The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-10-08
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Two .trainloads Of sheep and cattl
will be shipped from Ontario to Tn
Eastern market.
An offer to bet $1,000 that Bryal
will not be elected has been posted Il
Ashland for week or two, but hasn'
been taken yet.
1t Is reported that the governmen
Will put in the harbor lights In Coo
4 bay as soon as the location is decided
upon. They will be four in number.
The annual meeting Of the Presby
terian synod Of Oregon will be held II
Union, Oct. s, g. 10, II and IL, in tht
First Presbyterian church.
| The bank at Joseph, Wallowa coun
ty, was robbed last week. One OF The
robbers was killed and another wound
ed, while one with the coin escaped
The Fort Klamath creamery has
made 5000 pounds Of butter and four
or five tons Of cheese. During the
ses son the supply was from $50 COWS.
Charles Sandoz will contribute to
Wasco county's exhibit at the Port
land exposition squash that Is about
two feet in diameter and weighs about
III pounds.
Levi Shepard, of Pine Grove, Klam-
ath county, 81 years Of age, is a spry
old gentleman. He showed that fact
by handling sacks Of grain just to
show the boys what he could do.
When John Read went up recently
to Professor Van Winkle new sum-
iner resort on the mountain, "Summlt
View" Le ran across the bone of a
human leg, while out hunting grouse,
says the Weston Leader.
Harvey Lockwood and Zip Over
ton, two small boys, while trolling in
the Rogue River near Wedderburn,
last Week, hooked and landed a 40.
pound salmon. They hooked another
one, which broke the line and escaped.
The contract for building a mill for
the Columbia Mining Company, on
Fruit creek, In the Cable Cove min
ing district, has been let to the Gates
Company, of Chicago and the machin-
cry for the mill is Oh the way.
The poles for so miles Of telegraph
line are being landed at Warrenton,
by the Western Union Telegraph Co,
says the Astorian. That place is to be
made the base of supplies of the en-
tire line from the lower Nehalem to
Gobel.
Mrs. G. L. Gilbert, Of The Dalles, is
one of the possible heirs to a tract of
land so miles square, where st. Paul
and Minneapolis now stand. The
heirs are all defendants of Johnathan
Carver, one of the early explorers of
the headwaters of the Mississippi
river.
Bids for building a one-story brick
building, to replace the Polk county
bank building. were opened last week.
The highest bid was $359h and the
lowest 1880. The contract will be
awarded Snooks, Of Salem, who was
the lowest bidder.
William Perciyal recently purchased
81 head of sheep of D. L. Keyes, Of
Corvallis, and sold them to ]. B. But
Ter, of Monmouth, for $6 per head.
The sheep were of the pure imported
Costwold breed, and were as fine sheep
as were ever seen in Oregon.
McGuire's opera house, Butte, Mout.
was torn down last week because the
parties owning the ground and those
owning the building could not agree
on buying or selling. A large force
was put to work quietly and IN q few
hours the $4,000 building was gone.
The North Bend Mill, on Coos bay,
Is saving lumber for Guatemala, Cen.
,ral America. The lumber will be
shipped from Marshfield direct, on the
Webfoot. This will make the third
ioreign shipment of lumber from
he North Bend mill for 1896.
The Crescent City & Grants Pass
telephone people have commenced the
construction of q branch line from
in Josephine county, to
he Siskiyou Copper Company's mine,
md thence on to Oak Flat, on the Illi-
lois river, where several companies
'wn placer properties. The branch
inc will be about 70 miles in length.
Sol King, ex-sheriff Of Benton coun-
Y, raised $50 bushels Of oats from IA
cres of land, this year. The grain is
new variety; the seed for which Mr..
&ing had shipped at an expense of
3 so per bushel all the way from the