The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-08-04
Black Measles or Black Smallpox
Raging at Anaconda.
MASS CELEBRATED IN OPEN AIR.
Heavy Rains In Arixona-Conster-
nation Among Mare Island
Republican Clerks.

delaying trains.
The Women's Christian Temperanc,
Union at Sacramento is waging war Oh
aide entrances to saloons.
Some Of the Ceur d'Alene women say
they will not ask for new bonnet unit
the country has free coinage Of silver.
Boys at Port Orchard, Or, are busy
harvesting the egg crop on Island Rock
They have now 600 dozen ready for ship
ment.
The policemen Of San Jose have begur
suit to compel the Common Council to
raise their salaries as required by the
State law.
The Captain Of the Oregon was given
. reception at Astoria recently for his
400th continuous trip to and from San
Francisco.
Four hundred Indian salmon fishers
on Fraser river in British Columbia have
formed union to secure raise OF wages
and freeze out the Japanese.
There is CONSERVATION among the Re-
publican clerks who hold government
situations at Mare Island. There is q
rumor that they are to make way for
Democrats.
Ninety-five per cent Of the orange
growers Of Riverside have entered into
compact for mutual protection and to
work in unison for the best interests Of
the growers.
The reports from the Lick Observatory
are to the effect that the comet, which
has lately attracted so much attention,
has a companion, whose tail joins that
Of the original.
The Riverside Bank, which failed some
time ago, continues to receive collections
from outstanding accounts, and there is
q general feeling that, If the bank peo-
pie are given time, depositors will be
paid in full.
The wreck Of the once-famous whale
back Wetmore, which has been pound
ing on the Oregon shore off Coos Bay for
many months, has been sold for $3.50.
The cargo Of coal brought the magnif-
cent sum Of s..
In connection with the recent row at
Federation cannery on the Mas river,
British Columbia, Fraser, who was one
of the principals, in correspondence crit
icises the policy Of the missionaries deal
ing with the Indians, and holds that
those not connected with the church are
the best Indians up there.
Avery rich gold discovery about thirty
miles from Sisson in the Eddy Mountain
has caused much excitement. The hills
are full Of prospectors, and every inch
Of ground in the neighborhood is located.
The owners of the original strike were
poor men, but have abstracted in the
neighborhood Of $40, 900 in gold from the
quartz taken out.
Los Angeles reports a case Of faith
cure which, it is stated, has astonished
the people Of that section. Mrs. Ada U.
Walton, who had been an invalid for
twelve years, most OF the time bedrid-
den, claims that while on her bed she
distinctly heard a voice telling her to
arise, as her faith had made her whole.
She called for a wrap, jumped out Of
bed and walked into the dining room.
She has had no trouble in walking since.
The attention Of the outside world is
being largely attracted to the exhibits
Oregon Is making at the great White
City. Many Of our Eastern exchanges
come to us with articles descriptive Of
the resources OF our State. The editor
Of the Holt County (Mo. Sentinel, writ
ing from Chicago, pays Oregon the fol-
lowing high compliment "As repre-
senting the States Of the West at the
exposition, Oregon, the land of big red
apples, stands pre-eminently at the head.
Although she has no State building, Or
egon makes magnificent showing of
her resources in the several buildings OF
the fair. Her display in the horticult-
ural building is everywhere acknowl-
edged as being peerless. Here she shows
pears weighing five pounds, apples six
inches in diameter, plums larger than
goose eggs, cherries three and three
fourths inches in circumference and
peaches 17I inches. In her agricult-
nral booth she exhibits grains and
grasses that are acknowledged by mill
men to be without a parallel. In the
flour test made at the fair -four made
from Oregon wheat was found to make
whittier and finer biscuits than any other
flour tried. In the mining department
q miniature placer mine is kept con-
stantly in operation, washing virgin gold
from the gravel Just as it is taken from
Oregon's placer-mining properties. In
the fishery department several tons Of
the famous Columbia river salmon are
shown, together with fishing boats, fish
ETC., and in the forestry depart
rnent are exhibited some specimens Of
timber that astonish the world. A block
cut from forest Of the West measures
nine feet across. This Is the largest
block Of wood at the fair, and 1t attracts
much attention" 81