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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
10, Corner Second and Main, Fl. Worth
Clearing the Conemaugh R1rer.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, July Governor
Beaver is here to-day and has covered
the entire devastated district with Gen.
Hastings. He expresses himself as sat
isfied with the work done and thinks the
people here viii soon be self-snstaining
The work of cleaning up the Conemaugh
from the Jano to the Gautler steel works
was started to-day. About FIVE hundyed
men are at work on this part of the
river. So far two bodies have been taken
out from the wire that is lodged in The
water. All the bodies so far taken out
are in good state of preservation.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
THE CRONIN MURDER.
FOrce-Cooney Reported in Nebraska.
POLICEMAN DoGGED.

an american POI1ceman warned TO quit the
FOrce-CoOney Reported in Nebraska.
A POLICEMAN DoGGED.
CHICAGO, ILL. July 1.-PolIce Officer
J. D. Moore gave testimony before the
coroner's inquest in the Cronin case
Since then he claims to have been badly
treated by the Irish policemen at his
station and TO have had his steps logged
by spies. A few nights ago, while on
duty, he was handed the following note
by boy, who ran away as soon as he de-
livered it:
''SIR-If you know what Is best for
yourself, you will quit the police force
Immediately. Your every move is being
watched by friends of Alexander Sulli-
van. Signed CLAN-NA-GAEL.
Moore is an American, and thinks an
effort is being made to terrorize him.
WHERE IS COONEY.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The Brooklyn po-
lice have satisfied themselves that Pat
rick Cooney, the Irish suspect, is not
hiding in Brooklyn. They have given
the city a pretty thorough search and
have found his sister. She processes TO
know nothing of his whereabouts and
says he has not visited her for some time.
AS near as the police can learn he is in
Nebraska
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
Galveston Normal school.
Special to the Gazette.

DFNCIe14 % l1IO u LCIIC'
GALVESTON. TEX, July 1.-The mem
bers of the Texas summer normal
met this morning at 'clock at the Ball
high school. number of new names
were added to the list of members and
the assignment of teachers and pupils to
their respective classes and rooms con-
stituted the work of the day. There
were over one hundred enrolled as regu-
laEs students
This evening at s. O'Clock Professor
Leslie Waggener of the State university
delivered an interesting lecture in the
assembly hall of the Ball high school to
the members of the normal.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
win Go with Sullivan.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 1.-The
morning trains from New York brought
quite number of sporting men who will
go with Sullivan to New Orleans. Sulli-
van and his trainer, Muldoon, will arrive
in Rochester from Belfast this evening
and will leave shortly after for Cleve-
land, whence they proceed to New Or
leans,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
money order convention SIGNED.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-The money
order convention between Germany and
the United States was signed on Saturday
by the German minister, Count D. Wico
Valley and Postmaster-Gene Wanna
maker. 1t increases the amount of
money order that can be sent by either
country to the other from $50 to S100.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02

homestead claim he must be protected in
the high privilege which the law eonfers
upon him. These encroachments upon
the rights of the settler by unautho rized
location of town sites will not be sane
toned or in any manner upheld.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
KILLED by Lightning.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BALLINGEE, Tex, July News
reached here to-day that Joe Bruton,
cowboy living at Content, this county
while on his way home from roundup
last Saturday was stcSss<prTsy lightning.
Both he and - reen eared.Sre instantly
killed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
Died of His Wounds.

speclaI 70 the Gazette
Fort SMITH, ARK. July Lew Mis-
see, who was shet yesterday in the Cher
okee nation by George Walker, died last
night OF his wounds.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
Chief ofDirision.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-Mr. William
B. Shaw of Pennsylvania has been ap-
pointed chief of agents division of the
pension office in place or Mr.. H. C. Bell
of Illinois
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
TEXANS SHUT OUT.
The Places Wanted by Arch COch-
ran and Zadek are Filled.
Good Evidence that Texas Need Look
for Nothing More Save the Offices
Within the State.
Fresh Talk that an Extra session of Congress
viii be Called in october-sOme
Disguised spoilsmen
Texas win be There.


Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July Texas is sure to
send its full quota of Sir Knights to the
grand Templar conclave held here in
October. Among the visiting Templars
who have come on recently to secure
quarters for the occasion are Right Emil
nent Sir n. B. Stoddard of Texas, jun
ior warden of the grand encampment of
the United States, and Sir Knight
Charles C.. Curtis of Fort Worth. They
made satisfactory arrangements and the
delegation will be elegantly housed.
DIDN II GET THERE.
A long list of consuls-general and con-
suls was issued to-day. It included
Eugene Schuyler of New York,
appointed to Cairo, and an
Ohio man to Hamburg. These
places were sought by Dr. Arch Cochran
anu Adolph Zadek, two well-known
Texans, and their failure is tolerably
sure evidence that Texas need look for
nothing more save offices within the
state.
Mr.. Nat Sulzbacher of Eagle Pass is
here. He hopes to be consul at Piedras
Negras.
EXTRA SESSION TALK.
The Posi- to-day editorially expresses
the belief that an extra session of con-
gress will be called in October. 1t thinks
the president favors 1t.
Because the resignation of ten chiefs
of divisions in the sixth auditor IS office
were called for the other day the spoils--
men got an idea that these men
were to be bounced instanter and their
successors named at once. They are dis
gusted to learn that the going out will
be gradual and that it will be weeks,
perhaps months, before all the vacancies
will be filed. 1t has crystalized into a
permanent policy that no changes of
wholesale order will be sanctioned.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-02
secretarr Rusk,s Announcement.

WASHINGTON, July l.-seeretary Rusk
To-day made the following appointments
homas Taylor of Massachusetts,, micro
scopist, $1,000.
George Vasey, Illinois, botanist,
$500
H. E. vandeman, Kansas, phrenolo-
gist, $1,000.
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Southern cause. Would it be right to
assist him in his efforts to avoid re-
capture? Would it not be the very
height of disloyalty in her to hide this
Federal officer on the Starlton prem
Uses?
The girl thought rapidly, one hand,
beautiful and shapely, resting on the
clothes-line, the other dropped at her
side.
She glanced up into the pale but
firm face Of the man who had applied
to her for aid. Hi. eyes were SO blue
and manly, his whole countenance 20
noble, her warm heart felt throb of
pity. His csptors were not soldiers
but swamp guer,illss bold, evil
disposed band. She had quite forgot
ten that he had told her that. Elma
Starlton was not in sympathy with the
guerrillas infesting the swamps and
caneprakes round about her home.
But. had she been. the manly face be-
fore her would have been sufficient to
shake II.
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Iowa's Walled Lake.

