Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-18
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Backward Season in Nevada
Protects the Fruit.
NEW GOLD FIND IN ARIZONA.
A Blue Ribbon War in Progress at
San DiegO-A Deputy Sheriff
Killed by the Kid.

Victoria tB. c. lumber dealers have
formed lumber combine.
Peach Springs, A. T., IL in the throes
oi excitement over new gold find.
A wonderfully rich strike has been
made in the Eagle Tail Mountains, A. r.
The Clatsop Mill Company at Astoria
now has dryhouse, with capacity Of
100000 feet a day.
The Citizens ticket at Phoenix, A. r.,
has been elected, with the exception OF
City Marshal.
=. The San Diego County Horticultural
Commissioners have organized and com
menced the study Of fruit pests.
b,There are rumors Of big opium com
bine, working through Canadian ports
and having headquarters at Portland,
Or.
The backward season in Nevada has
protected the fruit, and the pasturage
will be exceedingly fine, owing to heavy
rains and SHOWS.
There 10 much excitement in Graham
county, A. r., over the indictment Of
several citizens for raising the registra-
ton to make the county firat-class.
Kid, the Apache, has killed Jake Bow
iSNBuhl vi AONlllHt fDulLlt
in Guadalupe Canyon, A. n. Bowman
started out TO hunt for and kill the Kid.
An Albany paper asserts that people
going TO the Worlds Fair from the coun-
try thereabout will take ut least 500, 900
away that will never return and be
complete loss TO that community.
The clerk hire Of the last Legislature
cost the State OF Oregon S26, ,026. 10, or
over 5000 Il day. The lowest paid any
one clerk was SIG, but very few Of them
drew less than $l25. There were 1853
clerks on the pay roll.
A blue-ribbon war is in progress at
San Diego. Bands OF Christian men and
women visit the saloons in chosen
quarter Of the city and hold gospel meet
ings inside the saloon il invited, as il
often the case, or on the sidewalk il de-
MED entrance.
The Phoenix CA. To bankers have de-
clded TO contest the legality OF the Ter
rtorial law taxing all banks, national
State or private, on the same basis as
other property when the bank does bus-
ness solely within the1erritory, whether
organized under the laws Of Arizona or
any other State.
cotton saturated with nostrum whose
odor In pleasant to the nostrils OF coy
otes, has been able TO capture and kill
within five weeks forty-six coyotes in
Mendocino county, Cal, whose scalps
bring him near II 400, the bounty from
= the county and the sheepmen.
At Phoenix, A. r., the grand jury has
just ignored the charges against five
prisoners who have been in jail for from
four 10 six months. These men were
too poor TO give bonds, and were COM
PEELED To remain In Jail until the session
of the jury without u shadow of ovi-
dence to indict, much less convict them
A fish wheel il now in operation in the
Umatilla river mile above the town OF
Umatilla. IL IL the first one ever tried
out OF the Columbia, and seems TO he
doing pretty well. Il, g. Hinton, who
put the wheel In, Is also the inventor OF
an irrigating wheel which is now being
used successfully at several points along
the Umatilla river.
Preliminary arrangements have been
completed for the establishment OF the
Australian steamship line TO run in con-
nection with the Canadian Pacific rail-
way. The first steamers will leave sgd
ney May IL and June s, and, returning,
will probably leave Vancouver June s
and July q.
A petition has been put in circulation
throughout the mainland OF British CO.
lumbia, addressed To the Governor-ien
eral OF Canada, suggesting separation Of
the mainland from Vancouver Island as
the surest means Of relief from the ex-
listing evils OF the rescgyCGS-0i the PROV
iss.ee Icing spent in unproductiye under
takings.
Miss Harrietto Woodruff, Supcrintcnd-
ont OF Schools in Umatilla county, has
sent In her annual State report. There
ARE ut present 6,l32 children OF school
age In the county, an increase oi l66
over last year The spring apporton.
ment gives this county S2l,OiS. In all
S67,0l3,66 have been spent in the last
year for school purposes.
Captain Van Bramcr has returned 10
Vancouver, II. c., from an unsuccessful
hunt for buried treasure ON Cocos Island,
lie says the island is honcycombed with
shafts and tunnels OF treasure-seckcrs.
One party estimated the cost of the work
done ut slO0,OOO. The Bramcr party
tunnelcd 100 feet, but their charts were
evidently wrong they claimed.
The old blockhouso at the Cascades,
on the Washington side, recently fell
down during heavy wind, and OF course
will never be rebuilt, This house was
built in 1856, and though Il has never
received u hostile bullet, being built two
years after the memorable fight upon the
old blockhouse, now completely gone tO
ruin, il has been an old landmark and
quartered good many troops and civil
ians while the Indians were yet hostile,
Rev. J. II. Collins OF the Congega-
tional Church at Fresno, Cal, has crra-
ted considerable excitement by announc.
ing from the pulpit that he had seen one
OF Frcsno's society Young ladies NJ
Hughes hctcl IN state oi intoNicaton
at recent hall given hy kshionahl,
club OF young people. lie says when
he finishes his present series OF sermons
ON drunkenness he will preach series on |
other sins OF the Fresno people that will |
rival Jonah's efforts at Nineveh.
Captain II. W. Donelson, inspector OF
the life-saying service, has completed his |
Inspection OF the thcc stations In Pa. |
ciho county, Wash, and reports them
In good condition, well equipped aud |
men well drilled. lie recommends new |
boathouee at North Cove and station
at Holman, the FIRST stopping place this |
side Of llwaoo, TO rescue ycntupsomc |
bathers ON that portion OF the beach, iot |
An spite OF all warning and drownings |
every season bathers insist ON going be- |
yond their depth. !