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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-06-04

Mr.. Isaac Horner, proprietor OF the
Burton House, Burton, W. Va, and one
of the most widely known me in the
state was cured OF rheumatism after
three years of suffering. He says; 81
have not sufficient command Of language
to convey any idea Of what | suffered
my physicians told me that nothing
could be done for me; and my friends
were fully convinced that nothing but
death would relieve me OF my suffering.
In June, 1894, Mr.. Evans, then salesman
for the Wheeling Drug Co., recommended
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. At this time
my foot and limb we're swollen to more
than double their normal size and il
seemed to me my leg would burst, but
soon after l began using the Pain Balm,
the swelling began to decrease, the pain
to leave, and now | consider that 1 am
entirely cured. For sale by c. w.
Kinney & Co. here, and the Commercial
Co. of Lovelock. =
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"Nrhe ladies of Wadsworth's Red Cross
desire the pn6Iie to know that they
will furnish the supper at the ball, given
by the SATURDAY. Night Club, Thursday
June, 9th. Voluntary contributions
towards the supper will be gladly receiv-
ed. Any one desiring to give such dona-
ton please report TO Mrs. Il. Abby M
send to the Nevada House Thursday,
9th. Several Red Cross ladies are
around soliciting for the Society. While
we are asking for your donations We do
not wish you to feel compelled to con-
Tribute, unless you are able and willing
to do so. The hearts OF 80 many OF our
good people are Ill this work that all
have SO far gladly responded.
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"For three years we have never been
without Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house,
says A. II. Patter, with L. {. Atkins q
Co., indianapolis, ind, land my wife
would as soon think OF being without
flour ms n bottle of this Remedy in the
summer season. We have used it with
all three OF our children and it has never
failed to cure-not simply stop pain, but
cure absolutely. 1t is all right. and any
one who tries it will find it So" For sale
by G.. W. Kinney& Co., and the Com
mercial Co. of Lovelock. =
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SlQQ Reward. $780,.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages ana that is Catarrh. Hairs Catarrn
Cure is the only positive cure now known TO
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being "a cou-
stitutional disease, requires II constitutional
treatment. Hairs CaGarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
couS surfaces OF tine system, thereby destroying
the foundation OF the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up the cons titution
and assisting nature in uoing its Work. The
proprietors have SO much faith III its curative
powers, that they otter One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials.
address, r. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
- Sold by Druggists, 13c.
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Mems and Boys Clothing Ladies' and
Kisses fSilor Made Suits. Etc.

John Henderson will be at the Nevada
House for Il few days from June 7th
with a magnificent assortment OF
samples. The public is respectfully
invited to call and examine m
A splendid variety OF Ladies Summer
Shirts and Waists. s-w.
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Notice to the A. O. u. W.

All members of the A. O. L. ". Lodge
and their wives are cordially invited to
meet with the Degree of Honor Lodge
Saturday evening June 4th at 8 pm.
Mrs. A. T. CLIPPENGER, G. II.
Mrs. IDA NJ. PIKE, Recorder.
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Ih0mpSon'S Glove Fitting CQfSetS.

have the sole agency in Wadsworth
Tor T%hompson's Glove Fitting Corset.
The best one doiltr corset on The Coast.
JOHN LEE.
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DRESS MAKING.

Mrs. A. F. Carney is prepared to do
all kinds OF dressmaking and will be
pleased to have the patronage of the
ladies of Wadsworth. On Wales street,
next to Wales house.
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THURSDAYS DISPATCH.

