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, 1892-04-02
Big Field Gun. and Their Erect.

If you insist on high velocity you have
to add so much additional machinery to
your gun carriage and have to so greatly
strengthen its construction that you
destroy its mobility, while even if you
gain a long range you are still unable to
make use Of your most efficient projec-
tile at it. Moreover, since the remain
ing velocity Of its shrapnel is a truer
measure of the value Of a gun than its
initial velocity, and the two are by no
means directly proportional, it does not
follow that we benefit as much as we
might expect by submitting to these
disadvantages. Thus, the 12-pounder
has an initial velocity of over 1,7OO feet
per second and a remaining velocity at
5000 yards of s62 feet; while the
18-pounder, with an initial velocity of
only 1850 feet, has at the same range a
remaining velocity greater by six feet
per second han that of its rival.
One of our highest authorities on field
artillery has, indeed, recorded his opin-
ion, that, as regards the efficiency of
shrapnel, we gain nothing by the in
creased muzzle velocity of 1.-The best field
gun in Europe" at all practical ranges.
Moreover, it is the attempt to squeeze
out the last few extra feet hat does all
the harm.-London Saturday Review.
, 1892-04-02
A Lucky Escape.

Fortunate is the man or woman resld-
ing in a malaria ridden locality who
escapes the dreaded scourge. Not one
in a thousand does. When the endemic
is a periodical and wide spread visitation,
it is just as common to see the whole
communities suffering from it as single
individuals. The most vigorous consti
tuition is not proof against it-how much
less a system feeble or disordered. As a
means of protection against malaria,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the su-
preme medicinal agent. 1t will uproot
any form of malarial disease implanted in
the system, and even in regions where
miasmatic complaints are most maghg.
nant and deadly, such as the lsthmus of
Panama, Guatemala and the tropics
generally, it is Justly regarded IS an
efficient safeguard. No less eficacious is
1t as a curative aud preventive Of chronic
indigestion, liver trouble. constitution,
rheumatism, kidney complaints and la
grippe.
, 1892-04-02

ricals was natural. When he was seven
teen he wrote a play; when he was eight
cen he organized a little company to per
form it in towns near st. Louis. Several
Of the boys and girls who were member of
hat little company have become well
known. Della Fox, the comic opera SOU
brette, is one of them.
Before that period of his life he had been
a page boy in the Forty-frst congress-.
What he learned there had a visible effect
OIL his after life. The Forty-irst congress
was a most important body, as 1t was in
session from 1853 to 1871, the ~liveliest part
Of the reconstruction era, and while the
Ku Klux and Cuban excitements were at
,eir height. Among its members were
any men who afterward played impor-
mt parts in the history Of the land-James
I. Blaine was speaker, and Garfield, Logan.
Benjamin +. Butler, Breckinridge, Sunset
Cox and Proctor Knott were on the floor.
With the members, high and low, young
Thomas was a favorite, as much because
Of his precocious and Intelligent interest in
national affairs as because he vas diligent
and courteous. He says now that during
bis years as a congressional page he un-
doubtedly absorbed many Of the ideas
about the sectional differences between
north and south which he has since used
In Alabama"
before ne became a voter ne went 10
work upon a railroad, and during the ten
years that followed he did a little of pretty
nearly everything In that business except
run an engine. That gave him another
splendid opportunity to study human
nature. In 1873 he was a master workman
of the knights Of Labor-the youngest
master workman, by the way, hat order
has ever known. When he left the rail-
road he began the study of law, and as
lawyers are barred from the Knights Of
Labor he was forced to resign his MEM
bership. His sympathies, however, are
still with the workingmen, and he hag
studied the economics Of labor carefully.
The law didn't suit him very well, so he
drifted into theatricals again, this time az
an actor, and afterward went into news
paper writing. Then he took up ~playwrit-
ing again. In all he has written twenty
ave plays, but many Of them never were
put on the stage. The first n to make
any noteworthy success was "Editha's
Burglar" which was originally in one act,
but which he afterward elaborated into q
four act drama and rechristened as 1.-THE
Burglar" 1t Is still on the road He also
wrote Reckless Temple" and "a Man Of
the World" which were ambitious but
did not meet with public approval Last
year came Alabama" and this year For
Money" Willism II. Cranes new comedy,
which Mr.. Thomas wrote in collaboration
with Clay NJ. Greene. The success of the
two last named plays nave by no means In
1uced him to rest on his oars. He is now
at work on several dramas mt one comic
| opera Ibretto.
, 1892-04-02
JOHNSON COUNTY AFFAIRS.

