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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03
Notice for Publication.

LAND OFFICE AT PUEBLO. COLO,
AUGUST ~. Lsn..
NOTICE IL HEREBY GIVEN THAT HtiB-
~ bard Savage, of Lit Juntu. Otero county,
Colo, has MED noicc Of intention 10 make
proof IN his doscrtlaud claim No. l21, for The
Il 2 NE see. ~. Il. - :, X ~ W Of 9th p. NJ he
foe the clerk Of the District Court Mt Ii.
Junt;i. colo. on the 18th tsu, OF October 1885
He names tho following witnesses to prove
the complete irrigation and reclamation of
said land: John X. liell Isaiah Murray,
Samuel X Morrow. Eugrn. e. Rcll. all of La
Junta. Colo. IND. X. GORDON.
Register.
First publication. August "a. 1893
Last publication. September 2s, 1893.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03
Notice for pubIie.tion.

LAND OFFICE AT PUEBLO. COLO,
AUGUST 70. lsgs.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TIL AT JAMES
~ McNcch has flied notice Of Intention To
mnk kc fiilnl proof before the Clerk u the Dis
abe 18th day Of October. ls!,s. on timber cui-
ture application No. 1859, for the S. w. quarter
of Section M. ~. in Township No. % South,
Rnhpe VI. 81 West Of 18th. y NJ.
He names ns witnesses; William \. Randall,
OF Rocky Ford. Colo. Edmond N. DirtZe,
Charles X. Paul, Adelberf Marian. all of La
Junfu. Colo. JSO. X. GORDON.
Register.
First publication, August ~, 1898.
Last publication. September 9s 1898
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03
Advertised Letter List.

A LIST OF THE LETTERS REMAINING
"A nrcalled for in the In .lunta postoice
for the week ending August aand.
Eaton. Mrs Emma Stiffier. j. +.
Far cy. Robert Scirer, Sam
Howard, Miss Helena Stanley. Mr..
Hummer. julius Sax. Edward
Kranse, Philip Thompson, Anna NJ.
Mcdonald. Il Winn. W q.
Watson. Il. +. Walker Leon A.
Persons calling for letters in the above list
will please say advertised and give date.
i'HAs. ID. PNnKS, Postmaster.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03
4herlMs Sale.

pY vIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF sALE, Is
p ued out OF the of1Ce OF The Cle4k Of the
County Court, OF Otero County. geaeo OF Col
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03

Many people burn
the candle of life at
both ends. Som c
men who never go
into vicious dissipa-
ton use up their en-
erYies just as much
by overwork or late
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03
SANTA FE
ROUTE
THE BEST LINE.

last
Double daily train service to chIcnxo.
Kansas city and all Kansas points |
NEST !
Two days TO california oneaietit out
to Phoenix @ .ick time 10 Portland
SOUTH
Two days TO Galveston. One night out {
to FL Paso. s.ighty-siN hours To
the City OF Mexico.
Through Pullman pnIaee sicepers and
free chair ears in each direction ,
Daily tourist car, 10 California. All {
trains are up 10 date and fast Dim
Ing cars aud eating hoi.es managed {
by Mr.. Fred Harvey {
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W g, nLAcK- g. r. a. Topeka. Kan.
]. p HALL, 1en'l Agt, beaver. Colo.
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La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
ATTORNEYS.

w Il. GIBSON.
Attorney and Counsellor ut Law. Ranch or
city loans and real estate. VIII practice in
block, LA Junti, Colo.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03

entire customs receipts to but four rail
roads alone, and the fact that many
other railroad charters have been issued
with accompanying generous subsidies
In addition to the government gifts law
ishly bestowed for various other ppr-
poses leaves 1t not = matter of surprise
that in addition to Issuing bonds to the
amount Of nearly $50, 900. 600 for the
payment Of railroad subsidies, as was
done in 1890. Mexico has been compel
led to adopt and maintain system OF
taxation probably the most excessive Of
any nation in existence when compared
with valuations involved and the amount
Of business transacted. Relative to the
bonds above mentioned, it should also
be said that they were sold at dis
count Of TX per cent, bearing 8 per
cent interest. and were guaranteed by
- par cent Of the customs receipts In
addition to the subsidies granted the
corporate and individual interests 20 IA
vored have their federal taxes remitted
for the taEm cf years covered BY their
conceasions.
There II no other country on the globe
IN which corporations are 30 favored
and mouopolies 70 dominant ~ in Mex
loo. In view Of these facts the pretense
that the free coinage of silver il sys-
tam necessarily favorable to the inter
ests Of the common people a against cor
pugatSonS and monopoly u surely an IN
du1gsncs n sxtxavagAnt and cruel irony.
PxRxY p. PowEnA
City q Nsxico.
La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-03
Provisions bought In Quantities to Be Sold
st . Cent = Package - Nearly All Pur-
ehases Computed and Completed In Cen.
tsvos Worth Less Than Half . Cent.

