The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-08-27
STATE AND COAST.
Clipped from our Exchanges
Throughout the WEST.

of Eastern Oregon last Tuesday morn
Ing.
| Alsrge whale 10 reported ashore on
the beach a short distance below Eli
creek %
The PeDdleton brewery has beer
sold to Henry Shultz and Henry
Kicks, Of Unlontown, Wash.
The blacksmlths Of Oregon City have
formed union and adopted Z
schednls II prices to be charged for
their work.
Thepralect. Of u motor lihe between
Independence and Fails City is now
being sgltated,, with some prospects Of
SUCCESS
*The Clacsamas county school teach.
srs will meet at Viola next Saturday,
and Very interestin c programme has
been arranged.
The telephone connecting Sheridan
and Ballston with McMinnville. and
the rest Of the outside world, was COM
p)eted Monday. 1t will be extended
to Willamins.
For disturbing a Salvation Army
meeting at Oregon City last Sunday,
William Edgcomb, Joseph Carlson
and james Barney were fined $40 and
costs. 80
The third annual district fair for
Jacksonville and Josephine counties
will be held al the Central Point fair
grounds, for five days, beginning
September z.
At Midas bar at the big bend OF
Snake river al Is days run ofa pump
ipg p!ant cleaned up 81 per hour for
each man employed.
! According To the school land com,
misdoners' spportionment, Curry
! county receives S7s0 10. from the
school fund, The basis Ct allowance
IL II 05 per Child.
| J, q .VdBh9useu, o war veterap,
4iog Ut Corvallis LAST luesday da
IlaS been for many years q sufferer
F,5in wounds received in battle. He
was buried ut Corvallis Thursday.
Salt Lake parties who are operating
She Crystal Palace mine, near Sparta,
have let the contract for the construct
| ion Of an S0O-foot funnel, which will
| tap the ledge 400 feet below the sur
face.
During The past two years Douglas
county has paid as bounty on wild
animals killed the sum of$sS57 Us fol.
| lows; Bear, 282, bOunty s547; coyote,
Gi2 S6SOo, panther, $40, 5000; total
seaips, 1874; bounty, $SS57.
Lsmburu Bros, Of Wasoo, met with
a $500 loss after leaving setting"
where they had been threshing one
day last week, Fire oroke out and
hacned 1--WE stacks, derrick, wagon,
feeder, straw csrt and betting.
The California Construction and
Equipment Company has commenced
operations on the new creamery,
which they will build at Ashland.
The lumber has been engaged aud
carpenters secured.
a considerable number Of piles have
been received at Port 0rfor from Coos
bay, to be used in constructing the
| wharf there, They will be coated
With Goal lar and sand to keep out the
.eTgdo, and then viii be encased IN
redwood stats,
W. ], Smith, the newly appointed
post master at Glenora has been auiL0-
rized to appoint mall carrier on the
Wilson river route. There will he u
mail every other day between Tilla-
nook and Forest Grove.
The La Grand Chronicle states that
an extensive quarry Of lime rock has
been discovered near that city. 1t is
the intention Of the labor exchange
to burn the rock and furnish a first
class grade Of lime for the market.
The mining hoat which has been
working on the bars Of Snake aud
Clearwater rivers is proving q success.
Some Of the poorest bars worked by
the boat haye paid AS high ss q cents
to The yard.
Southern Oregon buyers are still
Shipping thousands of sheep to San
Francisco BY The eosstiDg steamers
Alice Blanchard aud Empire. The
s5seInef5 take down about 1000 each
trip
w $, Byers, Of Peudletou, is max
ing ups shipment Of three car loads
Of -four for Africa 1t is put up in
III 24t aud 40 pound sacks Of tie
ordinary Kind, aud these sacks ip
turn are packed iu buriap sacks,
The Burns Jockey Club will con.