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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1895)
banon -Express. . H. Y. KiRKPATRICK. Editor - and - Proprietor, STATE AND COAST. 0 Taken From Our Exchange Through out the Northwest. . Mr. A. Fetsah, a Medford tailor r.i tw Jr550 in a lottery last week A'colony of Nebraska people baa orivcdt Independence, to settle lipid in $500 bonds to the grand jury. He gave bonds. There are about one hundred l.ovs in the roforme school, 161,300 is wanted for the school for tha coming two years. rtnv. T. I). Driver mav be presented fur t'nited States Senator. It will be a waste-of time. The Virtue mine's December out- mil has arrived in Baker City. It is a big ball of gold and weighed out about $17,000. Jim Averill, the Pistol-river duelist, has been put under 11500 boadB to answer to the Curry county grand jury. "Uncle Billy" Qillam is circulat ing an iuitiatave and referendum i.etitinn in Morrow county; also one for new stats constitution." Dr. W. A. Cusick, George S. Downing, Dr. A. B. Gillis and G Putnam, of Salem, are fitting out a carload of wheat lor the Nebraska suffers. A young blood of Condon tore up sixty dollars m bills and threw them in the stove the other day, iust to show he didn't care for money. Baker City is to vote January 16 upon the question of levying a tax to keep school up the rest of the year. It will coat $4,000 and unless the tax is voted, school must dost. Secretary of Btate Kineaid will refuse to grant the nae of the state house for an inaugural ball, tie having written to twenty-eight members of the legislature, who ob ject to its being used for that pur pose. " ;". ' As usual there were more wed- pings in October 1894, than in any other month. During the last fourteen years this has never failed . to be the case. October is the irreat wedding month in Linn county: .' ' ' The Oregon 'Construction com pany, Edwin Stone, J. li. Smith uui. F- K. Strong incorporators, vesterday filed articles. Stock 3,000,000. Tniais the; Astoria organization that il to push the construction of a railioad to Port land. """" It cost $29,829.23 to run Yamiill county during J894, as invested by the record of bills audited,which was 99&.C5 less than for the year previous. The expenditures of the last half of 1894 were 12,619.12 in excess of the corresponding months of 1893. - O. N. Denny receiver of the de funct Portland Saving bank, today filed in the state circuit court a re port of the condition of the bank. According to his report the assets are $1,965,192; liabilities $1,343,- . 369. ' Assets in excess of liabilities, $521,796. '' - The Grant's Pass Courier learns that Fred Carter, half brother of Millard Bull, was drowned in the Hull & Beck reservoir last Thurs day morning. It seems he was manipulating the headgate and was struck on the head by it and thrown into the water. The latest sensation at Astoria is a eliding mountain, which appears to be traveling towards the bay. Four or five houses have been moved a distance of from two to ,-: five feet, and in one instance a . selling was toppled over so that , ' "'lightest jar will send it tumbl- down. " , ..-,( John Sexton was arrested at Eugene Wednesday, charged with adultery committed with Elua J, Smith, wife of 0. C. Smith, pros- nieottUng attornuy. Th woman is about fifty ytors old and li Mpaatsd have' a"' family" grown "and have been married about thirty years. Sexton is eingle and about thirty five years old. The case hnj cre ated considerable excitement in Spencer precinct, Lane county, where they reside. The Heppner Record has retired from business, printing its laRt pa per last week. It makes no com plaint, but turns up its little toes. chaerfully, and mauluiiy. it says that "Onward and Upward" was the motto, and that it has gone onward avers ince it started, and it now goes "upward." Ten years ago the thermometer at Baker City fell to forty degrees below aero, and sixty degrees be low at North Powder. Weather prophets predict regular Dakota winter during the next few weeks. visitor at Pendleton, from Haines, reports nine degrees below sero at that place a day or two ago. The Lakjview Examiner gives an account of rabbit drivers in that section, which resulted in the slaughter of 3,500 jack rabbits. The rodents had become so troublesome in destroying crops and gardens, that they formed a combination to surround a large extent of the coun try and drive them into a corral, where thay were killed. , George Harris, a ditch tender on the