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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-14

Mir. J. A. Patterson went north on the Cotton Belt at noon, in the in terest of the Puddephat Furniture Go.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-14

Stop at Gleason's Hotel when in Little Rock. dtf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-14

Tickets all styles. or picket fence complete. Bluff City Lumber Co. 279
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-14

MT. NJ. J. Goldsmith. prominent l merchant of Ashdon, Ark, is in the city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-14

Abe E. Williams,
 Secretary. Miss Edna Tucker ret turnedto her home at Fucker today.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15
NEWSPAPER NEWS YARNS.
STIRRING INCIDENTS OF ANTE-BLOCKADE
DAYS IN CUBA-sMCGGGLING NEWS
BOTH WAYS

Especial Correspondence - the Associated Pr~ss)
Key West. Fla. May 12-.With the seat OF war
transferred pro tenn from Cuba TO the Philippines
and possibly 20 Porto Rico and the Canarles, there
is many long wait for the dozens Of special
respondents who have tugs 4: their disposal.
and nothing 10 do but await the arrival Of the
mail steamers and scan the horizon with glasses for
war vessels coming in with prizes The long line OF
chairs the shady side o, the hotel veranda in
town has come TO be known Lotus Row" and
the war face" has taken rank among the watchers
with the bicycle face" and the "troiley-cnr face"
in cooler and less ,rouhlous climes Blue tropical
skies white. dusty streets under blazing sun
and hypnotic vistas OF fea:hery palm fronds and
banana trees against the coudless horizon AL
tend TO somnoent laziness. cigarettes and cooling
drinks. and OF course. stories
Now that longer has TO run the gaunt-
let from Havana. albeit the is now
American naval officer at this end OF the line
some stories may be freely told that contra
band Of print while The actors stu IN reach OF
Blancos prehensile arm. As matter Of fact
there was fair amount OF smuggling and block
ade breaking IN and other things while
Havana still accessible 20 the correspondents.
and these tales. told in whispers.
coming the shady side Of the hotel porch
as "reminiscences OF the antebockade days.
The Havana customs authorities and search
agents were An easy lot al best, They seldom
called blum that made with a good front
and the things that went under their noses
almost daily would have hall the force their
Jobs had the facts ever got 70 the Palace The
writer landed In Havana some months ago with
a bundle Of kilograms In his pocket that ought 20
have put him in Cabanas. There was also another
correspondent who was too much under tho ban
TO receive mail or kilograms In his
Havana The carrying Of the bundle OF messages
from Key West merely a friendly office that
hail a dozen other correspondents had often done
before. To have concealed the papers on ones
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15

10 capture "A Cuban standard. which exploit made
the captain a major forthwith and landed him on
Wcylcr's sia1. at the Palace. The standard was
mad. to oNler by tn" Cuban Junta In Havana. ana
Ia. -lOrdeuf and the captain took II out win
them night with n small detachment q Spanish
cavalry from MaianZas. Coming to a good dark
war cry and dashed ahead. empty.ng two Mausers
and four SIX shooters into tho bushes The cav
airy escort punched itself In the middle or the ROAD
ard began shooting In a general way at the
scenery. This IS always tactfIl move MADE ny
the Spanish whom fhsy think they are attacked
After many rounds Il AMMUNITION had been used
tho captain came dasnirg In with the cuban stand
ard on short section OF a broken stan n" IN
tory and tfo promotion o. the gallant captain foi-
lowed In due course. The intrinsic Va.Nc or the
standard was abOu' s. a. in labor and material ana
for u me cuban Jun'a received a pass TO carry
OF all the methods Of smuggling through the
custom house however. one % the most novel
was recorded In Havana hy letter from Gomez
not long before the bio. kade was iraugurat"d. II
orr friends Ia New-lork can safely say q Is ono
o. the sweetest instruments IN the world. We nope
o. hear II blown as soon as we get the Jelly boiled
out - a." Il had come n consignment OF pre-
serves % "a Havana grocery firm.
There IS at the present writing a badly dis
gustcd young man In Key Wcst lie STAYED In
cuba after Tho blockade was declared. bit finding
things 700 hot Tor him there managed At the r!sn
Of his ne "a got down 20 The beach. where b" was
picked ~ by the - mington. Coming across TO
Key West one 81 tho correspondents Of n naval
knpwieig" that he was headed for home and tho
able of'icc freely discussed MS experiences and
the visiting correspondent went over tho Whining
tons SIDE and hnck 10 MS dispatch bon. lie
warship In with the story ~ tventy-four hours.
re refugee having meanwhile been detained by
request hom Admiral Sampson 70 come aboard tho
flagship and report on the condition of affairs In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15

