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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04

New York, Jan. ga Herald CORE
spondent has just returned to Havana
after having visited the camp of Gen
eral Gomez After Il long and perilous
ride through country infested with
Spanish troops, he reached General
Gomez camp, December is, and found
the general in excellent health and
spirits. He was able for the first time
in many months to mount his horse and
make a long journey of inspection of
the various camps into which the men
undor his immediate command were
divided.
q. The correspondent-put before Cen
eral Gomez the programme of autonomy
to secure his opinion. The general
smiled contemptuously, after glancing
over a copy of II Havana paper contain
ing the terms, and said:
There is no use wasting time in
discussing these terms. 1t makes no
difference whether they be regarded
as liberal or not. the TACT remains that
we are not fighting for autonomy, but
for independence. This Spain seems
utterly unable to realize. We have
been told hat the autonomy offered is
an act of liberality by the mother
country to induce the patriots in arms
to resume their allegiance to Spain.
That is worse than folly. 1t is an in
suit to the men fighting for freedom.
There is not in the Cuban army one
man SO base as to accept such terms.
We will not even listen to any over
lures, and any person entering our
camps for such a purpose will be put
to death in accordance with my general
orders"
Continuing, General Gomez said he
had no faith in the ability of Spain to
Immediately enact autonomy, even in
the sections under Spanish control. but
wheter she succeeded or not, the mat
ter was OF no moment to the men in the
field, who would continue to fight. ami
mated by love OF freedom and an abso-
lutte confidence in ultimate success.
The correspondent asked General
Gomez for his opinion as to American
intervention and the annexation of
Cuba to the United States. He replied
that intervention does not necessarily
imply annexation.
II would gladly accept the former.
as woLld accept aid from any Quarter
though believe if left alone we viii
accomplish IL own Independence nm.
aided, and l am loath that we should
be robbed OF any share of the honor Of
expulsion of the Spaniards.
'As far as annexation is concerned
| cannot admit its possibility. To tbot
proposition make the anne replv no
l do to the autonomy plan: That orr
object is independence; we have anon,
us young men who have sacrificed
everything to this sacred cause. For
myself l am an old man, who now has
but n object in life, and that is IN
see the flag OF Cuba supreme from Cane
Maysi to san Antonio. We have made
fearful sacrilces and we stand ready to
make more in order to achieve HE
glorious end"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04
ROslNSON'S RECOMMENDATION


Washington, Jan. 3.-Secretary AL
ger has received two reports from zap
tain Robinson, the contract quartermas'
ter at Seattle, touching the respective
merits of the differnet trails from inc
seaboard into the Klondike country
He made a thorough inquiry at the Gi-
rection of the secretary, and IN SUP
stance his conclusions, reached after
conference with Jack Dalton and otner
experts, is that the Dalton trail Is NOV
well adapted to the uses of the govern
ment expedition during the winter Ous
that the Skagway route is probably 'io
best. The captain says he has hau al
interview with one man who claims 10
have 20, 900 pounds of beef stored az
Lake Bennett which he is Wiling 10
sell at 81 q pound. The same maj,
says he has 10000 pounds OF corr ana
20 or 80 horses at the same place, WIN
which he proposes to organize " sIe1
train into Dawson. Captain RoDlhsoh
says himself that his opinion Is tiaI
the difficulty OF reaching Dawson mas
been very much exaggerated, and tla'
a good army officer could make his way
with an expedition. Montana hoise'
should be used.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04

Denver, Jan. Ex-Governor Adams.
who is president of the Pueblo Savings
bank, received Il letter today from Brad.
ford Rhodes & Co., banking publishers
OF New York, in regard to the efforts to
be made by savings bank officials to
prevent the establishment of postal
savings banks. The governor immedi.
ately wrote a reply, in which he said.
While l can see some objections to
a postal savings banks, the bulk of the
argument seems to me to be in favor of
their establishment. The interests of
the people appear to demand that the
government should give them Il place
OF deposit that is beyond question
secure. Believing this, | oyeriook nv
interest as an investor in a savings
bank for the larger interest of tbose
who would be interested in postal saw.
Jugs banks
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04
OF FOOD IN DlT0N
Stories of a Famine i 7b,t
Country All a Hoax
SO SAYS A PORTLAND MA.

