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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24
RAILROAD ENTHUSIASM.
Camden People Write to Augusta About an
Overland Railroad.

| A Journal reporter was allowed, yester.
day. to read letter from one of the hust.
ling and enterprising business men OF
Camden, which stated that people in that
seacoast town are very enthusiastic owe,
line of railroad to run from there to An.
gusta and thence to Lewiston.
! 1t will be remembered that during a
recent session of the Maine Legislature y
charter was secured for a railroad fro,,
Lewiston through Augusta to Camden
The incorporators of the corporation
known as the Lewiston. Augusta & Cam
den Railroad Company were, J. W. Chase.
Elias Milliken, p. o. Vickery, G. E.
Macomber, II. II. Hamlen, NJ. V. b.
Chase, j. W. North, W. H. Williams and
F. e. Southland
The plan laid out was to run from
Lewiston through the towns of Webster,
wales, Bowdoin, Litchfield West Gardi-
ner, Farming dale, Gardiner, Hallowell
and to Augusta, and from here to Camden,
passing through tho towns of Windsor,
China Someryille, Palermo, Liberty, Ap-
plcton, Washington, Union and Hope.
During the session of the Legislature Just
closed, the charter has been renewed for
about three years, and amended so I'll at
the line may be run to Rockland or Cam
den,
CT nf ic h.
tween 65 and 20 miles, and while across
country would be an easy line to build in
many places. The prominent Augusta
man with whom Journal reporter talked,
last evening, said that he Is confident that
the line could be built and all that is
needed is man with push and hustle to
take hold of the project and interest pco-
pie A line of road as is here proposed
would not reach any other within dis
lance of several miles, and would extend
through a splendid section of the State
1t would reach towns which arc rich, and
the Augusta man says. would willingly
subscribe funds, shouldthc movement be
placed on healthy basis One of the cx-
ccllent features of the proposed line would
be the connection with the Grand Trunk
Railway at Lewiston, and q Journal man
in talking with a Grand Trunk agent, the
other day, was told that that road would
lend its aid to limo that would give
through communication to the sea. The
charter as amended will allow the line to
DO run by electricity if preferred to steam.
The letter mentioned in this article is
an encouraging one and was received by
man who is at present too busy to take
hold of the matter. He is, however. very
cheerful over the movement and says that
he fully believes every town between Au-
gusta and Camden would literally aid in
the movement. He expressed it that I'M
doubleday money enough could be raised in
Augusta and the towns between here and
Camden to build the line.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24
NOTICE.,

All demands against the city Of Augusta
must oe lett at the treasurer's Office on or be-
fore the first Tuesday OF each month. Such as
are found correct and approved by the
city council and mayor. will be paid by the
city treasurer on the Thursday following the
second Tuesday of each month.
All persons having bills against the citv are
requested to render them as often as once a
month.
G. II: CUNNINGHAM, eston Lewis, f. d. Col
tee OF Accounts. mar29d1m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Boyd returned
from Boston, Tuesday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24
SUPERIOR COURT.
April Term. Hon. 0. G. Hail. Prcsid
ing.
against he

Clerk, W. S. Choate,
Geo. W. Heselton, County Attorney.
sheriff f. f. Norton,
i. A. Small Stenographer.
Augusta, April g.
McNaly VS.. Park The testimony in
this case was concluded at 80. Tho dc
fence is that the plaintiff got all the lum-
Der he bought except a few cords of cedar
that if he did not receive all the logs. then
it was through his own negligence, be
cause there were some RATS for the driv
ing of which he himself became responsi-
bic, taking the contract from party to
whom defendant had let the job.
The plaintiff denies that he assumed
any responsibility in this, but simply put
on some men under the authority of the
sub contractor.
Court adjourned until mornin G, after
the evidence had been taken out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24
Maine InterschoIastic Athletic Association.

There has been quite an amount of talk
among the schools which are members of
the Maine Intorscholastic Athletic Asso-
citation, regarding the vote at the recent
meeting of the executive committee to
have the field day at Bangor, and owing
to Portland high school and Thornton
Academy pulling out of the agreement
to 80 to Bangor, special meeting has
been called to meet in this city, Saturday,
to consider where the field day meet shall
be held.
There Is very strong probability that
Augusta will be the place decided upon
as it is the most favorably located and
can moro easily be reached than any of
the other places. The grounds here will
also be in splendid condition for the ath
letic sports and the Cony High school
boys will give the visitors a royal wei
come They viii also make strong
effort to have the meet in this city.
The reason why Portland and Thorn
ton would not enter Tho field day meet
at Bangor was, it seems, due to tho fact
that the expense iEcurrtd by travelling
to so distant point was too great. The
interest in athletic sports among the fit
ting schools which have become q part Of
this youthful organization known as tho
MI s. A. A., is fast increasing and hy
the promotion of its plans the colleges
are furnished with better athletes and
finds every year among its freshmen
Young men who have attained quite a
marked degree of careful training. 1t is
safe to state that the field day soon to
be held will be vigorously entered into
by the many young men who have already
begun to train. Tho Cony High school
boys have began training under the cap
taincy of Harry l. Webber and will I'M
doubtedly make far moro creditable
showing than last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24

