The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-01
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The diamond din that will bore for
coal III the Wasco county has arrived
in The Dalles, and work with II will
b gin soon.
Two carloads Of hogs were shipped
from Wsllowa county to Baker City
last week, and were converted into
cured meat
The t:riiek building and lot in Cor
wallis now occupied by the Skipton
Brothers. viii b. sold at admins
trator's sale, April %.
Hay is scarce IN the Wallowa valley,
Moi long ago 1t was selling at 50 ton,
hut now brings from IS to $40, with a
demand that exceeds the supply.
A curfew ordinance has been intro
duced in the Pendleton council, chang
ing the hge to include all minors under
Is, Instead Of under Is, as at present.
The Medford brewery received seven
large tanFF i;st week for use In brew
ing and fermenting beer. The brewery
has been In operation for couple Of
weeks.
Two stationary fshwheels are being
tuilt just below The Dalles, and Mr..
Kildt has built lead TO his wheel,
which he thinks will give him good
catch this year.
The fund to erect a monument to the
victims Of the Silver Lake fire, In
Lake county, now amounts to $500,
aud negotiations for the marble have
been entered into.
The Ashland Creamery Company Is
not able to supply the local demand
for butter, and at the same time fill
outside orders. Farmers are urged to
increase their herds Of milch cows.
Frank Love, of Roseburg, has gone
East, ii is said, to take possession of
his share of . fortune left by sn aunt.
There is a rumor to the effect that the
estate left is large, something like $780,
100000.
A committee Of Grants Pass citizens
has been named 10y the board Of trade
to cooperate with r. d. Hume, the
salmon packer at the mouth of Rogue
river, to secure the establishment of a
fish hatchery on Butte creek or some
other UPPER waters OF Rogue river.
John Grille and another boy by the
name Of Mathews, were examining a
pistol in Raseburg the other day, The
pistol which was in the hands of
Mathews, in some way was discharged,
and the ball struck suspender buckle
that Grills was wearing, and glanced
off, doing no damage.
Mrs. r. H. HALEY, Of Medford, left
this week for Hannibal, Missouri,
where she expects to assist other
heirs in finding way to secure $5,.
000, 900, which is said to have been left
| by distant relative In England, and
which has been IN the safe keeping OF
the Bank of England for over q cen.
tury,
Leading citizens Of Carson City,
since the excitement of the recent prize
fight had subsided, are agitating the
repeal Of the bill which made prize
fighting legal in the Sagebrush state
They are doubling as to whether there
was enough of money spent in the
city to Deutralize the stigma which
they feel attaches to the state.
viii Dill and Frank Jamison, o.
Klamath Falls, who have been trap
ping az Diamond peak, stopped il
Harrisburg last week, on their way
home. They said that they had beer
in the vicinity of Diamond peak since
October 25, 1895, and were forced t.
come out, as they had run out Of pro
visions. They ate their last meat Jan
/, and lived on bread and potatoes
since that time, the snow is now II
feet deep there, and has driven mos
of the game out. 1t was not till they
reached Harrisburg that they Learned
that Mckinley had been elected presi
. dent
1t was not wild parsnip that killet
the calves at the experiment station o
the agricultural college, but wate
hemlock. Prof. French, in q bulletil
: recently issued from the college, says
! "Since the experiment feeding Of tn
, root, Prof. Hedrick has received re
/ plies from several botanists to whom
the roots were sent for indentification
and all have replied that the plant
!. not wild persnip, or water parsni
: (Sium L., but a plant closely resembl
, ing the former, called water hemloe
(Cicuta L.), As to the exact specie
!, we are not certain, but investigation
will bs nade to settle thls point