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HOLLY CHIEFTAIN.
CURRENT COMMENT.
GEORGIA is getting ready to plant
more acres of watcrwelons than ever
before.
A LARGE dinner party in Boston a
short time ago was entertained by tele
rhone with speeches in Brooklyn
JANUARY was a | ght month for fires |
all over the United States. The total
loss was $9.472,000. In January, 18597, ‘
it was $12,049,700, and in 1500, 811,040, |
000.
SoMEBODY who preter to know
whereof he speaks savs Mr Rockefel
ler's dividends from his Standard Oil
bholdings alone last vear amounted to
$7.500,000, )
PRESIDENT ELtoT, in his last annual
report to the oversccr f Harvard
university, expressed the opinion that
athletics and high schie lo not
bharmonize.
A XEW patriotic socicty was organ
jzed in New York the other day. It
will be known as the \u an Flag
associution and its ol t will be to
protect the national tlay from desecra
tion.
AT a recent eatinr contest in New
York a human ostrich devoured 150
oyvsters, two pairs of cacks, four loaves
of bread and o 5 glasses of beer. IHis
competitor managed the oysters and
beer all right, butstalled on the fourth
duck.
Tuoveu the whooping cough bacillus
has hitherto eluded the grasp of the
bacteriologist, it has finally been cap
tured by Dr. Henry Koplik, of New
York, whose discovery has just been
confirmed by Dr. Ozapelewski, a Ger
man expert. This microscopiecbug has
done as much to worry wothers as any
other bacilli
THE total loss to the United States
government by the disaster to the bat
tleship Maine at Havana is officially
pronounced to be 4,650,261 This em
braces the cost of hull, machinery,
equipment, armor, gun protection and
armament and it includes the cost of
ammunition, skill, current supplies,
coal, in short the entire outfit.
Frw persons have an idea of the
enormous quantities of cigars and
cigarettes made in New York eity
During the month of January just
passed the internal revenue returns
show that there were munufactured
46,586,240 cigars, 18,050,550 all-tobacco
cigarettes and 85,045,050 paper covered
cigarettes. This is outside of the
smoking and chewing tobacco prepared
for market in New York. ;
~ l
THE greatest single event in Ameri
can history between the establishment
of the government and the overflow of
slavery, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
suys. was the purchase of Louisiana,
and the centennial in 1005 of its acquis- |
ition ought to be commemorated by a
great international exposition, held in |
St. Louis, the largest city of the Lou
isiana region and the most central for
the United States of all the country’s
important cities.
Tue government has been colleeting
information as to the strength of the
militia in the United States and also
the number of men who would be
available for service in case of an emer
gency. The returns from the states
are interesting in view of the pros
pect of trouble with Spain. The total
militia force of the United States and
the territories, as shown by the re
turns, is 114,362, and the total number
of men available for military service
is 10,301,530,
- C. C. Hary, chemist for the Union
Steel company at Alexandria, Ind., has
just applied for patents upon a pro
cess whereby he is enabled to make
the softest, whitest wool, from the
flintiest. roughest, limestone, which is
used in skyscrapers in all large cities,
in fact, in all lines where there isa
demand for stone. A firm in Bostou,
one of the best-known wool weavers
in the country, is making experiments T
in converting the wool he manufac- |
tures into elothing. t
=t = |
GeN. WinLiax Bootir, the head of the |
Salvation army, said recently at Cin- |
cinnati: “The Coban Lutehery should |
stop. It should stop. if need be, by |
the intervention of the United States. |
England is not jealons of America. |
The individual Englishman would sce
young America prosper in peace. |do
not think that the fur of the British
lion would rise shonld Unele Sam tighll
the dons. The Cubun war should stop '
at any cost—and that is admitting a
great deal for as conservative an Eng
lishman as [am.” |
ETra MicuaArLsos, a pretty and well
educated girl living at Cleveland, 0.,
says she has discovered the seeret of
perpetual life. “*\When lunuounce this,”
she said. “irealize that the whole world ‘
will laugh at me. I eannot help that. |
I cannot disclose my secret unless ten
men meet to hear what I have to say.
1 want them to thoroughly investigate |
what I tell them.” The girl's mental |
condition is said to be all right nml|
her request to meet ten men to whom |
she will reveal her secret will un
doubtedly be granted.
A MOVEMENT has been set afoot to
erect . monument to Gen. Lafayette.
