Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-05-21
FHE PACIFIC STATES
INTERESTING NEWS NOTES FROM
VARIOUS PLACES.
The Great Northwest Furnishes Some
News of More Than General Inter
est st-DeveIopment and Progress in
All Observation-Disclosures.


William Hunter, an old Linn county
pioneer, died at Brownsville last
week, at the age of S5.
The La Grande Bicycling Club has
decided to build bicycle track, one
third of mile in length, to cost $500.
J. Comic, of Newberg, has sent East
for quantity of peppermint roots, and
will experiment with the peppermint
plant in Oregon soil.
The contract for building the First
Presbyterian church, in Brownsville,
has been awarded to Glass & Cox, of
that city, for 81 ,424.
Morrow county sheepherders found
dead lamb few days ago that had
two bodies, eight legs, one head and
three eyes, says the Canyon City News.
Some of the papers in Coos county
are quite positive arrangements have
been made that will insure the estab-
lishment of beet-sugar factory in
that county.
Eight Dalles horses will be taken to
Heppner to contest for the purses being
hung up by the speed association of
that place during the racing season,
which begins on the 26th.
Indications are that no jury will be
impapelled at this term of court in
Grant county to try criminal cases, the
civil docket being such that the court
will pass upon most of the cases.
The report of the treasurer of The
Dalles shows total cash balance on
hand of $5,729.55. Of this amount
So, ,233.85 was received during the
month, principally from city taxes.
AS the Coburg train on the Natron
Branch passed Wilkins one night last
week, just at dusk, it received lively
Shaking up, and was nearly thrown
from the track. The cause was the
filling of the split switch at that point
with rocks, undoubtedly with the in
tention of causing wreck.
A larger body of ore Is in sight in
the Virtue mine today than ever before
in the history of that now famous prop
erty. In fact they have opened up
such body of ore as to crowd the Ca
pacity of the mill. A number of men
have been laid off in consequence. 1t Is
said that two men can break down as
much ore in day as ten men could
formerly.
$ Oregon has several mining ex-
changes, the latest being organized in
Portland. These institutions are not
incorporated for the purpose of selling
shares in companies, but for the pur-
pose of dispensing general mining in
formation by reports and maps, and in
advertising the mineral wealth of the
state. The needs of this kind of work
is daily becoming more and more ap-
parent.
n Sheriff Henderson's tax collections
in Yamhill county for the current year
foot up $3l ,SO7. 10, or about one.third
of the total tax. This will pay all
state debts and enable the county to
make call on warrants The South
ern Pacific Railroad Company last
week paid tax in Yamhill county
amounting to $4,000 Treasurer John
a Pennington forwarded 5,373. 80 to the
state treasurer, it being the last INSTALL
ment of the 1895 state tax.
4 A complaint has been made out
charging Mrs. May, of the Tiilamook
academy, with assault in having toe
severly punished some of the girls at
the academy. OF this case the Tilla-
nook Headlight says: "The matter
is being stirred up little too far, and
developments may surprise somebody
yet. Of course, Mrs. May did not use
the best of Judgment in chastising the
girls, according to our belief, but nc
doubt she regrets it, and has been suf.
ticiently punished by the unpleasant
notoriety of the affair"
1t is said that the Greenhorn range
will be covered with prospectors and
miners during the summer. Its min.
eral possibilities are great and all il
requires is the enlistment of capital tc
render it one of the greatest mining
centers west Of Colorado. The bust
ness men Of Baker City little realize
the great undeveloped wealth at the
very door of their growing town and
the mining fraternity note with pleas
ure the determination of the CONNER
cial Club to bring to prominent notice
this undeveloped wealth.
The people of Port Oxford were
treated to the unusual sight of water
spout at sea, May /. 1t gathered far
out in the bay, and assuming the form
of an immense writhing, squirmine
serpent, rapidly assembled to the black
overhanging clouds, and, taking a
northeasterly course, and while gyrat
ing with exit haordinary velocity, il