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, 1889-03-23
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From San Francisco to Honolulu is
2, 100 miles. The traffic is controlled by
Claus Spreckles' Oceanic line of steamers.
subsidized by the British government.
Mail is received there at irregular inter-
walls.
The Hawaiian group is composed of
eight islands. The population is $4,000,
with about as many foreigners as natives.
The Chinese number several thousand
and are exceeding prosperous. They
have reclaimed swamps, cultivate
rice and bananas and breed fish in their
canals. Many are very wealthy and are
wholly unlike the Chinese here.
The Hawaiian parliament includes
twenty mobiles and in equal number of
representatives. All are elected and de-
liberate jointly. All laws enacted are
printed in the native tongue and in Eng
lish.
The natives seem l~istless. The Con-
gregatiopal missionaries have done a great
work among them. They are moral and
the percentage of illiteracy is very small.
Business is suspended on Sunday and the
churches are filled, The highest clothing
is worn. The poor are always barefoot.
The women are ardent admirers of the
Mother Hubbard dress and the travellers
were surprised at seeing ladies' p~romen1d-
ing in white Mother Hubbards. The
national drink is gin; the national food
poi, a paste made from a vegetable resem-
bling the turnip.
On one of the islands is a volcano
which was active during the entire stay
of the Cheyenne men. 1t was a grand
sight.
The sugar industry there is what the
cattle business was here a few years ago.
Japanese laborers are being imported to
work on the great plantations. A cargo
of ,O60 recently arrived. They will labor
five years for $l5 a month and care for
themselves.
Honolulu is a modern city. 1t has an
improved telephone system, electric light
with water for power, wide streets with
shade trees and several fine parks. The
population is 10000 and two inferior
daily papers are published. Coal is not
burned and the kitchens are apart from
the dwellings. The elite of Honolulu is
small but select. The kings receptions
are the greatest social events. A brass
band with a German leader and native
performers plays in some park twice a
week, while music is heard everywhere,
as the natives are p~assionately
fond of melody. Some of theil
airs are exquisite. Theatrical companies
, 1889-03-23
row TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked VI
Throughout the City.

Ranchmen are engaging men for spring
work.
If the weather is fair there will be sew
eral school boy ball games to-day.
There will be a base ball meeting at the
office of Secretary Stable this evening.
1t is noticed that there is no decrease in
the volume of travel oyer the Union Pa
cifc.
The appointment of j. II. Stafford as
general Union Pacific storekeeper is off,
cially announced.
The wife Of Herbert Moon of Camp
Carlin has presented her husband with a
l6-pound son. All are well.
Members of the Cheyenne Gun club
will practice at Standard targets at the
fair grounds this afternoon.
There was a good attendance at Co.. BIS
drill last evening. There is now scarcely
any talk of a trip to New York.
Fresh smells, German carp, herring,
dressed perch, picscarel, white fish, trout
and pike at Standard Cash Market.
H. NJ. Robinson has filed at the Office
of Secretary Shannon his qualification as
q notary public for Sheridan county.
To make room for the large blacksmith
shop three Union Pacific tracks are to be
taken up and others arranged differently.
Stetson's famed Uncle Toms Cabin
a new version with novel features. will be
the attraction at the opera house Tuesday
evening.
Two cars of Polled Angus cattle and
one carload of Indiana saddle horses
billed to Portland, Ore, were hauled
west yesterday.
Sheriff Yund OF Albany county yester-
day made his report in the matter of the
the delivery OF Jos. Harmon, the Colo
RADIO horse thief, to the authorities of that
state.
John Ackard, a brother of the brake
man lately killed here, writes from Colby.
Kas., that he may remove the remains OF
deceased to that place.
The Union Pacific and Burlington
agents here have been advised that they
must observe the letter of the interstate
commerce law in regard to false classlica-
ton of freight. This portion of the
enactment was recently published in The
LEADER.
S. +. Rhodes, who has been with the
Union Pacific supply department at Oma-
ha for several years, has been appointed
superintendent of the company Stout and
Buckhorn stone q~uarries near Fort Col
Inns. This means resumption of opera
tions at the quarries.
Among the entries for the Overland
park races in Denver May IS to 25, are
two horses in the Overland handicap and
Colorado derby, respectively, by Stokes X
Whitehouse OF Laramie City, while N.
r. Davis Of this city enters Cashier in the
2-year-old stakes for trotting. 1t is to be
hoped all the animals will be in fine con-
dition for the races.
, 1889-03-23
Filed for Record.

