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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
FrightfuI Fate Sweeps Down
On Town of l, 200 People.
HOTEL GUESTS GO DOWN
Whole Families are Missing. Wall
of Water Twenty Feet High
Rushes over Valley.

Portland Ore, June 16.-The most
appalling disaster in the history CT this
state occurred about p. M, when the
town of Heppner was almost entirely
destroyed by a flood. Heppner is the
county seat of Morrow county, and
has about 200 inhabitants The most
reliable reports at this writing state
that the loss of life at Heppner will
be at least 500, though the number of
dead probably is larger. All the tel
egraph and telephone lines are down,
and no accurate information can be Sc
cured. A report from Iona, seventeen
miles from Heppner, states that 300
bodies have been recovered.
Wall of Water Twenty Feet High.
A messenger who arrived at Iona
states that wall of water twenty feet
high rushed down into the gulch in
which Heppner is situated and carried
everything before it. The food came
with such suddenness that the inhab-
itants were unable to seek places OF
safety and were carried down to death
by the awful rush of water. Almost the
entire residence portion of the town
was wiped out, but some of the bust
ness part, which is on higher ground,
escaped Huge boulders weighing a ton
were carried down by the current and
many people killed by being dashed
against the rocky bluff.
Two Hundred Bodies Recovered.
Early in the afternoon a thunder
storm occurred, covering a wide region
of country, and later a heavy rain
storm set in, many of the small
streams overlooking their banks in
very short time. Bridges were swept
away like straws, and the darkness of
night soon made the situation more
appalling. AS soon as possible after
the terrible flood subsidized the work of
relief was commenced by the citizens
of the town. Dozens of bodies were
found lodged along the bends of the
stream, and in several places they
were piled over one another. Twenty
hours after the flood 200 bodies had
been recovered almost within the city
limits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
DOUBLE MURDERER AT BAY
Intrenched in His Home He Defies the
Cfficers-Committed Two Das-
tardIy Crimes,


Pittsfield, ILL.,, June 16.-Intrenched
in his home, which was surrounded by
an angry mob demanding his life, with
the prospect that he will be lynched,
is the situation into which Fred Mink,
Fl years old, has brought himself by
the murder of Newton w. Harris and
the murderer's stepmother. The trou-
BILE is said to have been the outgrowth
of Harris refusal of the hand of his
daughter, Beulah, in marriage to Mink
and Of an alleged long-standing enmity
between the slayer and his stepmother.
Harris, who was 55 years old, was
shot down apparently in cold blood.
Harris wasat his farm, five miles north
west of here, when he was surprised
and attacked by Mink. Five shots
were fired, all of which took effect.
The news of the murder spread rapid
ly, and a posse was organized Mink,
however, remained hidden until night,
when he entered the home of his step
mother, and, it is said, fired upon her
without warning. She died within a
short time Mink then ran to his home
and intrenched himself.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
WOULD GIVE AID TO KANSAS
If She Wants 1t, but Pension Commission
er Ware Has Somewhat Mud
died the Case.

Lincoln, Neb., June 16.-Governor
Mickey has written to Governor Bailey,
of Kansas, inquiring as to the needs
of the flood sufferers of that state, and
announcing his readiness to issue a
proclamation urging the people of Ne
braska to contribute relief if it meets
with the approval of the Kansas eX-
ecutive.
Governor Mickey has Withheld his
proclamation because of the seeming
division of opinion in Kansas of the
necessity of outside aid. Private sub
scriptions have already been made in
this state But Governor Bailey has
twice since Saturday over his own sig
nature declared that Kansas was in
great need of help, so that Nebraskans
will be given an opportunity to send
relief
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
LIST OF THE IDENTIFIED DEAD
Many Whole Families on the Roll; Also,
the Guests of Hotel.

