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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1896)
CAPTAIN TAYLOR'S REPORT ! MINERS IN ALASKA. DRAIN ON THE RESERVE. In lilver and Harbor Work In the cine orthwet. A Resume of Events in Northwest. the EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH In All the Town of ., Gathered Our Neighboring State Improve ment Noted In All Industrie! Oregon. A young cyclone passed through the timber near Fox valley last week, and . J . 1 nt 1 TT1 Vli'JT- WHS Vllnu.'fl a great uwi down. The ordinances preventing eows from running at large and for cntting thistles will be striotly enforced iu The Dalles. Aocording to the report given the county court by George TregaBkis, Btock inspector, there are over 110,000 sheep in Harney county, not including lambs. Bandover & Co. propose putting in a mill at their Olalla, Doulgas oounty, -mine. The firm has sunk a shaft ten feet, and at that depth the assays run from $9.50 to (50 a ton, it is said. The Long Creek Ealge, of Grant oounty, is informed that over 200 sheep are dead on the range between the mid dle and north fork of the John Day liver, the result of poison on the range. The Umatilla county grand jury cau tioned justices of the peace against issu ing warrranta for the arrest of persons charged with petty offenses, unless the judge should be satisfied that the evi dence is sufficient tooonviot or that the accused is attempting to leave the ooun ty or Btate. C. B. Wade, oashier of the First Na tional bank, of Pendleton, sasy, after a personal inspection of seventy-five wheat fields in Umatilla county, and upon careful inquiry, that the damage to the wheat crop in Umatilla county, done by hot weather, baa been on the average, 50 per cent. It looks as though Salem and Marion county were to become famous by rea son of the newspaper sketch artists produced from that section, Bays the Statesman. F. F. Bowers, a bright and conscientious cartoonist, has been summoned by telegraph to the offioe of a San Farncisoo paper and to assume the duites of a valuable assignment. The direotors of The Dalles, Port land & Astoria Navigation Company visited the Cascade Locks, where they met the governor, secretary of state and Btate treasurer, who were looking over the state portage. The portage was damaged but little by the high water, and will require only slight repairs before it can be operated. The repairs will be made ss soon as be water goes down sufficiently to allow The Dalles City to land at the lower -end 'of the incline. The county oourt of Union county has reduced by one the deputies in the offices of sheriff and olerk. In the matter of the deputyship for the school superintendent's office, whioh in a pnb lio way has been conferred on Miss Nellie Stevens, it is stated that the oounty court will not favor her ap pointment in that oapaoity, the board taking the grounds that disqualification as to the principalabip also disqualifies her from discharging the duties of the office as deputy. Washington. The city oounoil of Puyallup has ap propriated $25 for outting the thistles in the streets and highways of that town. During the month of June the Egbert & Johnson Company at Getcbell, in Snohomish oounty, out 2,175,000 shingles. Government Architect Aaron E. Johnson, who will have charge of building Spokane's new army post, has arrived in that oity to assume bis duties. According to the report of the di rector of the mint, Kittitas oounty took the lead in mineral produotion in Washington last year, and produced one-third of the gold of the state. George H. Lowe, a Georgia melon planter, has booked an order to ship two carloads of the green-above-the-red fruit to Seattle, 8,000 miles. The freight charge is $350 per carload. Captain Kingsbury, who has been employed sb engineer of the Yakima reservation ditch, reports that the channel will carry 164 feet of water per second, sufficient to water 40,000 acres of land. The oyster men of Mason oounty have all been notified by the state land commissioners that their deeds for oyBter lands are ready for them, and tbey are happy, as the work of years is bearing fruit. At the Day logging camp, at Oak Point, in Cowlitz county, a logging railorad is being built. It will be about five miles in length, and will tap a large body of excellent timber; heavy steel rails will be used, and the track will be standard gauge. A few weeks ago a quantity of flax straw, grown on Puget sound, was hipped by the Seattle chamber of com merce to Barbour & Sons, of Llsburn, Ireland. The manufacturers report that the samples are excellent, and very similar to that grown in the Courtral district In Belgium. Washington, July 20. The report of Captain Harry Taylor, of the engineer oorps, who has charge of the river and harbor work in the Northwest, has been made to the secretary of war. The work on Willapa river and har bor, in