The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-11-10
Flood Predicted in the Potlatch
Country Next Spring.
THE CURRENT OF THE sANTIAM
Prescott and Arizona Central Rail-
road Withdrsws Its Trains
Partisan Removed.
An effort is being made to organize a
union OF sealers at Victoria, B. G.


union OF sealers at Victoria, b. G.
Captain Cochrane at Vallejo, recently
court-martialed, has been restored to
duty BY Secretary Herbert.
A survey of the Boston's bottom at
Mare Island finds it remarkably well
preserved, notwithstanding the vessels
long exposure at Hawaii.
Many Of the delegates to the Irriga-
tion Congress, recently in session at Los
Angeles, are studying the irrigation sys-
TENS Of that section Of the State.
Warburton Pike, the English explorer,
has returned to Nanaimo, B. c., from
the interior OF Alaska by the steamer
Bertha, having made a journey Of over
1900 miles in o small Peterborough
canoe.
The Prescott and Arizona Central
railroad has withdrawn its trains. The
road is seventy two miles long, but since
the building Of the Santa Fe, Prescott
and Phoenix road the latter has all the
business.
Mrs. Rocks in the Evans murder case
at jackson, Amador county, Cal., testified
that Sheriff Thorn offered her 5000 if she
would swear that Evans was not at
home on the 10Th Of June, the day Mes
senger Tovey was shot.
Chris Evans, the train robber and
murderer, has been removed from his
cell into one more secure, owing to
rumors which reached the Sheriff that
an effort to release the prisoner was be-
ing made. Evans says there was no
plot to release him; that the story was
originated by "cowardly detectives"
The changing current Of the Santiam
is threatening to render useless the San
derson bridge. 1t has already cost about
20,0O0, and the Linn county (0r.) off,
cials are debating whether it will be
cheaper to keep following up the chang
ing channel or tear the bridge down and
rebuild it at some point where it is more
permanent.
For being an offensive partisan j. w.
Kayanagh, q writer in the steam engi-
neering department at the Mare Island
navy yard, has been dismissed by Secre-
tary Herbert, and E. ]. Stoddard Of San
Francisco appointed in his stead. This
is the third removal during the present
administration.
Some sensational evidence was pro-
dueed at the trial Of the libel suit against
the Bee at Sacramento instituted by
George P. Royster. The deposition Of
ex-County Clerk Reynolds Of San Fran
cisco was read, showing some Of the
methods he had employed to defeat the
ends of Justice on his second and last
trial for being short in his accounts with
the State.
Old settlers in Idaho State predict q
food in the POtlatch country next
spring. Fourteen years ago the ground
was soaked with rain before the SHOWS
came and when the snow melted it filled
the rivers to overflowing. At Kendrick
the ice was piled fifteen feet high after
the waters subsidized. Eight years ago il
was impossible to travel from Juliaetts
to Lewiston on account Of the flood.
The attorneys for Sidney Bell, the
highwayman, now serving sixty-yeai
term at the State prison at Folsom, have
fled brief in the Supreme Court
which is the first step toward securing
Belps release. The grounds taken are
that the indictments on which Bell was
guilty were not good, having been al.
lowed to lapse and the cases TO droI
from the calendar. This was due to 8
murder charge which was hanging ovel
the prisoner, on which it was expected
to eecuTe conviction. The prosecution
was disappointed in this, and theT
charges Of robbery were taken up ant
pressed. Itis believed among lawyer
that the conviction Of Bell on a charg,
Of murder would be extremely difficult
90 that if the technical point is sustained
the footpad will be at liberty in the nea
future.
There will be great many days q
the Midwinter Fair, but not the least o
them will be San Francisco day. Thi
will be March 10. All San Francisc,
will that day turn out to do honor to th,
day Of the city, and while the three
quarters-of-a-million mark Of Chicag,
day will not be striven for, the manager
hope the attendance at the park viii
break all records for Pacific Coast gath
erings. San Francisco day there will b
much TO attract, but the most attractiy,
will be the Mardi Gras festival, which
will be held there. A company has beel
formed in San Francisco to pfoyid
9 festival Of the Mardi Graa class. /
was at first thought that something Of
local character could be secured, bu
owing to the shortnees Of the time al
lowed il was decided to take adyantag
Of fthe work already done on the Eeg
Orleans festival and bring it hithe
bodily. 1t will be brought. All It's pa
ueanfry and its mirth-provoking feature
arc to be shown, just as they have 70
ysaEs IN the Crescent City.