The greatest wonder in the State of
Iowa, and perhaps any State, is what
is called the walled Lake." in
Wright County, twelve miles north of
the Dubuque and Pacific Railway, and
$50 miles west of Dubuque city. The
lake is from two to three feet higher
than the earth's surface. In some
places the wall is ten feet high, fifteen
feet wide at the bottom, and five feet
wide on top. The stones used in its
construction vary in weight from
three tons down to 100 pounds. There
is an abundance of stones in Wright
County, but surrounding the lake to
the extent of five or ten miles there
are none. No one can form an idea as
to the means employed to bring them
to the spot or who constructed it.
Around the entire lake is . belt Of
woodland half q mile in width, COM
posed of oak. The trees must have
been planted there at the time Of the
building of the wall. In the spring OF
the year 1856 there was q great storm.
and the ice on the lake broke the wall
in several places, and the farmers in the
vicinity were compelled to repair the
damages to prevent mundation. The
lake occupies grand surface of $500
acres; depth of water as great as
twenty-five feet. The water Is clear
and cold, soil sandy and loamy. It il
singular that no has been able to
ascertain where the water comes from
nor where it goes, yet it is always clear
and fresh. -Burlisgto Qo,oa) Hatck-
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poured down mercilessly upon pursued
and pursuers. The huge Games def1ed
the Admission of any cooling breeze
which might be astir without.
Ere Lieutenant Hartweu had reacneo
the southern border of the thicket ne
was almost exhausted. Great beads
of sweat stood on his face, and his
limbs trembled from fatigue. He stood
irresolute Is to what course to pursue
next. He had been forced to flee IN an
opposite direction from the Union
camp. Where would he seek refuge?
His strength was failing. He could not
keep up the fight any longer. Then
he Cared not hide among the canes:
Already, in nearing pursuit, he could
hear the heavy boots of the guerrillas
crushing canes and brambles, leaving
no nook unsearched.
Just before him, through grove of
cottonwood, walnut, and hickory, all
tinged with autumn's russell gold, he
caught sight of q handsome southern
home. built of red sandstone, with
clambering vines half yelling the front
and roof, and beautiful flowers of every
variety surrounding it, lending to the
entire place the splendid glow and
beauty of tropical aspect. 1t was the
home of some abettor of the Southern
cause. Hartwell knew this, and he
felt quite sure that if he sought refuge
there he would be handed over to his
rough captors, who, if they did not
belong to the Confederate service,
favored it, while they bitterly opposed
the Federal army.
But haste, not debate, was neces-
sary. He could hear the guerrillas
drawing nearer; their curses, too,
reached him, as non-success at every
turn baffied them. They had expected
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Observation-Disclosures OF the human being in all
things. the observer will always wish he
were ut the other place. from which he I'M
AGNES that something better can be seen.
At the Potrero. an old church built by tn
first Jesuits in this country still remains,
ana is still used for devotion by the Indians
and Mexicans. although roofess and over
NO years old. Standing near the door and
looking inis an altar surmOunted by q cross
and asscaffolding OF flowers. Above it is
one OF the most beautiful pictures ever seen
In such a peculiar framing. The roofless
church has inclosed the most beautiful
castellated cliffs to be seen along the
Batopilas River for many miles. Taking
the thousands of feet in sheer altitude in
many places so that they will fall just be-
low the top of the church door. so as to
leave little streak of blue sky between.
and viewing the scene as framed by the
rest of the church. the observer has pic
ture before him that would make the repu-
tation of any artist who could transfer it
to canvas with reasonable fidelity.
It was up to the very top of these clihs
that we had to climb next day. after which
warm nights would no longer be dreaded.
Ihave described so many of these ascents
and descents that carried US from one kind
of q climate to another that will not repeat
it in this our last instance of the sort.
We had started at 4:1O before daylight.
and in three hours were on the crest. At
$40 We came TO one OF the most singular
cliff or cave dwellings we had seen 80 far.
or. at least. in the trail that led to 1t. This
trail could be made out from the very bot
tom of deep canyon which emptied into
the Batopilas. leading along dizzy cliffs.
and holding to the sides OF the steep noun
tain until 1t reached a height fully our own.
and disappeared into an enormous cave
that must have been able to hold hundreds
of people. for it was at least mile away.
and at that distance we could make 1t out
perfectly. and its mouth and interior walls.
It was the dizziest climb to home have
ever seen described or In reality. before.
Two deer were seen on the heights not
far away. while quail and squirrel were
added to the game list Of the first day lit
tie further on. j..
That a ternoon came to the farms of
some civilized Tarahumaris. built on the
very steep noun. ain side. In which the dirt
was held back by terraces or rude retaining
walls. 80 very similar to those seen around
