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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
SAYS nNo srRRENpER.r
Gen. Gomez Declares That Cuba VIII Not
Accept Spanish Offers.

Gen. Gomez Declares That Cuba VIII Not
Accept Spanish Offers.
New YORK, Feb. 1O--The World this
morning published an interview with
Gen. Maxine Gomez dated: Scamp of
Gen. Maxine Gomez, near Salado,
province of Santa Clara, Cuba, January
80, 1871 Gomez said in part: Spain
will not grant any real reform. We
no longer ask concessions from her.
Even were Spain's proposals bona fde,
nothing could tempt us to treat with
her. We are for liberty, not for Span
ish reform. We are for Cuba, not for
Spain. | am disguised with this talk
of reform. Does Spain think we have
the lessons of the past2
Liberty is what we are fighting for,
because it is one of the most glorious
gifts God has bestowed upon man.
We want nothing from Spain. Cuba
hates Spain. Home rule in its
broadcast sense is independence. That
is the kind of home rule we want If
you ask would we accept home rule
with Spanish captain-general, 1
would answer most emphatically no.
We want nothing from Spain. We do
not want her captain-general nor her
glory, if she has any remaining, nor
her care
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
TWO MEN DIE TOGETHER.
Strangers Commit Suicide with Gas
Grand Island, Mob.

Strangers Commit Suicide with Gas at
Grand Island, Eeb.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Feb. 1O.-Two
well-dressed men came to this city
Tuesday night, arriving from the east.
They went to the best hotel in the
city and only one registered, saying
one name would do for both. The sig
nature on the register is very vague,
but looks like R. A. Newcome, and the
residence given as Billings, Mont.
Yesterday morning they were found in
their room dead. All gas jets were
open full Neither man carried any
baggage other than small grip, and
this contained nothing but two shirts
and few collars. The coroner's jury
returned a verdict of suicide.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
MOoL GRowERs, DEMANDS.


The National Association Calls for High
Tariffs on the MerinO Product.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lO.-Thc National
Wool Growers association met here to-
day with 80 members present, repre-
senting practically, all of the wool
growing states and territories. A res
olution was adopted calling on con-
gress for such a protective tariff on
merino wool as should give to the
growers east of the Missouri river 20
cents per pound farm value, for un-
washed merino, and % cents, farm
washed, and for sections west of the
Missouri. river 10 cents, farm value, for
unwashpd
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
Fort Scott PopulIsts split.

Fort SCoTT. Kan, Feb. 1O.-The
populist city committee passed resolu-
tions asking Gov. Leedy to send a
special message to the Legislature urg-
ing the abolition of the metropolitan
police law. This was the result of gem
eral dissatisfaction because the gov
ernor ignored Attorney-General Boyle's
recommendations of a police board for
this city.
Favor Rejecting the Reforms for Cuba.
ROME, Feb. 1O.-The Cuban commit
tee of Italy held meeting here to-day
and voted their approval of the action
of the New y urk committee in reject
ing the reforms offered to Cuba by the
decree recently signed by the queen
regent Of Spain The committee also
wired to the French Cuban committee
expressing hope that the latter would
cooperate with the other Cuban com
mittees to the end of delivering Cuba
from Spanish rule.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
WILL BE IN THE CABINET.
Ex-GOy. Long, Of Massachusetts,, Slated for
Secretary OF the Navy.

EX-GOy. Long, Of Massachusetts, Slated for
Secretary Of the Navy.
CANTON, o., Feb. lot can be stated
positively that President-elect McKin-
ley has determined upon eX-Gov. Long
of Massachusetts,, for a cabinet port
folio, and the place will probably be
the navy. 1t is known that ovcrwhelm-
ing testimonials have come from New
England in recommendation of the ex-
governor since his name was first
mentioned. They have come from
chambers of commerce, business and
professional associations, bankers, labor
organizations and letters and tele-
grams by thousands from the masses
Of the people. While there is no state
ment that Mr.. Long has formally ac-
cepted place in the cabinet, there is
believed to be no doubt that he will
accent.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
For Federal Positions.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 1O.-W. n.
Collins, secretary of the local civil serv-
ice board, has received bulletin from
the civil service commission ut Wash
ingbon which states that examinations
Of applicants for positions in the post
office and customs house service will
be held in Kansas City on March "a, in
Topeka, Kan, and Springfield, Mo-, on
March 20, and at Wichita, Kan, on
March 20.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11

