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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
Bid Day At GARDENAS
Torpedo Boat Damaged
By Spanish Fire.
ENSIGN AND FOUR MEN KILLED

Gunboats Wilmington and Hudson Were
in the Fight but Were Uninjured-
Dead and Wounded Taken to Key
West-Caused by Carelessness.
Key West, May Ann erica's first
dead fell yesterday in a fierce and
bloody combat OF Cardeuas, on the
north coast OF Cuba. Five men we're
blown to pieces and five we're wounded
on the t~orpedo-boat Winslow. The
dead are:
Worth Bagley, ensign.
John varveres, oiler.
John Denly, tirst-class fireman.
G. B. Meek, tirst-class fireman.
E. H. B. Tunnel (colored), cabin
cook.
-Four were wounded.
The battle lasted 30 minutes. It
was between the torpedo-boat Winslow,
the auxiliary tug Hudson and the gum
boat Wilmington on n side, and the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
PACIFIC COAST A
Seattle Market.

Potatoes-Yakimas, Sl1@12 per ton;
natives, $500; sweets, exc per pound;
box OF go pounds, $l.75.
Butter-Fancy native creamery,
brick, 20@2lc; ranch, lO@12ci dairy,
10 @l6c Iowa fancy creamery, 2lc.
Cheese-Native Washington, Fla
l2c; Eastern cheese, Ice.
E~ggs-Fresh ranch, l4kc; California
ranch, l4c.
Meats-Choice dressed beef steers,
Sc; cows, 7@7hc; mutton, 816c; pork,
&c; veal, small, Sc.
Poultry-Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, lac; dressed, 16c; turkeys,
live. lac; dressed, 17@lSc
Fresh Fish-Halibut, 6@7c; steel
heads, rose; salmon trout, 9@lOc;
founders and sole, 8@4o; tom cod, &c;
ling cod, ACT &c; rock cod, DC; smelt, so
5c; herring, 4c.
Olympia oysters, per sack, S3@3.25.
Corn-Whole $23. %50icracked, per ton,
s24; iced meal. $24 per ton.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
S26; whole, $50.
Flour-Patents, per barrel, $4,000
5.25i straights, S4.75; California
brands, $500; Dakota brands, 5000
@S6. rs; buckwheat -four, SO. so.
Millstuffs-Bran. per ton, SIG; shorts,
per ton, $l7@lS.
Feed-Chopped feed, s21 aga per
ton; middlings, per ton, $l8@l9; oil
cake meal, per ton, $50.
Hay-Puget Sound, new, per ton.
S10@l3; Eastern Washington timothy,
$17; alfalfa, $l1; straw, 81.
Oats-Choice, per ton, $4,000.
Wheat-Feed wheat, per ton, $40.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20

Wool-Southern coast lambs, 7@8c;
San Joaquin. 7@9c; Northern, IL q l2c
per ID.
MISUNDERSTANDING, 1913 @25. so;
California bran. $40. 90 a 30. 80 per ton.
Onions-Silverskins. 81. 90 q 90 per
GENITAL.
Butter-Fancy creamery, zoe; do
seconds, 18hc; fancy dairy, 19c; good
to choice, l7@18Hc per pound.
Eggs-Store, IN a l2c; ranch, 1917
@l3c.
Fresh F~ruit-Apples. 85c a 81 so per
large box; cherries, 75c@$l.0O; do
red and white, $4,000 per box.
Citrus Fruit-Oranges, navels, $l.OO
@2.50; Mexican lines, $500; Cali
fornia lemons, 75c@$1.00; do choice,
&l.25@l.50; per box.
Hay-Wheat, 1913 @26; wheat and
oat, S21 gas; oat, $14. so l6. so; best
barley, s1s@2l; alfalfa, $l3. O@
IA. 80; clover. $l8@l5.
Cheese-Fancy mild, new, l0c; old,
l0c per pound.
Potatoes-Early Rose, 80@40c-
Hops-l0@l4c per pound.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
Took Carbolic Acid.

