The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-03-12
STATE AND COAST.
Clipped from our Exchanges
Throughout the West.


in Astoria.
Oregon is the leading oat producing
state Of the Pacific coast,
1t is expected that the Scio creamery
will be in operation by April l.
A. Mathews, aged IS, and Miss Ger.
trude Davis, aged IS, were married at
Roseburg recently.
The demand for Oregon hardwood is
making traffic in logs brisk at different
points in this valley.
Sunday of last week, at Philomath,
six young people were baptized in the
icy waters Of Mary's river.
The Monroe Touring mill is to bs
built this season. A bonus of $1,000
has been subscribed by the citizens Of
that vicinity.
The council of Grants Pass has
passed an ordinance prohibiting noisy
parades through the streets by Gods
Regular Army.
Thirty-one deaths occurred in Seat
tie during February. This is the
smallest number of deaths in February
IN that city since 1892.
The DalIes Chronicle Is informed
that a cold-storage and pork-packing
house on large scale is shortly to be
established in that city.
The order Of the mayor of Milton,
closing churches and prohibiting other
public gatherings because Of scarlet
fever, has been revoked.
The material of the Florence West is
to be shipped to Baker City this week,
where Col. Alley will start a new pa
per, says the Portland Dispatch.
The Gervais Milling Company is in
the hands of a receiver. The princi-
pal trouble is discord among the
stockholders and a small shortage OF
wheat.
A Tacoma man has agreed to start a
cooperative pearl barley mill at Roed-
er, WASH, providing from 5000 to
1900 bushels Of barley are guaranteed
for the first yeaT.
0. w. Porter, a sheepman of Hunt
ington, is in Morrow county looking
for sheep. He wishes to buy about
10000 ewes and wethers to drive over
to the Huntington country.
E. Boettcher, who has been feeding
sheep near Pendleton during the WIN
ter, lost about 100 of them recently.
Fifty or sixty were killed by dogs, and
number We're wounded and are dy.
ing.
An ordinance has been introduced in
the Baker City council requiring the
doors of all saloons to he closed be-
tween midnight and S a. N. Another
ordinance prohibiting music in saloons
passed the council.
Arrangements ara being made tt
ship copper from Grants Pass to Bal
timore, by rail. 1t will be hauled In
from the Waldo mines in mates, anC
the copper will be extracted when il
has reached Its destination.
Z. J. McClanahan, Of Eugene, hal
received an order from gentleman il
Sacramento, CAL, for 20 pairs of Chi
nese pheasants. The birds will b,
turned loose near Red Bluff. Mr.
| McClanahan shipped several hund
reds Of the birds to California last sea
son.
A petition to the Umatilla count,
court sets forth that Robert Kinsmal
has built man-trap on the Will
Horse road, ip the shape Of tunne
under the public highway for the puI
pose Of allowing bis hogs to pass from
o, deld to another. The man-trsI
iii, h., ssstigated,
A,o ,oor ora >An Of Mr., Lepshotl
fom. ,,,;,,s nn,,h of aillsboro, snf
tanned a compound fracture OIL :. ~ ~
arm midway between the elbow AM
the shoulder. The little fellow wal
riding on a wagon loaded with wood
aud, losing his balance fell beneath tn
wheels, one of which passed over tn
arm.
In Coos county, several days ago,
young man named Murphy was show
ing some companions the motion
through whicn ii man would 30 if b
were going to commit suicide. In
revolver which he was aourishing wa
accidentally discharged, seuding a bu
let through bis head and killing hiI
instantly,
Nels johnson, Norwegian, was a
rested in Walla Walla last Thursda
and placed under bonds Of $40 for pee
ding without license. johnson ha
In his possession about 70 silver spoon
and several sets of silver-plated knive