The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-10-12

people Of the valley who have put up
fruit for their own family use. There
are still a few weeks Of the canning
season, and during that time the fig
ures will probably be raised 5000,
Gervais certainly is entitled to the
palm for an instance Of depravity.
Some enterprising individual tore
down the masonry Of the cornerstone
Of the new Catholic church, recently
laid, the other night, and distracted
its contents. The only things of
negotiable value was the contribution
Of coins.
The city marshal, of Brownsville,
is lnaugunting relentless campaign
on unlicensed dogs. He goes out with
gun and opens fire on all dogs un'
provided with official tags. A large
part of the canine population, which
in Brownsville Is unusually numerous
and worthless, has thus been an
initiated.
Compliments are numerous concern
ing thefts Of flowers and vases from
The Dalles cemetery. IA man who
could rob grave Of the little tokens Of
love friends or relatives place on it,
remarks the Chronicle, severely,
"would sell his grandmother's shin
bones for knife handles, or use them
for shotgun barrels, if straight
enough"
The bank of J.. H. Rhinehart e. Son
of 5ummerville, closed its doors to any
further deposits on Monday, Oct |.
| The owners of the bank have a large
mill, and other extensive business, all
of which is so prosperous as to require
their entire attention. Hence they
close the bank for their own conven-
ienee. The public is assured the bank
will pay every depositer on demand
A live competitor is going on among
Portland butchers, and one establish
ment sells at the following prices:
Boiling beef 293 cents, chuck steak
4 cents, corned 3@4 cents, good beef
roasts 496 cents, round steak cents,
sirloin and tenderloin steak cents,
| good mutton chops 4@6 cents, legs of
mutton Z cents, gooG mutton roasts
4@6.
The Evening Telegram ia an editor
ial on the de cadence Of the clown in
the circus ring, says John Lolow, he
famous clown Of Robinsons show, Is
dead, and just before his demise, smiled
and remarked: Death, the great ring
master, has at last cracked his whip,
and here / am like a flea in tar
bucket"
Women continue to be heard from.
In the country $500 women are prac.
ticing medicine, 275 preaching the
gospel, more than 5000 managing
post-ofiices, and over 1,000,O00 earning
independent incomes, Since 1886
the Patent Office has granted 2,5O(
patents to women, and in New Yorh
City $1,000 women support theil
husbands.
The society for the importation O
song birds into the state, which ex
pended about S2, 100 in 1912 in intro
ducing birds here, has been so mucl
gratified at the success which ATTENDED
its first efforts that is about to intro
duce more Of the sweet sOngsters
Forty pairs of nightingales hay,
aheady been ordered from Europe
and will arrive here within a month
They were Caught this fall in tn
Hartz mountains. The society ha
also made arrangements to receive 2
pairs of mocking birds from Chicag
in February or March.
A novel deer bunt was INDUCED il
by The steamer RObarts last Sunday
while waiting at the mouth of til
Siuslaw river for the schoonr May
flower to come, says the Yaquin
News. A deer was observed runnin
down to the water. 1t plunged ia MI
started to swim across the stream
The tug gave chase and soon cGugl
up with the animal but all uitempl
to lasso it were prevented b. the hig
wind and heavy swell. After man
fruitless efforts had been made for il
capture the deer finally got into shoi
water and escaped, much To the ch;
grin of its pursuers.
During the big flood of 1881, a sixt
gallon iron kettle was taken oft by til
force of the water, from the old slaugl
ter house just north of Corvallis, the
owned by John Baker, says the Go
wallis Gazette. The matter cause
considerable comment at the time, ;