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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-05-30
BY AUTHORITY

SATURDAY, JUNE II, 1898, being
the commemoration of the Birthday
of KAMEHAMEITA J., will be observ-
ed as Public Holiday and all Gov
eminent Offices throughout the Re
public will be closed on that day.
II. f. COOPER,
Minister of the Interior ad interim.
Interior Office, May 81, 1898.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-05-30
THE
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
OF CANADA.
Summary of Annual Report for 1897:

New Life Applications re-
ceived during 1897 ....$16, 1902, 754. 90
Increase over 1896. 80. 5,1S2, 462.73
Cash income for year end
ing Dec. 81, 1897. .. 2,23S, 1914. "A
Increase over 1896 80. 1852, 636.74
Assets at 31st December,
1897 ....... .......... 1892, 81 "A
Increase over 1896 80. 934,226.7S
Reserve for Security of
Policyholders ........ 6,S56,752. 9S
according to HIM. 4 per cent
Table.)
Increase over 1896 ...... 924, $50. so
Surplus over all Liabil-
ties, except Capital -. 314,220. 13
(According to HIM. ( per cent
Table.)
Surplus over all Liabil-
ties and Capital Stock. 5S3.271 %
(According to Canadian Govern
ment Standard HIM. Az per cent?
Surplus over all Liabil-
ties. except Capital -. 6ss,272 90
according to Canadian Govern
ment Standard Az per cent?
Claims Paid during 1897. 1874 81
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-05-30
CHEEKY Rooms

Do you realize how much
bright, tasteful, artistic Wall
Paper does to make room
cheerful and homelike?
We are offering an exception
ally fine collection of new Wall
Papers in the better grades
and will take pleasure in sub
hitting samples on request.
Some beautiful effects in the
harmony and blending OF
colors are shown in these
goods, and any one desiring
first class Papers and up-to-
date colorings at moderate
prices can be suited.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-05-30

In Puerto Liman, Costa Rica. the
whiskey is so bad that the yellow fe-
yer will not attack anyone who par
takes of it.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-05-30

BY order of the Commissioners of
Public Lands, notice is hereby given
that the above sale will be held at the
Judiciary Building in Honolulu, in
stead of the office of the sub-agent,
Kailua, at the same date and hour.
C. p. IAUKEA,
Secretary Land Commission.
Public Lands Office, Honolulu, May
II, 1898.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

paper. He mastered the business OF
running a country newspaper taking
his turn in looking after petty details,
besides learning to set type and becom-
ing an expert printer while but a boy.
At the age of sixteen he went to read
law in the Office of Judge Haynie in Sa-
lem. He was making rapid progress
when Gov. Bissell, then member OF
congress, secured him cadetship for
West Point.
Gen. Merritt has no family. His
favorite nephew, Eaton Merritt, he is
educating at a Connecticut school. with
a view of sending him to West Point.
Gen. Merritt was married in 1871, In
Europe, TO Miss Caroline Warren, OF
Cinsinnati. She died in 1898, at St.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

tory. 1t was for this bravery that
General Buford complimented him, fol-
lowing it by recommending his promo
ton. Later, General Merritt succeed
ed General Buford in command Of cav
airy, operating in central Virginia He
was in the Richmond campaign in 1854.
fighting with Sheridan at the head
with his columns in his historic raids
through the valleys. always closing in
on the armies of the dying confederacy.
His division (the First), composed OF
seventeen regiments Of cavalry, EN-
bracing General Clusters command,
won him honor for the mastery celer-
ity in which he drove Early and his
troops through Winchester
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

Paul, and was buried at West Point,
where the general was superintendent
for five years.
The Merritts originally sprang from
three brothers, who came to America
from Ireland in 1900, their descendants
settling in Winchester, and from that
family, it is said, all the Merritts born
in this country have descended.
OF General Merritt's military history
much has been written. A mere rec
ord Of his battles, engagements and
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

\ hawker, miserably clad. succumbed
in the street the other day in Paris to
the rupture Of a blood vessel, brought
on by starvation. Papers found upon
the body showed it to be that OF Comte
Auguste de Ia Tremblaye, SO years OF
age. A marriage certificate and a copy
OF a divorce decree were found in his
pocket. The count was at one time a
well-known man about town, but after
his divorce. eight years ago, he gave
way to drink and gambling, and dissi-
pated all his fortune. e gradually
sank lower and lower in the social scale
until he was reduced 10 earn a precari-
GUS living by hawking articles in the
street
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

