Lineoln Goanty Leader
J. F. STEWART, Publisher.
TOLEDO OREGON
If there are any blowholes in Ameri
can armor plate Spain can't prove It
A dude fights nearly as well as a cow
boy, and a cowboy fights better than
anything else on earth.
A new trolley line across the Niagara
bridge, from Canada to the United
States, will have to be reckoned among
the ties that bind.
Chicago's tallest and thinnest citizen
died the other day. He was 7 feet 8
Inches tall and weighed only 125
pounds. He was a Fole.
The man behind the gun Is the one
who wins naval victories, and no one
appreciates this more keenly than the
man in front of the same gun.
The manner in which the bull fight
ers In Spain have been crowded out
of popular Interest should be a warning
to this country's prize fighters.
It is safe to conclude that there will
be a great deal of powder burnt In the
next few years. European nations have
learned the value of shooting straight
of the Cristobal Colon understands
punctuation; just as soon as the Colon
was cut in two she made a full stop.
lias it ever struck you that the fol
lows who invent bullet-proof cloths
have a wonderful faculty of turning up
absent alxiut as soon as a real war test
offers itself?
A Chicago business house displays
below the name of the firm a line read
ing "Established Before the War."
That sign doesn't mean so much now
as It did a year ago.
A Madrid correspondent says that
"the best people of Spain are the least
demonstrative In their hostility against
America." Certainly; the best people
of Spain are underground.
"When Mrs. Lowe was" declared
elected," remarks a Denver paper in
discussing the national convention of
women's club, "the bustle In the ball
was simply Indescribable." Whose?
The York (Pa.) Dispatch editorially
says: "I'ostmaster George Young, of
Gettysburg, was In this city to-day be
tween trains." Did he get out of his
unpleasant and dangerous predicament
all right?
, Tb several Vandorbilt families are
grad ually taking up their homes in
France, but It is understood that they
are sulllclently friendly to the United
States to enable thorn to accept divi
dends declared by their railroads.
A leading New York attorney writes
to a Gotham Journal to say: "I am
engaged by the year to look after the
matrimonial and other legal matters of
Miss Lillian Russell." The airy, fairy
Lillian evidently saves money by mak
ing wholesale contracts of this sort
The negro seems to Lick a pride of
race to correspond to the pride of na
tionality. Instead of followlug the best
and brainiest of his own race ho Is bet
ter content to follow the dictates of the
white politician, and the vicious white
politician makes the negro vote n dan
ger and a menace by using It for his
vicious ends.
Remember that only letters will here
after be returned by the postotlice to
the sender, unt.1l full return postage Is
paid. No seeoud. third or fourth class
matter Is to be returned or forwarded
to a new address without additional
postage. The new law covers newspa
pers, doors ana packages of merchan
dlse.
The question, asked these many years
and in tones more or less musical.
"What are the wild waves saving V"
may be near a satisfactory reply. The
manufacture of paper from seaweed Is
said to be a growing Industrv
France. The seaweed will doubtless
reveal the whisperings and thunder
lugs of the ocean it has heard to writers
who use the paper.
The advantage a millionaire has ove
a worklngman Is that he may assume
the other's part. The worklngman can
not play the millionaire. Some nmus
lug Incidents are told In llarper'i
Weekly of patriotic youths who hav
given up lives of ease and pleasure to
work and live like any common sailor
In the naval reserves. One of them was
lately swabbing dowu the deck under
the supervision of an old tar, who ex
claimed, "By George! there's a flue
yacht Do you know who she belong
to, young feller?" "Rnther," drawlei
the militiaman; "she belongs to met"
At a recent convention of accident
Insurance companies some interesting
statistics were presented In regard
the liability of meu in different oc
to
cu-
rations to inwt with accidents
One
'i would uatunUlv expect that couiiuu
clal travelers, being on the road most oi !
the time, would be very liable to In
Jury, or at least more so than farmers.
But the experience of the insurance
companies has been Just the opposite.
The commercial travelers show a per
centage of claims for injuries received
of only 3.0 per cent of the number in
sured. Farmers' claims represented
24.3 per cent of the number Insured, oi
about seven times as many as the com
mercial travelers. From which it seems
that traveling is not very dangerous,
and that it is a much safer occupatioi
than farming.