Statement of c. j. Christie, Who l.,
Dawson City November 80. 40.
, Stay of Five Weeks.
Portland, Or, Jan. 3.-"Tbero !,
likelihood of starvation at Dawson C.u
this winter. A few NAV be n]inobsSF
little before the river opens; bnt no
will actually suffer from hunger.n ="
The foregoing statement Of q ,
Christie, who left Dawson CITY Nor.D
Der 23, and reached Portland yester5ar
c~orroborates recent press disnatcbe,
Mr.. Christie, with a party of four otbe,
men and a woman, made the trin o,.
from Dawson City in 23% DAYS rr;.p
ne says is the record. He left Portland
on the first trip of the Elder, and snqrt
i've weeks at Dawson.
when | left Dawson" he said
Everybody was comfortably fixed fr
the winter, so far as provisions vera
concerned. When the boats Of ths
transportation companies were stuck
down the Yukon, the companies fnr.
nlshed transportation down the river
for all that wished to go. To those
who had money they sold provisions.
to those who had no money, they gava
work, which would enable them 10 buv
what supplies they needed. OF course.
this made fewer mouths to feed. Then
many became frightened by early re.
ports of a probable famine, and, selling
their provisions, came out over the Ice,
This, of course, added to the supplies
at Dawson.
81 found, when | reached there. Oc.
tober IS, that there was really a treat
deal of a scare. Reports had been
spread by men who came out early that
there were more supplies than needed,
and this led to the fear that none would
be brought in. This very panic led
many to leave the country, and still
further provided against famine.
Everything was going along
smoothly when l came out. Bonanza,
Eldorado and Hunker creeks are all be.
ing worked for all they are worth, and
the rich claims are all and more than
have been reported. 1 have prospeCted
a great deal and seen many rich finds,
but Dawson City is the richest mining
camp | ever saw. Numerous new dis.
coveries are made right along. When
| left, the Holmes boys, OF Albina, had
struck a claim from which it is said
they were taking out an ounce TO the
pan.
"We had no difficulty coming out,
though the ice is appended in the
river, and it is the toughest place i'm
aginable. The anchor ice which
formed in the bottom of the stream has
risen in great masses, and is piled in
all kinds of fantastic shapes.
There. We're SIX of us in the party
II woman and five strong, hardy men,
We used dogs to transport our freight
l had cached provisions along the way,
as l went in with the expectation Of
coming out Immediately, and these
We're a great aid to us. Once or twice
W. had to buy a little food for the dogs
We went right up the Yukon and over
Chilkoot summit to Dyea. The lem
perature fell sometimes as low as 10
degrees below zero, hut | didn't suffer
from the cold as much as | would with
it . below here"
Christie purchased several claims
while in Dawson for himself and Dis
partners in Portland. He will return
to Dawson as soon as he can make ar
engagements to DO so.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04
Pilot steamer Smith Seized.

Mobile, Ala, Jan. 3.-The Pen7a'
cola pilot steamer Smith, supposed 10
be engaged in a flibustering eH"Jai'
ton, was seized today by agents o jthe
treasury department. A crew from the
revenue cutter Seward went aboard inc
steamer tonight, and a gang OF men Is
transferring her coal from one bunker
to another in search OF contrao'hu
cargo.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04
OPENED FOR EXPORT.
Havana VIII Again Resume ~Shippinl
of Tobacco.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. ga special to
the Constitution from Havana says:
From a responsible source comes the
information that the port OF Havana
will be opened to expectation within ~
hours. The port was closed by Cap
tain-General Weyler's edict of May Il,
1896, for the purpose of cutting off the
tobacco industry of the United States,
particularly of Tampa and Key West,
from the supply. General Weyler did
this, he claimed, to insure permanent
employment to the disconnected cigar
makers in Havana during the trouble
some times Of war, but it is understood
that his special aim was to paralyze the
Cuban colonies in the United States
from which was coming the fostering
strength that made the insurgents for
midable. There are about 70, 900 bales
of tobacco now choked in the ware
houses of Havana, ready to be shipped
to the States the moment the port is
opened. 1t is said the + is promis-
ing, all of which indicates that brighter
days are dawning for the paralyzed
commerce of Cuba and the cigar fac
tories OF the United States.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Comprehensive Review OF the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CuIled
From the TeIegraphic Columns.