LONDON, June 1.-The Span
ish Ambassador here insists
that the Christobal Colon is
the only important Spanish
warship at Santiago.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 2
Commodore Schley will be
reinforced by the Oregon and
New York Immediately.
KEY WEST, June 2-The
American tug Leyden put
three Spanish gun boats to
flight yesterday at Cardenas
by firing two shots. The
Spanish evidently thought the
Leyden was supported by war
ships and put back into the
harbor.
The Spanish are filling up
Cardenas harbor with old
hulks and rubbish.
CHATTANOOGA, June -Four
regiments left today fer
Tampa.
WASHINGTON, June 2--The
Navy Department knows
nothing officially Of the San
tlaSo engagement.
WEDNESDAYS DISPATCH.
CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, June
THE American squadron
augmented by the Porter and
the New Orleans approached
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SATURDAY. JUNE 4, 1888
BREYYiES=f
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Dance tonight.
John Day visited Churchill this week.
]. w. Freeaan returned home Thuss-
day.
Rene will celebrate the Fourth OF
July.
Wadsworth School will close June
18th.
The Nevada exhibit is in place at
Omaha.
Roy Lewis is coming to the railroad
hospital.
Charlie Gielaw arrived from Reno
this week.
Mrs. j. Springer has returned to
Unionvilie.
Section Foreman Burke is visiting
Sacramento.
Hon. W. C. Grimes has returned from
a visit to Reno.
1t is vacation now for the State Uni
versity students.
Messrs. Spriggs and Hastings were in
town Wednesday.
Mrs. Theodore Winters died Tuesday
in San Francisco.
Tom Dolph OF Churchill is visiting
Reno on business.
Four loot cedar wood sold by Andrew
Giusi for 10 per cord.
j. f. Crosby has been taking a yaca-
ton with a lame ley.
VIM. ~Cascagnette will give the social
tonight. Everybody invited. =
Miss Ida Davis was married at her
home near Auburn recently.
1t is said w. I. Golding is on his way
home driving over the mountains.
A. M. Davis, brother of q. w. Davis,
is prospecting in Olinghouse Canyon.
Bert Brewster and Miss Alma Job were
married in Winnemucea Tuesday even
ing.
Short Bros. are selling Aft. cedar wood
at 50 per cord. Sawed wood " per
cord.
Miss Lizzie Wightman has returned
from Mills College for the summer vaca-
lion.
Misses Annie and Minnie Theelen
have returned home from the State
University.
Commodore Schley OF the flying squad
ron p~ronounces his name as il it were
spelled 'sly."
Miss Annie Theelar of Churchill is
among the Normal graduates vi the
State University.
The weather changed some and frost
was looked ior but SO far no damage has
been done to fruit.
W. G.. Lee, Vice Grand Master OF the
Brotherhood OF Railway Trainmen is
sojourning this way.
A petition with 5S names has been
sent in to have a company OF the
National Guard formed at Lovelock.
"Well'" said the Governor OF Manila,
'if this is u Pacific squadron, heaven
preserve us from their q%uarrelsome one
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, when asked
about his sensations in a blue uniform
said: 1T feels rs ii had been oil on a
Through and had just got back
The politicians were in Carson doing
BUSINESS this week and it is asserted
that headquarters have been moved
from San Francisco to our capitol.
The largest and most complete sto, /
of refrigrrators, ice cream f~reezers in tie
STATE is carried 10y the Nevada Hart
ware & supply Co. Freight paid tt
adsworth.
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Buy your barb wire ot K. H. Cowles.
He has just received II carload. Fol-
quotations write HIM.
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The MAINE"

Ice Caeam Parlor will be opened Sunday
May Goth, in the Macpherson building,
next door to the ~Jewelry store. A liberal
share OF patronage solicited.
Mrs. ID. NJ. DREW.
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The Aid Society's Lawn
Social is postponed until fur
further notice.
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w ar
News.

