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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

a CURIoUs phenomenon is The rapid
decrease Of vvoma1's vote in Boston.
Only thrce years ago 20. .252 women reg
istered and al but about 500 Of them
voted Last year only 7.q25 voted. and
nest year it IS estimated that the num-
bcr via BE- reduccd to 6,o0a
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

The Canadian minister OF customs
has inflicted fine Of fifty dollars upon
a Chinaman at Victoria, II c.. for en-
deavoring to defraud the department
by persouating another individual with
a view of obtaining permit to return
10 Canada.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

DURING the religious services In the
Norwood Scrubs prison in England
thirty convicts sprang up at signal
and made n rush for the main door
They were checked by the wardens
with drawn revolvers and locked up.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
rERsoNAL ANp roLITIcAI.

GEN. GARCIA was murdered by hi,
troops who afterwards fed into Texas
10 join CARA and the revolutionis S.
The situation was quite serious.
Miss RACHEL SHERMAN, daughter oi
the late general, was married at Wash
ington on the 30th 70 DIR. Paul Thorn
dixie, OF Boston
BIsHoP JomN LouGHLIN, OF the Catho
lie church, died recently at Brooklyn.
Flags of the city were displayed al
half mast
BRITISH conservatives affect TO be-
lieve that the Dublin castle explosion
was the work Of fenians. McCarthyites
lay it 70 Parnelite adherents.
SENATOR STEWART, Of Nevada, has
written 20 Senator Hill, of New York,
asking him to define his exact position
ON tie silver question.
lT was reported from Santiago that
Chilli was ready 10 do her utmost 10
terminate peacefully the trouble with
the United States.
THE Rome Messagero, political
newspaper, states that Sig. Ferraris,
minister OF justice, has resigned an |
that the Marquis Di Rudini, the prime
minister, will fill the Office ad interim.
AN engagement occurred between
United States troops and Garza's men
on tho Texas.Mexico border, but the
result was not known 4 the lst
GOVERNOR Humphrey OF Kansas has
appointed cx-Congressman Bishop W.
Perkins United States senator % sue
ceed senator Plumb The appointment
will hold until the next legislature
shall meet in january, 1898.
THE president AID cabinet aud their
ladies held the usual New Years re-
ception There was little out of the
ordinary.
Ir is reported that the United States
supreme court has agreed 10 render a
decision declaring Governor Boyd of
Nebraska citizen and entitled TO the
governorship.
UNITED STATES CONSUL BEDLoE, OF
Annoy, China, reports the situation in
the Flowery kingdom as serious Amer
leans were especially warned.
Ex-CosGREssMAN THOMAS b. WARD
died at Plainvillc, Ind.
THE continued illness Of Archbishop
kenriclS, Of st Louis, has caused the
priests TO agitate the appointment of
coadjutor
JAMES Z. COOPER, proprietor Of the
Adam Forepaugh show, died at his resi-.
dcnce in Philadelphia of Inflammation
OF the stomach lie was born in Phi'a-
delphia November 4, 1882
ROSWELL B. MASON. mayor OF Chi
cago at the time of tbs big fire, died OF
congestion Of the brain. Mr. Mason
was born In New Hartford, N. Y, in
1904
AFTER long illness w. W. Wander
bilt died at Vallejo, Cal lie was born
in New York In 1915 and was for many
years in the service of his cousin, Com
modorc Vanderbilt OF New York.
MRS MARTHA MOORE committed sui
,fde az Minneapolis, MINI, Dy pouring
kerosene oi over IA clothes and then
setting it on fire. She had been suffer-
ing from melancholia caused by the
death of her husband
COL FREDERIcK MEARs, Fourth in
fantry, y. 5. A, died at Fort sheridan,
Idaho, OF gastritis.
JAY GouLp has been threatened by a
German who demands $40, 900 for the
killing OF his parents in wreck years
ngo The police are at work.
ENGLIsH investors are buying Amer
lean securities steadily. The rise has
been steady.
The bishop of Carcassonnen, France,
has left his see in defiance OF the orders
Of the French government.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

