davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

Capt Conkey, Mineral Parks hustlipg
merchant, was in Kingman Monday last
Capt Coukey believes the mines Of Min.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

Fred w. Mitchell is taking good lead
ore fiom his claim at Chloride.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

Charles T. Hunt, Of Hack berry, is in
Kngman.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

Mrs. J. X. Mackenzie has been very
III with the grip.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

Quite number Of Kingmanites are on
the sick list this week with Ia grippe.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

Judge W. q. Bskely will leave this
evening for Los Angeles on important
legal business.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

II MrComb has been confined TO his
home nv illnpss this week.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

For Sale.
Z Furniture, dishes, pictures, etc.
Gall on F. L. Smith, South Front
street, Kingman.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

r.. E Van Ddyne has been rusticating
in the vicinity f Mineral Park this week
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

The Blackfoot mine is now producin,
large quantities OF rich copper ore.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07

VIM. Falder is III at his home on South
Front street.
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07
Dead Letter LIST.

The following letters remain dead in
the Kinyman Office and il not called for
in Is d,vs will he sent 70 the dead letter
Mohave County miner., 1898-01-07
Eocol and Personal.

The air is full Of influenza.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
BNNbNbN

of the Chasseurs a Cheval in 1908. He
started from Indela, in the Ebro val
ley, with important dispatches from
Marshal Lannes for Emperor Napo-
leon, who was stationed at Amanda, a
village on the road leading from Bur-
Cos to Madrid. Marriott had to ride
through a lonesome and mountainous
region, where many bands of guer-
rillas moved. He took two hussars
reached Tara, as he was told from
there on his ride would be a most
perilous one. 1t was moonlight when
the three Frenchmen reached the
mountains. Suddenly they heard the
well-known whining of bullets, but
were unable to discover the enemy.
As they had not been hurt, they moved
on and soon found scores of dead SOL
diers belonging to Ney's corps. They
had been plundered, robbed of their
clothing, and left naked by the road
side. Shortly after this they came to
rible sight. A young officer belong
ing to the chaSseurS was nailed
and feet to the barn door with his head
downward, and, to increase the tor
lures of the miserable man, the bar
barians had kindled a fire under his
head. The poor fellow was beyond
suffering, but it could not have been
a long Whine, for the blood was still
trickling from his wounds. The three
riders were shocked, and when again
bullets began to whistle from am
bush the hussars answered with their
rifles. They promptly killed two of
their aggressors and then rushed at
the others with sabers in hand. In
an instant they jerked two of the
offenders from their horses, of whom
one proved to be a C%apuchin monk, who
had mounted the horse of the cru
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
HiEh-Bred Americans.

Here a couple of hundred years ago
was planted a little obscure trading
post by a few score of broad-breeched
H~oIlanders. History records nothing
more remarkable of this small colony
of Dutchmen than that they lived at
peace with one another and drove the
sharpest bargains with the untutored
redmGn. 1t is certain hat none of
them ever talked of his ancestry or
regarded himself as a founder. In
deed the practice among European ma
tons of deporting their social dregs
and colonizing their undesirables il
the new world marked no exception IN
the case of the Batavian common
wealth. \ span of 200 years is not for
sooth the antiquity of the Percve or
the Towards, but few of the sons and
daughters of whom we hear so much
could prove a descent half as long. At
any rate, it admits no doubt of n
grandfather, or even one to spare;
and as NJ. Blouet observes. hat is the
greatest desideratum of the highbred
American.-The Philistine.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
TALKED ABOUT"

The neighbors talked about her nearly
everywhere they met.
They talked about her till she died; they
talk about her yet.
The high and low all spoke of her, as did
the old and young,
And every gossip tossed her name upon her
nimble tongue.
She always kept adding things, by night
as well as day,
To set the tongues a-going in the swiftest
sort of way;
Across the backyard fences and from
kitchen door to door,
AT church and sociable her name was whis-
pered DER and Ger.
Twas she who kissed the baby first and
blest its happy birth;
W she who helped to guide its feet
through all the paths of earth;
Twas she who watched beside the bed
wherein the dying lay,
Twas she who soothed the stricken friends
when one was called away.
Tn neighbors talked about her nearly
everywhere they met;
They talked about her till she died; they
talk about her yet.
They talked about her wondrous hands, her
heart so full of love,
And now the angels talk of her who dwells
with them above.
Nixon Waterman, in L.. A. W. Bulletin.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03

