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Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10

Some Probable Points of the Spanish Re.
piy-Our Conditions Accepted Generally,
But Other Matters Developed by Sasasta
That He Would Like to Have Settled at
The Beginning of the Negotiations Cam
bon to Report to Spain.
Washington, Aug. 1o.-More than
twenty-four hours after it had begun to
reach Washington the Spanish note in
answer to the presidents peace condi-
items was presented at the White Housa
by the French ambassador. What the
nature of the answer was can only be
conjectured at this stage. the secretary
of state, at the conclusion of the confer
ence, making the formal statement that
nothing whatever could be said on the
subject. The conference lasted an hour
and twenty-five minutes. This pro-
longed discussion was believed to indi-
cate that the Spanish answer was not
satisfactory in all respects. though in
Just what points ii fell short of meeting
the expectations Of the president it is
impossible to say. 1t was felt by the
observers that had the answer been a
complete acceptance of our terms the
result would have been made public.
How the Situation Is Figured.
On theother hand it would be str aimed
inference to conclude that the answer
was unsatisfactory entirely, for in that
case-according to the presidents state
ment heretofore made-his offer would
have hapr Ey,it 1.-;th
war resumed with greater energy than
before. 1t would seem that there could
scarcely be a good reason in this case
for Withholding the result of the confer
erce. On the whole it is rather to be
concluded that a middle result was OBJ
tanned: that Spain was found to have
attached certain conSitions to her ac-
ceptarce of the presidents terms, but
that the latter was not disposed to re-
gard the injection of the new matter as
sufficient in itself to warrant an imme-
diate termination OF the peace negotia-
tions.
Another Guess ut the DooEmcnt.
According to this view tbs president
has taken exception to some of the
Spanish conditions, but has allowed a
last opportunity for them to be with
drawn or modified. The reply of the
Spanish government is understood to be
document embracing about 2C0words.
1t bears the signature of the Spanish
minister of foreign affairs and is said to
be divided into five points or heads:
namety-Cuba. Porto Rico, Ladrone ISL
ands, occupation of Manila, and ap-
pointment of commission. which are
treated in the order named. So far as
oculd Ne learned no aention is made of
the Cuban debt. The retention of arms
and ammunition by the Spanish troops
comes in for indirect reference under
the head Of Cuba
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10

Produce. Butter - Extra creamery.
1sis per ID: extra dairy. lec; fresh
stock. l2lzc per dozen. Live Poultry
Turkeys. sdsc per N: chickens. Sc:
spring. l0isdllc; ducks, shsh. Pota-
toes-New 81 0s61.3 .35 per bYl. Berries
Raspberries. red 15cdsi eoper "a qt case:
blackberries. 3odsoc per 1s-at case.
Chicago Live stock.
Hoss-Estimated receipts for the day.
L. 900 Sales ranged al s2.s0n7.s0 for
pigs: 1850 5 ga. for light. s3.s5g375 for
rough packing. sS.70di.o2i. for mixed.
and sss01i05 FOR heavy packing and
shipping lots.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for the
day. 1000. The quotations ranged at
g.. 25T5.s0 choice to extra steers. Hs5G
5.25 good to choice do, H5on4ss for
fair to good. A20I4so common 10
medium do, s4di45 butchers steers.
4.25G51s fed western steers, s3.3ogi30
stockers, 215T4so feeders. S2I0a4z5
COWS. ssdl.75 heifers. s27oa425 bulls.
oxen and stays. s3so647o Texas steers.
and A50GS1 veal calves.
Sheep-Estimated receipts for the
day. 1i.coo. Quotations ranged at 1.75
645o westerns. S3d415 natives. and 4a
Milwaukee Grain.
Milwaukee. Aug. Q.
Wheat-Irregular; No. northern,
new, INC: No. northern. old. sac:
new. 1fTT: September. sekc Rye
Lower; No. /. 44e. Barley-Quiet; No.
2. 45c asked. Oats-Lower: 2791c
Local Markets.
Corn-9d3sc
OatS-2ift25c.
Hsy-Timothy ssSss; wild, var.
Straw-S.
Potatoes-Ncw. sc.
Butter-Fair TO choice. lie: fresh creamery
lsisc.
Eggs-iOc.
Chickens Spring. q. iS0ss15
Coal-Soft ice.
Cattle-Butchers pay for corn fed steers
5iiFJSc. COWS and heifers. 3i.sy4c; calyc, gi.z2
s<c-
Hoys-sa50as3
/ Sheep-4q4nc.
Spring Lamb-e3 Q head
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
Babcock Renominated.

