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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-30
WINTER RACING SEASON
The Opening Day at Oakland .
Great Success.
THE FIRST DAYS SPORT
Grounds in Perfect Order and the Track
Was F~as.-Fieids Sent Away IN
Prompt and Perfect
Order.

San Francisco. Oct. 2s.-Favored
with weather which would enthuse an
admirer OF the balmiest Italian skies.
with an attractive card and q large
crowd, the California Jockey club be-
gan to-day at its splendid Oakland
track. the season of winter racing.
Nothing was left undone to make the
opening day q success. The grounds
were in perfect order and the track
was fast. Starter Ferguson sent away
the fields In the five events In prompt
and perfect order.
The most notable feature of the hrst
days sport was the remarkable sue
cess of the Burns & Waterhouse sta
BILE, those entries won every race on
h card. Interest centered chiefly in
the Inaugural handicap. at n mile.
worth $3.50. Several of the prominent
candidates in this race were scratched
late in the day, which left a field OF
eight horses to contend for the purse.
as follows: Moringa. San Venado, Ros-
ormonde. Recreation, Rubicon, Mori-
mel, Rainier and Grady. Burns q Wa
t~erhouse's 3-year-old bay filley by Nor
ella -Picnic, won easily from Grady in
the last sixteenth. Recreation was made
~favorite in the betting. but there was
a big plunge on Rubicon at post time.
Thorpe carried of the jockey honors by
winning his three mounts. Twenty
books cut in and all enjoyed good pat
ronage for an opening day. The public
| came out ahead. however. as four first
and one second choice carried on the
purse. Results:
Five and on-half furlongs-Midloye
won, Eta II. second. p. F., third; time.
1:07h. Six furlongs-Obsidian won.
Los Medanos won. La Goleta second.
Morellito third: time. 1:27. One mile,
the Opening Handicap. purse. $3.50
Recreation won, Grady second. a
venado third; time. 1A11s. Mile and
Observation-Disclosures Water won, p.
A. Finnegan second, Dolore third; time.
las.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-30
At Aqued uct.

New York, Oct. z.-Aqueduct results:
Five furlongs. selling-Grievance won. Eff
fervescent second, Lamity third; time.
1:02. Mile and 40 yards. selling-F1ax Spin
ner won. Blarneystone second. Merlin
third; time. 1:45h. Mile and a sixteenth
warrenton won, Brighton second, Ben
Elder third: time. 1:49 is. Five furlongs.
sellling-Lady Lindsey won. Captain Sigs-'
bee second. Tyran third; time. 1:o1 as.
Mile and 40 yards. selling-Frohman won.
Charentus second, BLU Away third: time.
1:44 AS. About seven MISUNDERSTANDING
Gold won, Tabourett second. L'Alouette
third; time, 1:26h.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-30
Cornell Won.

Ithaca. n. Y. Oct. 2s.-The Cornell var
sity team was forced to play Its hardest
at Percy field to-day by a strong eleven
from oberlin. The game ended with a
score of to 0 in favor Of the Ithacans.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-30

Hoods Pills ar, s2,s ,9 so SSly gg.r.. 10 snss
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02