Born the great English parties are
straining every nerve to secure the scat
In the house of commons vacated by
Lord Harrington on his elevation to the
dukedom of Devonshire.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

In has been roughly estimated that
the amount of English capital which is
invested in land 10 New Zealand, either
by way of mortgage or by direct pro-
prietorship, does not fall short OF SiO-
000, 600
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

WITHOUT any cerem ony or formal
opening the immigration officials Of
New York city settled down on Ellis
island in the hnrbor New Years day
and the barge Office is known TO them
no more
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

THE sacred nuts Of Japan are SO called
because they nre used in certain forms
of worship, where they are placed on
ihe altar and burned with hot blush
flame. The fumes are supposed to be
acceptable TO the gods.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

THE Imperial hotel, OF Baltimore,
formerly the St Clair hotel. which,
run by Tommy Baylon, was the mos,
noted resort for the theatrical people in
the south, is now in the hands OF the
sheriff S bailiffs.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

The New Haven express on the Pitts
burgh. McKeesport & Noughiogheny
railroad ran into freight train at Rock
Bottom, near West Newton, Pa. and
both trains were wrecked. Two per-
sons were killed and several injured
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

A sMoKELEss fuel called ''massute" is
being used on steam rollers in Vienna
The fuel is composed Of the liquid re-
siduum OF petroleum refineries
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

MoNaoLIANs are reported TO be com
mitting lawless raids in northern China
Several temples have been burned.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

lr is a noteworthy cir umstance that
all the men elected TO the speakership
since the first congress were born in
one or another Of only thirteen states
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

THE associated press correspondent
at Valparaiso, Chilli sends corroboration
Of the reports OF the participation Of
the police Of that city in the Baltimore
outrage.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

THF rayages OF smallpox and yellow
fever at Santos, Brazil, are reported to
be frghtful
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-07

under even a natlonaIiatic form ot
government
shall bo glad 10 have pointed out 10
me wherein am at fault ia my conelu-
sions George c. Ward, in Topeka
Kan } Advocate
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error. Mr.. West located in London in
1854, and died there in 1920, leaving
over 300 famous paintings.
Az Isasr once every year some nJerar..
association resolves its regrets that there
is not ssdistinctively American school
of literature" Now and then one adds
that there soon will be. AS a matter Of
fact there never has been time since
the first native white Americans were
old enough to write that there was not
literature which simply could not have
been produced in any other country; and
it may surprise some readers even now
to learn that the two books which have
eutsold all others in England, and of
which more copies have been sold in the
world at large than of any work save
the Bible, are both American. Need I
say that refer to 'Uncle Toms Cabin"
and to Henry Georges progress and
Poverty
The first book published in New Eng
land according to some authorities) was
"Eliot's Indian Bible,n and suppose the
most pessimistic will not claim that to
be an limitation of the English" In
truth, no Englishman. could even read
it, and unfortunately no American can
now. Mrs. Anna Bradstreet's poems,
the next book, are distinctiyely Amer
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lean, and surely the theology of the
Mathers, Of Hopkins and Emmons and
Jonathan Edwards is American enough
to have been written at dead midnight
in an Adirondack forest by fire made
of Indian bones. Are not American
humorists the most popular in England
even now? But this is a digression-le
us resume
Of recent exiles the career of none
compares in romance with that of Harry
Meiggs. This extraordinary enterpriser
had made fortune in lumber at TWEEN.
ty-six. He lost it all in the panic OF
1887; made another, and lost that in the
next panic; then went to California, and
in 1854 was rated as a millionaire, hav.
ing 500 woodchoppers in his employ and
owning a feet of lumber vessels. Thu
bank crash Of that autumn left him
100000 in debt. He fed with his
family and light valuables on schooner,
and only four years later had made
81 100000 building railroads in Chill.
He then contracted to construct six rail
roads in Peru, and finished three of them
al ppltO VI Wal LONOAdClOil c1Ilo DCAA'
ruptcy. His Oroya line was long the
most famous in the world, the highest
station being $500 feet above sea level,
or only 1856 feet below the summit OF
Mont Blanc. He paid every dollar he
owed California; the Il rislature of
that state passed an act of indemnity,
and San Francisco officially invited him
to return. Born in Catskill, N. Y, in
1911, he died in Lima, Peru, in 1877, un-
questionably the most brilliant example
of successful perseverance to be found
in the industrial annals of the world.
Next to him in romantic interest is
DR.. Thomas Wiltberger Evans, the ia.
nous dentist of Paris. In skill, in hu.
manity and courage and in honorable
conduct he is equally noted. Born in
Philadelphia in 1898, he located in Paris
in 1S49, his subsequent career being IA
miliar to all readers. When the empire
fell, it is recorded that the Empress Eu
genie said, 1.There is at least one man
in Paris whom can trust, and that is
the American dentist" He rode out Of
Paris with her in carriage, holding a
newspaper SO as to conceal her face.
His wealth is estimated at many mil
lions, and he has more souvenirs from
kings, emperors and noblemen (whom
he has treated professionally than any
other man in the world.
Many others might be named, such as
Commodore Perry Ghe second), who
opened Japan to the worlds trade in
1854; Anson Burlingame, the first for
eigner to hold a diplomatic position I'M
der the Chinese government, and pre-
viously a, leading member of congress,
and Frederick Townsend Ward, the first
foreigner to command a Chinese army,
who was made virtual dictator of the
foreign colony at Shanghai, mandarin
of the highest rank and admiral general
of the Chinese empire, and who organ
lied the army with which Chinese Cor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30