Long Creek, May l4.-Word comes
from Canyon City that Jack Mcdonald,
a prisoner in the county Jail, commit
ted suicide Tuesday night, by taking
carbolic aoid. Mcdonald was arrested
several months ago for assaulting a
Chinamsn with a deadly weapon. He
was sentenced Tuesday to two years in
the penitentiary, and Immediately after
on being taken to his cell, he swallowed
a half ounce OF carbolice acid, expiring
10 minutes later.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
OREeON's SUGAR INDUSTRY.
The Trans-Mississippi Fair Will In
doubtedly Give 1t Great Impetus.

a proposition on foot at the Omaha
Trans-Mississippi fair this summer
which is Of vital interest to Oregon
farmers, is the manufacture of sugar,
illustrated by a plant in operation on
the ground. The complete process, it
is said, will be illustrated and all
grades of the staple article will be
made in plain sight of spectators.
In connection with this project, ac-
tive interest has been manifested by
the Oregon commissioners. Specia,
representatives of the commission have
visited the Grande Ronde valley and
the Willamette valley, and have ac-
quainted those interested with the plan
for showing the progress made in late
years at utilizing the most plebian-
looking plant known to the agricul-
turist.
In a general way it is stated the sub
ject of sugar beet growing will be treat
Cd from The time lhe seed is planted
until the crop is matured and will be
practically exemplifed.
Arrangements have been made to
demonstrate at the fair that Oregon's
wonderfully fertile soil is especially
adapted to the growing of the beet,
and that ii capital in the middle west
ern states is seeking an outlet in this
promising industry, Oregon offers the
best advantages and every inducement
to come here. 1t will be the purpose
OF those in charge OF Oregon's exhibit
to explain what has been done for the
industry at La Grande and to show
that Willamette farmers will do the
same for q factory here.
The agricultural college faculty,
which has enlisted its support in a
gratifying way, will arrange complete
EXHIBIT OF Oregon soils with scientific
analysis, This will be displayed in the
horticultural building at Omaha and
all queries relating to soil and crops
will be answered in a most complete
and satisfactory manner. Whatever
shall be accomplished for Oregon at the
Trans-Mississippi fair will be practical,
as the commissioners have had that
end in view in all they have under
taken to do.
r. D, Inman, of Portland, who is
largely interested in working for the
success of the Oregon display, SAYS that
he is satisfied hat the Omaha exposi-
ton is to be a great success and that
Oregon will reap beneficial results in
greater proportion from the fact that
the exposition city lies In the path OF
thousands bound westward after gold
or a home this season. 1t is nearer
home and the attendance at the fair
will be drawn from all the transmits
sissippi states and the East. If the
Pacific coast states want more people
to settle in their borders, additional
capital and fresh industries, Mr.. Inman
most heartily believes this is the time
to let the world hear from US. Too
much cannot be done for immigration,
for upon future immigration depends
Oregon's advancement.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
The Garrisons Surrender.

0Onuon' May l4-The Evening News
1T" san Juan de Porto Rico surren-
e'ed at 8 O'Clock yesterday evening.
ioro ulspatch adds that damage was
imnyo the city and that a number OF
TEr'9nt buildings collapsed.
|,bit.n Iowa and Detroit, according to
,ih .S dispatch, fred 43O shots with ter
New York was hit once. and one
nan was killed and four wounded.
vo,o ~ was hit once and two men
|wirds 'Ilghtly wounded. The dispatch
As up with announcing that the
swo;.Oan heet is, now outside San Juan
Ice, ns the coming of the Spanish
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
SAW TWO TORPEDO BOATS
Spanish War Vessels Sighted or Nan.
tucket Shoals.

NV ShDdlS-
New York, May l4.-Tbe British
steamer Menantic, which arrived YES
terday, reports that two torpedo.boats
were passed near Nantucket shoals yes
terday. Captain Mann said:
AT about l o'clock on the morning
OF May II, in latitude 1880, longitude
49, a long, low-lying craft was seen an
preaching under the shadows of the
Menantlc's smoke. 1t came along ran.
IDLY and was seen to be a torpedo boat.
1t flashed a light on us and crossed
under our stern, going to the east, and
fired a rocket, which was answered by
dot-and-dash flashes. The night was
too dark to distinguish anything OF the
nationality OF the stranger.
AT daylight, about 20 miles east of
Nantucket south shoaI lightship, an
other torpedo-boat was seer in the line
OF the sun which dazzled the water too
much to make her Out plainly. she
was OF the destroyer class, and a verv
large boat with a large funnel. Guns
were mounted on the bow. She APP
peared to be one Of the recent English
type OF torpedo-boat d~estroyers, and
am sure there is no vessel of her class
in the American navy. The Menantic
ran close to the lightship on Nantucket
and reported to the presence of the
torpedo boats"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
Portland Market.

