Lincoln County leader., July 14, 1899, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
W. Li. DAVIS, Editor.
TOLEDO OREGON
I OF I WEEK
GomprehenilT Review of tne Import
at Happenings mt the Fait Week
Called From the Telegraph Colnma.
Dreyfus is confident the second court
martial will aoquit him.
Seventy-four cases of yellow fever
have been reported in Santiago.
; Packing-house employes in Chicago
will not strike until September.
' The Democratic national committee
will meet in Chicago on July 20.
The peace treaty has at last been rat
ified by the Spanish senate.
American exports of manufactured
goods now average f 1, 000,000 a day.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
Company has ordered three new pas
senger boats.
The government lias taken a hand in
the Illinois labor troubles. The strik
ers at Carterville have been enjoined.
: The Fourth of July in Coloiado was
jushered in at midnight bv a magnifi
cent illumination on Pike's Peak, 14,
p00 feet above the sea. Seventeen
liundred pounds of red, white and blue
powder was set off.
At Chicago one hnndred frenzied wo
men and 20 men rushed panic. -stricken
from the three-story factory of the
Western Paper Stock Company to es
cape being burned to death. Eight
women were injured in leaping from
the windows, and many more jumped
in safety.
Late Oriental advices state that 20
ringleaders of therioteis who destroyed
and burned electrio tramway cars at
Seoul last month weie executed in pub
lic at Coiea's capital four weeks ago.
They met their fate bravely. Their
heads were out off and exhibited in
public plaoes as a warning to all evil
doers. Reports have been received in Ma
nila of an outbreak in the island of Ne
gros, incident upon the departure of
the California regiment for home.
Seme hostile natives, seeing'a company
of soldiers at one of the small posts
preparing to depart, thought the Amer
icans were evacuating the island, and
a party of 250 rebels, mostly bolo men,
attacked the troops, and killed one man
and wounded another belonging to
oompany E. The Filipinos were easily
driven off.
The news brought from Honolulu by
the Coptic of the death ol the Dowager
Queen Kapiolani was not a surprise to
Hawaiians, as her death had been ex
pected for some time. She was 65
years of age and was a sufferer from
cancer, and recently had a stroke of
paralysis, following several attaoks of
apoplexy. She was much esteemed in
the islands and her death was sincerely
mourned. Her remains lay in state
for eight days and weie buried with
impressive ceremonies.
Belgian socialists are against elector
al reform.
Many people were injured in a rail
road wreck at London.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
come to the coast this summer.
As a result of a lover's quairel a San
Fianciseo young woman was shot by a
fireman.
Two wore killed and a number in
jured in a street car collision at Pitts
burg. Otis has cabled the war department
the number of recruits necessary to fill
vaounoios in the legular regiments.
At Philadelphia, J. T. Carr, a re
porter, was killed in a street cat col
Ision. A number were badly injured.
Fixe did damage to the extent of
(150,000 at Summit, N. J. One hun
dred people, living in apnitments, lost
their effects.
The negroes have all loft Pana, III.,
on tickets furnished by Governor Tan
ner. The mines will reopen with un
ion men.
Sohurman has visited the southern
islands and ascertained tlie sentiment
of the natives. He says pence will
surely follow victory in the Philippines,
as the beBt people favor the Americans.
Union City, III., populated entirely
union miners, was destroyed by tire
and the Illinois driven to the woods by
negroes, who sought revngo for the kill",
ing of a negro woman by the miners.
General Miles has paid a high com
pliment to the brave Oregon volunteers,
and says that in the West is to he
found the best material in the world
for military seiivco.
The rebels made a sally against our
lines at San Fernando, but did not
push the attack. The Americans lost
one man killed and four wounded.
The German delegates of the draft
ing coininitteo of the arbitration com
mittee of the peace conference have
officially announced the assent of Ger
many to Sir Julian Pauncefote's pro
posal of a permanent court of arbitration.
LATER NEWS.
The deaf mutes are in annual con
vention at St. Paul.
Guatemala is again in a state of un
rest and revolution is feared.
A new rapid fire gun has been tested.
It will fire 60 six-pound shots a min
ute.
Owing to street car riots, London,
Ont., has been placed under martial
law.
Secretary
swed voted
Dewey.
