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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07
His Motive.

"a . His Motive.
Watts-I don't believe you ever m1ae
an amateur performance.
POtts-Of course don't. Sitting:
through amateur performances makes.
me enjoy professional work 90 much
more.-InGianapolis Journal
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07

Az the limb IL bent the limb Il in.
clined to 60 broke later.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07

It's harder to save penny than it is
to earn it.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07

Life is after all but q big bundle Of
little things.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07
Free Lands In nIontan.,

It's wise man who doesn't let his
wife know the full size Of his income
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07

Managers Of bicycle academies say
there is quite falling off in the at"
tendance thereof.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07
Educate Your ,

Money cannot buy an ounce Of love:
but it will purchase tons Of sympathy.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07
Overlooking.

Overlooking.
II you have a hen to die suddenly,
or your flock quits laying, you are at
once told that you are overlooking;
that you should discontinue this and
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07

Often an excuse is worse than the
offenSe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-10-07

Responsibility that carries no weight
is not responsible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
LITTLE WILL PRESIDE.
Twentieth Kansas Members Punished
for Wanting to Come Home.

San Francisco, Aug. 26.-General Miller
has appointed court martial to try the
four men of the Tennessee regiment who
made an assault on the young negro,
Thomas. It has been ordered to convene
at the headquarters Of the Second brigade.
independent division, at II a. m, Tuesday.
August 23 1885, and to sit without regard
to hours.
Lieutenant Colonel E. C Little, Twen-
tieth Kansas, president; Major Frank S.
Rice, California heavy artillery; Major
Frank H. Whitman. Twentieth Kansas;
Major Frank G. Prescott, Seventh Cali
fornia: Captain H. B. Myers, First Ten
neSsee: Captain William A Pryor, Fifty
first Iowa: First Lieutenant Hugh Spark
man, First Tennessee: First Lieutenant
VIM. J. Watson. Twentieth Kansas; First
Lieutenant John J. Moore, Fifty-first
Iowa: First Lieutenant John D. Freder-
icks, Seventh California; Second Lieuten-
ant Martin Dismukes. First Tennessee:
Second Lieutenant S Crawford. Seventh
California: Second Lieutenant w. c. Ment-
zer, Fifty-first Iowa; Second Lieutenant
G.. J. MCKeehy. California heavy artillery,
judge advocate.
The men of the Twentieth Kansas who
signed the petition to the secretary of
war to be among the first to be mustered
out have all been slightly punished and
deprived of most of their privileges, and
a corporal of their number has been de-
graded to the ranks. A similar petition
in the First Washington regiment has
been consigned to the flames.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
MARTIN IRONS ILL.
Suffering in a Little Rock Hospital
With Malarial Fever.

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 26.-There is
now lying i'll of malarial fever in the
Logan H. Roots Memorial hospital
man who has a national reputation as
a labor agitator and who has probably
been as potent a factor in the labor
movement as any man in the country
He is Martin Irons, at present master
workman of the Arkansas remnant of
the knights of Labor. For the past
year he has been living on little farm
across the river from Big Rock. Last
week he became i'll with fever, and last
Monday was taken by friends to the
city hospital, where he is now being
treated. He is billed to deliver an ad-
dress at Scannon, Kan, September 5,
under the auspices of the Knights of
Labor, but fears that he will not be
strong enough by that time and that he
will have to disappOint the people.
4 am getting too old for active work
in the labor movement" said he today.
Il will get out of this soon, I hope,
thanks to the splendid nursing and ex-
Cellent accommodations. have several
appointments awaiting me, but I do
not know how soon 1 shall be able to fill
them. I have spent a life on the work
with little compensation, and now have
nothing to show for it. Organized la
Dor suffers from the presence in it's
ranks of a dishonest element, which
pushes honesty to the rear. In Arkan-
ined by trickery, treachery and dis
honest methods, largely practiced by
one man who has been prominent in
it's councils
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
REID is ONE.
Proprietor of the New York
Tribune Appointed
A Member of the u. S. Peace
Commission.
THE LIST is COMPLETE
f Associate Justice White Ac-
cepts.
1t is Day, Davis, Frye, Reid
and White.