Keno Gazette Speclal 10 tHe bisFAINif.J
PARIS, June Sit is the
persistest belief here that
Admiral Cervera has never
been at Santiago but maneu-
vered to deceive the Ameri-
cans and then sailed away to
the PHILIPPINES.
WASHINGTON, June 3-The
official report from Commodore
Schley was read at the Cab
met meeting today. He says
there is no reason to doubt
that Cervera's fleet is inside
the Santiago harbor. His fir
ing was to develop the enemy's
batteries and in that respect
was entirely successful. There
were no casualties on the
American side and no Ameri-
can ship was hit. The Span
ish warship Christobal Colon
and another large warship are
lying in the narrow chann,l
and it looks very much as if
the Spanish intend scuttling
them in case of the necessity
Of blocking the harbor en-
trance to our ships.
PoRT AU PRINCE, June g
News reached here this morn
ing at II o'clock that battle
begun at Santiago today be-
fore 9 o'clock.
New York, June 3--The
st. Paul arrived today with
dispatches for Washington.
Captain Sigsbee says he has
no doubt that Cevera's fleet is
in Santiago harbor.
Two fine banners have been
presented to the two troops of
Nevada volunteers by the peo-
pie of Carson. The troops
left Carson this morning and
will pass through here tonight
on No. | bound fer Cheyenne.
I. A. McKinstry and S. b..
Holiday passed examination
and leave for Manila next
week.
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into the great engine room, the water
had risen half way to our knees. Col
onel Smith, catching Alma under his
arm, led the way. The roar of the mad
dened torrent behind deafened us.
AS we ran through the passage, the
water followed us, with a wicked
swishing sound, and in five seconds it
was above our knees, in ten seconds up
to our waists.
The great danger now was that we
should be swept from our feet, and once
down in that torrent there would have
been little chance of our ever getting
our heads above it's level. Supporting
ourselves as best we could with the aid
of the walls, we partly ran and were
partly swept along, until we reached
the outer end of the passage and
emerged into the open air, the flood
swirling about our shoulders.
Here there was an opportunity to
clutch some of the ornamental work
surrounding the doorway, and thus we
managed to stay our mad progress,
and gradually to work out of the cur
rent until we found that the water,
having now an abundance of room to
spread, had fallen again as low as our
knees.
But suddenly we heard the thunder
of the banks, tumbling behind us, and
to the right and left, and the savage
growl of the released water as it sprang
through the breaches.
To my dying day, think, I shall not
forget the sight of a great fluid column
that burst through the dixie at the edge
Of the grove of trees and, by the ire
mendous impetus of it's rush, seemed
turned into a solid thing.
Like an enormous ram, it plowed the
soil to depth of twenty feet, uproot-
ing acres of the immense trees like
stubble turned over by the plowshare.
| The uproar was so awful that for an
| instant the coolest of us lost his self
control. Yet we knew we had not the
fraction of a second to waste. The
breaking of the banks had caused the
water again rapidly to rise about US.
In little while it was once more as
high as our waists.
| In the excitement and confusion,
deafened by the noise and blinded by
the flying foam, we were in danger of
becoming separated in the flood We
no longer knew certainly in what drec-
ton was the tree by whose aid we had
descended from the electrical ship. We
pushed first one way and then another,
staggering through the rushing waters
in search of it. Finally we succeeded
in locating it, and with all our strength
hurried toward it.
Then there came a noise as if the
globe of Mars had been split asunder,
and another great head of water hurled
itself down upon the soil before us, and,
without taking time to spread bored a
vast cavity in the ground, and scooped
out the whole of the grove before our
eyes as easily as gardener lifts a sod
with his spade.
| Our last hope was gone. For a mo-
| ment the level of the water around us
sank again, as it poured into the i'm
mense excavation where the grove had
stood, but in an instant it was rein
forced from all sides and began once
more rapidly to rise.
We gave ourselves up for lost, and,
| indeed, there did not seem any possible
hope of salvation.
Even in this extremity 1 saw Colonel
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rection, toward the east. would have
considerably farther to go before reach
ing the neighborhood of the Lake of
the Sun. 1t, too, would involve hum
dreds Of great canals as it advanced,
and would come plunging upon the
Lake of the Sun and it's surrounding
forts and cities, probably about half a
| day later than the arrival of the deluge
that Travelled toward the west.
| Now that we had let the awful de-
| stroyer loose we almost shrank from
the thought of the consequences which
we had produced. How many millions
would perish as the result of our deed,
we could not even guess. Many of the
victims, as far as we knew, might be
entirely innocent of enmity toward us,
or of the evil which had been done to
our native planet. But this was q case
in which the good-if they existed
must suffer with the bad on account of
the wicked deeds of the latter.
l have already remarked that the
continents of Mars were higher on their
northern and southern borders where
they faced the great oceans. These
natural barriers bore to the main mass
of the land somewhat the relation of
the edge of a shallow dish to it's bot
tom. Their rise on the land side was
too gradual to give them the appear
ance of hills, but on the side toward
the sea they broke down in steep banks
and cliffs several hundred feet in
height. We guessed that it would be
in the direction of these elevations that
the inhabitants would flee, and those
who had timely warning might thus be
able to escape in case the flood did not
as it seemed possible it might in its
first mad rush-overtop the highest
elevation on Mars.
AS day broke and the sun slowly
rose upon the dreadful scene beneath
us, we began to catch sight of some OF
the fleeing inhabitants. We had shift
ed the position of the fleet toward the
south, and We're now suspended above
the southeastern corner of Aeria. Here
a high bank of reddish rock confronted
the sea, whose waters ran flashing anc
roaring along the bluffs to supply the
rapid draught produced by the empty
ing of the Syrtis Major. Along the
shore there was a narrow line of land
hundreds of miles in length, but less
than quarter of a mile broad, which
still rose slightly above the surface OF
the water, and this land of refuge was
absolutely packed with the monstrous
inhabitants of the planet, who had flee