A man is precisely his weakest wheS
he turns out OF bed in the mornings
The muscular force IS greatly increased
by breakfast. but it sttains to its high
est point after the midday meal. Il
then sinks for few hours and thea
rises again towards evening.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

the earnest recommendation Of Gen
eral Buford he was made a brigadier-
general.
The Ride of His Life.
Perhaps the greatest ride of his life
was his famous dash through the
Rocky mountains. when he rode night
and day to the rescue of Major Thorn
burghs command, hemmed in by the
Ute Indians at the time Of the White
River massacre. The soldiers were
surrounded and being slowly shot and
starved to death. A single man man
aged to crawl out one night and escape
aus after incredible suffering reached
Rawlings Station on the Union Pacific
railroad. nearly 200 miles to the north
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

Bride Of Gen. Merritt.)
campaigns would fill columns. He had
many narrow escapes from death-a
notable one at the battle of Beverly
Ford in 1868, when he was attacked by
a Confederate officer and a desperate
hand to hand contest followed. He
was sabered over the head, and would
have been killed but for the soft felt
hat which he wore, containing big ar
my pocket handkerchief In this en-
gagement he was surrounded and his
troops nearly captured. He fought
with a courage and desperation that
won a great victory. The newspapers
Of the day were filed with his exploits
in that particular engagement, and on
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

Turks and Jews, as well as Chris
tians, according to the Kolnische Volks-
zeitung, have been much excited by the
sound of the three bells OF the new
Protestant church in Jerusalem. For
several centuries the use Of bells by
the Christians in Palestine, or else
where within the Ottoman empire, had
been prohibited by the Great Turk,
who has conceded it now, however, TO
his friend and ally, the Evangelical
German Kaiser. In the Theater de Ia
Turuuie, published in 1858, it is said:
The Turks hate bells. as q symbol OF
Christianity, and do not permit even
the Christians to use them. Only in a
few remote mountain converts, or in
lonely islands, where there are no resi-
dent Mohammedans, is the use of a bell
tolerated"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10
As Usual.

yes. Jones has determined to so in
to literature He feels that he has .
message for the world"
And I suppose he wants % send ID
collect p Puck
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

4 hurry" telegram was sent to Cen
era1 Merritt, then colonel Of the Fifth
cavalry at Fort D. A. Russell, near
Cheyenne. After reaching Rawlings
or the nearest railroad point to the
White River Indian agency, General
Merritt had to ride four days and
nights continuously with light sup
ply of food and ammunition. Thorn
burgh was dead and his men were on
the point of starvation, wounded and
barely able to cling to their guns be-
hind their intrenchments. Merritt ar
rived al the break Of day. advanced
with yells and scattered the Indians,
who were waiting like coyotes for the
soldiers to die or surrender. General
Merritt's wild ride through the Rocky
mountains will long challenge the rec
ord. It is considered remarkable that
he did not kill a horse or a man dur
ing his mountain march.
With Custer. Mcpherson and Sheri-
dan, Merritt was called one Of the boy
generals Of the war. Graduating from
West Point but a few months before
the civil war broke out. he Joined the
Second dragons and continuously dis
tinguished himself in the cavalry serv-
ice all through the war He was Sheri-
dams right hand man in the great
campaigns of the Shenandoah leading
up to the battle OF Five Forks and the
surrounding and crushing Of Lee.
Merritt's six breyets from major to
e. -
sistible fighting at Gettysburg, Yellow
Tavern, Hawe's Shop, Winchester,
Fishers Hill, Five Forks and the APP
pomattox campaign are among his IN
dying achievements in the great war.
His title OF colonel in the regular
army, the Fifth cavalry, was bestowed
en- him in 1876. Later, when he was
given command of the much sought de-
partment Of the Missouri, with head
quarters at Fort Leavenworth, and
subsequently at ST. Louis, many So
called experts in military matters
thought it hardly fair to bestow so
great an honor-to shower the golden
stars of war-on the youngest brig
adler general Immediately following
his promotion.
General Merritt's military career in
closely contested engagements, in great
and hazardous campaigns, was always
that of a soldier and hero. He was
graduated from West Point July 1,
1860, just before the rebellion, and
reached a captalncy in the Second cav /
airy April 3, 1852, and was brigadier
of volunteers June %, 1863.
a Soldier and Hero.
In the army Of the Potomac, on the I
staff of General Cooke, and later with /
General Stoneman, in his famous raid I
toward Richmond, he won renown. In I
command of cavalry he crossed the [
Rappahannock and surprised the enc /
my, but for hours was nearly surround 7
ed and once on the point Of being cap I
tured. A confederate officer gave him I
II =
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