Washington, Aug. 26.-Secretary Day,
upon leaving the cabinet meeting this
afternoon, announced that WhitelaW
Reid has been selected as a peace COM
missioner. The commission so far as
made up being:
Secretary of State Day, Senator c. K.
Davis Of Minnesota, Senator William P.
Frye of Maine and Whitelaw Reid OF
New York.
The fifth member, Secretary Day an
noUnced officially has not been finally
selected, but Justice White of supreme
court has the presidents tender of a
place under consideration and may be
induced to accept
All the members of the cabinet ex-
cept Secretaries Alger and Long, both
of whom are out of town. were at the
regular meeting today The impress
sion prevailed that the personnel of
the peace commission would be an
nounced after the cabinet meeting,
though Justice Whites service on the
commission seems still a matter OF
some doubt. Colonel John J. McCook
and Representative Lemuel E. Quigg Of
New York, were among those who saw
the president prior to the cabinet meet
ing. Mr.. Quigg had a, long talk with
the president over the selection of Mr..
Whitelaw Reid as a member of the
would not discuss his visit. it is very
likely from his relations with Senator
Platt that he protested against the pro-
posed appointment. The president told
Mr.. Quigg he had determined upon the
appointment.
Senator Davis, who has been selected
as peace commissioner, also saw the
president, but the interview was very
brief. The senator left this afternoon
for New York, and from there he will
return to st. Paul for a, stay at his
home before taking his departure for
Paris. Senator Frye, another of the
peace commissioners also went to New
York today and will visit his home in
Maine before returning here.
The cabinet discussed various ques-
tions concerning Porto Rico, Cuba and
the Philippines. 1t was decided to ad-
nit butter and butterine into Cuba and
Porto Rico when stamped as such at
two cents a pound This is material
reduction, the Spanish rate having been
six cents on butter, while butterine was
not admitted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
HOAR FOR HAYS PLACE.
The President Said to Have Him in
Mind.

Boston, Mass, Aug. 26-The Journals
Washington correspondent says:
If George F. Hoar will consent to ac-
cept an appointment as ambassador at
the court of st. James, the appointment
will probably be made
The president is seriously thinking of
asking the senior senator from Massa-
chusetts to take the place, which will
soon be vacated by Ambassador Hay
and he is restrained only by his reluct-
ance to remove Senator Hoar from the
position he now holds. It is hardly be-
lieved that Senator Hoar would be will
ing to abandon the senate after so
many years in order to enter upon a
diplomatic career, involving the forma-
tion of ties and the acceptance of
strange conditions, but the president
has thought that he would be the ideal
American representative in London
when the relations between Great Brit
ain and the United States have become
so close and when the duties of an am
bassadOr are to be peculiarly delicate
and important.
Senator Hoar is the one American
who. without great wealth, could main
tain the prestige of an ambassador in
London, for he is almost the only
American who is so well known and
highly regarded that he could safely
live as he liked. The one thing which
causes the president to hesitate is that
he has not already sounded the senator
on the subject and is unwilling to take
him out of the senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26

by US was sent to the Pacific coast.
The western police did excellent work
on the case.
when Dunning arrived in Dover he
was interviewed by US and identified
the writing on the box of candy sent to
his wife and the anonymous letters as
the writing of Mrs. Botkin. This fact
was withheld by US until now, and this
was what was meant by Dunning when
he objected to the stories published
saying that he had not told all he knew.
Not only did he tell this, but he gave
some of the details of his life in the
west to guide the authorities.
Among other things the San Fran
cisco police have done was to get the
various women who were supposed to
be implicated to do a gread deal of
talking. The western police have found
the clerk who gave the box and sold
the manufactured candy used in the
box with the poisoned candy. They
have discovered the mail clerk who
weighed the package at the request of
the sender and who sold her the stamps.
Both of these women remember the Wo-
man with whom they talked. Detec-
tive McVey has with him the box of
candy, and the clerk is expected to
contains the stamps placed upon it by
the woman after she had handed it to
the clerk to be weighed. Detective
McVey also has the writing on the box
and the anonymous letter, and these
will be compared with Mrs. Botkin's
writing.
1.-THE preliminary hearing promises to
be very interesting, as there will be
hard fight made to keep her from be-
ing brought to this state. There is a
prevailing opinion among many Dover
people that the woman will confess
The anonymo letters are believed to
have been sent to cause trouble between
Dunning and his wife, and the writer
tried to make it appear that they were
written by Mrs. Seeley. Some of the
letters were sent by Mrs. Dunning to
her husband. Dunning believed until
now that they were written by Mrs.
Seeley.
1.-The authorities here have received
information that Mrs. Botkin is not the
bright, intelligent woman she has been
made out to be by some of the news
paper dispatches. She is said to have
come to this country from England but
a short time ago and went west with
her husband. She at times claimed
that she was about to get a divorce
from her husband. The state officers
believe her to be a, very weak woman"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
HOT ALL AROUND.
Concordia (Kan.) Beats All Except the
Dasart