hither on the first warning that the wa
ter was coming.
In some places it was so crowded thai
the late corners could not find standing
ground on dry land, but were continu-
ally slipping back and falling into the
water. 1t was an awful sight to look
at them. 1t reminded me of pictures
that l had seen of the deluge in the
days of Noah, when the waters hat
risen to the mountain tops, and men
women and children were fighting fol
foothold upon the last dry spots thai
the earth contained.
We were all moved by desire to helr
our enemies, for we were overwhelmed
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grove Of trees had allowed a flood of
light to stream upon the scene from a
cluster of electric lamps on a distant
portion of the bank on the Syrtis that
had not yet given way that he caught
sight of us.
Immediately he began to shout to at
tract our attention, but in the awful
uproar we could not hear him. Getting
together all the ropes that he could
lay his hands on, he steered the ship
to a point directly over us, and then
dropped down within few yards of
the boiling flood.
Now as he hung over our heads, and
saw the water UP to our very necks
and still swiftly rising, he shouted
again.
Catch hold. for Gods sake!"
| The three men who We're with him in
the ship seconded his cries.
But by the time we had fairly
grasped the ropes, 50 rapidly was the
flood rising, we We're already afloat.
With the assistance of Tom and his
men we were rapidly drawn up, and
Immediately Tom reversed the electric
polarity, and the ship began to rise.
At that same instant, with a crash
that shivered the air, the immense
metallic power house gave way and
was swept tumbing, like hill torn
loose from it's base, over the very spot
where a moment before we had stood
one seconds hesitation on the part OF
Tom, and the electrical ship would have
been battered INTO a shapeless wad 81
metal by the careering mass.
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with feelings of pity and remorse, but
to aid them was now utterly beyond
our power. The mighty floods were
out, and the end was in the hands of
God.
Fortunately, we had little time for
these thoughts because no sooner had
| the day begun to dawn around us than
the airships of the Martians appeared.
| Evidently the people in them were
dazed by the disaster and uncertain
what to do. 1t is doubtful whether at
first they comprehended the fact that
we were the agents who had produced
the catacylsn.
But as the morning advanced the air.
ships came f1ocking in greater and
greater numbers from every direction,
many swooping down close to the flood
in order to rescue those who were
drowning. Hundreds gathered along
the slip of land which was crowded. as
1 have described, with refugees, while
other hundreds rapidly assembled
about us, evidently preparing for an
attack.
| We had learned in our previous con-
tests with the airships of the Martians
that our electrical ships had a great
advantage over them. not merely in
rapidity and facility of movement but
in the fact that our disintegrators
could sweep in every direction, while
| it was only with much difficulty that
the Marian airships could discharge
their electrical strokes at an enemy
poised directly above their heads.
Accordingly, orders were instantly
flashed to all the squadron to rise YER
tically to an elevation so great that the
rarity of the atmosphere would prevent
the airships from attaining the same
| level.
This manoeuvre was executed so
quickly that the Martians were unable
to deal us a blow before we were poised
above them in such position that they
could not easily reach us. Still they
did not mean to give up the conflict.
Presently we saw one of the largest
of their ships manoeuvring in a very
peculiar manner, the purpose of which
! we did not at first comprehend. Its for
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two all-Swallowing delugeS, sweeping
east and west. But, as we now per-
ceived, the level of the land over a
| large part of it's surface was hundreds
of feet below the ocean, so that the
latter, when once the barriers were
broken, rushed into depressions that
| yaWned to receive it.
| The point where we had dealt our
blow was far removed from the great
capital of Mars, around the Lake Of the
Sun, and we knew that we should have
to wait for the floods to reach that
point before the desired effect could be
produced. By the nearest way, the
water had at least 5000 miles to travel
We estimated that it's speed where we
hung above it was as much as a hun
dred miles an hour. Even if that speed
We're maintained, more than two days
and nights would be required for the
floods to reach the Lake of the Sun.
But as the water rushed on it would
break the banks of all the canals inter-
secting the country, and these, being
also elevated above the surface, would
add the impetus of their escaping wa
| tiers to hasten the advance of the flood
We calculated, therefore, that about
two days would suffice to place the
planet at our mercy.
Half way from the Syrtis Major to
the Lake of the Sun another great con-
Meeting link between the Southern and
Northern ocean basins, called on our
maps of Mars the Indus, existed, and
through this channel we knew that an
other great current must be setting
from the south toward the north. The
flood that we had started would reach
and break the banks of the Indus with
in one day.
The flood travelling in the other d.
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XIII.

When we had attained a considerable
height, so that we could see to a great
distance on either side, the spectacle
became even more fearful than it was
when we were close to the surface.
On all sides banks and dykes were 60
ing down; trees We're being uprooted;
buildings were tumbling; and the ocean
was achieving that victory over the
land which had long been its due, but
which the ingenuity of the inhabitants
of Mars had postponed for ages.
Far away we could see the front of
the advancing wave crested with foam
that sparkled in the electric lights, and
as it swept on it changed the entire
aspect of the planet-in front Of it all
life, behind it all death.
| Eastward our view extended across
the Syrtis Major toward the land of
Libya and the region of Isidis. On that
side also the dykes were giving way
under the tremendous pressure, and the
| floods were rushing toward the sun
rise, which had just begun to streak
the eastern sky.
The continents that were being over
whelmed on the western side of the
Syrtis were Meroe, Aeria, Arabia, Edom
and Eden.
The water beneath us continually
deepened. The current from the melt
ing SHOWS around the southern pole
was at it's strongest; and one could
hardly have believed that any obstruc-
ton put in it's path would have been
able to arrest it and turn it into these