The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-25
Forest Fires Raging in
the Cascades.
THE WASHINGTON MILITIA.
Sealing Poaohers Are Reaching Vic
toria, B. c, Every Day With
Fine Catches.

A $1,000 ice plant for Riverside, CAL,
is projected.
The Alaska salmon pack exceeds that
OF last season.
Santa Barbara, CAL, has voted to build
an outfall sewer system.
The entire system of Portland street
railways is now owned by one company.
Coal has been found at HOLLYWOOD,
three miles outside Of the city limits Of
Los Angeles.
Terrible forest fires are raging in the
Cascade Mountains in the vicinity Of Hot
Springs, Wash.
The carpenters at Vancouver, B. c.,
are striking against the employment of
non-union men.
Frank Chaves, Sheriff Of Santa Fe
county, N. NJ, is said to be short about
$4,000 in his accounts.
Portland has just voted $4,000 for a
municipal building, $4,000 for sewers
and $55, 600 for water works.
RoHeville, five miles from San Diego,
is to be the site for the new iron plant
80 long talked about in that section.
Low wages and poor food are causing
large desertions from the railroad gangs
atwork on the Great Northern extension
in Montana. 58
Coal OF good quality has been discoy-
cred by accident at Chemainus. little
village about midway between Victoria
and Nanaimo, b.
The Washington militia is to sue the
State to compel it to settle the pay rolls
for services during the late troubles in
the mines in King county.
The news from the Pine Nut region BY
way OF Carson continues to be oil an ex-
citing nature to prospectors and miners.
New strikes, all rich, are reported.
The Union Pacific instituted suit
against the Oregon Railroad Commission
to annul the rates adopted by the board,
which are 40 per cent. lower than those
fixed by the railroad.
The owners of the Bonanza mine at
Tombstone have come to no conclusion
concerning the resumption Of deep min
ing. The Contention-mine people have
the subject under deliberation.
Prof. George I'll. Bryant Of the Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute has been ap-
pointed director Of the work shops and
Assistant Professor Of Mechanical Engi-
neering In the Stanford University.
The steamship Zambesi Of the Upton
line has been Iibeled for $2O,000 at Vie
tOria, B. G. Damages are claimed by
the schooner Fanny Dutard, with which |
the Zambesi collided in the Straits Of
Fuca.
Sealing p0achers are reaching Victoria
every day from Behring Sea, aud some
of them have fine catches. The Sap
phire has 2,435, the Walter A. Earle
l,O2l and the schooner Carmelite $50
skins.
The midsummer harvest number of
the Los Angeles Times is brim full Of in
teresting reading and statistical facts Of I
a reliable character about the progress Of
Southern California and its great re-
sources.
The Portland Council, which was
elected on platform Of economy and
reform, is attempting to increase the sal
aries OF city officers, including their own,
come s39, 600 over the old liHt, and their
conduct is severely criticised.
The customs authorities have selected
Q site on Mary's Island, Alaska, near the
British Columbia boundary for custom
house and other government buildings.
A schooner leaves Port Townsend in
few days with material to construct the
buildings at q cost Of $4,000.
Charles Raakin, editor Of Le Gaalois
at Los Angeles, and ]. P. Goytino Of Ls
Progrss have not been friendly for long
time. Raskin left for Europe, but pre-
pared an edition Of his paper for circula-
tion, charging Goytino with innumerable
crimes. Goytino got out warrant, and
the officers arrested Raskin at Barstow.
He was taken to Los Angeles to answer
the charges Of criminal libel.
The following cities in the State Of
Washington have over 1850 population
Seattle 42,637, Tacoma 36,006, Spokane
Falls 1892, Walla Walla 4, 4,7Og, Olympia
4,6a8, Port Townsend 4,558, Fairhaven
4,076, Whatcom 4 1853, Vancouver 8,545,
Ellensburgh 2,76S, Centralia 2,026, Sno-
h0mish 1888, Dayton 1880, PuyalIup
!, ,7S2, Sprague 1850, Colfax l,64g, Aber-
deenf 1888, M0ntesano 1882, Blaine ,58S,
North Yakima 1885.
The Yuma Sentinel claims that at the
mouth Of the Colorado river and the
upper end of the Gull Of California are
to be found sea bass that weigh from $50 +
to 750 each, CLANS as large as a common
dinner plate, millions Of sardines and 4
smelt, oysters small but delicious, mill Ii
ions Of s0it-shelled crabs and other shell
fish, myriads Of wild geese, brants,
ducks, cranes and other sea fowl and L
birds. IT is paradise for fish and game.