Washington, has been com pleted and twenty-one feet of water se cured, but some shoals need to be dredged yet. No further appropriations will be be required. For the improvement of Grays harbor and bar, a plan for a jetty S.1 miles to the sea on the south side of the harbor, to secure a low-water depth of 24 feet, has been decided upon, and contracts will be let for the work. It is reoom- mended that the full amount permitted by law $400,000 be appropriated for the next fiscal year. In Gray s harbor and Chehalis river, to carry the dredging to a depth of six teen feet will largely exceed the esti mate of cost. The extersion of the Northern Paoifio railway to the lower-harbor towns is said to have lessened the impor tance of the river as a highway, si. that no onaatins veRsals have navigated it above Cosmopolis since 1892, and it is recommended that the plan for dredg ing a channel through tho shoals to give coasting vessels access to Monte sano be reconsidered. The importance of greater facilities for keepng the rivers flowing into Puget sound free from obstruction is urged. In connecting Puget sound ! with Lakes Union and Washington, the Smith's cove route is favored, and the engineer urges that preliminary work be done before right of way is secured, and says that $500,000 can be profitably expended during the year. The earnestness of the people of Everett for pushing the work of their harbor is commended, and $15,000 is recommended to be expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. The opening of Swinomish slough at the earliest possilbe date is urged. It is reported that the expense of car rying out the project for removing boulders, etc, from the Upper Colum bia and Snake rivers is bo great that it should not be begun with the present appropriation. : Not All of the Gold Hunter Are Din- couraged. ' Tacoma, Wash., July 18. The I Ledger received a letter tonight from j Fred Meeker, dated at Six-Mile creek, ; Cook's inlet, Alaska, June 20. He writes that while there are many dis satisfied miners who are anxious to leave, there are others who propose to thoroughly prospect the oountry before quitting. Be gives the first definite information regarding gold finds. He says there are claims in the Six-Mile district whioh the owners claim paid as high as $50 per day per man last year. From one on Canyon oreek, $1,200 was taken in nine days. The best claim there is supposed to be the Mills olaim, at the mouth of Canyon creek, which is olaimed to have paid $50 per day per man last season. Ho says the best ground is not on Six-Mile, but its trib utaries, particularly Mills creek, a branch of Canyon creek. Holders of some claims want $35,000 for them, but there are no buyers at such figures. Some of these yield $1 to $2 per pan. The miners all got in too early, but four months then remained for work. The most can be accomplished in August and September, yhen the watpr is lowest. Float quartz is plentiful in creek bottoms, and Mr. Meeker is satisfied that good quartz leads will be found. Prospecting is very difficult, as the ground is covered with moss six to eighteen inches thick, which is too wet to burn and remains frozen in the shade. When be wrote a party was able to leave, taking thirty days' sup plies, for a trip up Twenty-Mile river, where good indications had been found. If a single rioh oreek bottom is found, there wil be ground enough for all the miners at Cook's inlet. POPULIST PLATFORM. Drawn up lu California for the St. Louis Convention, San Franoisco, July 20. F. M Wardell, chairman of the Populist state oentral committee of California, and J. Taylor Rogers, Mayor Sutro'a seoretary, have prepared a platform which it is proposed to present to the national Populist convention at St. Louis next week. The financial plank is as follows: "We demand a national mney, issued directly by the general govern ment only, as a full legal tender for all BRADSTREETS' VIEWS. No Disposition Shown to Engage In New Enterprises. New York, July 20. Bradstreets' weekly trade review Bays: Nearly all general merchandise markets ooutinue dull, and the volume of business is smaller than anticipated. Little or no ' disposition is shown to engage in new enterprises, both oity and country mer-1 ohanta continuing to purchase with ' mnM than nanol nmiBAriratinni in viatv I of the unsettled financial outlook and the low range of prices. The total number of business failures in the United States this week shows an in crease 255 compared with 219 last week. When contrasted with the cor responding week in 1895, the increase during the past six business days is 41, and with the seoond week of July, 1894, the ourrent week's increase is 43. During the corresponding week of 1893, however, in the middle of the panio, there were more than twioe as many failures as this week. Among the other favorable features are relatively encouraging reports oon- Ciuld