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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-07
NEW THINGS
IN SCIENCE.
NOISELESS GUNS,

While powders are made more or
less smokeless, it seems Incredible that
guns may be made noiseless as we'll as
hashless, but this is what Col. Humbert
seeks to accomplish. He expects fur.
| ther very material reduction in re-
coil. HIS plan consists in screwing to
the muzzle a bio TX containing a shutter
| that ordinarily falls inward to hOr-
| izoutal position but which, as the pro-
| jactile is about to make its exit at full
| velocity, is forced upward against the
opening by the passage of some of the
gases under it. This prompt closing
of the gun behind the projectile con-
fines the gases-still at high pressurs
and prevents the sudden entrance of
air that is one of the chief causes of
detonation. Small holes in the rear of
the block permit the gases to leak out
slowly Experiments through the aid
o; French factory have shown the
anticipated great reduction of flash
and noise, without much effect on re-
coil.
NATURAL AMPUTATION.
Several successful cases of amputs
ton by the natural method
of allowing the injured or
or dead part to slough away from the
living, saving through bone being thu
only cutting done, have been reported
by M. Reclus. The wound is first in
| jected with water at 14O degrees, Fab
renheit, which arrests bleeding and
warns the collapsed patient, when dis
| infected with permangan ate of pO,-
ash solution and finally embalmed in 3
dressing of several antiseptics. The
dead part is stated to become entirely
separated from the living in three
| weeks
ORGANIC AND INORGANIC ACTION.
French ply -ioloyist has no led
striking similar ties tween the heal
ing of a wound and the growth OF q
crystal in solution. A Russian in.
We sti = ator has found what he considers
more than change resemblance be-
tween the arrangements OF cells in sec
tions of wood and those of iron fling,
under magnetic influence, and he con
cludes that they are produced by &C
tions that are analogous it not iden
tical.
METALS IN IRON.
Recent spectroscopic research ind
Gates that the rarer metals are very
widely distributed, Messrs. w N Hart
Iy and Hugh Ramage having found tn
extremely rare metal gallium in 3
out of 81 iron ores obtained from tn
Royal Dublin College of Sc ence, whil,
these ores nearly all had unexpecte'
constituents, Ruoldlum was present.
, most of them. with indium in the slider
ties, or iron carbonates. The sam.
chemists have now studied meteorite.
finding gallium in varying proportion
IN mete oric irons, out not all mete
orites. A little rubidium also exists il
the irons. The chief points of diffe:
encebetweenthe met eoric and terri. s,ri
al irons are found to be at the forme
contain much nickel and cobalt wit
only minute traces OF menganes
while thu ordinary iron ores contail
manganese with only traces OF nick
and cobalt. Sodium and potassium o
cur in meteoric irous in small propo
tions. Mcteoric irons, like iron ore
and manufactured irons, contain CT =
per, lead and silver: mete oric stone
unlike meteoric irons, contain chrou
UNI and manganese.
A THREATENED EXPLOSION.
The West Indies are threatened wit
a physical, as we'll as a political, COZ
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-07
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Morgan Line.
II "SUNSET ROUTE" III

SUNSCl nOU tC.
The Morgan Sunset Southern
Pacific steamers WiINeonNnue
to run between New York and
New Orleans, and war risk
will be assumed until further
notice, by the steamship COM
pany, at no expense to ship
perS.
Should hosti|ities make it
necessary to discontinue the
steamship line, arrangements
have been perfected with the
louisville & Nashville and
Pennsylvania companies to
handle by special service,
east and west bound freight
between originating points
west of New Orleans and New
York and seaboard points,
and the service will be un-
broken, cars running through
without transfer where prac-
ticab|e, thus insuring fast
time.
The Mallory steamship line
has discontinued for present
plying between New York and
Galveston. Shippers will
please instruct c. H. Mallory
& Co., New York, to deliver
to Sunset Morgan line any
freight in their possession, or
subsequently received. Also,
route future shipments via
Morgan line.
T. E. HUNT,
Commercial Agent.
''SUNSET ROUTE"
torgan Line, Ell Paso. Texas.
, 1898-09-08
WANT TO KEEP THE FIGHTERS.
Nevy Department Plans for Auxiliary
Vessels.

