The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-06-02
Thunder and Rain Throughout
the Colorado Desert.
a U. S. PAYMAsTER ARRESTED.
Another Rich Strike in Gold at
Baker City - Damagessfor
False Imprisonment.

The Chino beet factory is being en-
larged for the coming crcp.
The Columbia-river canneries have SC
far packed 45, $40 cases Of salmon.
Shasta's (Cal.) Supervisors have ap-
propriated 81 900 for mineral exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
The contract has been let for new
opera-house at Pendleton. 1t will have
q seating capacity Of about 500,
Another wonderfully rich strike in
gold is reported from Baker City, Or.
The people are much excited.
For the first time in more than a year
Southern New Mexico has been visited
by rainstorm Of some twenty hours
duration.
Riverside SO far has shipped LOO car
loads OF oranges-500 more than last
season. About 500 carloads are yet to
be shipped.
Forty acres of ground have been To-
Gated for placer mining at the mouth oi
the Peshatin, Washington. Itisexpected
that the pay will be large.
Kid, the renegade Apache, has been
heard from. He has just visited the
San Carlos reservation and supplied
himself with another squaw.
Old Chief John Of the Saanich
Indians recently died at Saanich Arm,
B. c., where he had been quietly living
for many years. He supposed he was
1870 years old. The present chief is over
80.
Another irrigation and water-storage
enterprise is being surveyed on the Gila,
twelve miles above Yuma, II, The
proposition is to put sixty-foot dam on
the river at point where it is crossed
by natural ledge.
Grace Murphy has obtained verdict
at Fresno, Cal, for $4,000 against Mrs.
Johanna Smith Of Golden Gate avenue,
San Francisco, who had charged the girl
with theft. The suit was for damages
for false imprisonment.
1t is reported that the Southern
Pacific will begin the construction oi
the Black Canon line, surveyed over 8
wear ago, to connect the Maricopa and
Phoenix line with the Bullock road, q
distance Of ITO miles from Phoenix to
Prescott.
For several days and nights thunder
and rain have prevailed throughout the
Colorado Desert. The Harqua Hals
country in Arizona has met with heavy
rains extending towards Phoenix, and
on the Upper Gila it has amounted to
almost food.
At Fresno suit for $4,000 damages
has been begun by Miss Grace Murphy
against Mrs. j. Smith, widow Of Captain
Smith, who died in San Francisco upon
his return from a whaling expedition.
The suit was brought on the grounds o.
malicious prosecution.
Upon telegraphic orders from Wash
ington Paymaster J.C. Sullivan OF the
receiving ship Independence at Mare
Island was placed under arrest and his
sword taken from him. 1t is reported
acco,,nto brt tha of;cer,s
asn.s'te nds Sal;ava : " that be % w;ll ha ahIe u
ehus i,l ~ o M ,sattora as ~ sat;aioetorily % "
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The proprletors OF tne proposeo
woolen mills at Bandon count on secur, U
ing the wool OF Zoos 70 ana curry countle'
for Their mill: Iney estlmate mere IN IN
80 ,oOo sheep IN these tTo counIles, ~ a,l ~, Y
tnat II lne enIire Paouuss VI uiese ses u, =
purposes Of the new mill, and that WOO
must be imported from Eastern Oregon
AT Boise Clty, Idaho, Judge Beatty Y
the United states court refused tn'
motion OF the Last finance mine owner M
for new triaa ~ the case q tiie i1as Ts
Chance ys. lyier ana otners. III
verdict 81 the jury, wnich was III li1vo I
OF the Tyler men, VIII stanu unies
reversed by the supreme Court q IN 2,
United States, to which an appeal WI
be taken.
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