The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-11-05
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| A telephone line between McEwer
and Sumpter has been completed
Now they will build to Granite and
/ Cracker creek.
/ Several wagon loads OF potatoes
from Klamath county were sold in
Ashland last week for so cents a
hundredweight.
Pilot Rock is having quite build
ing boom, Two new dwelling
houses are going up, and many inn
provements are being made.
Millions apple crop will bring her in
thousands of dollars this fall, for only
i'll that immediate neighborhood, has
there been a full crop obtained.
The farmers of Tillamook have or
ganized a branch of the Oregon State
Dairy Association, to be known as the
Iillamook Branch of the State Associ-
alton.
Major E. A, Weed, of Portland.
passed through Ashland last Friday,
on his way to the City of Mexico, on
bicycle. He is making a lesurily
tip.
Black bears are reported to be much
more numerou, than usual in the Blue
mountains this fall. They are doing
much damage among stock in Una
tilla comfy.
An old horse collar is on exhibition
i'll Eugene. The collar is made of
wood, aud was brought across the
plains in 1858 by B. +. Powers, who
lives north of Springfield.
A farmer recently speaking Of the
condition Of the stock throughout
Benton county, said that majority
of the animals were already winter
poor, o.. account of the lack of grass.
Samuel Nelson, accused OF murder
ing Chas. Perry, near the California
line, was given preliminary exanIi-
nation i'll Grants Pass last week, and
held to the grand jury wi thout bonds.
A car Of Gre, that was shipped from
Merlin last week by ]. G. Taylor, and
run through the Ashland quartz mill,
yielded SIZE per ton. This is the
second shipment from the Taylor
mine.
Heavy shipments of hops have been
made from the Willamette valley
during the last few weeks, mostly to
England. Que firm in Salem shipped
20OO bales and has large quantities yet
to ship.
Saturday, Nov. I, there will be
meeting Of the Angora Goat Breeders
of Oregon, at Independence. The OBJ
ject Of the meeting is to form breed
ers' association, with view of crea-
ting more interest in the mehar
industry.
The Moro Observer asks: as there
a conspiracy against the pupils of the
Indian schools" The government
has just ordered for them $4,000 |
pounds Of dried peaches, 1900 pounds
Of dried apples ald $1,000 pounds of
prunes.
W. r. Winans Of Hood River, has
discovered part of an oak tree which is
cider than its neighbor, the mountain
about it. The specimen was imprison-
ed by the solid granite formation upon
it, aud was petrifed and afterwards
turned as black as mahogany.
The first lot of hogs shipped from !
Elgin this fall was sent out last week
by Kiddle Bros. The hogs were con-
lighter than those usually
as farmers are not at all
anxious to feed lheil wheat to hogs
this fall and then sell them for q
cents.
A miners candlestick, with candle
therein, made of rich quartz speci-
mems, is Oh exhibition at the bank of
Milton. The candlestick and candle
are valued at $ll5, and the object was
won in a rattle by Frank Monty at the
Coeur d'Alene mines and is now his
j. H. Campbell, who was tried in
Prineville for murder in the first de.
gree, for killing Isaac Swearingen, On
the 4th of last July, was found guilty
of murder IN the second degree and
to life Imprisonment in the
penitentiary. This was the only
case on the docket.
A number of horses, the property of
,he Cox estate, were sold at public
auction in Julction City last week,
The horses were oayuses, and one
gray pony sold 81. Prices ranging
rom that figures up to about ST. The
was not very spirited, as the