A gentleman with whom we are wen
acquainted. who is not IN the cattle Dust
ness nor a resident OF that REGION pu'
whose good Judgment we Will vouch Tor,
writes us from Buffalo under date Of
March 81 as follows;
Il have been in this place Tor about q
week and have met at least hfty old tim
ers here and am surprised to Inc thar
most OF them are OF those VINO are I'D
discriminatory defined as rustiers. l nave
known some OF them since % ana many
IT not all OF them since " ana 10 my
personal knowledge there are no oe''er
men IN Wyoming aud no one VINO kno"S
them will believe they ever stole anytnine'
Heal rustlers and real steaiine arc nue
but no worse thaI they are IN Laramie
county. L rave taxed win neafif o''
body and nine tentns OF the ooHh ANU
no doubt tho county endorse YOUR course
as tn the stock commission. You are
n-.;,;,o fr;onds no the SCORE and will no
- a.. -,
uouoe Rann "'
than you VIII lose 10 cheyenne OF eise-
where BY the stock commission and their
tr;ends. The article in the Echo of the
1911 .-o..,,.o har. 90 ,.,.. fine
zo.n an pio'o
old outlaw OF a STALLION was kileo apo
Justly. he belonged to Charley Rounds
IA liyervman in Buffalo and be says he
Iii ze..h.nuo ~ .,.,ar Wb.,
""h ki'eA ,
the deuce the ccho puohsneo 'na' 'en.
s~ational article for no one seems to know
Altogether this would indicate that
,ous c,om Jo,rson corn,v
"p'' 49,.
indicates outia~ry u isn ! necessarily oue
and it would be well for people to reserve
their Judgment until they learn all of the
, 1892-04-02

W. were camped at the Hot Springs
on the Lo Lo trail, made famous in In
dian annals by the escape of Chief Jo-
seph and his band of Nez Perces. Just
above us was a large camp of Flatheads
who were making their fall hunt. One
morning we were awakened by shouts
and cries. Evidently there was great
excitement somewhere, and we promptly
jumped up. 1t was just after daylight
and cold clouds of steam were rising
from the big basin shaped pool at the
foot of the granite wall, from which
poured a thick stream of boiling water.
The pool was so large that at the lower
edge the water was almost cold. The
nearer you approached to the place
where the water burst from the rock the
better chance you stood of getting boiled.
AT the edge, ats point where the water
was of a comfortable temperature, stood
two Indians, one on the bank and the
other on a stone in the water. Near by
were a dozen other Indians guarding a
number of little Indian boys and girls
who had nothing on and were bowling
and crying.
When we looked out of the tent the
two Indians at the pool had an Indian
boy, one holding him by the feet the
other by the hands, and were gravely
swinging him backward and forward
through the warm water, while he yelled
at every dip. As oon as they had fin
ished with him he was set upon the bank,
and ran to the willow brush neal by.
Then the noise redoubled, for each
child in the group guarded by the In
'dians feared that it was his turn. They
all tried to escape to the brush, but their
elders pursued and caught them, unit.
the very last one had been put through
the cleansing process.-New York Sun.
, 1892-04-02
AUTHOR OF ALABAMA.
A Cosby Story About Play
wright Augustus Thomas.
HIS LIFE OF CHARACTER STUDY.

