The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-03-25
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IIiefs 10 coiitrAcL TOT HOpS al CeIts
q pound were made in the vicinity of
Gervais last week.
A two.headed calf was born at
Bluford Davis farm, on Coos river III
Coos county, last week.
Eleven hundred sacks of potatoes
were shipped south by the latest
steamer out Of Coos bay.
Circuit court for Gillian county will
convene IL Condor, April IL There
are several criminal cases TO dispose Of
A meeting was held In Tigardville,
Washington county, March q, to dis
'uss the question Of ugar-beet culture.
Several new telephones were put IN
Newhrrg last week, and line is being
buill down 70 The warehouse at the
river.
Josephine solnty's supply Of pota-
toes this year is short, aud potatoes are
being shipped in. They retail at II
cents.
Kelso, Wash, has a right to brag,
II has no outstanding liabilities, does
mol owe a Collar and has about $500 III
ash in the treasury.
d. 5, Smith, Nebraska cattle
ouyer, shipfed IS carloads Of stock
from Ontalio last Wednesday. The
callle were bought in Malheur county.
There is more snow IN the mountains
around Lone Rock, in Gillian county,
tlian there las been for Is to 20 years.
i'he snow il from five to eight feet
de.p.
Coyotes are increasing so fast near
HAY es' hill, Ii Josephine county, that
th' ndmber Of quail, large gray squirrel
aud other small game is rapidly disap-
| petrlhg.
Three carloads Of cattle and one Of
hogs, belonging to w. S. Davis, Of Oak
Grove, were shipped from the stock
yards in The Dalles last week to
Tmutdale.
7, Y. Carter and H. L, Carter have
a contract to cut 100000 feet Of logs
for the Trent Lumber Company, in
Lane couhy. They have begun
cutting timber near Dexter.
Master Alexander Chalmers, living
near GenterviIle, in Washington couu.
ty, few days ago shot a hawk, OH the
wing, that measured four feet six
inches from tip to tip.
The board of regents of the Weston
normal schoui will try to devise ways
and means to keep the school on its
feet until the legislature meets and
provides for lis main,aiuance,
E. H. Woodward, editor of the New
berg Graphic who attended the meet
ing Of the National Editorial Associa-
tlon, ut Galveston, Texas, is at home
again, after an absence Of five weeks
Joseph Hall, who was found dead
near Medfard last week, with bullet
hole in his head, having been shot
from behind, was a bachelor, and about
as years old He had lived on Elk
creek, where he was killed, about two
years.
d. 0'Mora, who had been working
on the Boise Nampa q 0yhee railroad
bridge across the Shake river, was
found floating in that stream near
Warm springs ferry few days ago
His skull WAS fractured and he had
been shot through the head. Robbery
is supposed 20 he the cause, as he had
| 500 when be was last seen.
| Last Tuesday, near Kelso, Wash al
engine with loaded cars aud 20 or 3(
persons on board started from the heaG
of the Ostrander railroad and got be
yond the control of Engineer Brech
aud the brakemen. The train wen
down the grade at the rate OF nearly
SO miles an hour, and the people OF
the engine, being terribly frightened
nearly all Of them jumped, some ii
mud puddes and in brush piles, be
tween logs and anywhere to get off th,
snorting engine. The engineer ant
three Other persons stayed on tn
engine, and as the train reached tn
fiat it slowed up. No one was seriousl.
hurt.
"Unale" Steve Edwards, of Eugene
though over 70 years of age, is al
enthusiastic follower Of the game q
cooked-hat, and may be seen nighGl,
until late hour at the Eugene bow
ing alley, He plays with the yigor 0
most younger men, and rarely
beaten. He is considered the chan
pion player Of the city, aud now hold
score Of 72 on a game of 10 frames 0
coeked-hat The highest possible scor
is 90, and the state recorc is rs, hayin
been made by Portland player. Th
highest score made in this game b