Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-05-14
h NEIGHBORING TOWNS
bRoGRESS AND DOINGS OF THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

News From All the Cities and Towns
on the Coast-Thrift and Industry
in Every Ouarter-Oregon.
An Oakville teacher whipped five
BOYS and one girl on recent forenoon.
Elgin has a new tent of .Maccabees,
and will soon have camp OF Wood
men.
F. W. Blumberg has been made Sec
retary of the Albany board OF immigra-
ion.
Kern s. Church are going to build a
bannery at the mouth of the Siletz
river.
The Wollowa county grand jury re-
armed true bill for each Indictment
admitted to it.
A. ]. Knollan is gathering up 10, 900
Bheep at The Dalles, which he will
nave driven across the country to East
brn markets.
Increase to the focks of Morrow
bounty will not be above 80 per cent
rot on account of the severe weather.
Shearing has just begun.
Sheep are getting so numerous in
lake county that unless so, 900 are sold
this summer the ranges will be covered.
The increase this spring is expected to
be quite large.
e. Broughton came very near losing
his life near Athena by squirrel poison
few days ago. He put pocket knife
In his mouth that had been used to stir
poisonous mixture.
Klamath Falls is to form Crater
Lake club to cooperate in the summer
sxcursion and to induce the Mazamas
10 return to the valley by way of the
fort, agency and Klamath Falls.
The city marshal Of La Grande pro-
poses to strictly enforce the law pro-
nibiting the riding of bicycles on the
idewalks. Union has similar ordin-
,nce that is continually being violated.
Il is stated on good authority, says
the Astorian, that about 200 gamblers
and all-around toughs have recently ar
lived in Astoria from Portland and
,ther cities from which they have been
hut out
Out worms are said to be doing con-
iderable damage to growing crops in
Norman county. A few warm days,
lowever, would put stop to their
.avages, and set everything growing
n that county.
In the Albany schools one afternoon
hey had bird day." Cages of can.
lries filled the rooms, reinforced by
PARROTS, red-birds, owls, etc. A pro-
yramme made the occasion useful as
well as entertaining.
Henry Conn, ST., died at his home
lear Melrose, in Douglass county, last
week. He came to Oregon and settled
pa Douglas county in 1853. He was
ouired under the auspices of the
hasons in Roseburg.
J. H. Townsend, of Newberg, has a
prospect of making contract with the
lew immigration board of Portland to
20 East with his stereopticon and a Sc
eotion of views, to be furnished by
he board, and in this way advertise
oregon.
John Barto shipped four carloads of
heep from Pendleton one day last
Feek, about 1850 head, to Long Pine,
Neb. He has already made contracts
br6 6, 900 head more, all of " which will
70 shipped to different points in Ne.
lraska at an early date.
The town marshal of Mitchell at.
empted the other day to arrest Frank
it1ce, but Stice drew revolver and
hased the marshal around the bar.
pon of the Central hotel. Stice was
Harvard arrested, however, and held
p the grand jury in the sum of $500.
I. R. Sheridan has been appointed
dministrator with the will annexed
the estate of Stephen Minard, of
louglas county. The executor named
the will, John Fl. Minard, died a
W days after his father. The bond
the administrator has been fixed at
e0.OOO.
FL. Albert, of Salem, has bible
p0 years old, that has been in the
ibert family 175 years. It is bound
Ipll calf, with stout wooden covers
pa back, and is l51k inches long, 10
iohes in width, inches in thickness,
pa has weight of 10 pounds, and
as formerly clasped with iron. The
"a and new testaments take 1,1SO
iees of the volume, the remainder be-
g devoted to the publishers preface,
|osary, indexes, the Augsberg confes.
On and to numerous biographies of
70 Saxon princes, under whose pat
mage the work was done.