Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-11
Checks of the Seven Stars Min
ing Co. Repudiated.
DEEDS FOR WORTHLESS LANDS.
A Wells, Fargo & Co. Express Car
on the Atlantic and Pacific
Destroyed by Fire.

The Oregon Pacific road is to be ex-
tended TO Boise City, Idaho.
The horsethieves who raided ranches
near Prescott, A. T., have been caught.
Trouble is reported between the cow
boys and Navajo Indians on Green river,
Utah.
A project for a railroad between Phm-
nix, A. T., and San Diego is being act
lively developed.
The Stock-growers Association con-
vention at Ogden wants the arid lands
ceded TO the States and Territories.
Mr.. Huntington has directed the Off
GERS of the Southern Pacific Company 10
name the Santa Monica wharf "Port
Los Angeles"
The mining excitement in Josephine
county, Or, continues. New finds are
reported almost daily, and some Of them
are very rich in gold.
The Sheriff and deputies at Visalia,
who made failure in their last effort 10
capture Evans ana oontag, are now
busily engaged in explaining how they
failed and placing the blame on each
other.
Numerically the Stanford University
faculty consists OF thirty-three profess
ors, seven associate professors, fourteen
assistant professors, fifteen instructors,
eight assistants and one nonresident
lecturer; total, seventy-eight.
Lake county, Or, has two salt marshes
one on Silver Lake and one on Warner
Lakeland when the railroad pierces
that country the salt industry will be a
sure thing, as the salt is equal in strength
and purity TO Turks Island salt.
Deeds for worthless lands in the Colo
RADIO Desert are arriving ut San Diego
for record from persons in the East who
are being victimlzed by Walter j. Ray
mond. He calls them citrus fruit lands,
and sells them for good prices. They
are utterly without value.
The Wells, Fargo q Co. express car on
the Atlantic and Pacific at Hancock, n.
NJ, was destroyed by fire, and the safes
contained nearly 100000 in gold and ~
much more in grcenbacks. A large
quantity OF the gold will have to go back
TO the mint for recoining, being melted
together. There is nothing but ashes OF
the currency.
Checks of the Seven Star Mining Com
pany have been repudiated by Pres
cott ca. T.) bank, with which the COM
pany has been doing business, the COM
pany having no funds to its credit.
This il the property recently stocked by
DIR. Warner OF patent medicine fame,
and which was advertised for sale under
guarantee Of paying dividends.
There are various cranberry marshes
along the coast districts between the
southern line. OF Oregon and the Gulf OF
ST. George. Tho Nehalom section of the
Tllamook coast has long been noted
among local residents Tor its cranberries F;
and from Just north OF the Columbia
river, in the Shoalwater Bay country,
barrels and barrels of the lavorite fruit
find their way into the markets OF the
world every season.
The house OF 4. G. Early & Co., cloth
ing dealers ut Boise, Idaho, has failed
The dealings OF the house were reported
crooked. After establishing credit the
house bought goods and reshipped them
TO other points, where they were sold
and the creditors found too late there
were no goods to seize to secure their
bills. Early was leader in prayer
meetings and Sunday-school work.
A young woman stopping in san
Diego came from the Fast to California,
fell in love, married, settled down, broke
up housekeeping, lost her husband and
resumed her maiden name, all within
the last month. Her husband during
the same time left his situation under II
cloud, met and married the girl, changed
his name twice and disappeared to parts
unknown, and now san Diego says the
names OF the parties cannot be given to
the public.
A farmer named Whitney living near
Etiwanda, san Diego county, Cal, was
recently bitten by n Rttler, and through
the prompt application OF remedies eN-
pcrienced no apparent i'll results. One
week afterwards, IL is gravely stated,
while working In barn lac saw aud
killed large rattler. Immediately he
was thrown In conyulsions, and since
then he will throw himself ON the floor,
crawl along and protrude his tongue
lie is under medical care.
The Bowers dredger, which has been
at work at South Bend the past twenty
months, has gone TO Olympia. While at
South Bend the drcdgcr oNcavatcd $751;
500 yards OF river bottom, and distrib-
utod the material very sandy clay,
over 2S0 acres OF tide fiat, uf which about
forty acres are hlled five feet and the
remainder three feet high. The harhor
has been extended about half u mile
eastward 10y the operation, the extension
having an average depth ot twenty-five
feet ut extreme low tide. The cost Of the
work. exclusive OF engineering, drainage,
etc., has been 1878, lS0, and all borne by
the property owners Of South Bend,
A company has been formed under
concession OF the Arrow Steamship
Company TO operate Arrow steamers on
the Pacific. The Arrow Steamship
Company was Incorporated under the
laws of Arizona last November, with
capital stock of j6,OO0,0OO and thu
reserved right 10 increase IL TO 10000.
900. They propose the establishment
of a transportation line from the Amer,
can Pacific Coast 10 Japan and China,
stopping NJ Hawaii. Two Arrow steam
ships OF about 400 feet in length. - icct
beam, and u speed capable of carrying
them TO Yokohama in less than ten
days, will be built 10y the Arrow Con.
struction Company, probably this sum
mer. These Will be followed later bN
two additional ships of great speed |
sufficient to attract the cream OF the |
transpacihc passenger trade, the mail- |
and express freight. The style OF ships, |
being unsinkable. unbumahlo aud |
practically indcstructihle, combined |
with luxurious comfort and unparalleled |
speed, will make them popular ON the
waters OF the Pacitic, aud the company |
will prove q strong competitor for the
lines which now control the trade he
tween this Coast and Asia.