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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02
TELEGRAPH
UNCLE SAM STRIPPING
FOR THE A
HIS WAR SHIPS BEING CON-
CENTRATED FOR ACTION.
The President Soon Expected to
Declare Himself.

Washington, March 1.-The unusual
activity in every branch of the Govern
lnent service is a positive indication OF
war.
At last every fortitication is under
strict military guard.
Artillery forces are being transferred
to the coast, and from offers pouring
upon the War Department it is made
plain that the two regiments of artillery
provided for by the Senate bill can re-
cruited i'll less than ten days.
The plan is to fill in companies in req
lments already formed by drafting from
the artillery men of the National Guard
and particularly of gunners who have
seen naval service.
Information obtained last Fall by
naval officers sent along the New Eng
land Coast n through the Great Lakes,
show where five thousand sailors can be
recruited within three days from the
time the recruiting offices shall be
thrown open.
Secret orders have been sent to every
wal vessel of the United States to make
all haste for Cuba or designated places OF
vantage along the Atlantic seaboard.
Secret orders contingent upon HOSTILE
ties have been cabled to the command
ing officers OF the Asiatic, Pacific, South
Atlantic and European s~quadrons.
The South Atlantic squadron is care
fully feeling its way up the Brazilian
Coast.
The European squadron is already at
Lisbon, prepared to act as scouts or to
make a dash upon Spanish ports and
commerce.
The Asiatic squadron is to strike at the
Philippines and smash the Spanish fleet
before it can even make a move in the
direction of Hawaii.
However much the administration
might desi re to avoid war it will in the
end be obliged to bow to the popular
Indignation against Spain.
The majority of CONGRESS- in both
houses Is Tor war and every event is
the country nearer that end.
NO OFFICIAL INFORMATION.
Key West, March 1.-Many of the dis
patches sent from here are the work of
imaginative correspondents. vieinp with
each other to get sensational news over
the wire.
1t is certain that no official connected
with the investigation of the wrecked
Maine has ever utter a word to any news
paper correspondent or given out anv in
formation from an official source.
what they have reported to Washing
ton is another matter and any reliable
information relative to what thew have
in connection with the investiga-
ton has come from Washington,
FIGHTING FOR TIME.
Washington, Mrrch lit is believed
That as soon as the President gets all the
the required relative to the
Name loss that he will send a message to
Congress giving the conclusions of the
Congress will then pass a resolution
recognizing the beligerancy of Cuba and
that war be declared.
All the delay now i'll declaring war is
regarded as done to give the Government
Ilme TO get all its resources in fighting
trim.
The open talk of the officials is for
arbitration and a moneyed indem-
nlty, but the people demand vengence of
A more decisive character for a deed that
moneyed Indemnity n n square.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02
Landed all Three.

Last October three men John RYAN.
Williams and Harry Strother
broke into the store of Blossom & Bios
som at Battle Mountain. They were
convicted of burglary and sent up for a
year each. Sheriff Easton Of Austin. as
sisted by F. c. Kelly brought them into
~Penitentiary yesterday.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02
Developing Pine Nut.

AL Livingston, Johnny Vierra D. Gree
n Otto Schultz are determined to give
the Zirn mine at Pine Nut a full and fair
developing and yesterday they sent a
of men 9ut there to resume work
on the mine.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02
L SORTS.

