Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-05-07


ready about June /.
A family named Keller have beer
suffering in Hoquiam from trichina
having eaten of improperly cured pork
Prizes amounting in value to 800
will be offered for the field day COL
tests to be held by the garrison N
Walla Walla on June l.
The health officer of Seattle discov.
cred a mild case of smallpox, abut
two blocks from police headquarters.
The patient was Immediately qusan-
tined.
Wheat and oat hay is bringing So a
ton in the Big Bend country, and there
is a disposition on the part of anum.
ber of the farmers to raise hay instead
of grain.
A New York company offers to put
IN creamery plant at AsotiI if the
milk from 800 COWS can be ecured.
The irrigation company will give a
free site.
The electric light plant at Cheney
is again in operation, and tn, citizens
hope that satisfactory agreement has
been reached by the Edison company
and the bondholders.
The residence of W. E. Mitchell, in
Olympia, burned with its cntents last
Saturday. There was $50, insurance
on the building and furniture, which
about covers the loss.
The effects of the bank of Anacortes,
which suspended in 1893 were sold at
assignee's sale the other day, and
brought but a small sim, compared
with the banks Liabilities.
The dead body of ar unknown man
was found in the baya Seattle last
week. There was a fightful wound
on the right side of tie head, but the
real cause of death has not been ascer.
tanned.
The Whatcom Reeille claims that
the old brick courthouse on E street in
that town is not oily the first brick
building built in theterritory of Wash.
ington, but the first built north of San
Francisco.
Mrs. Sidney T. Ford, of Centralia,
last Thursday celebrated her Goth
birthday, among many of her old
friends. Mrs. Ford is one of Wash
ington's earliest pioneers, having set
tied on Ford's nrairie
Saddle horses belonging to Wesley
Jones and E. ". Bracket were taken
from hitching posts in the center of
North Yakima last week and ridden
off. The horses, stripped of saddles
and brides, we're found in the sage
brush near tie old town couple of
days later.
A doubt has risen in the minds of
some in Seattle as to whether or not
James E. Alsop, the man who COM
mltted suicide in the Seattle Jail re-
Gently, after being arrested for murder,
was the man the police was after. A
photograph of the real Allsop has be-
received, and does not resemble t,
man who killed himself.
1t is claimed that there is snak
measuring about three inches in lengt
in the eye of horse belonging to All
McAllister, of Yakima City. T.
snake can be plainly seen wrigglil
around IN the ball of the eye, and t
horse s gradually becoming blin
Mayor Lake and George Gervais YOU,
for the truth of this statement, says Il
Yakima Herald.
A surprise was created in land offit
circles in Spokane last week by the
rival OF patents to the Northern Pacii
Rail'oad Company for lands near P
lous', occupied by Edward f. Powe
and James d. Holiday. The settle
had contested the company's claim al
the local Office decided in their fayo
The railroad company appealed ar
pending decision patents were
SUED to the company.
Commander Wadhams, of the Mon
tGey. says the damage to the Montere
when the steamship Transit collide
With her in Seattle harbor recently di
1ot need immediate attention. One
the Monterey's plates was sprung b
the collision, but it had been caulked
and there was no necessity of perma. i.
nent repairs till the monitor returns to
Mare island. Commander Wadhams
said the Monterey might remain on the
Sound all summer.
A number of farmers living near
Lake Stevens have organized society
,alled the Lake Stevens Mutual Benefit
Society. The society is organized for
practical cooperation. Each member
is assessed an equal amount, and has
the use of the community property,
which at present consists of a stump.
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