The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-10-19

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Mumfor was the name of the child
parents.
Near Drain Wednesday night SOM
wretch tied ali old horse on the tract
and the n.rth-bound overland trail
ran over the animal. The horse wa
tied both by the neck and heels to tn
rails.
The Milton Eagle undertakes to say
from the present status Of the Una
tliia county treasury muddle, that no
a cent of $4S,000 deficit of ex. Treasurer
Folsom will ever be collected from hin
or his bondsmen.
! The assessor of Josephine count,
gives the following figures for the
current year: Gross value of all pro
perty, Sl,325,Sl4; exemption, SOS, ,4G2
total taxable property, $l,257, 1852
number Of polls, $40.
A Sunday-school convention will be
held at Medlord, October % and "a,
having been postponed one week on
account OF conflicting with the meet
ing Of the State Horticultural Society
to be held at Ashland on the third
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week in the month.
In the preliminary examination
held at Burns, Monday, Charles F.
Potts, charged with the murder of w.
ii. Dickson, was held without bail for
the grand jury, The murder was COM
lnitted in the southern part Of Harvey
county, September 9, last.
A. J. Byers, whe recently figured in
highway robbery near Independence,
Is IN receipt of letter from Washing
ton, D. O., stating that his pension has
been allowed, amounting, with back
pay, to $2,4O0. Byers served in the
First Colorado regiment from Decem-
Der, 1861, to November, 1854.
The little 2-year.old daughter of Mrs.
Amelia Cook, of Salem, slipped and
fell through the barbed-wire fence
along the bank of the mill race. In
some way her hair caught on barb,
and there she hung, her feet touching
the swift water, until her parents
heard her cries and came TO her relief.
Q. Swanston, of Sacramento, has
within the last few days, purchased,
in klamath county, i75 head of beef
cattle from the Indians, 800 head in
the neighborhood of Bly,, aud $50 head
in Langell valley, making in all 725
head, for which he paid for which he
paid from % cents to 4 cents per
pound.
A belligerent owl came to grief at
Pass the first of the week. |
Mrs. q. N. Bolt opened the barn door
in the morning aud the owl drove her
out. Then Bolt went after it with
revolver, and the owl showed spirited |
fight, 1t was finally killed with a
stone, and measured 5! feet from tip
to tip.
A. ]. Pitner, of Halsey, who has
been on visit to his old home in Polk
county, Missouri, has returned to his
Oregon home. He reports times good
in Missouri. He says they have u
good corn crop aud fair wheat crop.
Corn is cash at 32 cents a bushel Fat
hogs go like hot cakes at 5 cents on
foot at the farmers door, and alto
gether the outlook is bright.
Bob Ingersoll is going for the superb
lndent Of an eastern reform school,
and here Is what be says: | do not
believe that one brute by whipping,
beating and lacprating the flesh of
another can reform him. The lash
will neither develop the Lrain nor
the heart. There should lie
no bruising, no soaring of the body
IN families, in schools, in retorma-
-ories, or prisons. A cultivated man
toesn't believe in the methods of
'avagery. Brutality has been tried
or thousands Of years and through
Nj these years IT has been q failure.
From people from Telocaset, the rail-
'oad station nine miles south of Union
he Scout learns that one night last
week sixteen Cinnamon employed by
he railroad company on the section
here were ordered to leave by about
lozen men who had congregated there
or that purpose. The Cinnamon left,
out returned in the morning, but were
lfraid to go to work when told to do 50
oy the foreman. 1t is not known who
he men were who ordered them to
cave. The Cinnamon were very much
excited, and lost no time in getting