Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-07-28
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

A government assay Office will be
established at Seattle.
Kansas has the biggest corn crop in
sight in the history OF the state.
Los Angeles will issue 1000, 900 in
bonds for purchase of waterworks.
Three tons of gold dust were deposit
ed in one day in the Seattle banks.
Admiral Dewey will be banqueted
by the Americans at Trieste, Austria.
The battIeship Iowa has received or
ders at Seattle to sail for San Fran
cisco.
A reciprocal treaty between the Uni
ted States and the West Indies has been
signed.
The Philippine commission reports
encouraging progress toward pacifca-
tion of natives.
The Addison steel foundry at Gin
cinnati, employing 200 men, burned;
loss, $400, 900.
The Shamrock in a race with the
Prince of Wales yacht Brittania easily
beat her l3 minutes.
Three were killed and three injured
in a railroad wreck near Portsmouth,
O.. caused by heavy fog.
The administration will ignore the
Manila correspondents "round robin,"
and await favorable news.
The royalties paid to the Canadian
government by Klondike mine owners
will amount to over $S00,00O this sea-
son.
Five thousand immigrants were
landed in San Francisco last year.
They brought with them a total of
$3S7,754
The Filipino junta will be moved
from Hong Kong to the island of La
baum, British colony, six miles from
the northwest coast of Borneo, as the
American officials have watched tie
mem mbers of the junta so closely at
Hong Kong that the latter have found
it impossible to supply the insurgents
with arms.
Admiral Dewey has filed his claim
for naval bounty.
Aguinaldo is said to be negotiating
with General Otis for peace.
Sacramento river steamers are tied
mp on account of a deck hands strike.
The new French cabinet wants TO
end the Dreyfus agitation and hush the
scandal.
Near London, Ky. as the result of
feud, five men were killed in
pitched battle.
Senators and representatives. are said
to have dictated appointments OF new
volunteer officers.
G. b. Winn, of Albany, has been ap-
pointed census supervisor for the first
district of Oregon.
Americans have gained another vic
tory at The Hague in securing the
right OF revision of arbitral rewards.
Mckinley will recommend that con-
gress give Eighth army corps members,
including Oregon volunteers, special
bravery medals.
All of the bodies of the dead in the
Second Oregon regiment will be
brought home for burial at the govern
ment's expense.
Dissolution of the o. r. 81 N. voting
trust means that hereafter the road
will serve Union Pacific and itself rath-
or than Northern roads.
The Colorado supreme court has de-
cided the eight.hour law unconstitu-
tional. The smeters will resume
operations ON the old schedule.
There are now mt St. Michaels be-
tween 200 and 800 stranded prospec-
tors. who do not know where their
next meal is coming from. The gov.
ernment station on the island is be-
sieged with piteous appeals for aid.
Attorney General Blackburn has
rendered an opinion at the request of
Newt Livingston, sheriff of Grant
county, Or, in which he expresses the
opinion that sheriffs are not entitled
to constructive mileage in serving pa
pers.
Newspaper correspondents in the
Philippines nave made vigorous pro-
test against the close censorship of dis.
patches, and say they are forced to in
dulge in misrepresentations. Otis has
appointed Il new censor and promises
a more liberal policy will be pursued
in the future.
A fruit Gamers combine, including
IL corporations and 22 plants, has just
been formed in San Francisco. The
new combine includes almost every