The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-02-04
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Tie CoquiIle creamery last year paid
out to patrons $l4, 1853.
Fifty cars for the Beaver Hill mine
were recently built at Marshfield,
Edward Davis, an Oakland, Calf,
clergyman, says christians can dance
and rlay bean poker without harm.
G. s. Clark has sold the North
Yamhill Record totwo young men of
North Yamhill, named Estes and
Fryer
In Lewis county, wash, contracts
have been made for fully $50, 900 worth
of logs, and new logging camps are be-
ing started up.
About a Dozen hop contracts for the
crop Of 1897 were filed for record in
Yamhil county last week. The
average price to be paid is cents.
J. II. Jackson is the owner of the
only herd Of Pekinp China hogs in the
state, and proposes to exterminate the
breed, says The Dalles Times-Moun-
taineer. He bought them of James
Fulton last week, and intends killing
them as soon as they are fattened.
Within the last week strange cpl
demic Is said to have struck the
horses near Spokane, and it is difficult
to find out what remedy is required to
perfect cure, It may become wide
spread and cause great financial loss
and Inconvenience to the farmers.
A fire originating from coal oil
stove came near DESTROYING the office
of d. s. X. Buick, in Roseburg, last
week. The flames were partially
smothered with the mating on the
floor, and the stove was pitched out
side so promptly that the damage was
not great.
The old Lane blacksand mine, at
Randolph in Coos county, will soon
he in active operation again, says the
Coos Bay News. Twenty years ago
the Lane mine employed number of
miners at good wages, and Randolph,
which has since become deserted
village, was then lively little town.
Coal mining is promising to become
an important industry in Arizona.
In the northern part of the territory
extensive bodies of bituminous coal
are encountered north and east of the
Painted Desert region. This coal
crops out in many places and at one
point has thickness Of iwenty-three
feet.
The following notice, with IA sigma
lures to it, appeared in Roseburg
paper: ave, the undersigned legal
voters Of the county, do hereby give
notice to all owners Of dogs used for
running deer in and about the district
known as Scott's valley, that we will
from low on shoot all dogs which we
may discover running deer in or about
the said Scott's valley"
The Corvallis Times says that Dead
river is the name of slough that cuts
across from one part of the Willamette
river to another, among the islands
near Bonneville, and in the years gone
by there was rapid current from west
to east. OF late the water became slug.
gish in its movement, and a year age
ceased to move at all. This winter il
runs quite rapidly from east to west.
During the year of 1896, the firm Of
Jewell & Dodge, of Grants Pass
alone shipped S6S,S75.76 in gold dust tc
the mint. There are several firms in
that city that ship gold dust, and the
bank also buys large quantity Of il
for shipment. The largest lots, how
ever, that are taken out of the big
mines are sent direct to the mint
The aggregate for Josephine county
will easily reach 100000, and will be
larger in 1897.
A French soldier, in uniform, at
tracted much attention to himself il
Grants Pass last week. He deserted a
Madagascar on a ship bound for Aus
tralia, and two British officers paid his
way to San Francisco, whence he triet
the American plan Of beating his way
on trains to The Dalles, where he haI
a friend, says the Grants Pass Courier
He could not talk English, and woult
have been in a bad way, had he founC
no other Frenchmen in Grants Pass.
The importation into Benton count!
of seed wheat, made necessary by thu
November freeze, has begun. Las
week the Corvallis mills received, vii
the steamer Ruth, 1000 bushels, whicl
is to be distributed among neighborine
farmers, the greater portion of it beint
already engaged The wheat received
was grown in eastern Washington