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Arizona republican., 1898-08-29

|chine guns kept out of action seven pieces Of the enemys artillery by making it too warm for his gunners to stay in their batteries The eff ciency of the work of my guns was at tested to me by numerous Spanish off |cers and prisoners. Their favorite .x- pression was: Tt was terrible when your guns opened, always. They went b-r-r-r-r, like a lawn mower cutting the grass ov r our trenches. We could not stick finger up when you fired without getting it cut off" The re- suits of this experimental battery prove that in this arm we have a new weapon supplementary to infantry and cavalry, Independent of both as one arm is of another, and more nearly ca pablo of independent action than any other arm of the service.
 By it's performances in the sea fights of this war-notably in the great one off Santiago-the rapid-fire gun on shipboard has made itself new place in the respect of the world. If this country ever has another war, it's a safe prediction that dozen or perhaps even a score of machine guns will go to the front with the land forces where one went this time.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29

upon muster out of the troops wht served in the war of the rebellion the government would have been saved hundreds of millions of dollars.
 The list of regiments to be mustered out has been completed by the war de partment. It has been delayed some what by the desire of the department to comply, as far as possible, with tht wishes of the men. There are a mum Der of regiments who desire to remain longer in the service. and when thi desire can be granted without detri ment to the general good of the mill tary service it will be done. Tn greater number of regiments are anx ious to be discharged, and in somt cases petitions have been received urg ing speedy action for muster out Those who abandoned profitable busi ness to serve the country in the emer gency do not want to be retained il the army for garrison duty, either a home or in foreign parts
 Intimations are heard that an inves tigation by congress of the conduct O the war will bring out the faults oi the war department and prove to wha' extent the incapacity of the bureau: to do business is to be attributed te the knowledge that the head of the service held weak grasp of the de partment business and could not un derstand the difficulties his subordi natcs were compelled to contend with
 Such an investigation, it is believed will more than sustain the criticism: directed against the incompetency O the man who has persisted in assert
 ing that his control has been wise ant beneficial, while the common belief i! that it has heen altogether Unfortunate and discreditable.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29
NO MORE PENSION FRAUDS
Great Care Will Be Exercised in
 MuStcring Out Troops.

Washington, Aug. 2S-Care will be taken in the mastering out of the army to guard against fraudulent pen sion claims hereafter. Under the or ders issued by the war department blanks are to be furnished the troops upon their return to the state camps
 containing questions which each man
 will be required to answer over his
 signature and attested by the captain of his company. The soldier must
 state whether he was wounded and if
 SO where and character of injury
 whether he has contracted any disease
 pr disability ill the line of duty and
 whether he is as sound physically at
 the time of discharge as at the time Os
 muster, etc. These answers are to be certified by company commanders in
 accordance with their personal knowl-
 edge, and the facts set forth on the
 company rolls. If any disease or dis
 ability is claimed the mastering officer will cause an examination to be made
 oy a medical officer of the regular
 army, when available, and when not, by medical officer not of the organ ization to which the soldier belongs.
 Under this examination it will be i'm possible for men who served in the
 war with Spain to base future claims for pension on any but substantial grounds, the evidence of which will be found in the record of the soldier made by himself. As all soldiers of
 the present war were physically ex- 'amined before entering the service and passed as sound, all statements made now to the effect that no physical dis ability has been contracted during the war will be a bar to claim for pen sion in the future on account of dfsa- bility alleged to have been contracted in the service. Had such an examina- ton as that now proposed been made
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29
1OTLEY ON RESEARCHES WILD
 OATS"


