The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-24
Wages at the Carson Mint
Will Be Reduced.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL.
Los Angeles Sunday saloon-Closing
Ordinance Does Not Decrease
Drunkenness.

A strike at Gallup, N. NJ, threatens
to shut down the mines at that place.
The Eastern Oregon Cooperative AS
sociation, which lately embarked in busi-
ness, has increased its stock to $4,000.
1t is said the crew Of the Charleston
is much dissatisfied at their treatment,
and that many will desert the first OPP
portnnity.
An important railroad deai has been
perfected at Los Angeles, which gives
the Southern Pacific railroad an entry
into San Bernardino.
Prof. Henderson Of Olympia, WASH,
has been appointed assistant in charge
Of the forestry department at the Worlds
Fair by Ezra Meeker.
The last OF Pomona's orange crop has
been shipped, making total since New
Years OF l27 carloads, valued at sos, 900,
an increase of $4,000 in five years,
The Oakland (Cal.) Common Council
has failed to pass an ordinance licensing
the pool rooms. The measure lacked
one vote Of the necessary two thirds.
A railroad company has been organ
lied at Spokane to open line OF trans
portation to the rich mines recently dis
covered near the summit Of the Cascade
Mountains.
A small red insect is said to be camp
ing on the trail of devastating grasshop-
per in some sections OF California, and
under the enemies attacks the hopper
is being worsted.
Major Handbury of the United States
engineers expects to have the jetty al
the mouth Of the Columbia river run out
as far as necessary-foar anda half miles
-by the end Of August.
A contract has been let to the San
Francisco Bridge Company for grading
and bridging fifty miles OF the Great
Northern railway from Sand Point,
Idaho, westward down the Pend d'0reille
river.
Itis reported at Los Angeles that some
ingenious persons are manufacturing
three coyote scalps out OF one hide in
such manner as to defy detection. The
s. a scalp bounty is likely to prove ex-
pensive.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports ten failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week.
as compared with fifteen for the previous
week and seven for the corresponding
week Of 1890.
Word has been received from Wash
ington at Carson that the entire force at
the mint will be retained alta reduction
Of 10 per cent. in wages, to be replaced
at the old standard when the coinage Of
silver dollars is resumed.
W. III Bartlett who is well known in
Los Angeles and was married there in
1889, has mysteriously disappeared from
Tacoma, Wash. He dressed and went
TO ball on the evening Of June 13 last,
and has not been seen since.
The hel;ef that the water flowing into
the Colorado desert is from the GnIf is
taxing strong hold in the minds Of many
neoule who have been watching with
interest the phenomenon. The latest
reports say the waters are receding rap
idly.
II is NOW believed that a bonse-to-
bonse + search for arms IN the coalminino
d;atricts II Kings county Wash where
thaya AZ atrikeTs will have "a he en-
forced rs,s II secnre the arms held by fhe
men The voluntary disarmament 4 not
success.
The wheat crop IN Eastern Washing
IN Il n danger ii partial destrnctionn
hv gonhers ana sonirrels In'two prin-
cinaI al wbeat-growing districts Il Is re-
narfed that If, the last FIVE days 10 per
cant Of the fields have been devastated
ana the evil IL daily growing worse
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~ | sundar w saIaorclos;uo aor II" % i;nanea has
hser e % II ssisct tail AZ I os % Angeles the nolice ,,