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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1897)
Resume of Events in the Norinwesi. DENCE OF STEADY GROWTH f ..h.r.rf In All the Town of f,,l u I Our Nelfbborlnr State - Improve. it Noted io A 11 Inluetrle-Ore-on. The Tigartlvillo flouring mill, in Washington county, is running full .imp and is not able to fill all orders. I i professor R. D. Williams, who was LmwI by Ed Meador, one of his pu- j ,t Prairie City, in Grant county, jtus ninoe died. I One firm in Coquille City shipped, finring Deoember last, 900 dozen of Up. The poultry shipments, too, werf quite large. )The schooner Free Trade was struck bT heavy sea while crossing the Tilla Jnook bar lately. The man at the I . , : 1 unr iKo Htainnff. wiparueuiu'iiahuJ. 1 Work on the Eanrton woolen mills fvirehouse has been stopped for the 'present owing to claims on the wharf s between the river channel and the nUce selected for the building. The logging camp of Nixon Bros., nw Peoria, in Linn county, burned lut week and all of the property in it. The Nixon Bros, were getting out logs (or the 0. R. & N. wharf in Corvallis. The mail-carrier, while crossing Warm Springs reservation with a buck board and fonr horses, mired down and hid to get out with the mail for Prine tilleou a pack animal on a recent trip. E Clay, of Alrington, who has 7,000 sheep that are being fed in Min nesota for the Chicago market, says that there are 80,000 head of sheep near his place that are being fattened (or market. Cat worms are doing considerable damage to fall grain in the vicinity of Oak Grove, in Wasco county. The cold upell in November did some damage to grain In that part of the county, but the injury was not great. The Uamtilla county assessor has just completed the military roll, whioh has been turned over to the county clerk. The roll contains about 1,800 names, and is compiled alphabetically, so that it is a simple matter to ascertain whose umes are upon it whose are not The people of Arlington had an ex tra dish of entertainment served Christ mas night in the way of an Indian Juice, given by about thirty of the Co huniba Indians. The Indians hired the hall and charged an admission. Nearly every one went to see them and hear the music they furnished on such occasions. Like many other ballroom celebrities, they were painted in the londeBt colors. The Indians had a big time at Thorn Hollow, in Umatilla county, on Christ mas day. There took part in the fes tirities 100 Umatilla Indians, five Po lios and four Nez Pcrces. One of toe Hex Perce Indians was found with bottle of whiskv in his This was promptly taken from him by uk maian ponce, who poured out the wntents. Two other Indians got some hat hilarious and were put in irons. Washington. The population of fib 10,473, an increase of 1,400 in two The Electrio Liirht & Pmroi. dnm. Panj is planting maple trees and other- " ""proving tne Tumwuter park, near Olympia. Judge Hume, in Seattle, has fixed MrehJ8, 1897, as the date upon which "llllam CfiriW nnntriA 1 'H be hanged. H is thought that a new use has been lonnd fnr iha ui....i. i i h lv, V ueuuiisano. oi urray'B MfBor, that it will prove valuable for 1 iron that is in it. J Kittitas oounty all approved bills . - -uaij lt i0ao nave Deen paia. " last payment before this cleaned 18K rrants 18Sned Prior to April, 't is said iVinf v. Rented to the coming state legisla " to re-enact the beet-sugar bounty ' 1893, which has now be- v '""lwrauve by limitation. TllS Snnkano T 1 ill i;. . .-,! m leaugewm con "We in its . . . 1 1 oi trying to close tne that cit Sn"day, and has "orney to assist in prose arl8 ses that are expeoted to tlrl.Dhl"n' one of the oldest set- died W 'g ,arl)or.' in Pierce county, n weeK at the age of 93 years. BarivT j man to settle at Gig or, md iived there durinir the lat- "'fears of his life. JMW898' the ReT- Jnn Da Ike U f"16' married 153 couples, tod A. , ,8room was 68 years of age, oldest bride 54. Theyoungfst duL e year was 30 years old, " youngest bride 15. nth! U moTement afoot in the ide tl? f Steven county to di Wt!nty n line running east rill, IZ' 7nt haU wy between Col ,0Ofli.v v.ewelah- There are about ? Wiabitanu in the county. SEVEN NUNS PERISHED. Io Their 1 ,. , IIurnlng of Ottawa, Jan. 8.