Spring Green, Wis. Aug. 10.-Joseph
". Babcock was yesterday renominated
for congress by the Third district Re
publican convention on the first formal
1.,NIa
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
FIVE LYNCHED IN AmksNsAs.

first secretary or legation, II. Thiebaut,
presenting the case of Spain.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
PHYSICIANS.
+. ii. FIRST, NJ. d.
Physician and Surgeon.

Phone on 1881. Ofice, 325 Twentieth
treet. ONCE hours: 10 TO L. a. m: , to and
tobp IN. Sunday $50 to y:3O m; l:3O TO
Sp IN.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
THE TRAVELLERS, GUIDE.

HHfCAap. kOCK isLAND q Pacific RAIL
" wsy-Tickets can be purchased or hsgI az
checked a. X q z Twentieth street dcrof, o
2 Ia cepoi, corner Fifth aTcnre ana Il irfy !
drsi stree.. Frank II Plunmer. Ag.It.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
j. A. BALL, NJ. d.
Physician and Surgeon.

ONCE 1907 Second avenue. Residence 500
Twenty-fourth street. Telephone ITO ONCE
hours from H. to II y. m: 80 1 p. IN; and to s
y. m, Sundays to 10 a. IN
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
DIR. CORA EMERY REED.
homeopathic Physician.

Special attention to diseases OF women and
children. also diseases Of eve, car. nose and
throat once hours-p:3O TO ~ n. M. to 4 D.
m. S2l Sixteenth street, Rock Island
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
DIR. s. II. MILLER,
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist.

AlldiseassS OF horses snd cattle treated on
approved principlcs Surgical operations Der.
formed In u scientific manner. Dogs treated
MI calls promptly attended to. Residence
1898 Fifth avenue. Telephone on 1897 once
and iniirmary, 1915 1917 Fifth avenue (James
Msucker'ss ab e), opposite No. / fire house.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Grain and Produce.

Chicago, Aug. 9.
Following were the quotations on the
Chicago Board of Trade today:
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10
OPENS An ARGUMENT.
The Reply Spain Makes to the
Presidents Terms of
Peace.
CAMBON PRESENTS THE DOCUMENT

Some Probable Points of the Spanish Re-
piy-Our Conditions Accepted Generally,
But Other Matters Developed by Sasasta
That He Would Like to Have Settled Mt
the Beginning of the Negotiations Cam
bon to Report to Spain.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-10

Omse cnDer Eigstespth stxed aDd
6oo0nd svouoa, second 6Ooe.
Telephone 1O47.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1898-06-08
fABLG EXACfI
DE CUENTAs FoRMADAs

aplicables al cobro de jornales,
traccionados estos en- octave de
dfa, principiando por un cuarto
Y terminando en- Z dias, con
precios escalonados desde un real
fuerte hasta tres pesos, y EXPIRE
Sando cada fraction su valor in
trfnseco Tn pesos, centavcs y cen
fin10S de cap+oro
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1898-06-08

UNA I'm mes Uu aao
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1898-06-08

The Propnators Of The " 9cietiR
.3eFcaRtU " have the honour Of
requesting English adgertisers to
hand their orders . hdTa. faAYEnCE,
FAVRE and c., who are the sole
Agents for all English and french
Adsel Iisinq.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1898-06-08

Lao - nistraAOa da B0istia Ner-
&. nth l'honncM de prier Messiears
| Annonciers francai3 de vcuIolr bien
pemettre leurs ordres de Publiclte a
IN. MAY ENCE, FAVRE eli c.,
~ sont les Agents uniques c. ex-
Gus is de ce journal pour Ia PubGeit@
( nancaise ct Anglaise.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26
BUILDING OUTDOOR FIRES.
SeasOnabIe Suggestions for Pros
pective Campers.