The following instruments evidencinG
the transfer of Cheyenne and Laramie
county property, were filed for record at
the office of the county clerk yesterday:
Union Pacific railway to Erick
johnson, the southeast quarter
Of the southeast quarter of sec
ton 9. township IL north, Of
range Observation-Disclosures 100
j. X. Jeffrey to Laramie County
Library association, south PC feet
of lot l, block 32S (site for
Yesterdays LEADERj........~.... LOO
, 1889-03-23
Preparing the Track.

The Wyoming Fair Association is hav-
ing considerable work done on its grounds
near the city. Mr.. David Rich has the
contract for a complete ~overhauling OF the
track and giving it better incline at the
curves. He is camped there and at work
with thirty men and a number OF teams,
and will do the work thoroughly. The
track will be settled in shape and first
class before the time of the regular fall
meeting.
, 1889-03-23
A Candidate for Secretary.

Maj. Il. p. Champlin of this city is a
candidate for secretary of the territory
and the people of the whole county are
signing his petition as rapidly as possible.
He is the best man in the territory for the
place-and in the grand distribution Of
prizes certainly Converse county is en-
titled to something.
, 1889-03-23

e. c. Burgdorf, the Denver Pacific
roadmaster who was injured by falling
from a box car Thursday, is in a very pre-
c%arious condition, but may recover. No
bones were broken. but he suffers from
conclusion of the spine.
, 1889-03-23

Harry P. Hynds has kindly volunteered
to outfit the Cheyenne ball club with uni
forms, and the players have selected a
gray costume, which will wear well. The
suits will aggregate in cost $3.50. Mr..
Hynds' generosity is much appreciated by
the boys and citizens as well, the latter
realizing that a ball team is a great adver-
tisement for a town..
, 1889-03-23

At Laramie Wednesday evening a mass
convention placed a high license munich
pal ticket in the field. Mayor Finfrock,
the councilmen. attorney and clerk were
renominated and John Dimmitt was
named for clerk. A call Tor a working
mems convention has been issued.
, 1889-03-23
Leaving balance due Lara

oZ
I'VE therefore find that the county of
Converse is indebted to the county of Lar
annie in the sum of $780, T3 62.
we also agree that the sun shall be
paid in Converse county warrants bearing
interest at the rate of 6 per cent per
annum."
The money is to be paid in twelve equal
annual payments of $5,O39.47 each, the
warrants to be dated not later than April
/ 1890.
, 1889-03-23
Cheyenne Creamery.
[KImban CNeb.) Observer

The Cheyenne creamery has appointed
w. Il. Robinson as their agent in Kim
ball county, and will st art a creamery
route at once. This is a good move for
the farmers, and one in which they are
much interested, as it will bring them
money and q ready sale for their cream.
There are a number of farmers in the
county who already have cows and as
o o as the cream is gathered regularly
many others will avail themselves of the
opportunity of making money.
, 1889-03-23
JUST

n full lime of crOckery and
glassware, u nice aSSOrt-
snenst of baby carriages,
curt aims Of all de-
SCrtptiOSas, ~ full lime of
kid, silk and cotton gIOCes,
carpets, HnOtenni, oil
cloth, rags and hNsSaCks.
"THE E.fER.D
, 1889-03-23

Commencing April 7 the Union Pacific
morning east bound and 2:1O west bound
trains will reach the city one hour later.
The time card otherwise will probably
remain as at present.
, 1889-03-23

From tie Park stables, gray mare with
halter on, branded three quarter circle R
on left shoulder. A liberal reward for
the return of the w. p. RoDD.
, 1889-03-23

WANTED-A reliable business man
w for manager of our branch store at
Cheyenne. Greatly reduced prices in
books and stationary. Salary 81, 500
per year, good references and 81 900 cash,
deposit required secured by $50, 900. 255,
25T, Wabash avenue, Chicago.
, 1889-03-23
S"y your Carpets at
STHE ETFR.o

A fresh lot of +. A. Kennedy's fancy
crackers and cakes at Il. S. Johnston &
Bro.
, 1889-03-23

WANTED-Cook or nurse girl to work
w at Fort Russell. Apply at this office.
, 1889-03-23
WANTED.

For good hack service call telephone No. Q.
, 1889-03-23
FOR SALE.

