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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
DEATH OF j. WILKES BOOTH


CALDWELL, Tex, March 81
Wilkes Booth died with his head upon
the knees of William Garrett. After
the close of the war the CARROTS NOV
ed to Texas. Henry Garrett, at whose
house ]. Wilkes Booth was killed, lived
for long time in Austin, where he
was we'll and favorably known. Ea! n
ham Garrett, a son of Henry Garrett,
is at this time pastor of the First
Baptist church, at Chattanooga, Tenn.
William Garrett, another son, is citi-
zen of Texas, and he recently spent
several days visiting an old Virginia
friend Of the name of John c. Jones,
who lives near Caldwell.
Mr. Garrett is victim of consump-
tion and does not talk a great de al.
but he seems ever ready to impart any
information that he possesses concern
ing the great tragedy which occurred
at his fathers house more than thirty
years ago. He had read the article
which has been floating about in the
newspapers describing the escape and
subsequent career of ]. Wilkes Booth
in South America, and he simply said:
"Oh, that is all fiction. ]. Wilkes Booth
was shot in my fathers barn and died
on our front porch. I held his head On
my knees when he was dying. There
is no fact in history more certain than
the statement I have made"
After some hesitation, at The urgent
solicitation of Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Garrett
repeated the story of the tragedy. He
said:
Booth and Harold crossed the Poto-
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swer from Oslo, which was seven
miles away. He had also a talk with
Dodge Center, which is twenty miles
from the Dell He had quite a talk
with Austin, forty miles away, but
he did not hear from Hayfield, which,
believe, was because the operator
at that places. vas not there when the
call There is no reason why
he should not have answered if he had
heard the ring.
Il cannot say that my experience as
a means Of connection Of telephone
wires hurt me any to amount to any
thing. Of course, the electricity jerked
my muscles terribly. 1 seemed to suf-
fer the most in my arms, particularly
in that arm that was holding the brok-
Ell wire that ran toward the Dell. All
the While the talking was going on l
felt hard shocks in my chest but l
can hardly explain how it really felt.
Just the same, If anybody is thinking
of trying the same thing who has not
very strong nerves, they had better
take my advice and give the idea up.
A QUESTION OF NERVES.
You see, it does not make any diff
ference how strong a man is; If he has
not got good nerves electricity does no.
agree with him. I've had lots Of little
shocks in fixing telephone wires, but
IlleH LeN e nave Hidue NE IdIHe OF any
thing of that kind before. 1t seems 10
me that there must have been mighty
powerful current of electricity passing
along that wire when I acted as the
connection. I remember at a fair once
taking hold Of the handles Of one OF
those machines that they give you
electric shocks with, and that made
me feel just little bit like I felt when
1 was holding those broken wires. Be
sides the pains in my chest and in my
arms, I felt just as if somebody was
pricking me little all over, and then
as if in some way or other they had
been able to grab hold of my nerves
and give them little pulls
Il am not at all nervous, and it takes
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a good deal to startle me, so / was No,
scared at all while these thing | have
written abOu were going on. 1t new,
seemed to me that as long as you we
careful there was any danger in letting
a little electricity into you. 1t all
ponds on how you do it, | thought Jf
all these things when l was holding
these wires. When it came so fast that
IT knocked me to the ground l though
1t was getting sort of strong but | did
not feel that there was any reason
for me to be frightened.
II O. Enderson.''
Mr.. EndersOn's experience was GER
tainly most remarkable. That he was
able to endure the continued shocks
and be none the worse for acting as
a conductor for a tremendous current
OF electricity falls little short OF mar
Vicious, 1T is no eXaggeration to say
that ninety-nine persons out OF a
hundred would have nearly died had
they grasped the ends of the broken
wires. These wires were not exactly
what are known as live when broken,
but Immediately the connection was
formed, and the telephone put into
use. they practically became so.
The facts stated-and there is no
question about their accuracy-dispel
some greatly cherished theories. In
other words. no one knows exactly
how much electricity a man can stand
without producing death.
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At the foot of the hill TO your right
is the railway entrance to the city
and the union depot yards. And be-
yond is the depot and the great city.
