The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-01-05
Late News.

Santa Barbara, CAL, has decided h
apld its flower festival during the thir'
sek in April.
A bar of gold valued at $4,000 from
: the Bonanza mine in the Hsrqua Hala
was shipped to San Francisco from Phe
nix, A. T., recently.
Two employees Of the Washington Stat
printing office have purchased fifty acre
Of land five miles east OF Olympia, ant
will start prune ranch.
The cloud hanging over the title tt
land at Nogales, A. T., has been removed
by the Private Land Claims Court, anC
there is great rejoicing at Nogales.
A number Of prominent merchants al
Boise, Idaho, are indicted for having
made false returns on the amount d
business done upon which State tax is
levied.
Harney Valley ranchers are in hopes
OF being well rid Of the cricket pest
During the warm weather Of early fall
the eggs Matched by millions, and later
on hard frosts killed the young hoppers.
B. P. Burgess, Treasurer Of the War
ner Grocery Company at Phoenix, A. T.,
is missing, and with him funds of the
company estimated roughly at $1,000.
Burgess went to Phoenix from Portland,
Or, year ago with young woman who
left with him.
The Northwestern Steamship Com
~any has been incorporated BY several
cattle capitalists representing several
.illions OF dollars. II is the intention
% purchase the City Of Seattle and the
City Of Kingston, now owned by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and
with other boats controlled by the COM
pany--one on the Sound and one in San
Francisco control business on all the
principal Sound routes.
Mrs. Jane Stamford, widow of the late
Senator Leland Stanford and executrix
OF his vast estate, has confirmed the
telegraphic report that Leland Stanford
(Jr.l University is to receive an endow-
ment Of at least $500, 900 from one Of the
brothers of the late Senator. In the
latter's will $500, 900 is bequeathed his
brother, Thomas Weldon Stanford of
Melbourne, Australia. This bequest
has been turned over to the university.
C. F. Crocker, Vice-President Of the
Southern Pacific, denies the published
statement that the directors Of the com
pany have determined to put armed men
on their freight trains. He says the |
company has not determined what course
TO pursue in combating the tramp 'nui-
sance. 1t is believed, however, that the
Pinkerton agency has perfected arrange
ments to put gun-fghters on the South |
ern Pacific trains not only in California,
but in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and /
clear through to New Orleans. Armed /
men were recently put on trains pulling
out of Portland, Or, but after few DAYS /
we're taken off. About that time William
Pinkerton was in San Francisco.
John McNulty, q 'longshoreman who
five years ago murdered Patrick Collins,
another 'longshoreman, at San Francisco,
was to have been hanged December 20. 1
1t now appears that after the date Of (
execution has been set five different
times McNulty's neck will yet be saved
through the efforts OF the Daughters OF
the Good Shepherd Of that city. Gov
ernor Markham was notified that the
Sheriff had granted McNulty a reprieve
until January 26, and the probability is
that his death sentence will be COM
muted to life imprisonment. The Gov
ernor announces that he has received
petition signed .Dy S,OOO people asking
that this be done. Among the signers
are onitea sIa.es a: senators n mnlIe ana
rerkinS, AfcnpisnoP hioruan, Twin Y.
stump anu e.ghI u 'ne lurofs VINO con-
Viclea 'hs pfiSoner
A peculiar lawsuit has Just been
brought by the New Zealand Fire lnsur-
ance Company against the Standard Oil
Company. Two years ago the oil com
pany sold certain quantity OF coal oil
to retail dealers in Selma, Fresno county,
CAL, representing 1t to be non-explosive .
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