Long will present the
by congress to Admiral
Coinage is to be unrestricted in
mints of India and gold will be
the
the
standard.
A Big Four train crashed into a
family surrey near Columbus, O., kill
ing six people.
Wealthy Spaniards are withdrawing
their investments in Cuba and going
into Mexico.
Polish residents of Chicago at a pub
lic meeting, denounced an Anglo
American alliance.
Owing to heavy rains a portion ol
Manila is flooded and the soldiers are
Buffering great discomforts.
A reform school at Plankington, S.
D., mutinied because a Populist super
intendent had been appointed.
The Oregon volunteers will be
brought to Astoria on the transports,
w1iat th(?y will bs transferred to river
boats and proceed to Portland.
A national park or forestry reserve
association foi the governmental pro
tection of over 7,000,000 aores of land
in Northern Minnesota will be formed
in Chicago this month.
Govemor Daniel, administrator of
the Isle du Diable, where Drefus was
imprisoned, has been removed. He
punished Dreyfus in the hope of mak
ing him confess.
Loid Lipton's challenger, the Sham
rock, has had a trial, and made a good
showing. She is a fast light-weight
boat and Britishers are filled with hope
that the America's cup will be won for
England.
A warrant, based upon a complaint
sworn to by the , representative of a ;
New York newspaper, has been issued I
at Salt Lake for the arrest of President
Angus M. Cannon, of the Salt Lake
stake of the Mormon church, charging
him with polygamy.
A special dispatch from Rome says
that the German steamer Reichstag
has sailed from Naples with 15,000
rifles, 500 tons of war material and 500
mules for the Transvaal. According1
to the same dispatch, another steamer, !
witii a similar cargo sails July 14 from
Arenas.
Plans have been formulated for a
large co-operative colony to be situated
on Lake Erie, near Toledo, O., and
8,000 acres of land are to be secured
to be devoted to farming and manufac
turing interests. The promoter of the
scheme is Joseph A. Johnson, of the
state of Washington.
Neosho valley in Kansas, is flooded
under six feet of water.
The annual convention of Christian
Endeavorers opened in Detroit.
San Franciscans are chartering boats
to welcome the Second Oregon.
The business district of Oakland,
Or., was swept by fire; loss about
1400,000.
Bishop John P. Newman, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at
Saratoga, N. Y.
One woman was killed and much
property destroyed by a cyclone at
Aiusworth, Neb.
A late Klondike report says one
claim furnished all the gold dust 11
horses could carry.
Governor Sayres, of Texas, has ap
pealed to the secretary of war for help
for the Texas flood sufferers.
A passenger train on the Central Pa
cific, near Elko, Nev., was wrecked
and seven people were injured.
The franohiee proposals were ac
cepted at the Pretoria conference, and
paace in South Africa is assured.
Senator Chandler, of New Hamp
shire says we should hod the Philip
pines, but do no more fighting, and
leave the rest to congress.
A voung San Franciscan, while
drunk, attempted to kill his mother by
throwing a lighted lamp at her. Three
people were injured in the melee.
Filipinos may soon release the Span
iards. Otis reports that negotiations
with Aguiualdo indicate fair prospects
tor success. Tim Yorktown
may bo included.
captives
Victor, Col., offset the great Pike's
Peak illumination by an artificial
earthquake. Five tons of dynamite
were lired on the east slope of Bull hill
in blasts of 200 pounds to each charge,
the last charge consisting ' of 600
pounJs.
The flooded district in Texas has a
length of over 500 miles, a breadth of
piouably 60 miles, and in all this space
namago incalculable has been done.
The loss of life will never be fully
known. Estimates of lives lost, from
100 to 800; lows to fanners, including
crops as well as livestock, from
$7,000,000 to 115,000.000; to railroads
and county bridges, $3,000,000 to
14,000,000
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Order Issued for Ten New
Regiments.
APPOINTMENT OF COMMANDERS
The Thirty-fifth Will lie Recruited nt
Vancouver From Men of the Pacifio
Coat State Linen Obliterated.
Washington, July 8. The order lor
the enlistment of volunteers for service
in the Philippines was published today
and seven more oolonels to command
the regiments were appointed. There
are yet two colonels to be designated.
