VOL.-IX
THE DALLES, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1896
NO. 23
GOMEZ AND MA CEO
The Insurgent Leaders Have
Effected a Meeting.
GENERAL MARIN OUTMANELVERED
Ha Cannot Prevent the Rebels From
Going: Where They Choose Be
cent Movements of
Gomez.
Key West, Feb. 3.r (By mail from
Havana). Gomez and Maceo have mat.
Tbe meeting, it is eaid, took place at a
plantation near Artemisa, in the pro
vince of Pinar del Eio, at the ery time
that Acting Governor-General Marin
was looking for the rebel chiefs, only 14
miles to the northward, near San Anto
nio de los Banos. It was supposed that
they had guarded their line from Ha
vana to Batabano to prevent the meet
ing, but Gomez croesed the line, and
Maceo, with a comparatively small part
of his forces, made a quick march from
the westernmost point of the island and
kept bis tryst.
The next campaign of the insurgents
must have been decided upon by this
time.
"1 have seen Morro's light every night
for a week," Gomez said recently.
built at equal distances around the
plantations, all being connected by tele
phone. -
Blew Bis Brains Out.
Seattle, Feb. 3. A. A. Merrill, head
of the local merchants' police patrol,
committed suicide this morning by
shooting his brains out. He was ar
rested Thursday morning last charged
with an unnameable offense, and gave
bonda Saturday evening in the sum of
$500. He leaves property valued at $10
000. Charged With Manslaughter.
Pendleton, Feb.3. Dr. L. F. In man
was this morning bound over to the
grand jury in $1,500 bonds for man
slaughter. He is charged with perform
ing a criminal operation.. His examina
tion before the justice continued three
days.
Fairfield Items.
OUTWITTED BY GOMEZ.
General Marin No Match for tbe Insur
gent Leader.
New York, Feb. 3. A dispatch from
Havana says :
Maximo Gomez, accompanied by 400
mounted men, succeeded on Thursday in
recrossing the trocha, or military line,
established by the Spaniards between
Havana and Batabano. He crossed a
few miles south of Bejucan, near Buena
Ventura, which is about 10 miles north
, f a u
stroyed a culvert, cut the telegraph
wires and crippled the railroad between
EincoQ and Quivican.
People wonder how Gomez evaded the
Spanish columns and how it was possi
ble for him to practically cut the "wall
of men" ot which the Spanish generals
expected so much. At the time Gomez
played this trick on tbe Spanish guard
along the trocha, General Marin, who
had left Havana, the same day at the
head of the best equipped force put in
the field during the present rebellion,
was slumbering quietly, surrounded by
his troops, at San Antonio de los Banos,
about 10 miles east of Guanajay. While
Gomez was coming east, and approach
ing the tiocha, General Marin and his
corps were going west on a train from
Rincon toward Guanajay". Gomez's
route of march was parallel with the
railroad used by Marin, and, not more
than from eix to ten miles distant at any
time, yet the Spaniards did not le-.rn
until the following morning (Friday)
that Gomez was in the east again. The
first intimation received here was by
telegram fram Quivican.
A large number of peoplebave been
1 j wing for Cuba the past fortnight, and
it seemB the exodus has only begun.
Each steamer from Havana carries
hundreds of families to the United
States and Mexico, and to South Amer:
ican and West Indian ports. Steam
ship agents talk of putting on extra
steamers.
Bnsiness is practically at a standstill.
Some sugar plantations in the extreme
eastern provinces are grinding. All that
are grinding are doing so under strong
military guard, and are compelled to
feed the troops,- and tbe profits are
email. One or two plantations, it is
eaid, obtained permission from Gomez
to start their machinery.
At Conetanzia 300 regulars and 500
civil guards are encamped on and about
the plantation to protect- the men at
work. Small stone fortresses have been
Editor Chronicle: Since my last
letter we have had quite a change in the
weather. About fourteen inches of snow
has fallen, but has since almost entirely
disappeared. Our weather is all that
can be desired. A warm rain has been
falling, which turns all snow to water.
The ground id not frozen and the soil is
getting the full benefit of the moisture,
consequently we are looking ahead for a
good crop the coming season.
But if the combination still keeps is
suing more bonds what avails the rais
ing of good crops, for farmers will still
be beggars. It appears to the writer as
though there is a craze for taxation
amongst the American people. Per
haps they are watching the workings of
our congress and have become somewhat
plutocratic. Some of the people in this
section are thinking that way just now
in regard tj our board of school direc
tors, as we are having a warm discussion
over the raising of a fund by taxation to
pay the indebtedness of the district.
