The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-15
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Oregon Complains of Its Census
and Wants a Recount.
Sailors Of the American ship Louisiana
Complain Of the Cruelty Of the
Captain and Mates.

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The California Board Of Forestry has
50. 600 tan-bark waffle trees growing n
Santa Monica. They will be gratuitous-
" distributed the coming winter.
Alexander Thompson has been CON
victed at jackson, Amador county, Cal,
of murder in the first degree, he having
killed William Spray. The punishment
inflicted Is life imprisonment.
The four Indians who killed the Indian
medicine man, Bullock, near Mariposa
last June win be tried in September,
Bullock was killed according to Indian
custom because he had lost patient.
The SusanviIle zeal. } Mail asserts that
title to desert land in Lassen county is
being obtained by fraud, and specifies
cases where title has been confirmed Il
$40 acres when the claimant had not
enough water to irrigate an acre.
The revised returns Of the Salt Lake
{Utah) county election show that the
Liberals have elected the Assessor, Sc
lectmen, Surveyor, Attorney, Coroner,
Clerk and Treasurer. The Mormons
elected the Sheriff and Recorder.
Sixty miles Of the Santa Fe road be-
tween Benson and No@ales, A. t. are
washed out by rain, and rail eommuni-
cation to Sonora Is cut of. The Santa
Cruz river is flooding the valley, and is
higher now than at any time during the
food.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Diego has adopted resolutions declaring
itself in favor of a commercial reciproc-
ity as embodied in Secretary Blaine's
letter to Senator FRYE. The resolutions
were telegraphed TO the Pacific Coast
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Twenty-three Cinnamon recently cap
tured IN Lower California while attempt
ing to smugxle their way across the bor-
der from Mexico into the United States
arrived in San Francisco last week, and
were Immediately taken 10 the county
Jail pending the sailing of the Belgic for
China.
Oregon complains that Washington
s--@st this year 5S, ,443 votes, and the CEN
yes her population of 339, ,0)0,
WHINE Oregon cast this year 73 400 votes
and Is given a population OF 242, ,242.
Oregon naturally protests vigorously
against such census biunders, and insists
upon recount
The following officers have been elected
by the Board of Managers of the Puget
Sound Chatauqua Assembly: Rev. q.
A. Tewksbury, President; Rev. Samuel
Green, Secretary; w. H. Reeves, Treas
urer; Rev. G. r. Pomeroy, Superintend-
ent of Grounds; Rev. d. J. Pierce, SUI
perIntendent of instruction
In the course OF a quarrel over a horse
at Roslin, WASH, negro named Miles
Mayo stabbed and dangerously wounded
a hveryman named Palheny. MAYO was
arrested, and through fear of lynching
yves taken TO Ellensburg and jailed. The
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they viii avenge his death. A bitter
hatred exists between white and black
miners.
The San Jose Chamber of Commerce
has appointed q committee to confer with
a like committee from the Board OF
Trade for the purpose Of calling a con-
vention in San Jose OF committees OF
Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Merced, San Be
nito. Santa Clara, San Mateo and San
Francisco for the purpose of negotiating
with the officials of the Santa Fe rail-
road to the end that their line be built
through the counties named.
The cruiser San Francisco, which will
probably leave the latter part of next
week for the Santa Barbara channel TO
make her official trial trip, is required
to develop 14) pounds of steam, $50 rev
olutions and speed of nineteen knots.
The other day, with 10 pounds of steam
and 100 revolutions, the cruiser made
eighteen knots Commodore Irwin said
that he expected the San Francisco to
reach twenty knots on her trial trip.
At San Francisco Treasurer Jack
son is In daily expectation of instruc-
tions from Washington for the purchase
of a quantity of bullion in accordance
with the new law, which provides for
~ a ftfA 1sa Al.
w by the Secretary of the Treasury
jackson thinks that large part of the
bullion viii necessarily be purchased at
San Francisco, the production of the Pa
cifie Coast mines being greater than
those in the East.
Sailors of the American ship Louisi-
ana, which has just arrived at San Fran
cisco from Philadelphia, complain of i'll
treatment by Captain Oliver, First Mate
Oliver, his son, and the second mate,
Davis. Delaying pins and billies were
brought constantly into play and the
men compelled to work when sick One
man was kept in irons three months.
Davis was on the ship r. q. Belknap
two years ago, and was arrested on the
arrival of the ship at New York. Two
of the crew were missing, and it was
charged that Davis had hand in their
for cruelty at sea is now pending.
The strike of molders in the foundry
of the Union Iron Works at San Fran
:. cisco will by the terms of their contract
entitle the Iron Works to an extension
of time for the delay occasioned by the
strike 1t Is probable that they will get
fully five months extension on the Mon
terey, though the work has been pro-
crossing well IN other departments ex-
cept the foundry. In the meantime the
Secretary of the Navy is beginning to be
little anxious about the delay in the
completion of the vessel. and he may in
sist that if the Union Works cannot get
this work done in their own works they
must sublet it and have it done else
where.
The Oceanic Steamship Company has
secured the mail contract from the
French Government for service between
san Francisco and Tahiti and the Mar
ouesas islands. The mails heretofore
have been carried by schooners. The
new arrangement means considerable to
San Francisco, as the mails will now be
delivered every four weeks. The line
will not be established, however, until
the first of the year, as it will take the
intervening time to get ready. The
proposition is to have the island steam
ers meet the Australian steamers to and
from that city at Honolulu, so they will
q on the same schedule as the vessels
tween there and the colonies. The
Rnic Company has new steamer,
IN the way from Clyde to Honolulu,
ch could be readily turned into
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