Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-11-22
NORTH PACIFIC
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
Of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES

ington. Oregon and Idaho-Items n,
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
"Parkhursting" is not unknown in
Tacoma.
Spokane pays $1,7OO monthly for its
electric lights.
The Bucoda-Tenino Enterprise is %.
ing to move to Cosmopolis.
A stage is to be run from Fort Klam.
ath to Crater Lake next summer.
Spokane's City Council proposes to
pay only IS a month for arc lights.
The first pile has been driven for
new cannery Sam Elmore is going to
build at Astoria.
A threshing hand in Wallowa county
Or, has spent S56 trying to collect $27
due him for wages.
Representative Belts is shipping 2OO
Oxford grade bucks from Pendleton to
Montana purchaser.
The Spokane bureau OF immigration
has decided to repeat the fruit fair newt
year, the date selected being the first
week in October.
A lot OF nursery stock shipped from
New York infeste with woolly arhis
was destroyed by State Inspector Ton.
neson at Winlock recently.
Work has begun at the Cascades on
the job of raising the State Portage rail.
road to higher ground, so as to get it ont
OF the way OF the canal work.
st. Joseph's Hospital of Aberdeen has
issued neat pamphlet commemorative
OF two years of very successful work on
the part Of the Sisters Of st. Dominic.
1t is thought now that the county seat
will remain at Snohomish, as a three.
ffths vote was required to change it and
this, it is believed, Everett failed to Sc.
cure.
The questions of special tax levies for
light, water, fire protection and street
improvement purposes are to be submit.
ted to the voters of Port Townsend on
Wednesday OF next week.
Marshal Drake says that four men in
cluding the cook are now guarding ffty-
eight convicts in the McNeils Island
penitentiary, and that the walls of the
penitentiary are old and crumbling.
The attendance at the Cheney Normal
School continues to increase, and now
the enrolment in the normal depart
ment is ninety-eight, the largest number
ever enrolled at this season OF the year.
Klamath and Lake counties, Or, will
sell in all this fall about $1,000 head Of
cattle. Will some local statistician let
us know whether the increase in sight
is sufficient to make up for this drain
upon the herds?
Many of the farmers around Spanye
are going into hog-raising quite extef
sively. There will be large number 6t
hogs ready for market next year. The
farmers are anxious to see large pack
ing house in Spokane, so as to havea
home market.
John w. Clinton is logging opposite
Coquille City on an extensive scale this
season, employing about eighteen men
and two teams. He has six acres of low
ground completely covered with logs,
waiting for high water to run them out.
In the cases OF the State against Potts
and against Parker, charged with murder
in the second degree, tried last week in
Harney county, the verdicts were guilty.
Parker was sentenced to seven and one
half years and Potts to twelve years in
the penitentiary.
Oakesdale's water and electric light
projects have finally come to grief.
Judge Sullivan has sustained and made
permanent the injunction against the
proposed bond issue. The bonds exceed
the towns legal Indebtedness, and the
electric lig ht plant, the court finds, has
decreased in value.
A firm OF Walla Walla horse dealers
have just shipped four carloads OF horses
to Vermont. In order to have the ami
mails in good condition it is proposed to
allow them to rest every alternate twen-
ty-four hours, thus occupying thirteen
days in the journey. Though the freight
per car is S345, the firm expects to real
ize handsome profit from the venture.
The United States grand jury at Walla
Walla returned thirty-seven true bills
One of the prisoners when called upon
to plead, said: 81 will plead guilty il |
can't get more justice than | got before
the Judge who sent me here" Judge
Hanford, with the "icy" look that he
has always on the bench, directed the
clerk to enter plea of not guilty. Most
OF the offenders had sold liquor to In.
dians.
G. w. Pitchford, about 45 or 80 years
OF age, who lived at Chelatchie Ferry,
forty miles from Vancouver, was found
dead Wednesday morning with a gun
shot wound in his stomach. While out
hunting few days ago he lost his way,
and was left behind by the party. Sew
eral days later search was instituted,
and his body was found lying beside
large log, with a part OF lunch in the
hands. 1t is supposed that while eating
his lunch he heard some animal stirring
and picked up his gun, when it was dis
charged. He left a widow and seven
children.
Wyman ]. Lewis, who for the past
three years has acted as agent for the
Stevedoring & Rigging Company OF Old
Tacoma has been arrested on warrant
sworn to by Frank Donaldson and Al
bert Anderson, stockholders Of the COM
pany. The company is made up OF long
shoremen, and Lewis is charged with
having collected sums to the amount ,ooii
S2,413.75 for work done, which he dld
not turn over to the company. Lewis
denies the whole charge, claiming the
men have entered into a conspiracy to
ruin him and break up his business
lie saws the money he is accused OF EN-
bezzing was paid to the Cooperative
Stevedoring 4 Rigging Company through
the same Albert Anderson who is one 0,
the. complainants. Lewis was placed
under 81 900 bonds, which he furnished
The November issue OF the Puget
Sound Lumberman says: "The recent
shipment OF 800 red cedar doors and