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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1895)
Lebanon Express. FI1IDAY, MAY 24, 1886. STATE AND COAST. Taken From Our Enhances Through out the Norlhwetl. . Indcpendence'sannual rose fair will be held June 13 and 14. W. W. Weatherford is hauling 8W sacks of wheat to Arlington The Roaeburg Plaindeahw . it against baseball game-on Decora tion day. ... Claude IieMaiterr iud : A, H. Malaney will soon start a newspa per at Ocean Park," one of the new coast resorts. : . 1 - Farmers in Umatilla county have quit plowing, because of dry weather, and growing vropt are said to be badly uv need of more moisture. For a college town Corvallis seems to be remarkably . wicked, judging from the crusade against vice being carried on by the Times and Gasette. ' One of the results of the late Pendleton fire was a; fight between Chief EU and ex-Chief Howard, be cause of the severe sriticism of the fira department by Howard. Julio Whiteakar's . farmhouse, eight miles from CoryallU, was burned Monday ef last week. It wh worth nbout 1800. Kk. Had- iuy, who occupied the' house, lost about $150 werth Jif tnrniture. John Whiteaker of Benton Co., reports the presence on the balds of hia wheat of 4ue grain aphis' arch enemy, arej iysent in large numbers. John Porter, of the fame county, makes . a similar re port. : ' fiarns belonging to George 0. Yoran and W. W. Williams were destroyed by fire fn Eugene Thurs day of last week. Mr. Williams also lost a carriage. The ' fire caught from the boiler of a steam woodsaw. The entire plant of the Scott mills, owned by John Scott, in Marion county, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is $3000, there being no insurance. Included in the loss wis 8000 feet of dressed lumber. In the vicinity of the Warm nprines reservation crickets are becoming quite numerous, and the Indian farniers are fearful that this year will only be a repetition of former ones, when their crop have been entirely destroyed by these insects. Miss idu (Jannnn. living near Grass Valley, was tiding in a hack, leading a horse, on the 10th, when the animal became frightened, pul led back, and as the rope was twis ted around Miss Cannon's wrist, '. phe was pulled over the back of the I sent. The wrist was dislocated, and Miss Cannon was badly bruised. , The warm Spring Indians of T Wasco county, who are members of the W. C. T. U sent to the con vention at Roseburg a banner wrought with beads on tanned deer tkin, with legendary symbols ex pressive of native ideas of temper ance. They are, "Pipe of Peace," within the coils of a serpent, and a tomahawk. - ,! A letter from the assistant com missioner nf the general land office to Kepersentative Ellis conveys the information .that the herding or pasturing of sheep is prohibited in ' the Cascade range forest reserve, as being considered injurious to the herbage and undergrowth. The Dalles Chronicle thinks this will be a blacker eye to the sbeep in ' ' mistry than was the removel of the tariff. Jacob insman, who- mysteri ously disappeired two years ago from his home in Dilley, has just been heard from in Germany, and the skeleton that was found a few mouths since at Scholl's ferry, though to be hie, belong to tome one else. At the time of hi disap pearance a thorough search was made for him. He was last seen at Ilillsboro. As he had some money it was supposed he bad been rob V:i k-'I mtudwtd or ihUitl ' AT UtST . - Sow Oar or slbar U orosa will be llfMd, Btaeatk vale uu victim aaa Journeyed w knt; g Say or stber the Hue that Is rtfted Stall aMtody vain la toe ononis of eons. Some flay or other the hopes early perished bball rise Into beauty undreamed ot before: Some day or other the hearts (o&dly ehcr- Isaed. The loot and Um loafed-for, the gravoaluilt reetore. a 't .: - 3ome day or ether the double which have haunted . Shall all badlepelled la the light ot Bla face: Sodm day or other tho toes who have daunted vanquished shall be through tho atlghs ef&ioarsce.. . a)ooie4ay or other the toll shall be ended, rise