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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-10
THIRD DAY OF THE CONVENTION
Nothing Done Until the Evening Session,
When q Decisive yoto Is Taken.

When q Decisive vote Is Taken.
MISSEAPoLIs, June o. The day opened
bright and warm. As the morning hours
sped on the people assembling brought
fans, and the great audience room in the
convention hall became a sea of waving
palm leafs. AS heretofore, the leaders
were cheered on their appearance, and
finally there was rivalry between the
Blaine and Harrison factions as to which
could greet it's prominent men most nois-
lily. 1t was IL ID when Chairman McKin-
ley raped the convention to order and
announced that Rev. William Brush.
chancellor of the University of South Da-
kota. would offer prayer.
After prayer the chairman called for the
report of the committee on credentials, and
around ofapplause greeted Chairman Cogs-
we'll as he arose. He announced that the
committee was making diligent progress,
asked further time, and said he hoped to
be able to report at o'clock tonight
Senator Cullom, OF Illinois, presented
resolution endorsing the Worlds fair, and
recommending national appropriation
therefore. Referred.
A resolution that all Grand Army men,
bers be permitted TO enter the hall and oc-
cupy the seats vacant thirty minutes after
the beginning of the session was referred
TO the committee on rules.
Ex-Governor Seweli, Of New Jersey,
moved recess until O'Clock pending the
report of the committee on credentia
The Harrison men objected 10 this, and
Lawson. of New York. demanded rising
vote. Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio
were notably in favor of adjournment,
while Wisconsin, Missouri and several
strongly Harrison states were opposed.
After careful count of heads Chairman
Mckinley said Yeas 407. nays $50. The
convention concludes to adjourn until 8
O'Clock this evening" tApplause.l The
standing vote in the affirmative was very
large, and it seemed rs if it had carried
practically by unanimity.
The first evening session of the Repub-
lican national convention was character
lied by the same lack Of eager interest on
the part of visitors and delegates which
marked the previous session. 1t was not
until long after the hour for the opening
of the session that the galleries began tc
ill with the expectant multitude. just be-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-10
THE MONTE CRISTO LANDSLIDE.
Five Workmen Were Killed and the

Bodies OF Four Swept Away.
GETCHELL. June 9.-[Special. The land
slide near here yesterday was caused by a
premature explosion. Five men were
killed and none injured. The dead are /:
Foreman Archie Williams. Pat Lodner
and three Italians, names unknown. The
body of one Italian was found, and the
others were carried down the river by the
strong current
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Morderer Pecanf duplicates Companfon,

TACOMA, June Especial. AN effort
is being made to have Salvedore Pecani
make a confession before he is executed
July /. He intimated that Moreci, an
other Italian who was arrested as his ac-
conplice, was concerned IN the murder.
Moreci was discharged.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-10
warships VIII Go to Olympia.

OLYMPIA. June Especial. Mayor
O'Brien received dispatch from the sec
retary of the Navy today stating that the
Baltimore and Charleston will visit
Olympia.
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MarvsvilIe School Bonds Voted.

MARYsvrLLE, June Especial. 9. THE
bond election in this district, No. %. to
build 10000 schoolhouse was carried to-
day Dy q larSe majority.
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 9.-Depew, leader of
the Harrison forces, was asked if he was
satisfied with the test "Yes," he replied,
''and We will be twenty votes stronger on
the main question"
Ex-senator Platt, of New York, said /:
81 would prefer not to give an opinion un-
til later ballot is taken.'
Chairman Clarkson said: II cannot
tell exactly what the significance is. There
were enough absent in Louisiana and
one or two states to leave Harrison short
of a majority when we consider the scat
tering votes that will be cast for dark
horse. / do not give up the fight yet"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-10

On test vote in the national Republic
can convention last night, the lines be-
ing squarely drawn between the Harrison
and anti-Harrison forces, the Harrison
delegates were found to be in the major
ity, polling 462 votes to the opposition's 423.
Ths vote was on adoption of the report of
the committee on credentials on the Ala
bama contest. On second vote the Har-
rison strength was increased. The plat
form was adopted early this morning. This
morning Chauncey NJ. Depew will nomi-
nate Benjamin Harrison for president,
and the nomination will be seconded by
ex-senator Spooner and others.
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HARRISON AHEAD.
He Has a Good Majority
on a Test Vote.
LIVELY NIGHT SESSION.
The Presidents Friends Force
a Vote and Are Victorious.
WASHINGTON SOLID FOR BLAINE
On a Second Ballot the Anti Harrison
Strength is Reduced.