President MeKinley and Assistant See
retary Day have shown much interest
in the matter, which has been brought
officially to the attention of congress
through resolutions offered in both
houses, which make provision for a
commission to supervise the collection
of a fund among all the schools of the
United States for the purpose of erect
jng a monument to Gen. Lafayette in
Paris—the same to be presented to the
- government of France and unveiled
- and dedicated on the Fourth of July,
| fe T ey
At Concord, N, (~ a short time ago
' ground was broken for the first cotton
. mill in the United States to be owned
- and operated entirely by negroes. The
858 uo:gguny was organized by a colored
- merchant at that place of the name of
1 ~ Stoneman, who has been working for
two years securing subscriptions. He
~ claims to have over sso,oooin hand and
~, mearly §IOO,OOO more pledged. The
~ contracts have been let for the erce
}gi;.gp,o!; building with the most ap
. proved machinery. The white people |
L regard the result of the mpfim s |
. doubtful, but Stoneman is confident of |
. muccess. g }3:‘3;" j
e . S N AR e
NEWS OF THE WEEK
i
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| Gleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Miss Fraxcis E. Wirpann, president
of the Woman’s Christain Temperance |
union, died early on the morning of |
the 18th at New York. She had suf
fered for some years from profound
ancwia and a few weeks ago she was
much prostrated and readily took the
grip, which attacked the stomach,
liver, intestines and tinally over
whelmed the nerve center She was
born September 25, 1850
Tuke resolutions which were adopted
at the session of the National Woman
Suffrage association at Washington on
the 17th demand for women citizens
cquality with males in the exercise of
the elective franchise for a 16th
amendment to the « titution to
bring this about, demand for mothers
cqual costody and control of their
minor children and f vives and
widows an equal use w nheritance
of property, and ask for en repre
sentation on boards of education, pub
lie schools, ete.
AccorplNG to a declaration of the
state department at W ngton on
the 17th Spain has officia tisclaimed
in a positive manner the reflections
contained in the De Lome letter, and
that incident is satisfactorily closed
ProrvLe of every class in Madrid de
nounced in the strongest fashion the
insinuation on the part of the Ameri
can press that the Spanish nation was
in any way responsible for the Maine
{ disaster at Havana, which was as
cribed by the majority to an accident, |
and by some to the rk of Cubans
| anxious to embroil t United States
“ with Spain. ~Shoule United States
| government ofticia re-echo the
charges of th \n n press a de
laration of w t vid, would fol
low at once » t ng for further
| action from A |
Corn. Enpway 10l vNE, of Aspen
| Col., wired G \ s offering, in
case of a wir th Spuin, to furnish a
dyvnamit buttery posed of 100
miners, who have had long experience |
in handir t r ex S i
TiHr Unite St te government on |
the 17th had settled down into a wait- |
ing attitude to get the results of the
court of juiry appointed by the navy
department to investigate the caunse of
the disaster to the battleship Maine.
I'he dead seamen were buried in Cuba |
tnd the wounded sent to Key West, |
Fla. The story that a torpeao hole |
vas discovered in the bottom of the
Maine was denied by the authorities.
Prestpest McKINLEY bas consented
to deliver an address at Jlowa college, !
Grinoell, la., in June, on the occasion |
of the semi-centennial of the institu- \
tion. |
SEcrETARY Loxag, of the navy depart- |
ment, made a statement on the 15th |
denying the warlike rumors floating |
round and stating that the disaster to
i the battleship Maine would probably |
be found to be an accident. Prepara
tions have been made for a court of ;
inguiry and it will convene at Key |
| West, Fla., and later on perhaps go to |
| Havana. Lieut. Blandin denies the I
| story that a sailor saw a torpedo ap
proaching the vessel, but the explosion
took place before he could give the
alarm,
Tue appointment of Count Cassini as
Russian ambassador to the United
States was gazetted at St. Petersburg
on the iSth.
A pisratcn from Vinita, 1. T., on the
i 19th said that there was much excite
ment in that place over the war scare
and many patriotic Indians were ready
to offer themselves as volunteers in
case of war.
Wirriay J. SCANLAN, the actor died
| on the 19th at the Bloomingdale in
!suno asylum at White Plains, N. Y.,
' where he had long been a patient.
ReEv. Say I JoxEes, the evangelist,
returned to his home at Cartersville,
Ga., on the 19th from a western lectur
ing tour and in the evening issued a
formal announcement of his candi
dacy for governor, which has created
a big sensation in Georgia. lie has
not yet announced his platform, but it
z was said he would oppose especially
Georgia's free school system.
Tue Cubun iosurgents, a Washing
ton dispateh stated, will gladly accept
the proposition for a suspeusion of
| hostilities and mediation by the United
| States looking to the independence of
| the island for a financial consideration
! MISCELLANEOUS.
WitLe Mrs. George H. Huelswede
| was at a faney dress vall in St. Louis
f the other night her costume—that of
| a fairy-——canght fire at a stove and she
| was probably fatally burned.
| Nrws has reached San Franeisco of
l a rich gold strike on American creck,
| 150 miles down the Yukon river in
| Alaska. The mew diggings are on
'l American soil, 25 miles across the
| boundary line.
: Jivay Micnagr, the wheelman, the
| greatest rider the field of bicyeling
i has ever known, has left Chieago and
| gone to New York to enter the employ
of Phil Dwyer as a jockey and will
ride Dwyer's horses this season.
Tur new wharf at Tampico, Mex.,
[ the finest on the American continent,
was destroyed by fire, together with
| the custom house. Loss, $2,000,000.
} A pisastrous fire occurred at Pres
| cott, Ariz., the other night, by which
| the Johoson hotel was totally de
| stroyed and the guests had a narrow
I escape for their lives. As it was they
| lost nearly everything.
Some peculiar diseuse, a Webster
City, la., dispatch of the 21st said,
was destroying the lives of the cats in
lthnt vicinity, the highways in the
country especially being strewn with
| the carcasses of dead felines.
