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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-29

State of Pennsylvania, County OF sullivan IS:
|, NJ. j. Swarts Cashier of the above named
bank do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best OF my knowledge and be-
lief.
NJ. d. SWARTS Cashier
Subscribed and sworn To before me this 26th
day of Sept 1898.
JOHN II. CRONIN, Notary Public
Correct-Attest
ALPHoNSUs WALSH,
JNO ID. REESER, Directors
W. j. LAWRENCE.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-29

Fish and ham, prices right, at J. W.
Bucks. Sonestown.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-22
THE LOWER COURTS.
Tony Marzena Fined $40 for Carrying
Concealed Weapons.

Tony Marzena Fined $40 for Carrying
Concealed Weapons.
Yesterday in Judge Fitzgerald's
court Tony Marzena was fined $40 and
costs for carrying concealed weapons.
Marzena was picked up the night be-
fore by Officers O'Brien and Stebbins
on suspicion. When searched it was
discovered hat he had on his person
two revolvers. a pair of brass knuckles
and two watches, besides 1925 in money.
A search of his effects revealed the
fact that he had a great quantity of
playing cards. 1t is thought he is a
s%ure-thing gambler. He was fined $40
for carrying concealed weapons.
There was another case In Judge
Williams court yesterday wherein a
lot of Slavonians aired their troubles.
The case yesterday was a continuation
of that tried IN the previous day when
John Dagana was fined $40 for assault
ing Pete Siatovich. The defendant in
yesterdays case was Pete Ladic. 1t
appeared from the testimony that Sin
tovich is some sort of a boss at the
works and hat about Is days ago,
work being slack, he discharged Ladic
and Dagana. A few days ago the force
was again increased. but Siatovich did
not put the two old employees back to
work. Instead he hired two other men.
This action incensed Dagana n Ladic
and they lay for Siatovich. Dagana
was the principal participant in the
fight that occurred. and Ladies wit
nesses testified that that person tried
TO act as peacemaker. 1t appeared.
however. that Ladies methods OF es-
tablishing peace were a little extraor-
binary and the court fined him s..
The complaints which had been
sworn out against Ed Johnson by his
mistress. charging him with assault.
were dismissed yesterday morning upon
Johnson paying the costs. The two
parties to the affair kissed n made
up and everything is once more lovely.
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The Part Unsaid

-~HE news. as 1t comes, leaves the
public to do a good deal OF
guessing. We have. for in
stance. the ffteen-puzzle paragraphs OF
the past six days relating to the adj
vance against Porto Rico. That expedi-
ton was to proceed without an instant's
loss Of time. every item in the prepara-
lions for it-so said the dispatches-had
been attended to.
Somehow. the movement against Porto
Rico didn't move. not. at least. until
yesterday afternoon. Along came press
kilograms accounting for the delay on
the theory that the president was not
proposing that the same blunder occur
twice. Supplies. achievements, equip
ment, stores did not follow Skaters
landing as had been promised: the presi-
dent. we were informed. was going to
be sure that, in the advance on Porto
Rico, nothing should be lacking. That
was yesterdays mornings word. The
dispatches for this morning give the case
a different presentation. They describe
the president as vexed and thoroughly
aroused over the delay in starting the
forces against Porto Rico. and they tell
OF the personal and peremptory orders
he issued for IN immediate movement.
1t is likely that the Standards special
Washington dispatch. posted yesterday
noon. told the whole truth about this
matter. The special said that Secretary
Long of the navy department was wroth
when 1t was suggested that his office
was to blame. He pointed out the fact
that General Miles had warship protec-
ton and to spare. and then he blurted
right out with the assertion that the
delay was due to the hardness of the
commissary department of the army.
That puts the blame. as usual, at the
door of General Alger and his contrac-
tors. They have failed every time. The
difference is that in this instance the
charge comes direct from a cabinet
member. Probably Secretary Long
spoke in haste. but the public will be-
lieve that he spoke the truth.
Then there is the apparent reserva-
ton in recent news with reference to the
yellow fever. The suspicion grows that
the public is not getting the facts.
The word for the past day or two has
been rather to the effect that the num-
Der of fever cases is not large and that
the disease is of mild type. Yet there is
more than an intimation that ii may be
found best to remove all our troops from
the island of Cuba until the season of
exposure to fever has had its run. 1t is
made to appear hat rest is impera-
tive for our men who fought at San
tiago, but. sure enough, along comes the
trouble. and it is with Secretary Ayers
part OF the work again-it is believed
that there will be delay in getting rest
for the men because of the lack Of trans
ports. Yet Secretary Ayers depart
ment spends money like water.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-22
Soast 1@eople Who Were
Kind to Our Soldiers