UNITED STATES COURT HOUSE AND
1 Postofiee Building. Augusta, Ne, April
o. lse5.-SeaIed proposals viii be rece wed AT
This building until 4 O'clock noon, WEDNES-
DAY. Nav l. 1895. for furnishing fuel lights
water, ice. miscellaneous supplies, washing
towels, hanlhng sSn ri sna sprinkiiug streets
June a. 1896 or snch portion of the wear as
may be deemed advisable. The right to reject
any and all bids is y rsseTved By me Treasury
apfii2i&26d
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-24
Proposals for Hemlock Plank
TREAsUBER's OFFICE,

TREAsUBER's OFFICE.
Eastern BRANCH n. II. d. V. s.,
Togus, Me, April ~. 1895.
Proposals will he received at the Eastern
Branch, N. II. d. V. S., until Thursday, April
25, 1875. at II O'Clock noon. for the following
lumber: 10000 Feet Hemioek Plank.
and inch, to be delivered at the Home as
required. The Home reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
Proposals to be marked. Proposals for
Hemlock Plank. and forwarded in sealed
envelopes and addressed to treasurer of the
Home.
A. L. SIXTH, Treasurer.
Approved:
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
THEY KNEW THEIR SAD FATE

Doomed EldOra Miners Write Letters to
Friends and Relatives.
New York, Sept. ia special to the
Herald from Vancouver, B. c., says:
Advices received by the Australian
steamer Miowera says that the bodies
Of victims Of the Eldora mine disas-
ter have been recovered after two
weeks burial. The men were working
in M. G. Ayers mine when the banking
made to keep off the river gave way,
filling the outlet of the mine with slum.
They were imprisoned and almost
within hearing Of the rescuers. It took
exactly IA days to reach the dying men
and in that time all were beyond the
need Of assistance.
Evidences of terrible suffering OF the
poor fellows at the last moments were
most heartrending. Believing that they
would be eventually reached by rescu-
ers, but knowing, too, that it would be
too late, the men evidently held an an
temOrtem council for most Of them
wrote letters to friends and relatives
from their grave and there were evil
dences Of solemn intercourse before
death ended their terrible sufferings.
All but one Of the men were found
in q naturally formed chamber, dying
side by side quietly as If sleeping. They
wore peaceful expressions and must
before death have been lulled to sleep
by the generated gas.
BY the letters left they had, however,
been in conversation together for "a
hours after their fearful imprison-
ment. The messages were written In
the dark and it took six hours to deci-
pher them.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
Mounted Armed Coal Miners Of
Sand Coulee in Pursuit.
SMALL CHANGE IF FOUND
Women Use the HOl s.whip With Vigor-
Gus Effect and the Foul Decd
Is Acknowledged.

Great Falls, Mont. Sept. 18.-News
comes to this city tonight from the
Sand Coulee coal camp. 10 miles out, Of
as hendish case as has ever been
known in the northwest.
Mounted armed coal miners started
out from Sand Coulee at noon today In
pursuit Of Joe Weir, the human wretch
who perpetrated a deed and If he Is
found not in the custody OF officers of
the law he will have small chance OF
paying the penalty.
The victim is the seven-year-old
daughter of a rancher named Frank
Cults, who lives five miles south Of
Sand COulee. To make the act more
barbarous the girl is deformed and is
deaf, dumb and blind.
Mrs. Cults came to the city Sunday,
leaving the child in care Of Weir. When
she returned Monday the daughter was
ILL.,
A physician was summoned yesterday
and the dastardly act was discovered.
Mrs. Cults and her neice set upon
Weir with horsewhips and pounded him
until he acknowledged his foul deed.
Then he fled and it is thought he may
be concealed somewhere in Great Falls.
Cults has been employed at several
hotels in this city and is we'll known.
Weir is worthless fellow and has
been living at Cults ranch all summer.
It is reported the girl cannot live.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
ARE ALIVE WITH CHOLERA GERMS
Japanese and Chinese Authorities Have
Suppressed the News.

