The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-02-11
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BozaIth q Staley nave been emf
ployed toexprrt the hooks Of Josephine
county, but there is talk Of an iujunc-
! tion being served on them
There is moi much spring wheat suit
able for spring sowing in Yamhill
county, and it will be necessary to
ship in considerable before planting.
In Looking Glass one day last week
Eldon Crows jaw was dislocated while
an attempt was being made to pull one
Of his teeth. The tooth is not yet out.
Coyote hunts are growing very pop
ular ia Eastern Oregon. The sheepmen
of Wallowa county are the latest to
organize to rid that section of these
pesky animals.
W. G. Gibson, who is charged by
George D. Barnard & ca, with the en-
bezzlement of two Baker county war
rants, has been held to appear before
the next gn.nd jury Of Baker county.
Tommy Conger killed on Pine creek,
in Grant county, recently, monster
gray eagle, positively one Of the largest
ever captured in that county. Its
wings measured feet 2 inches from
tip to tip.
During quarrel in a saloon in Med
ford last week, William Eaton was
shot in the calf of the leg by John Ed
wards. The wound il not serious
one. Edwards escaped end has not
been arrested.
Young Gould, who was recently ar
rested in Albany, as deserler, from
the regular army at Vancouver, has
been sentenced to IS months incarcera-
tion In Alcatraz prison, and has been
dishohorably discharged from the
army.
One school district In Lane county,
located in the mountains at Jones'
sawmill, has levied a 90-mIl tay. The
district has just been organized and it
is desired to raise $500 for the purpose
Of building schoolhouse. The small
amCunt of taxable property makes the
high tax necessary.
The matter of levying all occupation
tax in Toledo, In Lincoln county, is
being talked Of. IT is proposed by
some Of the business men that the city
levy a tax upon each business, the tax
to be graduated according to the vol
ume and extentof the business done,
and payable quarterly, and that this
tax be sci aside into fund for the pur-
pose of fire protection.
A story is goiug the rounds in Una
tilla county to the effect that Joe
Hinkle, school teacher at Juniper,
probably owes bis life TO some of his
scholars. The report has it that Mr..
Hinkle fell asleep with his feet in the
stove during school recess last week,
and his shoes and trousers were on fire
when some Of his. scholars rushed in,
reused their teacher, and saved him.
Bowman & Warner, the loggers who
are at work about four miles below
Corvallis, have accumulated between
100000 and 100000 feet of balm and
white fir logs. They have been anx-
iously awaiting a sufficient rise in the
Willamette in order that they may
raft them 10 Oregon City. AS the
river has been, there were some rifles
that boat could not safely take the
raft ever.
wednesday morning of last week, at
about 8 o'clock, E. P, Thorp, editor Of
the Cottage Grove Leader, was found
lying dead, face down, in a pool Of
water a quarter Of a mile east of that
place. A ooctor who arrived at the
place soon sitter, said that ThOrp was
stricken with a severe stroke of apo
plexy. He was member of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church, anc
belonged to the Masonic order, by
which he was buried. Mr.. Thorp was
| In the newspaper business about q
years, ana was about IS years old.
State School Superintendent irwin
has reversed the decision OF County
Superintendent Waite, in the Civl
Bend, Douglas county, school distric
case, setting aside Waite's division o
the district, la his decision the sl
perintendeut holds that a legal vote
in a ssbool district means both th'
/ father and mother of children as wei
a. taxpayers, and that the Civil Bent
disly!et, therefore, contains 5S lega
voters. II is understood that the Dil
lard people will have the case reviewed
in the courts on the ground that tn
superintendeEts decision is not goo
law.
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