-Tl,e convent of the UrBulme nuns at PmK.,i .. t , .; John, about 120 miles north of Quebec was destroyed by lire, whirl, broke oat at 6 o'clock this morning, and seven Sisters are known to have perished in wmle auout nfty inmatee had very narrow escape. Were it not that most of the students of the con vent had gone home for the holidavs, the loss of life might have been greater. The students were to have re turned tomorrow. Ordinarily there are about thirty inmates in the institution, and about fifty pupils. The village has no water works, and the work of saving the contents was therefore made difficult, while the flames had made such heavy headway that their extinguishment was an im possibility. Many of the nuns and pupils slept in a dormitory on the fourth floor. There is a fireproof tower near this, but the rapidity with which the flames spread prevented the nuns from reaching it. They were smoth ered by the smoke. Several nuns were badly burned in trying to extinguish the fire. The convent and the school are nothing but a mass of ruins. Just how the tire started is not known certainly, but this being the Feast of Epiphany, it is sup posed that a lighted candle near the oradle of the infant Jesus ignited the draperies and floral ornamentations. The faot that all parts of the convent were uncompleted caused the fire to spread more rapidly. The convent was a stone building, five stories high, and of 120 feet frontage, and waH built eight years ago. The Ursuline nuns of Quebec, by whom it was first con trolled, are the oldest order in Canada, and it was in a cavity made by the bursting of a shell within their convent at Quebeo that General Montcalm was buried after his death upon the Plains of Abraham. THE LOUD POSTAL BILL. PMMd th Bonn After Two Iayt ol Spirited Debate. Washington, Jan. 8. The Loud bill to amend the law relating to second class mail matter was panned by the house today, after two days' of debate, by a vote of 144 to 105. The opposi tion to the bill made a strong fight against it. The most important provi sion of the bill denies to serial publi cations admission to the mails at one cent per pound rates. The provision is as follows: "Tlnrt nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to admit to the second-class rate publications purport ing to be issued periodically and to subscribers, but which are merely books or reprints of books, whether they be issued complete or in parts; whether they be bound or unbound; whether they be sold by subscription or other wise, or whether they purport to be premiums or supplements or parts of regular newspapers or periodicals." ! The bill also denies to newspapei s the "sample-copy" privilege, and the ! privilege enjoyed by news dealers of returning unsold publications at the second-olass rate. The only other important change in the present law provides that publish ers whose publications are admitted as second-class matter shall be required, before depositing such mail matter in the postofiice, to separate the same into United States mail sacks or bundles by states, cities, towns or counties, as the postmaster-general shall direct. 1 Cul In the 8enle Washington, Jan. 8. The speech of 1 Call on Cuba in the senate today served I as the medium for milking public a I letter, giving a graphic description of ' the Cabanas fortress at Havana and I the BurroundiiiKS of the American citi zens imprisoned there. The circum stances surrounding the letter attracted marked interest to it, as Call said it came from a public man of high stand ing in the United States, who would shortly occupy a place in tho legisla tive branch of the government. The letter dealt with the immediate pres ent, and described a visit made by the writer and General Lee to Cabanas fortress only seven days ago. It told of the pitiful condition of the prison ers, some of them Americans, includ ing Julio Sanguilly, and a yonnif man who was the companion of Charles Govin, the American newspaper corre spondent, killed in Cuba. The recital of these prisoners was given in full. During the day the senate passed house bills amending the laws relating to timber culture and authorizing bre vets to acting or retired officers of the army or navy. The joint resolution requesting the British government o pardon Mrs. Maybrick was indefinitely Postponed. The bill exempting set tlers on publio lands from paying the original government price fixed on the . , t.j T3n,i:.rou mid car- lands was aeoaieu. i ,, ter spoke in its favor, out a vote was not reaciiea. in., r.i.lit Cred Her. Oakland, Cal., Jan. l-bh fright deprived Jennie Jnrgensen of hw - rea son and she was brought here for treat ment. Miss Jnrgensen was scared by Some friends the other day in the , carry ing out of a joke, and it so rf" SLd that it gave way 'ert terday, and her condit.on is Mid to b hopeless. AGAIN IN HARNESS. rhe Reanembllnr or t'onKra. After the lloliilny Itereni. Washington-The senate reasseni bled today after the holiday recess and passed the house bill abolishing the death penalty in a large number (f cases. The measure is in the line of the recent state laws abolishing capital punishment, and applies the same prin ciple to federal offenses, although