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The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Tom Peyton will take the civil ser vice examination for mounted Inspector of Customs. If successful he will make an ideal line rider, as he is peculiarly well fitted for the position.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Geronimo, the most noted Indian in America, chief of the Apaches, is ninety years old. He is as straight as an arrow and his eye is piercing and keen. When at the post at Fort Sill he plays monte, but when he can get permis- sion to leave the reservation his time IS spent in hunting, of which he is very fond.-[Ex.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Mrs. s. |. Summers writes that the ~satAe. ia Oakland is quite waIln, though it does not prevent her having a good time. She will return in time to take her position as assistant princi- pal of our school.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Thirty Arizona paekcrs, among whom were Mike Welsh and Chas. Wilkes .of Tombstone, were recently transferred to tf.e battleship Iowa, to handle ammunI Ition for the gunners. The boys were pleased with the pros- pect of gettirAg into action under Fight pC Bob,
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

MARHIED-In Florence, June 30, 1898, by Probate Judge L. c. Herr, Mir. c. o. Eaton and Bliss Edith Le Baron. The newly-wedded pair kave the best wishes of their many friends.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

THE FOURTH OF JULY,
PROGRAMME,

5 a. m.-Morning salute, l4 guns. 5 80 Q. m.--Music by the band. g a. Inland playing at the
 school house grounds. 10 6. m.-Wheel-r race. Il a. m.-Singing in the school
 house grove. 12 m.--Refreshments. 80 p. n.-Reading of Declaration
 Of Independence. ? p. m.--Song by glee clu'I,
 "America." 2;30 p. na.--Address by H. D. CAssi
 day, Esq. ?. m.-Singing and band p laying 2,Sg r. m.-Address hv W. R.. Stone.
 Esq. 4 p. m.-singing -band, playing. I 20 p. m.-Foot race. 'f;S0 p. m.-Fire works. s;3O p. m.-Dance at Heating Han.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Sidney Bartleson went out to his cat tie ranch this week and returned Thursday evening.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Miss Anna Nj. R. Reid will go to Cali fornia next Friday to spend few weeks prior to the opening of the Flor ence public school, where she has been engaged as a teacher.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Tom Peyton went to Owl Heads Thursday after his mother and sisters, who will be here to attend the 4th of July celebration.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Walter Bailey left Monday for No gales, where he has secured a good position in a store. Walter is good steady boy and has many friends in Florence.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

The American flag raised over the block house at Baiquiri was the prop erty of Roosevelt's Rough Riders and was presented to them by the ladies of Phoenix.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

The school trustees have purchased a handsome new flag for tho school house and it will be raised bright and early 4th of July morning.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Miss Mary Sweeney spent week at homo after the close of the Normal School term, and left last Monday for Yuma to visit relatives.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02
After a brief delay, on account of

non-arrival of lumber, work has again been resumed on the store building of County Treasurer Brady, opposite the TRIBUNE office.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incursh'e, For great many years doctors pro- nonnced 1t a local disease, and pre- aeribed local rernediea, and by con- stantly failing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced t ineurable. Science has proven eatarrh to be 8 constitution- al disease, and therefore requires con stitutional treatment. Halls Cgtarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney X Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitll- tional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys- tenn. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure Send for circulars and testimonials. Address.
 F.J. CHENEY & CO.,, Toledo Ohio.
 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Good rains are reported up the river, and thsre is every prospect of having water in the canal the entire season.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Mrs. J. E. Arthur spent several days in Florence -tifis week as the guest of Mrs. Nj. ". Harter.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Theice wagon got stuck in the river Tuesday, and there was an ice famine for short time in consequence.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Jake Thomas and Frank Seeley came 5 down from Mineral Creek yesterday on their way to Los Angeles.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

A rain and dust storm Thursday evening tended to cool the atmosphere If it did no other gesd.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

.DIED-In Florence, June Is, the infant daughter of Nr, and Mrs. Samuel Bostiek, Jr.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

The Board of Supervisors met yester- day as board of equalization, and will hold sessions from day to day.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02
THE RouaH RIDERS.
The Battle of la Quaslna and Their Bap-
 tlsm of Blood.

