The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-08-16
The Oregon Central i ras,ern faIl.

August IS, leaving Albany ZOO o. n
4 Corvallis 7;s0 a. M, and rsturnin
leaves Newport $50 p. In. Faw frol
Albany or Corvallis to Newport an
. return, sl.S0. Bicycles will be carrie
free. Weather permitting, the con
. modious steamship Farallon will max
several excursions over the bar.
Messrs. Bach 4 Bull received th
largest stock Of fall and wlter clothin
. this week ever brought to Lebanon
Most Of the goods were direct from
/ New York, although there were som
Salem and Oregon City Woolen Mill
goods. They have marked those good
down to hard time prices and propos,
to sell at close margin. Among theil
new stock are some elegant dress suit,
as well us the business suits. II you
are thinking Of buying new suit, II
will pay you to look through theil
stock.
Tuesday afternoon a foot race was
matched between Ellsworth Cameron
OF this place, and James Allen, Of Leb.
anon, the race to take place In that
city on Saturday afternoon August II.
4 The purse is $50 and the distance
sesenty-fve yards This Allen Is a
stranger IN Oregon aid may be fast
man, and no doubt is or, else he
w"nld not have matched Cameron.
Our boys are confident however and
expect to double the contents of their
exchequer Times.
Allen, as referred TO above, has only
been here for a short time, and is
known only by a few. The race will
be run on Cotton's addition west OF
the depot, between 100 and 400, TO.
morrow afternoon.
Around the paper mill is . busy
place at present. Besides the regular
routine workers, there are sixty extra
hands around the yard; the most Of
whom are on the mammoth stack but q
good number are on wagons and other.
wise employed about the straw. There
are from ITO to 1856 loads Of straw
hauled In every day with an average
Of 300 pounds to the load. The stack
being put up this year, is much larger
than usual; being near {, ,OOO, 900 pounds
of straw in 1t when completed. Last
Wednesday at 800 p. m, there had
been 1920 loads hauled. The largest
hauled this year was by g. o. Vernon,
weighing ten pounds over three tons.
Straw hauling will be finished the
fore part Of next week.
M. A. Miller, originator Of the fish
laddera Of Oregon City, says that 1t is
% be regretted that the board did not
pend more Of the appropriation in
blasting out the fish way. The bill {
allowed $4,000, but only $1,000 was !
'xpenced. As 1t is, the fish way is o
great success, and will prove a great /
blessing to the people of the VILLA.
nette valley. The Albany Democrat {
ays: 1T is a fact not known by
many that salmon have begun running /
luite lively IN the Willamette at this (
'ity, and have been doing SO for some !
ime. Parties boat riding have noticed
'ig fellows going along some two or /
hree feet long. AS this is the closed /
eason they will have to be LEFT alone, q
ut II is an evidence that there will be u
lenty here in the future, and salmon
atehing may become quite an indus.
~ in Albany. +"
Ats o'clock Tuesday afternoon the v
N'sehurg Coos Bay stage was again I,
eld up near the last place aud un. "
oubtedly by the same man. Dan y
ardwell and Barney Matthews, of .
osebufg, were on the seat with the h
river, and Major Pond, the light.
puse inspector AID Miss Myrtle
ryan were inside. The men on the -
at were discussing The previous rob u
'ry at tile time. Cardwell said :,
would 1t not be joke If robber :.
ould appear from behind TINT tree a. a.
this side of the road" and immedi. '" ",
Ely the robher appeared with two re- ~ a.
'lvers. Card we'll had over $500 but va "
only gave up "a, and Matthews W. ~
th several hundred dollars gave up 81 m
90, Major Pond contributed $3.50 w
d the young lady with Sl34 In her - -
cket was not disturbed. The robber ~ ~.
saying he would see them again in -. 49,
lay or two Wv
an
\ report was recently circulated at to
baton, undoubtedly to iniure the no,
|nager Of the celebrated mountain re. r.
7 Ut Upper Snda, which we believe 'os
without foundation, A few months ext
the wife Of Mr. Charles Foster, the ne,
'priet0r Of the Upper Soda resort. oct
d and was buried by her request ~ ~,
u her old home on Mr. Fostar's pro- a'iI
ty some person or persons circu- N
% the report that she had been we,
led so close to the spring as to tim
Ike 1t unhealthy to those using the mo
ter from the spring. The writer Of M -.
article has been over the ground u