The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-04-13
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest IN a
Condensed Form.

The vote OF Wallowa county is be
| tween 500 and 900.
Grants Pass has an elevation Of 965
feet above sea level.
A postoifice has been established at
Fern, Curry county.
John II. Mires was killed by q fall
from his barn near Oakland.
The salmon run at Astoria is light,
but the fish are larger than usual.
The residence of George Anderton,
near The Dalles, was destroyed by fire
The little daughter OF Ben Franklin,
at Bandon, fell and broke her right
arm above the wrist.
A new postoffice, called Crater, with
ID. A. Findley as postmaster, has been
established at Upper Deschutes.
There are 159 licensed saloons in the
city of Portland, IL in Albina and -
in East Portland, making a total in
the three cities of 1873.
The manager of creamery at St.
Paul, Minnesota, who was in Portland
recently and stated that the annual
sales there by his establishment foot
up $150,0O0.
At Oregon City a plant for the man
ufacture Of cement is being put in at
cost OF $4,000. The rock is found
in Douglas county, and is said to be
inexhaustible.
The Indians on the Klamath agency
met in council recently to consider the
advisability of taking land in severalty.
The result was that 600 voted in favor
of the project.
The gross receipts OF The Portland
postoffice for the year ending March
81, amounted TO $SS,5T3 42. This is
about $4,000 more than the receipts
of any previous year.
The Democratic State Convention
at Pendleton nominated ]. NJ. Gearin,
of Portland, for Congress. Cleveland
was indorsed for President, and Gov
ernor Pennoyer for Yice-President.
Postoffices have been established at
Aurick, Benton county, and at Grove
City, Malheur county. Jas. A Wood
and John t. Tilson were appointed
postmasters of the respective offices.
ANDY Hickson and companion lost
their boat, traps, blankets, stores and
$500 worth Of beaver skins on the
Nehalem river, and were three days in
the rain, with nothing TO eat but raw
potatoes
AT Paisley, says Lakeview paper, a
son of Mrs. Miller w&s accidentally
shot in the shoulder with shotgun in
the hands of another boy. Physicians
amputated the arm, takipg off part OF
the shoulder. The boy died tie fol-
lowing day.
The stockyards now being at The
Dalles by the o. r. & ". Co. will be
the best between Portland and ST. Paul,
says local paper. They will hold
thirty carloads of cattle, are fixed for
taking care of sheep, will have sheds
fine stock. Nearly 100000 feet of lum-
Der will be used in their construction.
Dick Wells fatally shot himself at
| the farm house of NJ. A. Walker, near
Ashland. The bullet passed through
the stomach and lungs, and caus ed
death in few hours To his mother
and others he said the shooting was
not an accident; he had been wanting
to die for three years. Further than
this he gave no reason for his rash act.
Deceased was % years of age.
Governor Pennoyer granted fun par
don 10 Pearl Page, recently sentenced
to year in the penitentisry for rob
berry, the reason being assigned as fol
lows "Whereas, the jury which tried
the said Pearl Page, brought into court
| verdict TO the effect that what said
Pearl Page did in the matter charged
against her she did under the influ
ence of coercion of another person
and, whereas, as the said jury has
unanimously petitioned for the exer
else of executive clemency by the
granting of a pardon !" which he does
"upon the express condition that she
shall Immediately leave the State and
remain forever therefrom."
Last fall, says the Wallowa Signal, &
camp of thirty-four Chinese moved or
one of the bars on Snake river, JUS
above the junction of the Imnaha will
that river, to spend the winter mining
for gold. When they moved there i
was known they had large boat anC
a COED supply OF provisions, and, it i
estimated, about $50 900 in gold dust
The bar on which they had encampeC
is very isolated, and since spring ha
opened party of men passing one da!
noticed no one around the camp, ant
on investigation found the bodies o
two Cinnamon who had sndoubtedl
been killed by shooting in the head
and the other Cinnamon VT re nowher
20 be seen. Their tents were blow
down and after being taken up reveale'
\ q \
! ing utensils, which had been used bu
e very little. The boat was missing, an
r everything looked as il it had been de
0 serted for some time. On the ban
] near the river were found several smaI
I piles of cartridge shells, which seem I
/, have been thrown out together, an
r with which the awful deed must hav
e been committed.