Japanese ana Chinese Authorities Have
Suppressed the News.
San Francisco, Sept. 18.-Notwith-
standing the endeavors Of the Japanese
and Chinese authorities to suppress the
news concerning the cholera, the truth
has at last come to light concerning
the plague. Japan and North China are
fairly alive with cholera germs, Siber-
ian officials have declared the Japa-
nese open ports infected and from offic-
ial sources it is learned that over II, 900
people have died in Japan from the
plague since it started in Pesco-
dores.
In China the disease has gained a
firm foothold. Advices by the steamer
Rio de Janeiro report that in Toxic
the heat is terrific and the disease
germs have been nursed by the CHI
mate into virulent life. On the Rio de
Janeiro little could be learned concern
ing Yokohama, but nevertheless the
plague is raging there also. In China
at Chez Foo the disease is spreading
rapidly.
ST. Petersburg, Sept. 18-In the prov
ince of Volhynia between August 1a
and August "a, inclusive, 8548 cases OF
cholera were reported and 2134 deaths
resulted from the disease.
In the province Of Podolia from the
21st to 31st of August, 101 cases OF
cholera and As deaths were reported.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21

blanche Lamont at the time Of her
nluroer' she said that the young wo-
nan she saw with I,urrant wore gar
naents OF similar cut and material. She
aau never seen Blanche Lamont. The
paif RODE on the dummy as far as
l"enty-second street, where thew left
the car, proceeding in the direction Of
Bartlett street. Emanuel church is IN
nai ue.t street near Twenty-second.
WIS. Crossett's testimony was not sha-
ken by cross-examination.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
pEoPLE KILLED AND HOUSES FALL

A Cyclone Passes Over a Portion Of the
State of Michigan.
Detroit, Mich, Sept. ia special to
the, Evening News tells Of a cyclone
that passed over that state last night.
Port Austin reports the heaviest
storm ever known there. Considerable
damage was done to buildings.
Three lives are said to have been lost
in Hume township.
At Sand Beach nearly every building
was more or less damaged.
Near Kinde two children of Richard
Tott were killed by falling timbers.
Three others were injured.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
THEY FOUGHT ON A sANDBAR

Lewiston Sports Witness a Knockout in
One Bloody Round.
Lewiston, Sept. 1S.-The sensation of
the day here was prize fight between
the somewhat noted pugilists Ed Cuff
and ragged Jones. AS a result of
a dispute about the skill and prowess
of the two men of fistic proclivities
a contest was arranged for yesterday
afternoon on the sandbar across Snake
river in Washington state. The sport
ing element repaired to the scene to the
number Of 40.
Cuff knocked his opponent out in one
bloody round.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
FRICTION BETWEEN POLITICIANS
A Meeting Held in Chicago to Choose .
Chairman

Chairman.
Chicago, Sept. ia meeting Of the
republican county central committee
was held at the Great Northern hotel
last night for the purpose Of choosing a
chairman. For some time there has
been friction between the politicians
supporting the administration Of Mayor
Swift and some others who are against
him. Incidental to the work Of choos-
ing the chairman it was intended that
the factions should "get together" in
harmony. They got together all right.
but there were fights without number.
broken heads and bloody noses and
the meeting was characterized by the
widest disorder.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
A BAD ACCIDENT NEAR oAkesoALe

A Wild Pony Becomes Unmanageablc,
Throwing and Injuring Boy.
Oakesdale. Sept. Thames Tucker,
a farmers boy, residing five miles
north Of Oakesdale. met with q serious
accident Sunday. He was riding
wild pony, which became unmanage-
able and ran through a wire fence,
throwing young Tucker against 4
barn.
Three ribs were broken, cash eight
inches long was cut in his leg and he
was badly bruised about the head. His
injuries are considered serious. but not
necessarily fatal.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
HINEst OFFER A LIFE FOR A LIFE

Officials at Kin Chcng Unwilling to Sen,
terce the Guilty.
Shanghai, Sept. 15.-The Chinese officials
at Ku Cheng are proving obstinate over
the results of the inquiry into the out
RACES upon the missionaries and are I'M
willing to sentence the guilty.
They offer one life for each European
who was killed and no more.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
POWERS
PROTECTION OF THE POWERS
A British View of the Difficulties ON tho
Hawaiian Islands.

London, Sept. 1S.-The Standard,
commenting on the release of ex-Queen
Liliuokalani in Hawaii and upon the
revolution, says:
Hawaii has treaties with England
and France which give them protective
powers over the island quite as much.
if not more, than the United States.
to so split up the rival factions as to
prevent chronic revolution, and Ha-
wall ought to be put under the actual
protection OF the powers SO greatly con-
cerned in its welfare"
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1895-09-21
The Porte Accepts.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 16.-From a
good source 1t is learned the porte has
accepted the demand of the powers
with regard to reforms in Armenia
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-26

