The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-06

The assembly has passed bill MAX
ing it felony Tor lawyers 70 advertise
for divorce business.
BUTTE COUNTY.
The stables of William Rackerby
and James Cain, in Chico Vecino, We're
totally destroyed, with their contents,
by fire Jan. 2l In Rackerby's barn
were stored groceries to the amount
of $4,000, upon which there was an In
surance of $2250. There is no clew to
{ le origin of the fire.
E. d. Smiths barn and eight horses
were burned jan 21, presumably by a
fire started by tramps.
George Wilson Of Chico is under
bonds for an attempt 10 murder his
wife.
Ell DORADO COUNTY.
George Palmer fell 600 feet in the
Church mine Jan. % and was killed.
FRESNO COUNTY.
The four abstract companies OF
Fresno have combined and ineorpor-
ated
An unknown German about % years
old blew his brains out in the Fresno
courthouse square Jan. 20.
The Kaweah eolonists are likely TO
lose all their Improvements, having
settled on land not open for settle
ment.
n HUMBOLDT COUNTY.
The coal vein that is being exlored
in Round valley, Mendocino county, is
now known to extend uninterruptedly
to Rainbow ridge, near the coast in
Humboldt county, and has been traced
several miles by the county surveyor
and others.
S. G. Graham, an oil man from Ven
tura, has leased 1000 acres of land in
the southern part of the county for
rental of one-tenth of all the oil he
can get.
KERN COUNTY.
Haggin &c Carr have filed abandon
ments Of entries on 1900 acres of
desert land and entered the same with
Valentine scrip. @
Los ANGELES COUNTY.
The Los Angeles cable railway COM
pany is bankrupt.
The supervisors have ordered suit
brought for the Southern Pacific's
taxes levied in 1887.
William Strang of Pasadena has
been fined $25 for failure to provide
suitable medical treatment for his
eleven-year-old son. He and his wife
believe in the doctrine of divine heal
ing, and when the boys arm was
broken they contented themselves
with praying over it, which did not,
however, have the desired effect.
MARIPosA COUNTY.
A strike of rock 1400 pounds of which
carried $4,000 in gold is reported at
the Black Bart mine.
NAPA COUNTY.
Louis Fassannelli was fatally scalded
JAN 19 by stepping into a cauldron of
pomace up to his waist in the Califor-
MIA Pomace company 5 works, (which
le was manager.
ORANGE COUNTY.
John Wagner was burning brush
near Anaheim Jan. 20 when he was
caught in the flames and horribly
| burned about the head and hands.
PLACER COUNTY.
Five persons who attended dance
near Auburn were nearly killed by
eating pie which had been treated
with strychnine. The fiend who did
the work overdid it, for the pie was so
bitter with poison that it was uneat-
able.
SAN BERNARDINo COUNTY.
DR.. W. E. Scott of Ontario was
/ found dead in bed at his home Jan. 20,
having committed suicide by cutting
an artery.
David Patterson, superintendent of
construction Of a cement ditch for the
insane asylum at Highlands, was shot
through the left lung Jan. 19 by Rob-
ert Erret, whom he had discharged,
because he refused to pay him his
wages until Feb. 10, which would be
the regular pay day.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY.
S. Phillips has gone TO San Quentin
prison for two years fSr passing bogus
checks.
M. u; Hamll Unity treas
urer, is $500n