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The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Big Load of Kiondikers.

Tacoma, Wash, Feb. 5.-Steamship
Queen, the finest vessel in the Pacific
waters and which has been the sum-
mer excursion ship to the ice fields of
Alaska, sailed from Tacoma tonight
for Skaguay and Dyea. She carries
northward 1000 passengers, 1900 tons
Of freight, 1000 dogs, 80 horses and a
score of cases of dressed cattle, hogs
and sheep, the latter for the markets
Of the coast cities, Juneau, Skaguay
and Dyea.
The departure of the ship was a sig
nal event on the water front. Al
though a drizzling rain prevailed all
day, thousands of people visited the
ship and mingled with her band of in
trepid men and women fortune hunt
ers, arrayed in mackinaws, furs, heavy
boots and sombreros or Klondike
caps. The women wore short skirts
knickerbOckers and other snug cos
tunes. Nearly all the passengers on
the Queen intend to ultimately 20 to
the interior of Alaska and have bought
outfits on the sound. The passengers
are from every quarter of the globe.
The customs officers searched the
ship here and found $50 bottles of
whisky, all In small lots, which was
cOnfiscated.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Machinery Goes to Lessee

Judge Allen, in the District Court al
Denver, gave judgment the other day
for $2,196 in favor of Samuel
Lesem against J. s. Updegraff and 9th
ers. The judgment was for the value
Of mining machinery that had beer
seized by the defendants. Mr. Lesem
took a bond and lease on a mining
property in Clear Creek county belong.
ing to the defendants and put ia a
plant to operate it. Nothing was said
In the lease in regard to the ownership
of the machinery in case the lease
should be forfeited. Alleging that Mr.
Lesem had not complied with the
terms of the lease, they forfeited
1t and seized the plant.
The decision establishes the import
ant precedent that in the absence of
any express stipulation in the lease as
to what shall be done with improve
ments put on by the lessee, he may re-
move them within the term of the
lease, or before, if the lease be for
feited.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
AN HONEST MURDERER.
After Having Escaped From Jail . Con
dsmned Man volu ntarily Returns

After Having Escaped From jail . Con
demnsd Man voiu untsriiy Returns.
Fort Scott, Kan, Feb. 5.-A murder
er under sentence to be hanged, who
had escaped.to a point 100 miles from
his nearest pursuer, voluntarily sur
rendered to the authorities here to-day
after notifying them of his intention
by long-distance telephone. The con-
Wet was George w. Finch of Kansas
City, who followed young Frank Swof-
FORD here from Paola, Kansas, and
murdered him for few dollars, hiding
the body in the bushes.
To-day Finch called up Sheriff
Wheeler by telephone. from Lamonte,
Missouri, and said he would be here on
the evening train to help mend the
prison bars that he had broken.
Finch escaped from combined federal
and state prison here on Tuesday last,
In company with several other prison
ers. He says he rode from here to
Kansas City on a freight train, that he
lodged near police headquarters there
on Tuesday night, and the next day he
went to visit his mother and sister on a
farm near Lamonte. From the day Of
his arrest they had not visited him.
and he said his one ambition was to
see them again.
After staying over night with them he
went to Lamonte and asked a consta-
BILE to accompany him back to prison.
1t was then that he called up Sheriff
Wheeler and gave notice of his coming.
Sheriff Wheeler thought Finch was
bantering and wired the officer at La
monte to hold him. However, when
the Memphis train came in tonight
from Lamonte the sheriff and 800 citi-
zens were there to receive the convict.
II H. l. "a l.
arrived on another railroad. Smoking a
cigar, he walked with his escort the
Lamonte constable, up the street to the
prison door.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Imported Lead Bearing Ores

The secretary of the treasury has in
structed the surveyor of customs at
Pueblo. Colorado, that owing to the
difficulties encountered in Forwarding
bullion produced from imported lead,
bearing ores to bonded refining estab-
lishments in consequence Of the pro-
vision in the circular of November 4th
last requiring samples Of such ores to
be sent to the director of the mint at
Washington for assay. and the return
OF the same before the liquidation Of
the import entries, he may revert to the
practice which existed prior to the is.
suance of the circular mentioned The
surveyor, however, is directed to for
ward 10 the director of the mint = nor
ton Of each sample taken.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
win Not Take silver Money.