DOR SALE-Some good residence and
L business property for sale cheap. Also a
ranch and stock. JAS. NJ. NEWMAN,
$40 West Seventeenth street.
DOR SALE-Hotel furnished, lease
on building. Address C. F. HALL,
Cheyenne, Wyo.
, 1889-03-23

For Rent offices, houses,
Sss-HtShed and sInIiS,rnished
rOOsses. =. ". TTTTEE
with r. II. Warren.
, 1889-03-23

5 & Historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1889-03-23
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
FOR RENT-Dyer's hotel bar and BIZ
L lard room, all furnished. Apply at
OVERS hotel.
FOR RENT-Furpished rooms with or
l. without board. Rooms for light house
keeping. MRS. A. CURLEY, POOP,
Eddy street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05

The social. the intellectual, the political
world-on fire, was alRo bobbing in and out
the red parlor of the Ebbitt; but we draw
the mantle of charity over this great politi-
cal figure in Virgina-and make no further
comment.
"Ex. Marshal" Winfield Scott, but who, In
fact, was nothing more nor lees than pen.
itentiary storckeeper' in Virginia, who will
be remembered as the man who went to
Chicago with printed brief in his pocket
of q convention in the Fifth district, which
he knew had never been held, because he
could not get five men together in his whole
district to hold it, but who with these forged
credentials was admitted, and who was the
staunch friend of Ager on every ballot.
Ex-Congressman Harry Libbey was an
other of this self constituted clan, whose po-
litical influence at home Is measured by
the fact that in the convention that Romi.
mated Hon. George E. Bowden for Congress
in his district after an industrious cam.
paign failed to secure single delegate for
himself.
The Hon. Lewis Mckenzie. of alexandria,
was another one of the prominents who left
the city in rage, 6isgusted with himself,
the kickers, and, over all and above all,
more disguised with the President.
James A. Frazier was on hand, who, after
their interview with the President loudly
protested that their fight was for principle,
not for office but whose conspicuous figure
has been seen in Washington for three
months in hot pursuit OF the collectorship for
the western district.
MIR. Morgan Treat, who fought shy of the
kicSers until his application for the marshal
ship was rejected, and who was loud in his
praises of Malone and Mshone's friends,
having heard of the appointment of Mr..
Farr, was here to enter his solemn protest
against such working Of the organization"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05
A Bold Robber.

SHAwANo, Wis.,, June ga highwayman
appeared in BondnelI, a town of this coun.
ty, yesterday and entered the store of Solo
mon Kahn. Kahn was busy at his desk
when the fellow slipped up, leveed revol-
yer and told him to hand over all the money
be had, which he did to the amount ofabout
500. The robber then left the store and
finding a farmers team at the door, un-
hitched it and started of. The of the team
protested and the robber shot at him twice
and then drove off. A large crowd are In
pursuit of him. Several robberles have
been committed in this vicinity by the same
ind uidnal
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Justice Gray and Miss Jeanette Matthews,
daughter of the late Justice Matthews, were
married at the home of the bride in Wash.
ington last night.
TIE District Commissioners have granted
the street railway company in Washington
permission to lay cahls road the entire
length of Seventh street.
Burrell, the operator at Silver City, Mon.
was killed, and F. O. Jobst, the Montana
Central agent, probably fatally wounded by
robbers last night.
A private cablegram received In San
Francisco yesterday by Chinese firm re
ports that hurricane at Hong Kong has
caused q loss of ten thousand lives and great
damage to property.
1t is stated that the Vatican authorities
are alarmed at Russia'5 objection to Catholic
missions in the Balkans, aud that Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria is also alarmed.
The latter, in reply 10 the strong appeals to
interfere said he was bound not to swerve
from the peace alliance.
The famous Etowah property in Bsrstow
county, Ca, containing 1900 acres of min-
eral land, has been purchased by General
Granger, of Philadelphia, representing a
Pennsylvania company, for 100000 1t is
understood the property has been purchased
for the Bethlehem Iron Works Company Of
the famous Lehigh Valley. The purchasers
will begin by mining iron and manganese
ore on large scale and shipping it to Penn
sylvania.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A telegram received in Richmond last
NIGHT stated that Gov. Lee, whose term Of
office expires next January, has accepted the
presidency of fire insurance company In
Stanton.
Mr.. II. Il. Baker, son of the late Henry 5
Baker. of Winchester, and Miss Belle +. Jcr
dap, only daughter of Mr.. E. G. Jordan, Of
Jordau's Springs, were married III Winchea'
ter last night
A very disastrous FIRE occurred at Halifax
Courthouse Sunday morning, consuming the
old Banister Hotel, Mr.. w. n. Dickens
store aud part Of his stock and two stores
which were uucccupied. TIE Losses are es
timatsd at $50 900
Edwin Bryce, fourteen-year-cld boy
living in Manchester, in violent coughing
apell last night coughed up q two-inch Eng
lsh galvanized horseshoe nail which ne
sws lowed fifteen months ago. He is doing
vel and will recover.
Five bridges On the Piedmont, Freder
icksburg and Potomac Railroad between
Fredericksburg and Orange Courthouse,
with som. ssifleen miles of track, w-re swept
away by the recent storms The latest re-
ports from the county state that the damage
is beyond estimation.
The Philadelphia Record says: "The ad
ministraion ct Washington has been urgent
Nv invited to interfere in The faction fight be.
ween Malone aud his enemies in Virginia
That is the bps; fight il the world for pru.
.!ent President TO keep out of. Let Malone
sud his sns mics settle their own qnarrels.'
The First National Bank Of Richmond
has entered suit in the Circuit Court OF the
United States for this district against the
city of Richmond and Faux ". Cunning
ham, Collector to have adjudged legal and
void the tax imposed by the City Council
upon the shares Of the bauk at thoir market
value.
Lsst Saturday morning difficulty occur
red between Mr.. Willie Gordon and Mr..
John Leavell, two prominent citizens OF
Spotsylvania county, during which Mr.. Cor
don eeizsd spoke and struck MIR. Leaveil
terrible low over the head. knocking
tkrn senseless. Mr.. Gordon was arrested
and balled in the sum of $1,000.
The most of the republican master work
men went into the Norfolk navy.yatd on
Saturday to take charge of their depart
ments. The Malone and Bowden men
largely predominant among the appoint
ments both workmen andclerks, which shows
conc usivey the prevailing influence. The
republicans now have fair possession of the
ward. Every democratic foreman except
the boss painter and all the workmen in the
thirteen shops of the construction depart
ment have been discharged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05
The Pennsylvania Disaster.

