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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1897)
Lineoln Gounty Leader J. F. KTKWAKT. PuhlUlier. TOLEDO OREGON A FARMERS' TRUST. An Allegeil l'lt to Control tlm Produce Market. Toledo, April 5. Farmers are trying , to form a trust, it in to sprea-1 ail over Great Damage to the Delta CURRENT VENISOFTHEDAY Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Fast Week Culled From the Telegraphlo Column. A bill making irriiric.liu.tcly available 200,000 for saving life ami property along tho Mississippi has been agreed to in congress in an amended form and sent to the president for his signature. United States Minister Denby, at Pekin, has notified the department of state that, as a result of the efforts of the British government, China has con sented to open to commerce West river, which is situated in Canton, and at the mouth of which lies Hong Kong. Representative Spuulding, of Michi gan, has introduced in the house a joint resolution providing for the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. It gives consent of congress that the Sand wich islands be made into the state of Hawaii, with a republican form of gov ernment. Captain E. W. Reed, of the ship T. F. Oakes, was arrested in New York on a warrant issued by the United States court. The Oakes is tho ship on which, during its last voyage, there was much suffering and several deaths, re sulting, as alleged, from insufficient food. The issue raised between Peru and the United States with regard to the imprisonment of Ramsey, the American sailor, is becoming a serious matter. The Peruvian government refuses to accede to the demand of the United States minister, McKenzie, to set Ram sey at liberty immediately. An attempt was made to destroy Al- toona, Pa., four incendiary fires being kindled in different parts of the oity be tween the hours of 11 and 1:30 o'clook. Prompt work by the fire department alone saved the town from possible de struction. The entire loss will aggre gate between f 50, 000 and $00,000. Word is received in Brooklyn of the death from jungle fever lust January, in Central Africa, of Samuel H. Ar mour, a young physician in the service of the Belgian government. Dr. Ar mour was well known socially and among tho medical fraternity of Brook lyn. Ho obtained his education at the Long Island college hospital. He is a nephew of Justice Walker, of Ohio. Governor Rogers, of Washington, has hopes of being ahlo to retain all companies of tho state militia now in service. While the meager appropria tion would not allow more than six, or at most eight, companies, if they re ceived tho full allowance, arrangements may bo made to allow one-half of the former appropriation to companies in smaller towns where armory rent is cheaper ami expenses are less. It is reported in AVashington that President McKinley will shortly send a commission to Culm to participate in the investigation of the Ruiz murder. Tho United Press, having its prin cipal oflico in New York, has made an assignment for tho benefit of its credit ors. The collapse was duo to the with drawal of four New York dailies. Eight lives were lost by the wrecking off Pensaeola bar, Flu., of an oyster sloop bound hence from St. Andrews. The craft was caught in a squall, was swamped and sank within a few min utes. The sultan of Morocco has prohibit ed the usual pilgrimage of his subjects to Mecca, on account of the prevalence of plague in the districts through which they must travel on their journey to the shrine. Captain Meyers, of the steamer Dan ube which hat arrived in Victoria, re ports that the steamer Willnpa is now a complete wreck, waves having pound ed her to pieces. The captain and pas sengers are still at Bella Bella. The secretary of state has sent the following identical note to all maritime IKiwers, about thirty or thirty-six in number: "The Grant municipal in augural committee has requested the president to officially invite the mari- time nations to send warships to par- I niipiue in tno ceremonies on April 27 next, when the Grant Monument Asso ciation will formally deliver to the city of New York tho tomb of General Grant, erected by voluntary subscrip tion, at Riverside park. It will be gratifying to this government i( this invitation could bo accepted." The secretary of the treasury is in re ceipt of information from tho minister of Tokio, Japan, that during the pres ent session of the Japanese diet, a gov ernmental coinage bill will be presented for consideration by that bodv, which will, if passed, change the standard of value in Japan from silver to gold. It is proposed to tlx the government ratio between