The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11
sSalton Lake Rapidly
Going Down.
Y ALUMINIUM DISCOVERY.
Fanny Davenport Purchases $50
Acres Of Land in Orange
County, California.

tounty, Calliornia'
Portland wants a 100000 dry dock.
There was ice at Tucson, A. T., last
eek.
Waterfront thieves at Seattle are do
ga good business.
An English syndicate is buying up all
breweries in British Columbia.
An effort is being made to revoke the
tension Of the Hoopa reservation.
LOS Angeles business this year is a
,ided improvement on that Of 1890
he National California Bank at San
20, it is thought, viii soon resume
neee.
,lls, Fargo & Co. e express has prac-
ly abolished the Denver and Rio
irande express department.
i. q. Ford, one Of the sheep and wool
barons OF Elko county, New, a few days
lgo sold sixty yearling bucks at $40 a
head.
At Blackfoot, Idaho, fire destroyed
the United States land Office, Union Pa
life depot, Pacific express Office and the
Commercial Hotel.
E..ers is rumor that the Southern
Pacific Company ia going to prohibit
liquor selling in houses located on its
right Of way through Nevada.
The Railroad Commission has decided
that the Southern Pacific railroad did
not discriminate in favor Of Tucson, as
was charged by outside towns.
Deposits Of meerschaum have been
found on the Sapello creek, twenty-five
miles north Of Silver City, N. M, and
near the alum deposits Of the Gila river.
II has been decided after survey to at
tempt to raise the steamship San Pedro
near Victoria. 1t is rumored that the
Captain will be held responsible for her
lose.
WA. Daggett, the mail clerk who was
injured in the railroad accident at Port
come months ago, has filed suit
.ockton in which he asks for SO, ,0au
.nagee.
South Sea Island guano is being intro
'uced in Rive ~ this season. This
rtilizer contains 80 per cent. Of phos-
uric acid, and is especially adapted
orange groves.
case Of s. w. Sullivan, who was
with smuggling arms into San
has been dismissed by
Rafael, the prosecution
.fs WAS no evidence to COM
cortland, having discovered that she
old her bonds to pool and but for the
'mbination much less than they were
/, mas ssscinded its acceptance Of
the bid, and there is chance for a law
suit.
]. A. Forbes, who made application
TO Judge Ross at Los Angeles TO compel
.he City Clerk to surrender to him the
old Spanish archives In the City Hall,
has been worsted. the court refusing to
N 60.
The recently formed Southern Cali
iornia Fruit Growera' Union is receiving
much encouragement from horticultur-
ists. The main object is TO make orange
growers as far as possible independent
of the middlemen.
The Yuma Sentinel says The great
taking exploration and surveying expe-
dition has arrived from the mud volca-
aces. The number Of volcanoes has
seen increased to 1900 We await fur
cher particulars With eagerness.
The Canadian Pacific Navigation Com
pany at Victoria, &c, has refused to
hereafter carry any mails to the north,
the government not offering to pay q
elficient remuneration. This will much
Inconvenience the people on the north
ern coast.
Il A party OF prospectors who have been
operating about forty miles west Of Al
Snguerque, N. NJ. brought into that city
sck full Of samples, which on being
we'd we're found 70 carry aluminium
ge quantities. Dne assay Of sack
IN from the surface shows 25 per
Y. Of metal, and II Is said there are
1dreds Of acres just the same.
q. Wegler Of Brookfeld, Wahkia-
unity, has been asked to take up
in connection with this
nng display at the Worlds
was chairman OF the
"sin the house Of
He is