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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-04

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How 10 Spain going to stand another sum
mer In Cuba? She can not put down the re
: bcIlion III two months more and by that tim
the climate and the fever viii reinforce til
Insurgents oncn more. Then six months o
heat and rain und postllcncc will have TO b
endured by ain army that Is already hclplos
and unpaid, poorly clad and hnlf fcd-aud tn
mother country bankrupt We don't need Il
intervene now Cuba hus won its fight
Tho political pol may now be said to b.
squnreiy ON the nre In Texas mud ready t,
boil. But all win be over after tho nomua
lions tHs year.
The announcement of senator Mills Of hil
candidacy for recollection 10 the senate a,
might hnyc been expected from the character
and ability of che gentleman, Is made In n
vigorous presentation of his views aud will
be read with interest throughout Texas. SEN
ntor Mills is positive character and counts
lis admirers and friends by the thousand In
| fe@aa lie will command attention In any
| night in which he is engaged
| II appears from tho report of "Wednesday
senate proceedings that senator Tillman' S
pilchiork IS stlll in usp and stili capable
OF stirring up the animals
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Truck farmers near Palestine have organ
lied and It is said Anderson county viii be
made to produce moro fruit and vegetables.
rhorn Is big money for Tcxns farmers In
fruit and curly vegetables. and It is gratifying
to SEQ that they arc recognizing this fact
ana going after II In systemate and Intel
l'Eeht way, There are number of truck
farmers organizations now IN the state.
There Ia one virtue about the German oov-
crpment~It is not wanting In energy. We
mhy possihiy initiate It's promptncss In adopt
inB prohibtiyo commercial regulations
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Tho steady growth In popularity of the
State University is matter for state wide
gratiiicutlon. Annually the enrolment Is in
ereasing and very properly tho regents are
adding to tho accommodations and to the
educational facilities and ADVANTAGES OF III,
institution. No rcxas boy or girl ought to
have to so elsewhere for higher education.
iho various conferences and resolutions of
the sound money leagues and "eomnls-
s'ons' would indicate that they had disooy-
ofed some signs Of llTo again In tho dead
Hee silver" movement
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New birmingham has cause 10 foe, rond
over the report that the development of tho
IRON industry In TINT vicinity win he re-
sumed Tho iron industries OF the Nation
are in excellent condition ana Texas has
rich field for development in East Texas ana
at other points in the state. Texas furnoces
ought not 10 rcmain idle.
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Tho political poi may now be said to be
squareiy ON the Are In Texas mud ready to
boil But al WIN be over after tho pomina.
tions tlis year
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The announcement of senator Minis of his
candidacy for recollection 10 the senate. as
might hnyc been expected from the character
and ability Of che gentleman. Is made IN
vigorous presentation Of his Views aud viii
be read with Interest throughout Tcxns Sem
ntor Mills is positive character and counts
lis admirers and friends by The thousand in
Texas, lie will command attention In any
night IN which he is engaged
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Lord Salisbury is becoming as much a
back number and weak brother in diplomacy
as the Hon. John sherman, The English can
get rid of salisbury however, by IN ex-
preston OF o want OF confidence In the
commons, while We must carry our burden
of senilty for several years vet.
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Tho state court Of appeals at Dallas has
handed down a decision that practically an
nihilatcs the munlcipal courts" The decision
WI have Widespread effect an the admin
is'ration OF criminal Justice. ns the municipal
courts have been doing big business Ia that
line.