the two metals at 89 to 1. The unit of value will ho a gold yen, which will bo one-half tho weight and value of the old gold yen, which is the same weight and fineness as the gold dollar of tho United States. The proposed unit of value will, therefore, be tho ex act equivalent of 60 cents in United KUites money the land, and if present plans carry, not a dollars' worth of farm prondce of any kind will he sold for general con sumption. In a nutshell, the idea is for the farmers to limit crops to tho actual liivng needs of the members of the trust. The organization is secret, oatlihound, ami its principles known just now to only a select few outside of those directly concerned in its devel opment. According to the promoters, however, the country is practically in condition to be placed in the grip of this remarkable combine. Lancaster, Pa., was the birthplace of the trust. It saw light there several months ago, and was incorporated nn der the laws of New Jersey as the Agri culturalists' National Protective Asso ciation. The supremo body is made up of one representative from each state, whose duties are similar to those of the board of directors of an ordinarv cor- Farming Country. LIVES ARE IN NO DANGER I)etltutlon In Itelng Relieved an Fast an Possible Helena, Ark., Not Out of DangerFrom Other Points. Memphis, April 5. The flood situa tion in the Mississippi delta above Greenville is decidedly better tonight, as regards the threatened loss of life and futher destruction of levees. The half dozen crevasses on the Arkansas and Mississippi shores between Helena and Greenville have drawn an immense volume of water out of the main chan nel, which is spreading over the low lands, but not with that degree of ra pidity that cuts off escape by the in habitants of the low countries. The nnrufinn T.?.li ut.ifo li.ia u milu.i'.lnxita board of directors, consisting of one re- ' ver shoWH decline from a point be presentative from each congressional I l.w 'e'0;na to the A ayside crevasse, district. Each district in turn is gov- ! T,1,e dellne above Greenville in many piaces is as great as ten incnes. How ever, Helena, Ark., is not out of dan ger, for the waters from the St. Fran- erned by a board of two members from each county. Each county is under con- number, who ,iroCt tho luov1UeUU of ' h"in n -Albuu-. " ?welhn the township organizations. It is the purpose to do nothing this year in the way of controlling the mar kets, because the organization is not complete. Next year, however, the crops will be limited to actual living needs of members. If the plan is carried out, not a dol lars' worth of farm product of any kind will be sold for general consumption, it being the purpose to compel the people , to import all food products. It is be- I lieved that by this method the power j of the association can best make itself ' felt. i the channel of the main river from the south of Helena, as no break occurs until Westover is reached, ten miles below that city. The damage to the farming country in the delta cannot be exaggerated. Five counties will be for the most part under water for thirty days and the main line and branches of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley road will have more than 100 miles of track inun dated. Opposite Perthshire, at the upper crevasse, a mile of track has been com pletely washed away. Probably twenty railroad stations and small towns are flooded tonight, among them being Gunnison, Rosedalo, Perthshire, Terry, Dahomey, Storm, Benoit To Enable the Den' to Hear. New York, April 5. It is an nounced from Denver that Professor I ttivertnn Dussand, of the university there, has Benlah, Wayside, Longwood,' Refuge," invented an apparatus to enable the j Swift Water and Australia. aeat to near. A nncrophonograph he The greatest danger now is to the has gust issued magnifies the human j south of Greenville, as the levees from voice in tho same way that a lens mug- j Wayside to the month of the river must nines matter. It is simply a telephone j begin to f.