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,tRAlLINL IRE ESCAPED conVI1L

"H HE famous old town of Yuma,
 on the western edge of Arizona
 Territory, close upon the east
 bank of the Colorado River, is
 unique in several respects. Years
 ago it was the most dreaded frontier garrison to which Uncle Sam assigned his soldiers. It is known the world over for it's remarkably hot weather records, and every summer Yuma and the climate there are sources on which newspaper humorists and paragraphers, far and wide, draw with reckless extravaganza.
 Yuma has been the scene of many Indian fights in the two last centuries. Probably no other fort on the extreme Western frontier has ever held so many men, first and last, who later became famous military leaders, as Fort Yuma. Generals Custer, Phil Kearney, Beale, Albert Sidney Johnston, Longstreet and Mcdowell all served a year or two of their army apprenticeship there. John Phoenix Oieutenant H. A. Derby), the first American humOrist of the modern style, died there.
 But it is the Territorial prison at Yuma that makes the historic old town best known all over the West in these days. There is not another penal insti tuition like it in all America. When the mining excitement was at its height in Arizona in 1879 and 1880, when the Tombstone and Prescott mines were pouring out thousands of dollars in golden bricks every day, and men of every degree of villainy and lawless- ness sWarmed into the Territory from every State and Territory in the Union, the need of a strong penitentiary for the increasing population of criminals became immediately apparent. Ruff fans, thieves, escaped convicts and cut throats from all parts of the Union flocked to Arizona by wagon and train, and infested the mining towns, and when arrested and thrown into the rude jails of the easy, slow going Mexican period they had no difficulty in escap- ing and resuming a lawless career. In 1879 a proposition was made to build Territorial prison, and Yuma was se lected as the site. It was not until 1882 that the prison was finished.
 Arizona Territorial Penitentiary stands upon an eminence overlooking the Colorado and Gila rivers for miles. On one side is the Colorado River, and on the other three sides there stretches away for miles and miles as desolate and trackless and hopeless a desert as man ever looked upon. No one, not even the Indians, brought up on the
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A DARING DASH FOR LIBERTY.

nevertheless, lived several years. The injured prisoners threw up their hands because they were out of cartridges, and were marched to their cells.
 The wooden building in front of which the guards stood in their hand to-hand fight is still shown in evidence of the ferocity of the fight. There are forty seven bullet holes in it. Some of them were made by lead balls after they had passed through a mans body. The battle was all over in five minutes. Not a word was spoken by any of the participants. Guard Hartlee stood like statue at his post, shooting when ever he could get a bead on one of the convicts. After the fight, when asked how he felt during it, he replied:
 ..I started in like I had a hard daY,s
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to the poor convicts who work daily in summer in a temperature that ranges from no degrees to 122 degrees, fol-
 lowed at night by the terrific heat 1 have told you about. Everyone of the prisoners who have to stay in the cells at night comes out from his kennel like sleeping place in the morning reeking with perspiratiOn and weak. Sleep is only had in brief doses. The doctors say that anyone who has any blood taint or the least susceptibility to con- sumption soon contracts the disease there. Deaths from consumption are common among the moneyless prison CTS in Yuma Penitentiary. Every sum- mer there are few convicts who man. age to commit suicide in their steam ing, noisome cells rather than to en- dure the agony of life there. Two years ago a fellow who robbed the Wells-F go stage at Grants Pass committed sui- eide there by biting at his wrist and tearing open the arteries with his teeth"
 But the convicts who have means or influential friends can have as varied and tempting food as they care to buy from the prison cook. Some prisoners pay for special cuts of hams, have fresh fish brought for them, and even pay the cooks for occasionally providing fowl for them at the regular meals. Then too. for a bonus, and with bonds that they will not escape from the prison they may have cots to sleep on in the yard of the peniten- tiary. For eleven months In the year there is no rain in Yuma. and one may sleep comfortably out under the starry vault of heaven about $50 nights in the year. A few prisoners sleep out of doors all the time.
 Some of the most exciting and san- guinary scenes ever enacted in any penal institution have been inside the walls of the Yuma Prison. In one of these efforts to gain their freedom in
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brand new, shiny casks full of claret or port, or white wine of many names and vintages. All these things are for New York, since, war or no war, the big ship Roanoke is going to start on her tedious voyage to the Atlantic. as soon as her hold shall have been filled with suitable variety of merchant disc.
 She Is a remarkable object on the water front, this Roanoke. Her taper ing, graceful spars tower high above those of any other vessel in port, her huge hull rises far above the level of
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 THE LIST pND LARGEST OF OUR WOODEN SHIPS