Central anA Parade We knew a. well 81 II
we were % the IngiAterra Hotel that along
the broad streets the volunteers were
Osrs aMash anc t ISos1hstas5 e cra.s shs .asi are ono 80
fond Of. n their bugiers In vain trying
TO Keep time to their own music, We hoped
since they certainly deserve to be-they are
50 bloodthirsty with the helpless and so
cowardly when met by al armed foe. Was
statue OF the great Isabella? Probably not.
Even these mercurial people would scarce
~ be in musical mood when a short walk
to the shore would show them the pillars
OF fire by night made by the searchlights
OF the ~blockaders. OF course, the principal
cafes were crowded. Officers and the bet
ter class Of civilians were surely congre-
gated there in great numbers, drinking
their light wines or a small glass of abb
sinthe-they are not given to drunkenness
hands and arms waved wildly and Shout
ders were perpetually In action.
"A a recent letter to the writer
Hotel Ingiatorra had two guests, Mr.. Col
Ian. British consul. and a Madrid gambler.
but the patronage of the cafe was on the
must talk or explode"
It is astonishing with what equanimity
we bore the thought that some OF the people
spoken Of above were likely to be hungry
before long. But when we thought of deli
cately nurtured gentlewomen, orphaned,
zero and whose hopes of help were vanished,
We could not feel so Indifferent. any more
than we could when remembering the poor
little inmates Of Lee Orphanage, rescued
from death, 1T Is feared, only to die at last,
and from starvation, as In the first instance.
Fervent was the hope in the American
breast hat our naval and military forces
would take and hold Havana before death
came to all who were dependent upon char
ity from the United States.
The band OF the New York is playing the
march from lei Captain" the big cruiser
slowly FORCES along through a sea blue as
heaven, save where 1t Is dotted with the blood
red of a small jelly fish peculiar to these
waters; the sun CLEANS on the rifles and ac-
coutrements of the marines on guard, and
its rays make the big eight-inch guns,
pcked clear of the turret. look as if swathed
In wet -hippopotamus hide. Now and again
long strings of parti-colored bunting float
from the signal halyards, to be answered
far away to the westward by a similar dis
play from the Iowa. The man in the fore
top wig wags in frantic fashion his flag of
red with white center, and presently with
a snort the long, black torpedo boat Porter
comes alongside. with q swift motion COM
posed of rolls and darts, there to receive
orders that send her scurrying off to some
other ship; or may. be, to Key West with
dispatches. An attractive picture. But we
would like it better were the guns less
bright but buster, and were the signal calls
to general quarters"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
Merchant Steamer Captured and Sew
eraI of His Army Officers Found
Aboard, Held as Prisoners.
INCIDENTS OF THE BLOCKADE
CAPTURE OF A FRUIT SCHOONER BY
THE TORPEDO BOAT FOOTE.
story of the Mangrove's Impudent
Seizure OF the Big Spanish Auxil-
larry Cruiser Panama.

MADRID, May /, 2:So p. NAN official
dispatch from Havana says: IAN American
ship has bombarded a battery at the en-
trance of Cienfuegos, but it was driven off
by three of our gunboats, which put out of
the harbor in a northerly direction. We
sustained some slight damage. Other men
of-war have threatened the Mariel coast.
Troops have gone to its defense"
10 p. m.-The government has received a
cablegram from General. Blanco saying that
the American war ships blockading Glen
fuegos nave captured a Spanish merchant
steamer. A colonel, a surgeon, six officers
and three. non-commissioned officers who
were on board the steamer were detained as
prisoners of war. but the civilian passen-
gers were liberated.
LONDON, May 2.-The Madrid CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing
Sunday, says: 1.-The Americans were pill
Laying the steamer Argonaut, seized off
Cienfuegos, and carrying a quantity of arms
and ammunition, when three Spanish gun
boats went out and compelled them to with
draw"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
OBITUARY.
Philip HermOEeres Calderon, a Dis
tinguished English Painter.

LONDON, May 1.-Mr. Philip Calderon,
the distinguished painter, member or the
ROYAL Academy and keeper OF the Royal
Academy since 1877, is dead.
Philip Hermogenes Calderon was a son Of
the Rev. Juan Calderon, and was born at
Poictiers, in 1893. He studied at Mr.. Leigh's
Academy and the atelier of NJ. Picot (mem-
Der OF the Institute) in Paris. Among his
early pictures are 1.-THE Gaoler's Daugh-
ter" exhibited in the Royal Academy in
1865 and THE Return from Moscow" eX-
hibited in 1861. He was elected an associate
member of the Royal Academy in 1864 and
a full member in 1867. In that year he re-
ceived the first medal awarded to English
art at the Paris International exhibition.
AT the close of the Paris international in
1878, after exhibiting a large number of his
canvases, he received a tirst-class medal
and was created a Knight of the Legion of
Honor. He then devoted a long time to the
task of painting decorated panels in oil for
the dining room of a ~well-known lover Of
art, among which was The Olive" The
Vine representing the fruits of me earth),
and 1.-THE Flower of the Earth" exhibited
at the Royal Academy in 1881. In 1887 he
was appointed keeper of the Royal Academy
in succession to Mr.. Pickersgill. Among his
best known paintings are Home After Vic
tory" "On Her Way to the Throne" I'm a
Palace Tower Ruth and Naomi" His
Reverence" Joan of Arc" and Deep in
the Autumn Woods"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
CUBA POORLY FORTIFIED.
Talk with Charlie Fox, Former Vice
Consul to Santiago De Cuba.

