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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
The Gibraltar of Florida,

| since the civil war very little has been
heard Of the Dry Hortugas, says the Sc
! dalia Capital. The map of Florida shows
| the low coral and sand island called Dry
| Tortugas to be about sixty miles west of
! Key West, upon which the United States
many years ago built Fort Jefferson, the
/ largest fertilization in America.
Dry Tortugas was TO be the Gibraltar
| of the Gulf of Mexico. When Spain sold
Florida to the United States for s., 0Oo. 600
| the bunch of sand keys called the Dry
Tortugas was thrown in for good measure.
1t is rather singular that the place now
| affords the assembling point for the fleet
which is watching Cuba Jefferson Davis
believed in the Monroe doctrine. He faith
cred the idea of an impregnable fort on
the largest of the islands, from which the
United States might dominate the Gulf.
The first appropriation was made while
Davis was senator from Mississippi He
pressed the work as senator and later as
secretary of war until a magnificent for
LITIGATION. as the theories of warfare went
in those times, had arisen, completely COW
ering ten or twelve acres of Garden Key.
The fort was built with view to foreign
complications
Until the squadron rendeZvoused there
the other day, Dry Tortugas had no place
in the news columns and almost no place
in the memories of this generation The
massive structure rises from the shallow
water of the key to a height of sixty
feet 1t is surmounted by a parapet so
elaborate as TO give castle-like effect
A hundred feet out from the base is a
low wall. incIosing a moat. This outer
wall was intended TO stop an attack by
small boats. In the defenses of fifty years
ago the engineers of seacoast fortiflca-
tons always had in view attempts to scale
the walls. The outer wall and the moat
were intended TO keep small boats at such
a distance that the occupants might be
picked off by rif1emen on the parapet
Fort Jefferson was well built. The ma
sorry is forty years old and in perfect
preservation. But where wood was used
the realization of decay is impressed. The
great PARROTS on the barbette, careened
by the rotting of the carriages, point their
muZzles at all angles and in all directions
The time was when four hundred cannon
frowned in the portfolios. Now the wild
ducks swim in the moat, and the case
mates know only the roar of the surf.
Fort Jefferson has no garrison, not so
much as corporals guard. 1t is the most
magnificent military ruin on the CONT
nent. The visitor can walk through vault
ed chambers half mile and wonder IL
the coast Notifications upon which the
millions are being spent at this time will
be as obsolete when the boys of today are
gray-headed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
--SSANLI<~
Yailu Eagle
Nj. Nj. MURDOCH. Editor.
ABOUT THE CONVENTION,

I The Eagle, for one, is not exactly sat
listed with the call for the meeting of
the Republican state convention. The
place Of the meeting suits everybody
in South Kansas, including the Eagle,
ito a dot. But the time is more of
politicians day than a party date, that
IS, 1t is more IN the interest Of candl-
dates than of the party. The Sth day Of
June means a five months campaign.
"A months siege will wear away enthu-
siasm, dampen interest and tell against
general results. Editors grow weary
and people lose interest weeks before
the time for the home dash comes
around. Nearly all of the leading Re
publican papers Of the state gave early
warning, to the committee and to the
candidates, Of the undesirableness of a
too early convention, and they should
have been listened to. 1t is the news
paper, as a rule, which makes the real
fight of the campaign, which carries
the big end Of the load, and which does
so disinterestedly, except in the way of
general principles. There is no pay, no
reward for the newspaper. as rule,
unless 1t happens to come in the way of
awarded work, in which the pay is sim
ply earned the second time. None of
ever reaches a newspaper, or very sell
dom. These dollars must go to the
strikers, go for bands, halls, rents,
speaker expenses and the like. So COM
mittees and candidates make a political
blunder, and a mistake for the party
when they ignore the disinterested adj |
vice of experience. The Sth of August |
would have been better for the party |
than the 8th Of June. Even the 9Th of |
September would have been preferable |
to such an early date. Within a very |
short time primaries must be arranged |
for and delegates elected, county con-
Ventions convened and delegates chosen |
with little time for the great body of |
the party to consider and determine |
who among the many offering candi- |
dates it would be the wisest to nomin- |
ate. A long lull after the result is an
nounced is inevitable, in which lull the |
real live issues are lost sight of through |
tagging interest.
However. the time and place having
been determined, committees should
promptly bestir themselves and Repub-
licans awaken to the fact that If they
would have a voice and hearing they
must make ready to respond. Outside
of an old threatened bugbear issue
there are no fractional or other conten-
tions to distract the Republican party
of Kansas. Everything has gone in
our favor Of late and everything is still
going in that direction, and we should
win, with hands down, so that by '99
the state will be reinstated and the
Kansas ship, with its prov once again
pointed in the right direction, placed
on the crest of prosperity's wave with
only favoring winds following.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
ANOTHER ACCIDENT"