The Initial fight of Col. Woods rough riders and the troopers of the First and Tenth regular cavalry will be known in history as the battle ot La Quasina. That it did not end in the complete slaughter of the Americans was not due to any miscalculation in the plan of the Spanish, for as perfect an ambuscade as was ever formed ID the brain of an Apache Indian was prepared. Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt and his men walked squarely into it. For an hour and half they held their ground under a perfect storm oi bullets from the front and sides, and then. Col. Wood at the right and Col. Ro osevelt at the left led charge which turned the tide of battle and | sent the enemy flying over the hills toward Santiago.
 It is now definitely known that six teen men on the American side were killed while sixty were wounded or are reported to be missing.
 When the firing began. Lieut. Col. Roosevelt took the right wing with troops c and K, under Capts. Lleweilyn and Jenkins, and went to the suppors oi Capt, Caprou, who was getting # hard. At the same time Col. Wood and Major Brodie took the left wing and advanced in open order on the Spanish right wing, Major Brodie was wounded before the troops had advanced 100 yards. Col. Wood then took the right wing and shifted Col. Roosevelt to the left.
 In the meantime the fire of the Span iards had increased in volume, but, notwithstanding, an order for general charge was given and, with yell, the men sprang forward. Col. Roosevelt in front of his men, snatched rife and ammunition belt from Q wounded sol dier and, cheering and yelling with his men, led the advance. For a moment the bullets were singing like swarm of bees all around them, and every in- stant some poor fellow went down. On the right wing Capt. McClintock had his leg broken by bullet from a machine gun, while four of his men went down. At the same time Capt, Luna of Troop F lost nine of his men. Then the reserves, troops k and E, were ordered up. Col. Wood, with the right wing, charged straight at block house, 600 yards away and Col. Roose. welt, on the left, charged at the same time. Up the men went, yelling like fiends, and never stopping to return the fire of the Spaniards, but kept on with a grim determination to capture that block hoase.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Frank Shields has 'srought tlfe Rer- i3zins residence lin tue south end of town.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

John Parker, mail contractor, will move to Casa Grande ResIt week with shis family.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

sc. F. Shilling is expected down from Mineral Creek to enjoy the festivities sef the 4th of July.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

The Good Templars are making pre- parations for an out door ice cream so- cisl to he held in the near future.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Supervisor Geo. F. Cook came in Thursaay' from Dudleyvi1fe.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Mir. and Mrs. Ed. Bates were down from Dudleyville this week.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Is. K. Drais, proprietor Of the Flor 'ence Hotel, left yesterday on business "trip to Phoenix.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Mrs. Mamie .1'aul is visiting her granda1otaer, Mrs. Nicholas White.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

". P. Duaham is expected back from Los Angeles about the Sth of July.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Durham were in from Hunton yesterday.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Recorder chamberlin returned Tues day from the Catalinas.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Miss Natalie Michea has a new bi- cycle, which is beauty.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02
THE SPANISH LOSSES.


 It Ia impossible to calculate the Spanish insscs. but f is known they wera far heavier than these Of the Amesicans, at least as regards actual l0ss oS lie. Already thirty-seven dead Spanish soldiers have been foaud and buried, while many others are undoubt- edly lying in the thick uuderbrush on the side of the gully and on the slopes of the hill where the main body of the enemy was located. The following is 8 complete list of the killed, wounded and missing on the American side, revised to 1 p. n. Saturday:
 KILLED, FIRST U. 8. VOL. CAVALRY.
 Captain Allyn K Capron; Sergeant Marcus D. Russell, troop c. Sergeant Russell lived in Troy, N. Y, and was formerly colonel on Gov. Hills staff. Sergeant Hamilton Fish, Jr., troop L !; Sergeant Doherty, troop, L; Prfvates Leggett. troop A; Harry Heffner, troop G; Milden W. Wansen, troop L; W. T. Irwin, troop F.
 WOUNDED, FIRST U. s. VOL. CAVALRY.
 Privates:-Frsnk Booth, Troop F. D. c. Denniss, s. F. Isler, Troop c: John R. Keene, Troop L; L. M. New combe, Troop D; Nathaniel NJ. Poe, Troop L; E. J. Albertson, Troop F: I. F. Meagher, Troop L; George Roland Troop; G; T. Wigging, Troop B: Robert z. Bailey, Troop B; R. W. Reid, Troop G.
 Corporals:-J. M. Dean, Troop E; J. B. Rhodes, Troop D.
 Sergeant Thomas Ryan, Troop K. Captain James H. McClintock. 1 Lieutenant J. R. Thomas. | MISSING IN FIRST U. 8. VOL. CAVALRY. Privates :--Merriam Camp, Troop G N. Il. Cochrone, Fred Chilcot, ]. s Miller. W. s. Sharp, J. F. steadman Joseph Dole, Troop E.
 Sergeant D. w. Bell. Trumpcter r P ncDonald.
 Captain McCormiclg and Captain Iza na of the First volunteer cavalry, wht were reported yesterday as among tn, dead or wounded, were unharmed, a vas also Col. Wood. whom Adjatan Hall reported as mortaliy wounded.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