u.u.ioiesteo through the principal streets O. IN.
cry. About one shop in four was omen and
usiHess was utterly dead There were no
~ uohs or carriages IN the streets. and MANY Of
the dwellings were closed ' -
pIochade prices for food are charged in Glen
auetOS flour sells at % cents a pound meal
,,o,' ~ cents a pound. and II you want milk
y, ~ 10 pay ~ cents a quart FOR It. on the
o,her hand. vans. breadfruit and planta,ns are
pleh'1ul at five or six cents n pound The cor
sspohoeht was told there was food enough in
ny CITY 10 last forty-f1ve days Still the popu-
walton. " ' III ''a'
mere are thrty-five thousand to forty thou
sanu people In Cienfuegos and its vicinity in
..uulhg about fifteen thousand regular Spanish
troops and i've thousand volunteers
CHEERED Up BY A FALSE REPORT.
The townspeople and the soldiers were talking
vaguely about a glorious victory said TO have
oeeh won by the Spanish forces at Havana
"cherai Pando the commander OF the Spanish
FORCES In the field. left here for Havana on Sun
gay and heavy fighting took place on Tuesday
anout thrty-one miles from the city
Inc British Consul. who was the cherterer Of
'he AQUA. has sent to Jamaica his family sew
erai cuban Americans and forty Of the leading
Cuoan Families In Cienfuegos. in all 297 per-
SONS AS the Adula was only provsioned for
lou passengers, there were short rations FOR
every body on board but nobody appeared 10
eruinble. all being glad to get out OF the block
AIDED city
The Adula steamed out Of Cienfuegos Harbor
on Tuesday afternoon, at which time the Ameri-
can blockading squadron had been increased by
a large lighting ship. the name OF which was not
dlscern'Die and by big collier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15

10 be an international organization. has been au.
thorlzed by President Mckinley 10 undertake the
work Of relief wherever the regular authorities
should need their help. IL is under the absolute
control Of the Surgeon-General in the field. and IL
therefore the best channel Of assistance both 10 tho
Army and 70 the Navy. This society reserves to
Itself the privilege Of transferring a portion Of
whatever money may be collected TO other Red
Cross relief work for the Army and Navy II the
National Relief Committee and the Ladies Auxil-
larry Committee should so advise. Those who feel
disposed to assist in this National work may send
their contributions TO the assistant Miss
Louisa Morgan, No 2ls Madison-ave. All subscrip-
tions Will be devoted exclusively to the work OF
relief Sine the last meeting the society has
ceved the following contributions:
Mrs Broughton Wood. 5000: Miss Trevor 5000:
Miss Katherine Brice. $500; Mrs. Egerton Winthrop.
jr.. $50: Mrs. Jacob II. Schin. $3.50 Mrs. Simon
Borg. 800 Mrs j. T. Morgan. 800: Joseph Could
ing 500: Miss Ellen J. Stone. 500; Miss Angelica
Gerry. So the Rev. James Johnson SIS; Mrs. W. NJ.
Bliss SOS: James n. Oracle. 500: Miss Amy r.
Phipp. SIS: Guenther Schmidt so: Mrs ". J.
Cowles 500; Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. 800 Mrs Gala
tin 500. Mrs Butler Duncan, $50; Mrs. Douglas
These sums with the 81 900 apiece previously con-
Royal Phelps Carroll. make encouraging sum
for beginning
The society is comforting with military authori-
ties about its work and at executive meeting
10 be held Tuesday morning X will decide how
many ambularces to buy at once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15

