The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-20
ARIZONA.

Yuma presents scene Of desolation
which no pen picture can adequately
describe. From the hill at the prison
one looks down on the ruins of almost
the entire city. Among the heaviest
losers here are: H. w. Blaisdell.
! $4,000; Althee Modesti, So, 900; An
telope Canal company, SIC, 900 Ancient
Order OF United Workmen lodge,
$1,000; j. Molina, s21 600; Sisters of
st. Joseph, $1,000; +. l.. Ewing, $1,000 !;
A q. Rfngcld, $1,000; Jesus Redondo,
5000; Juana B. Smith, $1,000; Con
gonfo Il Sanguinetti, $4,000; Chris
| Horner, SIS, 600; Isaac Levy, 81 I, 600 /;
Charles Baker, 5000; q. NJ. Thurlow,
5000; O. +. Townsend, $50T5. Others
lost from 800 to $1,000 each.
A Mexican woman aud five children
were drowned mt Solomonville while
endeavoring to cross the ella river on
raft during the Hood.
The Legislature has passed law
exempting from taxation for twenty
years all railroads begun within six
months and completed within three
years.
1t is reported that Manuel VerJlugo,
who broke jah after being sentenced
TO death for numbering Louis Cohn,
the merchant, at Nogales, has been
I
offense committed there.
The steamer Gila went TO the Coco
pah reservation TO rescue some fam
/ houses. The Colorado went down
very fast in the night and by morning
the ste amer was six feet above water
on sandbar.
IDAHO.
Dispatches from Bellevue say that
Alturas and Logan counties are in a
! state OF anarchy because all the
officers have been legislated out of
Office by the passage of the law Great
ing Alta and Lincoln counties. 1t will
be some time before the new officers
to be appointed by the governor can
qualify. Justices of the peace are
throwing cases out OF court for alleged
want of Jurisdiction. No legal paper
can be recorded. Absconding credi-
tors have a right OF way out of the
county, and even the treasurer OF
Logan county refuses to receipt foI
money offered TO be paid into the
treasury.
Mischievous boys gained entrance
to an old powder-house near Austin
some days ago and fired about 1OC
pounds of black powder and two cases
of giant. The building was blown
into splinters and the explosion was
heard for miles, but the boys escaped
unhurt.
Cash V. Wiley committed suicid,
at Carson March 6 on account of do.
mestic trouble.
NEW MEXICO.
A wolf killed Robert Chaves' baby
at Hillsboro while the family was out
driving wolves off from a flock oi
goats and the baby was in the house
Albuquerque will be city after the
! April election.
OREGON.
George Tucker, n young man, ha,
been lost in the Cascade mountains
: east of Eugene, which are covered
with snow to the depth of feet. /
is three weeks since he disappeared
and all hope of recovering him aliv,
has been given up.
The people of Eugene are pulling
hard for road to the Blue Rive
mines.
An unknown man called Mrs. Mar
! tha Hall to her door the other evening
and stabbed her in the throat, missing
. the iugular vein by scratch.
: WASHINGTON.
b. n. Boone, a contractor of Por
Townsend, while temorarily insane
from drink and loss of money, bley
' his brains out Feb. 26.
The North Yakima City council ha
sold $4,000 worth of city bonds to
? firm of Chicago bankers for $27, 900.
b. Y. Hampton and Charles Spears
miners, were caught in a snowslid
: the other evening at Boulder Camp
twenty miles above Ketchum, AM
killed.
: The wife of Joseph Rule, a bartende
of Seattle, has given birth to triplets-
{ two boys and girl. Both of the boy
: died shortly after birth.
!. There is a proposition on foot il
:. Seattle to establish there plant 70
t drying the Goldfish caught in Alaska
f waters and making Seattle the grea
: distributing point for fish on tn
Pacific coast.
t Alexander has been proclaimed kin
n of Servia.
d The German emperor INDUCES i
ugly talk about France and CapriN
has given notice that he will resig
n next fall.