Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-25
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
The Libel Suit Against the
Itata Dismissed.
POLITICAL SCANDAL AT YUMA.
A Will Contest for the Possession Of
a COlOred Refuses Estate
in California.

sunday-closing ordinance.
Santa Rosa voted to bond the city for
the purchase Of water works.
The Reed Hotel at Ogden has closed
its doors, because the patronage did not
make it pay.
The Directors Of the Bellingham Bay
and British Columbia Railroad Company
have made arrangements for the sale Of
the road to the Canadian Pacific.
Director Ames OF the Union Pacific
railroad writes that the company is max
ing an active inquiry with the view Of
extending its track to Astoria, Or.
The bylaw for Vancouver, B. c., TO
guarantee the interest on 100000 Of
debenture bonds TO be issued by the
street railway company has been de-
feated by l52 majority.
Health Inspectors visiting Chinatown
at Los Angeles found fifteen buildings
that, in their opinion, cannot be cleaned
or made healthiul, and recommended
their being razed at once.
Inquiries are now being made into the
practicability Of shipping frozen mutton
by the Australian system 10 Vancouver.
A company will probably be formed TO
build cold-storage warehouse at the
latter place and go into the business,
The damming OF the Moave river at
Victor, creating an artificial lake nine
miles long, three miles wide and 1870
feet in depth, water sufficient TO irrgate
200, 900 acres OF desert land, il project
on foot in San Bcrnardino county, Cal.
The arrest Of ex-Prison superintend-
ent NJ. Mclnernay at Yuma, A. r., on
warrants charging him with embezzling
Territorial property IRON the peniten-
tary at Yuma IL the beginning OF one
OF the most sensational political scandals
ever developed in Arizona.
Alderman fowler Of Vancouver, b. c.,
refused to apologize for saying the mem
bers Of the City Council went around
with their hands behind their backs
seeking bribcs. He said lac would 90
out In the alley and take his coat oil
with any Alderman that tried to make
him eat his words.
James Reedy, an old miner who IL
now ianitor OF the City Hall ut San
Jose, claims 10 have discovered rcl
gravel in Santa Clara county, and in
support OF the claim exhibits smal
bottle containing flakes OF gold which
he claims to have washed out
No fewer than thirty-two daggors
butChcr-kniycs, snws dies and slung
shots have been found beside NOR
phine and other drugs, in the Arizonf
Prison at Yuma The former Superin
tendent, NJ. Mclncrnay, IL in arrest fol
appropriating Territorial property,
A public meeting was held ut Cres
well, Lane county, Or, II few days agt
10 agitate the question OF removing th,
county.seat from Eugene to that place
II was argued that Eugene was only q
temporary county-seat, and that land
and money would be donated at Cres,
well for county building, and that th,
county property ut Eugene could then
be sold for sufficient money to pay oil
the debt OF the county. II was charged
that affairs were now in the hands OF Il
corrupt and oxtravngent set OF mon,
who used the public offices for private
gain,
David McDannald, living on Mud
Creek, below Milton, Or, was bothered
with snakes they would swallow eggs
whole and they would swallow the
young chickens, So great was the an
noyauce he could not raise any Young
fowls. He finally studied up plan to
rid his promises OF the snakes. He
bought u big lot uf porcelain eggs and laid
them around 80 the snakes could get
them. They swallowed them the same
as the genuine ones, but they could not
digest them, and death was The incylta-
BILE result.
A sensation has Just come to light at
Pacific Grove by the absconding OF T..
NJ. Carver, the cashier OF the Bank OF
Pacific Grove, with 10000 of the de-
positors' money. The creditors who
were duped 10y the willy cashier were
Mrs. Goodrich OF SAN Jose for $4,000 ;
William Harmon, u real estate dealer OF
Monterey; Rev. DIR. Clark, Prcsbytc-
ran minister OF Monterey, OF whose
church the missing cashier was devout
member and number of other we'll
known persons OF Pacific Grove. Re-
side these victims there is n further list
OF persons who were inyoigled for less
amounts.
United States Judges McKonna, Nor.
row and llawley, sitting rs Ciruit
Court OF Appeals at SAN Francisco, have
affirmed the Judgment of the United
States District Court OF Southern Cali
fornia, dismissing the libel suit against
the Chilian steamer ltata and releasing
the vessel aud 1000 cases OF rifles SHE
had aboard when seized by the United
States Marshal in san Diego harbor two
years ago. The libel filed in the ltata
case charged deliberate violation OF Sec
ton b,2S3 OF the United States Revised
Statutes, and set forth that the ltata had
been fitted out with the intent to cruise
and commit hostilitics against the gov
ernment OF Chill, with which the gov
ernment oi the United States was at
peace. The decision OF the Circuit
Court Is lengthy aud reviews the details
of the late Chilian revolution and over
throw OF President Balmaccda. The
Court finds that the state OF affairs rs
alleged in the libel is not borno out hy
the evidence.
The State Of Oregon has filed it's an
swer TO the cross bill Oi Multnomah
county in the tax suit. The answer admits
several unimportant charges, and asserts
that the object OF the equalization was
90 maintain uniform assessment. The
change that assessment on mortgages in
some OF the counties Is lower than that
OF Mutnomah county, and other asscr.
tions 10 the same effect, arc denied,
The answer also denies that mortgages
were Disseminated against ia favor Of
other real estatgin Alultnomah county,
and also that only 10 per c,nt was =ddod
10 the assessment ot mortgages in Coos,
Linn and Washington counties; 2o per
cent in Douglas, 80 per cent In lamhill,
and 7aer cent in Marion. The answer
aska iof the dismissal OF the cross bill,
and that the county be compelled TO pay
200, ,o6s.s0 taxes 10 the State, which Il
has refused TO do.