The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-01-14
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DalIes, discontinued publication Fri
day.
The bridge across Hood river, to
carry the flume of the Investment
company was completed Thursday.
w. Fl. Hall, farmer living near
Eola, in Polk county, was arrested and
fined SIS for not burying span Of
dead horses. The costs In the case
was $5O
Charles Moore, Of Newherg, is ar
ranging to embark in the Belgian
hare ind ustry. He received couple
of Belgian hares from Tangent, Linn
county, last week from the Green
yards,
Blind staggers is killing horses in
Al,ea valley. r. s, Bradley lost, In
Benton county, his best team from
the disease. Other horses were affect.
ed from the disease, and a few other
deaths are reported.
Judge Hanna has ordered the
greater part Of the Medford Dislilling
4 Refining Company's property,
which was disposed Of at referees sale,
to he resold, on the ground that the
price ii was sold for was too low.
The sports Of Pendleton got up "A
fight last Thursday between a bear
ana Enur noted bear dogs belonging to
A. Despair and Henry Thompson.
The bear was sent over from west Of
the mountains. The fight was de-
ciared u draw.
The normal school at Drain be an
its work last week, after a vacation OF
II days. The present attendance is
the largest the school has ever had,
excepting one year, There are 1870 in
the normal department and about the
same number III the training school.
William Boone brought curiosity
to the Office of the Toledo Times last
week. II is a petrified foot of some
animal, which he discovered in one OF
the old aNcII beds near Oysterville.
The foot has eight claws, all Of which
can be plainly seen. In other respects
ii resembles a BEARS foot.
The contractors having the work Of
drilling well at the capitol have at
last reached water, They went down
1881 feet of which $50 feet was through
bedrock, when, in passing through the
latter strata, good vein of water
was struck. The water at once rose
to within Is feet of the surface.
w. E. Walthers was held up by a
footpad in TIE Dalles last week and
ordered to give up bis money. Mr.
Walthers was unarmed and submitted
to the robbers command to throw uE
his hands Fortunately he had left
his money, except5 cents, at the store
and the robber refused to take this
amount,
Mrs. Mary Willy was arrested ir
Tillamook last week, as she and hel
husband were about to start for Ohio
charged by Alfred Williams with hav
ing forget the name of Mrs. Pau
Schrader to an order for 81. The ar
rest created quite a sensation in Tilla
nook, but, after an investigation, th'
charge was dismissed.
The Sheepmen's Union, of Gillian
county, is being urged by the Fossi
Journal to put the bounty on coyot
scalps back to the old figures, 81 b.
the union and 81 by the county. TIL
union recently voted in favor of pay
ing so cents and that the count,
should pay 50 cents. The law doe
not permit the county court to pay les
than 81.
A deed was filed in the clerk
office in The Dalles recently grantin
title to halfa block in the town {
Dcfur to the United Brethren churct
and in the deed was a covenant tha
should the grantees sell, cause to b
sold or give away, any intoxicatin
LIQUORS on the premises, the land sha
revert to the grantors. 1t is not prt
suned the church Gontemplates engal
ing in the liquor traffic; however, I'll
grantors took all precau.ion to foresta
such an event,
A strange story comes from Il
country north and east of Stayton
few miles, in which it is stated that
man named Popple was strlcke
suddenly blind last week. while wor
ing in the hopfelds, says the Staytc
, Mail. 1t is reported that Popp
called out to his companions that
I could not see, aud was at once co
Quoted to his home and medical a
summoned The unfortunate ms
T. was apparently stone blind. He W
taken to San Francisco for treutmel
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