The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-06-19
Coast News.
CALIFORNIA.

The state controller refuses to draw
a warrant for the $4,000 appropriated
by the legislature for the relief of the
sufferers by the Tia Juana floods,
claiming the act was unconstitutional.
ALAMEDA COUNTY.
Berkeley licenses saloons at $50 a
quarter and allows them to remain
open Sundays.
Pool rooms are licensed in Oakland
at 5000 year.
AMADoR COUNTY.
L. Rabbit, a Sutter Creek brewer,
hanged himself June 6.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY.
The San Ramon and Martinez rail-
road is completed and trains running.
Ell DORADO COUNTY.
Mrs. CalwelI, aged SO, was burned
TO death in her sons barn at Lotus
May 81 while she was alone on the
farm.
Z HUMBOLDT COUNTY.
Daniel Murray got drunk at Eureka
June 4 and fired shotgun into the
faces and neeks of James Craig and
Mrs. Zack Graft Craig's wounds
were serious.
Jackson Rhoades, who murdered
Principal Shull near Greenwood, has
been arrested.
KERN COUNTY.
Fruit packers have just purchased
of q. A. Maui, near Bakersfield, all of
his orange cling peaches of this years
crop at $40 per ton, but will take no
peaches that measure less than two
and a half inches in diameter. The
orange clings ripen in August, and
they expect to get at least two car
loads that come within the contract
They will be pnt up in glass jars for
the fancy eastern market.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
Mrs. Elizabeth HolIenbeck of Los
Angeles, who last year gave $3.50, 900
for home for aged people, has
donated ten acres on Boyle nights to
the city for a park.
Preacher Fleming of Los Angeles
has been sentenced to three years in
the state prison for indecent assault
on his servant girl. He appeals.
George Miles, arrested for the muir
der of his partner in the saloon bust
ness, George Miller, at Los Angeles,
was examined and discharged.
A company has been Incorporated
to build an electric railroad from Pasa-
dena up mount Wilson.
Los Angeles school census shows
an increase of 203 for the year
George W. Howard of Santa Monica
was drowned while bathing at the
beach June 4.
Deputy Sheriff Sepulveda has been
discharged for attempting to make
arrangements with the chief of police
to let fifteen tan games run in China
town for 5000 week.
The supervisors have fixed county
liquor licenses at SIS month.
Committees of taxpayers have been
appointed in Los Angeles to examine
the books of the city officers and the
county officers and TO look up the cost
of governing eastern cities of the
same size.
1. 1. Boak of Denver has organized
camps of the Order of Woodmen and
collected about $1,000 which he now
promises to return il not prosecuted
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. The order his camps were
attached to is claimed to be only
seeded faction from the Modern
Woodmen of America which the
members of his camps thought they
were joining.
Mrs. Harriet SIosson's 13-year-oId
daughter has been given in charge of
brother and sister by the courts on
the ground that the mother leads an
evil life at Los Angeles, and has tried
to force the little girl to do the same.
A woman of the town has been ar
rested fol- poisoning ex-Policeman
Dan Lynch with a dose of morphine
which she is supposed to have pre-
pared for another visitor TO her house
whom she intended to rob.
MENDocINo COUNTY.
ID. E. Shull, principal of the Cuffey's
Cove public school, was shot and
killed by a stage driver named
Rhoades, who wanted to marry a
teacher named May Thurston and
when she refused thought Shull was
the cause of the refusal.
MONTEREY COUNTY.
The Junipero Sierra monument at
Monterey, made and placed at the
expense of Mrs. Leland Stanford at a
cost of $4,000, was unvailed June 3.
It is statue cf the old priest and
stands near the spot where he landed
in ITO.
Lou Davis and Eugene Kidd fired
shots at each other on the street at
Salinas June but hit nobody. Then
they clinched and fought and both
were arrested.
Joseph Roadhouse. aged %, has
been arrested for arson at Salinas.
He was caught in the act.
Burglars bored four holes in Frank
Pierce's safe at Monterey on the night
of June but failed to open it.
NEVADA COUNTY.
Three white men, two of them young
and the other about 45, tortured a
Chinese miner near Grass Valley to
make him give up money he was sup
posed to have. They then ran a broom
stick into his body and broke it off
and disappeared. His life may be
saved.
ORANGE COUNTY.
debt at the Anaheim ostrich farm
June l, for $1,000. They are1under-
stood to have been hidden in for the
company.
Anaheim has voted $4,000 i'm
provement bonds.
The directors of the Anaheim irriga-
ton district will go into court and
fight the Southern Pacific's effort to
escape the irrigation tax.
PLACER COUNTY
Bernice Kinder of Gold Run, aged
10, and her 11-year-old sister got hold
of a giant powder cartridge and tried
to take the cap off it, first pouring
cold water on it. 1t exploded and
took off one girls right hand and in
jured her left and slightly injured the
other girl in the face.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY.