The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-10-22
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Inc cannerS at Alsea bay will pu
up nearly 10000 cases this season.
Most Of the sheep in Gillian county
around Fossil, have been driven out G
the mountains.
\ County Judge J. M. Chiles, of Jose
phine county, was fined recently $40
Tor buying a small piece of Josephin,
county scrip.
The Palace hotel in Heppner ha,
been sold at public auction to William
Penland for $4,000. The building and
lots at one time cost $4,000.
The building used by Lincoln
county as a courthouse is leased for a
monthly rental of $40. A two.year
lease has recently been made.
AS the cannery at Marshfield was
oVerstocked, the tug Triumph took
over 2ooo salmon from that place to
the Coquille cannery last week.
Blnestem wheat, from KlIckitat, i,
largely sought by buyers in The
Dalles, and as high as 50 cents a
bushel was paid there last Friday.
The new quartz mill machinery has
all been put on the ground at the
Black Butte mine, with the exception
Of one wheel. weighing $500 pounds.
Benjamin L. Handley, who pleaded
guilty to larceny from warehouse in
Grant county, last week, has been
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary.
Last week, Lee Mitchell, while
hshing near Grants Pass, was bitten
OIL the leg just below the knee bv a
large salmon. A painful but not a
serious wound was inflicted.
N McDohald has hauled from Salem
ard sold in Dallas this season 200
bushels OF tomatoes, and 10000 pounds
OF watermelons, all of which could
have been raised in Polk.
City Marshal Logan, of Watson, in
Slsls that boys under IS years of age
must keep off the streets after 7 o'clock
in the evening, and warns parents
that he intends to enforce the curfew
ordinance.
w, j. Vandervert, who has been
roaming in the hills in the vicinity Of
Jacksonville, in demented condition.
wis arrested last week, and after an
examination, was Adjudged insane
and taken to the asylum.
The semi-annual report of the county
'ierk of Josephine county shows that
here were, Oh September 80, out.
itandlng unpaid warrants to the
amount of $64,504 81, the estimated
interest on which is $1,000,
There passed through Athena last
week family that proposes making
IN entire trip to Florida by team.
they make their expenses of the trip
y giving musical performances, the
ntire family being musicians.
Sheriff Hiatt, of Josephine county,
las gone TO California to extradte
lelsom, the man that is in Jail at Del
'orte, CAL, charged with the murder
1 Charles Perry. Nelson will be
AIKEN to Grants Pass for trial.
The marshal and recorder of Lake
lew, in looking over the books used
uring j. H. Ruggle's marshalship,
nd that he was not defaulter, as
eported, but had given receipts for
lxes paid, aud had failed to credit on
le roll.
A. M Simpson, owner of the North
END mill, on Coos bay, addressed the
tlzens OF Marshtield last Saturday,
"Fhe Cause of Hard Times.n Mr..
lmpson is also largely interested in
wv mills on Gray's and WiAapa
arbor, in Washington.
Friday night, October 2, a blind
Iuaw living half mile below Len
Ok stage station, in Klamath county, )
as fatally burned. She had been liv-
g in shanty on Klamath river for
Ie last five or six years, and was
one when the accident occurred.
The fishermen of Coos bay continue
make good catches of Chinooks, and j
number of Sllversides are also being
ught. The Alert brought down a
g lot of salmon from Coos river,
onday, and some of the boats in the
wer bay nearly reached tie hundred
ark.
During the summer much improve
eDt was made in the roads leading to q
'tlage Grove, The Moderator saws |,
out $4,000 has been expended on d
ads alone, leading to that place. G
tVale subscriptions, together with n
unity appropriations, made this Ii
ssible =,
The barns on Barry farm, north of b
'rth 9amhill, burned to the ground b
It Sunday afternoon. In the barns .,