Eight majors also were named. The
recruiting will not begin until some
time next week, the exact date not
having been fixed yet. Recruiting sta
tions will be open in every state and
territory, and as fast as the men are
enlisted, they will be sent to the regi
ments to be assigned to companies.
State lines are obliterated and the men
first enlisting will be first to be mus
tered in. The assignment to compan
ies will be by the officers commanding,
and he will be at liberty to organize a
company composed of men from one
state if he finds it convenient and prac
ti cubic
The organization of the 10 regiments
in this country will not make any dif
ference in the organization of regiments
in the Philippines by General Otis.
His regiments will be in addition to
those hereafter to be known as the
Twenty-sixth to Thirty-fifth inclusive,
and will be numbered from the Thirty
sixth upward. It is expected that three
regiments will be organized in the
Philippines, the regiments organized
in the United States and the Philip
pines increasing the army by 650 offi
cers avd 17,666 men, if there should be
three full regiments foimed by General
Otis. The colonels appointed today
are under orders to proceed at once with
the organization of the regiments.
Some of the officers are now in the city
and have been consulting the different
bureau offioeis with regard to equip
ment and supplies for the men as they
join the regiment.
SPANISH PRISONERS.
Filipino Release the GurrWon of Baler
HetUted a Siege for a Year.
Manila, July 8. The Spanish com
missioners who went to Tatlao for a
conference regarding the surrender of
the Spanish prisoners in the hands of
the Filipinos, returned here last night.
Chairman del Rio, of the commission,
said the release of all the prisoners had
been arranged for.
The commissioners, with the remnant
of the Spanish garrison of Baler, on
the east coast of Luzon, and a number
of civilian prisoners, were escorted by
Filipino soldiers from Tarlao to the
American outposts at San Fernando,
and came to Manila by the night train.
The heroes of the long defense of
Baler, where the Spaniards resisted an
insurgent siege of more than a year's
duration, formed a picturesque band.
Lieutenant Martin, the only surviving
officer, inarched them through the
streets. There are only 22, and the
most of them are mere boys in faded
blue cotton uniforms and red shirts.
They are barefooted. A crowd of Span
ish men and women embraced them,
weeping and shouting their praises.
Tliey tell a remarkable story. It
sppears that the captain several times
proposed to surrender, but the soldiers
refused. Finally, some months ago,
he tried to raise a white flag. There
upon, Lieutenant Martin killed him
with his own sword. Their food sup
ply gave out entirely a week ago, and
they surrendered to the Filipinos with
all the honors of war. They were al
lowed to keep their arms, and they
inarched from Baler with Filipino es
corts and carried their guns, through
several insurgent camps, everywhere
being cheered and feted.
Columbia Outsailed the Iefender.
New York, July 8. By the race be
tween the new cup defender Colombia
and the old Defender, sailed today over
a tiiangular course of 80 miles 10
miles to a leg it has been plainly
demonstrated that, no matter how
skillfully constructed a yacht may be,
her sailing and ability to go to wind
ward may be killed by impeifeotlv set
ting sails.
The Columbia won the raw by a
margin of 3 minutes 53 second (unoffj.
cial time). There is no doubt she
would have won by a larger margin if
her sails had fitted as well aa the De
fender's. The Mndut Yiveudl.
Washington, July 8. Ambassadoi
Choate and Lord Salisbury are almott
deadlocked over the modus Vivendi,
fixing the Alaska boundary. Neither
side will accept the provisional line
proposed by the other, the Canadians
demanding the inclusion of their Por
cupine country, and the Americans the
projection of the boundary line north
westerly from a point two" miles above
Kluckwan.
Robert Itonner I Dead.
New York, July 8. Robert Bonner,
publisher of the New York Ledger and
owner of famous horses, died in this1
citr toniuht.
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PREVENTION OF WAR.
Peace Conference Amend the Arbitra
tion Scheme,
The Hague, July 10. The third
jommittee sitting this morning dis
jussed the scheme for mediation and
arbitration drawn up by Count Dexa
men. The reporter of the committee
sxplained lengthily the motives which
inspired the drafting committee in
elaborating the scheme. M. Bourgeois,
head of the French delegation, thanked
the reporter in warm terms and con
gratulated him upon his remarkable
exposition. The sitting was then ad
journed until July 17.
