The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-01-28

coins III sell defense, to prevent going
to the poorhouse. He is 20 years of
age, aud has a brother and sister tiat
have been committed to the asylum.
A number of Eola ladies have been
engaged as hoptrainers next spring.
When the time comes, lot OF slow
men will putin an appearance and find
no opening, The Independent gives
this as a hint to energetic and am
bilious women, boys and girls in other
parts of Polk county to go now and
make arrangements for spring work.
Laurence Michalls, in Douglas coun.
ty, has been very successful in raising
beets. He recently took to Riddle, a
gigantic specimen Of the White Man.
gleworth variety, which was presented
to E. A. Bassett, the Southern Pacific
agent, to exhibit with his other fruits
and vegetables at the depot. The beet
weighs SO pounds, and measures 8 feet,
10 inches in circumference, and is
about 8 feet in length.
A pitiable case of suffering was
found in Medford last week, Mrs.
Colby, who arrived there last summer,
was found sick in bed, AS was also one
of her little children, and neither wood
nor food of any kind was found in the
house. Some of the business mems
attention was called to the matter, and
they Immediately provided her with
more comfortable quarters, and George
Justus started out with a subscription
paper asking for aid, which was sub.
scribed to very literally.
Grant county is at present In peri.
lous condition, for if every desire of
the neighboring counties is gratified,
the old commonwealth of Grant will
lie wiped off the map, says the Long
Creek Eagle. The old Sutton county
is to be revived at the present session
of the legislature, Morrow county is
going to strike for share of our. terri
tory, ihe Ukiah country wants slice,
Baker county would not object to the
Granite territory; in fact she is likely
to make lively fight to get it.
A sensational discovery has been
marfs in The California legislature,
which bids fair to bring to light some
very interesting facts connected with
the "push" of the legislative body of
that state. 1t has been discovered
that clerks have been drawing double
pay--as clerks of the temporary and
permanent organization at the same
time. Double warrants for all the
clerks were drawn, which amounted
to nearly $500 the first week. A com.
nittee has been engaged in investigat-
ing the irregularity.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Carroll ar.
rested Sam Howard, at Canyonville,
in Douglas county, last Thursday.
Howard is charged with passing coun-
terfeit money. He has been in Grants
Pass and other Southern Oregon towns
for some time, following the vocation
Of basket making. When arrested
Howard had but few pieces of bogus
eoin, consisting of dollars and half
dollars, bearing the date of 1890. The
work is rather crude, and it is not be-
Iieved he has been in the business
long, His partner has not been To-
Gated as yet, but the officers believe he
will be captured.
The condition of things in Enter
prise is deplorable, according to their
local paper. 1t says; at is certainly
time that the mayor and common
council of Enterprise call halt to the
lawlessness that is being practiced in
our city. 1t is almost an everyday oc-
currence for someone to get beastly
drunk and parade the streets, cursing
and disturbing everybody and every
thing in and about the town. A town
the size Of Enterprise, the county seat
and metropolis of the great Wallowa
valley, being without a marshal to
keep the peace, is certainly a disgrace
and an outrage"
Josephine county is likely to have an
expensive law suit to contend with,
Some time ago the county court award
ed the contract of the county printing
to the Mining Journal, but when the
time arrived for the publishing of the
delinquent tax roll, the sheriff pub
lished it in the Observer, claiming that
it was not part Of the county print
ing and that the Mining Journal was
not general newspaper. When the
Observer put in its bill, amounting to
over $50, to the county court, payment
was refused-and now the sheriff is
suing the county for the amount due
for the publishing of the roll.
It's in town. Jl,s the hest