MERwIN. No, Feb. lO.-Contrary to
the expectations of his physicians.
Gen. 10 Shelby rallied last night and
to-day he is somewhat easier. although
it seems only question of short time
when the end must come. for he is
growing weaker every day and con-
tinues to remain unconscious.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11

PArNrsvIILE, Ky. Feb. 1O.-Andrew
Wilson. Preston Hall and Henry Brown
were drowned this morning in the Big
Sandy river in Pike county. The men
had been on a spree for several days
and started to cross the river on their
horses. which was frozen over.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
soLpIEns, NOME REPoRT.
Congress Advised That tho LeavenwOrth
Institution Is In Fair Condition.

Congress Advised That tho LeavenwOrth
Institution Is In II Fair Condition.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-According to
the report Of the annual inspection of
the Leavenworth, Kan, soldiers home,
which was submitted to congress yes
terday, expenditures shown by vouch-
ers and transfers were s56s, ITO, leaving
balance of 500, 789, and a balance in
the general fund Of $3.50, 432. Improve
ments contemplated are a building for
insane veterans for IS, 300 and quar-
termaster's building, water filter
boilers, guard house and barracks
for S87, ,0J For repairs $3.50
was spent. For pensions 1921, $50
was paid out, and balance
due pensioners of S1G,17O was left
June 30. 1896, there were 2,346 pension
ers, as against AIT the year before.
Home store, restaurant and beer hall
receipts were SIS, 900. The library con-
tanned 5000 volumes. The Kelley
league had 1896 members. There
were 1854 deaths, 81 cases of insanity
and IL of blindness.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11

WARSAW. ILL.,, Feb. 1O.-The grip is
prevalent in an epidemic form in west
ern Illinois. In this city alone. 30 per
cent. OF the school children are afflicted.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
Twelre Morkmen Killed.

LONDON. Feb. 10. Through the col
lapse of the scaffolding Of viaduct on
= railroad yesterday twelve men fell
distance of $50 feet and were killed.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-11
FOUGHT A DUEL.
Two CaValrYmen at West Point Engage
In a Combat Over a Woman.
A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Other Members OF the ROgulsbi Family Sc
riOusly Inlured-Twenty-FI Rounds
Fought by Rufus Sharpe and
Charlie Turner.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1O.-At recent sol
diers' ball at West Point, Katie Medler,
blacksmiths daughter, favored John
Leahy, a trooper, and Pearley Howard,
his rival, challenged him to duel.
Charley Wresth and Billy Sissy, two
other troopers, acted as seconds After
the usual preliminaries each man drew
his cavalry saber. A sharp contest
ensued. After few minutes of fight
ing, Howard, with one sweep of his
sword, sent Leahy's sword flying and
left him defenseless. With the return
sweep his sharp weapon caught Leahy
ON the lips and cut them through.
Leahy cried murder" and the seconds.
tried to stop the flow of blood, but
their efforts were fruitful and they
had to take the wounded man to the
cadet hospital, where his lips were
sewed up by the surgeon. lie told the
doctor he got the injury accidentally
while fencing with Howard.
A Fatal Fire.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 1O.-Fire at ESQ
o'clock this morning destroyed small.
frame cottage ON the Anderson road,
occupied by the family of Stephen Ro-
.gulslIi A two-year-old child was
burned to death and Mary Rogulslti,
aged II years was so badly burned that
she will die, Five other members of
the family were more or less seriously
burned before they made their escape
from the burning building. The or
igin of the fire Is unknown, but it is
thought to have been the work of an
incendiary, Rogulski is the man who
was under arrest three months ago
under suspicion of having attempted
to kill family named Konczal by try
ing TO blow up their house with dy-
Mantle.
Twenty-Five Rounds Fought.
Hot SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. 10.-Rufus
Sharpe, of st. Louis, and Charlie Tur-
ner, of California, met last night for
finish fight at the st. Louis club. Both
men were in good form and went at
each other viciously from the
start. At the end of the 18th
round both men were on their
feet and the referee announced that
the contest would last to finish. Up
to the Goth round honors continued
even. At the close of this round both
men showed up badly used up, but
Sharpe appeared quite groggy and
fought at disadvantage from that
time to the end of the 2jth round,
when he was completely knocked out.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01
Combination and Individuality.