The tall, high, monumentlike buildings
stand out boldly against the bright
sky. Towers, church steeples, domes,
long, low buildings, tall, slender ones,
large ones and small ones, all from
such distance blend into one immense
dull-colored mass as soon as the sun
dips a little lower.
What is it2'' / asked.
could see by the light in her eyes
that the girl had discovered something.
That" she said, pointing across the
river.
1 looked, and on the opposite shore
was little cluster of~brown wigwams.
A blue veil Of smoke curled upward
from fire in front Of one Of them.
Over the fire bent an old squaw cook
ing Two or three other women and
a dozen fat, dirty children were visible.
But not a brave was in sight.
us it a real Indian village?" asked
the girl.
Yes" said, "its genuine, but it's
rather small"
How interesting" said the girl "And
the braves, where are the braves?"
THE braves have taken the war
path 1 said. They have padded
their birch bark canoes down the river
and have landed near some village.
Even now they are waiting the coming
Of night to raise the war cry and
make the attack"
L.
| eyes and a softening of the lines of her
pretty mouth.
And will they come back and hang
| their scalps on the lodge poles?" she
asked in a hushed voice.
NO" 1 laughed, they will come
! back and have a feast on whatever
| they have managed to steal.
! But it was too soon after Pine Ridge
for testing. The poor fellows from
Wounded Knee were still lingering in
the hospital, and only the day before
| two companies from the fort had
| tramped down the dusty road to the
little cemetery to the wall Of the dead
march. One more trooper was mus
tered out Of the service for good and
| ALL
| And to think that even now we are
standing on the graves of prehistoric
men," said the girl. DO you think, I"
she added, that those people aLross
the river are the descendants of this
| dead race.
That was a question I was not pre-
pared to answer.
Il say, don't you think we had better
catch our car" 1 said.
| II.
There is another hill a good deal like
Dayton's, and that is Crocus hill. From
| this hill you can look down the river
toward the Indian Mounds. There Is
DO better place to see the city lights
at night than from the summit OF
| Crocus.
On a dark, cold winters night. when
! you are ,hurrying home from a late
call, you can look down at the thou
sands of twinkling lights below Every
| thing is snow covered and frosty.
Above is the cold, blue, illimitable
! dome of heaven. Down on the low
! lands the barking of dogs breaks
! sharply upon the frosty air. Some
| times you can hear a man call nearly
| a mile away.
The coat-collar feels good around
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came the eating of the ducks, and the
jokes over a good cigar.
Now If one wishes to have a good
hunt, and one invariably does, one
will have to go out into the open coun-
try, Or up into the Dakotas. No more
hunting near the city now. We have
grown too large.
/ would have you take your last look
at st. Paul from her surrounding hills
during snowstorm. l do not think
Minnesota has anything more beautiful
TO offer than q SnoWStOrm.
Take your stand on the summit of
the highest peak of the Lexington
range. Stand facing the northeast and
nearly the entire southern half of the
city is within your vision.
Above are the dull gray clouds that
always mean snow. The grass under
your feet is stiff with frost. The tall
trees are brown and bare; only here
and there Is a little dead leaf dry and
shriveled. 1t is almost calm. Heavy,
heavy, hang the clouds overhead. Sud
denly you hear a little wind stirring
among the dead leaves In the raVines.
Then down comes the snow. The wind
grows stronger, the snow falls faster.
Hear it on the dry leaves! 1t has hard
ly commenced to fall, yet already the
ground is white Why, it is a perfect
blizzard! Faster and faster it comes.
The wind blows stiff1y from the ice
checked river. 1t whirls the snow franti-
cally in all directions. Although you
can feelsyoHr cheeks glow it is not very
cold. The, old ice king never blows
his coolest breath while the flakes are
still falling.
