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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-06-23

3The RasizRsas situation % seen BIZ
! America's LeadlAa Colpsnes-
81 ssSf n & cinf Agencies. 81

New york June sn-R so. ,ppnsA Co.'S.
weekly review OF stra0e 5ay@h TITS one
ofSthe frequent paradd xe1s1f bnainess that
the one thing which nov. makeSsprlces rise
the only thing that clouds the future.
they rise in iron -, .n g y heat beea use
Ipnged and real, would much ilnpiir pros
perity. In wheat it does,not seefk re. bereai
nor In iron lasting. and meanwhile other
elements of prospect tys 81 continue potent.
1t is great tAtnaEth exports Of gold have
caused no appfeh AnAt hScAuses Srecog-
mixed o. mere horro NinISsby foreign bank;
ers, the May return OF foreign commerce
ports. inSspite Of q decrease Of 50 centsEin
the exportsprice Of wheat. and a large In
crease In Imports In II months the excess
Of merchandise exports has been $4s5. 000. 900
and the bankers estimate that $260. 0O0. 900
worth Of securities have been returned
from Europe. with SO few in, recent months
that the amount remaining to be dislodged
is probably small. 1gas:5ysss.s ssss 81
The scarcity of .ironsis real, in spite Of
the greatest productions ever known in this
or any other country. 25s,o62 tons weekly
June 1. against 250.0s5 May 1, for stocks
were reduced 1902 tons in May ,indicat-
ing q consumption Of 1,1s0, S6s tons. against
10000 tons per month last year, the great
est ever known. Consuming demand does
not seem to diminish and appears greater
because it falls, upon works crowded for
months ahead with contracts at lower
prices, but some Of 1t is speculative and
would cease with prospects Of lower prices.
With more furnaces going into blast; ten
last month. production will overtake the
demand after q time, and the largest buy
ers of finished product for implements and
car works and railroads are taking moth
ing to cover next years needs. e.
Failures for the week have been 1856 in
the United States, against 233 last year. and
Is In Canada, against 20 last year. 49,.
+Bfadstreet's says: ''AdYices as to! dis
tributive trade are in the main very IA
vorable.s Hot weather has stimulated re-
tail, business and orders for fall delivery
are reported in larger volume and earlier
than for years past. At some centers, in
fact. less than the usual effect is looked for
from seasonable midsummer Influences.
This is, however, best Illustrated in the iron
and steel trade, which displays unex-
ampled activity as regards summer pro-
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the physicians in charge would offer
very little hope to his family and
friends. He continued to lose his vigor
and grow weaker. On Sundayan Mon.
day he presented an improved condi-
ton and his family took new hope,
and late Monday afternoon there were
many expressions that Bland was get
ting better. -. E.
About ten o'clock: Tuesday night.
however, he fell asleep and continued
in that condition until death relieved
him. e
Richard Parks Bland was born near
Hartford, Ohio county, KY, August 10,
1885: He was left an orphan at an early
age, With the. money which he earned
during the simmer months he was enabled
to attend school in winter. In this way he
secured an academic education. When he
became OF 'age he taught school and earned
money to continue his education While
ne was teaching school he studied law
and was admitted to the bar .
= In 1855 he left Kentucky and went to
Missouri. He remained in that state but
a short time and again moved. This time
ne went to California and later to Virginia
City, New. In 1869 he settled in Lebanon,
where he followed his profession. -
In 1873 he was elected to the Forty-third
congress and was returned to the Forty
fourth. Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth. Forty.
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiji
tieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty
third. He was not a member of the Fifty
fourth congress, but was elected to the
Fifty-fifth as silver democrat. Hes was
also elected to the Fifty-sixth congress
In 1896 he was candidate for the nomina-
ton for president before the democratic
national conventions He was defeated by
William J. Bryan. Mr.. Bland was one OF
the original silver men and was the author
of the famous Bland bill.
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The STRICKEN TOWNS


