Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-04-16

lished camp for the purpose of log
ging the land off.
The Oldest farmers in the Walla
Walla valley are all agreed that the
present spring brings brighter pros
poets for heavier harvest than any
other year in their long experience.
The penitentiary commissioners
have awarded contracts for furnishing
supplies to the following firms: To-
bacco, Rosenfeld-Smith Co.; groceries,
Gus Winckler and the Schwabacher
Co.. butter, Maxon & Ferguson; beef,
the Washington Dressed Meat Com
pany.
Victor Paul, the clerk in the Blaine
hotel, has this winter shot and taken
over 500 wild ducks and brant in Semi
ahmoo bay, besides over 800 wild
pigeons and other birds in the woods.
With the exception of liberal presents
to friends, the fowls were consumed at
the hotel.
The Cornwall mill, Bellingham bay,
shipped last month five cargoes; four
coastwise and one foreign. The total
cargoes equalled 2,11O,O feet of lum-
ber, and 100000 lath. The Pacific
Coast Milling Company, 100000 feet
of finishing lumber, and 100000
shingles. Woodin's mill, 17O, 900 feet
OF finishing lumber, 200, 900 feet OF un-
classed lumber, and / 900, 900 shingles.
The courthouse in Spokane is to be
lighted with gas. Heretofore electric
lights have been used. In the court
house and Jail 1OS gas burners will be
placed. The county will pay $2.25
apiece for them. They will give 64SO
candle power. The county will pay
$55 per month for the gas from now
until October 1. Heretofore about 500
per month has been paid to the electric
light company.
In the federal court in Tacoma Judge
Hanford issued an order directing Re-
ceiver Andrew F. Burleigh, of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, to
pay the st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber
Company the judgment recently award.
ed for excessive freight charges paid
for hauling sawlogs to the mill. This
judgment is for $5,9O3.S7, Md was
awarded by board of arbitration, con-
sisting of Philip Tillinghast and c. D.
Stimson.
A. H. Kellogg has just completed
planting 1,400 cherry trees and now
has perhaps the most carefully planted
orchard in Island county. The trees
were planted on what is known as the
circular system, in rectangles 16xlS
feet. By planting in this form about
one-seventh more trees can be put upon
an acre, while the rows, radiating from
every point in the orchard, present
very pleasing effect.
In Walla Walla one day last week,
a number of boys were fishing in Mill
creek. One of the boys felt his hook
catch on some object at the bottom of
the creek. Giving jerk he brought
out large pasteboard box, somewhat
torn and broken by the water. Open.
ing the box the boy and his compan-
ions, who had gathered around him,
were Mortified to see the tiny form of a
babe, entirely nude.
John Kane, who, in the winter of
1891, was sent to the penitentiary from
Olympia for breaking into Fred Car.
lyons jewelry store, has been pardoned
by Governor McGraw. Kane is the
man who deliberately kicked window
out of store in broad daylight and
took silver cake basket, expecting to
get few months in Jail and thus es-
cape hard winter. Judge Robinson
gave him sentence of ten years, near
ly half of which has been served.
One hundred and twenty Cinnamon
were landed at Blaine last week for the
fishiAg season, and forty at Friday har-
Dor. The salmon season seems to be
fairly on. These Cinnamon will be
set to work making cans for the can
neries at Point Roberts and Semi
ahmoo. 1t is said they can be depend
ed upon to do the work through the
entire season. The tin for the cans
comes from San Francisco and an i'm
mense number of cans is required.
The suit brought in Tacoma by the
General Electric Company against the
receivers of the Tacoma Railway 81
Motor Company and the Baker. Boyer
bank, of Walla Walla, has been COM
promised and dismissed. The plaintiff
company sought to have the receivers
of the road restrained from paying to
the Walla Walla bank coupons Oh
$4,000 bonds of the company alleging
that interest had been paid ON a note
on which the bonds were security DUR
ing the time the coupons matured, and