The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-29
THE PACIFIC COAST.
The Capital Of Idaho Infested
with Tramps.
Los Angeles Protests Against the Re-
moval of Army Headquarters
70 Santa Fe.
Sew Mexieo,s pOpulation is l5O, ,l5a.

Ogden win put up {, 900 cases of canned
tomatoes this season.
New Mexico viii vote on a State Con-
stitution ON the 7th of October next.
The White-Cap stories from New Mex
leo are declared to be greatly sensational
4 cloudburst in the Warm Springs re
gion, Idaho, has seriously damaged the
crops.
The next Republican State Convention
in Washington viii be held in Tacoma
September %
The Grand Coulee Mont. coal miners
are on a strike. They claim wages are
too low to live.
The body of E. H. Allis. the engineer
whose train was wrecked near Panta, A.
t., has been found.
San Diego is TO vote October on the
question of issuing bonds for a new wa
ter system by the city
The gas well at Summerland, near
Santa Barbara, is down sixty-two feet,
and the pressure continues.
The organization of the Coos Bay.
Roseburg and Eastern Railroad and
Navigation Company has been completed
at Roseburg, Or.
Strong representations are being wired
10 Washington in opposition TO the re-
moval to Santa Fe from Los Angeles OF
army headquarters
4 small sloop of about five tons, owned
by John Hartman of lrondale, Wash,
has been seized by the customs authori-
ties at Victoria, B. c.
stockmen in the Yayapai country. A.
T.. complain of the high railroad tariff
on beef cattle, in consequence of which
they win drive their stock to California.
Boise CITY, Idaho, is infested with
trampswho rob peoplein the open streets,
and lynching committee will probably
be organized before the town is rid of
these lawless characters
The Treasury Department has received
q dispatch from the Collector of Customs
at san Francisco stating that six China
men had been arrested at Nogales, A. T.,
for illegally entering the United States.
Southern California has chosen Major
Ben F. Truman as general manager OF
the Chicago permanent exhibit for the
coming two years The Santa Fe rail-
road is TO give hall in the heart OF Chi
eago free to the exhibit.
Four prisoners at Folsom, Cal, made
their escape by tunneEng from their cell
under the prison wall. The tunnel Is
claimed to be sixty feet long. and the
prisoners are supposed to have been
working on II for months. The escapes
were Matthias Blummer, Charles Geler-
man, Tom Wilson and c. II. Kohler, all
Germans.
A Joint committee of the Board OF
Trade and Chamber OF Commerce of San
Jose, Cal, has decided to call a conven-
ton, to meet IN San Jose September l6,
to consider the question OF completing
the Transcontinental railway. The conn
ties of Kern, Tulare, Merced, Fresno,
San Benito, Santa Clara, San Mateo and
San Francisco will be asked to send nine
delegates.
Complaints have been made that the
treasury agents and customs authorities
at San Francisco were careless in the
work of inspecting such dutiable
parcels as came by Asiatic and other
mails which are landed in this country
on the Pacific Coast, and an investiga-
ton is to be made by a special officer.
Dutiable articles, it is said, have passed
through the mails
4 census bulletin for Washington saws
that during the calendar year of 1885
2o. .464 TASKS or 102 short tons of quick
silver were produced in California. Al
the quicksilver produced by the United
States was from cinnabar from mines in
Mereed, Napa, San Benito, Santa Clara
Sonoma, Siskiyou and Trinity, and II
one county in Oregon, namely, Doug
lass.
Morrow has 2e3, 900 surveyed acres
in The Dalles district open to settlement
In Wasco, Sherman, Gillian, Morrow
Crook and Grant counties, in The Dalles
district, there are 3, ,409, ,040 acres of sur
veyed and $50, 100 acres OF unsurveyed
all vacant. This district has also ,457, !,
GOO acres of Northern Pacific railroad
lands, which viii be thrown open fol
settlement in the near future. Morrow
is about evenly divided between The
Dalles and La Grande districts.
The suit of J. D. Spreckels and Others
against the Pacific Coast STEAMSHIP
Company to recover $50, 900 on marine
libel in the admiralty for salvage on The
steamer State of California was up fol
trial one day last week before judge
Hoffman in the United States Distric
Court at San Francisco. The plaintiffs
claim that on January 3. 1890, while tht
State of California was disabled through
the breaking of her machinery ane
drifting along the coast in helples,
condition, their tug Relief came to hel
rescue some $50 miles up the coast from
that port. and towed her safely into the
harbor. The defendants deny the valid
itv Of the claim on the ground that the1
had contracted with the plaintiffs to per
form the work of going to the steamer:
rescue; that they chartered the plaintiffs
steamers to do such work, and that
while they sent out another steamer fol
that purpose, the Relief was also engaged
for the same purpose.
A number of italian fishermen of SaI
Francisco have been accustomed to carr,
on a thriving business with the canner
les in Sacramento by selling then
their catches of salmon. Lately, how
ever. the relations between the fisher
men and the Gamers have been some
what strained. The fishermen demanded
5 cents per pound for salmon, and wer'
offered only cents. This rate was re
fused, and combine has been effectet
among the fishermen. They determines
to take their fish down to San Franciscs
rather than accept the Gamers prices
and the other afternoon the novel scen'
presented itself at the fishermen's whar
of a dozen or more fishing smacks loadeC
down with thousands of fish, which
were for sale at % cents each. In con
versation with one of the fishermen
reporter was informed that the cannery
men had made cut because heavy IN
voices of fruit were being received at tn
canneries, and the fish-canning industr,
was temporarily shelved for that of frui
packing The fishermen rather than &C
cept the prices are determined to boy
colt the canneries and let the publi
Z reap the benefit OF 1t.