The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-13
Placer Mines Being Reworked
in California.
KrEDERGARTESs IN OREGON.
The Deepest Sea SOundings Ever
Madeline Hops Raised in
Sonoma County, Cal.


many towns IN Oregon.
The Grand Ronde has marketed 100
carloads OF hogs the past year.
Mare Island will get all but $4,000 Of
the $500, 900 to be spent on the Hartford.
R. G. Harris and Jim Baker, two dsr-
ing robbers, have been killed in Arizona
by posse under the Sheriff Of Coconlno
county.
Mining operations are being resumed
in C@ur 'Alene district in Idaho under
owners terms, $3.50 for miners and s3
for carmen and shoyelers.
The old Pinacate placers in San Diego
county, Cal, and near the San Bernar-
dino border are being reworked with ex-
eellent results. Dry washers are used.
The Oregon Agricultural College ex-
hibit at the State Fair was turned over
tc the Worlds Fair Commission Of the
State, and is now displayed at Chicago's
great show.
Judge Ross at Los Angeles holds that
Chinaman to be a merchant must be
actively engaged in buying and selling
and other duties that merchants are oc-
cupied with.
Forest fires in the Sound country in
Washington have driven the cougars and
bears out Of their dens and into the val
Icy settlements, where they are seen in
great numbers.
The population OF New Mexico has
not materially changed during the past
year. The total Territorial Indebtedness
is $9l1,7 ,7l2, and the cash balance in the
treasury is $l2l 900.
Immense coal fields in Sonora, Mexico,
are to be worked by San Diego parties,
who have obtained lease from the gov
eminent. Railroad, harbor and other
concessions have been granted.
There is a rumor at Victoria, B. c.,
founded upon private advices, that the
governments Of the United States and
Great Britain are negotiating to close
Behring Sea and the Pacific for two
years.
II is reported at Chino that Claus
Hpreckels has bought 5000 acres OF the
Bixby ranch near Westminster, Orange
county, CAL, and will plant it to beets.
If this be true, it means another sugar
factory for that region.
The Albatross has made the deepest
sea sounding ever made. Phosphorus
fish without ewes were secured at 2,S00
iathoms. Fish and weeds sufficient to
load four cars were secured in the neigh
borh0od Of Behring Sea,
The Los Angeles Chamber Of Com
merce has been induced by the large in
flux from the East to pass a resolution
stating that here, as in every other
section OF the country, several men stand
ready to fill every vacancy for work that
occurs. The new-coming day laborers
stand very little chance Of securing work
at the present time, and are therefore
urgently warned not to come to this
country"
1t is reported at San Diego that an In
dian outbreak is imminent at Yuma
ewing to the trouble between Chief Pas
aual and ex- Chief Miguel. Telegraphit
orders have been received by Colone
Kellogg in command Of the local garri.
son of regular troops for aid. He has
assigned Major Charles Il. Davis to the
command OF detachment of thirty men
who will leave at once for service at thai
point.
Suspicion is now aroused at San Diegt
that the body Of the man found recently
near La Mesa was that Of A. G. Warner
who disappeared from San Diego som,
weeks ago after stealing $50 from biz
roommate. He is said to have engaged
passage by the Pacific Mail steamer Sep
tember 5 for Chill, and is understood tt
have had $4,000 in Chilian scrip, havini
stolen the American money TO meet hi
immediate requirements.
The sugar industry Of California 70
the past year has been very successful
Both the grower Of sugar beets and tn
manufacturer OF sugar therefrom hav
realized large profits. The refinery a
Watsonville is reported to be working a
its full capacity. The yield Of suga
beets this year is 10000 tons, which
present rates is worth s77 per ton, ex
elusive Of the bounty, which is wort
$40 per ton. Last year the crop OF suga
beets was 5000 tons. 1t is expected tn
growing of sugar beets will become
leading agricultural industry.
Thomas r. Sheridan, President Of tn
first National Bank Of Roseburg an
one of the promoters Of the Coos Bay
Roseburg and Eastern railroad, says th
remaining sixty-two miles Of road ha
been located from Myrtle Point to Rose
burg. Work is practically suspende
for the rainy season, but will be starte
n earnest early in the spring, and tn
road will be completed by November
1894. Completion Of thus road VIII max
accessible an immense timber area, an
win render tributary To- Portland a larg
and fertile section Of the State, wbic
hss heretofore been in Sll but name par
kof California.