Rev. Eddie spent yesterday in Virginia
City.
Boxing set-to's every night at the
gymnasium.
Will Virgin of Genoa was in this city
yesterday.
Dom forget the gymnasium meeting
at s o'clock this evening.
Mrs. E. b. Y~erington departed for the
Comstock yesterday.
Superintendent Cutting was a visitor
on the COmstock yesterday.
Imperial stock has been assessed one
cent per share.
More fair weather has been promised
by the weather man.
Even the small boys on the streets are
now clamoring for war.
Bob Grimmon and Harry Edwards re-
turned from San Francisco yesterday.
Fred Dangberg passed through Carson
from California yesterday.
h Francis Jones company will open
at the Opera House next Tuesday even
ing.
There is some talk of the electric light
company putting in incandescant lights
soon.
That hat of yours looks awful slouchy
Got q n,,0 IS To- DJ..4 ~
ity at the lowest price.
Miss Taylor will arrive from Elko to-
day to open her millinery store next the
Emporium.
1t now transpires that Green and
Ryan agreed to divide the purse in their
hight IN San Francisco and they cut it in
the center. The Sports are in a high
state of disgust on hearing this.
The Old Madrid Company will come
with new scenery, properties and cos
TUNES. They are a big combination and
they have made a big hit all along The
line.
The Mayor Of the city was out yester-
terday after ducks. He killed two mud
hens and sent them to a friend in Vir-
glnia City as canvas back ducks.
The most complete line of gents ft1rn-
fishing goods in the State can be found at
f. w. Days. From now on his line will
be better than ever.
Novelty plaids, dotted swiss mulls,
violet lawns, new canvas cloth, shep-
herds plaid and a variety of other new
dress goods at F. w. Days.
I. N. tone, Commissioner of Deed
for California, and Notary Public for
Hrmsby county. Office: Capitol Build
ing.
Special bargains at Ed Burlingtons.
Watch his show window for prices. We
may have your size if you call early.
They are all first grade goods and you
can save money by buying them.
And this" said the gold-seeEer. Bit
terly, as he toiled painfully through the
deep snow at the rate of five miles a dav.
this is what is known as the rush to
Klondike!'"
The Chinamen's screws turn to the
left: he pulls his planes and saws to-
wards him; white is his mourning color.
In this general principle of reversal can
he think it's progress when he's going
back?
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02

The APPEL is indebted to C. IA.
LaGrave for the State Controllers re-
report. 1t is Interesting to people who
like to read figures by the square yard
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02
The New Gymnasium.

The new gymnasium is now fully
under way and numbers in the neighbor-
hood of 100 members. There is already
considerable ~paraphanalia from the old
Turn Nerein society in the place and ar
engagements are being made to add to this
as fast as there is any money in the treas
ury.
AS soon as the club is fairly under way
1t is proposed to give occasional eHhihi-
tons OF boxing, fencing. wrestling and
general athletic exercises and admit the
public at a low price to see the exercises.
Ladies will be admitted to these exbib1-
lions, which will be conducted on a high
plane, such as the ladies nights" at he
exhibitions of the Olympic Club in San
francisco. BY this means the Club will
be able to raise money to secure more
perfect apparatus and have the latest i'm
provements in the line of a complete
gymnasium outfit, There will also be a
reading room attached, and in time it is
proposed to make the headquarters of the
Club n OF the most perfectly appointed
outside of San Francisco. There will he
a meeting of the members at $50 O'Clock
this evening at the gymnasium.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02

Gilt EDGE Sacramento Beer at the
Ozark saloon. IF
FOR SALE-Harness and cart. cheap l
good cook stove, 2 parlor stoves and a
crib. Apply at this office.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-02

A inc dress suit to be given away
Commencing Monday Feb. 18th, 1 will
give tickets with every purchase on
same. If the holder of the winning
ticket does not like the suit I offer him
he may have his pick of any in the store.
JOS. PLATT.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14