Lancaster, Pa, Feb. 5.-For several
days wheat has been selling at SO
cents delivered at the warehouses.
Tobacco has also advanced. Two
farmers of the Dunkard colony to-day
brought each a load of wheat and to-
bacco to one of the city warehouses.
After they had unloaded it they were
rendered their price in silver coin.
The farmers refused to accept it or
the buyers check, and proceeded to
reload their goods, saying they would
take nothing but greenbacks or gold.
When questioned at the bank, where
they received new treasury notes, they
said: I'VE voted against Bryan and
silver, and we don't take it excepting
as a commodity in exchange. II we
cannot get good money we want
nome"
The action of the farmers caused
considerable comment, and 1t Is now
said that none of the Dunkard farm
ers win accept silver in sums Of more
than 92.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
THE DECREE MODIFIED.
Some Fruit VIII BE Admitted to Germany
Horses May BE Shut Out.

Some Fruit Will he Admitted to Germany
Horses May BE Shut Out.
Washington. Feb. 5.-The State De-
partment has been notified by Ambas-
sador White, at Berlin, of the mOdifi-
cation of the original decree issued by
the Prussian minister of finance, DIR.
Miguel, prohibiting the Importation of
American fruit. According to the am
bassador's cable to-day the decree does
not. as he advised yesterday, apply to
dried fruits, while fresh fruit will be
admitted to entry if an examination
shows its condition to be satisfactory.
If this modification has been made in
the decree. it would appear that the
prompt representations made by the
United States have received an equal
ly prompt consideration on the other
side. 1t is certain that il the decree,
as originally promulgated, has been
applied to shipments of fruit in tram
sit, as its terms indicated. the ship
pers would have had right to claim
indemnity from the Prussian govern
ment for the damages sustained by
them, and it would be regarded by the
United States government as a matter
of duty to sustain this demand for in
demnity.
1t is announced that the German
government contemplates shutting out
American horses on the ground that
they will bring influenza into the
country.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11

The cities Of the country are going
more and more deeply into debt for
Improvement and to a less and less ex-
tent apparently are disposed to pay as
they 20. They are being run on the
method of the improvident railway cor
poration which will never devote cur
rent earnings to improvements that
can in anywise be deemed measurably
permanent and charged to capital ac-
count. Meantime 1t is to be noted that
the market for these securities Is large
to the point almost of being Unsuitable.
They are preferred by investors to the
securities Of almost any private cor
poration, however well buttressed I'm
ancially II may be.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11

While trying to squeeze the life out
Of a little independent oil concern in
Boston, which commands the SYM
pathy OF the entire public not In mon
opolistic chains, Mr.. Rockefeller sends
another check for 100000 to the presi-
dent of Chicago university for the
cause of education. Mr.. Rockefeller
is a confusing sort of man. 1t is Of
interest in this connection, that a
Brooklyn stockbroker testified the
other day In q civil action before a
Buffalo surrogate that during the past
ten years Standard Oil stock had
brought regular and special dividends
aggregating 80 per cent annually.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11

Massachusetts,. like a good many
other states. IL attempting to minimize
the competition of convict labor with
free labor. On Jan. 1 a law went into
eject limiting the number of convicts
Who should be employed In certain
specified industries, and as result
ever one-third Of the inmates of the
PRISONS are now idle. The prison au-
thoritios are confronted with the prob
lem ef fading something for these men
To Do, in view Of the established fact
that absolute idleness in prisons breeds
insanity. No solution Of the question
has yet bsen found. The trouble has
been encountered in many states, and
unlsss the convicts are set to work i'm
proving the public roads-a task which
everyone else shirks-it IL dimcult to
~ what can be done to md work for
the idlers. The problem is one which
win give the Massachusetts, authorities
trouble unless they are more resource
ful than the oflcials Of other common
wealths have been.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
UNIoNPAcIFic MAcHINIsrs OUT
Over Three Hundred Men Let Out Becaus
of y Decline In Business.

Ovor Three Hundred Men Let Out Because
of Decline In Business.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 5.-The cold wave
this evening struck to the marrow of
2SO Union Pacific shop machinists all
along the main line from Council Bluffs
to Ogden. One hundred and sixty were
discharged from the Omaha shops and
others from those at Council Bluffs,
Grand Island. North Platte, Cheyenne,
Rawlins and Evanston and Ogden. The
reduction of force was ten per cent,
and among the men let out were some
who had been with the company since
the Omaha shops were built, as well as
some Of the latest put on the pay rolls
From the number of discharges Of
veterans an impression has obtained
that President Burt was largely acting
on the theory of retaining men in the
best physical condition, but officers of
the road deny this. Discharges of
monthly salaried men on Monday at
the Omaha shops, combined with this
make about 200 let out at this city
from the shops alone. Officials say this
reduction is caused by a falling of of
business since the first of the year.
President Burt has not yet over
hauled the pay rolls of other offices
than those of the general offices and
shops, but there is general shiver
along the line in the belief that he will
insist that services Of others can be dis
pensed with. There are about 1000
men left In Omaha shops.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
GERMANY AND THE APPLE.
Bundersrsth Modifes the Sweeping Oroe'
of Chancellor MIGUEL

