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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
STRATEGIC BASE OF THE PACIFIC
Such Is Hawaii From "a Military Point
of View.

of View.
Washington, Aug. g. From a mil
itary as well as Il commercial point of
view," said Director Smith, of the bu-
reau of American republics, "The Ha-
waiian islands, owing to their location,
are of great Importance. Hawaii may
be said to lie but one-thlrd the distance
of the accustomed route from San Fran
cisco to Japan and China ports, from
San Francisco to Australia, from ports
of British Columbia to Australia and
British India, and about half way from
the lsthmus of Panama to Yokohama
and Hong Kong. The construction of
a ship canal across the isthmus would
extend this geographical relation to
the ports of the Gulf of Mexico and of
the Atlantic seaboard of North and
South America. A glance at the map
will at once make clear the fact that no
other point in the North Pacific has
such dominating relation to the trade
between America and ASIA as place
for coaling and a depot of supplies for
vessels.
From a naval standpoint Hawaii
is the great strategic base of the Pacific.
Under present conditions of naval war;
fare, created by the use of steam, as a
motive power, Hawaii would secure to
the maritime nation possessing it an
advantage as depot for the supply of
coal. Modern battle-ships, depending
absolutely upon coal, would be enabled
to avail themselves OF their full capa-
city of speed and energy only by having
some halfway station in the Pacific
where they could replenish their stores
of fuel and refit. A battle-ship or
cruiser sarting from an Asatic or Aus
tralian port with the view of operating
along the coast of either North or South
America, would be unable to act effec-
lively for any length of time at the end
OF so long voyage, unless she were
able to refill her bunkers at some point
on the way.
"On the other hand, if the United
States possessed Hawaii, she would be
able to advance her line of defense
1000 miles from the Pacific coast, and
with fortified harbor and strong
fleet at Honolulu would be in a position
to conduct either defensive or offensive
operations in the North Pacific to a
greater advantage than any other
power"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19

Washington, Pa, Aug. l6.-J. H.
Cook, coal operator of McGovern.
came into court this afternoon and COM
planned that the strikers were again
trespassing on his property, that An.
drew Savage, leader, already enjoined.
was there, and he thought they had
instructions to 20 where they pleased in
disregard of the injunction. At his re.
quest the court made another including
the United Mineworkers of America,
President Ratchford and Secretary
Pierce, and the Pittsburg district mine.
workers, President Dolan and Secretary
Warner. in the injunction.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
WILL FORCE THE ISSUE.
Strikers to Test the Legality of Judge
McIllwayne's Order.

Pittsburg, Aug. 16.- The striking
miners at Cannonsburg have determined
to force the injunction issue by contin
ulng their daily marches and meet
ings in the neighborhood of the Nc
Govern and Cannons burg mines in
spite of the order of Judge McIllwayne,
forbidding marches on the roads lead
ing to the mines. The purpose is to
have the men arrested in order to test
the legality of the injunction.
Patrick Doan stated it had been de-
termined to keep up the marches, and
rs fast as one group was arrested an
other one will take it's place until there
Will be so many of them in Jail that
opinion will be aroused on the question
OF urging Il new form of Injunction.
In these movements the support of
all the leading trades unions of the
country are said to have been pledged
at secret meeting in Columbus during
the last 10 days, presided over by
Samuel Gompers
Information has been received by
the Pittsburg operators that the miners
OF the Bell, L-wis & Yates Company
have struck in Reynoldsville, and the
rest OF the mines of the company are
idle. The company is one of the heav-
lest tonnage producers in the northern
field. About 5000 men are employed.
The usual march of miners was made
at Turtle Creek mt O'Clock this morn
ing, but more men went into the pit to-
day than yesterday. Firms from all
sections are coming to the rescue OF the
strikers. A certain cereal company at
Akron, o., sent dispatch offering to
donate two tons of corn meal. The
offer was accepted. The Fshermen's S
Protective Association, of Astoria, Or,
has started East by fast freight 100
cases OF canned salmon for the miners
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
Interference MUST CEASE
Injunction Served on Strikers
at De Armitt'S Mines.
WILL FIGHT 1T TO THE END
President DoIan Declares That TrOu-
BILE Will Follow If Any Attempt Is
Made to Enforce the Injunction.

