Lincoln County leader., June 17, 1897, Image 2

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Ltoeoln County Leader!
J. ". NTKVVAKT. Publisher.
TOLEDO.
.OREGON"
iprehenslve Review of the Important
apponlngi of the Past n.k Coiled
m the Telefraphle
Column..
An epidemic of cholera has broken
out in Bangkok.
Proof ia positive that Dr. Ruiz, the
American, was murdered in a Spanish
prison in Cuba.
A boiler exploded in the print works
of Norcega Bros., Puehla, Mexico, kill- ;
ing 60 or more persons. I
Fire destroyed $80,000 worth of prop- j
erty in Cairo, 111. Twenty-five head I
of horses and a number of dwellings 1
were burned. !
A cloudburst, which caused the river I
Morgo in France to rise snddenlv, I
wrecked over 000 factories and work
shops and desolated many small towns.
It is said in Astoria, upon what is
apparently good authority, that Mal
colm W. Sale, of Young's River, whose
disappearance in March last created
somewhat of a senasation, is alive and
well.
Earthquakes were experienced in the
state of Oaxaca, Mexico, and some dam
age was done on the isthmus of Te
huantepec, where slightly constructed
houses were cracked. One shock lasted
40 seconds.
Jerome Smeathers, his wife and seven
ohildren were poisoned at Yclvington,
Ky., with Paris green, which acci
dentally fell in a bucket of water. One
child is reported dead, two dying and
possibly none will recover.
Owing to engineer and conductor for
getting orders a freight train crashed
into a work train, both going at a high
rate of speed, near Hudson, Wisconsin,
and four workmen were instantly
killed, three bodies being burned.
There was a collision between Ameri
can and Spanish marines in Vera Cruz,
Mexico. The Spanish hurrahed for
Weyler and the Americans for Cuba.
The latter were helped by Mexicans and
d the marines were put to flight.
The department of state has been
officially informed that an internation
al conference will he held in Berlin
from October 11 to 16, 1897, to discuss
the leprosy question. There will be
lectures and exhibits connected there
with. A Spanish captain and two lieuten
ants were tried by court-martial in Las
Cabanas fortress and sentenced to be
hot for cowardice in having, after 11
days siege, surrendered the government
fort at Casa Orro in eastern Cuba, to
the patriot forces of General Calixto
Garcia.
More than three score of men have
recently deserted from the warships
New York and Massachusetts, together
with those who left the Texas while
she was in New York. Twenty-eight
men took French leave of the Texas
and 80 are missing from the New York.
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It IS not known how miinv lira v,,!uu;..
irom the Massachusetts. In every case
uiwjo um oi ioreigu oirtli.
Alfred Pearce, in attempting to
board a train at Mendota, Cal., was
run over and horribly mangled. He
died at the hospital a few hours after
tlio accident
Lansing, la., waB visited by a sup
posed earthquake. An explanation has
been found in the fact that a mctoor
was seen to fall near thm-itv t th.. ;,
of the shock. i
James Williams, editor of theChron-'
iolo, of Armore, I. T., was shot ami j
killed by a prominent attorney of that
city for an attack made through the
columiiBof Williams' paper.
The grasshoppers are doing consider-1
able damage in Morrow county, Or.
Hardens have been completely ruined '
around Lexington, and in many places'
entire fields of wheat have been eaten
tip. i
The pleasure steamer I !..,-..., ..!
San raiieisco, while 20 miles off the
Golden Gate, was shaken up consider
ably while on her last outward trip bv
colliding with a whale. Tho whal'e
was nearly cut in two and the steamer
will have to go to tho drydock for re
jwirs. News comes from Grant count v. Or .
ot the tragic death of Jeff Conlcv. a
heopman, at his cabin in the niouu-1
tains. He went to the creek to get wa- j
ter, and as he stooped over, his pistol
(ell from his belt against the pail he
was carrying, and tho weapon was dis- i
rliurvt,.! Tim 1...U... ..... .
charged. Tho bullet
hia body, resulting in death the follow
ing day.
An Astoria dispatch says the past
''as seen a radical change for the
bettor in the run of salmon. Tho de
liveries of fish have Wen remarkably
large, even for this time of the year.
The canneries are all running at full
capacity. Not only are the fish un
usually numerous, but the run as to
quality is extraordinarily tine. As an
example, a fisherman one morning, af
ter a few hours' work, turned into one
of tho lower town canneries 30 chinook
aluion, which averaged by actual
weight domi tli) bo round apiece.
CURRENT EVENTS 0
MURDER THE CHARGE.
Hates Soprr, Alia Homer Lee, Arrested
in AAniunu.