The work of searching for the remains OF
the dead and distributing aid to the surviv.
ors Of the great fl bod ip the Conemaugh Val
ley, was carried on yesterday. The heart
sckening scenes of the past few days were
repeated ten-fold. The vast mud flat strewn
with wreckage and ruin scores of half
crazed, wild eyed women and children
roaming about in search of loved ones ; the
long files of stretchers bearing the bodies of
victims just picked up policemen armed.
with orders to shoot at sight any man found
Decorating the bodies of the dead the
crowds of anxious strangers arriving by the
lhousands-all this 10 horrible 10 witness and
impossible to 6tly describe.
That awful pile of human beings and
wreckage at the bridge is jammed together
in compact msss-a perfect death barrier.
All the water of the Conemaugh and Stony
Creek has to pass through this stuff on it's
way to the weter supply source OF Pittsburg
and Allegheny, and the people of those cities
drink this water which has washed over the
burned and bruised bodies at the fatal
bridge. The doctors ell express The opin'
ion that q mistake was being made in put
Ting out the fire. 1t will take month to
remove the mass Of wreckage, and before
that time the bodies will have bred disease
and pestlence and inpregnated the water
al the way to Pittsburg with the germs of
an epidemic.
Pneumonia has broken out on Prospect
Hill, where many of the survivors are lying
i'll from fright and injuries. Gov. Beaver
telegraphs that there is danger of pestilence
at Johpstowp, owing TO the decay of bodies
in the debris.
The movement for practical relief for the
sufferers is meeting with responses from many
quarters. President Harrison presided st
meeting In Washington yesterday evening
and made speech in behalf Of the suffer-
ers, and $4,000 were contributed in the
hall Mr.. Whtelaw Reid, the United
States minister to France, called meeting
of Americans in Paris TO start subscriptions.
the Observation-Disclosures legislature has increased
its appropriation to $50, 900. Philadelphia
contribution in cash amounts to $3.50 600
1t is estimated that up to yesterday evening
there were at least 300 new graves in the valley,
many of which will be unknown for all times
At tho request of the Sheriff Adiutant General
Hastings has called out The Fourteenth regiment
of Pittsburg who are to be stationed at Ihnstown
proper to guard the buildings aud against emer-
tcncies Other reasons are known to exist for this
p1ccaution. Bodies recovered yesterday that
had boon robbed by tho ghoul5.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05

