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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
EXPlATED HIS CRIME.
helsay Porter Died on the GalIovs -.
Union, Oregon.

Union, Or, Nov. 22.-In the ,ro,
Dawn OF an approaching day, while
most Of the citizens of Union were still
asleep, kelsay Porter, murderer of the
Mache family in Pine valley, ,Januarv
/, 1896, expiated his crime on the gal
lows. Including the sheriff's iurv of
IL men, about 90 people witnessed the
execution. 1t was carried out with dis.
patch. Seventeen minutes after Por.
ter left the Jail door to mount the seat
fold, his body was in the coffin. which
was waiting to receive it beneath the
gallows.
1t was about 3 O'Clock this morning
when Porter was aroused and told 70
prepare for the trying ordeal before
him. Realizing his last moments had
really come, he displayed nervousness
After dressing in a suit of black
clothes provided for him, he ate a light
breakfast, the first meal for several
days. The appearance of his religious
adviser had a reassuring effect. Rev.
Mr.. Shields passed an hour in the cell,
preparing Porter for his death, reading
Scriptural passages to him, and closing
with a feryent prayer for the con
demned man.
Porter, in refusing to see press rep
resentatives, stated that all he had to
say would be spoken on the gallows,
but before leaving the Jail, he changed
his mind and from, tba tive bo .aol
out of the door OF his cell, mounted
the scaffold and was hurled into eter-
nifty, he did not speak a word. He
was assisted to the platform of the
scatfold by Sheriff PLY and Deputy
Mclaughlin, who helped him up the
steps. Rev. Mr.. Shields and Deputy
Sheriff Giffen were also on the scaffold.
Porter was placed directly wei the
trap, his legs and arms pinioned and
his wrists handcuffed. While this was
going IN he became slightly unsteady.
The black cap was placed over his
head, the rope adjusted about his neck
by Sheriff PLY, and at 6:55 the trap
was sprung and the body shot down
ward, dangling at the end of the rope.
Death was instantaneous, the neck be-
ing broken by the fall. Twelve min
utes later three attending physicians
pronounced Porter dead, and the body
was cut down and placed in the wait
ing coffin.
The crime for which Kelsay Porter
suffered the death penalty was the
killing of the Mache family-Benja-
min Mache, his wife and 17-year-old
son, Benjamin-in Pine valley, Union
county, January l, 1896.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
WORK BEING PUSHED.


Philadelphia, Nov. lS.-For more
than two months people living in Tioga
and Nicetown have commented upon
the fact that the Midvale steel works
had no had a shutdown even for Sun
day, and the Earring noise of the big
machinery has penetrated at midnight
or the early hours OF the morning the
same as during the day. Sickness has
been the only plea that would permit
any of the employees to enjoy a days
rest, and three relays of men have been
alternately kept at a high tension.
All this excitement, it leaked out to-
day, is due to a hurried order from the
government for an increase of arma-
ment. The order placed with the Mid
vale steel works is for 80 lO-inch dis
appearing guns and 10 12-lnch mortars.
The government inspection is in the
hands OF Captain 7. A. Lisle, of the
army. He is out of the city, and the
manager of the Midvale company de-
clined to talk regarding the big contract
made with the government.
An open gate of the main building at
the Midvale disclosed to view three I'M
finished castings of the 10-inch pattern.
To one side of the furnaces upon tenn
'porary wooden mountings were two
weapons apparently ready for tTanspor-
tation.
While this work of constructing guns
has been pushed so assiduously at the
Midvale works, equal activity has been
waged at the big works of the South
wark Foundry and Machine Company,
where the war department has a con-
tract for 10 10-inch disappearing gun
carriages and 10 12-inch mortar car
riages. The Southwark Company has
completed several of the carriages and
delivered them to the government.
There is enough work on the unfin-
ished contracts at both plants to keep
the entire force Of men. at each place
busy for several months. 1t is said
there will be no shutdown in either
place for the holiday vacation.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
LOCKS FOR THE DALLES.
Government Has Abandoned the Boat
Railway Scheme.