same piece of woods about he a mile away. As soon as the firing began they seized their muskets, fell into line, and, under command of one of their number, they marched through the woods and fell upon the enemy's flank and routed him. But for their timely arrival and the way they fought not a man of the provost guard would have escaped. They had been raiding farm houses, and some of them were rearing wo- mems bonnets and skirts as they went into the fight Three or four of the fel- lows were killed, but the body of them escorted the guards back to within a mile of our lines, and then sent dozen fat chickens 70 General Hooker as a token of their esteem.
 Perhaps the first Confederate bank raided by Union soldiers was one at Charleston, Va, as Milroy was mak ing his way up the Kanawha Valley. Cumming" was in it's infancy then, but dozen of the fellows found them selves ahead of the army and resolved to strike for big stake. They made a sudden attack on the town at daylight, and then dashed in and made for the bank They broke in the door with an ax. obliged the banker to unlock his safe, and somethi- v like half a million dollars was carried away as tter re- treated.
 A day later the. bundled up s1OO 900, strapped it on the back of an old lame noule and hired farmer to deliver the ''weaIth' to General Milroy in person. Accompanying the money was note, which advised the general to bribe the Confederates to keep ahead of him and do no fighting. AS his military maneu- vers had been eheckmated riott along and his reputation was under a cloud if was a hard shot at him. The story got to Washington, and was comment ed on by President Lincoln, and it has
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scouting toward Berryville one day be- fore the battle of Winchester when it came upon a queer state of affairs at a farm house. Two hours previously a gang of seven "bummers'' had come along and started In to loot the house. The farmer was a Confederate soldier. who was home on furlough to be nursed for a wound in the thigh. He was not able to leave his bed, but his wife hand ed him his muSket, and he shot one of the men dead and drove the rest out They did not go away, however, being determined to kill him and burn the house in revenge. He had his bed drawn to the door. and being propped up. he kept them away from the rear of the house, while his wife, who was armed with an old revolver, fired often enough to prevent any approach to the front. There was a spring house of solid build few rods from the back door, and the "bummers" entered 1t to regale themselves before closing in on the house. The door opened inward, and while they were playing havoc with the milk pans the woman ap- preached and pulled the door to and thrust a stick through the handle. The structure was too solid to be beaten down, and as there was but one win dow, the men tried to make their es- cape that way. Propped up In his bed. with his wound paining him at every movement, the Confederate fired at every head thrust out, and his bullets flew so close that all attempts were soon abandoned.
 We found him with his muSket In his grasp and Cead man on the floor and we also found the soldiers huddled together in the spring house. The Con- federate could have been carried off a prisoner of war, but he was not dis turbed.
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LOOK QUIT JUST NOW IS THE MOVING LIME
 OF ALL OUTCAST HOMELESS FLEAo