During the discussion, the plenary
oommittee amended article 8, so as to
provide that when powers between
whom there is a serious dispute accept
the mediation they cease all relations
in regard to the disputed question,
which shall be considered as exclusive
ly referred to the mediatory powers.
Three additional paragraphs regard
ing the permanent court were also
adopted at the request of President
Zin, of the German delegaton, Count
Nigra, head of the Italian delegation
and Sir Julian Pauncefote, head of the
British delegation.
BRAZOS RIVER FALLING.
Situation in the Flooded District I Im
proving. Galveston, Tex., Julv 10. The situ
ation in the Brazos valley is rapidly
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There is an unconfirmed rumor that five
lives were lost near Sartarrtia, in Fort
Bend county. The report sent out
Wednesday from Brookshire, Waller
county, that two lives were lost there,
now anneara to have lioen an error.
Those who were supposed to have
drowned persist in making their reap
pearance. Relief committeos are now
well organized.
At Biookshiie, the relief committee
have opened a commissary and issue a
half ration per capita. They have
taken precautions so that only the de
serving shall get these rations, and,
therefore, they issue to the planter for
all the tenants he had when the flood
came. Those who own their farms and
lost everything, as is the case with
most of them, are allowed to draw their
rations direct.
THEIR WORK ENDED.
National Kdltorial Association Elect
New O tllcer and Adjourn.
Portland, July 8. Adjournment
sine die came to the National Editorial
Association at 2 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon, the morning session having
held through to that hour without in
termission. The most important busi
ness disposed of was the selection ol
New Orleans to be the place of meet
ing next year.
A number of the delegates, before
the meeting closed, testified to the
good faith that Oregon had kept with
them, saving that it had given more
and better than was promised when the
national association was induced to
come here for the annual meeting.
Following is a list of the new officers;
President. Colonel R. J. Henry,
Jackson, Mis.; flret vice-piesident.F. B.
Ball to, Cleborne, Tex.; third vice
president, Albert Tozier, Portland,
Or.; treasurer, James G. Gibbs, Nor
walk, O.; corresponding secretaiy, J.
M. Page, Jerseyville, 111.; reoording
secretary, R. M. White, Mexico, Mo.
MINERS DIE OF SUCRVY.
Score of Men Said to Have Perlahed al
Wind River.
Seattle, July 10.An unconfirmed
6tory comes from Dawson that several
prospectors who have arrived there
over the Edmonton route repoit that a
score of miners have died from sourvy
at Wind river, a branch of the Peel
river, and that a number of others are
suffering from its effects. They had
no list of those of who died, but they
report the following among the sick;
Dr. J. B. Mason, Cnicago;V. C. Cuch,
Biom brothers. Dr. Martin, dentist,
Chicago; Edward Harris, Mitchell.
Dr. Martin was camped with two
other Chicago men. Both were taken
down with scurvy. Martin loaded
them on a sled and tried to pull them
to Wind City, a distance of 75 miles
where he expected to find medicines'
and fresh supplies. One man died
soon after the journey began. Martin
took his other partner on his bad
and completed the journey.
Huddled on a Mound.
St. Louis, Julv 10.-A Post-Dispatch
special from Austin. Tex., says: Gov.
ernor Savers today received a inessaw
from Sealey ovei the long distanoe tele
phone, saying 1,000 persons who had
taken refuge on a mound three milei
below there, are slowly perishing foi
want of food. To add to the horror,
tne unfortunates ata B.n.m,.,.!,!
. -..uvuiiuou UV
poisonous reptiles and skunks. Hud-
u.ru ioKe,ner wiiu Human beings art
several hundred head of live stock A
number of those on the mound havJ
received bites from reptiles and skunks
and are in a dying condition.
The Mmter-Out.
Washington, July 10. The adjut
ant-general stated that the Socoud Ore
gon regiment would be mustered out al
San Franoisco soon after landing there
and in that event would not be allowed
...e.raruis lQ i-oruanu, but would de.
posit them at Benicia arsenal, San
Irancisco
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Canadians Aim to Control
Lynn Canal.
THE LINE AT WHITE
PASS
Thl Concession Would Give EnBin ,,
Every RIEht to Which She ,
titled-Senator Foiter' Statem,,.'