AS you peer between the flakes you
can see the city towers and steeples
across the lowlands. How distant they
look, and how cold. Away off in the
distance the blue and yellow lights Of
an electric scar flash into your view
and then out again. How dark it has
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rection being all right. 1
had not gone alone to this
place, as there were four men
with me-YOrkel JOrgenson, Martin
Hanson, Cyrus Rierson, and Andrew
Olson. After a while it got to be the
time when | had agreed with LundalG
10 try the experiment. | took hold of
the loops and Martin Hanson held the
watch. Then Lundale called up Hay
field, the call for which is two rings
l could feel in my badly what station
was called. If somebody had hit me
on the head twice when Lundale called
Hayf1eld it would not have been any
palmer to me.
''Hayfield did not answer at first
and Lundale called it up three times
The last time was too much for me-
and | fell to the ground, losing hold Of
one wire. l was not hurt any, only
just knocked down, and I grabbed hold
OF the wire that 1 had dropped. After
a couple of minutes Lundale called up
Oslo. l could feel the five short rings
for that place, just like five thrills
going through me,
STOOD THE SHOCK
After little while Lundale called
up Dodge Center by three rings. 1t
was pretty hard for me, but l stood
it, for I had made up my mind that
| would not give in just as long as l
could hold myself together, but when
Lundale gave Austin a call he rang
me down as fiat as pancake. !
never did know what the Austin call
was, but / think it takes a pretty good
long ring to get the town.
Even this did not hurt me. SC I got
up after a minute or two and took
hold Of the ends Of the wire and made
the connection for the answer from
Austin. / managed to hold out until
the time Lundale and I had agreed
that l was to hold tine wire was up.
Then | fixed the wire and we all went
back to Rock Dell When I got back
to Dell, Lundale told me that while l
was holding the wires he got an an
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grown! 1t can't be much after 5 O'Clock.
Down the short line" tracks Won Soc
the headlight Of an approaching To-
connective and train of cars. AS the
hght comes nearer 1t throws a blood
req glare over the snow along the
uack. VIII! it is too suggestive, and
besides it is time you was getting home.
AS you tramp home the sound of
your foottalls are muffled by the feath-
cry makes. Even before you leave the
foot hills the storm is over and tne
clouds are breaking up. Through the
cletts you can see few dim little st..rs
and a pale moon
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
WAR IN SAMOA.
Humors of Impending Trouble Once
More Current

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13-Tba
steamer Zealandia brings the follow
ing this morning from Apia, Samoa
dated Feb. "a:
once more there are rumors of war
IN Samoa, with apparently more ground
for alarm than is usually the case If
IS believed, however that the arrival
OF one or two war ships, with power 10
ana consu!s in maintaining firm atti-
tude, could quell the impending dis
turbance, which is the outcome Of old
time bitter jealousy between the par
ties.
Chief Justice Ide expects to leave for
his home in~Nermont by the next cut
gong mail steamer. His. departure
will be greatly regretted by ali lovers
of law and order here.
Several Hawiian lepers managed to
reach Samoa, and have spread the dis
ease among native SamCans. The
natives are now trying to check ire
disease. One leper died recently, and
United States Consul Churchill ordered
the house in which the leper. has Iiv,
and all surroundings to be burned.
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This city, which I viewed from the
surrounding hills, has no. churches a
thousand years old, or even a hundred.
Its historical associations are insignifi-
cant, for it has always been far re-
moved from the seat of war and the
seat of government. 1t has nothing in
it that dates as near to the middle
ages as the middle ages do to the days
of the Roman republic. No feudal cas-
ties crown its bluffs. No robber barons
have ever roamed over its highlands
1t has no ancient monasteries. no old
city walls. 1t has no Celtic or Eliza
bethan or medieval arch lecture. It's
architecture is all modern, for 1t is a
modern city. And from its surrounding
hills 1t is beautiful city.
The city is not walled in by hills nor
is it built on a hill. The hills rise all
around it, from all parts of it, That
is why you can see all the city, even
the suburbs from their green, vrrdUre-
crowned tops.
One hill contains the bones and relics
of prehistoric mound builders. At the
base of this hill the river makes a
turn westward and does not turn north
again until it has skirted the whole
length of the city. 1t was this turn
that caused ST. Paul to be left out of
the Louisiana purchase, while Mime
apolis, her twin, was included.
