Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-06-11
OREGON STATE NEWS.


The telegraph office at Jacksonville
has been temporarily closed.
The Coquille creamery is receiving
10 900 pounds of milk daily.
Herrick's cannery, at The Dalles,
has started up The run of fish is i'm
proving,
Some $4,000 in gold, according to
report, has been taken from the Salmon
mountains mines the last six weeks.
The Yambill County Pioneer Asso.
citation has decided to hold its annual
meeting at McMinnville June 26
and 27
independence boasts of young man
not yet 20 years of age, whose height
is 6 feet 8 inches. Charles Bicker is
his name.
A great amount of snow has fallen
in the Blue Mountains during this
month, which insuros long season for
the placer miners.
The waterspout in Gillian county
last week did great deal of damage
on Pine creek, destroying gardens and
filling up irrigation bitches
Three feet of snow is reported on the
Mount Adams ranges this month,
where, last year, earlier than this,
grass was abundant and fifteen inches
high.
Dan Ryan, miner, died in Grants
Pass last week from the effects of chlo-
roform administered during a surgical
operation to remove cancerous growth
from his lower jaw
The Oregon and Eastern mails for
Lake and Klamath counties now reach
their destination one day earlier since
the establishment of the mail route
from Ashland to Klamath Falls.
Coal mining and shipping will begin
on the Illinois this week. R. d.
Hume, of Wedderburn. will get 100
tons as a starter. The steamer used
carries only four tons to the load.
There was waterspout at Mckay,
in Umatilla county, last week. and an.
other two days later, They did much
damage, washing out potatoes that
. were planted and doing other damage
to crops
Notices of appeal to the sur"eme
coult have been filed in the CASES Of
Marcus S. Koshland VS. Hartford Fire
Insurance Company and Marcus s.
Koshland VS. Home Mutual Insurance
Company, from Pendleton.
Thomas Thomson, inspector OF
hoi ses for Umatilla county, had big
roundup of diseased horses on the
Umatilla reservation, and many of the
animals were killed. The diseased
horses were suffering from mango.
S. Price, who came from Indiana to
Oregon in 1859, brought with him at
the time 81 bill, which he exhibited
, the other day in The Dalles. 1t was
issued by the state from the Miami
county bank at Troy, and at the time
was good in Indiana, Ohio and por-
tion of Kentucky.
The Byers Touring mill, in Pen
dleton, has just finished loading a ship
g ment of three carloads of -four, bound
{ for San Salvador. The mill ships to
a Central America and China, and the
Chinese insist on having their -four in
green sacks. while the San Salvadoraps
will only take theirs in blue bags.
Mrs. Mary Ann Childs. a colored
woman, 81 years of age, visited the
Chemawa school last week. She halls
, from Louisiana. and has been travelling
g for the last four years She left
Y Louisiana. and travelled ON foot TO New
a York, from there to Washington and
r from that city to Florida. she then
{ started West.
Plans have been prepared for a new
r building at Bingham Springs station
{ for the convenience of tourists and
i others. 1t will be built of fir trees in
It fashioned style, with doors and
t windows as used years ago. The out.
l., side will be loft with rough rustic ap.
y pearance, but the inside will be fitted
up in modern style.
l. Much wool is now being received al
n Pendleton by rail and team for the
d securing mill and commission men.
g Dealers are not anxious to buy, and
i there has bean hut little selling or ship
u ping Mr.. koshland has so far shipped
|. four crloads to Boston and one to Port
land. large quantity is arriving by
n rail from Eastern Washington points
Is The loss of lambs this season in Nal
a heur county, consequent upon the con
70 tinued cold spring weather. has beer
j. very gr1at, the loss in a few instance
e exceeding 80 per cent Of the crop, say
ID the Vale Gazette. The sheepmen, how
of ever, are not any losers on the aggre
E. gate seasons profits, for the reasol
or that an easy winter did away with tn