Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-09

".--oa White, living Oh POOLS
slough, fell of Of horse last Thurs
day and was quite severely bruised
+ He has since recovered.
D. T. Scott has been awarded the
contract to furnish the county 20
cords of wood, pert fr ami rart vine
maple and crab-apple. Ee receives
S2.65 per cord, delivered at the
court house.
/ Some rascal without a spark OF
manhood III his makeup, drove n z
plug in one Of SCOTS wooa sco~s
last Saturday night, causing it 70
sink and losing about seven cor-s
Of wood off of it. The miscreart
that did it deserves horsewhippiag.
Mrs. J. Ogle and son Willie, Mrs.
H. T. Collins and Ray Tout came
over from Woodburn the latter part
Of last week on a health and pleas
tire trip. Tie former lady has bad
the misfortune to be quite i'll since
her arrival but is now recovering.
The regular quarterly examina,
ton Of teachers began atthc school
house in this city yesterday, cor
Quoted by Supt. Bethers, assistcd
by J. D. Daily and N. I. PEARS.
The members of the class are, Vola
Mann, Ona; Minnie D. Smith, To-
ledo; Linnie McCowen, Salado; Ina
Barclay, Tidewater; Minnie L. Rice
Newport; Louise Louenberger, va
quina; J. H. Lutz, Toledo; Edward
Simpson, Newport, and F, N.
Ghoymley, Newport.
Mrs. John Fitzpatrick, the pro.
prietress Of the Hotel Monterey, on
Big Creek, drove over from that
place yesterday, accompanied by
Mrs. Z. D. Lewis, Mrs. D. R. Mur-
ply and Miss Lille Zarder, all Of
Portland, and all guests at the Mon
terey. Mrs. Fitzpatrick informs us
that the Monterey IS well filed with
guests, there leivg about Thirty
there Iow, am sc%ctal more expect
ed. We are under obiG tons to
the l1<ies for q very pleasant call.
There Is considerable competition
in ocean freights now between the
schooHers Homer and Scotia. The
Homer used to charge s. per ton
on freight from San francisco Up.
/ The Scotia took hand in the bus.
mess and cut TIE rate down to S.
per ion The Honor saw them
and went them one better, cutting
the freight down 10 S.. The SEQ.
tia's nerve still helI good, and We
understand that she brought up
iarga amount OF freight at s. rar
ten on her last trip. The Homer
is yet 20 lie heard from.
The rev county court convened
in its first regulor session yesterday.
The court is COMPOSED Of $. Y,
Burt, county judge, and c. II,
Williams and J, J. Bristow, com,
missioners. The court takes hoil
of the county business in q manner
that promises good results to the
taxpayers. Their time will be large
ly taken up in learning the status
of the county-taking stock, as it
were. We are unable to get any
of the proceedings in time for pub,
lication this week.
In the L. S. district cour. in Sen
Francisco on Tuesday Judge Nor
row issued all order to the I. $.
marshal to sell the steamer Wi
lamette Valley to satisfy a claim Of
R. d. Chandler for coal furnished
her owners, the Oregon Develop
ment company. The order is made
under libel fled against the steam
er December 10, last. The steam
er is lying in the stream uncared
for, and Judge Morrow decided il
would be injurious to the property
to longer keep the vessel in the
hands Of the receiver, Chas. Clark.
Barney Morrison was in town to-
day and reported at this office that
Frank Woods, the Albany man who
has been at work developing a new
stone quarry on his place, has un-
covered a seven loot ledge Of fine
stone, The stone, he says, IS vc1y
similar to the stone taken lyom Pho