sovereign state. These two republics
have been given to the world by rest
less and discontinued Cape Dutchmen.
But still beyond these Boer republics,
extending northward from the Vaal
river to the Limpopo, and covering ter
ritory as large as Illinois, comes British
Bechuanaland This region was brought
under British jurisdiction few years
ago and is now ruled by governor ap-
pointed by the British crown. This
territory has already developed into a
great stock-breeding country.
And now, with your face still turned
to the north, cross over the Llmpopo
and you set foot upon soil of the young
est nation born to the world; this is
Mashonaland = extending from the
Limpopo, northward to the great Fam
best, and larger in area than all New
England. 1t embraces large portion
of country ruled by Llobengula, king of
the Matabeles. This territory was Late
ly acquired from Lobengula by a combi-
nation of European capitalists, under a
charter from the British government,
and known as the South African Char
tered Company. In many respects this
company has been granted privileges
similar to those possessed by the old
East India Company-particularly as
regards power to maintain an army,
levy taxes, etc. The moving spirit Of
the chartered company is Mr.. Cecil
Rhodes, president of the great Kimberly
Diamond Mining Company and present
premier Of Cape Colony. Mr.. Rhodes is
consummate diplomatic and politician
aud is possessed of extraordinary execu-
tive ability. Perhaps but few men could
have overcome the prejudice and hatred
toward the white race entertained by the
fierce Labengula which Mr.. Rhodes has
succeeded in doing. Many months were
occupied in communicating this most
important concession; but the unstinted
use of that most potential of all argu-
menss before barbarian kings, namely,
liberal bestowal of fattery and fire.
water, brass jewelry and red blankets,
proved irresistible in this instance, as it
has in many similar cases before. The
savage cedes away his birthright and
signs his own death warrant at the
same time, and civilization meanwhile
smiles and flaps her white wings, and
erects chapels and factories and prisons
as monuments over the savage bones.
Mr.. Rhodes has lately made a second
visit to his new state, during which he
established for it all the government
machinery for the management and
control of a full-hedged nation. The
white population of this newborn ma
ton is at present little more than suff1-
Gent to fill the government Offices, but
ranidjmmipratinn is looked feE .-sEha
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30
Hornets in January.