Giiing Out of the Treasury at a ltapld Kate. New York, July 17. Drains on the gold reserve in the subtreasury con tinue, loth in gold taken for export and for hoarding, although the amounts withdrawn lately are comparatively in significant. It is these small amounts, however, whioh disturb financiers and cause an additional depression in the stock market. Reports were ourrent and found ready credence that BteamBhips sailing for Europe this week will take away the largest quantity of gold shipped in any one week in months. Several of ; the largest gold shipping banking houses were said to be preparing to , make shipments and they would not ' deny the report. The rate of exchange also advanced to a point near where gold ahipmentswill be profitable, and , in addition the report that the Roths : childs are to issue a new $200,000,000 loan of gold to aid Russia in going to the gold basis was thought to be an in dication that other large shipments on ' special contract will be made. Deputy Assistant Treasurer Auhlman, of the subtreasury, in speaking of this loan said: "If the loan is made it will quite naturally result in gold being with drawn from this country, but I have , no information as to the loan, and therefore cannot make a prediction." The amount of gold which it is said ' will be withdrawn from the subtreas ury for shipment this week is variously estimated at from $1,500,000 to $3, ; 000,000. The gold in the treasury today is estimated at $98,271,000, and predic tions are made that by the 1st of August the gold reserve will be cIobo ' to $90,000,000. There has as ytt been no talk of a probable issue of j bonds in case the reserve falls to a dan , gerously low figure, but several well known bankers say there need be no , alarm on that score, for President ; Cleveland will undoubtedly issue bonds at any time he may deem it necessary. IN A LOSING BUSINESS. LIGHTNING'S QUEER FREAKS. Unexpected Results of Muuy Stroke) of the Klectric Fliiit'. Few natural phenomena show b many eccentricities of behavior as Jove's thuuderbolts. Machine-made electricity, especially when playing tho truant, Is tricky enough, lint the fiery product of the clouds is still more orig inal, inconsistent and lawless. Iu small towns, or in the outskirts of large ones, where the houses are de tached from oue another, and are 5( or 100 feet apart, one frequently hears of damage by lightning; it Is seldom a row of brownstone fronted buildings, a block of stores, a fifteen or twenty story apartmeut house, or a sky-scraper otlice building, In those portions of a city which are built lip solidly, Is hurt iu any way. So long has this state of affairs ex isted and been recognized that it has affected the business of making anil erecting lightning roils. If a man should institute n special search for such apparatus in the older part of the metropolis, with an opera-glass in his hand and u high window or roof for his post of observation, he might well ask whether the lightning rod has not become, like the dodo, an ex tinct species. Kventttally, a few tall, slender church spires and certain class es of buildings under the control of ' federal or municipal bureaus would be found displaying metallic bristles, connected by a copper cable with the ground. Hut these aud the few other discov erable exceptions would only serve to emphasize the rule. Inquiry reveals, however, that an extensive business In lightning rods is still carried on. They are seen as frequently as ever In small towns and on farms. Occasion ally, you will hear of a man who has a house and big warehouses In the city which are not provided with these safeguards, but who employs them abundantly ou bis country house and stock barns. It Is said that Mr. Kdlson and Mr. Westlnghoiise, who are sup posed to know a thing or two about electricity, protect their bouses and shops which are Isolated structures In this way; and weather bureau ex perts and other scientists who have In vestigated the subject declare that a properly constructed lightning rod has a distinct value. It Is clear, therefore, that this time-honored institution Is not going out of favor except In big. cities. The singular Indifference which the lightning seems to mauifest toward great centers of population Is proba bly not due to the nonconducting qual ities of the brick aud stone so largely debts and issued without the agenoy oi any private corporation or bank, and in oeruing trade at nine business centers, circulating volume; subject to law and responsive to our needs, and speedily to be increased to $50 per capita of the entire people. "Such money shall oonsist of gold, silver and paper, each dollar thereoi endowed with the same function, im parted solely by the stamp thereon, and not dependent for its money value upon the price of the material used. Each dollar ' shall be interchangeable with, but not redeemable in the other, and shall be