government mas DhnuOneu inc DOht-
Railway Scheme.
Washington, Nov. 22.-The probable
tiles are that a boat railway will never
be constructed at The Dalles. Chair
man Hooker, of the river and harbor
committee, has made an examination
IF the rapids, and has interested him
self more or less in several matters
which will require appropriations COM
ing from his committee. Mr.. Hooker
is very r~eticent about expressing his
views, but there were other members of
the river and harbor committee with
him on his Western trip, and the press
correspondent has been able to learn
that the boat railway plan will not be
approved in the next session of con-
gress, and that the committee on river
and harbors will not taken favorable
action for any improvement there that
does not have for its object a different
plan than either a boat railway or a
portage railway. 1t is very probable
that what will be done is the authorize
ton Of a survey to be made for con-
struction of a canal and locks, and
which will secure the passage of boats
of about four feet draft. 1t is asserted
that boats of greater draft than this
cannot operate successfully above the
dalles, and that boats of this draft can
90 far up the Columbia river, the Snake
and the Clearwater. If these boats
could ply between Portland and the
farthest points on the rivers named, a
great deal would be accomplished,
freight rates would be regulated, and
the wheat of Eastern Oregon and
Washington and Idaho could be trans
ported to tidewater ut a small cost. 1t
is the general belief that a canal and
locks of the kind contemplated could be
built at an expenditure of less than
81, 900, 900, and also that they could be
pushed to completion at an early day.
It is MOI known whether the Oregon
delegation will accept such a plan as
this, but the general understanding is
that it will be offered by the members
of the river and harbor committee who
visited the Columbia during the past
cummar-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
"a SUICIDAL POLICY"
Impossible Task Has Been Given to
General Blanco.

New York, Nov. ia World dis
patch from Havana y General
Blanco has entered upon an almost
hopeless task. The present Cuban sit
uation is such that it semes impossible
to effect the reforms and to accomplish
what the greatest army in the history
of colonial wars has failed to accom-
plish.
Spain's present policy is announced
to be one of combined Cancellation and
force. 1t appears to be, as some Span
ish journals have called it, "a suicidal
policy" The peculiar and not gen.
orally understood conditions of the Gu
ban struggle now make any concilia-
tory move a direct play into the hands
of the insurgents.
This is particularly true of the proc
lamation of November 10, which COM
mands civil and military authorities to
aid in protecting the sugar properties
in grinding IL To adequately pro-
tect the sugar estates likely to operate,
General Blanco will have to practically
close the operations against insur-
gents. He has not enough men to do
both things. Most of the Plantations
were worked last year for short periods.
All paid their own guards, and most of
them paid the Cubans as well. Those
planters who did not pay tribute were
forced to double or treble their guards.
Only about 20 per cent of the sugar
plantations that operated two years
ago have machinery modern enough or
cane in good enough condition to war
ant grinding at the present price Of
sugar.
General Blanco will have to furnish,
estimated moderately, at least 10, 900
men, or 275 guards to each of A plan
tations. These soldiers must come
from forces now operating against the
insurgents. 1t is not likely that Cen
eral Blanco has forgotten the lesson Of
the invasion, and will take the regular
troops from guard duty in the towns to
allow volunteer garrisons opportunity
of surrendering to the enemy. The
larger number of Cubans forced by hun
ger into volunteer uniforms makes such
surrendering more probable now than
before.
More than half of the rural popula-
ton has disappeared, having been muir
dered by Weyler and his supporters.
The same men are much more directly
accountable for the inhuman manner
in which their brave soldiers have been
underfed and uncared for. As nearly
as can be conservatively computed from
figures, little more than half are left
alive,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
In Defense of the Boycott.

Butte, Mont, Nov. l9.-The state
trades and labor assembly today adopt
ed resolutions condemning the interior
n C of the United States court with
the Chinese boycott here and other boy
colts elsewhere, on the ground that the
boycott of organized labor is a defen-
sive instrument. an expression OF the
right to extend patronage to those who,
by employing union labor, patronize
labor. The boycott is declared to be
merely the right of a man to choose his
own assistants, to go wheresoever he
wills upon the public highway, to work
for whomsoever he may desire, to pat
ronize whom he pleases, and to prose-
cute his business in a competitive way,
even to the injury Of another's bust
ness, provided in 30 doing he is not
guilty of defaming another citizen.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
TO COME WEST.
Four Thousand Families Are Ready to
Emigrate.

