The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-09
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In a
Condensed Form.
Milton has a brass band.


ty, has been discontinued.
The Presbyterian church ut Link
vile has seen Incorporated.
The postoffice at Willow Springs,
Jackson county, has been discontinued.
/ II is reported that there is China
man at Centerville afflicted with the
leprosy.
A postoflice has been established at
Granger, Benton county, and Levy
Jay appointed Postmaster.
Chas. Mclaughlin was shot and
seriously injured while attempting to
escape from Policeman Holsapple, OF
/ Portland.
Burglags entered the bedroom OF
/ Thomas Peebler, merchant OF Leba-
non, and stole $40 from the pockets of
a pair of trousers.
Patents have been granted 10 the
following: Edward T.. Redfield, Link
VILE, magazine gun j. E. and Miriam
Burnett, East Portland, paint
f. I. Foley, who recently committed
suicide IN Crook county, left property
TO the amount of over $1,000. He
has large. band OF sheep over in the
Black Butte country.
| The Police Commissioners Of Port
land impc sed a fine of 800 ON Chief
OF Police Parrish for exceeding his
authority in arresting and imprisoning
"A boy without having procured a war
rant for his arrest.
Rev. I. ]. Wilson, of Halsey, has
received an appointment at the hands
4 OF tn board of missions of the United
! Presbyterian church of Oregon rs sup
erintendent of the. Indian school at
Warm Springs agency.
The Commissioner OF Indian Affairs
has recommended 10 Congress to APP
pfopriate $4,000 for the purchase of
| land near The Dalles, on the Colum.
bia river, for Indians on the Warm
/ Spring reservation, 10 enable them to
have good fishing grounds.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad Com
papy has shegun suit in the circuit
court at Albany against contractor
q. w. Hunt, TO recover $l50O0Q dam,
ages for non performance Of his con-
I tract on the extension OF the road
eastward from that city.
+. t. Foley committed suicide at
/ Prineville, by cutting the arteries of
one of his wrists. Foley was = well.
known and universally liked young
man OF that section of the country.
and resided at Camp Polk, about thirty
! five miles frcln Prineville.
A. McBrose, who has the sturgis
sheep on the shares, gave his sheep a
scare by firing his pistol in their
midst, and succeeded i'm piling them
/ up in ditch, where 102 head smoth-
cred to death, says a PrinevilIe paper
Congressman Hermann was before
the Poslotiee Department and made
argument on several petitions pending
/ for an increase OF the service from
Prineville TO Bake Oven. The added
increase TO be continued to The Dalles,
and from Prineville TO Burns for an
increase to a tri-weekly service.
A hunter near Canyon City shot
cougar and captured her young ones,
small kittens. He had hitter OF
young hounds at home and he placed
the two young cougars among them,
and they are thriving well. They lay
around in front of the fire and play
with each other just like two ordinary
kittens.
/ Maj. Powell of the engineer corps,
was instructed by the Secretary of
| War some me ago, to make a survey
OF 11llamook bay, with view of i'm.
| proving the channel. Mai. Powell has
made his report. He gays Tillamook
town Is the principal place Of the re-
/ gion in which it is located. IL is
Z cftVtatrh n u.rtnn aln.,nI Al.
head of the bay, and is the distributing
and receiving point of a fertile and
/ rapidly settling country. Along these
/ rivers are numerous sloughs. He also
/ states that coast trails ard roads con.
verge at that place. He recommends
that 81 500 be appropriated to clear
out the channel.
| An atrocious murder occurred at
| Heppner, man named Barrett being
the victim and Fred Crump the muir
| derer. From what could be learned il
| appears that Barrett and Crump hal
quarrel over a sheep range in the
Sand Hollow region. They were sep
arated before they came to blows. and
it was supposed that the trouble would
not be renewed. But early the follow
! tbS Wtnb W y
house and called him out. As soon as
he stepped outside Crump attac ked
him, stabbing him fivess.times in the
body, causing almost Instant death.
The weapon used was large butcher
knife. The crime was committed be-
fore the Mortified gaze of Barrett's wife
and little children, who could do moth
ing to defend the father and husband
from death.
Senator Mitchell received the follow.
ing letter from Commissioned McDon-
aid: although we have no facilities
at present for complying with the
request transmitted with your letter of
February 20 for catfish for stocking
the Tualatin river in Oregon, it is a
matter that the commission. proposes
to take up with view to arranging
for distribution of this species to suit
able waters. / am disposed to be very
conservative about the introduction OF
any OF the species of catfish into waters
which themselves contain or are Uribu-
taries. .to. streams that contain better
fish. The catfish is great spawn
eater, and if placed in any of the
tributaries of the Willamette will
doubtless in time distribute itself to
all, and it is serious question to con.
slider whether IL is advisable IN intro