A Northampton nonconformist min
lister, on being elected vice president
Of local cricket club. forwarded TO the
secretary the following epistle. which
has created considerable amusement in
the town: My dear friend-I received
your letter this morning informing NE
that you had nominated me as a vice
president Of your cricket club, and
kindly requesting me 10 accept the po-
sition. I shall be delighted 70 do so
upon the following conditions: LIST.
that the club be true 10 its name. and
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

Vesuvius presented rare sight re-
Gently, real flames issuing from the
summit. Part Of the south wall Of the
crater fell in, blocking up the vents
from which the gases had escaped. A
few days later on April 10. this mass
having become red hot. a squirt OF flame
200 feet high was sent out. accompar-
led by a tremendous roar. The col
umn OF fire was yellow. with flashes OF
red, violet, and intense blue. Prof.
Mattencci, who saw it. says it was the
only jet of incandescent gas ever OBJ
served on Vesuvius. the light which
people usually mistake for flames be
ing merely the reflection Of the lava
below on the smoke that rises from ths
crater.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10
GOVERNOR GENERAL MERRITT.
Military huier of the Philippines a type of
the Best Americanism- He Was at
One Time a Farm Hand.

General Merritt, who goes to the
Philippines as military governor of
that island empire of the Pacific, is the
second in command of our national ar
my. He won fame and honor as Sher-
idans chief officer in the great battles
of the war. He was an unrelenting
warrior, once fighting nine battles in
ten successive days. His military ca
reer is more or less on record, but of
his private life little has been given to
the public.
Gen. Wesley Merritt's father, John
Willis Merritt, was New York lawyer,
having an Office at No. 1874 Nassau
street when the boy was born, Dec. 1,
1886, at No. 81 North Moore street. He
was one of eight brothers. Twenty
months later the law Office was at No.
8 Spruce street, the family having re-
moved to Brooklyn.
When Wesley was four years old his
father, having large and increasing
family, abandoned law for agriculture
and bought a farm at Looking Glass
Prairie" near Bellville, ILL.,, not far
from ST. Louis. Young Merritt attend
ed the school Of the Christian Brothers,
a Catholic institution, at Belleville. La
ter he worked on the farm for three
years, helping his brothers raise corn
and pork, for which that section has
always been famous.
Merritt a Farmer
Young Merritt often drove the farm
team seventeen miles to town, getting
only fifteen cents a bushel for his corn.
Everything that farmer produced in
those days was cheap as dirt, and there
was little money in circulation. Paste
board checks circulated between mer-
chants and farmers in some localities,
and their merchandise seemed high be-
cause it took so much corn and pork to
pay for it. Being a lawyer and a man
of a literary turn of mind, the boys
father aspired to do something besides
raising corn. He started a local even
ing newspaper at Belleville, called the
Advocate, and later a weekly of the
same name at Lebanon. Both were
Democratic organs, and, like most of
the Democratic journals of THAI day,
were for territorial extension, the an
nexation of Texas, and the settlement
of the vexed and formidable Oregon
question" by taking possession of the
country clear to the Pacific ocean.
Young Merritt helped his father and
brothers publish this Democratic news
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

