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The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02

Fair.
Portland. December 2. 1895.
TN HE store is fast
l. taking on its holi-
day look.
The new Christmas
goods are arriving in
every department and the
whole establishment, up
stairs and down, will be
in full holiday swing by
the end of the week.
Our buyers have made
extraordinary efforts this
year to collect the most
attractive stocks and most
varied aSSOrtments, the
greatest originality and
utmost novelty at the
lowest possible cost con-
sistant with goodness.
There's no rubbish in it,
no useless, meaningless
stuff that you'd be sorry
for buying. 1t is all
good, substantial, practi-
cal, useful, decorative
and beautiful.--that's
what you would have it,
is it not?
Buying and selling
fancy goods is an all the
year round business with
this store, consequently
our facilities for getting
the newest, the latest and
best are unusual.
Of coures you know
the many advantages of
selecting Christmas gifts
early, while the stocks
are freshest and before
the inevitable rush be-
gins; moreover you can
complete your list of
"things to get much
more satisfactorily gvAen
yon've seen yAat's TO be
had.
We shall be glad of
your visit at any time.
OWEN, MOORE & CT
The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02
ONE HONEST MAN

Dear Editor; Please inform your readers that q,
written to confidentally, will mail In sealed ntter
and manly ygor Of
Nervous weakness, night losses and weak sbrn
parts. '' Oil unAen
have no scheme to extort money from ANYONE +
was robbed and swlnded by the quacks until neor,u
well vigorous and strong and anxious to make f fbs
Having nothing to sell or send G q n r
money. Address. JAS. A. HARRIS, want no
BOX $50. Delray, Mich.
The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02

CONSTRUCTION OF BREAKwATER IN
u DELAWARE BAY, DEL, U. S. Engi-
neer office, 1928 Arch ST., Philadelphia, Pa,
cate will be received here until 10 O'clock,
noon, December 10, 1896, and then publicly
opened, for constructing stone breakwatef
nished on application. c. W. RAYMOND,
Major Engineers. nov5,6,7. eSdee3, 4.5y
The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02

AT first iil-healfh
creeps up slowly,
but at last it comes
at a gallop and
the rider is death.
Of all known forms
Of ill-health and
disease, consu1np-
ton is the most
insidious. Its ap-
proach is slow and
) stealthy. But at
f1 "a - ~.
The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02
Last Nights Polo Results,
at Bath-Lewiston, 5; Bath, 3.
At Augusta -Rookland, 10; Augusta Q

Do not let your dealer palm off on YOU
any new remedy for colds. Insist on hay
ing DR.. Bulls Cohug Syrup.
The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02

Maine Postmaster Appointed.
Washington. Deeom ber 1.-Among the
fourth-class postrpasters appointed to-
day was S. H. Marston, Long Island, Me.
The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02

The tUeather today
is likely to be
Fair.
The Portland daily press., 1896-12-02

Portland. December 2. 1895.
HE store is fast
taking on its holi-
dav look.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-12
Towels.

NEny Of orr eEazsursers are calling Tor
towels sscn a. vs g1r - VIII osE
Immense soap We have 9sc1cS1 20
rysace .Eezr On ssfe. ire scsess are very
zezyy and measure z4xs2 Inches safa-
Each +-.--s.--s.. .-----%--+s------+----s
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-12

BE particular and read iris:
We d1ssrp % cal ateenttSn. mat "
s~fFsnx Tsnware the manufacturer cal
a vessel two aSAayts ESsa x rnsy To-
hos1 more sn4n one quart tbs ~
more or less true OF nearly Ell articles
a. Tsnxrsrs waen measurements are
nausezs. For the cake % uniformity we
name manufacturers sizes and request
sssv-orrers 10 order double ths size We
ouos~ II actual meas zrszasni ss desirs1
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-12
IT'S AN EVERY DAY OCCURRENCE that customers tell us:
sell The descriptions plain and the prices modest
p.yeu,.r Attention Mai
EgGne.