BALTIMORE, May 1.-Charles Fox,
former United States vice consul at San
tiago de Cuba. arrived at his home in this
city to-day. He came on the British
steamship Cabral, which sailed on April %,
the day war was declared with Spain.
When the news was received that war had
been declared all the vessels in the harbor
were notified to leave by 6 p. m, and any
that remained after that time was liable to
have their stores of provisions confscated
by the Spanish authorities. In addition to
his duties as consul. Mr.. Fox acted as
auditor of the Juragua Mining Company,
whose mines are located near Santiago.
1.-THE party Of which I was a member"
said Mr.. Fox, was the last to leave the
island. I would have stayed longer in the
country in the interest of the Juragua Com
pany, but 1 was formally notified that hos
tilities between the United States and Spain
had begun and that the Spanish govern
ment had taken possession of the com
pany's mines. There was nothing lett LOT
me to do then but leave"
Speaking Of the fortitications on the Gu
ban coast he continued, why think they
are very poor. There is something that
they call a fort at Santiago, but l do not
think that it would exist for many minutes
during a bombardment AS for MORO CAS-
tie at Havana, it is not all that is claimed
for it. At one period of time many years
tago it might have been a most formidable
1Orl, DuL II COulu LdlOiS at III oN16O VI
warfare withstand the fire of the Amer
lean gunboats
There is much misery and starvation on
the island, but the situation in this respect
has, l think, been somewhat exaggerated.
There has been great suffering among. the
reconcentrados, which the copsuls alleVl-
ated to the best of their ability. Blu the
food supplies are now cut off on account
of the war and the condition of the I'M
~fortunates will grow worse and worse.
There are no Industries in Cuba Every
iron mine is closed and the laborers of all
classes are out of work. The situation is
most appalling. Where once stood factories
is now a burned waste, and starvation is on
the increase. The fire brand of war has
leveled all centers Of industry to the
ground. and it will be years before the coun-
try will be the same as it was before the
inSurrection.
far as the Cuban army is concerned.
it could hold its own for years in the island;
The insurgents control the entire inland
country. and the Spanish soldiers can make
NO headWay whatever. Around Santiago
there are thousands of Cuban soldie.s, and
they are in constant communication with
their friends.
Nearly every noncornbatant is a sympa-
thizer with the insurgents, and secretly per-
form many favors for them at great risks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
VIEWS OF CECIL RHODES.
Thinks britain Should Have Cordial
Relations with America

LONDON. May 2-The Daily Chronicle
publishes this morning Mr.. Cecil Rhodes's
view of Angio-American relations. Mr..
Rhodes says: I'm my opinion nothing is
so vital to the future of the British and
American peoples as a cordial understand
ing now and a d~eeply-rooted conviction Of
mutual good Will. From this, If future
events render it necessary. a formal alliance
may be born. 1t is obvious that if Ameri-
ca brushes Spain from the outset there will
be an unthinking tendency in England to
sympathize with the little boy thrashed
by the big boy. But what we must not for
get is Spanish atrocity in Cuba. America
has done in view of this atrocity precisely
what Great Britain would have done IL 1t
had occurred in an island close to the Brit
ish coast. In fact we should not probably
have been as patient as America has been.
At any rate the two peoples would meet the
same circumstances with the same action.
II Is not for use to run after America with
offers OF alliances. Such a result must of
course be a meeting Of the ways, but It
seems TO me perfectly obvious that In any
division OF world interests those OF the Brit
isn empire and America will be found to-
Ecth*r. England and America need each
Qtser aac tais psed win grow yApidly In the
future
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
Indiana NoteS.