aaaai aaraat, the vague Taanuaf he Htkaase tw Bias who that safely hath tOBOOSV The saBsasta ahaU try. "It Is Hoarse at laail" - A. KehHf , la Great Thoathla PILIAR MOUNTAIN. Remarkable Freak of Baaedtls - Formation In Naradav That eelearated mineral ledge, the Coasatock lode, 1 located in a moun tain region which is not only striking ly 'picturesque, but which contains many mineralogies! and geological cvruamae, among; them what la local-., ly known as Pillar mountain. It .la not mountain at all, but a curious basaltic mound, rising from a eompara-, lively tat dented tableland oa the wast alone of Mount Davidson, the towering peak which frowns down upon Virginia. The mound, which it tiUoup in shape, and perhaps three hundred yards in length by titty in idtli, is oompoaea of massive Desalt pillars, which, generally speaking, stand parnendlcularly on their basin in a compaot, eymmetrioal body. At first glaaa it look all the world like a gigantle buneh or aaparagus. una uianiu vauaewny in iruiasu, tow Palisadce on the Hudson and Fiurral'a Cat oa the Island of Staffa, off, the cast of Bcothtnd, are famous for their basaltic columns. Hilar mountain psaacuca the same geological marvels. Iteoadarooa columns are just aa won dirful to behold and aa strildrur in the InexpUoabU puullarity of their forma tion. FUlar mountain ia only a few miles from Virginia, but few Comsteokcrs know of its emtawe. and fewer still a acquainted with It atraage char acteristic. This ia probably due to the fact that It stout of the way some what, and oft the line of travel to and from Virginia. A good road leads 'lmoat to the spot where its columns .car their heads, and a drive of an hour will bring the curious to it The road by which it ia reached leaves Vir ginia at the divide that Quarter of the city which joins Gold Hill nnd winds southward along the eastern slops of the hill abutting against Mount Davidson. The irregular cluster of mountains within which the mining camps of Vir ginia and Uold Uill are situated Is com posed of foothills of the Hierra Nevada range, projected at an angle to tho south and then spreading to the east. On the west and south the cluster is eneiralad by a curving vallay which divides it from the mother range. The upper half of this is known as Washoo valley and the lower as EaRle valley. On the east the group is separated from the foothills of the Toyabee range by toe Carson river, which 0ows eastward through Eagle valley and winds to the north along it eastern base, final h swinging sharply to the east again when it got abreast of Virginia. After the river turns to the east at tho latter .point it crosses the southern ueck of a white, fiat, gleaming stretch of sand known a the Twenty-Bix-Uil desert, whose shimmering bosom extends to the north till it disappears beyond the northeast extremity of the cluster. It will be seen by the fore going description that these moun tains are isolated from their neighbors on aU aide but the north. High in the heart of them are Virginia and Gold Uill, the former clinging to the east side of Mount Davidson in a cup-shaped depression and the latter strung along the upper end of Gold canyon, which strikes off from the mountain in a southeasterly direction and twists and tome until it reaches the Carson river. The road to Pillar mountain passes under the brow nf a peak, surmounted by a tower-like mass of stone. The moral monument on the peak is known locally as Hnicide rock, and history at taches to It a very tragic episode which occurred in the early days. It was in the Wis or the "70s, perhaps, history is not exact, that three miners were liv ing together in a eabin in Gold canyon. They had a claim among them, so the story goes, which yielded very gener ously of dust, and in time they accumu lated considerable of the yellow stuff. Hue day they played cards for money, and in s short time one ot them had nearly all of their combined wealth Toward the end of the game the otlici two discovered that he had been client ing and resented it with an angry pro test, whereupon he