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II appears from tho report of Wednesdays
senate proceedings that Senator Illman S
piichtork IS stll in uso and still capable
OF stirring up the animals
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-04

New birmingham has cause to foel good
over the report that the development of tho
IRON industry In TINT vicinity viii be re.
snmed. The iron industries of the Nation
are In excellent condition and Texas has n
rich field for development in East Texas ana
at other points in the state Texas furnaces
ought not TO ROMAN idle.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-04

Business men IN Pennsylvania want Hon
John Wanamaker for governor. Mr.. wann.
maker has way OF putting up Handsomely
In campaigns in which he is Interested and
OF relieving his supporters OF one OF the bur,
dens of nm active canvass And even business
men appreciate that feature OF practical poll
itiuS,
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Tue various conferences and resolutions of
The sound money leagues and "commls.
s'"ns' would Indicate that they had dsooy-
cred some signs of llEo again in tho dead
free silver movement
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a railroad company In this State is be.
ing sued for damages on account of tho IN
sulting conduct Of one OF It's porters toward
a rassenscrN Is II possible that We ale to get
a legal decision requiring eiyilny aud cour-
tesy from RAILROAD porterse
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The Chicago Times Herald. referring TO
the recent vote in thu house at Vaccination
on lilo Teller resolution reassertine our
right TO pay our obligations In silver as
VOL as gold, at The Boyornmonts option.
suns up the result as follows
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OPINION IN FAGG CASE.
Full Text Of the important Ruling by
the Court.
no AUTHORITY TO TRY CASES
In the Court Presided Ovcr by
Mayor or Recorder.

Dallas, Texag. February 3.--Following
is the full text OF the opinion in the Fagg
case. decided yesterday by the court of
criminal appeals 1t is said to be the
most Important and far-reaching opinion
that tribunal has set forth In several years.
In tho case of Bud Fagg. who was con-
victed In the Dallas city court OF gambling
and afterward appealed and sued out a
writ OF habeas corpus, the court discharged
tie relator and held that the city has no
authority to try cases defined in the
statNtes. M
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Some authorities hold thar where ,he
State law has acted upon mattsr and
made the act an otfense against tho state
mat the legislature can no, afterwards
delegate authority 10 municipal govern
men's 10 create the same act m offense
AGAINST the city--,he State having once OF.
eepied the territory the city is excluded
from interfering with 1t, tsee Savannah
VI nusssy y Ga Rep, so; Wayne couniS
vs.. Detroit, II Mich, 100: Cooley on a'S con
~ LIN, lio and 2sS: II Amer. ana Eng. Ency'
81 o, Law, ?. 20 II Amer. and Eng. isney
Tho decisions OF our state. however ar
rear !, ne otherwise, and TO authorize ,rn-
, hi'ip,i corporations 10 take Jurisdiction ana
~ ordinance create State offcnse an Of
tense against the city, This seems 70 10
.ne noiaIng o. THIS cnrrt with reference 10
s s' oliepses % justices o. The peare bass
,,u5lsaietinn e Try; ana IN siirh eases Ii il
een 60 ordinance must conform "a he
state laws n CREATING the offeusc and in.
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ton !, article s, Of the constitution. o
this question, Judge Moore uses the fol
lowing language, which we quote In full:
The objections made to the consti-
tionality OF the recorders court Gre
;ited by the charter have been, In effect,
answered by what has been heretofore
said. II the legislature may, by rea-
son OF Its Inherent Legislative power,
create municipal corporation for pur-
poses OF local government, 1t seems TO
follow as a necessary conclusion. that
II may invest with such powers as are
necessary and essential for the ends
and purposes of its creation. Without
the grant of general police powers.
and the means OF enforcing their re-
spect and observance. the act of incor-
poration Of a town or city would lie
little better than waste paper.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-25

ranch owner and lawyer of Wyoming
and as a politician is known as the au-
thor of the Torrey bankruptcy bill.
Lieutenant Colonel j. Q. Cannon is the
eldest son of the Mormon councillor and
political head of that church and a
brother OF Senator Cannon. When at
home. he is the editor in chief OF The
Deseret News of Salt Lake City. The
senior major is j. G. Harbord. who was
formerly i'm the Fifth cavalry. w. G..
Wheeler OF Denver. who has also seen
service in the regulars, is the second
major, while Bob Calverly, the Fight
ing Sheriff OF Wyoming" is the junior
major. The adjutant is Herbert b.
