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The Springfield herald., 1898-05-13
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Local and Personal.
Fine growing weather.

Fine growing weather
ID. A. Rlnehart is building
new pasture fence.
Joe Like, OF Troy, was dong
business in town Saturday.
Il. NJ. Whitaker was repairing
his irrlgating plant this week.
VIM. Hooker was helping De
Camp move the first of the week.
Sheriff Cole spent few days
the first OF the week, out at his
ranch.
Mrs. ID. Mlser had a rag tacking
party at her house Yesterday att
.ernoon.
Ninton Shannon came in with a
load OF freight for Homsher Il Coz,
yesterday.
DIR. Homsher Is spending his
idle moments working on his new
store room.
q. W. Robertson is cleaning out
and otherwise fixing up his irri-
eating reservoir.
Through the kindness OF Mrs.
Vanorsdol, lovely bunch OF lilacs
adorns our desk.
C. NJ. Gordon and Geo. Brown
went to Lamar Monday, for freight
for G. +. Wkeeler.
County Commissioner Florey
was in town trading with our
merchants this week.
John Yokum and family were
over from the the Villas precinct,
Saturday, visiting friends.
DIR. MIlllgan, county assessor,
was in our midst last week listing
the property OF our citizens.
j. o. Vanorsdol has erected
windmill on his farm and will do
Il little lrrigatlng this summer.
Mrs. John ReIchenbaeh and
Mrs L.. +. Martin, went TO Villas
on Il trading expedition Wednes
day.
Fred Mathews moved his house
hold effects III the room where the
post office is, yesterday, and will
bach there.
Mrs. j. T. Harrison, who has
been visiting relatives in Illinois
lhe past few months, returned
home yesterday.
G. w. Rouse came in from La
mar. Wednesday, with load of
flour and supplies for himself and
other goods for Rev Mitchell.
Zena DeCamp and family, who
have been living near town for
some time past, moved TO the
Hooker neigh borhood the first of
The week.
y. Greathouse and son passed
through town Wednesday, on their
way home from Trinidad, where
they took load OF brooms some
time ago.
Charley Mcfarland has taken
claim east of the Edwards place
on Horse creek and with his faith
er-in-law, Ihos. Anderson. is fix
lng to improve it.
Thos. Hays has rented the Her
bert property, south OF town, and
moved in Wednesday. The Wi
son place, where he intended to
move, has been sold.
Arrangements are beng made
TO observe Memorial Day at the
school house. Rev. Mitchell will
deliver fitting sermon, in the
forenoon and program consisting
of songs and speeches Will prob
ably also be rendered.
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TPuBL1c No. S.

AN Act to prevent forest fires
on the public domain.
Be 1T enacted by the Senate
and House ot Representa- YES Of
the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That any
person who shall! wiliully or ma
llciouslv set on fire, or cause to be
set on fire, any timber, under
brush, or grass upon the public
domain, or shall carelessly or neg,
ligently leave or suffer fire to
burn unattended near any timber
or other intllmmable material,
shall b, deemed guilty of a ms
demeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof in any district court of the
United States having jurisdiction
of the same, shall be fined in y
sum not more than five thousand
dollars or be imprisoned for a term
of not more than two years, or
both.
SEC. 2. That any person who
shall build camp fire, or other
fire. in or near any forest, timber,
or other lntiammable material up
on the public domain, shall, be
fore breaking camp or leaving
said fire, totally eytingulsh the
same. Any person failing to do
so shall be deemed guilty OF a
mlsdemeanor, and, upon convict
ION thereof in any district court of
the United States having Juris
diction of The same. shall be fined
in sum not more than one
thousand dollars, or be imprisoned
for term ct not more than one
year, or both.
SEC. 3. That IN all cases aris-
ing under This act the fines col
lected shall be pad into the pnb-
lie school fund oil the county i'll
which the lands where the oflense
was committed are situate.
Approved. February q. 1897.
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CIRCULAR FOREST FIRES.
General Land Office, Washing

General Land Office, Washing
ton, ID. c., March Is. 1897.
For the information of all con
cerned, attention is called to the
following act of Congress, ap-
proved February 81, 1897, entitled
AN act to prevent forest fires on
the public domain"
Registers and Receivers, United
States Land Offices, and Special
Agents, General Land Office,
should promptly report to the
proper United States Attorney all
information they may receive rel
ative to the violation Of the pro
visions OF this law.
L. f. BEST, Acting Commissioner
C.N BLISS. Secretary.
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ID. A. Rlnehart is building. n
new pasture fence.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
AsYoR,s BATTERY ACCEPTED.
Applications from Harvard and CoIum-
 bia Students Already Received.