Eonis-Cameron -mine, met big five-point buck near the head of the ditch in the snown'e day last week and slew him in a hand-to- hand combat It seemed he "cor ralled" bis'deership in the ditch. and the animal in attempting to get by ran into George's arms, thus making the venison killing a clear case ot seu aeiense. courier. Lissie J. Anderson arrived at Lakeview with bet witnesses from Bowden, Or., last Saturday,1 to prove up on her land in that sec tion. Bowden u about two hun dred miles east of Lake iaw, in 'the extreme southeast corner of the state, and as she had to travel in roundabout wav, ' they traveled over four hundred miles and were more than a week no the road The special committee appointed by the state board of agriculture to examine the miscellaneons xhibits at th state fair have reported that the most attractive and interesting display which came under their no tice was the mining exhibt from Jackson county, which was charge of Hon. Theodere Cameron and have recommended that cash premium of $20 be awarded it. G. N. Fraxer now hbj bis new boat completed and a few days agp steamed up and tried the machin ery, which was found to work sat isfactorily. He has written to the government inspectors of hulls and boilers to come up and inspect the craft and as soon as this is done he will propahly be ready for business. The boat will draw twelve inches of water when loaded. Eugene Register. , , General E. L. Applegate, who re sides at Merlin, Jackson county, and is known by nearly every old pioneer in Oregon, is suffering from a cancer in the right hand, which haljbeaumc carious affliction. It is now considered probable that the arm, or at least the hand must be amputated to save the general life. His many friends all over the state will earnestly sympathise with him. It is' learned that the school house in school district No. 65 near Monroe, Benton county, was des troyed by fire a few nights ago. It is not known how the fire origi nated. The entire building and all the contents were consumed, and now there is not a school book in the district, all of them having been burned with the building. The building was a good one and there was $300 insurance on it. ' Grandma Townsend died in Dal las December 80, at the residence of Hon. W. C. Brown, her son-in-law, with whom she had made her home for the past thirty-two years. Harriett Townsend was born near Nashville, Tenn., October 28, 1309, and Wat, therefore, 5 'years, 3 months s&4 8 days wd.i lo 1821 ssouri, and in IfiiJti, was married James Townsend, Who died in that state in 1838. She came to regon in 1847. : At a meeting of the stookholdore the Eugene Loan A Savings bank, the paid-up capital waa in creased from forty thousand to fifty thousand, and tha follow- ina named directors eiruea to serye the ensuing yar J. U Church, J. B. Harris, W. E. Brown, B. D. Pains and F. W. Osburn. At tbn directors' maetint. which in meoioieiy iouowbu, 4. v. vm" was re-elected president and F. v . Osburn cashier. Jack, the W-year-old son of II. D. Smith, of the Whiteaker irsigh borhood, near Stayton, was ssvarely kicked in the face by a colt the first of last week, endangering tha boy's eyesight, if not his life. Tha boy was urging the colt into the barn, when the animal kicked him in the face, cutting circular gash from the left eye down to the month and across the cheek. He may get woll, but his face will b frightfully scarred. One of Medford's new butchers becamg involved in an altercation with a person whose name it un known and drew a gun on him. He was arrested and brought be fore Justice Walton, aud during the examination became involved in a row with the attorney on the other side, who drew the gun, which was lying on the tabls in evidence, and compelled hint to subside. The attorney is now un- dea arrest for the same offense. Adam Mistier of Oak Hill, saves Lane county from going another week without agunning accident. He was climbing up a small tree and pulling gun after him as usual muzale forewarn and the hammer caught in a bush and dis charged the gun, tha wad passing through the knee of hit trousers and close to the side of his bead. Had he not thought of hi danger and moved his head to on fide, he would undoubtedly have nut a terrible death. - KlnalM Uthl, Late advices from Florence show that important cbangei in the channel of tne Biuslaw harbor an being tfade Dy me winter norma. T. M. Martin, who bas Jutt examin ed the Jetty with government m oloyeee says: "We eould see that tne Jetty has not