The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-05-25
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest In a
Condensed Form.

Weston will soon have a new flour
ing mill.
A new cheese factory has just been
started near Marshtield, Coos county.
Another chicken with his crop full
OF gold is reported from Wasco county.
Forest Grove and Hilsboro creamer-
les are in good running order and
prove great convenience TO those
| who have COWS within reasonable
| distance.
The l5-year-old daughter of George
Kennedy, owner of the foundry at
Corvallis, eloped from her home in
| that city with some unknown man.
| The parties were overtaken mt indie
pendesce, Polk county, and the girl
was taken home by her father.
The Truckee Lumber Company has
| bought the sawmill OF Smith & Sons
at Tillamook, and will Immediately in
crease its capacity and run il night
and day. They have purchased two
large vessels in San Francisco, ard ex.
| pect to do a big business.
1t is reported that the Falls Pulp
| Company's mill on Young's river viii
/
ers will be the California Paper Com
| pany OF San Francisco. The new
company will enlarge the capacity Of
the mill and place it on substantial
footing.
Des Mast, an employe of the Oregon
/ Pacific in the shops at Yaquina, had
| the misfortune 10 break his leg be.
tween the knee and ankle joint. He
was working about a pile of frog irons
! when portion of the pile fell over,
several pieces striking him, causing
the fracture Of the limb.
William Blivens, OF Walton. Lane
county, while going to his claim up
| the Suislaw river recently, met with
close call from drowning. He wac
| crossing the river ON a foot log and
| lost his balance and fell in. but es-
capped with the loss of an axe an his
| hat.
| The first rescue of the season was
male by the life crew at Cspe II n.
cock. J. Ditchburn, fishing for Ny
ers, was capsized off Peacock spit, in
| the breakers. The lookout on the
hill discharged the signal gun, and
the life boat was soon under way, and
! picked up Ditchburn, his boat pulIer
and coat, aud brought them into the
cape. The net was picked up by a
fishing boat, and returned TO Ditch
burn, but WAS lost again by him.
Fred Royal, l2-year-old lad Of
Grants Pass, son Of NJ. w. Royal, and
several other childrea were on a long
railroad bri lge which is approached
/ by very sharp curve. Hearing a
train approaching and realizing in an
/ instant that the others could not get
/ Off the bridge in time, he pulled a
handkerchief from his pocket and ran
/ around the curve toward the train,
/ which he thus succeeded in stopping
and saving the lives of his Little com
panions.
The railroad commission made the
| following finding with reference to the
accident on the Portland and
Wi lamette Valley road on M arch p
"The board having visited the scene of
the accident, and having made care
full examination of all the available
testimony, finds that the road and the
bri lge where the accident occurred
were properly constructed and in
good condition; that the train WAS
running at low rate of speed, and
that no blame attaches To the en-
ployes ON board. But the managers
of the road were not justified in jeo-
pardizing the lives of passengers by
attaching passenger coaches to cars
loaded with live stock, as a sudden
crowding of cattle TO one side Of the
cars was the probable cause of the ac-
cident in this case"