The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon Naval Reserve
Incorporated.
WASHINGTON IRON INDUSTRY
Deadly Decides in Favor Of Chinese
Merchants Wife Without a
Certificate Etc.

The pine-nut crop is short in Nevada
The iron industry in Washington gives
great promise.
A copper-smelting furnace at San Di'
ego is being discussed.
The Oregon naval reserve has been in
corporated at Portland.
Riverside is talking Of a cooperative
kitchen on the Bellamy plan.
Nevada people want the Governor te
call an irrigation convention at Reno.
Ogden's street-car system has beer
changed from steam motor to electricity.
]. de Barth Shorb is to represent Los
Angeles county in the California Board
Of Trade.
all tie railroad washouts in New Mex
ico have been repaired, and trains are
moving regularly.
Two hundred Tucson ladies have signed
petition asking the Constitutional Con-
vention not to discriminate against wom-
ems civil rights in the constitution.
The work Of construction on the Santa
Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railroad, which
will connect Phoenix, A. T., and the Salt
River Valley with the Santa Fe system,
has begun.
The grand jury at Reno is unable to
find the slightest evidence upon which
to indict any one for the hanging OF the
ruffian 0rtig by vigilantes, and asks to
be discharged.
Los Angeles complains that the Chino
beet-sugar factory has not made sugar
cheaper there, owing to the fact that
only three firms handle the sugar and
no one else can get it in carload lots.
Mrs. Maillard, who disappeared from
her home near San Rafael. CAL, several
weeks ago, was found at Fortuna, Cal
where she has been living with w. Ii,
Ingram, hired man formerly employed
by her husband.
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports
twenty-seven failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week
as compared with twenty-five for the
previous week and ten for the CORE
spending week OF 1890.
The San Diego Sun says: They are
having daily showers Of rain at San ia
cinto, which come from the evaporation
Of the Salton Lake. Their origin and
drift have been watched from the sum
init Of San Jacinto Peak, and there is nc
further room for doubt as to the effect
the lake is having upon the rainfall.
The Itata's officers testify that the yes
sci when she came to San Diego had nc
sailors, soldiers or arms on board. The
vessel changed captains three times be-
fore leaving Chill, and four breech-load-
ere that she carried were pnt off at Arigo
The arms were taken on board at San
Clemente.
The Iowa Hill hydraulic miners have
asked for removal or modification oI
the injunctions which will permit them
to clean up the bedrock. The miners are
operating in gravel which is not washed
into the river. The Sacramento Super
visors will take the matter under consid-
Grafton Of permitting the miners to work
the lower gravel beds.
1t is reported on what seems to be good
authority that large plant for the man
ufacture Of tin plate will soon be located
in San Francisco by wealthy manufact-
iirer, resident Of that city. II is ex.
pected that 900 hands will be at work
manufacturing tin plate before the end
OF the year. The material will come
from Australia, San Bernardino and the
Black Hills.
Archbishop Gross has called provin-
cial council Of the prelates Of the Cath
olic Church to meet in Portland October
IS. The prelates who will attend are
Biahop Junger Of Washington, Bishop
Glorieux Of Idaho, Bishop Brondel ol
Montana and Bishop Len,ens Of Van
conver Island. The object is to take ac.
ton looking to the unifcation Of Catho-
licity in the Northwest.
The new building Of the Concordia
Club, the leading Hebrew institution oI
San Francisco, was thrown open for in,
apection the other night, and was visited
by fully 1900 people, who were hospita.
bly, entertained in the luxurious quar-
ters. The building has been erected and
furnished at cost Of about 100000
and is beyond doubt the handsomest and
most elegantly equipped house in San
Francisco.
The water in Salton Lake has fallen
fourteen inches in the last five days, and
the amount Of water supplying the lake
does not equal the evaporation. The
greatest depth Of the lake is thirty-sis
inches and it's area thirty miles long BY
ten wide. Recent visitors do not think
it has changed the climate Of the sur
rounding country, and that the humidity
in that neiehborhood has been increased
only in modified degree, now register
ing 90 degrees, while the ordinary hu-
nidity Of San Francisco Is rs,