-l the pressure of the move connected electrically with a phono- j ment of water back into the channel graph, but a far more sensitive phono graph than Edison's ordinary model. A battery of from one cell to sixty, ac cording to the degree of deafness, is used. Of course the apparatus is useless in the case of absolute deafness, but such infirmity is far rarer than is supposed. Ninety-five per cent of stone-deaf per sons can be made to hear and under- from the delta through the White river country and St. Francis basin. From Memphis to Crawley's ridge, the river is forty miles wide. A line east and west on the water across Rosedale would probably be fifty miles long. All of this water must pass out between the two walls of the levee, in many places but a few miles distant one from the other. Another rise of 1-10 of a maim uy uussantrs invention. You foot in the river at Memphis is shown speak into the phonograph and make it by the official bulletin. The gauge to repeat the words which aro transmitted night registers 86.4 feet. At Cairo, an by a sort of microphone and speaking j encouraging fall in the river is shown, tube into the deaf ear. Professor Dus- while Paducha reports a fall of 7-10 of sand is preparing for the 1900 exhibi- a foot. At Vicksburg the river is sta tion an apparatus which will enable tionary. Shreveport and other points u .my, uri uo ueai to oeiow Vicksburg report a continued follow the lecturo.i Uutler Tried Suicide. Pan Francisco, April 5. Murderer Butler has made his anticipated at tempt at suicide. Despite the presence in his coll day and night of guards sup posed to be watchful, the fiend of the Blue mountains almost succeeded in cheating the gallows today. Early this ! morning Butler was observed to be un- i usually quiet. Investigation showed I that his blanket was tight-drawn over his head, and when that was removed his face was found to be covered with blood. Butler has allowed his thumb nail to grow very long, and with the nail hud opened an artery in his fore i i i. 'ii, .... Z ail. tL '? . "Pert , Ctl i0, I over this 1,,ve'y valley. A dismal waste ...... "v. tiuiiiiu n n uiuat-u ItUU greater precautions than ever will now be taken to preserve his life at least until after ho sails on tho Mariposa for Australia tomorrow afternoon. j , The Louisville & Nashville has com munication with Nashville, after a ces sation of two weeks. The local relief committee this after noon sent a boat to the Franois river country, both to bring out people and carry supplies and food to man and beast. It is said that the destitution in the territory to be covered is fearful, but the news of it did not raach Mem phis until today. Situation at Greenville. Greenville, Miss., April 5. Over 10,000 people are homeless in the flood ed districts. Many towns and cities are submerged, and desolation reigns Colonel Grant Declined. New York, April 5. Colonel Fred D. Grant has deicded to decline Presi dent McKinley's offer of the position of first assistant secretary of war. Mr. Garnt sent the "following tele gram to rrcsiflent .McKinley: of water covers the surrounding coun try on every side of Greenville, and the city is a desolate island, connected with the outside world by a mere thread, a telegraph line running eastJ Railroad communication is cut off north and south. Northern IllverH. Omaha, April 6. A Bee special from Sioux Falls says: The Big Sioux river is higher than ever known, and is still riaimr T.itlr ITnmnaatl... .1 ., . , - ...... . '.".u ucuiucaiita, nuciv Aitoiingn you are pleased to uree th (tin ti liitiL niniK tlm it. : I . . . ' ,w ,.,nllr, iv is un- toet, and is still rising. At Castlewood, j'.'.-.-.i.rtu w, me, iu uiMinmur nie position of assistant secretary of war, which you were gooit enough to offer me, I there' fore decline with thanks tho appoint- the lowlands are flooded. At Brook ings, the same condition exists. At Egan, the water is rising rapidly, do- ng much damage. At Sioux Falls, niem, at in samo time regretting that business along the river has been sus tain not to serve the administration, ! ponded. The water is still gradually for which I worked earnestly." j rjajn(?i ami wiu 800 put out the fir8 Mr. Grant declined to be interviewed ! in the Bell electric lighting plant and beyond giving out the foregoing telo- . the pumping station. The bottoms Br""1, 1 above the citv nr n sou m,H muni, f..,, is expressed, as the flood from the north is still to come. Damage to bridges in Minnehaha county alone so far is $50,000. At the Twin Cities. St. Paul, April 5. -The Mississippi river is at the high-water mark of 1881 and danger lurks along its path. It reached a stage of 19.7 in 1881, and Into this afternoon the gauge showed 15.7, and still rising. Yesterday morn ing at 7 o'clock the river showed a height of 13.6, and this morning, it was 15.3, a rise of almost two feet in twenty-four hours. A Powder Mill Wrecked Shamokin, Pa., April 6. All the buildings of the Shamokin Powder Company were wrecked by a terrific ex plosion which occurred in the mill early this morning. Fortunately no lives were lost, all tho men having gone home. Three houses half a mile away were damaged badly. Mrs. David llann was badly cut about tho face mid body. Mr. and Mrs. llann and Mrs. Klinger were buried in their beds be neath