Ballie and Waldo Orem, children,
were asphyxiated by coal gas at theil
home in Leipsic, O.
The barge Canistee, which went
adrift off Cape Cod, has been found in
Barnstable bay, with all the crew well.
The Auditorium at Kansas City, re-
Gently burned, will be rebuilt at once,
and will be ready for occupancy Sep
TENDER /.
In a saloon row between Kentucky
mOuntaineers at Manchester, Will
Burdy, James Philpot and Bob Gregory
were killed.
Veins of gilsonite of sufficient size to
warrant development have been dis
covered OF Willow creek in the Middle
Park, Colorado.
NJ. Tunakoshi, japanese vice-consul
at San Francisco, has been hurriedly
recalled to Toxic. 1t was thought he
would be secretary to the legation at
Washington.
The French embassy at Washington
denies that NJ. Maillard passed through
Washington en- route to Cuba to invest
igate for his government the conditions
on the island.
Jacob Stryer and wife were cremated
in their burning farmhouse in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania. Within 48
hours, six others burned to death in
that county.
Frederick Walsen, state treasurer of
Colorado, was married to Miss Emma
Storck, aged 20. After the war, Wal
sens broken health was nursed back by
the brides mother.
The burgomaster of Wieschowitz, a
suburb of Prague, has been arrested.
Many compromising papers concerning
the recent riots in Prague were found
in his possession. 1t is alleged that he
assisted in placing the bomb under the
German schoolhouse at Wieschowitz,
which the Czechs attacked and at
tempted to demolish recently.
Fire destroyed the large pipe organ
in the Great Northern hotel, Chicago,
entailing a loss of $50, 900. Although
the fire was confined entirely to the
organ, it sent out such clouds Of smoke
that many Of the guests became
alarmed, and ~ serious panic was nar-
rowly averted.
Sheepmen in Southern CoIorodo ore
losing thousands of sheep by snow and
extremely cold weather.
80,
pony has roJucad ~,oans ~ aa"S Gol
at Srnorior OK $3.50 49, o"' i'P"''e'S
~, '"''
Inc schooner Ballora L~oherman,
N"Ptaln RUNNER from south River,
- DI''on' lounueteu Wl'nout
T".i''S Su,'1ay morning OH il'sllahd
"sn'' No "NoS were lost
Charles W. Wlnkler, a brakeman on
the Columbia ~ Puget Sound railway,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04

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5-"'' gu, y ,'-o,
Ld L. Parker tried TO XIII u D.;
sheets Il VIE IN Los angeles ana
;rGun ,i;.L nv ''o shno ""'
,
JOhh Bergman, VINO los' ms money
on the Chlcaso ooala Oh 'Iaue' COM
mltted suicide IN New York leaving
Leu'gert attorneys ul"oIet u secure
d s'ehogr"Pher AZ st"Ie EXPENSE are
taxing Gown tne Vrial IN iohg manu.
which may continue II LOT months
0an lu[nef' 4 oEihg negro; was
ISilcileu a. hinEStree, . ~ ne H'lleu
DepuIy Fo;'on CHRISTMAS eve "n'.uur,
NV we s'''o''"s 'tcC-'N" " -"oI'"'
"oui"'
GLADSTONE e~e!eor"'eu ms ooVh Olrth-
o"y. Lo teoei'e" many c~oneI"'ui"-
'iois "O C"ine', ms "e"'tli Is I'M
Plo,l1s! 'IiousN "o " SuIeii"h iloLn
NeuI"is'"'
llenly Oll'er 0oiusIl'tn' " val
so 200 UloNIi 10 ""!'eU iol S'e",,ns "
F''ooU JiIecN' oe'olgIns 10 CSc"r "e'sI
noI' VI DiooNiSh his NIc'''"S are s"'u
~ MANY
Many coIllerles IL Sllesla are proyid-
Gu mlvn poinDS n'ieu WIN comPresSeu
oAyson lG' use ~ o"'vs oi "lG''ent or
eii'ta"Go in'o o'o s"'lerleS where the
c'
Lee rat cut the throat OF Lee Tong,
IN San Franclsco's Chinatown. The
n nmioe was o"usii' III .he "c' oy an
Dgo : "9Selis0i' vi " S''ee' '"I WIZ
No9seu 'ne 0i'ine'
The lO-year-old daughter of Simon
Barrlnger was accidentally killed at
Glenoalr, Cal, by her brother, two
Se".S ?lueI, III d p''S Iul struggle lof
poao''Sion VI gun
by the Will OF Mrs. Henrietta r.
Files Baker, $4,000, 600 is bequeathed
to the pennsylvania hospital, contln-
gent upon the death of the son and
VI 'lo 'eS'"lIIN without lssue'
Mrs. Elizabeth Ellidge, aged SO
years, is dead in Breckenridge, Mo.
she was the mother OF u children and
haa 81 g~randchlldren' AZ great grand
chllareh ana on great'great-gtandchil-
oien'
An imperial decree has been gazetted
IN Vienna, authorizing the government
curing the propagation OF parliament
TO levy taxes II provide Tor state eX-
penaltures from january to June 80
NeA
MISS Jennie Edwards, aged 10, and
a. n. AcMasters' members OF wealthy
families residing near Hopkins, Mo,
were Killed IN Il runaway. Miss Ed
wards skull was crushed by striking a
post.
Judge Woifard, OF Kansas City,
stopped a mt between lawyers by re-
marking: thereafter when lawyers
talk about fighting in this court, [
snail Adjourn court, and let them fight
1t Il t
An engine and a caboose on the Chi
. Hammond q Wrstern left thu
track while crossing 4 bridge yer Salt
creek, two miles north OF Lagrange,
Ill.,, and plunged into eight feet Of wa
ter. Six men Were injured.
Farmer Lawrence Walters. of Cass
county, Mich, buried 50, 800 in yrean.
backs and $4,000 in government nonds
notes. mortoages. etc hera,rb tbo Haor
OF his barn some months ago. Robbers
dug up the treasure and tlSlpOplrpu
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-04
Civilian witnesses in Court Martial.

