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The Progress., 1898-04-23

United States be, and he hereby is
directed and empowered to use the
entire land and naval forces Of the
United States and to call into ac-
tual service Of the United States
the militia Of the several States to
such an extent as may be necessary
to carry this resolution into effect.
Fourth-That the United States
hereby disclaims any disposition
or intention to exercise sovereign
ty, Jurisdiction or control over said
island except for the pacitication
thereof, and asserts its deternina-
ton, when that is accomplished, to
leave the the government and con-
troll OF the island to it's people.
About twenty-four hours after
Congress had acted on these reso-
buttons the President signed them
and gave Spain until to-day to
comply with it's provisions, That
is to say. President Mckinley
gave it as his ultimatum, that
Spain must withdraw her naval and
land forces from the island of Cuba
by Saturday.
But Spain did not wait until Sat-
urday. On the contrary, her reply
was in Minister Woodford's hands
on Thursday. 1t was as fellows:
Madrid, April 2t.-Dear sir:
In compliance with painful
duty, 1 have the honor to
inform you that | have been mott
fed by the President of the United
States that there has been sane
toned by the Congress of the
United States a resolution which
threatens intervention in Cuba,
which is equivalent to a declara-
ton of war. The government of
her majesty have ordered her
minister to return without loss of
time from the United States, to-
gether with all the personnel of
the legation.
By this the diplomatic relations
hitherto existing between the two
countries and all Off cial commu-
nications between their respective
representative cease.
[ am abliged thus to inform you
so that you may make such ar
engagements as you see fit. | beg
your excellency to acknowledge
the receipt of this note at such
time as yon may deem proper.
Taking the opportuny to reiter-
ate to YOU the assurance of my
distinguished consideration
p. CULLON.
From the Times.
Midnight-The queen has con-
suited with the respective political
leaders and with the Senators.
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cent buildings has ever been occupied.
 Several years have elapsed since the writer last visited West Lynne whose history then dated back over fifteen years. No one loitered on the grass grown streets; the handsome and cost ly blocks of brick, with plate-glass windows and ornate facadeS and mas sive doors creaking on rusty hinges or lying where they had been tumbled. by Times rude hand, gave back hollow echoes to the voice of the visitor. Man sionS costing thousands Of dollars tasteful and spacious. with every indi- cation that persons of wealth and re- fnement had at some time intended to occupy them-were scattered in clus- terS in this or that addition" Around them trees and shrubbery, once reared with care, grew rank and unkempt- The fences were falling to pieces and grass and weeds encroached upon pave ments and approaches. Not a human being was to be seen; not even a stray cat was found warming itself in some stray nook on that fine September day. And the city had never had a per manent resident.
 But all is not yet told of the waste of wealth that created this prairie haven of bats and foul birds of the night. Across the Red River is a steel bridge, built for railroad and wagon traffic, which no engine or train ever crossed
 
