Lincoln County leader., January 18, 1898, Image 2

Lincoln Goanty Leader
J. F. STKWAKT. P ubllsher.
TOLEDO OREGON
Comprehensive Iteview of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week Culled
From the Telegraphic Columns
The controller of '4Jie currency has
jeclared a dividend in favor of theFirst
National bank of Helena, Mont., of 10
per cent.
The Field Columbian museum at
Uncago has put in a series of casta of
Pueblo Indians, clad in garments pur
ihased from Indians.
County Judge J. H. Carpenter, of
Madison, Wis., lias decided that a
ihild cannot be legally adopted without
soneent of both parents, if living.
The Wostern Union Beef Company
iias sold 8,000 head of steers off its
Toxua lauuii tu Ciiuion Amlurson, of
Wyoming, and will retire from busi
ness. Ore assaying $652 in gold and $70 in
lilver to the ton was discovered two I
miles from Adams Springs, Lake coun
ty, California, and the district is wildly
excited.
George Dobbs and Mrs. Emelie New,
jointly indicted for the murder of the
latter's husband at Eureka, Kan., have
been convicted of murder in the second
degree.
Patrick A. Largey, president of the
State Savings bank, and one of the best
known citizens of Butte, was shut and
killed in the bank building by Thomas
J. Riley.
The Steer mansion at Nyatt, one of
the best known residences along the
shore of Narragansett bay, Rhode
Island, was burned to the ground Sat
urday night.
An insane man named Ramon Vivesa
created a sensation in the cathedral at
Madrid, by firing several revolver
shots. He was arrested and will be
Bent to an insane asylum.
Civil Engineer A. G. Meureal, U. S.
N., will be brought to court-martial on
account of the faulty character of the
work of construction of dry dock No. 8,
approved by him.
The Spanish minister of finance has
abandoned the idea of floating a loan
on the guarantee of the Almaden quick
silver mines.
The members of the family and the
immediate friends of Secretary Ali:er
are seriously disturbed about his ill
ness. His physicians now fear that
helms typhoid fever. General Alger
has beon confined to his bed for more
than three weeks.
ADVICES FROM SYDNLY.
Recent Happenings In Australia
the South Sea islands.
and
The mulo spinners of Lowell and
New Bedford, Mass., were given per
mission to strike by the mule spinners'
union, aim an assessment of 25
San Francisco, Jan. 17. The follow
ing advices arrived today per steam
ship Alameda from Sydney, via Hono
lulu: A very severe shock of earthquake
was experienced over the whole of the
north of the island, and as far south as
Christ-church, New Zealand, Decem
ber 8. Its duration was from one to
two minutes, and the vibrations were
from north to south.
A terrible storm broke over the Fiji
islands November 11 and again Decem
ber 13, the wind attaining a velocity
of 85 miles per hour for sometime.
(Several small vessels were blown ashore
and wrecked. The Union Company's
steamers had a narrow escape from
similar fates, but put to sea and cruised
about until the storm subsided.
The mountain tribes of Goodenongh
island recently attacked Thompson's
station there, and after looting the
store, murdered four boys and speared
a number of other employes. The mag
istrate and a force of 14 armed police
Visited thf qppnrt f(,r tlm pnrrutw,. pf
avenging the murders.
At the Maoquarie islands, December
5, four men were drowned by the acci
dental swamping of their boat.
The bark Loongana, which arrived
December 14, brought the news of the
drowning of Brother Bernard, a mis
sionary, and 18 natives, near the Gil
bert islands. The missionary's party,
in three canoes, struck a shoal and all
were lost.
As a result of a conference between
the ministers of agriculture of the vari
ous colonies, a trial shipment of apples
and pears will be forwarded to London
in the near future.
Reports from the country districts of
Victoria show that the cyclonic storm
of November 18 did immense damage,
scores of buildings Doing blown down,
and many persona being injured.
December 8, Jack Griffiths, of Cohar,
who held the world's record, and Pro
fessor Bax. of New Zealand, nnniml
in a club-swinging contest for the
world's championship at Newcastle.
Two-pound clubs were used, and, ac
cording to the conditions, the evolu
tions per minute were to be counted.
After both had swung the clubs for 40
hours continuously, the match was de
lared a draw.
Percy Cavill, upon
Sydney with the mile
championships of the
Henry S. Laynor's Exper
ience in Thibet.