drew his revolve! from his pocket, ruthlessly shot them both, and fled from the eabiu. One of that lived long enough to tell the tale, and the population turned out en tnaaas to search for the murderer. They guarded all the trails from the locality and searching parties scoured the hills. He had taken to the moun tain side and he found bis way to 8ni eide rock. From his eyrie on the rock he could see the country round, and he concluded that escape was impossible, for, on the third day after the murder, the searchers heard a pistol shot and saw a ring of blue smoke curl upward from the rock, and upon investigating his hiding place they found his dead body, With a bullet hole in his head, lie had killed himself rather than be taken alive, and the tragedy gave the rock its name. The gradual ascent of the road as it beads to the south finally bring it to asaddlebaok OB the breastbone of the Burantaiu. over which it passes to the wwt tie lh " sMo of the mourn skirt thoir flanks till tho rearof Mount Davidson is reached; then it lifts to the plateau upon which Pillar moun tain is located. The plateau projects from .the mountain midway between the base snd summit of the latter, Its surface Is Irregular, and the big bunch of basalt shoots Its ashen columns fifty feet into the nir from anearthou mound on its highest spot, Tho bnsultlo de posit is in tho shape of an ellipse, ami is very regular in ita eonBtruetlon.lt lias the appearance ot having been thrust up through the earth by an In ternal convulsion, and its gray pillars contrast oddly with the surrounding hillo, which nro sandy, overgrown with sagebrush and dotted with an occasion- kal scrubby pine. The blackened, gray stones ere radically different in aspect and formation from the ledges of quarts and granite which come to the surface in broken aeams here and there. In the main the basaltic columns stand side by side so closely that at a distance the mound, from some points, looks like a mass of solid stone marked from base to apex with regular paral lel lines All the upright pillars, even where occupying re(ular porpondlcular postures, are separated into segments bv cnwka which traverse them hori zontally. The segments are from six to fifteen feet in length, and the whole segmented column approximates six ty feet. As the compact points of the mound are approached the ex terior columns arc observed to incline inward at the top, which gives them the semblance of strips of stone over lying each other. The mound has something of the ap pearance of a great oblong amphi theater, with crumbling walls where the eolumns havo broken away and fallen outward to Its base. At tho places where the columns are broken they He in confused masses or rear their colossal heads singly at various angles. It is at these places that the ponderous nature and the symmetrical proportions of the eolumns nro dis played to the greatest advantage. They are principally hexagonal in shape, al though many three-sided, four-aided and five-sided examples are in evitlcnce. Borne of the broken and displaced col umns standing upright, alone or in groups, have the appearance of huge monuments, and a man standing be side them Is dwarfed into Insignifi cance. Most of them weigh many tons, The observer is chiefly impressed by their massiveness and clean-cut sym metry. They look as if thoy had been carved by giants out of the solid rock, and It is difficult to eonceive how na ture could have molded them wlthsuch regularity and precision. it is now a generally accepted theory of geologists that basalt is of volcanic origin. It is composed of three dis tinct elements; iron oxide, pyroxinc and feldspar or some kindred composi tion. When feldspar is a component it is called fcldspathio basalt; when that element is replueed by an affinity it takes the name of the auinlty. Miner als occur in basalt, as shown by analy sis, but their presence is due to the per colation of water through the basalt alter us formation. The aouut con nected with the origin of basalt springs from the water which analyses have