 The structure must have cost S200, 900. as there is a great deal of piling and trestles in the approaches.
 West Lynne stands on a flat, sandy stretch, where the overflow from the river is so extensive and long continued that crops cannot be grown. Across the river in Emerson is the custom house, and the business of the district is con- ducted there. That is all the life there is to Emerson, which in the boom days" was but a suburb of West Lynne. Even in Emerson there is a brick block, three stories high, 975 by 40 feet in di- mensions, with a basement under the whole. It contains fourteen spacious store rooms. with plate glass fronts and all the accessories of a stylish business block. But not a single individual in habits the great structure and it Is slowly going to ruin. Eighty-f1ve thous- and dollars was the cost of this build ing.
 This is but one illustration of the manner in which towns arose and fell in the Dakotas during the memorable boom" West Lynne was by far the largest of the mushroom cities. but there are many others in the two States which contain enormous buildings. erected when money was plentiful and investors looked upon the Northwest as the American Land of Canaan, but which have never been tenanted since the contractors and their men left them.
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In 1895 the lake was about four or five miles wide and deep enough for small boats. Hunting was still good, but not like it was in the old days.
 At this stage the lake seemed to re- main stationary. TlIe rainfall of the winters filled 1t and it did not dry up during the summers. Many old-timers predicted that it would grow no smaller They said it had reached its limit and that there would always be just about so much water out there. A few prophets even went so far as to suggest the building of summer re- sort, claiming that it would be well patronized by people in the interior
 And the plan might have been car ried out if there had been any rain last winter But there wasn't, and Tulare Lake had to pass out of existence.
 Reports from that section now tell of a strange state of affairs. The land that was the bottom of the lake last year is now baking and cracking in the sun There are holes big enough for d man to fall into. All over are the carcasses of dead fish, filling the air with foulness. So fast is the evap- oration from the soil under the semi tropical sun that it is most unpleas- ant There is not drop of water to be seen anywhere.
 Tulare Lake has actually dried up.
 But good will come out of it for somebody, because the lands can be reclaimed and used for farming. AL
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ready surveyors are out with their in- struments running lines across the awful waste and baking mud. But this mud is said to be ''as rich as butter and the land will grow almost any kind of crop with very little Irrigation.
 Residents in the vicinity of what was once Tulare Lake generally think that now is the opportunity to organize and reclaim the vast area and put it in shape to produce the luxuriant crops of grain and alfalfa that il is known to be capable of producing. It has been suggested that gates in Lower Kings River be put in so as to turn northward through Fish and Cole sloughs into the San Joaquin the wat CTS that may come down in a wet year. It is estimated now, with the lake dried up, such works can be put in at an expenditure not exceeding $5000 In establishing gates in the Lower Kings River it should be done of course with a view of protecting a1l those depend ent upon that source for water for ir- rigation
 And so disappears from the surface of California the largest lake west of the Rocky Mountains.
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useful to the people of California. The surface of the water was nearly al ways covered with some sort of water fowl Geese. ducks, pelicans, snipes. mudhens, cranes and other birds were there by the millions at their own sea son of the year. Men went out with their blunderbusses and killed ducks pA the thousands and they never seemed to grow less. The waters were fllet with fish that could be caught with bare hook
 During the hunting season parties left all parts of the State to go shooting on Tulare Lake. Arks were built and keepers engaged to take care of them. Hundreds of sportsmen made their an nuaI pilgrimage to this big body of water.
 At this time Tulare Lake was beau tiful to look at. It was nearly always as smooth as glass and the water as clear as crystal One could take a small boat and row out far from shore where the sensation would be that of swinging in midair.
 During any hour of the day the out
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tnent and growth, of prosperity found cd upon a virgin soil which, ''tickled with a hoe laughs a harvest, until now in the hands of the Dakotas there have sprung up two great common wealths, for the output of whose gran aries the peoples of distant climes give up their gold
 West Lynne was boom town" and the most noted of them all. It was plated by schemers with more fertility than scruples, at a point on the Red River, where, they claimed, the Great Northern Railroad was to cross when built through to the Pacific Coast. The possibilities of the place were exploit ed in the East; capitalists became in- terested and money was plentiful
 There was no sham about the actual construction of West Lynne. It was not another Arizona desert farce, ex- cept in the minds and on the plats of its projectors, but substantial reality. James H. Murray, Chicago man, was the agent. He sold lots at auction in Chicago for thousands of dollars each. While he was selling a telegram would come notifying him of the disposal of a certain plat and 1t would be with
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V
 of existence.
 Where once there was body
 of water in Central Southern
 California over a thousand
 souare miles in area now there is only a barren desert of mud, drying and cracking in the heat of the desert sunshine.
 If you will pick up almost any map of California and look at Tulare County : you will see the outline of Tulare Lake occupying a prominent place For years this lake has been known as the . largest body of fresh water west of the Rocky Mountains.
 : If your map of California is a good one it will also show the shore lines Of Tulare Lake as they were in years gone by The earliest of these records appears to have been made in 1854. At this time Tulare Lake extended as far south as the southern borders o9 Kern County It was over eighty miles long and about thirty-fve miles across at the widest point. Its depth was never very great
 From 1854 to 1872 the waters of the % lake changed very little in area. Al most due west from Bakersfield there
 
