Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-06-18
OREGON STATE NEWS.
Interesting Collection of Items From
Town aud County.

Gillian county's vote has increased
since 1894 from TIT to SOL.
About 10000 pounds of wool is
stored in Dalles warehouses.
Llewelyn, Lane county, will put up
a new school building this summer.
There are to be fremen's races, BIZ
cycle races, footraces, barbecue, dane
ing, parades, baseball game and a
torchlight procession at Pendleton ON
the Fourth of July.
There will not be much early fruit
in Southern Oregon this year, and the
prospects for large crop of late fruit
are not encouraging. Considerable is
dropping from the trees.
Doc Wilson, an Eastern sheepbuyer,
drove band Of 5000 sheep East from
Grant county last week. He will
drive another band out this week, or as
soon as shearing is completed.
Two teams loaded with wool from
Wagner, Grant county, arrived in The
Dalles. 1t was the first Of a clip
from $4,000 head of sheep that will be
shipped from Wagner to The Dalles.
Postmaster ]. @. Crossen, of The
Dalles, received notification that after
July 1, 1896, The Dalles postoffice will
be rated as a second.cla office, the re-
ceipts Of the office having been suffi-
cient to entitle it to be raised one
grade.
The Umatilla grand jury at Pendle-
ton indicted G. T. Hogan for unlaw-
fully selling liquor. Hogan pleaded
guilty and was fined $50 and costs.
Oliver Walden and Gus Fisher were
indicted for stealing eight sacks Of
wheat.
County Clerk Kelsay, of The Dalles.
has shipped four tons of peas to Mon
tana, receiving an average of 800 per
ton. He will soon have another ton
for shipment The peas planted in
February did better than those planted
in the fall.
1t was A. P. Berg's idea of joke
to write to the Astorian from Fort
Stevens that John Fish had been shot
and killed by Mr.. jackson for elop-
ing with Mrs Jackson. There is no
Fish and no Mr.. and Mrs. jackson in
Fort Stevens.
James Christopherson and another
young man were crossing the Umatilla
river at Cayuse station the other day,
and, the river being at higher stage,
the horses lost their footing and were
drowned. The young men succeeded
in extricating themselves from the sad
dies and escaped.
John Mccormick, Of Gervais, has
entered into contracts to supply San
Francisco hopbuyers with 10000
pounds Of hops from his farm during
each of the years 1896, 1897 and 1898.
He is to receive seven cents per pound
for the hops, delivered at either Ger
vais or Woodburn by October 81.
Notwithstanding the attractive ap-
pearance of the many fishweels and
traps that are distributed along the
river, the royal chinook refuses to be
enticed into their meshes, consequently
salmon is as scarce as winter butter in
this market, and the canneries are
lying idle, says The Dalles Chronicle.
The first cargo of coal from the
Shasta Costa mine in Curry county
was delivered in Wedderburn recoAtly.
The coal has been tested and proved to
be Of fine quality. For many years,
the Wedderburn Gazette says, efforts
have been made to have the deposits of
coal in the EASTERN part of the county
developed, but this is the first praoti-
cal attempt.
At the regular annual meeting of
the Southern Oregon Pioneer Society,
held at Ashland, the following officers
were elected: President, Hon. p. p.
Prim; first vice. president, H. E An
keny; second vice-president, G. X.
: Klum; secretary, Silas J. Day; treas
urer. @. G. Beekman. The next an
nual reunion will be held in Jackson
, vile, September 3, 1896.
f. Mcdonald is the possessor Of
quite a collection Of Indian relics,
which he found upon Chehalem noun
tain, in Yamhill, few days ago, pre-
sumably at an old Indian grave. There
are two mortars, a small stone last and
, obsidian trinkets, and several flint and
, obsidian arrow and spear heads. Mr..
: Mcdonald isn't satisfied with his find,
and will make another visit to the spot
, in search Of more relics.
. While man was hunting COWS in
| the woods near Nehalem last week. he
found three large circular saws hidden
in the brush near the bank Of the
river. The general impression is that
the saws were stolen from a sawmill
at Grand Rapids, on the upper Neha.
a lem, and brought down the river and