Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-07-27
OregOn's Worlds Fair Exhibit
Attracts Attention.
HER BIG FRUIT AND FINE WOODS
Judge Bellinger Refuses to Issue
Writs of Habeas Corpus in
the Chinese Cases.

'Weiser, Idaho, claims the largest flour
mills in the State.
Counterleiters are reported TO be oper-
ating in the suburban districts OF Port
land.
Oscar T.. Hill, cashier OF the Com
mercial National Bank OF Ogden, is a
defaulter for S65, 600.
A branch Of the Theosophcal Society
OF the Pacific Coast has been formed al
Port Townsend, Wash.
The Nevada State Board Of Pardons
has refused TO grant any Of the many
applications presented TO it.
A wooden ware manufacturing com
pany Of Michigan IL guaranteed s25, 600
bonds in lands and money ii it will
erect a manuiactory in Whatcom,
WASH, and employ 100 men.
The owners of the East WELLINGTON
(B. o. collieries have telegraphed their
unwillingness TO agree to terms with
their employees on the compromise offer
ed by the latter; 30 the mines have shut
down.
The capture OF II woman named Nc
Daggett ut Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, who
was engaged in smuggling opium from
British Columbia, il reported. 1t was
found in her berth, and amounted in all
to sixty cans.
Schultz, the self-confessed shooter Of
George Abranasn, II wayside saloon
keeper near Stockton, was confronted
by his late employer, ID. W. McCarty,
who described him as being an easy liar
who likes TO pose as II hero.
A deck hand on the Australian
steamer Warrimoo at Vancouver, b. g.,
was bitten by II tarantula on the breast.
The poisonous insect dropped from a
bale OF bananas into his open shirt
bosom. A surgeon cut the flesh out all
around the bite.
The Southern Pacific Company struck
big flow IN IN artesian well at lndIo,
CAL, near the hotel. The capacity OF
the well is 1900 gallons per hour and
the water rises ten feet above the sur
face OF the ground. The water was
found ut II depth OF 800 feet. The well
can lrrigate quite u large tract Of land.
Mariana Gearman, alias Bartolo Gar.
cin, was arrested at Tuscon, A. r., and
charged with the murder OF Pedro
Lopez in Tres Phos, san Benito county,
Cal, on September 20, 1870. For over
twelve years Geurman has lived in
Tusron aud vicinity, working in the
mines and frcighting. lie has been
known as Bnrtola Garcia and bore the
reputation Of u pcaceablc and indus
trious man and cared well for his wife
and little daughter.
Harry Bentley, once convicted at Los
Angeles for poisoning his wife by arsenic
and thus causing her DEATH has been
discharged 10y Judge Smith. The Dis
trict Attorney asked that he be dis
charged, saying that the Nordholdt
heirs OF Mrs. Bentley and Bentley had
compromised their troubles over the
property and il would be impossible to
convict Bentley, the heirs being in his
favor. The Judge intimated that things
looked queer all around.
A paper was read at meeting OF
raisin growers Mt Fresno Saturday, pur-
porting to an agreement between the
growers, packers and the association in
effect Ms follows; The growers are TO
pay the packers 40 cents per box for
layers and 800 per ton Tor loose raisins,
8 per cent commission and 2la per cent
brokerage and % cents per ton to the
association to be collected by the packer,
the packer to be liable to the association
ut the rate of Sl,60 II car for all raisins
packed.
Judge Bellinger in the United States
District Court ut Portland refuses to
issue writs OF habens corpus in Chinese
cases until the customs officers have
decided ON their rights To enter the
country. He added; The govern
ment has appointed qualified officers to
take care of Cinnamon, and il is not
presumed the courts arc to take the
matter out of their hands. Cinnamon
are not imprisoned in the usual sense OF
the word. They voluntarily placed
themselves in this position and know
perfectly well they would be subject to
examination on reaching United States
ports"
Those who arc skeptical rs to the
worth OF Oregon's exhibit ut the
Worlds Fair will find in the following
clippings abundant evidence that her
big fruit and fine woods are attracting
no small amount of favorable comment
Chicago Evening journal; "a repre-
sentative collection of fruits from
the growers of Oregon is arranged
ON the east side of the north
hall in u glittering array Of glass jars.
Oregon prides herself ON her prunes,
Her soil produces with utmost inn
partiality Italian, German, French,
Hungarian and her own silver prunes.
When il comes TO a matter OF size the
State is also we'll to the fore. There is
pear in her exhibit which measures
. inches and weighs A. pounds; al
Gloria Mundl' apple weighing pounds,
q cherry ga inches in diameter, and
peaches l7le inches IN circumference.
Chicago Tribune; "ln the horticul-
tural building, Oregon, which was the
iirst state ia complete readiness and
which opened May /, makes an exhibit
which should Toe seen 10y all. IL is u
wonderful story OF the resources OF that
State. Its plan of display is remark
ably artistic, and shows It's many varic-
ties of lfuIts IN jar and On plate to great
advantage. In all there are 400 plates
OF apples that make the mouth water
and 2iO immense jars OF fruit in solu.
ton. There are monster pears, ounces,
pums, peaches, apricots, cherries aud
grapes, any one ot which, except the
two latter. would do Tor dessert for
medium-sizcd family. There are Ml
cases OF prunes, sun-drled apples, pear,
plums, peaches and other fruits. Chi
cago lnter-Occan; sections OF horti-
cultural hall contain fruits and vines,
or more properly speaking, the displays
of the bnVau OF yiticulture aud pO.
mology. OF the latter 0Wgon, Cali
fornia, Utah aud Nova Scotia have eS-
cecdingly fine exhibits ready for in
spection.