ton :The captain hardly had locked
the door when something began to
move inside of a closet stationed in the
cell, and as his suspicious had been
aroused by the servant he took his pis-
toll and fired into the closet. The shot
was followed by cries and groans. At
the same time the servant gave two
alarm shots through the open window
and this brought the soldiers to their
assistance. They stormed the build
ing, went to the captains cell and then
opened the door of the closet. In this
they found a dagger and bloody tracks
which showed the way which the
wounded man had taken. These led
them to a large subterranean room,
where a number of dumfounded monks
lamented over the body of a dead man,
who was to have killed the captain.
One can easily imagine, it goes with
out saying, that the picus brethren did
not enjoy life much longer; one round
of well-aimed shots sen them without
further preparation to eternity.
IN this manner wal was carried on
by Spain at the beginning of this CEN
fury, and the recent wal of the Carlists
but 25 years ago-has proven how lit
tie this cruel nation has learned OF
what humanity is In the memory OF
all of us still are the crueities perpe-
trated at Cuenca, where molten lead
was poured down the threats of the
prisoners, and the relatives were COM
PEELED to drive and slash their naked
brothers and husbands through the
streets.
"These same Spaniards are said to do
these very things at the present day
with the prisoners taken on the Philip
pine islands, where the captured are
nailed to the walls and then dashed un-
til they die from exhaustion. Their
action in Cuba is known the whole
world over and it cries for vengeance.
The manner in which they killed Maceo
shows the character of the Spaniards Of
the present, who boast of their chival-
ry. They are just the same now as they
were at the time of the royal Philip"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03

have persuaded her that no structural
alteration was necessary"
"She intimated her disapproval of
smoking and billiards the day after ouI
engagement"
Surely she didn't insist on her OBJ
lection. That would be unreasonable"
well, no. She conceded smoking,
and a little billiards; but she wanted
me to go to church about three times
3 week, to give up betting-it's only a
trifle now and then, just for fun, l as
sur you"
Il know. Like Fred" She nodded.
Mrs. Haviland bets a pair of gloves &C.
casionally herself; and pays when she
loSesi
"She wished me to avoid music halls,
20 forswear whisky, and to take her to
a lecture Oh the Primitive Something
brothers once a week."
why not?" My hostess shrugged
her shoulders and held out her hands
expansively. l shrugged my shoulders
with less elegance, but equal emphasis.
Because Tm-pink!" l said. She
StuulSu lHc OONS Oh ASI liPPSLS y q
few moments.
"You were very fond of her?' she
asked, suddenly. I dropped my gloves
and picked them up again before an
swering.
YES" 1 said, stubbornly, 81 was"
"And you are?"
"Yes," I said, Tam"
You wish sometimes that YOU hadn't
parted?" I tapped the floor impa-
tiently.
Yes, I do. But as we could not
agree"
oh" she cried, rep%roachfully, you
might have tried a little harder. II
was only a matter of really under
standing each other; only a case of a
few concessions on each side. All peo-
pie have to make them-even Fred and
L." They certainly seem to get on very
well.
I'm certain Thea wouldn't" l said,
doggedly.
Don't you think she was very, very
fond of you?"
That's just what 1 wasn't sure. If
I had been"
Il venture to say that l am sure" ]
thought | heard a movement in the
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
Keeps the Gun.

