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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-22
EARL CARPENTER & SONS,


No. Z WeStn1InsteF St', COZ Oyor'
This old.established house wholesale and
retail ICE at fair prices, and by prompt at
tention to business and the employment OF
good men in their several departments,
merit n continuance OF the patronage SO
long enjoyed
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Rent Pays for Home.

wii buy or build anywhere for YOU both house
and lot; comparatively nothing required down
Call or write. AMERICAN INVESTORS CO.
$50 Banigan Building. Providence. II. I.
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HeIp Wanted.

WANTED-A Nova Scotian, German or
Swedish girl for general house work. Apply
at News Office. aul6tf
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GRoCERIEs. GRAIN. ETC.

A. II. wHITrAKER,
Choice Family Groceries. Pure Teas, Coffecs.
Flour, Grain, Hay and Straw. low westmin-
ster street Telephone.
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ROOMS AND BOARD.

wANTEp-ir private family, gentlemen
boardcrs: frst-clnss rooms and board, all
improvements. p Vernon street, right bell.
aul2 CT ~.
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L p.mosa psnd are the eSst, tsr,ss:, sc: ssssS. s.
~ Len; cssss.ssr s:s'e cSsnssr ssrs Co.. fE fEl.s... n r..
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FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE--Ten-room house, l04 Burnett
street. Apply To ID. RUSSELL BROWN.
FOR SALE-Nineroom cottage at Oakland
Beach, Apply to j. ID. RANDALL, ~ OAK
land Beach avenue. noV.u
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09

October. Last year they planted
on the goth. This season they
will plant only Bermudas or yell
low Danvers, claiming they keep
better and are more desirable.
They claim that from 200 to 800
bushels can easily be grown
upon one acre and are ready sale
at 81 per bushel. A car holds $50
bushels of onions and two or more
can go in together and make up a
car"
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09
Amended Wrong Law.

Austin, Textile last legisla-
ture in amending the assessment
law amended an assessment act
that had been repealed and which
had provided for the assessment
of dogs. The tax rolls of the
counties received have assessed
dogs to a more OF less extent.
Travis county tax rolls show 259
dogs, valued at $697. Anybody
living IN Austin knows that she
has at least 259 dogs in each of
her twelve wards. Some coun-
ties have rendered great many
dogs at no value, while one coun-
ty rendered 1000 dogs valued at
$40 each, while another county
had 500 dog and not a few had
$25 dogs, and graded on down to
great many having no value.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09
To Improve Sour Lake.

Austin, Tex.-Capt. S. S. Ashe
of Houston and II. l.. Benson of
San Antonio were here in the in
terest of capitalizing the property
known as Sour Lake Springs, sit
uated in Southeastern Texas.
Their object is to make the prop
erty the seat Of a health resort
that will draw thousands of
health seekers to Texas, as well
as to establish a winter resort
there that will be visited by many
northern people. Capt. Ashe and
Mr.. Benson report that they have
secured $4,000 among about 200
stockholders. They expect to
raise 100000 to start with, and
will have probably 1000 stock
holders. The company will be
organized rs soon as $4,000 is
taken, and the erection of a mod
ern hotel, sanitarium and bath
houses will then begin. 1t ls
also proposed to secure railroad
connection with the outside world.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09
Letter from Manila.

Dir. L. Keplinger OF Waxa-
hachie, received letter from his
brother, Sergt. w. T.. Keplinger
of battery G at Manila, in which
he says: ~ have not had a bed
to sleep on for two months and
have been sleeping for weeks at a.
time on stone sidewalks. Some.
times for two days and nights /
do not have an opportunity to
take off my shoes. 1t rains most
every day and my clothes are al
ways wet. Manila has about
400, 900 inhabitants, most of them
natives and Cinnamon. Few
white people live here. The peo-
pie live in any kind of place. Five
or six families living in stable
yard. If man can get. a horse
stall for himself, wife and three
children. he is all right. Typhoid
fever. and dysentery are raging
among the soldiers and many are
dying
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09
viii Extend to Yaoui.