 One of Bismarck's companions at (Gottingen was the American historian John Lothrop Motley. Bismarck fin ished his education at Berlin, and be- gan life as law reporter in one of the Berlin courts. Afterward he served for a time another legal office at Ak tla-Chapelle, and was again transferred to PC,sdam Crown office. After his military service had expired he studied agriculture, and devoted himself to helping his father in the management of the Romeranian property. There 'his wild ways, his dancings, his demon- like rides, and his drinking bouts soon procured him an uncanny name. ard he was known in the district as mad Bismarck. lie quaffed huge cups of mixed champagne and porter, he awoke his guests in the morning by firing off pistols close to their ears, and he terrified his lady cousins by turning foxes into the drawing room. " But these eccentricities seem to have only been the effervescence of strong character. They were not inconsist- ent with intervals of study and ref1ec- tion; he gave his, mind to history and philosophy when -the revels were over. The first decoration he wore in his | life was given to him for personal bra very in rescuing a groom from drown | ing at tho risk of his own life. Of these parliamentary days 9 visit l to England was one notable incident It appears that Bismarck was then much shocked at the severity of tha English Sunday.-London News.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29
WITH GATLING GUNS.
An Interesting Story of Lieutenant
 Parker'S Experience.

May 26, this year, Lieutenant John (then at Tampa) was ordered to report, with detail of two sergeants and ten men from his regiment. 10 the ord nance officer flor duty with Gatllng guns" His story of the subsequent proceedings, as told officially to the ad- jutant general, is published in the current number of the Army and Navy Journal" and very interesting story 1t is.
 There were four of the guns, caliber 30, model Of 1895. He introduced his men to them at once and began the work of instruction. June he took men and guns a6Oard a transport. June II his little command was increased by twenty-seven men, but of these one was left sick in hospital at Tampa, and a dozen were on another transport. June %, at Baiquiri, General Shafter gove him verbal orders to disembark. obtain two mules per gun, get to the front as soon as he could and report to General Wheeler. Neither at that time nor for a month afterward could the lieutenant get any tents. He re- ported to General Wheeler at the front June 26. Early in the morning of July l, the Gatling battery received it's bap- tism of fire-One Spanish shell burst inS directly overhead Neither my men nor mules showed any sign of disturbance" says the lieutenant, and we remained in our perilous position nearly twenty minutes Cthe enemy's shells bursting all around us) until or dered to the rear by the chief of staff The battery went to the rear under fire quietly until out of range"
 Three hours later he was ordered to find the Seventy-first New York and go on with it if he could; otherwise to put his guns where they would Gin his judgment) inflict the most damage on the enemy. He caught up with the New Workers and for fifteen minutes tried to find out what they were going to do. Then he rode ahead through the defile, and found himself looking out on level plain, with a semi-cir- cular ridge beyond it occupied in force by the enemy. A creek ran through this plain near the mouth of the de- file, and upon the ford by which the track crossed the creek the Spanish fire seemed to be concentrated. Parker thought tnlS was a pretty good place and started back for his guns, but su- perior authority restrained him until the afternoon. Then General Shafter borrowed one of his Gatlings and turned him loose with the rest. The ford was reached and passed at gal Top. Then, hundred yards in front Of the line and with no infantry sup port, the battery went into action. 'The enemy at first concentrated their fire upon us,' says Parker, "but soon weakened and in five minutes was ciambering from his trenches and run ming to the rear" That was a proud moment for the lieutenant Seven months before, in letter to the adju- tant general, he had set forth his req
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29

4ady Harcourt belongs to the disap- )earing type of American women in England. She concerns herself with Ter husbands vain struggles to secure :, liberal leadership. She aiways oc- upies a special seat in the ladies gal cry in the house of commons when Sir William is delivering an important beech. Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain did tot make her husband politically. He vas a prominent politician when he married her, but since then she has ielped him and his retinue to get into | social position which they never ireamed of. The countess of Craven laughter O. the Bradley Martins, can lot get her husband to take an active ,art in politics, but concerns herself gith all the great questions of the day u an indirect way.-From a London Cable Letter
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29