Wheat-Walla Walla, 97@99c; VAL
ley and Bluestem. 99c@Sl per bushel.
Flour-Best grades, 81. 90; graham,
81. So; supertine, 81. 10 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white, 44c; choice
gray, Sac per bushel.
~Barley-Feed barley, s24; brewing,
$50 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $40 per ton; mid
dlings, $25; shorts, $40.
Hay-Timothy. $12@lS; clover. $11
ola; Oregon wild hay, 5000 per ton.
E~ggs-Oregon, lie pei dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 85@40c;
fair to good. 3O@35ci dairy, $4,000
per roll.
Cheese-Oregon full cream, 1870;
Young America, l3@l4c.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, SO. 90 per
dozen; hens, $4.o 0; springs, So. 50@3;
geese, So o q 80; ducks, Sc. OO@
8 so per dozen; turkeys, live. l2@l3c
per pound.
Potatoes-Oregon Burbanks, 80 @40c
per sack; sweets, Sl.75@2 per Genital.
Onions-Oregon, $2.25@2.50 per
sack.
Hops-6@l2Hc per pound for new
crop; 1905 crop, 4@6o.
Wool-Valley, I4@l6o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, s@l2c; mohair.
25c per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4ci dressed mutton. eye;
spring lambs, loo per 10.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, 81. 30;
light and feeders. 80. 90 a 90; dressed,
80. per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross. top steers, SO. 500
400; cows, 81. 50@3.25; dressed beef,
6h@7c per pound.
Veal-Large, 5@5Hc; small, SO
&C per pound.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
Australian Conf for Japon.

The price OF coal in Japan has risen
very greatly Of late, far beyond any
expectation. Australia has been ship.
ping coal to Japan and owing to the
high price Of the commodity has found
the venture a paying one, notwith-
standing the proximity Of the Chinese
coal fields. A slight fall in prices,
however, will stop the Australian i'm
ports.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20

Lugano, Switzerland, May l2.-The
latest reports from Milan indicate the
rising OF the people has been mastered.
Troops have been pouring into the
city all night In all parts Of Milan
whole streets were torn up by the mob.
Not O pane Of glass Is unbroken, doors
are mostly torn down, and on all sides
can be eeen the remains Of fires and
wrecked furniture and other household
goods. In fact, there are portions OF
the city practically sacked. Trouble
also occurred at Treviso, Verona, Ba-
duca and Brescia.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
He Had Beef for Havana

New York, Special. - The British
steamer Ardenmohr, which sailed from
Guiana, April 20, for Havana, with a
cargo OF cattle, arrived in this port to-
night, having been unable to reach her
destination owing to the blockade OF
Cuban ports by United States war
ships. The ship, when of Matanzas,
April 81. at $3.50 P. M, was boarded
by a boats crew from the Cincinnati,
and her captain was told that, owing
to the blockade, his vessel could not
enter Havana.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
DEWEY RAISING GUNS

Securing Those on the Sunken Span
ish Ships.
Washington, May IA. - Secretary
Long this afternoon received the fol-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20

An exhibit at the TRANSIT Mississippi
exposition which will be noted with
the deepest interest by the entire medi-
cal fraternity will be the baby incuba-
tor, and the progress of the poor, puny,
little lives that will inhabit it will be
watched by thousands Of eyes. The
invention is designed to assist nature
in preserving the lives Of newly born
babes who are too frail to battle for ex-
istence, and the records show that
since 1891, when it was first intro
duced, 1t has saved several thousand
human creatures by forcing pure ozone
into their lungs, providing an ever
temperature for their sensitive little
bodies, and protecting them against
the thousand and one dangers to which
these tiny newcomers in this world are
exposed,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-20
The General Exhibit

The success of the Oregon display at
the Columbian Fair at Chicago will be
repeated on a far more comprehensive
scale at the TRANSIT Mississippi EXPOSE
tion, which opens in June. The state
commissioners appointed by Governor
Lord, having in charge the work Of
preparation have gone actively to work
and not a day has been lost. Funds
are pledged, there is over 5000 feet of
space contracted for on the ground
floor Of the department buildings at the
exposition, and everything is progress
ing toward a successful end.
From the time the subject was first
preached the proposed Oregon exhibit
at the fair has met with popular favor.
The advantages to be derived from the
advertising which every section OF the
state will receive there this year. seem
to be clearly realized. The advan-
tages, it is believed, will be greater in
proportion than came from the Column
bian fair, although in hat worlds con
gress of wonderful sights Oregon did
appear as quite a factor. The salmon
fisheries OF the Columbia, the wool
growing industries. the mines and
stock OF Eastern and Southern Oregon,
the fruits from Hood river and the
fertile Willamette valley, and the
varied other of this state will
be represented.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
MIR. KIPL1NG,s REPLY