Following is a list of the identified
bodies: -Krug and family, Thos.
Howard and family, James Jones and
family, DR.. McSwards, family of Cs
A. Rhea, Mrs. Carr's family, Mrs. Chas.
Andrews and children, Mrs. Robert
Baird and children, Wells, ST., and
family, James Matlock, Thomas Mat
locks family, DR.. Higg's children, Miss
Elliott, Miss Elder, William Cohen and
family, Mr.. Geiger, w. M. Walton and
family, Herbert Bartholomew's fami-
ly, John Meyers, George Noble and
family, Robert Kinds and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Dawson, occupants of Hepp-
ner hotel, several Cinnamon, Mrs.
Charles Curtis, George Tinsley and his
wife and child, II. A. Boyd's family,
Mrs. w. III. Berg, Chris M. Ashbaugh,
Carl Jones and family, George Sward
ard, John NJ Herman and wife, agent
of the O. r. and n, C. e. hatfield
and family, Bert Cabots and family,
Ben Patterson and family, H. G. Ger
ger and family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
LOCALITY OF TIE CATACHYsM
Description of the Valley That Was Swept
with Such Deadly Vigor.


Heppner is the. center of large
farming and stock growing country.
The town is built on the banks of the
Willow creek, in the neighborhood Of
the converging point of four other
mountain streams that drain a large
area of rolling and billy country that
reaches from three to twenty miles to
the foothills, and along the lourse of
Willow creek itself for a diftance Of
twenty five miles to the base % the Blue
mountains. To the east and west Of
the town, running southwest a d south
east, respectively, until the. empty
into Willow creek, are two deep
gulches which run back son three
miles along the foothills as I'll ay mar
row to form the valley in WI ich the
town is located.
Flowing almost directly sout to the
Willow Geek, and joining it a half
mile or so above the town, Balm
creek, which drains in it's CO. rise to
the foothills for a distance of fifteen
miles a wide region of billy C,untry.
Next comes the main water course,
Willow creek, with an area of drain
age that extends northeast for dis
lance of twenty-five miles, to TIL Blue
mountains. Farther east four miles
is Hinton creek, that runs praC ically
parallel with Willow creek fo. dis
lance of twenty miles, having its rise
in the foothills, and entering into the
most eaSterly gulch few miles outh
of Heppn r.
All this drainage was precipi ated
upon HerQner at once by a ST lden
and furious rain that prevailed i the
hills
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
PRESIDENT TAKEN TO Task
Western Federation OF Mine Condemns
Him for Sending United Ctates Troops
to MorenCi, A. T..

Denver, June 16.-In a set of reso-
lutions adopted by the executive COM
mite of the Western Federation of
Miners President Roosevelt is severe
ly taken to task for ordering federal
troops to quell the disturbance at
Morenci, A. L. The resolutions charge
that member of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, the president, by
his action has been guilty OF treason
to the principles of organized labor.
The resolutions appeal to tie toilers
of the nation ito array themselves on
the political battle ground in 1904 and
use the franchise of citizenship toover-
throw at the ballot box a system that
demands for it's maintenance and per-
petuation the murderous implement Of
barbarism."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

through these nerves, causing pro-
bable the greatest suffering of which
sentient beings are capable. Num-
erous severely painful experiments
are often made for trivial purpose.
This is done, in medical schools and
elsewhere, in the alleged interests
of science but in comparison with
the terrible agony to sentient
creatures the scientific results" are
as but drop in the bucket.
Some Filipino girls pretend to
think marriages to soldier boys
ought to be binding after the boys
have come home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
LIST GROWS DAILY.
Herald Growing in Favor And The
Semi Weekly Pleases The People.

The steady growth the Herald's
subscription list is enjoying is most
gratifying to the management and
will eventually produce chronic
insomnia among our contemporaries.
The fact that a hundred or more
names are being added each month
to our list of regular readers is quite
phenomenal considering the season
Of the year and the innumerable
papers circulating within the terri
tory. The only way in which we
can account for this is that the
Herald:pleases the rank and file OF
the people, they consider it the best
for the money and realize the fact
that value receivedin good, live news
is returned to them for the expendi-
ture IF it suits the people who
pay for it we are satisfied. The
Herald is not printed to conform to
the ideas of whimsical, disgruntled
competitors and we don't care a
whit whether they like the manner
in which it is issued or not. New
names added to the big family OF
readers this week ware as follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
.Miscbievous" Isa Good Word.

Chicago, June 6.-Mischievous boys
broke into the Skinner school, Jackson
boulevard and Aberdeen street, ran
sacked the buildingand completed their
work by piling up combustibles in the
hall in the first floor, sprinkling them
with kerosene and igniting them. The
blaze was extinguished before serious
damage was DONE
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
Work Resumed at Omaha.