away. When / came back just now |
saw that paper on the table, and
and-oh, Aunt Lanel l meant to
burn it. Do you think Fay will ever
forgive met"
81 shall not tell her." answered
Mrs. Lane. eve three have to live to-
gether, my boy, and it will be much
better that she should not know
that"
Well, that touch of goodness com
pletely won the boy. He fell upon
his aunt's neck and pledged himself
to better life.
The paper SO strangely discovered
was proved by the family lawyer to
be quite in order. and the cousins
simply took each others places, with
this difference: that Marks was big
ger share than Fay's, in such circum-
stances would have been. The girl
was broken hearted at the loss of her
fiddle, but her cousins repentant
looks made complaint impossible.
Uncle Lanes intention seemed
clear enough now. To his passion
ate wish that Fay should excel on
the violin, of which he was a mas
ter himself, he had sacrifi-
ced every other consideration.
He had always declared that Mark
should work for living; and though
the boy was duly remembered in the
paper left in such a strange way,
everybody had the idea that in that
particular letter, which had been so
sorrowfully interrupted, Fay's uncle
had meant to leave some direction as
to the finding of the hidden paper,
who, along with her precious fiddle,
certainly had carried at her fingers
end Selected.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-26
THE SEA NEARLY
EXTINCT.

The California sea-elephant is an ami
NAL with fearfully long Latin name.
but very short stay on this earth. 1t
is the largest of all the SEALS its average
length when fully grown being from 10
to IA feet, while it sometimes reaches the
astonishing length of % feet, including
the hind-fippers. 1t is still an open
question whether this animal is of the
same species as the sea-elephant of the
Antarctic ocean. Our animal, like the
other. derives its popular name from the
heightened, tapir like proboscis, or snout.
OF the old males, which sometimes pro-
jects six inches or more beyond the end
of the muzzle.
The hair is exceedingly short, very
stiff and harsh, and when clean and dry
is of dusky yellowish color. This
species once inhabited about 200 miles
of the coast of California, from Point
Reyes south. but it has been practically
exterminated for the sake of it's oil. In
1884 G. H. Townsend visited Santa Bar.
bara island for the express purpose of
reserving fc- the National Museum the
skins and skeletons of what we're sup
posed to be The last survivors Of the
species, then about to be killed by seal
hunter for their oil. The result was that
at the eleventh hour a number of their
valuable skins and skeletons we're saved
for the geological museums of the world.
About the same time an enterprising
collector actually captured five young
specimens alive and shipped them to
New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati, which was the first and only
time the species we're ever seen alive in
the Eastern United States, and will
doubtless be the last. But l am glad
to be able to etate that these seals are
not absolutely extinct, for short time
ago Mr.. Townsend assured me that few
individuals are Yet somewhere south of
San Francisco, in place that the seal
hunters know not of.-St. Nicholas
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-26
ANIMALS IN WARFARE.

A very interesting history (says the
Saturday Review might be written of
the part played by living creatures.
other than human beings, in war. AS
far as we are aware no convention or
conference has pronounced either for or
against this means of iniuring an enemy.
Where dogs are used as sentinels, or
pigeons in carrying dispatches. the in
jury done by the dumb creatures is not
direct. The service rendered to their
own side may be no less great than that
of the geese which saved the capitol, or
of the dog which foiled Aurangzeb in his
siege of Golgonda, and was rewarded
with a golden collar; but in neither of
these cases is the attack confined to bird
or animal. But dogs have been used,
and by ourselves, to attack an enemy.
The Celts used them, the Gauls used
them. Columbus used them; Queen
Elizabeth is said to have given Essex
600 fighting dogs for purposes of war;
aud late in the eighteenth century a
hundred blood hounds were landed in
Jamaica by our government to attack
the Maroons. Fortunately it was des-
tined that the disgrace of using them
should be spared us; for the enemy,
hearing of the dogs, surrendered with
out blow. Effectively as dogs may be
trained to destroy human beings, it has
been we'll said in this connection that,
in the words of Pascal. lie c9ur ses
raisons que la raison ne connait pas"
Elephants have from time immemorial
played an important part in warfare.
The names of the celebrated fighting
elephants "Diyana," and many more,
were as familiar in their day to the
armies of the East as are the names of
our first-class battle ships to ourselves.
1t is not generally known that the ele-
plants not only trampled men under
foot and hurled them into the air with
their trunks, but also fought with wea-
pons on occasions. Saiyid Alan Barna,
for instance, very nearly made an end of
Aurangzeb and his army by sending
three elephants, which. says Khasi Khan,
dashed about with their trunk chains
OF two or three mems weight. over
throwing and crushing everyone who
came in their way"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-26
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
World Pair Highest Medal and Diploma.

The London Chronicle announces
the recent death Of Christina Georgiana
Rossetti, the poetess. Miss Rossetti was
born in London. December 5. 1880, be-
ing the daughter Of Gabriel Rossetti, an
Italian patriot. who took refuge in Eng
land from the troubles in his native land
and who was the well-known commenta.
tor on Dante. She was the author OF
many poems, among them being tine
Goblin Market" THE Princes Prog
ress." Seek and Find" etc.