The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-30
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest In a
Condensed Form.

Inc new Methodist church at Splcer
is about completed.
Tree planting is the order OF the day
in Rogue River Valley.
McMinnville has voted tax of
$4,000 for schoolhouse.
Roseburg will, in all probability,
have woollen mill this summer.
About fifty new buildings are now
in course of construction in Pendleton.
Several parties have been arrested
in Jackson county for killing deer out
of season.
Near Ashland, Jake Kennedy shot
and killed panther measuring nine
feet from tip to tip
A postoffice has been established at
Groves, Wasco county, with William
Mercer, postm aster.
Ten Thousand pamphlets descript-
i've of Rogue River valley have been
printed and circulated.
A postofiice has been established Mt
Ferry, Curry county, with Sarah E.
Cooley as postmistress.
At the city election in La Grande,
B. w. Grandy defeated A. r. Mattoon
for Mayor by one majority.
A street railway and water works
are to be built coon, and electric lights
are to be put in at Pendleton.
The young ladies of Forest Grove
have formed q base ball club. Miss
Zulu Warren has beer elected captanl
The postoffice at Little Elk, Benton
county, will be known hereafter a.
Eddyville, the name having been
changed.
Bear Valley, Grant county, has in
creased in settlement to such a degree
that a postoffice is almost an impera-
tive necessity.
During the past eighteen months
twenty seven persons have been sent
from Lane county to the insane asy-
lum at Silem.
John Olsen. while working on the
edger at a North Bend mill, had the
thumb OF his left hand completely sew
cred by coming in contact with a saw.
At the teachers examination in
Umatilla county there were twenty
niue applicants for certificates. OF
this number ten were granted second
grade, ten third grade aud nine failed
A young man, son of Mr.. Finn
Cooper, was dragged 10 death by a
runaway horse in the presence of his
mother and sister. He was buried in
the Masonic cemetery near the town
of Roseburg.
The identity of the m an who iumps7
fhEa ht-asA a. .fsn
a matter of doubt. No one appears to
oe missing from Salem, and it Is alto
gether likely he was stranger No
effort was made to recover the body.
The stockmen of Eastern Oregon
will have grand encampmen. near
Olex, Rock creek, about twelve miles
south of Arlington, commencing May
l and continuing five days. The pro-
gramme will be characteristic of the
life of the stockman.
William Desuret, carpenter, was
instantly killed at Albina, while eros
sing between a train of cars. He
climbed upon the coupling all right,
and was just about TO jump, when the
engine gave the cars sudden jerk
and the unfortunate man was hurled
to the ground, his head falling directly
across the rali. Several cars passed
over his head, mangling it frightfully
and neaIly severing il from the body.
A stranger went TO the ranch of Dan
Colwell on Lost river, and borrowed a
wagon and team, stating that he
wished TO take a sick woman to Link
vile for medical treatment. As he
did not return the following day ii
was ascertained that he had absconded
monopolizing the borrowed property
A telegram from Yreka, Cal, announ-
ced that he had been arrested at that
place.
The work OF raising the suaken
steamer Bentley at Salem has been
abandoned, an emergency having
arisen which renders her successful
withdrawal from her position for the
present impracticable. The action oil
the current and the position of the
boat have caused the formation of 8
sandbar just below her. Her machin
cry will be taken out, and next sum
mer when the water is low an effort
will be made to raise the boat by
jackscrews.
Special Timber Agent Bernhard
states that while inspecting timber
lands in Tillamook county he saw
many acres of blackened stumps. He
was told by an old settler that or
account of quarrel between two mer
twenty-five years ago, about some rail-
which one had cut and the other
claimed were split too small, the rail,
were set on fire and they set the fores
on fire, and the outcome was that Ia
square miles or four townships O
timber were destroyed.
Fire broke out at Arlington in Raj
ston's building, and before anything
could be done the flames rose beyond
control. The fire then caught ID.
Sprinkles & Co.'S store building an,
burned the whole block, including III,
Arlington Times building, restaurant
J. L. Adams vacant building, tn,
building of NJ. G.. Harris, ]. E. Has
kins' old blacksmith shop and tn
county Jail. IN the meantime it ha,
spread to the opposite side of the stree
and had burned Kirby's hall, j. B
Woods furniture and provision store
building owned by M. v. Harrison
and Condor & Cornish's bank. Th
latter was brick and was not totall
destroyed. Here the fire was stoppe.
by Mr.. Harrison's brick. The loss
estimated at $4,000, and is sever
blow to that prosperous village.
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