Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-07-20
The Shipment Of Oranges From
Riverside, Cal.
GUNS BARRED BY THE JUDGE
An English Syndicate Purchases an
Arizona Mine Stockton Tan
ners Close Down.

Work on the Santa Barbara end Of the
railway gap between ElIwood and Santa
Margarlta il TO begin at once.
Orange shipments from Riverside this
season amounted 10 2,300 carloads, the
largest amount ever shipped in one sea-
son.
The Victoria tB. C.) Supreme Court
has dismissed the charge OF assault
against Rev. Albert Reams, the Merced
runaway.
An English syndicate has bought the
Bonanza mine at Harqua Hala, A. r.,
paying S4,0O0,00O for it. 1t is very rich
gold mine.
With the assignment as commandant
Of the Mare Island navy yard Captain
Kirkland received his promotion to the
rank Of Commodore.
The tanners at Stockton have ceased
picking hides. They claim cents
charged by the dealers is too high, and
business viii not DO resumed until tho
price il lowered.
The sealcr Favorte has arrived at
Victoria from the west coast with catch
Of ! 900 seals. She also brought the
Triumph's and Maryin's catch OF ,l70
and S66 respectively.
San joaquin grain dealers are ofIp :. q
TO buy the new crop and loaning " d
$l8 per ton on stored wheat mt StoCL ,nn
showing II better condition OF I6"ney
matters. All wheat comingin ig hcing
stored, as prices are too low.
The Mammoth niue in Ei6nl countv.
AK one Of Che finest gh mines In the
Territory, has Shut dSwn until a new
shaft can be dGI%t1i, cave in the mine
some utill9Ss ago rendering it difficult TO
- HstK-ns well as Improbable.
The San Pedro Lumber Company hns
secured ut Los Angeles judgment
against Merrick Reynolds, their former
manager, for 100000. Reynolds was
charged with neglect and causing the
Justification OF the company's books.
Six measurements made by Fred G..
Plummcr OF the height Of Mount Rain
ier show it 10 be from ll,OU0 to 10, 100
feet high. Mount Whitney, which is
credited with being the highest mount
ain in the United States, is li,S0S feet
high.
Judge Catlin ut Sacramento has de-
cided the long pending case OF V. j.
Gregory w. j. j. Splckcr, involving the
right To the manufacture and sale OF II
patent medicine, judgment being award
cd plaintiff. The ease has been pending
Tor nine years.
In the habcas corpus case OF Captain
Wray of the Salvation Army Mt san Jose
Judge Lorignn declared the ordinance
which prohibited the Salvation Army
from parading on the streets in pre-
scribcd boundaries unconstitutional, and
ordered that the defendant be discharged.
Tacoma shingle dealers and munuiact-
urers estimate that over half OF lhc
mills OF Washington ARE now closed, and
that more will close. II s estimated
that the combined mills OF the State
have II daily output OF Approximately
10000, 900 shingles per day. At present
II majority of the dealers and manuiact-
urers OF Tacoma do not admit that there
is over an average OF 1900, 900 shingles
manufactured daily in the State.
Warden Aull OF the Folsom prison will
allow no more interviews with SOntag.
lie says: "While ~ peace officer OF
OF the State and Warden OF Folsom
prison it is my duty to care for those
placed under my charge, still owe no
less duty TO the state and TO society
than 10 put my foot down and say that
from this time ON, while am Warden
of this prison, George Sontag's maudlin
mouthings shall not disgrace the pages
of another California newspaper
The State Bank Commissioners have
completed their examination into the
financial condition of the Pacific Bank
at SAN Francisco, which recently sus.
pended, They find that the total re-
sources ui the bank, estimated ut fair
marketable value, are a., 100, 600, and the
total liabilities 81 ,S6S,00O. No account
is taken OF the capital stock or surplus.
The Commissioners regard the bank as
solvent 50 far rs ability 10 pay dcpOsitors
is concerned. The bank will probably
be reorganized and resume business.
An insect discovered 10y j. Il. Shepard
of Ienn, Or, was found to be dcyouring
the green and woolly aphis in his or
chard. Prof, f. l., Washington, cnto-
mologist of the Oregon agricultural eN-
pertinent station, saws the insect is pO-
dabrus comes, and that it is no uucOm-
mon thing for members of this family
To feed ON soft bodied insects. The spc.
Cios of podahrus have also made u good
record us aphls-cutcrs in Oregon, They
never seem, however, TO become numcr-
ous enough to catch up with the aphis,
George l.. Richardson has been found
guilty of an attempt to wreck the South
ern Pacific train near Drain, Or This
Is the case where a train VAS stopped hy
Richardson, who held a torch, and whose
every appearance indicated that hc had
been injured, lie claimed hc had dis
covered robbers tearing up the track,
and that they hUd beaten and stabbed
him aud left him Tor dead, hut he rc,oy-
cred In time To save the train, lie Was
much of for awhile, but thecyidcnrv vmade
was such that he was changed with the
attempted crime OF twin-wUchiug vi h
the above result, His sentence Is eight
years Ia the State prison.
John W. Flood, cN-clshicr OF the Don.
ohoe.kelly Banking Company, convicted
of embezziug Sl6l,O 900 from that iusti.
tuition. has hccu granted new trial
at San Francisco. Judge Svawoll grant.
cd the new trial on the grounds that the
court erred IN u portion OF It's change tu
the jury, and that the prosecution did
not receive very essential point. 1t
was proved that February 10 the book,
of the bank showed no shortage. Now.
between that time and April I, The tim.
Of the discovery of the doial,a,iuu, then.
was no proof OF what had hcc1uv of thy
money. There WAS NO evidence ~ lo
now Il came in or how it Was paid out.
General Barnes OF counsel for prosvcu.
ton saws this proof is next to an impo,.
sibility, and that the decision practically
amounts to an acquittah flood was W.
leased ON 5000 bail. lie immediately
went TO his residence, and denied hlms,ll
10 ali Visitors. IL h understood his at
/. rneys have enioined absolute reticence,