Ashlnnt., Or., .Tune 14. S. E. Lowe,
of an Eastern detective acencv. left
here on this evening's train for Port
ttiia aroninit a frnin fn lJ-f I
land, en route eastward, with Bates
i Soper, alias Homer Lee, arrested by
1 him near Ashland late last evening on
' requisiiton from the governor of Mis-
eouri, on a charge of murder in the first
' derive.
, It is alleged that six years ago last
i April Soper murdered his wife and two
children, at Archie, Cass county, in
Missouri, by deliberately chopping them
to pieces with a hand ax.
Soper, according to his own story,
came away from Missouri in 1891, and
was over in Washington two montns,
wui over in itasmngion iwo moiuns.
He then came to Oregon, and lived in
the Willamette valley, above Oregon
City, for a year and a half. He then
went to rortiand, ne says, ana lived
mere iour years, Deing known as sandy
Soper, and having employment most of j
the time with the Pullman Car Com-1
pany in cleaning and such work in the
railroad yards. He was married in
Portland, and his wife is there now,
though he refused to give Iter address.
When Soper left Portland, it is claimed
he had a 2-year-old child with him, and
it is suspected that he made way with
this child, too, after leaving Portland.
Soper left Portland last April, and
passed through here to Sissons, where
he remained a week, and then came
back to Ashland, April 28, where he
has been working sinoe in farming and
orchard work. He had leased an or
chard tract here, and, at the time of
his arrest, was working on the Owen
farm, south of town. Those who have
known him say that he was an exceed-
jvuuvvH mm nay uuu ne was an exceed- I
inglv auiet and inoffensive nmn unrl
was an unusually good worker. He i
was Known nere as riomer L,ee.
When arrested he did not deny being
Bates Soper, the man wanted, though
lie does not admit the crime charged 1
against him. i
Lowe, the young detective who cap
tured him, claims to have spent a year
and a half in searching for Soper, and
to have been on the case off and on for
ix years, locating hia man in Portland
last December. He was not entirely
satisfied, so returned for furthor instruc
tions, to oome back and follow his trail
from Portland this way. He claims to
have spent months in following a clew
at Cripple Creek, and then returned
East with the wrong man.
CANNON BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Explosion of a Gun Cotton Shell at the
Indian Head Proving Grounds.
Washington. June 14. Th int ni
MarvlnnH tmntVilml Ina :
vu.u.v. iao cvmilllg UH UlC J
resun oi an exp.osion of 880 pounds of I
Cnn Cnt.tnn lit Hia rtMravrtnn l : I
grounds at Indian Head. A 12-inoh
....... 6'uiiriui piuving I
breech-loading rifle weighing 101,000
pounds and worth $25,000, was blown
to pieces. The armor-covered "bomb
proof in which the spectators take
rofuge while tests are made was wrecked
and a dozen naval officers and ordnance
experts narrowly escaped with their
lives.
The final test was being made of
gun ootton shell invented by a Chicago
man
and through some unaccountable
, win ciiuuuu in me gun,
wrnnVini, 1ia . 1
nd throwing some of the pieces more
than a mile down the Potomac.
Colonel O'Neill, the chief of ord
nance for the navy, and several United
States naval officers Bnd naval attache
from the various foreign legations had
fortunately taken refuge on a navy
yard tug about a mile from shore.
Lieutenant Anderson, who had been
directed to fire the gun by electricity
when the signal was given from th
tng, had gone behind a big earth bank
or "butt" about 800 yards from the
gun. He and other spectators were
unhurt, though a massive piece of the
gun, weighing many tons, flew through
the air with frightful velocity and
struck the water within 100 feet of the
tug.
If the spectators had gone into the
"bombproof," as they UBinUly do, when
such tests are made, they would all
have been killed, (or a big piece of steel
Btruok it and ripped through the 12
inch armor as if it had been so much
paper. A great hole was torn in the
ground where the gun stood and the
buildings at the proving grounds were
badly shaken. Not a particle of the
massive gun or its carriago remained.
This was the largest charge of gun
ootton ever tired or attempted to be
fired from a powder gun. The govern-
uu'iiv puiu nuuiu t-'o.uuu ior the gun
lown UP ml ' as built especially
tlu'e U'8t9- A 8,u'11 8,,ot from tni
gw vrrt9 pPectt,l perforate 21 inches
of "Uo1 at urstee of 1,500 yards and
,0 ravo1 rom to ten miles before
losinir its mnmnnti,,,.
losing its momentum.
A Cyclone In Iowa.