sons for a belief that that the Calling fcould be used with advantage Tn at 1 tacking-and there he ~cs actually lusing it that way and proving himself
 right He remarks:
 1 The conditions of t1is assault were favorable, the morale of my men su-
 perb and the use made of the guns fol- lowed the theory therein set forth with
 the exactness of a mathematical dem onstration. The infantry and cavalry 1 had been pounding away for two hours
 on these positions; in eight and one | half minutes after the Gatlings opened the works were ours. Inspired by the | friendly rattle Of the machine guns, our own troops rose to the charge: while the enemy, amazed by our sud den and tremendous increase of fire, first diverted his fire to my battery, and then, unable to withstand the hail of bullets, augmented by the moral eff
 feet of our battery fire and the charg- ing line, broke madly from his safe trenches and was mercilessly cut by fire from these guns during his flight. at once limbered up and took stock of my losses. One man was killed one badly wounded, one mule hit twice,
 but not much injured, and several men
 were missing.
 The day wasn't over yet, however. and the lieutenant was destined to lose third of his detachment before it's close. First, he advanced his guns to the new sllirInish line fmpressing stragglers to tote ammunition for him.
 and began blazing away again. Then he drove away body of about 400 Spaniards in front of Colonel Roose- |velt's position. Then he recovered the gun lent to General Shafter, and hur- ried it into the firing line. One Of his other guns was overheated and took a rest, while it's companions worked all
 the harder. A big rifled gun Zen bar 5ette) in Santiago-about 2,000 yards away. pumped three shells at him. He replied, the Spanish artillerymen van ished, and they didn't return. This is
 probably the first time in land fight
 ing" he suggests, that such a piece was ever silenced by machine-gun fire.''
 He continues:
 The guns were used during the re- mainder of the fighting in the trenches
 took off the wheels and put the guns
 on the carriages in emplacements, erecting a sand-bag parapet in front as
 cover during the night of July 4. The
 disabled gun was brought up and re
 paired, subsequently, participating in
 the fighting. The dynamite gun, under Sergeant Borrowe, First volunteer cav airy, co-operated with the battery thus formed, and the whole battery, includ-
 ing the two Colt automatic rapid-fire guns under Lieutenant Tiffany, First United States volunteer cavalry, did good work in all the subsequent fight ing. ! had strong fire directed upon a battery of seven pieces of the enemy's artillery at distance of 1,500 yards in front every tune any attempt was made to use this battery. The result was that only three shots were fired from these guns after July 4. 1 visited this battery after the surrender and found every gun in working order, the Is cm. gun being actually loaded. As no organization, except my battery, of which I had general direction, had such orders, so far as I can learn, the conclusion is that this battery Of ma-
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29
THE AMERICAN WOMAN IN ENG
 IISH POLITICS.

keen on politics as when her husband lived. She has destined her eldest son, Winston, for a political career. He will enter parliament at the next gen eral election and with the powerful in
 iiuence which Lady Randolph can command should come to the front. es
 pecially as he is bright lad with many of his fathers gifts and most of his mothers shrcwdncss Tho duchess of Marlborough has been too immersed in domestie affairs to think much Of politics. but in g few years intends to be the graade dame Of the greatest political salon in London.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29
SILVER CITY REDUCTION CO.,,
Silver City Grant Co.,. New Mexi,

Silver City Grant Co.,. New Mexico
 This plant has been purchased and will be operated in the future by the estate of the late Senator George Hearst of California, under tho gen. ezal management of D. ?. Gillette, Jr, agement to largely increase the e. pacity of the plant and equip 1t wttA every modern appliance for the suc- cessful and cheap treatment of orea and concentrates. Consignments and correspondence solicited. Advances will be made on ores.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29
Mesa, Florence and Globe
 ...STAGE LINE...

Three trips week. Daylight Travel. Fare between Mesa and Globe. $lO; round trip, SIS. Stage stops over night al Riverside.
 Leaves Mesa -5 a Mondays, Wednesday, snd Fridays. Arrives at Florence at II :3U a. lh. Leaves Florence at D. m., arriving at Globe As 6 D, III. the following day.
 Leaves Globe-7 d. III. Mondays Wednesday, and Fridays. Arrives at Florence at II a, m. the following day Leaves Florence for Mesa at D. Ill. Arrives at Mesa at D. Ill.
Arizona republican., 1898-08-29
(. R. GOoDlN, Proprietor.

