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Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

THERE need be no apprehension
that the prompt mastering out OF the
volunteers whose services are not
needed will be objected to by the men
in the ranks. They had higher mo-
tive in enlisting than the prospect Of
pay or rations.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

PRAISE for the man behind the guns
should not completely obscure the
valuable services of the man behind
the rations.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

IT looks as though Admiral Dewey
would be the only fighter who would
not be called upon to explain some
thing. It's a wise man who knows
enough to cut his cable.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

THE attention of Aguinaido should
be called to the fact that the war de-
partment has given an order for TO-
OO0, 900 more cartridges.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

MISSOURI Is taking the lead in the
manufacture of cob pipes. Labor
Commissioner Arthur Rozelle has
completed statistics for his forthcom-
ing annual report which show that
over s125, 900 worth of corn cob pipes
were manufactured in Missouri last
year, in the making of which almost
200 people were employed and to
whom was paid $4,000.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

g. 8. g., and after q few bottles were used, mo-
ticed pereepttble Improvement. Continuing
the remedy, the disease was forced out of my
system, and o complete cure was the result
advise all who have this dreadful disease TO
abandon theirlocal treatment, which hasnevef
done them any good, and take 8. 8. g.. rem
To continue the wrong treatment for
Catarrh is to continue to suffer. Swift's
Specific is real blood remedy, and
cures obstinate, deep-seated diseases,
which other remedies have no effect
whatever upon. 1t promptly reaches
Catarrh, and never fails to cure even the
N, ocf aUOravatod cocoa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

SANTA FE, Mo, has the most sue
cessful picnics held anywhere in the
entire country.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

NOSTALGIA Is the medical name for
the new disease of homesickness or
lonesomeness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

JUST how to bury all the animosities
and jealousies of the war is a grave
uuestion
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

IF the insurgents will surrender
they will get Just as good rations as
the Standards.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

SPAIN now has on her hands large
line of army mules-including Blanco.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01
S.S.S!tTfsss Blood

e Purely Vegetable, and is the only
dangerous minerals.
Books mailed free by Swift Specific
Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

Bromeline will positively cure .
cold in "a hours. No cure, no pay. 26
cents. Sold by Buckner & Whitney.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

Mail for any Of the members Of
Company L, 9Th Missouri Regiment,
should be sent to Camp Sanger, Lex
fugton. Ky.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

LET every Democrat remember 1894
and 20 to work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

THE Democratic clubs of Audrain
county should wake up and get to
work and new clubs should be organ
lied. The platform has been made
and the nominees all named. 1t is now
the duty of every Democrat to do all
in his power to get out a full vote.
This is an of year, but that is no reas-
on why the Democrats should be list
less and 60 to sleep. Remember 1894.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

J. w. Dowsn bousht i.ooo .,.s.,.
OF corn fron Vim. sins this veer :,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

Hoods Pills cure sick headache,
nausea, biliousness and all liver ills.
Price, 25 cents.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

He said our pledges in regard to
an independent, stable government in
Cuba should be sacredly observed
and that the chances were that Amer
leans would 60 to Cuba and ultimately
have weight and influence in its affairs,
and the people of Cuba would in due
time ask for admission into the Union,
as Texas did, and be admitted; and
that Porto Rico would be held as q
coaling station and the key to the gull
and Caribbean Sea.
After discussing the results of the
war he declared that the war had not
obscured the financial question and
that bimetallism-the free, unlimited
and independent coinage of both
silver and gold at the old ratio of 16 to
Twas the paramount issue above all
others and would so remain until fay
orably settled. He then discussed at
some length the power of this govern
ment to establish and maintain BIZ
metallism as its financial policy inde-
pendently of all other nations. He
then said the next important question
was that of taxation and revenue sys-
tenn and favored an income tax and a
tariff for revenue. He said that neither
bimetallism nor taxation could be
obscured by the war or its results, and
on the contrary the results Of war only
added evidence to the Importance and
necessity for the re- establishment OF
an old bimetallic system as it was
prior to 1873.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
The following parties subscribed TO,
the Weekly LEDGER:
J. r. Braden, Laddonia.
J. 8. Waller, Paris.
w. v. Newgent, Youngs Greek.
]. E. Sharp, Rowena.
2. B. Hunt, Strother.
VIM. Cowherd, Santa Fe.
G. w. Morgan, Molino.
James Ashcraft, Strother.
John O'Fallon, Cecil.
VIM. r. Fisher, Victor.
Geo. P. Moore, Paris, formerly OF
Audra1n.
1. B. Weatherford, Perry.
G. A. Radford, Victor.
Alex. McAfee, Rowena.
Geo. D. Sims, Long Branch.
The Weekly LEDGER has fine sub
scription list at Santa Fe, probably az
large as any other weekly paper that
goes to that postoffice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