Lacey, son OF the former judge of the
same name in Cheyenne. Mortimer Je-
surren is chief surgeon.
In addition to the guidon Of Company
I, which is of Utah silk and was pre-
sented by the women of Salt Lake City.
there are two regiment& mascots--one
n pretty kitten named Kittie Lee, a
gift from the women OF Cheyenne. and
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ard Wood "A former army surgeon on
the personal staff OF General Miles and
family physician To the president, be-
came well known from it's very incep-
tlon as "Teddys Terrors." or "Roose-
velt's Rough Riders" the latter term
being readily accepted because of "apt
alliteration's artful aid" and because of
the fame and popularity OF the cowboy
litterateur. politician and civil service
reformer.
II is known that when Roosevelt stat
ed his determination to go TO the scene
OF war the president offered him a colo
nelcy but he declined that honor say
ing that his knowledge OF military tao
tics was not sufficient. but he would ac-
cept position as assistant to his friend
DR.. Wood. Then the two gentlemen re-
ceived the commissions they held until
recently, when Wood was made briga-
der general of volunteers and Roosevelt
colonel of the Rough Riders for gallant
work at Santiago.
This regiment was the first TO feel
the brunt OF war. at the battle OF la
Quasina, on June "a, when IL of the
brave fellows fell dead i'm the Cuban
chaparral. Brigadier General Wood, the
former commander of these Rough
Riders, was known throughout the west
more than a dozen years ago as the
Fighting Doctor" Today he wears a
medal upon his breast voted to him by
congress for bravery in the Geronimo
campaign. II was then said that he
had saved a command when all the Of
ficers excepting himself and one other
had been prostrated by the trials of a
hard campaign. A native OF Boston, he
entered the army I'm 1885. Arriving at
the fort in Arizona which was to be
his headquarters one evening in June,
he was in the field at o'clock the next
morning in the beginning OF the Apache
campaign, and for the succeeding two
years his career was more that of q
soldier than a surgeon. He made trips
of 1000 miles in length and was active
In the Indian campaign Of 1888.
Theodore Roosevelt has been known,
always aggressively, as civil service
commissioner New York city police
commissioner and assistant secretary OF
the navy. From the time of his gradu-
alton at Harvard, as ranchman. littera-
teur, politician or reformer. he has been
constantly in the public eye.
The regiment is a peculiar combina-
tion of plainsmen and recruits from the
society ranks OF New York city, so
called dudes who were polo experts and
cross country riders. representing well
known. wealthy and illustrious families
of the Empire State. There are also i'm
the ranks college graduates from Yale
and Princeton and ten men from the
Harvard class OF 1898. 1t has been
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt's idea that
the former leaders of the cotillon could
learn more readily the use of the saber
and revolver and become better horse
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Colonel Roosevelt Colonel TOrrey and Colonel
GrigSby and Their Novel Regiments Of
Daredevil Cowboys and Dudes.

the men tsave discarded sabers and ma
chetes and depend wholly on firearms,
principally rifles, for they are virtually
mounted rifiemen. The men OF the First
regiment OF volunteer cavalry place
their trust in machetes as we'll as In
guns. while the men OF the Third. or
Grigsby's, regiment have pinned their
faith to the revolver. These ideas are
the outgrowth of the beliefs of the sew
eral commanders in the most efficient
weapon, and subsequent events may
prove which OF the three is the, most
correct in his conjecture. But there is
probability that the machete. the rifle
and the revolver all have their special
use at times in battle, in days OF siege
or in the hour of attack. This last nam
ed regiment, which insists that il is the
original regiment OF Rough Riders and
should have been sent at first with Colo
mel Woods inen, contains IL companies
of SO men. or a roster of about 1,036. in
cluding officers. About SS per cent OF
them are miners or cowboys, the re-
mainder being clerks, business and pro-
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regiment Is armed with six shooters
and either the .45 caliber carbines. Win
chester rifles or the Mausers. the last
named being the weapon used almost
entirely by the Spanish regulars in
Cuba. 1t is a strange fact that the
machete-pronounced ina kay ay"--is
not manufactured in either Cuba or
Spain, but principally in Hartford,
although General Gomez has a small
one that was put together in Santo Do
mingo.