 was about the same.
 It was about these years that irri- gation was started in the valleys around Visalia and Bakersfield, and the . shrinking became very rapid. Kings River and Tulare River were tapped ln several places and the water that would have gone into Tulare Lake was spread out over the dry pastures and cotton fields.
 . From 1872 to 1875 the shrinking was most marked. The southern end or the lake all contracted and became somewhat in the form of creek. It narrowed until 1t was not more than a mile wide and had drawn up from the southern end at least fifteen miles. But even at this time Tulare Lake . was quite a body of water. Sail and row boats skinned over it's surface and quite @ population lived along it's shores.
 On some parts of the lake it was hard to tell just where Tulare Lake began and the land ended The banks were covered with a thick growth of tule and the slope of the land was so gradual there was scarcely a line of 'demarkation. Even after a man reached the water he could wade out several miles without finding water over his head.
 The only place to enter the lake with boat was at one of the creeks CT rivers. These always had steep banks and left a deep channel far out from the shore line It was at these spots that people lived. There were few small hamlets along the mouth of the Tulare River and a goOdly population made their homes there.
 About 1875 Tulare Lake was most
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tenantless; a place with sub-
 H stantial brick blocks, well-laid = 4 A streets and walks, handsome :" residences, costly store build ings-in fact, a metropolitan clty-put without a resident, with not even cock to crow by day nor dog to howl bv night! Such place exists, although even in North Dakota, which State claims this tenantless metropolis. West Lynne long ago passed from the mem ory of most men and women
 A weird place it is. The ''city" is +berA-deserted. abandoned, going to decay. No traffic goes on in it's streets, no business in it's stores; the sound oI human voices is not heard in it's dWel- lfngs. The streets are graded, the walks are of rnacadam and trees and shrub bery flourish in the yards surroundlng the residences-but all in silence ana loneliness.
 Such g, place is West Lynne, on the west bank of the Red River or the North and almost on the Canadian boundary.
 The history of the place is one or the romances of the boom" period rom 187S to 1881. The people of the Dako- tas will never forget those boom day." when towns sprang up Tn night; when a few lots staked out on the prairie and styled collectively : Central City" New London, or .: something equally impressive sold ln the markets of the East one day TOT . hundreds of dollars and the next day for thousands. It was then that shreWd :: men waxed afiuent, fattening upon the credulity of the Eastern investor. golden stream poured in to the land where yet the Sioux-the Apache of the
 North-fought his ancient foes, the 'Blackfoot of Montana and the Pawnee ' of the Niobrara, and, having van : quished them, joined in an attack upon some tribe springing from his own par .ent stock-fought just to be fighting, because it was the mater of the beast" The Iowly laborer, drawing his weekly stipend, made enormous by stress of i:boom" prices, invested it in prairie :. soil and at the end of a month found himself rich beyond the chance of again having to toll. Those were the .'good old boom days"
 But there came the collapse Men who. not foreseeing the crash, invested iriore heavily instead of turning their holdings into coin, awoke one morning to find themselves Hand poor" and in debt, unable to complete the extensive 1 Improvements they had begun upon
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look was a pleasing one. Far to the east the outlines of the Sierra Nevada Mountains could be seen rising above a pale blue mist that hun" over the vast stretch of lowland To the south the Tehachapi Range loomed up. and on the west the Coast Range looked as close as if you could put your hand on it. But how deceiving it all was, Tor the nearest mountain was at least 70 miles away.
 Between 1875 and 1880, when vine yards began to be planted, the waters shrunk up almost to the borders or Tula1e County. In 1882 they crossed it and left Kern County altogether.
 Each year after this saw the lake become smaller and smaller. It had become almost circular in shape by 1888, and was quite deep. But 1t was doomed Irrigation became more gen. eral. until at last none of the rivers reached the lake at all, except during the rainy season.
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in the lower chamber through the side of the cracker. When the cracker is to be fired 1t is set on end and fire set to the fuse. The powder exploding in the chamber throws the cracker high in the air where the second charge is ex- ploded by fire from the fuse extending through the plug between the two chambers. In the manufacture of these the clay is first tamped in with a punch to form the separating plug. The lower chamber is then loaded with powder and closed by turning over the paper at the end. The upper chamber is loaded and closed with clay. A hole is punched In the side of the lower chamber with an awl and the fuse in- serted through this opening"
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drawn Then he sold adjoining lots at top notch prices
 In the meantime building was pro- gressing. There were no board shan ties, sod walls or canvas shells. Hand some structures of brick or lumber, fin ished in modern style, spralg up as fast as material could be transported and contractors do the work.
 And to-day there the 'city" stands, a handsome but useless monument to
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 DR. ESENS OPINION OF THE DRYING UP OF JHE LAKE He Was Jher Ago Large It's Broad Waters Were the of Busy yCommec