J. W. Barber, the photographer, came in Wednesday.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

Sheriff Truman was in Phoenix this week.
The Florence tribune., 1898-07-02

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few
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Straw or hay is packed smoothly inside as
a padding. The other saddle Is known as
the Moore pack saddle. and is built on a
tree; it is heavy affair, but very effec-
tive. The relative merits of each are
earnestly discussed the old timers swear
ing, with many points to their advantage
on the aparejo. while the newer element
thinks there is nothing like the modern
pack.
. War has brought together again all tho
men who lived the wild life of scouts, of
drivers, of packers and of cowboys in the
early western days when every mans
life depended on his prowess, his courage
and the quickness of his finger on the trig-
ger.
They tell all the old stories but they
must have the wavering light of the camp
fire to be able to tell them. Going TO war
is the first ecstatic pleasure they have had
since the Injuns have behaved themselves
and the "wire-fence cutting" war was
over. The fire casts its glare over the
long rows of silent. tethered mules, and
again 1t lights up the fantastic and gro
tesque patterns painfully embroidered on
the blankets by hornyhanded men. They
refill their pipes and sigh contentedly. for
are they not all together again in their
heaven Of muledom? ID.
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breakng-in Of this immense contingent of
raw mules. The newly assigned wagon
master walks through the corral and picks
out animal after animal, each six-mule
team being selected. as nearly as may be-
to match in weight and general appear
arce. and he is at once put into the wagon
to work. Psychologist mule studies don't
go in the present crisis; therefore a sin
gle team may be made up of the modest
the gentle. the malicious and the devilish
at the outset, the whole to be leavened in
time into compact and harmonious unit
by hard work, the black snake and the
drivers lurid language. which ought to
raise the hair of any tenderfoot mule.
Twenty-Five big wagons go with each
regiment, when the full quota is allowed,
though in Cuban campaigning the army
will consider itself fortunate If 1t has
half as many, or one wagon to a company.
Each brigade has its wagon train, under
a boss wagonmaster. and this is divided
into regimental trains under assistant
wagonmasters. The brigade is the wagon
train unit and may consist of seventy-five
wagons and nearly 800 mules, including
the reserves and the saddle animals for
the wagonmaster, his assistants and the
cooks. Each wagon train has attached to
it three mechanics blacksmith, farrier
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They are everywhere about me on this
plateau. Some are almost snow white,
Sc me are seal brown and a few black and
spotted Their wool is very long and beau
tiful rugs are made of it. The Indians are
very fond of their llamas They pet them
and talk to them. They sometimes dye
their wool and often tie bright-colored rib
bons through holes in their ears. They al
ways walk beside them when on a journey,
stopping from time to time to let the ami
mails Craze upon the way. The wool of
most of the ponchos which form the over
coats and shawls of the people of this
plateau is from llamas. 1t is spun by the
women, who. whether tending the 1ocks
or walking along the road. always have a
spinning spool in their hands They weave
the wool themselves, and out of it make all
of the clothes Of the family. The Hama not
only clothes and through the money re-
ceived from him as freight carrier feeds
these people, but he warns them as wen.
There is no wood on this high, desolate
plateau. Wood all over the western Part
OF Peru Is very costly. In the markets Of
Arequipa each customer carries home q
bundle Of twigs or rather roots and bushes
with his vegetables and meats, and this
forms the fuel for cooking the days meal
No one thinks Of using fuel for anything
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LAKE TITICACA.