Mrs. Emma Culbertson, of Olive Hill, has
left Richmond for Matamoras, Mexico, to
assume the m~atronship of the Hussey In
stltute, a Friends institution.
AT the meeting of Sol Meredith Post. q.
A. H., OF Richmond, this week it is the in-
tentlon to pass a resolution skiing for the
removal of II. Clay Evans, commissioners
of pensions, on the ground that he does NOT
carry out the spirit of the pension law.
Last Friday evening a soiree musicale was
given under the direction of Frank v.
steele, Of indianapolis, at the Martinsville
Sanitarium. Mr.. Steele was assisted by
MRS. Fremont Swain, Mrs. Will Chamber
lain, Miss Nellie A. King and Mr.. Frank
II. Ormsby, ali of Indianapolis.
The chief interest at Earlham College il
Just now centered in athletics. The field
day takes place on Wednesday next, to be-
followed by the contest with Miami Uni
Yersity, oxford, o., on the 18th and the
State contest on the 10th at Indianapolis.
The State, tennis tournament Is to be held
at Earlham on May Il.
DR.; ]. w: Kapp, Of Richmond. president
of the Indiana Christian Fndeayor. an
nounces that the state convention will this
year be held in November. Vincennes Is
the meeting place. Last year the conven-
benefit of the Winona Assembly grounds.
1t Is very probable that Richmond will ask
for the convention Of 1899.
The University of Chicago has accepted
the High School of Richmond for co-opera-
ton, by which Is meant that students Will
be admitted from the latter to the former
on the lnQlVldual certl1c2te in each subject
required for admission. The High School
commencement takes place June IL. Class
speakers have been done away with, and
Hon. William Dudley Foulke has accepted
an invitation to make the class address.
The first grand rally of glass workers OF
the Indiana gas belt will occur in Muncia
Sunday next, and hundreds Of the menu
bers of this craft, with large numbers OF
other labor unionists, will invade the city.
There will be excursions from Anderson,
Marion and other places. The principal
speaker on this occasion will be President
Ratchford, OF the United Mine Workers
organization. A feature of the occasion will
be a street parade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
WAGON WHEAT, $1.O6
ACME MILLING CO.,
40 West Washington Street.
DOXEY'S FUNERAL
IT WILL OCCUR AT ANDERSON NEXT
WEDNESDAY,.
His Liberal Misunderstanding of
His Estate-Other Deaths
in Indiana.
Special to tn. indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, May 1.-The funeral Of
Major C. 7. Doxey will take place from his
late residence in this city Wednesday after
noon at 2 o'clock. His body will be inferred
in the Anderson Cemetery. The Loyal
Legion Of Indiana, Of which he was a
leader, will, assisted by local and visiting
G. A. r. men, conduct the services and lay
the body 20 rest. The death of the major,
which was so fully chronicled in the I'M
day edition of the Journal, has thrown a
gloom over the homes of most of the fam
lilies in Anderson, and from no quarter do
more tender regrets come than from the
homes of the poor. Though he was prom
inent in business affairs and in enterprises
and wealth. though he achieved reputation
in state political circles, still to the people
OF Anderson Major Doxey was dearest as
a commoner. His best friends were among
the poor Of the city, and the men who la
bored in his bitches in the days of his pipe
line ventures. No man was ever too poor
or too shabbily dressed to approach Major
Doxey and receive most careful considera-
ton. The world will never know how many
poor people he carried through the winters
of their disappointment and discomfort and
through the real panic winters Of '92, '93, "a
anu 30. ne gave LnTOuSn many CHANNELS
and his money went to every quarter of
the city. but still no one ever knew, ex-
cept those of the agencies through which
he worked, who was the man of liberal
hand After several years the guessing be-
came so general that the true honor at last
came to rest upon the man. His funeral
Wednesday will be attended by men and
women in factory clothes and many children
and adults in respectable rags. They will
show where the loss is felt the greatest.
The regret of all Andersonians is that he
did not achieve his greatest aspiration in
being Governor of Indiana. The people who
knew him best and knew his true worth
were his WarmeSt supporters.
Though Major Doxey has been known as
a millionaire, it is probable that but $500, 900
or $7UO,OU will be realized in the settlement
of his affairs. He knew for. some time that
he could not recover and he came home to
settle up his affairs. He withdrew from as
many enterprises as pOSsible-many times at
a sacrifice, and his affairs are in very good
shape. His will will be probated in a few
days. 1t is understood that he divides his
property and money equally between his
wife and his daughter, Mrs. Benepe, of In
dianapolis, the daughter of his first wife.
He also makes provision for a sister who
lives in the West. His grandson, Mrs.
Benepe'S child, is also provided for to the
extent Of a good education. The funeral
Wednesday will be very largely attended.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 1.-The War
rick Field Corn Husking Company started
operations yesterday in the new factory
here, to enable some Chicago capitalists to
investigate the invention. 1t is a new ma
chine I'M the only one of the kind. 1t was
invented by a farmer named ]. W. Warrick,
of Warren county. Professor G~arsnell,
master mechanic at Purdue, says it is equal
to the wonderful labor-saving cap and
binder. There is a capital stock of $780,
COO held by Chicago and Terre Haute capt.
talists. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois and
the Vandalia Companies helped to bring the
plant to this city from Lafayette. where
the people declined to offer sufficient in
duceTnent. The factory here Will have the
sole right to the trade in Indiana and Illi-
nois, for which Mr.. Warrick received $S2,-
600. He said, speaking of his invention:
Corn husking is one of the most hateful
jobs on the farm and is the cause Of more
boys leaving the farm than any other one
thing Several hundred men will be en-
ployed in the factory here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
OIL OPERATIONS
MARION COUNTY LEADING THE
STATE IN DRILLING ACTIVITY.
Indiana Municipal Elections To-day
Anderson i'm Darkness Last Night
Tragedy at North Vernon.
special to the 1ndianapolis JOurnaL.

