Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-12-17
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A vessel has sailed from Portsmouth,
N. H., for the Klondike.
The National Guard asks for an ap-
preparation OF So, 900, 900.
There is a possibility of a rate war
between Western railroads.
A party has left San Francisco to
survey a new route to the Klondike.
San Francisco merchants are being
prosecuted for selling adulterated olive
oil.
AT Salinas, CAL, two burglars clever
ly Jailed the jailer and a deputy
sheriff.
A tremendous rich gold strike is re-
ported on Dog creek, a tributary of the
Yukon.
The son of a New York millionaire
died in the county hospital in San
Francisco.
The Georgia senate wants to send
state %convicts to Cuba to fight for the
insurgents.
bShoVoi ioihlus HAS q
joint resolution authorizing the presi-
dent to appoint a committee to draft a
code CT laws for the territory of Alaska.
The man who helped hang Frank
Butler, the murderer of the noun
%tains," in Australia, was arrested in
San Francisco, accused of larceny of a
coat.
One of the most horrible ~lynchings
ever known in Nevada has occurred at
Genoa, IA miles from Carson. Aram
Uber, who last week shot and killed
Hans Anderson in a Millerville saloon,
was taken by a mob of masked men and
hanged to a cottonwood tree half a
mile from the Jail. When taken from
his cell, the victim had nothing on but
a shirt. This was torn off by the
lynchers, and the nude body was left
dangling in the air for six hours. As
the body was being pulled up the mob
riddled it with bullets. When salts
fled that the man was dead the vigil
antes dispersed and returned to their
homes.
E. L. Hewes, the Wichita mountain
boomer, who has been at Wichita for
three weeks trying to organize a party,
has left for Oklahoma City without a
single follower. At different times he
claimed to have from 500 to 1000
boomers ready to follow his lead into
the country.
Toru Hoshi, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary from Japan to
the United States, was. a passenger
from the Orient on the City of Picking,
which as just arrived in San Fran.
cisco. He will leave for Washington
at once carrying with him instructions
in reference to the Hawaiian treaty of
annexation which will be considered
by the United States senate.
When the German reinforcements.
consisting of four companies of ma
rines, numbering 23 officers and 1900
men, n a company of naval artillery,
arrive at Kiao Chau bay, for which
point, as already cabled, they will soon
set out, they will bring the German
force there up to 1866 men. the lar
gest body Germany has ever sent be-
yond Eropean waters. 1t is understood
that the reserves had to be drawn upon.
Surgeon.G General Wvman, of the
marine hospital service, has submitted
his annual report ia Secretary Gage. 1t
shows that during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1897, the total number Of
patients treated at hospitals and the
dispensaiies connected with the service
was 54,477. Although the total num-
Der OF patients treated was 673 in ex-
cess of those treated during the pre-
vious fiscal year, the expenditures were
1888, 536, which is 1921, 900 less than
the previous year.
The annual report of James II. Eckles,
controller of the currency, for the year
ended October 81. 1897, opens with q
brief resume of the history of the legis-
lation which constitutes the present
National-bank act, and invites the at
tention Of congress to amendments to
the law recommended in former reports,
without specifically repeating them.
The controller renews his recommend
alton of last year, urging that national
bank examiners be paid an annual SAL
airy instead Of fees, as now.
Further information from Washing
ton respecting the proposed canal and
locks for the channel at the dalles is 10
the effect that it is proposed to push
the work with a deal of rapidity. The
contract system and modern methods Of
excavation and building have made it
clear that years need not be spent upon
a work of this character. If the con-
tract for improving the Columbia by a