Omaha, June 16.-Building opera
lions, tied up for four months on ac-
count of a strike of bricklayers, hod-
carriers and associates in the builuing
trades, has been resumed Several hun
dred men are affected directly, and as
many more indirectly, all of whom re-
turned to work at last years scale.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Al Hyde was in Fennimore
Monday.
Mrs. Chas. Edwards and child
rem of Linden are guests at w. P.
Rowden's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Park Dudley and
children and Miss Hattie Marks of
this city spent Sunday last at Morn
ing Glory" farm.
Mr.. Nicholson, the Gideon of
GAINESVILLE, will address the young
people of this city this Wednesday,
evening at the Congregational
church. All are invited. Admis-
sion free. There will be special
music for the occasion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
Carter to contest the Election.

Springfield, ILL.,. June 16.-It is ex-
pected here that the election of Guy G.
Scott, of Aledo, to the bench of the IL
linois supreme court in the Fourth jul
dicial district will be contested. On the
face of the returns, as made to Secre-
tary of State Rose, Scott was elected
by a majority of 40 votes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
Pope Receives an Illinois Man

Rome, June 16.-The pope received
Ludwig Herberth and Nicholas Has
ner, of Belleville, ILL.,, who presented
him with an offering. The pontiff re-
called the last visit to Rome of the
Right Rev. John Jansen, bishop Of
Belleville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
Shop Strike Declared OFF.

Huntington, w. Va, June Is. - The
strike of Chesapeake and Ohio shop
employees, which has been on here for
one week, has been declared off, and
the 1000 employees will return to work
tomorrow morning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
Our Fleet at Kiel.

Washin gton, June 16.-The state de-
partment has been Informed by the
United States embassy at Berlin that
the United States feet will be enter
tanned at Kiel from the 23d to the
3Oth of this month. The vessels are
now at Southampton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
COMPANY INCORPORATES
Lancaster Electric Light Company
Files Papers With Sec'y of State.

Articles of incorporation of the
Lancaster Electric Light company
were filed with the secretary Of
state Friday and the company is
now incorporated.
The incorporators named are II.
w. Brown, j. G. Harshberger and
Frank Schreiner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
BASE BALL SCORES

Chicago, June 16.-FolloWing are the
scores at base ball:
League: At Pitteburg-Chicago 0,
Pittsburg 3; at Cincinnati-St. Louis
3, Cincinnati 4.
Americana: At Philadelphia = st.
Louis 1, Philadelphia 2; O. Washing
ton-Detroit l, Washington 2.
Association: At Columbus-Kansas
City 3, Columbus 6; at Indianapolis
Minneapolis 5, Indianapolis 1; at To
ledo-N-ilwauke 6, Toledo Z.
Western: AT st. Joseph-Colorado
Springs O, st. Joseph Z; at Kansas
City-Denvcr 5, Kansas City -; at
Peoria-Omaha 0, Peoria 8; at Mil
waukee-Des Moines s, Milwaukee 8.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
MUCH STOCK Is DESTROYED
Horses, Cattle and Sheep Go Down ong
with the Human Victims.

The buildings which were not ar.
ried away were moved from ell
foundations or toppled over. Humid IDS
of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs I al
had gone into the creek bottoms OF
water persisted. News of the calan ty
did not reach the outside world u til
next morning, all the means of &C n,
municatiOm having been cut off. KS
soon as possible news was sent y
courier to the nearby towns and neif J.
bors asking for relief for the stricl q
people.
The Oregon Railway and Navigati n
company started relief train fro n
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Interesting Notes From Our Special
Political Correspondent.

