The Portland daily press., 1893-11-02
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Kennebunk is having about as dull
times as any town in this section. Not a
shoe maker is working in the town and
but few of them, except the natives, are
even living there. The two big shoe
shops stand empty and idle and the
leatherboard works are running on three
quarters time. There are some hopes of
better times, however. The board of
trade has been working to get shoe
firm to locate there and the present pros
poets are considered fairly good. 1t is
believed that a shop which will employ
will be established in the Kimball shop
before winter is over.
As Hon. Lysander Strickland was
driving on the river road near Bangor,
the other day, deer came out of some
bushes beside the road ahead of him and,
crossing the road and railroad track, ran
for the river, which was only short dis
tance Reaching the river the animal
plunged into the cold waters of the
Penohscot and swan rapidly until he
came to the boom, where there was quite
large number Of logs These proved an
impeachment to progress in swimming.
The unusual and interesting sight of a
deer walking on the logs in the river was
then witnessed as the animal succeeded
in getting out of the water and on the
logs. Only for an instant, however, did
he retain his equilibrium in his imita-
tion of a river driver, for the logs proved
treacherous and the animal was plunged
into the water again. Each time but the
last he struggled out and this perform
ance was witnessed for some time by Mr..
Strickland, who was an interested OBJ
server. The last he saw of the deer he as
in the water with his head barely stiking
above the logs. The probability is
that the animal was drowned.
A gentleman tells the Kennebec Journal
this story: Charles Clark of Nashville
Plantation, Aroostook county, served
gallantly in Company K. of the Second
pension under the act of June 9th, 1890, of
sS month. He is crippled by rheu-
matism, suffers from disease of the heart
and digestive organs, has to use cane
and is unable to perform manual labor.
His wife is dead but he has family of
four children and they live in little log
hut worth, perhaps, S25, and possess no
other property of consequence. In this
condition of i'll health and inability to
labor he has within the past year been
obliged to call upon the town for assist
ance two or three times. In order for him
to go out and about at all it is necessary
for him to expend on an average every
month from 81 to So for medicine. He
has now received notice that his pension
has been stopped.
Forest Commissioner Oak says he fears
there will be many hardships endured
took county who depend for their living
very largely on the lumber industry.
Many OF them have raised oats as is their
custom for the woods trade and see no
likelihood of disposing of them for the
operators along the St. John are planning
much smaller cut than that of last sea-
son. This condition of things appears to
exist in all the principal lum bering dis
tricts of the state. 1t is doubtful if the
Kennebec operators cut 100 millions
where last year they cut IT'S millions.
So might be said of the Penobscot oper-
ators One of the largest operators in
the state says that he can hire hundred
good men any day at from SO to SIS a
month.
A Largely attended meeting was held in
proposed extension of the st. Croix &
Penobscot railroad, to a junction with
the Maine Central. Messrs. Charles
Boardman of Calais and his brother
Albert Boardman of Minneapolis, on be-
half of western gentlmen who have made
the proposition, stated that these gentle
men would build a first class road and
put the present road in good condition.,
providing the city would release the
mortgage of S86,0O0 held by them, and
would not ask it to be cancelled until
the road was finished and accepted.
After this general discussion occurred
and the News says most of the speakers
were in favor of accepting the terms. A
committee of conference was appointed.
The people probably will be asked to
vote on the matter.
Some of the bills which the state is
asked to pay for supplies furnished state
paupers are sublimely ridiculous. A
familysscf five residing in Eastern Maine
were all taken down with typhoid fever
and the country doctor who attended
them thought he saw an opportunity to
open up bonanza. Accordingly when
his bill came to the Executive Council
for auditing, it amounted to the very
respectable sum of 500. 1t enumerated
40 visits, The charging IS for each visit.
The Council committee investigated this
case and settled for $249. Another bill
which the council refused to approve was
one for -four. A family of five paupers
was..furnished with barrel of -four a
month at 81 per barrel