Washington, Sept. lit is the desire
OF the navy department that all vessels
that won fame in the late war with
Spain shall be kept by the government.
The board appointed to consider what
disposition should be made of the aux
Hilary ships bought or chartered during
the war is now at work and has already
recommended the selling of a number
Of vessels. All of the auxiliary coast
defense feet has TO- disappeared. Dis
position has been made OF the vessels,
and the officers and men have been dis
charged, but there are a number OF
boats, like the Gloucester, which,
though bought for temporary service
and for service that was not supposed
to he warlike, have made a lasting repu-
tation and will remain forever as glo-
rious names in the annals Of the Ameri-
can navy. The navy department thinks
1t would be a great misfortune if these
ships should be allowed to be sold.
The Gloucester has become already
as much a part Of the glory of the navy
of this country as the Constitution, or
the Oregon or the Olympia. Other YES
sells, in equal or less degree, have won
fame In the recent war. 1t would be a
distinct loss to the navy to have these
go back to their old role as pleasure
yachts or traffic carriers.
, 1898-09-08
VETERANS HISS PINGREE.
Took Umbrage at Criticism of the Ad-
ministration.

Cincinnati, O., Sept. 7.-During the
G. A. r. camp fire at Music hall tonight
Governor Pingree was Kissed and hoot-
ed OFF the stage because OF his criticism
OF the management Of the Spanish a
The governor cited several cases Of
abuse and suffering due to the delay OF
red tape and became very vehement in
de%nunciation of forma1ities at the sac
rifce of comfort. health and human
life. After citing a particular case OF
bad management in the distribution
of disinfectants, Governor Pingree
said:
'If Secretary Alger-" but Cover
0 Pingree never finished that sem
tence. He could not proceed and even
with the more persistent efforts Of
Chairman Mellish. the governor was
unable to utter another word
After the governor had left and quiet
had been restored, Chairman Melish
finished the sentence which the audi
ence had refused to permit Governor
Pingree to read. "If Secretary Alger
had been given full power such things
would never have happened" The
transformation Of the audience was
then complete. The Kisses Of derision
were turned into cheers and repeated
calls for Governor Pingree, but he had
left the hall and refused to return.
Chairman ,Melish, in a very appro-
pirate speech expressed his regrets for
the misunderstanding and proceeded
with the program.
, 1898-09-08
THE DE SMET GOLD MYSTERY.
Only White Man Who Can Solve 1t Is
a Resident of Cheyenne.

Probably the only living white man
who knows the immediate locality, and
it might be said the exact spot. where
a marvellous gold discovery was made
by Father De Smet more than half a
century ago, is now n has been for
well on to thirty years, a resident OF
Cheyenne, says the Sun-Leader.
The story of the Father DeSmet gold
discovery is too well known to need
repeating here. That this place (Which
never did reveaD has never yet been
discovered so as to be known to white
men is a fact which has been conceiv-
ed by writers and those best informed
years ago there were a very few Of the
older Indians around old Red Cloud
agency who know the spot, but they
would not reval it even to the young
bucks" around the aeeacy. Like Father
De Smet, they did not want the place to
become known to the whites, who
would rush in and possess themselves
of the lands belonging to the Indians.
Twenty-eight years ago, while a par
ty of Indians who had wandered away
from the agency in small squads Of two
and three, were returning to the agen-
cy, under a solemn injunction Of sec
recy, including a promise that he would
not tell any Of the young bucks ait the
agency. two old Indians pointed out the
spot to a half-breed Indian named
Touissant Kensler, and with their
hands one dug in the sand and dirt and
picked out, as Kensler expressed it.
chunks" Of gold. Father De Smet
referred to them as "lumps.'D
This half-breed Indian, who never
dared to try to avail himself Of the
knowledge he possessed for fear that
those who showed him the place would
themselves take vengeance upon him,
but who later IN visited the spot again,
was hung in Cheyenne for murder,
November 20. 1874, almost twenty-four
years ago Before ne was hung. how
ever, in consideration of some acts of
kindness while he was under sentence
of death, Kensler revealed the locality
to the Cheyenne man and sketched a
rude map of the particular region Of
country where this marvellous discov-
cry was made, fixing the place with
such certainty in reference to perma-
nent landmarks that there a be no
mistaking the locality. A fac simile OF
this rude sketch was made at the time
and is now and has Deen for twenty
four years in the custody Of this party,
and no human eye has ever looked up
on it except his own Although 1t has
been one of his dreams by day and
night for that long period OF time, the
Cheyenne man has never yet seer an
opportunity to avail himself Of his Sc
cret.
To do so. as he regards it, would re-
quire of him a disappearance from the
community for a few weeks at least,
without his whereabouts being known
to any one, and were the Sun-Leader
to mention his name IL would be read
lily understood by our readers why he
has not beer able to do this.
, 1898-09-08
WANTS A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
President Says He Must Retain That
Many Volunteers.