person would have been confession OF conscious
gull, IN case OF discovery: so the bearer simply
folded the messages lengthwise and stuffed them
into the Zig State Department envelope that held
his passports The officials who received the pass
ports all saw the messages. but never questioned
their contents
That incident was mild however compared with
the exploit, Of another and moro radical correspond
ent. who. being IN Full sympathy with the Havana
Junta undertook 10 convey them abon; thirty
pounds OF dynamite at time when they needed
It badly. and when the lines hlihustering were
drawn unusually close. He simply packed mis-
explosive In two big wooden candy boxes. with
sliding covers. and put IN a layer 81 big chocolai"
creams with Oiled paper on top. The special agent
at the gangway Of the steamer knew him. and
when he started down tho ladder 20 the shore boat
said 10 him. iokrgly. What's that you've got
dynamite" You guessed IT," said tie unabashed
scribe. pulling back the I'd Take some UP 10
Blanco" The astuie special aCer. took generous
handful Of the chocolates and the dynamite went
ashore
Letters from the woods" as the insurgen'
lines are vaguely termed IN Havana. were alFnos;
as dangerous as dynamite. but they were passed
through the Ines quite often one ~ tho severa
newspaper men who went into the Geld returned
during Weyers regime WITH enough letters - nave
Innta IN %ewYork Their w,re three spanish
officers on the train hat or0asai h'm INTO hayn9
they had marked him and gong 20 arrest
him at the depot tn Havana. Just before The train
stopped he called mis- cuban servant and. iak.ng
a bundle Of the soilcd shirts from h' gFip tossed
them to him with the remark. Take his NJ 20
BANKS" meaning laundry with yrOSpar-
ish proprietor. The man ct IN with the bundle.
witch had the nsurgen; letters safe insid. IT. and
When three minutes later tho correspondent and
his baggage were rigidly searched there was moth
Ing found on him but couple - pro spanish
letters written him by some obl!ging cuban friends
for 'ust such emergency.
Another Of the correspondents. who II close ~
touch with the Cubans and has done more FOR them
than any other newspaper man IN Key West tells
with a smile how he helped n Spanish captain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15

ton The result Of tho findings OF the Court Is that
Howard = Dixie and Perez VI. Stewart, Citizens
I -nion candidates for Alderman and Assemblyman
respectively win take the place OF John S. Geagan,
the sitting Alderman. and Solomon S Well the
Assemblyman. who died about two weeks ago
We'll had received his salary. and Stewart will also
receive pay for the whole term Geagan receives
his salary from the city up 10 this time. and Okie
Will receive pay for the entire term.
When the Board convened yesterday there were
only three inspectors OF election present. and Al
dcrrnan Muh moved 10 adjourn until all the In
spcctors were there The order OF the Court Is
going be obeyed." said Chairman Oakley. we
must sit and canvass the votes" Police mes
scngers then sent out 10 gather In the in
spectors The Board will make its return 10 the
Court tomorrow, and Okie and Stewart will get
the places.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15
THEY WILL BY ANBJLAfCES.

MRS W J cOwLEss PLAN or WORK COMPLETE
The Executive Committee OF the First NewYork
Ambulance Red cross Equipment Society held
meeting yesterday afternoon at the home OF the
president. Mrs. W J. Cowles. No sss Madison-ave.
ard adopted plan OF work.
The First New-York Ambulance Red Cross Equip
rn~nt Society has been duly authorized by the
Ladies' Auxiliary Committee TO equip ambulance
service. 10 be used for the Red Cross work In tho
fields and FOR tie hospitals during the present
and It's eXiFencies. The Red Cross. which Is known
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15
" FAVOR or OKTE AND STEWART.

The members ~ the Board OF Aldermen 81 1897
yesterday vcned IN the city Hall in obedience
20 a second order from the Supreme Court direct
INK them recount the vote 81 the various election
districts within tho XlX,h Assembly District cast
for Asscmblyiuan and Alderman A. the last cleo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15
SUNDAY,
MAY IS, 1898.

3. altman l. Go.
SALE OF SILKS.
MONDAY, MAY 18th.
$500 Yards Printed India
Broche Navy and White, and
Black and White only, valus
CSC. per yard, at h8C
$500 Yards Figured Foulafd,
value 85c. per yard, EEC
az
Counters Rear of Rofnndd
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04

LET us not forget when we enter the
booth and are alone with our con-
science and lead pencil that we are
enjoying a season of prosperity, and
there is work for everybody and that
it was the Republican principles that
returned prosperity to us here in
Washington. 1t was not a few county
officers, state officers or the fusion
legislation which shut out Canadian
competition and set the mills and
camps to running at their full capa-
city and the wages to increase in all
fields of labor. You who labor and do
not hang around In the hope of get
ting a public job should desire the
continuance of these conditions. The
simple fact that you have elected your
ticket, Republican, Democratic or Pop
ulist, will not help matters for the
fellows who do not get the jobs.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04
A Light Weight Decision.

