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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1895)
Lebanon Express. MilDAY MAIICH 6, 1895. .;' STATE AND COAST. Sfatwn From Our Exchanges Tlirough otit the Roruiwta:.. "M..M'h11 A Co. will build a brick lii.nikiii'Bakcr'Citv. ' - tlrantV Pass. has 403 beys and r yirld of school age. ; Considerable creamery talk is indulged in at .Medford. " A public reception will be given Senator McBridet St Helen's. Pendleton's boys' brigade has lieen :orgaiiiiedi with 40 members. ' The Union county beet sugar . factory bonus is not yet completed. The Max Friendly sawmill at Corvallis has been sold to wed - itors. i ' . .", " The Independence potato-starch factory haB turned out its first ; product. Taylor C. Rue, a pioneer, died near Willapa , City, February 25, aged 51 years: 6. Rosenthal will build a two story stone, iron end brick busi ness block at Medford. The Dalles parents, afraid of smallpox, took their children put of school and let them play on the streets. '' i Colonel H. B. Baker, who has len an inmate of the insane mylum for several years, died there last Sunday. ' The next reunion of the old Soldiers and sailors of Washington t'ounty will be held at Hillsboro, July 8, 4 and 5; The woolen millB at Bandon are running over time, with orders enough to keep at it all summer. A shortage of wool is threatened. E. C. Smith will plant a prune orchard of 500(1 trees -near Eugene this spring, aud- in the fall will ' si't out several thousand apple trees. . , , Jt is laid there ii to be a boom in the Althouse mining district this year, and that 150 stamps will be at work in the vicinity of Brown town. ' The shop of "two genial butch cm", at Helen's was entered by t.iieves Sunday night last, and the till was robbed and some meat was t liken. ' Kenyon Crandall, after 42 years' continuous residence in Washing ton county, has gone t Califor nia to settle down for life in the Los Angeles country. Mrs Fannie B. Mayer died at Sheridan Sunday, aged 70 years. She was at Fort Laramie at the time of the Sioux .massacre. She en me to Oregon in 1874. ; F, P. Cronemiller has retired from the Roseburg Plaindealer, and C....Y. Benjamin is sole pro prietor. W. F. Benjamin has again become the editor. " At a public meeting at Grant's 1'u,-, a committee was appointed to raise a bonus of f 20fK) for a pine- needle wool factory that wants to move there from Oakland, Cal. . Major E. V. Walsh hag resigned We position as adjutant as the soldiers' home. The major to tends to devote his time in the future to his mining enterprises. Miss Mury E. Ridgeway, of Mill creek, had her ankle broken tuse- day evening by beinjr thrown from a Wgy, which was overturned by a large oak limb lying in the road. Dr. Calbreitb was severely bruised about the head, near Amity Thursday by being thrown from his brggv.'His team' ran two mlles.f and Pdemolisbed the ve hicle. F jiwerVneBrDouglaii, Morrow county, have formed 'protective association, for the purpose of fix ing wages, building warehouses, rnurketing'rgraln, buying sup plies, etc. One evening last week Post taatr Botch, at - Amity, was etoppsd by footp i wr El going hfiins from fait erics.'. "Jursb fired t'in'-i tV tba wh mail rrj t - ' There is a project on foot to! open up a trail and postal route I between Grant's Pass mid Gold! Beach, by the wy of the junction j of Rogue and Illinois rivers, Tila-1 bee, Ruben and Lolutid. ! The Salem postmaster ban Icon! directed by the postul drpurtiuunt to discharge one carrier fruui its force. A remoiiBtrniifc petition is; ! bei"g fig1- ed to ie forwards! to? tlie poftniaater-general. I Mrs. L. A. Holt died ::t Joil'cr-I son February 14. She whh born iu i 1831, in West Virginia, and crossed the plains to Oregon with her parents in 1846. Ten of her twelve chilJron are living. A Salem young man toils a tale of driving three footpad away on n run by picking up a rock from the street. Wonderful things happen, if the tales of those who are out late ut night may be credited. Two Baker City sports quarreled over a woman, hired a hack, drove out of town, stripped to the waist, fought for an hour, called it a draw, drove back together, took a drink, shook hands and parted. A tramp who was given a good meal, including fruit und coffee, by a Pendleton lady, declined to split wood as agreed upon, saying he was a professional cook, and the meal