New Richmond, Wis, June 1.-THE
;ornado that has swept out of existence
he prosperous little city. Of New Rich:
nond is the most disastrous in point q
fatality ever occurring in this section.
The exact number of dead is still UNI
known, but twill certainly reach 100,
and very probably win considerably ex-
seed that figure. s s{ 4. =. + s,5., s.
AS soon as the news of the disaster
had reached the outside world offers
# help and help itself began to come
into the city. St. Paul, being the rail
road center to which New Richmond
vas tributary, was first to learn of the
storm and its attendant woes, and with
n two or three hours sent the first re-
lief train with physicians, nurses, hos
pital supplies and commissary stores
Tor the people Of the stricken city. A
'econd and q third train soon followed,
and speedily peighboring cities in Wis
,onsinl sent in all they could gather for
heir needy sister city, ~ s...~ @.>5 ~
Herman, Neb., June 15.-Ten were
killed and about IS injured in Tuesday
Nights tornado. It is thought all are
now accounted for unless the storm. has
been more disastrous in the country
than now anticipated. Not single
building in the; town is left. '''..
The loss of property aggregates $780,
900; which. means something appalling
for the Inhabitants 81 the peaceful lit
tie village. One hundred buildings have
been completely destroyed. Only; six
structures remain intact, three in the
north and the same number in the
south part of the town. These com.
prise four residences, the schoolhouse
and one church. The population is in
a pitiable condition. Those who lost
their homes, and there are about 500
Of them, are absolutely without re.
sources and must depend on public
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:famished companions. Three long
straws and one short were ciif and each
man took one Of the straws. The poor
fellow who drew the short straw was
Immediately shot and eaten. A little
later second onewas thus disposed Of,
and hall Lee ana his Matchmaking
cofJpaHio on learning in some secret
manner that their lives were still in
danger, decided TO flee across the Grand
canyon and there seek refuge among
so1he gof Indian tribes with which
they were mors or less familiar.
Lee, afternany difficulties, succeed.
ed insgetting out of the Grand canyon.
and, striking anaold Moki trail reached
Cataract creek. This he crossed, and
on finding a suitable place camped here.
where he remained for some time. He
still had his rifle with him, but no'am-
munition, and being unable to snare
any game he was driven for subsistence
to the prick1y pear, the fruit of the
3Amole and such roots and barks az were
edible. Had it not been forf the fright
full desert which he dared not cross
without q supply of food and water he
would have attempted to reach the
Mokis, but as it was he was compelled
to stay here and hope that he would be
found by some passing Indians and
thus rescueds gsssssssg, /, ..I..
From the Oldest son of Kohot, thelate
chief Of the Y ava Supais, ii, learned
that he was Eventually found by mem
bers of the tribe, but was half crazed
for want of food and water. They
blindfolded him and led him down 4 Sc
cret trail to their villagem the h cart
of Cataract canyon. Here he stayed for
two years, or at least while two crops
were harvested. He taught the Supais
improved methods 1T Irrigation and
showed them how to- make powder and
bullets. In a side canyon Immediately
below Bridal Veil$ fallso4 is a we'll
worked mine where sargentiferous,
galena is found in large quantities.
This was melted up into bullets, and,
on my first visit. to the Supais over ten
years ago, found remnants of Lees
crude smelter still in existence;
Kohot's son tells me that when the
second crop had been gathered from
their fields, Lee traded his rifle to him
for pony and saddle and took his de-
parture under the guidance of a friend
ly Supai who led him over the intricate
mazes of the Coconino forest and across
the Grand canyon to the Mormon set
Element at Harmony in southern Utah
Here he stayed for awhile and then
moved to the south of Paraia creek,
where Glen and Marble canyons join
in great break of the canyon walls,
Here, with his eighteenth wife, Lee es.
tablished the ferry that still bears his
name; although he here dropped the
notorious name of Lee and was known
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Riot in Buffalo.

Buffalo,; n. y, June IA gang of be-
tween 80 and 40 stevedores and freight
handlers Tuesday night climbed aboard
the whaleback Samuel Mather, lying at
the Minnesota iron ore docks, and
opened fire on gang of about so iron
ere handlers who were working in the
hold of the vessel. Between $50 and
200 shots were fired. John Malyek, 80
years old, was shot in the back and is
not expected to recover. Joseph Ma
rick was shot in the shoulder and Mike
Smith received bullet in the right
shoulder. The injuries of the two lat
ter men are not serious. Sixteen of
the attacking party were arrested. The
trouble was caused by the ore handlers
referring to the freight handlers as
"scabs.''
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'BE4RA YED HIMSEI d,
An Unwritten Chapter in the His.
tory Of John D. Lee.
How the hinsleader1 Of the Mountain
Meadows Massacre Escaped, was
Captured Years Afteryvard,
and Executed.