Mason City, la., June 14. At 6:50
tonight a cyclone struck northwest of
Lyle, Iowa, taking a southeasterly
course. Several people are reported
killed and injured. The cyclone tore
up houses and other buildings in iu
course, and the territory is now bare.
The path of the storm was about half
a mile in width. All telegraph lines
north are down, and box-cars on sid
ings were orushed into kindling.
A cyclone panned over the town of
Kandiyoh, Wilmar oountv, Minn., and
entirely demolished the "buildrngi oa
the farm of John Berquist.
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MvstfiTMfms
Mission of the
Cruiser New York.
NAVAL OFFICIALS RETICENT
General Belief In Havana In That Wey.
ler Will Be Recalled Cubans Wif
in Several Small Engagements.
Boston, June 14. The United States
cruiser New York, the flagship of the
North Atlantio squadron, with Rear
Ail.rtif.ll ATr.nfrn...V Cl.J 1
-""" .-wuhsuuicij oitaiu uu uumu,
steamed out of the harbor at S o'clock
j tll,s afternoon, not a soul on board
knowing to what port she is bound, for
' " ;y'" "'y u
tpn flia ltinr wliita
tl u'",r 10 uuimue 01 Boston ngni,
witl1 ner P'l' over the side, that the
sealed orders will be opened and her
cruiser is well outside of Boston light,
destinatn ascertained
It is generally believed, however,
that when she reaches Cape Cod, she
Will tULll lir II1IMH to I.IIM MIIIII.IIUL-ur.l utwl
that her twin screws will not stop until
sue is somewhere in the immediate
neighborhood of Cuba; for when she
started she was fully provisioned and
coaled, and could, if necessary, go to
Gibraltar or a long distance without
laying in supplies.
The New York arrived here on May
26 to participate in the ceremonies at
tending the unveiling of the Shaw
monument. The battle-ship Massachu
setts came with the flagship, while the
battleship Texas had arrived some
i'icnuuij, iuo xexas leu a iew
days ago. but the other twn shins hmu
days previously. The Texas left a few
been swinging at their moorings off
the navy-yard until today.
The rear admiral might have had
some inkling of an important cruise
from the fact that for the last few days
the entire crew has been hard at work
getting the ship ready for sea, while
her coal bunkers have been filled to
overflowing. Shortly after 4 o'clock,
the guns of the cruiser boomed a part
ing salute to Commodore Howison, of
the navy-yard. The anchor was
weighed and the cruiser swung around
in the stream and started out to sea,
although a furious gale was blowing.
Naval Officials Reticent.
Washington, June 14. The navy de
partment officials were singularly re
served about the movements of the
New York, and showed a reluctance to
answer any questions. Secretary Long,
in answer to a direct interrogation, re
plied: i UfK IS HOI gOing tO
ine JNew York is not oini tn
Cuba; she will next be heard from at
0mA nnint , 1. A .1 . ' . .
-"o jjoiin uii me Aiianiio coast well
north of Cuba."
The secretary refused to answer fur
ther. It was learned, however, that
the cruiser is expected to report next at
Hampton Roads, Va., and that she
will be at sea about two days. It is
surmised that th navy department,
which has been charged of late with
the whole duty of looking after fili
busters afloat, has been advised of the
intention of some formidable expedi
tion bound for Cuba to put out from
some northern port. In such case, the
department would send out a smaller
cruiser usually, but it is said that at
this time it was a case of choice of the
vessel able to get under way first.
Weyler's Term Is Short.
New York, June 14. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says: It is
believed here sinoe the long suppressed
news of the affairs in Madrid have been
made public that General Weyler's re
turn to Spain will be the most import
ant result of Canovas' success in retain
ing power. Private telegrams have
been sent to persons here in which il
was distinctly stated that Campos,
Dominguez and Pidal had given their
support to Canovas only with the plain
stipulation that General Weyler should
go.
In fact, it is felt here that General
Campos, who is now in power in Spain
and fills the popular eye, would not on
any account lend himself to the con
tinuation of General Weyler's policy.
The plan is to send General Marin here
from Porto Hico and then supplant him
in turn by General Blanco or Campos.
Opinion of One of Weyler's Generals.
New York, June 14. A dispatch
to the Journal from Hnvntm aaw An
other of Weyler's generals, Lono, inspector-general
of the civil guard in
Cuba and military governor of Havana,
has resigned in disgust, and expeots to
leave the island by the transatlantic
liner sailing on June 80 for Spain di
rect. Lono regards Weyler's early recall
as quito assured and thinks Blanco or
Lopea Dominguez will come out as his
successor. Both are unusually inti
mate with Martinez Campos, to obtain
wI.iomj "Plwt in the recent ministerial
crisis Canovas is known to have made
important concessions. Weyler is re
ported to havo cabled Canovas insisting
that Minister Dupuy do Lome demand
from the Washington government the
extradition of Nunez, Cartaya and Ar
teaga, alleged filibusters recently cap
tured by the United States authorities
on the tlorida coast, alleging old crim
inal indictments against three of them
said to be .till pending in the oouru
AN UPRISING IN INDIA.