Chief Engineers. Fowson Smith
of the Rio Grande Sierra Madre
and Pacific railroad of Mexico,
arrived at Ell Paso from New
York, where he has been in con-
sultation with the stockholders Of
the line. He announced that the
company had decided to build
an eighty-mile narrow guage rail
way, which will branch off from
it's present terminus at Casas
Grandes and traverse the minera
and heavily timbered region to
the west, known as the Yaqui
gold country. The main line of
the railway now connects Ell Paso
and Juarez with Casas Grandes
and is 100 miles long. When the
narrow gauge connects with the
timber region the value of the
line to Ell Paso will be incalcuable.
Work on the new road begins i'm
mediately.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09
EK-MarshaI Williams Writes to a
Dallas Friend.
TELLS or THAT FAR-OFF LAND.
Committee Of Business Men From Pitts
burg, Pa, Visit jacksonville, Tex,
Relative to Vegetables, Etc.
Texan in KIondike.

EX-United States Marshal j. >.
(Sheb) Williams of Paris is in
the Klondike country. His friend,
Sheriff Ben E. CabelI, has re-
ceived the following letter from
him:
Near Fort Yukon, Sept. 2,
1S9s,-Mr. Ben Z. Cabell, Dallas,
Tex: My dear Benz will en-
deavor to give you some account
of my trip to date. ! am not sure
whether | have done so before,
but believe that / have. / arrived
at st. Michael and on thorough
investigation of the Yukon river
made up my mind that our little
boat was not equal to the requir-
ments, and l put about to make
a turn to get to Dawson City. l
found the steamer, w. X. Men
win, in trouble and IN the hands
of the crew, so | chartered her
for $500, the charter money to
be applied to payment of same at
my discretion, purchase price
being $l2, 800. | got good cargo
and a round lot Of passengers,
out6tted, renovated, painted her,
etc, and started using our little
boat as a tug and to pull the
steamer off bars, etc., for awhile.
She has been of great assistance. L
also purchased a boat fer $3.50,
and loaded her with eighty tons
of ccal oil at $3.50 per ton. To
sum it all up | have Just about
paid for boat and barge.I Will
land in Dawson with half inter-
est in both with $4,000 or $751; 900
as my part, mystores for eighteen
persons for one year and the little
boat besides. So you can see |
have not done so badly. The
Merwin is not adapted to the st.
Michael trade, being but 1855 tons
net. 1t is my intention to either
sell her or use her in the upper
Yukon. Most of my passengers
were for Minonk or Rampant City
and | found the water so strong
and the load on the boat anc
barge such as to materially retarc
our progress. So l left the barge
at Auvic, an Indian village 55(
miles below Rampant and brough
the passengers and freight on t.
their destination.
at is not within the descrip
tive powers of a man nor tn
comprehension of woman for on
to he in any respect Influenced o
directed by that which is said o
it either in song or prose. 1t is
rivulet to-day, lake tomorrow
and an ocean the next day. A
times and places fathomless, an
within three feet of MEASURES
current one often fetches up on
bar at a depth of eighteen inches
when stranger one would say tn
channel was miles wide. The MT
lives or Indians are used as pilot
They get from $40 to $15 pc
day. Wood costs $40 to 81
per cord, and everything in pr
portion.
/ sent one of our boys over Il
trail from Seattle with a letter
Brockington that l might kno
what they had done and what
depend On, thinking if they fail'
to make find in the Daws'
country that we might be govern
accordingly and in some way p
gu. our forces to work on t
lower county. He met me wi
good news from the boys, sayi
thai thy hal all they could hane
and to bring the entire par
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09

Twelve cars of cattle were re-
ceived at Terrell from San An
cello consigned to j. B. Wilson.
They will be fed for market to be
shipped east.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09
Abilene Fair.

