The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-09-24
STATE AND COAST.
Clipped from our Exchanges
Throughout the West.

The Portland Exposition opened
Saturday.
The Southern Oregon fair opened
last Tuesday.
Hop picking throughout the state
is nearly completed.
John Karlin shipped 13 carloads Of
sheep from Moro to Chicago last
week.
There were 254 pupils enrolled in
Corvallis at the opening of the public
schools last Monday.
M. Wilkins, Of Coburg, has received
a certificate of award for an exhibit of
clover, rye, wheat and grasses at the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
John Savage, who has been resi-
dent of Oregon for so years, and who
has $ll00 gold brick on deposit In
the Salem bank, was 70 years old
yesterday.
L. A. Neil delivered the first can of
milk to the first creamery in Jackson
county, in Ashland, last Monday.
The first butter was made Tuesday.
The only carnnery yet receiving
fish at Astoria is that of j. o. Han
thorn & Co. The fisheries at The
Dalles are said to be receiving large
catches.
The Bandon Recorder says: Ban
don must submit to the humiliation of
having 1t advertised abroad that she
charged blind man wharfage that
came here to camp,
There were nearly 1000 Indians
camped at Wallowa county, near
Enterprise, for number of days, but
they left no less than $500 with the
business men of the town.
Peter Thuson, who was drowned
near Cottage Grove Monday, was
former neiglbor, at Ord, Nebraska, of
Martin Paulsen, Of Albany. Thuson's
father was murdered about II years
ago.
f, G. Dezendorf, of the United
States land office of Roseburg, has
been promoted to the law department
of the general land office at Washing
ton, and will leave Roseturg about the
first of next month.
A. j. Borie, of Pendleton, will sever
his connection with the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation Company
this month, and, with his W ife will
leave for Southern California.
The cattlemen in the region south
or Ashland have made no sales at all
all of their fall beef yet. The buyers
are offering little lower figure this
year than last, when they offered 2i
gross.
Forest fires ragged last week on the
east fork of the north fork of Coos
river. The fire swept through the
great timber, and threatened Peter
sons logging carp, but but by hard
work, aided by change in the WIND,
the logs were saved.
District Attorney Jeffreys will move
for the dismissal of the Fiester case in
the supreme court. 1t is thought
Josephine county will be rid of it this
term, as Feister will either be hanged
or sent to the insane asylum. This
case has cost Josephine county about
$4,000 already.
The last of the Niagara mill property
was sold at auction last Saturday at
Corvallis. This sale virtually brings
to an end the Niagara receivership,
and Receiver Davis expects to submit
shortly his final report, and to bring
to an end his receivership at the regu-
lar term of court next November.
The cannery at Empire was crowded
was crowded with fish last week, and
orders were issued last Saturday to
send i'll no more salmon for the
present. The supply of cans run
short, but shipment was received on
the Truckee, and the crew worked
extra time to put up the catch.
A Portland business man refused to
advertise with a paper there because
1t was in favor of free silver, and the
paper got mad and practically advised
free silver men not to trade with the
man. Iwudicious conduct on the
part of both. The live business man
seeks for trade wherever he can get it,
while the newspaper should never
show q failure to get business, what
ever the cause, in Its columns.
]. E. Moore, committed suicide in
San Francisco, Monday, by drowning
himself. He was well known in Port.
land, having served as special police
man there for several years. He was
removed during the early part of