The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-30

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Congress has appropriated 81 .s7a. 900 for
the Improvement of the Columbia river,
only 100000 of which IL TO be spent In
any one year.
ALASKA.
territorial government IL likely TO
be given TO Alaska at this session OF con-
Rress.
The hackers OF the bill now In con-
gress for the establishment OF agricul.
tural experiment stations contemplate
the introduction OF reindeer TO be raised
as cattle are farther south, and the pro-
motion of the culture OF apples, cherries
ane hardy small fruits.
ARIZONA.
Fort Lowell, ON the trail from San Car
los to Mexico, h TO be abandoned and
the Arizonans are excited and indignant
Congressional Delegate Curry Is dead
Nerdugo, the murderer who escaped
from the Tucson jail with two others,
over into Mexico and there Is no hope
OF catching him. Juan Costello was
caught at ella Bend Jan. IS and was
shot In the leg probably fatally while
resisting arrest.
Several more forgerles of Captain Bulls
name by Indians at Solomonville have
been discovered and arrests made. Tho
ufSt discovery OF the forgeries was made
at the San Francisco sub-treasury where
check was presented which the red
skinned forgers had dated Sept. 81
Apaches killed and horribly mutilated
Chiquito Smith In his own house In
Moses canyon and soldiers were at last
accounts ON the trail OF nine suspected
renegades.
Large droves of cattle are being driven
on foot by way OF Yuma, Los Angeles
and Salinas to San Francisco.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
A wharf fell at Victoria Jan. i2 while a
gang OF men were unloading salmon and
four were drowned.
John Wild passed worthless check
FOR $40 ON s. Gray at Chimainus and
committed suicide at Victoria when he
found officers were after him.
An old lady named Guest got some
live Goals I'm her lap while poking the
fire Jan. l3 at Nanaimo and was burned
10 death.
An old Indian named sumach was
hanged at New Westminster Jan. 10 for
numbering Lewis Bee, a half-breed, last
September.
The temperance societies, Methodist
and Presbyterian churches and organized
women We're beaten and Grant was elected
mayor of Victoria Jan. 10.
IDAHO.
James Parker was frozen To death
while going from Salundh TO his cabin,
half mile distant~a few days ago.
The Boise City electric road company
has let the contract to have the road
completed by June 1.
MONTANA.
The Palace Hotel at walkerville was
Quilted by fire early In the morning Of
Jan. l6, the guests escaping In their
nightclothes.
The motor road at Helena Is I'm the
hands of receiver.
Herman Brass and his son and two |
brothers named Mildred have been ar
rested for systematically serving Gus |
toners of their dairy with artificial milk. |
The Big Ok mining company has been
attached for employees wages.
NEVADA
stranger who said he was a stage |
robber and officers were after him left |
Simonds station, on Pyramid lake Jan. |
1, and walked eight miles and then cut |
his throat. His body has just been found.
NEW MEXICO.
Flowing water has been struck at a |
depth of 207 feet near Boswell A gen.
eral juhilation was held in the town.
The gallery OF the convent of the I
Sacred Heart in the city Of Mexico was /
shaken down by an earthquake Jan. Is /
and six persons were killed and nine in
jured.
A surveying party has gone TO locate /
the reservoir for the immense Rio Grande |
irrigating canal, which is TO irrigate 200
miles OF country on the left side of that
stream, starting from the junction of the
Santa Ana and Rio Grande, forty miles
below Albuquerque.
Tore Licket murdered man named
Rowland at Holbrook, Jan. II and was
arrested.
J. p. Collingsworth and Con Sullivan
have been arrested for knocking down
and robbing Solomon Cohen of Chicago
in Collingsworth's saloon while Cohen
was waiting at Albuquerque for the FL
Paso train.
An electric car ran into a four-horse
wood team at Portland Jan. IA killing
three horses, burying the driver under
the load OF wood and damaging the car
$3.50 worth but seriously hurting nobody.
The new road and tunnels in Cow
Creek canyon have been completed and
accepted.
which he felled near Oregon City Jan. IL.
The difficulties OF the Oregon Improve
ment company have been arranged.
John Edwards, while working at a saw
mill on Griffin creek, near Medford,
slipped under the saw, and the flesh from
a few inches above the knee nearly to
the ankle was taken off as the saw passed
back. The bone was badly cut in one
place and the wound was a frightful
sight.
An eye disease which physicians fail to
diagnose and which attacks first the left
eye and then the other, incapacitating
the patient for work for several days.
has broken out at Salem. Those who
have recovered from it say their eyes are
Hubbard, few miles below Salem,
has an oil excitement and many farms
have been bonded by prospectors.
A bill has been introduced to forbid
the marriage of either party to divorce
TO a third person within a year.
A thief in Portland the other night
broke through window in a jewelers.
store and got away safely with a tray
ful OF diamonds valued at $4,000.
WASHINGTON.
Whatcom and Lehome have been con-
solidated, making the fourth town in the
state in population.
The persons who strung up Z. l.. Bur-
ris at Dayton, and attempted to make
lim confess arson of which he was not
caps who have committed numerous out
RACES in the nelghborhood. The grand
Jury of Dayton is after them.
The commission to report on the ad-
of opening the Puyallup reserv-
alton, across Commencement bay to
Tacoma, to settlement has arrived on the
ground.
A slide of rock and mud at Palmer
an. II covered 800 feet of the Northern
Pacific.
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The season has bean a dry ono hut