Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-05
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
Comprehensive Review OF the Important
happening of the Past Week Culled
From the Telegraphic Columns.

From the TeIegraphic Columns.
CrOckery is TO be advanced in price
because of the new tariff.
Mrs. Hougen, aged 70, was burned
to death in her home near Burlington,
Skagit county, Wash.
The July run of salmon, although
late, is promising well and the fisher
men on the lower Columbia are report
ing large catches.
The fax grown for fiber on the Cor
wallis college farm has been pulled. A
portion of it attained the length OF SO
inches, while the average length is
about 40 inches.
The first mail for the Yukon valley
under the new contract left juneau
July l3 in charge OF f. w. Hovt, car
rier. 1t consisted of 1858 letters, be-
ing an accumulation from last April.
The treasury officials have discovered
a number of inconsistencies in the new
tariff law, some of them, it is feared,
incapable of reconciliation. 1t is point
ed out that section 262 places the duty
on plums at % cents per bushel, and
section 264 fixes the rate at cents per
pound. An error in the paragraph re-
ferring to currants was corrected in
conference.
The desire of Germany to institute
an European control of Greek finances
still hampers the settlement of the in
demnity question. 1t is understood
that the Volo-Larissa railway will bs
transferred to the Greek administration,
with the stipulation that the same IA
cilities shall be granted to Turkey for
the transportation of troops as are grant
ed to Greece.
A dispatch from Ottowa announces
that the Canadian government has de-
clded to impose royalty on all placer
diggins on the Yukon in addition to
$l5 registration fee and 500 annual
assessment. The royalty will be 10
per cent each on CLAIMS on which there
is an output of $500 or less monthly,
and 20 per cent on every claim produc-
ing above that amount yearly. Besides
this royalty, it has been decided in re-
gard to all future claims staked out on
other streams or rivers, that every al
ternate claim should be the property of
the government, and should be reserved
for public purposes and sold or worked
by the government for the benefit Of
the revenue of the Dominion.
The steamer Hope, after coaling at
Campbleton, G. B., sailed for the Arc
tic regions with Lieutenant Peary and
party on board.
A. A. Fischer, German, aged GA,
because of ill-health sucked gas and
died in San Francisco He left a note
asking that the gas he consumed be
paid for.
Thomas Renberge, welldigger, and
William Butler, veterinarian, we'll
known in Wabash. Ind, were drowned
In the Mississippi river near there
while fishing.
Captain j. T. G. Nash has bonded
the Golden Standard quartz mine,
owned by the Kublis and Judge Wat.
son, near Gold Hill in jackson county,
VI Inc price is Sl25, 900.
The fund for the Omaha Worlds
fair now amounts to 800, 1893. paid in
private subscription. The state gives
another 100000. There will be no
trouble in swelling the stock to $500.
900.
That Japan will continue to oppose
the Hawaiian annexation treaty 10
shown by the latest news from the jap
anese government, under date of July
10. which is now made public for the
first time. While couched in polite
and diplomatic language, the protest is
suiiclently firm in tone to show that
Japan will continue to wage diplo-
matte war, and possibly 90 further to
prevent the consummation of the an
nexation policy.
Recent advices from Peru, which
have been confirmed by G. de Miranda.
a petroleum magnate now in San
Francisco, state that the wonderfully
rich strikes reported from the Clon-
dyke region have been totally eclipsed
by fabulous discoveries of gold in that
south American republic. In an in
terview Mr.. Miranda said that there no
longer seemed to be any doubt that tho
famous Inca gold fields, which have
been considered as myths among the
inteiligent people of Peru, have at last
been discovered.
The schooner Norma arrived at Hon
olulu from the South seas on the 10th.
While the vessel was cruising on the
long voyage Captain Rosehill secured
sufficient evidence to warrant the be-
lief that England has been taking for
NAL possession of number OF small,
frtile islands in that portion of the