Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-12-06

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port the latter part of last week.
Clyde Trapp was down from Pio-
neer last Sunday and Monday.
The Volanta stopped in here Oh
her way up the river last Monday.
Wesley Davis made a trip to the
Valley the latter part Of last week.
Dan I[IIizy re:.:.,-l:i :.,3gl I car-
eral months visit to California
to-day
M. E. Peairs expects to start to
Astoria next Saturday for a visit of
a few days.
The Steamer Augusta arrived i'll
last Sunday and departed Monday,
for points south.
B. F. Jones and wife returned
from trip to Portland this evening.
They have been in that city since
Friday.
Col. John Lane left for Couer d
Alene reservation last Saturday,
where he goes to make govern
ment payment to the Indians there.
Messrs. Walter and VIM. Kisor,
of Philomath, arrived in this place
last Saturday. The latter will as
sumo the duties of mail carrier on
the Toledo-Siletz mail route.
Charley Miller quitting the job.
T. J. Elliott was in town to-day.
He has just completed new bridge
over Beaver creek on the Alsea wag-
on road. This bridge is said to be
one Of the best and cheapest bridges
built in the county.
The Indians OF the Siletz reserva-
ton, who recently received their
pay from the government for their
interest III certain lands, are putting
the coin into circulation. They
have paid out several hundred dol
lars for horses around Corvallis dur
ing the past week Coast Mail.
A family of immigrants with
household effects, wagon, etc.,
from Nebraska, came up on the
Modoc last night and took the D..
P. for Yaquina today, from where
they will take vessel for Florence,
which is their destination.-Cor
wallis Times.
For prodigious growth this takes
the whole bakery, J. +. Custer
brought TO the Times office Satur.
day morning a radish-a radish,
mind you,-grown on Jack link S
place near Philomath, that meas
ures 25 inches in circumference, is
90 inches long and weighs I3H
pounds. NeXt.-Corvallis Times.
Will some Of the LEADER S farm.
er readers please bring in some o.
those medium sized fifteen pound
radishes. Do not bother about
; bringing in any of those big twenty
or thirty pound ones, as it is un'
necessary. All we want Of it is tc
show the Times man what a medi
Z um sized radish is.
While at Portland we gathered
from what appeared to be a reliable
and thoroughly authentic soulce
there would be bona fde bids or
7 the o. P. at the coming sale. The
bids will not be high, nothing like
a million dollars that many Of oui
: friends seem to think, but probably
$500, 900 or something like tina
amount. But the sale of the toat
/ will surely be followed by the ex
penditure of a large amount Of mon
: sy III putting the road IL sl'nrc, re
: building bridges, etc. And thet
5 the road will be built over tn,
E mountains into the great fertil,
plains of Eastern Oregon; and thet
= good times will come to our country
News of another sad shooting ac
cident comes from the Beaver creel
country. Last Saturday John Cook
boy about II years old aud one o
R. Rowin's boys started out hunt
ing on the Elk Horn, branch o
Beaver creek. The Cook boy car
ried an old army musket loaded will
buckshot, and while climbing ovet
: a log slipped and fell. III the ial
: the gun was discharged, the loat
= entering the boys neck, just below
, the chin and ranged upward caus
| ing instant death. The boy thai
was with him arranged the body in
| as good shape as possible and wen