of kerosene is sufficient for pool fif- teen feet square. Dragon flies destroy great many mosquitoes. both in the iaryal and perfect state, but o::e can not go into the business ss dain1 of TalsiPg tRs conomunity of mosquitoes. Kerosene is cheaper. au +b.+ in order. to rid room or mosquitoes hiacking-box lid containing kerosene and fastened upon the end of broom stick be thrust under the mosquitoes mon the wall or ceiling. The fumes from the kerosene the moment they strike them causes them to drop into the box and die. After the room IS once rid of the pests it is only a question or cleanliness and use of screens to keep them out. o,ood
 Professor Skinner says that any gooo collection of United States mosquitoes would include at least twenty distinct species but only entomologists care are ahout this. for the average man wages war on the mosquito regardless of it's specieS or kind.
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Every housekeeper has terror or ants, cockroaches, carpet beetles, moths and any number of other terrors, to say nothing of the everyday, everywhere common housefy. Flypaper is part or the stock in trade of every grocery store in the entire country, but reme- dies for the other pests are not so liber- ally provided Professor Henry Skinner, an entomologist, has made careful study of all sorts of bugs and things that crawl or fly. He has made our household pests his particular study.
 Recently he lectured at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and during his lecture gave lot Of in formation of value to housekeepers who would be rid of household pests. A great many will agree with Professor Skinner that dogs and cats are the greatest breeders of fleas. Not content with breeding them, all members Of the canine and feline tribes are in the common carrier" business when II comes to a matter of flea distribution. Ever notice how your pet dog delights in rubbing up against your legs! lie brushes past on one side, then turns and gives you a broadside the other way. From fear that every flea IS not fully awake to the situation he retreats a few steps, gives himself shake ana then comes back at you again cats are adepts at the same trick. Ihe chances are that you will not resent this familiarity on the part of the pet untfl ii has fulfilled all it's duties as "common carrier" Then 1t Is ready to retire to it's favorite rug and take on another load of pests.
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was increased ard ordered to do con- stant scouting, but the "bumming went on just the same. Then came second order, to the effect that any SOL dier absent for two days without leave should be considered a deserter and treated accordingly. This brought hack some of the men to d,'tv. but one of the professionals, at least came into head quarters solely in starch of informa- tion He did not get to see the general in person, but he had an interview with one of the staff, and, holding up printed copy of the last order in his hand, he said:
 know what this means, and have sent me in to find out"
 Cant you read?" demanded the col onel.
 More or less, but we can't jest git on to the hang of things. Is the war com ing to an end?"
 "It doesn't look like 1t.
 That's the way we all argue, and being as Gineral Burnside can't down Lee in a square fight, why don't he let us go ahead and eat him out of house and home till he has to surrender?"
 The anxious inquirer" was sent to the guardhouse, pending return to his company, but he managed to get away in day or two, and the next thing heard of him was a scrawl, in which he said that four of them had run a Confederate calf into the woods and would divide the veal with head quarters if a regiment was sent to as- sist them to make the capture. Had Burnside hung on he might have issued a third order but even had it announc- ed instant death as the penalty of ''bumming" he could not have abol- ished 1t.
 A portion of Busters command was
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been asserted that the Presidents lev ity caused the general to tender his resignation.
 When Stonewall Jackson faLked in on Pope the .'bummers, were scattered over large extent of territory. There was not a company in any regiment which had not contributed at least enc man. They went roaming in squads of three or four, over highways where no commander dared send less than half a regiment, and many were shot or taken prisoner Enough were left, how ever, to terrify the people Of every farm house in every direction. By some circumstance about 40 of them reached a certain farm hc use at the same time, and finding only a woman and two or three children about. they killed the only pig left devoured the last few chickens, and plundered the house Of whatever took their fancy AS 1t was a rainy night they took up their quarters In the barn.
 No sooner were they settled down than the woman took her children and set out for help, and after walking seven miles she encountered Confed- crate picket post and told of the game in the trap. Before midnight the barn was surrounded and every hummer" captured, and some of them had not got back to their regiments when the war closed.
 A month before General Burnside was relieved of his command the bum mer' element was called to his atten- 'tion so forcibly that he issued more stringent orders than had ever before gone out It was announced that any soldier who should be found absent from his command without a pass would be imprisoned during the re- mainder of the war, with forfeit of all pay and allowances. The provost guard
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of the Mediterranean the chances are the period is nearly the same. Differ ent scientists have placed this at diff ferent lengths of time. The longest is twenty days and the shortest sixteen days. Most likely both are right, the difference being due entirely to the diff ference in temperature.
 To strike an average it might be well
 to place it at eighteen days.
 The first period of the flea's life is in an egg. The day ofter the egg is laid he form of the larva is already visible on the inside. The second day it emerges and starts out in life as an active, grub, eyeless and covered with long hair.
 In this condition the creature lives about eight days, changing a little In appearance. It then spins itself into a cocoon, where it remains for at least nine days. It is during this stage that the greatest and most rapid change