Washington, Sept. THE president
today sent for Secretary Alger and
Adjutant General Corbin and also for
a list Of the volunteer organizations
The conference lasted an hour.
Later in the day the following vas
given out at the war department:
'In response to the request Of the
governors of some OF the states for the
muster out of their entire volunteer
force, the president replied in substance
as follows:
"'Answering your Geographic re-
quest for the muster out of your regi-
ments, I have already directed that
100. 900 of the volunteers shall be mus
tered out of the service. This because
in my judgment that number can be
spared. About 100, 900 will remain, as
the government now requires in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines a larger
army than the regular military estab-
lishment affords. The muster out, like
the muster in. will be as nearly as pos
sible according to the population Of the
several states.
1.-The suggestion to muster out all
of the volunteers from your state can
not, therefore. be entertained. The
secretary of wal has already inquired
of the governors of the several states
what regiments in their Judgment can
with the least inconvenience remain
far as consistent with the public in
terest. be complied with"
, 1898-09-08

the government which they have in
their possession. The government will
require that every article be accounted
for Every officer or man in the volun-
teer service who has charge Of division
property will have to cocun for 1t
before he can be mustered out and
paid.
An instance is related Of a governor
of one state who received two regi-
ments of troops. He told them they
could take thirty days furlough and go
home. What became Of all the equip
property of the government, the United
States officers cannot tell.
, 1898-09-08
GOVERNMENT NOT ALARMED.
No Danger Of Germany Selling One Of
the Philippines.

Washington, Sept. 7.-rhe officials
Of the state department attach little
Importance to the stories coming from
Hong Kong to the effect that German
warships are preparing to take pos
session of II Or more islands of the
Philippine group The government is
thoroughly convinced that no other
power will undertake at this moment
to disturb the status quo OF the Phil
ippines, pending the conclusion Of the
peace commission which will meet in
Paris very soon
Germany could not even by cession
or purchase acquire from Spain any Of
the Philippine group pending the de-
cision Of the peace commission, and
were she to attempt to profit in that
manner by the present situation of
Spain her lot might be regarded as a
casus belli.
, 1898-09-08
FRrGHTFuL
10,8oO Dead Bodies Found on the Field
ct Omdurman.

London, Sept. THE British WAT
once has received a dispatch from
General Sir Herbert Kitchener, the
commander Of the Anglo-Egyptian
forces, dated Omdurman on Monday
Last, saying that yer 500 Arabs.
mounted on camels, were dispatched
after the fugitive Khalifa Abdulla that
morning. The general added that the
dervish leader was reported to be NOV
ing with such speed that some OF his
wives have been dropped along the
road followed by him.
The sirdar also says:
"Omcers have been counting the der
Wish bodies on the field and report the
total number Of dead found Is about
10000. From the number Of wounded
who have crawed to the river and
town, It Is estfmated hhAe 10000 were
wounded. Besides the above, between
800 and 400 derviahes were killed in
OmdurmAn, when the town was taken.
II have az prisoners between three
and four Thousand fighting men,"
, 1898-09-08
A GOOD EXCUSE.

the women have the right Of suffrage
received the following note accounting
for the absence Of one OF her pupils on
election day:
"Dere Teacher Please be SO kind as
to excuse Lizzie for not having went
to school yesterday. l KEEP her home to
mind the baby while l Civ out votes at
the poles an otherwise done what I
could to elect the right man. who, as
you will see by the morning paper, got
there by a big majority. So I am glad
l KEEP Lizzie home an done what 1
could at the poles."-Harper's Round
Table.
, 1898-09-08
T0B0MBARD GAMBIA
ENGLISH NAVAL OFFICER MAY
TAKE EXTREME MEASURES
AGAINST MUSSULMANS.
Foreign Sailors Have Been Landed to
Reinforce the British Garrison
Belief That a Large Number of
Christians Have Been Massacred-
How the Trouble Started.