This is an age of combination, Of
great organization. The individual cap
italist is disappearing in the corpora
ton. The individual laborer is disap-
pearing in the trades union. The power
of the machine in politics is recognized
of all men. Now, I do not call attention
to these tendencies to quarrel with
them, but rather to emphasize the spir-
it that is needful to make them whole
some. The capacity to organize and to
combine is itself indicative of a high
grade of intelligence and Of power. We
may reasonably expect from society tri-
umphs greater than the past has ever
seen as result of these tendencies, if
we can strip them of their dangers and
reap only their benefits. If these vari-
GUS combinations can be kept open cham.
nels for the opportunity for character
and for capacity, the triumphs of the
past will surely be repeated in the fu-
ture. but if corporation and trades union
and political party, instead Of being the
schools of individuality, become the
cause of its extinction, then indeed the
danger is great and serious. Hon. Seth
Low.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01
An interesting work.

"A History of Paints, Pigments and
Colors" is the latest publication of
Heath q Milligan Mfg. Co.. OF Cbica-
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Inc multitude of facts which mako M
the history. ~
IL Is the work of John McGovor
whose talent as student and CO..,
pller bids fair to oatshine the ,inev;,-
able reputation he has made as a
newspaper man and author
The history enters exhaustivs,u =,
to the many points which 90 10 mo- l..
up present knowledge of paints and
'"'ors, each fact being treated in tho
eplgrammatlc style, which Mr. Nc
Govern has made his own.
from the time of it's publication
one History of Paints, Pigments and
oolors Is standard, it being estimat-
ed' that 1000 other publications mist
De searched to furnish the informa-.
Oion contained in the little volume.
Anyone interested in the subject ca,
obtain the history free by writing to
Heath q Milligan Mfg. Co., 17O-172
Randolph ST., Chicago.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01
INANlMATE9-YES.
But Cannon Cracker Can Pop and VIII
Do 1t at the Right Time.

But . Cannon Cracker Can Pop and Will
Do 1t at the Right Time.
For what happened Reginald Slow
boy was certainly at fault. His procras-
tination was, the sole cause of it. He
deserved no sympathy. and yet the
blow seemed to rattle his very back
teeth.
There was quasi understanding be-
tween him and Miss Cutting, but moth
ing definite. He should have declared
his passion weeks before. He felt GER
tain that he loved her as woman had
never been loved before, felt equally
sure that she loved him, but whenever
the idea suggested itself Of asking her
in plain, blunt English to become Mrs.
Slowboy he found nervous prostration
treading close upon its heels.
The tragedy that drove him away in
shame and chagrin occurred one Fourth
of July night They had been shooting
fire crackers and sending up roman can
dies contemporaneously with the entire
Cutting family for some time, but now
the coast was clear. Her father, her
mother, her sister and even her bother
some and ubiquitous little brother had
gone into the house for the night, and
he and she were alone-alone on the
dark piazza. He knew it because his
nervous prostration told him so.
For an hour he talked of almost
everything except the subject nearest
his timid heart. He talked about the
weather and the tariff and the corn crop
and about numerous other subjects well
calculated to cause feeling of drowsi-
ness in any healthy young woman.
He had one great cannon cracker left,
and he swung it to and fro and wound
the fuse about his finger for the entire
hour. At length, when the conversation
was perceptibly tagging and she was
covertly yawning, he began to moralize
about the fire cracker.
"Strange, he said refiectively, "what
power there is concentrated in the pa
per tube I hold in my hand. This fire
cracker has no brain and yet think of the
vast weight it can raise when exploded
under some heavy object 1t is an imam
innate object-it knows absolutely moth
ing, and yet what wonderful thing it
can dol"
"Some inanimate objects know more
than human beings" she murmured
quietly, but there was quaver in her
| voice.
Nov really, you do not mean that, y
| he cried.
Indeed I do" she replied trifie
sharply. That firecracker is an mani
mate object. 1t has no brain, as you
say, and yet it knows more than some
men. When the time comes, she con-
tinued, rising to her feet and starting
for the door, "when the proper time
comes, that firecracker knows enough
to pop" E. H. E.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01
The Terror of T.