The Roanoke, now in harbor here,
 ship. the Shenandoah. Both are owned passed and that in the near future iron as the last of their types on the seas.
 TF you take a walk down to the
 Steuart street dock you will find the
 wharf incumbered with a miscel-
 laneOus collection of California
 goods, stacked so closely that the
 driver of the cumbrous four horse team has great difficulty in threading his way between the piles. There are barrels of sugar and flour, bundles of rags and great heaps of firewood, but chiefly the collection consists of native wines. There are rows upon rows of
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cargo carrier, an enormous lading in her hull, dawdles lazily over the ocean, and passages now are longer than they ever were.
 Considerations of economy, more than anything else, have dictated this un- fortunate change. Wherever speed is required there steam has stepped in and busted the sailer. And even where there
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the wharf, so that a stiff climb up a rickety accommodation ladder is neces- sary before her deck can be reached.
 It is only from this altitude that her vast dimensions can be properly ap- preciated. From below you see noth- ing but great expanse of side, painted a dull and uninteresting leaden color.
 But once you have gained the deck you find before you a vast expanse of pine planking, almost unincumbered with houses or other Instructions. There is of course a deckhouse forward for the crew. and the usual spacious cabin aft,
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savage desert in all the world in the hope of liberty, and had suffered untold agonies in. his vain endeavors to get to freedom.
 Reformatory measures are not prac- ticed at the Yuma prison, because nearly all the prisoners are Mexicans and half f-breeds-Mexicans and In- dians-and their villainous counten- ances show the hard life they have led. Most of them are in for horse stealing, highway robbery and murder. No reg ular work is demanded of them aside from such as is necessary to keep the prison in good condition.
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beauty and speed. Those were the good old days of ocean races from China to New York when the ship that landed the nrst cargo of tea won, not only much honor, but a substantial profit for her owners. Speed was every
 thing then, and cargo capacity but a subsidiary consideration. To-day we have reversed all this, the modern
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is work for the sailing vessels compe- tition has reduced freights to the lowest possible margin and ships can only be made to pay by working them with the most rigid economy. Fancy a vessel carrying grain from here to any part of
 Europe for a freight of seven or eight
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skirts of that great area of sand and cactus, dare to go across it unattended and without provisions of food and
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possibility of convict's escape is too small to calculate.
 A recent test of the craftsmanship of
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105 degree mark for week or ten days at a stretch.
 Think what suffering that must be
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the winter of 1894 four leaders among the rebellious convicts were shot dead and four were maimed for life.
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the
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 u % g furniture a Q t homHe time spreads a m O
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The average length of human life in the sixteenth century was only eighteen to twenty wears
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Continued on Page Twenty-six.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

Aiming the BattIeship Of the Future,
The man behind the gun has had his
day of surprising glory at Manila and
off Cuba, and the constructor, the gun
founder and the. engineer are now
called out for CONNIE ndation. 1t is in
teresting to note that the deductions
of the American board of survey that
critically inspected the remains of
Admiral Cervera's battleships are in
close accord with the frequently ex.
pressed views of Chief Naval Construc.
tor Hichborn, Chief Engineer Melville
and other naval bureau officers of note
These expert views have not been re
ceived either in the service or in the
congressional committees with the fa-
vor they are now seen to have deserved
Most likely Cervera's great misfortune
and the comparative immunity of oul
vessels from serious damage will give
more weight in the future to American
constructive opinions. Greater speed
the elimination of wood in the con
struction of battleships, the placing
Of torpedoes below the water line, an6
larger provision of eight and six-inct
guns and secondary rapid-fire bat.
teries are conspicuous among reom.
mendations for the battleships of thu
future-fou th's Companion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Sunhower seed improves the gloss OF
the plumage.
Introduce new blood among the poul-
try once year.
Give lime for growth of bone and for
eggshell material.
Buckwheat, oatmeal and milk are
good for laying hens.
A little cayenne pepper in the food
often stimulates laying.
Good leghorn hens may be kept until
they are Ave years old.
The usual causes of roup are cold,
dampness and exposure.
A laying hen should have her food
and drink at regular intervals.
Do not winter late pullets that have
failed to make a good growth.
If the hens show an inclination to
pull feathers. feed them salt pork.
In selecting fowls to winter, keep
one drake for every five ducks, a tom
for every ten turkeys, one cock for
every dozen hens.
Keep the hens with reasonably
sharp appetite, and they win lay more
eggs which win hatch better and pro-
duce stronger chickens.-St. -onis Re
public
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
TRAITS OF SHEEP.
The Flock still Follows the Leader
Just as II Did Before II Be-
came Domesticated.

