The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-05-02
COAST NEWS.
A Great Increase in Wheat Acreage
in Washington.
SEATTLE TO HAVE A FIRE-BoAF
Sailers Wrecked ON Mandia Island Arrive
in San Francisco.
visalia is to have a soap factory.

railroad.
Juneau has steam laundry and a
I bath house.
Seattle has let a contract for the build
/ ing OF u tire-boat.
A new artificial ice compa' is being
/ formed ut Fresno.
San Diego and los Angeles collect
their taxes semi-annually.
Myrtle Point, Coos bay, will have a
street railway this summer.
The first Chinese laundry at Sears
vile in many years is being established.
Work has begun in laying a street car
track to connect Whatcom and Sehome.
Philip y. Moore of Olympia has been
appointed State Librarian OF Washing
ton.
A company with $4,000 capital is fitting
up a factory for making patent neckties
in Merced.
The wheat acreage in the State of
Washington is reported 10 be S3 per cent
over last year.
Michael Quirk, OF San Francisco, was
thrown from runaway team and in
stantly killed.
1t is estimated that 900 600 feet of
logs will be fioated down the North Pa
louise river this season.
Tacoma will soon have dry dock.
The narrows on the west side of town
have been selected as site.
Tulare Chinaman has been fined
$40 for peeping into James Clements
house through window AT night.
The San Diego Union says there are
POO, 900 acres Of Indian reservation in
that county, and but 500 Indians.
Owing TO the bad health of his wife.
Representative Biggs, OF California, has
declined TO be candidate for re-elertion.
Work has begun on the new court
house at Colfax, and the building is ex-
pected 10 he ready for occupancy by Jam
uary 1.
The Ladies' Annex, female attach
ment to the Board OF Trade at san Diego,
has opened n free market for home
products.
Tacoma will poll large vote at the
coming municipal election. II is re-
ported that over 1900 votes have been
registered.
Captain f. Pity and the crew of the
schooner Cassie Edwards, wrecked on
Mandia Island, in the Harvey group,
have arrived in SAN Francisco.
The Santa Rosa Republican complains
that fish peddlers clean fish on the
streets, leaving a litter that offers in
ducements to large settlements OF flies.
The Cathlamet (Wash) Gazette saws
the Chinese there make from sturgeon
skins leather that is almost impervious
to water and OF great wearing quality.
The Ventura county Supervisors, cor
vinced that they were buying many coy
ote scalps taken outside the county.
have repealed the coyote-scalp bounty
ordinance.
A big squirrel hunt was held i'm the
neighborhood of Latah, Wash. few
days ago, and the Tekoa Globe SAYS il
resulted in the death Of nearly a thous-
and Of the little pests.
The Olympia people consider the
Pacific, "a small considering the advan-
tages to be derived by being on the main
line OF the great system.
Anticipating the construction of irri-
eating bitches, "A large number Of people
have recently taken up land in Franklin
county. Irrigation will increase the land
in this district to great value.
Sedro, on the Skaeit, is four months
old and has about forty houses. 1t will
soon have national bank and fine
hotel-three stories high, 50x94 feet-to
be completed within sixty days.
The Howell prairie grange is consider
ing the matter OF giving grange picnic
early in June. This order of patrons is
in flourishing condition and the MEM
bers rightly think a picnic would be
quite enjoyable.
A Fresno newspaper estimates the
area planted to vines and trees in that
vicinity for the season Just closed at 49,
600 acres. The trees include large pro-
portion OF the fig, orange, lemon, almond
and the English walnut.
Secretary Window has notified the
collector at San Francisco that steamers
will not be allowed to transfer Cinnamon
at San Francisco to Panama steamers
This is to prevent the smu- Cling OF
Cinnamon into California
The DEVILS Playground, near Puy.
allup, for years the center of ..ttraction
for Indian horse racing and gambling,
has given way to the march of progress.
The owner has laid it off into lots and
acre tracts and it will soon be a part of
the town.
A member of an Oroville lodge of Odd
Fellows sent in 50 from the mountains
to settle his dues and assessments The
/ remittance consisted of a gold nugget
worth SIS. 90 and 80 cents in cash. The
nugget he had taken out of a mining
clai n he was working
Owing to the immense snowdrifts that
| cucumber the trail across the noun
tains from the John Day to the Middle
Fork country, SAYS the Grant County
News, water In the streams and rivers
will not be scarce when the balmy days
of next month shall arrive.
| There WAS a child horn to Mrs. Wal
lace over in Kelso, Cowlitz county, the
other day which, though otherwise
strong and physically perfect, had no
openings at the eyes, the skin completely
covering those members. A surgical
operation was performed to supply the
deficiency.