g~xfuH contains 81 elasrnieala Fsse-
~xxsrv FOR ftse forsazsf0r OF szsr- snd
q therefore an Egg FTotucer q sreaf
vsive TO me PoEslssrer. il also cso-
p{ss~s snafeg5af for TIE fyTnNzaoS O.
Bone. NaNss and Feather arc sE,fsse-
1gentIy viii s9Es he Ives Df S0sas
cascks, thousands Of which ols an~
ruaggy for lack % sa%n rafriFfesa- ~
ssSo greatly hssSs fowls ffaroasn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
HOOD TRIES NEW TACTICS.
Secretly Warns Ror6or Commissioners
That San Pe0roites Have Detectives
Watching Them.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Dec 27.-En.
eineer Hood of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, VINO has had charge of that corpora
tons fight on behalf of Huntington's pri-
vate pier at Santa Monica before the
Government Harbor Com ssioners, has
EN- barked in private scheme of his own
which seems destined to get him into
some awkward situations. Bewildered by
the testimony OF seamen respecting the
superiority of San Pedro over Santa Mon
lea as deep-har Dor site the engineer be-
gan secret attack on the friends OF the
free harbor. A report of yesterday which
was at first treated as an idle rumor seems
to have had as its author none other than
Mr.. Hood. The engineer had warned the
harbor board that its mem bers were being
Swallowed by detectives employed by the
free harbor advocates.
When called down on this matter Hood
replied that he didn't know positively that
the Commissioners were being watched,
'but," said he. 'that is what our detec-
tives say" The explanation would indi-
cate that the crime of shadowing this
body is not confined to the San Pedro side.
but is one of the self-asserted privileges OF
Hood and Corthell.
The Free Harbor League is indignant
over Hoods charges and will demand an
accounting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28

commanding officers of each regiment
and battery stationed in Cape Town sent
messengers, but no one could be found
upon wnom to lay the blame. The officials
could give no explanation; they were as
much surprised as anybody.
The general in command of the station
became furious at such an unheard-of in
fringement OF discipline. He was sure
there was Encouragement somewhere or
the act could not have been possible.
Strict search was ordered to be made. but
although the order was carried out to the
letter the culprit rem aimed undiscovered.
Then, when the search had been prac-
tically abandoned. the little gunner was
accidentally discovered and arrested.
There he lay inside the instrument that
transmits the electric current from the
Royal Observatory of Cape Town to the
great gun. This instrument is called a
relay, and is in the central telegraph Of
fee OF the station. The action of the cur
main moves a sort of light tongue. which
is so finely set that the slightest touch will
affect it. The tongue forces the current
into what are termed the time fuses,
which fire the gun at the castle.
Right inside the relay was found the
little gunner. He was discovered by an
official who was examining the instru-
ment and who was surprised to see inside
"a Dig brown spider. In its explorations
within the instrument the spider must
have touched the tongue sufficiently to
move it and thus fired the gun.
The general sent the spider to the Cape
Town Museum, where it is now to be seen
with a card undern cath emitting it 1.-The
little gunner" and giving a full account
of it's exploit with the Cape Town midday
gun.-Brockton Times.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
NONSENSE ABOUT SNAKES,

As an illustration of the belief in the
transformation of human beings into SER
penis, l will relate a circumstance said to
have occurred during the first half of the
present century. Near Trexlertown, Le-
high County, dwelt a farmer named Well
Ter. His wife and three daughters had
by some means or other, incurred the en-
nifty of a witch who lived but short dis
lance away, when the latter, it is sup
posed, took revenge in the following
manner: Whenever visitors came to
the Weller residence the girls, with
out any premonitlon whatever, would sud-
denly be changed into snakes, and after
crawling back and forth along the top
ridge OF the wainscoting for several MIN
utes they were restored to their natural
form. This curious transformation oc-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
MEN To FIGHT
IN CUBA'S ARMY
American Volunteers Sign
the Roll at Los
Angeles.
Colonel Nelson of the Island Re.
crulting a Company of
Soldiers.
Engages Them as Miners to Avoid
Violating the Neutr ality
Laws.