The Trial of Strength Came on tho Re-
port OF the Committee on Creden-
tfa1s - Adoption OF the Platform
Early This Morning 1t Looks
Very Much As Though Harrison
Would Be Nominated, Though
Talk.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-08-26
A NOBLE RED MAN.
whitewater Slew White Man and Was
Educated by the State of Nebraska.

whitewater Slew a white Man and Was
Educated by the State of Nebraska.
| Especial Correspondence
| FREMONT, Neb., Aug. lit is the
ambition of all good Indians to go to
Washington and see the great white
father while they live, and to go to the
happy hunting grounds and have an
eternally good time when they die.
Among those who have enjoyed several
interviews with the great father in
question is an Otoe Indian named
Whitewater, who makes expeditions to
Washington from the Indian Territory
occasionally in behalf of his people, who
have the utmost confidence in his vast
abilities. There is no man of his race
more widely known in the west than
Whitewater, although great part of
his life has been spent in the peniten-
tiary, where the opportunities for achiev-
ing distinction are not conspicuously
frequent
On July 3, 1871, when Nebraska was
but thinly settled, man named John
Walters, of Belle PLANE, Mimi, COM
menced journey from Thayer county,
Neb., to neighborhood called Charter
Oak, in Nemaha county, where his wife
and baby were awaiting him. He was a
land hunter, and had selected farm in
the first named county. At Fairbury he
was joined by one Sam Pasco, who was
also bound for Nemaha county, and the
two travelled together for mutual pro-
lection. Their route lay near the Otoe
reserve, and those Indians were not
friendly toward the whites at that time.
On the evening of July the travellers
camped at watering place on the Blue
river, They were engaged in cutting
grass for their horses when Pasco was
shot down by an Indian who had APP
preached by stealth. Young Walters
attacked the murderer with his scythe
and succeeded in inficting several
wounds, but fell dead before the Indians
rife. The bodies of the two men were
discovered on the following day, and
suspicion rested upon Whitewater as
the guilty party. He was arrested, but
made his escape and eluded the author
tiles for several days. There was in
tense 1eellng against the Otoes, VINO
were believed to be secreting the fugi-
tive, and such proved to be the case. A
demand for his surrender was made, and
the Indians, being scared, took him to
Fairbury with great display and
turned him over to the authorities.
The Indians arrived in town in pro-
cession headed by six mounted war
riors, followed by wagon, in which
the murderer was seated, with an escort
of braves in all the panoply they could
muster. At his trial Whitewater stated
that white man had killed his sister
and he had registered large, voluptu-
GUS vow that two pale faces would die
as an atnnement. The evidence robbed
the case of this romantic element, show
ing that Whitewater was villainously
drunk and bad Indian, and that the
crime was without DrOyOcatiOn
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Most Fans Are Made in Paris.

Most of the finer fans sold here are
made in Paris and in three or four sub
urban villages near by. No fanmaker
knows the whole art. All the workers
IN one village make sticks; those in an
other fold; those in a third supply the
bows that hold the sticks together. The
making of the upper sticks is a trade by
itself. After all the parts have been
made they are sent to the great factories
In Paris to be put together. A fanmaker
begins his apprenticeship in childhood.
The tools are few and simple.
Most of the carving and filigree work
is done with chisel or scroll saw. The
pattern, traced on paper, is pasted on
the piece of bone or ivory or wood from
which the fan stick is to be made, and
the filigree is rapidly cut with a saw.
Tortoise shell sticks are made by special
workers in shells. That is a difficult,
delicate and well paid art. A few skill
full shell workers are in New York, and
they are among the best paid artisans
New York Sun.
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Snakes Robbing a Chicken Roost.

