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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1896)
'0,00 NEIGHBORING TOWNS JVrogress AND DOlNGS OF THE kcotlT I PAOFIC NORTHWEST. iSl " Butet of Interesting and Spicy hws Froin AlltheCitlee slid Towns 3d eb' m the Coul-Thrift and Industry T4i:jo Every yuarter Oregon. itaili. Eastern Oregon hills will rejoice in sr a? fine oorp 01 bunchgrass this year, iwing to abundant moisture. ad fc' Bids are beirg received by the sisters 'fterTrf Joseph's aoideiny, Pendleton, for an cjciddltion to tie school, which will cost i ofcwme $7,000. '.T Klamath county owes in warrants tind interes $73,787.41. The resources, ' Pacounting mpaid taxes since 1892, as n assets, a $18,540.30. fro- The ainual convention of Benton "'leooonty'? Sunday school association n ooameets Corvallis, May S and 0. Mrs. ta4ij. i, Jloss is president f?1 A biman skeleton was unearthed in "sn aUali liok on the middle fork of the , 'ooaid to be that of an Indian. 11 hmT er t - jue smcu university in lojoiuod ovui pie om' aot tQat four 0 toe Multnomah itioai 10111 ty nomlDeea Ior representatives are h joc!p'Ja'te3 from that institution. total $e Dulles oitizens are considering were Je feasibility of putting in an electric badiiiro alarm system and of purchasing by labsoription a obemioal engine. 1 hoi Sheep-shearing in the southern part etortif Wasoa county has begun in real g Ulaaniost, and in a short time the wool us wjrop of 1896 will begin arriving in The Xj.-Dallee. pinm1 Placet mining has been commenced is 411 over Eastern Oregon. This promises icbbL-to be a very prosperous season for this ism industry, owing to the abundance of peoffree water. ?cla Tbe Fossil Journal says divorces are 1 tiemWe numerous than marriages in Gil vtrliabi county. Five divoroes were o ti-grapted at the session of oirouit oourt aoliin one week. ; The 9-year-old son of Mr. Roberts, ;, of Grant's Pass, fell thirty feet from a tree top and struok his head on a rotten T ,,log. The boy was unconscious twelve hours, but will reoover. A large amount of wheat is being tt received daily at the warehouses in The Dalles. It is part of last year's crop jjthat was held by the farmers who were itcit no BatiBfied with prioes last fall. :o ifc Trains running through Pendleton fchave been swarming lately with hobos m-and large numbers have been stopping enofOff there. The railroad yards contain sio-good-sized populations eaoh night, iii A. S. Basaett died at the home of his dton, near Halsey, in Linn oonnty, at tan the age of 72. Mr. Bassett was a pion ore. eer of 1851, coming to Oregon from not New York state. Ue left a widow and several children. n Robert Harris, a promising young ' fi Indian, is at the Cbemawa Indian iw school from Alaska. He says many ou! Indian children in the territory are 9 i anxious to come to the school, and he 1 will probably be able to make arrange in! ments for their doing so. , VA family named Smith, who had 1 been living in a tent below John Day, " lost their little boy last week under " distressing circumstances. The little fellow had eaten a wild parsnip which m b.e found in that vicinity, and only lived a few hours thereafter. ill, ! if : (.The late rains have swollen Coos river to a higher mark than for years ;. past The low places in the bottom rol lands have been oovered to a depth of several feet, but very little damage is . , reported. If the rain keeps on though II is feared it will cause a destructive flood. X W. R. Cunnlngton and A. S. Rine, of Fremont, Neb., have been for the past week engaged in buying u band of something over 6,000 2 and 8-year-old m i wethers in Grant county, to be driven ' to Nebraska and fed next wiuter on ' oorn grown on Mr. Rine's 1280-acre I farm, to prepare them for the Chicago ' 5 market next spring. The prioes paid f were from $1.60 to $1.60 per bead. 1( K i Since January 17 last, the treasurer QJ r of Beuton county has reoeived from the ffl sheriff in taxes, including the sum i received from the distribution of the m J Oregon Paoifio sale fund, the sum of f $56,846.00. Of this sum a lumpnf city g. !, and county warrants turned in by m ' Sheriff Osburn, and which had been 4 'f turned in on taxes on the 1895 roll, Segregated $18,000.80. Of this amount t 770 64 was in city warrauts. V "YThe Corvallis Times says that the jig 5 tip with the old steamer Three Sis- 0 Aers. During the late high water she . ; was towed out on the river bank below . Corvallis. and she is to be dismantled. Her hull had become so decayed and ' leaky that the company decided that ' her dny of usefulness was over. The ' , work of taking out her machinery and t other useful pHrta will be com. 1 inenoed in a few days. The Sisters was ' ! trails by the O. D. Co. in the year 1887. , f