The Maine was not the first vessel of
war to be blown up while lying in har-
Dor. The Confederate secret service
blew up more than one vessel at City
Point on August 9, 1864, which vessels
were loaded with ordnance stores and
ammunition. The explosion was ter
rife, destroying much property and
killing 1853 soldiers and sailors. Cen
eral Grant appointed a court OF in
quiry, but ii failed to ascertain the
cause. 1t was finally attributed to ac-
cident or spontaneous combustion. But
the following year there was discovered
in the Confederate archives. then just
being collected after their capture at
Richmond, a report of one John Max
well of the Confederate secret serv-
ice, to his superior officers of that SER
vice, Captain Mcdaniel and General
Rains, Of his and one billiards. opera
lions, they having penetrated our
lines in disguise and succeeded in
placing a theological torpedo aboard
the vessel that was first blown up, the
Of the torpedo running for
an hour before exploding, giving them
an opportunity to escape, first, from
the immediate neighborhood and
finally into the Confederate lines.
The details of its explosion, its inves-
tigation and the reports of Maxwell,
Mcdaniel and Rains can be found in
Rebellion Records, volumes 81, So and
lar bearing on the present case, they go
to show that in the matter of ex-
in some particulars, history
repeats itself.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
ROSFCRANS. DEAD.

General ROsecrans is dead at his
home near Los Angeles. were the brief
words Of California dispatch of yes
terday. Few, very few Of the men who
distinguished themselves as heroes, as
military commanders of great armies,
in the war OF the rebellion. are left to
answer. With a fight with a foreign
foe imminent, the generals who led the
armies Of the North and South alike
have as silent sentinels bivouacked on
flames eternal camping ground. The
few who live have nearly all reached
the allotted three score years and ten.
AS rule they were mature men on en-
tering the army, which in turn was so
largely made up of young men, who in
turn now fill the ranks of the aged
General William Rosecrans was born
sn Kingston. Ohio, September 6. 1919
and graduated from West Point in 1912
When the war broke out in 1861 he
promptly offered his services. He was
first commissioned chief engineer of the
state of Ohio with the rank of colonel.
The same month he was commissioned
colonel of the United States volunteer
infantry. In this year he was also
commissioned brigadier general of the
United States army and held that rank
until 1867, when he went to California.
Rosecrans at once made his mark as a
commander under Mcclellan in West
Virginia. Succeeding General Pope as
commander of the Army of the NTissis-
sippi, General Rosecrans was a victor
1T the battle of Iuka, September 10.
1862. He was commissioned major
general Of volunteers on August Is.
1862. On October 8 and 4, 1862. he won
the battle of Corinth. A short time
after this he was relieved of his COM
mand and ordered to Cincinnati. On
October II. 1862, he was given COM
mand of the Fourteenth army corps
and also Of the Department of the
Cumberland.
His greatest success was at Stone
River, the three days battle which
began december 81. 1862. and closed
with victory January .. 1868. Next
he made the campaign of TulIahoma.
and expelled the Confederates from
Mississippi. He fought the battle of
Chickamauga September 10 and 20. and
took and held Chattanooga As COM
mander Of the department of Missouri
he repulsed General Price and his in
vading army.
He was certainly one Of the bravest
of our commanders. The disposition
of his forces at Chickamauga has been
criticised, and he was relieved of the
command Rosecrans is the last of our
generals who held independent COM
mands, laid out campaigns and fought
battles. Up to Chickamauga his sue
cesses were notable. In that campaign
his primary error was probably adj
Nancing too far into the interior.
whereby his forces could not be con-
Scentrated properly when the Confeder-
ates, reinforced and reinspired. moved
rapidly back toward CHATTANOOGA
In 1867 General Rosecrans was nps-
tered out of the military service and
resigned his position in the regular
army. He declined the superintend-
ency Of the mint at san Francisco.
and refused the Democratic nomina-
ton for governor of California.
General Rosecrans was a represent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
bicycle Mail Carriers Abolished.

