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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
BRUTAL TRIBAL BATTLE IN SAMOA
Three Natives KiIled-The Rebel Party
Still Defiant.

San Francisco, June S.-The steamer
Monowai brought advices from Samoa,
dated May 16 AS a result of a tribal
battle in the rebel district three natives
were killed and a number wounded. OF
the dead, one had his head taken off
and another was cut entirely in half.
The rebel party still defies the Malietoa
government, which is taking no steps
TO quell the revolutionists.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
OIney Formally Installed.

washington, June 10.-Olney was for
mally installed secretary of state this
morning. The oath of Office was ad-
ministered by Chief Justice Fuller.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
AN ARMY OFFICER FOUND DYlN
Lieutenant Baekus Evidently Put an
End TO His Life.

Dallas, Tex, June S.-Lieutenant
George D. Backus of the First cavalry,
now located in Arizona, is dying at
hospital in this city. He was found
unconscious in the woods near here
with an empty tin cup beside him by
Lieutenant Stephens, to whom he left
a note saying where he might be found.
Lieutenant Backus, on account of fail
ing health, was recently given indefinite
sick leave.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
SILVER CoNVENTIoN IN The SOUTH
Great Gathering Expected Monday at
New Orleans.

New Orleans. June S.-Arrangements
have been completed for a bimetallic
convention in this city Monday. Coun-
try delegates are already beginning TO
arrive and indications are that the con-
vention will be one of the most success
full ever held in this state. William ].
Bryan of Nebraska and H. d. Money
of Mississippi will deliver the ad-
dresses.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
HE FELL FROM HIS OWN HAYLoFT
Death or a Umatilla Man Who Had Been
Drinking Heavily.

Pendleton, Or, June S.-Peter Beler,
formerly one of the wealthiest citizens
Of Umatilla county, yesterday became
intoxicated in company with a hobo.
After the days debauch he went to
sleep in his hayloft. During the night
he fell to the floor below, a distance
of 80 feet. He was found dead In the
morning.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
Whites Shot nv a Negro.

Princeton, N. J., June 9.-Jerry Coch-
ran and Fred Oil were shot last night on
the street by a negro. Ohrs injuries are
dangerous.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
Officers Of the Steamer CcIima
Said to Have
MlSMANAGED THE LOST SHIP
One assenger Asserts That the Steward
Prevented People From Getting
Life Preservers.

San Francisco. June S.-Gustave Bow
an, one Of the survivors OF the Colima,
has sent a communication to the Call.
in which he says:
1.-THE Collma was lost because she
was badly handled by officers without
capacity and had bad men. When the
gale struck us and saw that the ship
was going TO sink, 1 went after the life
preservers ana commenced to give them
out to the passengers. The steward
told me to let them alone. and ordered
me forward.
IT was saved because I got a life pre-
server, and if the others had been al
lowed to get them, too, many would
have been saved with me-"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15
SUITS FOR DAMAGES.

The Chronicle says this morning that
as a result of the testimony given at
the federal inquiry into the causes Of
the Colima disaster, a number Of suits
for damages will be brought against the
Pacific Mail Company. 1t is alleged
that the company was criminally negli-
gent in the manner in which 1t loaded
the ship.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-15

Pittsburg trade stimulated by advanced
wages.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
--1-1-71l--95- l-f
 A FOREIGN INDUSTRY.
We Use Millions of Split Steel Rings. But
 Dan,t Make Any.