Pittsburg, Aug. 16.-The much
talked-of injunction against the Unit
ed Mineworkers was filed in the county
court today by counsel for the New
York & Cleveland Gas & Coal Com
pany. The defendants are named The
United Minneworkers of America,
Patrick DOlan, president; William
Warner, secretary and treasurer, and
others.
The plaintiff company sets forth that
it is a corporation under the laws of
Pennsylvania, with capital OF 81, ,0OO,.
600 invested in coal lands Of Pcnnsyl-
vania. Three of their mines, employ
ing 1900 men, are the Plum Creek,
Turtle Creek and Sandy Creek. The
bill then recites the conditions prevail
ing at their mines since the strike was
begun and alleges the strikers have
paid no attention to the sheriff's warn
ings, and that the lives of miners and
property of the company are in danger
Judge Collier granted temporary
injunction, restraining and enjoining
the defendants from assembling, march,
ing or encamping in proximity to the
mines and houses of the miners, for
the purpose by intimidation, threats
and opprobrious words, of preventing
the miners of the plaintiff from work.
ing. 1t further restrains the defend
ants from inducing or compelling any
employe or miner to quit work. A
hearing was fixed for August 1S.
The injunction is regarded as the
most sweeping yet issued. President
Dolan expressed surprise when in
formed it had been granted and added:
1T will make no difference to us.
We will go right along as usual until
the matter is tested in the courts. We
will stay there regardless of every
judge in Allegheny county, and if they
attempt to enforce the injunction they
will have to build more jails to accom-.
mOdate the men -
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19

Dallas. Tex, Aug. l6.-The north.
bound NJ, X. & T. train was wrecked
this morning near Caddo Mills by some
one removing the fishplates and bend.
ing the rails, Every car but the rear
sleeper was turned over. Messenger
Kawlins was instantly killed. Several
passengers were injured, but how seri :.
ously could not be learned. The in.
lured VIII be taken to Greenville. A
wrecking crew has reached the scene
No further particulars are obtainable
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
Filled the Baby with Wind

Pittsburg. Aug l6.-Mrs. George
huffman, OF Beaver Falls, heard be-
cullar noise on the back porch of her
residence. She found her two sons,
one aged Z and the other one wear
Older in corner. The babe was on
his back. The elder brother had in
serted the tube of bicycle pump in
the oaby's mouth and was filling him
with wind as fast as he could work the
pump The infant was unconscious
and its little stomach was inflated like
balloon. The mother pulled the tube
from the child's mouth and the air fol.
lowed with sharp sound like the ex.
haust OF an air brake on a railway
train. The baby recovered conscious.
hess
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
Tor Notch for Mhrnt.

Walla Walla. Aug. l6. The top
notch wheat market for the season was
reached today. The market opened
firm at 10 cents for buestem, 73 cents
for club. Several lots We're sold at
these figures, when the price jumped
up one cent and several thousand BUSH
els We're sold for 20 cents This after
noon the price dropped back to rs
cents, at which figure it closed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
BRIEF PACIFIC COAST Ti
A Resume Of Events IN
Northwest.
EVIDENCE OF STEADY cRo,|