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takes place.
 In four days the larva begins to look like flea. The long hair gradually disappears and legs come out on both sides.
 In nine days 1t Is full f1edged flea and emerges from the cocoon ready and willing to bite anything on which it can hop.
 Some scientists assert that only the female is capable of biting, and that the male IS simply annoying by the pie will refuse to credit this and will argue stoutly that, male or female, the lively insect couldn't be any worse
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According to Professor Skinner. how ever, it is a very simple matter to rid the dogs and cats of fieas. A few ounces of pyrethrum powder will do the work Sprinkle it freely into the fur and then wrap the animal with a thick towel to exclude the air. and in half an hour every flea on that dog or cat is dead. But this only refers to the present crop, and the operation will soon have to be repeated, for you may depend upon it that every one of the living fleas on that dog or cat had made the proper arrangements for a worthy successor and possibly several of them.
 According to Professor Skinner the
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" HERE was no man in civil life
 to whom the term hummer
 was applied previous to 1861.
 The war brought out the man
 and t-e name. Sherman's "bummers" gained a reputation over those of any other army. but every command held it's free-lances, and they were more or less of a factor in the field.
 The "bumner' of the war was neith- CT a guerrilla nor a robber in point or fact. though the element had it's dregs- He was a man restive of discipline. He didn't shirk fighting, but he wanted to fight when and how he pleased. His appetite craved something better than army rations, and he also had a curi- osity to know what was going on be- tween the lines. No matter how strin- gent the orders or how watchful the provost guard, the hummer found a way to get out of camp ant- go wander ing about The advance guard of a marching army, whether cavalry or in- fantry, always found the free lances ahead of them. Now and then they acted as scouts and brought in valu- able information but as a rule they had little concern except for themselves.
 Just before Hooker set his nv in march for Chanc -llorsville a provost guard of 100 men was ordered out to round up a lot of "bummers" who were raiding the country to the east Four or five men had been ov rhauled and made prisoners, when the guard rode into a Confederate ambush in the woods and sharp fight began. Un- known to either side. crowd of bout 50 getaways" were encamped in the
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is so troublesome and hard to get rid of is that it breeds on the ground, in carpets, old rags and in sand. The only condition necessary is a moderate de- gree of warmth.
 The process through which the Cali fornia flea passes is the same as all the other species. Briefly, this is very much like the silk worm, but more like the dragon fly, with the difference that the latter's evolution takes place in water.
 The exact time of the California f1ea's embryonic period has never been ac- curately determined, but as the climate here is much like the northern shores
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~ EFORE enlisting for the war I sat
 s5s $ $: 's! $:'-s5s :!5ss 'Saf: "ss 1 And weighed with most exacting
 care the dangers 1 would face, And thought that I could meet them all with uncompiaining grace. I thought that when I'd reach the front and checked the lengthy list, Not one soul-trying hardship rom the schedule would be missed. But here in these Pacific sands, anear the sobbing sea, I find one I had overlooked-the Califor- mia flea. We never kneeI to say our "Now-I-lay me-down' at night. Without the nuisance Joining with an ag- gravating bite, And while our thoughts we try to fix upon the throne of grace They're sure to drift in sinful way to- ward the other place. We scratch and pray and pray and scratch In alternating way, And ask forgiveness for the things were tempted sore to say, And often feel like asking the good Lord above why he Created such creature as the California flea
 When out on drill or dress parade. hemmed in on every side By laughing eyed, bewitching girls. fair California's pride, We fain would please the Western buds of beauty so divine By marching with our heads erect in straight unbroken line. But ohi our ranks are broken oft, and thrown all out of whack By comrades reaching for spot located in the back, Ser he's a prince of strategy, a wise old bug is he,
 And knows where it is safe to feed-that California flea. We do not fear the climate in the dis tant Philippines, We do not fear the dangers of the sea that intervenes, We do not fear the Spaniards we expect to battle there. Nor any other danger on the whole alarmed bill of fare; But every Colorado boy who wears the Not only we high privates, but the shoulder-strappers, too, Are really afraid to face the fierce ra- Of this blood-sucking, ravenous old Cali fornia flea.
 -COLORADO VOLUNTEER, Camp Mer
 ritt.
 N s the mosquito is to New Jerse, "A so is the flea to California, only A problem in simple equations I \ but don't waste your time 1T
 figuring out the answer. Ther'
 is no money in it, but there is { fortune for the fellow who can ric either burg of its native pest. Any number have tried their hand at 1t anc
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The pig flea often grows to almost the size of a grain of wheat. Cat fieas are so small their legs can scarcely be seen with the human eye. They appear simply as a very tiny black speck
 In some parts of Africa scientists have found fleas so small that they could not be seen at all without glass. They were but little larger than vege- table bacteria. In this respect they take rank as the smallest of animal organism capable of freedom of loco motion.
 The most terrible flea of all is found in Africa. It is not very large in size, but 1t has a habit of depositing it's eggs beneath the skin of human beings where they hatch, and in a few days become a troublesome ulcer that can only be cured by an application of pow dered calomel.
 The reason that the flea of California