The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-01-07
STATE AND COAST.
Clipped from our Exchanges
Throughout the West.

/
mated ut $4,000 by the. county treas
urer
j, w. Engberg, in Sherman county,
expects to have 100 acres of wheat to
harvest this year.
Cut.worms are doing considerable
damage to fall grain In the vicinity Of
Oak Grove, in Wasco county.
Professor r. d. Williams, who was
stabbed by Ed Meador, one of his pu-
pills, at Prairie City, In Grant county,
has since died.
Joseph II, Italston was stricken with
paralysis at 0lex, in Gillian county,
last Thursday, and there Is not much
hope that he will recover.
Rev. J, r., N. Bell has re.considered
his resignation as pastor of the Presby-
terian church, in Baker City, and will
remain with that congregation
The firm Of Douglas & Co., of the
Springfield dairy, in Lane county, is
now making from 80 to 55 rolls of but
ter day. The butter is sold in Port.
land for so cents q roll.
-Four blooded sheep two Cotswolds
and two Southdowns, have been re.
ceived at the Ladd 4 Howe stock farm
at North Yamhill. They were shipped
from England last June.
The mail carrier, while crossing
Warm Springs reservation with a
blackboard and four horses, mired
down and had to get out with the mail
for Prineville on pack ANIMAL on n
recent trip.
The cold storage salmon packing
house Of the Prescott Packing compa-
ny, at Goble, Is running night and
day putting up fish which are shipped
to Germany over the o. II. & N. line,
via New York.
Last Thursday was the last day on
which proof could be made on cash
entries Of forfeited railroad lands The
taxable property Of the counties where
the lands are located will be largely
increased, as there have been many
thousand acres purchased.
II Is proposed in Forest Grove to
combine In one person the city offices
Of marshal, street superintendent,
bookkeeper and collector Of the electric
light aud water plant, and then pay
that man suitable salary
Two prisoners IN the Wallowa c0un-
ty Jail in Enterprise got hold of n
caseknife and were saving their way
to liberty the other day, when they
were caught by Sheriff Forsythe, and
the knife taken from them.
Araut, Swingle, Kilgore and others,
who shipped several carloads of horses
to st. Louis this fall, were badly dis
appointed, as none Of their horses sold
for S75 head or anything like that
plice, Us has been erroneously report
ed, says the klamath Falls Republi-
can.
a telephone message was recently
sent from Union to La Grande, asking
Rev. j. s. Anderson to come to Union.
The message was misinterpreted at La
Grande and delivered to Dr. j. s. Hen
derso6, who started of at once to
Union, and knew no better until he
arrived at that town.
Max Richter, Of Mount Vernon,
Grant county, tried the experiment
this year of shipping his wool clip to
London on his own account, The
wool brought 123 cents and the ex-
penses Of shipping were 81 cents, eav-
ing Mr.. Richter 0 cents net for his
wool. His wool was not of an extra
quality, tine best offer he could get at
home being @ cents, so he cleared 3
cents per pound.
Albert Martin, the l4.year-old son
of Mr.. Martin, the North Powder ho-
tel keeper, ran away from home last
week, getting as far as La Grande.
There he was intercepted by Constable
Walden, on telegram from his father.
Young Martin thought he had had
enough experience as q fugitive from
the parental roof and expressed a
willingness to return. Accordingly,
he was supplied with the necessary
railroad fare and went back.
In the case of J. Conner, indicted in
Jackson county for keeping open house
on Sunday, the indictment did not
charge that the defendant sold liquors
on that day, but kept open house in
violation of law, but the law makes
exceptions MS to hotels and taverns;
and silice 1t was not shown that the
defendant sold liquor on that day, or
that he had liquor in stock, the court
instructed the jury to bring in YER
diet Of not guilty.