The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-02
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In q
Condensed Form.

the Pendleton public school.
There are fifteen inmates at the
State School for the Blind at Salem.
A sheep man near Saddlebutte lost
forty sheep from eating wild parsnips.
Lebanon has fire department with
membership OF forty, and which has
500 in its treasury.
Company X, o. N. c., held an cleo.
tion at Bandon, and elected Charles
Blumingrother captain.
A Portland father Furnishes his sons
by having them locked up in the dark
cell OF the city Jail.
Judge Ramsey has rendered his res
ignation as Mayor of Salem, and re-
moved to Pendleton.
The State Sunday School Conven-
ton for Oregon will be held at Albany
ON the 22d, 23i and oath of May.
Umatilla county will erect a new
court house ON the ground known as
the College block, at Pendleton, to cost
$4,000
A snow-slide on the middle fork of
John Day fairly choked up the river,
and almost drowned John X. Short
and his family.
Patterson's drug store, at Independ.
enee, was entered and robbed OF $500
worth of watches, iewelry, etc. There
is no clue TO the burglars.
The annual show of stations for
Marion, Polk, Linn, Yamhill and other
counties will take place in Salem on
SATURDAY., March 81.
There are now 239 prisoners, includ-
ing two women, in the State Peniten.
tiary. This is the smallest number
imprisoned there for some time past
JOS Fryer, merchant of North
Yamhill, committed suicide at that
place by cutting his throat. Deceased
was "a years of age, and leaves wife
and several children.
Young Van Wagner and Lawson,
charged with larceny of blankets at
Salem, pleaded guilty in the circuit
court, and were sentenced TO one year
each in the penitentiary.
At the annual meeting of the g A r.
in Albany, the report of the commander
showed that the department of Oregon
was in prosperous condition, with
forty-two posts and membership of
1909.
The Oregon Gold Mining Company
at Cornucopia have shut down their
mill for the present, owing TO the
trouble of getting tunnel timber for
use in the mine while the deep snow
continues.
A sheepherder (name unknown) and
his horse were drowned in Bridge
creek, near Jay Bird, in trying to ford
the stream during the recent high
water. The man was herding for joe
Austin. His body has not been found.
A 81 600 edition of a pamphlet of
about ITO pages, on the resources OF
Oregon, prepared by order of the State
Board of Agriculture by its Secretary,
Hon. j. L. Gregg, is now being printed
at Salem by State Printer F. q. Baker.
The brass-mounted howitzer used by
Lieutenant Phil. Sheridan in the cam.
paign against the Indians in 1855,
| near The Dslles, has again changed
hands, being presented by the ex-
members of City Rifles, Co. Z, O.S.M,
to Co. G, of Portland.
Two young men of Canyonville,
named Parsley and Edward Bealman,
got into quarrel over some trivial
matter, when Bealman drew a large
pocket-knife and stabbed Parsley un-
der the right shoulder blade, penetrat
ing through the cavity of the chest,
making serious if not fatal wound.
In an attempt to cross band OF
sheep over a ditch of water in the
Cherry creek country, Messrs. Brose
& Sturges lost l02 head. Mr.. Brose
himself had charge Of the band at the
time, and by the most strenuous efforts
he saved many others from drowning.
The Jacksonville papers are sgitating
the branch railroad question again. II
is now proposed TO build a street car
line to the o. & c., and in order to do
this it has been decided to tax property
holders enough to start the road. The
tax will be voted upon at the coming
city election.
The Willamette Valley Hop Grow
ers' Association has been organized at
Salem, with Hon. F. X. Matthew as
president. Resolutions were passed
declaring that a tariff of at least %
cents per pound should be placed on
imported hops. Another meeting will
be held March 30, to which all valley
hop raisers are invited.
About twenty-five men are now en-
ployed on the jetty at the mouth of
the Columbia, and by the middle of
March it is the intention to have a
larger force at work. Brush mattresses
are now being dumped in the jetty.
The whole length of piling prepared
for the mattresses and stone is abont
half mile
The Republican State Convention
will be held in Portland, April 4. The
basis Of apportionment agreed upon
was one delegate for every $50 votes
cast for Congressman Hermann in
1886, with one for fraction over half
thereof, and one at large for each
county. There having been 25,906
votes cast for Hermann, the convention
will comprise 209 delegates.
Steamboat Inspectors McDermott
and Ferguson have rendered their de-
cision in the case of the Cleaner, which
was upset owing to the shifting OF her
cargo, near Tongue point on the lower
Columbia, January 28th. They hold
that the Captain, Peter Jordan, should
not have started on trip during su h
perilous weather. Captain Jordan's
license has been suspended for six
months.
When picty begins to droop il
should Immediately undergo treat
ment There is no time to be lost
| The willing indicates trouble at the