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
San Francisco. July 1s.-As stated in
press dispatches sent to-day, the Mon
tana boys have gone aboard their
transport. the Pennsylvania. They
came down Market street in excellent
order and were given a very fine send
or by the San Francisco people. The
more l see of the folks here, the more
amazed l become at their constant and
unselfsh hospitality to the soldier boys,
for this Is not only one regiment that
they have received and entertained.
but one of several. and they still have
some 1900 men within their city bor-
ders. or course the Red Cross ladies
were in evidence. They always are,
and the beauty and nobility and prac-
ticalness OF the work they are doing
cannot be too often spoken of. i have
often felt cynical enough to wonder
whether real unselfishness really does
exist; but after watching the work of
these California Red Cross ladies / am
convinced that it does, and that in
scores of cases.
Besides the Red Cross ladies there are
also, as workers, the ladies of the
Catholic Truth society. This society's
name suggests a sort of mission band
effort. but is misleading, for their eff
forts have been along far more practi-
cal and sensible lines than that of try
ing to p~roselytize. The chief work, of
course, has been lone by the Red Cross
ladies, but the society just mentioned
has added to the efforts of the unde-
nominational and international order.
During the stay of the Montana boys
the ladies of these societies nave done
a very great deal to provide comfort
for the boys in hospital. Choicest among
the workers, and one that will be re-
membered by many a Montana soldier
for many a day to come. is Mrs. r. S.
La Motto Of s25 Polk street. San Fran
cisco, who has had charge of the hospi-
tai work of the Montana regiment. Her
attention to the sick has been untiring,
and she has the thank of many a Mon
tanan for her care and mothering.
Lest some one shout ask and be un-
informed as to what this lady and her
associates have done, l would say that
your Uncle Sam. though a pretty rich
sort of chap, is so stingy that he pro-
vides no hospital necessaries, except
medicines, for his soldier boys. not even
eggs or milk. Everything of these ne
cessaries has to be provided and paid
for by the soldiers themselves. So that
for the sick-and there nave been a
goodly number-the Red Cross ladies
have provided eggs. milk, hot water
bottles. cocoa, jelly, pillows, a stove,
yes, and even a hospital tent, while the
Catholic Truth aides prepared toast
and poached eggs for the invalids. The
Red Cross ladies have given quite a
number of other necessaries, having do
mated goods Of all sorts to the value
of at least $500 for the Montana regi-
ment alone.
And this reminds me that the Mon
tana regiment is the only one that has
come here that has no regimental or
fund. for the payment or
such expenses as the ones l have spok-
en- of. The Treasure State stands alone,
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IN First Montana.

IN exclusive news from San Fran
cisco. the Standard printed. one day
this week. an astonishing story OF
Colonel Kessler's savage treatment Of
the representatives of the Red Cross.
The story seemed beyond believing;
this Office could not resist the conclu-
sion that it's special correspondent ct
San Francisco. under the spur Of feel
ing. had made the accusation against
Colonel Kessler too strong: and 1t is
a fact that the San Francisco dispatch.
before il went into print, was subjected.
for the reaso given. to serious prun-
ing. After the First Montana was well
nj at sea, the San Francisco corre-
~spondent of the Standard wired to this
office assurances that his story was not
ment OF Kessler's conduct.
Yesterdays mail brought the San
Francisco newspapers with their ac-
count of the Kessler incident. These
coast journals certainly rave 10 quar-
rel with the man. They have taken
frequent occasion to compliment the
Montana boys and to speak in praise
of their improvement in drill. They all
speak in bitter terms of Colonel Kess-
Ier's action-the Standard is not pre-
pared 10 believe II TO be possible that
there could be any form Of conspiracy
among these rival publications in San
Francisco having in view the slishtes,
Injustice 70 Colonel Kessler; his con-
duct was also treated in a way far from
complimentary in an associated press
dispatch.
No citizen NJ the United States has
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-22
TEN PAGES.
RIDAY JULY %. 1898.
Garcia Dead or Alive.