the ruins of Northwestern chihuahua. sup
posed to be Toltec or Aztec. that could
not help thinking that there was some con-
nection between them closer than resem-
blap q.
I had heard dozen theories to account
for these terraces in the north. for collect
in !. water in dry seasons. for conducting
water, as places OF defense. etc.. ETC., that It
seemed this explained 1t better with an ac-
tual case directly under ones observation.
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to find it no task at all to run him
down. But the end was not yet. Hart
well, however, knew that they would
soon reach the southern limit of the
canebrake; then escape would be i'm
possible.
Not pausing to think again that it
might prove "out of the frying-pan into
the fire." the hunted officer dashed
forward toward the house. He leaped
over the low, well-trimmed hedge that
surrounded the attractive grounds of
the lovely Southern home, then he
stood motionless and gazed in evident
admiration at the sweet picture which
confronted his vision.
A beautiful girl, with plump, grace
full figure, wonderful masses of dusky
golden tresses flowing in ln1uriant rip
Piles all over her proud little head, and
wine-dark eyes starry with mirth and
intelligence, was at work in the yard
near the house. She was singing in a
| clear. bird-like soprano voice some
thing about brave lover wearing the
gray. Her def, snowy fingers I'M
pinned from a clothes-line, stretched
from an Indian peach-tree near the
house to stout cherry in the corner
of the yard, miscellaneous articles of
muslin. These she deposited into a
large, old-fashioned clothes basket
that rested on the soft, velvety grass
at her feet.
In another moment Lieut. Hartwell
stood uncovered before this fair South
ern girl, bowling with the urbanity of
perfect gentleman.
The song ceased, and Elma Starlton
gave start when she discovered the
handsome Union officer bowling so po-
itely before her.
pardon me-" he uttered rapidly; II
did not wish to startle you.
Then he briefly mentioned his cap
ture by the guerrillas and how he had
escaped, ending by entreating her to
show him, if possible, some secure hid
ing-place. Would she heed his i'm
portunity?
Elma Starlton had two brothers and
8 father in the Confederate service
This man was an enemy to the dear
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climb their almost perpendicular faces;
still false step on the slight ladders or a
turning of one of them. which to me would
seem 50 likely. would send the climber two
hundred TO three hundred feet to the bottom
of the canyon. perchance manRled corpse.
Had wanted to visit them directly in
their homes doubt very much If could
have gotten to them. for am sorry to say
that am not sailor. tight-rope per-
former or q balloon professor. Beyond this
the people had Asd to the houses and
could. by disarranging q single notched
stick, have made our ascent impossible.
This, think, was ono of the methods OF
defense Of the ancient clin-dweliers of Ari-
IONA ss shown at least by some that have
seen and which now. with the logs rotted
away. are unapproachable. It is even pos
sible that there is some close affinity be-
tween the Arizona and Mexican cliff DWELL
ers than this simple but suggestive one ]
have mentioned. It Is certainly question
I would like to see some good arch@ologist
struggle with for year or two.
So steep are the walls of the Arrova de
las Izlesias in many places where we made
out cliff-dwellers that had they thrown n
object from the little por like windt va
of their stone pens with ordinary strengt,,
it would certainly have brought up In the
canyon bottom probably 2OO or 800 feet be-
low.
How they can rear their little children on
these cliffs without loss OF 100 per cent.
annually Is to me one OF the most mysteri-
Gus things connected with these strange
people.
They are worshipers of the sun. and the
first day Of child's life they dedicate It to
that great orb by placing 1t In the direct
rays Of that luminary. In many other ways
they show their devotion for that source
which has been loved by SO many primitive
people. Their whole range Of worship would
certainly be interesting in the extreme.
They have the greatest dread Of the owl.
which. in all its consideration. has some
association OF evil connected with It. al the
way from death to the slightest disaster.
How many other things they fear NO one
knows. but they certainly are not afraid to
climb cliffs and crags that would frixhten
the average white man half to death to oven
contemplate.
/ have already described some Of their
strangeimethods Of hunting game. In fish,
ing they build dams in the mountain
streams and poison tho fish that collect
therein with q deadly plant the Hexicans
call palmilla. securing everything In finger
lines and all They never tattoo. paint. or
wear masks, ~ far "a could ascertain.
They are . strange. wild set Of savages.
in . strange. picturesque country coun-
try that win well repay visiting IN . fsW
pears. whom the oontemplated railways %
it arc finished
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the great plains of Sinaloa and Sonora
stretching far away toward the Pacific. or
rather its big estuary. the Gulf OF California
The country to the west in Sonora and
Northern Sinaloa Is one OF the most fertile
in Mexico. The valleys OF the Fuerte. the
Mayo. and the Yaqui are as rich az any
river valleys in North America, and per-