Superintendent Elliott, of the North
Cedar Hill cemetery, Frankfort, has for
many nights past noted that his chick
ems were mysteriously disappearing
They were choice fowls, raised at great
expense, the envy of neighbors the
country around.
There is pond short distance from
the superintendent house, and near the
side of this house are the chicken coops.
Mr.. Elliott resolved to remain up all
night and keep watch over his property.
The evening wore slowly away with
out any developments, but toward 2
o'clock in the morning his attention was
attracted by a rustling in the grass near
the coops, and ON hurrying quietly there
was surprised to find that three 4-foot
water snakes had entered the coops
and seized upon as many of his choicest
fowls. The snakes had coiled around
the necks of the chickens, strangling
them, and were endeavoring to reach
the edge of the pond with their victims.
The superintendent succeeded in killing
all of the snakes.
The water snakes were the largest of
their kind ever seen there. 1t is well
known fact to those acquainted with
the habits of water snakes that they are
as fond of chicken as the traditional
country prescher.-Philadelphia Times.
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oLuTIoN OF THE RACE HORSE.
The Development of the Thoroughbred
Is Entirely the Work of Man.

The Development of the Thorough bred
Is Entirely the Work of Man.
In so far as creature endowed with
life can owe its existence to human hands
the race horse may be said to be man.
made Horses were an important factor
In early nomadic life, ard were cherished
by their owners, and the progress of
civilization, so far from breaking this
bond, has apparently strengthened it,
The animal is not now 80 essential to
human welfare and convenience; science
has furnished other means of transpor-
tation, and it is in fair way to take all
The heavy loads from his back; but in
The degree that he ceases to be a mere
beast of burden he is transformed into a
source of entertainment and pleasure.
From a rough and hardy creature,
subsisting on such rations as chance and
convenience might provide and suffering
the hardships and hazards of toll and
adventure, he has gradually evolved
into a combination of nerves, intelli-
gence and trained muscle that has but
family likeness to his early progeni-
tors.
1t differs from them in the same
measure that the American Beauty or
the La France rose differs from the little
five petaled pink flower that blooms by
the roadside. Like those floral triumphs
he is product Of scientific culture 1t
is not chance that has given him that
peculiar build that slenderness and
lghtness that to the expert means speed.
His masters have wanted these develop
ments, and they have studied sire and
dam and the pedigree of each until they
could name in advance the qualities of
the offspring. And having secured
horse that has within him the possibili-
ties of outdoing his ancestors they treat
him as precious belonging, as indeed
he is.
A groom is always in attendance. He
is brushed and combed until his coat is
like satin. He is fed and housed and
exercised with as much care for his
comfort as for child's. Royalty itself
is not looked after with more solicitude.
The attention that ancient Greeks used
to give to their own bodily training is
given by modern men to the race horse,
and as a result he is a marvel of phys
ical perfection.
And after all this? Why, when he has
been tested and his PAGES tried he is put
upon the race track, where his beauty
and grace and swiftness please the sight
and thrill the pulses of the watching
thousands as no other spectacle devised
for public pleasure could ever do.-In-
dianapolis Journal,
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WHITEWATER,

