The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-31
Wages at eCarsonMint
Will Be Reduced.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL.
Los Angeles Sunday Closing
Ordinance Does Not Decrease
Drunkenness.

A strike at Gallup, N. NJ. threatens
to shut down the mines at that place.
The Eastern Oregon Cooperative AS
sociation, which lately embarked in busi-.
ness, has increased its stock to $4,000.
It lis said the crew OF the Charleston
is much dissatisfied at their treatment,
and that many viii desert the first op-
portunity.
An important railroad deal has been
perfected at Los Angeles, which gives
the Southern Pacific railroad an entry
into San Bernardino.
Prof. Henderson Of Olympia, WASH,
has been appointed assistant in charge
Of the forestry department at the Worlds
Fair by Ezra Meeker.
The last Of Pomona's orange crop has
been shipped, making total since New
Years OF l27 carloads, valued at $58 900,
an increase Of $4,000 in five years.
The Oakland Zeal. Common Council
has failed to pass an ordinance licensing
the pool rooms. The measure lacked
one vote Of the necessary two thirds.
A railroad company has been organ
lied at Spokane to open line OF trans
portation to the rich mines recently dis
covered near the summit Of the Cascade
Mountains.
A small red insect is said to be camp
ing on the trail of devastating grasshop-
per in some sections Of California, and
under the enemies attacks the hopper
is being worsted.
Major Handbury Of the United States
engineers expects to have the jetty at
the mouth OF the Columbia river run out
as far as necessary-four and a half miles
by the end Of August.
A contract has been let to the San
Francisco Bridge Company for grading
and bridging fifty miles OF the Great
Northern railway from Sand Point,
Idaho, westward down the Pend d'Oreilie
river.
tits reported at Los Angeles that come
ingenious persons are manufacturing
three coyote scalps out of one hide in
such manner as to defy detection. The
s. a scalp bounty is likely to prove ex-
pensive.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports ten failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with fifteen for the previous
week and seven for the corresponding
week Of 1890.
Word has been received from Wash
ington at Carson that the entire force at
the mint will be retained at d reduction
OF 10 per cent. in wages, to be replaced
at the old standard when the coinage Of
silver dollars is resumed.
W. Fl. Bartlett, who is well known in
Los Angeles and was married there in
1889, has mysteriously disappeared from
Tacoma, Wash. He dressed and went
to a hall on the evening Of june 13 last,
and has not been seen since.
The belief that the water flowing into
the Colorado desert is from the Gull is
taking strong hold in the minds Of many
people, who have been watching with
interest the phenomenon. The latest
reports say the waters are receding rap
idly.
1t is now believed that house-to-
house search for arms in the coal-mining
districts in Kings county, WASH, where
there are strikers, win have to be en-
forced to secure the arms held by the
men. The voluntary disarmament is not
q success.
The wheat crop in Eastern Washing
ton is in danger Of partial destruction
by gopbers and squirrels. In two prin-
cipal wheat-growing districts it is re-
ported that in the last five days 10 per
cent. Of the fields have been devastated
and the evil is daily growing worse.
During the past few months in which
the Sunday saloon-closing ordinance has
been in effect at Los Angeles the police
report that drunkenness has largely in.
creased. Last month there. were l02
arrests for this cause, greater number
than in any month during the past three
years. Most Of these arrests were made
on Sunday.
Fish Commissioner James Crawford
has gone to 0kanogan country to put
fish rack across the Methow. This rack
is in the form OF a picket fence stretched
across the river to prevent the salmon
going up. The Commissioner will make
an approximate estimate Of the number
Of salmon in the river for the purpose Of
deciding whether or not it will pay to
putin hatchery.
One Of the Indians killed in Kern
county, Cal, during fight with Con-
efable,s posse. in which two whites and
two Indians were killed, was Kiowa, the
chief Of the band. He was typical,
bloodthirsty savage. The posse in search
Of the Indian band killed one and cap
tured son Of Kiowa. The selling Of
liquor to the Indians is said to have orig
mated the trouble.