Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-05-14

ern Idaho this year. Many of them
come from southern Idaho.
The receivers of the Aberdeen bank,
have wiped out over $50, 1000 of the
banks indebtedness, leaving only
about 1000 more to pay off.
The contract for keeping the county
poor of Walla Walla has been awarded
to L. L. Hunt, for $l,7OO. The poor
will now be housed at Lakeside.
The total receipts of the Spokane city
water works for the three months of
1895 were $14,03S. 40, and in 1896,
SIG, ,627.65 an increase of $2,5S9 25,
or 1S per cent.
A sawmill, with daily capacity of
5000 feet is being built ON Chinook
river, in Pacific county, by Mr.. Will.
son, of Clatskanie, Or, and will saw
to fill local demand.
Tommy Lane, chief of the Puyallup
Indians, was knocked down by hobo
last week, near Puyallup, and robbed
of twenty cents, two pounds of beef.
steak and an umbrella.
A forty-room hotel is being built on
Long Beach, short distance from the
site Of Tinker's hotel. 1t will be COM
pleted in plenty of time to accommo-
date the summer rush.
The civil service commissioners of
Tacoma have gone over TO Seattle 70
investigate the methods and familiar
ize themselves with the workings of
the civil service commission of that
city.
At Port Townsend an unofficial test
of the new revenue launch Scout show.
ed her to be able to easily make four
teen to sixteen knots an hour. Reve-
nue. officers are delighted to think that
the first government boat constructed
on Puget sound is such an eminent suc-
CESS
A few days ago, while workman
was excavating for the Stahl building
in Walla Walla, he found coffin con.
tanning human bones. under the Albeit
building. The new building will be
lower than that of the adjoining struc-
lures. and the coffin was exposed to
view when the excavators got below
the foundation of the Albeit building
A number of sheepmen from Adams,
Whitman and Lincoln counties are in
Walla Walla to answer in United
States court the restraining orders re-
Gently served upon them by United
States Deputy Marshal f. J. Parker.
The orders were issued by Judge Han
ford, on application of the receiver of
the Northern Pacific company, who
wishes to stop tresspass upon the COM
pany's lands.
The Wyandotte Mining & Milling
Company. a Chicago concern, has
made arrangements to do a large
amount of development work on its
group of claims known as the Black
Bear. in Okanogon county. A large
new hoisting plant will soon be erect
ed, and the properties extensively
worked from now on.
Mrs. James Walters. of Garfield, was
frying eggs for breakfast the other
morning. She broke one into the fry
ing pan and was surprised to see a
small egg inside of it. Mrs. Walters
took a spoon and lifted it out and
found it to be perfectly shaped egg
nearly two inches long and covered
with she'll nearly as hard as the
usual egg shell. 1t was inside the yolk
of the larger egg.
Judge Norman Buck, commander of
che department of Washington and
Alaska, q. A. R., has issued orders for
the observance of Memorial day, Satur.
day, May 80, in compliance with orders
from national headquarters. The de.
partment commander earnestly urges
every post in the department to invite
the Woman's Relief corps, the Sons
and Daughters of Veterans, the school
children and all of the people.
Owing to the fact that the supreme
court has decided that school districts
could not legally validate indebted
ness, as was done in Pullman, the pub.
lie school there closed Friday. The
warrants drawn since the districts
voted to validate are said to be illegal,
and the teachers who sold them have
been asked to take them back. If they
are forced to do this great hardship
will be worked upon the teachers.
A man by the name of Peterson of
Spokane believes he has a method by
which he can save the flour gold con
tanned in rivers, and is building a
plant for that purpose. The water and
gravel is run through a sluice box
which contains six copper plates, one
upon the other. These will be charged
with quicksilver. They are not fiat
surfaces but are even in waverinp