was not properly prepared. At an election hold by company F at Albany, Tuesday evening, Second Lieutenant M. I). Phillips was promoted to jirst lieutenant. and Second Sergeunt C. A. Sears was promoted to second lieuten ant. . The woolen mills at Oregon City have been fitted with iron grting doors and surrounded with a wire fence. All who desire to see the inmates in future must get a pass from the superintendent of tho institution. Lsst Tuesday, M. 8. Damon, of Medford, chopped himself in the leg with an ax. He walked home and then fainted. A physician re vived him, and dressed the wound, and he will walk no more for some time. Old man SiminouB died last Sunday at Camas valley in the 75th year of his age. He had re marked several times that he would die on the day of his nath ity, and he died the day after the annivers ary of his hirth. The Grant Ferry Company bus nearly completed 1000 feet of trestle, leading from the railway track to the ferry landing. This will save teams a hard pull through the sand. The work will be coin Dieted in sbout two weeks. ,A posse of 45 citizens of Red Prairie, Yamhill county, searched every house in that vicinity for some stoleu meat, and at last found it in a vacant cabin. John Con ley, Jim Conloy, Erank Ivie and Qus Butcher were arrested and placed under bonds by the justice of the peace at Balleton. The Assyrian peddler who has been working the Grai.d Rondo country,, was induced bv some boys at Elgin to have some fun holding a colt by a r-.ipe. The boys showed hiir, how, but ben he undertook it he was soon lying on the ground with a broken arm, and a poor opinion of the American youth. A sad accident is reported from Thorn Hollow, Umatilla county, in the drowning of Mrs. Margarot Bourner, wife of Edward Ihurner. She was going from her home near Adams to the place of August Cornoyer, and the coupling of the Wagon gave way, precipitating Mrs. Bourner in the' river where she met ber death. The residents of the vicinity of Pistol river have taken the final steps for securing a postoffice, and are now awaiting the news of the establishment of the office, with Mrs. N. D. Clark, postmistress. An'offlce at that point would ac commodate a large number of people, who now have to travel to Gold feach to. transact postal business. Tl Xnworin LftKUA of the M. E. i will sno'iNtt Um euhliii ssrvliw FLOKIM SIXKEOLES. Hysterioua Actions of the Qround of That State. tr Doprmsloiu In thjt Xtth Which ApiMW ud DlMpiMor feast Vatum M Vai Uadtt- The recent accident on the Florida Southern railway near Gainesville ?J, T '"i?11 W .'!. IMW LIAUIfcOa M UOt IHV SUVI I Except the railroad feature, there nothing so very unusual in the forma vion of a new sink; one was formed year or so ago about a mile from the sit of the accident, and close by the same railroad, but there was no partic ular publicity given to the fact. Un less the formation of a new sink causes some particular acoidont or incon venience. It is only mentioned as a new curiosity might be something to look at if you are going that way. Alachua county probably has a larger number of these sink holes than any oilier county in the state, omeof these sinks have water thorn, some are dry, and some are forty fe-.it in depth, and bearing orange trees rmvt on the sloping sides. AH efforts to find natural causes for these sinks have failed to account for their existence, snys a correspondent or the bavannah fiows. The numerous "recent discoveries in some western states, In Central Amer ica and in Mexico of the remains of the dwellings of a people who lived be lu'uth the surface of the earth suggCBt the possibility that these Florida sinks are the breaking-in of the roots of (hambore formed by a race of people who, m the long ago, occupied r lorida. That subterranean chambers and passage-ways exist in Florida is well known, but how they wore formed and for what purpose I have never seen even suggested in any work on the sub ject. The natural wells all have an artifl cial appearance. They are all entrances to tunnels in which water runs. Per sous have often entered one and come oat by another. I have heard it claimed thut these natural wells are the open air shafts to subterranean roodwnvs -: iid that they lead to large rooniB in some places. I have been told of a large subterranean chamber near Arch' iron the walls of which are picture writings. The investigation of this subjeet