WAS DISFIGURED FOR LIFE
his return to
and five-mile
world to his
credit, was accorded a reception by the
swimming association. BlcKun. a New
leniana amateur, recently ran half a
mile in one minute 59 seconds. No
vember 20, II. Craemer established a
new world's record for the mile walk
at Auckland. His time was 6 minutes,
27 8-5 Beconds.
Three Days Without Food or Water
He Secured Valuable I'hotograpliH
of Natives' Alode of Torture.
London, Jan. 17. The Daily Chron
icle, in a description of the experiences
in Thibet of Henry Savage Landor, the
artist, who narrowly escaped death at
the hands of the Thibetans when en
deavoring last autumn to reach Lassa,
the capital of Thibet, says:
"His valuable diary and notes, in
cluding interesting photographs, was
only interrupted when Mr. Landor
himself was under torture. One, of
these represents the scene of torture of
a native companion, tied naked to a
tree and slashed and bruised by n cir
cle of hideous beings dancing around,
jeering at and taunting their victim.
Another photograph, taken after the
rescue, shows two unrecognizable men,
all the hair burned off their heads, the
skin lacerated and seamed with burns,
and in place of their eyes two ghastly
slits.
"Mr. Landor lost one eye. The
Thibetans repeatedly held white-hot
irons so close to the eyes of their cap
tives as without touching them to
shrivel and wither them. Mr. Landor
was rescued when nearly dead, after be
ing three days without food or water,
by a party including Mr. Wilson, Mr.
Larkin and Kasak Singh Pat, nephew
of the rajawar of Askote, who had
heard from the natives that a white
man was doomed to be beheaded in the
interior of Thibet. Mr. Landor had
almost lost his reason. After three
hours' attention he regained sufficient
consciousness to say where he had con
cealed his camera. They had a photo
graph taken of the savages cowering in
terror of the avenging whites.
"It is not probable that Mr. Landor
will ever be well enough to return."
FORT SMITH STORM.
DEATH IN A TORNADO.
CAUGHT BY A CAVE-IN.
Tannel Near
Five Men Entombed In a
Anaeonda.
Anaconda, Mont.. Jan. 17. At
lencs : early hour this morning tho
Dreslmt fcuinii.ia Mining Company is constructing for
present
A dispatch to the London Mail from
Hong Kong says it is reported there
that England, Japan and Russia have
arrived at an agreement rcsncniinu ,
water-numing purposes under a bluff
about half a mile beyond the city
limits. A large quantity of powder,
which had been oarriod into the tuiinol
for the use of the night shift.
Corea. Tho details of tl. mr, plodod bv SO 1110 ItlRlUlfl mtw tin Lr itimr ii
are not known to the correspondent, , wrecking liio face of tho tunnel, which
is noout 180 feet long, and resulting in
out tho dispatch says tho British lluet
is returning to Hong Kong.
The Creek council, in spito of the
message of Secretary Bliss, through In
dian Agent Wisdom, warning them not
to do so, has passed an act appropria
ting fSO.OOO to be used in employing
attorneys to fight the constitutioiulitv
oi tne act or congress giving tho Unite
SUutna n.mtu .'..11 i..:.. I:
1IIU
jurisdiction after
mates courts
January 1.
Francis D. Newton, a prosperous1
farmer of Brookllold, Mass., his wife!
Sarah, and their 10-yoar-old adopted
UlllllMlIPr M 111 Wuwi 1 - . 1 l ff..ll.. .1 ... 1 .
",- itiuiiii iiiiiruertMi i uii'i a au-ioot length was buc
m their beds. Tho crime waa illi....... cessfnllv iltivu,, A i '
a slide of earth, which closed the tun
nel completely at a distance of about 40
leet Irom its entrance. From the mo
ment of the discovery of the accident,
diligent effort has been made to reach
the miners, concerning whose fate the
deepest anxiety has been folt. At 10
o'clock tonight, those engaged in the
rescue work folt sure that the noist,of
the "miner's signal" reached them
from within the tunnel.
It was proposed to drive a t lir..o.iti.-l.
pipe through the mass of earth that
had filled the tunnel. This rdun w,i
l. ... ,:i.t . .
"' "j m'lgooors, wnose curiosity was
aroused by the bellowing of unfed cat.
tlo. The throe had been killed with
an ax. A hired man named Paul is
missing. I
John Lincoln, of Bolshow, Mo , has
applied to tho Marysvillo board of ex
amination for a pension. Lincoln and '
his sister, Mrs. Washington lloshor, of j
Marysvillo, were second rousing ol !