i Little Banna Knox, so badly burned f recently io Gilliam oounty ttiat skiit- (rafting had t be resorted to, in doing well and the skin has begun to grow and spread. The skin uspi) is being pooled off of the editor of the FomiI Journal, for the reason, that paper says, "the doctor decided that it must come off of some one having a healthy skin, and a clean heart and a right spirit within him, and he being the only pesron in town possessed of all these requisites. If the little girl don't make a mighty smart woman when she grows up, we'll miss our guess." WaHhlnictoii. The first number of the Cheney Free Press has been issued. The town of Ritzville is advertising for bids for funding bonds, in the sum of $5,700 on May 19, 1890. William Swafford pleaded guilty of burglary before Judge Denney, in Sno homish, and was given one year in the penitentiary. A burlgar sucoeeded in making off with $280. taken from the house of Charles Gustavers, a flour and feed dealer of Auburn. The board of state land commission ers is now prepared to take up the mat ter of appraising the oyster lands in Mason and Thurston counties. Alexander Smith, an old settler of the Homestead neighborhood, near Waterville, was kickod in the breast by a horse and killed, April 10. It U claimed tliut over 1,000 head cf cattle have been bought by Montana stockmen from Big Bend farmers, for shipment from Davenport this spring. It is proposed to build a small steam er to ply up and down the Cowlitz river daily to bring the milk to a creamery, to be established at Castle Rook. The names of Bender and Barnes, two stations on the line of the North ern Pacific below Prosser, have been changed respectively to Gibbon and Chandler. A salmon trout weighing eight pounds and six ounces was caught in the Walla Walla river by William Oswald, with a No. 15 fly hook, says the Union. The Shelton sawmill, in Mason oounty, is getting out ties for the rail way extension, to be made this season by the Shelton Southwestern & Penin sular road. The seotion known as the Grouse Creek oounty is becoming settled up pretty rapidly by people anxious to engage in the stook industry, says the Asotin Sunitnel. The Waitsburg fire department has ordered a raoing cart for the tourna ment of the Eastern Oregon and Wash ington Firemen's Association, to be held in Pendleton. It is ball-bearing and ons'aion-tired. A serious acident ooourred at J. D. Hays' logging oamp at Belfast, What oom county, on the Great Northern railroad, in which a man whose name was Whitney was killed. Judge Pritchard, of the superior court of Pieroe county, holds that a chattel mortgage in Washington is a mere lien npon the ohattels, and does not affect the ownership of the goods mortgaged. Adjutant-General Soutelle has re voked the appointment of Captain C. W. Billings, of Company G, N. G. W., of Taooma, owing to his failure to file an acceptable bond. Lieutenant Stew art was made captain. On March 1 the oity of Tacoma had outstanding general fund warrants amounting to $896, 11 8. 2 7. Funding bonds to the amount of $850,000, added to this, left the oity in debt $32,878.82 over the legal limit. A new sawmill to cost $50,000 is soon to be ereoted on the water front in Taooma by a company, at the head of whioh is H. M. Lillis. Work on the mill is to be commenced in thirty days. The capacity of the mill will be 80,000 feet of lumber per day. Secretary Robinson, of the horticul tural sooiety, requests that the school clerks of the discriots aiijaoeut to Lake Chelan, while taking the oensus of their respective distriots, also take down the total number of trees that have been planted, by whom, number bearing, etc Idaho The Golden Winnie, near Murray, has one of the most oomplete milling plants in the state. It has given splen did satisfaction from the first day. The Daddy mine has laid off one shift in order that development work may proceed. This will only last a few days, when a full force will aRain be employed. The oompany is making arrangements to add a battery of five stamps to the mill. The miners of Florenoe distriot in mass meeting assembled decided unan imously upon the location of a new town to be situated a quarter of a mile south of the old town of Florence on Summit Flat, says the Graugeville Free Press. The new town is to be called "New Florence." John Kent, who left Clark county about two years ago for Johannesburg, South Africa, writes to his brother, Amandus Kent, that he was quite seri ously hurt by an rxplosiun which oc curred at that place February 17, when sixty ton of dynamite on a tourist oar exploded, killing about 400 people. Mr. Kent ws standing about 800 feet from the scene of the explosion. Shoshone oounty fas added $100, 000,000 to the mineral wealth of the world in the