NE of yesterday mornings dis
patches was a rumor to the ef-
feet that General Garcia is dead
and that. for reasons of state, the Gu
bans were trying to keep the fact a
secret. The source of the information
was given. with the suggestion In the
press report that the story lacked salts
factory confirmation. This morning
brings the report OF words and deeds
ascribed to Garcia which are not at all
like the talk or the action of a dead
man. Apparently, he's alive and kick
ing-in accordance with the most mod
ern meaning Of the latter word; he is
kicking because his Cubans were not In
evidence at the surrender of Santiago
and because they are not turned loose
TO run the town. or-what lis more likely
to ruin il.
To persist in the use of the vulgarism
that seems to At this case Garcia has
no kick coming. The questions which
his protest raises were m~inutely gone
over in congress at the time when this
country's declaration of war was pend
ing. That is just where the hitch was.
The sentiment in favor of the recogni-
tion of Cuban independence was ire
mendously strong. 1t was held in check
by the argument that the recognition
of independence was a recognition of
the government the insurgents had set
up and of which Garcia was a part.
II was urged that the wiser course was
first to rid Cuba of the Spaniards and
then organize a government through the
agency of which the United States could
guaranty quiet to the island.
This may or may not AVE been the
better plan. Anyhow, 1t prevailed, and
there is no doubt that IL was approved
by the men who spoke for the Cuban
junta and for what was known as the
republican government in Cuba. That
General Garcia understood the arrange
ment. there is not a doubt. II the half
that is told in description Of the worth
lessness of the Cubans is true. the ar
rsngement is a wise one. and IL this
Cuban general undertakes to make
trouble, doubtless he will get IL where
Shafter gave IL TO the Spaniards and in
a way TO make him wish that the report
OF his death had been true.
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escued by Frank Smith, who plunged
into the bay after him. Neither man
was a soldier.
Willie Burns, aged IA years, who was
acting in the capacity OF mascot TOT
Company X of the LIST Montana, was
not allowed to go on board the fehn-
s~ylyania by Colonel Kessler. Mrs. A.
$ Townsend, whose sympathies were
aroused for the sorrowing and despond-
emf lad. at once started for the city nan
with the intention of becoming his
guardian, so that he could be enlisted
with the regiment and sail this morn
ing. -
assistant adjutant general on the stan
of Major General Merriam, appeared
at the dock. and hunting up Colonel
Kessler, held quite an extended CONVEX
sation with him. Although no one
heard what il was all about, the report
was started and soon became genera
hat Lieutenant Bennett a brought
orders countermanding the departure
of the LIST Montana. This was a damp
ener on the ardor of the men from MON
tana, who were at a loss to understand
why any such action should be taken.
II was some little time before the con-
tradiction overlook the false report,
and then. the men resumed the even
tenor of their way. 1t has been the
custom hitherto of the commanders OF
transport fleets or large vessels to call
at military headquarters before pulling
out into the stream to receive their
fnal Instructions 1t seems that Colo
mel Kessler, owing to his multifarious
duties and the somewhat lively scenes