This series OF letters is the result OF por.
sonal visit 10 Mexico made by the writer
early in ISIS special representative Of the
Michigan Republican Newspaper Association
to investigate the monetary system of that
countty.l N
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DELHI CARRIED BY 5000 ENGLIsHMEN.

been engaged before, not one had made her heart beat as it did whenever Gerald got within six feet of her. At last, when she could control herself, she looked up into her mothers eyes and asked:
 Why do you bid me break with him? Ain't his folks rich enough to suit you?"
 Ut ain't that" her mother answered, but it is evident that she was conceal ing something.
 ''Teli me! Tell mel" the girl cried q must know the truth! Don't hold me in suspension. h will kill me-"
 My poor child" Mrs. Hunniker said, prepare for the worst. A social gulf yawns between the Hunnileers and the Hippersons. They have never went to Europe yet, while we have spent two seasons on the continent. I am sur prised that you could forget this, my dear"
 Gladys Hunniker was dumb. She knew that what her mother said was only too true. Her twelfth dream of bliss was blasted-Cleveland Leader.
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was and Gomanches with only 34 days rations, without a tent or any wheel transportation or a pound of forage for the animals, The men were nearly starved to death, and many came near perishing with the cold. Three huns dfed horses were taken away, but only. three were brought back the remainder having starved or frozen to death. That Christmas Sergt. Johnson sat down to a dinner of hafdtack and coyote, and was glad to getit. The sefgeantis is now almostsao years of age, and his, hair and mustache are almost white,
 Sergt. Robert Kprney, of H troop, is another old-time scout with history as honorable as it is long. His first ex- perienees with hostile Indians was at Fort Sill in May, '71. It was on that tour of inspection made by Gen. Sher- man between Forts Griffin and Richard- son, in Texas, wien government pro-
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, Last year "0ld Dan Johnson," as they called him on the frontier, after 30 years service in the Tenth cav airy, was honorabIy discharged. His rank is that.of sergeant, but in the case of Johnson the word "old" makes an
 equally honorable and expressive title.
 With all honest men it stands for a good deal in the way of worthy achieve ment. It may be the worst or the best breyet on the roll, but in the case of Johnson it is worth having. He had saved $2,000 out Of his wages, and was entitled to pay, without service, ample to keep him as long as he lived. In spite
 of that, when war was declared he came back to his regiment and re- enlisted He is now member of K troop and will shortly ride away to the front. He has been trooper in the Tenth cavalry since it was organized, and was on that disastrous expedition that left Fort Lyen Col, on the 11th of November, 1S6s-an expedition under taken without any apparent knowledge of needs or difficulties. Troops B. r, G and K entered upon long campaign against the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kio-
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vision train was attacked, a number of ;eamsters killed, bound to their wagon wheels and burned alive. That was the event that led to the engagement be- tween the warriors of Satanta and Sa- sahk and several troops of the Tenth cavalry under Gen. Grierson, when Sergt. Kurney distinguished himself for his bravery. The sergeant is Virginia negro born 51 years ago.
 Sergt. George Berry, swarthy giant who is the best-looking man in the ranks, began service in the Tenth cav airy in '67. The next year the Indians on the headwaters of the Canadian river captured a train of emigrants, killed the men and took the women and children into captivity. Sergt. Berry, with troop K, in command of Lieut.. Smither, followed them until the spring of '69. The winter of '68-o was unusual ly severe, and good many of the horses on that expedition perished from cold and insufficient food. The 102 men in the troop then started on foot over the plains. They overlook the Indians one morning at four o'clock and by day light had their camp surrounded. They captured two of the white women, who were in the dress of sqnaws. and four of the emigrant children. Sergt. Berry distinguished himself at Camp Supply, on the Canadian river, when the grooms were attacked in the stables while
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Within the city were 30, 900 native sol- diers, all of them we'll armed and many of them well trained. Yet 5000 Eng lishmen carried the city by storm. It was a bitterly contested victory, how ever. Even after the outer defenses were won there were six days of fierce fighting in the streets.
 It. will be. seen that mere numbers have not always determined victories. It's the fighting temper of the soldiers that decides who shall keep the field, and it may be that our present war with Spain is not such an unequal strug- gle after all. The odds Spain must face are Insignificant in comparison with those that confronted Japan in her re, cent war with China.
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rauders against odds, the most inn portant, perhaps, were achieved by the Spaniard Cortes, in Mexico. and by his countryman Pizarro in Peru.
 Cortes landed in Mexico in 151o with $50 soldiers, ten pieces of artillery and about dozen horses. With this little army he marched upon the capital of the Aztecs-a well-built city of proba- ply half million inhabitants, and gar risoned by force of 10000 soldiers.
 Gortes was permitted to enter the city and take up his quarters there. However, the Indians soon evinced their hostile feeling, and finally party of Spaniards were mobbed in the street. Cortes thereupon seized Montezuma, their king. The Indians retaliated by driving the whites from the city. Six days after their expulsion a great bat tie took place between the Spanards and an overwhelming force of natives. The latter were defeated. year later Cortes again appeared before the city with his little band, and after siege of TT days literally reduced it to heap of ruins. Pizarro's conquest of Peru was hardly less remarkable. This daring adyenturer marched into the country of the Incas with 177 men. When they neared the capital of the Indian kingdom, the members of the advance guard discovered that the In
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GREAT VICTORIES AGAINST BIG ODDS
Large Majority of the Most Decisive Battles Recorded in Ancient or Modern History Have Been Won in the Face Overwhn-
 ing Numbers Gnpowder Made No Change.

