Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-01-18
EASTERN MELANGE.
Marshall Fields Grand Gift to
the Columbian Museum.
PILOT CHART OF NORTH PACIFIC
Receipts and Expenses of the Land
Department of the Northern
Pacific for 1893.

Chicago has a deficit of over 3,OOO,.
600.
Pittsburg's relief fund amounts tc
100000.
Chicago is now claiming population
OF 100000.
Philadelphia is to try water-gas max
/ ing on its own account.
The Indians are costing the govern
ment 81, 900, 600 per year.
Reports from the winter-wheat sections
show much smaller average than last
year.
Another wonderfully rich streak oi
gold quartz has been struck at Cripple
Creek, Col.
The health department of New York
proposes TO make war against the use of
bituminous coal.
Speaker Crisp says that the Wilson
bill will pass the House of Representa-
tives by'January 81.
The Colorado Farmers Alliance wants
Congress TO issue legal-tender notes to
the amount Of 5000, 100000.
Bishop Coke at Buffalo has again de-
nounced the position OF the Catholic
Church on the public-school question in
this country.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Kansas and Missouri each reports a
smaller acreage sown TO winter wheat
this season than in 1892.
The financial and commercial depres-
sion existing in Canada at the present
time is being more severely felt than
any depression since 1867.
There is considerable force in the as
sertion of Governor Fishback of Arkan-
sas that the Indian Territory is being
rapidly converted into school of crime.
A shooting scrape at ball at Cedar,
eight miles from Columbia, Tex, re-
suited in the death of three, the fatal
wounding OF four and slight injury to
several.
A recent decision of the Indiana Su-
preme Court admitted women to prac-
tice before the Indiana bar. Miss Stella
Colby was the first to take advantage OF
that decision.
A project is on foot in Mississippi and
elsewhere in the South to purchase JEFF
ierson Davis house at Beauvoir for a
home for INDECENT ex-Confederate sol
diers and widows of soldiers.
1t is good sign OF Mexico's credit in
the markets of the world that Finance
Minister Limantour has completed me-
gotiations with Berlin house for a loan
OF $l5, 5,OOO,OOO upon favorable terms.
The Iron Age thinks that the extreme
ly a. ynt e
will induce very considerable
extension OF electric railways in various
parts OF the country during this year.
Many people living in Rochester, N.
Y, who would and could work, are de-
barred from so doing because of INSULT
cient clothing. Children, too, are unable
to go to school because they have no
shoes.
The State Department is dissatisfied
with the reports of Minister Thompson
ut Rio. 1t is thought he is ENJOYING him
self in the neghborhood and is not keep
ing himself well posted as to the condi-
ton Mt Rio. His reports are directly the
opposite OF Captain Picking, and favor
the insurgents.
The Sioux City, O'Neil and Western
Railway Company in its answer to the
foreclosure suit OF the Manhattan Trust
Company, trustee for the funds, declares
that its total capitalization was placed mt
nearly $4,000, 900 on 1870 miles OF road, or
three times its cost. This being contrary
to the constitution and laws of Nebraska,
the directors ask that all the stock and
bonds be declared void and the road
turned over to the assignee of the Union
Loan and Trust Company for the benefit
,f the company's creditors, who adj
'anced the money to build the road.
The photographic office of the Navy
Department has started the new year
with the issue of the first number of |
pilot chart of the North Pacific Ocean |
or January, 1904. Its purpose is to H.
ustrate the character of the monthly
publication which has been planned by |
he photographic office for the benefit of
he maritime people of the Pacific Coast.
The estimates OF the Secretary of the
Navy for the next fiscal year contain an
tenn of $4,000 for the publication of the
hart, and ii Congress should grant this
um 1t is proposed to issue the first day
Il each month an edition showing graph
rally such information of timely inter
st and warning to mariners as can be
from reports OF incoming navi-
ators.
OF the 47,0O0, 900 acres of land granted
D the Northern Pacific railroad by the
ct OF Congress July 2, 1864, only $685.
% acres had been patented to the COM
any ut the close OF the last fiscal year.
he records of the general land office
lso show that S,9i5, 400 acres of indem-
ity lands located in Wisconsin, Mime.
TIA, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washing
IN and Oregon have been restored to
IL public domain. by u decision of the
in 1856 32, 400 acres OF the
ant located in Washington have also
zen restored. Over 10000, 900 acres
ore OF government land have been GER
tied to the company, and il has sold for
Ish since the grant was first made down
the present time S,3S6, ,5SS acres. The
tai cash receipts from all sales have
mounted to So, ,7l9,97l, and there re-
aims outstanding ON account OF time ,
les Sb,O70, ,65l, principal and interest.
ne receipts OF the land department OF
10 Northern Pacific Company for the
,st year were 81 $3.50, ,224.66 and its ex.
'nses 1877 ,64SS2.
The indications are that the stock
'lders Of the Columbian Exposition {
ompany will soon receive 10 per cent
vidend on their stock. According to d
e report OF Auditor Harrington there !
~ December | Sl0,0oO,000 in capital
ock. OF this amount $4,000 was Z
described by the city OF Chicago and 4
e other S5,NO,0oo by individuals. In
q December reports there was an est u
ate that the net assets OF the exposi-
IN company would be about 81, ,765 SIS.
lowing for the closing up OF the expo
lion affairs, II would appear that no, I
ore than 10 cents on the dollar Could u