LOS ANGELES CAL. Dec. %.-"Want-
d-100 men to go to Flor ida to work in
the mines; ex-soldiers or sailors of the
United States army preferred. Address
Colonel Francis Nelson, lily West Third
street, Los Angeles"
This peculiarly worded advertisement
in a morning paper means more than is
indicated upon its face. The "ex-soldiers
or sailors of the army are not wanted to
follow a peaceable vocation in Florida
mines. Theirs is to be warlike mission;
they go to fight for Cuba libre. Colonel
Nelson is recruiting company OF volun-
teers and is believed TO be meeting with
great success.
The colonel is a man of good address
and well educated. He was visited this
morning by CALL representative, who
asked him at once if the men he was en-
gaging were not to serve in Cuba's army
instead of in Florida mines. His reply
was:
"You probably know the importance of
the mining industry in Florida and may
draw your own conclusions If people
wan. to make out that want the men to
go TO Cuba let them do so. 1 do not
else from hiring men and chartering cars
to take them to Florida or any other port
of the United States to dg for coal, gold,
diamonds or clans, do You? 1 am a citi-
zen of the United States, loyal to her flag
and laws, and while l regret that our
Government does not recognize the indie
pendence of Cuba l intend to obey the
laws as long as l am in this country. If
leave it voluntarily l become responsible
for my own action and am willing to abide
by the consequences.
II was here last week and attended the
Cuban mass-meeting. The enthusiasm
displayed for Cuba libre encouraged me
and l concluded that there would be
plenty of men here who would make good
miners. [ shall remain a few days and
see whether there are any who want to go
to Florida. If not, 1 will be able to en-
gage all L want in San Francisco know
what 1 am doing and will not get into
trouble. l will not hire any man to go to
Cuba as long as the neutrality laws forbid
it, but 1 can hire all 1 please TO go to
Florida without fear of Government inter-
ference"
The colonel said that he had been in
Cuba since the rebellion broke out and re-
turned to the States because he thought
he could do more good for the cause here.
Those mines in Florida needed looking
after and he is busy skirmishing for men
10 work them. Colonel Nelson arrived
from Guaymas, Mexico, last evening. He
claims to have taken 500 men from San
Francisco to Chile during the late UNI pleas
antness in that country, and says he was
wounded in the left side during the siege
of Valparaiso, though he makes no claim
to being great military genius.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28

Cured quite frequently and the circum-
stance soon attained widespread notoriety.
About the end of the third month the
spell was broken and everything went on
as before.
Another popular fallacy is the existence
of the hoopsnake. This creature is usually
reported as capable of grasping the tip OF
its tail with it's mouth and like q hoop
running swiftly along in pursuit of an I'M
welcome intruder. This snake is believed
furthermore to have upon its tail short,
poisonous horn ike q cocks spur, and If
it should strike any living creature death
would result. The stories concerning this
marvellous snake usually END with the
statement that the person pursued barely
escapes and that the snake strikes a tres
instead, causing it to wither and die
POnular Science Mont hlY.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
YALE FOOTBALL HERO HERE.
Rev. c. o. Gill Returns From Mission
airy Work in China.

Rev. c. o. Gill Returns From Mission
AIRY Work in China.
Two of the lonely three cabin passen-
gers that arrived here yesterday evening
on the steamship Peru from the Orient
were Rev. and Mrs. c. o. Gill OF Peking,
CHINA.
Mr.. Gill is the great Yale tackle, who in
1898 came 10 Berkeley from the East to
coach the University of California football
team. Soon after the Thanksgiving game
that year he returned East. took unto
himself wife aud started for China, where
he had decided to enter the missionary
service. After three ars' work among
the heathens of the Orient he Is now on
his way back to his old home in Orange,
n. J., Mrs. GilPs failing health making
her return to this country necessary.
Mr.. Gill is young man OF medium
height, but OF unusually powerful build.
While a football player at Yale he was
ranked as one of the best tacklers in the
country.
The eastward journey viii be resumed
in few days. Whether or no. Mr.. Gill
will return 10 China will depend unon his
wife's condition. Rev. and Mr.. Gill are
staying at the Occidental Hotel.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
The Sultan and ELECTRICITY.

The Sultan seems to have a curious
mingled liking for and a dread of cleo
tricity. Mr.. Burgin tells in Cassell's
Magazine that some years ago he caused
to be erected in the grounds OF YlIdiz
Kiosk a small theatre lighted by incan-
descent lamps. One day he saw the
workmen trenching the walls in order to
bury the wires leading from the engine
room to the theater, ana stopped the
work. insisting that the wires should all
be placed in sight on poles, as he feared
that otherwise they might be used to pro-
duce an explosion. He had also an elec-
trical boat on a small lake, an English
dogcart driven by electricity, and tiny
e ectrical tram car upholstered in blue
satin ard gold, which runs in circle
1t is said that he has never yet ventured
inside any OF these vehicles, and also that
he has forbidden the use of telephones in
Con.tantinople lest murderous coaspi.
racies should be devised over the wires.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
al Case in Point.

