Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-03-30
PACIFIC COAST.
TWo'Virginia City Mines Sus-
pend Operation.
MONTANA TICKET SCALPERS
California Farmer Purchases One
of Those interchangeable
Gold Bricks.

Tombstone, A. T., has become the seat
OF United States District Court.
Idaho pupils in the public schools are
TO be furnished textbooks without cost.
Cyrus shafFer, the murderer Of Jacob
Mol in Jefferson county, Or, has been
denied a new trial.
Vancouver, B. c., has discovered that
its Chinatown is overcrowded, unhealthy
and disease-breeding.
Fish and game dealers in Oregon are
TO test the legality OF the fish law
adopted by the ast Legislature.
4 suit has been instituted ~ San nj
ego against the Bear Valley Irrigation
Company. Waste OF funds Is charged.
The Bella Bella and Kitkalia Indians
in North British Columbia have COM
menced hostilities as result OF the re-
cent massacre on Sorrow Island.
The trial OF the bigamy charge against
George B. Jefferis, whose connection
with the Ayres Brighton murder case 10
we'll known, has been set for April % at
Sacramento.
The Provisional government Ia going
TO assist the Frazer river bridge project
10 the extent Of $62 800, payable in five
equal annual installments. This will
materially help the Northern Pacific rail-
road extension project.
The Mining and Developing Company
has purchased the Gold Bar mines and
Gold Bar west extension in the Wander
bilt mining district in San Bernardlno
county for $4,000. The same mines
were recently sold for 10000.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with thirty-one for
the previous week and fourteen for the
corresponding week Of 1892.
Charles +. Olsen, an ex.member OF
the Utah Legislature and ex-Aasessor
and Collector Of Cache county, Utah,
has been sentenced 10 one year in the
penitentiary for embeZzlinp 1000 while
occupying the position Of Collector.
Deep snow in the Blue Mountains In
Oregon have driven large numbers OF
elk to the lower levels TO the great de-
light OF hunters in that region. who have
killed a greater number OF these ami
mails this season than for years previous.
A resolution has been introduced into
the British Columbia Legislature pray
Ing the Lieutenant-Govern 10 move
the Dominion government 10 prohibit all
immigration from Asiatic countries for
period Of one year from the first day OF
April next.
A farmer living five miles from Sacra.
nento has informed the police OF that
iity that few days ago three swindlers
ouncoed him out OF $1,000 by the gold
brick trick. When he drew the money
or them and got home he found instead
n gold brick box OF scrap iron.
At Virginia City draft OF thirty-fve
men was made from the force employed
IN the Savage mine and q draft OF ten
from the Belcher. The draft will result
In the suspension OF ore extraction from
those mines, which have been jointly
producing about 1900 tons monthly.
The agents OF California railroad lines
In session ut Santa Barbara have agreed
TO adopt to California terminal points
only practically the same rates as have
been put In force TO North Pacific Coast
points by the northern lines from Chi
cago and points West. The new tariff Is
TO 20 into effect about April l.
The United States Commissioners are
In camp twenty-five miles north Of Cou-
elo, Mendocino county, CAL, In what Ia
known ~ Kit Oarson's cabin, which was
built In 1863 by Frank Asbell, a famous
trapper OF those days. The report Is
current that the Commissioners will
place on the market half OF the Round
Valley Indian reservation, %, 600 acres,
at from $l.26 TO 81 an acre.
A prospector has reached Phmnix, A..
T., from the desert beyond Harqua Hala,
bringing specimens OF free gold-bearing
rock that runs $50 to the pound. lie
will say little except that, finding water
plenty on the desert by reason OF the re-
cent storms, he penetrated a hitherto
unexplored country and discovered the
quartz in large bodies. Several heavy
capitalists started or with the miner
within few hours for the mines, which
are about one hundred miles from
Phoenix.
During the past two years SIS, 900
worth OF gold has been taken out OF tho
Annie mino In the Bohemia district.
The minc has been worked at short i'm
teryals during this time, and most Of the
gold has been taken out the past year,
Everything points TO lively mining
season In that region this summer. One
mill is now running, and another will be
started as soon as possible in the spring.
snow has not stopped work in the mines
this winter, aud number Of men have
been working there all winter.
|. w, Miller, the Union county child
hunter, has at last abandoned his search,
aud is returning TO his home In Summer.
VILE. lie has travelled 5000 miles by
railroad and long distances on horseback
In Oregon, Washington and Idaho in
search OF his lost daughter. lie is now
ready 10 paw q ransom OF 81 800 to the
gypsies, II they have her. for the return
OF the girl 10 his home in Summerville.
Mr.. Miller lately visited the Yakima
country TO see the child living with the
Indians there on sellis creek, but found
that che is not his daughter. The little
girl resembles pure-blood white child
very much In appearance, hut has some
Indian blood In her veins and evidently
belongs 10 the tribe with whom she |,
living.