been damaged thin .win. ter so tar, but I am sorry wise uat the channel is shitting rapidly ta the north, and that it will require snore Jetty work." Ships hav been enter ing by the Boutb channel for two yean, North channel haviag itneu filled up with nri rt tlift time. During late years the government baa tarted to build a Jetty aeruss North channel to permanently eoBUix all the water in South eliannsl, .hut the Jetty waa only started wbea tbaap- propriation gave out and the work waa stopped. During tha bat twenty years the channel of Blunlaw harbor haegbllteda number of Urn, four yean ago ships entered by North channel, but but summer this channel waa a dry sandbar at low tide, and a go; 3, deep channel was a mile aad a half or two ml lea to the south, The Biuslaw harbor bar baa a good deep channel If the tamt could only be prevented from shifting back and forth from the north to the south side of the harbor, Eugene Begisltr, PBOBAI BRCOSD. In eetnte ef Jonathan Needbam receipts of 90,10 each for dUtrlbdtion filed. . - In guardianship of Walter and Eva Haabrwek, Inventory filed; real pro perty 11,000. In estate ot John Fagan Inventory filed; real aslato In The Dalle 110, personal property, $83.t6. : In eatate of Olney Pry Sr., petition to sell personal property granted. In guardianship of Luellla Bart, account approved. In Mtata of A, V. Qaroutte, bil Bitter appointed administrator. Bond al.200. : Iu estate of Hiram Worrell, invent ory filed; real property In Beatou county 11,640, personal property In Llrn county, I6S. 4 In estate of D. J. Bbaban, .James Bbahau was appointed administrator. Bond, 12,000. I In guardiauahlp of L. II. Jonas In vantory filed; oaab, f33T.3S. ' Iu estate of John Brown, personal property reported sold far 1777.84. , Iu estate of D. V. Mlebael, dmjni. trator appointed. BHILOH'8 CUKE, th great Cstigh and Croup Cure, is In great domain!. PooketalM MllaiM tweilly l wly A 'Debt Fia.ARor Thirty reara. About thirty' years ago,' says the Cori valils Times, a man named Houghton, recently arrived from Manwohunt'ltt, conducted a tannery on the ground now occupied by the Corvallis Water aemcani-'s nunipt and eiiKllict, For aome time Mr. Houghton was III poor health, and before his death Horace H. Hastings, a brother in-law, came out from UaasBChueetls, and after bis death wm appointed administrator ot th talats, wbicb waa iuaolvant. fi P.'Brlggahad aolulm aguluat the sa ute lor 1118, and Mr. Huntings stated that he would probably forward (be amount ot the bill at some future time, aa the deceased's father bad con siderable means. . Mr. Srlgga bad almost forgotten his claim .after a lapa of twenty-nine anil a half years and was moat agreeubly aurprbed on last Wcduesdny to receive a cheek for 1220 on I lie Fir national baak of Boston, from Mr. Boating. Mr. Bastings stated he waa not legilly booud te pay the debt, but trut the priBCll with Interest computed at 6 par cent, the legal rate In Matwchu setts, and trusted the settlement would bsjatlsfactory.' In these days of pnnle-strlcken, bunt oorporatioB and unsatisfied creditors, It Is refreshing to hear of men of Mr, Hastings' caliber, and color Is lent to the statement that the world is grow lni bstter. Mr Bantings baa been en. gaged In the newspaper business tor many years, and, with his sons, publi shes of the Dally and Weekly Items, at Lynn, Maaaaohusutta. Mr. Hastings, during hlsstay In Ore gon, was, for a abort time, foreman in tbsQregonlan's composing room. This about twenty-eight yean ago. The O. P. The matter of the eonOrmallon of tha O. P. sal was continued until Jan, 19 after a long siege of arguments. Mr. WalUsKaab appeared a ludloatetl by th Dtmoerst aovcral days ago and proposed to put up a forfeit of 1(0,000 by the data named on an auraement to bid 1200,000 for the road. In eoniider- attoB of this the Judge properly con tlaued the east until the date named. If the 180,000 deposit Is made another aate will be ordered, if not the sole to Bonner VHamnurad will unquestion ably be confirmed as Indicated by th remarks ef Judge Kullerton. Aryue menta for the confirmation wan mad by Judge E. 0- Bronaugb, Judge Wballey, George illngbam, H. Mitchell, J. K. Weatherford, Percy KisUey and Wallh Nash, while Judge Burnett mad the plea for eonflrma- tloa. TITlmttya:JudKt Fullurton briefly revtswed the history of O, P. sales, aud stated thai the road liad first been sold for 11,000,000, next (200, 000, and now It only brings f 100,000 each Urn Uranpas only one bidder and on several occasions