Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-01-14
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.


Cuiled From the Telegraph Columns.
A passenger train on the Burlington
jumped trestle near Omaha, and five
people were injured, one fatally.
William Dobbs, of Union, Or, has
received the Maui prize for raising the
largest table beet for 1895. The con-
test was open to all growers in the
United States and Canada. The prize
consisted of $50 draft. The beet
weighed seventeen pounds.
Some boys while hunting near Peta-
luna, CAL, shot pigeon on tree,
and the bird dropped with broken
wing. A message tied to the birds
wing proved that it came from Walla
Walla, Wash, four days previous.
The note was addressed to San Fran
cisco firm.
Important papers showing the
amount due the Pacific roads sinking
fund, on account of subsidies paid the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have
apparently been lost. The senate
adopted resolution calling for them.
The acting secretary has replied that
they cannot be found.
The Columbia river salmon packers
held a meeting in Astoria for the pur-
pose of fixing the price to be paid for
salmon during the coming season. 1t
was decided to offer cents pound,
and communication to that effect was
sent to the Fishermen's Protective
Union. The union met later, but no
action was taken in the matter Of the
Gamers proposition.
A thousand warning Poles, in Bay
City, Mich, were determined that Fa-
ther BOgacki should not officiate as
their priest. They attacked the par
sonage of st. Stanislaus' church, and
stormed it for over an hour. They de-
molished the edifice and one man was
shot and several others wounded with
clubs The priest finally surrendered,
and the police quelled the riot.
A Chicago paper says that President
elect Mckinley will select Colonel John
Hay, of Washington, as ambassador to
Great Britain. Colonel Hay has been
secretary of the legation at Paris,
Vienna and Madrid and was often
charge d'affaires ad interim at each of
these capitals. In Hayes adminstra-
tion he was first assistant secretary of
state. Hay was one of President Lin
clon's secretaries.
Sir Charles Upper at dinner in
London is quoted as saying: 81 feel
great admiration for the United States,
but do not desire to possess their insti-
tutions. feel that there is greater
security under British institutions for
life, property and liberty. Canadians
are greatly flattered at the desire of
the United States to possess Canada,
but so deep is their loyalty and SO
united are the Canadians that the aues-
tion is impossible" The speech of the
ex-premier was received with great ap-
plause.
In answer to Senator Mitchell's reso.
luton on the Yaquina and other i'm
provements in Oregon, the secretary of
war has reported that the matter had
been referred to Captain Fisk, and that
considerable correspondence had ensued.
Captain Fisk is endeavoring to ascer-
tain the best method of proceeding
with the project. The work on the
Willamette river has been ordered, and
the Yamhill locks are in the condition
Of the Yaquina project. Evidently
there has been delay in the matter,
which may be continued for some time
The Pacific cable conference will
meet within fortnight in London to
sign the report already agreed upon. 1t
is semi Officially stated that the report
unanimously recommends that cable
be built, as it is practically feasible
and commercially and politically neces-
sary. There is some difference of opin-
ion regarding the relative share of ex-
pense to be borne by Great Britain
and the colonies concerned, but the del
egates have agreed finally to recommend
that less be paid by Great Britain and
more by the colonies than originally
considered necessary. The sum asked
from Great Britain is understood to be
considered financially feasible by Secre-
tary Chamberlain.
A band Of masked regulators went
to the house of c. w. Reddick, few
miles west of Newport, Idaho, and
called him to the door. They seized
him, dragged him outside, took him a
short distance from the house and gave
him terrible beating with horsewhips
and switches. His condition is critical,
The alleged offense of Reddick was i'm
proper attentions to married woman
of the neighborhood.
1t is stated that c. P. Huntington
has corps of engineers in the field