Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-06-04

The Ellensburg creamery is receiv.
ing about 5000 pounds of milk a day.
Both L. Frank Boyd and E. C. Bart.
lett have filed bonds as city clerk of
Spokane and contest is likely.
There are now in the National q uard
of Washington IA companies of infan.
try, averaging 40 men each, and two
cavalry troops of 16 companies, be-
sides a battery of 16 men. These
numbers are exclusive of the officers.
1t is believed by many around Aso-
tin that the recent wet weather has
drowned the eggs of the grasshoppers
that were deposited in the ground last
summer.
G. w. Roberts, who has begun di-
vorce proceedings against his wife in a
Spokane court, alleged, among other
things, that she received love letters
written in cipher.
The government stocked Bonney's
lake, near Blaine, with trout about
eight years ago. Recently an amateur
fisherman caught 81 beauties, aggre-
eating over 200 pounds, one alone
weighing twelve pounds.
Secretary j. f. Cass, of the state
board of horticulture, who was elected
to succeed Secretary Tonneson at the
last meeting of the board, has assumed
control of the Office, and has establish.
ed his residence in Tacoma.
The city council of Port Townsend,
acting upon petition signed by 1856
citizens, will submit to the voters the
question of re-incorporating the city
under the general laws of the state of
Washington. There is little or no
opposition to the proposed action.
Hopmen have been busy in Lewis
county this week and training is gen.
eral. The vines are little backward,
but that cuts no figure, as the season
is plenty long enough. Preliminary
estimates put the acreage in Lewis
county this season at about 400,
against little more than 1000 last
year.
Receiver Tillinghast has turned over
to Tacoma $l2, 500 of the city war.
rants, which were deposited in the
Columbia National bank by Boggs
The warrants were placed in the bank
in the East as collateral for a loan,
and were recovered by the receiver.
The amount will be deducted from the
city's balance on the banks books.
The civil service commission of Ia.
coma has fixed the Limit of age for po.
licemen who shall apply for positions
in the service at 30 maximum and 81
minimum. Five years of experience
on the force will be deducted from an
applicants age. The policemen al.
ready on the force who were appointed
by Chief Hogue will not be obliged to
conform to the age limit.
Auditor Lyons believes that the
amount of taxes due Cowlitz county
from the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company on its lands, as a result of
the recent decision of the United States
supreme court, is about $25, 900.
Taxes on the lands have not been paid
since 1899, leaving the years 1888,
1894 and 1895 yet due. OF course,
the penalty and interest will amount
to snug sum.
]. Greene, Of Peshantin, the Wenat.
chez Advance relates, while on the
way to the mines with beef for Kuelbs
q Co., of Mission. had the misfortune
to have his horse biunder over the side
of the mountain into Niger creek, and
lost the horse and 100 pounds of beef.
The Yakima Times says that thir-
teen years ago rancher OH the Natchez
had one orphan lamb He bought two
for the orphan. and since
that time has sold over 1900 sheep
from the flock, besides having 1900
left, this not counting the wool taken
during those thirteen years.
The recent sale of the assets of the
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railway
to the representatives of the Union
Trust Company, will not be permitted
to go unchallenged to confirmation,
says the Post Intelligencer. 1t is more
than likely that the matter may be car
ried to the circuit court of appeals, and
possibly to the supr me court of the
United States. With the report of
Hon. Eben Smith, United States mas.
ter in chancery. respecting the sale,
there have been filed in the federal
court objections to confirmation, made
by Andrew +. Burleigh. as receiver of
the Northern Pacific and others.
The Northwest Mines.
From the summit of the Rocky noun.
tsins to Okanogan lake lies one of the
greatest mineral sections in the world. |
The product of the mines is not con.