OpTIMIsTs DECEIVE themselves and would
deceive others with the delu-ion that men
are becoming less cruel and more humane
uoder the il fluences of civilization and
Christianity. They read of the barbaTities
of former generations, and thank providence
that none such disgrace the present age
They shudder when they recollect that the
head of Montrose was placed on the tolbooth
at Edinburgh and his discovered limbs sent
to various parts of Scotland for exhibition;
aud yet only few years ago the flesh was
boiled from the frame of Guiteau, poor
crazy man, and his skeleton is now on pub
lie show in Washington. They recoil at the
remembrance of the atrocities committed by
the Spaniards in Flanders, and yet only
last week, in this country, men cus oil the
fingers and ears of dead women and child
rem in order to steal the rings therefrom.
Human, is the worse kind of nature, and,
like all other kinds. is Interchangeable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05
Extensive Fire

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, June 5.-The most
extensive fire which has visited Jacksonville
for many years broke out at two o'clock
this morning. in the rear of the building on
Bridge street formerly used for the electric
light plant. A high wind was prevailing,
and the fire spread rapidly northward until
it had consumed everything combustible in
an area of Eve blocks. The loss wi prob
ably reach 100000. The insurance is
light. Most of the houses destroyed were
small and occupied by the poor classes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05

west Virginia. He told friend that Gen.
7 A. Walker is an able man aud an excel
lent lawyer, but that he thought the Gener-
al was now more interested in his law prac.
tice and in land operations than in politics,
IS was indicated by his voting for the tenn
perance candidate for President and for MT.
Bowen at the last election.
President Harrison presided at pnoiic
meeting held here last night to raise funus
for the Johnstowu sufferers. He made
soeech in which he said II feel that, as
am now calling for contributions, should
saw that on Saturday, when first appriseu OF
the Jamestown disaster. photographed sub
scription to the mayor of that city 90 not
like to speak of any thing SO personal as THIS,
but felt it due to myself and to you that
shonld saw so much as this" 1t ia needless
to sav that even these who had the poorest
opinion Of the President ere surprised al
this. D,;,-a
saws thew tell him that the repairs TO inc
Long Bridge will be SO far completed 6y TO,
night as to permit the resumption OF railroad
travel over that bridge By transfer, but
that he does not think trains will be able TO
pass over the bridge before Friday.
The application of Mr.. McCabe, VINO to
dsy was appointed postmaster at Leesourg,
Va. was, it is said, endorsed by both Mr.
Agnew and General Malone. Mr.Sullivan,
the newly appointed postmaster at harri-
sonburg. received his commission to-day.
It is reported that it was held up OF the in
stance of General Malone, but that yester-
dsy the General withdrew his opposition.
Ex.Congressman Brady, wRo IS here To-Day,
says that Mr. Sullivan was an antl-Mahone man
and that he Brady went to the Postolhce Depart
ment and fled protest against Inc appointment
of Funkhouser, Sulliyan's Tlval LOT inc pace
who was endorsed by Gener Malone.
The Mahoueites here say tho Gonoral has every
thing his own way in the matter OF the federal
patronsge in Virginia, and that when changes
take place in the offices in that state his TRENDS
will be appointed They say to-day that the Pres.
ident, by postponng his hearing OF the k,cKer'
side of the Virginia case until next Tuesday,
showed thst he putting it OIL as long as pozsi
| bile. and that he would rather not hear 1t all.
They also cav that all the Ii re ex-Gov. Cameron
| shall be stating the kickers' case to him
next Tuesday, the President will be wondering
| how man who did not vote for him could have
tho assurance to advise him against helping mon
| who did. ,n
Mr.. Graufstaif. the author of the Grandstaii
bill in the Virginia Legislature, who wss recent
| IL removed from his position under the Sergeant
| at Arms of the U. S. Senate, to which he was ap
pointci at the instance of Mr.. Riddlebergcr, WHO
| was then Senator; the same man WHO GENERA
| Malone didn't have time to talk with week OF
| so ago because he was looking for a dog, Is now
| An applicant for place in the census bureau. LII
friends say his application is endorsed by the ha
| +;nrol rnnuhiican committee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-05
ATTEMPT to Blow Up a Church.

PoMERoY, o., June 5.-Monday night,
while services were being held in the Free
Methodist Church, near this city, an attempt
was made to blow up the building. A lot
OF powder had been placed under the church
to which fuse was attached and lighted,
but it MISE fire. Fully half peck of
blasting powder was taken from under the
building after the attempt was discovered
by the congregation. At least one hundred
persons would have been killed had the pow.
der tesn ignited.