nugnt yield some very interesting ill '-.irmatiou. A small party of friends Inve made some very strange discov eries regarding these ( lorida sinks. They have found that, like the numer v lW other ancient works of Florida of winch I have written, Buch of these sinks as they have examined nil bear the same entrmcers marks (attrai iKxiies placed in tho ground), by which t.ie outlines of the original work ci be traced, und also the connecting pas s tges; and this has led to the further uiicovery that the same lines are nuiw .onerous in olaces vchcre then' m-e no signs of sinks or natural wells to ho ueen. A deeided similarity exists between many ancient works found in Aincrlcitn and Kgyptian work. There is no pood reason vhy we should uot tak wisnt is known ox Egypt to at least saff 'st the tunu or purpose of the unkLown in Aiaerica. In F.gypt and Muruouo, I am imunned, the excess of gruiu crois is placed in chambers in the ground, the lii'nnber in closed, and all vuiibl-j traces '.ii its existence are destroyed. In time ?f need the eaid or sheile finds the .:. nimher by use of the at mil el lco, and ...ms a famine is provided against. May not some of our numerous large sinks represent similar large granaries or more chambers? She Bcene of the accident on the J'lorida Southern railway is on the tugc of Payne's prairie, where twenty thousand acres of rich land might yiuiu grain enough to require an im mense storage capacity. The spot is c entrally situated for water transporta tion oi the crop across the prairie by its central drainage canal, and is easilv accessible from a .region where there ure no large prairies to cultivate. Aear Oainesvillo and in the city there are many places where it is often noticed that where horses trot over them a hollow sound comes from the ground. I have traced on some of tlicufapote the very same lines that are found at the sinks. At Oeoia, Iade City, Tampa and Port Tamnn i;i'v have found the same lines, anil 1 have been told of many other places where thc&t- lines have been traced by gentle men interested in the sume line of in- veatigauon. litaMminr; from the lines found at tho sinks, wells and tunnels that are known, the same lines being found where no sink or well now exists, the same conditions Bhonld be in these ivpots as must have been in the others bcuwe tho supports of the roof gave way to form the sinks or wells. Sev eral attempts have been made to dig tiuvn and see the actual condition if More be a chamber and what It con- tuiiis; if there be a tunnel and what it leads toi but water and quicksand wore in every instance too much for the means of the explorer, so that it still remains a mystery, and no one has yet satisfactorily answered the question: What is a Florida sink? Savannah news. New Cm for Indian QtMa, Sweet grass has been put to a new use. It is woven and made into cush ions In which pins can readily be stuck with ease, In this guise it be comes a useful as well us decorative object. Those seen so far aro quaint in the extreme. There is a small doll wbijh makes the foundation, and the yoven grass becomes her gown. This is somewhat elaborate and shows bows and ribbons enough to stand for tlie model of a winter fashion plate, but all are made from the grass. The r.mplc skirt is stuffed, and sn th., n,k. m la formed, The Whole luuius unuii the vail and Is vury ltarUis', at m LIY'BIIHE THE GREAT LITER, KIDNEY AND CONSTIPATION CURE, The Manager of our Com pany is a practcal physician and chemist, and nothing will pass through his hands without being first tested iiud proven fully up to the standard. We ask you to procure a bottle of L1VERINE from your druggist. If ho does not have it iu slock, ask him to send to the Anchor 8 Chemical Co., Leb anon, Oregon, or to any wholesale drug house, where is is tj be had in any quantities desired. LIVERINE Is pleasant to t'ke. Any ohild will take it Willi a relish.' Even a babe will not refuse It. The properties of LIVERINE are mildly laxative iu small ousea and actively purgative when taken in lull doses. It acts on the liver as no other couiHund does mildly, tiini'.mgiily without ereutinp nausea, vomiting ir I . griping. Tile latter quality has made ) it a general favorite with .women before i and after confinement. 