After three years trial ire Use q blcy-
cies ~ letter carriers u Louisville. Ky
has been found 20 BE q failure. az1 TIE
wheels have been abandoned. Tie E1sa
say that verT oftsa. Instead q oainE 3
help 20 quick delivery. they have osea
failure. owtzg 70 BAD weather. muddy ard
crowded streets. ard hEezk6cEnz
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

The most remarkable book in the world,
so far as its appearance is concerned,
is neither written not printed. 1t is in the
Imperial Library of Paris and the letters
are cut out of tissue paper with a pair
of scissors. A sheet of the blue tissue,
in which the letters are cut, is placed be-
tween two pages of white, and so the mat
fer is read
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Riddles for the Heavenly Choir.

An eccentric character who lives near
Derby, Conn, has been engaged for some
time past in making violins for the an
gels. He is an expert wood-worker, and
these instruments are said TO be finely con
structed. No money will tempt him to
part with his instruments. He declares
that God ordered 1000 violins from him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Few FIiSibIes Here.

Empress Augusta Victoria Of Germany
found IA German servant girls last year
TO whom she could give the golden serv-
ants cross for having liver forty years
with one family. Only one was found in
Berlin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Light for Parliament

The houses Of parliament are partly
lighted by 4o,cro electric lamps which num-
Der Is being constantly increased Fifty
experienced electricians are employed TO
keep the system in order.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

The smallest horse in the world IS a
Shetland pony owned by the Marchese
Carcano, in Milan. II is twenty-four inch
es high, and when standing beside It's own
er the pony's back is only an inch above
his knee.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Low Cost ofIiNinx-


Experiments az the Missouri State Uni
vsrsity show that in the matter OF dief
& man can 1--we AZ an expense OF ISL cents
6ay.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Growth OF the National nuserr

The National Museum IN Washington re
ceived over ll2.oeo specimens last year. an
increase Of 50 per cent over the previous
wear
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

ative in the Forty-seventh and Forty
eighth congresses, and register of the
treasury He had for many years lived
in his California home near Rodondo.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Adjutant General Allen has called down
his subordinates 10 quit telegraphing
their support 10 Washington. Allen him
self rendered his help 10 Washington. As
a matter Of fact. Allen had no right to
do anything Of the kind. II the govern
ment wants him it viii tell him so. and
ne has no wish in the matter. In times
Of peace the militia business is 4 gaudy
bauble; in time of war il is cold lead
violently introduced into the nervous sys-
tenn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Unpleasant WAY ofPnttinxIt


A Kansas literary saciety IS to debate
the question: is 81 cold or hot where
Andree Il uow7''
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Still it is not clear why, when the Ne
oraska maximum freight law was in the
courts, Governor Leedy was not hired as
counsel by Nebraska.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

AS soon as the board reports. Mckinley
VIII ask *lO'OOO,0oO indemnity from Spain
and Spain Will not pay it. She will fight.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
Requirements or British Diver.