fectly susceptible OF sustaining a dense
population now that all the Indian troubles
Of that region are permanently settled.
The first eight miles of our course on the
homeward journey was up the Batopilas
River to station called the Potrero. On
either side the BatopiIas Lifts its banks from
our to five and even six thousand feet
above the river bed. making a most beauti-
full panorama of mountain scenery for the
whole distance. hardly know which looks
the most impressive. to stand upon the crest
of high canyon and look down into its aw-
full chasm. or to wind through its depths
and look up at its beetling sides seemingly
cleaving the clouds. Whatever be the point
Of view from top or bottom. with the usual
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and pillars. its leaning towers and bust:
and statues that meet him at every side
by great canyons that break OF to the right
and left. and which are perfect duplicates
Of the original through which the traveller
wends his way.
Strange aud singular and curious as are
these works of nature, they are not so as
tonishing to the average civilized person as
the works of man. Among these beetling
crags and dizzy cliffs savage men have
found places to erect their house and live
their lives. Ladders OF notched sticks lead
from one crag to the crest of the other.
whenever the rude steps made by nature
do not allow these creatures of the cliffs to
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eamn. anA here ~ rasoed Re es16t qfGht
o. H. tkip. 1lnoet . ftooe. tAEoe petEe 6
blankees beane decidedly eomfcEe.e =.
vioAlo q TIE Indians. the 1lo A&HnD call-
oaeoo q the 1exieans. We Hego NOM CO..
ing Into the sculptured reek eo9ney. aAd
. vioW up and down TakgWlehe wA0 q beeu-
tifal = one could posaibly dsstre IN fhee
umn some 500 feet high Was not over thirty
foet In diameter. and. did not vary foot
nom base to top. where II was rounded on
Ike half glove. It looked exactly Ike an
enormous pttatiayo cactus turned into
stone: e viewed nom a..s,s distance. . and
wound around its base. Tho Unique River
just beyond was very similar. and that
night We camped at Pilarcitas little Pill
lars) named so on account OF the grotesQue
and curious pillars of rock alongside.
or beauty with the sculptured rock Of the
Arroyo de las Iglesias the Valley or Cam
yon Of tie Churches). so named On account
OF tho spires OF rock that greet ono on
every side for the greater part OF . days
travel For from eighteen to twenty miles
the Canyon Of the Churches seems more
like some theatrical representation Of .
fairy scene than real one from nature.
The limestone has been eroded into q
thousand fantastic forms by the action Of
the elements. the predominating being
some feature of churches or cathedrals.
either in spires. minarets. or flying but
tresses built far out from the main walls Of
tho canyon. The most grotesque forms are
those that generally cap the spires. for
some hard rock on top to protect the softer
underneath seems necessary to insure one
OF these petrified pinnacles Of nature.
On one ofthem. 200 feet in height. as seen
from the canyon. was as good spread
eagle as q person would want to see cut out
Of stone. while on another. not hundred
yards away. was bust OF Hadrisn, quite
as good as that in the Metropolitan Muse
um Of Art. ten times as large. and thou
sand-fold more conspicuously placed. A
person with q small amount Of Imagination
could easily make q land Of enchantment
out of this arroyo with its singular columns
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In decades and centurirs OF rainy seasons
OF moro or less violence after the people
had abandoned these no them houses. or
na.i been killed By the enemies. all the re-
tanned loose earth would have been swept
away. leaving only rude and dilapidated
walls or e:rsces sweeping around the
mountain sides from which almost any
thing could be inferred, from tho most
peaceful form to tho most warl.ke fortidca-
tion.
wild turkeys crossed the road ahead Ct
m on the second day and everything indi-
eafed that the woods were full Of them.
~ tAeir calls from ono 70 the other could
- lord almost every minute Of tho day.
r. Lajs Was made the second niGht tor
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Astronomical InteIlieence,

Telescope man-Come up, gents,
and take look at the moon. Only ten
cents.
Countryman-Doesit make the moon
look any bigger?
Look any bigger? Why, il brings
the moon so close that you can read
the signs on the board fences,
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N the high cumore
or mountain crest
between Unique and
|Basopilas We gained
bur furtherest point
to the west on this
bart Of the trip.
Writes Lieut.. Frede-
rick Schwatkain the
|Chicagoh Inter Ocean.
The Sierra Aadres
break more abruptly
to the West in this
part Of their course.
land from the crest
we could make out
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A sEEDY individual being told that
his coat Cooked % II it hadn't had :
nap in . dozen years. replied: Il
beg your pardon, but this coat has besn
lying in my WARDROBE two and twenty
years till to-day, and that's time
enough to have had . good long nap.
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SCHWATKA IN MEXICO.
I Inn CKEsr or THE sIKR1A
AADRE MOUNTAINS.

- 1sntA Abeut ~ Fertile Bslts sf.ths
Paei1o Sl0pe-TAo Cave - C1iA
Jewellers = Waaders or The eeulptur0d
8ook Countxy.