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Groceries, Hats, Caps, Boots,
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SAN JOSE WOOLEN MILLS,
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LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON
YOUNGEST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
Brief Description of Lincoln Countv. Oregon.
And its Rich, Undeveloped Resources.
U?hZ P"TY ,vLf,etra,e4 by a.t of I inhabitant,. It lias three fine hotel., numer-
ai fr,11, ? '""V3; 1S93-,nd ou 8tore8- flne pub iy
7 ? I J det,ad frm nm- "W- on. -wmra. and many other line,
nc I! ?k C0U;UJe,8; " vb0,:nded 0U of busine88' The government work, .relocated
he east by Benton and Plk, on the south by here and the town enjov. a good trade. New-
kTn;h h!.Tm rtvePTnn0Ce,"v' ' "Joys the reputation of being the finest
h . , , Til'"nrk m The count- 8um w on the Pacific coast, and during
has a coast lino of fifty mile and an area of ; the summer month thousands of people visit
1,440 square miles, and a population of about Newport.
3,000 inhabitants. The temporary county seat j South of Xen port ten miles is the Seal Rocks
1 " permanent county seat location Summer Kei ort
nuiDennaiiy determined at the recalar June
cicmum in loan, ine act crutiinr tne Countv : mam- ni
provides that the candidate for the dountrre-i OnAls n.v i.,. ... n..i.
ceiving a majority of all the votes ca shall be : villages, one on the north side and on. on th.
the permanent county seat. At the rceular ' south, finnrf hni. ..,. ,..,..
election in June, mm, thero were four candi- either town. At Waldport on the south side is
dates in the Weld tor permanent county seat, a good saw mill, nowengaged (n sawing lumber
and no place received a majority vote, hence '. for the San Francisco market. On the north
mere was no election. At tne next election side are locate! ih .Mum ,.,.i.
owned by James Brasfleld.
j Here are loca ted good hotels, fine grounds and
the two points receiving the highest vote at
last election win be the only candidates, and
therefore a decision will be assured. The two
contesting points will be Toledo and West Ya
qulna.
There are four bays within the limits of Lin
coln County, all abounding in fish of all kinds.
Salmon river, or bay enters the ocean near the
northern boundary of the county. Along this
stream are tine tide lands and rich bottom
lands, soon to be opened to settlement.
Seven miles south of Salmon river the Siletz
where
annually aro canned and shipped from five to
ten thousand cases of salmon of fine grade.
The Alsea Boy is navigable for steam crafts for
twelve miles. This part of the County is rich
in lumber, both fir and cedar, and is the ideal
dairying country. The Alsea harbor although
it remains today without ever having had
dollar of money spent on it, is a better harbor
than many other harbors on the coast. Coast
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with
out a tug or pi ct. Cranberries raised ou the
Alsea marshes bv Mr. J. 0. Stearns, are pro-
river, or bay empties its sparkling waters into uounced by exports to be of the finest flavor of
tj.tcc.ld Tariflc Area!'.. Thl- rtrenm drn!n n ' ctiy rr.l-cd frtn Oregon to Mtiirte.
large scope of country and affords the largest EI.K CITY is the oldest town In the county,
volume of freh water of any river In the couif and is nicely located at the Junction of the Big
ty, having many feeders. For this reason it is ( Klk and Yanuina Rivers. It has a good hotel,
said that moro salmon enter it than both the 1 two stores, a blacksmith shop and postofilce,
Alsea and the Yaqulna combined. The- Siletz j and being the center of a luvge farming district
river heads in and nenr the summit of the Coast j enjoys a good trade. Thousands of bushels of
range of mountains in Polk county and runs j potatoes and many bushels of line apples are
nearly all the way through the rich valley of ! shlppod annually to Sau Francisco,
WHAT IS GRAVITATION!
the siletz, now an Indian reservation, soon to
be thrown oren to settlement.