Tuxr United States military and
naval authorities are actively engaged
in making legitimate arrangements
for emergencies. The present avail
able supply of powder is considerable,
the Frankfort arsenal at Philadelphia
is turning out about 70,000 cartridges
per day and can double the output
when necessary, and the ordnance
factories are making encouraging pro
gress on guos and carriages for sea
const and field artillery.
Josern Lerteg, of Chicago, made an
emphatic denial that he disposed of
5,000,000 bushels of his May holdings
of wheat during the excited trading
of a day or two ago. He was credited
with making a profit of £500,000. He
said: I not only did not sell a bushel
of wheat, but bought wheat. The cur
rent prices are only the beginning of
a range from $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel.
That is what I propose to sell my
wheat at.” ko ko 3h VT
IN a jeslons fit George Bernhard:
shot and killed his employa;‘,%g:, ;
hardt Losier, and fatally wounded
Mary Reinhardt at Philadelphia the
ot,horn!‘ht. 1 St ’fi"‘ - :
E R ST SR i e
Hyatel MR Rl e
' Tur large establishment of the ‘
|Niedringhaus House Furnishing com- ;
pany at St. Louis was totally de
stroved by fire on the 21st, resulting |
n a loss of more than £50,000 on stock
and building; fully insured. ‘
Tue court of inquiry got down to |
work at Havana on the 21st for the in- |
|vestigation into the cause of the dis- |
ister to the battieship Maine, Capt.
Sigsbee being the first witness. Capt
Sampson, the president of the coury,
las announced that nothing of im
portance will be made public until all
the testimony has been received and |
the findings considered. The divers |
brought up Capt. Sigsbee's state docu
ments and the keys to the magazine
ConaLt has been discovered at Grand
Encampment, Wyo., by the Irench
mineralogist, Charles Poulet. It is the
first discovery of cobalt in America.
Cobalt is more valuable than gold
A BEVERE snowstorm recently caused
the collision of twa passenger trains
»n the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad in a deep cut six miles south
f Roeckford, lil. Both engines were
temolished, Engineer Tilden was in
stantly killed and a score of persons
injured.
AT the conference of the leaders of
he Creek Indians at Okmulgee, L T.,
esolutions were passed declaring that ‘
15 a nation they opposed the allotment
»f their lands in severalty and asking |
the principal ehief tohave a vote taken
by the chiefs in their respective towns
on the subject and forward it to their |
lelegates in congress. As soon as the ’
‘onference had adjourned Chief Ispar- ’
hecher issued a letter to all Creek |
judges to enforce the nation’s lawsand |
to oppose the recent legislation of con- |
zress abolishing their courts. 1
Tur ships of the American navy i
went out of mourning for the vietims
of the Maine disaster at sunset on the l
19th. Theoflicial funeral having taken |
place at Havana, the government ul‘:
Washington considered that the log- |
ical end of the mourning period and |
!gave orders to that effect.
I'ne Burbank block and its contents
at Pittsfield, Mass., were destroyed by
fire. Loss, §lOO,OOO, with insurance of
about $50,000.
| Nrear Clifton, Ok., George Sawyer, |
|aged 17, was killed by the accidental
[discharge of a gun in his brother's |
| hands. “
Tue naval court of inquiry into the |
Maine disaster sailed for Havana on
the 20th. Capt. Sigsbee telegraphed
|to Washington from Havana that he
had not expressed any opinion on the |
}.-uuw of the disaster. Secretary Long
lof the navy department, said that
! there wasnothing new to communicate
gulmut the wreck. A report from Key
| West, Fla., said that the Maine
| wounded were doing well. !
| Gex. LEw WALLACE has been chal |
fl(-ng\-d to a duel by George E. Oakes,
of Indianapolis, Ind. Wallace, in an
| address delivered at Lebanon, Ind., on
| Lincoln day, told an unpublished story
reflecting on Gen. MeClellan’s courage |
|and Oakes denounced it as false and {
| challenged Wallace to a meeting on |
!lhu field of honor. The affair has |
| caused much excitement throughout |
| Indiana.
l Near Cushing, Ok., Ambrose Georgia,
a farmer, gquarreled with his tenant,
John White, over a crop settlement
and Georgia was fatally stabbed.
IN the Gown coal mine, of the Choe
taw Coal company at Hartshorne, 1. T.,
Muaron Betras, a Syrian employe of the
company, let a mule escape from bim.
He went in pursuit of the mule, which
ran into a condemned room full of gas,
which Betras’ lamp ignited. The mule
was incinerated and Betras bimself
was badly burned about the back,
breast, neck and arms. His recovery
was considered donbtful.
S, P. Winstow, agent for an em
broidering machine, whose home is at
Springfield, 11l fasted 18 days at a ho
tel at Guthrie, Ok., in order that he
might be forgiven for sin. It was
thonght that he was insane.
Tue annual meeting of the Dauvh
ters of the American Revolution
opened at Washington on the 21st. A
hot fight was in prospect over the office
of president general.
Tue deaths at St. Louis for the week
ended the 19th were 155, 40 of them be
ing caused by pneumonia and other
diseases of the respiratory organs.