Just now the country Is watching the
second generation of some of its great
names to discover whether the strength
of the fathers will show in the sous.
While there Is nothing more certain
than that blood will tell and by blood
is not meant necessarily, descent from
those who made the highways unsafe
when it was the polite and gentlemanlj
thing to be a robber bafoo the too ad
vantageous conditions under whlct
many of these young men have started
out has made Impossible any real devel
opment of the powers which may bt
latent in them. For Nature develops
nothing good without a struggle; de
generacy Is the product of her Idleness
Progress toward a higher type is solelj
by constant effort and unceasing strife
Man is no exception to this law. Oui
great soldiers fought up to rank againsi
a thousand bitter opponents; our great
merchants gained wealth over a swanr.
of pushing competitors: and so or
through the list of those who have
achieved success In any calling. It Is
the constant conflict that strengthens
the sinews of character. But In the
second generation of success we too
often find the son, In defiance of Na
ture's final law of development, spend
ing without earning, and receiving un
earned, and consequently ridiculous
honors. Those who have done nothing
but stagger under a father's historic
name along the path of easy advance
ment are not likely to make history. II
Is the nameless ones who have been
toiling up step by step whose names
will mean something at the end of the
present strife; for it Is only with work
that blood will tell.
There Is In the country a great re
newal of Interest In the Nicaragua
canal, a bill for assisting in the con
struction of which is now before Con
gress with the expectation that It will
be the most Important subject to be
discussed by that body at its next ses
sion. There are some questions that
will add to the public Interest upon the
subject like the retention of the Phil
ippine Islands, but the annexation of
Hawaii is enough to make the project
an important and necessary one. It Is
nearly half a century ago that the
Idea of constructing an Interoceanic
canal across. Nicaragua was first pub
licly discussed, and since then four oi
five surveys have been made to oscer
tain the best route and an approximate
Idea as to the cost of the work. The
line that has been most popular extends
from Greytown, or some point near It
through Nicaragua Lake to Brito, on
the Pacific coast Finally a company
was chartered by the United States to
construct the canal, and necessary con
cessions were obtained from the Nicar
nguan Government The route adopted
was to start from Brito, following the
Rio Grande and the Lnjas River to the
lake, a distance of seventeen and a half
miles. In this section the canal was to
have a depth of thirty feet and a width.
nt the bottom, of 123 foot Through the
lake a channel would have to 1k dredg
ed, the distance from the mouth of the
Lnjas to Fort San Carlos on the eastern
shore being fifty-six and one-half miles.
From that point the River San Juan
would le followed for sixty-nine miles.
Two important tributaries enter the
San Juan, the San Carlos and the San
Francisco, at a point called Oehoa, and
from that place a regular canal would
le contracted to Greytown. There
have been several estimates made as
to the cost of the work, varying from
$rt3.nno.oon to $133,000,000. but it is
probable thnt $110,000,000 would be
ample to complete It The savings in
the distance to our ocean commerce
would, by the use of this canal, be euor
mous. Ships bound from San Fran
cisco to New York would save about
8.000 miles in taking the canal Instead
of going round Cape Horn. From Eng
land nnd European ports the saving of
distance would be 1.010 or 2.000 miles
less. While the cost of ocean transpor
tation is not great, the risks of naviga
tion are to lo considered, while the
time, involving interest charges oi
shipments and Insurance are of great
moment Judging from the most care
fully compiled estimates, the revenues
of the canal could not be much If an.v
less than $S,000.000 annually, which
would pay operating expenses and a re
munerative dividend upon the monej
Invested. The present bill authorizes
the Government to guarantee bonds of
the company to the amount of $100..
000. being amply secured against any
loss by reason of such Indorsement.
The war has been an object lesson to
the people of the cnuutry. and has re
moved nearly all the opposition that
once existed against the Government
lending its old in the building of this
great waterway.
A brnlnk'ss man Is about as useless
as a tralnless rallrond.
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Havana Batteries De
liver a Parting: Shot.