Mr. Rudyard Kipling has been the re-
clpient of a graceful compliment from
the antipodes, A Dr. Nichols, who was
an enthusiastic admirer of the works of
the Anglo-Indian writer, recently died
at Port German, South Australia. and
his friends inscribed on his tombstone
the last verse of Kipling's "L'Envoi." A
photograph sent to Mr.. Kipling elected
the following letter:
Dear Sir.--I cannot tell Won how
touched and proud I am to think that
you found any verses of mine worthy to
put on good mans grave. You must
be a brotherly set of folk at Port Ger
main to do what you have done for the
doctors memory, and here in England
| take off my hat to the lot of you There
IS nothing mans people value more
than the knowledge that one of their kin
mas been decently buried when he has
gone under in a far country, and some
day or other Port German will get it's
reward, VIII you send me a copy of a
local paper so that l may know some
thing more about your part of the world.
What to do? What to expect? What
back country do you serve? And how
many are there of you? I want to learn
further particulars as the papers
say. Thanking you again for your court
esy, belleVe me, very sincerely yours,
Rudyard Kipling.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
MOMEN IsPLIT LOGS.
From the Buffalo Commercially

(From tine Bu1alo commercially
Splitting logs is the vocation followed
by two women in the woods back of
VANS station, Pennsylvania, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Annie and
Mary Wilson are the names of these
two women. They are sisters They
split rails and make pit posts and caps
for the Spring HIN Coal Company,
whose works are between Wilmerding
and Walls. They do all the work of
Telling the trees, saving them into
proper lengths, and finally with their
axes splitting them into pit posts. They
are assisted to some extent by their
younger brother. The girls work to-
gether always and can swing an eight
foot cross-cut saw through an oak tree
with apparently as much ease as some
women run a typewriter.
When the tree is sawed through and
ready to split, one of the girls sets an
iron wedge into one end of the log and,
with large maui weighing about 20
pounds, drives it in, splitting the log
from end to end. The operation is re-
peated until the log is split into sizes
for posts. Then the axes are brought
into play and the posts trimmed up and
shaped. The girls come from Indiana.
THE work is not hard when you get
used to it." said one, land then we can
make more money splitting rails and
making pit posts in one day than we
could in week working in kitchen
What's the difference, so long as the
work is honest how one earns a living?
Although 1 work hard every day, rain
or shine, I never get sick. 1 was never
sick in my life. The people around here
all talk about us, but we don't care for
that We are earning good living and
don't owe any one a cent"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
MUD HUTs OF RUSSIAN AMERI-
CANS.

l followed several of these families to
their homes, distant from 10 to so miles
from the railroad, and was always made
shyly welcome as a friend OF DIR. Young,
whose influence over them is unbound
ed. Having been told that they lived
like pigs in mud novels, was prepared
for some very unpleasant experiences
during my stay with them, especially at
night; but in every case found the an
ticipation much worse than the reality.
TO be sure, all the houses that | visited,
with one exception, were constructed Of
mud: but so is every brick building in
the land, and these Russian dwellings
were far from being novels. All had
board floors and contained at least two
rooms. While those of the more recent
arrivals were built of sod, in every case
where the proprietor had been two or
more years in the country his house was
a, long, low but neatly finished and very
substantial structure of sun-dried brick,
made of mud mixed with straw, and
differing in no way that | could see
from the adobes of Mexico. The franz
ing of unhewn cottonwood timbers
hauled from the nearest river bottom,
and in many cases the interiors were
ceiled with boards. The roofs were of
closely-laid poles or rough boards COW
cred six inches deep with adobe, while
glass windows Many of Them as pic
turesquely foreign in appearance as
though transplanted bodily from Rus
sian steppes, were neatly whitewashed
both inside and out, while often both
doors and window castings were painted
a bright blue.-Kirk Munroe, in Febru-
ary Harper's.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06

Hall when the play is repeated Tuesday
evening.
Miss Susie Partridge is in New York
studying decorative designing.
Mr.. Rockefeller, who gives such large
sums to religious bodies, says: "The
poorest man know is the man who has
nothing but money"
A meeting was held Saturday after
noon at the house of Mrs. T. C. Menden-
han In the interests of the Massachu-
sets Association Opposed to the Exten-
sion of Suffrage to Women and was at
tended by perhaps $50 ladies, most of
them prominent in either the philan-
thropic or the social life of the city. Mrs
Nathaniel Paine presided, introducing
as the first speaker Mrs. Sedgwick, the
wife Of Prof. w. T. Sedgwick Of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,
Boston, and a former student at Smith
College, who gave a comprehensive pres
entation of the leading arguments for
and against the admission of women to
the suffrage, arguing in an exceedingly
clear, reasonable and able manner
against extending to them the power of
franchise
Mrs. Sedgwick was followed by Mrs.
A. j. George of Brookline, a graduate of
Wellesley College, who urged those
present to attend as far as possible the
next hearing on the suffrage bill at the
state house, and answered arguments of
the suffragists not touched by Mrs.
Sedgwick. She also described the organ
ization of the association opposed to the
extension of suffrage, The association,
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
DEFINITION.
(From the washington Stars
y T IT
10 Charlton street