debris and boulders weighing 200 pounds. The loss is nearly $ 50,000. Child Instantly Killed. San Francisco. April 2. A child named James Holmes was instantly killed today by being run over by a loaded truck. The driver, II. Meyer, was charged with mausluughtur. Minneapolis, April 5. A huge ice jam, which formed in the Mississippi at Forty-second avenue north, broke late yesterday afternoon. RIVERA TO BE SHOT. Indignation In Havana at Hii Intended Execution. New York, April 5. A Havana dis patch to the World says: General Rivera probably will be shot soon, ns General Weyler has given or ders that he be tried by court-martial and shot immediately. lie maybe put to death on Saturday, in spite of his wounds, or the Spanish may cure him, and then shoot him. The certain exe cution of the brave, wounded prisoner of war excites indignation and disgust here. No other alleged civilized na tion is capable of such an act. Colonel Baccaloa, who tried to carry off his wounded commander on his back, although himself wounded, will die with him. It is predicted that these executions will provoke General Gomez to shoot all Spanish piisoners hereafter instead of releasing them. The Cubans are not disheartened at the loss of General Rivera. They say General Roloff is in Pinar del Rio, and will become second in command of the whole army. Insurgents in great numbers are coming from the East, and concentrat ing in Havana province. They have plenty of ammunition and good cav alry. A World courier from Santa Clara reports seeing one column of 1,00 well mouiiUJ, well-armed insur gents passing west toward Matanzas. This-eame courier says a very large ex pedition has landed near Remedios, and that most of the arms are for the western provinces. General Weyler remains in Cienfuegos. He is better, but still sick, and is doing nothing effective. Permission asked by Mr. Marriott, a colleague of Mr. Crosby, the corre spondent of the Chicago Record, killed in the field, to go and secure the body and effects, haB been refused by the au thorities. Minister de Lome wired the request, and General Lee seconded it. Mr. Marriott took General Lee's letter to the palace, but General Ahumada refused to Bee him, saying the request could not be granted. NO TIME WAS LOST. The New Board of Control In Charge In AVashington. Olympia, Wash., April 5. The new board of audit and control was organ ized this morning, with Governor Rog ers ex-offlcio chairman. M. II. Holmes, of Seattle, was appointed clerk of the board, at a salary of $1,000 per an num. The board appointed Dr. F. L. Goddard, of Tacomu, superintendent of the hospital for the insane in Steila cooraj to succeed Dr. Waughop. The resignation of II. L. Achilles, com mander of the soldiers' home in Orting, was called for. and S. M. All en. nt Km. attle, was appointed. Warden Mus grove, of the state penitentiary, was re moved, and Deputy Warden C. E. Reed was placed in charge for the present. The salaries of two accountants at Eastern and Western Washington hos pitals for the insane were reduced to $1,000 yearly for each. Traveling Auditor Ernest Lister will leave for Steilacoom in the morning to investigate the condition of affairs at the asylum there, after that he will go east of the mountains. The board appointed J. B. Gehr clerk of the penitentiary. The Hoy Showed Pluck. North Yakima, Wash., April 5. Harry Steele, a boy of 14, was knocked down in this city this morning by sev eral freight cars, during a flying switch. He fell between the rails, but was "nervy" enough to lie quiet until all of the enrs passed over him, though the wheels passed over his riirht hand and mashed it so that amputation of tnree ringers was necessary. The cars were loaded with rock, and were not seen by the boy, who was watching the engine on another track. The boy showed pluck all through the affair, saying he was glad it wasn't his head that had to be amputated. Kohbed and Beaten In Spokane. Spokane, Wash., April 5. J. M. Olmstead, a groceryman, was held up early this evening at the corner of Sixth and Washington streets by two highwaymen. The men asked for his money. He refused to give it up, and they set upon him and beat him nearly into insensibility. They then took from Olmstead $40 in gold and silver and made their escape. The means of identification are small. This is the third hold-up of the week. Two Ambamiadora Nominated. Washington, April 6. The president today sent the following nominations to the senate: Andrew D. White, of New York, am bassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Germany. Willirm F. Draper.of Massachusetts, ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Italy. Chandler