Especial Pasadena (CaLJ Letter.l
September, 1857, there occurred at
Mountain meadows, in southern Utah,
an event that, when the news was pub
hshed, thrilled with horrors the whole
civilized world. r5'.%5EF.. ~, tIj-F,f..
= A party of emigrants from Arkansas,
after passing through Salt Lake City
on the way to Los Angeles, CAL, was
set upon by Indians and disguised Nor
mons and 100 men. women and chill
dren, some Of them lying sick and
wounded in their wagons, were ruth
!essty murdered. What added fierce in
dignation to the horror with which the
news was received was that the mas
sacre took place while the emigrants
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TWO OF LEES FAvoR1TE WIVES.


useful in carrying out his plansf in
southern Utah, where he is said to have
had great influence both with the Nor
mons and Indians.
Accordingly Lee, was secretly warned
of the action the church had deter
mined to take and hidden to flee into
hiding. When the United States SOL
diers visited his home near Beaver he
had fed. His last wife mo. 1S) states
that he told her that three others of
the perpetrators in the massacre Eac-
companied him. Not having had suf-
ficient time to procure food they were
forced to subsist upon what game they
could kill and the roots and berries
they could find. They journeyed down
one of the side canyons which flow
from the north into the Grand cany on.
Here they accidentally stumbled upon
a valuable gold mine, several nuggets
from which he subsequently brought
home and disposed of for large sums
of money, one fetching $40, another
$50. The soldiers kept hot on their
track and Lee and his companions had
several narrow escapes, At one time
he barely got away from the soldiers
on 81 horse Mormon friend supplied.
him with just as the soldiers arrived.
When Lee and his companions were
satisfied that they were no longer the
objects of pursuit they started back to
their newly-discoyered mine. When
they 'eared the spot they were in a
starving condition, and were finally
driven to such desperate straits that
they decided to cast lots to determine
which of the four should be slain that
bis body might supply food to his
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Pingree Criticisea the Legislature.

Lansing, Mich, June 17.-Gov. Pin
gree marked the closing day of the leg
islature by sending in veto messages
which were made Incidentally me-
dunn for holly ,criticising the .legisla-
trre for alleged failure to carry out
the peoples wishes. The governor We
toed the amended beet sugar bounty
bill, and also a bill appropriating $4o,-
900 for state building and exhibit at
the Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo. The beet sugar bill, as originally
passed, had been recalled from the
governors, office, the governor having
recommended that the amount paid
any sugar factory be limited to $25, 900
annually. No limit was inserted, how
ever, in the amended bill, which re-
duced the manufacturers bounty from
a cent to half cent pound.
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"Jim'' Howard Not Killed.

London, KY, June lib. B. Golden
arrived here from Manchester, and says
"Jim" Howard had not been killed by
the Bakers. When last seen Howard
was carrying on his shoulder a Win
chester rifle and had 1.-TWO revolvers
,buckled about him.ass. The tension is still
high, and it takesdittle 70 start asensa-
ton. The c1ans%are gathering. The
Bowlings and Jacksons are coming TO
the aid Of the Bakers and the Whites
and Towards are getting in their fight
sers 1881 KS T.!
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SAVED BUT UNHAPPY.
She Bewailed Having to ApDear In .
FlanDel WFapper In
LfHehO0f.