"e"' Gathered in All the ro.
Our Neighboring states-n
mont Noted in All Industrie,-O,
The spring fishing season on %'
iumbla has closed. The pack will,
trifie over 400, 900 cases. ''
The city council of Marsb6e1i,.
sidering the advisability of imnas
tax on business houses for the rra rsa
OF keeping the city's streets in ' ~
Subscriptions for Astoria's a.
regatta are pouring in, and the pa,s'
amount will be completed in
days. A carnival queen will bss
ed this year.
During the month OF July, in I.,, II
county, warrants to the amount d
O72.34 were drawn, while scrip j.
senting So, los was redeemed A.,
the same time.
harvesting Is well under way
some wheat has already been hanIJ
market. The crop is turning ont
better than was expected, and the
mate of 100000 bushels will
claimed, be too low for Sherman cor,
County Commissioner Kisel
Gray's river, has discovered qOli
that stream. 1t assays from 81
to the ton. With patty of AstOru9
Kissell will prospect the headwspr
the stream. He is of the opinion h
better finds will be made.
One of the largest hay corps in
history of Lincoln county has Just h
harvested. The quantity is large i
the quality is frst-class. The e,s I
lent haying weather that has prevail.
has enabled the farmers and ranch,
to care for the crop in good shape.
An expert in coal mining who
much to do with coal in the East
given the Evans creek, klamath O,
ty, coal thorough test, and prOnOuaa
1T the pure anthracite. The mine
shows nine solid feet of coal, andt|
slate streaks which were found vhd
the vein was first opened are pinchi
out. 1t is said that the coal can
put into the Valley towns for s. 4
ton.
A new scheme for getting rid Of 4
lice is credited to Southern 0pyI
man. He goes out during the heat
the day, takes pole with a hOCka
the end of it, hooks it over the wire
which the hops are supported, ID
shakes the vines with all his migi
He can shake off most of the lGl
this manner, and believes it is just
effective as spraying, and much taste
AS soon as the lice strike the dust
the ground they die.
One OF the measures OF lntereI
Oregon which died in the late sesl
of congress before it could get any C
sideration was joint resolution inn
duced by Senator Mcbride, directi
the secretary of war to cause an
animation to be made of the harbG
Astoria and to submit a plan for
improvement by inceasing its dept
width and extent, together with e'
mates of the cost OF such improvemen
1t is proposed to appropriate sS,OOOl
the purpose. This proposition '
probably have to go into the next nj
and harbor appropriation bill.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
Cigarette Making Stops

New York, Aug. 16.-Twenty. five
hundred men and women who made to.
oacco cigarettes are out of work he.
cause of the failure of the internal rev.
ehue department in Washington to
supply the deputy collectors in this
CITY with the new 81 revenue stamps,
provided for in the new tariff.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-08-19
The President VIII A,t.n,

Columbus, o., Aug. l6.-President
Mchinley has accepted an invitation
70 attend the Ohio fair at Columbus,
opening August 81.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-18
STATE SUPREME COURT.

Special to the Register
Charleston, w. Va, November IL
The Supreme Court to-day handed
down the following decisions:
Armstrong VS.. Bailey, from Taylor
county, opinion by McWhorter, decree
of Circuit Court affirmed.
Webb vs. Packet Company, from Ka-
nawha county. opinion by McWhorter,
judgment of Circuit Court reversed and
new trial awarded.
Cox VS.. Warner, from Hampshire
ty, opinion by Dent, decree of Circuit
Court reversed and cause remanded.
Hunter VS.. Charles Town, from JEFF
ferson county, opinion by Dent, decree
of Circuit Court affirmed.
White VS.. Emblem, from Ohio cOun-
ty, opinion by Brannon, judgment of
Circuit Court reversed and new trial
awarded.
Whining VS. Eakin, from Wetzel coun-
ty, opinion by Brannon, Judgment OF
Circuit Court reversed and bill dis
missed.
Prin VS.. Mcintosh, from Taylor coun-
ty. opinion by English, decree Of Cir
cult Court reversed and bill dismissed.
Wilson VS.. Youst, from Marion coun-
ty. opinion by English, decree of Cir
cult Court reversed and cause re-
manded.
Schwartz vs. Shull, from Mineral
county. writ of error and supersedeas
allowed, bond $4,000.
Adjourned till Saturday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-18

The West Virginia University offers
instruction by correspondence in quite
a number Of subjects and courses. This
will greatly enlarge its field of useful
ness and be of very great benefit to
many ambitious young men and wo-
men Who cannot for various reasons
attend the institution. If they should
afterward enter the University the
work thus done may under certain con-
gree.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-18
MORE TARIFF AGITATION.

