The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-06
Chinese Pay $50 Apiece to be
Struggled in at Olympia.
HOw A TRAMP BROCHURES GRUB.
Nevada Judge Cuts Down the Dam
ages Awarded q Widow for
Her Husbands Death.
0regon,s potato crop is very large.


The Pacific division Of the Northern
Pacific is preparing to make faster time.
Al. Stewart, chief deputy in the office
of the Street Superintendent at Los An
geles, has stolen 81 700 from the safe and
absconded.
German and English stockholders are
looking over the Southern Pacific lines
in California. The placing Of the new
loan called them there.
Persons seeking employment at Mare
Island must register. An applicant is
not eligible for work one year after the
date Of his registration.
One Of the Supreme Court Judges in
Nevada is i'll, and the other two are in a
deadlock over q question as to whom a
note for 900 should look for payment.
The recently smuggled Chinese cap
tured near Olympia paid $50 apiece to
be safely landed in this country. The
vessels engaged in the traffic. are known,
and will be seized.
Chris Evans has made q formal request
of the District Attorney and Sheriff Of
Fresno to be allowed to attend the thea
ter when the play Of Evans and Som
tag" arrives in Fresno.
Work on the San Diego and Phoenix
road has been discontinued, owing to
the want Of the necessary funds to carry
it on. Local capitalists have not taken
the interest expected and promised.
The people Of Fresno are demanding
that tramps be put to work The jail
now holds more than 100 OF them. 1t is
even proposed to put them in chain
gang and make them break rock for mac
adsmizing roads.
The grand jury at Salt Lake has re-
turned an Indictment for murder in the
first degree against Harry Hammond,
aged Il years, and George Gaylor, aged
IA. On June "a Hammond killed Clyde
Robertson, aged years.
Judge Hawley at Carson, New, cut
down the verdict obtained by Mrs. III.
VI. johnson against the Southern Pacific
for the death of her husband from $780,
oOO to $4,000. The plaintiff accepted
the cut, but the road will appeal.
Thomas L. Robinson, writer in the
construction and repair department at
MaIe Alanu' Ias % peen leniovsu 1T:, Dy oruer
oI secfe.aly i neipel. anu william a.
uenry ol .ne unl.su otn9es a,S - nialnle corps
n'.s Deeil appOln'eu y ~ 'ie pia.e'
There is tramp in Woodland, CAL,
who has an original method Of securing
food. When food Is refused him he
opens tin box, and throws a snake into
the house. The housewife is always glad
10 give him food If he will catch the
snake.
A. ]. Ross, the ex-policeman who en-
aeayored to palm off a widow on the es-
tate of Joseph Mckinney, wealthy
negro farmer at Stockton, has been SEN
fenced to five years in the State prison.
Pending an appeal, he has been released
on 5000 bonds.
CITY Marshal Blankensbip at Phoenix
Al n confessed TO RECEIVING money and
mot making proper returns of it. He
added that liquor made him do the
wrong. and that he had taken an oath
never TO touch it again. The court dis
missed the charges.
Jrdco H.wIav IN tho limited stotas
a;rcu;s Court Il Carson Nav decided
tha case ~ Rool 4 Riowev against the
Iust;ce I M;n;no Comnanv Il favor II the
defsrdants SUSTAINING avery no;nt
sla;msJ H. tbe Jafandants Tba caae
;nvoivsd araat msnv ;nnortant ouas- .sse
t;ons II mining Iaw AN'
AZ aftsr a. tha dracor State Fair ID ovar
,ha - craara % ~ the fru;t and vaaatahla and
srs;r ~ : I erhib;ts Viii be IA sent an n tbe World,s
III whare tbev viii be M avh;h;tad in tho a
nea,,or m dons,troerta MI 10 ~ wb;cb thev ~ nronD ON
III ~ia haIcpa The ststa Aor;c,, @ itnral
GaiIese G haa doratad its u ,naoniScent ap.
MINT ~ ~ rotataes ars;ns arassaa and
na.atsbIag - II p anJ the STATE Road % Eli sand and
NJ s' srscial a exhibits I'M II # grasses [ Grains Ana