on the dock. had either forgot this GUS
tom or had delayed going to h~eadquar-
tiers too long. Major General Merriam,
therefore. sent the Instructions by Lieu
tenant Bennett
The Pennsylvania pulled out into the
stream at about 5 o'clock, n accord
ing to the Instructions received by Col
onel Kessler. she will sail at $3.50 O'Clock
this morning.
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either because of its thoughtlessness or
Ignorance of the necessity for such a
fund: for surely IL could not be posi-
BILE that Montanans are so thoroughly
selfish that their interest in their men
ends as soon as their pocketbook is
touched. The Minnesota regiment has
a fund Of SIS, 000-not 81, 800 as previous
ly reported. Colorado has $4,000: an
Iowa regiment $1,000. and other states
like figures. Montana has not a red
cent. True there are some company
funds, but not one of the three COM
panies from Butte has a single penny
in the shape of a fund. The Great
Falls people. with a liberality that
Butte might well copy. have sent 81, 600
to their company. while Mrs. Hearst
has given $500 to each of the Anaconda
companies. But the Butte companies,
as I just stated, have no fund, and all
reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. the m~illionaires of the great cop
per camp have donated nothing to the
boys other than cigars, and those were
sent to the officers!
In Manila there will be great need
for a hospital fund for the three Butte
companies and those from other points
in the state that are without such an
exchequer. There will be a Red Cross
organization there, but that society will
not have San Francisco people to draw
upon for eggs. milk, slippers. pillows,
toast, beef tea, ice, fans and all other
such necessaries, and everything will
have to be bought out there. The
three Butte companies should have a
fund of at least $1,000 each, and this
sum il should be easy to raise in a
camp that is so patriotic that II can
advertise that it la money enough to
burn $1,000 worth of fireworks on the
Glorious Fourth. Just before leaving to
go on to the transport r. H. Paxson,
senior hospital steward. told me he had
received $50 from the Soldiers Aid So
ciety Of Butte. The money was used
for hospital supplies that were very
urgently needed. From a large number
Of the men I learned that Chaplain
Stull has made himself very popular
with the boys. He has organized enter
tainments three nights a week and gen.
orally e~ndeavored to give the men ev-
cry possible pleasure, besides looking
after their spiritual welfare.
1t fell to the lot of Capt. f. w. Wynne
of Company G to be officer of the day,
and he had charge of the embarkation
of the first body Of troops sent by Mon
lana to a foreign country. Lunch of
fruit, sandwiches and coffee was pro
vided on the pier by the Red Cross
ladies, who also had piles of postal
cards ready for the boys to write fare
well letters to the old folks at home.
These ladies also had about l,2OO
| lunches neatly packed up to give to the
boys as thtey went aboard; this to
| stand by them until such time as sup
| per could be served on board ship. 1
met a great many of the men, and
| found that while they realized that the
future was full of serious possibilities,
| yet they were in good spirits and salts
fed that the regiment will give a good
| account of itself If called upon for ac-
tive duty.
DE PUTRON GLIDDON.
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Another

