The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-02-20
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Walla penitentiary.
Claiming parties are now fashiona'
BILE at coast points IN Curry County.
There were 103 applicants for teach
ers' certificates at the recent examina-
ton in Eugene.
Salem has its four hundred, the
Slateman says. There are just that
many In the penitentiary.
The Klamath river is full of fine sal
mon, and great quantities are being
caught and marketed every day.
The snagboat has been at work on
the bar in the river at Junction City.
blasting out and deepening the chan
mel.
Medford's schoolhouse when opened
will have new $50 American flag, a
subscription being circulated to raise
the money.
The city council of Albany estimates
that 1t will cost $4,000 to run that city
this year, and the resources are esti-
mated at '$l5,s5O.
Portland's new union passenger sta.
ton which cost 100000 was opened
recently and trains will hereafter ar.
rive and depart from it.
The opening of the school library at
Medford, February %, will be "book
day." "when every one who attends is
expected to present book to the libra
ry.
The residence of X. D. Jones, ofTan-
gent, burned last week. A son of Mr..
Jones, who was the only one at home
when the fire occurred, barely escaped
with his life.
A gravel train of 10 cars has been
working between Merlin and Ashland,
filling in depressions with decomposed
granite obtained from the cuts north of
Grants Pass.
Seattle has offered Magnolia bluffs
to the federal government as site for
an army post, with an offer of reduced
rates for city water and transportation
on the electric road.
The Oregon City Enterprise says
that it is quite probable that nearly
oEe-third of the hop acreage of Clack.
amas county will be either plowed UP
or abandoned this season.
The city council of Grants Pass has
passed an ordinance prohibiting boys
from smoking on the streets; also, one
forbidding the posting of obscene post.
ers or pictures in the city.
Charles Fiester, the wie-murderel
who is in Jail in Grants rtss, under
sentence, Will not eat, unless fed by J
H. Colby. Fiester is suffering from
paresis and is in bad way.
A La Grande man has discovered al
ingenious Device for clearing the side
walk of snow. 1t is simply lawn
mower with box attached behind tt
catch the snow-and 1t is said to work
to perfection.
John Pawk, while apparently in BIZ
usual good health, suddenly droppec
dead the other day while talking to {
neighbor at his home near Oak Grove
in Douglas county. Heart disease wa
the cause of death.
Forty-nine people Joined the Firs
Presbyterian church at Brownsville re
Gently as the result Of revival work
One of the converts is Orvllle Mont
gomery, brother of the recent.
hanged Lloyd Montgomery.
Work preliminary to building tn
government torpedo boat and tn
revenue cutter Golden Gate has beel
begun by Moran Bros, of Seattle, AM
will be well along when material be
gins to arrive from the East.
Ex.Chief of Police Taylor has pre-
sented bill to the CORVALLIS councI
for $l47 claimed as back salary, becaus
the city reduced his salary by resolr
tipn instead of by ordinance, which az
ton the OK chief claims was illegal.
The city council Of Ashland has
cuse against an agent of a sewing ma
chine company, who, it is claimed, ha
violated the ordinance against pee
ding. The sewing machine compan
will probably make a test Of the ma
ter. ....
There is quite a rivalry among IL
towns of Eastern Oregon and Wasl
ington forthe place of holding the nei
: firemen's tournament. Pendleton hi
secured a pledge of $500 of the neee
sary $500 to eptitle it to a chance #
the honor.
A cow belonging to A. Terwillige