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The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31
A WRIT OF SUPERSEDEAS.

The Final Straw Upon Which Hangs
the Life of Durrant.
Attorney Eugene Deuprey, chief coun-
sci for Durrant, had heard nothing in re-
gard to Budd's decision early this morn
ing.
This is new to me-" he said, "and if it
is true believe that the Governor has al
lowed matters not connected with the
main case to influence his Judgment.
NO, we will not stop in our fghtp'
said Mr. Deuprey in a assertive accent
I'VE believe we have such elements of
right on our side that recognition should
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31
John q. ron Msmsbaeh Dead.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 30-Ad-
vices were received to-day of the death in
Loyal Valley OF John o. Won Meusbach, a
member of q German royal family, who
came to Texas sixty years ago with Prince
Solms and esta blished fourishing German
colonies at Fredericksburp, Leiningen.
Castell and Loyal Valley. He served sew
eral terms in the Texas Legislature.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31

pedition to the Dauntless at sea May 20.
and the cargo was safely landed on the
Matanzas coast the same day. The Daunt-
less carried sixty-two Cubans, headed
by General Nunez, and arms and am
munition valued at $78 600. It was the
second largest expedition landed SO far.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31
A1D FoR THE 1ssUaa1srs.

Smccsssfssl Landtno Of q Big Erpedttion
on fhs Cuban Coast
WILMINGTON, N. c., May 30.-A mem
Der of the crew who has returned says
the tug Alexander Jones and.the sshooner
John D. Long transferred big Cuban ex.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31
NEW TO-DAY,

N mllIOI COulQ nOe
lie if it wanted to.
The glass has moth
ing to gain by fat
terry. If the roses of
health and plump.
ness of beauty are
leaving your face,
your mirror will tell
you so. You can see
for yourself you are
in danger of losing
t h e a d m ir a tiou
which is every wo-
m a ms d ue. You
may not really real
ize it, but health is
%1a rx-ao+oc% ka,..%s
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-31
KENTUcKY'S 70LL-GA7E WAR.
Raiders Continue to Defy the CiW and
Military Authorties-Maks Threats
of Dire HqeaDce.

" DTe H9euHCe.
OWINGSVILLE. Ky, May 3O.-Not-
withstanding the fight with the Sheriff's
posse last week. in wk.eh two raiders were
wounded, and the presence OF the militia
at the county seat, the toll-gate raiders of
this county continue their depred ations.
Last night they took Gown gate on the
Wyoming pike. Tonight the raiders
started out again, avowedly to take down
other gates, and Major Allen has ordered
each me ember of the State Guard not able
to fight to the hospital end will take the
remaining members OF the company to
repel the raiders.
Raider sympathizers from Montgomery
and Heming counties were seen near
town to-day. They threatened dire things
for tom orrow at the trial Of Raider Dave
Anderson. There is much excite ment and
fear is expressed for the safety of County
udge Gudgill and Sheriff Lane after the
tr oops go on Tuesday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

widows of officers on pension rolls at
ratings ranging from $50 to SIS a
month. Several important bills are in
| the presidents hands awaiting his ac-
ton, foremost among them the immi-
grafton bill.
One act written upon the statute
books this session is noteworthy as be-
ing the work practically of one man.
That is the act to reduce the cases in
which the penalty of death may be in
hicted, a movement to which Gen. Cur
tbs, of New York, has devoted the best
! efforts of his congressional career.
After years of agitation of the subject,
he has succeeded in erasing from the
statute books all United States laws
imposing the death penalty for other
crimes than murder, criminal assault,
treason or piracy, and endowed jurieS
with the power to stipulate whether or
not capital punishment shall be in
aicted for these crimes.
The interstate commerce laws have
been extended to prevent traffic in OBJ
scene literature of articles designed
for immoral uses.
The friends of the Tennessee Cen
tennial exposition of 1897 have succeed
ed in securing an appropriation of
$40, 900 for a government building and
exhibit, while the Nebraska delegation
is working to secure like recognition
for the Omaha exposition. One of the
most important pieces of public land
legislation permits the patenting of
lands containing petroleum or other
mineral oils. under the mineral land
laws.
An act was passed to validate the
acts of deputy marsha1s in the Indian
territory sworn between March L, 1895,
and April Is, 1896, when the law was
defective: an act providing heavy pen
alties for selling Intoxicating liquors
to Indians.
Military acts were passed authoriz-
izing officers who served in the regular
army during the rebellion to bear the
official title and on ceremonial occa-
sions wear the uniform of their rank;
for issuing certificates of service to
members of the military telegraph
corps; for the state of Colorado to use
the Fort Lyon military reservation for
soldiers home.
Right of way has been granted the
Muscogee, Oklahoma & Western rail-
road through the Indian territory and
Oklahoma and the Eastern Nebraska
& Gulf Railway Co. through the Omaha
and Winnebago Indian reservation in
Nebraska.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
GENERAL NEWS.