SAN FRANCISCO WAS STRUCK
Large Hole Torn in the Crulaer'g Stern
No One Aboard Ship Wag Hart
American Vessels Steamed Out of
Range as Kapidly as Possible.
Key West, Fla., Aug. 16. The flag
ship San Francisoo, the monitor Mian
tonomoh, and the auxiliary yacht Sil
via, were fired upon 'y the Havana
batteries shortly before 5 o'clock yester
day morning. One 10 and two 12-inch
shells struck the San Francisco's stern
as she turned to get away out of range,
and tore a hole about a foot in diam
eter, completely wrecking Commodore
Howell's quarters and smashing his
bookcases into fragments. No one was
injured, and, being under orders not to
attack the batteries, the ships departed
as fust as their engines would carry
them.
The flagship and the Silvia lay
parallel to each other, not more than
a mile from Morro ca9tle, and separ
ated from each other by three-eighths
of a mile. The Miantonomoh lay about
three-quarters of a mile to the rear of
the others. All were within range of
the Spanish batteries, and the tempta
tion was too strong for the Spanish to
resist.
The first glimmer of dawn was break
ing through the eastern skies wheu,
without an instant's warning, the look
out on the flagship saw a jet of smoke
puff from one of Mono's big guns. Al
most before he could pull himself to
gether sufficiently to make a report of
the incident, 10 and 12-inch shells weie
screaming all around. The Spaniards
had the range, and apparently were
grimly in earnest in tiieir last efforts
to wreck injury on their too mighty
enemy, bnells tell netween the ban
Francisco and the Silvia. Some fell
short, a few went over them. The
flagship signalled the Silvia to get out
of range without delay, and both ships
swung around and made for the sea.
It was then that the shell struck the
San Francisco's stem. Commodore
Howell was on deck with Captain
Leary .when the' shell struck. With
the utmost speed the fleet moved Out
about three miles. Here the men on
the flagship patched up the ragged hole
in the vessel's stern. All the shells
fired at the vessel fell around the ships.
One of the Silvia's men stood calmiy
on the deck of the yacht, watch in
hand, and counted them.
Morro castle fired several of the uii
siles, but how many is not known.
The others came from two sand bat
teries near Morro. The firing lasted
20 minutes.
The one-sided engagement had scarce
ly ended when the men of the Silvia
were treated to another eurprise. The
little yacht gunboat is manned by the
New York naval militia. Her crew
had barely recovered from the excite
ment when the flagship called the ves'
eel over, and Captain liellers was given
a packet of piivate documents, which
he was ordered to take into Havana
under a Hag of truce. The white Hag
was hoisted over the Silvia, and she
started towards the guns which had
just given her such noisy greeting. As
the Silvia approached to within a mile
of Morro, the character of tho flag float
ing from her foremast was discerned
and the castle signalled:
"What is your purpose?"
To this the Silvia answered: "We
have papers to deliver."
Morro did not resume the conversa
tion and for some little time the gun
boat rocked on the watei9 almost under
the still-Bmoking cannon of the enemy.
Presently, however, a Spanish gunboat
drew out of the harbor and came close
to the Silvia. It was the Martin y
Pinzon, and canied a much stronger
battery than the American ship. The
customary formal salutations wore ex
changed, and Lieutenant William G.
Ford, the executive officer of the Silvia.
boarded the Pinzon and delivered tho
documents.
The ceremony occupied no more
time than the physical net involved.
The American officer returned to his
ship, and the vessels went on their re
spective ways.
ltnu Into a Wnnhout.
Chicago, Aug. 10. Battery A, Colo
rado light artillery, passed through
Chicago today on the way to Fort Han
cock, N. Y. The troops arrived over
the Santa Feroad just too late to make
connection with an eastbuund train.
They weie delaye.l by an accident. A
washout occurred near Nemo, 111., nnd
to the speed of the train the men ow0
their lives . As the last tourist car
passed over a small cowpit, the ioadll
collapsed and the car plunged from the
tails. Every man on the train whs
awakened, but before it came to a
stop, a guard rail caught tho rear truck
of the sleeper and threw it on the
track.
