The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26
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,aches are raiding in Arizona.

dead.
yaca valley took in 100000 for fruit
this year.
Five victims Of the lake Labish disaster
are dead.
A navy yard will surely be located on
Puget sound.
Burglars and footpads are active at
Sierra City.
Fresno has shipped 1896 carloads of
green and dried fruit, raisins and wine
this year.
Shasta county is exporting raisins by
the carload.
The Fresno canal has been declared a
nuisance.
Footpads are numerous and bold at
Sacramento.
The Union Pacific switchmen at Ogden
struck Dec 8.
John Deutsch committed suicide at
San Rafael Dec IL.
Portland. East Portland and Albina are
to be consolidated.
Constable Pearson killed Alfred Hourse
| near San Diego Dec. 6.
Delano marketed 1856 pounds OF tur-
keys for Thanksgiving.
OrovIlle shipped carload of oranges
east Dec. 10.
the new stockyards at Baden.
The Jesuit fathers will build training
school for novices at San Jose
Mr.. Hagle has got divorce at Sacra-
mento after suit lasting ten years.
There is 10000 600 acres of forest open
to settlement in Washington.
Entry OF land containing the big trees
of California has been suspended.
Port Orchard will probably be selected
for the Puget sound navy yard.
Work has been stopped on the Union
Pacific's extension from Milford to Phoebe,
New.
Cho Chung. imprisoned at Portland for
insanity, hanged himself by his queue
/ Dec. 10.
Henry Chappen was killed by powder
fumes from blast in the Chollar mine
Dec. 10.
Mrs. Langrez of Portland, whose daugh-
ter was accused of poisoning her, died
OF alcoholism.
Spokane Falls is to have a million
bushel grain elevator and a warehouse of
equal capacity.
d. R. Fredericks, convicted of arson at
Fresno, has been sentenced to ten years
at San Quentin
John Hayes has been arrested for arson
at Madison and is believed to be one of
a gang of firebugs-
W. C. Fry has sued the sheriff of Fresno
county for $4,000 for arresting him with
out warrant.
As much fresh fruit has been shipped
from Sacramento in 1899 as from the en-
tire state in 1883.
Charles Danielson and I. P. Carr are
in jail awaiting trial for stealing corn
from q box car at Lathrop.
H. II. Mitchell and William E. Dunn of
Los Angeles went hunting and Dunn
killed Mitchell for deer.
Two lepers confined in the San Fran
cisco smallpox peSt-house for want of a
leper hospital have contracted smallpox.
Foulke Lewis got drunk and set fire to
his cabin and was burned up in it at
Skagit, Nooksack and Snohomish rivers.
in Washington, are likely TO be improved
by the federal government.
A strike of union miners against the
employment of Hon-union men is in prog
ress in the CRur d'Alene mines.
After bad run of luck, in which they
lost $4,000 in two weeks, all the Port
land gambling houses closed Dee. 10.
Superior Judge Mount at Sprague, Wn.,
has decided that a woman Is not eligible
| TO the Office of school superintendent.
One man was killed and two seriously
injured in collision which wrecked two
. freight trains near Coyote, Wn., Dec. II.
The Sacramento Bee boycotters have
been fined for contempt of the court
) which enjoined them from boycotting the
, Bee.
Albert DilIwoed and John Hern made
) Fresno Dec. s, but neither was danger
, ously wounded.
Barnette e. Haskell has been arrested
for embezzliBg S72 50 which a member of
the kaweah colony trusted him TO collect
in San Francisco.
) Sylvester NovelIa. who killed Robert
) Higuera at Cayucos and was discharged
/ by a justice of the peace. has been in.
) dicted by the grand jury.
A passenger train ran into a freight
train near Needles Dec. IL and killed NJ
A. Thompson of Iowa City and a fireman
and wrecked the train.
The eschscholtzia has been chosen by
T the state floral society OF California as
= the state flower and the spelling of the
name changed to escholsia.
Mrs, Eekerson of Pleasant Home, Or
E fell into a log fire and a log rolled OF
D her and she was burned to death before
I her husband could rescue her.
? Benito Solarsono was shot and kille6
7 by accident by one of the shooters at
! Thanksgiving turkey-shont at MADEIRA
!. Solarsono was placing the turkeys to bt
? shot at and did not make allowances
: enough for bad craftsmanship.
. Shag rock, which the San francisco
supervisors bought, against the protest O
Q the board of health. for $4,000, is one
a tenth of tract of tide land assessed a
4 S275.
A gang of street graders under E. C
Burlingame of Tacoma have strucl
p against a reduction of wages and com
e pulsory boarding at their employers eat
: ing-house.
Steelhead salmon, which run in tn,
s Columbia in winter but have been con
e sidered of little value, have come int,
! such favor in the east that they bring
more than Chinook.
:, John de Mars, while hunting on Sarvi
island, near Portland, hid his gun unde
e a barn. Seeing that the muzzle wa
e visible he pushed it farther, when it wa
= discharged, filling his leg and thigh witt
:. :. shot.
L Three men concealed themselves in tn
d Wigwam, a cheap San Francisco theater
q Dec. 8, and after the audience was QOn
e bound and gagged the night watehman
= broke open the safe and made off witt
IL $500 in money and $1,000 worth { y O
II diamonds (?) and other iewelry.
Castle Frothers of Stockton hired six
teen Chinese at Columbia the other da-
to work in their mine at Pine Log, nea
Copperopolis, discharging their whit
miners, but the next night a posse O
,e Copperopolis miners drove the Chimes
! back to Columbia like drove of sheep
1 The Del Norte county grand jury ha
- submitted its report. 1t charges that tn
D. treaSurer'S books are in a bad condition
L. that there is a shortage of 1851 30 in tn
: accounts of the county clerk, and O
. S751 65 in those of the recorder. Th
70 board of supervisors of the county an
L the district attorney are eensured 70
d neglect of duty.
:, The high Brazilian officials hav
~ changed their minds ana will not lie
N ex-Emperor Pedro return to die ia ii
IS republic. So many signat- es W. oh
N tanned to the petition for perniSsSSh fo,
- the exiled monarch to return t6at tn,
officials became afraid he was Too popu
g. lar for the safety of the rep. atSc.