could look down through ten twelve feet of clear the fence posts of old pig sty. There was also the foundation of a house and several utensils scattered about. Nobody on the boat knew whether the ranch had been island that had from sight whether it had been on the main land during some previous dry year. mystery. When Tulare Lake a big body of water there used be awful storms over it's surface. of small boats have been wrecked there. The Indians who live the side have tradition that occasion party of about 300 of their tribe at tempted to cross the other shore in and when midway in the were struck by storm. Not a saved. The whole 800 met watery graves and the were never seen again.
 In my opinion the drying of Tulare Lake is good thing. land will be good for crops and there will be less sickness the vicinity. The soughs and marsh land in days used be full of malaria will be a thing of the past.
 GUSTAV ESSEN.
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night; villages that had sprung up in a few hours and grown to the impor- tance of incorporated towns and cities in few months were deserted by all save those who, swamped by the crash, found themselves without money enough to get away.
 The collapse of the Dakota boom'' in 1881 marked the beginning of a new era in the great wheat belt of the Northwestern era of steady settle
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The United States Consul at Shang- hai thus describes a new Chinese fire cracker: Tt has two chambers, sep arated by plug of clay, through which runs a connecting fuse There is also a fuse extending from the powder
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Search lights are such good targets for the enemy's guns that the Germans are arranging to throw the light on mirror and thence on the enemy thereby con cealing its real source
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Some men go home of hot day and quarrel with their wives because they look comfortable.
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It's hard to gather woman's mean ing from her words, but nature has saved a few of them the trouble of making themselves plain.
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stretched through of o be be
 
  fol completed that remained to Tuare Lake
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mans clothing usually has the but tons on the right-hand side. woman's on the left.
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1F3FRTFD QTY WHERE BIRDS AND ANIMALS LIVE 500000 HOTEL

the credulity of some and the hardi- hood of others. Not one of it's magnif
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their realty The fortunes that had been made in day were scattered in
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TT ME principal cause of the drying up of Tuare ! Lake is the using of the of Kings and Tu- lare rivers for irrigation purposes. The fact | that there have been very few excessively rainy winters since 1874 has also had a good deal with it. Had there been rainstormS kind that the greater portion of the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys under water several times during the eos there would have been the each winter and less needed for irrigation in the ner and the lake would probably been there yet.
 In 1878 crossed Tulare Lake steamboat This was a regular packet that between Hanford and a small the west side of the lake The dis tance across about thirty miles There other steambOats running the lake at the time Sail boats numerous and altogether Tu1are Lake of considerable use to the commerce of the region.
 On the occasion that made trip across the lake were treated tO a surprise. When we were about miles Hanford, and almost out Of sight of land the boat ran over ruins of old ranch. We
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CITY large enough to house a population of 5000. yet absolutely
 tenantless; a place with sub-
 stantial brick blocks, well-laid streets and walks, handsome
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of Ae ,Eazye7t Boay of
 .E1,esh zuate,~ 17 California.
0ula1e .Eake Dzea 2p; 3<'@s's'