We are thinking very seriously of
forming a eocial club, whose duty it will
be to raise funds for the construction of
alms house, where all the poor, delin
quent and over taxed, may meet in a
social way and have all things in com--
mon. Oh, what a gathering there will
be, and as poverty is the 'mother of
invention, we mav there and then de
vise ways and means to lift us out of this
pool of despondency.
Health is generally good in this sec
tion, with the exceptions of two. Mrs.
Jacob Obrist is in very poor health. Al
though Mr. Obrist took her to Califor
nia and made an extended tour to the
principal medical waters and infirmarys,
which seemed to benefit her for a short
time, on her return she has grown
worse. Although she is helpless, she is
not dangerously ill. She deserves the
best of care, which goes a long way in
alleviating her sufferings. Our other
patient is Wm. McManus who is stop
ping with W. Babcock during the win
ter. He has been very sick, but at last
accounts is eomewhat better and we
look for an early recovery.
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THE TRUE STORY OF ELIZA.
Which Formed the Basis of One of the In
cidents of "Uncle Tom s Cabin."
The incidents yhich formed the basis
for the story of the' escape of Eliza,
the slave mother, with her child, across
the Ohio river on the ice. which is fa
miliar to readers of Mrs. Stowe's
"Uncle Tom's Cab," were told by
Rev. S. G. W. Rankin in Hartford re
cently. The incidents came within the
personal knowledge of Mr. Rankin,
and he said that he gave them to Mrs.
Stowe and that she used a younger
woman, whoescaped at nearly the
same time, to complete the picture and
make it more attractive and dra
matic. As Mr. Rankin tells the story, his fa
ther's family, living on the bluffs on
the river, were well known as in the
business of helping runaway slaves,
and slaves knew them as friends. It
was one Christmas week that Eliza, a
stalwart negro woman, came to the
Rankin house in the night, having
brought her husband across the river
in a boat. He was covered with ice
from the river, the night having been
intensely cold, and the man, who was
not as bright as Mrs. Stowe's George
Harris by any means, had fallen into
the water in getting out of the boat.
Eliza was very religious and very de
termined, and had planned to send her
husband ahead to Canada, intending- to
join him with his children afterward.
The husband was sent along and
Eliza crossed the river to Kentucky
that same night-, returning to her
mother. She fixed a date, two months
ahead, when she would again come to
the Rankin house.
True to the arrangement, she
crossed the river one night in Febru
ary, when the river was in a treacher
ous condition, carrying her young
child in a shawl strapped to her back.
The ice was in broken floes, and she
carried a board with a rope attached to
it by which she passed from one cake
to another. She got across and was
sent to Canada to join her husband.
She still had five children in slavery
and said to the Rankins that she ,was
going back to Kentucky after them
the following June.
On the June day in question she
appeared in Mr.- Rankin's garden,
and she was disguised as a man and
sent across the river, where she made
her way to her former master's planta
tion and hid beneath the currant
bushes in his garden. Here she was dis
covered by her oldest daughter, a girl
of 17, and at nightfall was hidden be
neath the floor of her bid cabin in the
negro 'quarters. Sunday, after dinner,
her master . and his wife went several
miles away to visit a friend, and Eliza,
following the example of the Israel
ites when they dcsxoiled the Egyp
tians, took blankets and household
goods to the amount of about 200
pounds' weight, divided them into
bundles for the five children, and
started on an 11-mile walk to . a point
on the river which she was to reach at
two o'clock Monday morning. She
had been told to bring nothing but the
children, but she had so overloaded
them with the packages that the small
er ones gave out, , and she was obliged
to carry one child a little way, a bundle
a little way, and then go back after
another child and another bundle, un
til she was so delayed that the river
was not reached until six o'clock in the
morning, and the boat that was to
carry ber over was gone. It was very
foggy, however, and by walking about
a mile and a quarter in the shallow
water of the Kentucky side of the river,
to throw off the scent of the blood
hounds, she reached an anti-slavery
man's Tiouse, where she remained all
day.
"That morning," said Mr. Rankin,
"when we expected to have Eliza and
her children safe in Ohio, after the fog
lifted, we saw 31 men on horseback,
with dogs and guns, across the river,
hunting this defenseless woman with
five children, after a reward of $1,300.
Communication was opened with
Eliza during the day and she was told
what to do. At nightfall Mr. Rankin,
disguised as a woman, with a party of
young fellows, made a feint on the
Kentucky shore, a few miles farther
up the river, and gave the negro hunt
ers a lively chase, they suppos
ing they had track of Eliza. The
hunters were evaded, and at the same
time a trusted boatman had ferried the
woman and children across to the
Rankin house, where she remained In
hiding for two weeks, being finally
taken to the Quaker settlement in a
load ' of flour and bran. She escaped
to Canada and lived for years there
with her husband and six children."
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