the heavens. They sail at times in and
out of the clouds. and they are nearest the
sky of any craft on earth. Think of lift
ing an iron ship of 600 tons over pass
higher than the top of Pixies Peak! This
is what was done with the steamer Choya,
upon which l am now writing. The ship
was made in Scotland and brought to Mol
1endo in pieces. Here it was loaded upon
the cars and carried over the Andes to
Puno. 1t was there put together, and it
now sails as we'll and furnishes its passen-
gers with as comfortable accommodations
as any steamer of its size on American wa
tiers. 1t is as beautiful as a gentleman's
yacht and 1t can make twelve knots an
hour without trouble. 1t is propelled by a
screw, and its fuel is Australian coal, which
is brought over more than 1000 miles of
water and lifted on the railroad over the
Andes to Puno at the edge of the lake
BY the time it reaches the ship the coal
costs about s25 in gold per ton, but the
traffic on the lake is SO great that the
steamers. / am told, pay for themselves
many times over. A large part of the
freight of Bolivia goes to the markets of
the world via Chiilaya and Puno over
Lake Titicaca and the railroad to the sea-
port of Mollendo. Cargo is brought for
hundreds of miles to this point upon mules,
and on steamer days it is not uncommon to
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earad professions with quiet, digniieo gait.
At first each pack train was turned out
bare-backed and driven over the surround
ing country for miles, or through the tor
tuous streets Of the now soldier town, with
cowboys all around the animals to keep
them in a semblance of decent behavior.
Some funny things happend during this pre-
liminary training, such as mules suddenly
and without ceremony boiling into the front
doors of stores, while the customers hur-
riedly went out the back way. One drove
went over poor Cuban's peanut and fruit
stand, and when corraled, placidly ate up
his entire stock before they got on the
move again. bat then these are only Incl
dents in their daily training.
Packing the Mules.
When the string is oncs in condition to
move with fair decorum and follow the lead
of the bell. the next exciting episode comes
with placing the pack saddles or aparejos
on their backs. Every packer carries a
broad leathern blind. which he invariably
puts over the eyes Of the mule before at
tempting to place a saddle on his back 1t
Is remarkable with what celsrity and &C.
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feet deep. Lake Superior has l believe an
average depth of something like 800 feet
Some parts of the bottom of Lake Titicaca
have never been reached, and the captain
told me that IL he should land upon certain
parts of Titicaca Island he would have to
cast his anchor high upon the rocky shores
as the waters which wash them are so deep
that the graphing hooks could not reach
the bottom. Think of body of water like
this at an altitude of more than two miles
above the sea- Let II be more than 800
miles from the ocean in a basin which next
to Thibet is the Hottest inhabited plateau
of the world Remember that Won must
cross mighty desert and climb on the
railroad over pass which is nearly three
have q slight idea of the wonders of Lake
Titicaca- You must add, however that
while ii is fed by the SHOWS and glaciers of
either ocean, Nine rivers flow into it, but
only one carries off any part of its waters
This is the Desaguadero. which connects 1t
with its little sister lake, known as Lake
Poopo, which lies about $50 miles further
south in this same Bolivian plateau. The
Desaguadero has in this distance a fall of
500 feet Ii Is rushing turbulent stream
large enough to be navigated by steamers
for part of its length. 1t carries off a
large volume of water, but Lake Poopo has
no outlet to the sea, and Notwithstanding
this drain Lake TitidGca remains at the
same level whether tie season be wet or
dry, year in and year out.
The steamboats, which sail upon Lake
Titfcaca might be called the steamers OF
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tains. If the United States could be as
carefully titled as the parts of Peru
through which 1 have Travelled, where
every available bit of land is used, it
would, believe, furnish enough food for
all of the people of the world and leave
eEough grain left to glut the Chicago
markets during corner on wheat. Patches
OF soil as big as a bed quilt are surround
ed with stones and carefully titled. Bits
OF land between the rocks are green with
scanty crops of potatoes, barley and
