The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-03-24
Warm Contest in Arizona's Legis.
lature Over Irrigation.
MOTHER KILLS HER INFANT BABE.
Shipments Of Winter Vegetables From
Southern California to the East
in Carload Lots.

Inc southern PAcinc 10 70 haze Q new
depot at Grants Pass, Or.
Phoenix, A. T., reports that rain il
ialling, the first in nearly one year.
Freano voted against the issue OF SIS,
900 bonds to complete its sewerage sys
tenn.
British Columbia has imposed dis
count of 70 per cent on American silver
coin.
Portland's fine passenger station will
be completed by August, 1894. 1t is tc
cost $400, 900.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines,
the largest silver producers in the C@uI
d'Alenes, have shut down.
A travelling insurance agent has done
up the farmers Of Bingham county,
Idaho, by issuing spurious policies.
The majority Of the Indians on the
Nez Perces reservation have signed an
agreement for the opening of the reser-
vation.
Some Of the people Of Boise City,
Idaho, are opposed to the railroad enter
ing that town on account Of the smoke
killing the trees.
In Lower California enough rain has
fallen to insure good crops, though the
drought was beginning to be severely
felt all over the peninsula.
Inthe United States District Court at
Portland Peter Grant, sal ors' board
ing-h0use runner, was convicted OF har-
boring deserving seamen, and was fined
$3.50.
There is warm contest in the Arizona
Legislature over the passage OF an irri-
CATION bill, whose features are somewhat
similar to the California laws on the
same subject.
II is thought that the bed oil the Fraser
river in British Columbia is rich with
deposits of gold, and an attempt will be
made during the coming summer to se-
cure a portion Of this wealth.
Governor Mcconnell Of Idaho openly
stated in letter TO the District Attorney
that members Of the Legislature OF that
State were bgibed, and that information
will be furnished to secure convictions.
Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency reports
twenty-one failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
Is compared with twelve for the previous
week and fourteen for the corresponding
period Of 1892.
Utah's total gold output for 1891 was
$S1, ,844; for 1892, $3l, ,926; showing an
increase Of $3.50. The silver output for
1881 was $3.50, ,352 ounces; for 1892 it
was 1882, ,259; showing an decrease Of
9o8, ,006 ounces.
W. H. Winn, who went to Phoenix, A.
T., some time ago and took lodging with
two widows there, has not been seen
since Friday last. The ladies gave him
Ail0 10 pay his furniture Eill. He failed
70 return. Vim was a contractor form
srly Of Los Angeles.
The Nevada Legislature has adjourned,
ano a bill reducing the salaries Of State
officers is found to be missing. The
State Controller says the journals show
it passed and he thinks it will hold good.
II will be entered in the statute book,
with certification that the original was
lost.
Captain Hackett. the well-known
aealer, at Victoria, B. c., says that Brit
ieh Columbia vessels will give Behring
Sea very wide berth, not because they
are afraid of the United States govern
ment, but because they agree with what
the home government is doing.
The Arizona Construction Company
Of Peoria, ILL.,, has brought suit against
the Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation
Company, whose Offices are at Tuceon,
and the City Bank Of Los Angeles, at
which bank obligations in trust against
real estate and water franchises Of the
canal dam are held.
One Of P0rtland's wealthy business
men, who owns an acre above the Will
amette Falls on the west side, 10 con
templating building upon it a veritable
castle OF delight One of the most Inn
portant features is to be huge dancing
hall, out Of which wide glass doors will
open upon DrOau plaza.
Chaa. F. Kidd, alias Frank NJ. Rogers,
who, while express agent at Collinston,
Utah. under an assumed name ordered
over 5000 worth Of diamonds from Den
ver firm to be sent by express @. 0. ID,
and when the Jewels arrived opened the
package and, taking the gems, departed
for other parts, has been captured at
Lansing, Mich.
A. @. Cleveland Of Nevada, one of the |
original promoters Of the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake road, has great faith
in the enterprise, and secured five years.
extension of the right of way across Ne.
yada and Utah to Salt Lake and Ogden,
and also theaame extension on the bonus
offered by the State Of Nevada Of B8,lBOI
l0r every mile Of road completed. He ID;