 Don't Make Any.
 i've handled and sold forty thou sand gross of split key rings since 1s67,n said the little man in an over coat and white sweater, 4and not one of them was of American make"
 "Why, how Is that?n asked New York Sun reporter.
 "Because there are none made in this country" replied the little man, with smile that lifted one corner of his gray mustache. No, sir" he con- tinued, ''the making of split steel rings is an art that we haven't got hold of yet, somehow, and must say 1 often wonder at it"
 Where are they made, then?"
 '"The best, sir, are made about fifty seven miles outside of Paris, at little manufacturing town whose name I can't just now recall. The next best rings are made in Sheffield England, while rings of inferior quality, made from Swedish iron, are manufactured in Alsace. I don't know that the steel in the French rings is any better than that used by the Sheffield manufac-i turers, but the Frenchmenin this, as in so many things, have got the hang of making their things look well. The, Sheffield rings are polished with oil and emery, and that gives them dull steely look, while the French rings are polished by the dry process, with what they call 'eroeus powder a sort of coarse rouge.
 'sWhat are the extremes in size of split rings?" the man was asked.
 ''The smallest that I ever handled" :" he replied, ''were three-sixteenths of an inch across. They are gilded when they reach this country and are used in cheap jewelry. The largest key rings I ever sold were two and half inches in diameter and those I sold to the wardens at Sing Sing. In fact, they are called prison rings. That key ring with the two little knobs or bosses through which you slip the key, is also a French manufacture, and indeed | have never seen an American key ring except that clumsy little thing where you have to move around a small round double plate with notch in it, and then spring out the open end of the ring through this notch. I must say" con- cluded the little man, musingly, T often wonder why we don't make rings over here. Even now there's a forty-fve per cent. duty on them, and they could be sold at half their present price and still bring D good profit. Why, just think, I sell over one hun- dred and fifty thousand rings a year, and there must be millions of them handled every year in this country"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
MAcHlNE-mADE SPEECHES.
Turned Out with Marvellous Rapidity by
 Recent English Invention.

Turned Out with Marvellous Rapidity by a
 Recent English Invention.
 There is no doubt that both the type- writing machine and the photograph are very ingenious and useful inven- tions, but the chief difficulty with them, says the New York Times, is that they cannot be made to act auto matically. It is in order to fill this want that a distinguished inventor, whose name is for the present with held, has invented an automatic writer, and, judging from the private exhibi- tion of the machine which was recently given in London to committee of members of the Royal society, it bids fair to prove the greatest invention of this or any age.
 In appearance the machine is said to be not wholly unlike typewrit1ng machine. It, however, is provided with sort of hopper, in which are placed blocks of type metal, each one of which is provided with a complete word, in stead of a single letter. When this hopper is filled and the small electric engine which furnishes the motive power of the machine is set in action it instantly begins to print. Of course, what is printed depends in a good de- gree upon the selection of words which are placed in the hopper, but it is un- derstood the machine can be used for almost uny sort of composition.
 At the exhibition already mentioned the hopper was filled with a supply of words relating to the English political situation, and in ten minutes after the engine had been started the machine had fprinted two,full columns, each of about the length of an ordinary col umn of newspaper. When these were read they were instantly recognized to be a speech on home rule in the general style of MT. Gladstone. The hopper was next filled with a choice selection of the very finest words in the lan- guage, and the machine thereupon printed what was at once perceived to be an essay after the manner of MT. RuslSin on political economy. More words were added and three pages of what any critic would have unhesi- tatingly accepted as a passage from 8 new novel by Mir. Meredith delighted the committee. The last experiment. was made with the hopper filled with words taken from the Slang Diction- ary and the result was Q story in dia- lect which was held to be superior to almost any dialect story hitherto pub lished.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
COTTON LETTER
Furnished by c. P. pyaI & Co.,, Brokers
 and Commisson Merchants.