aAa u
Washington, Jan. 3.-The naval an.
thorities have long regarded as unsatis.
factory the provision of laws relating
to the administration of justice in naval
court-martial, which are not empow
cred to secure the attendance and testi-
mony OF civilian witnesses. 1t often
happens that important facts are exclu-
slvely known by civilians, and their
testimony is required before almost
every important naval court.martial.
1t rarely happens that witnesses that
can avoid SO doing are willing to appear
IN such cases. Secretary Long saws
that from an examination of legislation
on this subject, it does not appear by
any means clear that congress Intended
10 W. courts-martial in such a posi-
ton. He has submitted to the naval
committee a bill to remedy the defect
without giving courts undue notice.
The first question involves only an ey-
tension to the judge-advocate OF naval
courts'martial and courts of inquiry
power now possessed by udge.advocates
OF army courts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-26
Put Him on Ice.

The young knight Of Anacosua was pay
ing court to the fair maiden of George
town, says the Washington Star.
She was rich and beautiful and he was
neither, but he had a persistence that is
rarely found outside Of book agent or life
insurance circles. such qualities mean sue
cess sometimes. but not always
Added to the young knights persistence
was tropical ardor and fervid spirit that
so often make the native Anacostan and
have made his fierce and ceaseiess strug-
giles against the bobtan street car line
one of the carmine chapters of the his
tory of the capital.
Two weeks ago the fair maid was on the
eve of departure for summer rest in tie
mountains or by the sea, and the young
knight made the car tracks hot getting
over from Anacostia to Georgetown, ere
some hated rival might appear before he
had made a few important and serious re-
marks on the condition confronting him.
He found her at home and alone and he
fastened to state his case with all the
frenzy of a philippe.
1t was silly TO present such an appeal!
to summer girl, just as she was start
ing out On her summer campaign, but
men in love don't do wise things.
The maiden tried to set him right, but
he would not hearken.
He was worse than ever and warmer.
Then she read the riot act TO him.
What" ne exclaimed would you have
me cold and distant to you? To your"
and mis- soul went into his hands out
stretched TO her.
YES" she replied.
But how can I?' he inquired.
She became more business-lke in her
tone.
Well" she said, whats the matter
with joining one of these North pole par
ties that don't come back? There's dis
lance enough in that. and nobody has ever
compIained of the warmth. l think"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-26

tn tell you of the only announcement
1 ever received since / began to play the
VIOLIN and that's many years." said a
hard working amateur the other night,
according to the New York Tribune as
he stretched his neck toward his music
stand to make out difficult movement
which he was trying to play.
Lets hear IT, said his friend, for 1t
was a blessing to have him stop playing.
"Well, it was this way 1 was spend
ing my vacation at my music teachers
house in the Adirondacks. One day after
practicing some hours on the same piece
that you heard me playing now, my teach
er came to my room and suggested that
there was a nice place to practice in
the barn, and by doing so l would oblise
her and her mother, who was sick in the
adjacent room. Well, of course, L felt
somewhat hurt, but l was not going to lose
my daily practices and went to the barn.
1 got into the hayioft and began to play.
In about half an hour I was surrounded
by rats that squealed and cut up all sorts
of capers. 1 often heard of animals being
charmed by music, but nothing could
make me believe it until now.
wen, do you know, 1 never was so hap
by in my life; to think that all my time
was not wasted in trying to be a musician.
/ always like rats since then, and 1 was
tempted to trap my barn audience for fu-
ture use. l was pleased to see that l had
at last charmed some one with my music.
l felt like catching them all and bringing
them home for future encouragement"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-26
4 bloody Record.