A Number of Officers Ilenorled Killed
by the Natives.
Bombay, June 14. A dispatch from
Silma announces serious trouble on the
northern frontier, and the massacre of
a number of British officers and native
soldiers in the government employ.
From particulars obtainable it seemB
that two guns belonging to the Bombay
mounted battery, escorted by 300 men
belonging to the First regiment of
Sikhs and the First Punjab infantry,
were treacherously attacked in Tochi
valley by a large force of hostile na
tives. The first reports said Colonel
Bunny, two officers and 26 privates had
been killed, and three officers and 24
men injured. Indications are that the
affair is more than a conflict with war
like natives, and that the notorious
Mullah of Piewindah is at the bottom
of the trouble.
The latest advices, however, are that
a political officer, Mr. Gee, was visit
ing Shirani with an escort of troops,
when he was attacked at Manza by su
perior forces. The Britsh troops were
compelled to retreat and were followed
several miles by overwhelming numbers
of the enemy. The fighting was des
perate. All the British officers were
severely wounded. Captain Browne,
of the First Sikhs, son of the late Sir
James Browne, and Lieutenant Crook
shank, of" the royal artillery, were
killed and Surgeon Higginson, Lieuten
ant Iligginson, of the First Sikhs, and
Lieutenant Seaton Browne, of the Pun
jab infantry were wounded.
A second dispatch says Colonel Gray
has taken command of the British
troops, and it is inferred that Colonel
Bunny is among the dead, as at first
announced.
Tochi valley lies north of Gumala,
and on the road to Ghuzni and Wazir
islam. It has been controlled by the
British since the elimination of the
Hindoo-Afhgan frontier, but the tribes
have always been turbulent. The mu
lah of Piewindah is a notorious fanati
cal priest, and has always been hostile
to the British.
PROPOSED FORTIFICATIONS
Contractors Looking; Over the Site at
Marrowstone Point.
Port Townsend, Wash., June 14.
The advertisement by the government
for bids to prepare the site for the ereo
tion of Puget sound fortifications here
has brought to inspect the site con
tractors from all over Washington, Or
egon and California. Marrowstone
point is a rough steep, high promon
tory, and the first work will neoessarily
be the providing of a source of fresh
water. Prospective contractors think
it will be necessary to dig a well 80 to
100 feet deep to obtain it. The con
tract for the Marrowstone point work
will be let June 80. Condemnation
proceedings for title to 1,000 acres for
the fortification site on Point Wilson
are under way and bids for contracts
for preparing the site will appear in a
short time. Fifteen hundred acres of
land are inoluded in the Point Wilson
fortification reserve. The advertise
ment for bids stipulates that work
must begin within 10 days after the
contract is awarded.
CHEYENNE WAR SCARE OVER.
Yellow Hair and Sam Crow Arrested
and White Bull Will Surrender.
Denver, Colo., June 14. A special
to the Rocky Mountain News from
Miles Citv. Mont., savs; Rlioriflp f-i;i.K
and Stock Inspector Smith reached this
city tins evening, having in custody
Yellow Hair and Sam Crow, the two
Cheyenne Indians implicated in the
Hoover murder. Agent Stouoh called
the Indians all in and the arrests were
made by the Sheriff, no resistance be
ing offered. Chief White Bull is still
at liberty, but can be arrested at any
time, having expressed himself as will
ing to appear in court when wanted.
The sheriff did not think it advisable
to arrest him until matters had subsid
ed a little.
Washington, June 14. A telegram
received at the war department from
headquarters at St. Paul states that all
is now quiet among the Indians in
Southern Montana, and that it is safe
to withdraw the troops sent from Forts
Custer and Keogh, which will be done.
May Search the Elbe.
Milwaukee, June 14. It the wreck
ing company which has discovered the
long-lost Pewabio is successful with its
new diving apparatus in this venture,
a contract will be close.) with the North
German Lloyd to recover the ocean
steamer Elbe and its treasure of $500 -000
in gold. '
The Elbe lies in 250 feet of water, a
depth at which diving bells heretofore
constructed have been useless, and
from observations and soundings taken
is in good condition. The Elbe was
sunk in collision in the North sea on
the night of January 80, 1895, and 800
lives were lost. The officers of the
wrecking company have been negotiat
ing with the German Lloyd Company
for some months
Pewabic will decide the outcome.