far and roundup was attended
by a large crowd of people. The
programme was an interesting
and even exciting one, R. B.
Wilson of Knox county, who won
the first prize on Thursday in the
roping contest, making the eX-
cellent record of Al seconds, and
"Kid" Owens, also of Knox
county, performed some extraod-
mary feats. Two of the widest
longhorn steers were turned loose
upon the grounds in front of the
grand stand. There is no doubt
of their being the very widest,
being of large, mossy-horned type.
These steers were caught by
Wilson, thrown and tied without
being roped. He rode alongside
of the steer on his pony and when
under good Roadway leaped from
his pony and cought the steer by
the neck and horns, stopped him
and by main strength he gave the
steers neck such a twist that he
was compelled to lie down. The
best time made by Wilson in
throwing the steers in this man
ner was less than two minutes
from the time he first started
after him on his pony. After the
steers had thus been tied down
"Kid" Owens united them, fast
ened the ropes around their
bodies like surcingles, and after
allowing each of them to get up,
mounted them in spite of their
plunging and bucking, and rode
each of them off the grounds.
These feats are said,to be the most
extraordinary ever witnessed at q
fair or roundup in this part of
the state. Interest during the
day seemed to center in the dis
plays of the ladies' departments
and in the educational depart
> ments. The displays of the act
ual class work Abilene public
. school and Kindergarten class of
: Miss Edna E. Snyder attracted
a great deal of attention.
The shoot conducted by the
$ Abilene Gun Climb was also very
5 interesting, the shooting of live
: birds, clay pigeons and glass balls
$ having been carried on during
a the entire four days of the fair
i, During the day an old soldiers
: organization was formed to bt
g known as the West Texas Ole
: Soldiers association and to be
e open to all soldiers who fought
}, in the civil war regardless o.
II which side they espoused. DR.
d Leeman of Merkel, an eX-Confed
'e crate, was elected president AM
10 j. A. Lowery of Abilene, an ex
re- Union soldier, was elected secre
1t tary. On Thursday an old set
~ tiers association was forme
II with DR.. t. M. Blackmore a
0, president and Mrs. r. A. Gree
IF secretary. The great social even
es of the fair, however, was tn
,p grand annual ball of the Yves
es Texas Fair and Roundup assC
H. citation, which took place at tn
es opera-house. 1t was under tn
or management of T. M. Wingo, an
be and attended by the elite of Alb
nd lene and their guests. A mos
excellent programme had bee
Ia arranged. There were beautifl
in costumes and good music and a
,as array of beauty such as few towI
de in the state can equal. The dan
at ing continued to late hour M
ties the OCCASION was one of delight.
il,
N Robert Waggoner, thought
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09

But in spite of their advice to
the contrary, l left three men at
Rampant City with twelve months
outfit. They willprospectin that
country and the Kakukuk river as
well. The boys sold their fancy |
groceries and will have $4,000 |
for me on my arrival, with enough
for ten men left. SO you see l
am not doug so badly after all.
81 don't thiull the mineral re-
sources have been exaggerated or
even overestimated. Little or no
work has been done, compare
tivly speaking, the output being
exceedingly great for the labor
performed. Tho hardships have
been exaggerated greatly. The
summer, which is the only season
| can vouch for, has been very
pleasant. / have been wearing
woolseys during the day and
sleeping under robes or pair of
sixteen pound blankets at night.
The change is now on us, heavy
frosts and beautiful nights being
in order. The old-timers say
winter is by far the most pleasant
season of the year and that no
one suffers from cold unless they
expose themselves when the mer-
curry is below forty degrees. tits
certainly very healthy country,
and will some day be visited as a
health resort. The mosquitoes
are bad, but fall far short of the
terrors we read of. l find since
they have given way to the frost,
a small gnat or sand fly has come
instead, and they are exceedingly
annoying, leaving bump tc re-
mind one of their visit, wherever
they settle, which is usually on
the hand or face. But to take it
all in all, | find less to complain
of in the way of nature 8 enemies
, than | have heretofore found in
new countries. / find everything
[ get high, but l charge them
right back-50 cents per yard for
, calico, rs cents per can for corn
, or any other canned vegetable, 40
t cents per pound for bacon and 81
ITPer pound fc- oleomargarine-
These things are given in part
} payment for wood at $l2 to 500
/ per cord.
Mrs. Williams has improved
each day, while | have grown
beautifully less, having lost twenty
: pounds, and she having gained
$ about as much. Both of us are
r delighted with the results. l have
I been doing all kinds of work,
5 saving, chopping and splitting
y wood, helping to fire on the boat
g etc. / have the finest lot of mer
d on earth. They all work like
d beavers, taking their turns a
g deck hands, etc. When it comes
0 to beach combing, as getting fue
1t is called, then we all go out.
= met Miles Crowley in st
Michaes. He came over tn
pass in March. He had out hi
70 single and was making som
= Roadway in the practice o. law
- - but informed me he was goin
out.
'. My boys inform me that W
n have between fifty and sixt
I'd CLAIMS, and unless my wits ia
So me, or my Judgment be bad, l al
n sure of the money. We are il
s terested in what is known as til
ne Valley Group, a lot of claims {
a. the mouth of the Klondike an
$ Indian rivers, which must be
or great dredging undertaking. "
% are sinking to bed rock in sewers
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09