cooe of the most decisive battles re-
 ..ged in history have been won in the ssaa sO, = of overwhelming odds. It was ten ainst one at Marathon, where Greek asns and Greek valor expelled the Per aian bordes from Europe and pre- saryed the dawning liberties of the .rest from extinction at the hand of oriental despotism.
 Plato gives the strength of the Per .ians as half a million, but modern his +orians have placed the number at TO- mn Against this force the Greeks conld bring only 5000 men. At the Iost moment, however, their little army was increased to 10000 men by an act which forms one of the most heroic and dramatic incidents in history.
 They had assembled on the heights aboye Marathon, where they were joined by the entire fighting poulation of the little town of Plataea. in Boetia, which came to repay at that dark hour inc service formerly rendered them by the Greeks in their struggle against Thebes.
 On the day of battle the Greek pba- lanx charged four deep upon the Per sians at top speed. Had they made their charge at the usual deliberate pace, singing their hymns 10 Apollo as they advanced, they must inevita- bly, have been cut to pieces by the ar
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cleaning their horses. The negroes drove back the Indians in furious mounted charge.
 Private John Wiggins. of the band, the best cook in the Tenth regiment, is one of it's noted characters. He is the Uncle Tom of the service. He got his introduction to real warfare on the Sa- line river, in Kansas. in '6s. Six troops of the Tenth cavalry were marching across the plains, and, on arriving at Saline, caught the Indians in the act of burning and plundering the town. They had already murdered i5 men and women. The Indians took fight and were followed all that afternoon and night, the fight occurring at ten o'clock next morning, when the troopers came up to the Indian camp. Wiggins was in it from start to finish and fought with splendid courage. The next month on the Big Sandy. in Colorado. the Iu- dians stampeded nearly all the horses of Troop l. They came dashing into the camp little after sunset. knocking over Wiggins' pots and kettles, spelling good supper and outraging the feei- ings of the faithful cook. The horses
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by the yictors exceeded all bounds, and at last, driven to desperation the citi- zens rose in revolt, and, with scarce any other weapons than stones and clubs, in 24 hours of furious retribution killed in the streets like so many rats, 5000 trained and fully armed Austrians. Nothing quite like this is recorded else where in history,
 Americans have always regarded the battle of Bunker Hill as a victory. and there is good deal of fairness in this point of view. A force of 5000 English regulars, well covered by the fire of the men=of-war in Boston harbQr, were pitted against half their number of farmers and townsmen armed with fowIing1 pieces and seantily supplied with ammunition. Yet these provin ciats repulsed the fierce assaults, and onIyIaband6ned theirshasfily eonstruct- 9d rthwofl1s when .theff powder was Sxhdasfsd. The E9glisR slain and wounded was in excess of 900, while the Americans lost less than 500.
 With the perfection in drill and dis cipline, and the ease these give in
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handling great armies, disparity in numbers is more of handicap than fotmerlk GYetspme of Nqpoleon's most imp portan victories were won}against great odds. At the battle of Austerlitz the French numbered 65,000, while op- posed to them were 9o,o00 Russians and Austriansa So complete was the defeat of the allies, however, that it was only WitH the utmost difficulty that the em- berors of Russia and Austria effected their escape. Twenty thousand prison CTS were taken, and like number of dead and wounded were left upon the field of battle. The loss attending the flight of the army was even more hor- rible thanethe slaughter attending the actual conflict. /In attempting to es- cape across some frozen ponds, the ice gave Way beneath their weight, and numbers of the,Russians were drowned Gen. Longeron, who saw the battle, says: q had previously seen some lost battles, but I had no conception of such a defeat"
 At Essling 35,OoO French held their ground against 100000 Austrians, re puIsing assault after assault.
 The battle of New Orleans was won in the face of odds. Twelve thousand English veterans, fresh from their vic tories over the French, were routed with loss of 2,000 of their number by 5000 Americans under Gen. Jackson. It was the sure aim of the men behind the guns. southern and western from tiersmen, who sent their death-dealing
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Bullets through the ranks of their en. emY. that.deeieled the day. ..


