton, WASH, siene a Chinamsn
Almost to Death-IIerribie Murder
Of an Old aerman.

Emmett Blakely was drowned in the
Willamette River, near Springfield, July
18th, while running logs for the Spring
field mills
On "Wednesday OF last week Henry
Hawley asked for drink with q certain
Kind OF fiavoring, and Hhen the barkeeper
said lie hadn't IL Iiawley expressed hls
disappointment by biting of his own
thumb.
Chinese trader has been travelling
about the vineyards near Traver. TuIare
County. TO make contracts for raisin
grapes. He offers $50 an acre cash for
tie crop grown ON older vines. The price
asked is $50 an acre.
squatters have gone on the military
reservation near Port Angeles, Wash.
and the jumping fever extends even to
Port Townsend. The squafterH are rexu-
iarly organized and propose 10 fight Tor
their claims in court
The salt Lake City News saws that
J. III. DwyeF invested all he had in fitting
up great restaurant for the Ogden Carn-
ival, and when the expected patronage
failed TO come and his property was sold
by the Sheriff he blew his brains out
The News is sorry the carnival was ever
hid in Utah.
An old German, know at Las Vegas as
Dan the Tailor was found dead near
there Sunday morning. A knife had been
run through his ankles and a rope run
through in a way that slaughtered ami
NAL Is hung up by the gambrels, and he
had been dragged over the plains. There
i no elew 10 the murderer.
SAYS the Homer Index There is moth
I inc hut
and il Is presumed that the buildings are
smashed as fiat as pancakes. The tram
way also is about done for. Some of that
snow bank will remain when the young
est boy now in Lundy il SO old that he
can wipe his nose with his chin.
Recently some Dayton fWash.1, bows
came very near killing Chinese garden
| er- The boys were helping themselves to
| straw wherries, when the Chinaman tried TO
drive them away. lie succeeded in cap
turing one OF them, but was made to re-
lease him by the other boys, who stoned
bin nearly TO DEATH
Rodger w. O'Meara. newspaper man.
who was the principal witness against
| Charles Dorsey, convicted OF the murder
Of Banker Cummings ON a stage at
Moore's Flat, writes to the Grass Valley
| Transcript from Chicago that a short time
ago he saw Dorsey, who went to prison
| for life, but escaped three years ago in
that city.
The Los Angeles Times rennrxs-
Riverside comes brayely to the front
| with 4,670 population. Moreover, River
/ side is able to support this population.
Its income OF 81 go 600 from fruits gives
every man, woman and child over IS
week. or $25 week to each family, be-
sides what is made from cows, chickens
and other resources.
A tall, heavily bearded man, who had
lame leg, which he appeared to be bath
ing, is living in a dugout within view of
the Bullionville road, the Phoebe Record
says, and it is suspected that he is fugi-
tive from Justice, as he has baTricsde of
earth in front OF the entrance TO his den.
and the latter has double door with two
small peep holes in it.
The Portland Oregonian says. Stage
driver Vaughn and his passengers, while
coming to Pendleton the other afternoon,
witnessed an appalling yet fascinating
sigbt-a cloudburst. which apparently
took place some miles north OF Helix.
The huge cloud decended TO the earth,
resembling a pillar OF black smoke, and
presenting thrilling scene.
Says the Suffer City Enterprise: A
well-grown tarantula was recently dicoy-
cred in the cellar at the residence OF Will
lam Ellington in the Upperson Addition.
The ''critter" was promptly killed One
was also killed in the yard this week.
s'bug" was found in possession Of the cup
board in Mr. Tharp's residence
Billy Hoffman, while at work on the
Newmarket ranch east of Reno, drank
copiously from stream of water along
/ Il nh sefx
snips were growing An hour afterwards
son of the ranchman found him almost
insensible on the ground. The water OF
the same ditch has already killed several
OF Mr.. Newmarket's cattle.
few weeks ago a man named Mottson
swallowed leech while drinking from q
hose at Portland. It took hold at once.
and for some days nothing could dislodge
its hold. An old army surgeon was con-
suited and he settled the case effectually
He put the patient to bed and kept him
full OF whiskey for three days, when the
leech got soaked and let go its grasp.
The owner Of vine ranch near Porter
vile, Tulare County ,wastroubled SO much
with ravages of squirrels that he tried the
experiment last Saturday of flooding them
out. He dug trenches from a big ditch
all over the grounds. turned on the water
and then invited the town boys to bring
their dogs. At the close of the first day
the boys and dogs killed 1900 rodents.
Thomas Armatage, an old man, gray
headed and bent with age, was recently
an inmate of the Napa County Hospital
during sickness. He recovered and left,
,, and by hard work gathered in about 800,
which on Thursday he offered 10 the
Board OF Supervisors to pay for his care
at the hospital. The case was investiga-
ted and the money returned to the old
, man.
The Neal ranch in San Diego, portion
of which was flooded by the building OF
the Sweetwater dam and the proprietor of
which got judgement in the Federal
Court for $3.50 900 for that portion, was
sold to foreclose mortgage a few days
ago The entire 500 acres, including that
included in the litigation-which the dam
! company released by draining of the
, water and did not pay for-sold for a, 100
| subject to $2S, 600 in mortgages.
l Deer are quite numerous in northern
Humbolt County, Nev.,and the adioinine
. counties of Harvey aud Malheur, Or. L.
! W. Napton writes the Malheur Gazette,
. that about forty Piufes are now hunting
: in that county and killing deer by the
hundred. They make no distinction be-
tween does and bucks. When a doe ID
killed at this season her lawn starves te
death, as matter OF course, as they are
not old enough to live without mother
!. Mr. Napton says that deer are becoming
O fewer every year. and il the Indians an
7 allowed to slaughter them indiscriminate
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