raising for city markets, and re-
ported as follows:
eve had heard of such big
profits in the fruit and vegetable
industries at and near Jackson
vile that we expected to find both
the amount shipped and the pro-
fits derived considerably eXag-
gerated, but to our surprise found
that the extent of neither had
been fully told. From Jackson
vile and nearby sections we
learned that over 800 cars of fruit
and vegetables had been shipped.
Some cars of mixed vegetables
such as beans, tomatoes, onions,
ETC., proved unsatisfactory from
the fact that such mixtures cause
the vegetables to ripen and decay
fast, but when shipped straight
meet with ready sales at profit
able prices. Several hundred
acres of-cantaloupes were planted,
but because of inferior or mixed
seed the profits were not as large
as expected, but sufficiently so to
justify very large and increased
acreage next year. Peaches, to-
matoes, canteloupes, onions and
Irish potatoes are their largest
and most profitable crops and
came in the order named. Irish
potatoes would not be last If they
could successfully grow them.
! Our soil and our seasons are more
favorable to this crop than theirs.
LOCAL buyers and buyers from the
north and east, representing large
produce concerns, buy from the
producer, sometimes in the gar
dens or orchards and some
times Grated f. o. b., while other
growers preferred shipping. AT
one time last season there were
thirty-fve produce buyers IN
Jacksonville. Wetold them that
when they planted largely of vege-
tables and FRUITS, that just as cot
! ton buyers Me ~ buy their cot
ton so will these produce buyer!
come to buy their produce.
"The prices paid were as fol
lows: Irish potatoes SOC, peaches
81, onions 81, and cantaloups i
each. These for the produc'
sacked or Grated and put in tn
depot.
"Wo met the president of tn
+ French Vegetable Growers asso
citation, who has kept an exac
account of all produce shippe'
by his association and showed u
, the manifest of forty-two car
shipped early in the spring. Not
, withstanding some heavy losse
| due to inexperience, he showed
net profit after paying freightf
icing and commissions, of So
645.18. hour years ago, befor
their attention turned to this in
q dustry, farming land could b
bought from SO to s. per acre
> and now as far away as four {
five miles land could not be ha
for less than $40 and up, whel
Q accessible to the packing hou;
y and depot. They have a lars
Il box factory giving employmel
n to many hands and the mon'
l. paid this factory last season il
9 boxes and crates amounted to 81
't 900. They claim that instead
d sending away north for the box
q they manufacture them and ke'
9 the money at home, besid
IL it works up class of timber u
" fit for any other purpose and Civ
90 to the land owners money t
oe trees that otherwise would
worthless, such as scrub gum a
y black gum.
to "The best paying crop is ton
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09

Bubonic plague is in Vienna.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-11-09

Robert Waggoner, thought to
have been murdered in Territory
Sherman friends think alive.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-02
NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS.
Dispute With Secretary of War I'm
settIed-ComDnnies Volunteering.


settIed-ComDanies Volunteering.
RALEIGH, n. c., June 1.-(Special)-
Acknowledgement Cowles was asked to-
day what would be done in regard TO the
formation of the Third Regiment of Vol
unteers. and replied: Nothing, until the
matter in dispute with the Secretary of
War is settled. You will be astonished
when l tell you that sixty-five white
companies have made tenders of service
Oh the second call. 1 cannot account for
the very great increase in volunteering,
save that there is an increase in military
enthusiasm"
There are some persons who are doubt
full Of the success of the movement to
raise a regiment or two of negro i'm
munes in this State. But it appears that
with the proper effort it can be quickly
done
There are complaints by some officers
OF the Second Regiment of Volunteers
that the hospital service Is inefficient.
No doubt, upon Colonel Burgwyn's re-
turn he will investigate the matter.
There are also complaints about some
OF the bread furnished These, too, will
be called to the attention of the Colonel.
Colonel Burgwyn, of the Second Regi-
ment of Volunteers, appears to feel sure
that he will have his regiment armed
and clothed before 1t leaves here. The
First Regiment was armed at Jackson
Vile yesterday, with 45-calibre Spring
field rifles, which had been turned in by
the army. Those the regiment took from
here will be sent TO the State arsenal at
Raleigh for reissue 10 the State Guard.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-02
THE CoMPANY's APPRECIATION.
Present Their Picture and Resoiu-
fions of Thanks to Hibernians.