proven it to contain. Borne geologists have claimed that if it were of voloanio origin the water would have been expelled while it was in a molten Btato in the course of the eruption which brought it to the sur face. This view has been overruled, however, by other students of geologic conditions, who point out that steam and hot water are otten cast up by volcanoes, and that basalt is sufilcicut- lv com imc t to have resisted the ex pansive force of the steam imprisoned within it. On the top of Pillar mountain there is a cavity or depression with an earthy bottom, which several local wiseacres of a geologic and scientific turn of mind have pronounced the crater of a volcano. The shape of the depression and the character attributed to the rocks lend color to the theory. Basalt either occurs in the form of a dike or tn horizontal sheet The po sitions of the columns vary according to the character of the deposit When it is in the form of a bed the columns are erect. In the dike formation they are horizontal. The regularity of form displayed by the columns is accounted for by a theory resting upon Impeded contrac--ou. When mud dries out a network of cracks appears on its surface. In vestigation reveals that the shapes in the mud are genorolly hexagonal, and show the operation of a governing y force which determines their form. In theory this principle controls the for nation of basaltic columns. The theory may be correct and simple enough, but tho uniform shapes of the columns never fail to strangely impress the lay mind, notwithstanding, Ban Francisco Chronicle. The Ortttc Confounded. A practice to which a large number of men conform is not lightly to be found fault with, for it is generally based upon a good reason, of which the critic is ignorant Coleridge, the poet and philosopher, was once floored by a Jew, a pedftler of old clothes, whom he ventured to criticise for abbreviating a word. The Jew had annoyed Cole ridge by passing him. several times, crying for old clothes in the most nasal tone. At last, the philosopher was so provoked that he said to the peddler: "Pray, why can't you say 'old clothes,' as plain as I do now?" The Jew stopped, looked gravely at his critic, and in a clear, grave accent, answered: "Sir, I can say 'Old clothes' as well as you can, but if you bad to say so ten times a minute for hours together, you would 'Och elo' as I do now." lie walked away, but Coleridge was so moved by the justice of the man's re tort that he followed him andgavehlm a shilling, the only one he had. Youth Companion. A Wise .;Precantion.;- tfhe "Oh, Charlie, I bought you box jyf lovely cigars to-daj, of .ray own selection." Ue "Thank you, love. Did you get ilfe iiimiraua paUsy t f wit) jlfx A Clubbing Offer, A great rnsny of nur readers Mini county like to take the weekly Oregon- lull. We have made arrangement wheTl-y we can fMrnlnh It at n reduct ion from the regl'lur price to tho.' who win. I holh the KxiMtKtta unit Hie Oregonlaii, The reuMilar price nf the OregonluiKls 31. fid ier year, uud of the Exl'HEBHtlJiU wlu ii in advance. We will furnish huh t r (1 per year in advance a saving of one dollar to the sulmcrlner. The Oregouiuu gives all the general newsif lite country onoe a week, and the Expkfss gives all the local news once a week, which will make a most excellent liens servlee for the moderate sum of 12. per year. Those who are at preeent subscribers f the Express must pay In all arrear ages and one year In advance to obtain this special price. 