The Chronicle also tells OF Colonel
Kessler's orders that made the Red
Cross ladies indignant. Following Is
what the Chronicle says of the af1air:
Colonel kessler, commanding the
Montana regiment. placed every opsta-
Gle yesterday in the way OF the WORK OF
the hospitality committee OF n heo
Cross, the women who work from the
early morning and for days before so
that departing soldiers may nave a
luncheon when they reach the COCK
after their long, weary march from the
camp. Through his unheard-of ORDERS
his lack of consideration for his men
and courtesy to the ladies, they mad a
miserable day. but remained at their
posts. took all the indignities onereo,
and managed at last to get each man
something to eat. But at the end they
were jaded and heartsick at all the un-
necessary annoyance.
1t appears that Colonel kessler IN
~structed the police not to allow any one
on h dock, and, upon a suggestion that
Red Cross women would be the eScep'
ton, he replied No" And no IL
came near being. despite the fact a
there were ample provisions and plenty
OF hungry men. Wagons containing the
Red Cross supplies were permitted 10
drive on the dock. but the corps OF wo-
men who were TO dispense them ana
who were properly Identified by brass
badges and passes from General Merrit'
before he left, were denied admission
by the police. A few of them had 10 re-
sort to riding in on an express wagon
TO evads them. One Of the ladies wen'
to Colonel kessler and asked that M
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words other than those of the warmest
admiration for the Red Cross. 1t Is
no interloper. IT is not a mischief MAX
er; its noble work is admired and sus-
tanned by the public and 1t is univer-
sally approved by all soldiers of high
rank in the United States army. 1t is
a shameful thing that Montana is thus
embarrassed and made to blush by the
conduct of the colonel of this states
regiment of volunteers.
From the outset the feeling through
out the state has been that a far better
choice for a colonel Of the Montana
regiment could have been made and
ought to have been made than was
made. This feeling has been strength
ened by much of the news that has
come from a Francisco respecting
trouble of one kind or another which, ii
is current belief. would not have hap
pened had the regiment had the right
mar at its head. The de~plorable fea-
ture of the case Is that the insult to
the Red Cross happened at the mo-
ment when the regiment was about to
depart for distant Manila. thus making
1t impossible to ave on the spot the
inquiry that would have Strengthened
the Trims out. Colonel Kessler has not
been heard from and, of course, he IS
entitled to a hearing: but the case rs
stated in all of the San Francisco news
papers leave Montana in an unpleas-
ant position.
While this matter IL up, we direct the
attention of the reader to the interest
ing letter, under recent San Francisco
date and printed this morning. with
which the Standard is favored by Mr..
de Putron Gliddon. hose communica-
tions are always welcomed by the read
ers of these pages. In the letter are
many facts not formerly mentioned but
ALL Of them interesting. in regard to
the sojourn of the Montana regiment
Aside from Red-Cross work, Ii viii De
seen that the c~itizers of Montana are
placed under enduring obligations 70
other organizations whose labor of love
is something for which our boys n
their friends at nome can never hiahe
adequate recompense. To Mrs. X. >.
La Motto, the wife of a San francisco
banker. and to her associates, this
whole state is grateful beyond the
power of expression in words. Their
ministrations of mercy and of kindness
do not fail of recognition here; God
bless them all!
In his letter Mr.. Gliddon refers 10
another matter that has lately been re-
ferred to in these columns. 1t trans
pires that Montana is an embarrassing
exception to the rule in the matter OF
providing a suitable emergency fund.
MIR. Gliddon takes account of some OF
the subscriptions that have been made;
| TO those he names are 10 be added GER
tain sums sent by some of the ladies IN
Butte. The fact remains, however. thai
Montana is derelict in this matter; We
have not done as well by our volun-
teers. in the matter of hospital and
emergency funds. as other states have.
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CONTINUED from Page Three.)
Red Cross were at first refused admis-
sion, and that some of them were let
in by the police. all other authority
10 the contrary Notwithstanding. A
Montana private wrote out the fol-
lowing handed IL to a Call re-
porter. with the request that it be pub
lished:
THE members of the LIST Montana in
fantry beg hat they be not judged by
their colonel. They know their friends
and appreciate more than they a say
the kindness shown them bv the ladies'
of the Red Cross, and deplore the action
of Colonel Kessler in refusing TO accept
thai kindness to-day"
After the men a got on board the
Pennsylvania the usua scenes incident
TO previous em~barkations occurred.
There vas a lively b~ombardment with
oranges from the crowd on the dock
and from men and boys in small boats.
Rrigadier General Otis was struck IN
the neck and was nearly knocked
down. He took IL good-naturedly. how
ever. saying he had been under hre be-
fore.
OF course. some man had to fall on
the dock into the water to add variety
TO the scene. His name was Charles
Mccarthy. and he might have gone 10
the bottom OF the sea had he not been
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-22
Freight War.

San Francisco. July 21.-The freight
war between the railroad. steamship and
clipper lines to New York has not ended.
The rate on wine, which was formerly 70
cents per 100 pounds by rail, 65 cents via
Panama and AZ cents around Cape Horn.
has been cut to &c cents by the Panama
company, no discrimination being made
in the size of shipments. The tarin on
borax has been lowered from 40 cents to
SO cents: rubber junks from so cents to
As cents. and rags from 60 cents TO 40
cents. To meet these reductions a gen.
eral cut by the other carriers is expect
cd