Hale, of Maine, secretary of the embassy at Rome, Italy. Samuel L. Gracey, consul at Fu Chai, China. Anson Bnrlingame Johnson, of Col orado, consul at Anioy, China. French I'ort Tax Adopted. Paris. April 5. The chamber of dep. uties adopted the port duties bill, im posing a tax upon foreign vessels of 1 franc 25 centimes per metric ton upon merchandise and upon each head of cattle or hogs landed. A Ycnng Woman Gains 20 Pounds Her Physioiain io Iowa Said She Wit Going Into a Decline, and That Her Lungs Were Affected They Sent Her to Nevada. Any But to Fight Lung Troubles or Wasting DUease, Build up Your Flenh. From the Express, Lou Angeles, Cal. Two years ago, back in Eastern Inwa Miss Maude Lease began to go into a decline. She lost flesh rapidly. Her appetite failed. Fearful headaches nearly drove her fruntic. She consulted local physicians good, honest, practi- rrii . i 5 i ,, . , uuiiero. xuey 1010 ner mat Her uns were affected; that medicine might alleviate, but a change of climate was the only remedy that offered a prospect of cure. Ill and despondent she delayed as long as possible her departure, but at last it became imperative, and she came to an aunt at Verdi, Nevada, in the hope of finding health and strength in the pure air and among the pines of the Sierra Nevadas. But she con tinued to fail, and to add to her mis eries, learned to know the anguished sufferings which attend that complica tion of i'.U, tuul for want of better nomenclature, has been denominated "female weakness." And now comes the miraculous part of the story, just as she told it to the interviewer last night: "I ran down to 118 pounds," she said, "suffered tortures from those ter rible headaches and from sleeplessness. My aunt persuaded me to try Dr. Wil-' Hams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I had used nearly every kind of 'prescrip tion,' could get no relief from them, and hoped for none from theso pills. But to please auntie I began to take them. From the first day I noticed a beneficial effect. The headaches grew . less severe; my appetite gradually re turned. I could sleep nights and be gan to get good and strong. "I used to take one of them three times a day. In two months I weighed 138 pounds, aiid was entirely well, and have been well ever since. The win ters at Verdi were very cold and, be sides, I hud heard so much about South ern California that I came to Los Angeles. "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have helped me more than anything I have ever taken. I thank them for my health and ability to enjoy life. I am living at No. 800 Hope Btreet, Los An geles, and shall be only too glad to re peat what I have just said to anybody, either in person or by letter." So spoke young and attractive Maud Lease, and no one who saw her big eyes snap as she said it could doubt the earnestness and sincerity of her state ments. And that is why we say the story of a miracle is floating through the air, although now the miracle has become an established fact. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a condensed torm, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 60 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.60 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. A London scientist has invented a mirror of celiiloid which accurately re flects every object. The celuloid mir ror is unbreakable, and is cheaper than glass and lighter. The hissing sound produced by ser pents is greatly exaggerated, as the quantity of air contained in a snake's lungs is too small to produce a loud sound when ejected. In the opinion of Crispi, former prime minister of Italy, Americans ore working to prepare a future for the peo ple of the Old World which is not an agreeable one. Hunt era in Kansas earn about $2 a day slaying jack rabbits. The skins are sold for three cents each to Eastern hatters, who use the hair in the manu facture of soft hats. In the mountains of Sweden, Norway and Lapland all vegetation would be destroyed by the Norway rats were it not for the white foxes, that make spe cial game of the rodents. The lighting of certain of the London prisons by electricity is under consider ation, and is proposed to erect a special description of treadwheel to supply the motive power. In the fiords of the Norway coasts the clearness of the water is wonderful. At a depth of thirty fathoms objects the size of a silver dollar may be clear ly seen. The banks of Xewfonndlnnd onmuli by the sand, ice and stone brought from the north by the icebergs. MCUS WHtflf Ail ILSl HIliT VjT M Bn Co us a brrup. Ten OooO. Dm r 1 CI in tma. Pfid hr dracrlita ftk-l Bfltt Cougb bjrup. futM IkxxL Vm f 1 TUT