The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-08-03
were on the summit, with the wheels
axle deep in snow.


while In actual service $ as follow
Privates, 43 cents day; corporals 5,
line sergeants, 60; first and secon
lleutenants, A.l5; captains, SIS; batta
ion adiutants, $4,44; rcgimental adjr
! tants, S5,55; majors, $685.; lieutenants
$3.50; colonels, $9.lo; brigadier genera
sl5,2s; and general, S2os5.
A great many events are transpirin
IN these fast feverish days, many Q
them unexpected. But whatever els
comes TO pass, one thing is sure. tn
Oregon Pacific railroad will never |,
sold, and will for centuries TO come b,
the source of lawyers talk and judges
decisions and Corvallis and Alban,
papers comment Welcome.
| Several ofLakeview's leading societ,
ladies have formed club for horse
back riding in the bloomer costumes
IL is now a common thing to see 8
company of the streets nearly every
evening riding astride, or man. fashion
when it comes to genuine style, y
says the Examiner, "Lakeview can
show more of it to the square yard
than any other sage-brush town on
the coast
Congress has Just passed a law of
great Importance Oregon mine-owners
generally. It suspeDds for the wear
1874 the provisions of the revised stat
utes which requirethat 500 perannum
OF labor shall be performed or improve
ments made on each located mining
claim during the term before the issue
Of patents. By filing before the close
Of the present year a notice that the
claimant intends in good faith to hold
his claim he is exempted from the
above requirements for this year.
Two horses ranging on the mountain
at Heceta, fell overthe abrupt embank-
ment into the ocean. One was killed
the other severely injured, but extrica-
ted by cutting a trail sufficiently wide
for him to walk out. The horse killed
fell into q giant fir tree top on bis
downward fight, cutting away great
limbslof the tree and horse and limbs
alighting in the ocean breakers below.
1t is reported that Dunsmuir society
was very mnch cut up when the block.
ade was broken up by the militia.
The railroad mems wives got badly
split up and called each other "scabs,r
and anarchists" as well as casting
other slurring reflections on each
others nerve and patriotism. The
boys made 1t so miserable that hotels
would not feed "scabsn who came
along to take the place of strikers.
Several Western Union men are |
coming through the valley from the
South putting in electric clocks. They |
are in Eugene aud will be in Albany
this week. The clock are
by electric wires with the
head office in San Francisco, and are so
arranged that they can be set from the
head office, which will be done every
day at noon which will insure the cor
rect time at all times. The clocks are
owned by the telegraph company and
are rented al one dollar a month.
A few days ago Mr.. Patrick Gala.
han, father of James Callahan, of AL.
oany. returned to that city after an
absence of nearly 20 ye"rs. He left
Albany In 1874 for California and after
yard went TO Idaho, where it was
'eported he was killed In the mines.
His wife, who died last November,
believed him dead and his children
ihew no different until his unexpec-
ed return. He has been living near
lafayette on farm for several years.
lie went on to Corvallis and Yaquina
0 see his other children.
Receiver Clark, of the Oregon Pacific
eports that during his trip to the front
aan came op the train at Niagara with /
etween 5000 and 10000 embryo sal
lon and salmon eggs taken from fish
e had killed at the narrows at that :
oins. He said the dam the mill com. !
any had there is entirely washed out, 9
ct the salmon cannot get up farther ,
the $50 miles Of good breeding n
round above on account of the timber +.
I'M In the narrows He made So Fri
ay pight selling bis fish at five cents /
pound, and 81 the day before. 1t i
'ems from this that high water in the
olumbia has helped some fish to get b
ito the Willamette. .
The regular subscription price of the a
XPRIlhS is 81 so q wear, and the rauu.