The latter half of the current month
will go into the records as a particularly
bloody period In the state of Georgia.
There have been more men killed in this
state during the past two weeks than the
United States navy lost during the whole
time of the war. The average has been
nearly one a day, and the newspaper re-
ports each day have contained items tell
ing Of crimes of violence resulting In death
or serious injury The bloody period be-
gan on Aug Is, when one man cut the
throat Of another in a court room in At
Ianta. The next day the dead body Of
an inoffensive German citizen was found
on the streets in this city. The day fol-
lowing a bootblack was stabbed to death
in Atlanta and on the same day a negro
was waylaid and shot near Sylvania.
These crimes have been followed in sue
cession by murder in the military camp
at Augusta, a lynching in Brooks county,
the double murder of Mrs. McGarfah and
her son in Sumter county, the Smith-God-
win murder in Lowndes county, and two
other shooting affairs in the same county
on the same day; the stabbng of one
brother by another at Odum, the shooting
of a preacher at Smiley. and the killing
of a Democratic leader at Cusseta. This
record does not take into account various
minor difficulties involving pistols, knives
and clubs.
Georgia, however, has not been alone
in this unfortunate business of killing.
The epidemic OF crimes of violence seems
to have spread over a considerable part
of the country. Arkansas has been sim
iarly afflicted, and so has Mississippi and
California, and New York and other
Northern states have not been exempt
What has been the cause of the epidemic?
Certain scientists who have made
study of criminology say that the weather
has a great deal to do with murder and
suicide; that many of the most atrocious
crimes have been committed in the sum-
mer season, when the suns hot beams and
the humidity produce nervous irritabnity.
Animals go mad in summer they say
hence it Is a reasonable deduction that
man goes mad also, and in his heat
madness kills or mains. If, however
there is anything in the heat theory of
the origin of epidemcs of murder, the
madness takes different form in different
parts of the country. In the North, for
instance, several of the recent deaths have
been occasioned by poison. In one case
poisoned candy was shipped through the
mails from San Francisco to a woman
in Delaware, and in New York in two or
three cases poisons have been administer
ed, or the attempt made to administer
them, in various forms The would-be as
sasslns adopt the method of the Borgias
those most detestable of murderers.
The law, however, takes no account of
the alleged midsummer madness which
the scientific men talk about, and it is to
be hoped that the machinery of the law
will be put into motion at once in Georgia
for the purpose of wiping out as far as
may be possible the red blot of the bloody
closing half of August
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-26

The late Bishop William Ingraham Kip
of San Francisco was a very lovable old
man, but, says the News Letter. consider
ing that he was a churchman, was very
proud of his aristocratic family connec-
ton. He came from an old Dutch family,
his ancestors having sailed over to New
York from Holland 300 years ago.
Having considerable private means, and
not being dependent upon his diocesan sal
airy, the bishop made frequent trips to Eu-
rope and upon his return from abroad he
always committed the indiscretions, not
uncommon with European travellers. of
talking a great deal about the noble per-
sons he had met. 1t was, MY friend
Lord This and MY relative. Lord That"
until even the bishops admirers felt
rather tired.
One Episcopal layman, a hard-headed
business man, proud of his American birth
and in love with his democratic ideals,
was especially Disguised.
THE bishop gives me a pain" he said,
frankly. Besides he isn't on to his job,
he continued. He seems TO know all
about every lord in creation except the
Lord God Almighty
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-26
Polite Young Barbarian.

Somebody over near Dupont Circle owns
small boy who is Enthusiastically destined
for greatness, says the Washington Post.
He was playing in the circle the other
day. and mite of a girl presumably his
sister, was annoying him nightly. Pres
entity she tried him too far and he gave
her push chat sent her headlong to the
pavement. Her screams attracted the at
tention of everybody except her nurse,
who was gossping with another nurse
some distance away. The usual woman
who reproves other peoples children was
on hand, however.
ooh. little boy" said she, what made
you strike your little sister? Don't you
know it's very, very wrong to do SOP"
The boy went on with the hopscotch dia-
gram he was drawing.
"Oh" he remarked, unconcernedly.
chats all right. I'll feel sorry by and
by. and then I'll ask her pardon like a
little gentleman. Thatll fix it,