Interesting Notes From Our Special
Political Correspondent.
The knowledge that President
Roosevelt will be nominated in 1904
and the almost certain knowledge
that he will go far to offset the
business depression usual in presi-
Dental year.
Properly handled, an automobile
is safer, in so far as pedestrians are
concerned, than horse and vehicle.
All that is necessary is the enact
ment and enforcement of laws
which will prevent the handling of
auto vehicles in violation of the
rules of common sense.
Albeit and Notwithstanding, this
appeare to have been Senator
Foraker's year.
The yacht race will be all very
pretty and interesting but for act
ual, practical interest the test of
the respective merits of American
and Scotch locomotives, which will
take place this summer on the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, is far ahead.
President Roosevelt has returned
to Washington and for the next two
weeks events are expected to ''step
Lively" in the Capital of the United
States.
The strongest exponent of repub-
icanism in Chicago suggests that
Congressman Billy Lorimer is the
vermiform appendix" and calls
loudly for scalpel. Evidently
Chicago has seem light.
Having completed a quiet and
peaceful vacation which would have
given an ordinary man nervous
prostration, the president is now
at his desk, refreshed, invigorated
and prepared for a little strenuous
labor.
The Hon. Joseph Chamberlain has
evidently seen light, the same
light discovered by Blaine and adj
vocated by Mckinley, reciprocity.
War with Russia, Great Britain and
France combined pales into signific-
ance compared with the awful perils
which youthful graduates foresee,
but they are prepared to avert
them all, so the people need have
no anxiety.
it's freely intimated that there are
some things about President Roose-
velt's Cabinet which give him
Payne.
A coaling station in Alaska would
prove SO valuable to our revenue
cutters that it's establishment is
warranted, regardless of the remote
ness of war with Canada.
What can have led our distin
guished fellow citizen, Hon. Perry
Heath to seek the far away and
emmy CbornS Of Janan2
Pennsylvanians should be thankful
for the Pennypacker press mueller
bill. It has doubled the cartoon
crop and given them an added
humor because they are now illegal.
Mr. Cleveland has gone fishing
and Mr.. German has gone to
Europe. Only the silver tones of
the peerless leader calling his
thousand dollar heifer is left to
cheer the hearts of the downcast
democrats.
If there had been great reservoirs
along the Raw and Missouri rivers,
in which to store the surplus water
until needed for the frops, what
incalculable suffering and loss
might have been saved.
North Carolina has discovered
that she has immense resources in
the snaps of great tin deposit in
mountains.
From recent events it appears
that Senator Fairbanks carries In
diana in his vest pocket. In
diana appreciates an able and dig
nifed representative in the Senate
when she gets one.
It is probable that the several
thousand troops which France has
N1xy <s(N
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

HI. G. Enke Bloomington
Raymond Jay, Bloomington
DIR. O. P. Sala, -..-.-... Bloomington
Ira Fox, ..-.-.-.-.-.. -..... Bloomington
R. M. Donnelly, Bloomington
Frank Brandemuhl, Lancaster
j. W. Starry, Montfort
Frank Baldwin, - - Dubuque
E. D. Nickson, $500. Rockville
Ronald Black, ...-.-....-.-. DOdgev1lle
DR.. J. w. Gibson ... Lancaster
Fletcher Miles --------. Lancaster
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Continued on page eighth
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-17

Whenever you see a chaperone
you can make up your mind there's
a chapalOng.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Charm of Print Dresses.

Print possesses much simplicity
and charm when applied to the sum-
mer dress. The white print dress
with red spots upon it, or the white
pNint dress with narrow black lines
upon it, may be converted into thing
Of signal stylishness. The skirt
should be plainly fashioned, bearing
two very large tucks upon the hem:
and by the way the very large tuck,
known as the lingerie tuck, appears
on many of the most elaborate
dresses.
The simple gathered bodice to that
print dress might have very deep
yoke cut with long shoulder seam
made of Irish lace, and the waist
would be encircled by scarlet
leather belt.
This is the time Of year when
cherries and .c1~rants and things 10
eat, find their FACE upon hats, re-
calling perhaps the habits and Gus
toms of the Neapolitan, but yet by
no means lacking prettiness.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Embroidery of Linen.

Beauties continue to multiply
among the embroidered linens. A
very handsome imported gown of this
material is trimmed with broderie
Anglaise, blending ecru and white.
Needless to say, it has blouse, the
yoke of which is composed of very
tiny perpendicular tucks, the bishop
sleeves being tucked to match and
having deep cuffs of embroidery
In fact, the whole thing is a SYM
phony in tucks, which also form the
yoke of the skirt. The artistic
touch which denotes French work
manship is noticeable in the girdle
of black taffeta and the stock to
match, both of which display odd
little appliques of reseda or apple
green.
For travelling costumes, especially
those selected with view to ocean
voyages, the fiecked tweeds and
heather mixtures SO much favored by
our English sisters can be adopted
with advantage. They are extremely
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
The Two Captains.
by w. CLARK RUSSELL.
copigh byP.F +. Mead
by w. CLARK RUSSELL,