New York, May 26.-The battery of- fered to the United States By John Ja- cob Astor when hostilities first broke
 out was accepted to-day. Mir Astors representative here to-day received the following:
 Organization been allowed for 102 men, Lieutenant Marsh has been de- tailed to command the battery and he
 will come here from Washington to su-
 perintend the enlistment of recruits. The new battery will be on the order of what is called a mountain battery It can be used in mountainous regions
 or in jungles, where a field battery
 would be of little use. The gun car-
 riages and guns are detachable, and are packed on the backs of mules for transportation. The battery will be made up of six 12-pound Hotchkiss rapid fire guns. A recruiting station will be opened here to-morrow.' Appli- cations have already been received from Columbia and Harvard men, and also g number of Seventh regiment men.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
Exchange of Prisoners.

Key West, Fla, May 26.-Colonel Vincente de Cortijo, former commander at Cabanas fortress, and understood to be a brother-in-law of Lieutenant Gen. eral Weyler, Surgeon Major Simeon Garcia Julian and two private soldiers who were captured on the Spanish steamer Argonauta and who have been confined at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, arrived here on the steamer City of Key West. They were taken in a small boat to the United States revenue cut ter Hamilton, where they will remain until exchanged for the American newspaper correspondents, who landed in Cuba recently and were captured. The details of the transfer have al- ready been arranged. An American vessel will convey the Spaniards to Havana harbor and the exchange will be effected by boats carrying flags of truce.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
THE W1LroN rKAGnpY.
Statement Made by Young Willis In- criminating Himself ana Brockhaus.


 Bridgeport, Conn.,, May 26.-When the superior court adjourned this afternoon it was the prevailing impression that the state would have all it's evidence in the Wilton murder case presented at the close of to-morrow's session or early Tuesday, and it is not believed that the defense will have many wit nesses to offer. Mrs Lambert conclud- ed this morning reciting the occur rences of the night that her husband was murdered and though she under went the ordeal of cross examination much better than she did the previous day it was still plainly apparent that she was suffering from much mental anguish. More than dozen witnesses then were put on the stand who testi- fled to seeing the prisoners at various points between the Lambert house and Norwalk, and all were positive in their Identification.
 This afternoon there was another sensation, when after much discussion between State Attorney Fessenden and counsel for the defence (the jury not being in the court room) a statement made by Willis in the office of the Pinkerton agency April 25 after he had been brought on from the west to New York was allowed to be presented, with the exceptions of Attorney Lynch not ed The statement was read by John A. Rumsey, stenographic reporter in the employ of the Pinkerton agency, and was very lengthy one. Willis began his statement by saying that he was twenty-one years of age, and then recounted his movements from the | morning of the day of the murder up to | the time of his arrest.
 | Willis tells how in company With Max Brockhaus he went to different saloons in New York city and in the afternoon visited a small toy store on l Third avenue and bought two masks. | Soon afterwards they took train at | the Forty-second street depot for South Norwalk and on arriving at the latter city visited saloon where they ar ranged to make the trip to Wilton. He. | told of their going to the Lambert house and how he entered first and | met Mrs. Lambert but did not recol- 1 Iect what he said to her. Before going l into the house, however, both men ad- justed their masks. He tripped Mrs. | Lambert to the floor and Brockhaus assisted in binding and gagging her and ] then as he was familiar with the prem | ises he went upstairs for the expected plumber. Soon afterwards he came down and hearing some one coming in l made an exit by side door. He scarcely was outside when he heard | the sound of shooting and rushing in he being bewildered by drink fired two more short indiscriminately. He told of securing gold watch, $3 in cash and few other articles and then of his movements after leaving the house, most of which has already been brought out in the evidence presented by the l state.
 It was the claim of the defense that l the statement made by Willis was on the promise that he would be saved ex- 1 treme punishment, while on the other hand Sheriff Hawley and Detective Weeks, both allege it was voluntary on the part of the prisoner.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
CONFER WITH CUBAN OFFICERS.
Secretary Alger and Gen. Miles Meet
 Members of Garcia,s Staff.