qulna. which are about the only things
that Will grow at this altitude, and YOU
see people working on the sides of hills
where they almost have to hold on with
one hand while they use the rude little
hoes of this part of the world with the
other. This grubbing for a bare existence
goes on over the greater part of the pla-
teau in which Lake Titicaca lies It is the
plateau which formed the chief center of
the Inca civilization which prevailed here
when the Spaniards came. Lake Titicaca
was the center Of civilization generations
older than that of the Incas, and upon its
SHORES still stand ruins so old that the
meas could not tell the Spaniards anything
about them. and only said that the mighty
monuments were made by a race of giants
VINO lived about this lake before the sun
appeared In the heavens. These ruins are
those which lie near the little town of Tia
nuahaco They cover an area of about
three miles and consist Of the remains of
massive walls, terraced mounds and the
ruins of a great edifice which is sometimes
called the temple. This building covered
about four acres, and 1t was made OF great
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mlnd the Tact that the preparations for the
war are on stupendous scale. Everywhere
in and out-of Tampa, for radius of several
miles, pack and wagon trains fill the roads
IN their struggles to meet the demands of
the constantly mobilizing and concentrating
army, which must have rations and the
general munitions of war. 1t is a wonder
full sight, this steady tramp, tramp of raw
mule recruits, dragging the numbering COW
cred wagons past the ever-playing military
bands with cooked ears and quick and
treakish steps, or through the white-tented
cities of thousands of soldiers who are ear
nestly and enthusiastically preparing for
what may be frightful carnage in the tor
rid cline of Cuba.
Mules by the Thousand.
1t has been, and yet is, for that matter.
herculean task for the corps of wagon
masters, drivers and mule packers to shape
the appalling multitude of long ears into
line and divide them up into pack trains,
regimental, brigade, division and ambu-
lance trains. Still all this has been accom-
plished in few short weeks, in spite of the
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and a saddler-who are mounted and, on
the march, act as a small armed escort.
A CeaseIess Round of Work.
The men who belong to army train
have a ceaseless round of work from the
first glimmer of dawn until the soft bugle
call of taps at night bushes the camps into
slumher Mules have to be fed and water
ed, harness kept in condition. wagons
creased in the morning before breakfast.
When once this wagon train is in motion,
With the wagonmaster as commander on a
mUie in the lead of the cavalcade, there Is
no rest for men or mules until after sunset
and the last wagon is packed at night. the
mules fed and staked out for the night 1t
is then the tired men gather around the
glow of little campfire and tell marvel
Gus tales of >wagoninG days gone by, and
complacently pull their black pipes.
Mule Pack Traina.
The most unique feature. in that It is I'M
familiar to the general public, is the won
derfuI mule pack trains which have been
assembled for Cuban campaigning. Mule
packing, in tine last ten years. has become
an almost obsolete factor in the far noun
famous west where it once iourished.
At Tampa there have been formed some
twenty pack trains of over sixty mules
each, all undergoing a systematic training
to get them into proper form for packing
over Cubas wet and almost impass able
roads. This adjL net to the army is piece
of brilliant foresight on the part of War
Department officials, for it not only makes
it possible to move the army during the
rainy season, but 1t carries with it most of
the hardest and best western rustlors in
America and Mexico-men of years of ex-
perience and hardships in the great mining
regions of the west.
They are picturesque lot-brave, brawny
and with sterling qualities which brand
them as rough diamonds. 1t is true that
most Of them can, upon occasion, use
choice and florid English, warranted to
: cause a pack train to walk straight into
the mouths of Spanish cannon.
The hardest work has been to get this ag-
gregation of green animals SO trained that
they might be packed without turning back
somersaults every time the cruel cinches
were drawn up by powerful arms until the
beasts looked like wasps with fairy waists.
and to get them to follow the lead of 1he
staid old bell mares, who head the long