Dr. Eisen
 Claims That the Disappearance of this Big Sheet of
 Water in the State Will b. Beneficial by Increasing the Agricultur Lands and Decreasing Malaria.
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|" UI.ARE LAKE has passed out of existence
 Where once there was body of water in Central Southern California over thousand
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-30
A F1oATER FOUND
In the River Yesterday-It Was {
Young woman's Body.

In the River Yesterday-1t Was a
Young woman's Body.
Last night about Z o'clock, hoater
was picked up in the river at the La
Belle landing, at the foot OF Twenty
fourth street. by Andy Knapp, South
side young man. The body was that Of
q young woman, and she had evidently
been in the water for a week. There Is
no clue to her identity, and the remains
which were taken In charge by Under
taker Bertschy, will be Inferred to-day
at the county's expense,
She was fairly well dressed. wore a
blue silk skirt, corsetS, with extra long
waist, No. 10, marked "R. & G." and a
pair Of No. 3 shoes, upon the soles OF
which was the name Of the manufac-
turing firm, "B. Himnelreich & Son."
likely Of Pittsburgh. She was five feet
four inches in EeIghth, and weighed in
life about 120 pounds. Her features
we're not very dIstInguishable, and the
left side OF the face near the eye was
bruised, doubtless from contact with
objects in the water. The woman had
red hair, one gold tooth, and q wart on
the right side Of her chin.
An emerald ring set with diamonds.
adorned d finger on her left hand, and
from all appearances the woman be-
tokened no signs Of poverty. It was i'm
possible to Judge her age, and guesses
ranged from twentV-three to thirty
years. An examination Of the remains
was made by Squire Allen. acting cor
oner, at Bertschy's, whence the body
had been removed, and the squire, after
noting down description Of the body
as found, similar to that noted above,
gave orders for the burial, There were
no marks OF violence on the body.
While the body was being prepared
for burial at Bertschy's, It was Viewed
by quite number Of people, none of
whom was able 20 identify the wo-
man, or shed any light on the mystery
surrounding her. The Wheeling police
have no knowledge OF any drowning or
suicide at Pittsburgh, or up-the-river
towns. so unless the news OF finding the
body here results In some Information
being received. the woman will fill an
unknown grave.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-30
LOCAL BREv1rIEa
Matters Of Minor Momsnt In aud Aboat
the City.

Matters Of Minor Moment In aud About
the City.
This Is the monthly city pay day.
Firemen, policemen and city officials
Will receive 5000.
The board of county commissioners
was in special session yesterday after
noon and went over the delinquent tax
lists submitted by Sheriff Richards.
Final action will be taken at the regi-
lar monthly meeting Of the board next
Monday morning.
Charles Kennig, Who Gays he beat his
way to Wehellng to fill an engagement
ne n Jockey in the races at the fair
grounds, was arrested yesterday for
riding the bumpers" on a Pan Handle
train, by W. B. johnson, and taken be-
fore Squire Rogers, who committed him
to jail for ten days,
The funeral OF Private John Thomas
shefiiIn occurred yesterday morning,
from the family residence IN East
wheeling. The services were held at the
Cathedral, Rev. Father Harris otitcia-
ting. Tho deceased, who was n member
Of The Seventh Ohio regiment, was laid
to rest in Mount Calvary cemetery.
The Great Northern railroad hae con-
tracted with the Kanawha coal trust, of
west Virginia, for 600. 600 tons Of coal TO
he used for the roads next annual sup
ply. This Ia a hard blow for the Pitts
burgh coal district, which was unable TO
conpete for the order owing to the
cheapness Of West Virginia production,
THE contract price is said to be % cents
"a ton