The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-07-25
COAST NEWS.
Oregon Urged TO Prepare for It's
Worlds Fair Exhibit.
CONTRACT LET TO FILL couCH LAKE
WITH EARTH.
Indian Relies l'nearihed-Bnrglary nj
Seattle-ChIname as Farmers A
Murderer 10 Be Hanged.

Tacoma has G.Oc0 children Of school
age
Eugene. Or. has an arc-light system
in operation.
McMinville, Or, is to have an electric
motor line.
The Gallatin County Mont Earmer's
Alliance is considering the establish
meni Of cooperative stores.
A jealous Italian chewesi his wifa's eat
OF at San Jose. Cal recently He was
arrested for mayhem.
The wheat crop, which exceeds expec.
tation in the san joaquin, is very ,iisap-
pointing up the Sacramento.
l.. W Smith of Ruben Greek. Jose.
phine county, Or, picked up nugget
weighing So 20 one day recently
Ashland, Or. has the heaviest crop
OF blackberries ever raised there The
bushes are almost hidden by the fruit.
Cinnamon at Butte, Mont, who will
not pay their poll taxes are fined s. and
compelle To work out their fines.
President Adams of the Union Pacific
Railway has ordered the Immediate com
pletion Of the Port Townsend Southern
Railroad TO Olympia.
Charles H. Bawdin, convicted Of the
murder OF Lily NJ. Price at Eureka. Cal.
has been sentenced to be hanged Sep
tember 5ih.
Robert Farran and James Patterson
had fight over creased pig which
they chased AT Stockton. Cal, the
Fourth, and were arrested and fined 81
each
A Chinaman who rented 200 acres
near Florence, Los Angeles, has planted
Il 10 potatoes, and says he will clear
I $4,000 f:om the crop.
A quantity OF apples recently shipped
from san Francisco last week We're found
10 be infested with eodlin moth and
scale Apples and boxes were burned
The Los Angeles Horticultural Society
asks the supervisors for authority to
-eize and destroy all scale infested fruit
found 1t irnit stands.
The Cotton Cali News has been
shown fifty species Of marble from the
quarry twelve miles from Victor. no two
Of which were exactly the same sssror.
4 passenger train strnc' wagon load
Of picnieerS AT crossing Just out OF San
/ Francisco, July 18th, killing three
n N0ttlt-tf anu iNo Eitituftn. flt@ltffAS S9FI-
ously injnring several Others
+ A burglary was committed in Seattle
July 18Th, az the Seagiaye Hotel early
1 this morning. Between 800 and $500 in
cash and iewel'y we're secured bv the
burglars.
I J. ! Cairns of TuIare, Cal. raises
/ u 900 acres of wheat II took him six
months 20 plant il He las I25 men
harvesting now. and will get about 250.-
200 bushels.
A tine lot of Oyster shells were taken
out of the Rocky Fork coal mines in
Montana few days ago that look AS
natural as though just taken ont OF the
ocean.
Major Gard does not expect the pro
posed military patrol on the Mexican
border and along the southern coast Il
keep hinese and smuggled goods on
before next winter
Mark l. Mcdonald Commissioner at
large TO the Worlds Fair, urges tn,
Chamber Of Commerce to act inmedi
ately aud decisively an the arrangement
for Oregon's exhibit
Four tramps entered store at Cen
tralia. Wash, the other day, and nabbes
twelve blankets in the presence of TN,
clerks. Tie blankets and one of tn,
thieves we're recovered.
The SNOW is still reported quite dee,
in places on the divide between For
X lamaih and the headwaters of Rogu
River. From White Horse up to TIN
summit there is snow in sight every
where.
The Colusa Gal, Herald pronounce
the levies IN front OF that city unsafe
though they stood through last winter
floods, and calls upon the people to pm
them in ship shape at once.
Henry de Wolf rendered five coppe
cents for his fare on the old Tacom
! street-car line and they were refused an
he Was elected from the ear He ha
now sued the company for 500
damages.
The other day, in Polk County, job
> Robbins killed "A big wildcat that Wa
: trying to kill his pigs, and Henry Me
| Carter. Jim and George Mayors capture
! seven cayotes that were making thei
( home in hollow fir log.
: James Baum, farmer living nes
t Petaluma, Cal, has mare that recentl
D gave birth TO twin colts. They are bot
|. fillies, were born an hour apart and al
now - days old. Both are perfectl
formed and healthy.
The contract made by the Bower
Dredger I ompany of Tacoma TO fl
I Couch Lake with 500, 900 cubic wards
earth has been approved by the directo
: Of the Northern Pacific Terminal Con
, pany, and Lindon w Bates. manager
+ the dredging company, left for Sa
Francisco on his way East July 9th
a purchase machintr ry for large dredg
: to be built here for this job.
Parties who attempted to quarter
large band of sheep on the Fort Ell
Reservation, in Montana, are said
: have lost about 400 head of their flock
: one night from the eating of saltpete
which had been sown over the ground
. persons who felt agrieved at having q
Q reservation made a sheep pasture
q The Winters cannery building, fit
:, up, but never used as a cannery, "
n burned on Tuesday of last week, pI
N sumably by tramps who had been 1
: rested for sleeping in it. 1t was on
~ Theo Winters stable. Norfol K W
i stabbed in it and Mollie Mccarthy W
!. foaled III it.
- The Astoria Columbian SAYS: VIII
le digging for relics in the old Chino
m burying ground at New Astoria recen
r. J. NJ. Long and companion unearth
one of the old Harrison " Log Cabi
medals. The lettering stands out We
clearly and the outlines of the cabin
lg quite plain, though the medal is son
ne What corroded. The date, 1910, is
there. 1t is supposed that some trio
trader brought lot of these che
ly medals out to the coast and exchanl
en- them at high valuation for furs-
dIggers also found a pair OF silver ant
ipair of copper bracelets.