1 t LIVERINE is also an excellent ! KIDNEY COM I'OUND. i A genuine renovator of the system without leaving any bad after efllut. LIVERINE lias no equal lor the relief of INDIGESTION, eaiwcd by defective action of tlie Liver or ob structed Eidueys. LIVEKINE euros sour stomach, bilious and sick headaches, hitter taste in the mouth, dizziness, roaring ringing In the earn, liver couiths, pain and soreness In the stomach, jaundice, and all other affections of the human system caused by defective LIVKlt. LIVERINE iB a positive and cer tain cure for chronic .CONSTIPATION or diarrhoea caused by derangcniont of the Liver.' Fain iu the back, acute pain or aching iu the hips, running down the thighs aud lega, a heavy sediment in the urine, pain or soreness In the bladder, pain in iKiuK urine are permanently cured by tlie proper use of LIVERINE. After taking LIVERINE lor a tl.ue it frequently communicates a bright, healthy straw color to the urine, proving Mist the bile is heinif elimin ated through tlie kidneys as it should be. A continued useof LIVEKINE In creases iiiktvad of destroying the apjietile. Hy its wonderful tonic effect it differs from other prepara tions by tlie dose not having t be increased by long taking. It may be taken by young or old with perfect safety. . LIVERINE is a purely VEGET ABLE preparation, and litis lieeu submitted to the test of tome of our best physicians, who speak in Its praise. The dose for an adult is from a teaspoonful to a lablespoonful three times a day, before meals. Dose for child one year old 20 to 80 drops, increased or decreased as required. Some of the most prominent people of this city and Albany have been taking LIVERINE for two n ouths past, and are loud In Its praise. Anchor S Chemical Co. BHILOH'S CUKE Is sold on a guarantee. It cures Incipient Con sumption. It is the best Cough Cure Only one cent a dote 26cts., eocts., and 11.00. Hold by N, V. Hmltb. Cedar Poets. Pirsiclass cedar posts for snip cheap. Cull on or address Wulter lirown, Al bany olBuv, t Kienelii's lewe'i stme EUREKA MEAT MARKET, UAS1M iWHIDBEE, Proprietor. , We carry first cl.-isa moat, such as Beef, Mutton, Veal, Ele, and will endevor ; Ireat all customers fair. Your Patrol-age is Solisited. 1854, tiam Sao Second Term Commences January 2, 1895. Normal, College, Preparatory, Business, Primary and Music Courses. Circular Containing Full Information regarding Tuition, Courses of Study, Text-Books, Etc., Cheer fully Mailed on Application. S. A. RANDLE. PrinHnil LEBANON, - A. H. CRUSON 'afer Hanging To Advertisers. If you wish to obtain the best returns from your advertisements Don't Forget tho important fact that The Lebanon Express will give the desired results, as it Is The Best Advertising Medium in Linn County. If you want pholos.made and bavn't tlie money Boyd will tako your pro duce. Jtf?)' mm tu - iioui ka iu ann lM-rnn'. HH'irn m.an. tflir m so 'i i lii.tiuuiout.. no ta.v. vrrin.! -li.ij'-jiil'cn. fii.r d!.l-'f. Cnflii-iaMi, m..il . V? v.riMi Mil.,-, til, (iiid bs (.ut um by mir vy. i "''u1. " "-."1' 'iT' r.'r.'rifv Acade 1895. - - - : OREGON. and Graining East and South VIA- THE SHASTA ROUTE OF THE Southern Pacific Co. Express train, leave Portland daily : 6:11) p.m. 10:20 P.M. 10:10 a.m. T .Portland Ar. 8:20 a. II 4:25 a. k 7:00 r. l.v... Alliftnv.. ..Ar. Ar.HsnFrsiicfficoLv Tilfl alHIVH ll'llilm mTyiIi mt i.ll Ttt.i.inu ft...... Portland to Albany liirlasivu: also Tangent, Sheilil, Ilalsity, llarrlslmrs, Junction City, Irviiiy, KiiKime ami Minions from Ko burg to Ashland Inclusive. Itoseburfrjriflil daily : i.m a. h, I r,v.,,iVisii3 ...Ar. 'iSoTTS. 12:46 p. M. Lv.Allny Ar. 12:80 p. m. 6:COp. m. I Ar.Komiburn.,i,T. I 7:00a.m. Locul iiosienger trains dally (except ouiifiay. S:20a7IT :1UA. M. 4:40 p. H. 6:20 p. M. Lv... Albany Ai. Ar...l4lianon.,.,Lv. I.v... Albany Ar. Ar.IbHiion ...Lv. 10:40 a.m. 9:40 a. x. 0:46 p.. 6:00 P. K. Dining Cars on Of den Saute. Pullman Burm Slbbferi - AND Second-Class Sleeping Cars At tached to all Through Truinj. West Side lTlalon. Etrwxni Poaruss aso Coivau.ii. MalHrsin dlolly texceptBundsy)! 7:80 A. M. "Lv.'Pcrtlaiid ...Ar. I C:M a. h. 12:16 p. . I Ar,Uorvttllie..i.v. I l;00p. K. At Albanv ami Corvallis ooaaset with trains of Oregon Pacific railroad. Express train dally (sxospt Sunday)! TfW7iTl.v.,.Portiand...Ar. eT26A75r. 7 186 P. , I Ar.McMitinvllls Lv I 6:60 A. M. THROUGH TICKETS "oi"u ta ads and Europe osn bs sbtalaad it lewtit rstsi fraoi I, A, Bannstt, agsnt, Lsbsaou. . ray Ww etMtMSv M LaUiuoN, tliPlHSIrMHiiliriS4tr4)H