Under common law man is forbidden
TO maintain a nuisance on his premises
which impaIrs the health, comfort or
property of his neighbor. By analogy it
would appear that international law for
bids a country to maintain a nuisance
which offends the sense ana outrages the
civilization of a neigh boring country.
From this point of view Spain is indiet-
able before the court of nations for MAIN
tanning nuisance in Cuba, and the United
States can be called as the prosecuting
Gitness.-New York Mail and Express.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28

physical require ments. The recruiting
officers hope to fill their pieces before tn
vessel leaves this porl. When the Mon
terey arrived it was twenty EIGHT me n
Short, but when it sans for Santa Barba ra
this week ii will carry strong rep re-
sentation from the town after which 1t Is
named. The monitor MOnsdnock IS ex-
pectel from Santa Cruz tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
De,eru,n,a to Jo.rnev H.nc..

LOS ANGELES. CAL, Dec. ~ Charles
Springer. stage driver in pioneer days,
made third attempt al suicide in the
United States Hotel last night. He was
found unconscious in his room this morn
ing, but his life was saved by hard work at
the Receiving Hospital. Springer declares
he will yet succeed IN killing himself.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
AN INNOCENT OULPRIT.
It Fires the Alarm Gun and Stirs U,
the Fort and Town.

the Fort and Town.
Cape Town, South Africa claims the
honor of possessing the smallest creature
ever known to have been gunner in the
Royal Artillery, or any other artillery.
At the Castle, Cape Town, it appears there
is magnificent gun worked by cleo
tricity, used for giving the midday and
evening time.
One day the military and civilians of
Cape Town were surprised to hear the gun
go off at half-past 10 in the morning. The
general commanding the station sent to
inquire what such irregularities meant;
the brigade major did the same. The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
SHOOTING Ar SIN eABR1E1.
Deputy sheriff Ser~reiy Hound ed While
Aftrnp fin1 On Nrresf

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Dec 27.-Infor-
nation was received tonight from San
Gabriel that Deputy Sheriff Wilson had
been shot and severely wounded while
attempting to arrest P. H. Morales.
The latter stabbed man three months
ago and tonight Wilson tried TO arrest
him near Monrovia. about fifteen miles
from here. Morales shot the officer in the
thigh with a shotgun and managed to
escape. Sheriff Barr and posse are in
pursuit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
RALLY|HG TO Do
HONOR TO BURNS
Caledonian Club Determined
to Have the Proposed
Monument.
The Building Fund Will Probably
Reach Large and Generous Pro.
portions Next Year.

He dared to use the pointed quill
While others bowed the knee TO power,
And Scotland owes guerdon still
To Burns who lett her fairest dover.
For there are grander fields to fight
Where man proclaims his brothers. right,
And Burns, of poets leads the van,
In simple truth that MAJ Is man.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
LIGHT ARTILLERY CONTESTS.

Wheel race, 100 yards-Each man to roll
spare; light artillery wheel; 100 yards.
Gun-detachmentc ontest-Gun limbered with
out horses; unlimb Der, dismount piece and car
riage, mount and fire one shot. Uime con-
test.)
Section contest-Four-horse team, hitched:
come into action TO the right, fire two shots,
change piece, wheel with spare wheel, and re-
tire TO starting point. (Time contest.J
Platoon contest-Four-horse teams; horses
are on picket-line in park, $50 yards from
hring-1ne; harness on poies at signal har-
ness, hitch, advance to fring-line, come into
action to the front, fire four shots, then fire to
right, changing front 10 rear right piece,
and fire three shots; Timber up and return to
park.
Drivers contest-Field is 100 yards long, so
yards vide; on north and south ends are four
posts on corners OF the square, the diago-
mails of which are ten feet; on each side are
two posts, seven feet apart; four-horse team
httched 10 piece, start from center, move to
the right oblique, pass between four posts at
north end, making left wheel, pass between
two posts on west side and between four on
south end by left wheel, obliquing to the left
obltQue, pass between the four at the north
end py rig ht wheel. then pass between two on
east side and between the four on south end
by right wheel, halt in the center; for each
post knocked down five seconds will be added
10 the time OF executing the movement; team
making best time takes first prize.
Battery contest-Execute six movements by
sign al, firing during the movements sixteen
blank cartridges. TO be judged by three Off
GERS who have served in the light artillery.
General James Biddle, U. S. A., who
was colonel of the Ninth Cavalry when he
was retired a few days since, is in San
Francisco Genera. Biddle is a Pennsyl-
vanian by birth, but entered the army in
1861 as a commissioned officer of the
Tenth New York Infantry Volunteers.
He was appointed captain OF the Fiji
tenth United States Infantry in August,
1861. He was brevetted major in Septem-
Der, 1861, for gallant cond0c, a Rich ne nd,
KY. He was brevetted aforementioned
in December, 1864, for bravery on the field
at Nashville, Tenn, and in 1865 brevetted
brigadier-general of volunteers for gallant
service throug bout the war.
The programme of lvceum instruction
at Angel Island for the season of 1897 has
been submitted: TO the department COM
mander. On February 8 Lieutenant Will
son will read paper on the present or
ganizatlon and equipment of the Spanish
army.
A board of officers consisting of Captain
Sedgwick Pratt and First Lieutenants
Charles W. Hobbs and 3. 81. Randolph,
Third Artillery, has been appointed to
meet at the Preside upon the mption
OF drills with the 12-inch breech- loading
rifle and 12-inch breech- loading mortar.
The board Will examine and test manuals
for these pieces.
Notice has been given that enlistments
will not be received at present for the
First, Second, Fifth and Seventh cavalry
regiments and the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
Eleventh, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Seven
tenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth infan-
try regiments.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28
ANoHonrD AT MONTEREY.
The Monitor Monterey Recruiting Men
at IT. bdmesdke CITY.