c. w. Hodgdon, the Judge of the su-
perior court for Chehalis county, has
rendered street corner decision which
would, if held to be law and to be so
decided by the supreme court, practi-
cally disfranchise two thirds OF the
workingmen OF the state according to
a Montesano correspondent to the
Ledger.
"There is quite large crew of bridge
carpenters working here, putting in
new bridge over the Wynoche and
generally repairing the small bridges
and culverts on this section OF the
Grays Harbor branch of the Northern
Pacific. They have all been in the
county and in the precinct more than
the required time to give them resi-
dence under the law and are residents
Of the state. They, or part of them,
desired to vote at the coming election
and registered accordingly. The ones
registering are men who haye their
| home and residence where they are at
work, as is the fact with eight out of
ten lab oring men.
Judge Hodgdon now steps in and
informs the man who brought most
OF the men up, to show them where
the office of the registry clerk was and
not for the purpose of running in men
who were not entitled to vote, that
these men have no right to vote; that
although they have been in the county
more than three months, have all been
In the state for more than a year,
some of them having been here for
several years, and have all been In the
precinct more than the required time,
they have not gained residence and
that men engaged in labor such as
theirs cannot gain residence sufi
cient to allow them to vote.
Ills uCClSlOu WAS uOG TCuQcr6Q III
court, with a case before the judge, but
upon street corner and upon sub
ject which it is natural to suppose
will be brought before the judge in an
official way, if these laboring men
should try to exercise the rights which
any Amerinan citizen is supposed to
have, that of casting ballot for the
candidates of party which he be-
lieves the best interests of the nation
demands. If such an Interpretation OF
the law governing registration and
voting should be held as correct and
many of the laboring men of the state
would haye right TO vote is the ques-
tion which is being asked here"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04
The Populist Problem.

The Populist party as whole is as
loyal and as much in earnest as any
other. 1t is inspired by sincere de-
sire for better government. It's for
nation and very existence are in large
part a protest against public abuses
and administrative errors that it has
hoped to remeds by radical measures.
1t Will not defend dishonesty and ven
ality in public officials and, when the
facts are known, it will not hesitate
to rebuke any of its leaders or repre-
sentatives in whom it has lost con-
fidence.
1t is we'll for al Populists to con-
slider the unfortunate condition of
their party. 1t has distinctly lost
prestige and influence during the past
two years. 1t has been sadly misled
by its leadership. A rotten and cor
rupt legislature wholly failed to enact
legislation to which it was pledged
and which every Populist considers in
the highest degree beneficial. 1t was
made up largely of "reformers" who
would not "reform" because they we're
paid in money and otherwise. The
people and their needs were soon for
gotten in the eager quest for Doodle.
The source of the trouble is fusion.
Fusion causes loss of party identity.
1t destroys party responsibility. 1t is
wholly subversive of principle and
specifically makes Office aud spoils the
chief disderatum. 1t involves decay of
political character and diverts to un-
worthy ends the great aims for which
the party has stood. The Populist
party, which had been growing stead
lily for many years, has retrograded
since 1895. Why? The answer is
fusion. The great blender of the Popu-
lists was their compromise with the
Democracy.
The Populists have a serious prob
lem before them. 1t is life-and- death
matter. If they attempt to maintain
fusion, they are certain TO be swal-
lowed by the Democracy. They cannot
fuse and still be a political entity. II
they break fusion, there is a chance
for them to take up their work where
it was left off in IS96.-T-I.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04

,.,ELCOME CHAPTER, No 40.
w ORDER EASTERN STAR.
Meets every Saturday after Full moon OF eacn
nonth All members IN good stanuihs are
made welcome.
Mas W. III. MAXWELL LID. LEE
Worthy MatrOn. sec.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04
Political Notes.

