The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-04-18
COAST NEWS.
Snow Still Nine Feet Deep In TilIa-
nook County.
COLUMBIA COUNTY TAX ROLL s2I 900.
Receipts Of the McMinnville POstOfIlee.
The Mining Situation.

Santa Rosa has three daily mail de-
liveries.
The Ferndale creamery IL turning out
600 pounds of butter a day.
A piece of granite weighing over 5000
pounds is set over the doorway of the
new Spokane National Bank building.
An unknown Spaniard, believed 10 be
insane, made three attempts al suicide
at Los Gatos, but was baiiied aud locked
up.
Pendleton has to pay for an injury re-
Gently occasioned by "A break in a side
walk, and the defect is still unrepaired.
Two Ii nber claim prospectors report
that snow is eight or nine feet deep on
the summit of the mountains in Tilia
NOOK county.
The Canadian Pacific will run excnr-
sions from California this summer. The
first one Of teachers will leave San Fran
cisco May ~.
The gross receipts of the McNIinnville
postotiice show an increase of over 30
per cent. for the last wear This is an
indication of substantial growth
rhe entire threshing outfit and ware
house Of Peoke Bros, near Henleyville,
Cal, was burned recently. Loss 5000 /:
insurance, $500. Origin unknown.
The Rocklin, Cal quarrymen's strike
is still on. An effort is being made TO
hire non-union men in San Francisco,
but in that event the stone-cutters will
strike.
The United States commissioners Of
public buildings in San Francisco have
advertised for the sale OF a site FIR the
post-office. Bids will he opened April
%, 1890.
Antonio Manrieo, a wealthy Mexican,
was killed at Santa Monica, Cal by a
train striking him on crossing. His
body was carried several hundred yards
on the cow catcher.
The mouth OF the Umpqua i damned
up by flood. Five schooners are
locked up in and will be compelled to
remain there until the river cuts chan
mel through the bar.
The schooner Pannonia, Ia6 tons,
which left san Francisco for the Umpuua
river, wos Obliged to return on account
of the loss of her main gaif, which oc-
CURED OIL Ioint Reyes.
A company has been formed To con
struct a canal from the east side of the
Straits of Juan de Fuca across the san
de Fuca peninsula to shorter connee-
+ tion with the Skagit river.
The will of the late Colonel J. Mervyn
Donahue, president of the San Francisco
I * Northern Pacific Coast railroad was
I formerly admitted TO probate in Marin
county, Cal. No contest Of the will was
I filed
4 The tax roll for 1889 for Columbia
county amounts to over s2l 900. and ont
of the sum Sheriff Neeker has collected
over SIS, 100, which leaves a small de
+ linquent list considering the scarcity oi
money.
Martin Olsen, owner of the best hy.
draulic mines on Salmon river, Siskivou
county. Cal, was riding on horseback
over trail to Sawyer's bar to his mines
when his horse fell killing Olsen and
the horse.
A chicken with two bodies. four legs
and but one head WAS Matched on J. ID
Bentley's ranch, eight miles from Modes
to, the other day, and was alive at last
accounts. Is there anything that stan
islaus county cannot produce?
The Union Insurance Company. o
San Francisco, has brought suit agains
the Pennsylvania Insurance Company
of Philadelphia, to recover $1,000 insur
ance on property of the Commercial Mil
Company, at Seattle, Wash, which wal
burned June 6, Ios9.
Captain r. X. Thompson, formerly o
Portland, proprietor OF the Artesiar
Water Works, il dissatisfied with rate
fixed by the trustees of Alameda and re
fuses to allow any more service pipes {,
be connected with his mains. This il
creating much feeling.
The murder of Frederickson and wife
near Bay Center, Wash, is one of tn,
most atrocious that has happened ol
the coast for some time. For the safet,
OF the community il is hoped that tn,
perpetrators of this brutal deed will b
punished to the full extent Of the law.
At the meeting of the freight com
mittee OF the Transcontinental Associa
ton in San Francisco it was decide,
that all points on the Missouri river, a
we'll as Galveston and Houston, Tex.
; shall hereafter be termed river points
, The committee then adjourned sine die
Some time ago two men, who ha,
been lost in the Coast range mountains
were rescued from starvation by Silet
; Indians. One of them, Willie Forehand
aged "a years, worn out by the fearfn
struggle he had undergone, died recently
He expressed much gratitude for tn
] kind treatment OF the Indians and tn
agency officials.
|, The suit of Captain Jerome Cox, a
|. San Francisco, against Attorney ID. NJ
, Delmas, to recover $33 900, the value c
certain claims against judgment Co
recovered in his suit against Charles Nc
Laughlin, resulted in the jury awardin
Cox $22, 1862. Delmas purchased tn
. claims in the last named suit. and Co
claimed it was on his advice and for hi
benefit that the purchase was made.
The Orting Oracle gives the people {
: that place some stirring advice: "Thi
) thing of allowing advantages to pas
) every day without nod, or bow,
! turn or move of the hand, is becomin
extremely disgusting, and its hurtful e
fects are seen on every hand. This
the day for men of action and men
thought. Think, move, work Thin
r wisely, move quickly, work vigorously
t 1t is reported that the Columbia ha
f raised but very little yet and is evidentl
holding back for the big flood that is bt
o ing predicted by the old settlers and tn
r government signal service officer at Por
t land. Immense quantities of snow al
reported on the mountains in the regio
of the headwaters cf both the Columb
and the Snake rivers, and, there beir
as yet no warm weather to take IL
:. snow off the foothills and thus give I'll
: tributaries of the Lower Columbia
:. chance TO run off before the main floC
y comes, the prospects for 'i6 high wat,
!. appear to be very probable, and the ma
. who has river bottom ranch will
wise if he prepares for the inevitable al