Don Stark, Ann Arbor's hero in the
battle of Santiago, has arrived at his
home, says the Detroit (Mich.) Trib-
une, although be probably will be dis
charged from service on account of his
disability.
Stark brought back with him the
Springfield rifle he carried, and which
saved his life. A Spanish shell strnck
the gun about Is inches from the muz-
zle and bent it nearly at right angles.
CHANGING from this the shell struck his
wrist and severed his hand from the
arm as if by a knife. Had it not been
for his gun the shell undoubtedly
would have killed him. At the time
Stark was wounded he was on a rail-
road track and the SpaEiards from a
fort ~ miles away rained shot and
she'll among the soldiers. He crawled
to the shelter of the woods, and in five
minutes be was being attended to by
the surgeons.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03

cited officer, while the other was a
peasant who carried two uniforms of
murdered French musketeers. The
hussars, driven to madness by the hor-
rible sight of their tortured comrades,
gave no quarter, but promptly dis
patched the two brutes. Capt. Marriott
was, however, forced to return later
on to the headquarters of Marshal
Larrles, as he had been seriously
wounded N a similar encounter.
Still more heartrending are the
recolleetions of c. Mcneil, a German,
who served as a Lieutenant in the Twen-
ty-third French chasseurs during the
Spanish campaign in 1910, and who IN
Ill a few years ago lived az a pension
officer at Bonn. He tells in his memoirs
how a company of French prisoners
was captured by a guerrilla band and
sentenced to the most cruel fortunes.
The Spaniards were at loggerheads
whether the prisoners should be baked
in ovens or be fried over open fires, but
they finally agreed that the common
soldiers should be roasted, that the
non-commissioned officers should be
hanged and that the officers should be
crucifed. The first two parts of the
agreement were readily carried out,
but when it came to the commissioned
officers the chief of the guerrilla band
interfered, as apparently a trace of hui
mainly had been left in his breast, and
the commissioned officers escaped with
a partial crucifixion. One of these lat
ter lived near Paris until about 20
years ago., and eve at his advanced age
traces of the wounds which had been
Inflicted upon him could be seen.
This same Mcneil refers in his
gives a vivid picture of happenings in
those days in the Spanish monasteries
and what Interpretation was given by
the monks to the term Christianity
and how they carried out their ideas
of brotherly love.
~ French captain evening quar-
tered his men in a small village. while
he and his servant went to the cloister
near by. He was received with great
courtesy and was treated to everything
which the monks had at their disposal
in the way of eatables and rich wines.
The captain, who was a lover of a good
table fortified by n good drink, was
finally landed in a cell in a drunken
stupor. Thus far everything was
charming and the pious brethren re-
jciced as they thought that they had
e%Dtrapped the confiding captain. But
they had not reckoned with his faithful
servant, who had kept his eyes and ears
open. This fellow induced his master
70 remain awake in spite of his condi-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03

next room. lou can near through the
f~olding-doors.
There isn't anyone in there, | sup
pose?" l asked. 1T sounded just
like"
The wind rafting the window" she
said, laughing. Il haven't fastened it.
Don't you think Thea very pretty and
sweet and gooG?'
Most certainly l do. well, l shall
never think anyone like her" never
shall.
Then why don't you put the mat
ter frankly to her? If you appea! to her
love for you, l know she will meet you
halfway. And. my dear Mr.. Richmond"
she put her hand on my sleeve in her
eagerness-"you wouldn't be any the
worse for an occasional keeping in
green!"
l considered the matter carefully for
a few minutes. You are quite right,
as usual" l said, resolutely. Il will go
and see Thea as soon as | lave thought
out what to say. But l don't suppose
she'll ever"
Now You are getting dismal" said
my hostess, brightly. go and think it
out in pink" She opened the folding
doors, and l went through-alone!
Thea was iuttering against the pas
sage-door, with her hands on the
handle, like a frightened bird trying to
escape.
Thea, my dearest!"I cried.
"She didn't tell me you were com
ing" she said, brokenly, and she
locked the door! And-and-" Then l
held out my arms and she flung herself
into them.
1 shan't tell you what we said, or how
we compromised our differences. But
may remark that Thea is growing as
merry as-pink; and | am improving
under a mild course of green!-St.
plul'S
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03