When sheep are driven through
narrow gate-say, for reckoning pur-
poses-a very common performance is
for one sheep to give leap as if over
an obstacle or across ditch. If one
gives leap all the others to the rear
of it on reaching the same spot follow
its example. Wild sheep always APP
point sentinels and leaders and adopt
their ways of progression in the most
implicit manner. The origin of the
jumping habit of flock when one
gives the example is very ingeniously
explained in DIR Louis Robinson's
work. entitled wild Traits in Tame
Animals" "When sheep in a wild
state" he remarks, dash off together
among broken ground or on crowding
along some periious ledge on the
mountain side-their usual habitat--it
would be quite useless for those in the
middle of the band TO endeayor to see
obstacles at their feet. Hence each
keeps an eye on the leader, or those inn
mediately in front initiate his move
ments. If the leader thinks a three
foot jump is necessary to clear some
dangerous spot every sheep in the pro-
cession will take three-foot jump; il
he jumps higher they will jump higher,
and so on. They carry out this inn
itated action with most extraordi-
nary precision, even when it has TO be
transmitted through long chain of
different individuals" The sheep in-
dustry seems to be the safest invest
ment for the farmer. When other
crops fail the flock can always be de-
pended upon. The wool crop is always
sure, and when sold he has small
bank account and the flock left. What
is better than. sheep?-Western Plow-
man,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

The first serious obstacle that will be
encountered is that presented by the
climate. The islands lie wholly within
the tropics, and extend on the south to
within ~. degrees Of the equator. The
heat is trying at the best. Personally
have found the burning sun of the dry
season less hard to bear than the
sssmuggyv weather. when bright sun
shine alternates with heavy showers,
or the rain falls day after day without
interruption. One often reads of de-
liehtful days and cool nights in the fall
and winter months. After spending 3hs
years in almost constant travel through
the archipelago. and visiting every one
Of the larger islands except Leyte, i can
say that l have never seen a day when
man could endure hard physical labor
without suffering from the heat.
have experienced the hot season, the
dry season, the wet season. but never
yet have ] been so fortunate as to strike
the cool seasons Prof. Dean G. Web.
sisr. in Century.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The Wyoming wool clip this year
weighed $4,000, 900 pounds.
The tongue of full-grown whale
measures 20 feet in length.
Bangor manufacturers are sending
canoes of birch and canvas to Palestine,
Japan, India and China.
Exports of cottonseed products for
the first five months of this year far
exceed those of the IL months of 1896.
In the French quarries of ST. Triphon,
stone is sawed with steel wire cables
moistened with wet sand, and passing
in an endless rope over series of pull
leys.
Last year the United States export
ed 366 locomotives, valued at about 3d.
600, 900, sewing machines to the value
of s2.50O,oOo, and typewriters worth ST.
100000.
II is said that the sales of looking
glasses in the United States amount to
about $4,000, 900 year, and that the IN
dustry gives employment to more than
1000 persons.
Cats can smell even during sleep.
When piece of meat is placed immedi-
ately in front of a sleeping cats nose
the nostrils begin to work as the scent
is received, and an instant later the
cat will wake up.
The longest plant in the world is the
seaweed. One tropical and subtropicai
variety is known which, when it reaches
its full development, is at least GOO feet
in length. Seaweed receives its nour-
ishment from the air and mineral mat
ter held in solution in the sea water.
Some cast-iron cannon balls were re-
Gently recovered from the sea near
Brest. They had been under water for
over 100 years They could be cut with
knife. great part of the iron having
disappeared. Exposed to the air, the
interior became quite hot, of course los
ing the heat in short time, after the
oxygen of the air had ceased to act
upon il.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
CONSUMPTION.
From Tubercunosis There Are Nearly
40 Deaths n Day In the
&c United states.

8 The bacillus of tuberculosis finds
indeed, the most favorable conditions
for its existence in the squalor of
crowded slums, in the foul atmosphere
of dusty workshops, in close courts
and alleys, and In damp, dark dwellings
where the sunlight never penetrates
and where there is no through ventila-
ton. But it may thrive also in places
where sanitary science has done its
best. Even in this present age of SAM
tary grace consumption works fright
full havoc among mankind, destroying
far more lives than typhoid fever,
diphtheria, scarlatina, measles, small
pox, cholera and all other epidemic
scourges put together. In report on
tuberculosis recently presented 10 the
Academic de Medicine by committee
appointed TO study the question the
number of deaths caused in France
every year by tuberculosis is given as
10000.
1t is computed that, taking all forms
of tuberculosis together, one-fourth
of each generation in France is at
tackled and one-sixth is killed by it.
According to high authority, Prof.
Won Leyden, of Berlin, the mortality
from consumption alone in the whole
Of Europe is not less that 100000
year. The annual mortality in the
United States from tuberculosis in its
various forms is 1886 or nearly $50
day. These figures represent only
the actual destruction of lie caused
by this terrible scourge. Who can es-
innate the amount of suffering for
which it is responsible besides? 1t is
needless to speak of the expense which
it entails not only on individuals. but
on the community.-Fortnightly Re-
view.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