(From the Washington Starr
SCI didn't know whut it wah when I
was invited" said Erastus Pinl1ley,
IAN 1 didn't know whut it was while
was dar. BUT now dat rs done got
away an hab a chance ter fink it ovuh
knows whit it is; does fob sho'.''
"Whut is you tall1in 'bout?" inquired
his companion,
rs talkin' bout education; OATS
whut I is. De reason mo- people doesn'
show sense is because dey doesn' stop
an give dey alps brains a bump err two
SOS ter explanify fob dahs'fs, std O.
askin' questions
You wah talkin' bout bein some
place las night"
"Yassir l was to symposium"
''Whut's dat?"
'Dar-you is; dar you is. Da's jes'
what | bin talkin' bout. You wouldn't
use yoh min an make de skivvery fob
yohse'f. You gotter AK somebody"
Does you know whut it means?"
"Co'se I do. An I didn' ak nobody
neither. Now, I'll show yer jes' how
it's done; I'll give yer some facts ter
Wuck on so you kin draw yoh own con-
clusfons. 1t costs % cents ter git inter
de place; blackberry an gin costs Is
cents err drink, an if you took ladv
out to supper, you couldn't get er pigs
foot fob less'p 10 cents. Now, whut
does you call dat?'
"Da's er-er-wha' d'you you say Won
been las night?'
It's symposium
Whut do dat mean?"
II mean dat. when you gees to one
er dem de natural fo'gone conclusion is
dat you gifts supposed on.'
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
DEATH OF ALLEN FAIRBANK.

Chicago, Jan. 31.-In a little house,
such as might have been the home of
a person in the poorest circumstances,
there died at Wheaton last Saturday
Allen Fairbank, who was accounted one
of the wealthiest men of the town. A.
servant, who was the only person at his
deathbed, said that he was worth some
thing like $500, 900, mostly in stocks and
real estate mortgages, purchased with
money which was the slow accumula-
lation of years.
Fairbank and his wife, who died two
wears ago, and the servant were some
IL years ago the central figures in one
OF the most sensational robberies in the
history of Du Page county. Fairbank
was suspicious of the banks, and kept
his money hidden about the house. At
the same time he was somewhat given
to Boosting of his wealth to travellers
who passed his way.
One might several masked men APP
peared and demanded Fairbank' S
money When the old man refused to
give them anything, or to tell them
where he had hidden it, they stripped
off his shoes and applied the flames
from lighted lamps to the soles of Ais
feet. They applied the same torture to
his wife, but neither could be induced
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
AMERICAN INDUSTRIES IN
GERMANY.
(Chicago News.l

1t is a noteworthy fact that nearly
every American firm that has come to
Germany during the last few years has
succeeded in remarkable measure, pro-
vided only that caution and sound bust
ness principles have been coupled with
enterprise Thus there is an Ohio cash
register firm that established a branch
in Berlin couple of years ago. At first
they were in small, cramped quarters.
Now they occupy palatial offices in the
leading thoroughfare, and their trade IS
thriving all over the empire. They en--
ploy a large force of men, and make
plenty of money. 1t is the same way
with the typewriting machines that are
being imported here and that sell like
hot cakes. The one that was first in the
field now has number of competitors,
and all of them are doing finely. The
German machines as yet cannot com
pare with theni in efficiency, although
they sell at a much lower figure.
The American laundry system was in
troduced here a few months ago by a
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06

German-American named Henrici. The
system took" because of its promptness
and reliability in delivery and because
of it's low prices. Now there are three
competitors in the city alone, and all
are making money. Several Chicago
firms are among these successful inno-
vators. One of them, publishing firm,
is Just now issuing the best and COM
paratively the cheapest subscription
work on Bismarck yet seen, with hun
dreds Of excellent process pictures based
on instantaneous photographs. Only the
American insurance companies, which
for a time fiourished like a green bay
tree, are in the dumps, because the Prus-
sian government will not rescind its or
der forbidding their doing business ac-
cording to their American methods.