New York Times,
..Thsre are. however. reasons why this
session might be short and busy If brevity
and business were the consistent aim OF
the men in charge. The tariff is out OF
the way. except for few amendme nts
with view of increasing the revenue. =
The Waterbury American.
So we are to be smitten again with
the blight of tariff agitation. The
interests affected by the amend
ments proposed will pack their grip
sacks and converge on Washington.
The old lobby for high and higher pro-
lection will haunt the Ways and
Means Committee room. Aud bust
ness revival will be checked, orders
will be cancelled, and the wheels of
trade will turn on half time through
another period of doubt and uncer-
tainty.
This comes pretty soon after the
Dingley and Aldrich formulation of a
tariff that was warranted to restore
our finances, deranged by the Cleve-
land administration. The Chiefs of
protection and the Republican party
are in the care of a bungling doctor
who has set a broken leg and made a
bad job of it, The patient finds the
leg useless, and they propose to break
it afresh and try their hand at reset
ting. Do they imagine that they will
have the confidence Of the people?
They are charletans and pretenders.
They killed business for four months
while they constructed a tariff that
puts burdens and letters on trade but
does not yield revenue enough to sup
port the government. Their promises
have been broken, their theories of the
operation of their tariff were wild.
They have shown themselves to be
ignorant and incapable.
But by what amendments will they
increase the revenue? The deficit for
the fiscal year up to Saturday night
was S43, pa 1863 or at the rate of So
100000 month and sos 900 900 year.
How will they make it up? By rails
ing the rates of some of their already
prohibitory schedules? That would be
performance perfectly characteristic
of protectionist fatuousness. We can
imagine Mr.. Dingley solemnly propos-
ing increased duties on articles that
are even now shut out by his extor-
tionate impost. We cannot imagine
him reducing any of the rates impos-
ed in his bill to the revenue point. A
reduction of rates for any purpose is
incOnceivable in Thoroughbred pro-
tectionist. 1t is always high and
higher protection.
Still, Mr.. Dingley must do some
thing. The terrible plumbers he has
made, together with the administra-
tons acts of omission and of COM
mission, have put his party out of
power. The chances are that the tariff
amendments will increase the popular
dislike. But he must take the risk.
He has drawn the sword of protection
and he must fight his way through
with it or perish by it,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-18
UP TO THE OLD TRICK.

The following interview in the Gin
cinnati Enquirer would seem to show
that our slick and much moneyed Re-
publican friends are already up to their
old trick of colonizing the State with
Southern negroes. These herded voters
are being placed in the Sta,e In order
to be of use in the election of 1900.
The Cincinnati paper says:
The Republicans look far ahead said
a prominent West Virginian, at the Glib
son yesterday, land they are already col
onizing negro votes in our State to hold
ii for 1900. They see that the free silver
cause is growing in our State and, afraid
that our vote will slip from their grasp,
their scheme is to bring in 10000 negroes
from Old Virginia and North Carolina
and work them until the next election,
and the business has begun. This is no
fairy tale, and l tell you some of the men
engaged in the movement. They will
scatter these importations among the
close Congressional and Legislative dis
tricts all through the coal, timber and oil
sections under the plea that they must
have cheap labor. This may react how
ever by arraying the white labor vote
solidly against them, but they are going
to try it."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-18
ALTON WOULD BE CHEAPER AND
FAR PREFERABLE.
SPAIN AND HEX TROUBLES.