Taooma, July ll.-The Fairbanks
Foster Alaska boundary party returned
from the north today. Interview,
with members of the party indicate
that the watershed on the White pass
back of Skagway and Dyea, will !,e ac'.
cepted as the international boundary
line at that point. The White and
Chilkoot passes constitute the storm
center of the Alaska boundary contro.
versy. At those points the Canadian!
hope to secure concessions that will en
able them to anohor down a port of en
try into the Klondike gold fields. All
other parts of the country thereabouts
where concessions are looked for are of
little importance compared with the
Lynn canal territory, whioh is the key
to the situation. Senator Fairbanks,
when interviewed, placed importance t
the faot that he must sit with tl.
high commission in August, lint ,v
I clined to state what lines of argument
I he would take up. He expressed great
lonli.fn.tUH L I I J ,1 . .
oauniiwijuij nil .laving luuue llie trip.
Regarding boundary matters that
were discussed during the four weeki
spent in Alaska, Senator Foster de
clined to sneak. "Pereonallv." t.
1 said, "I am opposed toyieldinizan inch
of United States territory. A caieful
ingvestigation, however, demonstrates
that there are may be different con
structions placed upon the treaties in
volved as regards channels, the situa
tion of lesser islands, and the like.
But, in the main, the United States is
plainly given a strip of territory, north
of Portland canal, or thereabouts, 10
marine leagues inland, except wheiea
well-defined mountain range places the
boundary nearer the coast. This strip
runs up to Mount St. Elias. Many
contend at the passes that the water
shed back of Skagway and Dyea is the
dividing line. On the one side are the
headwaters of the Yukon, and on the
other the streams flowing into Lynn
canal are formed. Between these two
districts thorn in a nliain nf mnnnlaim
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thus, in the opinion of some, bringing
the boundary line so mo 18 miles nearei
the ooast. This seems to be a fair ex
pression of the American view of the
boundary auestion. By this construc
tion of the treaty it is held that Eng.
land will receive the benefit of eveiy
point that can be fa:rly and honestly
granted.
"On the other" hand, however, the
Canadians and many Englishmen hold
that the boundary should be drawn 30
miles, or 10 marine leagues, inland
from the headlanrls. By such a construc
tion, of course, Lynn canal would be an
inlet into Canadian territory, and 10
marine leagues inland from the head
lands at the entrance would be many
miles south of Skagway and Dyea. and
hence Canada and England would have
the coveted port of entry without a
question of doubt. As 1 Irok upon it,
personally, Lynn canal is a part of the
sea or ocean. Therefore, it would be
unfair to draw a line 30 miles inland
from the headlands at the entrance to
bodies of water of that nature, and call
it the boundary under the treaty."
THE BRAZOS FLOOD.
Lot to
Property Keaohe a Totnl
of
88,000,000.
Galveston, Tex., July 11. Relief
work in the Brazos flooded district
has been systematic, three relief trains
leaving Houston, Galveston and San
Antonio daily. Probably 20,000 ne
gioes are now being fed, and will need
to be sustained for some time by the
relief committees. The water is fall
ing at all points, except in Bra-orift
county.
All sorts of estimates are made as to
the amount of the cotton loss. An es
timate of 50 per cent is considered con
servative. This will be a money loss
of 15,000,000. The loss sustained by
the destruction ot other crops, houses,
fencing, stock and bridges will be
12,500,000, while the lo?s to the rail
loads is probably $1, 000,000, making
a total of $8,500,000.
Owing to the exaggerated report
circulated as to the loss of life in the
recent floods, the News has made a
special effort to secure the facts from
each county.. Reports received from
13 counties show a loss of 87 lives from
drowning. Negroes supposed to' have
been drowned nnntinno ,... .m,l
, - i u it its niirrui .
I want to be fed.
Reports from Selay state that a
white woman and a negro woman died
there today from the heat and expo
sure. There are 500 negroes at Selay
t the point of starvation. Rations
will be sent by the first train. At
Ilearhe a mass meeting of oitizons was
held today, and committees appointed
to request supplies from the governor
foi immediate use. Intense suffering
8 said to exist in the locality.
A I , .
caoiegram received from the Sa
moan commission indicates they wilt
arrive at San Fianciseo about August
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