From this hill-Dayton's bluff is the
name that has been given 1t by the
white man, and which stands at the
extreme southeastern end Of the city
you can look up the river to the very
westernmost point, another hill as
steep and solid as Dayton's itself. Upon
this westernmost hill, which is simply
a perpendicular sandstone cliff, stands
old Fort Smelling The southern slope
Of Dayton's bluff is known as the In
dian mounds. AS you stand here and
feast upon the magnificent view, you
say with the poet:
Low at my feet the winding river flows;
Valley and town, entranced in deep repOse."
IF you would enjoy it all still more,
take pretty girl with you," says DIR.
Henry NJ. Field And the doctor knows
whereof he speaks.
So one day 1 made my way to the
Indian mounds, and with me went the
pretty girl" She was tall and had
dark hair and gray eyes. And, best Of
ALL she had been in the Sanity City
but a few days and had never before
seen the lovely view that stretched be-
fore her pleased eyes. To me it was
an old story. But it is story of which
one never tires.
1T is gloriousr" exclaimed the girl.
How smooth the river was, and how
blue the sky it reflected in its calm
surface! And, looking up the river into
the face of the setting sun, how hazy
the hills looked miles away in the dis
tance.
-Four bridges span the river and the
piers are in position for a fifth. One
of these bridges is swung nigh in the
air and spans from bluff to bluff 1t
has been nicknamed the High Bridge"
And, if you have ever crossed it, you
will not wonder
On the green little island that lies
exactly in the center Of the river stan is
the Minnesota Boat club house That
little speck that flashed so n the sun
light was a shell from the club house.
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what windows Are Worth. s

What Windows Are Worth.
When windows that look out upon inaugu-
ration heroes are selling easily for $25 apiece,
and spacious rooms by which these windows
are lighted rent for 5000, there are two New
England senators who are PLAYING in luck.
Senators Hale and Morton have the two COM
mittee rooms on the corner adjoining the big
Inauguration stand, and each room has three
windows that will look cut across the hosts.
Senator Hale has the advantage Of being
chairman Of a small committee that has but
two members besides himself. Such corners
are handy for ones friends Inauguration time.
Washington Post
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feet long and 260 feet wide. Here religious
ceremonies were carried on, and here the
ruler and his household retinue and priests,
no roubt lived.
Notwithstanding the palace ~ ruined and
the sides Of the foundation mound on viii
It was built are deeply covered with fallen
stones and earth, a trace of its original beau-
ty and massiveness can be discerned.
1t was deliberately ornamented In the pecul-
lar style or the builders. All the walls are
covered with stucco decorations, and portions
OF huge heads both natural and werdly sim
gular, still are attached at places.
The race Of Palenque had consuming de-
sire for the ornamental. They paintea. the
walls with brilliantly colored figures Of men
and serpents Sometimes a snakes head with
a scroll Of red in its mouth is found and
at other spots the most grotesque masks or
races. hach doorway OF the stone houses,
some of which had four doorways, seems to
nave been surmounted by some singular de-
sign in stucco work
Red blue. chocolate and black paints most
commonly were used Even after their long
contact with the moist earth, the colors stIii
can be distinguished.
THE TALL TOWER.
The temples were built OF hard limestone.
which was the stone ordinarily used In build
ing. II was cut in rough, square blocks and
embedded in hard plaster. The surface then
was coated with fine stucco having a smooth
polished surface. Others Of the ruined builG-
ings were made Of worked blocks Of a solft
sandstone. The houses Of the poor undoubt-
eddy were of wood, but these long since have
rotted. Not q wooden splinter can be found
in the ruins
What the tall tower-the only feature OF
the kind in prehistoric America-was used
for is uncertain. The people OF Palenque
is clear, were so strongly welded to religious
observances that 1t may have had holy Sig
nihcance, or again 1t may have been a fort
ress Of some kind. The object it served is
wrapped in mystery.
Nearly all the principal structures In PaIen-
cue were built on mounds or terraces. Why
this was done Is not explainable The OPEN
ings on all sides Of some Of the mounds lead
to sephulchral chambers. Many OF the small
er mounds are honeycombed with tightly
built chambers, in which nothing can be
seen but bare walls, and In some instances a
slab OF stone raised four short legs or
small platform Of rubble, coated with stucco.
