Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-03-23
PACIFIC COAST.
Utah'S Total Gold and Silver
Output for Two Years.
SHE MURDERED HER BABY.
Veritable Castle Of Delight to be
Built on West Side Above
Willamette Falls.

The Southern Pacific is 10 have new
depot at Grants Pass, Or.
Phoenix, A. T., reports that rain is
falling, the first in nearly one year.
Fresno voted against the issue OF $751;
900 bonds TO complete its sewerage sys-
TEN.
British Columbia has imposed a dis
count Of 20 per cent on American silver
coin.
Portland's fine passerg'r station will
be completed by Angus ,0i. 1t ia to
cost 100000.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines,
the largest silver producers in the Cgur
d'Alenes, have shut down.
A travelling insurance AGENT hiss done
up the farmers of Bingham county,
Idaho, by issuing spurious policies.
The majority OF the Indians on the
Nez Perces reservation have signed an
agreement for the opening OF the re9er-
walton.
Some Of the people OF Boise City,
Idaho, are opposed TO the railroad enter
ing that town on account OF the smoke
killing the trees.
In Lower California enough rain has
fallen TO insure good crops, though the
drought was beginning TO be severely
felt all over the peninsula.
In the United States District Court at
Portland Peter Grant, a sailors board
ing house runner, was convicted OF har-
boring deserving seamen, and was fined
$3.50.
There 10 a warm contest in the Arizona
Legislature over the passage OF an irri-
cation bill, whose features are somewhat
similar 10 the California laws on the
same subject.
II IL thought that the bed Of the Fraser
river in British Columbia is rich with
deposits OF gold, and an attempt will be
made during the coming summer TO Sc
cure portion OF this wealth.
Governor Mcconnell OF Idaho openly
stated in letter to the District Attorney
that members of the Legislature OF that
State we're bribed, and that information
will be furnished to secure convictions.
Bradstptet's Mercantile Agency reports
twsaty.one failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week, +,
as compared with twelve for the previous
week and fourteen for the corresponding
period OF 1892.
Utah's total gold output for 1891 was
&3l ga; for 1892, $3l ,826; showing an
increase OF S2S2. The silver output for
1891 was $500, ,352 ounces; Tor 1897 1t
was 7,762, ,259; showing an decrease Of
0SS. .005 ounces.
w. II. Winn, who went 10 Phoenix, A.
T., some time ago and took lodging with
two widows there, has not been seen
since Friday last. The ladies gave him
$40 to pay his furniture bill. lie failed
to return. Winn was contractor form
erly OF Los Angeles.
The Nevada Legislature has adjourned,
and bill reducing the salaries of State
officers is found to be missing. The
State Controller says the journals show
II passed and he thinks It will hold good.
IL will be entered in the statute book,
with certitication that the original was
lost.
The Arizona Construction Company
oi Peoria, ILL.,, has brought suit against
the Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation
Company, whose offices are Mt Tucson
and the City Bank OF Los Angeles, AT
which bank obligations in trust against
real estate and water franchises OF the
canal dam are held.
One OF Portland's wealthy business
men, who owns an acre above the viii.
annette Falls on the west side, is con.
templating building upon IL a veritable
castle OF delight One OF the most i'm.
portant features Is TO be a huge dancing
hall, out OF which wide glass doors will
open upon . broad piazza.
A, O. Cleveland OF Nevada, one Of the
original promoters OF the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake road, has great faith
In tho enterprise, and secured five years
extension OF the right OF way across Ne.
vAda and Utah 10 Salt Lake and Ogden,
and also the same extension on the bonus
offered by the State OF Nevada OF 5000
for every mile OF road completed lie is
now In Utah.
In December last Mary Pushman, an
eighteen.year-old mother was arrested
at Butte, Mont, for killing her baby by
putting pins down its throat, breaking
the arms and starving IL. The defense
was insanity. The State proved 10 the
satisfaction Of the jury that insanity was
ieigncd. and after being out eigh cen
hours the jury returned verdict OF
manslaughter.
The railroad freight agcats in session
at Santa Barbara, CAL, have agreed TO
form an association, TO he called the
Transcontincntsl Freight Rate Commit.
tee. In which all transcontinental lines
except the Great Northern, the North.
efn Pacific and Canadian Pacidc will he
parties. a resolution 10 that effect was
passed, but no written agreement has
yet been drawn.
The Grand Orange Lodge Of British
Columbia has adopted strong resolutions
indorsing Dalton Mccarthy, q. q NJ. T.,
and condcmning Sir John Thompson and
his government Tor using public funds to
assist the ffemicr's co.reigionists TO
hght the people Of Manitoba in their ei.
forts ~ throw OIL the separate school
system, and urging upon the British Co.
lumbiA members OF Parliament a. Ot-
tawa ca support Mr.. McCnthv'- rcsolu.
ton to abolish French as an official Ian.
guAge aud do AwAy with separate schools.