at IT. bGmesake City.
MONTEREY, CAL, Dec. o. The
United States coast-defense monitor Mon
Ierey, which was ordered to its namesake
city for Christmas. has been lying at
anchor in the harbor since Sunday last
and while here has been doing some re-
cruitlng. OF the ten men who have al
ready presented themselves to the exam
ing officers three did not come mp TO
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nets and TIN cup or meat can; contestantiwins
who makes most effective cover in five minutes.
Novelty race-Contestants 10 start at scratch;
rifles with bolts taken out and apart 100 yards
distant. Run to rifles, assemble bolt, fire cart
ridge and return 10 scratch.
Striking shelter tents-Two men in each tent
pitched, with blankets spread under them;
equipments on either side of tent At signal.
strike tent roll blankets in shelter halves, put
on equipments and run 10 PAGES to the front.
MOUNTED EVENTS FOR CAVALRY AND LIGHT AR
TILLERY.
Mount ted hurdle race-200 yards; brush
hurdles feet in height, so yards apart; fist
and last hurdles to be respectively % yards
from start and finish of track; horses TO be
equipped with bride, blanket and sureingle;
troopers to wear campaign hat, undress uni
form and leggings.
Mounted nigh jump-25-yard start; horses
to be saddled and bridled and troopers to be
clad as a bove (Same rules rs in foot contests
Broadsword eoniest-Horses to be saddleu
and bridled; troopers to be equipped with
broadsword, gauntlet, plastron and mask;
paper plume TO be attached to mask. the loss
OF which will indicate defeat; opponents to be
rawn by lot.
Mounted gymnasties-School of the trooper.
at wall, 10 minutes.
Mounted skirmish contest-Horses to be sad
died and bridled: trooper 10 be armed with
carbine, revolver and saber; each trooper TO
take track, draw saber, right and left cut
against infantry, return saber draw pistol,
fire five shots 10 right and left front, halt,
throw horse and magazine fire from over
horse. Time contest)
Mounted wrestling match-Competitors to
be paired by lot; disqualification for foul;
four competitors from each troop: bareback.
Tug of war, mounted-Teams: one captain
and five competitors. Each troop to be repre-
sented; limiting lines ten yards; each team to
be in column, facing in the direction OF lull;
horses three yards from head to Group; no
participant to catch hold of the name of the
horse nor of the saddle.
Equipment race-Competito7s to be placed
in llne with leggings and spurs within reach;
saddles. ETC., TO be fifty yards therefrom; at
gings and spurs, go to saddle, make blanket
roll, pack on cantle of saddle, fold saddle blau-
ket take equipment to horse Ito be fifty yards
from line OF saddles), equip horse, mount and
go 10 starting point. Prize for neatness and
dispatch.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-28

TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug.
gisIs refund the money II it tails to cure. 25c,
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Dr.. Sander Invites You to Call.


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CO.,
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