The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-05
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A Young Woman Swindles a Spo
kane Falls Bank.
Condensed News From All Parts of the
Country West Of the Rocky
Mountains.

er of the knights lelnpiar Of taafornlsa.
is dead.
The total valuation of the property of
San Jose, CAL, is SO, l27 ,459, IN increase
OF S645.757.
No. shaft OF the Wellington mine at
Nanaimo, B. c., is on fire, and will have
to be flooded.
The steamer Wellington ran into the
sand on the shore of Coronado beach,
but no damage is thought to have been
sustained.
The grand Jury in Santa Fe, y. NJ,
has found indictments against sixteen
citizens for the murder of Faustin Ortiz
in March last
In accordance with an act Of 1889 Gov
ernor Prince of New Mexico has issued a
proclamation calling a constitutional
convention October Z.
The works at Kelly in the Magdalena
mining district, \. NJ. were fired by an
incendiary, and all hopes OF saving them
have been abandoned.
B. r. Freeman OF Spokane Falls and
Drs. J. K. Seeord and j. s. Potts of San
Jose have been appointed special medi-
cal examiners in the pension service.
Joseph Carreros, the Mexican on trial
named Soto at Indio on the desert about
a month ago, was acquitted by jury at
San Diego on the ground of seif-defense.
The Marine Firemenss Association of
San Francisco has received letter from
Nanaimo, asking it to instruct its MEM
bers not TO fire with Wellington coal.
The association viii probably issue the
orders
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cation to Governor Torres of Lower Cal
ifornia to protest against the encroach-
ment OF Mexican and American miners
upon their placer mines and agricultural
domain.
The heirs of the estate of Matthew A.
Williams, who was killed by the acei-
dent at the Webster-street bridge, Oak
land, on Decoration day, have compro-
missed with the Southern Pacific company
for $4,000.
Admiral Brown OF the Charleston was
dined by the Seattle Chamber of Com
mercc the other evening The Admiral
in a speech praised the work begun by
ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney and 4
continued by Secretary Tracy.
The bail of Frank Larue, who was
boxing with Mcbride at the Golden
Gate Athletic Club, San Francisco, when I
Mcbride died. has been reduced from
$4,000 to s., 900. The bond was origi-
nally So. 900. Larue was tried last week, /
snd the jury did not agree.
Baggagemen employed on the South |
ern Pacific whose train route ends at /
Oakland want a rule now in force, re-
quiring them 10 accompany all baggage /
across on the steamer to San Francisco, /
revoked. The matter will be laid before 1
the officials through the grievance COM 4
mlttee OF trainmen-
A dam viii be built across the North
Umpqua at Winchester to cost $50, 600. /
The river viii furnish power to drive the I
spindles and other machinery of the big
Woolen factory and other manufactures &
about to be erected there. This manu-
featuring plant viii furnish employment /
for hundreds of hands, and viii be I
grand affair.
Fifteen Cinnamon, who were refused /
landing at San Francisco, have arrived 1
at Ottawa. They say they viii work /
their way across the Sound into Wash
ington and then 90 south to San Fran /
cisco, their original destination The (
last month a large number of Chinese /
have arrived at Victoria, from whence /
they lay plans for smuggling themselves
into the United States
The Exchange National bank OF Spo-
kane Falls has been swindled out of 81 I
AS by handsome young woman giving
the name of Rosa Ganth She was iden-
titled by Mrs. A. G. Edwards, wife OF a
prominent citizen of Spokane Falls, into /
whose confidence she had ingratiated 1
herself. The swindle was accomplished I
by means OF draft raised from $25 to
s., 800.
1t is now definitely known that D. C. I
Jordan, the forger who is wanted in Ar
kansas for securing several thousand dol
lars on fraudulent drafts, and who was
traced to Seattle, has managed to make
good his escape. The Arkansas author
tiles are after him, and a detective is on
his way to Seattle in search of the fugi-
tive. Jordan learned of this evidently,
for he has again mysteriously disap-
peared.
The Puget Sound and Alaska Steam
ship Company's new steamer City of Sc
attic, which was to have left Philadelphia
for Tacoma early in August, has not vet
started. Captain d. B. johnson, the
general manager of the company, who is
now in Philadelphia, will not let the
contract for the new steamer City of Ta-
coma until the City of Seattle is thor
oughly tested and her sea-going qualities
fully ascertained. If she proves all right,
the contract for the City of Tacoma will
be let to the same company.
From statistics gathered by the Board
of Trade it is learned that Aberdeen has
shipped lumber as follows since April
last: A. J. West & Co., 3, ,152, 600 feet
the Weatherwax Lumber Company,
4, lbs, 900 feet; Wilson Bros, 1900, 900,
making total of ii ,277 900 feet of lum-
Der in five months. The local trade has
used about 2,590,00 feet in the same
time. The Cosmopolis mill has also
shipped considerable, and the Hoquiam
mill has shipped some 5000, 900. The
vessels carrying this lumber have all
crossed the Gray's Harbor bar, but not
an accident has occurred.
improvements, especially of railroad
construction, in Colorado are greatly re-
tarded through the inability of the COM
panies to secure labor The Denver and
Rio Grande are the greatest sufferers.
They have at present under construction
the Grand junction branch, 65 miles
long; the Rio Grande Southern, 1S5
miles; the Viliagecove branch, go miles;
the great tunnel through the Tennessee
pass, besides a very great amount of
broad-gauging, all of which is almost at
a standstil on this account. The officials
of the road say they can give employ
ment to 5000 to s, 900 men on these new
works at 81 per day, and the work is so
located as to admit of working all win
ter. Several ditch companies and snelter
corporations are equally if not greater
sufferers. =