the change is not extended to a total al oli tion of the death penalty. The present laws, which have come down from colonial times, have a sanguinary as pect, and prescribe death for offenses of various characters. The bill passed today reduces the offenses to five, viz: Treason, rape, murder, and two offenses applicable to the army and navy. In all other offenses hard" labor for life is substituted as the maximum punishment, and even in cases of mur der and rape, hard labor may be sub stituted if the jury states in its verdict 'without capital punishment." As the bill has passed the house after a long crusade by Representative Curtis of New York, and is amended but slightly by the senate, it is likely to go to the president when the minor dis- I'Sre-mems arc arranged in cvufci euue. During the day Mr. Call introduced resolutions calling for information as to the condemnation of Julio Sanguilly at Havana to life imprisonment, and also directing the secretary of state to demand Sanguilly's immediate release. Mr. Peffer delivered a speech in sup port of his resolution for a national monetary commission. The Load Kill In the House. Washington The house entered npon its work immediately after reas sembling, by taking up the Loud bill, to amend the laws relating to second class mail matter. The whole day was devoted to general deabte on the meas ure, under a special order, which will bring the bill to a vote tomorrow at 4 oVlock. Mr. Loud, the author of the bill, is its champion on the floor, and Mr. Quigg has charge of the opposition. Those who took part in the debate to day were Messrs. Kyle, Burton, Brow nell and Ogdcn, in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Quigg, Johnson and Cum mings against it They See Iti Importance. The Merchant's association of San Franoisco, recently forwarded to Cali fornia's senator and congressmen at Washington, resolutions asking them to lend their efforts to advance the work of the Nicaragua canal. Replies were received from Senators Perkins and White and Congressman McGuire, Lound and McLachlan. All of them acknowledged the importance to Cali fornia of the completion of the great canal, and all assured the association that nothing would be left undone to bring it about, and thereby establish the advantageous route. Bherman Will Not Vlilt Cube. There is no truth in the report that Senator Sherman, chairman of the for eign relations committee, intends to visit Cuba. MAN OF MANY CRIMES. Partial Catalogue of Which la Prepared Frum Many Oltle. Chicago, Jan. 7. "Count" Guigle mo J. de Guster, alias Dr. .Tuster, alias Dr. F. S. Khodes, said to be a Rou manian of excellent family, and who professes to be studying dentistry in America, has been arrested in this city. He is said to be wanted for several offenses in Buffalo, N. Y., New York city, Brooklyn, Boston, Leadville and Denver. Wife abandonment, embezzlement, forgery, swindling, bigamy and obtain ing money under false pretenses are some of the charges for which he is wanted in various parts of the country, and it is believed he has obtained in all about $100,000 by his alleged ille gal methods since he came to America, three years ago. He is a young man, dressed in the height of fashion and stopped at the best hotels in the American cities he has vistied. In Brooklyn he married the daughter of a prominent jeweler ami deserted her August 21 last and went West. At Leadville he is charged with swindling a citizen out of a house and lot. He is also charged with forgery. Going from there to Denver he continued his fraudulent methods. Soon after his departure for this city Chief of Police Itussell, of Denver, learned of the former swindles he had perpetrated, and sent his descrip tion to the police of this city. Here, while in dire distress, after having been ejected from two big hotels for non-payment of bills, he met Belle Cutts, 'who, the police say, is an ad venturess, and a marriage with her soon followed. He will be turned over to the Brooklyn authorities as soon as an officer arrives, and will be prosecuted there, it is said, on the charge of wife abandonment. The New Inquisition Denounced. Paris, Jan. 7. There was a meeting in the Salle de Kivoli tonight to pro test against the torturing of anarchists in the prison in Barcelona, Spain. Af ter the meeting, 500 persons marched to the Spanish embassy in the Boule vard de Conrccll, Binging the "Carma gnolo" and "Ira" and shouting "Con spuoz Canovas. " The police dispersed the mob and arrested several of the member WEEKLY MARKET LETTER Downing, llopklni A Companr'e Kevlew : of Trade. The wheat market has every indica tion of an upward tendency. It hard ened steadily last week in the face of bank failures, ami was only affected