The wise woman who travels sleeps
In peignoir and has warm slippers
ready to put on If the train runs off the
track or the ship goes down in the mid
die of the night. A certain woman who
goes to Europe every spring tells low
she was dressed when the Oregon went
down and she, with the other passen-
gers, escaped in the Iifeboats. The
mysterious something that struck the
ship or that the ship struck sent her 10
the bottom in less than 30 minutes, and
as the catastrophe took place at six
o'clock in the morning few passengers
were dressed for the day. Several wom-
en- appeared in worsted slippers, neat
dressing gowns and had lace scarfs tied
| over their heads, quite as If they had
expected the summons and prepared
for It,
The woman who tells the story was
not an experienced traveller She wore
a befrilled night dress and along cloak
She was barefooted. In that costume
she arrived in New York, and she says
that in all the horror of the accident
she did not cease lamenting her insult
able apparel. The cloak probably
saved her from freezing to death, but Il
was purely by accident and not with
any thought of emergency that it hap
pened to be near at hand, in her state
| room.
1t is unnecessary to say that the same
woman is not only provided with WARM
and easily put on garments when she
travels now, but she sees to it that they
are slightly as well. ct isn't pleasant
to be seen in an ugly flannel wrapper,
even in ifeboat in the open sea- she
| says. Il sometimes wonder why wom-
en- can buy such hideous materials for
dressing gowns and then how they can
have them made up in such unbecom-
ing fashions 1t isn't necessary to look
we'll when escaping from a railway
smash-up, fire or shipwreck, but IL
is necessary to wear something and it
is as easy to jump into pretty gar
ment as an ugly one. 1t may be hard to
believe, but while the men rowed aud r
crouched in the bottom of the boat and
we bobbed up and down over the waves
and women wept and prayed I could
not keep my eyes Off a Russian princess
who sat huddled up in blanket, minus
wig, teeth and Diminished
at least one-haf and looking more dead
than alive. She had been one of the
bellies of the ship."-N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
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Flood in Texas.

!, Laredo, Tex, June 17.-The Rio
sGrande' reached the highest stage since
gls76. The; waterworks and ice plants
Of both Laredos were both flooded and
compelled to shut down. This caused
i suspension Of work at the Mexican
National machine shops and such other
Concerns as get their water from the
Sity mains. Many. houses of poor peo-
pie along the banks on both sides were
flooded or washed away, and their con-
tents swept down the river - *
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BYGONE BADGE OF THRIFT.
suranee Signs On HOuses
STEP.

One by one the old fashioned things
are falling away, until the middIe-aged
man of to-day can find very little left to
remind him of his boyhood days. It
used to be the habit OF years ago for
fire insurance companies to label the
house on which they had taken q risk
It was matter of pride for the house
holder to have small embossed metal
sign on which was stamped in gilt let
ters: "Niagara," or "Aetna," or "Pru-
dential," or something Of the SORT
tackled on the gable end Of his porch It
was an indication that he was bust
ness man, and took life seriously One
rather pitied, in those days, the family
Of the man on whose house there was
no insurance sign. It indicated that
the head Of the house was probably NOT
. good provider" and unthrifty.
One day lately man was walking
from his home to his place Of business
He looked at the houses as he passed
with idle curiosity. He stopped sudden
ly in his walk, arrested by small metal
sign on house porch. The house was
built of ancient bricks; it was clearly
old-fashioned, so oId-fashioned that
the little insurance sign, from which
the gilt had long ago been washer
by the weather, had not beer
taken down. Its discovery recalled
the fact to the man that the by
gone fashion of insurance signs ON
houses had stopped without his having
noticed it, and he wondered how long
ago it had been, and IL IL had been
gradual or sudden, and why he had not
noticed it before.
But it is fact; this little badge Of
thrift has gone out Of usage. probably
because fire insurance has bccome -
necessary and common that Il u noe
worth while to call the attention Of the
world to the fact that you are protect
ed against loss II Jour house burma
Kansas City star.
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ostensibly were under a flag of truce
of the Mormons, Which promised them
safe conduct.
1t was a full year before the news
of this frightful massacre reach ed the
ears of the outside world. Who was re-
sponsible for it? Who ordered it?
Were the Mormon authorities its au-
thor? These and many connected ques-
tions will never be answered know
ingly until the day of Judgment, when
the secrets of all hearts shall be re-
vealed.
But, according to his own confession,
garded as one of the most Influential
men in the Mormon church in south
ern Utah, largely aided in the plan
ming and carrying out of this atrocious
massacre. The Mormon church claims
that Lee and his fellow murderers
Matched out this plot without TIL cir in
structions, knowledge or connivance.
But Lee, when tried for his sha ARE of
the murder, and afterwards ina writ
ten confession, distinctly charges that
Brigham Young and the other authori-
ties of the Mormon hierarchy gave the
commands which led to the perpetra-
ton of the foul deed.
This is the question at issue which
will never be solved this side of the
judgment day. But there are pages in
the later life of Lee which have never
before been written and which were
discovered by Mr.. w. w. Bass, one of
the pioneer trail-makers into the Grand
canyon of the Colorado river, and my
self, from several reliable and differ
ent sources.
Pieced together the story is some
what as follows: After the massacre,
Lee claims to have acquainted the
church authorities with all it's
details, and received instructions from
Brigham Young as to the distribution
of the property stolen from the emil
grants. For some years subsequent to
the deed he was in high favor because
of the implicit obedience he had given
in carrying out the alleged rules of the
church in the matter. But when the
Gentle world became so aroused that
the general government found it neces-'
sary to endeavor to arrest the perpe-
traitors of the foul crime and see that
they were rightly punished, Lee claims
that the council of the Mormon church
determined to make him the sacrifice
which should appease the popular fury.
Brigham Young, however, was much
attached to Lee, as he found him most
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BLAND rs DEAD.
Noted Missouri Congressnaan Passes
Peacefully Away ut His Hone
Near Lebanon.

