Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-05
Chinese Pay $50 Apiece to be
Struggled in at Olympia.
HOW A TRAMP PRoCUREs GRUB.
Nevada Judge Cuts Down the Dam.
ages Awarded a Widow for
Her Husbands Death.
oregon's potato crop is very large.

oil the street superintendent at Los An
geles, has stolen II 700 from the safe and
absconded.
German and English stockholders are
looking over the Southern Pacific lines
in California. The placing OF the new
loan called them there.
Persons seeking employment at Mare
Island must register. An applicant is
not eligible for work one year after the
date OF his registration.
One OF the Supreme Court Judges in
Nevada is i'll, and the other two are in u
deadlock over a question as to whom a
note for $4,000 should look for payment.
The recently smuggled Chinese cap
tured near Olympia paid $50 apiece 10
be safely landed in this country. The
vessels engaged in the traffic are known,
and will be seized.
Chris Evans has made formal request
OF the District Attorney and Sheriff OF
Fresno TO be allowed to attend the thea
ter when the plav Of evans and Son
tag" arrives in Fresno.
Work on the San Diego and Phoenix
road has been discontinued, owing TO
the want OF the necessary funds 10 carry
it on. Local capitalists have not taken
the interest expected and promised.
The people Of Fresno are demanding
that tramps be put to work. The Jail
now holds more than 100 of them. 1t is
even proposed TO put them in chain
gang and make them break rock for mac
adamizng roads.
The grand jury at Salt Lake has re-
turned an indictment for murder in tho
-aN Il
aged IL years, and George Gaylor, aged
IA. On June "a Hammond killed Clyde
Robertson, aged years.
Judge Hawley at Carson, Nev, cut
down the verdict obtained by Mrs. II.
w. johnson against the Southern Pacific
for the death of her husband from $780,
600 TO $4,000. The plaintiff accepted
the cut, but the road will appeal.
Thomas l.. Robinson, writer in the
construction and repair department at
Mare Island, has been removed by order
of Secretary Herbert, and William A.
Henry OF the United States marine corps
has been appointed to I'll the place.
There il tramp in Woodland, Cal.
who has an original method OF securing
food. When food is refused him he
opens II tin box and throws II snake into
the house. The housewife IN always glad
10 give him food II he will catch the
snake.
A. j. Ross, the ex-policeman who en-
deavored TO palm oil widow on the es-
tate OF Joseph Mckinney, wealthy
negro farmer ut Stockton, has been sem
fenced TO five years in the State prison.
Pending an appeal, he has been released
ON 10000 bonds.
City Marshal Blankenship at Phoenix,
A. T., confessed TO receiving money and
not making proper returns OF IT. He
added that liquor made him do the
wrong, and that he had taken an oath
never to touch II again. The court dis
missed the charges.
Judge llawley in the United States
Circuit Court ut Carson, New, decided
the case of Book x Blowey against the
Justice Mining Company in favor of the
defendants, sustaining every point
claimed by the defendants. The case
involved great many important ques-
tions OF mining law.
After the Oregon State Fair is over
the cream OF the fruit and vegetable and
grain exhibits will be sent to the Worlds
Fair, where they will be exhibited in the
Oregon departments 10 which they prop
erly belong. The State Agricultural
College has donated its magnificent ex-
hibit Of potatoes, grains, grasses and
vegetables, and the State Board will send
it's special exhibits OF grasses, grains,
fruits and vegetables. These will 20 far
toward attracting yet greater notice TO
Oregon.
The Arizona Gazette, published ut
Phoenix, has issued Worlds Fair edi-
ton, giving description OF the Terri
tory, It's agricultural possibilities, mining
achievements and natural scenic attrac-
tions, with historical sketches OF the
races that once inhabited that "land OF
the future" The Inducements in cli-
mate and the prolific soil OF the Salt
River Valley are features that homeseek-
ers are not likely TO overlook when once
they read of them in this carefully ed
tied paper.
The announcement is made ut San
Francisco that ut the request OF the Pa
citic Mail Steamship Company Postmas-
ter-General Bissell has annulled the con
tract between the government and that
company for carrying the mails between
that port and Panama and intermediate
points In Mexico and Central America.
The annullment is 10 take effect Scptcm.
ber 80. The company officials claim that
the contract neCessitates extra service,
including additional steamers and more
frequent stops, and that the company is
consequently losing money ON It's regular
business, especially In view OF the com
petition offered 10y the North American
Navigation Company. II is said, though
the company officials do not confirm IT,
that after the expiration OF the mail
contract but two steamers per month |
will be run between san Francisco and |
Panama, and that the present call ut san |
Diego will be abandoned.
AT the Worlds Fair the Committee on |
Nomenclature alter some OF the names |
OF Oregon fruits shipped for exhibition, |
but they unanimously agree that the |
color, flavor, texture and general excel. |
lence OF the fruit are remarkable and |
unsurpassed. The fruits have all been |
labeled with the names OF the growers
who produced them, and they derive all |
the benefit arising from the publicity |
given. The managers OF the Oregon ex.
hibits are using their very best endeay.
ors TO place exhibits In such position
as to catch the eyes OF the capitalists
and those who are seeking homes. Ii Is J
surprising 10 note the great number OF
people who are 50 much interested, and
who want all the literature they can pro.
cure ON the subject. The exhibits will
be the means of inducing many OF the
hest class OF homescekers 10 locate in
Oregon during the next five years, and
win briny unlimited capital