The camping out days have come and
the person who can make good fire I'M
der disadvantages has proud position
and is likely to be the star of the camp.
There is widespread idea that it takes
deep occult lore to build a good camp
fire in the rain, knowledge that must be
learned from gypsies or Indians. Gyp-
sizes and Indians know how to do it, but
there is nothing mysterious in the accom-
plshment. Any one can learn it. To
begin with, you must learn to keep your
matches dry-and before that, to be sure
you have matches Leather match cases
are likely to let the matches get damp:
carry metal one. Then always make q
habit of having some old newspaper in
your best protected pocket. You can
get on without it, but it is good wood
craft to do things the easiest way, and
the paper makes firebuilding easy. Sc
lect a place for the fire where it won't set
either timber or tents ablaze.
Clear the ground around it of inham-
mable trash; few stones roughly piled
up between it and the wind will often
save more time than it takes to gather
and place them.
If everything is soaking look for a
fallen tree or an old stump, shave off the
surface at one spot and then you can get
good dry splinters from the old wood be-
neath often a little "grubbing' in the
stump or underneath the log will bring
forth handful of good dry wood with.
out any use of the knife. Gather dead
twigs from the trees, not from the
ground; build your pile with care; hurry
makes worry here and it is to be hoped
you wear a broad hat so that you car
protect the infant blaze from untimely
breezes with it.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26
THE PRESIDENT AT OMAHA.
He VIII Attend the Peace Jubilee
There In October.

Omaha, Aug. %. - President c. W.
Wattles, of the trans. Mississippi exposi-
ton, has received dispatch from Man
ager L. Rosewater at Washington stating
that President Mckinley has given posi-
tive assurance of his consent to be the
guest OF the exposition during the grand
peace jubilee, which will be the feature of
early October.
Mr.. Rosewater has not received accept
anees from the cabinet officers, but from
private sources it is learned that there is
little doubt that ma jority win accom-
pany the president to Omaha in October.
The peace jubilee will be the big week
of the exposition. Each day of the week
will be marked by some special demon
stration. One day will be presidents day,
another governors day, another army and
navy day, and so on throughout the week.
A number of the greatest orators and
most distinguished statesmen of the Unit
ed States will contribute to the oratorieal
fea lures of the celebration, and efforts are
being made to have grand review of vol.
unteer troops.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26
FIERCE FOREST FIRES RAGE.
Destroying Forty square Miles Of
Woods I'm California

Pasadena, Cal, Aug. 20.-The fire In
the mountains Is already twice as great
as that Of July, and Is still gaining. IT
has held its own for six days and has
devastated a territory 40 square miles in
extent.
Tonight the flames are gaining Roadway
every hour. They are preying upon the
best waterheads of the San Gabriel reser-
walton, and 1t is almost appalling to think
OF the ruin they may wreak. The men
who are fighting the fire will work all
night.
A call for reinforcements has been made
and a desperate endeavor will be made
to protect the San Gabriel canyon, Eat
on's canyon and the Tejunga, all of which
are endangered.
The 40 miles of woods overwhelmed in
ruins can not be summed up in dollars
and cents, as they are inaccessible. but
hundreds OF thousands OF dollars would
be required to represent IT'S worth to this
valley as a conservator Of moisture.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26

laborer working on the Guerrero rail
road in Mexico dropped lighted cigar
cite into cask of giant powder, and a
fearful explosion followed, killing three
Mexicans and tearing off the leg of a
fourth.
After covering Michigan and Ohio at
tempting to obtain a marriage license,
Harry Lewis and Dora Cross of Malinta,
Ohio, were married by Squire Hague at
Napoleon. The girls parents objected 70
the marriage.
II. Claus of Nanaimo, B. c., who was
convicted of numbering his partners,
Burns and Henderson, while on their way
to the klondike, cheated the gallows by
committing suicide with strychnine, fur
nished by his wife.
Miss Aslang Larsen, professional
nurse in New York City, was bitten by a
mosquito at Mystic, Conn. The insects
poison baflled all medical treatment, and
she died in great agony. Her face was
greatly swollen and disfgured.
The pen which was used by Secretary
Day in signing the peace protocol was
given to Chief Clerk Michael of the state
department, who had bespoken it. NJ
bassy, secured that used by the French
ambassador.
The Michigan peach crop is much better
and larger than last year. The early va
rieties are ripe and the peach season in
that state will be fully open next week.
Michigan peach growers say they can
make money selling peaches at 20 cents a
bushel this year.
Alexander La Duke of the Second Wis
consin has been convicted by court-mar-
| tial at Ponce, Puerto Rico, of killing
Thomas Stafford, regular army private,
in wine room at Ponce, and sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kas.
| At the sugar conferences in Brussels the
delegates of Great Britain, Germany, Aus
tria- Hungary, Belgium and Holland were
ready to propose the abolition of boun-
ties, while those of France and Russia in
sisted on their retention. Sweden and
Spain would agree to anything.
Vigorous mea sures will be taken in
Madagascar to prevent the extinction ol
the population. After next year every
man % years of age who can not show
that he is the father of a child, legitimate
or illegitimate, will pay an annual tax OF
So. Childlcss women over 25 years of age
will pay $3.50.
Mr.. and Mrs Wilson of Brooklyn, n
Y, left their home last week for a visit .G
New Haven, VT, leaving three little chill
dren alone in their residence, with but Ii
cents for food. The children were rescued
from starvation by the Children's Society
and an order was issued by the court fol
the arrest of the parents.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26