SPAIN IN MOURNING
Public Stunned by the Loss of the
Colonic.
London, Aug. 16. The Madrid cor
respondent of the Daily Mall says:
The comments of the prees on the pro
tocol are a veritable 'funeral hymn on
the destruction of the Spanish colonial
eniprie. Some days ago, tho desire
for peace made the people close their
eyes to the price, but now, upon read
ing the protocol, they realize that the
cost is the loss of that emphe which
Spain had conquered with so much
glory, and that Spain now falls to the
second rank among nations. The pub
lic mind is stunned and theieis general
mourning.
Generl Blanco telegraphB that Hav
ana is greatly agitated by the news of
the signing of the protocol, and that
much anxiety is manifested to learn the
conditions, which have not yet been
published. Some uneasiness is felt
regarding the effect that the text ol
the protocol may have on the Spanish
volunteers in Havana. ,
Many newspapers express grief and
despair that the men who brought dis
aster to Spain by lack of foresight, or
eanizatiou and ability, should continue
to govern the country.
The Madrid Tress.
Madrid, Aug. 16. The El Pais to
day prints the text of the protocol sign
ed by the United States and Spain
with mourning borders, and says:
o,.: .:,.i,., rir;rz :z r, i i
Uf.xu, v.,...u,
to the role of a third-rate power."
El Imparcial says: "Peace will not
bring to Spain even the rest she so
much needs after three years and a
half of war."
El Nacional says, bitterly.
"If Spain had at least been van
quished only after a furious and heroic
struggle, she could resign herself.
Peace with the United States will only
be a momentary respite from our mis
fortunes."' El Epoca says:
"The peace is the saddest imposed
since the treaty of Utrecht," and ex
pressed the doubt if a government
which allowed itself to be dragged into
war will acquit itself well by nego
tiating peace.
El Liberal says the article in the
protocol relating to the Philippines
does not indicate that anything good
for Spain will be fixed upon, and the
question will not be settled favorably
for her.
El Globo (ministerial) prays for
peace between the United States and
Spain, and says the communication on
Eastern questions, which Day and Cam
bon have signed, begin the first chapter
in a new history of Europe.
El Tiemp (conservative) says:
"'Peace is an accomplished fact. The
bitterness of defeat does not prevent
us from seeing with Batisfction tho end
of the war."
DEATH IN A CLOUDBURST.
Twenty Persons Met a Sudden End in
Tennessee.
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 16. A terri
ble cloudburst, in which at least 20
lives are known to have been sacrificed,
was last night visited upon the com
munity of Beach tJreek, about 15 miles
north of Rogersville, Tenn., which
place is 80 miles distant from Knox
ville. The torrent of water fell in the
vioinity of the home of William Figan,
a well-to-do farmer, and his entire
family, wife and five children, were
drowned, and washed away with the
flood. Figan, however, escaped. The
deluge of water carried with it every
other human being within its reaoh,
but tho only names of the lost reported
here up to a late hour tonight, in ad
dition to the Figan family, are John
Arnold and Samuel Henry and wife.
These people resided within a quarter
of a mile of the Figan home. This in
formation was received in this city by
friends of the deceased.
Searching parties have been formed
and are tonight looking for the bodies
of the unfortunates who perished in
the flood. It is, however, feared that
they have been carried to graves from
which they may nevor be recovered.
The cloudburst destroyed several
thousand dollars worth of property.
Whole crops were washed away and
palatial homes suffered the same fate
as the humblest hut in the path of the
flood.
It lias been impossible to communi
cate with the stricken community from
this city on account of the fact that all
wire communication has been inter
rupted. The complete details of the
catastrophe are, however, expected by
tomorrow night, coming by mail. The
reports received up to a late hour to-n-ght
make it the most terrible affair
of us kind experienced in this section
for many years.
Threatened Protest by Japan.
Seattle, Wash., Aug. lO.-Japanese
papeis received hero today contain a
story to the effect that the Japanese
ministry will protest against the United
States holding the Hawaiian islands,
n order to remove the opposition of
the upper house to it by raising an issue
of foreign complications.