An extraordinary aggression was re-
Gently committed at Souche. France, by
three troopers Of the Seventh Hussars.
The wedding Of NJ Papot was be-
ing celebrated at the house Of a rela-
tive, when the soldiers, who were in
toxicated, burst into the dining room,
and demanded to be served with il
quor When it was pointed out 10
them that they had invaded a private
house two Of the men drew their sa-
bers and attacked the wedding party,
who naturally defended themselves.
Eventually. after five guests had been
wounded. the soldiers we're obliged to
fee, leaving their weapons and shakOs,
and one Of their number on the field.
The wounded soldier had subsequently
to be removed to barracks in an ambu-
lance The members OF the wedding
party who were wounded we're the
bride, who was struck thrice on lhe
head with a saber, and also received
thrust in the leg, the bridegroom, whose
face was cut, and two relatives who
received blows on the arms. The best
man was also injured, but not seri-
ously.
Last December an elegantly dressed
woman was caught in Paris in the act
of shop-Hfting. Being conducted to
the neighboring police commissary's
Office. she at once confessed that she
had stolen the piece of silk, which she
had tried 10 conceal under her skirt.
When questioned as to her identity she
declared she had entirely forgotten her
name and the name OF the street in
which she had been living. She per
severed in that assertion, not only 10
the police commissary, but to the ex-
aiming magistrate, and at the st. La
zare prison, where she was incarcer-
ated. Being brought up for trial IN
Friday, she swOre solemuly she had
entirely forgotten her own name. She
was condemned to two months impris-
Onment, but as she had already under
gone four months imprisonment,w while
awaiting trial. she was at once Iiber-
ated. It would be curious TO know
whether she found her way home. as
she pretended she had forgotten her
address.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

Such is the restitution in Crete that
the sailors on her British majesty's
warship Arson are sewing warm petit
coats for the needy.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

A peasant woman living near Lau-
same, Switzerland, put an iron box
containing $50 francs in bank notes in
TO her stove for safe keeping Her son
made q fire while she was away, and
the bank notes we're burned to einders-
Fortunately she did not disturb them;
a knowing friend had them photo
graphed with their numbers, and the
government gave the woman new set
Of notes.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

A specimen Of German architectural
and business solidity is afforded by the
fact that in Nuremberg there are houses
still in good order which we're erected
in 1880. and that in the same town
firm has been engaged in manufacture
ing harmonious since 1860.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

Karabougas Bay, the large inlet on
the eastern side of the Caspian sea. has
been found TO have a crust OF crystal
lized Glauber salts Z foot thick on it's
bottom. The bay is nearly opposite
BatOun, whence fuel can be obtained
easily, and factories for the production
Of sodium sulphste are TO be establish
ed soon on a large scale.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-10

When a child dies in Greenland the
natives bury live dog with it. the
dog to be used by the child as a guide
TO the other world. When questioned
with regard 10 this peculiar supersti-
ton, they viii only answer: a dog
can ind MS way anywhere"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23

of sixty-fve pounds will be secured, and
those who have previously complained
of the scarcity of water for irrigating
purposes will now have to search for
other cause for complaint.
This water move is good one, and
will be greatly appreciated by our resi-
dents.
After visiting the section where the
men were at work this morning and in
terviewing Contractor Frye in regard to
the men employed, we feel positive that
we were misinformed as to outsiders be-
ing given preference. The contractors
assure US that every effort has been
made to employ citizens of The Dalles
and vicinity, and although many of their
faces are not familiar, yet they are men
WHO have applied for work here.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23

is to see that they are forwarded from
Baker City. Dalles people certainly
cannot give thanks in the right spirit
tomorrow, when at our very door are
those of whom the great Giver of all
good said, "Inasmuch as ye have done
it until the least of these We have done
it unto me-" The residents of our city
are only waiting to be called upon to
contribute. Let someone who is we'll
acquainted with the people of Canyon
City and understands best the manner
in which to supply their wants, appoint
himself committee of one to start the
ball rolling.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23
THE MAIN QUESTION.
Work Being Pushed Rapidly = Where
the Mains Will Be.

Work on the new water mains IS pro-
crossing very rapidly, two thousand feet
of ditch having been opened up during
the past three days. About thirty
workmen are employed and they are
certainly doing their best, as the ground,
being very rocky, is extremely hard to
get pick through.
The new mains are to be as follows /:
On Union from the reservoir for dis
tance of 240O feet will be 12-inch pipe ;
and from there down to Second a To-
inch. On Fourth street from Union to
Jefferson, down jefferson to Third, and
east on Third to Taylor, S-inch. On
Federal, Jefferson and Taylor, also on
Second between Union and Court, a g.
inch. Beside on Garrison street will
be placed 4-inch main, and on Third
between jefferson and Laughlin, 25C
feet of 4-inch.
/ When the work is accomplished
Dalles people will feel a security from
fire which it has never before been pos
pressure OF about ninety pounds to be
| used in case of fire, and besides the
Ilthirty-two plugs which are now distrib-
liuted over our city, the following will b.
lIadded: On Union, corners of Eleventh
Ninth, Eighth, Fifth, Third, and Sec
ond streets. On Fourth, corners o
washington, Federal, Laughlin, an'
jefferson. Corners of Jefferson, Madl
son, Monroe, and Taylor, on Third.
i For general and family use presaur
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23
Program For oatholie bazaar.