He was convicted and sentenced to
the penitentiary for life, and arrived at
that resort on April "a, 1872. Walters,
his victim, belonged to an illustrious
family, the name occurring frequently
in the political history of Minnesota, a
brother having once occupied high
official position there.
During his long stay in the peniten-
tiary Whitewater was employed in the
laundry and became an expert. He de-
veloped wonderful fondness for reli-
gious literature, and read the Bible
from beginning to end thirty-ive times.
His memory was remarkable, and the
promptness and accuracy with which
he would answer all manner of Scrip
tural questions might have excited the
envy of clergymen. He was proud of
his piety and of his war record, for he
had served in Kansas regiment during
the 'unpleasantness" and had an honor
able discharge.
1t was his delight to be interviewed,
and strangers from all parts of the coun-
try called at the warden's office to see
and converse with this amiable savage,
who related his history with great dra-
matte effect and embellished it with ap-
propriate and voluminous quotations
from the Scriptures. During legislative
sessions at the state capital Whitewater
spent good part of his time as an ora
tor. for no representative felt that he
had done his duty by his constituents I'M
less he interviewed the Indian and car
ried the result home to them.
Whitewater was pardoned by Govern
or Thayer on July 4, 1899, and emerged
into the world of sunshine and freedom
at the age of forty-eight years, an edu-
Gated and renowned man. He at once
Joined his people in the Indian Territory
and it is evident that they appreciated
his sterling worth from the first, for
within month he was sent to Washing
ton as their envoy extraordinary to the
president. As his years increase his
honors also multiply, and if Indians ever
have place in congress during White
waters life it is safe to predict that he
will be found among them.
He has a cheerful variety of philoso-
ply In his possession, and the recollec-
ton Of his awful deed of twenty-one
years ago doesn't for moment 'ruffle his
spirit sunny food" He thinks the dead
past should be its own undertaken and
bury its dead. He is the bronze ideal
hero Of his people, and he sees the great
father at intervals, and he is happy.
WALT MASON.
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.------ "a
How to Make a Breeze.

The citizen who from necessity or
otherwise clings to his city haunts in
the height of summer is coming to
| realize that a great consolation has
dropped into his life in the shape of the
electric fan. The most enterprising
BARRIERS are Fastening to increase the
comfort of their customers by installing
these fans in their saloons, and they
find their business stimulated to an I'M
precedented extent. The proprietors of
restaurants are also falling into line,
and the man about town is not slow to
show his preference for a resort where
he can fulfill the wants of the inner man
in perfect comfort, though the Their
mometer may be climbing to record
breaking heights.
Al new restaurant that not many weeks
ago was opened in part of Broadway
thickly studded with such establish
ments is already doing a phenomenal
business, while its neighbors are desert
ed. It's success is simply owing to the
fact that throughout its length gentle,
even motion of the air is maintained by
electric fans. One has to look more than
once to discover the source of the CRATE.
full breeze. The fans give an almost i'm
perceptible sound and are fitted to an
entirely new attachment. Instead of
the usual permanent fixture globe of
metal is suspended by three chains from
the roof near one of the walls, and in
side this globe is the motor that works
the fan. Three fans suffice to keer
the whole restaurant delightfully."- cool
When the small cost of such an arrange
ment is considered, it is surprising that
the electric fan should not be universally
adopted by those who cater to the hun.
ger and thirst of the public.
One of the best down town restau-
rants in New York, which in ordinary
weather is crowded throughout the year,
is comparatively deserted on hot days
because of its imperfect ventilation. A
party of its steady frequenters who re-
Gently diverted their custom for the
nonce to cooler quarters were discussing
over the midday lunch the question of
electric fans as an investment They
calculated that if their favorite resort
were fitted with these handy breeze COM
pellers, the expense of the installation
would be covered by custom thus re-
tanned within one week. The latest APP
plication of this godsend to the city man
is to bedrooms. By its use the most
stuffy room is made endurable without
subjecting the sleeper to a dangerous
draft.-New York Letter
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ODDS AND ENDS.
omer was the son of a farmer.

Homer was the son Of farmer.
Brandy was first made in France in
1910.
The health resort is good stand for
the undertaken.
Ten per cent. of the population of In
dia are widows.
Men used to be considered old when
they passed fifty.
Marry your son when you please, your
daughter when you can.
Roomy hearts have more genuine hos
pitality than roomy houses.
The first pair of spectacles were made
by Spina, an Italian, in 1299
Find the collar that suits you and then
buy dozen or two of that kind.
Cork and bamboo penholders will be
found relief to persistent writers.
CLAIMS and oysters on the half shell
are now served on ice plates nodded for
the purpose.
Any girl can make an engagement,
but it takes an expert to know how and
when to break it.
The Bible contains 1856, 489 letters,
773, 692 words, 81, 173 verses, 1,189 chap
ters and sc books.
A newspaper in Paris is reported to be
experimenting with type of glass with
gratifying results.
The total gifts to Yale during the past
year have been 100000, while Harvard
received $500,09O.
The Eskimos manufacture ishnets
from strips of seal hide and from thin
slices of whalebone.
A copy of the first edition of the ''Vic-
ar of Wakefield" was sold short time
ago for nearly $3.50.
For burn take sweet oil and lime
water equal parts, mix and keep the
burn well covered with it.
An edition of Shakespeare in words
of one syllable is under contemplation
for use in primary schools.
A Persian potentate owns pearl of
1917 carats which is quite transparent
1t is to be had for the sum of $200,000.
One man in Wicomico county, Md,
on the eastern shore, shipped this season
nearly $4,000 quarts of huckleberries in
a single week, and near neighbor of
his shipped nearly as many. Smart
berry pickers earn two dollars day
picking huckleberries.
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Discovering Hidden Money.

