The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-09-19
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Steamship Runs Into an Iceberg in
Glacier Bay, Alaska.
An Effort Being Made in the State Of
Oregon to Secure a Repeal Of
the Usary Laws.

The Masonic Grand Longe of Idaho is
In session at Boise City.
An approximation Of the population
of Helena. Mont, under the recount
makes il about 1900.
The cra4er OF Mount Baker il reported
BY the ranchers Of Baker river as spew-
ing out volumes of smoke and fine lava
at Intervals this summer.
The assessment rolls Of Spokane Falls
show the valuation of her city property
10 be SIS, 700. 900. This is an increase of
$l0s 600, ,O01 over last year.
A mortgage was recorded in Seattle,
on Saturday that calls Tor $50, ,000,010 to
extend the Northern Pacific from Assin-
aboine, Mont, to Puget sound.
An effort is being made in Oregon to
secure the repeal OF its usury and mort
gage tax laws. 1t is claimed they have
stunted the State and driven capital into
Washington.
By an explosion of giant powder at the
EHein quicksilver MIME ~ ar Colusa, CAL.
Alex Davis was fatally injured. and
Others were badly bruised. The report
was distinctly heard at distance of four
miles.
Copper frpna the mines in the south
part OF Josephine county, Or, has begun
to arrive hy the wagon-load, says the
Grants Pass Courier. This will be
shipped to San Francisco for a practical
mill test
Bradstreetss Mercantile Agency reports
twenty-three failures in the Ptcifie Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with eleven for the previous
week and nine for the corresponding
week of 1889.
Large strings Of carp are taken from
Kings river by fishermen. The fish bite
easily, and are from one 10 fourteen
inches long. They are from the stock
put in several years ago by the Fish
Commissioners
James H. Barry. publisher OF the San
Francisco Weekly Star, who some time
ago was arrested and found guilty of con-
tempt in critfcising Judge sawyer of the
Superior Court, has been denied writ
OF habeas corpus.
The Trustees of the Lick estate have
accepted Happersberger's designs for a
bronze statuary provided for in the viii,
and contracts win be let Immediately.
The statuary will be placed in the City
hall at San Francisco, and win cost $780,
900.
The sailors at Nanaimo and Departure
BAY met and passed resolutions of SYM
pathy and support of the Wellington
coal mine strikers The sailors viii en-
deavor to prevent any of their class
shipping on any vessel that is intended
to carry coal mined by scab labor
4 special from Helena, Mont. SAYS
that the killing of Hugh Boyle by Chey-
ennes. following the discharge of Fergu-
sons nursIerers, has so incensed the set
tiers that they declare they viii send
their women and children to Miles City
and start on war of determination
against the Cheyennes.
". B. Taylor, tried and convicted in
the United States District Court at San
Francisco for cruelty to seamen, was SEN
fenced BY Judge Hoffman TO one years
imprisonment IN the Alameda county
iaiI and to pay q fine of 800. The COM
plainant was Captain Alanson Ford oi
the American ship st. Paul.
Delegates to the California Worlds
Fair Convention assembled Mt Metropol.
itan hall, San Francisco, and effected an
organization. Every portion of the State
was represented, and the delegates were
enthusiastic in the preliminary work o.
placing California in condition to bt
fully represented at the Worlds Fair.
The steamship George w. Elder while
passing through Glacier bay, Alaska, a
half speed ran into an iceberg, which
drove 8 hole three feet square int
the vessel. She had to be beached anc
the break temporarily repaired SO as Il
allow her to continue her voyage to Vic
toria. The vessel viii 90 to San Fran
cisco and be docked.
The schooner City of San Diego hai
;
North. The captain reports his catch a
two seals and one otter. The catch 70
the season is said to have been only four
teen offers and twenty seals. Tn
schooner brought back three men out o
q crew of fifteen, the others having de
serted in Alaska. The captain said tina
during the entire season he was able t
lower his boats only twice.
The California Athletic Club at Sal
Francisco gave its usual monthly exhibi
ton the other evening, Sidney Hunting
ton and Charley Rochette, local ligh
weights. being matched to finish for
small purse. The contest was very tame
but after Huntington had drawn bloc
from Roehette's nose IN the sixteenth
nineteenth and twentieth rounds the pc
lice entered the ring and ordered th
fight stopped. The boys started to figh
the twenty-first round, and were, te
gether with their principals, promptl
placed under arrest.
The Board of Equalization of LAX
county made reduction of SAL ,s48. ]
from its Assessors returns, and adde
&3. .1O9. leaving the total taxable propert
of Lake county for 1890, as equalized b
the Board, 81 1876 ,98S.2I. This amour
will stand as it is unless the Count
Court should conclude tes make som
changes. The total taxable propert
for 1889 was 81 ,67s, ,S56.S1, considerab
more than this year, which IS accounte
for by the great loss OF stock last w1nte
The rate of taxation is the same as la
year-$I. rs per $780,
A new town has been laid out sixtee
miles above Mehama, where the Orego
Pacific crosses the North fork of the Sal
tam. The townsite embraces fiftee
acres, and is on the land of Clarent
Brown. 1t is now the eastern terminI
of the Oregon Pacific, and contains a sa
mill and about fifteen houses, amor
them a schoolhouse in course of COZ
struction. A postoffice will at once
petitioned for. The new town IS in nj
rion county, and Niagara is the nan
chosen for it.
Flemming J. Pratt has been acquittt
of the charge of numbering Charles
Dobson at Seattle last June after tri
lasting nearly three days. The test
mony was to the effect that Pratt al
Dobson became engaged In quarrel I
q key of a new house, which Dobson w
building for Pratt. The evidence show
that Dobson first made the assault
Pratt. Pratt lodged D0bson's blow, al
the latter fell to the ground among t
stumps. Pratt hit him two or thr
blows with his fist. Dobson was foul
- to be dead from hemoTrhage0E the brai