The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-12-17
STATE AND COAST.
Clipped from our Exchanges
Throughout the West.


or put where it will do the most good.
Dwight Reed, of CalapooIa recently
sold 800 bushels Of wheat at the miIl
there for so cents a bushel, clear of
sacks.
There are still 1900 bales of hops in
in growers hands In Western Oregon,
mostly at Eugene, Silverton and
Buteville, says the Guard.
r. D. Hume is both canneryman
and editor of the Wedoerbuln Gazette,
aud now he has been granted patent
on cenheadiDg machine.
Wedderburn will have a shooting
match on Christmas day, shooting off
a beef, fat pig, Mckinley rooster
and coop full Of other towels.
Jndge Fullerton has rendered
decision in the contest of Geo H Harris
against M Riley; for the county Judge.
ship Of Curry county. The contest is
dismissed, and NJ. Riley remains judge.
The plant of the Living Issue, a
paper formerely printed at John Day,
has been leased to W. A. Logue, who
has moved it to Canyon City, and has
there begun the publication of the
John Day Sentinel.
The case of the state ". james
Dixon, for killing Charles Rice, in
Douglas county, at baseball game,
June IA, was submitted to the jury at
8 O'Clock Saturday morning. After
four hours deliberation, the jury
brought in a verdict Of not guilty.
Frank Whipple, aged 50 years,
member of the firm of Chrisman & Co.
and ex-postmaster of Cottage Grove,
died suddenly last week. He had Just
finished shaving himself, and was sit
ting in chair when he died. The
doctor said he died from appolexy.
1t has not yet been decided where
Nelson, who is charged with having
killed Miner Perry, shall be tried.
Curry cou1ty's surveyor says the crime
was not committed in that county, and
Josephine county, Or, and Del Norte
county, Cal. will not decide that it was
done within the jurisdiction Of either.
The county court of Lane county
made an order directing the sheriff to
make and deliver in all cases sheriffs
deeds on execution sales. This will be
saving to the individual interested,
S2 in each case. The decision of the
court involved the construction of sec.
8 of the act Of 1893 relating to sheriff7s
and clerks fees. There Is no doubt of
the correctness of the courts ruling.
Pague says the weather of November
was the most phenominal ever re-
corded in Oregon. The highest precip-
itation was reported at McMinnville,
20.47 inches, at Roseburg 1t was 99l,
at Pendleton only l,S4. TIL elowest
was at Vale, 1852. Tie lowest tenn
perature was ut Lakeview, IA below,
the lowest at Portland was II above
The warmest at Portland was so
above, The cold was beneficial to
fruit trees.
Edward -Shatter, a l6.year-old boy
of school district No. IS, in Linn
county, has been serving a short
sentence in the county Jail. He was
taken to task by his teacher for being
too familiar with the girls, when he
left school, calling the teacher a
vulgar name. He was arrested and
taken before Justice Shelton at Scio,
and fined SIS and costs, which he re-
fused to pay, and served out his
sentence in the county Jail.
Two young men of tue name Of
Wilson, of Webfoot, in Yamhill coun
ty, were driving team the other day,
loaded with large iron turbine
While crossing the bridge at Meadow
lake, the bridge gave way, and bridge
aud team went down with crash
John Bateman and Neis Nelson were
under the bridge, bailing out boat
When they heard the crash, bott
jumped overheard and saved them
selves, and it is well they did, fol
their boat was smashed into frag
ments. The destruction to the boa
! and damage to the bridge were the
only serious results, the team anC
load being pulled out all right, anC
: the men escaped without scratch,
. r. B Trenholan, of Fall creek, neal
Alsea, had narrow escape from
drowning the other day. His littl'
son Claire had found small boat IL
drift near Digger creek, and asked
his father to go aud help him run i
down to Fall creek. They both got il
the boat, but as the river was high
, when they came to Round Mountain