Thomas County cat., 1890-07-17

saw boat with ssven on eight men
leave the feluccA anll pull up the riv6s.
The tide was still running and there
was fair breeze, and we determined to
cut sticks Semyo said the boat had
gone to village about four miles
above, probably to consult civil or mill
tary officials, and that if we were seized
it would be all up with all Of us.
The felucca, as we could plainly see,
had two brass six Founders, but we
could not say that she would attempt
to stopus. The minute we began to
make ready we saw an alarm on her
decks. Before we had the anchor off
the ground she sent a boat with the
command that we must wait the re-
turn OF our papers. We weighed, how
ever, let fall and sheeted home and
while they were yelling at us we headed
down the river. We were well out to
sea when we espied the felucca follow
ing, and as she sailed two feet to our
ens she was within range before 10
o'clock. If captured now the Spanish
government would hang us all for con-
spiracy. We cracked on everything IN
the shape of sail, loaded our carronade
and paid no attention to the felucca
until positively obliged to. Her gum
merry was so poor that we wondered if
her guns had ever been fired before.
She had at least twenty shots at us, but
the closest call was when ball passed
through the flying jib.
She wasn't over quarter of mile
away when our English gunner sighted
his piece and brought down her entire
foremost and everything with it. The
mast was hit about six feet above the
deck and broken off, and the felucca at
once fell off into the trough of the sea
and confusion reigned supreme. We
kept our course, knowing that she could
not follow us another foot, and when
clear of the coast headed up for Shang-
hal. Arriving there the brig was re-
painted and renamed. her big gun drop
ped to the bottom of the harbor and no
one could have mistrusted her. I saw
the Outrage" detailed in Manila
paper two or three weeks after it oc-
Cured, but if the Spanish government
ever Investigated the occurrence none
Of its movements came to my attention.
We got S32, 500 apiece out Of the little
transactio-., and the last I knew of
Semyo he was tea trader in Japan
New York Sun.
An Immense Irrigation Scheme.
J. B. Ashley of Liverpool, who dined
at the Palmer in Chicago the other
evening, is journeying to San Francisco,
where he will sail for Peru, says the
Chicago Tribune. He is a member of
the English syndicate which lately in
vested in an immense Peruvian irriga-
tion scheme. Over $4,000 acres Of land
in Northern Peru are to be made use.
full by the irrigation ditch. This will
be done by building a stone dam 300
feet long by in height and an extention
of earth across the pampas of 1000 feet.
A storage reservoir will thus be made
for holding the floods of the Piura river,
which now run into the ocean. The
China river will be connected with the
dam. The desert of Lechura will also
be made fertile. In that land there are
rich deposits of petroleum and salt.
The syndicate has the right to bore the
wells, also the contract to furnish the
cities of Catacaos, Lechuia, and Pima
with water. One reason that this grant
was taken by Liverpool syndicate is
that the lands are near the only tract
in the world which produces Peruvian
cotton.
This cotton is especially adapted to
the adulteration of wool. When it is
mixed with wool the difference is not
discernible except by the use of a micro
scope. 1t is ron. .,hedged staple and is
use d in the manufacturing of fine
merino goods. The land bears two
crops year ana is only seeded once in
five years.
Women in the Lobby.
The ''petticoat lobby OF the Capito.
has always been exaggerated. Some
lobbying is done here by women, but