1 Notlue of ISxeontrtx. Notice is hereby given to all whom It may concern, that, by sn order or the County Court for Una County, State of Oregon, the undersigned has been duly ap pointed snd is now the duly quslitied and acting' Sxecutrlx of the last will snd testament of Eugene H, Ulm, deceased. All parties indebted to salt) estate are re quested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, end all parties having claims against the estate are hereby re quired to present the same properly veri fied, within six months from the 9th duy or April 1W6. the first publication of thin notice, to lite undersigned at the office of Sam'! M. Garland, Lebanon, Ore. E. S. Utx, Ex. of the last will and testament of Eugene H. Ulm, deceased. BAN'!, H. Uasuhb, Alty. for Executrix. AdmlalHtriitor'm Notion. Notice is hereby given that the under signed has been duly Sipolnlel hy tin County Court of Man county, Uroyon, the administrator ol the estate of A. V. Oaroutte, deceawd; and lias duly qualitleil such administrator. All persons hav ing claims agshiit the estate ure hereby required to prevent them, with pror vouchers, within six months from the date hetvof, lo the undersigned, at the oiheeof W. M. Drown, In Lebanon, Unit county, Oregon. Dated this 22nil. day of January, 1PM, I'll 11 Hitter, W. M. Brown, Administrator. Attorney for Administrator. M LIVE RINE THE GREAT LIVER, KIDNEY ADD CONSTIPiTlOH Pleasant to take by old or young. No griping. The root of the Liverine plant is extensively used in Norway for the cure of Piles. Sold by all first class drug gists. Wholesale Manufactures. , Anchor S Chemical Co, Lebanoji, Oregon. The Yaquina Route. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD, Chae. Clark, Receiver, Direct Line Quick Dispatch Low Freight Rates. Connecting with steamer Ho mer between Yaquina and San Francisco. For freight and passenger rates apply to any agont, - Chas. J. Hendbys, Son A Co. Nog. 2 to 8, Market St., Sail Francisco,'Cal. Chas. Oi.ark, Receiver. ' . Cnrvallis, Orogon. Buy ynu tickets East over the N. P, & ft, ol W. wwm, Um M9l ' PANSY. MAYER & KIMBROUGH Have just received the finest lino of CR0CKEKY and GLASS WARE ever brought vite you to call and ini-pect. ' Thoirprice are as low, if in the valley. Highest Prices Paid for Country , produce. Insist on m flp i wim sopa Cub no more than Inferior package sod never spoQt the flour, keeps toft, and b unU tmaJftr tckmmts4ge& purtst in tit world. Hat i I CBOXCI fcCO, Writs fc Asm a4l To Advertisers. If you wish to obtain the bunt returns from your advertismnonts Don't Forget the important fnct that The Lebanon Express will give the desired results, us it Is The Best Advertising Medium in Linn County. If ynu want to buy tjroperty call oil 634t -$yift ' to Lebanon, which they in not lower than anywhere olso, BEWARE ot Imitation trade mark and labels. Itev Take East and South VIA- THE SHASTA EODTE OF THE . Southern Pacific Go, . Kxrcss trains leave l'ortlmid dully; fl:IA P. u. 10:20 r. M. ll:t:')A.M. t,v...l'ortltiml Ar. l,v...Alltitny ,.Ar. Ar.Hun I'muiTlsoo Lv 8:20 A. M 4:2ft a. M 7:00 r. U I Uu uliovti tt-niiis mop at nil siatlims from rorllnittl to Alliniiy iiicliiHlvopiUitTHiifteiit, Sliedil, llalmiy, lUrrisliurK, Jiiiit-tion City, Irving, Khkimic uml nil HtntitiiM from llow Imrg lo Ashland inclusive. J!oclmrg mull dsllyt M a. i7 1 .v .. . Pi , rl 1 tin nr."A r "jT4 ;S0 iCii. . VIM r. H. l.v...Allnny Ar. 12:80 p. h. 6:S0 P. H. I Ar...Hoptnint.. I.v. 7:00 A. M, l.w-nl Smiilny pnssoiigCT trains-dally (except 8:20 a. It. 0:111 a. M. 4:11 l: H. .Allmny Ar. .lltnnin...,liV. .Allmny. ...,,Ar. Ltiliniinii ...I,v. 10:40 A.M. !:) A. M. U:4b p. H. 0:60 p. ll. fi:20 t. m. DMng Cars m Ofden Route. PULLMAN Y.Vrt it 8l,EKl'l!118 ' , AND Sccond-Clnss Sleeping Cars At tached to all Tli rough Truing. WiMt HUle UlvlMluu. UtStWKKS POIITUiSI) AND OoSVAI.I.IS. Moll train dally (rxreptSiindny): 7:30 a.V. j XV,7.I'orllnnd M,Ar.T t:l Z . 12:161'. a. I Ar...Uurvsllis. Xv. 1:00 p. M. At Albnnv and ('nrviillls connuct ffltli huiiib ui ureon i HCinu ruuronu. . Express train dally (ejtcept Sunday): 4-40 P. H. 7:36 p.m. I I.v... Portland .,.Ar, ! 8:2(Ta. m. I Ar.MoMiimvtlle I.v I S:60 A. m. THROUGH TICKETS '1,0811 folllt8''" '' ftustem mates, i;an oils snd Europe can lie obtained tit IowpkI raws (rotn I. A. Dennett, agent, Lobnnon. K, KOKHLKK, Manager. r,. r. nun mi n, Asst. it. i , raas, Agt. Albany Steam Laundry RICHARDS & PHILLIPS, Proprs, Albany, Oregon All Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Special Rates for Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Uufunded. J, r, HVDE, Agent, s ft Tt