The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-23
PACIFIC COAST.


Jan. and probably fatally injured
PACIFIC COAST.
1t Is reported that De Young and Hearst
of the Chronicle and Examiner will start
a paper mill at Oregon City.
ALASKA.
A road Is TO be built to the Yukon
diggings.
The federal government wants an APP
preparation 10 purchase reindeer with
which 10 stock the territory.
Secretary Noble has promised 10 send
bill To congress providing for terri
torial government for Alaska.
The culture OF apples and cherries will
be given a trial, a lot OF trees going up
this spring, and there Is promise that
Alaska may prove a fine Held for this
branch OF horticulture.
ARIZONA.
A passenger train was thrown from
the track by a broken rail at Walnut
station, near Flagstaff. Jan. ., and Engi-
teer George Hauser was killed. Nobody
else was hnrt.
John Snyder, assessor of Pima county
was counting the money in his Office the
other day, when he was interrupted by
the entrance of three masked men, who
at the point OF revolver. There were
$4,000 in the drawers.
Four Modoc Indians have been held
for trial mt Soiomonville for forging Cap
tain Bulls name 10 a check Tor SIPS.
They dated the check Sept 81, which
Francisco sub-treaSury for correction,
when 1t proved TO be forgery.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The boundaries of Victoria have been
greatly enlarged.
Tusearora's Chinatown had slIOo fire
Jan. 10.
The Alta mine has been closed down,
the directors being out OF ore above the
Sutro tunnel level and unwilling TO pump.
NEW MEXICO.
Albuquerque Is flooded with counterfeit
quarters of 1855.
Ben S. Thompson, an engineer, was
killed by his engine jumping the track
with him at Johnson's canyon, Jan. 3.
Wells, Fargo & Co. are lighting a bill
in the legislature TO tax express COM
panies per cent OF their net earnings.
Rouigia Abeytia, wealthy Indian and
chief among those at Isleta, was called
TO his door and shot dead during the
night of Jan. and there is no clue to
the assassin.
The gold watch taken from Frank
Sperling and the razor with which he
was killed at Socorro have been found.
There is a strong case against Mexican
now in jail for the murder.
OREGON.
Charles b. Bailey was killed while un-
coupling cars at Pendleton Jan. 4.
David Patterson. deaf mute, was run
over and killed by Northern Pacific
train at Portland Jan. 6.
The Union Pacific came to the rescue
of the suffering employees of tho con-
tractors and paid them of.
The Portland constables are laiding
the gamblers because they refuse to pay
the constables as well as the police for
immunity.
Captain William Mcdonald, as he called
himself, who was arrested at Portland as
William Stuart Brooks for an English
forgery land discharged, has been re-
arrested.
Bruce Blessing, II years old, was shot
in the eye by his brother, probably fatally,
while they were playing with a pistol at
Portland Jan. 3.
J. w. Pengra OF Springfield was given
an almost fatal blow on the head with a
tobacco cutter by Marshal Mulligan, who
had taken up Pengra's horses when they
were turned out to water and with whom
Pengra had got into a dispute Jan. 4.
WASHINGTON.
A freight train ran into herd of
cattle near Spokane Falls Jan. ) and was
wrecked.
The Union Pacific is expected to finish
the line from the Willamette at Portland
to Puget sound Immediately.
Franklin d. Hughes of Tacoma lost all
his money in real estate speculation at
Des Moines and after six attempts at
so1.
Jan. 6.
Samuel Brinker whose wife would not
live with him on account of his dissipa-
ton, attempted suicide at Tacoma Jan. 8
but the poison he had taken was pumped
out OF him.
John Miles, one of the Spokane cattle
thieves, was so wounded, though not ar
rested, when the others were arrested
that he fell dead in the road while riding
to town for treatment.
An organized gang of horse thieves is
reported from Whitman county. They
drive the animals off the ranges to the
nearest railroad station and ship them
east. Three carloads OF horses were thus
shipped from Spokane to st. Paul.
The Van Cleve brothers, Jack Conley,
August August and George MullS We're
arrested at Spokane Falls Jan. 3 for cattle
stealing. Bands OF cattle were stolen by
the gang and slaughtered in the night
city in the morning.
Herbert John Ames, one of the inmates
of Hammond's notorious Cleveland-street
house in London, who has been in Seattle
with Hammond, seeing Hammond in the
penitentiary where he was not afraid of
him, has made confession giving the
names of six of the aristocratic visitors
at the London resort.
Several packers and miners in Okano-
gan county have recently been killed. A
freighter named Coles was killed a few
weeks ago and several Indians were ar
rested. One of them was taken from the
county jail and lynched and Indignation
runs high among the Okanogan Indians,
who have held four councils and are re-
ported ready to start on a campaign of
revenge. The county commissioners
asked the governor for arms and he sent
200 stand.
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