The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-12-31
STATE AND COAST.
Clipped from our Exchanges
Throughout the West.

recently.
Marion county's assessment for 1895
has already cost $1,000, and the end is
not yet, says the Statesman.
The family of John Monsey, at Lake
Stevens, in Snohomish county, Wash,
came near dying recently from eating
canned fruit.
Engineer Dillman, of the Astoria
railway, says that there are 400 men at
work near Rainier and Clatskanie, and
that two big dredgers are being run
night and day.
Attorneys L. H. Coon and J. P.
Smith, who received the same number
of votes for city attorney Of Snohomish,
WASH, drew lots the other day and
Mr.. Smith won.
Stockmen in Eastern Oregon are
glad of the warm weather during De-
cember, and are in pretty good shape
to weather any storm, as they are fair
ly well supplied with proyender.
Mcdonald Bros, Of Wallowa county,
are preparing for a shipment Of 1000
head of hogs, 1900 sheep and $50 head
Of cattle to Omaha. The shipment will
include 10 double-deck and s single
cars.
John Mckay was run over by an
Everett, Wash, streetcar Christmas
day, and his right arm crushed so bad
" that it had to be cut off. He was
asleep, and lying with his arm across
the track.
Mrs. James Crosby, of Monmouth,
has a family Bible, printed in 1881, in
Edinburgh, Scotland, that has been
handed down in the family for several
generations. 1t is still in good state
of preservation.
While Charley FitEhugh was at
work at the Madden mines, in Curry
county, recently, bank cayed in on
him, and he was struck by a stick,
which broke both bones of the right
leg below the knee.
Fallgrain that was sowed on sumner
fallow is reported to he growing rapid
ly in the Tygh valley and around
Kingsley, in Wasco county. Many
farmers in that part of the county are
preparing the ground for seeding.
The body of white man washed
ashore on the ocean beach about half a
mile south of the mouth of Hunters
creek, in Curry county, recently. The
coroner's jury was unable 10 identify
the body, and found a verdict of death
by drowning,
One day last week, while engaged
with her household duties and in ap-
parently good health, Mrs Ben Cou-
gar, residing on Lower Powder river,
in Baker county, fell to the floor and
died almost instantly. Besides a hus
band, the deceased leaves five children.
While playing with an ak the other
day, the 4-year-old son of Mr., and
Mrs. D. Malarkey, of South Bend,
Wash, lost one finger and another was
almost cut off, The little fellow was
game, and when told that the finger
would be sewed on, asked if it would
be done with a sewing machine.
The Sprague (Wash.), Herald sus
pended publication last week, afte!
nearly 10 years active work. A few
years ago Sprague supported a daily
and several weeklies, but such changes
have been wrought by the hand o
time that the town Is now too reduced
to maintain even small weekly.
The Polk County Observer says: TIL,
south side of Nam street, Monmouth
that was swept by fire in September, il
now solid front of new brick build
ings that are just receiving the finish
ing touches. The buildings present
very neat and modern appearance
The educational center of old Polk
all right, and when the flowers begi.
to bloom in the spring she will loon
up.
The Pacific county, WASH, heirs 0
the Daniel Pegg estate gathered il
South Bend last week to prepare AM
forward papers to Pennsylvania. Thes
papers are depositions outlining th
kinship of the heirs of the man VIII
left the estate, which is now estimate
to be worth about S72,O0O,O 900, and cor
sists of 40 blocks of real estate almos
in the heart of the city of Philade
/, phia, says the South Bend Journal.
The Northern Pacific Railway Con
/ pany will soon complete an electri
lighting plant at the roundhouse, {
the head of the bay, in Tacoma, b
which it will illuminate all its term
: nal improvements, doing away wit