-Scaly legs are so easily cured that
there is no excuse for allowing fiocks
10 get in bad condition from the dis
ease. Take the kerc.ene can into the
pen at dusk, says the Plowman. Pick
up each Len and pour the oil right
from the spout, from the knee toward
the feet, taking care not to get any
on the skin above the shank Some-
times one application viii entirely kill
the scale insects. Those that still look
badly after few days. should DE kero-
sened again. But little scale will usual
N survive tie second time. If any
does. scrape little with knife and
apply kerosene with . rocket oilsy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
FOR COOKING FEED.
Description of a Kettle which Has
Proved Perfect success and Ia
Not Patented.

have a Kettle set in sheet iron
jacket which is very handy for cook
ing feed for the hens. 1t was set in the
basement part of our two-story hem
house, on the ground. as it hos no
CRATES or bottom. The steam would
fill the room and wet the walls wiring
ing wet" / disliked to put it some
where else, as / do not like to carry
stuff, and must save all the steps can.
After some study Itried cover rugged
as shown in the cut. A tin cover was
made to fit the top and a two-inch pipe
attached to it and the stoyepipe. A
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
ssArr OF on.o, c.1r Or Tor1Do, !.

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that be il the
senior partner of the firm of +. j. Cheney
Z Co.. doing business in the city of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum ofOne Hundred Dol
cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. ID.
1850. A. W. GLEASON,
ISeal1 Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur-
faces Of the system. Send for testimonials,
free. F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
KETTLE FOR COOKING FEED.

piece was made to slip over the rest
so the cover can be taken off easily.
Evenwhen the coveris not down square
no steam comes out into the room. 1t
Is perfect success and not patented.
The capacity Of the kettle is increased
nearly bushel, as the potatoes will
cook in the steam at the top sooner
than in the boiling water below.-C. E.
Chapman, in Rural New Yorker.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
Asthma

becomes triumphant, with all it, train II
horrors. DR.. p. Harold Hayes treatment
reverses all this-the general health Is built
up, the strength increases, the power Of re-
sissance is restored, reserve nerve force b
accumulated, the Asthma goes-goes-
and is gone, and the cause being 70
moved the Asthma Is cured to stay cured.
Address DR.. HAYES. at Buffalo, N. "
for particulars
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
| Il Hangs
| On

II it was only health, We
might let it cling.
But il is q cough. One cold
no sooner passes OF before
another comes. But it's the
same old cough all the time.
And it's the same! old story,
too. There is first the cold,
then the cough, then pneu-
monia or consumption with the
long sickness, and life tremb-
ling in the balance.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

Dear Editor:-H you know of solicitor
tions, insurance, nursery stock, books or tail
oring, or man who can sell goods, you will
confer favor by telling him to correspond
with us; or if you will insert this notice in
your paper and such parties will cut this no
tice out and mail to us, we may be able to
furnish them a good position in their own
md adjoining counties: Address
AMERICAN WOODEN MILLS Co., Chicago.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

Never before in history was there case
where a defeated and captive enemy re-
ceived such generous treatment a. we gave
the Spaniards. Other nations are aston
ished Equally astonishing are the cures
brought about by Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers. Never before in history has there been
90 successful medicine for the weak, debili-
tated and nervous, for stomach and liver dis
orders like dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness
and constipation. All nations have benefit.
ed by it, and all praise it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

."Some time, Phoebe, shall show You
picture of the only girl l ever loved. |"
That's so kind of you, Mr.. Sweetly; al
ways did think composite photographs were
interesting. Chicago Sun.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

to resist the ever present exciting causes
Of Asthma and as the attacks recur again
and again the sufferer finds that his nervs-
force is exhausted, his power Of resistance
is gone, his general health steadily -
cIincs and the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

Often what man calls principle is mere
bit of seeking to force his views upon others.
Washington Qa.) Democrat.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

It is easy, sure. 1t will vanish. Use St.
Jacobs Oil for Neuralgia. It's done.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

Where's it gone? Ask st. Jacobs Oil. It
cured that bruise-gone.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

Ignorance and superstition got married b.
tore the Aood.-Ram's Horn.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26

Opportunity may trip a giant.-Ram'1
Horn.