 bullets through the ranks of their en. emy. that.decfeed the day. =, We may count the defense of. the Alamo q partial victory al least, as Traves. Crockett. Bowie and l70 Texans held for two weeks against an army ot 4,o0o MeNicans. Refusing to surrender, they calmly let pass every opportunity to escape. while they held the invading army in check that their comrades with out the walls might have time to rally in defense of their homes.
 When their ammunition was almost spent the MeXieans, who had been re- inforeed by 2,o0o fresh troops, made the last assault upon the battered walls This was at dawn, Sunday, March 6. 1859. The struggle was concluded in three hours, but only when the last Texan had given up. his life. The Thermopylae had its messenger of de feat, this Alamo had none."
 This victory cost the Mexicans 520 men on the last day, while during the preceding two weeks their number in killed was 2,00o. tl
 The so-called siege of Delhi, in the dark days of the Indian mutiny, re- suited in a remarkable victory. Delhi, a well fortified city, was taken by as- sault by force greatly inferior in point of numbers to the defenders. .-
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in its streets, and Panama was theirs, to sack and pillags and finally to burn.
 One of the most astonishing successes won against odds was the civil tumult which, in the eighteenth century, freed Genoa from the Austrian army during the war of the Austrian succession.
 Genoa had taken sides with France and Spain, and in one of the campaigns the troops of her allies were driven from Italy and the city carried by the invaders. Her army was forced to sur render, while her munitions of war and stores were seized.
 The monstrous wrongs perpetrated
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man who swung the sword, rather!than the sword itself, was the dangerous factor in battle. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Which witnessed the first general use ot explosives, were both remarkable TOT displays of yalor furnished by the soldiers of that time. These deeds are written in many bloody page in the histories of the period.
 The discovery of the new world had produced race of hardy adventurers on sea and land. Some were English, some Spanish, some French--all were brave.
 of the conquests won by these ma
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 Arisfocratic Woes.