IL is well known that the drill OF both
men and horses of Roosevelt's Rough
Riders before leaving the United States
was perfect, the men being able TO
charge standing in the stirrups. The
ponies would stop like automatons at
the word OF command. and in the wheel
ing, circling, yelling and riding with a
fearless abandon the men showed how
practically impossible IL would be for
foot soldier to defend himself from a
machete charge. They know how TO
shoot straight as we'll OF the two ma
jors one is Hersey, adjutant general OF
New Mexico and the otner Alec o.
Brodie. whom his home newspaper call
ed "one OF the best known citizens of
Arizona" Major Brodie is a graduate
of West Point. class Of '72, and was
adjutant Of the First cavalry when he
resigned. OF late years he has been a
civil and mining engineer and is part
owner OF one of the richest mines in the
west.
Captain William ONeill, who was
killed while leading his troop, was born
In st. Louis. He had been a student. a
newspaper man, a cowboy, a traveller
the sheriff OF an Arizona county, the
mayor OF city, a lawyer, a miner and
the editor OF three or four newspapers
and magazines. He had been all over
the world and w-s as well known
among business men OF New York city
as among the cowboys of Arizona,
where he spent the greater part OF the
last 20 years OF his life.
The former Colonel (now Brigadier
GeneraD Melvin Grigsby was born 90
years ago on farm near the village OF
Potosi. in Grant county. Wis, and lived
there till he enlisted at the opening OF
the civil war. His youthful education
comprised few winters at a log cabin
district school and three terms at the
village academy. OF his four years
service in the cavalry about one was
passed in the prisons of Andersonville
and Florence, s. C. Twice he escaped
from the former. at one time being free
for 80 days. but in the second attempt he
succeeded in reaching the Federal lines
after two months of travelling through
swamps by night and hiding anywhere
in the daytime.
When he reached safety. he was thin
and emaciated and OF such a smoky
color from standing about the small
campfires he had made that for a time
he was dubbed the Smoked Yank." Ir
his book detailing his military expert.
ences. published few years ago, he
wittily used this appellation as a title
to his literary production.
At the close of the war he succeeded
In obtaining part of a college education
and then studied law. After admttance
to the bar he removed to South Dakota
settling In Sioux Falls, then only a
small village. connected with the out.
side world by a stage line. Always
prominent In politics. he has been kncwr
! as "a fighter" and a man OF principle
preferring his convictions and belief tc
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a week later Colonel Grlgsby had his
commission and instructions 10 recruit
the regiment OF the Third United States
volunteer cavalry, now known through
out the country as "Grigsby's Rough
Riders" His force was mustered into
service on May 10 and the next day left
for Chickamauga. Since then his cem-
mand has been brigaded with an Ohio
and an Illinois regiment, and he has
been raised TO the rank OF brlgadicr
general. But IL was his heartfelt desire
to have the three regiments OF Rough
Riders united into one special brigade.
Tho Second regiment. United States
volunteer cavalry. or "Torrey's Rough
Riders" as IL IL better known. was or
ganized by Colonel Jay T.. Torrcy. who
Knows nearly every man In his regi-
ment personally. so particular was he
i'm organizing his regiment that he care
fully examined 5000 men before choos-
ing the 1. 600 allotted Go him by law. The
second officer in rank Is Lieutenant
Colonel Cannon, and there are three
majors. The regiment is made up Of
seven companies from Wyoming. two
from Idaho. two from Colorado and one
from Utah. Colonel Torrey is a wealthy
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office. Years ago he was candidate for
congress ana was practically nominate
ed. having n majority OF the delegates
In the convention. but was defeated. as
he claims, by the manipulations OF the
present United States Senator Petit
grew, and since then the two men have
been bitter political enemies.
