The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-01
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest In a
Condensed Form.
Albany is infested by burglars.

A new county jail will be built at
Arlington.
Jackson county's court house is to
be repainted and repaired.
Hon. ]. r. South, on old pioneer
who r, sided near Halsey, is dead.
r. d. Hume is building a large
warehouse at Gold Beach, Curry
county.
Cole Brothers, OF Oregon City, are
erecting sawmill on Pudding river,
near Aurora.
A small shark was captured at va
quna bay recently, and shipped. to
Prof. Congdon, at the state university.
w I. Griswold and Eugene Rick
seeker, OF the u. S. geological survey,
have taken the field for the season in
Southern Oregon.
Joshua Nichols, arrested at Sweet
Home for disturbing the public school
and threatening the directors and
others, was fined $40 and costs.
VIM. Bogart accidentally had the
backs of both his hands pressed
against pulley in the Coburg sawmill
ia A-~hAiC C0dtNf NitO OtICI ldCtId-
ting them terribly.
Louis Nolan, of Crook county, has
been sent to the penitentiary for two
years for forgery committed in signing
another mans Eame to an order for a
suit of clothes.
w. n. Thomas, of Rsek creek, near
Mehama, has received a notice from a
vigilance committee TO leave the coun-
try within ten days. He says he will
stay where he Is.
A man named James Morgan, who
was in the employ of Hoffman &
Pfeiffer az Albany, decamped, taking
about $50 from the safe. He was ar
rested in Portland.
A. Hammond and Richard Mitchell
were out hunting, and Hammond
killed Mitchell, mistaking him for a
mountains near Jacksonville.
Frank Tripp, of the Coquille river,
accidentally shot himself while out
hunting. The gun was resting with
the stock ON the ground when it was
discharged, the ball entering the right
breast.
Frank Mack was accidentally shot
near Albany, while hunting. Placing
a lighted pipe in side pocket with his
cartridges, one of them was exploded,
iniuring one of his fingers as wen as
his body.
Mrs. j. E. Sorbin, of G4tesville,
Linn county, took an overdose of
morphine, and died from the Effects OF
it. She was a confirmed user of NOR
phine, and obtained the drug by un-
deThand means.
Charley, the 15-year-old son of r
Trescott, living on Powder river near
Auburn, Baker county, was seriously
Injured by having his saddle animal
fall upon him while riding ON the
range.
A little girl of w. B. Wright, post
master at Shedd, Linn county, was
slightly burned by the explosion of a
cosl OIL can, from which she was pour
ing oil into lighted stove. The
mother seeing the girls clothing in q
blaze, smothered the fire out with her
apron and skirts, burning her hand in
doing so.
The residence of b. III. Irvine at
Jordan Valley, Linn county, burned
TO the ground with all the contents.
The origin OF the fire is not known.
but ID is supposed to have originated
from flue. About $50 worth of
wool and 800 in greenbacks were al
so consumed. A quantity of silver
also went through the fire, but was re-
covered in hall melted condition.
George F. Cooper, a resident of
Baker county, has been adjudged in
sane and committed to the asylum.
The young man, it is said, WIS highly
respected by those who knew him,
and his unfortunate condition is much
regretted No cause can be assigned
save that several years ago, while in a
Southern State, he had a severe attack
Of yellow fever from the effects of
which he never fully recovered.
George w. Clarno of the lower Suis-
law, met with a serious accident on
his ranch on Indian creek. With his
brother he was engaged in saving
down a tree. 1t commenced to fall un
expectedly against hirl, throwing him
TO the ground, and with his wrist on q
rail, another rail falling on top of the
first, the tree coming down on the
rail, crushing it completely off above
the fingers, leaving nothing but a
stump.
An alteration took place few
miles north of Pendleton, between ].
b. Coyle and William Temple. The
quarrel arose over the building OF
some fence. Coyle was at work dig
ging post-holes, when Temple came
up, and after some words they came
to blows, in which Coyle got the worst
of the encounter, his head being
bruised and cut by spade which he
had been using, but which Temple
got away from him. Coyle retaliated
by shooting at Temple, which did not
take effect.
VIM. Marston, accompanied by a
woman who passed herself as Mrs
Marston, and two children, boy and
girl, nearly grown, arrived in Salem
and bought twenty acres of land neaI
Lake Labish, and built house there
on. A day or two since III. ID. Kelly
citizen of Pueblo, Col, arrived in
Salem in search f his wife and chill
dren who II d eloped with Marston
and had taken some money and other
valuables belonging to him. He wai
attacked by Marston and terribly