To His Intimate knowledge of Human
Nature May Be Ascribed His Success as
= Dramatist-whAt He Has Done,
H.. Is Doing and What He VIII Do.
Only a few years ago Augustus Thomas
would have considered 5000 a year a very
satisfactory salary. Now he is drawing
5000 a month royalty from one of the
plays which he has written. His income
entirely outside OF that amount to an
other very comfortable figure.
Thomas wrote his famous play Ala
bama" In peculiar circumstances. He had
made up his mind to write a southern play,
and had given the matter a great deal Of
thought, but he had been unable to formu-
late characters or story. One night he
dreamily heard a southern ballad sung.
For some reason, which he doesn't try to
account for. the song recalled to his mind
the shot marked ruins Of an Alabama gate
he had seen long ago, under moss hung
trees, where the languorous fragrance Of
the magnolia wa borne on every breathing
breeze. That fancy picture was his inspir-
alton and in e month he had written his
play.
His career has been a strange one. His
father was an actor in a st. Louis stock
company at the time of and long after his
birth, so the boys tendency TOWARD theat-
, 1892-04-02

Close Competitors Enlarged Views;
Closer Relation Between Railway Officials
and the Public; Newspaper Comment;
Liberal Advertising.
All tho above are the direct cause of
the luxurious facilities afforded to travel
ers at the present tune.
The Wabash Line has kept itself IN the
front rank during the march of progress
and offers t travellers every luxury and
convenience which human ingenuity can
devise or the liberal expenditure of money
procure. Its passenger trains from
Kansas CITY and Council Bluffs to
St. Louis, Chicago, Toledo. Detroit and
intermediate points; its through car lines
to New York, Boston. and other seaboard
and eastern points, Its magnificent track
and unsurpassed running time, leave
nothing to be desired.
Passengers are always safe when asked
to specify their route in naming the
Wabash.
@. NJ. HAMPSON,
Commercial Agent. 1927 Seventeenth
Street, Denver. Colo.
, 1892-04-02

For II Democratic State Convention
OFFICE OF TIE
STATE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL

Wyo., Feb. %,

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. %, 1892.
Notice is hereby given that there will
be a state Democratic convention held at
Douglas, Wyo., on the 18th day Of April.
1892, at the hour of 7 o'clock p. M, for
the purpose of selecting SIX delegates and
six alternates to the national Democratic
convention to be held at Chicago, ILL.,,
June q, 1892, and also tor the purpose
of choosing a state Democratic central
committee for the ensuing term, and for
the transaction OF such other business as
may properly come before it. The appor-
tionment of delegates to said convention
to the several counties shall be as follows;
Albany county, eight (S) delegates.
Carbon county. sever "a delegates.
Converse county, four az delegates.
Crook county, four (4) delegates.
Fremont county, four (4) delegates.
johnson county. four az delegates.
Laramie county, twelve Q2) delegates.
Natrona county. two (2) delegates.
Sheridan county, four az delegates.
Sweetwater county. six (6) delegates.
Uiuta county, seven az delegates.
Weston county, three (3) delegates.
Total, sixty-tive.
Especial attention is called to the fol-
lowing resolution, adopted by the state
Democratic central COMMITTEES:
Resolped, That this committee recon-
mend to the several county conventions to
consider and-act upon propositions to reg
ulate or abolish the proxy system or to
limit representations by proxy to resi-
dents of the county or district repre-
scented. LOUIS j. PALMER.
Secretary Pro Tenn.
, 1892-04-02
AS TO BOYCOTTS.