thirty-five years of its history, and great as that sum is it will be more than equalled in the next ten years, while the succeeding decade will produce wealth beyond the powers of men's mind to comprehend. The cattle men between Cheney and Cow creek, two weeks ago, formed a protective association and waited on the owners of sheep who were herding on the strip, and requested them to move their flocks below a certain line. The sheepmen have declared that they will not be driven off the range, and they are also organizing and will resist with arms any attempt to put them off. Alontuua. The Etta Mining Company oomposod of Portland men, and under the man agement of Arthur Wilson is operating some valuable claims near Radersburg. Part of the work laid out for immedi ate construction is a 700-foot tunnel running from Keating gulch which will tap the main shaft the 200-foot level. Considerable excitement was caused in Great Falls over the arrival of a Soadinavian known as Illing Elwing, with nearly $2,500 worth of gold dust and nuggets. The man zealously guarded the exact location where it came from, but said that he and his partner had washed the gold out in two weeks' time. But one of the bodies of the six un fortunate men who met their doom in the Hope mine at Basin has been recov ered, that of John Buokley. The other bodies will not be reoovered for some time as a new shaft will be sunk and the mine drained of water. A thor ough examination has been made of every part of the mine above the 200, and it is now definitely certain that the men are on the 800-foot level. Report says that the rich streak of shipping ore in the breast of the adit tunnel of the Trade Dollar mine is now about twenty inches in width, besides nearly three feet of milling ore. These recent developments in the mine will be of incalculable benefit to this whole district, aB it shows great value and permanency of the Florida mountain ledges. The mine is making its regular shipments of concentrates and bullion. STATUE OF GRANT. Unveiled at Brooklyn, With Impreulva Ceremonies, Brooklyn, April 28. The Union League equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant was nnveiled this afternoon. The bronze statue, whioh is the work of W. Ordway Partridge, is colossal, measuring from the hoof of the horse, where it rests on the granite pedestal to the top of the hat, fifteen feet and eight inches. The pedstal is sixteen feet high, and the entire height of the statue is thirty-one feet eight inohes. The dedication today was made the occasion of a splendid military pageant, 10,000 soldiers of the United States army, the National Guard of New York and sailors and marines from the navy-yard being in line. The Grand Army of the Republio was largely represented. When the procession reached the olnbhouse, Governor Mor ton and staff, who were in waiting, were loudly oheered. After the bands had played the "Coronation March" and other American national airs, General Stewart Woodford, presi dent of the Union League Club, pre sented the statue to Mayor Frederick W. Wurster as the representative of Brooklyn. As General Woodford stepped to the platform Ulysses S. Grant, a grandson of the general, pulled a string and the statue was ex posed amidst cheering from 20,000 throats. General Horace Porter de livered the oration. reaerful Settlement. London, April 29. First Lord of the Treasury A. J. Balfour, replying to Sir William Vernon Harooort, the lib eral leader, said in the house of com mons today that the arrangements for consideration of the arbitration respect ing Venezuela and other questions are the matters that Great Britain and the United States had in view during the recent negotiations. Balfour added that the last communication from the United State arrived on Friday and was now under consideration. Balfour said the government would deal with both the general question of arbitration and also with a special question con nected vith Venezuela, and it was con fidently hoped that by patience and tact on both sides a peaoeful solution of the matter will be attained. The War In Cuba. Havana, April 29. In the engage ment fought between Colonel Nario at Mount Juaro, in the Cardenas district of the province of Matanzas, and the insurgents under Dimas, Martinez Kegino and A Hon no, among the insur gents killed were Lientenants Jose tnd Pablo Regino, a brother of Martinez Regino. Macen has ordered all the small hands of insurgents in Pinar del Rio to be disarmed in order that their equip ment may be used to strengthen the main body. Persistent rumors sre in circulation that Antonio Maoeo iutanris to liave the province of Pinar del Rio and it is said be is being nlosely watched by the Spanish officials. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS ROUTINE WORK OF THE FIFTY FOURTH SESSION. Sub.u.11,-. f the Killa and Keaolatloni Introduced in the Senate and Houxe -Comlenaed Kecocd of the Doing of the N minimi Lawmakers Senate. Washington. April 24. Th today disposed of the sectarian suhnnl question by adopting a compromise framed by Senator Cockrell, of Mis souri. The Indian bill, as it came from the house, nrovided that "nn money berien appropriated shall bo paia ior education in sectarian schools. " This provision is struck out by the Cockrell amendment, as adopted, and it is declared to be the settled policy of the government to make no appro priations for sectarian schools after July 1, 1898, thus giving two years for the abandonment of sectarian schools, instead of an immediate ubHndnmnnnt. The amendment was adopted by the de cisive vote of 88 to 24. The Indian bill was not completed when the senate adjourned. During the day a bill was paojud providing for govuiiiuiuiit lug il lation of excursion fleets attending re gattas; also a resolution calling for in formation as to the arrest of Bishop Diaz in Cuba. Washington. Aoril 25. Several mi. nor bills were passed at the opening of me senate today. Prior to taking up the Indian appropriation bill Call asked for an agreement by whioh the senate would tane up nis resolution directing the president to dispatch a naval force to Cuba for the Protection ,of Amnrinnn interests, but on appeals not to inter rupt tne Indian bill be withdrew, stat ing that he would call up his resolu tion later. The Indian bill wilh then taken up, the question being on Piatt's amendment extending the services of the Dawes committee, with a view to the making of a roll of the Cherokee and kindred nations. The oommittee is given directions toward terminating the tribal relations of the Indiana mid dividing their lands in severalty. The ueDate was protracted. The Indian ap propriation bill, as thus amended, was then passed. At 6 o'clock the senate went into exeoutive session, and soon after adjourned. Washington. Aoril 27. The ment for international arbitration was referred to in the prayer of Rev. Hugh Johnson, in the senate today: "Let the armies be disbanded; let the world be at peace," he invoked. The sundry civil bill was taken up. At 2 o'olock the bond tesolution was laid before the senate, and Peffer. its author, nro- posed modifications to meet the criti cisms in the recent speech of Hill. A Venezuela debate came np when the item of the sundrv oivil bill was reaohed, authorizing the Venezuela commission to pay rent for it i quar ters out of the $10,0000 apppropriated for its expenses. Gorman suggested that legislation was in order. In great baste and a great emergenoy, congress had appropriated $100,000, at the sug gestion of the president, for the pur pose, as was supposed, of preventing a war. But now it appeared that the legislation was not effective in oetini? quarters for the commission. BOQH, Washington, April 24. The Fifth Alabama distriot was not represented t the house last nieht. Cobb had hnen unseated, but the seating of his contest ant went over until today, when the re port Wa adODted. 144 to RK. and finnA. win was sworn in. On motion of Cockrell, a bill was passed to organize the territory heretofore known aa oounty, Texas (deoided by the supreme oourt to do a part ol Oklahoma), as Greer county, Oklahoma. By an amendment adopted, the present oonnty officers were confirmed in their tenure until the election in November next. Pickler. chairman of the Gnmmit.tAA nn invalid pensions, then called up his general pension bill. Piokler took the floor and made an extended Rnennh in support of the meanure. At the con clusion oi nis remarks the house, at 4:40 p. m., adjourned. Washington, April 26. The house todav. On motion ot Tulhnrr. nnonim. ously adopted a resolution calling on the secretary of state for all informa tion relative to the arrest and imprison ment in Cuba of Rev. Di MSB. (!miaiHar. atiou of the Pickler general pension tun was resumed, and McClellan spoke in opposition to the measnra Ma inninri. ed to be a republican sop M the sena tors, aun a reflection on the administra tion Mild IieilHIOU laws hv thn tiriu.nt exeoutive officers. The best the ma jority could du for the old soldier, he said, was to bring in this bill, whi.th is reported to put upon the peuMon rolls the names of bounty jumpers and men who had diverted from the ranks of the Confederacy. Washington. April 27 Thin wm private-bill dy. bv nnanii iriliia nnn. sent bills were passed empowering the oity of Tuseon. A T., to issue bunds to the amount of $IOll,(j0ll for the con struction of a wau-r and sewer system, and to anthnricit the jetuni, frne of duty, of uitioiM exported for exhibition purpimea. .nines presented a ri port on the