What is known as unreasonable
weather" has prevailed in many parts of
NorSh America. Belated lumbermen,
JUST getting back to civilization from
the head waters Of the Machias river,
Name, report that the weather was so
warm in that region during january
that hornets left their hives. On Jan.
10 a seamster in township Al accidentally
drove into hornets nest hanging from
push, and the hornets, aroused by the
co1llsion, issued in fierce swarms and
sSang the horses SO badly that they broke
stopped.
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ceived the honor of knighthood. He
was invited to do the same work for
Austria, then at war with the Turks,
but on his way was persuaded to stop in
Bavaria, and it is no exaggeration to
say that he completely revolutionized
the common life of that country. He
invented a chimney and fireplace which
saved half the fuel needed for cooking
and heating. He abolished beggary and
provided employment for all the out
casts of the little kingdom. The king
having presented him a vast tract of
marsh and sand waste, he drained and
improved it scientifically until it was
the admiration of Europe, and then made
it a breeding farm which was the means
Of introducing the best blooded cattle
into common use in Bavaria.
His domestic life was almost a comedy.
In 1911 he married a rich widow thirteen
years his senior, and when the patriots
ran him off he never saw her again,
though she lived sixteen years. Their
daughter, Sarah, followed him to Europe
after her mothers death and became
Countess Rumford, but returned to her
native Concord, N. H, and died there
in 1859, leaving her property to pub
lie charities. After his first wife's death
he married the widow of the great
French chemist, Lavoisier, and died at
her estate in France in 1914. Many in
vestigators think that the superior con-
dition of the Bavarian people to-day,
despite the dense population. is due to
the reforms and inventions of the Ameri-
can who was made count for his great
work there.
Far more celebrated in art and litera-
ture, or rather in art and romance, was
Benjamin West, who was born of Qua
ker parents in Pennsylvania in 1913, and
was punished at least once for making
pictures, yet he became president of the
Royal academy in London and painter
extraordinary to the king. His death
of Wolfe" of which the copies and minor
eDgrayings are numbered by tens Of
thousands, created revolution in art
as down to that time classic costumes
were always employed in historic pic.
lures. Against the dictum of Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Mr.. West insisted that the
characters must appear III the costume
OF their time. When the painting was
disr.lavad Sir Joshua acknowledged his
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30

And it oughtto. But when the editors go
on to say that the instance is unprece-
denied they are wrong. This is in fact
what America has been doing for a
century, and list of Americans who
have become famous and powerful in
other lands would be long indeed.
From Count Rumford in 17S3-1S14 to
Harry Meiggs in 1S54-T the record in
the line of engineering and invention is
an unbroken and brilliant one; but there
have been as shining instances in art,
oratory, medicine and literature. The
case of Rev. DR.. Arthur T. Pierson, who
is in all probability to succeed Sturgeon,
is of interest chiefly because the Old
World has not before borrowed preach
ers from us. He was born in New York
city, March 6, 1887, was graduated from
Hamilton college in 1857, and three
years later finished his theological
course at Union seminary. After filing
pastorates at Binghamton and Water
ford, N. Y, and in Detroit, he went to
the Second Presbyterian church of In
dianapolis in 1888, and thence to the
Bethany Presbyterian church of Phil
adelphia. In 1889 he went to England
on mission. This led to his being
called as temporary supply to the Spur
geon temple.
The first native and thoroughbred
American to captivate the Old World
Was the famous Count Rumford, and his
history has been too much neglected.
Originally he was plain Benjamin
Thompson, of Woburn, Mass, and in
early manhood a noted educator and ex-
perimenter with electricity. A little
later he was q fugitive, the sspatriots"
being after him with tar and feathers
and rope in the background. He es-
capped to the British ships and later had
his headquarters on Long Island as colo
mel of the "King's American Dragons. /"
1t is scarcely necessary to add that he
was what our blunt forefathers called a
Tory, the same more politely known in
Engla- Canada as United Empire
Loyal1ss.
After the war he introduced some
valuable improvements into the system
Of equipping the Bri my and re-.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30
BIRTH or A NEW NATION.
lIashonaIand and Its Really Remark
able Natural Resources.
The Hunters Paradise and GoIdseelsr's
Dream-The White Mans Progress
from Table Bay to the Great
Zambesi-king Lobengula.
Especial South African Letter. |