Johnson Bros, gents at Mesa. Louis Sultan Agent al Globe. L. k Drais Agent at Florence L.W. Collins Agent at Phoenix.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15

ground rolling and moving under my
feet, upon which l a unto him: Lord,
sir, what is that?' He replied, being a
very grave man, 1T is an earthquake.
Be not afraid it will soon be over"
Despite the presidents assurance, he
disappeared. and was never heard of
again. Continuing the rector wrote:
II made toward Morgan's Fort, because
l thought to be there %securest from
falling houses, but as I was going l
saw the earth open n swallow up a
multitude Of people, and the sea
mounting in upon them over the forti-
fications. Moreover, the large and ia
nous burying ground was destroyed,
and the sea washed away the carcases.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15

The man who has been a terror to
the newspaper correspondents at Key
West is Lieutenant Colonel Jones AL
len, who occupies the position of press
censor He has W recently been ele-
waited from a %captaincy. AS press cen
sor he is sphinxlike and implacable.
but socially he is a very pleasant man.
He graduated from the academy in
1872, and spent several years with the
Third cavalry in Wyoming. After
that he was detached for the signal
service, and remained in that departs
ment of the army until 1873. He was
sent to New Mexico for three years,
n in 1881 he returned to the signal
service at Washington. In 1884 he re-
Joined the Third cavalry, then in the
Indian Territory. For two years, from
1887 to 1889, he was detailed as cav
airy instructor at West Point, was de-
tached again for signal service, and
from 1892 to 1894 he was a member
of General Miles staff at Chicago.
Since 1894 he has done staff duty with
Generals Kruger and Merritt. He was
promoted to the rank of captain ten
years ago..
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15
With a Rifle.

Adolph Toepperwein, San Antonio's
marvellous young rifle shot, has just
performed another of his astonishing
feats. With a 22-caliber rifle he stood
at a distance of 20 feet from a double
thickness of heavy paper, about three
feet long by two wide, and shot on it
the outline of an Indians head. 1t took
exactly 152 shots to do the trick. 1t
was freehand drawing, as the figure
was not traced on the paper before
hand. This made the feat especially
difficult, as "Tep" had to place every
shot with reference to where it's pre-
decessor had gone and where all the
following shots were to go. In other
words, he had to have every detail
o fthe drawing" planned out, and con-
stantly in his minds eye while he was
shooting. One shot fired a fraction Of
an inch wild would have spoiled the
whole picture.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15

my own face-and the crowd UNDER
stood. I'd run completely out of ducks
by that time, but I did half a dozen
s~leight-of-hand tricks for the crowds
edifcation, and was followed to my
hotel by a cheering mob at my heels.
But I could never make up my mind
to eat that entree of almost-hatched
duck. The sight of the fresh egg that
market woman broke for me on my
first day in Manila was enough for me-"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15
AN ABSENT MINDED REMARK