Twenty miles south of the Sllotse Bay the now
famous Yaqutna Bay mingles her commerce
laden waters with the old Pacitlc. Yaqnina
Bay proper is about 14 miles long, but is navig
able for small crafts for thirty milc from the
mcMth,, There are many tributaries emptying
into the Yaqulna, and many fine farms dot the
valleys and hill sides. Eight miles above New
port are large bodies of rich tide lands extend
ing on up the Bay for six or seven miles, many j
acres of which are being dyked, reclaimed and ,
cultivated, and when once cultivated are said
to be the richest lauds in the world, the soil in
many places being sixty feet deep. The lands
are admirably adapted to raising all kinds of
beets, roots, mangel wurzols, etc., and particu
larly to the culture of sugar beets. The anal
ysis of beets raised on the tide-land near Tole
do showed IB per cent of saccharine matter, be
ing the highest percentage obtained in the
state.
Leaving the tide-lands aud for ten miles on
up the Bay, or now the Yaqulna river, arelarge
Sandy bottoms In and around Elk City, the gar
den spot of the county. Above Elk City and on
up the Yaqulna river and alon t e line of the
O. P. railroad are fine bottom lands. On these
bottom lands fruit of all kinds do remarkably
well. Several hop yards have been planted
on these bottom lands and the result has been
very satisfactory. Hop culture promises to he
one of the prosperous and profitable Industries
of the county at an early date. At Nashville,
near the cast line of the county, are large or
chards of prunes, apples and pears, showing
that fruit wilt do well even so near tho summit
of the Coast range,
Eighteen miles below Yaqulna Bay the Alsea
river and Bay empties Into the Pacific ocean.
The Bay is of a considerable size, and the en
trance Is deep enough to permit coasting ves
sels to enter and carry away the productsof the
fertile valley of the Alsea river. The country
contiguous to the Alsea river resembles that of
the Yaqulna very much. It Is settled with in
dustrious and thrifty people, and promises to
develop rapidly Its lotent resources.
- The Dairying litiinstrr.
Llucoln county Is admirably adapted for
dairying. With our mild climate, where snow
never lies on the ground to exceed one day,
cool nights and abundance of puro spring wa
ter, it Is an idoal dairying country. The cli
mate is such that grass never dries up but re
mains green during the entire year, thus af
fording annual grazing and rsduclng the cost
:ol iceaing IO a minimum. 1 lover is uniumu;
Napted to this country, growing oh the high'
iills or the lowest bottoms, wherever the
. Scattered. Frequently our Termers oui
clover from their meadows In one
en known to cut three. Silos
A three crops can be obtain-
ago. Steps have been tak
iery piaui at auiuiu, uuu
X-it't that a creamery
A211 here at an early
Hness once estab
' v-,nnty, the In
dmltted in
X'oduced
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TOLEDO, the temporary County- eat, Is well
located 12 miles above the mouth of the Bay, on
the line of the 0. 1'. It. R., and nearly In the
center of the County, drawing the lines to the
compass. Toledo enjoys the undivided trade of
the Siletz Indian Reservation. It Is the center
of the famous tide-land belt, and will hold her
own by reason of her splendid location. Toledo
has one first-class hotel, four good general
merchandise stores, one drug store, two weekly
newspapers, one steam saw-mill, blacksmith
shop, a tine large public school building, two
churches, and other minor businesses.
1'IOXEEU, or MOilltlHON, Is a station on the
O. P. R. R., about three miles from Elk City.
At this place is located the famous Pioneer
Sandstone quarry. The products of this quarry
is becomming justly celebrated all over the
coast. As a building atone It is unexcelled,
Large quantities of It arc being shipped to San
Francisco where it Is used In the construction
of some of tho mammoth buildings of that city
The quarry employs a large nnmber of man
and Is building up a large Industry,
On up the railroad are the stations of Chit
Wood, Eddyvllle and Little Elk, all of them
trading points of some importance,
The Slltts Reservation.