Washington, May 26.-Secretary AL
 ger and General Miles conferred to-day with two officers from the staff of Gen. eral Garcia-General Enrique Collaso
 and Lieutenant Charles Hernandez, who accompanied Lieutenant Rowan
 of the United States army on his re- turn from Garcia's camp in Cuba. The two Cuban officers gave Secretary AL ger and General Miles information re- garding Garcia's forces and the general equipment of the insurgent army. Col onel Hernandez says that Garcia has his headuuarters at the town of Bay amo, which was surrendered by the l Spanish forces a few weeks ago, after | Garcia and his troops had maintained a | long seige General Garcia and his staff, with body guard of several hun l dred men are quartered inside the city. 1 About 5000 infantry and cavalry are quartered in the suburb of South Bay amo The men are well armed with Remingtons and Mausers captured from the Spaniards. Most of them have
 machetes, but only the officers carry
 other small arms.
 | The cavalry have small horses. Col
 onel Hernandez says that the com
 missary and equipment departments
 are unknown in the sense used by army | officials here In lieu of these the com
 panies not fully armed are organized as "predios." The duty of the "pre-
 dios" is to bring meat, ample supplies
 being secured from Puerto Principe, and vegetables, which are grown quickly in | bn N1,o | ly, Colonel Hernandez says, and the l troops kept well fed and in good spir- | it's There are no dress parades, and none of the regularity of daily drill usual in the United States army. The main occupation is making long daily
 marches to keep the men hardened. l The Cuban officers say that the arrival | of Lieutenant Rowan aroused the l greatest enthusiasm throughout the l Cuban camp He was warmly greeted l by Garcia and had long conference with him. The story of the lieuten- ants trip to Cuba has already been
 published.
 | Colonel Hernandez says communica- tion is maintained with General Gomez
 and with points along the coast. From these he has a general idea of the
 Cuban forces outside of those with Gen.
 eral Garcia at Bayamo. He estimates
 that there are 12.000 men, all of them well armed, east of La Trocha and con-
 stituting the forces in the eastern di- vision of the island under General Gar cia. These include the 5000 at Bayamo, the others being scattered at various points. He estimates General Gomez S immediate command at about 5000 men, with 5000 men scattered at various points. In all there is about 10000 10 25,000 troops actually in the field. It is understood that the prupose or the
 present visit of Garcia's officers is to give that generals assurance to the authorities here of his desire to give every possible cooperation to the
 American soldiers. Some assurances
 have come from General Gomez. The 1 Cuban officers have made a good inl- pression here and the authorities were agreeably surprised to find them men
 of ability and sodierly bearing. They
 will remain some days longer and then
 return to General Garcia's camp.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
AT CAMP HAVEN.
Disappointment Because the Second
 Regiment is Not Called Out.

Camp Haven, State Military Rendez- vous, Mantle, May 25.-To-day wealth CT conditions were but repetition of yesterdays isagreeableness, with the added discomfort of a heavy northeast wind, which threatens to create havoc with many of the tents o-night. The thermometer has fallen many degrees, and the piercing raw wind has neces- sitated the men enveloping themselves in their blarkets and resorting to un- usual efforts to keep comfortable. No work was performed to-day, and the men remained in their quarters except ing for an hour or two, when they were assembled in the mess houses for in- struction in guard duty. The sixty men who were corralled last night by the provost guard for leaving the camp without permission were occupied for some time to-day in the task of filling up holes in the companies streets with sand, which they had to wheel from the rear of the camp. The streets had been worn to a condition of sloppy mud, which was exceedingly disagreeable, but after the disciplined men had com pleted their labors there was an appre- ciable improvement. A few of the off, cers were fortunate to have oil stoves in their tents and their quarters were the favorite resort for other officers un- provided in this particular.
 In the absence of Colonel Burdette, Major Hickey has been in command of the post to-day. The health of the camp continues exceptionally good, as is evidenced by the promptness with which every man responds to meal calls. Major Albee of New Haven was one of the few visitors to camp to-day, and before his departure he presented to Captain Honce of the light artillery, for him to wear, the sword carried by the major through many campaigns. Lieutenant Weston was also the recip- tent of Major Albee's campaign saddle which he will use when the battery is called to active duty. Fifty more horses are to be added to the light battery equipment, and they are expected in a few days The six guns for the bat tery will be 32-inch breech-loading field guns, mounted on modern carriages with metallic limbers. With each gun will go a caisson, with Timber complete, also metallic.
 The news that the Third regiment would be called out in response to the presidents proclamation created some little surprise here and also some dis appointment, as it was hoped that the Second regiment might have been se- lected and the men would have then an opportunity of comparing their work with that of Connecticut's "crack" reg iment. Colonel Burdette returned to camp tonight on the S:05 train and was met at the station by Major Rockwell, one of the members of the examining board. and they proceeded to the Mor- ton house, where Lieutenant Colonel Hammond was mustered into the vol unteer service.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
SECOND GALE FOR VOLUNTEERS,
Some VexatiOus Questions Confront th'
 War Department.

