The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-09-10
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| TWo-year-old steers, dry cows ana
heifers bring from SIS to SIS in Klain-
ath county this year.
The machinery for the new creamery
at Ashland has arrived, and is being
set up in the building, which has been
made ready for it.
The new Methodist Episcopal
church, South, tnat was recently con-
structed near the Barclay schoolhouse,
Benton county, was dedicated last
sunday.
Turtle & Carry have extended their
telephone system from Tillamook to
Garibaldi, and are thinking of extend
ing the line on up the beach to
Nehalem.
The new steamer being built at
Prosper, in Coos county, will be ready
for sea in October. She will be taken
to San Francisco to be fitted with
machinery.
The total sundry fees collected by
the county clerk Of Wasco county
during the month of August and
turned over to the county treasurer
was $210.35.
t. Huntsucker, while at work last
Tuesday skidding logs at M. Mackey's
logging camp near Onetta, in Coos
county, was caught between tree and
alogand severely if not fatally crushed.
The Yamhill County Horticultural
Society will hold meeting at New
berg Tuesday, September 8, at 10 A. M.
and l:30 P. M. Papers and discussions
will make up good up-todate pro-
gramme. tH--'
Seven hop contracts We're filed with
the recorder Of Marion county, Tues
day. The respective amounts of hops
to be delivered are: $500, 1900, $500,
5000, ll,OOO, 10000 and $4,000 pounds.
They will receive and cents.
II is believed that a larger volume
of water has passed The Dalles this
year than during the year of the big
flood in 1894 says the Chronicle. The
river has receded very slowly, and is
yet Ii feet over the low-water mark.
Sherman county wheat is selling at
40 cents bushel, 700 sacks having
been sold at Biggs at that price. The
Condor Globe says that great deal of
wheat has been sold in the Mayyille
country this season at 46 cents a
hushel. 80.
The large elght-inch main of the
city water company, in Eugene, burst
Friday MOI ming in front of Chambers
hardware store and Henderson d
Linn's drug store, on Willamette
street, and the city was deprived OF
water for quite time.
The cannery at Nehalem started up
last week, and The run Of big salmon
continued fair for a few days The
fishermen anticipate large catch this
season. One hundred and twenty
cases were put up last Saturday by
Elmore's cannery at Garibaldi.
About all the surplus sheep and
cattle in Coos and Curry have been
shipped via, Port Oxford and Rose
burg. Quite lot of money has been
distributed among the farmers by the
shippers, aud glut in the home
market has also been prevented
Geo. N. Frazer, of Eugene foundry
and iron works, has commenced suit
against the Eugene Lumber Company
to recover money on note, and for
services rendered during the last year,
in the sum of $SlS, including interest
An attachment was served on the
companys property.
The will of Hugh Nickerson, made
in 1890, has been filed in Albany by
w. II. Goltra, the executor, and bonds
for $4,000 given. The will provides
for the education aud support of Mr..
Goltra's two children, Elmer and
Nettie, until of age, the support of his
wife and the division of his estate
among his four children.
]. A. Chapman, father of E. A.
Chapman, died at Big Elk, in Benton
county, Aug. 20, aged about so years.
1t was his request before he died that
his remains be embalmed and shipped
East, but on account of the great ex-
pense and inconvenience attending
the undertaking, this was not done
and he was buried at Big Elk. He
died Of old age.
A dry electrical storm in Grants
Pass, last Friday evening, was the
cause of considerable dust being blown
about and good deal of lightning on
the surrounding hilltops. The light
ming was of the sheet and chain
species, and looked angry enough to