The Evening Tribune, which was first
used to bell the cat in The LEADERS
contest with the stock commission, while
the Sun stood back as long as it could to
see which way the wind was probably
going to blow, gives vent to these few re-
marks:
In a recent number of the Denver
the side of Its headline. was the following
war cry: The Friends of Free Silver
Should Now Stand by their Guns and the
Ne,ns. Boycott Gold Bugs and Gold
Newspapers" The two Johns. John
Atkins and John Carroll, ought to have
a serious conference before this business
goes any further. 1t is probable that the
Ne,os has never been at the wrong end
of a boycutt and don't know what it is
but THE LEADER has been there and can
give the curly headed buffer OF the Neios
some valuable pointers on the subject.
In all of this the evening paper is emf
nently correct but not In the way it imag-
ines. These thick and thin" upholders
of the stock commission do not aver yet
see how wide and deep they struck in the
boycott against THE LEADER They do
not even yet seem to appreciate the fact
hat the boycott was loaded" and the
muzzle was toward them. In that boy
colt free speech in this community was
on trial and il has won as it should do in
every community over which floats the
American flag.
There was much more involved in this
contest than was apparent to superficial
observers. 1t was the frstpublic protest
against the domineering cliques in public
affairs and although the contest is still on,
tho protest was sufficiently manifest to the
observing to convince them that the peo-
pie Of Wyoming are in a mood to assert
themselves In a very unmistakable man
ner. .
, 1892-04-02
IN THE LEAD.

Job Pruning neatly executed at the
Leader Job Printing Rooms.
, 1892-04-02
-.



Thomas is a sturdy six footer with a
smooth face He looks the picture Of
quiet determination. His success has not
spoiled him. He lives unpretentiously in
anew York hotel with his charming little
wife. Mrs, Thomas Is from st. Louis n
went to New York as Miss Dallas Mac
lean &c act in Mr.. Thomas play, 'Reck-
less Temple" She didn't go back to st.
Louis to live after the play failed, but
married the playwright and staid in New
York instead.
Some lime during the coming summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas will move into a
house now being built In New Rochelle.
Mr.. Thomas speaks OF this as a little
house, but the architects picture bellies
him. 1t is located In Huguenot park and
tops h highest elevation in the neigh
borhood. Half a mile away is Long Island
round, and from the broad verandas OF
their new home Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas'will
have one of the finest views to be found
around New York.
- RpWARD MARaHAII.
, 1892-04-02
Annual neetinu.

Office of the General Manager Of the
Standard Cattle Company. Ames, Neb..
Feb. %. 1s92.-The regular annual meet
ing Of the stockholders of the Standard
cattle company will be held at the office
Of the Union cattle company 10 the city
of Cheyenne, WYo.. on Monday, April
4, 1892, at IL O'Clock, noon. for the cleo
ensuing year aud for the transaction Of
such other business as may properly come
before the meeting. Il. NJ. ALLEN,
For the Secretary. General Manager.
, 1892-04-02

Gentle Spring" loses many Of Its ter
rors when the system is fortified by the
use Of Ayers S~arsapariila. With multi
tudes. this wonderful tonic slterstive has
long superseded all other spring medicines.
being everywhere recommended BY physi-
clans.
, 1892-04-02

THE letter Of A. A. Spaugh was a
bombshell fred into the stock commission
camp. 1t had been Industrously circu-
lated here that Mr.. Spaugh was one Of
the commissions ~staunohest upholders.
If. Judging from his letter, he upholds
the commission in any respect a careful
perusal Of his energetic letter to THE
LEADER fails to reveal it.
, 1892-04-02

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives
, 1892-04-02

The democratic county convention
meets at the court house at 2 o'clock this
afternoon to select twelve delegates to
attend the Douglas state convention
which meets one week from next We'd
nesday.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-01-09
HE WAS A GREEN HAND.
GrunzISi's Carelessness Caused the ExplO.
sion in the Nelson Shaft.