During the corresponding week in 1507
214 deaths occurred,
Tuk attorney general of Colorade
has furnished an opinion that there is
no law for women in that state drop
ping their maiden name on the simple
excuse of a wedding. The man is
nothing more than a party to a con
tract, he says, and cannotdemonstrate
his mental superiority by forcing his
family name on the bride. The opin
ion is sweeping.
Tue official order for a retiring board
to pass upon Col. William A. Elderkin,
commissary of the department of the
Missouri, was issued. Col. Elderkin
resists retirement, although heis in
bad health, in ordernot to eut his wife
out of a pension after his death.
Every -policeman in New York city
was on duty or held in reserve on the
ISth in compliance with the request
made to the police department by Mr.
Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the
navy, that precautions be taken against
the possibility of hostile demonstra
tions upon the arrival of the Spanish
cruiser Vizeaya.
SECRETARY BLISS isin receipt of o re
cent letter from Gov. Brady, of Alaska,
descriptive of the lawless condition of
affairs at Skaguay and Dyea. It was
considered suflicient justification for
the immediate dispatch of the addi
tional military force already author
ized to be sent to Alaskan territory.
Tue business failures in the United
States for the week ended the ISth
were 200, according to Bradstreet’s
commercial report, against 325 for the
corresponding week of last vear.
Two thousand Dunkards from lowa,
Missouri, Kansas and other western
states will join the Dunkard secttle
ment in the Red river valley and Tur
tle mountain region of North Dakota
in the early spring.
Tur passenger and freight steam
boat Ericeson, which plied between
Philadelphia and Baltimore, Md., sank
in the Delaware river off Wilmington,
Del.,, on the 16th. The passengers
were all taken off.
The human race to-day numbers
1.620,000,000, and increases eight per
cent. every ten yvears, according to the
recent report of the International Sta
tistical institute. Any patriotic indi
vidual, here or abroad, who fancies
that his country contains the major
part of mankind should compare his
country’s population with that of the
world. In the United States we
amount to about four per cent. of the
race. £
It would not be wise for the average
person to foilow the example of Mrs.
Jemimah Myers, of Baltimore, who
put off making her will uutil after she
| was 100 yearsold.
SPAIN WANTS WAR
An Intznsely Angry Feeling Against the
United St.tes Entertained.
IHHARBOR OF HAVANA MINED.
ANaval Officers Btiil Discussing the Canse of
the Disnster of tlie Muine—A Secret
Inquiry—Active War Prepara
tlons Golng on,
Mavprip, Feb :3-—The sympathy
and dismay wi at first prevailed
when the catas phe in the Havana
harbor was ann« =d has disappeared
and given wayv an intensely belli
cose and angry ing, which is free
ly expressed on = +ides apd by mem
bers of every tical party. They
are kept fully in ned of the tone of
the American pr and of the appar
ently universal nands made upen
the president t esort to war, aoed,
far from there being any alarm
avout the ma . grim satisfac
tion is apparent rywhere. No one
here will admit ¢ yune moment that
the Maine was vn up by design.
The disaster is a bed to the alleged
gross carelessnes id laxity of disci
pline which peor cre say constitute
a feature on bo ~d American ships.
The gravity of th- situation is further
lemonstrated b, the fact that the
queen regenthas 'mmoned to her side
her mother, the Archduchess Eliza
| beth, justly remo- ned as one of the
|cleverest politician - in all Europe and
who was recent at death’s door.
She is a woman o rv strong charuc
| ter, and those herc +ho have had ocea
|sion to become ac lainted with her
{during her stay. with her daugh
|ter express the op @ion that she will
|encourage the quecn regent to yield at
mee to the popu iemand for a war
with the United ites, and will si
lence her daughte hesitations upon
the subject. That s, indeed, from a
lynastie point of w, the only thing
to be done, for thero is no doubt swhat
ver that any furiier appearance of
subservieney to America, any attempt
to maintain pesce at the cost of Span
ish pride, will result in the overthrow
of the monarchy.
Tne Harbor Filled With Mines.
| New York, Feb. 25.—A Havana cable
from the Evening Telegram’s corre
spondent says:
I have learnced from the highest authority
hat, no matter what may have b2en the cause
¢ the terriole catastrophe to the Muaine, the
rof Havana is. and has be:n for a long
ne, filled with submarine mines and torpe
loes. While this fact has been suspected. but
i few army and navy officers have any definite
ea of the location of number of these mines
At the outbreak of the war the greatest se
recy was imposed upon those having
hese mines under their supervision. and
heir presence was forgotten by the pubiic
n wgeneral. When it was rumored that
» United States war vessel would be sta
oned in the harbor, the attention of one of
ien. Weyler's aldes-de-cama was called to the
act that all of the large shore batteries guard
| 'lng the entrance to the harbor could only be
lirecte ! against an eaemy (o the open sea. and
hat if w warship succeed:d in ruoning past the
| forts and entering the harbor the entire city
| would be at its merey. The oficer repiied that
| the engineers intrusted with the most recent
| fortification of the harbor had fuly considered |
1 this question, and had arran red that if a vessel
| aver did encer the hardor she could be blown |
| ap at ance |
still Discussing the Cause.
