Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-03-22
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Washington.


Chehalis county paid out about $780,
600 for roads in 1893.
A project is on foot to construct small
smelter at Hamilton.
A fruit growers association is being
organized at Waitsburg.
The long-distance telephone is to be
extended to Monte Cristo.
Reform has cut down Port Townsend's
annual budget some $1,000.
A plank road costing $4,000 is to be
built across the big Snohomish marsh.
Tacoma brewers are drying out and
making merchantable a good deal OF
wheat.
The early-closing agreement at Walla
Walla is enforced with clause forfeit
ing $25.
A sample invoice OF ton OF the South
Bend tannin extract has been sent to
Liverpool.
The Farhaven Chamber of Commerce
is forwarding resolutions for the pilot
chart to Washington.
The Whatcom Agricultural Association
is agitating the subject OF fruit can
merry and county fair.
The Vancouver creamery is turning
out 800 pounds of butter per week,
and cannot supply the demand.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision OF Judge Pritchard OF Tacoma
that an individual cannot garnishee
county.
A citizens league has been formed in
Port Townsend, which guarantees to re-
| aift
given control OF affairs.
Ernest Slim, the Tacoma opium snug
gler, gets off with four months at Nc
Neil's Island. His friends will make up
his 800 fine among them.
During the month of February the
Olympia land Office received twelve
homestead entries, nine final homestead
proofs, four cash entries and six coal
filings.
Thomas Canboy, the principal witness
in the Manville murder case, has been
put under 81 900 bonds at Olympia on
the charge of having perjured himself
in his testimony at the trial.
The output OF the Gray's Harbor lum-
ber mills for 1893 is figured by the Ho-
quiam Washingtonian at 72, zoo, 900 feet.
There are at present on the harbor about
10000, 900 of logs uncut, all except 7,000,-
600 OF which have been sold.
The taxes paid to the Klickitat County
Treasurer for the months of January and
February amount to $15,170, or about
onethird of the total for the current tax
year. This is considered a good showing
under existing circumstances.
The Interstate Fair matter at Tacoma
is moving along smoothly. The COM
mittee appointed recently report that
they are meeting with success in their
collecting trip, and express themselves
confident of raising the money.
The suit of Elizabeth Davis against
the Northern Pacific Coal Company for
husband by an explosion in the Roslyn
in Tacoma by verdict for the defend
ant.
General Otis will make tour OF the
different army posts in the department
OF the Columbia in about six weeks. He
will visit Boise Barracks and make a re-
port on the advisability of abandoning
that post, which General Schofield has
recommended.
The detailed statement OF the peni-
tentiary's jute-bag output for the past
six months is as follows: In September,
10000 bags; October, 113, 700; Novem-
ber, ll9, 400; December, $4,000; Janu-
ary, l54,600; February, 16l, 100. The
original plant for making grain bags in
the penitentiary in the jute mill COM
prised fifty looms and other machinery
The last Legislature authorized an addi-
tion of twenty looms and other machin-
cry, which were put in position last fall
Since then there has been a very marked
increase in the output.
The State Land Commission has rem
dered decision to the effect that there
is no provision of law regulating the
lease of harbor areas in the act creating
the commission, and consequently the
commission has no jurisdiction over the
same. This question will no doubt be
brought before the Supreme Court. The
commission has received the report Of
the engineer at Ocosta to the effect that
the government Improvements at that
point made with view to deepen the
channel have had contrary effect, and
where there was fifteen to sixteen feet of
water there is now but eight.