of Chancellor MIGUEL
Berlin, Feb. BIT is announced tnat
the Bundesrath Federal CounciD IN
pIenary sitting to-day approved its
committees proposal that a decree
should be issued prohibiting the IND
portation from America OF live piants
and shrubs and packages containing
the same.
The decree will also, within a certain
measure, affect American fruits.
These are to be examined by experts
on their arrival at German ports. The
packages found to be infected with
the fruit louise will be excluded. In
structions to this effect will be Issued
to the customs authorities.
The Associated Press learns that the
Hamburg authorities to-day permitted
the unloading of apples from the
United States, owing to instructions
received from Berlin, as the result OF
the protests of United States Ambas-
sador White against DR.. Miquels de-
cree
The Associated Press ascertains that
the Bundesrath supersedes with It's
authority DIR. Miquers decree, which
seems ill-advised in it's rigor and sud
denness, and which, naturally provis-
ional, was occasioned by the recently
reported results of experiments by DIR.
Frederick Won Kueger of the Agricul-
tural High School
The Bundesrath's action is due, the
Associated Press is Informed, to a
series of vigorous protests from the
shippers affected, and especially those
of Hamburg, on the lower Rhine and
at Emmerich, and still more to the
protests of Ambassador White. Its
decision forbids the importation only
where the fruit is affected by the as
piditous perniciosus, or San Jose plant
bug, which is said to have done enor-
nous damage in the United States.
The Bundesrath's decree applies to the
whole Of Germany and makes matters
momentarily better. but it is believed
that its future Interpretation will
largely correspond with DR.. Miquefs
decree. Parties interested here fear
that the United States will resort to
reprisals.
Following are last years fresh fruit
imports in hundred weights:
American, 100000; Austro-H Hunga-
rian, GOT 900; Dutch, s61 900; Belgian,
54O, 1000; Italian, 300, ZOO.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
COPPER RIVER TOBE EXPLORED
General Merriam Ordered to Send . Strong
Military Expedition.

Military Expedition.
Washington, Feb. 5.-The secretary
Of war has telegraphed instructions to
General Merriam. commanding the De-
partment of Columbia, February list.
to organize and send an exploring ex-
pedition over the Copper river route in
Alaska for the purpose of ascertaining
whether u practicable summer or win
ter route. wholly within the territory
of the United States. for mail and sup
plies. or for mail alone. could be found
to the mining regions on the Yukon
between Forty Mile creek and Circle
City. The organization of the party
and the selection of officers to COM
mand II have been left to the judg-
ment of General Merriam. In case n
practicable route can be found. in
structions We're given to SO mark it
that 1t could be followed hereafter
The party is to take. as far as practical
BILE. such supplies as may be found to
be practicable to relieve any persons
in distress that may be encountered
The natives of the Copper River val
ley have been reported as aggressive,
and the officers in charge will be ex-
pected to use their efforts to conciliate
them. The party will be instructed to
proceed as far us practicable towards
Circle City. and if deemed advisable.
to communicate with the relief expedi-
tion taking supplies to the Yukon, and
the two parties will cooperate in the
work of exploration. The expedition
probably will make an entrance by
Port valdes. on Prince william sound.
unless it be found that some other
point is more advisable.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
MEXICAN TELEGRAPH LINES.

Railroad. Claim That They Are Entitled
to Transient Commercial Messages
New York, Feb 5.-The order Of the
Mexican government to the Mexican
National railroad and the Mexican
Central Railroad Company that they
must discontinue handling commercial
and other telegraphic messages be-
tween the United States and Mexico
grows out of the fact that nearly a
year ago the Mexican Central and Mex
lean National companies entered into
an arrangement with the Postal Tele-
graph Company whereby the latter
company extended its American lines
to Ell Paso and began building to La
redo, to effect an exchange Of business
at the Mexican border, and have ever
since been carrying on a through tele-
graphic service to the Mexican capital.
The officials of the Postal Telegraph
Company in this city stated that their
company received information some
time ago to the effect that the Mexican
government had entered into a contract
of exclusive connection with the West
ern Union Telegraph Company for the
exchange of commercial telegraph bus
mess with all railroad lines of Mexico,
and that the effect of this contract, If
carried out would be to prevent the
railways, who own their telegraph
lines, from transmitting commercial
business which they have contracted
to exchange with the Postal Company.
The Postal officials further explain
that the railroad companies claim that
their concessions from the Mexican
government as clearly confers upon
them the right to transmit CONNER
cial telegraph business as to operate
their railways.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Nicaragua Canal Commisstop.