Grunzlkis Carelessness Caused tho ExplO'
sion in the Nelson Shaft.
SHAMoKtN, Pa, Jan. 9.-Fuller par
ticulars of the explosion of gas in No.
vein of the Nelson sb Aft have been re-
ceived. Paul Grunzki is dead and PhiliT
Desert is likely to die Superintendent
Steele is severely burned about the hand,
and face, and Boss English is badly
injured about the body.
Grunzki was a green hand, and carried
a lamp which did not have the proper
protection He was standing near the
men who were injured when current oi
gas from one of the fixtures came in con
tact with the flame OF the lamp, and &
terrible explosion followed. The unfor
tunate miner was hurled against the side
of the mine and had nearly all his bones
broken. English and Steele saw th'
danger few moments before the explo
sion, but they could not get out of the
way quick enough, and they were tossed
against the side of the shaft with con
siderable violence.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-01-09
Case of pr. Graves.

DENVER Col, Jan, 9-The Graves trial
and its subsequent developments are still
the all absorbing topic here. Two well
known men who We're summoned as
jurors in the trial have made afidavits
that they were not called to act because
they would not promise to return a YER
dict of guilty If selected as jurors Judge
Furnam, counsel for DR. Graves has
raised the question whether a convicted
person must be sentenced during the
term of court at which he is found guilty,
and has asked for postponement of
sentence for thirty days
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-01-09
rAE oHlLlAN lMsRooLIo.
Prospects for Peaceful Settlement Now
Appear Very Bright


Prospects for Peaceful settlement Now
Appear Very Bright
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-Tbe prospects OF
a peaceful settlement of the Chilian
troubles now appear very bright. This
country has never changed its position in
the matter but insists now, as it has
from the first, upon suitable reparation
being made for the outrages of the mob
at Valparaiso and would resort to any
means necessary to maintain the national
dignity. ......... ........ ,-..........
The peaceful outlook is due to a change
of policy in Chill since the Inauguration
of the new government, Senior Montt
has been trying ever since he became
acquainted with the state of things in
this country, to bring the Chilian Gov
ernment to an appreciation of the folly
of trying any bravado in dealing with
this question. His efforts with the Junta
were entirely unsuccessful.
Information attainable now indicates
that the present Government is in accord
with Senior Montt and is willing to do
anything possible to restore the friendly
relations between the two countries.
Senor Montt, in discussing the question,
Stilu Jlldi IleTb was no uduBeT Ol WAT D6-
tween Chill and the United States
''Chili, " he explained, ''is ready to do
the honorable and proper thing, and just
as soon as the report on the judicial
action is completed it will be forwarded
to this country, and it will, am sure, be
satisfactory to this country
He expressed the opinion that Chill
would not indulge in any more wars.
There would certainly be no wars, he
said as long as the present Administration
or those in sympathy with it retained
power Though the last war was
very successful, the strife necessarily was
an injury to the country, and every effort
would be made to preserve peace.
Congressman John Raines in an inter
view on the Chilian situation, said;
"Ihe English people are advised that
at the present time every effort is being
put forward by the Navy Department to
place a fleet at the disposal of the Gov
ernment in case of need. What is more,
they know perhaps what is not generally
known here in this country-that parts
of the work on new vessels awarded un-
der contract to several firms are being
hurried along outside the firms that re-
ceived the contract
England, as the ruler of the seas, ;
does not like this state of affairs. Our
new vessels fairly outclass her ships of
nominally the same grade and her su-
premacy is threatened. With the people
behind this movement for a navy, often
sive and defensive foreign powers know
that the United States will have fleet
that will command not only respect, but
fear.
''To prevent a continuance of the build
ing of new battle ships and cruisers Eng
land will step in and fairly choke Chill
into necessary apology"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-01-09
Open Daily From 9 to q.
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Paid ON savings Deposits.
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New YoRK, Jan 9.-When Commits
sioner of Emigration Schulteis returned
to this country 'incognto'' on the Servia
he claimed to have witnessed debauchery
on board ship, and in the connection inn
plicated Ingrov Petersen, a Swedish girl.
A medical examination seemed to contra
dict the Commissioners charge Now
he has been served with papers in suit
for S25, 900 for slander The Petersen girl
has since returned TO Sweden and the
suit is brought by Lawyer b. Downer
through the Rev Peter Petersen.