The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-03
Coast News.
CALIFORNIA.


while respondent, nobody knows why.
An electric railroad from San Jose
to Redwood City is proposed.
The state controller refuses to draw
warrants for the appropriation to
encourage ramie culture and the
superior court has sustained him. The
ramie people will appeal to the
supreme court.
Southern California has more
potatoes than the railroads can carry
or eastern consumers eat.
The crop of everything is so great
that it is impossible to get hands TO
harvest 1t and grain fields and orchards
are suffering and much fruit will rot
where it grew for want of help to pick
it. Inexperienced hands can get $50
a month in all parts OF the state, al
most.
AMADoR COUNTY.
At Sutter Creek the other day L.
Rabbit, one of the oldest citizens of
the place, was found hanging by the
neck in the basement of his residence.
He was well-to-do, had family of
three daughters and a happy home,
and no calse has been assigned for
the act.
ALAMEDA COUNTY.
Alameda city has fixed the price of
LIQUOR licenses at $500 and provided
that no license shall be granted until
majority of the householders living
within GOO feet sign the application !;
that no saloon shall be within 100 feet
of the entrance of a public school, and
that no saloon shall be conducted in
connection With grocery store or
other business.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY.
A passenger train and gravel train
were wrecked in a collision at Port
Costa June 15 and William J. Jordan,
head brakeman of the gravel train,
and W. A. Spurgeon, a mail clerk,
were killed.
FRESNO COUNTY.
w. r. Dwyer, IA Selma lawyer, has
deserted his wife and children and
disappeared.
A wild man dressed in skins and
with a long white beard has frightened
all the Chinese shepherds out of the
neighborhood of Tamarac Meadows,
in Kings river canyon. They think
he is devil. White men think he is
an escaped lunatic, but have been
unable to capture him.
The Fresno city school census did
notsshow enough children and it is to
be taken over again.
Emmett Irwin attempted to assault
the young wife of Andrew Fuller on
the Enterprise colony. Fuller gave
him fearful beating and Irwin fled,
fearing prosecution.
Charles Stewart, a farmer, built a
new house four miles west of Fresno.
He had been laying carpets in it and
sat down to rest, June IS. While he
sat there mattress in the room began
to blaze. Investigation showed that
a lamp reflector on the wall had
thrown the SUMS rays on the mattress
to be in the room at the time his house
would have been destroyed by a
mysterious fire.
HUMBOLDT COUNTY.
Edward Cavanaugh was killed by a
fall at the Seal Rock lighthouse
June 16.
William Connors was caught in the
apparatus of the donkey engine at
< Is, and killed.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
Justice Morris and Constable Mays
of Lancaster were the only ones who
dared pursue Rony Crane, j. q. Kitch-
| line and W. H. Lewis, horse thieves,
so they took their rifles and after a
| nunl Oh TWO udAS IIle butcNts
and took them to jail.
John Houghmount, a bricklayer at
Los Angeles, went insane on reading
the advertisement of a microbe
killer and imagines himself full OF
microbes. After taking nineteen
gallons of the dubious mixture he has
been adjudged insane.
Santa Monica imposed a Sc license
on insurance agents and the COM
panies have given notice OF a rise OF
| 20 per mt in rates if the order is not
reseinded.
| Peter Taylor's house in Los Angeles
was burned June 10Th, and his son
james, 80 years old and weak minded
perished in the flames.
MENDocINo COUNTY.
David Penwen blew up tree wit.
dynamite at Bear Harbor and it fel
on him and killed him.
MERGED COUNTY.
Elbert Hale has been convicted oi
the murder of Mrs. Lottie Mcdowell
at Cottonwood last January. The
penalty is fixed at life imprisonment
MARIN COUNTY
Ten yachts anchored off Marin is
land, near San Rafael, June 81, and
their occupants had clambake, but
they set the grass on fire and the
island was soon in flames and they
had to fly for their lives.
| MONTEREY COUNTY.
Charles Howes fatally shot Edward
W. Wagner, drug clerk, at Monte
rey, June 20, because Wagner refused
to sell him ten cents worth of NOR
phine on credit.
| NAPA COUNTY.
George Lang's distillery at Napt
has been seized for defrauding the
government.
| PLACER COUNTY.
Oliver S. Lower, a bachelor farmer
of Newcastle, advertised for a wife
Miss Ella Ustell of Kentucky an
swered his appeal and they became
engaged. She arrived at Sacramento
June II and they met for the frs
time. They were married the mex
day.
| PLUMAS COUNTY.
A fire the other day consumed the
hotel of P. r. Welch at Longville, ane
the outhouses and buildings adjacent
causing an uninsured loss of $4,000.