In the north part of the county lies the famous
Siletz Indian reservation, now soon to be thrown
open for settlement, This reservation Is among
the last of the Indian lands to be opened to the
whites, and offers about the last opportunity
the prospective settler will have In securing a
home from Uncle Sam. The Indians having
been allotted their lands and one hundred and
eighty thousand acres remaining which will be
turned back to the general government and be
homesteaded and taken under the timber act
The Siletz river Is navigable for twenty-five
miles up from its mouth for all classes of river
boats. Along the river on either side for three
miles Inland are large bodies of rich tide land,
and for the next twenty miles large sandy bot
toms extend from the rivers edge, varying In
width from two hundred yards to a quarter of
a mile. This territory has never been visited
by a fire and there are millions of feet of tine
fir, larch and cedar timber, Large deposits of
coal are known to exist, the quality of which is
the same as that of the magnificent Depot
Slough coal. On this reservation can be found
some of the best agrfcultural and grazing land
on the coast. All the preliminary work look'
ing to the opening of the reservation has been
done, and it is ouly awaiting the President's
proclamation announcing it open for "ettle
ment, when the pioneer's ax will startle the
wild elk and deer from their natural haunts
when capital will take np the echo and soon
where but a few months before nothing but the
wild animals' harsh notes and wierd chants of a
few old Indians, the remlnants of a once power
f ul tribe, was beard as they paid their tribute to
old Medicine Rock, will be heard the music of
the saw and hammer. Civilization shall con
quor the earth.
Nlscellaneeai.
Owing to the mild climate and absence of
frost; fruit of all kinds that can be raised in Ore
gon do exceedingly well here. Largo orchards
of prunes, apples and pears are being set out
and so far have proved to be perfectly free from
all fruit pests, common In the Willamette al
lcVawrtallforula. Lincoln County will be the
, nner fruit County In Oregon,
.e Oregon Pacific Railroad which has Its ter
at Yaqulna City, has reached the Cas,
suntalns and Is operating one hundred
Titles of road. And as soon as this
nectlon with an eastern toad
rans-contlnental line opening
wheat belts, of eastern
y will then become a for
ports on the Pacific coast
Soma Example. That Seem to Answer the
Weighty Question.
Two men at antipodes on the earth's
inrfaoe are drawn directly toward each
other. Each Is at the apes of a cone of
the other. These oones Interlock at the
earth's center and are there equal, bat
the greater part of the mass of each
cone and consequently the greater mass
If gravity holding eaoh to his place is
past the center of the earth and culmi
nates at the feet of the other.
Every1 point of the earth's surface
pulls in a straight line through the
center of the earth, not stopping at it;
losing part of the pound in proportion
as it approaches the center; then, pass
ing, regaining it again in proportion as
it approaches the opposite snrfaoe. So
that half way past the center the pound
which at the oenter was nothing has
Dow beoome a half pound, and at the
antipodal surface a pound again.
Make the oenter of the earth the com
mon apex of an indefinite number of
cones radiating to the surface. Accord
ing to mass, gravity pulls from the oen
ter, and the oenter is again the point of
nugation.
If gravity is an active esienoe pro
duced by molecular motion, if being a
living essenoe, it is therefore a perish
able one, it follows that in a conglom
erate mans, as the earth, some snbstanoes
will probably exhaust sooner than oth
ers by reason of expiration of moleoulor
aotivity, if that be its prodnoer, or from
other or any oause. Being an active ex
pending force, it must have a produoer,
and that produoer must have supplies of
force produoing matter. These supplies,
owuver gi'euw muni, oauuuac uiuui-
ent qualities of matter may contain this
force producing quality in differing de
grees and qualities. If so, the minor
will sooner exhaust. A feather, a leaden
ball and a dry stiok will fall through
space to our atmosphere with equal
speed beoauso their atoms and the atoms
of the earth mutually attraot eaoh oth
CIGARETTES AND THE TEETH.
A Dentist Saya th. Merree In Them Are
KUled by Nicotine Poisoning;.
