Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-06-04
yHE PACIFIC STATES
NEWS NOTES FROM
9lAIalous PLACES.

ah News Of More Than General Inter-
ClO est st-DeveIopment and Progress in
ns All Ind ustries- Oregon.
There were lis pupils enrolled in
the Yoncalla school May 8.
lq Several young men of Knappa have
cas applied for three years service on
: the battleship Oregon.
-, The 0. K. & N. piledriver and bridge
~ :. outft, employed at Union for rome
:. - time. has been moved to La Grande.
Herricks' cannery at The Dalles, re.
ns ceived nine tons of salmon one day
a., last week. the best haul so far this
no M year.
Nj The county treasurer of Umatilla
wi county now has on hand $1l, ,024.96 for
distribution to the various school dis
tricts.
t.. The stage road from North Yamhill
Il TO Tillamook is being repaired, and
Iii the contractor is preparing to run the
ID mail stages through.
lp Some miscreant has cut down the
'H hag on Rust's opera house, Baker City,
for the third time lately. The mana
nu ger offers $50 for the perpetrator.
X The rattlesnake road is reported to
y be in fine condition for travel, and the
q Sherman county farmers are making
" good use of it, bringing wheat to The
y Dalles and buying supplies there.
y During commencement at the Ash
!. land Normal school from June to II,
M ~ nf khn -,
y Of Oregon, will lecture before the lit
\ erary societies of that institution.
W. II. Lewton, of Dexter, will erect
within the next few weeks sawmill
on his place in Lane county. His
property embraces fine body of tim
!. Der, and he expects to be in the market
! This month.
\ Some of the timbers being driven
/ for the Miles floating dock, at New
berg, are 80 feet long. The water is
40 feet deep, and the timbers are
! driven into the earth 18 feet by a
hammer weighing $500 pounds.
Probably the largest shipment of
Eggs ever made from any point in Ben
ton county was that last week from
Liverpool landing, by the steamer
GYPSY. The shipment consisted of 52
cases of S66 dozen to the case, OF 8, 472
eggs.
The Coquille valley coal outupt is
reoieying an impetus as facilities for
shipment increase. At Beaver Hill
the output now is said to be about 27O
tons per day. The steamer Moro, as
also several of the schooners running
from the Coquille river to San Fran
cisco, will carry coal.
The heavy rains have caused consid-
erable trouble to the owner of the ferry
across the Mckenzie, three miles above
Leaburg. Last week the guyropes
broke and the boat drifted down
4 stream about two miles. 1t required
three days. with the help of men,
horses and rowboats to get the boat
back in position.
Mrs. James Jack died in Linn county
OF la grip and rheumatism. She has
been widow for twenty-one years.
During these years she brought up her
five children, the youngest of whom
came to his majority last January.
She lived four miles southeast of Hal.
sey in her farm house, which she ran
and kept free Of mortgage.
William Abraham, residing four
miles west of Albany, in Benton coun.
ty, was attacked by a vicious 3-year.
old Jersey bull and jammed up against
barn in brutal manner. Three ribs
were broken, and he was otherwise
badly bruised and injured internally
The bull had been dehorned, but seems
TO have lost none of his madness
w. A. Cummings is one hopgrower
who has not lost faith in the business
of growing hops. He has large yard
near Twins butte, in Benton county,
which yielded fair crop last season.
n With force of fifteen meu and six
teams Mr.. Cummings hegan the Gull
tlvation of the yard last week. and
hopes with proper attention to harvest
large crop this fall.
Frank Lowery had little adventure
with panther the other day, at his
place in Curry county. He had secured
TWO deer and was about to return
nome, when his dog treed panther.
de had only two cartridges left, with
which the animal was knocked from
the tree but not killed. The dog
tackled the panther, and was getting
the werst of it, when Lowery drew his
knife and took hand in the fight. !
The animal was finally killed. but not
before Lowery was scratched up and
his clothes badly torn. The beast
measured over eight feet in length.