Washington, May 26.-In the rush of military preparations, the war depart ment officials have not been able to give much attention to the procure ment of the 75000 additional volunteers called for yesterday by the president. It is still uncertain just how far the cruiting these forces themselves, nor is it positively known that independent organizations, companies, battalions and regiments raised by individuals will be accepted if by so doing the de- partment is required to accept the officers with the men. Indeed it is now questioned whether under the law the department could, if it would, accept services of officers under such c9n6i- tions, as the governors of the states appear to be the only persons author ized to issue commissions below the regimental grade.
 There are many other vexatious ques- tions to be settled before the regula- tions can be promulgated, but fortu- nately in the judgment of the depart ment officials, due notice having been given to the people of a desire for more troops by the government there is no occasion for haste in deciding upon de- tails, in veiW of the fact that the full draft of men called for under the first proclamation has not been secured. The department officials were engaged to-day largely in considering the new law providing for the organization of certain independent forces with the re- suit that the department was able to announce regulations governing the examination of applicants for commits sions in the engineer regiments and the organization of the immune regiments.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
NEW SPANISH WARSHIP.
Successful Trial of the Armored Cruiser
 EmperadO Carlos QuintO.


 Madrid, May 26.-News from Cadiz describes the trial of the artillery of the armored cruiser Emperado Carlos Quinto. All the warships at Cadiz have steam up constantly, and accordingly early yesterday the Emperado Carlos Ouinto left the harbor, carrying a con- mission of two posts consisting of Gen eral Jaceme, chief of the arsenal; Colo mel Sanchez, chief of artillery; Colonel Alonzo, chief of engineers; the captain of the port and other members of the technical staff.
 Three shots were fired from the twen- ty-eight-centimetre gun, which is mounted in a protected turret, with electric and hand-firing mechanism, the Emperado Carlos Quinto being the only Spanish warship furnished with these improved appliances. The trials were made by hand, one shot horizon tai. the others to the larboard and star board at from fifteen to twenty degrees, with excellent results. Shots were also fired from the ten and fourteen-centi- metre guns, from fifty -seven-m milimetre guns and from a thirty seven millime- ire Mitrailleuse, all with excellent re- suits. Further trials were suspended, owing to the foul weather, and the Elm perado Carlos Quinto returned to Ca dig.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
CRUISER SAN FRANCISCO
Puts Into Boston With Assistant En-
 gineer and Two Seamen Sick.

Boston, May 26.-The cruiser San Francisco came into port late this af- ternoon from patrol duty off Cape Cod with Assistant Engineer Cooper and two seamen i'll. The men were trans ferred to the naval hospital. Engineer Cooper is suffering with a severe at tack of the grip and threatened with pneumonia. Most of the seamen are also afflicted with the grip, while the balance have the measles. Twelve men from the receiving ship Wabash were taken to the San Francisco to replace the sick men. She will probably sail early tomorrow morning.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
MUsrERING THE VOLUNTEERS.
Work Under Presidents First Call
 Practically Completed.

Work Under Presidents First Call
 Practically Completed.
 Washington, May 26-The work of mastering the volunteers into the ser vice of the United States under the presidents first call for troops is prac- tically completed Adjutant General Corbin announced late tonight that the number of volunteers so far report ed mustered was 11S,0oO and that enough were prepared for muster to swell the number to between 121, 900 and 122,000. It is not expected by the war department officials that the full number called for will be mustered into the army, as nearly all of the states are short from twenty-five to a hun dred men of the number called for by their quota.
 Adjutant General Corbin expressed his qualification at the responses with which the call had been met by the states and is satisfied that if the call had been for 5OO,OO0 or even a million men 1t would have met with the same prompt response Iowa is still short about a thousand men and two or three of the southern states have not com pIeted their muster but the small gap remaining will be filled In a day or two.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
MERRITT IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Military Governor General of Philip
 pines Arrived Last Night

San Francisco, May 26.-Major Gen. eral Merritt, military governor general night All future movements of the Manila expedition will be subject to his orders. He will act only under instruc- tions from Washington. General Otis will accompany the second expedition, which is expected to sail within three weeks. The work of equipping the troops will now be in charge of Colonel Pope, chief quartermaster general of General Merritts staff.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
YALE-HARV.1RD-CORNELL.
Date for Triangular Race May be Jun
 23 Baseball Change,

Cambridge, Mass, May 26.-Present final choice of the triangular race at New London. The only other possible dates are June 24 and 25, the latter is practically out of the question since CornelPs recent refusal to row on that date and June "A being class day at Harvard is strongly opposed in Cam bridge. Conferences are now going on between the rowing and baseball au- thorities of Harvard and Yale with a view of changing the date of the Har- vard-Yale game scheduled for June 23. An understanding will probably be reached this week.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
DEFICIENCY OF s11, 400. 900.
Estimate for Quartermaster's Depart-
 ment for Year Ending June 30.

Washington, May 26.-The secretary of war to-day sent to congress an esti- mate of deficiencies in appropriations for the quartermaster's department for the year ending June 30, 1898, and avail able until January 1, 1899, amounting to $11, 400, ,000. The items of the estimate are given as follows: Regular supplies, $1, 900, ,00O incidental expenses, $2O0, 900; barracks and quarters, $200, ,OO0; horses for cavalry and artillery S1,000, ,O00; army transportation, S9,000 900.