Canea, leland Of Crete, Sept l.
(Afternoon, via Paris)-Numerous in
surgents have attacked the Ottoman
troops at Gambia and are forming a
Gordon around the city.
Edhem Pasha, the governor, has
urged the admirals of the international
fleet to take immediate steps.
The fighting continues, but Gambia
itself is quiet.
The British naval commander has
threatened to lombard the town II the
disturbances Are not Kept down.
Athens, Sept. Tt is reported that
the bombardment was renewed at Can
dia and that the port has been serious
ly damaged The foreign warships
have landed sailors to reinforce the
British garrison, the pumps have been
landed to assist in quenching the
flames.
According to kilograms from Gambia,
1t is estimated that twenty-five British
were killed and forty-five were wound
ed yesterday.
Several Christian. families have
sought refuge on the warships. Many
corpses are lying in the streets Of Can
dia. In one W. a whole family was
KILLED. The Italian consulate is also
reported burned.
"A Russian warship left the Piraeus
hurridly for Crete toda, carrying the
Russian consul, M. Troi,anski.
;-ondon, Sept. s.-The correspondent
Of the Times at Gambia, t~elegraphing
Wednesday, fully confirms the earlier
reports OF most serious events there.
He says:
Lieutenant Holdane was killed and
Lieutenant Seagrave wounded. The
soldiers pluckily carried Lieutenant
Holdane's body to the boat under a
hail OF bullets.
1.-THE telegraph Office was repeatedly
set ON fire, and the father Of the tele-
graph superintendent was killed. The
wire Is still working.
The worst h feared a. to the fate
OF q majority OF the Christians It h
reported that only $50 have Deen saved
out OF owe 1000. the situation Is e <
tremely dificult. The Turkish troops
refuse to aid the British, who. being
exceedingly few in the town, were soon
overpowered. The forty wounded were
, 1898-09-08
DEAD OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
Of Officers Killed Has Never
Been EQualed.

Washington Sept. 1.-THE official rec
ords Of the war department, as complet-
ed, show that there were thirty-three
officers and 231 enlisted men of the
army, 264 in all, killed in battle during
the "a with Spain. These casualties
include all the lives lost by the army in
the battles in the Philippines, as we'll
as those in Cuba and Porto Rico.
The percentage OF officers killed is
strikingly large and is said to be I'M
p~recedented in the battles OF the world.
The contrast is especially striking in
the case of the battle Of Omdurman,
where, although the loss OF life was
heavy, the list Of killed included only
one oficer of the British army.
, 1898-09-08
MIDDLE ROAD POPULISTS.
Nominate Ticket for 1900-Adopt Plat
form Of 1000 Words.

Cincinnati, O., Sept. THE middle
of the road populists yesterday reor-
ganized the peoples party, renewed
their former declaration Of principles
and nominated a national ticket two
years and two months before the date
of the election. The object Of this ear
ly action was to head off any such
fusion as that of 1896.
1t was the smallest national
ton on record and it had the longest
platform on record-one of over 1000
words.
A bitter discussion followed the mo-
ton to proceed with the nominations
for president and vice president. The
Butler faction moved to amend by re-
ferring the whole matter to the national
committee. This caused great disturb
ance and the Butler men were knocked
out
Joseph Palmer of Illinois then called
the Butler faction to another part of
the hall and it was announced that they
would bolt and leave the hall IL the
motion to proceed with the nomina-
tons prevailed They insisted that such
action should not be taken as there
was no call and only a portion Of the
states and territories were represented.
There was a scene Of confusion and
commotion. Finally the manager Of
, 1898-09-08

The declarations in the platform do
not differ from other platforms except
in the plank which especially denounces
Senator Marion Butler Of North Caro-
lima, as chairman of their national COM
mittee for attempting ito drive the
pupulist party into the democratic Or
g~aniZation.'
, 1898-09-08
THE CAPTAINS SMART WIFE.

THE CAPTAINS SMART WIFE.
In a Massachusetts seaport town
there Is a retired sea captain who
makes a frequent boast that he has the
''smartest woman along shore" New
instances OF her enterprise are con-
stantly coming to notice. The hast one
refers to an exploit by which she saved
herself a doctors bill. The captain tells
the story with great relish.
Shes getting pretty heavy" he be-
gins, and now and again she1l mass
her footing. Well, not many months
ago she missed 1t ON our stairs, and
fell all In a heap down three steps On
to her side.
When l got to her. she aabd. Just 40
brisk as usual, Don't ask me IL I've
hurt myself. captn, for. Of couSe, I
have. l reckon I've mjodnted . bone
in my left leg. failing on 1t. Now don't
try to pull me up. Let me scramble
round a minute. and you % for The
doctor
well, the Doctors our next neigh
Dor. 30 it didn't tahe long TO set him.
He looked her over. and mid there ~
4 bone somewhere round her left hip
that was out of kilter.
AT that mother rose right up on her
test and toppled over the opposite way
fom what she'd fallen d~owustaars, and
We heard a kind of a crack.
"She hooked up at the doctor with
her mouth kind Of whttish. but the
aAme Old twinkle In her eyes, and ahe
sAys, I believe I've set that bona. my
ssif, doctor And she had!"-Youthb
Cumpanlon.
, 1898-09-08
HAS BEEN DISMISSED.
England Demanded Removal as Price
of Partially to Russia

