The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-12-24
STATE AND COAST.
Clipped from our Exchanges
Throughout the West.

TeIIuieton Hre department last Mon
day night.
Lots of stock Is being shipped from
Oregon to the East, which brings con,
siderable money to this state.
R. G. Kiger, sheep inspector Of
Benton county, says there are very
few scabby sheep in that county.
About 800 head of cattle were ship
ped from the stockyards in Baker City
last " eek, to Grand Island, Neb.
Gray q Komp shipped carload Of
dried prunes, $4,000 pounds, from
Irving, Lane county, to Tacoma, last
week.
Out on Fifteen-Mile, in Wasco
county, the farmers are busy blowing.
The ground is in splendid condition,
and very large area IS being turned
over,
A report current n La arande last
week that Alma Miller, the little girl
who was lost from her home about a
year ago, had been found, turned out
to be false.
Prominent men in Heppner say that
they Will build telephone line from
Heppner to Long Creek, in Grant
county, if they can arrange for salts
factory bonus.
A bill against the city of Grants
Pass, for $1,000, will be presented by
Mrs. Scbofeld, who claims that
amount as damages for injuries re-
ceived by her in falling from a side
walk. An action in the courts will
probably result.
Some very old residents claim that
Rogue river was up to where the
drant's Ppss depot now stands, in
1862. The river bed has deepened
and widened very much since then,
and there is very little probability that
it ever will overflow its left bsnk
again
Charles Lillie's barn that was well
filled with rye hay, burned last week,
in Gillian county. Mr.. Lille lost
three horses, five sets of harness, a
saddle and buggy-all burned by the
fire. A span of horses and buggy
belonging TO another mau was also
burned.
While leveling off the grounds about
the house on his Blind Slough ranch,
III Clatsop, Martin tmpo found buried
two feet in the earth, an Indian stone
weapon, shaped like a ships marlin
spike, having hole bored through
the handle, which had evidently been
made by some stone implement, says
the Astorian.
The experts, who for two months
have been going over the accounts of
eX-Sheriff Osborn, in Benton county,
have completed their work and the
county court has been apprised of the
result. The report has not been made
public, but the matter will probably
come up for settlement at the January
term of the county court.
When the klamath reservation Is
thrown open for settlement, it is ex-
pected that several good gold mines
will be opened up, Several finds with
good prospects have been made on
these Indian lands III the last quarter
OF a century which are held in Sc
crecy awaiting the time when the res
ervation will be thrown open. AT
least such are the reports one OCCASION
ally hears from those who ought to
klow, says the klamath Republican
Fully 100 men are at work along the
Alderbrook water front cutting wood
for their winters use, says the
Asloran. During the recent freshet
hundreds of cords of wood, and about
200 shingle bolts from the Cowlitz
river were thrown up CD the beach.
1t was an interesting sight to see these
men cutting huge logs into stove wood
lengths, and rolling them up the beach
to their homes. They used a large in
like pair of ice tongs, with
which to dag the logs along.
The two prisoners in the Josephine
county Jail seem to be getting along
without much excitement. Fiester
still groans and eats very little. The
other one,' Nelson, eats heartily and |
reads all the time. He has become a
Bible student since his incarceration
and has about read the book through.
If he worries about the future, he
makes no outward sign. No move
ment has yet been made to compel
Curry county to take him, aud SO he is ,
liable to board at Josephine county's
expense until the grand jury meets in
April,