ooi tested tleotiou oase ot Ckirnntt vs. Swanson, of the fifth Virginia dis trict, in favor of the Democratio sit ting member. The pension bills favorably acted upon Friday night were passed. Amoim them wua pension the widow of the late Brigadier-General Ferdinand Vandervere, at the rate of $50 per month. The house then proceeded with thn riaiiata nn u pension bill, and adjourned at 5:30. MINISTER WILLIS RETURNS rtenle That He In fenoua Hon Urate with the Hawaiian (iovernment. San Franoisco. Am-il 27. AlWr. s Willis, minister from this country to the Hawaiian islands. Honolulu today. He says that he is in ill health, and with his family will go to his old home in Louisville to ipemi nis three months' leave of ab- senoe. He denies absolutely the stories that he is persona nou grata with the Hawaiian people or govern ment, and says that he was not sum moned to Washington upon complaint of the Hawaiian eov.mimmih un.i ti.-t no reproof has been given by Seoretary vmoy ior any aot oi nis in Honolulu. Willis declares that he has reoeived nothing but kindness from the Ha waiians, and declares positively that he will return to his post at Honolulu at the expiration of his furlough. ine report that I shshted thn TTa. waiians on Washington's birthday," said Mr. Willis, "is absolutely untrue. I entertained no one at dinner nn thut day, but President Dole, of his own volition, sent tlie government band to my home to Dlav during r.h So far as my failure to observe the Ha waiian repuwio anniversary on January 17, is oonoerued, that is a matter Whioh I Will disOUSS OUlv with thn atata, department. Aly position in decliniug to participate in the celehru rinn wua the result of my careful consideration of the orders under whioh I am in structed to represent the United States at Hawaii. I was beyond the reach of telegraph wire, and I must often ant without any speoial consultation with me seoretary oi state." FARALLONE DAMAGED. Well-Known Coaster Htrikel an Oa- marked Koek. San Franoisoo. Am-il 27. Thesro.im sohooner Farallone from San Farumsoo lor Yaquina bay and other points along the northern coast, run nn a m.ii. merged rock when one day out. At uureKa tne snip was examined and it Was discovered that her forennot had been torn off and the keel of the vessel badly damaged for a distance of forty feet It is exneoted the vensal will k taken off the drydook, and will arrive in Ban rrrancisoo on or about May 8. The rock nnon which tha Wui-minna so nearly met destruction, is described Dy captain rtouerts as being about 7) miles south of Point Nnrdu ami i ty miles out to Eea. When the tide is nearly at its height the rook is oovered by about nine feet of water. One of the most dangerous features of the matter is that the oaptain de clares the rock ia not down nn Aha charts, and is indeed a grave danger to navigation, roint uorda Is one of the most dangerous points on the ooast, and is the spot where the steamer Hum- ooio i wag reoeutly wrecked. The Ill fated Bawnmore alan run nn tn n rnnV at that point about two years ago, but iortunateiy escaped. Another Veto. Washington. Aoril 2ft Thn nmal. dent today sent to the bouse a message vetoing tne mil granting a pension of $50 to Franois E. Hoover. The presi dent says he does not understand that it is claimed in anv nnurtnr thur. thn present helplessness of this soldier is at all attributable to his army aervifiAa. The president says: lo grant him a pension of $50 a month without the leust that bis pitiable disability is related to his army service, and in view of the fact that he is now receiving the high est pension allowed by a general law enacted to expressly meet suuli cases, it seems to me, would result in an unfair discrimination us nirai nut munv Ihnn. sand worthy soldiers similarly situ- UM3U. Mm Bryau Teatllled. Cinoinatti. Anril 97. the trial at Newport, Ky., for the mur der of Pearl Bryan grows more intense daily. Eleven witnesses warn nr. amiued today. The nolicv nf tlm prosecution is to present tne cusn in tha order of time as nearly as possible. The defense has, by cross-examination, indicated that its line will be to oreate doubt as to whether the girl wa mur dered in Ohio or Keutm ky. Of the. nine witnesses examined in the after noon, the testimony of Mrs. Bryan, the mother of Pearl, was full of pathos. When asked how she was able to idon tify the headless girl sent to Greenoas tie, as her own Pearl, she answered with thrilling effeot: "It is difficult for a mother to be de ceived about recognizing her own child.' i , , Tho owners of the Peacock and other I properties in the Seven Devils country ! are letting contracts for the hauling ' of 1,600 fms of oopper ore to the near est railioad point. A well ben, if not too fat, is foil of life. Sick bens mope. ! I