Bang, bang, bang!
Strange, horrifying noises filed the
air.
He trembled as if stricken with the
ague.
Every hair upon his head seemed dis
posed to emulate the example of the
quilts upon the fretful porcupine.
Siss, boom, bang!
His legs were all too weak to support
his quaking body, and his heart beat
with the rapidity of trip hammer. He
crouched in the corner, the picture of
abject terror, and uttered low cries like
the cries of an animal in dire distress
Friends surrounded him and spoke to
him reassuringly, but he seemed to have
lost all pride, all sense of shame, in his
mad surrender to fear. Even their taunts
and gibes were, unnoticed.
The strange, horrifying noises grew
louder and louder. The booming of cam
non shook The house to it's lowest foun-
datiofi stones and made the windows
dance lively Jig in their frames. There
was screaming in the air, as Of death
dealing shells, and rattle, as Of mus
kerry.
His former terror seemed insignifi-
can't when compared with the new ter
TOR that seized him as the tumult swelled
until earth and sky reeled from the
shocks Of innumerable explosions
In very ecstasy of fear he fled,
bowling. and plunged headlong beneath
a bed in the attic Of the house.
And yet, strange to relate, his act
was not denounced as unmanly.
Poor Towser doesn't know any bet
ter, was all the Fourth of July revel-
ers said. EARLE H EATON
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01
Agricultural Education.

Professor Henry P. Armsby, dean Of
the School Of Agriculture of Pennsylva-
MIA State college, Gays that the agricul-
tural products of Pennsylvania exceed
the total iron ore, coal and oil products
of the state by $s.000,00O. He also
makes strong plea for agricultural ed
ucation whether we like it or not,
he says, eve are face to face with new
problems and new conditions. In this
process Of evolution, by which agricul-
ture is adjusting itself to its new enyi-
ronment, as in every other process of
evolution, the fittest will survive. The
community or the individual farmer
that can successfully readjust it's agri-
culture to these new conditions will
continue to prosper, while the farmer
or the community which fails to do this
will be borne down by forces as pitiless
and as irresistible as grayitation. =
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01

HUSH THEr INTERNAL BANDp' HE CRIED.
brawny arms, and his fists shook in the
direction of the big bass drum.
Hush tibet Internal band" he cried,
ssan give Their kid er chance!"
The noise ceased. the talking ones
hushed their clatter, and then upon the
morning air came the softer, sweeter
music-from baby's throat.
Toby Wimple. with graceful sweep
Of his strong right arm, took off his old
slouched hat, and like flock Of sheep
the others .mutely followed his example.
They stood there motionless in the
sunlight, bareheaded, wet eyed, those
gruR ones, those rough ones, those tough
ones, and. like thirsty souls, they drank
of the gentleness and the melody in the
air about them-the music from the
mouth of new born babe, the sweet
est sound that ever comes to human ears.
Then there was deep quiet, solemn
stiffness, for the child was hushed up
on the mothers breast.
Up again rose Waiiy Dimmick, red
shirted and six footed, with his head
above the crowd. N
"Let 'er hev 'em, boysr' he cried.
clip, hipl Three cheers fer Downie
Dodd NV Downieville, ther furst kid in
ther campl"
AS from surging sea three great
roars rolled up the gulch, and three
great echoes resounded from the noun
tains.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01
Physick for all,
And Pills for some.
All kinds of Bitters,
But not any rum