PINE BEUFF, Jan. 1.-The interior receipts were the bulwark of the market today. The Liverpool news was another prop and the covering of shorts was still another. New Orleans was buying and that did the market no harm. New York a6- vaneed s to I0 points on local and Southern buying and then retro- graded and closed at net advance of to points for the day with the tone quiet and sales 06,300 The New Orleans estimated receipts to- morrow were also q bullish factor: only 5000 to 5000 bales are expected there against 13,425 last Saturday and 9.059 on same day last year. But the best bull card was the fact that the interior receipts for the week were only loo, ,764 bales, whereas they had been estimated at 100000. The total last week was 1S7 ,S03 bales and for this week last year G0,472, or 40,- 008 less than for the past week. The interior shipments for the week were l29,100 bales against 179,607 last week and 90,160 for this week last year. The interior stocks are 5S4,- 599 against 592 .652 a week ago and 464, ,S45 at this time last year. Liver pool advanced < to l point on futures and closed steady. The spot sales 10000 bales at weak but un- changed prices. The port receipts today are estimated at B, GOO against 4S,S 1885 this day last week and 32,- S96 last year. Total for this week, 293, 900 against 303, TIP last week and l90,57 last year. Exports from the ports today were 2S,000 bales. Spot cotton here quiet and unchanged. Savannah declined -16, but most of the spot markets were steady to firm at unchanged prices. In New Or leans futures advanced 10 points, but part of this was lost. The spot trade is light in this country.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
NOTHING Eil<E PRINTERS INK.
How It Once Induced James Gordon Ben-,
 nett to Raise a Pressman's Salary.

How It Once Induced James Gordon Ben;
 nett to Raise Pressman's Salary.
 James Gordon Bennett is very cratic in his movements. He drops in" upon his branch offices in Paris or London without any notice being sent of his coming, and delights to surprise tho clerks by overhauling their books and examining their accounts. On one of these occasions, says the Utica Observer one of the pressmen, a man who had worked for the elder Bennett, and was an excellent workman, though guilty of an occasional lapse from sobriety, had a bad black eye and was in a quandary as to what excuse he should offer if MT. Bennett noticed it. Act ing on sudden inspiration he seized an ink roller and rubbed daub of ink on the side of his face completely con- cealing the discoloration of the skin. Presently Mir. Bennett came into the press room, and with the superintend- ent, John Hays, went carefully through, eritieising every detail, and looking sharply at each employe. When about to leave he turned suddenly, and, pointing to the besmirched pressman, he said:
 Mr. Hays, what is that mans name?'
 The culprit qualxed in his shoes until Mir. Bennett said, slowly:
 T want you to give that man three dollars per week more wages; he is the only man in the room who looks as ii he had bean wnrldnnp ?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
Famous for Its Canoes.

Tilghman's island, part of Talbot county, Md, and connected with the mainland by bridge, is famous in the Chesapeake region for it's canoes. The island is about three square miles in area, and is densely populated by a hardy race of eastern shore men, who gain their living in the waters of the bay. When ice or the laws of Mary land interfere with their ordinary pur- suits, the Tilghman's islanders build canoes, and do it admirably well. The true Chesapeake canoe isstill dugout. Sometimes two or three logs are hol- lowed for the purpose and joined to- gether. The result is remarkably stanch boat, good in all waters, and al- most indestructible.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
More Pathetic Than Humorous.

An aged couple living south of Brazil, Ind, who had devoted their three score and ten to rural life and the making of farm, sold their posses sions for the snug sum of sixteen thou sand dollars. When the purchaser called with notary to close up the deal by taking the deed of title, the husband having signed and passed it to the wife, she positively refused to sign without a consideration, saying she had spent her life in making the farm, and had never realized anything she could call her own and now was her oppor- tunity. The husband failed to satisfy her and secure the signature. Then the purchaser asked to know what she would take and sign the deed, fearful that she would be exacting beyond his inclination to comply. After a good deal of hesitancy she said she thought she ought to have two dollars, which he promptly handed her, and she signed the title. She turned over the silver dollars time and time again. laughing over her good luck. She said: Well, well, this is the first money l have ever had in my life that could call my own and spend it as I may wish to do to suit myself"
 Logical.
 Well, it's about time to make some New Years resolutions"
 Whats the use? Didn't you break all those you made a year ago2s
 Certainly. That's why I've got to make nSw ones '--D Detroit Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
SHAVING IN JAMAICA.
It Is Usually n Very Primitive Proceed
 ing.