Denver, Nov. 19.-Charles Kuharich,
secretary OF the Croatian Consolidated
Company, of New York, is o in Den
yer, making his headquarters with the
Colorado immigration & Development
Company. He reports about 1000 fam
lilies that are now ready for Western
immigration, with many more to follow.
The Croatians are Industrious and
frugal. They are of the Slav race of
southern Germany, Croatia being one
of the provinces of Austria, and, the
language is similar to that of Russia
and several of the other provinces of
southern Austria. The people Mr..
Kuharich represents prefer fruit, vege-
tables and grape lands, in the cultiva-
ton OF which they are among the most
expert people in the world.
The largest colonies of these people
now in this country are in Pennsylva-
mia, Illinois and New York, number
ing several thousand, and many thou
sands more are now in Europe await
ing arrangements to be made for their
removal to this country.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
Portland Market.

Wheat-Walla Walla, ~ @73%c;Val.
ley and Bluestem, 75@76c per bushel.
Four-Best grades, "a. 25; graham,
So. 70; superfne, $40 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white, 33 @34c; choice
gray, 81 @32c per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $1,000; brew
ing, $40 per ton.
Millstiffs-Bran, $14 per ton; mid.
dlings, $21; shorts, $l5. so.
Hay-Timothy, $12 a 12. 80; clover,
s10@11; California wheat, $40; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9@1O per
ton.
Eggs-22h @24c per dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 45 "a Soc;
fair to good, 35@40c; dairy, 25@35c
per roll.
Cheese - Oregon, 11Hc; Young
America, 12hc; California, 90 1Oc
per pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $500
$50 per DOZEN; b%roilers, 50. Co., SO;
geese, So 90; ducks, SO. 90 "a. 90
per dozen; turkeys, live, 1O@11c per
pound.
Potatoes-Oregon Burbanks, 35 a 4Oe
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per GENITAL.
Onions-Oregon, new. red, 90c; yell
low, SOC per GENITAL.
Hops-8@13c per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, core.
Wool-Valley, 14@18c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 7@l2c; mohair, 20
gaze per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 90. 80 az. so; dressed mutton,
&c; spring lambs, SIC per pound.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy. "a. 80;
light and feeders, 80. 90 a 90; dressed,
$4.50@5.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steers, SO. Z 8 @3 {. 90;
cows. 2.25i dressed beef, 4@5kc per
pound.
Veal-Large, AZ q &c; small, $40
&c per pound.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23

Butter - Fancy native creamery,
brick. 24@25c; ranch, 16@18c.
Cheese-Native Washington, l21Sc;
California, 9Rc.
Eggs-Fresh ranch, SOC.
Poultry-Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, l0c; spring chickens, 81. SOC
800; ducks, SO. 5O@3.75.
Wheat-Feed wheat, $25 per ton.
Oats-Choice, per ton, $1,000.
Corn-Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
e22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
s22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats-Choice dressed beef,
steers, &c; cows, 5hc; mutton sheep,
&c; pork, &c; veal, small. 7.
Fresh FIsh-Halibut, DC; salmon,
BIC; salmon trout, ia 1Oc; founders
and sole, BOA; ling cod, 4@5; rock cod,
DC; smelt, az @4c.
Fresh Fruit-Apples, 25c@$1 per
box; peaches, 76 SOC; prunes, 80 a. 0c;
pears, 81 per box.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
ashingtOn.

carload of apples grown on Orcas
aaa was shipped from Seattle to
Vaaha last week.
.le state road commission has fin.
~% Il' work for the winter, and the
"Aing crew has been discharged.
iae Hon D. P. Thompson, ex-min.
70 Turkey, delivered a lecture on
A'y In Walla Walla, last week.
b. ~ T. Weston has 5 $500 head of
~ III %rrosser, Yakima county, and
nal Hpects to winter them on Snipe's
Nm nue SIX salmon canneries of What.
|sn,;.onn'y will all be more or less ex-
|sr e'y improved and enlarged dur
we next five months.
b ,%s clerical force in the land COM
ass" uers Office, in Olympia, has 200
Vi school lands to be made out
ns from county auditors.
/ littlo n. surveyors say that with
EavsIn WORK the Snake river will be
MA Iie from Pasco to Riparia, to
kiDs ,a'ter point boats are now run
J On the Upper Snake.
lers,;nas been commenced in the
NJ No,,tVourt OF Chehalis county by
EaiD., S aern Pacific Railway Company
h,v ohehalis county for the purpose
H. "ns the taxes against the lands
Wa va,i upany in that county declared
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.

