Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-19
Colorado Miners UnfavOrable to
a Sliding Wage Scale.
THE POPULATION OF OKLAHOMA.
immigration Into Canada-ChOice
Lands in the Red River VAL
ley of North Dakota.

all the mills are running.
Horses and cattle are dying of drouth
in various parts OF Texas.
The Indians are costing the govern
ment about 81, ,000,0 900 per year.
Mob law was strongly condemned by
the Knoxville TENN Presbytery.
James A. Garfield ia to have monu-
ment in Fairmount Park. Philadelphia.
Congressman de Armond proposes a
tax on all incomes in excess of 10000.
The report OF the Utah Commission
says that polygamous marriages are
thing Of the past.
Over one-fifth Of the whole number Of
people in the United States have visited
the Worlds Fair.
Georgia negroes will form an associa-
tion to prevent lynchings and other out
RACES upon the race.
Secretary Lamont has appointed a
board TO appraise Fort Bliss in Texas,
with view TO its sale.
Ex-President Harrison is said to have
received 81 $50 for recent magazine ar
ticle on the Worlds Fair.
mOIc llldu fiOOOiUOu WOTub nave Deen
/ used in Congressional debate since the
silver repeal question came up.
Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang
ing from to IL years old, have been ar
rested for carrying revolvers to school.
More than one half Of the Cherokee
Strip boomers have already left their
claims and gone back to their old homes.
Virginia comes up smiling with the
largest peanut crop for years. Norfolk
reports 1000 bushels more than last
| year.
The Missouri State Board of Railroad
Commissioners and the express compa-
MES are preparing new schedule of
rates.
Railroad trains will shortly be lit by
electricity. The New York Central rail-
road is probably the first to use that
system.
Representative Cooper of Texas has
introduced resolutions in the House re-
ierring the question OF silver to vote
of the people.
Immigration into Canada has proven
failure the past year, decrease of 25
per cent compared with the previous
year being shown.
Kansas farmers have been taken in by
swindlers, who sell Il compound alleged
to double the amount OF butter from a
given amount of cream.
A Kentucky Congressman wants the
government to pay rent for the school
houses and churches used rs hospitals
by the armies during the war.
The canal between Georgia Bay and
Lake Ontario, which will shorten the
Chicago route to the seaboard by over
| 600 miles, is nearing completion.
In Maryland the finest varieties of
peaches are selling in the orchards at %
cents bushel. Prices are 80 low that it
does not pay to ship them to market.
The Chicago grand jury has found in
dictments against twelve men who are
charged with arson. They were COM
bned to insure houses and then burn
them.
A whistle that will make itself heard
for twenty-five miles has Just been fin
ished by John Bowman, and it will adorn
the car shops at Third and Berks street,
Philadelphia.
The Indebtedness per head in Colorado
is S2O6. Even Kansas, which has always
been an insatiate borrower, has only
succeeded in running up mortgage debt
OF $40. per head.
A Rochester man has devised a plan
by which n trolley street car can be
stopped almost instantaneously, or with
in space of three feet, while the ear is
going at full speed.
Bartholdi's magnificent statuary group
wu'ch ~ at present on exhibition ut the
Wo"lh's Fair will be kept ut Chicago.
the work is of bronze, and is composed
OF heroic figures of Washington and La
fayette.
THE silver-mine overs at Aspen, Col,
have proposed sliding scale OF wages
to the men, but the latter are not dis
posed 10 accept it, and work will not be
resumed until the price of silver iustiies
the old wages.
The New York World boasts OF having
given away in charity on u recent sun
day morning pile of bread go feet
long, q feet high and q feet wide" and
did not have enough to give each hun
CRY man n loaf"
A bill appropriating So, Al, ,q45 for the
payment OF damages sustained by citi-
zens OF Pennsylvania from Union and
Confederate troops during the late war
was reported lavOrably in the House by
the Committee on War Claims.
Sensational newspaper writer's are at
tributing 10 New York bankers and to
the United States Treasury officials
threats To turn the screws" and bring
ON another financial convulsion il the
Senate does not soon pass the repeal
bill.
During the month Of October the State
of North Dakota will offer for sale nearly
lOO, 900 acres OF the choicest lands, all
located in the famous Red River Valley.
state owns $500 900 acres, being part
OF the grant OF land donated by Con-
gresS.
Oklahoma had population in 1890
larger than Wyoming when admitted as
u state, and with the increase since and
the sudden addition OF fully 10 200 more
ON the opening OF the Cherokee strip Il
must have now u population Of over
lSO, 900.
Elder Roberts Of the Mormon Church
complains that he was barred from par.
ticipatiug in the proceelings Of the Par.
lament ot Religions at the Worlds Fair.
notwithstanding the belief was enter
taiucd that all religions could have the
right and privilege to be heard.
II is rported that the cropo Of peaches
and grapes in Michigan this year are too
great 10 he moved. The various trans.
portation companies that are engaged in
carrying the product to Chicago and
other markets are overwhelmed with Of
ierings o. material TO be carried away.