WasuiNGTON, Feb. 25.—Although the
officers of the construction department
of the navy are almost unanimous
|.x;!:|inst the theory of spontaneous
‘ombustion or boiler explosion as the
‘anse of the destruction of the Maine,
they are at a loss with almost every
me else for u clear explanation of it
W. A. Dobson, principal dranghtsman
of the bureau of econstruction, who was
identified with the preparation of
the designs of the wrecked battleship,
;,:nnl that he was not fully prepared
to accept the theory of many of the
[ rdnance experts that the explosion
| rouid bave been caunsed by a torpedo
from the ontside. *What makes me
discredit the theory that the Maine
was sunk by a torpedo,” said another
naval oflicer, *is that Capt. Sigsbee
and all his oflicers and men were vigi
lantly goarding their ship against
such a visitation. Capt. Sigsbee knew
of the hostile feeling against the
United States then prevailing in Ha
vana, and he, as well as the other offi
|':u-r~ of the vessel, had been repeatedly
| warned against dangerand treachery.”
| A Secret li‘qulry.
| Havaxa, Feb. 23, —The board of in
lquiry into the Maine disaster met on
lnu- lighthouse tender Mangrove yes
terday morning with Capts. Sampson
and Chadwick and Lieutenant Com
manders Potter and Marix present.
| Capt. Sampson presided and Licuten
ant Commander Marix, recently execu
tive officer of the Maine, acted as re
corder. Capt. Sigsbee, the commander
of the Maine, was the first witness
{called, Capt. Sampson, after the ses
|sion of the board, said that it had
| been deeided not to tell the publie the
| testimony until all shall have been re
| ceived and the findings have been con:
!bhh'r--d.
‘ Why a Warshin was Sent to Cuba.
WasiniNGton, leb. 23.—There is no
[longer any concealment on the part of
the administration as to the reason
which induced it to decide that naval
}\'l‘\M'|\ should go to Havana and otner
Coban ports. While noadmissions are
| made that the “friendly visit” idea is
|no longer to be considered as the rea
|son that the Maine was sent to Ha
vana, the announcement that another
‘| warship would proceed there as soon
us the excitement over last Tuesday's
terrible affair had subsided shows
that the protection of American in
terests and not mere etiquette has
actunated the administration. Capt.
| Sigsbee’s precautions in keeping am
| munition ready for service in the rifles
of the secondary battery are evidence
| that he did not regard his mission as
| one of loving brotherhood.
; Active War Prenarations.
: WaAsHINGTON, Feb. 23.—T0-day was
| devoid of rumors in the Spanish-
American situation. The excitement
{which bas prevailed in Washing
| ton for the past week was scarcely
| noticeable and the government, officials
| and congressmen have resumed their
| daily routine, satis| to wait until
the official invenlifl‘%;:fl of the Maine
Misaster shall be concluded befors
forming an opinion as to the cause.
In the meantime the war and navy de
partments are continuing their activ
ity in placing the defenses of the coun
try in good condition in the event of
war, oy
The Diwster Deciared Accldental.
NEW Yoßk, Feb, 38—A dispatch to
the New York World from Madrid
sava: T
The Spanish admiral commanding at Havana
telegraphs that the Spanish offcial investiga
tion into th) catastroph g:,_’}” Maine has ter
minated and that the fingt exploration niade by
ofictal divers has shown up to the present that
the disaster was quitc andidental and not pro
duced by au exterior causé Premier Sagasta
BEL -St a s e
§osie e
ALy o 5 e
{sonveyea tne teiegram to LhE DAlace And tne
gqueen regent expressed satisfaction on hearing
the result of the investigation The queer wiil
7ive an audience ut once to United Stat s Min
| Ister Woodford, who will convey the thanks
| "onveyed by President McKinley for her con
| lolznce.
| Will Demund Indemnity.
| CrlcAaGo, Feb. 23 —~The Journal has
|the following special from Washing
{ton: Should it be proven that the
| Maine was destroyed by an outside ex-
Iplosion with the knowledge of Span
tish officiuls, President McKinley will
{demand an indemnity of from $13,000,-
1000 to $15,000.000. This statement was
|made by an officer of the navy depart
ment who is thoroughly conversant
with the present Spanish situation. |
KANSAS EXHIBIT.
. | Gov. Leads Urged to Go Ahead with His [
- Plan for w Kepreseatation of the State st
Omaha.
" | Toreka, Kan., Feb. 23.—A uummil-i
! ltee consisting of T. J. Anderson, '
" |Charles S. Gleed and T. W. Harrison
' |called uwpon Gov. Leedy yesterday ml
| ascertain the statos of the proposition ]
! | for a suitable exhibit of the resources |
“lof Kansas at the Omahas exhibition. |
' | I'he governor's proposition was that if |
| the railroads of the state would guar- |
| antee $15,000 for this purpose he would
: !nrm‘eed to raise an additiornal $15,000
" | from miners, manufacturers and farm
"ers throughout the state. The com
' lmi!lcr assured Gov. Leedy that three l
" lof the principal Kansas roads had
) |lgr--e.l to contribute their share of the
* Irequired amount. These are the Atch
; ,’tson. Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri
" | Pacific and the St Lounis & San Fran
| zisco. The Rock Island has already
|arranged for a direct exhibit at its |
“|own expense. and the Union I':\cilic|
~{ has not been in shape to make a con- |
" |tribution. The governor was urged
| to go ahead with his plan for obtain
: ing the balance of the money from the
- | sources named by him, and the pros
| pect is considered good for a fair rep
| resentation of Kansas at Omaha.
AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
| Evan L. Beeler, Who E«caped from Prison !
; In 1868, Betrayed by un Enemy.
PuiLaperenia, Feb, 23 —Evan L.
| Beeler escaped from the county prison
| here 30 years ago. He dropped out of
| sight as if the earth had swallowed
him. Yesterday afternoon an old enemy
saw him near the Broad street station.
| The result is that he is once more
| behind the bars and likely to pav
dearly for the liberty he so cleverly
| obtained. Who the informer was is
| an official seeret. When he escaped
| Beeler made his way west and finally
| became an inmate of the national sol
|diers’ home at Leavenworth, Kan.
‘ ’ Recently he went east to testify ina
| sase. Beeler was sentenced for at
| tempted murder and before escaping
| had served six years of the sentence.
Forced to Sanport Her Indian Husband
j GreAT Favps, Mont., Feb, 23.-—Mrs.
| Garrett White, the white woman who
! + month ago, while a teacher in the
Fort Shaw Indian school, eloped with
| and married White, a full-blood Pie
!,::m Indian, has been refused permis
sion to live dn the reservation. Mrs.
| White has finally been compelled to
Iccept a position as waitress in a hotel
in Dupuver to supportherself and hus
band. Mrs. White was formerly Mrs.
Cushman.
A Bankrupt Prince Now Runs an Elevator.
: LospoN, Feb. 25, —lt was announced
| vesterday that the bankruptey pro
| ceedings against Prince Franz von
| Auersperg have been concluded. The
prince, it is alleged, squandered an
immense fortune before he was 26
years of age and disappeared from so
ciety. It is reported, according to the
| Pall Mall Gazette, that the prince is
running an elevator in a big New York
hotel. A e
| Mardi Gras.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23.—The ULright
|and beautiful weather marked the
| celebration of the Mardi Gras here to
| day, except that the air was chilly it
| was typical carnival weather. There
| were the usual scenes ob .the streets
and the customary large number of
promiscuous maskers. The Rex pa
| rade was the feature of the day.
' Muasa for the Maine Victims.
CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 23.—8 y dirce
| tion of Bishop Horstman, a solemn
requiem mass was celebrated to-day in
| St. John's cathedral, this city, in mem
ory of the dead crew of the battleship
[ Maine. The cathedral was elaborately
| draped in mourning and the function
" | was attended by a crowded congrega.
| tion. _ e
The Chinese Loan.
| BerLiN. Feb. 23 -It is announced
| that the Chinese loan of £16,000,-
{OOO ($50,000,000) bhas been arranged
.| with the Hong Kong and Shanghai
;| bank of London and the -German
| Asiatic bank.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
. W. T. Mooney, of Wyandotte coun
ty, has been named a United States
deputy marshal for the Fort Scott
(Kan.) district.
)| The Farmers' Mutual Insurance com
{| pany, of Wamego, Kan., has been
) | chartered, with a capital of £50,000. It
1 { is formed along the line of State In
" | surance Superintendent MeNall’s plan,
* | who advocated that farmers insure
' | one another.
X Charles Stevens, county attorney of
" | Cherokee county, Kan., was held for
" | trial at the district court for alleged
' | theft, the complaining witness being
| Tiler Gaviett, who alleges Stevens and
* | two other parties, by unfair process,
" | secured 590 bushels of corn from him.
3 Appoluted .-.,fi1. uliary Unaplain.
. LeEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 20.—A
‘| telegram was received by Rev. J. K.
* | Leavett, pastor of the Baptist church
*| here, from Attorney General Griggs,
*| informing him that he had becn se
lected to be chaplain for the United
States penitentiary at Fort Leaven
"| worth. Many preachers were after the
.| place: Senators Baker, of Kansas, and
f Mason, of Illinois, secured the ap
}; pointment for Rev. Mr. Leavett.
J Crew Went Down with the Barge.
4 BostoN, Feb. 20.—Four men, com
1| prising the crew of the barge Ex
? | celsior, which foundered on Handker
| chief shoal, off Cape Cod. were lost. It
| was thought that the men were taken
| oft by the tug Carbomero, which had
| the barge in tow, but upon the arrival
-| of the tug here it was announced
| that they had not been saved. The
Excelsior with her cargo was valued
at about $33,000.
: Chickasaw Legisiature Adjourns.
ARDMORE, L. T., Feb. 20. —~The special
, | session of the Chickasaw legislature
- | has adjourned. A bi)l was passed pro
' | viding for two delegates to go to
: Washington in the interest of the
. | Chickasaws. Ex-Gov. Byrd and Homes
| Colbert were the delegates selected.
A LAND OF NAPHTHA.
Infiammable Nature of Everything af I
the Baku Petroleum Wells.
Probably there is no spot on earth
where more highly inflammable matter
{lies exposed to such terrible conflagra
tions as that just reported from Baku
llhan in the district lying just beyond
that town on the shores of the Caspian.
