Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-04-30
'3EIGHBORNG TOWNS
AND DoINGS OF THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

81 HuSget Of Interesting and Spicy
,z1ws From All the Cities and Towns
Pc y A the ooa't-Thrift and Industry
fands/ fin Every ouarter-oregon.
mil. Fastern Oregon hills will rejoice in
t. a.. fine corp OF bunchgrass this year,
wing to abundant moisture.
|sud =, bids are beirg received by the sisters
tter'if Josephs academy, Pendleton, for an
cvc-iddition to the school, which will cost
Of come $1,000.
ly dis Klamath county owes in warrants
| es, aand interes $73, ,7374l. The resources,
pascounting tnpaid taxes since 1892, as
on aassets, are s $lS, $4,000.
d tn The ainual convention of Benton
nile county's Sunday school association
u Connects q Corvallis, May and 6. Mrs.
'adhJ. M. 1loss is president.
I, ms A hman skeleton was unearthed in
Fan altali lick on the middle fork of the
0Johr Day river last week. 1t is sup
nposd to be that of an Indian.
M sne state university is rejoiced over
III. The fact that four of the Multnomah
| tior, ,o1nty nominees for representatives are
h l.. laduates from that institution.
storm The Dalles citizens are considering
wen ihe Feasibility of putting in an electric
had IRE alarm system and of purchasing by
absorption chemical engine.
hus Sheep-shearing in the southern part
stOn,f Wasoo county has begun in real
g nlaarnest, and in a short time the wool
Us vJrop of 1896 will begin arriving in The
NsrDallee.
pinn. Placer mining has been commenced
in fall over Eastern Oregon. This promises
cbbLto be very prosperous season for this
Eses industry, owing to the abundance of
pepEee water.
|yclm The Fossil Journal says divorces are
thzmpre numerous than marriages in Gill
vgliam county. Five divorces were
o Agrahted at the session of circuit court
|nolxin one week.
The 9-year-old son of Mr.. Roberts,
! of Grants Pass fell thirty feet from
tree top and struck his head ON rotten
n.l log. The boy was unconscious twelve
hours, but will recover.
IL, A large amount of wheat is being
h, h. received daily at the warehouses in The
Id N Dalles. 1t is part of last years crop
Ii that was held by the farmers who were
Eto,, not satisfied with prices last fall.
10 ub Trains running through Pendleton
d. have been swarming lately with hobos
WI and large numbers have been stopping
Emu on there. The railroad yards contain
shos good. sized populations each night.
bal A. S. Bassett died at the home of his
|s de son, near Halsey, in Linn county, at
thai the age of ~. Mr.. Bassett was a pion.
o0s eer OF 1861, coming to Oregon from
SUD New York state. He left widow and
several children.
ave Robert Harris, promising young
ms Indian, is at the Chemawa Indian
a'e school from Alaska. He says many
ouni Indian children in the territory are
M anxious to come to the school, and he
will probably be able to make arrange.
and ments for their doing so.
~ A family named Smith, who had
been living in tent below John Day,
~ lost their little boy last week under
~ distressing circumstances. The little
fellow had eaten wild parsnip which
u.s. he found in that vicinity, and only
|ng lived few hours thereafter.
|fh The late rains have swollen Coos
(eo river to higher mark than for years
past. The low places in the bottom
he'd lands have been covered to depth of
ere several feet, but very little damage is
Ma reported If the rain keeps ON though
an it is feared it will cause a destructive
n, food
10 w. r. Cunnington and A. s.. Rine,
BE-. OF Fremont. Neb., have been for the
Of past week engaged in buying band of
d something over 5000 2 and 3.year.old
Ian wethers in Grant county, to be driven
to Nebraska and fed next winter on
corn grown on Mr.. Rines 12SO.acre
farm. to prepare them for the Chicago
market next spring. The prices paid
were from 81. 81 to 81. 60 per head.
N Since January II last, the treasurer
bt OF Benton county has received from the
|n sheriff in taxes, including the sum
IL received from the distribution of the
Il Oregon Pacific sale fund, the sum of
IL e56,S+6. 90. OF this sum lump of city
II and county warrants turned in by
Il Sheriff Osburn, and which had been
Il turned in on taxes on the 1895 roll,
Il aggregated 100000. OF this amount
L G7e.64 was in city warrants.
The Corvallis Times says that the Jig
fss mp with the old steamer Three Sis
|, [ers. During the late high water she
|, was towed out on the river bank below
|. Corvallis. and she is to be dismantled.
/ Her hull had become so decsyed and