ing.
 The natives of Jamaica, have no need to buy soap, for the woods abound in plants whose leaves and bulbs supply very well the place of that indispensa- ble article. Among the best of these is the soap tree, so called, though it is more bush than tree. It's botanical name is Phalangium Pomeridianum. It's bulb, when rubbed on wet clothes, makes a beautiful lather, which smells much like the common brown soap.
 The Jamaica negroes, some of whom are great dandies in their way, make ai soap out of cocoanut oil and home made lye; and a fine soap it is, smooth, and fragrant. This cocoanut-oil soap is used for shaving.
 When a man wishes to shave in the morning he starts out with his cocoa- nutshell cup and his donkey-tail brush and bottle. It is never any trouble to find an empty bottle in Jamaica, even in the mountains. At least twenty generations of thirsty people have lived there, and thrown away the empty bottles.
 The man carries no mirror, because he has none to carry. Not one negro cabin in a dozen has even cheap 1ooking-glass. But nature provides the mirror as well as the soap. The man goes to Q convenient pool in the noun tain stream, where the water Is still, and there is his mirror He breaks his bottle on a stone and picks out good sharp piece. Then he fathers his face profusely and begins to scrape away with his piece of glass, which works almost as well as sharp razor.
 The men rarely cut themselves in the operation. "At first" says New York Sun writer, T trembled for them, but afterward I tried the method myself, and soon became almost an expert at it."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
COTTON MARKET.
New York.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Cotton- Spots steady; middling, 1116 cents.
 Months. Today Yesterday
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, January 4.-eotton Spots, steady; middling, l-16c,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-05
New Terror for Frehch Convlcts.

Life in the French penal colony at New Caledonia has been pictured as so agreeable, both by reason of the eli mate as well as the leniency with which convicts have been treated, that transportation seems to have lost most of it's terrors. Criminals do not con ceal their preference for long sen tenee in the beautiful Pacific island to much shorter term with hard labor in one of the penitentiaries at home, and when perpetrating misdeed have sought as rule to render their offense as serious as possible, so as to entail transportation if captured. It is with a view of putting an end to this senti- ment that the French government has now decided to stop sending convicts to New Caledonia, and is making ar- engagements to deport them instead to Gaboon, the fever-stricken and most pestilential of all districts of French Cnraraland in Afriaa-
 NOTHING EiKE PRINTERS INK.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-04
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Gerard d. Koch is down on visit
from San Juan.
Mrs. Summers Burkhart, of Albuquer-
que, is guest at the Palace.
Mr.. W. =. Williams, editor OF the Chief
tain, arrived from Socorro this morning.
Mr.. j. A. Walker, United States secret
service agent at Denver, is in town to-
day.
Mr.. J P. Force, of Ojo Caliente, re-
turned last night from a trip to Lincoln
county.
Mr.. Albert w. Stewart, friend of Hon.
G. M. Shannon and wife, is in the city
from Dallas, Texas.
Mr.. G. s. Jones, of Lincoln, Neb., a
true-blue silver Democrat and an ardent
admirer of ex-Congressman Bryan, is at
the Palace.
Judge s. B. Newcomb is in the capital
from Mesilla valley. He says a fine
fruit crop, including peaches, is assured
down that way.
At the Exchanges: Mrs. s. Speever,
East View, N. M; w. s. Zuhn, @. A. Hoff,
San Francisco; z. L. North, Ell Rito; J. P.
Force, Ojo Caliente;J. Robinson, Socorro.
At the Palace: A. W. Stewart, Dallas;
J. d. Monihon, Phoenix; Bernard Rodey,
H. L. Warren, Albuquerque; J. A. Walker,
Denver; w. s. Williams, Socorro; A. L.
Simpton, Indiana; G. s. Jones, Lincoln;
George Curry, Roswell; Mrs. L. w. Platt
and daughter, Augusta.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-04
THE DEED PASSED.
The Narrow Gauge Sale Confirmed
and the New Buyer Assumes
Charge of the Road.

