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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-08-30

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Aug. 20.
HOGS-Market steady with Saturday.
Range OF prices, 81. 6O@3.S 7X.
CATTLE Good cattle steady.
Sales ranged at %. 3OG3.5O for stockers;
&1.7593.5O for cows: $500 for heifers;
r. 1OG4.4O for steers.
SHEEP-Steady.
Muttons, x3. 80; lambs "a. SOFAS. 90.
Receipts: Hogs, 600; cattle, $500; sheep,
4, 500; calves, 90.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05

Endeavor Junior work in Idaho, Mrs. Ida
NJ. Weaver having resigned.
c. C. Fuller, until recently private sec
rotary to Senator Heitfeld, will take ed
itorial charge of the Boise Sentinel, Sena-
tor Heitfeld's paper
The Lewiston Light Company effected
a reorganization this week, increasing the
capital stock of the company from Sl0,-
600 to $4,000. The growing demands
for lights have necessitated increased
power. and the company has decided TO
establish a power plant on the Asotin
creek, two miles above Asotin City IN
Washington. The company will also sup
plv Asotin City with lights.
Latah county commissioners have made
public their report of the county home
for the period from May -, 1897, to Jan
uary !. 1898. The expenses of the farm,
including superintendent salary, were
Sll97.59. From the sale of produce,
$34l.72 was realized. The average num-
Der of inmates was 10, and expenses per
day of each 81 cents. During the year
$54G.62 was spent on permanent improve
ments. In 1897 go bushels of wheat were
raised on the farm, 500 of oats and 400
of potatoes and 80 tons of hay and 10 OF
carrots and beets.
The report made by State Superintend-
ent Anderson to the bureau of education
at Washington contains some interesting
figures. 1t is for the school year ending
August 3, 1897 The report shows there
were 1927 school children in the state
between the ages of and q years, p, liz
males and 1886 females. The average
daily attendance was 22,645; the number
of buildings used for school purposes GIG
and the number of teachers 793-29o
males and 405 females. The average
monthly salary of male teachers was sci ;
/ females. Sal.
A verv interesting suit has been brought
in the district court at Boise i'll the name
of the state against r. S. Browne and
those who were his bondsmen when he was
treasurer of the board of regents OF the
state university. 1t is brought to recov
er S5925 lost by Isaac W. Sheriff. o
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on a university
building fund warrant. The case Is one
that has attracted considerable attention
at different times, owing to the peculiar
manner in which Mr. Sheriff. lost the
money. The warrant was sent to Browne
for collection. He was banker. lie pur
chased draft for the amount from hi
own bank, held it and sent it on Just be
fore his bank failed.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
THINKS WAR IS INEVITABLE.
Views of the Partisan Papers on the
Strained Relations.

Paris. Feb. 2S.-The Temps says of the
Maine Disaster THE facts so far pointed
out lead to the theory of a submarine
mine. but there is also this argument i'll
support of this being due to design, that
the federal government would have I'M
doubleday spoken out at once if the sup
position of accident had been confirmed
If such is the case. President Mckinley
will have great difficulty in preventing 4
conflict
La Patrie thinks war is on the point of
breaking out between Spain and the Unit
ed States. but advises the latter to think
twice before engaging in conflict Spain :
army and navy, it says, is composed CT
seasoned and tried men, whereas this quail
ity is absent in the forces at the disposal
of the United States. The American fleet
is organized for defensive war As for the
American army. ii is still to be brought
into existence.
The Echo de Paris expresses hope that
European statesmen will be found to i'll
tervene with the view to the maintenance
of peace between the United States and
Spain" Continuing, the paper says it r}'
CARDS the dissolution of the Spanish corte-
as an encouraging symptom.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
SECRET SOCIETY EXISTS.
Warden CatrOn Guards Against
Opium Smuggling.