Water in Portneuf river Is lower than
1t has been for many years, and the cleo
trie light company at Pocatello is seri-
ously troubled to know how it can get
water to keep its plant running for the
next three months.
During his recent visit to Lewiston
General Manager Woodwork stated that
an extension OF the o. r. & N. railway
system into the Clearwater basin was con-
templated for the near future.
Register West of the United States land
office at Lewiston has given notice that
the official plots of township AZ north,
range west; township AZ north, range
] east, and fractional township 80 north,
range east, b. NJ, have been received at
that Office and will be filed October 81
1898, on and after which date the lands
therein embraced will be subject TO entry.
G. p. Wilcox has nearly finished the
construction of his great evaporation and
dryer at Parker. Some idea OF the sire
of the plant may be Cleaned from the
statement that the boiler Is OF 40 horse
power and that there is over a mile Of
steam pipes laid, and that the capacity
VIII NC pNtG bciio VI iiuit pei uuys
The states white pine land case still
remains in an unsettled condition. The
state land board seems to have decided
that all they hadl to do was to refile ON
the same land, and Attorney General Me-
Farland, who is secretary of the board,
appeared at Lewiston and offered sec
ond filing on the land. The land office
refused to accept the filing because the
first filing had not as yet been declared
void. Mr.. Mcfarland has appealed from
the decision of the land Office, and is
quoted as saying that his offer to file a
second time and his appeal would not
only protect the states rights, but would
also shut out the claims of the home
steaders who are contesting with the state
for the right to file on the land.
The United States department of agri-
culture at Moscow, says the weather of
the past week was generally favorable
in most sections for the maturing Of crops
and harvesting. The days We're hot and
dry and the nights somewhat warmer
than usual. Harvesting progresses
in all sections; much of the fall
!, sown grain has been cut and stacked
and some of it threshed; the yield is above
the average generally. Late sown grain
is ripening fast, and farmers will soon be
busy cutting and stacking the crop. Oats,
barley and rye are expected to turn out
well, and at least average yields are looked
for. Fruits and vegetables are doing we'll,
notwithstanding the unfavorable effects
of hot dry weather. Potatoes for the most
C. =.
, dications the crop will be very satisfae-
tory. The second crop of lueern is being
l cut.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26
WASHINGTON.