BE-. Bradley and family have moved
from Nevada to Rich Hill, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

Ia NJ. Hendrix, Of this county, who
tor anumber of months has been an
inmate OF the Asylum ct Fulton, and
VINO 10 snhering from q recent stroke
Q, paralysis, was brouget home this
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

mrs. Y. .. Davis will likely rent the
J. M. Barker residence on Olark
Avenue where shs viii keep board
ers, Mr. Barker having arranged to
return 70 Montgomery county IN Hvs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01
Pains Have Left

They Were In Arms Shoulders
and LInnbs DsGan Takin6
Moods oarsaparilIa and Row
Does All hef Work.
aIwas troubled with pains in the smnll
Of my back and thsy spread TO my arms,
shoulders and limbs. I was at times 20
that I could hardly do my work. Ths
medicines prescribed Tor No did not DO
any good and had givsn up al hops OF
ever getting rid Of ths pains. My father
told me to try Hoods 6arsapariila and
did 20. When I had taken It short time
I began TO feel better. Ths pains bsgan
70 leave, and now, aftsr taking fvs bot
tiles, I have none Of the pains and can do
al my work. feel that am cured"
HATTIE MCDOWELL, HiGbss, Missouri.
wonderfulcureso Of ecrofulA, Salt Rhsum,
Ulcsrs, Sores, Eruptions, Dyspspsie, and
other diseases, provs th0 great curative,
blood purifying powsD Of
.Hood's s s:.is, pss;;'s
Ths bsst-ln eacs tn oas Trus Rlood PwiAsf
ee,dby al drussists. friss q; i;ssxfcReS.
u., I,,,,. srs % faxorfss famiA
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

John Dexter has our thanks for Iate
Colorado papers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

Hoods PILLS sasaaras. rrsss ise.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-01

Telephone No. 80.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

deep-rooted philosophy holds sway, that
whatever comes is Allahs will. The
flames consume. and it is we'll; the
tremen plumber, and it is we'll Need
less to say, the insurance companies
look at the matter differently and avoid
Constantinople risks as they would the
Destilence.
! als1 visited the two fire towers and
was able to verify by personal expert
ence what is matter of common
knowledge that the men on duty there
are a precious lot of ruffians. They
keep the signals going well enough,
the lights by night and colored bal
looms by day, but they look upon all
who come near them as their legitimate
prey. The Galata tower is a splendid
old structure, built by the Genoese hun
dreds of years ago, and in consequence
many tourists go to see it; for that
matter it attracts the eye from all parts
of Constantinople. And more than once
it has happened that unsuspicious for
eigners who have climbed painfully to
the top, after paying an exorbitant fee,
have been held up by three or four evil
looking men in firemen's uniform and
been given the option of handing over
a number of golden liras or being kept
prisoners there all night, with the
chance Of worse treatment. oh, the
Constantinople fire department is
worthy of the countryi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