Walla Walla, March Warden Catron
has been in the city in consultation with
the police authorities, and said that he
has taken precautions, as he suspected
that Leonard Harrison, convict released
Friday, would attempt to smuggle opium
into the prison. Harrison is still in Walla
Walla, although, as is customary in the
case of discharged convicts, he received Il
railroad ticket to Seattle, from when lie
came two years ago, having been SEN
fenced for grand larceny. Mr. Catron has
for some time known that there existed It
the prison a secret society among the con
victs. each member of which is pledged to
aid the others when opportunity offers.
Although the strictest discipline is main
tanned at all times the men are able TO
communicate with each other in a manner
which is mysterious. and all manage to
keep pretty well informed as to what is
going on and as to the movements of their
fellow conyicts. This is not the first time
that the warden has seen fit to use extra
precaution, but this is the first time that
the matter has become public. How Har-
rson expected to accomplish his object is
not known. but it is safe to conjecture
that he would leave nothing undone to
attain his end. He was one of the ring
leaders in the attempted hospital break 4
year ago last January and forfeited then
his full quota of good time His move
mcnts in the city after his release were
suspicious. He was seen visiting many of
cribs in Chinatown, and. coupling this
with the well known fact that a great
many of the prisoners have been addicted
to the use of the drug and would give al
most anything and run all risks in order
to get the dope, led to the suspicion that
Harrison would attempt to help out the
incarcerated men.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
GUARDS IN EVERY STATE
Nearly Eleven Million Men Avniia-
able for Military Service.

Chicago, March IA special to the
Times Herald from Washington, D. c.,
says: According to report placed be-
fore President Mckinley there are now
available for military duty in the United
States l0,730,576 able bodied men, and of
these 2,OS2 are already in the military,
forming the nucleus of a tremendous
fighting force This is without consider
ing the skeleton United States army,
which could, on short notice, recruit up to
100000 men.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
Fire Mt Cortex. Colorado.

Denver, March IA special to the
Rocky Mountain News from Cortez, Cob
saws:
The entire business portion of the town
has been destroyed today by fire, which
originated in Blockner's hotel. The loss
can not be estimated at this time, but it
is thought the loss on the buildings will
be in the neighborhood of $4,000, and
the damage to stock will exceed that
amount.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
TRAIN STRUCK AN OMNIBUS
Seven Pleasure Seekers at Chicago
Were Killed.

Chicago. Feb. 2S.-An omnibus con
tanning nine persons, eight of whom
were young men and women, who were
on their way to attend a party in the ho-
tel at Blue Island, was struck by a Grand
Trunk passenger train at the Western
avenue crossing south of Blue Island at
0 o'clock at night and six of the pleas
ure.seekers were killed almost instantly.
None escaped serious injury.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
Ex-Confederntes EnIistinG.

Middlesboro, Ky, Feb. PA card in Il
local newspaper asking eX-confederates
to form regiment to serve in case Of
war with Spain, has brought more than
enough responses to fill the ranks from
southwest Virginia. east Tennessee and
Kentucky The originator of the idea
now contemplates the formation OF dl-
vision to be commanded by Fitzhugh
Lee
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
A ROYAL Visitor.

Bremen March 1.-The North German
Llovd steamer Kaiser William der Crosse
sailing for New York, takes among her
passengers Prince Albert of Belgium,
nephew of King Leopold and heir appar-
ent to the throne, who is to make an eA-
tensiye tour of the United States.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05

Quincy. Ill.,. Feb. 27.-Lieutenant More.
head. commander of the Quincy company
of naval reserves, received orders to no
tifv members of the company to hold
themselves in readiness to report on six
hours notice The orders came from Lieu
tenant Commander Porter of Moline, chief
of the battalion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
.Iuneau Wants the Assay Office.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-The memorial
sent by a committee appointed at mass
meeting of the citizens of Juneau, Alaska,
to Chairman Stone of the house commit
tee on coinage, weights and measures,
advocating the establishment of United
States assay office at Juneau, instead OF
at Seattle or Portland, has reached here
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
Flesh Dropped From His Bones.