by ! them temporarily. A (jixxl percentage of the traders were afraid to go into the market, owing to the unsettled con- i ilition of finances in Chicago last week. Local influences, however, are only of a transient character, the market be- ing governed more by foreign advices, and also by the great strength of the domestic situation, w hich overshadows almost everything in the way of local bearish factorc. Had the market been a local one prices would have gone low er, but the timely buying of foreigners offset the bearish influences, and made sentiment bullish, overriding every thing bearish. Eulgish traders who were sharp enough to foresee their wants early in the fall, and took ad vantage of it by buying them from three to four months in advance, al most before the American speculators were aware of it, have come in the market within a week and taken mil lions of bushels of both cash and fu tures for shipment during tne next lour months, while local traders were as a rule afraid to take the buying side. It is claimed by operators in a position to know that there is a larger short inter est than at any time within Bixty days. The Northwest is short against its cash holdings there. Foreigners have ab sorbed the Burplus wheat that is afloat in the pit. It ia difficult to buy any large lines without sending prices up rapidly, if any of the recognized lead ers are credited with being at the back of the orders. This leaves the market in a stronger position than ever, and those who watch the pit operations closely are confident that prices will advance to 90o within the near future. The visible stocks are 14,000,000 bush els less than last year. Foreigners are expected to lead the buying again next week. Market Quotation!. Portland, Or., Jan. 8, 1897. Flour Portland, Salem, Caecadia and Dayton, 4.50; Benton county and White Lily, 4.60; graham, 3.75; su perfine, I3-50 per barrel. Wheat Walla Walla, 8485o; Val ley, 8687o per bushel. Oats Choice white, 4042o per bushel; choice gray, 88 40o. Hay Timothy, $13.00 per ton; clover, t8.009.00; oat, 8.0010; wheat, 8.00 10 per ton. Barley Feed barley, $18.00 per ton; brewing, $20. Millstuffs Bran, $15.00; shorts, $16.50; middlings, $23. Butter Creamery, 8540o; Tilla mook, 40c; dairy, 2280c Potatoes Oregon Burbanks,6070c; Early Rose, 8090o per sack; Cali fornia river Burbanks, 65o per cental; Bweets, $1.002.00 per cental for Mer ced; Jersey Red, $2.50. Onions 85o per sack. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.00 8.00; geese, $0.00; turkeys, live, 10c; ducks, $34.50 per dozen. Eggs Oregon, 23 per dozen. Cheese Oregon, 11c; Young Ameri ca, 12c per pound. Wool Valley, 10c per pound; East ern Oregon, B8c. Hops 9 10c per pound. Beef Gross, top steers, $2.25(32.75; cows, $2.002.25; dressed beef, 4 6)o per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, $2.502.75; dressed mut ton, 45o per pound. Veal Net, small, 6c; large, 4o per pound. Hogs Gross, choice, heavy, $3.25 3.50; light and feeders, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed, $3. 50 4. 25 per cwt. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 8, 1897. Flour (Jobbing) Patent excellent, $5.25; Novelty A, $4.75; California brands, $5.60; Dakota, $5.50; patent, $6.25. Wheat Chicken feed, $27 per ton. Oats Choice, $24(225 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, $22 per ton. Corn Whole, $22 per ton; cracked, $23; feed meal, $23. Millstuffs Bran, $16.00 per ton; shorts, $19. Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; middlings, $24; oilcake meal, $28. Hay Puget sound, per ton, $9.00 10.00; Eastern Washington, $13. Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 24c; select, 23c; tubs, 22o; ranch, 18c. Cheese NativeWashingtOn, 10 12c. Vegetables Potatoes, per ton, $15 18; parsnips, per sack, 75o; beets, per sack, 76c; turnips, per sack, 60c; ruta bagas, per sack, 76c; carrots, per sack, 8545o; cabbage, per 100 lbs, $1.25; onions, per 100 lbs, 90c$l. Sweet potatoes Per 100 lbs, $1.75. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 7 8c; dressed, 9llo; ducks, $2.008.50; dressed turkeys, 1315o. Eggs Fresh ranch, 24c; Eastern, 22 28o per dozen. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, steers, 6)o; cows, 5c; mutton, sheep, 6 per pound; lamb, 5c;Jpork, 6o per pound; veal, small, 6o. Fresh Fish Halibut, 66; salmon, 6 6; salmon trout, 7 10; flounders and soles, 84o. Provisions Hams, large, 12o; hams, small, 120; breakfast bacon, lOo; dry salt sides, 6o per pound. JACKETS OR NO JACKETS Thia la Not a Funhion Article, but Is lntcrentinir to Womankind. It Is rarely In this country that pota toes are bulled before they are peeled, or, lu the old-fashioned way of express lug It, lu their "Jackets," and yet In Ireland the very headquarters of thia vegetable, such a thing Is scarcely known as pre-peellng them. Those who have uever tried them In this way are advised to do so some day, when tbey can make sure they are Drought to the table the moment tbey are done, and not allowed to stand any length of time before- they are eaten. Select those of equal size, allow them, after washing and scrubbing thoroughly, to stand covered with cold water for half an hour, then throw Into plenty of boiling water, and after (Killing twenty min utes prick to the heart with a two pronged fork; if not soft, cook a little longer, drain, sprinkle with salt, return to the range, and when the saucepan is hot, toss them, to allow the salt to shake eveuly through and to dry well, place In a warm napkin on a red-hot plate and serve with good, sweet but ter. The flavor of the snowy, fleecy morsebi. taken from the Jackets and bulleted ub lue' uiv trali-ll. Will be found to be much better than if peeled before boiling; linked, epicures declare they can detect the difference at once, and as the most nutritious part of a po tato U next to the skin none of this is lost. Potatoes In their Jackets make a suit able adjunct to oysters baked and served In the shell. Wash and scrub the oysters, put them lu a large baking pan In a hot oven, and In Ave mlnutea or lews they will begin to open and must be sent to the table at once, six apiece on hot plates. It is well to have a small red dolley at each plate with which to grasp the oyster while open ing. Grilled sardines are also particu larly good with these same potatoes; they are very savory, yet easily pre pared. Grilling Is merely another name for broiling, and unless one possesses a perforated broiler, not expensive, how ever, shaped like a waffle Iron, which" conies on purpose to rook articles that would slip through the ordinary grid-. Iron or broiler, they may be cooked easily, quickly and satisfactorily by proceeding as follows: Make the frying pan or chafing dish sizzling hot, d op lu a teaspoonful of sweet butter, or use the oil In which the sardines are pack ed as preferred. The pan must be kept very hot, when the fish will brown al most Instantly on one side, then turn ed, browned on the other, and they are ready to be served on toasted crackers or squares of toast softened with boulll lon. The butcher will supply marrow boues on purpose for grilling, and they, too, tit in excellently with potatoes In their jackets, as would scallops, done to a golden brown In boiling olive oil, fried shrimps, roasted crabs and the like. People who have an open grate with a glowing Are of hard coal, possess the means, with the addition of a chafing dish, that make possible tho most sav ory suppers Imaginable, and may de light their friends by novel Invitations to sup, with the words "potatoes In their Jackets" added, Instead of "danc ing," "cards," or what not. No Idea of Music. Colonel Burr, of Virginia, was a mighty fox-hunter, and loved the sport beyond words. He owned a fine puck of hounds, and, during the season, thought of nothing but his hunters, his dogs, and the weather. He was once entertaining an army friend from Tex as, whose Ideas of hunting any animal Involved the use of fire-arms, and who had never seen a fox-hound. lie bad been with difficulty persuaded to go forth one morning with the colonel and some friends to u meet, and they were waiting Impatiently for the hounds to take the scent. Presently there hurst upon their listening ears the din of thir ty canine voices lu full cry. The col onel's eyes gleamed, and, us he settled bis feet In the stirrups and stretched his arm toward the yelping pack, be cried: "Major, listen to that heavenly music!" The major pricked up his ears for a second or two, and then re piled: "I can't hear a thing. Those dogs are making such a noise." The colonel put his spur savagely Into hla horse's side and dashed nwny, lea v. tag his guest to his own devices. For Advertising Purpose. Experiments have lately been made In Switzerland with a view to putting the beautiful lakes of that country to some practical account. Hitherto these waters have been ad mired merely Ixfause of their natural beauty, but now some enterprising business men have devised a scheme by which they may be made useful for advertising purposes. The plan Is to paint tho words of the advertisement In big white letters on a black background. When sunk and securely held at the bottom of the lake, the advertisement is perfectly legible, the reflection of the light on passing through the water bringing the words nenr the surface. It Is announced that hitherto the ex periments that have been made have been very successful. Rain falls In the Andes about once ia even years.