Sweden is the healthiest country IN Eu-
rope and next 90 IL in this respect comes
the United Kingdom.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

The United States senate is not confirm
ing carpet-baggers in Oklahoma. offices
This IS eminently proper. It is also bu-
name.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Kid Mccoy the pugilist, has declared
himself the champion of the world. AS
there is no Mrs. Mccoy he may get a
chance to prove it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

The Topeka hotel keepers might demand
an Indemnity of Cy Leland.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Divers in the British navy. before be-
Ing passed as proficient IN their craft.
have 20 be able 70 work IN twelve fatho1ns
~ water for an hour and twenty fathouas
Tor quarter of an hour.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

How many murders would be prevented
II the man to be attacked could demand
an investigation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

The one indication of no war is the
gallant assurance of the Life Insurance
companies that no man will forfeit his
policy by enlisting.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

The governor Of Kansas has misjudged
the temper OF the state. II used 10 be
popular to rabidIy accuse the Supreme
court Il has gone out OF style and when
the votes are counted next November,
Leedy will discover Il.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Oklahoma could have secured free
homes had a majority OF its people shown
gratitude for the unprecedented and start
ling innovation of its ex-delegate. which
innovation consisted Of doing something
for his constituents.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

1t turns out that our government has
very little smokeless powder which is for
tunate. Smokeless powder would give the
Spanish no chance 20 retreat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
There will be war with Spain.

n.
The Topeka hotel keepers might demand
an indemnity of Cy Leland.
How many murders would be prevented
If the man to be attacked could demand
an investigation.
AS soon as the board reports. Mckinley
will ask $10,0OO.0oO indemnity from Spain
and Spain will not pay it. She will fight
The United States senate is not confirm
ing carpet-baggers in Oklahoma offices
This IS eminently proper. It is also hui
name.
Stlll 1t is not clear why, when the Ne
braska maximum freight law was in the
courts, Governor Leedy was not hired as
counsel by Nebraska
Kid Mccoy, the pugilist, has declared
himself the champion of the world Az
there is no Mrs. Mccoy he may get a
chance to prove it.
The one indication of no war is the
gallant assurance of the Life Insurance
companies that no man will forfeit his
policy by enlisting
1t turns out that our government has
very little smokeless powder which is for
tunate. Smokeless powder would give the
Spanish no chance 20 retreat.
Last week Kansas grape-grower ship
ned a lot of % 7 Al,
where il can be sold. without locking
eight doors behind the drinker.
The Supreme court said a maximum
freight rate law was unconstitutional.
And Leedy snorts. His own legislature
didn't regard the law as good sense and
defeated it.
Governor Leedy holds that a corporation
is not person. While ii is true a corpor-
alton has no soul, it has d similar faculty
which retains friendship. Look at the
railroad passes in Kansas.
All the soldiers and sailors of America
want to fight Their position is something
like that Of a girl who has worked all
her life in a candy factory and is never
allowed to taste sugar.
Roger Q. Mills will not try to go to the
senate again from Texas. He is despond-
eat, believing his career has been a fail
ure. This too. when he must know that
4 county in Oklahoma is named after
him.
Oklahoma could have secured free
homes had a majority OF its people shown
gratitude for the unprecedented and start
ling innovation of its ex-delegate. which
innovation consisted Of doing something
for his constituents.
The governor Of Kansas has nisjudged
the temper OF the state. II used 10 be
popular TO rabidIy accuse the Supreme
court 1t has gone out Of style and when
the votes are counted next November,
Leedy will discover it
Adjutant General Allen has called down
his subordinates 10 quit telegraphing
their support 10 Washington. Allen him
self rendered his help TO Washington. As
1 matter Of fact. Allen had no right 70
DO anything Of the kind. II the govern
~ -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Last week a Kansas grape-grower ship
ped lot of wine 10 Leipsic, Germany.
where il can be sold. without locking
eight doors behind the drinker.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Roger Q. Mills will not try to go to the
senate again from Texas. He is despond-
eat, believing his career has been a fail
ure. This too. when he must know that
4 county in Oklahoma is named after
him
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

Governor Leedy holds that a corporation
is not person. While it is true a corpor-
alton has no soul, it has similar faculty
which retains friendship Look at the
railroad passes in Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

The Supreme court said a maximum
freight rate law was unconstitutional.
And Leedy snorts. His own legislature
didn't regard the law as good sense and
defeated it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12

All the soldiers and sailors of America
want to fight Their position is something
like that Of a girl who has worked all
her life in a candy factory and is never
allowed to taste sugar.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-15
Death of Joseph Greer.