Managua, Nicaragua, via Galveston,
Feb 5.-The United States canal COM
mission will complete it's examination
of the western division, including
Lake Nicaragua and westward to the
Pacific on Monday next. The commits
sioners are mapping out accurate re-
surveys on the scale of one inch to
400 feet. with sections showing the
geological formations. They have ex-
amined the ground several hundred
feet deep by borings. The commits
sioners will travel on foot to Ochoa to
the Caribbean sea at the rate of
about three miles per day, examining
both sides of the route and wading
twenty miles through the swamp in
the river delta. All the members of
the American party are in good
health.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Raised to an Ambassad dorship.

Washington, Feb. 5.-The President
to-day sent to the Senate the name of
Ethan Hitchcock of Missouri, now
minister to Russia, to be ambassador
extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tentiary to Russia.
Mr.. Hitchcock is at present our min
lister to Russia and is named an am
bassador under the law authorizing
such rank where foreign countries
name ambassadors to the United
States. Russia has given notice that
it has conferred this rank on Count
Cassini. her diplomatic representative
to the United States.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
A sensible negro preacher in the

A sensible negro preacher in the
south has been advising members Of
Ais race to stick to the farm. Good
advice. The negro is . born fzrmss
and agriculture suits him bettzr than
any other occupation. Herein = one
held 1t least In which he has IN equal
ehance with the white man and N
which there can be NO possible discrim-
'inntions against him. In business. In
Tie professions. in The Industrial world
he color OF his skin 10 often against
him end he must nght race Drejudtee-
Dut this b not true Of TIE eeg0-
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Bloody Battle In India.

Calcutta, Feb. A telegram from
Pasni says General Mayne sighted the
enemy, numbering 1.5OO at 8 O'Clock
Monday morning holding the entrance
of the western pass leading to Turbat
He attacked them and tried to turn
their left, sending body of infantry
and dismounted cavalry to turn the
flank. The action lasted two hours
and the enemy were completely routed
losing about 100 killed.
The British losses were three Blu.
luchs killed and eight wounded.
The advance was resumed at noon
through the difficult defile and Turbat
was reached at 5 o'clock in the even.
ing.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Now a Passenger War.

Denver, Feb. 5.--The fast train serv-
ice between Denver and Chicago,
which will be inaugurated on Sunday,
February 9Th, by the Burlington rail-
road, is the cause of passenger rate
war which will he waged against them
by the other prairie lines that cannot
make the time These roads will COM
mence the war by selling tickets at a
reduction of 50. making the rate $24.5O,
instead of $29.5O, as heretofore.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11

There was none of the laws delay"
in the case Of John P. Thoma, who
broke into a store in Clayport, Ind.
last week. The crime was committed
early In the morning. The criminal
had had his trial and been sentenced
before 10 O'Clock in the forenoon and
before in the evening he had begun
. series Of years within the walls of the
Jeffersonville reformatory. Would that
legal justice could oftener be dispensed
with such alacrity.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11