Lebanon, Mo, Feb. 27.-The boiler at
Bunche's mill, at Ryan, rs miles south
east of here, blew ont, knocking Bnnch@
30 feet into the saw pit. He crawled out
of the sluice of hot water, walked quar-
ter of a mile to his home, with flesh fall
ing from his body. After suffering in
tensely for 10 hours he died.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
Metals.

San Francisco. Feb. 28.-Silver bars
55sc; Mexican dollars. 45A@46c.
London, Feb 2S.-Close; Bar silver is
quiet; 25sd per ounce.
Lake copper--Strong; brokers, $ll.20.
Lead-Bull; $500.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
Oregon Lumber to vIadivostock.

San Francisco, Feb. 2S.-The Pacific EX-
port Lumber Company has chartered the
big British steamship Ailsacraig to carry
lumber from Portland to Vladivostock,
Siberia. 49, = A4-A.A
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
Genealogical.

Old Resldent-An' how mony ehilder nov
yez? -, -, 49,. bnsband's
srst wife an two by me first husbins sec
oud wife.-Puck.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05

it the last stage of the advance of the Gu
bans toward independence. The catastro-
phe has caused the death of 254 unfortu-
nate sailors, but it has also saved the lives
of millions of combatants, for it ensures
the final triumph of the instruction be
fore many weeks"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
knights of Pythins.

Kimball, Neb., March Information
has been received at state headquarters
here from Major General Carnahan that
he had rendered the president the services
of 10000 Uniform Rank Knis gifts of Pyth-
las in the United States, when required,
for war. Prospect of war causes activity
at state headquarters Orders were issued
mastering in a new company at Blair The
order i'll Nebraska has A companies.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
The Denial.

Washington, March mo orders have
gone out from the department to the YES
sells of the squadron today, and the oili-
cials stamp as without foundation the Re
port that the squadron was ordered to
be held in readiness to sail for HAVANA.
No advices have been received at either
the state or navy department that would
warrant the statement that Spanish off
cials in Havana have attempted to throw
obstacles in the way of work on the
Maine hull.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
The First Battle

New York, March "A dispatch to the
Herald from Paris says;
In the Intransigeant, Henri Rochefort
rites: "To really grasp the situation the
explosion of the Maine must De regarded
as the first battle between Spain and the
United States. As for US, we only see In
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05
Idaho.

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state superintendent of Christian
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-05

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The age-herald., 1898-09-25

Co attack the roadted. burn the ties and hold a celebration over the downfall of the foreign devils fire water horses.
 In the eighties General Liu Ming Chang, governor of Formosa, a Chinese soldier, with the statesmanship rare among men of his class built road on that island, running from Kelung, a coal port on the north, to Twatatai, the capital, and thence to Kwa-leng- ting, on the south, altogether 50 miles. For his rolling stock he took that which had been confiscated at Shanghai and imported additional locomotives and cars from abroad. It made a tremen- Aous sensation on the Chinese mind and did an enormous business. It suffered severely from a trouble which could on- ly occur in China. When the natives leaNed that railways in Europe and Ap~ lea paid damages for injuries in
 ed Upon people by the rolling stock, &ey concluded the same principle would <)ply in Formosa. Helpless old men and women would bid their families for three and four generations a long fare well and then go on the railway track end throw themselves under the wheels of the first train that came along. The family would present a claim for dam ages, and at first the government would pay the bill. The first death brought, 1t is said, 1000 deaths, the next 800, the next 250, and then the claims began to come in so rapidly that Liu Ming Chang issued probably the most extraordinary law ever framed It makes felony of committing suicide on railway track or of an attempt at suicide or of assist ing, fostering or recommending such suicide. and to strike a blow at the root of the evil it confiscates all the property of the suicide and his acces- 0ories.
 The new law stopped the suicide busi- ness entirely. SiNce the Japanese took The island, in 1894, the road has been extended southward and is expected to reach the south cape before the end of the century.
 At the present moment the Chinese seem to have recognized the error of their ways and to have determined to enter the ranks of civilized nations. The government has created a bureau or de- partment known as the Chinese inn perial railway administration, of which the head, or director general, is Tao-tai Sheng, who is known to the outside world as the stalwart friend of the great premier Ii Hung Chang. He opened his work in September, 1897, by increas- ins the force upon what is known as the Shan Hai Kwan railway, which runs from Tien-tsin northward into Manchuria and of which he has finished the surveys to the capital city of Kirin and partially completed them to Tsi Tei liar.
 This latter part of the work, how ever, will now be done by Russia under one of the new concessions. He has n old Shanghai -Wusung road, which will be in operation this fall. He has also been the active agent behind the various rail- way concessions granted thus far. and in his official proclamation. which was approved by the council of state, he an- nounced that the Chinese government would build or have built three great trunk lines-one from Picking to Canton. l,5O0 miles long; one from Shanghai up the valley of the Yang-tse river to Tibet. 2.soe miles lons. and one from
The age-herald., 1898-09-25
Copyright, l89Sa