In the district court yesterday after
noon, Judge Laughlin issued an order
confirming the sale of the T., s. F. & N.
railroad to @. w. Waterman, of Denver,
attorney for the Farmers Loan & Trust
company, and the deed for the property
was formally passed, being signed by
Hon. A. Joseph, special master. Mr..
Joseph left for home this morning, but
within thirty days will close up his du-
ties as master and ask to be discharged.
Beginning to-day the road ceased to be
operated in the name of E. r. Chapman,
receiver, and until reorganization is
perfected will be operated in the name Of
G. W. Waterman, legal representative of
both the trust company and D. & R. e..
company. In its new time card the d. &
R. G. schedules through trains from Dem
yer to Santa Fe, and it is now relaying
the rails on the Veta pass branch with a
view to running trains over that part of
the road daily instead of triweekly rs
now. This looks like the D. & r. G.
we're coming south determined to do
business.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-04
PERALTA GRANT CASE
Before the United States Land Court
Opened by Attorney Reynolds
ReaviS Has Not MaterialiZed.

The United States court of private
claims, with full bench, all the regular
staff of officials and large attendance of
attorneys, resumed work at 10 O'Clock
this morning in the federal building.
The Peralta- Reavis Arizona land grant
case, an extended account of which was
given in these Columns yesterday, was
at once called. Mr.. Matt G. Reynolds,
United States attorney, opened the case
for the government and was followed by
Mr.. s. Mallet- Provost in the same be-
half.
Neither James Addison Peralta- Reavis
nor his attorneys have 80 far material
lied. Messrs. I. A. Borton and j. T..
Kinney, of Phoenix, represent the heirs of
Miguel Peralta in Arizona and will I'M
dertake to establish the validity of the
alleged grant in the interest of their
clients.
1t is doubtful whether the Teralta-
Reavis people will show up. The work
of taking testimony on the part of the
government will probably begin this af-
ternoon.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-04
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Regular Meeting Of the City Fathers
Last Night-Monthly Reports
Other Routine Business.

The city council met in regular session
last evening with Mayor Easley in the
chair.
Couucilmen Andrews, Delgado, Domin-
guez, Garcia, Holmes, McCabe and Sena
answered at roll call.
The minutes of the previous meeting
we're read and approved.
The city treasurer reported as follows
for the month of May: Cash on hand on
May l and receipts for month, $635.74;
warrants paid, $lO5.52; cash on hand,
$53O.22.
The city clerk reported licenses COL
lected during May, $3.50; paid city treas
urer, $177; paid for set of steel letters,
$3.50; postage, so cents; warrants issued,
$1,4S1.61, including $735 for sprinkling
wagon, horses and harness.
Both reports were referred to the
finance committee.
The report of the police magistrate was
referred without reading to the finance
and police committees. The report of
the city marshal was disposed of in like
manner.
City Treasurer Jones reported that
warrant for $3.50, stood against the de-
ticit fund, and that there was only 1928
in that fund. Referred to the committee
on finance.
The finance committee was granted
until the next meeting of the council to
report on the matter of the appeal of
the Santa Fe grant case to the supreme
court.
An ordinance, forbidding the driving
Of vehicles over fire hose, was passed.
The city marshal having discharged the
jailer, as per instructions, was author.
lied temporarily to employ an assistant
street commissioner, payable at the rate
of $25 per month out of the Jail fund.
He was also instructed to keep the two
night policemen on duty from O'Clock
in the evening until 6 O'Clock In the
morning and to assign them to regular
beats.
Antonio Ortiz Salazar, who has been
receiving $14 per month from the city
for upwards of two years for the use of
his old building on Water street as Jail,
complained that the building had been
turned back to him in bad condition and
asked that the city repair the same. Re-
ferred to the police committee.
Sundry bills were allowed in accord
ance with the recommendation of the
finance committee.
An adjournment was then taken until
June II.