But whittier have they gons-these dexter
Gus, prehistoric menf
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end Of the high bridge, you are in a
region of rugged bluffs and deep, dark
ravines. In winter, when these ravines
are choked with snow and the bluffs
are slippery with ice, this is a bad
place to wander about in But in
summer, when the city is fiower-scent-
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-02
WORLDS WHEAT CROP.
The Yield of Last Year the Smallest n,
Six Years.

Six Years.
Chicago, March 3O.-The Times
Herald's Washington special says:
The worlds wheat crop for 1895 was
2,42s, 1913, 900 bushels. This fact will
be officially announced by the secretary
Of agriculture in a report to be issued
this week. Although the total wheat
crop was 11S, 200, 900 bushels less than
in 1895, it was larger than earlier esti-
mates indicated. This was largely due
to an increase of SO, 900, 600 bushels in
the final estimates of the central statis-
tical bureau, over the November estl-
mate of the minister of agriculture of
that country. The crop for 1896 was
the smallest in six years.
Regarding the distribution of the
crop of the United States for 1896, the
report will state:
The increase in price which began in
the fall of 1896 so stimulated sales that
many parts of the country are now left
with only sufficient for seed. All Sec
tions report an exceptionally small per-
centage on hand, the general average
being 20. 6, against 1913 last year, and
showing but S8,0OO,0OO bushels in
farmers hands March l. An unusual
ly small amount of the crop of 1895 re-
mains-but per cent, against Al per
cent of the 1894 crop So held year
ago.
A larger proportion than usual must
be retained for home consumption.
The average percentage SO retained is
AZ AGAINST Al last year. when the
inducements to export were weaker.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-02
Increased Appropriations.

The Republicans in the new congress
are going to make an effort to get back
to the system of placing the appropria-
ton bills in the hands of one commit
tee. The free traders who got control
of congress when Grover Cleveland first
came into the White House distributed
the appropriation bills to half dozen
committees in order to take them out of
the hands of Protectionist Sam Ran
dali, and at the same time more thor
oughly control the house in favor Of the
free trade plans. They succeeded, both
in distributing the appropriation bills
and in passing their free trade tariff
act. The result of the distribution of
the appropriation bills was an enormous
increase in expenditures and the result
of the passage of the low tariff act was
an enormous decrease of the receipts.
Result: increase in national indebted
ness in the last four years amounting to
$262, 900, 900. The Republican party,
now that it resumes control, must first
change the systems which produce
these evil results and then go to work
and pay the debts which the Democrats
piled up. To do this they will first re-
duce expenditures by placing the appro-
priation bills in the hands of one COM
mittee; second, increase the receipts by
protective tariff and general business
activity, and then resume the task
which they carried on successfully for
many years of paying off public indebt.
edness.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-02
POPULAR PRESIDENT
MESSRS. M'KiNLEY AND CLEvE-
LAND CONTRASTED.

The Plans of the New Administrations
Pushing for Protection, International
Bimetallism and Prosperity - Free
Silver Rapidly Weakening.
Washington, D. CA plain Ameri-
can citizen; that is what President Nc
Kinley has shown himself in these, the
first weeks of his occupancy of the pres
idential Office.
There were no "frills" about his in
augural address, no unnecessary exclu-
siveness in any part of his share OF the
days doings, and when he became mas
ter of the White House it's doors were
thrown open and day after day throngs
of people from every section and state
have been received by him. The sur
viving members of his old regiment,
the twenty-third Ohio, called upon him
the day following his Inauguration, and
not for many years have the walls of
the White House echoed such ringing
cheers as those with which they greeted
their old commander. The days work
over, this statesman and plain Ameri-
can citizen donned his hat and over
coat, and for the first time in many
years there was witnessed the spectacle
of a president Of the United States
walking unattended through the streets
of Washington. This habit, which
was characteristic of General Grant,
has been revived by that other Ohio
soldier, Major Mckinley, and strollers
on PENNSYLVANIA avenue now def thei1
hats to the president of the United
States as he walks by, and in return
receive pleasant salutation from him.