Abraham Lincoln. John Lincoln on-i
listed early in the '(10's in the Fourth'
Missouri and served in that reuiinent '
for three years. Ho then enlisted in I
me lom jMiHHourt cavalrv, mid served
to the end of the war. Before he was
finally mustered out ho fought Indians
on the plains for some time.
Fred Lewis, n prisoner in the Seattle
city jail, committed suicide in his cell
by hanging himself with a pocket hand
kerchief, which was fastened to a hook
used in suspending a hamniook. Lewis,
who was a waiter in a hotel, had a fthi
on New War's day with Joseph Kuitz,
the head cook, in which he struck
Kurta on tho head with an icepick,
inflicting a wound from the effect o'l
which Kurtz died. Low is was arrested
but no formal charge had yet been made
against him, pending the result of
Kurta wounds. When tho news ol
Jvurta death was conveved to Lewis
lie showed groat agitation, and a short
time afterward took his own life
attached, and, to the joy of the anxious
spectators, it penetrated the mass of
earth.
Immediately, at 11 o'clock, commu
nication was established with the im
prisoned men. Four of them were re
ported alivo and well and one dead.
The work of reaching them is going
on vigorously. The men through the
improvised speaking tube, reported
that they suffered neither thirst nor
hunger, but they wanted candles. It
is not learned how tho explosion oc
curred. New Canadian Mining I.ans.
Washington, Jan. 17. In a few dava
the treasury department will make
known the details of the arrangements
recently concluded with Canadian
Minister of Intorir Sifton respecting
the transportation of goldseekers and
freight to the Klondike. It is learned
that the Canadian government is about
to issue now customs and mining regu
lations for that region.
Ordered to Kgypt.
London, Jan. 17. Tho morning pa
pers announce that the first battalion
of grenadiers, now at Gibraltar, has
been ordered to get in readiness forser
vice in Egypt Tho other line bat
talions are under similar orders
There is evidence of preparations for
an important campaign.
The List of Dead Numbers Forty-Three
About Seventy Injured.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 17. The la
test official death list shows a total of
43 lives lost in the tornado which swept
through Fort Smith Tuesday night.
Not less than 70 others are injured, a
large number of them seriously, and
several are expected to die.
The work of removing the bodies
from tho ruined buildings progressed
today. Five new names were added
to the list of the dead. Two bodies
were dug from the ruins of the Smith
block, from which 11 had previously
ueen taKen.
Tho full extent of the storm may be
compreiionueu Irom the fact that !15
miles northeast of the city a quantity
of tin roofing from Garrison avenue
buildings was found. A woman was
taken from the ruins of the Burgess ho
tel today, and was identified as Mrs.
Ida Innis, of Elm Spring, Ark. Her
brother is missing, and it is believed
his body is Btill buried in the ruins.
Business in the devastated districts,
where the buildings were only partially
damaged, was resumed today. Ladies
of the city are at work distributing
food and clothing to the needy. The
relief committeo.coin posed of prominent
business men, finds difficulty in hous
ing the sufferers. One hundred and
fifty buildings were demolished, uud
will have to be rebuilt to accommodate
the people. Orton and Wright, two
of the dead, were Indian territory
farmers, and had just stepped into the
Smith building for shelter.
Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City,
Littlo Rock and other cities wired
readiness to lend aid if necessary. The
number of dead will not exceed DO.
Vanderbilts In Possession.
New York, Jan. 17. The control ol
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company having been obtained by the
reorganization committee of the Union
Pacific, the Vanderbilts are now in vir
tual possession of a throm:h transcon
tinental line. The New York Central
is the first road in tho combination
from this point. At Buffalo it con
necta with the Lake Shore for Chieatio,
from which point the chain is enrried
on to Omaha by the Chicago & North-
western, nnii irom there the Union Pa
cific, the Oregon Short Line and the O.
R. & N. Co. lets the line to Portland.
All these roads are Vanderbilt roadB
and the total mileage is 18,420. '
Negotiations Successful.
San Francisco, Jan. 17. A cable
gram from London announces the suc
cess of the mission of Willard E
Greene, who recently left for Europe
in the interest of the beet-sugar syudi.
cate which has been negotiating for
lands in the Sacramento vallev atis
factory arrangements have been made
to secure the proper persons to culti
ate the beets. Contracts have been
signed bv which 150,000 acres of l.nd
Jiear Chico. Marysville and Red Bluff
have been secured, and the work ol
erming three immense suMr lactone
be started at once. The syndicate i
lias a capital of 15,000,000. uloa,e
Fifty Lives Lost in a Storm at Fort
Smith, Arkansas.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 14. Nearly
60 human lives and upward of $1,000,
000 worih of property were destroyed
by a terrible tornado which burst upon
this city a few minutes past 11 o'clock
last night. The storm struck near the
national cemetery and ' tore its way
through the entire city, leaving its path
reeking with death and desolation.