and 500 miles on foot and with mules
and donkeys to the new diggings. and
nearly all travelled across deserts and
mountains for distance of $50 or 800
miles. A large number. of men coming
out Of the warm. balmy air of the
semi-tropics lost their lives amid the
snowbanks and ice, and many man.
was made an invalid for life because
of exposure TO the biting cold during
the stampede. A severe blizzard ragged
in the mountains for several days while
the miners were slowly trudGing
through them. In one party of hum
dred men from New Mexico, four men
were frozen to death one morning, and
it is thought that fully 20 more died
in the same way in the mountains at
that time.
When at last the Rocky Belle dig
gings We're reached it was soon seen
that there was no ore in the district
worth digging, except in the claims
held by Henry Binford and his friends,
and that the report of their find had
been exaggerated beyond all reason.
Binfords own mine petered out year
or two later, and he got only a few
thousand dollars from it.
Along in the summer of 1878 a miner
named Stevens wrote to a friend in
Phoenix that he had found a claim
that beat anything in mining this side
of the Comstock lode in Nevada, and
that with a common iron mortar and
pestle he had pounded out from $40 to
500 worth of gold dust a day. This
claim was located 120 miles northwest
from Kingman, near the since famous
Earqua Hala mining region, and there
was p chance, so Stevens wrote, for
other men to strike it rich up there. OF
course such news could not be kept
quiet. 1t travelled with miraculous speed
through every camp in the Salt river
valley and over to Prescott In less
than two weeks all that part of Ari-
IONA was deeply stirred by the reports,
which no one seemed to have time to
investigate, of the richness of the mines
that Stevens had found. A thousand or
more miners caught the fever so badly
that thev started on foot across the
country for Stevens camp without de-
lay. 1t was hot, dry summer, and the
journey entailed torturing thirst and
endurance of a temperature usually
about 10 degrees in the shade. A dozen
men died from fever under that awful
sky, and as many more miners never
recovered from disorders caused by the
privationS of that stampede across tie |
desert of Arizona. Having arrived at
the Stevens camp, the excited men
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

cut no hgure. But no money in the
town meant no money in the faro
banks, and one by one the games failed
to pay their licenses. and were obliged
to close The dealers wages ran thes
gamut from SIS a night to $40. to $3.50.
money"
One night last week there was Just
one game running. Daniels, better
known as 'Old Kentuck,' was dealing,
with his partner, John McCauley, on
the lookout" in the rooms over the
"Sawdust corner" Outside the street
was deserted. and the voice OF a vau-
deville artist singing fOrlornly in a sa-
loon across the way sounded like the
wall of a mourner at a wake.
Boys, this is the last game" said
"Old Kentuck"
And then he became reminiscent. Il
remember my start well" he said. L
was about broke. but Johnny Pidge and
l dug uD a dollar and a half between
us. and 1 won $500 in Gold Hin at one
sitting. That was the beginning"
He sighed and fingered the box fond
ly. DO you remember Farmer Peel?''
asked an old CHECK guerilla"
Yes: he was shooter from way
back"
How many in his graveyard"
Give here. and they say he did some
KILN back east. That man used to go
out end shoot Teller TO change his
luck when he was losin'."
THAT SOP That was an old trick of
George Kinks, too. What became of
Kirk?''
Gone below, by the vigilance route.
They strung him up early one morning
time enough for him to get TO the other
place by the first call for breakfast
The little group laughed mournfully-
This dying business in old Virginia has
he'd a depressing effect and their sptr-
its were not as high as in "a.
And I wonder where Jack Williams
and Bill Brown and Jack Butler and
Tom Pearley are now?" ventured an
other.
'All planted" replied the old check
guerilla.
We've come home free and merry
From the peaceful cemetery
several times on their account
The guerilla is addicted to the quot
ing habit, and always sDOuts Shake
sDeare when he is drunk Poor devill
There are happy, long forgotten days.
college days, way back in his his
tory.
well, boys. here's the turn" broke
in Kentuck
The bets were gravely and carefully
placed, as befitted the occasion.
The bank won.
Two white checks and a red one
just * centsi
Here, Yank take this and bring us a.
drink" ordered Old Kentuck.
Yank disappeared, and presently
came up with glasses.
Still the remnants of the old crowd
hung around and "reminiseed" a little
longer. 10th to leave the place and see
it closed up for good.
Old Kentuck was siIent-was deep in
thought.
Finally he said, huskily: Good night.
boys." Then he reached up to turn off
the electric lights.
The little group filed out, and Old
Kentuck stood there in the dark a min
ute or two, then CROPPED his way out and
locked the door,
And the days of faro on the Comstoclz
were over.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
BY CLEVELAND MoFFErr.