no one ap peared lo buy the road. One year ago he had, against his better Judgment re futed to eon nrm the sale on account of the earnait wlleltutioo of emplo.ve i, and It was not ustice to Mr. Bonner to delay matters now, but he would take th mater under advisement for six days. Mr. Nash etrenumuly loalsted that It would take longer time to get return from the EnglUh capitalist aud finally Judge Fullerton sgrecd to put off considering the matter until January 19. a ibnl Veaehen CartlSealM. At tli recent meeting of theaeliool euperlntendenls meeting of the hlate at Portland the muttor of teachora' oer liflcata was brought up, and It ws de cided that Mvml chaugea should be mad In the present luwa. A enmrult tee was appolutcd to draft such a law as was proposed. Tl.o'.illlpropoed t" be Introduced In the legislature provides for four grade of c -rtlfloal, inati-ad of the many kind now In use. Under the present law there are tbnre grade ef certificate baucd by th county board, then there is a state certiorate, a slate diploma and a state life di ploma. In addition to these, eertifl eute eau be Iwued tiy the state seliool board and by any chartered luitltution of learning.' The new law plaeeetbo entire matter in the baud of the county board, there being provision fur two county certificate by the county board, and to atnte eertlflcntw by the tate board. The power of Issu ing certificate will be taken from ehirtered institutions of learui ng. The standard of lheecoud grade of county certificate will also be raised, and the third grade will require examination in fifteen studies Instead of ten as at preaent. To Th Public. Tlioa that never have tried a good bouw or a cheap house, can learn where to buy a good article obeap. The celebrated W. L. Douglass slios, and th Barton Bros', boot and hoe are known , by our Eastern frltnde to be th very beat. We huve a line of the Brown alio company, of 81. Louie, a well as many oiliar line, hlcb ar sold down to the bardeat time prices. Our espetuea are light and r 1 prepared to tell cheap. We eurry nearly (very thing from a tootbplok lo a loaoBwtW, Uak Biitin, rrlc'( Cftam IMMut SAVE MONEY! I By Buying Your Grocorics, Crockery, Food and Flour at v."" PEEBLES'S CASHGROCERY AND BAKERY, a t. 1 v a . 1854. s uasn jraia for rroauce, (5! aim Second Term Commences January 2, 1S95. Normal, College, Preparatory,) Business, Primary and Music Courses. - ' Circular Containing Tuition, Courses of Study, Text-Books, Etc., Cheer fully Mailed on Application. S. A. RANDLE, Principal, LEBANON, - - A. H. CRUSON m- r PAPER lANGING To Advertisers. If you wish to obtain the beBt returns from your advertisements Don't Forget the important fact that The Lebanon Express will give th desired results, as it Is The Best Advertising Medium in Linn County. If you want photo mad and bavn't th taoaey Boyd will take your pro duo. 1I2TK0TELEPS55KE J'. . .','fi ms ttnl Wiiee osioith. I V 'i f. , 5. a. i.k.j. Eaeenfe & ula ta A lti 3 ! "a 1 . . Academy i895;n :f I- Full Information regarding - - - OREGON. AND GRAINING J?' East and SoutP -VIA- THE SHASTA ROUTE OJf TDK Southern Pacific Co. Express train lvnve Portland daily: 6:15 1. u. ; f.v.,.rortTuiiil......A'r. 8:20. 10:2!) p. a. Lv...Alliioiv.. ..Ar. 4:J.Ha.m 10:15 a. M. I Ar.Hnu Fnniclaro l.v 7 :00 P. M "T'he abi)ve Irahm Hto m nil atalTum from PortlAiid to AHmny iiu:lti!ilve;iilr.ofl'fiMKetitf Hliedd, HuInpv, ilurrinhuru Junction City, IrviiiK, KtiKene nod ull HlHtioua from Kobu burg to A alilaiicl inclUHive. Koseliur(( niiill dailj-: 8:30 a. i. I i.vT.l'ortlQiid .'tLtTTiMr. - 12:46 p. H. IiV...Allmoy Ar, 12:80 v. M. OifiO P. M. I Ar..,Ho('liiU'H..I,v, I 7:00 A.M. Local pasaengcr trains daily (except Bunoay. 1:20 p. H. 2:00 P. H. 8:10 a. a. 9:00 a.m. i.v,,.Alinny.. Ar...l.chanoe,. Lv...Alljany.. Ar...litiaiioii , ,.Ar. i 10:51 A.m. ,Xv. 0:!!0 A. M. ,.Ar.. 3:26 p. M. Xv. I 2Mf. K. Dining Care on Ogdcn Route. Pullman Buff.jt Si.eki'khs and Second-Class Sleeping Cars At tached to all Through Truing Wmt side Division. EETWBBW PoaTLAKD AUD OOKVAUM. Mall train (laily (excort Sunday)! Lv,.Portlniul ...Ar. l Ar,Corvllii..Lr. I 6:K8a. M. 1:00 P. M. !:16P. v. At Allmnv and Onrvallla connect with train of Oregon Pacific railroad. Expreu train dally (except Sunday): TTo p. a. 1 7:86 p.m. I I.v...PortIaiu!.,,Xr. ! Ar.McMlnnvlIlpl.vl 8:25A. M. 6:60 A.M. THROUGH TICKETS I0"11 "SiT ada and Europe can be obtained nt iof soli Irani I. A. Uinnitt, agout, Lebanri S;,y tl, UUEHhKK, Kaoasf if f ) v U itwL W few pam to