The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-11-26
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the recent appointment of Warm
Springs agent.
The Salem Y M G A wants to play
game of indoor baseball with the
Albany Y MICA.
One thousand feet more of hose will
be added to the reels of the Baker City
fire department.
A Harrisburg farmer lost seventeen
head of cattle and number of sheep
by the recent flood.
Five hundred and fifty head of
mutton sheep were brought into The
Dalles last week and sold.
j. M. Poorman, of Woodburn, ship
ped 10 pairs Of China pheasants to
Southern California last week.
The delinquent tax roll of Yamhill
county amounts to nearly $4,000. 1t
is the largest delinquent roll for years.
Over 5000 bushels of wheat were
sold at Junction City to millers for rs
cents per bushel, net, but the miIlers
haye raised the price.
DR.. Cormac has examined J. Russell,
who shot and killed his son.in. law at
Randolph, Coos county, and pro-
nounced Russell insane.
Three carloads of cattle were ship
ped to San Fran cisco last week by
Coleman and Wiley, big shippers in
Southern Oregon. Their next ship
ment will be hogs
The sturgeon catch near The DalIes
is growing better again. Among the
lot received for shipment last week
was one 300.pound fellow, that un-
dressed weu,d have weighed $50 0.more.
Wakefield & Jacobson, who have
been awarded the contract for furnish
ing and placing rock on the north jetty
on Coos bay, are preparing to begin
work Immediately; are employing
men with that object in view.
The city authorities Of The Dalles
have on their hands five hohos who
absolutely refuse to work. They have
put them on bread and water diet,
which, it is expected, will have bene-
fetal effect upon their industry.
August Pagenkopf, of Wells, Benton
county, who was supposed to be
drowned, reached home all right.
When he left for home he found that
tbe,water was too high for him to reach
home in safety, so he went to a
friends and visited until he could
travel more easily,
All Swill, the Celestial living across
the Calapooia from Albany, was sur
rounded by water during the food.
Warm Spring Johnny took him off in
d boat, but he went back to look after
his swine, the water rising higher, end
he was nearly drowned before gotten
off again 10y Johnny.
Mid Mcpherson, who resides just
north of Springfield, in Lane county,
while ont shooting Thursday last,
winged large arctic owl. The bird
does not seem to be much hurt, and
was brought to Eugene by MIR. Nc
Pherson. 1t is almost white, and is
very beautiful. The arctic owl is
seldom seen this far south.
State Printer Leeds is preparing
cards about 4Xl0 inches in size bear
lug the names of the different terri
torial and state governors of Oregon,
dates of appointments Or lection, etc,
These will be arranged under the oil
painting of the several dignitaries now
on the walls of the senate chamber
and representative hall in Salem.
The g-yearold daughter of Charles
Beale, Of Pendleton, last week, fell
from a rocking chair on a heated
stove aud suffered very painful burns
on the hands and face. The little one
stretched out its arms as it fell, and
her hands were first TO come in con-
tact with the almost red-hot iron.
Before she rolled to the floor her face
was badly burned,
Walt Pugh, of the firm of Erixon,
Pugh & Gray, who had the contract
for building the hospital, employs
quarters and laundry at Warm
Springs agency, says that his company
has completed all those buildings, and
is ready TO turn them over to the
government as soon as the new agent
is ready to receive them. The school
building is almost completed, and the
dormitory is enclosed.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of u package Of gold dust
from restaurant in The Dales in 1869
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