/ Old oats are bringing s23 and the new
crop $2l per ton on board cars at Sno-
| homish.
A great fire is raging in Kitsap county.
| Volumes of smoke rising hesvonward, OBJ
securing the sun, can be easily seen from
Brnnon.
The movement of the new oat crop has
begun at Anacortes. The steamer Uma-
tilla Thursday took $50 tons of oats and
26O0 bales of hay from that city. II il
from there that all the vast crop of the
Swinomish and Samish flats finds its way
to market.
The A. =. A. cannery at Semiahmoo
put up on the 18th the largest number
of cans of salmon ever put up anywhere
in the world in one day. The pack that
day was 3240 eases. Ii has never been
| anything like equalled before.
j. j. Tracy of Spokane is still bemoan-
ing the loss of his l5year-old son, who
disappeared from home some time ago.
The boy is of light complexion, with
blue eyes, and the second finger Of his
right hand is slightly deforined from an
injury to it years ago. Friends have Of
fered reward for any information con-
corning his whereabouts.
An area three blocks in length and
varying from 60 to 300 feet in width,
| lying between First avenue south and
Third avel.sss south in Seattle, is being
filled in with gravel by the Northern
! Pacific Railway Company. The amount of
the fill is approximately 10000 cubic
yards, and the cost Of the improvement
will be $4,000.
County Superintendent Tanners annual
report shows that in Whatcom county
there are 5455 children within the schol-
astic age, and Of this number ASS are
enrolled for school. The average rate Of
wages paid male teachers Is $50. 10, fe-
male 1913 IS, and the total value Of school
property is 1921 1913.
The railway company has begun the
fulflllment of a contract entered into with
the city Of Anacortes for hauling 100 car
loads Of gravel to be used ON streets. The
greater part of this gravel is to be used
on the main highway leading from the
farming regions TO the business part Of
town, and il to replace WORKOUT plank
ing, a change that is meeting with high
favor.
Hon. w. II. Ham has received the APP
pointment of assistant forestry commits
sioners for the state OF Washington. His
duties are to employ and keep men pa
trolling the boundary line Of the forestry
reserve in the Olympic range Of noun
tains. Mr. Ham will make his office at
Castle Rock for the present.
Three cars OF wheat raised by Major
Walker, near Roy, in Pierce county, have
been received in Tacoma and inspected by
the state grain inspector. The wheat
weighed 64 pounds to the bushel and
grades as extra choice milling blue stem.
The unhappy domestic relations be-
tween Angelo v. Fawcett Of Tacoma and
his wife, Carrie M. Fawcett, have come
TO termination by decree of divorce
being granted to Mrs. Fawcett by Judge
Kean, on the ground Of non-support. Mira.
Fawcett is given half the property and
1920 cash, payable in monthly INSTALL
ments of $40. The property is variously
estimated as worth from $4,000 to $40,-
600.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26

Washington, Aug. 23.-Admiral Samp-
son will retain command of the north At
lantic fleet, notwithstanding his service on
the Cuban military commission, and Ad-
mral Schley will continue in his present
naval command, although serving tenn
porarily on the Puerto Rican commission.
This statement was made authoritstively
at the navy department yesterday.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26
WILL O|SBAND THE CUBANS.
NO PAY FOR THE INSURGENTS.
With the Spanish Army Out of Cuba,
There Is No Reason for the Gu
bans to Remain Under Arms-A
Plan for Future Payment.

Chicago, Aug. pa Washington dis
patch to the Inter Ocean says:
President Mckinley and the members
of his cabinet are unanimous IND the deter
mination that one of the first official acts
toward bringing about restoration of
peace and order in Cuba shall be the dis
bandment of the Cuban army. As there
is no longer a Spanish army in the field
in Cuba, there is no longer any reason for
the existence of the Cuban army. and it
is therefore to be regularly mustered out
of service. The government has no idea,
however, of adopting the quixotic idea OF
paying the Cuban soldiers for their SER
vices during the war or assuming the re-
sponsibility for their payment. If the
idea were not in itself altogether fanci-
full one, there are at least three good rea-
sons why, in the opinion of the president,
it would not be wise to adopt It:
|. The United States would not under
any circumstances be justified in paying
debt it does not owe.
2. There is no appropriation out OF
which such payment could be made, and
it would be necessary for congress to first
appropriate the money.
3. To place such large sum of money
as would be required in the hands of the
destitute and impoverished rank and file
of the msurgent army would result in
their utter decentralization and be respon
sible for all sorts of disorders.
Plan for Payment
The president has, however, plan il
mind by which the insurgent army car
be disbanded without the necessity o.
turning the soldiers adrift with no sort o
recognition of their services. The plan
eontemplates the granting OF an honor
able discharge to each soldier, accom-
panied by certificate of service and
promissory obligation, signed by the Gu
ban general in chief, to be made good on
of the public resources when the Cuban
shall have established the stable govern
ment which the United States has pledge,
itself to help bring into existence.
In addition to thus providing for tn,
soldiers of the Cuban army, the plan un
der consideration by the president con
templates the mastering into the United
States volunteer army of large humble
of Cuban soldiers who are American citi
zens. Their services could be used to goo'
advantage as members of the various i'm
mune regiments to be maintained on gar
rson duty in Cuba.
The plan above outlined has the ap
prevail of some of the highest officers o
the Cuban army, and is likely to be pu
into operation very soon.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26
Died From suffocafion.

Berlin, Aug. 22.-The Berliner Post
says that during a recent voyage of the
Siberian convict ship Angara from Teum,
Siberia, to Tomsk, capital of the gov
eminent of the same name on the Tom,
West Siberia, 35 out of 300 prisoners died
from suffocation and overcrowding