Szechuen. Prince Henry of Orleans re- ports that the British railway is rap- idly approaching Mogaung, on the up- per part of the IraWadi. and that a branch is being built eastward from Bhanlo and is close to the Chinese frontier
 From here it is but a few miles to Yung Chang Foo, Stunning Foo and Yunnan Foo, the capital of the prov ince. From Yunnan Foo a railroad can be sbuilt along the valley of the upper Yang -tse to Soo Chao Foo, one of the important cities of Szechuen, which is about 200 miles above the great com- mercial port of Chung King Foo. Chung King Foo is now visited by light draft British steamers, running from Hankow and Ichang. The English are working hard upon this route in order to fore stall the French, who now have a con- cession from their territory of Tonquin up into Yunnan and also into the proy- ince of Kwang Si.
 A branch road from the British line at Yunnan Foo could be built to the headwaters of the West river, scarcely 50 miles away, and thence along the valley of that stream to Canton and to Kowloon. the suburb of Hongkong. The English have displayed remarkable en- ergy and forethought and have com
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

Canton or Kowloon westward along the Si-kiang, 1,500 miles to the Burmese frontier and thence northward into Szechueh. The first work has begun upon the Canton-Peking line, and it is fair to presume that all three will be under construction i1i the next 12 months. Lest any adventurous Ameri- can thinks the Chi.ese railways are a good field for him to enter, the price paid to railway employees are append ed. They are as follows in gold per month: Railway telegraph operators, S20; linemen, S8; locomotive engineers, s1i; assistants, s9; brakemen, $4; fire men, $5; laborers and section hands, s3; yardmasters. s15; machinists, $10; machinists' assistants. $4.
 How many concessions Russia has ob- tained or extorted from China is un- known. Muscovite statesmen have the oriental genius for keeping q secret, and their achievements in Picking are known only in part to the outside word. Count Cassini. the great Russian em-
The age-herald., 1898-09-25
The Oriental Octopus Which Under the Inspiration of the Dowager Empress, Has Entangled Many Statesmen
 ln lts Strong Tentacles,

place is also on the road which Russia will build to Port Arthur. Thus the cZar will have the benefit of China's own progressive action as well as of the labors of it's diplomats and engineers. How much work has been done by the Russians in the past year has not yet been made public. Russian light draft steamers now run from Amur into the Sungari, reaching Tsi Tsi liar on one branch of that great river and Khoton on the other. There are also Russian Garrisons or so called engineering camps at all of the cities named in Manchuria, so that this part of Russia's programme has been carried out to the letter. In 1901 the Transsiberian road will be finished, and at or before that time it will undoubtedly be possible to step into a train at St. Petersburg and step out at Picking.
 The Hankow-Peking railway, over which the Bear and the Bull are now growing so vigorously, presents no se- rious difficulties to the engineer. It
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