THE Boston Sunday Globe stated on
the 2Sth that one of the largest cor
ners on wool ever attempted in the
United States had been formed in Bos-
ton in anticipation of a tariff on wool
in the near future by the Mckinley ad-
miniStratiOn.
A CLIMAX in the Nebraska state treas
ury shortage of over $500. 600 came
when Sheriff Trompen notified ex-
Treasurer Joseph BARLEY that com
plant charging him with embezzle-
ment of state funds had been fled and
a warrant issued for him.
FIRE broke out in the Zanamoro mine
at Zacatecas, Mex. and ten bodies
were taken out, showing signs of
ssphyxiation. It was said that there
was no doubt that ITO miners had
persisted. All Zacatecas was scene
of mourning.
THE Louisiana republican state COM
mittee are going to prepare a bill to
reduce the congressional representa-
ton of the state one-half, becauce
many voters have been disfranchised
by the election law passed last spring.
ADvICEs from Cuba stated that in a
battle at Ceniza the loss of the Spanish
under Gen. Weyler amounted to 500
killed and wounded. In the battles at
Cabaiguan the Spanish losses We're re-
ported to have been equally as large.
REPRESENTATIVE JONES, of the
Idaho legislature, has made an affi-
davit, setting forth that he was bribed
to vote for Henry Heitfeld for United
States senator. It was said afhdavitS
of similar character have been made
by two other members.
THE capitol at Wheeling, w. Va, on
the 25th was entirely surrounded by
water and accessible only by boat.
The legislature was in session three
hours with the temperature at 40 de
grees, the members keeping their hats
on and overcoats buttoned.
1T was estimated on the 25th that 81
900 workmen in Cincinnati and the
Kentucky towns and cities opposite
had been thrown out of employment
by the stoppage of inundated factories,
to say nothing of those kept from work
by inundated homes.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Summary of the Work of the Clos
ing Session.
Guch Time Consumed In the Cuban Discus
sion-Many Private Pension Bills Passed
Reducing Cases in Which Death
Penalty May Be Inflicted.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The last
week of the session begins with sew
eral of the appropriation bills not yet
passed by the senate. Much of the
time of that body has been consumed
in the discussion of the Cuban ques-
ton Necessarily, the policy of the
house to avoid new legislation which
involved expenditures has been en-
forced upon the senate. The Nicara-
qua canal bill, which was discussed at
great length in the senate, but not
voted on, was not taken up in the
house, nor has the free homes bill,
which the senate passed, had hear
ing at the other end of the capitol.
The Pacific railroad funding bill met a
decisive defeat in the house. One fea-
ture of the session worthy of note is
the great number of private pension
bills passed, many of them placing the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
At Least 15O Miners Reported to Have Per-
ished in Mexico Through q Fire.

At Least ITO Miners Reported to Have Per-
ished in Mexico Through Fire.
CITY OF MEXICO, March Fire broke
out in the Zanamora mine at Zacate-
cas-, the property of the Zombete COM
pany, and communicated to the San
Francisco mine. The principal shaft
of the former is 500 feet deep. and a
rescuing party went down to the bot
tom, but were nearly suffocated by
smoke. The Cornish miners displayed
unusual heroism in attempting the re-
lief of the imprisoned men. Ten bodies
have been taken out and all show signs
of asphyxiation. There is no doubt
that 10 miners have persisted. The
city of Zacatecas is a scene of mourn
ing and CONSERVATION, this being the
greatest calamity in the mines during
modern times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Z. j: Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

