The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-01-16
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Sherman county has been furnishing
mules for a Montana coal mining conf
pany.
Newberg's receipts last year were
$23sS 70, and her disbursements were
$2Ss6.0 03.
The receipts Of the Salem postoffice
for the last quarter Of last year
amounted to $4960.l1
klamath county warrants are now
selling for IS cents Jackson county
warrants are held for 95.
Treasurer Kern, Of Umatilla county,
received from Sheriff Honser Thurs
day $l798, money collected for taxes.
A correspondent Of the Albany DEM
ocrat says the people Mt Brownsville
are beginning to make gardens and
prepare for summer time.
The schools at Cove, in Union ccun-
iy, have been closed for mn indefinite
period on account of the prevalence Of
scarlet fever in that community.
Rahbit-killing is popular pastime
in Lake county this winter. In one
school district over 1900 were killed by
the neighbors on recent Sunday.
The Grande Ronde Telephone COM
pany has made proposition to the
business men Of Baker City to connect
that city with La Grande by wire.
A freight train, numbering 50 cars,
from Umatilla, arrived in The Dalles
Wednesday evening. The cars con-
tained wheat, which was shipped from
near Pendleton.
Hops have been selling in Gervais
at from q to cents. The Star, Of
that place, says 1t understands J. R.
Broyles, of Fairfield, has reduced his
yards by Is acres.
The Pacific Postal Telegraph COM
pany's line down the Columbia river
to Astoria has been completed, says
the st. Helen's Mist, and offices have
been established at Rainier and Clat-
skanie.
The Fossil Journal says that letters !
from Rev, Frank Spaulding, formerly
presiding elder Of The Dalles district,
but for the last three years mission
ary in Brazil, indicate that the min
ist,r and his family are in destitute
circumstances.
The steamer Grey Eagle surprised
the Inhabitants of Jefferson last week
by making a run up The Santiam river
to that city. This was the first time
the puff of a steamboat had been heard
at Jefferson since 1882, and, of course,
II was big day for the little city,
Charles KimbalI, Of Dayyille, is in
trouble. Last Tuesday Constable
Greenwell delivered him to the sheriff,
and Kimball is now in Jail at Canyon
City in default of 5000 bail on a charge !
of the larceny of cattle, the property |
of the French-Gilman Livestock COM
pany.
The Moro Observer has cause for
rejoicing. 1t says: "In this wrang. |
ling about sheriffs conveying prisoners
to the Salem penitentiary, he ii re-
membered that Sherman county did
not ship a convict last year, and has
none behind the states iron gratings
at the present time.n
Some idea of the amount of work the
county Judges and commissioners of
Waseo county will he called upon to
perform during the present term can
be gathered from the fact that there
are $40 claims filed against the county,
which they will have to pass upon,
besides examining the annual reports
Of road supervisors, considering petit
tlons for roads, appointing judges and
clerks OF elections, etc.
F. Fl. Duffey, who was brought all
the way from Clinton, Missouri, TO
pendleton, at an expense to the county
Of from $500 to $500, to answer to the
charge of embezzlement, has had bis
examination and has been fully exon-
Grated, There did not appear to he
the slightest shadow of case against
him, or anything to show that he had
committed a crime or misdemeanor OF
any sort, says the East oregonhn.
NJ, Ward was riding the other day
in Gillian, along the edge Of q very
steep hill, which was covered with ice.
His horse slipped and its rider jumped
off, The animal slid and tell about so
Yards down the hill, with almost the
rapidity of cannon ball. Fortunately,
lust before striking the rocky bottom
The saddle-hpru caught on a fence post
in such a manner as to break the fnrpr,
and the horse wasn't hurt very badly,
The dead body of George Milne, q
,,onno nan aued II Years, who resided