lomce Of Downing, Hopkins & Co, Chicago
merce Building, Portland, Oregon.l
The action OF the market has been q
great disappointment to the bulls, and
there is Il growing feeling that with
favorable conditions in the winter
wheat sections for the next two weeks,
that wheat possibly may sag still lower.
The news has been rather bearish in
many respects, the receipts
(much of which is low grade), the
heavy rains in the winter wheat Sec
lions in the past week, the improved
conditions in the Argentine, and the
smaller demand for flour has caused a
liquidating movement to set in that has
carried May wheat down to a lower
price than it has seen for a long time.
Claims are made that the caller est
mates of Europe's import requirements
of breadstutfs are now thought to have
been somewhat too high. In addition,
the demand has been, so far, easily
met, causing together a shade of indif.
ference on the part of purchasers. In
all estimates of the future, much is
made of what may be expected of the
crops of the Argentine and of the Au-
Btralian colonies. Too many perhaps,
forgot that while harvesting begins in
about a month, the products of the
harvest do not appear, to any great ex-
tent, before April or May. The large
shipments from Russia and America
yet stitie any undue efforts on the part
of buyers in Western Europe to secure
larger shipments at present, especially
as the quantity on passage is about
double the amount so found at the be-
ginning of our crop season. 1t is not
surprising, in view of these conditions
that the markets have occasions of re-
lapse But later, when the two prin-
cipal sources of supply begin to show
actual exhaustion, as they may be ex-
pected to, at the rapid rate of shipping,
an upward turn in affairs is likely to
ensue. 1t should be no disappointment
to those who habitually understate the
resources of exporters to find relapse in
prices when the facts showing it are
developed. Still there need be no great
apprehension of the future for the sup.
ply is none too great for the natural
wants of the world.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23

Cincinnati, Nov ia panic was
caused in st. Andrews school today by
the upsetting Of a stove. Some fright
ened children jumped from the win
dows, while others were thrown down
by the maddened efforts Of the stronger
n e to escape. The fire and police de-
partment responded to the calls. The
FIRE was quickly subdued, and four seri-
ously injured pupils were sent home.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
NEAR A SETTLEMENT.
The Behring Sea Conference Comes to
a Close.

Washington, Nov. l9.-The Behring
sea meeting, in which representatives
of Great Britain, Canada and the
United States have participated, came
to a close tonight. the seal experts
making a unanimous report concerning
the condition of the seal herds, and the
diplomatic representatives of the re-
spective governments reaching an I'M
Outstanding, by which, at a later day,
they hope to effect a final adjustment,
not only of the Behring sea question,
but of other pending border contro-
v~ersies. For the present, however, no
final action was taken as to the suspen-
sion of pelagic sealing. The Canadians
urged that other questions be embraced
in any plan of settlement, and suggest
ed an international commission to ac-
complish this end. This proposition
was fully discussed, and an agreement
reached that the Dominion officials
should put their views in writing after
returning to Ottawa, and submit them
to the authorities here. All parties
concerned say the outlook is favorable
to a satisfactory adjustment.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
Umbrella Touched the Liv. Wire.

Philadelphia, Nov. lS.-Levi L. Pot
ter, colored, aged 20 years, was killed
tonight by an electric light wire. He
was standing on IN iron grating in
front Of a South street store. He car
ried over his shoulder an umbrella with
an iron rod, one end Of which he held
in his hand. The other end touched
the wire where it wal exposed and Pot
ter fell dead.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23

Wool-Nevada 1l@18c; Oregon, Is
@14c; Northern lac Ice per pound.
Hops-l2Kc per pound.
MISUNDERSTANDING, $50 @2 CAL
ifornia bran. $16.0o@16 {. 90 per ton.
Onions-New red. roc SOC; do new
silverskin. $l.00@1.16 per GENITAL.
Eggs-store, 18@28c; ranch. sec
Ale; Eastern, 1925; duck, 26c per
dozen.
Potatoes-New, in boxes, 800 roc
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
Fate OF Annexation Treaty.

Chicago, Nov. ia special TO the
Times-Herald from Washington says:
Ratification Of the Hawaiian annexa-
tion treaty by the United States senate
is assured. The administration has
made q poll Of that body, and as a re-
suit President Mckinley thinks that
more than %two-thirds Of the senator's
will vote for ratification.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
FATE OF PROSECUTORS.
Three Men Are Drowned In white
Horse Rapids.

