Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-22
Cases Against Trapmen of the
Columbia River.
OREGON CONvICTs MAKE BRICK.
The Federated Trades at Los Angeles
Fail to Make Out Case for
DepOrtation-Etc.

Nevada farmers are pleased with the
crop outlook in the State.
Another prospector at san Diego
claims to have found the Pcgleg mine.
His name is John Ingram, and his age
is SO.
There is much sympathy at Spokane
Tor Mr.. Cannon, whose banking house
has just failed. The assets will cover all
liabilities.
vast deposit OF borate OF lime has
been discovered in the Calico Mountains.
The find il thought to be worth millions
OF dollars.
The Naval Board at Mare Island in
making their report have pronounced
the Monterey 10 be all that the con
tract required.
The citizens of Ashland are making a
determined effort to raise the $l2 600
which il required 10 insure the location
OF a branch Of the Portland University
there.
The Los Angeles Times will put in
new periecting press this week, and
with 1t Introduce seven linotype type
setting machines, the first TO appear in
California
We wonder, says the Yuma Sentinel,
II there IL another town outside OF
Yuma in the universe where any Of its
citizens are charged from 80 cents TO 81
Tor drinking water in n saloon or barber
shop2
The Bradstreet agency reports eigh-
teen failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the past week, as
compared with fourteen for the previous
"a I.. 4.
week OF 1882.
large draft of seamcn from the
Mare Island naval rendezvous will be
sent to Honolulu by the next steamer
to reinforce the crews Of the United
States ship Adams and the cruiser Bos-
ton, now there.
The Federated Trades at Los Angeles
failed To make out n case for deportation
III the All lung arrest, owing to the fact
that the District Attorney did not show
that the Chinaman was unregistered
The Trades are determined that case
shall be properly brought before the
courts.
Parties who crossed the Cascades at
the head OF Rogue river recently report
the snow still from six to eight feet
deep. This will make simmer travel TO
Crater Lake very late this year. Teams
should be running within month,
however.
Not since the memorial disaster OF
1886 has there been such loss OF life as
during the present year along the Col
umba river fisheries, Fifteen fisher
men have been drowned since April 10,
and iiity-seven boats have capszcd.
la. g 4
the season started has made the river
dangerous for the boats.
Governor Richards of Montana has
issued proclamation prohibiting the
importation of sheep into Montana from
Oregon, California, Nevada, Washing |
ton, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado |
or New Mexico, except upon the ccrtih- |
cate of the State Veterinarian that the
sheep have been inspected and found |
free of any infectious or contagious |
disease.
Worms have again appeared in the
vineyards west OF Fresno, CAL, by mil |
lions, and in several localities people
are fighting them with roiays OF Chinese, |
who work night and day. The worms
work night, and in some places several |
acres have been stripped OF leaves in u
fow hours as il q band OF sheep had |
gone through the vineyards. II is |
thought the pest will be cleaned out,
The Mckinney will case ut Stockton, |
CAL, has been stopped. A motion for |
nonsuit wRs agreed to by the contestant, |
colorcd woman, who sworc she married |
Mckinney in 1873, when the records
would prove that she had married n |
man named Nicholas in 1870. There |
was every evidence OF conspiring To |
obtain the Mckinney money, and IL il
possible conspiracy case may be
formed
. Penitentiary convicts are now making
about 10000 brick day. The Salem
Statesman says: at is pity they
could not make enough for the soldiers
home, the branch asylum and all other
prospective buildings now, before the
starting OF the proposed juto mill, 50 rs
TO keep the idle convicts employed.
They aim to make 10000 this season,
90 bo used in public buildings and nd
ditions provided for by the last Lcgis-
lature.
The eases against the trapmcn OF the
Columbia river have for the second time
in two years fallen To the ground, and
Hon. c. W. Fulton and his brother won
two cases recently for the defense, one
after the other. The Prosecuting At
torney declared he would never again
bring charge against trapman or
gill-net fisherman. lie declared il
utterly useless to try To secure con-
viction, aud stated that It would never
be possible for the State TO win case OF
the kind when the lawyers SO mixed the
Jury up with the jurisdiction question
that they wcrc unable to agree on any
thing, Mr.. Fulton produced certificates
held by both defendants, aud argued
that the laws Of Congress giving Oregon {
jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases
10 the Washington shore N the Column
bia only applied to the service OF pro
ccsscs and TO crimes committed ON q
tioating boat or other craft and not 10
anything fixed into the bed OF the river
ON the Washington side. lie claimed in
addition that, II n Clatsop county Jury /
pronounced jurisdiction over Washing I
ton flshtraps, the State oi Washington \
could with just as much reason levy dues ,
on and control the Union Pacific wharyvs 7
that run out toward the middle channel ,
from Astoria. Judge Cleveland, being /
powerless 10 instruct the jurieS ON the {
question OF law, was barred from in.
structing either jury, and the FNltons {
secured acquittal for every one oi tnoir ,
clients. The question uniortunatcT is Z
no nearer settlement than ever. HNc {
Sheriff OF the county and all his dep .
uties are denouncing Fish Commissioner !
Crawford OF Washington for what they l
claim is flagrant dereliction OF duty in I
Iavor Of the trsPowners'