Inc Olnner was given IN MS nOnOI
and as a consequence the eminent Ok
ford archaeologist was i'll at ease. He
had never been much of a society man,
and evening clothes were a bother to
his hands. He had for SO many years
brOwsed like a vagrant goat among
the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh and
other forgotten sites of fleeing civiliz-
alton that he was reminiscent of a
mummy. That was what the eminent
selled of myrrh and other things that
go with the wrappings of a defunct
Pharaoh and, taken all in all, he
wasn't much of a chap to dine with.
You have seen them often, those per-
sons who know what they want to say
but either become confused in the say
ing or INC do it at all. That was
another characteristic of the eminent
oxford archaeologist. His mind vi
brated between thoughts of cuneiform
bricks and the glory attendant upon
their translation. So he wasn't what
one Would call a brilliant success as a
dinner table talker.
~ w lllA1 ~ SAAN
after the second course, was allowed to
drift around into his channels. The
hostess saw that he was i'll at ease,
and she started it herself. She thought
he would feel better conversing on
something he knew about, so she threw
out a. word regarding the recent finds
at Pompeii.
"Ah, yes" said the eminent Oxford
archaeologist. "Pompeii is the dream
af NV, lifo T cbn,11 lilo RI ha the man
to make the greatest discoveries there.
The glory would be magnificent. l
nave nv ideas concernig the burying
of the city, and feel that by exploring
the present excavations personally and
thoroughly 1 could obtain much data
of historical as we'll as scientific value.
But 1 haven't the time. My other
work takes all my hours. Still, my
desire, not expanded, is to work in POM
peii. So when I remember that the
cherished hope may never be realized
it saddens me greatly. You have no
idea how a man feels who has within
him a half-warmed fish,"
The woman at the table dropped her
fork and lower jaw at the same m
Three American professors on the
a~rchaeologist's left and four on his
right put by their eating instruments
and gazed at him. Further down a
woman LOuCucQ IcI IOIClCou IL "AAh'>
ed at her friend across the table.
There was a silence so deep YOU
couldn't plumb it.
I'LL don't believe I quite under
stand you," the hostess managed to
say. ''What was it you said about a
half-warmed fish being inside of your
The eminent archaeOlogist raised his
head and looked at the woman at the
head of the table. He appeared dazed,
He contracted his brows and then he
blushed the color of Jack roses. He
absent-mindedly thrust the napkin in
side the pocket of his coat and scratch
ed his forehead with his knife.
Then he blushed some more and
stammered as he talked.
Dbl didn't mean that" he said. II
meant to say I know nov how a man
feels who has within his heart and
mind a half-formed WISH
"Oh!" calculated everyone present.
And the eminent archaeologist left
Immediately after dinner, even forget
ting to say goodbye to his hostess.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15

Color, as a rule, is very artistically
considered this year, and even from
red, white and blue as key notes in
both dress and millinery, many pretty
variations are made. The genuine royal
red is a brilliant scarlet, but the shade
which apepars conspicuously in fash
ionable gowning is like a velvet-pet-
allied geranium blossom.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15

A Madrid paper reports that a mag
nificent Spanish squadron cruising
along the Atlantic coast captured Gin
cinnaui." This is a blunder of the proof
reader. What the writer meant was
hat the squadron captured a fleet Of
Cincinnati %schooners. They are ir-
resistible.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-07-15
Ethics and Business Clashed.

One distinguished gentleman from
telling his friend at the Brown last
night why he objects to newspaper ad-
vertising.
"It was when I began my practice,
he remarked, between the puffs of a
cigar from the seat of war, down in a
little town in Georgia. Business came
mind hat I should not advertise, and
I want to tell you how it came out.
The proprietor of one of the little pa
pers came to me one day with the re-
mark:
Doctor, 1 want a little ad from you
for the Weekly Razoo.'
81 couldn't do it, my good friend
I replied; for it would be a fragrant
violation of professional ethics
whats them?'
"'Why, the rules of the profession
go, I see. Well, couldn't you let
me use our name in cases where you
are called?'
eyes; no objection to that
"'And you'll pay me for it?'
"'Not a cent I replied, perhaps a
little harshly, for I thought the editor
was trying to work me.
"Out he went, apparently angry, but
1 paid no attention to it. One day l
was looking at the Razoo, and in it was
the notice of the recovery Of a little
girl in the town, and at the conclusion
was the brief but 1attering compli-
ment, DR.. ann in attendance I
confess I thought better Of the fellow.
and was pleased. The next week,
however, one of my patients died, and
at the conclusion of a very pathetic
obituary notice was the same line. DR..
PR P cmfWyp shrdlu shrdl
Gannt in attendance You ought to
have seen me get to the office and get
an advertisement in the Razoo."
Discussion is lively in Newark, N. j.,
over the action of DR.. A.. v. Wendell,
who, to save the life and reason of a
young mother in a private hospital
there, substituted for her dead baby
a healthy live one. Even the husband
did not know until the II of ter days,
and though he was angry at frst-hav-
ing received many congratulations-he
afterward expressed satisfaction with
the plan.