The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-19
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There is a quicksilver mining boom
near Healdsburg.
A steamer is likely TO be run between
Siuslaw bay and San Francisco.
f. E. Brown fell from wagon near
Fresno Dec. and broke his neck.
@. @. O'Donnell is contesting the cleo
tion of Sanderson as mayor OF San Fran
cisco.
The schooner Undine has been wrecked
in Santa Barbara channel, with her crew
of three.
at Stockton has been completed and ac-
cepted.
A company has been formed u work
onyx deposits in the Wenatchee river, in
Washington.
Watt rman has pardoned H. Gallagher
of Placer county and Dennis O'Neill of
San Francisco, murderers.
Harry, son Of M. H., Hibbard OF San
Jose, is accused of chloroforming his
father and robbing the house.
The Sacramento union printers have
| appealed from the injunction restraining
them from boycotttng the Bee.
The rainstorm which commenced Dec.
2 extended all over the state and was os
sufficient volume to do much good.
w. r. Lehman, a civil engineer, was
| drowned by the eapSiZing OF Sailboat
| on Pullet point, Puget sound, Dec. 2.
painter named Shenton got into n
quarrel with All Lee at San Rafael Dec.
2, and the Chinaman shot him fatally.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of val
uables We're stolen from DR.. Anton Lon
nenfield's residence at Portland Dec. 4.
d. R. Fredericks has been convicted of
burning Henry Peros' barn and seven
horses in Matters colony, Fresno county.
Tracy Brothers terra Gotta works at
Seventeenth and HarI ison streets, San
Francisco, were burned Dec. 4. Loss
$4,000.
The southern citrus fair viii be at Los
Angeles. March to IA, and the northern
citrus fair at Marysville. beginning
Dec. %.
Jake Sharp, a San Francisco coal and
iron dealer, has borrowed, collected and
embezzled all the money he could and
disappeared
F. J. Kyle, a Chicago commission Hnan
with cloudy record, has been arrested
for forgeries in San Diego and Los
Angeles.
NC. Patrick was killed by Chinaman
at Sonoma Nov. 80 and the slayer had
TO be hustled out of town TO avoid a
lynehing.
E. E. Dixon, Otis Dixon and Arthur
Sylvester have been arrested at Susan
vile for stealing horses in Lassen county
Joe Goodwin shot and killed a man
named Allen who got drunk and picked
quarrel with him at Fall City, Shasta
county. Nov. 80.
The principal Of the Susanville school
has resigned because some of the big
boys carried pistols and he could not
maintain order.
Rruce Cockrill fell from horse at
Salinas Dec. and was found with blood
screaming from his mouth, ears and nose
He died in few minutes.
W. R. Thornell, cashier of the Boston
national bank at Seattle, is a defaulter
He was convicted of embezzlement at
Denver before he went 70 Seattle.
The first infantry, $40 strong, under
Colonel William Shafter, has gone from
this coast to fight Indians in Dakota if
Indian fighting becomes necessary.
A Piute m sdicine man known as Charley
at Independence, InyO county, lost three
patients in succession recently and in
accordance with custom he was killed.
The brieklayers on the new smoke
stack to carry the fumes from the Ana
conda smelters up on the mountains
have struck for raise from Sc a day
to 81.
The Indians at Camp Independence.
Inyo county, on the night Of Nov. 80
beat out the brains of one of their num-
Der. This is the third murder within
short time.
James Smith lost control of windlass
while lowering a bucket into mine at
Sierra city and the handle struck him in
the face, breaking his nose and badly
dis6guring him.
The Stockton courthouse gas well has
struck flow Of $4,000 feet day. It is
being bored deeper and all the public
buildings viii probably be warmed and
lighted with gas.
Burglars robbed the house OF A. NJ.
Hansen at Tacoma Dec. 4, securing two
gold watches, and then set fire to bed
in which an infant lay. The child's cries
brought help and its life was saved.
Daring thieves entered the stable of a
Washington farmer at Keith and took
two horses-all he had-from under his
eyes. He got a gun and gave chase, but
they galloped out of range on his own
horses.
Burnett G. Haskell, ]. J. Martin, II. T.
Taylor and William Christie, trustees of
the Kaweah colony cooperative enter
rested for cutting timber on government
land.
James Donogan of Virginia, New, went
up the back stairs of his hotel at Grass
Valley late on the night of Dec. and in
some way fell, breaking his ankle so
badly that he is likely to be a cripple
for life.
The convention of school superintend-
ents at Sacramento recommends the
abolition OF grammar schools and The
passage of laws facilitating the establish
ment of high schools by towns and CO.
operating school districts.
j. FL. Browning, a Los Angeles forger,
Louis Smith, convicted of arson in the
same city, Juan Mesa, a Ventura county
burglar, and Duncan Anderson, a SaniS-
laus county murderer, have been par
doned.
A Tulare artesian well lately bored has
furnished such a volume of water that
the man who had it constructed is COM
PEELED to cap it to keep his farm from
being flooded. The casing is fifteen
inches across, and the water rises six
inches above this.
While trying to shoot Charles Ander-
son, who had just been elected from Mrs.
Sarah HeSter'S farm near Dayton, Wn.,
Nov. 80, Charles Robinson, who had been
running the farm, accidentally shot and
killed Mrs. Hester.
Miss Chloe Bradway, aged 10, and E.
G. Davis, aged %, living in the foothills
near Fancher creek, Fresno county, have
signed a contract of marriage but Davis
cannot get his bride, her father claiming
that she is under the age of consent and
the contract therefore void.
J. E. Williams, partner in the under
taking business at Fresno with MS father,
S. II. Williams, has been arrested for
hiring a well-insured undertaking shop
burned. G. Schilman cOnfeSSeS that he
and Fred Miller burned the shop for $50
each, which Williams paid. When Schiil-
man was arrested Williams bought a
ticket and sent Miller away, and when
arrested he had just bought another and
started John Reynolds, who knew the
facts, for Kansas city.
Building has been stopped on the
Oregonian railroads extension from Sill
verton to Portland since the Southern
Pacific absorbed the Oregonian. It is
reported that Huntington bought the
Oregonian lines for the Southern Pacific,
hut that snrna Of the directors wnl1Id NOT