Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-10-22
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The Patsy went out over the
bar Sunday morning on her way
to Siuslaw. The bar was so
rough that several big breakers
struck the cabin, but no damage
was done. A big storm has been
raging off shore for several
days and the ocean has been so
rough that the bay has been
covered with sea foam.A 40
The Ahwaneda came in Satur-
day evening from Bandon with
twenty-five tons Of coal for the
Abbey. She had gone to Ban
don with IS tons of freight for
that city,, She went out Sunday
bound for Astoria.
Fl. L. Collins and F. B. Skin
ner of Portland and r. e. Collins
of the Leader stayed over night
in Newport, Thursday, while on
their way to Yachats on big
fishing tour. They rode down
the beach on their bicycles. The
Yachats is a great place for fish
ing and hunting and the scenery
is grand and inspiring. The
roads are good and the travel
has been better in that country
than ever before. f
The excursion train Sunday
brought in SO persons who spent
the day strolling on the beach
enjoying the roughness of the
ocean and the great waves and
breakers that was caused by the
recent storm. 1t is a grand
sight to see the ocean in a
storm. A good many people
come in from the Valley for that
purpose.
Sunday was a dull day for
Newport. The Sunday closing
law took effect. on that day. The
business houses were all closed,
no places cof amusement or
pleasure kept open. fleyen the
drug stores were closed and the
druggist went fishing, Said it
did not pay to keep open for the
little medicine they might sell.
One gentleman, a visitor, ate a
. lot of crabs which gave him the
stomach ache and he came near
dying for lack of medicine. u An
other man came In from Siletz,
walked all the way. He wanted
a bath but everything was closed
UP SO he could not get it. All
places of amusement and profit
were closed, such as bowling al
leys, billiard rooms, candy stores
fish markets, cigar stores, soft
drink houses, ice cream parlors,
etc. This is an old blue Law"
passed in 1864, amended in 1908,
and now at this late date is be-
ing enforced. The next things
to be excluded are tea, coffee
and tobacco. Tobacco and cof-
fee being narcotics will no doubt
be placed under the Harrison
Law. Our liberties are gradu-
ally slipping away from us and
soon it will be no pleasure to
live. The laws are so complex
and numerous that 1t is impos-
sible to keep them all. It is like
the old rules that use to govern
the district schools so many
rules that you could not help
breaking them. The game and
fish laws are SO complicated that
1t Is hard to enforce them and 1t
is hard to convict when they are
violated. You can not hunt deer
with hounds and IL you don't
keep down the predatory ami
mails they will kill the sheep,
deer and goats, SO there would
be no chance for them to in
crease. II a breed Of dogs
could be raised that would run
predatory animals only then the
game would increase as well as
the goats and sheep. The un-
iderbrush is SO thick In this
country that 1t is almost impos-
sible to find the deer without
dogs. Wesley Satterlee owns O
ranch of 400 acres near Tide
water and he says on his place
there must be fifty deer. You
can hardly ever see one Of them
because the brush is so thick.
But few deer have been killed
this year for the reason you can't
find them still hunting. l am
told a single cougar will kill
twenty deer within a year.
B. r. Jones of Roseburg was
IN town during the week. He Is
Interested In developing his
property at Otter Rock.