18 Dec 1897
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1897
Page
1
Readers encounter a garbled history fragment mentioning Chinese settlement, Mexican colonization references, a National Guard request for funds, surveys for a Klondike route, San Francisco arrests, Alaska law codes, and Allied naval deployments. The text is incomplete with many illegible sections.
City authorities report a major theft from registered letters at the New York post office. The loss is estimated near 100 000 with investigation ongoing into the November heist and responsible parties not yet identified.
General Rivera, insurgent leader, captured in March at Pinar del Rio, released from Cabanas fortress aboard the Colon for Cadiz. The ship also returns 800 sick and wounded to Spain. In ten days of fighting, insurgents report 118 killed and 1,009 prisoners. eight chiefs and 58 privates survived. Spanish losses include officers and soldiers, while insurgents report casualties and a killed dynamite chief Juan Cossio.
Reports from Weenon Alabama detail a brutal murder of the Smith family by a Black man Charles Lewis. A posse captured Lewis and he is being tried before Justice Holmes while two other Blacks, W Powell and Andy Smith, are in custody. Rumors of lynching and public punishment circulate as investigations unfold in a terrorized section.
Washington December 11 The Senate spent the day on routine business with little debate. 46 private pension bills passed as Gallinger urged caution in introducing pension measures. The Pacific Railroad inquiry prompted brief remarks by Gear and Thurston praising the settlement. The House opened discussions on the pension appropriation bill, with Southern Democrats criticizing pension categories and Amendments by John Allen seeking reforms.
Washington dispatch reports House leaders plan no immediate finance bills. A benedict netey appropriation bill will pass before recess but not be debated until after. Banking and currency committee clashes delay action, with Ways and Means to draft a broad bill to meet current financial needs while keeping radical legislation distant.
In the house Mr. Fleming of Georgia introduced a bill for a full investigation of the books and methods of railroads receiving government aid. The measure allows the secretary of the treasury to redeem, clear, or bid on such properties to satisfy government encumbrances. The plan includes options to purchase at court sales or foreclosures. The Indian affairs note reports a House committee hearing on Indian Territory issues with Dawes commission to appear next Tuesday. A separate item notes the death of Lae Fook Guey, known as the king of the highbinders, found in Chinatown.
A review notes 34 marriage licenses issued in November by Marion County clerk. Fishermen on the Umpqua ship a surgeon via Drain to Portland. Four panthers killed near Marshfield last week. Mine upgrades at Jewett require night shifts. Civil War veteran Samuel Henry marked his birthday in Jacksonville. Apple shipments exceed 26 000 boxes from Coquille valley with more to come. Oregon Bonanza mine to drill a tunnel near Powell Creek 800 feet westward. Wallowa cattle shipped from Elgin to Chicago. price 3.34 cents per pound for a steer at Joseph. Cattle driven from Smith River to Harrisburg. average weight around 1 760 pounds. Coal seam found in Jackson County 3 feet thick and apparently extensive. State vs Baker County judgment recertified. tax levy planned. Coos Bay bar gale damages the Chilkat. North Bend repairs. Utter City store building collapses in storm. line operations affected. Ashland mining prospects praised. London market notes large quartz mine. Florence Palmer and 660 barrels of salmon shipped. market odds discussed. Elgin bones unearthed during excavation. suspected Indigenous remains. Astoria fish from Fort Canby confounds observers. some call it a devilfish. Lake County sheep drive to Amadee shows high profits, with prices strong. 8 000 head shipped. Apple shipments from Medford station include 40 carloads locally and 90 more awaiting shipment. Albay Fruit Co ships 600 boxes to Davenport Iowa and plans to send winter apples to Missouri. Alaska trade experiments include drying 8 000 pounds of apples.
Wheat values show under an overall firmer undertone for May delivery with international factors supporting higher prices. Northwest spring wheat receipts rise while cash demand stays fair. Barley and corn trade slow. exports strong yet visible supply weighs on values.
Market notes list prices for Wool Nevada Oregon Northern wheat bluff fruits and vegetables. Entries show per pound per ton or per cental for items including wool, cheese, oranges, lemons, hay, and fresh fruit. Readable lines include California bran Nawrad and various farm goods with scattered figures.
John Hepburn arrived reporting many prospectors along the White Horse rapids and Marsh Lake area. A boat with four or six men found downstream was empty, suggesting drownings. Open water diminished, Lake Bennett remained open, temperatures fell to 24 below at the lake head and 4 below at Togish House as gold seekers pushed toward the Hootalinqua country.
London reports that two imperial guard soldiers at the Yildiz Kiosk near the sultan's palace attempted to kill the sultan on Monday. Attendants thwarted the plot and the men were tortured for information but died without revealing any names.
A Pekin dispatch reports the tsung l yamen informing the viceroy of Pe chi li that China will evacuate Kino Chou at a date to be fixed later. It will instead receive a coaling station at Seam Buh Iniet in Fee Kion, opposite the island of Mies.
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