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

About 800 bead OF cattle tr0m Crook
county was shipped Friday to Eastern
points.
w. II. Baber, Of Junction, sold his
wheat last week for 81 cents per
bushel.
Mr. Parrott, of The nalles, has
bought and shipped from The Dalles
$500 hogs since September !.
Gillian county people are importing
bear dogs from Arkansas, to protect
their sheep camps against troublesome
pests,
The largest number Of salmon
caught by one man in Coos, county,
during single nights fishing, was 247
chinooks.
A big eagle was killed by ]. S. Pitt
man, near Harris station, In Benton
county, which measured seven feet
from tip totip.
A single bean plant Of the navy
variety, grown on the farm of w. l..
Curtis, near Forest Grove, yielded 5l4
beans, weighing 5b ounces.
Tillamook, after being burned out
three times and losing enough each
time to pay for good water system,
has at last decided to put in water
works.
The cannery slough and log boom,
near the mouth of Coos river, is filed
with drift, 1t looks as thouoh it
would be au expensive undertaking to
clear the jam.
AT Turner, December 9, and 10,
farmers institute will be held under
the auspices of the Oregon agricultural
college, assisted by Surprise Grange,
No. 233, of Turner.
Marshal d Furnish, of Pendleton,
sold band Of about $500 sheep for
shipment to Nebraska, where they
will be fed until in concition for the
Chicago mutton market.
One day last week Miss Mamie
Chiles, daughter of County Judge
Chlles, of Grants Pass, jumped, in a fit
d. of delirium, from second story
window She received no injuries.
e. E. Brodie, of Eugene, assistan
keeper of the Tillamook rock light
house, after having been away from
the world for more than seven months,
is on months leave from the light
house. ..
Over 10000 head of beef cattle from
Malheur and Harney counties have
been sold this season, according to the
estimates of those who have hired
pastures to the drovers. This repre-
sents more than $l,0C0,000.
J. Temple, livingin Umatilla county
while out hunting geese the Other
day, accidently pulled both triggers Of
the gun at the same time. The gun
kicked and the young Dlau's nose wat
badly mashed.
The North Yamhill toll road to Til
lamook is agaiu open to travel to thos
who travel on horseback. The horses
are tied to the rope through the travel
: ing block at the ferry across the nortl
5 fork of the Trask and there they hayt
to swim to get acioss.
Around Dallas the hop industry i
said to be reviving. There seems to b.
{. general desire among hopgrowers t.
l. operate all the yards they can get hole
+ OF the coming season. However, no
many of the yards that were ploweC
+. up will be replanted at present.
I, An attempt was made in Baker Cit.
{. one night last week to burglarize th'
secondhand store of Frank Frey
The burglar was scared away from tn
window by F. G. Smith, who lives il
the building, sending two bullets from
pistol crashing through the win
dow.
; AS the time for making cash entr
on the forfeited Northern Pacific raj
road land expires January !, 1897, tn
business of the land Office in Th
Dalles is picking up, and there will b
quite rush of business from this tim
until that date, says The Dalles Chrol
ice.
: w. H. Thomas, Of Coquille City
N Gays u great many logs went to Sc
r during the late freshel, notwithstant
th ing the fact that it had been state
that they had been caught In tn
loom at Parkersburg He says con
M paratively few logs were saved, an
NJ estimates the loss at between 500 an
he 1000.
~ There are good many acres
90 potatoes still in the ground near Nev
har,, Tata nlontpd pototoes were n,