mands; so that all in a second it was
too late. The six oars sparkled as
they rose in tragic arrest under the
bows of the sweeping ship. On board
the Oak they saw a number of men
running on the frigate's forecastle
Through the glass Pope spied her peo.
pie struggling for life in the frigate' s
wake.
That" he cried pointing with the
telescope to the white water astern
of the frigate, was her reason for
bringing up in Margate Roads last
night
"Ay," said Crystal, hang me il
there isn't even a Providence for
pirates" and he and Pope laughed
with al their might.
The Dutchman measured a score of
her own lengths before she backed
her topsail and lowered boats. Five
men only were picked up, and they
were too exhausted to explain the err
rand they had been upon. In fact, it
was doubtful if the Dutchman would
have understood them. The frigate
remained hove-to, while one of the
boats put the English seamen ashore
at BrOadstairs; by which time the
OAK, Nnnoticed by the seventy-four,
had fetched the southern limb of the
Goodwin Sands, when, easing off her
sheets, she went away for the French
coast
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
-, o.
Z ALk RA&YI

Mud stains on dresses may be re.
moved by rubbing with cut raw po
tato.
To remove rust from knitting nee
dies rub them up and down with a
cinder.
Mating used as floor covering will
lie more smoothly when sewn to
gether like carpet than when nailed
down.
To make a low room look higher
let the curtains hang to the floor
Short curtains make the room look
lower than it is.
Japanese trays may easily be
cleaned by rubbing them with a cloth
moistened with a few drops of oil anG
polishing it off with a soft buster.
To keep a fruit or seed cake moist
place it in an alright tin with q
good, sound apple, renewing the ap
pie if it become in the least decayed
The lid of teapot should always
be left so that the air may get in
This prevents mustiness. The same
rule, of course, applies to a coffee pot
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Perfect Mayonnaise,

Perfect mayonnaise is one of the
most difficult things to make, for ever
with the greatest care nine times on
of ten it will curdle. Here is an ex
cellent tip If you discover your may
onnaise is curdled: Take a fresh
dish, preferably soup plate, chill il
on ice and pick up the mayonnaise
by this simple process: Stir together
a few drops of cold water and a lit
tie dry mustard. Dip the fork into
the curdled sauce and stir, a very
little at time, into the mustard and
water. Proceed cautiously, stirring
rapidly and well each time the fork
is dipped into the curdled mixture
The result will be perfect mayor
naise.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
HERBERT SPENCER IN YOUTH.
Stern Of Character, Yet Human
Enough to Enjoy a Joke.

| Stern Of Character, Yet Human
Enough to Enjoy a Joke.
The eighty-third birthday of Mr..
Herbert Spencer has brought out,
among other things, extracts from
the anonymous diary of a friend Of
his early days, when he was on the
engineering staff of the London &c
Birmingham railway. Spencer, ap-
parently, was neither companionable
nor particularly popular.
His stern and somewhat harsh
character stood forth in all it's naked
ness, as at his then early age he had
neither tact nor knowledge of men
sufficient wherewith to clothe his i'm
perious temperament. He lived in an
atmosphere of antagonism-a Radical
among Tories, democrat among
aristocrats, an advanced free think.
er among sturdy supporters OF the
mother church. But young, thought
less and careless as We were, we soon
realized that a young fellow of keen.
us, before whom we could not hold
our own in argument either in meta
physics or in engineering, when we
presumed to differ.
Still he was human enough to en-.
joy, and even to perpetrate. a prac.
tical joke upon a comrade, Hensman
by name.
He inserted a piece of tracing pa
per daily inside the leather lining of
Hensman's hat. In a few days the
hat was a tight fit; remarks were
made to the victim on the palpable
enlargement of his Uranium, which
he verified by stating that his hat
gave evidence of the truth of the OBJ
servation by the gradual tightening Of
the fit. Great sympathy was ex-
pressed on the alarming symptom,
and great fun was caused by Hens
mans CONSERVATION.
The idea of Herbert Spencer play
ing practical jokes will probably be
new and startling to most people.