Ieath on the Waves.
San Francisco. .Inno m tu. . .
, . . xne ling
Geneva, which sailed from r ...
March 23. has arrived. Captain Paul
son reixirts tW nm
Laideckhad been lost overboil --.i
thatoneof the milnr. i,.i i :: , .
-.,w wcu vrinpiea
on the voyage. y
FOR 11 REVENUE
Finance Committee Pron0tj
caiitv-LnecK. aiamp Tax
THE SUGAR DEBATE
OPENE
ft
niiu vunery Are foMh.'
position-Original Senate CumniJ
Amendments Were Withdrawn.
Washington, June 12. The low
ferred debate on the sugar schedule!
the tariff bill came on nhn,n. ..
o'clock today, after the Benate had d j
puneii oi me cereals in the agricnltj,
schedule. Jones of Arkansas open!
the debate to some extent, answetb
Aldrich's statement on the iJ
schedule. Vest severely criticised it
sugar trust, and argued that the
were a further tribute to its vast
sources. Caffery of Louisiana alsoo'
posed the schedule as a whole. '
No final action was taken nn -feature
of the schedule, fn
the withdrawal of the original nJ
committee amendments. This lea.
the house provisions of the bill ij
an amendment increasing the hont
defferential from 875-1000 to 95.i
cent per pound.
The provisions relating to the IL
waiian islands went over by mntm
consent.
Early in the day Tillman made i
lively speech in favor of the ameni
ment giving an export duty on asrinnl
tural products. The bounty ameui
mem was ueteated, 10 to 59.
Committee Amendments.
Washington, June 12. The Repub-I
lioan members of the finnTicB
tee will withdraw the amendments foil
an additional tax on beer and for i
duty of 10 cents ner nonnd nn tp nJ
question of revenue is giving the com
mittee considerable concern. If there!
bould be a withdrawal of tlm i
on tobacco, the bill would not meetthel
needs as a revenue producer. For the
reason, it has been nmntirnllir I
mined to make a bank check stamp tul
xne committee lias agreed uponi
number of additional
the agricultural schedule, the most im
portant of them relating to ArIi.
The rate on chicory root was fixed si
2)6 oents per pound, the present rate
being 3 cents and the original finance
committee rate oi cents.
Concerning the Hawaiian treatr,
there are several propositions nndeil
consideration by the committee. Theil
include the indorsement of the Davis I
amendment and continuing the fires-l
ent treaty in lorce without reservation,
a Suggestion to th tirpai.lnne tW
new treaty should be negotiated, modi
fying the terms of the existing agree
ment so as to render them less partial
tO Hawaii. Anrl a TimiViaiHnn lwlriiifl
to the giving of a year's notice to the
Hawaiian government of the abrogj
tion of the present treaty. This lattei
proposition is understood to originate
wiin oenaior Aiaricn, and is antagon
ized bv the
waii. The opinion is freely expressed
by senators that the question of annex
ation will be taken up by the adminit
iration as soon as the tariff biH it
passed.
PFANNER IS MISSING.
Dlssapearance of the President of Ibe
-Forest Grove Hank.
Forest Grove, Or., June 14. The
Forest Grove bank closed its doors at
noon today, because of an order to that
effect received by Cashier F. T. Kane
from Anton Pfanner, the president oi
me DanK.
Tho order came in a registered letter
to Mr. Kane, from Portland, in which
letter was also an assignment to S.
Hughes and A. Hinman, made by Mr.
Pfanner for the benefit of all his cred
itors. In the letter, Mr. Pfanner said that
he felt that he had reached the point
where he feared to go on with his bus
iness affairs, as he did not feel that lie
would be able to stand the meiitnl
strain; that he intended to go off among
strangers for quiet, and if he got well,
he would return; if not, he would dis
among strangers.
It is feared here by many that he has
committed suicide.
About three months ago Mr. Pfanner
had a serious illness, and had not fully
recovered. He had for the last fe
days a premonition that he would have
a recurrence of the trouble, and feared
that it would result fatally.
Mr. Pfanner was considered one of
the wealthiest men in the county, and
U is thought he had plenty to pay all
claims against him. There does rot
seem to be any reason why any one
should worry who have claims against
him. An inventory of his real estate
was being made todav, and his per
sonal effects will be inventoried tomor
row. Until this is complete, it will
not be known what his liabilities and
assets are.
Mr. Pfanner did a large real estate
and loan business, and enjoved the
public confidence. He was at the front
in many ventures of a publio nature,
and ,t was he who built recently
private teleohone line from here to
Hillsboro.