Joseph Greer died at his home, 425 east
Mason street early this morning of La
Grippe after an illness of two weeks.
Mr.. Greer was born at Newburg on the
Hudson, Sept. %. 1929 and came to Mich
igan when young man. For the past
thirty years he has been resident of Shia-
wassee county, the last fifteen of which has
been spent in Owosso, where he has been
actively engaged in the manufacture OF
wagon spokes
Deceased leaves widow, who has the
sympathy Of large circle of friends In her
bereavement. Mr.. Greer was an upright
man and highly respected citizen.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-15

List of advertised letters in Owosso post.
Office the week ending Apr. o: Mrs. Mary
OFT, Mrs. Tena e. McCurdy, Electo Nc
Cormick, Mrs. Jerry Craig, Geo. r. Scott,
R. d. Malay, Marion A. Lee. Mrs. Maud
Sherman, Msndle Roark, Esther Russell,
Nellie Weeden, Martin Cornwell, Chas.
Downing, Flo BIonn, Henry ID. Allen,
Elma Rector, Marguerite Arnold, John j. G..
Prindle, Henry OFT.
Easiest way to kill chicken Is to break
the egg before 1t is Matched. Same is true
Of consumption. DR.. Woods Norway Pine
Syrup is a positive cure for coughs and
colds. Nothing will cure consumption.
Does 1t pay to neglect the cold?
Frank Jones will leave this evening for
Frankfort to accept position with the Ann
Arbor r. r.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-15
Guild Elections.

The Guilds of Christ Episcopal churcl
held their annual meetings Tuesday. Th
following officers were elected:
ST. MARY's GUILD.
President-Mrs. j. j. Davis.
Vice Pres.-Mrs. j. Il. Laverock.
Secretary-Miss Mary Welton.
Treasurer-Mrs Chas. Fl ward.
YOUNG PEOPLES GUILD.
President-Miss Emily Thomas.
First Vice Pres.-Archie Clapp.
Second Wise Pres, Miss Frances Fish.
Secretary-Miss Addle Grove.
Treasurer-Henry Warren.
CLEANERS GUILD.
President-Frances Clapp.
Vice Pres.-Sadie Greenman.
Secretary-Vera ellis.
Treasurer-Annie Osburn.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-15
CERTAIN TO BRING ON GAR.
Spain Will Construe Either Resolution as
Declaration.

Spain Will Construe Either Resolution az
Declaration.
Washington, April 14.-The president
has expressed desire that both houses
of congress agree on the resolution
which passed the house by vote of
1922 to 10.
The resolution Of the senate is more
radical in its declarations, but the en-
actment of either will, it is admitted,
have the effect Of bringing on war with
Spain. The demand upon Spain to
withdraw her military and naval forces
from Cuba and Cuban waters will as
suredly be construed as a declaration
Of war, accompanied as it is with direc-
ton to the commander-in-chief of the
United States military forces to drive
them out unless they are voluntarily
withdrawn. There is little doubt of the
passage of the resolutions of the ma
jority Of the committee by the senate.
There will be a good vote for the dec
laration of the minority for recognition
of independence, but 1t will hardly pre-
vail.
The main purpose CT rushing the
house resolution through that body was
for effect on the senate. The hope is
INDUCED by the immediate representa-
tives Of the president in the two houses
that the senate may be induced to ac-
cept the resolution of the house either
by direct vote or through the agency
of a conference committee. AS there
must be concurrent action, the passage
Of the house resolution gives that body
seemingly parliamentary advantage,
but this is likely to be overcome by
the senate taking up the house resolu-
ton when the time for voting arrives.
striking out all after the enacting
clause and substituting the resolutions
of the majority of the committee on
foreign relations. The resolution would
in that event be returned to the house
with an amendment by the senate and
the two forRs would go to a conference
committee unless the house should ac-