In the back room under his blanket
the young medic treasured an old book
Of accounts, and the next day he made
a new entry, I'D. Dodd, ESQ.,, July 8,
1853, middle of the night. -
The following day being the Fourth
Of July, Downieville, possessed Of a
spirit of patriotism worthy Of a larger
settlement, celebrated the glorious holt
day.
Up the gulch little way, from the
top Of a peeled and lofty pine tree, float
ed in the summer breeze the stars and
stripes In front of the store Dodd and
some of the men fired an anvil at in
tervals, sending rumblings through the
hills and awakening the sleeping echoes
on the mountain top.
During the morning the miners gath
cred about the store, for there was no
work in the gulch that day, and as Toby
Wimple put in, in his homely way:
Even ther Chinks done the squar'
thing with Uncle Sam.
5 Then from the rear of the Silver Star
five of the younger men came cautious
~, and they bore down upon the crowd
in front Of the store, carrying each of
them strange burden. and, to the SUR
prise and delight of the older men, they
formed a circle. and, with an old from
bone and cornet and flute and a
bass drum and cymbals, the band began
to play.
Suddenly, in the midst of the din,
came strange, weird cry, unlike any
thing ever heard before in Downieville
1t grew louder and louder and sent de-
fiance to the noisome band.
The old trombone put forth its bois-
ferrous strain the bass drum roared, the
cymbals clashed.
The strange, weird cry became a bold
and desperate remonstrance. Nip and
tuck waged the battle Of the noises.
In the living room, in the rear of the
store, Mrs. Dodd, on her bed in the cor
ner, Rugged pink baby to her breast
and did her best to hush its lusty cry.
Like thunderbolt. wave Of intelIi-
gence overcame the crowd of men with
ont, and they let forth shout of joy
Gus laughter as they recognized the cry
of the first baby born in Downieville,
and then the trombone found its high
est notes again, and the bass drum went
booming to the clatter of the cymbals.
Waily Dimmick. red shirted and six
footed. drew his giant head above the
crowd. Quick Of wit was Waily and
quicker still Of action. No one could
ever pull gun on him. Up went bis
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tility, and as she was the first woman
to arrive at the guloh the most Of them
were too overjoyed at her presence to
ask foolish questions.
Dodd and the woman rode up the
gulch on their mules at shutdown. In
an hour every man in the camp had
passed upon her favorably. and crowd
gathered at the bar of the Silver Star.
Toby Wimple raised his tin cup neck
high. and he shouted a toast.
"Ther's en- angel in camp, an yere's
to 'er healthp' he cried as he wiggled
his red whiskers from side to side.
Drink to ther luck nv Mrs. Dodd nv
Downieville.
They drank with cheer.
sFill 'em up againl'' cried hoarse
voice at the other end of the bar, and
Waily Dimmick, red shirted and six
footed, proposed second toast.
I can yere's fer ther old man." he
roared. Drink 'er down fer Dodd.
And the red rum gurgled in their
throats.
There were 80 men in Downieville,
including the two Cinnamon. They
were hard lot, but they were generous
to man and sympathetic and patient,
and they toi1ed on in the gulch, cheer
full in their isolation.
For some days after the arrival Of
Mrs. Dodd the men failed signally at
their work. But in a week or two the
novelty of a woman's presence wore
away, aud things ran along in the old
groove again, the sound of the long tom
and the rocker coming in every DAY
with the sunshine, and the rattle of the
tin cups at the Silver Star going out
with the moonlight.
In the early summer following, late
of an evening, Toby Wimple and Waily
Dimmick sat on pine bench in the
Silver Star, with a layout of jacks and
queens and kings and few other nota-
bles between them. The night was
warm, and their red shirts were open
and their bronzed necks bare.
David Dodd came with long strides
into the barroom in state of excite
ment, and he called for gin in hurry.
"Big rush yer in, said Toby VIM
Pile, looking up from his cards.
"Goin after the doc" Dodd answer
ed, with an anxious face. "The missus
is sick, an ther'll be fun fore mornin. y
"Jumpin wildcatsl" commented Wal
ly Dimmick without taking his eyes
from the pine bench. Toby suppressed
chuckle and bobbed his head up and
down, whereupon Waily took his eyes
from his cards and winked at Toby.
Dodd put away his gun in the place
where he wanted it and loped out of the
door like a mule with the kick ups. They
heard the rap of his big knuckles on the
door of the cabin opposite.
Billy Ember, M. D., lived over the
way, and above his doorpost was huge
sign, done in lampblack on square
board, and it said:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-01
'OW Excursion Rates To Moun,.
Lake Park, Md.
Via the Baltimore & Ohio r.. r.

July Ito IL, inclusive, the Baltimore
d Ohio Railroad will sell excursi On
tickets to Mountain Lake Park. Md. at
rate OF one fare for the round trip. ON
account OF the Camp Meeting. On
this basis the round trip-fare from Chi
cago. H., will be .Sl5.35. Tickets will
oe good for return until July Is, 1897.
For further information call on or
address b N. Austin, Gent Pass r Agt.
Chicago, Ill.