No, we cannot afford to. associate with those people" said Mrs. Hunniker, "and you must tell the young man that he is not to come here any more"
 Gladys Hunniker hung her head in sadness, for she loved Gerald Hipper- son. Of all the Il men to whom she had
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rows of the Persian arehers, but com Ling at a run they completely aston ished the enemy, who, as the Greeks fell upon their center. gave ground, and finally fled 10 their ships. Rapid. as this flight was, the Greeks killed, over 6,000 of their number.
 4 victory as remarkable was the de- fense of Rome conducted by Belisarius, when Vitiges, at the head of 15o,ooQ Goths, laid siege to the city. tees
 Incredible as it may seem, with but 5000 soldiers, Belisarius for one year stayed the rush of the horde, success- fully defending 12 miles of city walls and fortiicatfo fons.
 With such deadly vigor was the de fense maintained that in a single lat tack Yitiges lost 30,000 of his men. Af- ter q year and nine days of what may be called continuous battle, nearly the whole of the besieging force had melt ed away beneath the walls of Rome, and the survivors were compelled to retreat They were promptly followed by Belisarius, and Vitiges, with the shattered remnant of his splendid ar, my, sought shelter at Reyenaea. Beli- sarius at once commenced the siege of the city, and forced the Goths to sur render
 The introduction of gunpowder has not made the change in warfare we are accustomed to think. The man behind the gun is of greater importance shan the gun, just as in the middle ages thei
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became unmanageable, tearing up the picket pins and oyerturning the camp with flying ropes. Seven soldiers werf wounded, but 27 of the red men turn ibled out of their saddles under the troopers fire. After It. was all ,ovef iWiggins collected his pots and ketfIes and went ahead with his supper. HE was in the fight with the Cbeyenne and Sioux on Beaver creek. which wa unusually severe. He was, also at Cant Supply in June, 1870, when. the Indian attacked, the garrison. He. was. in tn action at Saragosa, Mexico, in July, ~ the first engagement fought by tf Tenth cavalry on Mexican soil. Wiz gins was also with his regiment Rattlesnake Springs, where the brave of Victoria were met and scattered. is now in the hospital suffering fro rheumatism, but is cheerful under a circumstances. He is good c6mpag and an excellent story teller.
 Sergt. Henry Robinson is another o1 timer of the Tenth. He is now 53 yea of age, and began service with II troN in '67. He got hisinitiation in the bat with the Cheyennes at Great Bend, Al He was in the front in the action Wichita agency that hot day in Augu T4, when the Indians set the prairg afre, and where the troopers lost fsi eyebrows in the heat of the earth the heavens. He was also on the u of Geronimo in the campaign of He is welded to the Tenth. and rather die than go out of the service
 Sergt. Maj. E. |. Baker is one of pillars of the command. He was u in Wyoming in 1865 and enlisted af He was assigned to troop 5. NJ United States cavalry, whern he set as private and trumpeter until Z ST. He was transferred fo .drC~s Tenth cavalry, in 'ss, and retaine5 duty at the headquarters of the
 ment in Santa Fe, \. NJ He is trumpeter, and became chief trump of his regiment in February, 1890. has taken part in numerous scou expeditions, and was with his during the winter campaign of 's4 Oklahoma, where numerous bordet
 turbances gave 1t ample occnpa The sergeant major is man of
 education, having written boo
 the achievements of the Tenth
 character is such as to command
 respect of all who know him.
 The Tenth has had glorious bis over so engagements-an and thes
 some of the men who have mad
 Every one of them has been atthe
 of the stage at one time or anT
 They are all near to the limit
 age, but they look forward to the in Cuba with all the enthusias
 younger men. The way the negi
 served his country in the blue eoa
 gests an occupation for him In wh
 has had too little encouragement.
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sweep of primeFal forest, they saw the

sweep of primeYal forest, they saw the towers and steeples of Panama.
 The spaniards, warned of their com ing, drove out herd of 1000 wild bulls, hoping thus to break the ranks of the pirates. These the buccaneers shot gladly, for it gave them meat, which they had not tasted of in many days. Close upon the trampling of the bulls came the Spanish soldiers, 400 horse and nearly 5000 foot. The fight lasted two hours, and then the Spaniards abandoned the field, leaving 600 of their number in dead or dying
 The pirates marched into the city. There were three more hours of fighting
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serum Factories in Russia

In Russia Il laboratories are cn. in the manufacture of diphtheria s' in which the entire people place confidence, and not without reas in 44,63f registered eases in whis serum was used the death rate " 14 per cent. against 31 per cent. (. .507 cases in which it was notemr IN. r. Sun.