There is very strong probability
that the upshot of the present embar-
| easements and entanglements of the
Spanish dynasty and its ministers
will be Carlist revolution in Spain.
Never before, probably, has there
been so great a temptation for melting
revolution and calling upon the disaf-
fected Spanish element to rally around
the standard of new monarch. The
rule of the Queen Regent has been dis
astrous in it's combination of weak
ness and stubbornness. Successive Cab
inets have failed to bring about a bet
terment CT conditions. Cuba, the rich
est of Spanish possessions. is about to
be forever lost to the Spanish crown.
The nation is staggering under ire
mendous debt The Golfers of the world
are now practically closed against fur
Their Spanish loans. The flower of the
military youth of Spain has been sac
rifced in the attempt to hold Cuba, and
there is strong protest against further
levies for that purpose.
In addition, also, there is now most
threatening army disaffection in Spain,
headed by the recalled and practically
disgraced Weyler, which, in itself, is
full of menace to the government.
Weyler, backed by the Conservatives,
has not hesitated to place himself on
record with utterances against the pres
ent ministry that fall but little, if any
thing, short of treason to the throne.
If, upon his arrival at a Spanish sea-
port, the indignity of arrest should
be offered Weyler, popular as he is with
a certain elements very serious trou-
BILE might follow.
1t is easy, therefore, to place cred
ence in the latest cables telling of a
proposed Carlist uprising to be precip-
itated by a proclamation from Don
Carlos, calling upon his followers to
support him in an attempt to over
throw the present dynasty. 1t is stated
that Don Carlos, at Venice, is directing
the movement and that his prOclama-
tion will be shortly forthcoming. The
gravity of the situation is fully recog-
nized by the European powers and tele-
graphic correspondence bearing on the
crisis is being carried on. The Papal
Nuncio has been called to Rome by
the Vatican and instructed to exhort
the clergy and the people of Spain to
do their utmost to support the present
dynasty"
1t may be as we'll to look for some
stirring and picturesque developments
in Spain before long. Civil war is not
by any means the least PROBABLE of
these developments. A change of dyn-
asty is far from unlikely. And in the
meantime, the freeing of Cuba is prac-
tically insured and war with the United
States should logically be the most re-
mote of all the contingencies now be-
ing faced by the distressed Dons.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-18

The AN Of LASI hESofI, Ut, Inc
Clients of Randolph Mason. By Melville
Davisson Post. New York: G. T. Put
MANS Sons.
In this volume Mr.. Post has done that
which especially and particularly COM
mends an author to his admirers and
friends-he has surpassed his previous
effort. and has given promise of liter
airy future as bright as that of any of
his contemporaries. THE Strange
Schemes of Randolph Mason was a very
good beginning; THE Man of Last Re-
Sort is more than a fitting continuation.
In literary merit purely, the last volume
far surpasses the first-the author is evil
IDENTIFY more assured of his ground, has a
keener appreciation of his undoubted
abilities. and has written with that conf
dence which comes of an awakened recog-
milton of power and fuller realization of
purpose. Mr.. Post made really fine
beginning-his latest venture shows
broadened and quickened ability. He has
but to keep on to find a lasting place in
the literature of our time His friends
will be his severest judges-and when one
of them at least ventures to felicitate
him upon his latest success, he will have
the assurance that he has done more than
well. In fact he has done very well in
deed
THE Strange Schemes of Randolph
Mason" was written for the purpose OF
showing the loop-holes in the criminal
law. THE Man of Last Resort has for
its purpose the exemplification of the
shortcomings of the civil law. The first
volume was ingenious and creditable; the
last is admirable. The points discussed
are selected with a wise discrimination;
the treatment is most commendable; the
plots of the stories are well drawn; the
text and dialogue are happy, and at times
the situations are most absorbing and the
entire contents readable to an unusual
degree These comments apply with par
ticular force to the first of the series OF
five stories-"The Governors Machine.
From first to last it is wrought with
master hand. and is a production of which
the most famous author might well be
proud The others are shorter do not
abound in the same wealth of detail or
the same intricacy of plot, yet are none
the less charming.
Mr.. Post is to be congratulated upon
this latest venture in fiction. 1t is to be
hoped he will persevere in this field. 1t
is a wide one.