"There is one bad result of constant
oigarette smoking that very few people
know anything about, '-' s,qtd a Brooklyn
dentist "The result Itself has been ap
parent to me and to all dentists for a
long time, but the cause has been a mys
tery until very reoently. For yo:vrs the
nerves of teeth in every other way por
feot have been found dead. A careful
examination of a dead nerve found in
an unexposed tooth reoently revealed tho .
fact that it had been poisoned by nico
tine, and thereby the mystery referred
to was solved. Nicotine poisoning from
oigarette smoking -is killing the nerves
in the teeth of smokers. It is a most
serious state of affairs, although most
people will not understand. They think
a dead tooth is as good as a live one.
They will find their mistake some day.
"A young woman -whom I have known
for some time cam 9 here the other day
and wanted a tooth attended to. I
worked on the tooth some time, and
some of the instruments I used should
have made her soream a little bit But
she never made a sound, and I naturally
concluded that the nerve of the tooth
was dead. It Surprised: me because the
tooth was a good one and tie nerve un
exposed. Vell, I. extracted tho uorve.
and the minute I saw it I knew what
was the trouble.
" 'Do you want a live nerve left in
your bead?' I asked.
" 'Why, of oourse,' she replied.
" 'Then stop smoking cigarettes, ' I
said.
" 'Why, doctor, what do you meanf
ouu .uuMuii. tuyii. u0 "... on a treat
show of iudignatioa
'My dear young lady,' 1 said,
what's the use of talking so? I'm a
dental aurgoon and kno"" a thing wboi
1 see it xou nave been BinoklTiRoiKa-
rettes for a long timo, and my advice
was given in a perfectly friendly spirit'
Well, she oollansod then, aoknanlerltf rl
er regardless of shape or size, , Gravity the truth of what I bad said, and that
is atoraio, and every atom is the equal ended t ., I don't think that oigarette
of every other atom, no matter bow smokers figure, this result of nicotine
llel
Vand
V
better Inducements
ref on for capital
d inducements for
, findeveloped re,
fiirt of capital.
working
diffuse or how oonorete the mass of the
object of whioh thoy are parts. But
tho dry stick may have lost its eotive
prinoip.e gravity. Its essence produo
ing prluoiples may have boen exhausted.
Nevertheless it would be grasped by the
overwhelming gravity of the earth and
brought down in company with its fel
lows.
Gravity pulls laterally as well as per
pendicularly. The weight of the earth
has been oaloulatod from the pull of a
mountain on a plumb line.
A person standing in a narrow can
yon, witn walls towering hundreds or
thousands of feet above him on either
side, has much better footing than if
on the pinnaole of a monument. In one
oasu he is held up by lateral gravity.
In the other he is without support R
W. Musser in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wearing of Olaas Eye.
It is a fallacy to suppose that people
who wear cork legs and glass oyes are
Indifferent to their personal appearance.
They are often vainer than ordinary individuals.
A rich man, for instance, who is
obliged to wear an artificial eye will
wear three differont eyes every day an
eye for morning, when the pupil is not
very large; an eye for afternoon, when
tne pupil is smaller; an eye lor evening,
when the pupil has extended to its full
sua
A London eyemaker, who gave this
information, said he made about an
equal proportion of glass eyes for men
and women. Borne people keep quite a
stock in their possession. In f uot, no less
than 13 eyes have been made by my in
forrnant fot one gentleman Within three
months.
Els son had got one eye made from
measurement, and that eye fitted so per
fectly that the old gentleman, in an out
burst of gratitude, wrote off for 1 1 oth'
er eyes. The eyemaker admitted that
this was an exceptional instance.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Too Smart for th. Doctor.
The daughter of a well known jockey
was very ill, having oaugbt a severe
cold. A doctor was sent for and was
buttonholed by the mother, who request'
ed him to favor her by advising hor
daughter not to wear low ankled shoes.
The daughter was sent for, and, after
her tongue had been given the usual out
oi-rdoor exeroise, the man of medlolne
said!