Hosts of invalids tumble to destruction
simply because they viii exercise no dis
cretion in the matters of eating, drinking
and the avoidance of exciting causes, and,
above all, in the item of medication. They
persist in dosing themselves in season and
e dss OF WIFI nd n an1 osnn
best, the safest, the pleasantest substitute
for such hurtful no-remedies is Hostetter' s
Stomach Bitters, potent for malarial, rheu-
matte, dyspeptic, nervous and bilious COM
plants.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND delivered 3
most scathing criticism upon indecent
newspaper publications in denying a
pardon to James Wilson, sentenced in
December, 1895, in Indiana to two
years imprisonment for mailing OBJ
scene papers.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND issued proc
lamation on the Gath calling for an ex-
ira session of the senate on March 4.
The report of the house special COM
mittee to investigate the management
of the Leavenworth, Kan, soldiers
home has been completed. It recon-
mends the removal of the governor of
the home and the change of all officers.
Mrs. LETITIA G. STEVENSON, wife of
the retiring vice president of the
United States, was reelected presi-
dent-general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution at Washington
on the 25th.
IT was stated at Washington on the
26th that J. Fl. Bingham, of Delta, O.,
master of the National Grange, had
been offered and had accepted the Of
fee of assistant secretary of agricul-
ture, to succeed C. W. Dabney, of Ten
nessee. The latter gentleman will re-
sumo his duties as president of the uni
has been held open for him through
this administration.
SENIOR DE LONE, the Spanish minis
ter at Washington, received a cable
gram on the 25th stating that the queen
regent Of Spain had signed the pardon
of Julio Sanguilly, the American citi-
zen imprisoned in Cuba.
Mr.. THURBER, secretary to the presi
dent, said on the 25th that President
Cleveland had not reSSived the resigna-
ton of Consul-Genera1 Lee, nor had he
been advised of any such resignation.
Mr.. Thurber likewise made an unqua1
fled denial of reports that Gen. Lee
had asked that warships be sent to
Cuba.
SENATOR SHERMAN has given up the
contest in trying to get the Anglo
American arbitration treaty ratified by
the senate at this session and init
mated that the new president would
urge its ratification at the extra SeS-
sion and that he was confident that
the treaty would be agreed to in the
end.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
President Cleveland will not nominate
any more postmasters while he is in
office.
THE Venezuelan boundary commits
sion appointed by President Cleveland
has made a voluminous report, but it
lacks interest to the general public.
GOSSIP at Washington increasingly
associates Maj. William Warner, of
Kansas City, Mo-, with a cabinet posi-
ton as the rumors of Col. McCoolz's
declination of a place multiply.
A HANDSOME and valuable silver
table service was presented to Vice
President Stevenson at Washington on
the evening of the 27th, with an adj
dress carrying the signatures of SIS of
the 90 senator's. Brief addresses were
made by Senators Hoar, Cullom and
Blackburn to which the vice president
feelingly responded.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
a Great Steel Elevator Proposed.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 1.-The
Great Northern Co. proposes to con-
struct at Buffalo, n. Y, grain eleva-
tor of 2, 800, O0o bushels capacity, all of
steel. 1t is to be outside the pool and
make such charges that will do more
to break the combine than any legal
enactment made in New York state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

With cold neuralgia increases With st.
Jacobs Oil it decreases and is cured.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

Just try Zoe box of Cascarets candy ca
thartic, finest liver and bowelregulatorm made
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

Every failure carries guide-book to sue
cess In its inside pocket.-Ram's Horn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

Every home ought to be made so much
like Heaven that the children will not think
Of Heaven as being far away.-Ram's Horn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

Easy to have rheumatism. Just Is easy
to get rid of it with st. Jacobs Oil.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
oxer the Precinice

The man who Is envious of evil-doers viii
soon be an evil-doer himself.-Ram's Horn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

About half man. time is taken I'D sign
ing petitions and protests.-Atchison Globe
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

The men who work are not usually the
dead beats-Atchison Globe
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, Zoe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

No man can become great unless the peo-
pie exaggerate his best points = AtchisoD
Globe
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

Halls Family Pills are the best.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04


reported that the president of the Cuban
republic, Salvador Cisneros, died re-
Gently from sickness
AT North Coal Gate, five miles from
Lehigh, I. T., three children of Jack
Goslin, aged four, eight and ten years,
fell into an abandoned pit filed with
water and were drowned.
EDWARD BAILEY was driving in a
buggy at Williamsport, Pa, and had
a rope around his body tied to two
horses behind when he was jerked out
of the buggy and dragged over a preci-
pice and the man and two horses were
low the roadway.
THE Oregon legislature adjourned
sine die on the oath without electing a
successor to United States Senator
Mitchell.
THE Park Gate hotel at Chicago was
damaged by fire at seven o'clock on
the morning of the 9th to the extent
of S25, 200. The blaze started in the
boiler room and ran up the elevator
shaft Many of the guests who were
in bed narrowly escaped suffocatiOn.
A COTTON mill company was recently
organized at Concord, n. G. All the
officers and workmen are to be colored
and the capital was subscribed by coll
ored people.
AT the bicycle races at the Velo-
drome in San Francisco w. E. Becker
established a new worlds record for
five miles, making the distance In
9:54 3-5.
New-York tribune., 1897-08-29