Charles W. Duntz lives on the Land
ing road near the Halfway House.
Tuesday morning while his wife was
engaged in cleaning portrait that had
been in their possession more than a
quarter of century, she accidentally
broke through a cover on the back and
saw underneath it a piece of paper. She
pulled it out and found that it was an
old two dollar bill. She called her sons
attention to it, and the lad took the
cover off. Underneath it they found
two $500 bills, issued by bank in Mas
sachusetts-one in 1856, the other in
1861.
During the day Mr.. Duntz took the
bills to the Union bank and learned that
the bank of issuance was still in exist
ence, and that the bills were probably
genuine and worth their face value.
Mr. Reynolds, teller of the bank, COM
municated with the Massachusetts bank
people and learned that it had $500 bills
of the old state issue still out and was
ready to redeem them if they were gen
uine.
About twenty-eight years ago this
picture was sent to Mr.. Duntz by
wealthy relative, who requested that it
should be carefully kept in the family,
the portrait being that of a daughter
who is still living. Mr. Duntz thinks
that the donor placed the money where
it was found, expecting that it would
be discovered some day when it would
be of some real benefit to the finder
She was very peculiar in her ways at
all times.-Kinderhoo Rough Notes.
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Electricity in Warfare.

A clever piece of work was recently
done by the telegraph battalion of an
English regiment in the course of some
night experiments. An extensive cable
was rapidly laid over the toughest pos
sible ground, and that, too, without
the slightest assistance from search
lights, and the lieutenant general was
thus enabled not only to find lost bri-
gade, but to control the simultaneous
advance and attack of three separated
brigades on an earthwork at midnight.
The telegraph in fact rendered most
difficult and doubtful operation com
paratively easy and certain. With large
scale maps, balloon and increased OBJ
serving staff, it is likely to be made a
most important aid to the strategist and
the MISUNDERSTANDING.
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Edwin Il Norris Estate.

SsTATE OF VERMONT, District of Bradford S.
- In Probate Court held at Thetford within and for
said district on the roth day OF Aug, A. D, 1902.
Rodney E. Merrill Administrator Of the estate OF
Edwin Norris late of Corinth in said district deceased
real estate of said deceased situated in VT representing
that the sale thereof is necessary for the purpose Of
paying debts and settling up the Whereupon il is
ordered by said court that said application be referred
to a session thereof to be held at Thetford, in
said district on the sd day Of September A. D. 1899,
for hearing and decision thereon and it is further or
dered that all persons interested be notified hereof by
publication of notice of said application and order there
on three weeks successfully in the United Opinion a
newspaper published at Bradford and which cculaes in
the neghborhood Of those interested before said time
hearing that they may appear at said time and place.
and if they see cause object thereto.
By the Court, Attest,
IA s. NJ GLEASON Iudge
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Cruelty to Infants.

There is one bsrbarous practice still
occasionally INDUCED in at Old Orchard
as at other places where surf bathing is
a pastime. 1t is quite as cruel as bull
fights, and as the cruelty is perpetrated
in Christian land and ofttimes by moth
ers it is all the more glazing. We refer
to the custom of taking so many terri
fed infants out into the waves and hold
ing them down in the water. Such a
spectacle witnessed in a mornings walk
will spoil a days enjoyment. The suf-
ferings of the little one are as real as
painful emotions can be to an adult
Bangor Commercial.