The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-06-30
Chinese and White Men Super
seeded by Mexicans.
CANNING LOBSTERs AND FISH.
Strange Complaint Prevalent Among
the Cattle in San Bernardino
County, California.

Flagstaff, A. t., has been selected a:
the site for the Territorial Reform School
The Collector Of Customs at Victoria
B. G., has paid out in sealing claims
$50, ,123.
Prospectors have reached San Bernar-
dino from the Colorado Desert with
pockets full OF gold nuggets"
Much activity is being manifested in
the canning OF Holsters and fish and
otherwise profting from the fisheries
along the lower coast OF California.
Oregon expects to clip 17,OO0,O0t
pounds Of wool this year, her increase
IN sheep over last year being estimated
at 30 per cent, all OF which is sheer gain,
The expedition from San Diego into
the Colorado Desert after the illusivt
Pegleg mine has been forced to return,
owing to the extreme heat encountered.
James Lamoreau Of Idaho Falls has
brought suit in the Fifth District Court
against the Ensor Institute OF PoeatellG
for $1,000 damages. because they tried
and failedtoc cure him Of the liquor habit.
The Pend d'0reille river is rising rap
idly, being within six feet as high at
present as Ut any time last year. livery
Indication points toward the water being
higher this year than ever known before.
The offices Of the Southern division OF
the Santa Fe railroad, heretofore located
in San Bernardino, are being removed
to Los Angeles to take quarters in the
new depot recently erected in the latter
city.
Arrangements have been completed
for the right Of way to construct canal
on cutoff at the mouth OF the Yuba
river, the object being to relieve the
river during high water and make the
channel more direct.
Work on the double-turreted monitor
Monadnock has been practically BUS
pended during the past month, 2OD me-
chanics having been taken of the work
ing force and assigned to other work
about the navy yard.
The Chinese and white men heretofore
employed at <l25 ON the Southern Pa
cific railroad between Ell Paso and Los
Angeles are being replaced with Mexi-
cans from Chihuahua at 81 per day. II
is openly stated that the spirit Of the
contract law Is being broken.
Ida Maude Kline, the bogus colored
widow in the Mckinney viii contest at
Stockton, CAL, who swore that she was
the wife Of the old negro in the hope
that she could get bis estate worth s40,-
900, is in jail, charged with perjury, and
A. j. Ross, an ex-pOlice officer, who is
alleged to have worked up the evidence,
is under arrest on q charge Of suborna-
tion Of perjury.
W. 4. Shaw, real-estate dealer Of
Salem, induced Mrs. Elizabeth Joseph
10 deed her home to him for an alleged
consideration Of sc, 600, that sum to be
paid her at the rate Of $3.50 a year for
fwentY-fOnr years, without interest or
security. Shaw exacted 9 promise OF se-
crecy, but finally Mrs. Joseph consulted
some attorneys. Shaw's lawyers advised
him to deed back the property, and that
has been done.
z. N. Potter Of San Miguel mesa, San
Diego county, CAL, was rldiculed few
months ago when it became known that
be was to raise crop Of mustard seed.
The crop will mature about July l, and
il is estimated TO be about l,5O0 pounds
Of seed an acre. or about sixty-five tons
In all. This is from about eight pounds
an acre Of the seed sown. The total crop
is worth el0,400 at s cents a pound,
which Is the ruling price.
Attorney-G General Chamberlain has
rendered an opinion upon the Weston
Normal School act, in which he says it is
evident that the Legislature did not in
tend that the appropriation should be
expended in the erection Of new build
ings, but only in the payment Of salaries.
the purchase Of needful and proper ap-
paratus, and generally in settlement Of
such expenses as might be incurred in
the successful arrangement Of the school.
A strange complaint is prevalent
among the. cattle in San Bernardino
county, Cal. II is a disease OF the bone,
similar to raw fungus, which starts inside
the bone and consumes it. Generally it
starts in the homes Of the left shoulder,
gradually reaching other portions Of the
body and invariably terminates in death,
generally in from three 10 five months.
Ii Is as fatal as CHAMBERS and il supposed
10 be as contagious. II generally attacks
cattle pastured on heavy dark loan.
The Fresno Expoaitor says: An item
Is going the rounds Of the California
press that "IniIlions Of worms are de-
+ rraatating the vineyards Of Fresno coun-
ty." This is altogether an error. Worms
are not devastating the vineyards to any
extent. They have appeared at two or
three points outside the regular vineyard
district, but have done no material i'm
iury TO the grape crop Of this county.
The worm that is doing the most Of the
damage in this vicinity is the worm Of
the still.