Men, women mid children sleeping in
their homes were, without a moment's
warning, awakened to meet death in
the fearful storm, while others who es
caped the fury of the wind met a far
worse fate a few minutes later in the
flames which soon engulfed ninny of tli'e
wrecked buildings. The liBt of dead,
as far as can be ascertained, is as fol
lows: Silas Mincer, prominent young mer
chant; Harvey Ruttledgo, negro; Mary
Timmerman; two unknown men from
Burgess hotel; Joso Griswold, tailor;
John Martin, of Madison county; J. B.
Riley, of Madison county; Georgo Car
ter, fireman at the Grand opera-house;
daiiioo kjuubii, jr., ui. oiuy, wue hdu
son; Atlas Jones, Frank LeFevro, Ktta
Kies; Mrs. Milt Burgess, proprietor of
Burgess hotel; two unknown men, died
at St. John's hospital; J. M. Foutz,
farmer; two LeFevre boys, Milt Knap
ton, sr., Mrs. Milt Knapton, Joe Lucas,
negro; Ed Ferrill; a butchor, ami bis
two little children, Irene and Roy;
Frank Richardson, restaurant-keeper;
John Adams, carpenter; Mrs. Chnrles
Mauver; . fiitter, gardener; Mrs.
William Lamson, Louis Senecal, Mrs.
Holden, John Badt, farmer; Mrs. Mag
gie Sheehan's infant; D. Woehl, butch
er; James Smith, clerk; Mrs. Jones.
The scene after the first crash of the
storm was terrible. Business blocks,
handsome hotels and humble cottages
weie razed to the ground njid scattered
in shapoless masses. Several of the
wreoks caught fire, and the inflamma
ble timbers burned furiously. The city
was crowded with rural visitors, many
of whom were sleeping at boarding
houses, unregisteied. For this reason
the number of victimB who perished
may never be definitely known.
The storm struck the city near the
national cemetery, and swept its way
through the heart of the town. Leav
ing Fort Smith, it bounded by Van Bn
ren, and continued down the river, de
molishing everything in its path. News
from outside points is not yet at hand,
but rumors of much damage as far south
as Alma have reached here, it being
reported that a number of persona wore
killed near that place.
In Fort Smith the tornado struck
Garrison avenue as the corner of Ninth
street and made a clean sweep from
there to the Texas corner. Many store
buildings were demolished and the
stocks of goods ruined. Sixteen busi
ness houses on the street were badlv
wrecked.
The upper floor of the block on the
corner of Garrison and Towson avenues
is used as a flat. The ruins caught lire
from the night lamp. Seven bodies
were taken from these ruins, two of
them being so badly burned that they
could scarcely be identified.
Burgess hotel, a three-story brick, on
Towson avenue, was' demolished.
There have been eight bodies already
takon from the ruins. Eescno patties
are Btill at work at both places, and
expect to find several more bodies.
The federal -court is in session, and
that brought a great many farmers here,
who crowded the cheaper boarding
houses and wagon yards.
The National house, a two story
frame, went down in the wreckage with
15 inmates, but all escaped without
serious injury.
George Carter's house wan nnA nf tlio
nrst struck, and it was turned com
pletely over, and is now supported on
the roof. A half pane of glass was
driven through Carter's body, almost
soverine Mb head from the trunk.
The beautiful national cemetery is a
wreck. The huge trees are uprooted,
the lodge demolished and the walls torn
down.
Fort Smith's $50,000 high school
building, the finest one of its kind in
the Southwest, was badly wrecked, but
was one of the few buildings on which
there was tornado insurance.
The tornado destroyed two historio
buildings. Judge Parker'a residence
is badly wrecked and the old Reotor
mansion, where Allen Pike passed his
days, is a pile of ashos, the ruins hav
ing caught fire from a lamp.
The First Baptist church and the
Central Methodist church were razed
to the ground, are now only a soattered
pno ol kindling wood. The church of
the Immaculate Conception and
Brownscombe Memorial churoh lost
their spires, and sustained other dam
age. Argued for Hawaii.