"Ah, yon are suffering from what we
xnedloal men oall a low shoe oold, and I
must prohibit you from wearing suoh
shoes In the future. "
The young lady started, and, taking
off one of the offending shoes, exolalm
di
"Since yon are so olever, doctor, as to
look at my tongue and tell me what if
poisoning- ia'With the many other in
jurious effects of the weed, but to my
niinfl it is the most dangorons of all. "
New York Sun.
THE MONEY ISN'T THERE.
A Plokpocket Wa. Wsw foolish Enongh
to steal a, Lady's roeketbook.
"I just swiped a leather, Jim," said .
a piokpooket to another of his profession
as be came aoross him sitting on a benoh
in Union square.
"Wus it one o' them purty ones what
the women carries. round de street in
der banasi''' '"
'Tea, I swiped it np on Fif t' avener
when she wus lookln inter er windy. "
"II vera been in de bizuls as long as
I hev, yer wouldn't er took it "
.','Wby?" --..r.
" 'Tain't wuthit"
"A feller might strike er big haul, -'
though, that way some time, "
'Not on yer life he wouldn t I've
swiped a load ou 'em, an I never got
one yit that I oould git a beer out on.
Dey don't carry money in dem leathers. '
Dey 's only er bluff. Try dat one yor've
got and see if it's enny good. " .
Glancing about him warily to make
sure that no one was watohing him, the
'piokpooket opened the purse. Ho found
three samples ,of sUJcolino, a patent
glove bnttoner, a oard advertising a lo
tion for removing blackheads from the
face, a sheet of flesh oolored oourt plas
ter, some samples of sorlm and Madras,
a list of prioes of carpets, a oiroular
showing an illustration of a patent hose
supporter, a oard of small safety pins,
two slabs of ohewing gum warranted
to cure dyspepsia 'anr'tfcSrd bearing
her address' and instructions to take her
there if she met with an accident
"That's all dare is in it" said the
man who had "sNvlped" the pookotbook
as he turned it upside down and shook '
it, with a look of disgust on his faoe.
".uian't 1 toll yer. " remarked the
other. "I've 'swiped' dem t'ings till
I'm tired. Dey 're all de same. De wo
men don't carry notbin but trash in
em. ' De money ain't dere, neverl"
New. York Herod.
Do Not Sleeps on th. Left Side,
There is littlo doubt that an immense
number of persons habitually sleep on
the left side, ana those who do ox
never, It la said, be strUtty healthy. It
Is the most prolltio oaube of nightmare,
and also of the unpleasant taste in the
mouth on arising in the morning. All
food enters and leaves the' stomach On
the right side, and henoe sleeping on the
left side soon after eating involves a sort
of pumping operation wblob is any
thing' but oonduoive to sound repose.
The action of the heart is also seriously
interfered with aud the lungs unduly
compressed. Henoe it is best to oultivate
.mi, witf. m ft will rm ha kind Uhe babisflf always sleeping on the right
enoush to look at my feet and tell me ,ldo though Bandow and other strong
whether my fringe is properly adjust'
ed?" .
He gave tip prescribing for smart
girls. London Tit-Bits.
men are said to Invariably sleep on their
baoks. Philadelphia Times.
A. a Genua Court Martial.
I Captain (presiding) Then I am to
, I understand that the accused offered you
olqar when you were doing sentry
rxaor.
5d?"
Id, your honor."
did be make?"
,' your honor."
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Aalatal Bipct On. Another's Bights.
Truth f oroes the observer of nature to
admit that birds and other creatures ap
portion the earth among themselves just
about as man does. A bear has his boun
Carles beyond whioh his fellow bear does
uot trespass with impunity the wild
rabbit you see on your lawn in the
moonlight la the same innocent little
creature you have been seeing every
night all the summer time and even
the robin that gathers the early worm
for his breakfast from your garden will
show fight when another comes maraud
ing on his preserve. Nor does this last a
he misohief fear only, for there is good evidence that
Vthe same bird wm come baox to tne
elalm it staked off the year previous,
What meenau wuumij. '-
A Devote, of Browning,
rvled
Borne of Browning's worV''
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