Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-03-29
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Washington.


Bids for the Great Northern tunnel at
Everett will soon be called for.
A Ritzville man has curiosity in the
shape OF a squirrel with eleven legs and
four heads.
There is some talk OF closing the Day
ton public schools on account OF lack of
funds. The district has floating debt
OF about $4,000.
The Hayton ditch, which cost $4,000,
and which is designed to drain an area
OF low land extending from Mount Ver-
non to Fir, is completed and in use.
Thirteen teams and sixteen men are
at work upon the track at the State Fair
grounds at Yakima. The track is to
cost $500. Something like l0, 900 yards
OF earth have to be moved.
The Everett Land Company claims to
have placed 81 800, 900 OF its bonds with
the Central Trust Company, New York,
thus enabling it to carry out some ex-
tensive improvements to the port.
The Snake river fruit crop for the
coming season promises to be the largest
and finest ever grown in the valley. The
yield will be extra heavy, and the spray
ing will insure crop free from blight.
The question of building county
poorhouse is being discussed in Walla
Walla. The county already owns land
purchased for that purpose. The poor
are now cared for by contract at st..
Mary's Hospital.
A new form of faith cure administered
by the Come-outers is monopoizing
the entire attention of Tennessee Fla :,
Whitman county. Hands are laid upu /
the manned, halt and blind with Ie-
puted wonderful effect.
The Spokane peoples tabernacle has
given out 22,360 meals, furnished lodg-
ipgs 9,050 times, allowed 1892 men the
privilege of bathing and washing, and
dispensed 2, 155 garments. This has been
done at small expense to the city and
county.
Mayor Powell of Spokane has vetoed
an ordinance prohibiting minors from
playing billiards in "any saloon, fruit
stand or other loom." "If they will
limit to saloons or make the age limit 18
years, | will sign it," he said. If u
young fellow OF 10 or 20 cares TO play
billiards away from evil Influences, /
don't see why he should be denied the
privilege"
The foreign commerce for Puget Sound
for February, as reported by the customs
department, shows a total valuation of
exports amounting to S647 ,569, includ-
ing 675,8l0 bushels of wheat, worth
1854, 900; 1920 barrels of flour, worth
$l89,603; l,4l3,635 feet of lumber,
valued at $l4, 1884, and 10000 lath, valued
at $40. The imports OF dutiable goods
were $57 ,644; free OF duty, $26, ,097. Value
OF merchandise imported in the district
and transported to interior ports with
out appraisement, dutiable, $l2,272;
free of duty, $l7S,226; total value, $780,
498.
Shrewd detective work has led to the
arrest OF Indian Charley Waterman of
the Skookum reservation, charged with
numbering Joseph Nader, the Syrian
port, Mason county, on Hoods canal.
| That day Nader and q companion, X.
Cafuri, a Syrian peddler, stopped at In
dian Charley's house, and exhibited
goods to the squaw, during which Char
ley took rifle and slipped out of the
house. Half an hour later the two ped
dlers walked the trail along Skokomish
river, Cafuri fifteen feet ahead, when a
shot fired from the dense forest passed
through the body of Nader from side to
side, killing him instantly. Cafuri, fear
ing ambush, returned to Hoodsport and
gave the alarm. Indian Charley gave
the first information of the shooting to
the neighbors, but at the inquest claimed
he was drunk at Union City at the time
OF the killing. The Turkish Minister at
Washington, d. c., ordered George Hall,
the Turkish Consul at San Francisco, to
make n searching investigation, and
aided by j. A. Mcdonald, the Prosecut-
ing Attorney of Mason county, and
shrewd detectives, evidence was secured
to prove the guilt OF Indian Charley and
threats he made to Indians to whom he
confessed the murder. The arrest was
made the other day, and conviction is
deemed certain. Nader was % years
old, II native of Syria, Turkey in Asia,
of good family, and leaves child widow
with his mother in Syria.