The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-11-14
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Work has begun on the Poso canal.
The hotel Bailey at Slsson has been
burned.
Seattle has bought water works for
$s52. .265.
The Humboldt land office is to DO in
vestigated.
Rich quartz Is reported at Burners
bay, Alaska.
John o.Brien died from drink at Ba-
kersheid Nov i.
Joseph Morgan escaped from the Idaho
penitentiary Oct. 2S.
The Marysville cannerS paid S250O0
In wages this year.
Scarlet fever has been having a mild
run ct Walla Walla.
There was $4,000 fire In Carson's
Chinatown Oct. 90.
William Kelly has been held for shang-
haeing sailors at Astoria.
E. L. Williams has been appointed
postmaster at Santa Cruz.
Thirteen raisin driers have been burned
in Fresno county this year.
Artesian water with a strong pressure
has been lound at Wheatland.
The Seattle city railroad has fioated
Si,o0o,oo0 bonds in New York.
People who allow their hens to run at
large at Pomona are fined $50.
A single-track railroad company has
been Incorporated at Union, Or.
Waiter and Ed Ray were run over by
a train near Delano Oct. 81 and killed
Work on the jetties at the mouth of
the Siuslaw river will begin In the spring.
Chicken cholera is reported at Peta-
luna, one man having lost 1000 fowls.
Lakeport is to be connected by rail
with the Donahue road by July 81, 1892.
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cided by majority OF one vote to stay
out.
The Kern and Tulare irrigation dis
trict has voted to issue 100000 worth of
bonds.
Tacoma merchants are bidding for the
Alaskan trade and say they propose to
have 1t.
Dayton. wn.. is overrun with arebags
party
NJ. Baker blew his right arm on while
firing salute TO Stanford Oct. 81 at
iulare.
A new line Of steamers will run from
Puget sound to Mexican and Guatema-
Ian ports.
A young man named Neill accidentally
killed himself while hunting near Hue
meme Oct. 25-
George W. Lewis and August Richards
dug out OF th9 Nevada state prison at
Carson Oct. %.
Since j. L. Stillman was convicted of
the murder of Fiske at Fresno Mrs.
Stillman has died of grief
Herman Dods OF Nape shot his right
eye out the other dav with a pistol that
he didn't know was loaded.
Milo G.. Mckee blew OF both arms and
destroyed both eyes while firing salute
70 Stanford at Bakersfield Oct 81.
kicking horse discharged gun in a
buggy ne Agnews Oct- 26 tnnd blew
Leopold Giovanni's shoulder OF.
Policemen Charles Raymond and Nell
son Clonett OF Seattle have been arrested
for assisting in the smuggling or opium.
Seaton Boren was badly shot and
dubbed by Constable Spiers at Turloek
Nov. while drunk and resisting arrest
Plainsburg averaged three arrests a
week. The town adopted and enforced
prohibition and has but three arrests
year.
Paul wiegert, living near westport.
Or, was killed while working In the
woods Oct. % by a log which fell on
him.
Opium is coming in from British Co
iumbia in large quantities and several
seizures have been made lately ON Puget
sound.
A German named OFT was killed for a
deer by a boy with whom he had gone
bunting twelve miles from Eugene, Or,
Oct 30.
Francis W. Hunsaker OF MeMinnvillc.
Or. and Miss Lulu w. Bleakney of
salem were married on the street at
Salem Nov. 1.
Five carloads OF raisins grown within
five miles OF Yuba City were shipped TO
Chicago a few days ago. They were pro-
nouneed first-elass.
A fire drove the guests from the Grand
hotel, San Francisco. on the morning of
Nov. 8. but the building was not much
damaged except by smoke and water.
The Northern Pacific wheat elevator
at Eureka junction, Wn., was burned,
presumably by the carelessness Of tramps.
Oct. 20. with $1,000 bushels OF grain.
Loss 100000.
j. J. Allen and Lawrence Roach had
political discussion In San Francisco Oct.
% and Allen made sure that Roach
would not vote wrong by putting a
bullet in his brain.
A. G. Lloyd's farmhouse at Waitsburg.
Wn., was burned on the morning OF Nov.
l, the family escaping in their night
clothes. Lloyd was badly burned while
rescuing his children.
James I. Bogue. Sutter county nur-
seryman, has offered to distribute his
stock of $4,000 young black walnut trees
among the school districts OF the entire
state, free of charge. provided the trees
are properly cared for.
James Pipkin and Charles Hatch muir
dered Joseph Lewis, an Apache county
(Ar.) cowboy, Oct. 81. Next day sher-
IFS posse went to Hatch's house and
called for him. His brother came out
and somebody in the posse shot him
dead.
Frank Mason shot and killed Charles
and Matthew Van, his brothers-in-law,
as they lay asleep at his place near
Westport, CAL, Oct. 81, and then killed
himself. He was mentally deranged
and thought the Van boys had tried TO
poison him.
About 200 sheep and cattle have been
stolen recently near McMinnville. Or,
have been arrested for stealing cattle,
driving them to Portland and selling
them. They are about 20 years of age.
Both have jumped their bail.
Mrs. G. SieRhold of Salinas saw a bur-
glar carry OF her husbane's clothes in
the morning of Oct. 30. She awakened
Sieghold, who fired several shots at the
retreatinR burglar, but the latter got
away with SIS or $40 in money, watch
and chain worth $l5) and Sieghold's
clothes.
Passenger Brakeman J. II. Smith was
brutaIly kicked, trampled on and thrown
from his train by a ride-steallng tramp
near Fresno Oct. 20 and five OF his ribs
were broken, his left arm, colIar-bone,
shoulder-blada and nose were fractured
and he was internally injured. The
tramp escaped.
switch engine ran into passenger
train at Tacoma Nov. /. When the en-
gineer saw that the collision was inev-