denominated respectively gold, silver or paper money all na tional debts being payable in either, at the option of the government. "As the United States is a free and powerful nation and the financial and industrial liberty of its citizens should 1 be independent of the action of any other government, we demand the free ( and unlimited coinage of gold and sil ver by the United States at the present ratio of 16 to 1, without referenoe to, the oourse of any foreign nation. j We demand that all national banks be abolished, and in lieu of them that flourish the government establish a postal bank in each oity, town and village of the United States containing a population of 1,000 or more." The platform also deolares for the recognition of Cuba and against the re funding of the Pacific railroad debts. A Woman's Terrible Deed. Butte, July 20. Mrs. Robs Heim beck, wife of Ed Heimbaok, of Meader ville, became jealous of the attentions her husband paid Mrs. Thomas bnell ing. In oompany with her sister, ! Mrs. Hoskins, she went to the Snelling j home today and, oalling Mrs. Snelling into the parlor, Mrs. Heimbaok threw a pint of sulphurio aoid on her. Mrs. Snelling is terribly nurnea ana win j die. Mrs. Heimback and ber sister are under arrest. The latter is a raving maniau in the oounty jail, and is ex pected to die also. Bottle Paper From the Naronle. London, July 20. At the office of the White Star line in this city word was received that at Hoy lake, near Birkenhead, a bottle was picked np recently which contained the following wirtten on a slip of paper: "Struck ioeberg. Sinking fast. Mid coean. Naronic. (Signed) Young." The steamer Naronio, one of the largest and finest freighters of the White Star line, sailed from Liverpool February 11, 1893, for New York, and from that time to this has never been heard from. together with an improvement in quo tations for wheat, oorn, oats and pork, and firm or unchanged prices for wool, sugar, lumber, leather and print cloth. Rains have improved orop prospects in Washington. The week has been , marked at San Francisco by the depar ture of a trainload of fruit for Lob An geles, a carload for Australia, and two ships loaded with lumber for Europe. I Exports of wheat, flour included, from both coasts of the United States and from Montreal this week amount ! to 2,963,000 against 2,167,000 last week, 1,652,000 in the corresponding week last year, 1,873,000 in the seoond ; week of July, 1894, and as compared with 5,077,000 bushels ia the corre sponding week of 1893. Japanese Treasure Bearers- j Chicago, July 20. Five diminutive, ' dark-skinned Japanese are at the Audi torium, almost unobserved, in the orowd of comparatively gigintio Americans. Although they came with- CnproQtalile Loans Made by the State on Lands. Salem, Or., July 17. In each county of the state, with the exoeption of Crook and TJo vnnv f Via atafa V n u I n anVinnl : land commissioners has appointed attor j neya. It is the duty of the board's at torneys to receive applications for loans on real estate in their respective ooun ; ties, to examine titles, make reoom , mendations to the board, and to attend to oolleotions, making foreclosures, ' when direoted by the board. In the matter of a $2,500 loan, made ' used there In the construction of build- to Alex McKenna in Grant oounty, at Ings. On the other hand, most of the the time of foreclosure there was theories advanced to account for the $1,053.33 interest due, $153.93 unpaid 1 puzzling phenomenon In question as ; taxes, $27 oourt oosts, and the attorney j sume that, In some way or other, bet olaims $200 as his fee, making a total i ter facilities exist in and near great amount of $3,939.26. The land sold ; cities than elsewhere for relieving a : for $700, leaving the state loser by over : thunder cloud of the superabundant $3,200. The Grant oounty attorney ! electricity and leading the same quietly made three other foreclosures this , to the earth. The vast number of chlm year. In a loan of $300 to J. W. and J neys, flagstaffs, spires and other up Lum Lemon, the accrued interest, oourt , ward projections from the roofs, espe- oobis ana attorney s iees amountea to ; cially when well wetted, facilitate a $1,244. n. in a loan to samuei u. Hillis, the the visitors have it in their power to disturb the exohange rate of the world, for they are on their way to London to collect the Chinese war indemnity, amounting to I more than $150,000,000. The party ! inoludes Sonoda Kokisbi. president of the Yokohama specie bank. "The money we are to handle," said j President Sonoda Kokishi, "is to be delivered to us in gold in London. The amount is $150,000,000 with added in terest. One-half of this sum has been paid over to the Bank of Japan, in London, and the remainder is to be paid when we arrive. The Bank of Japan is to receive the money for the government. It will then be handed over to me as