OUR local Democratic friends would
not stand on "three-legged stool" in
Mason County, but they don't object to
standing on any old thing in state
issues.
EVERYBODY who knows Mr.. Gunder-
son, and that means every man,
woman aud child ia Mason County,
knows that no one has any strings on
him, and that he is in position to rep
resent the whole people and to protect
their interests.
IF anyone thinks for moment that
the fusion party is not trying to foist
the single tax heresy upon the people
they should glance over the report of
the state board of equalization. They
have reduced the assessed value Of
personal property in the state, includ-
ing improvements on land, $6,9SO,372
and increased the assessed value of
real estate, 81 1854, 1888, thus putting an
! additional burden upon land, over and
above that which the county equaliza-
ton boards put upon it, to the extent
of tax upon $14,644, ,760.-Olympian.
If the advocacy OF all these theories
can be stopped for few years, the
beneficial results will be very notice
able. The desire for ali sorts of
changes in our organic and statute
laws brings about spirit of unrest
and a condition OF uncertainty. The
movement to completely alter our sys-
tenn of taxation is one that must ine-
vitably prove damaging to all the SUBJ
stantial interests of the State. The
people should speak out plainly on
November s, rejecting the proposed
constitutional amendment by so de-
cisive majority that there will be an
end of the attempts to foist an untried
revenue scheme upon our people.
JUST when we are getting our heads
above water after long and painful
period of depression, how unwise and
misguided some enthusiasts are to
start in agitating the single tax ques-
ton, as those are now doing who advo-
cate the adoption of the constitution
al amendment allowing counties,
cities, towns and school districts to de-
eide what class of property shall be
subject to taxation. Everything in
dicates that the hard times are prac-
tically over and the State can look for
ward to decade of prosperity if we
have common sense laws and cease to
meddle with untried theories, the ag-
itation of which brings unrest and un-
certainty. If for a few years the peo-
pie will cease to meddle with expert
ments the whole state will be benefit
ted thereby and there cannot fail to
be general and substantial revival in
every branch of business and every
line of trade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04

uFI,TON LODGE, NO. g.
" o. OF.
SECULAR meeting every Wednesday evening
750r.N in the Odd Fellow S Hail. Shelton
Wash. Al mem uers il good standing, cordially
invited To attend.
J. B. WooD, L. j. MohhiooN
Y G. K. Sec.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04

DACIFIC LODGE, NO. 66,
X. OF P.
Meets the first and third Friday evenings OF
ofeach mouth at the Masonic HAT. Vlsi'in
Knights cordially invited to attend.
l.. l.. HUNTER. D. Z. SAioh'
X OF r. e. 8. Y. Y.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-04
W ashingtOn Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, d. G. Oct 80, 1898.
President Mckinley talks with the
greatest enthusiasm of his experience
on his Western trip. Although it was
a period of hard work for him, as in
addition to the speeches he made and
the receptions he held, he transacted a
great deal OF impor. ant public busi-
ness, having been accompanied by two
Secretaries and in constant telegraphic
communication with Washington, he
says he would not have missed the OBJ
ject lesson in the patriotism of the
people, which he saw everywhere, for
anything. He will, this week attend
the peace jubilee at Philadelphia and
possibly make short trip further
east. President Mckinley will not
talk politics for publication, but his
personal friends know that he is pleas
ed with the political information he
obtained on his trip and that he is
perfectly confident that the country
will emphasize its Endorsement of his
administration and its great accomp-
lishments by electing republican ma
yprity of the House, to assist the re-
| publican Senate, which will exist next
March, in carrying out his policy and
in maintaining and adding to the
prosperity which the country is now
enjoying as direct result of republl-
can legislation and administration.
His confidence in the success of the
republicans in the Congressional cleo
tlons is shared by all the party leaders
who are in Washington.
In letter received in Washington,
Miss Lillian M. Kratz, who has been
nurse in the military hospital at San
tiago since July, says: "Now, about
our work here among the poor soldier
boys. Well, everything is being done
for them within reason in spite OF the
many reports to the contrary, as we
see in the daily papers, and / am sure
there is no room for complaints at this
end. They have eggs, at the rate OF
ten cents per egg; soups, fresh meat;
in fact, they have everything the is
land affords for their benefit and COM
fort, and they have comfortable cots
and plenty of clean linen, etc., and I
really think, taking the circumstances
into consideration that they are treat
ed as well as they possibly could be
treated" Miss Kratz is not an anna
teur, but regular graduate of St.
Luke's hospital at st. Louis, and is
therefore competent to judge Of what
she writes
Think how different and better must
have been the treatment and condition
of our soldiers in the late war, than in
the civil war, with dozens of trained
women nurses, of the Red Cross organ
ization, with every facility and luxury
possible to be obtained; and yet yellow
newspapers and "Spaniards in dis
guise' for partisan purposes would dis
tort the truth, knowing such despisa-
BILE work to be manufactured from
whole cloth.