signalized the formal possession of the
city and the surrounding territory by
the United States, and marks the cul-
mination of the operations begun by
Commodore Dewey, whose first shot
paved the way for the formal act on
the part of the lieutenant and caused
the promotion CT the fleet commander
to the rank of rear admiral. Brumby
was assigned to that duty on the
Olympia on January 3 of this year,
when Dewey was given the Olympia
and placed in charge of the fleet IN
Asiatic waters. The detail was made
at the request of Dewey, who had a
great liking for the lieutenant. Brum-
by is a handsome man of about 40
years of age, though he looks five years
younger, in spite of his luxuriant
beard. He entered the naval academy
at Annapolis in September, 1873, and
graduated among the first five in his
class. Upon the completion of his two
years of sea duty on the Tennessee he
was promoted 10 the rank of ensign
November &c, 1880, serving on the re-
ceiving ship Franklin in 1881, on the
jamestown in 1882, Gedney, 1925,
and Vandalia, 1869. While with the
latter ship he Vas advanced to the
rank of lieutenant, junior grade, and
then served two years on the school
ship st. Mary's and two more on the
receiving ship Vermont. His present
commission as lieutenant dates from
August "a, 1892 when he was detailed
to duty on the New York. After which
he served a few months at the naval
observatory and war college before he
was lucky enough to secure his present
berth on the Olympia with Dewey.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
HUMOROUS

Algernon-"Tommy, do you think
your sister would marry me?' Tommy
Yes, she'd marry almost anybody
from what she said TO ma."-Tit-Bits.
81 should like most" said the dreamy
boarder, ito be a great painter" 'Srhe
sculptor cuts u pretty figure some
times" said Peppers.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Ethel-"He doesn't seem to take our
engagement a bit seriously" Grace
slack always was reckless. But never
mind, dear; he probably will later on"
Truth.
LuIu-"Dobson has been neglecting
his business and losing money ever
since he bought hat villa" Penndelf
Yes; he calls it his suburban handi-
cap."-Judge.
Hicks-"Every dog has his day, my
boy" Dick Hicks-'Then why do they
fight?" Hicks-"I suppose it frequent
ly happens that two of them have the
same day."-Life.
What time does the next boat go?"
asked a woman at the ticket office.
"4:O5," was the answer. well, how
much before five?" insisted the woman.
-Chautauqua Assembly Herald.
He-"There seems to be no question
that divides public opinion more than
annexation. Are you in favor of it,
She-"It is rather sudden, but if you're
willing, l am."-Boston Courier.
A Real Book Lover.-"What is your
idea of a literary person." well, a
literary person is one who buys books
without asking whether they are to be
had in paper back."-Detroit Free
Press.
"Oh, mamma, don't read any
about cannibals being wicked for cook
ing the missionaries. Why, my w
dads as bad as any of them; l heard
him tell you himself that at dinner last
night he toasted all his friends.'-Ally
Sloper.
Acknowledgements, king of the Per-
slams, and master of a million soldiers,
stood upon the oceans strand. ISL
lence!" he commanded in a loud voice.
The believing pillows paid no atten-
ton to him. But the pattern faded out
of the grand ~vizier's golf stockings,
which goes to show that his majesty
had considerable authority after all
Detroit Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
ENVY AND FEAR.
These Are the Probable Reasons
Given for European Dislike
of Americans.

We believe that the hatred of cont.
ncntals for Americans springs from
precisely the same sources as the dis
like for Great Britain, herself, namely,
envy of a prosperity considered over
weening, dislike for the bearing of
Americans. and a vague apprehension
akin to that felt by many Englishmen
about Russia, that they will ultimately
threaten the very eXistence-or is 1t
the subsistence?-of less numerous
races. OF these motives the former is,
with the body of the peoples, the
strongest. They hear necessarily from
the emigrdnts as well as the journals
of the marvellous wealth of Americans.
of the success of their manufactures.
of the expansion of their trade and Of
the general well being produced by all
these causes. They see that the Yam
KEGS" as they call them. bear none of
the usual burdens, that they have no
CONSUMPTION. no need for watching
their neighbors. no restraints upon
their liberty. and they detest them al
most as strongly as socialists detest
the rich bourgeoise. Why. they ask,
should Americans be so happy while
Europeans are so miserable? They
want taking down.
This distaste is increased by a belief
thatthe Americans arenot only no bet
ter than Europeans, but that they are
morally and intellectually inferior TO
them, that their officials are corrupt,
their clergy hypocritical, their masses
given up 10 purely material interests.
They care nothing for art. have
never erected a building and have pro-
duced no literature. They look upon
Americans. in fact, much as n mug
wump" looks OF an alderman Of Chi
cago, and sicken to think that such a
people is of all mankind hat which has
succeeded best in the economic COM
petition and has been most successful
in uniting liberty and plenty.
They cannot bear the peculiar Amer
lean form of swagger, whichis not like
either their w swagger or that of
Englishmen, and misunderstanding
their directness and realism in speech
oo III Va pOoA obhNSS al PNSPiS
in the world, we have long noticed, are
annoyed by the English habit OF
chat" ard the continental is SO
vcXed by American 'gawkiness" and
subsatiric humor hat he even fails to
recognize, what every Englishman
sees, that kindness to those who only
demand equality is of the very essence.
of the special American character. He
thinks them spiteful as well as selfish,
and looks upon their high tariffs, the
result of a false political economy. as
dictated by a wish to impoverish Eu-
rope and thrust it out Of its natural
right to compete for trade.
The continentals have too a certain
fear of the republic, an idea hardly
formulated except among statesmen,
but still visible in the masses. that it
may attain to giant proportions. that
it may one day arm itself. and that
when it does the external commerce Of
the continent, If not its internal indie
pendence. will be at the mercy OF
America. For all these reasons they
hold Americans in detestation.-Lon.
don Spectator.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03