Everything seems saturated with pe
troleum; the cir one breathes is laden i
with a greasy odor, ana the waters of |
the bay are covered with an iridescent ‘
sheen which at night may be set on fire ’
with most weird effect. Not only is |
black naphtha to be seen in monster |
fountains playing from the very earth,
but white naphtha flows of itself in
places, and a short way off are: the
| natural gas vents over which the natives
I(]() their cooking without coal, and
which once fed the sacred Zoroastrian |
[fires. No wonder that the ancient Per
gsinn! looked on this as holy ground,
| prere the eternal heaven-fed flumes of
| /fe burst forth in sacred buildings, the
| remains of which are still extant, and
| \he modern Persian or Parsee of Bom
|y and Gujerat kindles the oil shipped
| to him from Batoum without a sigh for
|a vanished belief. When the late shah
|nf Persia visited Baku it was necessary
|to import a number of priests for the
{occasion, that he migh! witness in the
lpnrlion of the Persian empire that had
l been wrested from it by Peter the Great
a specimen of the worship that his
} predecessors had all but stamped out in
the portion they had conqured and re
[tained. For less distingnished visitors
| to see thereisonlya ruined tower, from
| the top of which flure natural jets,
| through iron gaspipes, and a number of
?u-lls. with altars for the once sacred
;lirv. and some ancient inseriptions.
| Everything round is saturated, and 1
have stood in those sheds the only dry
object, with a naphtha spout playing
above and falling deafeningly upon the
i roof. No one objects to naphtha there,
and the men even wash in it, using sand
therewith, while all employed have a
fixed allowance for fuel and light. No
dwellings more dismal than theirs can
{ be imagined. Dante should have visited
the spot.
All around between the wells lie lakes
of seething naphtha, which, when clear
l of sand and stones, will be pumped into
iron reservoirs. The roads have naphtha
streams by the sides,and naphtha pipes
of all sizes eross and interlace in all di
rections until they are hardly passable.
One rashly thrown match would set
miles in a blaze, and the most stringent
regulations are wisely enforced. But
for them disasters would be terribly
frequent.
A very different appearance is pre
sented by the palpitating Black Town,
where in gigantic furnaces the naphtha
is distilled and churned and distilled
again as benzine, kerosene and vaseline,
and many valuable chemicais are one
by one removed, till only the thick,
black residue, of use for fuel, is left,and
much of this is used to feed the furnaces
themselves. Boilers so heated closely
resemble those intended for coal and
wood, except that on the inside of the
fire doors are stout jets, through which
it is pumped the length of the firebox,
forming bright tongues of heat-giving
flames. Railways and steamers alike
are so heated in Russia.—Pall Mall Ga
zette, ReP I i 3
ANTIQUITY OF THE LASSO.
Used by Different Races Many Cen
turies Ago.
The lasso is of great antiquity. It is
said to be depicted in the ruins of Nio
eveh. An early Persian manuseript, pre
served in the Escorial, shows a sports
man (whom I suppose royal by his
Olympian expression and careless seat)
in the act of catching a wild ass witha
nicely plaited lasso. The monarch
bestrides a rather “stocky” looking,
dark colored horse, with four white feet
and a white face. A bow, quivers and a
saber are hung from his saddle, and #
sort of housing half covers the horse
How the wild ass is to be restrained,
even by the hand of a monarch, is not at
first sight evident, for the lasso is
neither fixed to the saddle after the
fashion of the gauchos, nor is a half
turn taken round the pommel, in style
ndopted by vaqueros in Mexico and
Texas, Apart from this detail, all is
as realistically set forth as it would be
to-day in a photograph. The horse
bears away from the beast lassoed, and
the King sits a little to one side, exactly
as a Texan cowboy or an Argentine
gaucho sits under similar circumstan
ces. Irises and narcissi*spring up under
the horse’s, feet, and an applauding
group of angels peep out of a cloud,
while in the middle distance another
Persian gaucho shoots an antelope with
an arrow while galloping at full speed.
The Laplanders are said to lasso their
reindeer, and the Tartars and modern
Australians use a rudimentary lasso
fixed to a long pole in order to catch
wild or refractory horses. The Poles,
Croatians afd Wallachains with the
Hungarians, seem to have used the lasso
till ‘about the beginning of the present
century. A picture by the German
artist Richter shows Polish remounts
for the German cavalry being lassoed in
the Zwinger, at Dresden. The horscs
look as wild as a Texan “broncho” or an
Argentine “gagual,” and the attitude
of men and animals, and the way the
ropes are coiled and thrown, are identi
cal with those adopted in Spanish
America to-day. The lasso appears to
run through a ring in the pommel of the
saddle. It is, however. in Spanish
America where the art has been most
developed. This is on account of the
open country and the vast numbers of
wild and semi-wild horses which, up to
the middle of the present century, over
spread its plains.—Badminton Maga.
| ine.
Winter in the Klondfike.
An idea of the kind of weather that
the gold hunter of the Klondike must
fuce in winter may be gathered from
meteorological records made on the
Upper Yukon in the season of i 350-81.
From the end of October a steady fall
of temperature set in, and in December
+| the thermometer touched 67 Jegrees
| Fahrenheit below zero! This was the
lowest, the record for January being 41
| degrees, for February 58 degrees and
for March 43 degrees below zero. Dur
ing the last-named month the long cold
was broken, but the ice did not start in
| the Yukon until the middle of May.and
for several weeks thereafter floating ice
prevented the navigation of the river.—
National Geographical Magazine.