Lebanon, Mo-, June 16. Hon. Rich
ard Parks Bland died at his home near
here Thursday morning peacefully,
and without apparent suffering.
64 Mr.. Bland returned home when con.
gress adjourned in March and soon
suffered q relapse from an attack Of la
grippe. For more than two months he
had been confined to his home and his
health has: gradually declined. He
thought he would not survive the at
tack from the first, and showed his
thorough knowledge Of his conditi ion.
On the Sd of the month Mr.. Bland sud-
denly grew worse, and his sons, who
were in school, were summoned home
and for the first time the public was
informed of his critical conditions
From time to time since then the pa
tient showed signs of Improvement, but
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as Maj. John Doyle, his full name be


as Maj. John Doyle, his full name be-
ing John Doyle Lee.
Lee claims that he returned to civil
ization because his manhood asserted
itself and he was tired of being regard
ed as hunted criminal and fugitive
from justice. He claims to have acted
under orders in the massacre, and there
fore to have committed no crime. Why,
then, should he be in hiding?
It was while he was thus living at
Lees Ferry, under the name Of John
Doyle, that J. Hanson Beadle, the we'll
informed traveller and writer, found
him. In his book, 1.-THE Cndeveloped
West" written before Lee was arrested
and executed for his participation in the
massacre, Mr.. Beadle clearly evinces the
fact that he regarded Lees. being at
the Ferry as still remaining in most ef-
fective hiding, for he says: IF j John
D. Lee has committed no crime, why is
he hiding: in a desert, hundred miles
out-of the jurisdiction of Utah courts,
where he can take horse and boatlany
minute and in three hours be among
wild Indians, in alliance: with the Nor
mons? Is it because his high-toned
hopor foEbidsy him to bear witness
against his brethren? Bosh!" 5,
It was not long. after this that Lee
paid visit to one of his families at
Beaver. There he was arrested by
Deputy United States Marshal Stokes.
He was found in a log pen used dis a
chicken house, hidden under straw.
The arrest was made on the morning of
November 8, 1874, just about II years
after the massacre took place. At his
trial 1T was soon made evident that the
church no longer intended to protect
Lee. The prosecution was largely aid
ed by Mormon witnesses. I have alet-
ter in my possession in which Lee
claims that one of the twelve apostles
came to- him and his lawyer and stated
that it was the intention of the church
to prevent the. conviction of Lee; that
certain men had been selected for th4
venire Of jurors, and that out of this
panel the requirB number had been
chosen, all Of whom wore a secret mark
under the lapel of their coats; and that
if Lee and his attorney would accept
these men as the jury they had already
been instructed to bring in a verdict Of
mot guilty." In his book on the SUBJ
ject Lees attorney, W. w. Bishop, says
something to thegsame effectgs Whether
this alleged treachery be true or,not, it
is certain that thea Jury as chosen
hr011pht in ,,nor;~oua vor1;o< ~
guilty. Lee was sentenced to be taken
to the scene Of the massacre and there
shot. An appeal was made to the SUI
preme court, but the judgment and sem
tence Of the district court were sus-
tanned, and on the 23d day Of March,
1877, on the very, spot where one of the
most horrible crimes of modern times
was committed a platoon of soldiers
obeyed the rorders:s 'Readu Aim!
sFire!' and John ID. Lee passed to his
eternal account. i s. fla
3 s. q. WHARTON JAMES.