Two years ago he was elected attor-
ney general OF South Dakota by the
largest vote ever accorded any candi-
date in tho state. His legal record has
been a good one, and IL is said that he
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men by association with the cowboys
who have lived in the saddle and slept
on their firearms nearly all their years,
while the latter might benefit from con-
tact with the former men OF leisure and
derive from the companionship some OF
the good characteristics of 'the PAM
pered darling OF society" This COM
mand has two rapid fire Colt guns and
a dynamite gun. artillery auxiliaries
which the other two similar organiza-
tions do not possess. In addition TO the
murderous corn knife, OF machete, this
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many respects TO our transmssssppi
states and territories. and the Rough
Riders, principally from Arizona, Wy
oming and the Dakotas, whose lives
have been full OF lighting. find con-
genial occupation in harassing an enc
my whom they regard with as much
kindly consideration as they formerly
regarded our native Indians from the
Sioux of the Black Hills to the Apaches
of the Rio Grande.
The First regiment, United States
volunteer cavalry. organized by Colo
mel Leonard Wood, with Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt as assistant, has be-
come the most widely known OF the
three regiments OF Rough Riders from
the fact that IL was the first TO face the
Spaniards in Cuba, but the other two.
Torrey's and Grigsby's regiments. are
thoroughly disciplined and capable mil
itary bodies.
The scheme of the special cowboy reg
lments Is said to have originated with
Colonel Melvin Grigsby, and it was
through his efforts that the bill allow
Ing their organization was passed by
congress. During his residence of 80
years In South Dakota this gentleman
had naturally come in contact with the
cowboys on the ranges, and at the first
intimation OF war. conceiving the idea
that n regiment OF Rough Riders and
dead shots would be even more effective
than body OF regulars owing to their
recklessncss of life and limb and their
daredevil spirit, wrote 10 the secretary
OF war suggesting the formation OF such
c. body OF men and rendering his own
services in any capacity that would be
accepted. The reply was made to him
.hat his suggestion would be used IL
possible.
When Colonel Grigsby went 90 WASH
ington. on April IL. he learned that a
bin inspired by Theodore Roosevelt vas
before congress providing for the organ
i1ation Of n regiment OF cowboys. See
ing that only one regiment OF special
volunteers could be raised by the presi-
dent under tho order, Grignby had his
congressman In the last 40 minutes be-
fore vote was taken propose the fol-
lowing amendment: Provided, further
that the president may authorize the
secretary OF war to organise companies.
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fessionaI men from the towns. The
horses with wnich they are supplied are
especially large and strong. but perhaps
not as well adapted TO the Cuban cli-
mate as the smaller burros or Texas
ponies which RoOsevelt's men are rid.
ing. They are armed with Krag-Jor-
gensen rifles and Colts .45 csllber re-
volvers. Naturally they are all crack
shots.
The First regiment Of $50 men. though
organized and at first commanded by
Colonel tnQw Rrissdisr GspersD Leon
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How the Queer Bodies Of Fighters Came
: Into Being and the Careers Of Some
Of the Men Who Lead Them
on the Field OF Battle.

troops. battalions or regiments possess
ing special qualifications from the ma
tion at large under such rules and regu-
latioDs. including the appointment OF
the officers thereof, as may be pre-
scribed by the secretary OF war;"
This bill was passed on April %, and
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Willie Kane, n boy 15 years old. who
claims Pittsburg as his home and. hav-
Ing been made coloneis orderly.
blows the bugle calls. But the pos
session OF these inducers OF good luck
did not prevent the regiment from hav-
ing serious failroad accident on its
route from Fort Russell TO Jacksonville.
Fla, In which seven men were killed
and eight injured. n peculiar Introduce
tion 10 the casualties Of war. Among
the injured was Colonel TQrrey himself.
A singularity Of this command Is that
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Copyright. 1851

Those novel military organizations
known under the popular designation
Of Rough Riders" are forcibly proving
their soldierly efficiency in the present
war. The topography OF eastern and
central Cuba especially IL similar in