Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-03


hearing continued throughout the day
decision later.
One of the features of the next report
of Adiutant General Farnham will be
copies of the muster rolls of the 46
Maine companies that spent several
months in the northeastern Canadian
border in the early spring Of 1889, at the
time of the so-caller "Aroostook War"
These rolls have been carefully pre-
served at the Office but they never have
been published or included in any Off
cial report. and their publication is
valuable, not only as a matter of re-
cord. but to simplify the work of the
department in this particular line. In
late years great many requests have
been received at the department for in
formation concerning the men who
served in the "Aroostook War;" but I'M
less the inquirer knew the name of the
captain of the company in which the
man served, about whom the inform
ation was wanted, the desired record
could not be found. But now the rolls
have been copied in a big ledger with a
name index in its front, SO that it is only
a moments work to find the record of
anyone Of the $500 men who marched
into northern Maine to repel the expec-
ted British invasion. These rolls with
an Introductory sketch will be pub
lished in the coming report, and also in
d separate pamphlet, for which pro-
vision was made at the last session of
J,eDclo Whom tho frn,,hlo in,
the winter of 1889, the call was for TO-
600 men. and volunteers to the number
of $500 marched to the Aroostook and
remained for two or three months. The
as companies, some of them large and
some of them with only few men,
We're nearly all from the eastern and
central parts of the State. The chief in
command was Gen. Isaac Hodgdon of
Bangor, and the acknowledgement at
that time was A. B. Thompson. Gem
eral Winfield Scott, then in command
of the regular army of the United
States. came to Maine to take a hand
in affairs, but got no nearer the seat of
war" than Augusta. The conflict was
a bloodless one and the trouble was
soon settled. There are now only a few
time, and by new law at the last
Legislature these are entitled to a
State pension.
The next council meeting will be held
December IA. at 400 P. NJ, and this, too,
will have to be held in the Senate
chamber. though it is hoped that the
executive department will be settled in
it's old quarters soon after that time.
At present strike of upholsterers in
Boston has delayed the work in some of
the new furnishings.
A visitor at the Capitol. yesterday
was Charles f. Oak. of Bangor, former
land agent. but now manager of the
! American Realty Company.
DIR. A. r. Smith of Rockland was at
! the Capitol this week to present to Gov
ernor Hill certain facts relative to one
| Wallace Chadbourne. a life-tem con-
vict at the Maine State prison. Chad
| bourne was sent to Thomaston about
20 years ago for participation in a
memorable murder in Parkman, Me.
His father was believed at that time to
be the principal in the crime. the son
Warren being an accessory before the
fact. 1T was generally understood that
the boy stood by the father in the trial
when he might have obtained some
clemency through testimony implicat-
| ing the former. AS we recall the muir
der it was peculiarly brutal over TWEEN
ty wounds being found in the body OF
the victim.
| Wallace Chadbourne is now at point
of death from acute Bright's disease.
DR.. Smith thinks that at the most he