Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-15
Astoria Gamers Preparing for
a Big Salmon Catch.
SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIALS
Burns Beats the Record for High
Jumping-SOntag and Evans
Again Heard From.

yada, Lower California.
Astoria Gamers are preparing for the
biggest salmon catch Of the year. The
present run il very heavy.
A monster fur-bearing seal, weighing
l,bOO pounds, was caught at Elk Creek,
at Tillamook, Or, recently.
Philip Koonce and Walter /. Dough-
erty have been arrested at HALEY,
Idaho, and charged with stealing letters.
The fourth crop Of green peas is now
ready for the table at Yuma. Green
corn has been in the market since May
10.
The Colorado, New and Carter rivers
in Arizona are higher than has been
known in years. The latter two are out
oi their banks.
Work on the construction Of the tclc-
phone line from Pcndlcton 10 Canyon
City has begun. The line will be com
pleted TO Pilot Rock in two weeks.
The Good and McWhirter murder
cases at Fresno are becoming very much
entangled with contradictions and plots
and counter-plots Of Il sensational char
acter.
Judge Ross Of the Unites States Dis
trict Court at Los Angeles has ruled in a
water case that a new constitution can
not abrogate contracts made previous to
its passage.
Donborger & Co., contractors and
builders at Los Angeles, consisting Of G.
ID. Donborger and X. n. Rogers, sud
denly departed from Los Angeles, lcav-
ing lumber bills and mechanics unpaid
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re.
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with fifteen Tor the
previous week and fifteen Tor the CORE
spending week Of 1892.
Eleven Denver young men danced
seventeen hours and thirty minutes
and only stopped when the Humane
Society and the police intcrtcrcd tn,
men were allowed six lady partner,
apiece, who relieved each other at stated
intervals. The prize contested for was d
$500 medal.
The man Burns, who was with Black
the detective, ut the time Sontag aul
Evans fired on them, said 10 Il reporter
"iou may say, II you like, that / wac
scared out Of my wits. There was on,
obstruction in my way ~ | ran that
must have been sixteen feet high, but
cleared it at u leap"
A petition Is to be forwarded to OF.
tawa from the white fishermen OF the
Fraser river in British Columbia pro-
testing against the present law, which
enables the Japs and alcins 10 get natur-
allied and then procure fishing licenses
The Asiatics are taking the oath OF al
lcgiance by the score.
The boys in the State Reform School
near Salem are kept at work clearing
land. About ten acres will be cleared
for the plow this season, making little
more than 100 tillable OF the total estat,
OF 377 acres. Tho school uses between
900 cords OF wood year, and
the cutting OF il removes most OF the
timber from the tracts 20 be cleared
Health Officer Kccney and DR.. Rcgcn,
burger OF the San Francisco Board OF
Health have cent to the pcsthousc Rob
ert jackson, Il-ycar-old cook, whom
they decided was u iull-llcigcd lcpcr.
Jackson said he was II native OF England
and that no had been in Honolulu lol
some time. Then he went TO Victoria,
and three months ago came 10 san Fran.
cisco. lie thought he was only suffering
from slight skin disease.
Clark l.. Royce, wcll.kuown lawyer
OF san Francisco, has been indicted 10y
the grand jury for embclzlcmcnt OF Slp,-
600, the funds OF the lountvillc Netcr-
ans Home, while acting " Treasurer ui
that institution. Royce WAS found in
his room about month ago suffering
from bullet wound in the head, but
how he came by it has since remained q
mystery, although generally believed it
was u case OF attempted suicide. The
fact that he was dclaulter was discov-
cred soon after this.
The managers OF the Eugene canncry
are now planting corn ut the rate OF
about fifteen acres day on the Bush
nell farm north OF that town. They
will plant about scyonty-tiye acres.
They have fourteen horses and eight
men at work and are running two roll.
ing cultiyators and have thrcc men run
ming the corn droppcrs. The ground l-
thoroughly cultivated before planting,
and great pains are being taken 10 have
everything just right to insure good
crop.
The result OF the investigation by the
government inspectors ut the recent
collision between the steamers State OF
California and Whtesboro is made
public. The inspectors find that Cap
below ON the night oi the accident.
leaving the second mate, an unlicensed
officer, In charge, and It Was due 10 his
want Of knowledge that the collision
took place. Captain Liobcg is found
culpable for having placed such an Off
Ger in charge, and his license - u mas
ter and pilot is suspended for thirty
days. Captain Acklvy OF the State ol
California is eNonerated from all blame.
David Starr Jordan has resigned the
Presidency OF the Leland Stanlori ,Jr..
Uniyersity. Tho resignation IL said 10
have been made 10 senator StAuiupl
personally and supplemented hy O
written communication, which the
founder OF the institution has accepted.
IL IL understood that at the end OF the
scholastic year President Jorlan's con.
nection with the college will cease. Thy
reason given for the resignation Is tina,
Senator stanford has for some time been
rather dissatisfied with the manner iu
which Jordan has managed the uniyer.
eity affairs. When he returned from
abroad six weeks ago he summoned Oh,
President TO conference AZ his Pa.u
Alto residence. lie indicate! th,
changes he desired, but jordan resented
the Senatorial interference with the
ultimate result as stated
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