The very first night after my arrival
in Constantinople was awakened
about 3 O'Clock in the morning by
an extraordinary uproar in the city.
There was a booming Of cannon. a
rushing of soldiers. the clank and rat
tie Of heavy wheels, the shouts Of many
voices and the bowling of about a mil
lion dogs. l concluded that a revolu-
ton had started, or q massacre at the
very least, but was assured by the hotel
porter when ] got out in the corridor
that 1t was only fire, and not a very
big one at that.
rYou viii get used to this sort OF
thing" he said, before you have been
here long. The touloumbajis haven't
been paid for months, so were having
good many fires
l did not see the connection and
asked what he meant.
Why" he said, these poor devils,
the firemen, nave to live somehow, and
when they don't get their wages, they
take it out in loot. So. in bad times
like this, fire is a god-send to them,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
HOW THE TURKS FIGHT FIRE.
Fremen Get Their Pay BY LoOting the Burning Build
irgS.

] sage of this interesting band came
company of regular firemen, dragging
q smoking fire-engine of European pat
tern, and making noise like a charge of
cavalry. Surrounding the engine were
a crowd of foot soldiers ana mounted
guards, tearing along promiscuously
and shooting as if they were gong into
battle. 1t appears that every fire.
engine in Constantinople and every fire
company, even to the farthest city lin
It's. makes q rush for the seat of dan
ger as soon as the warning cannon
sounds. The consequence in the case
OF small fires is that numbers of them
arrive after the trouble is over.
|. l asked the porter where the cannon
were fired, and he explained that there
are seven of them set apart for the
fre service at the village of Tchengel-
heni, in the outskirts of the capital,
up the Bosphorus. These seven cannon
are discharged as soon as word is sig
nailed from one of the fire towers.
How many fire towers are there?"
Two; the war Office tower on the
Stamboul side. and the big Galata
tower that you see from here
so much for the first impressions;
this particular fire was going out and
| went to bed, leaving the dogs howl
lnS- During my stay in Constantine
pie, however, 1 saw several fires as a
nearby spectator, and was able to
judge of the departments practical eff
cheney. Suffice it to say that this is
absurdly small, the only wonder being
that the Turkish capital is not burned
to ashes over and over again. 1 saw
the touloumbajis rush up knocking
people to right and left, and tramDfng
on vagrant dogs. l saw them set up
their squirtgun pumps and lei, fly with
puny streams. and l watched the reg
ulars work with putting engines. Some
how, the blaze would gradually subsde
in spite of flimsy wooden structures
for 1t to feed upon. And the crowd
would look on in the most impassive
way, not even the owners of the prop
erty bestirring themselves to save their
worldly goods. Here, as in all else, the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
MINING RUSH IS DUE.
Veteran Prospectors Predict Big
Stampede In 1899.


Los Angeles Correspondence Chicago
Inter-Ocean: THE next big mining
camp STAMPEDE in the United States
will be due about next May said Col
onel Edward \ Graves the other day
Since the finding Of gold by Marshall
on the American river, in California,
there have been great gold or silver
mining eXcitements regularly every de-
cade. Thus. there was the unDrece-
dented rush Of $50, 600 men to California
in 1919. In 1883 there was the Fraser
river gold excitement. that attracted
$4,000 Americans. In 1863 the bonanza
lodges in the Comstock lode + Virginia
City. New, set the Whole world crazy
In 1879 the American miners were al
most equally divided between the sill
YER mines at Leadville and the free
milling gold mines at Tombstone, Al.iz.
In 1889 the newly found Harcue Hala
gold mines on the Colorado river, and
the silver mines at chihuahua, Mexico.
stirred thousands Of old-time prospect
ors and the miners as nothing else had
done in several years. The western
miners have come to a firm faith that
there is bound to be a great rush to
new diSgings every year that has q
at the end of its date. In my travels
among the California. Arizona and Col
orado camps lately, ] have been asked
eozers Ok times where believed the
PROSECUTORS would strike it SO as 10
have the expected mining stampede
next year. 1 confess rnyself to the be-
lief that we shall hear of a great gold
strike somewhere in the west in 1899"
The most senseless stampede that old
miners recall was the one to a camp
known as the Rocky Belle. 1t was 60
miles northwest from Prescott. The
tins. was December. 1876. No less
person than John w. Mackay, the bo-
manga mining king of the Comstocl1
lode. was. deceived by the news from
the Rocky Belle, and spent several
thousand dollars in sending expert min
ers across the mountains and valleys
to see what the chances for new mines
We're. Hundreds Of men travelled 700
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
NO friend of An frea and inao-0-