Port Townsend, Nov. %. News
reached here tonight Of the drowning
of two men belonging to the party OF
Colonel Will E. Fisher, of San Fran
cisco, in the White Horse rapids No
yember 4. No details OF the accident
were received. Neither could the names
of the drowned men be learned.
Accompanying this news was the in.
formation that Frank Anthony, OF
Seattle, was drowned at the same place
October 20. Anthony's boat capsized'
His two companions, Murphy and Hep
burn. were rescued by the Canadian
mounted police.
Heavy SHOWS are reported on the sum
mits of the passes leading into the In
terror.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Resume Of Events in the
Northwest.
vnENcE OF STEADY GROWTH

:. Gathered in All the Towns Of
our Neighboring states-Improve-
u,ut in All Industries-Oregon.
Several thousand boxes of apples were
inued from Coos bay early last week.
The real estate transfers in Umatilla
Irntv for one day last week amounted
$1,000.
An Astoria paper says that Clatsop
-rnty warrants are likely to be at 4
Eemium within 30 days.
This year over 700 cords of wood
We been shipped from Browns spur,
brth Of Dallas, to Portland.
A number of settlers bound for the
hos bay country passed through Rose
rrs last week, in covered wagons.
Wallowa county cattle have been
eorly all bought up, but there are Il
bod many hogs left in the county.
Lincoln county's outstanding war;
hnts and the interest thereon amount
TO S25, 979, on September 30 last.
Stock in Baker county is reported to
in excellent condition, and the loss
bis winter promises to be unusually
ght
Travellers over the Mckenzie road, in
ane county, report from two to seven
bet Of snow on the summit of the
aSades.
A band of 1000 head of cattle was
tvep through Vale last week on the
lay to Ontario, whence they will be
tipped East.
Harry Waters killed a bald-headed
hge in the sandhills near Marshield
Ht week The eagle measured nine
bet from tip to tip.
The financial statement of Gillian
runty shows hat on September 80 last
here were outstanding warrants and
nteest amounting to $24 ,201.
Several elk were seen in the vicinity
Emigrant Springs, in Umatilla
Ounty, recently, but as it was the
Osed season, they were not molested.
Fishermen in the vicinity of Rainier
be Of the opinion that the light run of
hlmOn in that section is caused by the
eVy blasting along the shore, where
be Astoria railroad is being built.
The treasurer OF Coos county has adj
feTtised that he will pay all county
F@anants Endorsed prior to November
1891. Interest on such warrants
passed November 10. This call will
fduce the couunty's Indebtedness
fhut SO, 900.
The 500 Angora goats recently shipped
rom Boise, Idaho, to Pendleton, will
Vlntered near Pendleton. 1t is said
DC the intention to ship them to the
AlOndlke in the spring to make mutton
q the miners. They are hardy and
Elnole animals, and can more easily
Y driven over the mountain passes
Phan sheep.
lhe work of taking spawn is now 60
ny on at the Mapleton hatchery. Over
LN,UOo eggs have already been placed
Y me Matching troughs. The sum ap-
pvpfiated for operating the hatchery
ny year is not nearly so large as it
lOaia be, but the work has been at
snued to closely, and considering the
Alelditure a great number of salmon
Will no doubt be turned out next
ping.
inere will be IL miles of American
ANY iald on the Astoria & Columbia
W. railroad beginning at Goble. The
I.sl'sn rails were not sufficient to com.
E"e !he track. This new consignment
VI It's way from the East. The rails
Vi the same weight and size as
uue laid, 70 pounds to the yard,
M @cn base, . inches high and 2s-inch
l Iracklaying at the Goble end of
y line will begin when the new rails
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-23
RECENT EVENTS IN THE ORIENT
lich Gold Discoveries Reported in the
Chinese Province of Chansi.

Victoria, Nov. 19.-The steamship
Empress of China has arrived here from
the Orient. Among her passengers was
Bishop Hoffman, of the Catholic church.
He says that gold discoveries are being
made in Chansi, in Northern China.
The Chinese government, to encourage
mining, has begun the building of a
railway from Hankow to Picking, pass
ing through a richly mineralized coun-
try.
Other advices are as follows: A small
revolution has broken ont in Northern
China caused by dissatisfaction with
the war settlement with the japanese.
A Chinese pirate concerned in the
murder of Captain Rosso, of the Pegu,
has been hanged at Ed Bosar. Another
pirate confessed to taking part in the
murder.
The Japanese man-of-war Fuse ran
on a rock near Nagahama, after having
been in collision with another ship,
taking part in the naval maneuvers,
and sunk on the goth of October. There
were no casualties, and it is expected
that the ship can be raised without
much difficulty.
On October 81 a conflagration &C.
CURED at Nagoaka Machies, over $50
houses being reduced to ashes.