A statisticiaA In the Pail Mall Ca
sette has reckoned In round numbers
the movement Of the debts Of the chief
eighteen nations for the twenty years
fron 1876 to 1896. with some interest
Ing and significant results. In the
former year the chief debts. in order
of MAGNITUDE, were those Of France,
a. 500 ,O00, 900; Great Britain, $780,
900 900: the United States, -. 400. .00o.-
900: italy, 81, Ok. 900 900; Austria-H Hun
gary, 1870, ,000. 900; Spain, $1,S75,0 ,000.-
900; Russia S1.700, ,000. 900. and Ger
many, q, ,00e. .000. 900. In twenty years
all except six of the eighteen-to-wit.,
Great Britain, the United States,
Spain, Germany, India and Mexico
Increased their debts. In 1895 the or
der was considerably changed. France
stall stood easily nrst, with a debt
twice - big ~ any Others. Great
Britain stood second, closely pressed
by Austria Hungary. Italy was fourth,
Russia NTH and Spain sixth. The
United States dropped from third to
seventh, and the Australasian colonies
rose from sixteenth to eighth, while
Germany fell from eighth to sixteenth.
Mexico fell from fifteenth to eigh-
teenth, and Canada rose from eigh-
teenth to seventeenth. However some
ether nations, not in the eighteen OF
1875, have come forward and now
have larger debts than several of the
latter. Thus the Argentine Republic
and Japan should now be ranked sew
enteenth and eighteenth respectively.
and Canada and Mexico pushed on to
the nineteenth and twentieth places.
The greatest actual increase has
bsen that of France, amounting to no
less than 81 800. 600, 900. Austria-H Hun
nary comes next, with S1.130. .000. 900;
Russia third, with $500, ,000. 900; and.
Italy NTH. with $500. .o00.o 900. These
heavy items indicate what q burden
the military system IL to these nations.
Yet, by q strange bit of irony, the ma
tion chiefly responsible for militarism.
Germany, has decreased her debt BY
20 less than s575. 900 900.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
Terrible Suffering in Russia.

London. Feb. 6.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Times says:
A failure in the harvest has caused
terrible distress among the peasantry
of the interior provinces, and especial
ly in central and southeastern Russia
In some places they are worse on than
during the famine of 1891. The Rus
sian editors have been forbidden to re-
fer to the matter. Private letters from
The silver lance., 1898-02-11

Tamboff, in the province Of that name,
southeast of Moscow, say the peasants
are feeding their half-starved cattle
with the matches of their roofs. Ty-
phus and other diseases are making
rapid headway among them.
The silver lance., 1898-02-11
COLORADO

Inc empioye Oh Tie u.st.icl MAO EN-
bexzled $34.50 will doubtless &c punish
ed for his offense. The men who pre-
pare the technical lccp-holes for our
laws didn't provide for the s34.50 fcl-
lows.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-15
WORSE THAN MAUsEK BULLETS
yellow Fever In the American Camp I'm
Cuba.

Washington July E3.-Thc war de.
partmcnt this afternoon made public
the following statement concerning the
state OF things In the hospitals near
Santiago.
On the llth OF July Il Telegram was
received from Lieut.. Con- Pope, chief
surgeon OF Shaftcr's army, informing
the surgeon general that there were
fourteen cases Of yellow fever in the
field hospital which had been cstab.
llshcd for the care OF such cases. Since
that time information has been re.
ccivcd that a number OF additional
cases have occurred.
Every effort will be made TO arrest
the progress OF the disease by the es-
tablishncnt OF isolation hosptaIs, in
which the sick will bc treated by i'm
munc surgeons and cared for by i'm.
munc nurses.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-15
EICs'AEIpy Jh'bipEt
! ~ ! T. X
July y

H* have tad gE'od ra!ns IA this So
;lHn during The past week- Oo Salyr-
"a! ersnjoE "e had tbe ha''0es; raiu
VIZ have had il jong iiIre. Tbe wjrd
was preiiy teary opriug tbe raju. blow
lrE o"wD "oru, t;c- The laoo. VEG
wasb"a s|u1e tut % seiloUs darsas 8
was cooe 10 the gr0Wiug clVI's. Nc ave
ELao " stai".
''pt. i. (. CVuuts speui Il few dav.
Up ii Nlnety-Sx last week.
" ise l/Jra St!ealy. Of Saluda .,.viiCu.
Il Ependirg lew days with relative. in
THE cpiD uJynity.
Ny jas. c'eaes ba: peen on tbe eici
!isi fol the pass few day..
Mr.. 5heaiy ha= baz.n Gyyujued 70 her
room Tor several days with 4 bpn.. felUn
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-15

Slck.poison j. a poison which makc-
you EIck. IT come. from the stomach
Inc stomach makc5 it out oi Undigc.,cd
food.
The blood gets i, and taints the whole
bpdy with it. Ihats the way of it.
me way 70 be rid Of it l. 70 Irok
alter your digestion.
II sour food il all properly dige:,.:d
there will be none left in the stomach
10 make Eick-pOigon out Of.
u your stomach il TOO weak 10 see u
this properly by itself, help it along
WITH lew doses OF Shaker Digestive
Cordial.
That's the cure OF it
Shaker Digestive Cordial is deli.
cious, hcalthful. tonic cordial, made OF
pure medicinal plants, herbs and wine
IT positively cures indigestion and
prevents the formation of sick-poisoD.
AZ druggists. Trial bottles 10 cents.