No friend of the free and indepen-
dent coinage of silver can afford to
vote for Alma Eldredge. Every vote
so cast is a vote for Tom Reed for
speaker of the house Every vote for
Eldredge is a vote for McKinlev and
the st. Louis platform. Every vote
for the Republican nominee is an, en-
dorsement of McKinley's policies.
Every vote for the Republican ticket
in Utah renews allegiance to the ma
tional Republican party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

realized that there were claims worth
working for about 100 men. Several
hundred claims were stallad out in less
than day, but in a fortnight the camp
population fell from 1900 10 less than
400. In about month no more than
100 persons were left to do al the MN
ing. The camp was abandoned entirely
ten wears ago
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
RUSHING FOR PENSIONS.
Indications That the Spanish War
Roll viii Be Large.

roll Will be Large.
Washington Correspondence St Louis
Globe-Democrat: In anticipation of d
rush for pensions at the conclusion of
the Spanish war, the war department
authorities issued instructions TO the
regimentaI surgeons to take a complete
health record of every man entering
the service, for future reference. Phe
purpose in ordering these records kept
was to furnish the pension bureau with
proper protection against fraudulent
claims.
The rush for pensions which was ex-
pected has now begun. 1t is inStigated.
just as the authorities knew it would
be, by the pension attorneys: The SOL
diers themselves have been too much
absorbed by the glory of the war to
think about getting on the pension rolls
except in a few cases, in which the dis
ability resulting from wounds rem
dered the soldier entirely dependent.
But the pension attorneys are more
than making up for the indisposition or
Indifference of the soldiers themselves
in this regard.
There has come into the possession
of Pension Commissioner Evans, a cir
cular issued by a Washington pension
attorney. which affords an insight into
the methods of these sharks. The cir
cular was mailed to a soldier in a.
/
attorney asks the Michigan man to
give him the names of all the soldiers
in his regiment who believe themselves
entitled to pensions, and he will set
about to get pensions for them
My fee is S25, and 1 viii give you 20
per cent in every case in which L col
lect 1 mean business. Remember, it
is the early bird that catches the
worm"
Cite. ,;,-o,,1a,s 70 tbis ora doubt
less being sent all over the country by
the horde of so-called attorneys in
Washington, who make their living by
working up pension claims.
To be prepared for the onslaught
with which his bureau is threatened,
Pension Commissioner Evans called on
Surgeon General Sternberg, and asked
for the health records of all the volun-
teerS and regulars enlisted for the
Spanish war. His demand resulted in
the discovery that the health records
of about 10000 of the volunteer army
had not yet been furnished the depart
ment by the regimental surgeons.
Assistant Surgeon General Smart has
proposed plan to get in these belated
reports. 1t is to stop the pay of all
regimental surgeons who are delin-
quent until the reports are forthcom-
ing. and likewise to refuse sanction to
their muster out.
1t is too early yet for the pension
commissioner to put any estimate upon
the amount which will be required to
pay pensions growing out of the Span
ish war, but he is inclined to think it
will be large, owing principally to the
assiduity of the pension attorneys.
If the government had not taken the
precaution to get the health records of
all the volunteers when they came into
the service the amount which the gov
eminent would have had to pay out
would have been enormous.