The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-06-26
Coast News.
CALIFORNIA.

Southern California will ship Is, 1000
carloads OF potatoes east this year.
The grand division, Sons of Temper
ance, has been Incorporated by John
Mckee, Thomas Walker, W, T. Mason,
L. b. Hartt, j. o. Avery, W. b. Curtis
and William B. Wadman.
ALAMEDA COUNTY.
The Woman s Christian Temperance
Union asks for new liquor license
ordinance that shall contain number
of new provisions, among which are
that applicants for licenses shall get a
majority of householders within a
specified district; that licenses shall
not be given to grocers; that no back
rooms shall be maintained, and that
no saloon shall be kept on a block
facing schoolhouse.
William Snyder's store at Niles was
robbed June 8.
George Davis fell from a train on
the Oakland mole June IL and broke
his neck.
John West was cut in two and
killed instantly by a circular saw in a
planning mill at West Berkeley June 12.
Mrs. Mary CLANCY of San Leandro
was thrown from a buggy the other
day and fatally injured.
AMADoR COUNTY.
Joseph Bowden shot George War
rem fatally in a quarrel following a
raid on a cherry orchard at Sutter
Creek June 9.
Levi Goss, living near the Newton
copper mine, killed himself because
his family shut off his whisky,
FRESNO COUNTY.
Charles Hogan aad John Barker
have closed out the business they
were conducting in Fresno and gone
to hunting coyotes with rifles for the
IS bounty on sealps. In less than a
month they got eighty-seven scalps.
William Douglas stole s20s from
P. @. Golden's pocket at Fowler, two
Malaga and several dollars in Fresno
and was arrested at the latter place,
all in one day, June 10.
A boy dropped a lighted cigarette
and burned 240 acres of barley and
bunkhouse for John Owen on Big Dry
creek.
Reuben Coins accused Mrs. Vince
Gage of stealing his chickens at
Fresno and Mr.. Gage put bullet
in Coins neck and one in his hip.
Gage went to jail. Coins, who was
not severely injured, swore to kill
him when he comes out.
Referring to the new county gov
ernment act, which raised the pay of
eopyists in Fresno county from 511
cents folio to cents, State Senator
Goueher said: "Set me down as
favoring cents" The MADEIRA Mer-
curry said, in effect, that Goueher
could afford to favor cents, as he
didn't have to pay it, and Goucher
met E. E. Vincent, owner of the paper,
and knocked him down and kicked
him.
The West Side Irrigation district
will issue 81, 900, 900 bonds to take
water across the valley from the
Sierra Nevada mountains.
KERN COUNTY
The other day Walter Garwood, son
of citizen of Delano, let shotgun
left arm, just below the shoulder, cut
ting away the flesh and splintering
the bone.
LAssEN COUNTY.
Work has been begun on the arti-
ficial outlet to Eagle lake which is to
irrigate $4,000 acres in Honey lake
valley.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
Oil is being pumped at Los Angeles.
G. b. Ladd, a Lancaster lawyer who
ought.to know better, failing to col
leet 50 went to his debtors room and
carried away a satchel. He is now
serving twenty-five days in Jail for
his enterprise.
Trainloads of potatoes are going
east daily.
The dead body of a stranger was
found by the roadside in East Los
Angeles June IL. In a notebook in
his pocket was the name cd. W.
Lower, Wabash, Ind" and no other
clew. The grass and weeds had been
pulled up for several feet around the
body, as if the man had died in con-
vulsions.
NewhalI sends out 900 barrels of oil
daily and four new wells are being
bored.
ORANGE COUNTY.
A postoffice has been established at
Laguna Beach.
PLACER COUNTY.
E. Mason was killed by chunk of
pnent which fell on him from the
/ roof of a tunnel in the Mayf1ower
mine at Forest Hill.
SAN BENITo COUNTY.
Thomas Gray has been convicted of
stealing a horse from A. M. Hardin,
near hOlllSUeT, Willie eIupIOyeu Dy
Hardin. He was sent up for five
years.
SAN BERNARDINo COUNTY.
The Temescal mines are making
regular shipments of tin.
The proposition to bond for $3.50, 900
for a courthouse and jail failed to get
the necessary two-thirds majority of
the votes.
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY.
The institution which has been
doing business on Market street under
the names of Dime Savings bank, !"
Estate Savings bank" ETC., has col
lapsed.
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY.
L. A. Eaton, municipal clerk of
Stockton, took morphine pills by mis-
take for quinine and came very near
dying.
While cylinder was being raised
in the Farmers Union mill at Stock
ton June 10 the tackle broke and it
fell. In dodging from under it J. @.
Mckenzie fell against q sharp stake
which punctured his windpipe. His
wound is not necessarily fatal.