The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-01-06
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In 6
Condensed Form.

at Gold Hill.
Centerville has organized a com pan,
OF Oregon National duaid
The yearly shipment Of bullion from
Jackson county aggt egi'es 100000
Saloon licensl m Baker City have
increased from $500 10 s400 year.
The survey OF the Granl Ronde res
ervation has been completed.
A pe rcupine was recently killed or
the mountains neer Weston. These
animals are very scarce in Oregon.
The Northern Pacific runs train
OF seven or eight cars over the switch
back every hour.
There are forty-two patients at The
Spokane hospital. number Of whom
came fn IN outside the city.
During the past year there were I3G
business failures i'm this State. with
liabilities of $G4s 800; assets, 1884 500
Cattle are reported poorer aud gras.
shorter this year in Harney valley
than was ever known before.
Sanger has but three la.iies, while
her male population numbers over
thirty.
A company has been incorporated
at Enterprise for the purpose OF build
ing Touring mill.
Two wash-house Chinamen were
murdered at Monmouth, and theil
bodies were thrown into a well. The
object wss robbery.
John Click was sentenced by Judge
Ison TO eighteen months in the peni
tentiary. Click is a Baker county
horse thief.
Sportsmen have been able To- find q
few deer on the desert, but the mule
deer, once so plentiful in Eastern
Oregon, are becoming almost extinct
The pupils "a the mute school al
Salem will soon commence the publ
cation o. a small monthly paper in the
interests OF the school.
At Meiford the Episcopal Church
people have secured handsome
building site, and expect to erect q
church thereon.
The city council Of Junction have
passed an ordinance compelling al
persons engaging in the laundry bust
ness st that place 20 pay a license o.
$50 per quarter of 800 per year.
The Northern Transportation Com
pany has filed articles OF incorporation
with the Secretary OF State. The in
corporators are Holt G. Wilson, jus
Delay. j. III. Steffenrand Joseph Good
Capital stock, $30, 600; principal office
Portland.
The NJ. Z. Church OF Burns, Gran
county, has filed articles of incorpor
alton with the Secretary OF State. In
corporators, p. s. Stemyer, J. o. b
Embree, J. III. Pratt, Amy Byrd and
w. Q. Byrd. The object is divine
worship.
Cook county exchange: For NOR.
than three months Cook county has
not had pauper TO support, nor hai
there been an INDECENT family to bs
supported by the charities OF the peo
pie in Prineville this winter.
Mrs. Sewers, who lives on ths Sand,
near Cherryville, while in an epileptit
fit fell on the kitchen stove and was SC
badly burned that she died within two
hours after the terrible accident oc
CURED. She was alone at the time
and after recovering Consciousness go
of the stove and went out of doors
where she was fonnd by the neighbors
As the road on the Siekiyou noun
tains is soft and in poor condition, tn
railroad company will keep four stage,
there in case of accident. A slide o
earth may cover the track at any tims
30 that it may not be possible to m,v,
il inside OF several days. It is ther
that the stage. viii prove handy.
d. r. King, aged about go, boardes
the down train at the PendIeton depo
on his way home near Nolin. wher
the train reached the curve just across
the bridge, about a mile below town
Mr.. King, while attempting to wall
from one car TO another. was thrown
headlong from the car platform to tn,
TO ks below, distance of twelve feet
and ws.s instantly killed.
Governor Pennoyer has addres ed /
letter to the commissioner of the gen
eral land Office at Washington, statin,
that Col. Elliott, special agent, ha
forwarded reports to that Office of al
his examinations OF swamp lands il
Or gon, and Col. Shackle ord h In
f,rmed him that all OF his reports vii
be completed ard forwarded by tn
1st of February next, and asking tn
commissioner tn act at once upon sucl
reports, and cause patents to issue a
to the state Of all swamp lands so re
ported, on or before the 1st OF Msrcl
next. He also informed the commits
sioner that the State relinqushed a
claims to lands embraced in list Nc
38, rejected by the land offce Marcl
2lst, 1883, for wantof proof, but whicl
lands are yet Withdrawn from settle
meut in the local land off 'es, excep
as to such lands concerning whic
niShed, and asking that with thes
exceptions the lands embraced in sal
list be opened fer settlement.
| -''isn't 1t dreadful asked Mis-
I.illybud, ''to run over man?" ..Yes
indeed. num-" replied the stoker o
the express. 1T jolts the engine n
wuss nor cow. Exchange.
/ Cute Son-"Say, pop. can't W
compromise this matter without com
ing to blowsa" Pop-"How SOP" Cut
Son-''Why. you give up all idea o
licking me. and viii give up all ide
of getting licked. "-7ezas Sytings.
-Medium-s.Aret there any here VIII
would like to be put in communicable
with departed spirits?" Topper Ga
accidental intruder)-"Yes! just pu
me in communication with the DEM