Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-07
Farmer Of Oregon, Arraigned
for Incest, Skips Out.
APPEAL AGAINST CIGARETTES.
The Folsom Prison Directors Take
Their First Action Under the
California Parole.

December l5 at p. NJ. is the hour set
for the Oregon Pacific sale.
Another $4,000 cleanup has come into
Baker from the Monumental.
The Pendleton Savings Bank has re-
sumed with increased capital.
Some 170, 600 mutton sheep have been
shipped from The Dales in 1893.
Snow is six inches deep on the noun
tain road FROM Linn county over into
Crook.
Prineville for the first time in six
years could not hold public school this
winter.
John the Baptist" a 158-pound
black mastif OF Scio, has been bought
by Il Sacramento man.
j. T. Cargill and Alexander Mckenzie,
OF Pendleton, have assigned 10 Senator
Raley. Assets and liabilities are about
even.
The shores OF the Columbia along by
The Dalles are thickly lined with wood
piled high, in anticipation Of cold
winter.
Attorney General Chamberlain il said
10 DC pushing the case of the state
against Baker county for the payment
OF taxes.
The young man in the Salem board
ing house who would rather pray than
eat, was sent TO the asylum. Such re-
Elections OH the great American board
ing house must be punished.
At Portland the United States grand
jury has returned an indictment against
II. Brighton on the charge OF smuggling
az liye-tael cans of OPIUM. Brighton
was placed under arrest.
John Savage, farmer, was arraigned
IN the circuit court at Corvallis on
charge OF incest. His l7-year-old
daughter is the victim. When con-
ironled by her two aunts with their
suspicious she confessed the facts, and
declared the intimacy had existed for
several years. Savage fled before the
court convened. The evidence was very
strong against him,
1t ls possible that Mansen, who was
arrested Tor opium smuggling, is the
same Mansen who led little boys ut Van
,ouver, b. g., into committing bur
glaries. The boy Radalet has admitted
that the person who took him into Mr..
Sharpe's house was II man AMI not II boy
ol 10, ~ first described. He says he
was afraid TO tell the truth until sure
that Manscn was out OF The country.
g. Nolcy, OF Vancouver, b. g., has
written TO the city council begging them
for Gods rake and humanity's sake to
enforce the law against the sale OF
cigarettes to minors. lie says he Is
driven 10 ask them to do this by the lnct
that his son, 10 years old, has been
driven crazy through smoking cigarettes,
hn Ina nI nfh
cases. He SAYS cigarette smoking and
unnamable practices are rampant IN the
city schools.
The game law made by the last legis-
lature OF Oregon, only allows grouse,
pheasants, quail, etc, TO be sold in the
market one month in the year. During
this month, which expired on the 10Th
inst, dealers accumulated II stock OF
Mongoian phcasants in cold storage.
Now Fish and Game Protector McGuire
will commence suit to prevent dealers
from selling birds from cold storage.
He tried the same thing last spring in
regard TO salmon and the dealers won
in the supreme court. They look on the
new suit as merely intended TO make
fees and costs.
Ground has been broken for the Ann
Hathaway cottage ut the Midwinter
Fair, which will be the British head
quarters. The site IL on the south arm
OF the fair grounds, which extends along
the borders OF Strawberry lake ON the
south. The grounds will be laid out in
an artistic manner, and ~ nearly identi-
aal with old English IDEAS and practices
as possible. The box hedges have al
ready been arranged for, and on the
quantity designed flower beds will be
planted marigolds, datlodils, sweet Will
iams, lads and lasses, and other flowers
that Shakespeare knew.
In the superior court at San Fran
cisco G. A. Spreckels and II. NJ. Wooley
have commenced suit against the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany. The suit IL for an accounting of
all moneys and property in possession
of the corporation. An order is asked
for restraining the defendant from
transaCting any business The plain
tltls also ask Tor the appointment OF II
receiver TO assume control oi the COM
pany's affairs. The complaint ut the
same time makes serious charges OF
fraud and other irregularities. There is |
involved about 81, 900, 900.
The clearance sale OF stations and |
brood mares from the San Simeon stud |
OF the late Senator Hearst took place re-
Gently. great number of breeders
were in attendance. The average price |
was the largest ever realized ut such u |
sale in California. Paloma, the dam OF |
Armitage, brought $500, the highest
price. Coset, u chestnut mare, brought
$4,000. Surnam, hay horse, brought
$4,000. Fortytwo head brought total
OF s40,12l, an average little short of
1910 The average was reduced hy the
sale Of one or two crippled animals and
an old mare or two. Really well bred
mares averaged about $500,
A special from Folsom, Cal, saws the
prison directors, at u meeting SATURDAY.,
took their first action under the parole
law. A prisoner under sentence from
Shasta county Tor murder was granted
n parole, and John NurNry win giy.
him employment and he responsible for
him. A Pit river Indian chief was also |
paroled He Was sentenced for killing
a medicine man who had l'llel tu cure
his (the chivl - brutbcu This was the
custom OF the tribe, but the people of
Modoc wanted to put u stop TO lt and
caused the chief To be arrested aul
prosecuied The superior Judge and
others, believing the desired end to have
been rearhed, recommended the chief =
parole. The application OF Calvin Pratt,
the emhezgler, was referred by Gov
ernor Markham TO the board, Pratt
was called before the directors. but de-
clining 10 state whore the money is and
nrefarrinr 10 serve the remaining two