MONTPELIER. Ind. May There Ii no
one certain spot In the entire Indiana oil
field where there is any great amount Of
activity doing. The Marion county end Of
the State has a larger number of new opera
tons than any other part Of the field. One
feature of the April report is that there
Is an increase in new work under way Of
ninteen. There are eleven more drilling
wells and eight more rigs up than there
were at the close of March operations. In
completed work there is a falling off of six
wells and a decline of 100 barrels in the new
production. The Wabash county field. near
Keller's Station, has hardly come into
prominence yet. but 1t is showing very pro-
ductive and may yet develop into an i'm
portant factor. The following shows a COM
parison for the work in the various districts
Of the field for the month Of March n
April:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
Henry ShireIpan.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARTINSyILLE, Ind, May 1-Henry
Shireman, aged ~seventy-four years, died at
his home just east of this city last evening
of retarded circulation caused by heart
rouble. Owing to poor circulation in the
past two or three months, a half of one Of
his feet had persisted and decayed, and a
toe on the other foot had also decayed be-
fore death finally relieved him. Mr.. Shire
man was born Dec. IS, 1923. in Lincolnton,
N. c., and came to this county in 1885, where
he had continuously resided for sixty-two
years. He was married April IS, 1853 to
Marian De Turk, who survives him. Ten
children were born to them, but one, a son,
being dead. He was the father of the we'll
known salesman, William A. Shireman, who
travels for Schnull & Co., of Indianapolis,
and also father of Eugene Shireman, of the
class of 81 Of De Paw University. Funeral
will be on Tuesday.
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Says This Years Chorus Is Away
Ahend of Last Years.

Ahead OF Last Years.
Director Won der Stucken conducted the
= chorus yesterday. going through the Lucifer
In its entirety. He is highly elated over the
result of the training the chorus has had
and predicts great triumphs for it in the
coming festival. Il an very well satisfied
with the chorus" he said. II am confident
that by the time we have had the last re-
hearsals on Monday and Tuesday the chorus
VIII be so proficient that the tail won't wag
the dog To-day we rehearsed the Lucifer
with the big festival CT oruS. the solo choir
and the children's chorus. Everything went
on without q hitch, and ] was agreeably
surprised at the excellent work of the CHOIR
Us 1t is far above that of last year. 1t
eNcels IN quality, attack and Sha5ing. L ex-
production Of Lucifer. This is the first at
lie npt at the production of this o~ratorio in
the United States. and / believe It will ere
ate a furore among the music lovers. 1t is
z wonderful composition and will be handled
mere, am sure, in a way worthy of IL. /
count on this first nights performance MAX
ing the festival the success, in so far as
pubic interest in ii is concerned, that / ex-
pect It to be. In the production OF Lucifer
tne pubic VIII get a treat in chorus work
mat VIII so far toward starting the festival
OF with the right impression created"
Prof. Won der Stucken will remain in this
city until his departure for Europe. His
years work at Cincinnati has just been
completed. He will sail Eext week for Ger
many on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
None Of the soloists have reached the city.
Probably the first 70 arrive will be Mme.
Josephine S. Jacoby. She Is expected TO-
cay. The Cincinnati Orchestra
craf ~ noon kp~dav and wiM take part
Wath the chorus IN the dnsI rehearsals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-02
Frederick j. Myers.

DENISON. Ia, May Fired j. Myers,
for twenty-five years editor of the Denison
Review, died this morning. He was a chief
of division in the Treasury Department I'M
der Lincoln, Grant and Harrison, and was
three times sent as special commissioner to
Germany to make governmental investiga-
tions. He was associate editor with James
G. Blaine, Zach Chandler and others in the
publication OF a magazine called the Re-
public, and was the founder of the Civil
service Journal. Mr.. Myers was a Bava-
rian. and came to America when fourteen
years old.