Following is the program which will
he rendered at the Catholic bazaar to-
night:
Hurdle Race. :. st. Mary's Orchestra
Cornet ahd Clar1onet Observation-Disclosures.
...................M Messrs Long ana Bepton
Mandolin and Guitar. Messrs Ryan ard Alden
Vocal Solo . .............. Miss Adele DeForest
CIarionet Solo ..-............M Mr.. Marcus Long
Song and Dance Hampshire and Clark
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23
J. a. CRossEN, P. M.
It,s Human Nature.

This readiness to accept the wonderful
and miraculous in preference to COM
monplace truth. A plausible and GLIB
tongued doctor can go from town to town
curing, or trying to cure, people, and
have a great influx of shekels, while
every community in which the so-called
doctor goes is supplied with quiet,
learned practitioners, who have forgotten
more than the fakir ever learned, and
they can give you the best treatment
within the reach of human knowledge.
While your home doctors carry you from
year to year. get up at all times OF the
night and are your servants during the
day, and you pay them when you are
we'll or able, the fakir gets the cash, and
is gone forever. If your eyes are troub-
ling you in any way, call on Prof. P. 6.
Daut, the only graduated optician or
doctor of refraction in The Dalles, two
doors west of Keller's bakery. l am
here to stay, and guarantee alleye work.
PROF. P. G. DAUT.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23
Thanksrlvlng Services.

Services at st. Paul's Episcopal church
tomorrow at 10 80 a. M.
Services in the Lutheran church on
Thanksgiving morning at IL O'Clock.
Special music in keeping with the day
will be rendered by male quartet.
A soprano solo will also be given.
The Congregational and Methodist
churches will hold union Thanksgiving
servi:e at the Congregational church to-
morrow evening at z 80 o'clock. Rev. j.
II. Wood will preach the sermon.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23
READ THIS.

It'll sharpen your appetite and assist
you IN making out your list of good
things for the Thanksgiving dinner.
MENU.
SOUPS.
Tomato, Mock Turtle, Chicken,
beef, Oxtail, Clam Broth.
FISH.
Salmon, Cod Fish, Mackerel,
Oysters, CLANS,
Lobsters, Shrimp, Sardines.
ENTREES.
Curried Fowl, Boston Baked Beans,
Macaroni and Cheese,
Deviled Crab, Pate de Foies Gras,
Rolled Ok Tongue, Pickles.
MEATS.
Boneless Turkey, with Cranberry Sauce,
Boneless Chicken, Boiled Ham.
Roast Beef, Vienna Sausage,
Boiled Corn Beef.
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes, Sweet Corn, Tomatoes
Asparagus, String Beans,
| Succotash, Lima Beans, Green Peas
Mushrooms.
| DESSERT.
Plum Pudding, Fancy Crackers,
Cheese, Fruit, Jelliee, Marm aladee
Candy, Nuts, Raisins, Olives,
Coffee, Cider.
All of these and many delicacies no
enumerated may be found in Pease
Mays Grocery Department at price
that will make you thankful you eav
them.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23

The fancy table at the Bazaar is the
place to buy Christmas presents for
your fridnds.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-23
Concerning Forester.

The following telegram was received
this afternoon in answer to query sent
yesterday by Sheriff Kelly as regards the
appearance of the man purported to be
Forester:
WINNEMUCcA. New, Nov. %, 1898.
Sheriff Robt. Kelly, The DalLes, Or:
Frank Forester height six foot one !;
weight 100 pounds; hair light; moustache
redder. Has wife at Mitchell. Admits
the killing of Brogan. Claims self de-
tense, Has tended sheep camp for Bro
gan. w. MCDEID,
Sheriff.