representative of the Yokohama speoie bank. In addition to the indemnity our government also gets 80,000,000 taels, about $6,000,000 for the cession of the Liao Tung penin sula and 600,000 taels yearly while troops are stationed at Wei-Hal-Wcl." Strained Relations. Athens, July 20. The Greek gov ernment has decided to send reinforce ments of troops to the Oraeoo-Turkish frontier, owing to the strained rela tions between Greece and Turkey, im mediately growing out of the Cretan insurrection. prinoipal was $2,000, and the interest, taxes, costs of oourt and attorney's fees, $731.85, making a total of $2,731.85. The interest, court oosts and attorney's fees, added to the principal of $700 loan to M. D. Cam eron, gives a total of $978.93. The property was bid in by the state in the three last oases and it is not certain that it can realize on the property the amount invested, $7,949.98. The total amount of the common school fund of the state is over $2,500, 000. The total amount of the agricul tural fund is over $132,000. The uni versity fund approximates $102,000 Coinage of Sliver Dollars, Washington, July 17. Owing to the fact that the amount of silver dollars in the treasury available for the redemp tion of treasury notes has become re- : duoed to $10,659,682, and will be fur- ' ther reduced by redemption during the ' month, the coinage of silver dollars by the mints will be increased from $1, 500,000 to $3,000,000 per month from ' August 1. From Maroh 1, 1893, the . treasury held 29,890,461 standard sil-j ver dollars for the redemption of treas I ury notes issued under the act of July I 14, 1890. Since Maroh 1, 1898, the , ; coinage of silver dollars has aggregated , j $11,983,056. Of this sum, however, j $2,811,677 was profits, or seigniorage, I whioh leaves $9,671,379 for the re I demption of treasury notes. The ! amount of treasury notes redeemed in ! j silver dollars and oanoelled from No- ! l vember 1, 1898, to July 14, 1896, was $38,402,268J ; Hawaii Admits Wines Free. Washington, July 17. Aooording i to the report of United States Consul j ; Mills, at Honolulu, the Hawaiian legis ; lature has passed an aot admitting wines containing less than 18 per cent. I alcohol free of duty, and increased the duty on spirituous liquors. In oonse ' quence, California wines, which have ! been taxed IS per oent per gallon, ! will escape import duties. silent discharge In Innumerable small streams. The complicated network of telegraph and telephone wires reach ing through the streets, high In air, has also been credited with dissem inating a good deal of electricity dur ing thunderstorms. A third factor In the situation may possibly be found in the steel frames of some of the mod ern high buildings. Certainly, if the metallic portions of the roof of one of these structures were properly con nected with the frame, and If the lat ter reached down luto permanently moist soil, the combination would af ford a lightning rod of exceptional efficiency aud proportions. Distribute the credit among the various agents as one may, tliero Is evldentl." a set of conditions existing In large cities which tend to lessen the violence of lightning there, and which appreciably affects the demand for lightning rods. Cholera In KgryU Cairo, July 20. There were 896 fresh cases of cholera reported Tuesday and Wednesday and 419 deaths from that disaeso. London, July 17. A dispatch from Hammerfeit, Norway, says a party of tourists arrived there from Dane's island today and report Herr Andre's balloon, in which be planned to set out on his voyage to the north pole, will not be ready before August. Listening. In discussing the art of conversation nearly all the attention Is given to what Is said. The matter and the manner of our words, the motives which prompt them, the wisdom which chooses them, their probable effects for good or for evil, receive and deserve much scrutiny. Comparatively little notice Is taken of the other half of conversltlon, which consists In listening. It Is usually regarded as a simple pas sive condition, needing no particular effort, and, therefore, no special consid eration. Like a vessel which merely holds the liquid poured Into It, the lis tener Is supposed for the time to be only receptive, all his active faculties being reserved for the time when he comes to reply. The common phrase, "having nothing to do but listen," betrays the small re spect paid to the act, nnd the slight ef fort It Is thought possible to put Into It. Thus It happens that, as no one Ls systematically taught and trained to listen, we have few really good listen ers among us, and, for want of them, much good spo.u king Is absolutely wast ed. For listening Is an art, having aa : many grades and qualities as any oilier, and, until this is recognized, (lie value of conversation must be sadly limited. Lots of people are afraid of a cyclone) ; who are not afraid of the devil.