runs almost north and south, its length being about 700 English miles. The land is of modern formation and consists of the deltas of the Yang-tse, the old and new Hoang-Ho and the Pei-Ho. A line drawn from one terminus to the other encounters no mountains and meets low hills at only one point Rocks are scarce along the route, the native building ma- terial being brick and terra cotta.
 If, instead of pursuing straight line, it follows the ancient imperial post road, the distance will be 800 miles and just as fiat, excepting in the neighbor- hood of Kai-fong-fu, on the Hoang Ho, where there is line of handsome hills.
 Strategically the Hankow-Peking road will be of the greatest value. 1t will carry large army from one place to another within 48 hours and will con- meet Peking and Tien-tsin with the out CT world during the winter season, when at present they are icebound and prac- tically isolated. It will be a counter balance to the Shan-hai-kwan railway, which, when extended, will make Pe- king two days distant from the Russian rails across Siberia.
 If it be controlled by Russia, 1t will be | a perpetual menace to British interests in the Yang-tse valley, the richest and
 most valuable part of the Chinese em-
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

plete surveys for road from Hongkong to Canton and partially complete sur veys for it's continuation from Canton to Woo -Chau and sketch surveys from Woo Chau Sin Chau to Szeching and to Ming Hien, which lies south of Yum nan Foo and nearly 300 miles west of Hongkong. If this road Is finished, 1t will revolutionize the immense trade between India and China. The running time from Calcutta to Hongkong at 30 miles an hour would be but three days, whereas the time consumed by the mail steamers is two weeks. This part of China, at which both England and France are directing their political and commercial eyes, is remarkably rich and also undeveloped. In minerals and lum- Der Yunnan and Szechuen are undoubt- edly the richest portions of the empire.
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

It Was famous capital 1900 B. c. and
 has complete records for more than 20 centuries The Hoang-Ho is navigable for light draft steamers, so that the city could be made naval base for the con- trol or the river up to Tung-Chang, in the province of Shensi and probably much farther. The southwestern line
 would connect central Shangtung with the Yang-tse valley and pro ge for
 midable rival to the Hankow-Peking
 and Chin-kiang- -Tien-tsin INrltes and to
 the Grand canal itself. The sc called
 Shanghai-Peking railway concession
 should be styled the Chin-kiang- -Tien-
 tsin, as its termini are these latter and
 not the former cities. Tien-tsin. howev-
 CT, is already connected by rail with Picking. so miles away, and Chin-kiang
 Is the first treaty port on the Yang-tse above Shanghai and connected with 1t
 by many lines of steamers. The con-
 cession for this railway was obtained by a aChinese-American of rare ability. Yung- wing of Hartford. He Is a Yale man and is also a titular tao-tai in China. He obtained his concession last January and in tho fro as..i--e ~< ti.~-pvr- mission he displayed the technical skill and knowledge of the civil engineer and the proyerbial acumen of his race His road runs parallel with the Grand ca- nal and, in fact. uses the bank of that famous water course to a greater or less extent.
 This gives him a model roadbed al- most ready for use, while the canal en- ables him to transport his supplies and permanent equipment at a minimum expense Further than this, the popula- tion along the line is familiar with for eigners and friendly to commerce. It will not manifest the same fierce an- tipathy to the iron horse as will most of the inland districts of ~r "a. The
The age-herald., 1898-09-25

pire. If controlled by England, it will prevent further encroachments by Ger many westward from Kiao-Chou through Shangtung or by Russia south- ward from Siberia.
 While the British government pre- serves a discreet silence in regard to the progress of it's railways in Burma travellers report that the engineers are untring and that the roads are crawl ing both northward and eastward from Mandalay. Great Britain has a treaty with China which permits free inter- course between Burma and the great province of Yunnan and it's neighbor,
The age-herald., 1898-09-25
TCopyright. 1881

The railway is so essential a part of Dur civilization that it Is difficult to un- derstand why the Chinese, so wise in most respects, have been so bitterly op- posed to its introduction into their country. The first that was built there was in 1876. It was constructed between Shanghai and Wusung by British firm and was 12 miles long. It did splen- did business and paid about IS per cent per annum, but it excited so much an- tipathy and tendency toward rioting that the Chinese government bought it up from its owners. sent the rolling stock into storage and allowed the mob