Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-02-01
Law Against Purchasing Wives
Violated in Alaska.
A NEW RAILROAD PROTECTED.
Selecting a Place to Establish a Col
Ony of French Grape Growers
and Winemakers.
Work is booming at Mare Island.

business.
Los Angeles is to canvass the city TO
ascertain the wants OF the unemployed
in distress.
The bill TO establish port OF delivery
at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, has passed
the Senate.
The pursuit of Chris Evans seems to
have been abandoned by the officers OF
Fresno county.
The San Diego Superior Court has
practically nullified the ordinance Great
ing chaingangs.
Morel is said to be anxious to break
his partnership with Evans, the bandit,
and leave the country.
Cougars are reported plentiful on the
mountains back OF The Dalles having
been driven from the interior wilderness
by the late storms.
The State Controller will include the
new counties in the distribution OF the
back taxes of the Southern Pacific Com
pany when they are paid.
The faculty Of the Oregon State Uni
versity has passed rule prohibiting
students from entering or frequenting
billiard halls and skating Kinks.
1t Is understood at Mare Island that
Secretary Herbert has ordered all vessels
at the yard repaired without delay, in
Guiding the monitor Monadnock.
An estimate that the town sends $780,
600 away annually for pork products
alone is furnished TO help on the Spo-
kane home industry movement.
A special election is called at Seattle
for February TO decide whether or not
the school district shall bond itself in
the sum Of $250,000 10 make up out
standing warrants.
Thirteen pages have been torn from
Book ii OF the probate records ut San
Jose. The presumption is that IL was
the work of come one who desired TO de-
stroy the record in the matter Of II par
tiCular estate.
Johnny Grow, aged fourteen, rescued
six children who had broken through
the ice on the Carson river near Empire.
The young fellow was nearly dead when
taken from the water by those who ran
10 his assistance.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
ports thirtythree failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, ~ compared with thirty.one for
the previous week and twenty-iour for
the corresponding week of 1893.
There is now being organized at Vic
toria, B. g., II company OF men TO enter
the service of Queen Liliuokalani and
there are already 100 on the roll. The
movement il headed by h. Smart, son
OF ex-Attorney Smart Of Manitoba, and
$. SAMSON, II retired volunteer officer OF
Victoria.
Judge Clark Mt Los Angeles has ruled
that Mrs. Lucy q. Goodspeed in her con-
test with General Mansfield IL in every
way entitled To be the guardian Of her
mothers person and estate. The charges
against Mrs. Goodspeed's mora! charac-
ter, he says, are untrue, and have al-
ways been 30.
A report from Yuma says that General
q. Andrade of san Francisco and parties
representing French and Scotch capital
lists have gone to the mouth OF the Col
orado river for the purpose OF selecting
place where they can locate v colony
OF French grape growers and winemakers
OF II thousand families.
locomotives were used 10 take the
trees oil the large track between Alta
and Towles, which had been thrown
there by II landslide. Locomotives were
placed ON either side OF the distractions
and log chains leading from them fas-
tened To the trunks OF the pines. They
were then drawn out of the landslide M
dentist draws teeth.
Governor Markham has authorized the
law firm OF Estee x Miller OF San
Francisco TO institute legal proceedings
for the purpose OF having the property
OF the late Thomas H.. Blythe escheat
10 the State government. Markham Is
of the opinion that the title TO the prop
crty OF Blythe has failed for want OF
hiers or next of kin, and for that reason
has reverted to the State.
A new road is projected In Arizona.
1t is to run from Bowie on the Southern
Pacific to Globe, l30 miles, passing
through the Gila Valley in Graham
county, one of the richest in Arizona,
where now over 10, 900 acres OF land are
cultivated, This road will open up II fine
agricultural valley. II runs seventy
miles down Gila river, ending at Globe,
one OF the richest uSining districts in the
Territory,
large portion Of the male population
of Sitka have wives they have purchased.
This is contrary to law. Marshal Porter
OF the Alaska district has just instructed
his several deputies throughout the Ter
ri,ory 10 ut once arrest every white man
violating the law. As u result OF which
official order nearly every man on board
the United States steamer Pinta is in
Jail ut Sitka. Hundreds OF other arrests
are expected.
The largest foreclosure OF mortgage
ever executed in Butte county, Cal,
took place the other day in the suit OF
James ID. Phelan ct AL, executors,
against ID. NJ. Reavis and wife. Judy.
ment was rendered for the phean estate
for $4,000 and for G. W. Clarke, Jr.,
ON mortgage for $l2b, 600 against the
same parties. The land ordered To he
sold embraces 5000 acres OF the finest
land in Butte county.
Ex.Receiver George l.. Fitlhugh OF
the Walla Walla Savings Bank has made
his final report, II appears from the
statement that $SlS, ,6ip.6S In notes are
owned by the bank, tiS4, ,lO7.sl is now
In the bank and securities worth 500,
bii 81 have been pledged as collateral to
secure borrowed money aggrcgating SOL, =.
8lA.76. An examination OF the county
records show that Edmiston ON the day
the bank closed decided TO that institu
ton 4g22.l5 acres OF land In walla
walla county, and il is eaid he made
similar transfers In UmRtilla and Co.
lumbia counties, None OF this is in
cluded In the statement OF the assets Of
the bank made by the receiver.