The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-20
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Sudden Uprising Among the
Natives Of Alaska.
An ARIZONA JUDGE DEPosED.
Mss Shelby Of Portland to Touch
the Button in the Launching
Of the Battle Ship.


Spokane and Portland are now CON
nected by telephone.
Tacoma win ship about seventy car
goes or 100000 bushels Of wheat thi,
year.
Two men, A. W. Ross and Mr.. Will,
iams, are reported lost on the Colorado
desert.
Chris Evans is complaining Of pain in
his sightless eye. The ball that entered
there is still in his head.
Secretary Herbert has ordered hard
sandstone or granite to be used in the
construction Of the Port Orchard dock
instead Of Tenino sandstone.
E. W. French, Probate Judge OF Yav-
apai county, a. T., charged with forgery
and embezzlement, has been deposed
and ]. F. Wilson appointed to succeed
him.
A submarine cable Of 500 volts was
laid between San Diegoand Coronado the
other day. 1t is to supply the force to
run q new electric road at the latter
place.
A 2O0-foot tunnel has Just been com
pleted at the Sultana mine in Grant
county, and contract is coon to be let
for one 600 feet long. Exposures are
satisfactory.
The coyotes in the Verde river section
IN Arizona are affected with hydruphobia
to such an extent that it is dangerous to
travel through that country and especi-
ally to camp at night.
Steps are about to be taken toward the
construction OF a fish ladder at the falls
OF the willamette at Oregon CITY, for
which the last Oregon Legislature made
an appropriation Of $4,000.
A London company is said to have
bought the nickel mines in Oregon. 1t
is believed the company will erect
plant to manufacture armor for battle
ships and for other purposes.
The Farmers Insurance Company at
Spokane has been go managed that the
stockholders have been deceived, and
receiver has been appointed. The com
pany has out $2l8, 900 worth Of policies,
with assets Of 5000.
Areport comes from Los Angeles coun-
ty, CAL, that grove OF bananas in the
Cahuenga foothills will produce this sea-
son $50 punches of good, merchantable
fruit, and will yield, it ID said, a hand
some profit to the owner.
A bank in Arizona, which closed a
shOrt time ago, issued the following no
tice: This bank has not busted: it
owes the people s36, 900; the people owe
it s55, 900; it is the people who are bust
ed; when they pay we'll pay"
The Board Of Public Works at Tacoma
has discovered a shortage Of $500, 900
gallons Of water daily in the water com
pany's guaranteed supply, which was
purchased recently by the city, together
with the electric-light plant, for 81, ,75O,-
coo.
According to the report Of Receiver
Hadley the Oregon Pacific is running
behind. He reports: June, earnings,
81, 1876; expenses, s25,6l7.4l; loss,
5,7S4.2l. July, earnings, sl6,94O.3l ex-
penses, $23, ,58l .67; loss, $6,6lI.36. Au-
gust, earnings, $16,367.6l; expenses,
SIS, ,2SS.5l; loss, $S,870.g0.
The Linn County Board Of Equaliza-
ton has assessed the Southern Pacific at
1900 per mile on the road and 1867 on
rolling stock on the main line. The Or
egonian and Lebanon branch was placed :
at 5000 on the roadbed, and the
Oregon Pacific will be about 1890 on
roadbed and rolling stock.
From authentic reports received at
Portland BY persons in 8 position to know !,
it is believed that there has been re-
cent and sudden uprising among the ma
tives Of Alaska. Many persons were ,
killed, among them being several mis-
sionaries sent out by the American
Board.
The Southern Pacific Company ran a I,
free excursion train out Of Sacramento :
the other afternoon, bound for Reno,
New. Between 300 and 400 Indiane. who
vent there to pick hops, were provided i
with accommodations and sent TO their b
homes in the Sagebrush State. They &
vent in freight cars, and pulled out for 9
the mountains cheering. Q
A letter received at Kaslo, B. G., dis !
closes the fact that young fellow who Y
ran q restaurant in that town, and who Z
died lately from fever and dysentery, !,
was the son Of an Irish Earl. The young =
man, who was always very reticent about
lis people, was general iavorite. His o