Very Cold.
Young Jinglefritz—l proposed to Dol
ly Swift last night and she gave me a
‘Kiondike refusal. a0
&.fikhfl-—flhi 'l'o? : gy
‘ oung Jinglefritz—Sixty degrees be
ow ‘lero.‘-l:'agl; %by '
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Ayiry 5 PN Ve S R R T
The Silver Lining.
Creditor-~\What, still no money? Do you 2
think it is a pleasure for me in this winter
| weather, in snow and rain, to call here
| every day? R g
| Debtor—o, don’t be down-hearted. The
| spring will soon be here—Fliegende Blaet
| ter. 5
The Young Idea.
! “Mamma, 1 guess I know wh{ Mr. Buns.
| by sit= in the front row at the theater.” :
| ““Why, my dear?®” % £
| g, evervbody can see that he’s got a lit- 2
‘ tle hair left behind.”—Pittsburgh Cg:oniclg !
His Apprchension,
| De Witte—l feel 5o énrry for those cad- 3
dies! Ao
| “Miss Askens—Whyt
“I'm afraid some of them may grow ta
; become golf players.”—Puck. x
Hard Luck.
l “*What made you quit the club; Billy #” £
| “Reason enough, I can tell you. Iworked
| five years to be elected treasurer, and then
they insisted on putting in a cash register.” 5
* —Boston Traveler. ;
The Back-Biter.
“The back-biter,” remarked the observet 4
of men and things, “is usually somebody who- :
has been frustrated in the attempt to gey
whlm- meat off the breast.”—Detroit, Jour .
nal. 5
Information Wanted. ‘
'l‘(;nr-]hcr —At what age does a man usually.
get bald? A 21
Bright Pupil—What kind of a man—mar- :
ried or single?—Chicago Evening News. i
Fariled to Please. x
Tom—That composer made himself very
unpopular. :
Dick-—How? T
“By putting on such airs.”—Up-to-Date.
. Then He Quits.
Prim—Man is born to rule the world.
Prone—But sometimes he gets married.—
Up-to-Date.
Newsa for the Wheelmen.
The i;o;ntg\;e ;E ;\r;mrican \\'heelmefi num
bers nearly 2,000 below the 100,000 mark
| within the last few weeks. In spite of this
| startling diminution, the maximum of
| health may be attained by those who use
| the comforting and thorough tonic, Hostet
ter's Stomach Bitters, which promotes di
gestion, a healthy flow of bile, regulnrit{ol
the bowels, and counteracts kidney trouble.
It is, moreover, a remedy for and preventive:
of malaria and rheumatism.
Almonds and Smilax,
A good deal is said and written about
society, but all there is to it is salted al
monds and smilax.—Atchison Globe.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
l'ake Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25¢,
l..ooklni For:.tTl.
Sh—And you will always love me?
He—Do you think I'm a prophet ?—Up To
Date.
_Fits nt:)fpped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first day’s use of Dr. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle &
treatise. Dr. Kline, 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa.
The inventor of suspenders that will not
pull the buttons off will have a bigger for
tune than a_ shareholder in Klondike.—
Washington Democrat.
The inventor of suspenders that would
never break would be assured of a fortune
—Washington Democrat.
Piso’s Cure for Consum)}:ion relieves the
most_ obstinate L‘Oufilll.— ev. D. Buch
mueller, Lexington, Mo., Feb. 24, '94.
| The inventor of a kind of suspenders that
won't wear out is assured of the blessings of
all mankind.—\Washington Democrat.
REEEL A
Mothers must be an awfully good thing:
children cry for them so much.——Atchiagn
Globe.
Actors, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
| Hale's l{oney of Horehound and Tar.
Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Women whose clothes do not look like it,
are very particular about their dressmakers.
—Washington Democrat.
After a man is 30, in thinking of coasting
| he considers the walk back.—Atchison
Globe. . ¢
| Rupture. Burecure. Book free. Write for it
toß.J.Sherman, Specialist, Mt. Vernon,N.Y.
When a girl goes on the street to look for
her steady, everybody knows it.—Atchison
Globe.
A writing teacher never knows anything
| about grammar.—Washington Democrat.
It is a knock-out when St. Jatobs
Oil cures Sciatica promptly.
Nearly every man at some time has let his
full beard grow.—Washington Democrat.
A treasure laid up is St. Jacobs Oil.
It cures the worst Neuralgia. i
Spinster—Either a boy with a top or an
elderly unmarried lady.
A bff investment for a workingman is
St. Jacobs Oil. It cures rheumatism.
Whispers and runaway teams make th
break-ups.—Ram's Horn. 5
Very Painful
Could Not Move without Great Suf
foring—Hood's Cured.
. ‘'My shoulders and arms were very pain
ful with rheumatism so that I counld hardly
move them without great suffering. 1
have taken four bottles of Hood's Sarsa
parilla and now find myself free from
rheumatism.” Mns, MArRY A. TCCKER,
454 Ninth Bt., Red “_llng. Minn.
, .
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is America's Greatest Medicine. 13 six for §5.
Hood's Pills cure sick headache. 25c.
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