Nearly two centuries and half have
elapsed since Jan Van Riebeck let go
the anchor of his old Dutch lugger in
the waters of Table bay and landed his
sea-tossed band of Dutch colonists where
Cape Town now stands. For more than
century and half previous to
this event the cape peninsula had been
used as temporary place Of call by
Portuguese, English and Dutch ships,
respectively, engaged in the East India
trade; but till now no attempt at form
ing a permanent European settlement
had been made, and the little colony
had struggled and suffered, and, al
though from time to time recruited in
numbers by the addition of other adj
venturers from Holland, made little
progress for many generations. Indeed
1t was not until after the Dutch East
India Company ceased to exist (18c6)
and its South African possessions be-
came part of the British crown that q
regularly organized system of govern
ment was established in Cape Colony.
And from this period the erstwhile
puny Dutch settlement began to pros
per and expand, and thus formed a
nucleus for the civilization of new con-
tinent.
But after time there sprang up in
this new commonwealth a race problem,
and, contrary to later race problems,
this was not between white and black
men. The race trouble here arose be-
tween the English rulers of the country
and the Dutch colonists-mostly descen-
dents of old Van Riebeclfs early set
tiers. The latter, tired of British tyranny
and race determinations against them
selves, resolved upon emigration. Ac-
cordingly one fine day over two hun
dred Dutchmen yoked their long-horned
Kafir oxen to big lugger-shaped wagons,
In which were slowed most of their
worldly possessions, including women
and children, and began their pill
grimage to the then unknown northeast.
Days ran into weeks and weeks into
months and these sturdy Dutchmen
still pushed on through the wilderness
and in the face of savage foes, till the
verdent pastures of the Orange river
valley were reached, and here they
pitched their tents-they had found
the promised land! From this hardy
band of pioneers, and their little settle
ment in the valley of the Orange river,
sprang the Orange free state. And
later on, and in identically the same
way, the Transvaal republic became
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marvellous stories of rich gold deposits
to be found in Mashonaland Will doubt
less attract many people. The COM
,pany have sounded the praises OF their
new acquisitions throughout Europe
by means of prospecttses and circulars
In one OF these now at hand the follow
ing Is an extract:
list. Mashonaland is a country, the
fertility of which is greater than any
similar area in Africa, and whose rainl
ARE regular and to be depended upon.
''2d. A country where drainage and
irrigation are equally simple randly
wooded, with a truly magnificent win
tier climate, and, owing to altitude,
pleasant temperature throughout the
summer.
sd. A country reached by an easy
slope from the sea coast, offering no i'm.
Ipediment to the rapid construction Of
railroads, besides having tho zambesj
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30
Big ORAL

The largest opal ever fonnd in the
world is on exhibition in San Francisco.
1t IS IL inches long, inches wide and
~ inches thick. It was found in Mex.
leo and is valued at $4,000.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30

HE announce
ment that an
American is to
succeed the great
Spurgeon at the
famous London
Baptist temple
sends a thrill of
pride through the
ranks of Ameri-
can preachers
O. II d scholars.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30
AMERICANS ABROAD.
Many Have Become Eminent Citizens
Of Other Nations.

How Strangely Certain individuals Have
Impressed Themselves on FoEeigA Peo-
ples--The Last Case Is but One of
Thousand.
Copyright, 1882. by American Press Associa-
ffon
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-30
DISSOLUTION.

THE undersigned have this day by mutual
IL consent dissolved partnership All bills
Tor OF against the late firm of Waite Norton e
Co., VIII be settled by Albert E. Waite at No
central wharf,. ALBERT Il. WAITE,
LOREN Il. NORTON,
Portland, April IS, 1892. apr29d1w
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don" won his fame. Ward was born in
Salem, Mass, in 1881, and killed in 1862;
the greatest dignitaries of China ofiei-
ated when his remains were laid in the
Confucian cemetery at Ningpo, and a
magnificent mausoleum marks the place
Of his repose. Yetall his fortune, which
he had converted into gold and bonds
for transmission to his family, mysteri-
ously disappeared, and in British mill
tary circles there are dark whispers af-
fecting the honor of the British officer
in charge Of his effects.
J. Fl. BEADLE.