name to the Puritan. The original plan was FOR
4 sngle-screw vessel Of nearly five thousand
tons displacement, with one huge turret for two
20 inch guns. The Navy Department compelled
the adoption Of two turrets and two screws,
though Captain Ericsson opposed these changes
His idea was one powerfully armed turret with
all-around fire. and so determined was he in this
idea that In letter to Gustavus V. Fox. Assist
ant Secretary OF the Navy, he said: THE day Is
not far distant when two turrets on a vessel Will
be admitted to have the same advantages as two
heads on the human body, two suns In the
same heavens"
The Puritan was launched in July. 1864. two
years following the beginning OF her construc-
ton at GreenpOint, now a part OF Brooklyn. Her
machinery was built by the Allaire Works. then
situated near the Grand-s:. ferry, where had
been built the engines for the Shamrock and
other new warships. The end OF the Civil War
found her unfinished ard the work upon her and
several other vessels was stopped the policy
then being to reduce the fleet. Ten years
later under the cloak OF REPAIRS" which
system identified Itself with Secretary Robeson's
administration and added several new vessels
TO the Navy list the building Of a new Puritan
around the old name begun under cor
tract with John Roach, TO whom the old vessel
was handed over at a valuation Of about $4,000.
The vessel was broken up for her old material,
New-York tribune., 1897-08-29
THE UNITED STATES MONITOR PURITAN.

Of six 4-inch, two 6-pounder and four 3-poundo
rapid firing guns, and four 37-millimetre Hotch-
kiss revolving cannon. two OF them in the tuD
Of the military mast. A superstructure han
been built the deck, extending from barbet1
to barbette, within which arc the quarters a
the officers and crew. From military point oz
view the superstructure is looked upon by Of
icers Of the Navy as almost worse than worth
less, increasing as 1t does the size Of the target
to be fired at, and containing an element Of greet
danger in their liability to burn in action. There
are some advantages in the superstructue.
however chief of which are the increased space
for the comfortable accommodation OF the crew
and the location above deck Of the galley and
some other necessities
CONTRACTS FOR THE OTHERS
In the same year that the Puritan was begun
that is in 1S62-four other large le-turreted
monitors were put under construction at navy
yards and machinery was contracted for wn3
private works in New-York and philadelphia
These vessels are what are known on the NaxI
Register of 1897 as the Terror, the Mantonomoak
the Amphitrite and the Monadnock. The original
huus were OF wood, and armored above water
and on deck The Terror was built at the Ports
mouth Navy Yard Kittery. Me- and was orfg<
naIy named the Agamenticus the name being
changed in 1869 to the Terror. The Miantono
New-York tribune., 1897-08-29

some Of which Is said to have been used IN 'he
new Puritan, as was also some OF the nia'ei i"
from the single-turreted monitors Casco' Chiiho'
Cohoes Modoc, Napa, Nansett and Waxsa", al
OF which had been sold to the Roach works
The new Puritan lay idle for another decade
until Congress voted money for the construction
Of vessels for the new Navy" which included
this vessel She was then lying at the New
York Navy Yard, where the work OF completion
was resumed. but II more than another ten
wears before she ready for service Ad-
mral Jouett said OF her plans "She will be the
most effective vessel in any navy, and would
90 to sea In her confident Of being able to van
auish and sink any vessel that might be sent
against her."
The Puritan is officially termed a barbette
turreted ship. Her hull is OF iron, protected by
an armor belt Of nickel steel five feet seven
inches deep fourteen inches thick to point one
foot below the water-ne. and thence tapering
to six inches at the armor shelf for length OF
100 feet, protecting the engines. boilers, maga-
zines she'll rooms, etc This armor Is strongly
backed by wood tagging, and system OF
rigid frames and grders Her general dimen-
sions are: Length between perpendiculars 29O
feet: breadth Of beam. GO feet 1k inches; mean
draught IS feet 2ta inches; displacement $3.50
tons In each Of her turrets are mounted two
l2-inch guns, and her other armament consists
The oasis., 1897-11-13
Mar nepartment lReforms.

Two Republics: Fl Tiempo having having expressed a doubt as to the truth of the export that General k. B. Berriozabal, the secretary of war and marine, had made the economies in his department which were promised, the Diario Official goes into details, showing the saving that has been effected
 For instance in the arms foundry from l5,O0O to 20,00 cartridges were formerly manufactured monthly. Now at the same expense it is turning out from 80, to 100000 cartridges, and one month even l3O,000
 The powder factory formerly pro- duced from l2,OOO to l3,OOO kllogram : mes of powder monthly at an expense of sl.16 per kilo, Today, it is turning out ls,OOO to 10000 kilos at a cost of
The oasis., 1897-11-13

56 cents per kilo. The same econo- mics are noted in all the other factories.
 The army, which was lacking in clothing, is now fully equipped; and there are now in the government warehouse uniforms representing in value over Sl00,000.
 The cavalry, of which more than one-third was on foot, Is now entirely mounted, and consequently all the enlisted men are in service.
 The artillery which was short in munitions, is now stocked with suffi- cient for any engagement.
 The barracks werein ruins except ing that of the engineers battalion. Today they are all repaired and new ones are being constructed.
 And, in spite of all these vast im- proyements, the budget of the war department has not been increased