Pekin, Sept. LII Hung Chang has
been dismissed from power. 1t is pre-
sumed 1t was done in accordance with
the demand, which, it is rumored, the
British minister here. Sir Claude M.
Macdonald, was instructed to make on
account Of the alleged general partial
ity of the great Chinaman to Russia,
eliminating in Great Britain being de
prived Of the contract for the Pekin-
Hankow railroad, by giving the Russo
Chinese bank financial control Of the
road.
, 1898-09-08
arriving In the Italian flagship Fran

arriving In the Italian flagship Fran
cesco MorosinL"
The Times correspondent, telegraph
ing later, says:
Refugees are now coming on board
the Camperdown, many Of them wound
ed. They tell a tale Of great massacre"
Sir A. Billotti, the British consul at
Canea, who went ON board the British
b%attleship Camperdown, cables 70 the
foreign Office, saying that the rloting
at Gambia was caused in the following
manner:
"A British soldier on guard at the
tax office was suddenly stabbed in the
back, and he dropped his rifle, which
exploded. killing a 'Mussulman. The
firing then became general and a party
Of twenty British blue jackets from the
British torpedo gunboat Hazard was
almost annfhilated before the sailors
could reach their ship. In addition,
forty-fve British soldiers were driven
from their quarters the telegraph
Office and many OF them were wound
ed.
THE total casualties, 70 far as
known, are twenty killed and fifty
wounded.
mo, was billed during yesterdays
fighting, being burned to DEATH"
The correspondent of the Standard,
who is on board the Camperdown, says:
Edhem Pasha, the governor. has
just arrived (late Wednesday after
noon) on board the Camperdown. Cap
tain Hughes-Hallett, who spoke with
him, saw no necessity for using diplo.
matte language, and told him plainly,
In strong terms, that as governor, he
would be held responsible in the event
OF any further disturbances. Edhem
Pasha asserted that he vas ~powerless
to control the mob, but his sincerity
seems very doubtful, seeing that he
had over 1000 Turkish troops under
his orders.
A a just signalled from the
town reports that the guard Of eight
British soldiers. who. with about thirty
Christians took refuge IN the Greek
cathedral, Is quite safe under the pro-
lection Of the Turkish troops.
Yesterday the chiefs Of the Christian
community offered Co;onel Reid their
assistance, but he declined to accept
II.
The sea is rough and landing Is diff
icult. Indeed. it Is impossible ito get
through the harbor, which is held by
a mob. Marines. however, are being
landed IN small detachments and are
hasten to reinforce the British
camp.
Outside the Gordon the Christians are
assembling IN Thousands. They threat
en- to rush into the town and avenge
the fate Of their co-religionists.
The Athens correspondent Of the
Daily News, telegraphing Wednesday,
says:
Reports have been received here Of
fierce fighting in the streets Of Gambia
today and a brisk bombardment by
the Camperdown. Nearly 100 British
soldiers are among those already killed
and wounded"
Tha Constantinople correspondent Of
the Times says:
THE Yildex Kiosk is greatly annoy
ed because the admiras of the inter-
national fleets in Cretan waters per-
sist In the collection of Cretan tithes.
Notwithstanding the protest Of DJevad
Pasha. the Turkish military command
er in Crete"
, 1898-09-08

OF the numerous ~ maps, aliases.
charts, etc, lately put ON the market,
altogether the best and che cheapest Is
Mears. Rand. Mcrlally & Co.'S new
Standard war Atlas Of the World. This
publication consists Of sixteen large
maps, with margin s~tatistics, OF all
parts Of the world concerned in the
present war. A copy will be mailed 10
any address for 80 cents. The altos y
not Tor sale at the stores.
, 1898-09-08
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, 1898-09-08
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