One Of the most interesting features
of the meeting of the Ancient Order OF
Hibernians last night was the presenta-
ton OF q neatly-framed group picture OF
Company NJ, Third Regiment, formerly
Company f, Of the First. and a copy OF
the following resolutions, also nicely
framed:
whereas, Division No. 1, Ancient Order
OF Hibernians. have deemed our COM
pany worthy OF the honor OF being the
recipients Of the magnificent flag Of our
country by the generous tender of this
beautiful emblem Of liberty 10 our com
nand Friday evening, May 70. 1898: be
g. therefore,
Resolved. That we extend TO the Off
GERS and members of Division No. !, An
Client order OF Hibernians, our heartfelt
thanks for the honor they have be-
slowed upon US. BE IL further
Resolved, That copy OF these resolu-
lions be spread upon the minutes of this
command, and copy forwarded 10 the
officers and members of Division No. i.
Ancient order Hibernians, Of the city OF
Richmond. Va.
X. LIE MAsURIER.
Captain.
v. S. HARDWICKE,
First Lieutenant.
]. A. lie MASURIER.
Second Lieutenant.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-02

on the streets OF Richmond, and l DO
not think any one wants to join any Oh
the three companies left behind"
While this uncertainty exists, Lieu
tenant-Colonel Anderson Is making a
great effort to rehabilitate the organiza-
ton. Glasses are to be formed for the
instruction OF officers. and the companies
viii undergo a more systematic ana
thorough course of training than they
have been used to up to this time. There
is a manifest desire on all sides to SINK
all those petty differences which have
retarded the growth OF the regiment
hitherto, and the officers and men are
anxious for service under any conditions
that may be imposed upon them.
WILL COMMAND COLoRED TROOPS.
There is not a little talk around head
quarters as to the possibility OF officers
being called upon to take charge of the
colored battalions, and there is not
man who would not undertake these du-
ties II called upon.
The present state OF uncertainty In
regard 10 the way IN which Virginia's
quota under the Presidents second call
will be made up has had its effect upon
the new companies now being recruited,
and few volunteers were on hand in the
company quarters last night.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-02
AN OFFER STILL OPEN
QUESTION OF RUSHING WORK on
KEARsARGE AND KENTUCKY.
How the Matter stands--It All
Depends Upon whether schiey
Destroys Cervera's SquadrOn-An
Authoritative Statement.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA, June i.-(Spe-
cial. 1.-THE Dispatch correspondent learn
ed to-day on good authority that the
Navy Department is reserving its de-
cision In the matter of issuing rush or
ders to the Newport News Ship-Building
and Dry-Dock Company for the compile
ton OF the first-class battleships Kear-
sarge and Kentucky until the result OF
Commodore Schley's operations against
the Spanish squadron is known beyond
doubt.
The company made a proposition about
week ago to finish the two ships on
hurry orders, provided the government
allowed a sum in addition to the contract
price for overtime work The story
gained ground that the Bureau Of Con-
struction recommended that the propo-
sition be not accepted, because the snip
yard gave no amount for extra work and
fixed no time for completing the ships.
II is authoritatively stated that the COM
pany purposely said in its proposition
that it would leave open the price and
time until the government signitied its
willingness TO entertain the proposition.
1t is known positively now that If Schley
destroys the Spanish fleet the ship-yard
will not be asked to complete the battle
ships before the contract time, but II
Cervera manages to escape and cause the
government further apprehension. the
Kearsarge ard Kentucky will positively
be finished by November LIST.
IL no hurry orders are received, 1t is
hardly probable that the two ships Will
be placed in commission before May or
June of next year. January LIST Is the
contract time, but the ship-yard has been
delayed considerably by the failure or
the armor-plate companies to deliver the
plates en- time, and the naval attaches
say that it will have no trouble In Sc
curing an extension of six months.