Denver, Col., Aug. 16.-The North
ern Colorado coal miners' strike, in
which about 1,200 miners were en
gaged, is at an end, the miners havnig
accepted the Northern Coal Company',
offer of 25 cents a ton, mine ma. Both
Blades claim a victory.
Wi Mill 01
Protocol Signed bj Day
and lambon.
ORDER HOSTILITIES STOPPED
Orders Sent to American Military a0)1
Naval Commanders-An Impr
Ceremony at the White nome-i.
Commissions Provided For.
Washington, Aug. 15. With aim.
plicity in keeping with republican in.
stitutions, the war which has raged La
tween Spain and the United States lor
a period of three months and 22 days
was quietly terminated at 23 minutes
past 4 o'clock this afternoon, wheu See
retary Day, for the United States, and
M. Cambon, for Spain, in the presence
of President McKinley, signed a proto
col which will form the basis of &
definite treaty of peace.
The closing chapter of events that
led up to the signature of the protocol
nnd t.hfl cessation of hnotiliUno
of interest. Theie was rumors in the
early morning that over niht the
French embassy had received the long
expected final answer from Madrid, but
these, upon inquiry, proved groundless,
as it wa6 no, until 12:30 tnat the note
began to come from Madrid in small
lots.
The state department was soon ad
,'vised of the fact that the message was
under transmission, but, as it was evi
dent that it would be long and that its
reception would occupy much time, the
.secretary of etate left tho state depart
ment for his luncheon.
At 2:45 o'clock Secretary Thiebant,
,of tho French embassy, appeared at the
state department to inform Seoretary
Day that the ambassador was in full
possession of the note, and was fully
empowered to sign the protcol (or
Spain, and only awaited the pleasure
of the state department. He intimated
that the ambassador would be pleased
to have the final ceremony conducted
in the presence of President MoKinloy,
where the negotiations were begun.
' Ambassador Cambon reached the
White House at just 8:55 o'olock, five
minutes in advance of the appointed
bour.
courtesies, unnecessary loss of time did
not occur, and Assistant Secretary of
State (Jridler, on the part of the United
States, and First Secretary Thiebant, on
the part of Spain, retired to a window,
where there was a critical formal exam
ination of the protocol.
This instrument had all the out
;ward formalities due a document of
this importance. It was printed in
duplicate ut the state department, one
copy to be retained by the United
States government and the other to be
come the property of Spain. The two
copies are alike, except that the one
held by this government has the Eng
lish text in the Hi at column, and the
signature of Secretory Day ahead of
that of M. Cambon, while the copy
.transmitted to Spain has French in the
first column and the signature of M.
Cambon ahead of that of Secretary Day.
The protocol sent to Spain was ac
companied by the credentials issued by
President McKinley, specially empow
ering the secretary of state to affix bis
'signature to the document. The au
thorization was brief and in typewrit
ing, save for the president's character
istic bold signature. Later the Ameii
can copy of the protocol will be accom
panied by the-written credentials of
the Spanish government sent to M.
Cambon, and bearing the signature of
jQuoen Christina.
! The examination of the protocol wai
satisfactory, and the document was
handed to Cambon first and then to
Secretary Day, who affixed siynatures
in that order to' each side of the two
copies. Then the last detail in rnakinj
the protocol binding was administer
by Assistant Secretary Cridler, who at
tached the seal of the United States.
No credentials were produced during
the meeting at tho White House, the
president accepting Secretary Day's as
surance that this had been settled to
his satisfaction at the state department
It was 4:23 o'clock when the final
signatures were attached to the proto
col, and, within tho knowledge of
officials present, this was the first time
that a treaty or protocol had been Eig"el1
at the White House,
i As this ceremony concluded, the
president requested the hand of the
ambassador and through him returned
thanks to tho sister republio of France
for the exercise of her good office! i m
bringing about peace. He also than
tho amba8ssador personally for the im
portant part he has played in this ma ter,
and the latter replied in suitable
terms. " .
As a further mark of his di'I'
tion, President McKinley loalled (or
the proclamation, which he caused"
be drawn up, suspending hostibtiP'i
and signed it in the presence of.
Cambon, who expressed his apprcc111'
tion of the action.