Do1ly-Belle is in an awful fix.
NJ,Ioli-o WHAT

DOllE-BGlie Is III an awful IN.
Madeline-What!
"She promised w admirers when
they went away to the war hat she
would marry them when they re-
turned. believing that both were brave
enough to get shot. Now size is en-
gagged to 4 third, and the other w are
On their way Observation-Disclosures
North American
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
THOMAS B. BRUMBY.
HOisted the American Flag
in Manila.

Lieut.. Thomas B Brumby, to whom
fell the honor of being the man to hoist
the American flag ove Manila, is flag
lieutenant to Admiral Dewey. His act
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03

We all have a great deal to be thank
full for; but, then, we have so many
other things to think about.-Puck.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-12
ANARCHISTS
Had Plot to Kill Principal SoVer-
eiqnS

LONDON, Sept. 12.-The reports from
Paris and Geneva THAT the assassina-
tion of the empress of Austria was ac-
complished by one of an organized
band of anarchists in carrying out
regular plan for the killing OF all the
principal European sovereigns, has
caused great CONSERVATION here.
The indignat felt both in England
and on the continent upon the brutal
murder of the empress, grows upon
better realization of the full import of
the act of the assassin. This afternoon
the newspapers join the morning edi-
tions in a great outcry against anar-
chists, and point to the necessity of
resOrting to the most drastic measures
to stamp them out. All the papers
agree that no mercy should be shown
them.
The Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon
says:
1.-THE empress has not died in vain
if her murder becomes the means of
awakening civilized governments to
the necessity for more adequate pre-
cautions against the clan to which the
murderer belongs. Ansrchism is in
ternational. If it is to be conquered
it must be met by international or
ganization to suppress it"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-12
Damage Suits Filed.

Today in the district court Cruz
Flores filed suit for damages for his
SIX year old child against the Santa
re X. X for the loss of an arm.
The amount of the suit was S1O.O4O.
Cruz Flores in another suit against
the same railroad company sues for
5000 damages for the loss of his child $
arm.
McCutcheon, Payne q Co. today
brought suit against the Ell Paso Ben
evolent Asst. for the amount of S7OO,
and asks that a receiver be appoi Mt
ed.
The Rio Grande q FL Paso Railway
Co. brings suit against O. G. More head
in trespass to try title
Chas. B. Stevens also brings suit in
trespass. TO try title against Fermine
Jurado and others
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-12
FATAL FIRE.
With Loss of Half a Million

VANCOUVER. B. c., Sept. 12.-Ad-
vices this morning say that five bodies
nave been taken from the ruins of
Sunday mornings disastrous confagra-
tion, which destroyed the business por-
tion of Westminster. Further search
for the dead is being made. Several
persons are missing, but as a
hundred homeless are scattered
among vacant lots throughout the city
and around the outskirts, it is possible
the dead list may not be increased.
Every train for Westminster is load
ed with clothing and provisions for the
fire sufferers. Large consignments of
lumber are also being sent to the
stricken town. The loss is half a mil
lion.