The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-16
PACIFIC COAST.
AnAsKA.

ALASfAA.
Citizens of Alaska have offered to buy
will not pass a local government bill and
land law for the Alaskans.
ARIZONA.
Clifton shipped 1854, ,a6i pounds Of
copper the past year.
Tax Collector NJ S. Snyder was
wounded and robbed of $4570 in his
Office at Tucson Dec. 80 by two masked
men.
Phenix architect has secured the con-
tract TO build the Frog Tanks dam for
81, 100, 900. 1t will cover 100, 600 acres
with water, and is TO be completed
within three years.
Dan Shanklin killed DIR. c. Willis at
Tombstone Dee. 30 because Willis, who
was superintendent OF the Old Guard
mine. had failed 10 pay Shanklin his
wages as watchman.
F. Nelson and Antonio Grinado, con-
vieted wife murderers at Clifton, are
likely to escape death because OF in
formality in the formation OF the grand
jury which indicted them.
AdOlphe Nerdugo, q murderer in Jail at
Tucson, stabbed the jailer through the
bars with dirk Dec. %, broke open the
cell door, beat the taller into insenslbility,
and, taking the keys, escaped, with
Antonio Yeppa Sanchez, q murderer. and
Juan Costello, grand lareenis.. Yeppa
was caught the next day, and several
Mexlcans were arrested for harboring
him.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Victoria Is pestered with burglars.
The schooner Dare from San Francisco
was wrecked on Vancouver island Dec.
30 and the captain and crew were washed
ashore, more dead than alive, and saved
by Indians.
NEVADA.
Lucius E. Muzzy was killed by rock
falling on him in an ore car at Carson
Jan. 2.
Antelope valley is so full of wild horses
they reak away and join the wild herds
NEW MEXICO.
The Navajoes are quiet.
The laborers employed by the con-
tractors to lay the Albuquerque sewers
struck Dec. %, but their places were
| filed.
Oregon's taxable property is assessed
at 81, ,142,777.
| Henry A. Brown was found murdered
fifteen miles east of Pendleton Dec. 2s
| Dan Sullivan, despondents at his In
ability to get work, committed suicide al
Portland Dec. 80.
| Dan Mccarthy and John Sheridan dug
ont OF the Union county jail Dee 81
with a piece of gas pipe.
JIM. Babock of Los Angeles was struck
by an electric motor train at Portland
Dec. 80 and killed.
Several families at Eugene were poi
soned by eating head cheese and it is
believed the poison was maliciously put
in by an employe at the shop whers the
| cheese was made.
The third bridge across the Willamette
at Portland is completed and was opened
for travel Jan. /. II is 1850 feet long
with draw span OF I4O feet operated
on each side by electricity.
At Ashland Charles Milsap, IL years
of age, while playing with a shotgun
received the charge in the abdomen. The
| boy walked nearly a mile before he met
with assistance. The wound is serious
! il not fatal.
WASHINGTON.
The bakers of Seattle have struck fol
shorter hours.
/ The coasting steamer Badger has beer
wrecked on James island in a storm.
A ship yard costing 81, 100000 is to bt
built on Puget sound by the Steel Bridge
company.
Hammond, who pandered TO the
English aristocracy on Cleveland street
London, has been sent to the peniten
tiary for two years from Seattle for granC
larceny.
A citizen OF Buckley, while hunting
discovered fine deer behind a falleI
tree Thinking the animal was dead h,
undertook to turn it over, but at tn,
first touch the animal jumped to its fee
and bounded away. 1t had been takinl
a nap.
A man named Burris was arrested 70
arson at Dayton but discharged. Vigi
lantes seized him and strung him VI
Dec. 80 to extort a confession from hin
but failed. They warned him to leav
town but he didn't go.
Ten sailors left the American ship Ale,
Gibson. at Seattle, though they ha,
trip, and they were arrested and i'm
, prisoned. They complained that the
were not given proper food. They wer
discharged on habeas corpus.
For over year the city of Seattle ha
been fighting the Northern Pacific t
prevent it laying tracks across one Z
its principal thoroughfares. During
hearing the other day the attorneys fo
the corporation and for the city wen
; down to see the disputed point, an
upon returning the city's counsel de
liberately signed away the city's rights
, This action created great excitement !
: the city, and there was much talk {
/ bribery.
! E. G. Carr, music teacher 81 yeal
, , old, was thrown from a cart and h
collar-bone and three ribs broken and hi