The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Meeting of Superior Judges WIN Rs
Held in Seattle to Formulate
Uniform Rules.

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The harbor at.South Bend has beer
relieved OF 81, 400 cubic yards o. mud by
the Bowers dredger.
Yakima Indians are reported to be
willing TO take up farms and throw oper
the reservation to settlement.
Horse thieves are again at work in the
vicinity Of Spokane. Five animals were
stolen during the past week.
The Tacoma smelling and refining
works shipped !, ,260 bars Of bullion, val,
ued at s6b,04O, during September.
Tacoma's wheat receipts now average
100 cars daily, or about $1,000 bushels
Seattle, S5 ears daily, or about 24,O0t
bushels.
There is movement on foot to take
the eastern portion Of Olallam and JET.
ferson counties, separated from the
Sound by the 0lympics, and form a new
county of them.
An adjustment OF the loss Of the Che.
ney Normal School, which was burned
recently, has been made by the State
Auditor and the companies, and $4,00O
has been paid in by the latter.
Silver Lake, one mile east Of Medical
Lake, is becoming quite fishing resort,
the German carp put therein few years
ago having increased so fast that they
now furnish excellent sport for fisher
men.
Articles OF incorporation Of the Puget
Sound Vinegar and Pickle Companyhave
been filed by John Braun, George Trick
and r. W. Bergen as trustees. The cap
ital is $4,000. The company proposes
to manufacture yeast also.
Postmaster w. "A. Rounds has received
official notification that the South Bend
postofiice has been promoted to the third
class. The postmaster's report for the
quarter ended September 30 shows
sS2S.S2 as the amount OF stamps can
celed.
The Northern Pacific land department
is doing big business in the Clarke
county tract. The fears that the COM
pany will lose the land have about sub
sided, and much land is being sold.
Those who settled on their land prior to
1882 get it for $3.50 an acre.
The lumbermen who met at Tacoma
the other day to prepare plans for secur-
ing Washington lumber for the State ex-
hibit building at the Columbian Worlds
Fair have decided to meet at Seattle
within thirty days for the purpose OF
perfecting an organization Of the State
Lumbermen's Association.
The projected ship canal to connect
Puget Sound with Lakes Union and
Washington at Seattle, il carried out,
will make Seattle one Of the finest har-
bors in the world, having a fresh water
dock large enough to accommodate the
commerce Of any port but, as the inn
provement would cost $3.00O,0O0, it is
scarcely probable that it will be under
taken for many years.
A zine ledge is the latest mineral dis
eovery made in the vicinity Of Spokane.
G. Z. Carlin reports that he has discov.
cred fourteen-foot ledge Of that min
eral, and recently took samples Of the
ore to Charles Fassett for assay. Mr..
Fassett has made q number Of ASSAYS.
and finds that the ore carries from 33 to
10 per cent. Of the metal. The location
Of the ledge is withheld.
A writ OF error to the Supreme Court
Of the United States has been allowed
by Chief Justice Anders in the Sc
attic Valentine scrip case of Milton l..
Baer vs. Moran Bros. Company. The
must be filed at Washington
within sixty days. An attempt will be
made to advance the case on the ground
Df its great public Importance, SO thatit
may be heard next February.
Hoy Moya, Seattle Chinaman, has
secured a permit from the Health De-
partment of Tacoma to exhume the
bones Of half-dozen Cinnamon who
we're buried in the sonth part Of the city
near Center street several years ago, be-
iore the Cinnamon were driven from the
titytH iAoy HiDyA Will WUfk uHutT Jiie
protection Of United States Marshal
Brown, and the bones exhumed will be
sent to China.
III. .Lichtenberg Of the Superior Court
II King county has Issued call TO all
superior Judges pf the State to meet ut
ihe Courthouse in Seattle November 27I
'or the purpose Of formulating uniform
-ules for the government Of the Superior
Courts. Although a wide diversity Of
opinion is expressed concerning the OBJ
ects Of the meeting, nineteen OF the
Judges give approval Of having it. Each
Judge is expected to select member 81
the bar from his county, and the attor-
neys so chosen will confer with the
Judges. ltis expected that there win
be q good attendance, and il is probable
The guests will be entertained BY the
Bar Association Of King county.
A California company has leased for
ierm Of years a coal mine near Kelso,
lbout half a mile from the Cowlitz river
and three miles from the Columbia, in
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