The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-05-26
The Libel Suit Against the
Itata Dismissed.
POMTICAL SCANDAL AT YUMA.
A Will Contest for the Possession of
a Colored Recluse's Estate
in California.

San Diego's tax levy has been fixed at
IS cents on the 800.
The San Jose Council has passed the
Sunday-closing ordinance.
Santa Rosa voted to bond the city for
the purchase of water works.
The Reed Hotel at Ogden has closed
its doors, because the patronage did not
make it pay
The Directors Of the Bellingham Bay
and British Columbia Railroad Company
have made arrangements for the sale Of
the road to the Canadian Pacific.
Director Ames of the Union Pacific
railroad writes that the company is max
ing an active inquiry with the view Of
extending its track to Astoria, Or.
The bylaw for Vancouver, B. c., to
guarantee the interest on 100000 OF
debenture bonds to be issued by the
street railway company has been de-
feated by 152 majority.
Health Inspectors visiting Chinatown
at Los Angeles found fifteen buildings
that, in their opinion, cannot be cleaned
or made healthful, and recommended
their being razed at once.
Inquiries are now being made into the
practicability Of shipping frozen mutton
( BY the Australian system to Vancouver.
A company will probably be formed to
build cold-storage warehouse at the
latter place and go into the business.
The damming of the Mojave river at
Victor, creating an artificial lake nine
miles long, three miles wide and 1870
feet in depth, water sufficient to irrigate
100000 acres Of desert land, is project
on foot in San Bernardino county, Cal.
The arrest Of ex-Prison Superintend-
ent NJ. McInernay at Yuma, A. T., on
warrants charging him with embezzling
Territorial property from the peniten-
tiary at Yuma is the beginning OF one
OF the most sensational political scandals
ever developed in Arizona.
Alderman fowler Of Vancouver, b. c.,
refused to apologize for saying the mem
4 bers Of the City Council went around
with their hands behind their backs
seeking bribes. He said he would go
out in the alley and take his coat off
with any Alderman that tried to make
him eat his words.
James Reedy, an old miner who is
now janitor Of the City Hall at San
Jose, claims to have discovered rich
gravel in Santa Clara county, and in
support Of the claim exhibits small
bottle containing flakes Of gold, which
he claims to have washed out.
A sensation has just come to light at
Pacific Grove by the abseonding Of E.
M. Carver, the cashier Of the Bank Of
Pacific Grove, with $4,000 Of the de-
positors' money. The creditors who
were duped by the willy cashier were
Mrs. Goodrich Of San Jose for $4,000;
William Harmon, real estate dealer OF
Monterey; Rev. DR.. Clark, Presbyte-
rian minister Of Monterey, Of whose
church the missing cashier was devout
member and a number of other we'll
known persons OF Pacific Grove. Be-
aide these victims there is further list
Of persons who were inyeigled for less
amounts.
United States Judges McKenna, Nor
row and Hawley, sitting as a Circuit
! Court Of Appeals at San Francisco, have
affirmed the judgment of the United
States District Court Of Southern Cali
fornia, dismissing the libel suit against
the Gillian steamer Itata and releasing
the vessel and 1000 cases Of rifles she
had aboard when seized by the United
States Marshal in San Diego harbor two
wears ago. The libel filed in the Itata
case charged deliberate violation OF Sec
tion b,2S3 OF the United States Revised
Statutes, and set forth that the Itata had
been fitted out with the intent to cruise
and commit hostilities against the gov
eminent Of Chill, with which the gov
ernment Of the United States was at
peace. The decision Of the Circuit
Court is lengthy and reviews the details
Of the late Chilian revolution and over
throw Of President Balmaceda. The
Court finds that the state Of affairs as
alleged in the libel is not borne out by
the evidence.
The State Of Oregon has filed its an
swer to the cross bill Of Multnomah
county the tax suit. The answer admits
several unimportant charges, and asserts
that the object Of the equalization was
to maintain uniform assessment. The
charge that assessment on mortgages in
come OF the counties is lower than that
Of Multnomah county, and other asser-
tons to the same effect, are denied
The answer also denies that mortgages
were Disseminated against in favor o.
other real estate in Mnltnomah county
and also that only 10per cent was added
to the assessment Of mortgages in Coos
Linn and Washington counties; 25 pei
cent in Douglas, 30 per cent in Yamhill
and per cent in Marion. The answer
asks for the dismissal Of the cross bill
and that the county be compelled to pay
\ $R8, ,968.80 taxes to the State, which 4
kae refused to do.