The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-05-19
Backward Season in Nevada
Protects the Fruit.
NEW GOLD FIND IN ARIZONA,
A Blue Ribbon War in Progress at
San Diego-A Deputy Sheriff
Killed by the Kid.

Victoria (B. % lumber dealers have
formed q lumber combine.
Peach Springs, A. T., is in the throes
Of excitement over a new gold find,
A wonderfully rich strike has been
made in the Eagle Tail Mountains, A. T
The Clatsop Mill Company at Astoria
now has dryhouse, with a capacity o.
100000 feet a day.
The Citizens ticket at Phoenix, A. T.,
has been elected, with the exception OF
City Marshal
The San Diego County Horticultural
Commissioners have organized and COM
menced the study OF fruit pests.
There are rumors OF a big opium COM
bine, working through Canadian ports
and having headquarters at Portland,
Or.
The backward season in Nevada has
protected the fruit, and the pasturage
will be exceedingly fine, owing to heavy
rains and SHOWS.
There is much excitement in Graham
county, A. T., over the indictment OF
several citizens for raising the registra-
tion to make the county iirst-elass,
Kid, the Apache, has killed Jake Bow
man, Deputy Sheriff Of Cochise county,
in Guadalupe Canyon, A. 7. Bowman
started out to hunt for and kill the Kid.
An Albany paper asserts that people
going to the Worlds Fair from the coun-
try thereabout will take at least $4,000
away that will never return and be a
complete loss to that community.
The clerk hire Of the last Legislature
cost the State OF Oregon S2682610, or
over 5000 a day. The lowest paid any
one clerk was SIG, but very few Of them
drew less than $125. There were 1863
clerks on the pay roll.
A blue-ribbon war is in progress at
San Diego. Bands Of Christian men and
women visit the saloons in a chosen
quarter Of the city and hold gospelmeet-
ings inside the saloon if invited, as is
often the case, or on the sidewalk ii de-
MED entrance.
The Phoenix CA. T. J bankers have de-
cided to contest the legality OF the Ter
ritorial Law taxing all banks, national,
State or private, on the same basis as.
other property when the bank does busi-
ness solely within the Territory, whether
organized under the laws Of Arizona or
any other State.
Chester Ayres, with traps baited with
cotton saturated with nostrum whose
odor is pleasant to the nostrils Of coy
otes, has been able to capture and kill
within five weeks forty-six coyotes in
Mendocino county, Cal, whose scalps
bring him near 81 400, the bounty from
the county and the sheepmen.
At Phoenix, A. T., the grand jury has
Just ignored the charges against five
prisoners who have been in Jail for from
four TO six months. These men were
too poor to give bonds, and were COM
PEELED to remain in Jail until the session
Of the jury without shadow Of evi-
dence to indict, much less convict them.
a fish wheel is now in operation in the
Umatilla river mile above the town of
umatilla. 1t is the first one ever tried
ont OF the Columbia, and seems to be
doing pretty well. R. G. Hinton, who
put the wheel in, is also the inventor OF
an irrigating wheel which is now being
used successfully at several points along
the Umatilla river.
Preliminary arrangements have been
completed for the establishment Of the
Australian steamship line to run in CON
nection with the Canadian Pacific rail-
way. The first steamers will leave sgd
ney May II and June s, and returning,
will probably leave Vancouver June 81
and July s.
a petition has been put in circulation
throughout the mainland Of British Co
iumbis, addressed to the Goyernor-Gen-
eral Of Canada, suggesting separation Of
the mainland from Vancouver Island as
the surest means of relief from the ex-
listing evils Of the resources Of the PROV
ince being spent in unproductive under
takings.
Miss Harriette Woodruff, superintend-
ent Of Schools in Umatilla county, has
sent in her annual State report. There
are at present 5,132 children Of school
age in the county, an increase Of 156
over last year. The spring apportion-
ment gives this county $24,043. In all
s67, ,94366 have been spent in the last
year for school purposes.
Captain Van Bramer has returned to
Vancouver, b. G., from an unsuccessful
hunt for buried treasureon Cocos Island.
He says the island is honeycombed with
shafts and tunnels Of treasure-seekera. /
One party estimated the cost Of the work
done ut 100000. The Bramer party
tnnneled 100 feet, but their charts were
evidently wrong, they claimed.