Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-01-07
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

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and fifteen are missing.
Police Officer Bratton was badly
shot while trying to capture two bur-
glars in a store in Tacoma. He fired
at one burglar, when another, who was
watching, opened fire and shot BrStton
twice in the back of the head. He
will probably die.
Eddie Chandler, about II years old,
was drowned in Portneuf river, in Pc.
c~atello, Idaho. He threw his hat on
the ice and tried TO get the dog to get
it, and, failing in this, he went ON the
ice and broke through into deep water.
The river was dragged and the body
found in about an hour.
One of the last official acts of Mayor
Rader"Uf Los Angeles, Cal, will be to
attach his signature to an ordinance
making APPROPRIATIONS upon the side
walks of public streets, entrances to
public buildings or the floors of street
cars a misdemeanor, punishable by
either fine or imprisonment, or both.
Chief Hazen Of the secret service at
Washington, has issued a circular
warning against a new counterfeit $40
national banknote on the Union Ma.
tional bank of Detroit. The note is
the product of the same hand which
produced the recent counterfeit on the
National Bank of Commerce of New
York. One distinguishable feature is
that the back of the note is upside
down.
Miss Celia Strahm was killed by her
brother.in-law, Elden Buroker, at
Dixie, eighteen miles west of Walla
Walla. Miss Strahm was visiting the
family, and after the family had re-
tired she went out of the door. and
upon returning the noise awakened
Buroker, who drew a pistol from under
his pillow and shot Miss Strahm. He
mistook her for an enemy, whom he
had heard was intent on doing him
harm.
Japan has a larger carrying trade on
the Pacific than the United States, and
Americans who are near enough to
watch the shifting scenes in this new
and rapidly developing contest for com.
mercial supremacy find little matter for
pride in present tendencies. This is
the statement of United States Consul
Bell, of Sydney, contained in his report
to the state department upon the OPEN
ing of the new Japanese steamship line
between Yokohama and Australia.
The president has extended the civil
service rules SO as to include all officers
and employees in the federal peniten.
tiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
though it is to apply to all such gov
eminent institutions and to all peni.
tentiaries hereafter created Immediately
upon their establishment. Attorney
General Harmon is subjecting the re-
cent civil service schedule as affecting
the department of justice to a rigid
scrutiny. The present amendment is
to overcome a defect in the rules pro-
mulgated and further amendments ON
similar lines may be expected.
Radical changes In the procedure of
the pension Office have been made. All
claims for increase, save in extraordi-
nary cases, hereafter will be sent direct
to the medical division of the bureau,
without having to be passed upon by
the board of review. This action is
taken on the ground hat the bulk of
increase cases involve only medical &C.
ton. Hereafter there will be no me-
cessity for cases before the board of re-
view being passed upon by three or
four examiners, Commissioner Muir
ply has fixed the number of examiners,
who must review each claim at once.
The Mexican government. recognize
ing the increasing Importance of it's
west coast commerce, is determined to
improve the harbors. Arrangements
have been made to raise a considerable
sun for this work, in addition to the
8 $4,000, 900 for the improvement of
Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruxz, the
eastern and western termini of the Te-
huantepec road. The move to improve
the harbors is also caused, it is said, by
the rapidity of railroad building to.
ward the Mexican Pacific coast, which
will open fertile country and develop a
large commerce through the ports be-.
low Mazatlan.
A strike instituted at Georgetown.
Mass, has thrown out of work 400
men, and promises to embrace the en-
tire six shoe factories of the town. A
threatened cut in wages was the cause
of the strike.
The constructors of the Siberian rail-
road have undertaken to build a line
through Mantchuria, starting from a
point ON the river where the Siberian
road joins the trans Baikelia line and
terminating at Mikolskaya, Russia.
The ministerial press Of st. Peters,
burp points out that this line will