Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-01
Thunder and Rain Throughout
the Colorado Desert.
A U. s. PAYMAsTER ARRESTED.
Another Rich Strike in Gold at
Baker City - Damages for
False Imprisonment.

far packed As, ,576 cases OF salmon.
Shasta's (Cal.) Supervisors have ap-i
propriated 81 900 for mineral exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
The contract has been let for a new
opera-house at Pendleton. 1t will have
a seating capacity OF about 800.
Another wonderfully rich strike in
gold is reported from Baker City, Or.
The people are much excited.
For the first time in more than year
Southern New Mexico has been visited |
by rainstorm Of some twenty hours'
duration.
Riverside 10 far has shipped LOO car
loads OF oranges-500 more than last |
season. About 800 carloads are yet TO |
be shipped.
Forty acres Of ground have been To-
Gated for placer mining at the mouth Of |
the Pesbatin, Washington. It's expected |
that the pay will be large.
hid, the renegade Apache, has been
heard from. He has just visited the
San Carlos reservation and supplied
himself with another squaw.
Old Chief John OF the Saanich
Indians recently died ut Saanich Arm,
B. c., where he had been quietly living
for many years. lie supposed he was
1870 years old. The present chief is over
80.
Another irrigation and water-storage
enterprise is being surveyed on the ella,
twelve miles above Yuma, A. r. The
proposition is TO put sixty-foot dam on
the river at u point where il il crossed
by a natural ledge.
Grace Murphy has obtained verdict
at Fresno, CAL, for $4,000 against Mrs.
Johanna Smith Of Golden Gate avenue,
San Francisco who had charged the girl
with theft. The suit was for damages
for false imprisonment
II il reported that tho Southern
Pacific will begin the construction Of
the Black Canon line, surveyed over u
year ago, TO connect the Maricopa and
Phoenix line with the Bullock road
distance OF ll0 miles from Phoenix to
Prescott.
For several days and nights thunder
and rain have prevailed throughout the
Colorado Desert. The IIarqua Ilala
country in Arizona has met with heavy
rains extending towards PhTnix, and
on the Upper ella 1t has amounted TO
almost food.
At Fresno suit for $4,000 damages
has been begun by Miss Grace Murphy
against Mrs. j. Smith, widow of Captain
Smith, who died IN San Francisco upon
his return from whaling expedition.
The suit was brought on the grounds OF
malicious prosecution.
Fuller and Warner, two st. Louis
gentlemen, with two men from San
Francisco, have chartered the junks
Chrome and Alta at san Diego for u
trip TO the Galapagos lsancs, of the
coast of Peru, TO search for treasure said
TO have been buried there years ago by
priests of that country.
Upon telcgraphic orders from Wash
ington Paymaster j. Q. sullivan of the
receiving ship Independence ut Mare
Island was placed under arrest and his
sword taken from him. 1t il reported
that there are some Irregularities in the
paymastcrs accounts, but the officers
friends believe that he will be able to
straightcn out matters satisfactorily.
The proprietors OF the proposed
wooden mills ut Bandon count on secur-
ing the wool OF Coos and Curry counties
for their mill. They estimate there are
$4,000 sheep in these two counties, but
that ii the entire product Of these is
secured IL will not bc sufficient for the
purposes Of the new mill, and that wool
must be imported from Eastern Oregon,
At Boise City, Idaho, Judge Beatty in
the United States Court refused the
motion OF the Last Chance mine owners
for new trial in the case OF the Last
Chance VS.. Tyler and others. The
verdict OF the jury, which was in favor
OF the Tyler men, will stand unless
reversed by the Supreme Court Of tho
United States, TO which an appeal will
be taken.
The deop.wator gold trap recently in
vented by Simson of Cariboo, h. g., and
proved successful in experiments, is this
season 10 bo subjected to the test OF
actual service, the scene OF operations
being the almost inaccessible Nation
river, for which remote corner u Cariboo
party hoNAt0 10y Simson and his
moncyed partner, Fissault, have already
left. II the invention meets eNpeCta-
tions, IL will revolutioni1e placer mining
everywhere.
The abundant water supply that is
promised by the melting SHOWS will
afford the means OF working many an
old gulch or ravine which years ago
yielded handsome returns and which
have been practically abandoned await
ing season like the one that is now at
hand, and throughout Baker and adjotn-
ing counties there will be an activity
manifest that viii result when the final
cleanup Is made in the fall In distribut-
ing many thousands OF dollars OF the
golden treasure into the channels OF
trade.
There is every indication OF an un-
precedented flood along the valleys OF
the Columbia, Snake aud tributary
rivers within the next few weeks, The
water il higher in the Willamette river
at Portland than at this date in any
previous flood year Farmers along the
lowlands, and merchants whose business
houses are along the river front are
greatly alarmed, for even il the water
rises slowly their entire stock must he
removed from the lower stories or be-
completely ruined.
Harry Raymond, who represented
himself rs an agent OF the Red Cedar
Shingle Company, secured from David
Ferris OF Portland, Or, manager OF the
Oregon and California Lumber Com.
pany, n check for 81 600 after giving a
bill OF sale Tor SpO,OO shingles, The
affair has not We, been settled up, Ray
mond, wherever he is now, still has the
money, while the Seattle bank which
cashed the check still hangs TO the check
in the hope that il can either come hack
ON Ferris or the mill At Mt. Vernon for
the sl,0oe'