Washington, Jan. 14. Senator
Chandler, of the committee on naval
affairs, today secured the passage of
the resolution asking the secretary of
the navy to furnish a list of native
members of the navy corps, together
with those at sea, on shore duty and on
waiting orders. At 13:15 the senate
went into executive session. Davia
continued and completed his speech on
the Hawaiian question, and was fol
lowed by Senator Allen, of Nebraska,
in opposition.
Washington, Jan. 14. The house
today rassed tl)e ursen0 defloie
bill, carrying 1. 741, 843.
President Asked to State p;!
uauuons Taken.
WOULD PROTECT
AMERICA),
I'ension Appropriation ,
" """"L'rallon Bill.,
cultural mil ,,, ,,, llone 't'
Washington, Jan.
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lowing resolution to the mm l
wasndopted:
"Resolved, That tho presi.W ;.
quested, if in his opinion it " '
compatible with the public inte,
transmit tn tl, .,."'
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measures are . force by this i(.
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Cuba."
Among the other measures rmt
to the senate today was the pL
appropriation bill. It Wal
tho calendar.
At the close of the morning bntw.
uie immigration hill, the nnflnidJ
uuBiness, was taken up, and Caff ter .
Louisiana was recognized for.. ,1.
in opposition to tho measure. C8,J
buhi:
"The pending bill is as mild a lor
of antagonism to immigration -ditlons
will permit. The educatio;
test ia of no very stringent cliarar.
bo iar as tne test is concerned. Iti;
nowever, the beginning of a new
parture. From the foundation ol il
government we have invited the hardrl
utiventurous peoplo of the CancaSsa
family to our hospitable shores. li
grand transformation of this contintr.
from the wigwam of the aivageai;
tne lair of the wild beast to th
myriads of homes of a happy, indusu:
OU8 people, has been the work ol vrhk:
immigrants; yet wo are about to
the hand that has upbuilt us; to giv.
a sung to gratitude.
"Many whoso ancestors are form
born are now clamoring for restriciti
immigration. It is lust and prowr
hold this continent against the )k
golians. The exclusion of Chinese
justified by a wise policy and bj tl;
principle of retaliation. Their ilimn
have been closed to the world, km
their arrogance and Bollishness are i
the role for wise nations to play in tl;
world a grand theater.
"Not to admit to this country Iris;
men, Swedes or Italians who canc
read or write is Chineso, not America;
No danger to our institutions has ert
arisen from admitting immigrants
oannot read and write. J. his govern
ment ia the outgrowth of the labor
oountless immigrants, who will be di:
qualified by the pending bill. He wh
ia vigorous in body, sound in rain
honest and industrious is a good citizen
No immigrant, not a pauper or insanej
diseased or criminal should he tnrm
away from our shores."
At the conclusion of Senator Caller;
aneeoh the senate at 12:20 P.
motion of Chairman Davis, of the fo;
eign relations committee, went intoei
ecutive session.
Senator Frye made a most spirit'
speech in support of the Hawaii:
treaty, urging upon the senate the im
portance of accepting tho lsliuws w
opportunity offered, and uenounews
folly any refusal to embrace theopif
tunity.
In the House
' Washington, Jan. 15.-The hou;
tndav entered nnnn the oonsideratu
of the agricultural bill. The billot
ries $3,833,403 being f 135.500 in ei
cess of the amount for the current yea'.
AVadsworth, Republican, of New ""
. . .1. 1 rtnninll!
obairman ot the agricultural i.
tee, explained that the increases we;
due to a constantly growing cniac
for inspections of meat and meat pro
nets for export. .
Under the latitude allowed for
bate. Williams, Demuorat, of J'1'"
sippi, submitted an extended argiuu
in favor of the establishment ol
postal savings bank system.
Representative Dearmnnd, Demoo
of Missouri, sarcastically comment"'
on Manna's election and the telegrau.
of congratulations sent him. ,
Mahonev, Republican, of ew o'
replied to Dearmond. He recalled i
he termed the victory of Democra
bosses in the Chicago convention i i
1 uii'i TOl,on tlmv fnned the remraim'
tion 'of Cleveland over the P011'8'1,'
the state of Now York, m
waa that he had been repudiated By
party, and had gone out of power"
honored and unsung. .
Rumihlicnn. of Illm018,
expressed gratification that the mao":-l
-j .1 i,,l triumphed'!
Ohio. Here the incid, 'it closed.
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four men from the Marblehead were 1
iured bv an explosion, two ur; I
ously. The injured were imo,'?J J
marine nospitai near vy. .
to the cause of the explosion are g