Washington, Aug. 26.-For some unac-
countable reason Concordia, Kan, has
been the hottest place in the United States
outside of the desert regions, this summer.
Concordia, has not always held this dis
tinction, and why it should now is a mys-
terry The hottest weather in Washing
ton in the history of the bureau was on
September Z. 1881, when the official ther-
mometer registered 104 degrees, while in
New Se York it vas 100 degrees. in Pittsburg
Boston 102 degrees the last three records
being three days later than the most ex-
treme heat in Washington and New York.
The hottest registration at Yuma. Ariz.,
was on July % 1873 when the thermom-
eter marked 119 degrees. The record was
broken at PhOneiX. Ariz.. last month with
a registration of III on the 18th and 25th.
The record for Concordia, Kan, this year
is 106. the highest ever recorded there.
In New Orleans the record was broken
this year on July q with 81 degrees. the
same degrees of heat being recorded in
Portland. Me, on July 3. Albany had 100
degrees and Washington had 1O1 degrees
on July 2. Two years ago an expedition
was sent to Death Valley, Cal, and re-
mained all summer. One of the records
there was 122 degrees maximum and 2
degrees minimum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
TROOPS ARE COMPLAINING.
Most of Those at Chickamauga Want
to Go Home.

Chickamauga National Military Park,
Aug 26.-The movement from Camp
Thomas is progressing much more
slowly than Gen. Breckenridge and his
officers anticipated, and much COM
plant is expressed on all sides. The
regiments are ready to move but they
are unable to secure transportatiOn-T The
roads seem unable to handle more than
two commands a day, while the army
officers desire to send six or at least hVe
out daily If the present rate of pro-
gress is maintained all the regiments
cannot be gotten away for several
weeks.
The Sixth Pennsylvania loaded on
trains at Rossville, for Lexington. The
Second Missouri and the First New
Hampshire marched to RinggOld, where
they loaded for Lexington. These three
regiments compose the Third brigade,
Third division, Third corps.
Gen. Andrews brigade command with
his staff left today for Lexington The
First West Virginia and the Sixth
Ohio are making preparations to leave
for Knoxville tomorrow. The First IL
linOis cavalry, which marched to Ross
vile, Wednesday night, failed to get
away for Chicago until O'Clock this
morning.
Gen. r. T. Frank, commanding the
First division, Third corps here, has
issued an address to his men which
promises to have a very beneficial ef-
feet. He urges the men not to weakly
yield to present depression or to waste
time complaining over the prospects of
being given active service or being
mustered out. He expresses confidence
that the command will soon do garrison
duty in Cuba, a work which he declares
is as honorable and of as great import
ance as any yet done. There is much
dissatisfaction in all the regiments
which have poor prospects of being
mustered out but the wise cOunSelS of
the officers nrRVpnf anX trOuble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
CORPSES CHECKED OFF
As Passengers by the Managers of
Spanish Transport Line


Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 26.-The Span
ish transports San Francisco San Au-
gustin and Colon left for Spain with
4,568 Spaniards, including fifteen officers
and their families and four priests
Eight men died on the way to the ships.
Their corDses were Checked off" as
passengers. 1t appears that there have
been many instances of this during the
embarkation of the Spaniards +ba
transportation company thus being en-
aDled TO collect the passage money a
thlnS readily managed under the easv
inspection OF the Americans
General TOral when bidding adieu +o
leaving said:
Conquered, we yield with honor to
ourselves and to Spain Whatever nov
be the future of Cuba, history will nra,
serve the story of your heroic and no
Die deeds in this country We reore+
our failure and cost in treasure and in
nobly lost - -0Nsi III anu
General Shafter and his staff sailed
u! @ tne Ohlted States transport Mexico
ms i1i departure was not marked by spec
1al incident On arriving at NEOpte71I~
Point, General Shafter will % [+1i4I1 IN
MAJOR Mlley to Washington to meet
PRESIDENT Mckinley and Secrata1.v
AIger' afterward proceeding to San
Francisco. Colonel Greene Of Cs,,,o-i
Skaters staff and captain Of The eir--,'ai 81
corps, VIII remain for another ten davs
or until ne IS relieved by Captain Leigh
VINO VINO WlJh % men of the signal corps, is
expected on the Seguranca.
Maps and charts have been preparad
Tor a military telegraph and telebhone
service between Santiago, Guantanamo
Baracoa, Sagua and San Luis. All gar,
rison points, and Captain Leigh will he
gin work of stringing the wires as soon
as he arrives
On the recommendation of Washing
ton, bank of exchange will be estab-
lshed here. The scarcity of small coin
IS a great inconvenience and a causa
OF much trouble among the soldiers and
tocaI merchants One result is exorbi-
tant prices
me transport Roumania arrived to-
oay from Ponce. Yesterday the trans
port Or1saba left for Porto Rico. The
l6s5.e5rNshlre, with $50 convaleseents from
sSIpoiley ,salled for Montauk Point today.
She was soon followed bv the RaTii,
WITH WITH Gen Gates and his staff and the
First Illinois. colored infantry,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
FEVER AT GALVESTON.
A Suspected Case of Yellow Jack at
Ft. Point

Washington, Aug. 26.-Dr Wyman,
surgeon general of the marine hospital
service, has received official informa-
ton that a case of suspected yellow fe-
yer exists at the artillery post at Fort
Point, near Galveston, Texas. A diff
ference of opinion as to whether the
case is yellow fever exists among the
physicians, the marine hospital surgeon
believing that it is, while the Galveston
health officer takes a contrary view.
The strictest isolation of the case will be
enforced until the true character of the
disease is disclosed.
A telegram from the Dry Tortugas
states that the wilma has just arrived
there from Havana and has four suspi-
cious cases of yellow fever on board
The vessel has been quarantined. These
isolated cases, DR.. Wyman says, are
easily handled and he expresses no fear
that the disease will spread. The ut
most precautions are being taken in all
directions to prevent yellow fever get
ting a foothold in the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
Trouble With the Natives at
Manila Begins.
A Mob Kills One United States
Soldier.
AND WOUNDS ANOTHER
Troops Fire on Natives, Killing
One of Them.
AguinaIdO Disclaims Any Con-
nectiOn With the Matter.

New York, Aug. 26.-A copyright
special from Manila to the New York
Journal says:
There has been a very serious clash
at Cavite between United States sol
diers and the insurgents, the riot re-
sulting in the killing of one soldier and
the serious wounding of another.
George Hudson a member of the Utah
battery, got into a dispute with a ma
tive shopkeeper. Fearing trouble he
fired his revolver in the air to attract
the attention of some of his fellow sol
diers
A great crowd of natives ran to the
scene of the disturbance and at once
began firing their revolvers, killing Hud-
son and seriously wounding Corporal
William Anderson of the same battery.
who had hurried to the assistance of
Hudson.
A detachment of the Fourth cavalry
was called out and dispersed the Flip
pinos who continued to fire their re-
volvers as they retreated, but without
doing any more damage.
On the same night some of the SOL
diers doing guard duty saw a large
party of natives stripping the wreck
of a gunboat which was lying in Ca
vite bay.
A boat with an armed force was put
off from the shore. The sailors hailed
the natives who failed to answer Then
the soldiers fired a volIey, killing one
and wOunding another.
General Aguinaldo promptly denied
any connection between the natives in
these affairs and his army
Admiral Dewey has transferred his
flag to the cruiser Baltimore. the
Olympia sailing for Hong Kong to be-
docked and cleaned The Raleigh left
for the same port Wednesday night.
Another Account.
Manila, Aug 26.-On Wednesday. a
corporal and two troopers of battery B.
of the Utah artillery after disembark-
ing at Cavite were sent on an errand.
While passing through the streets
Trooper Hudson discharged his re-
volver. It was all mere fun, but the
natives in the immediate locality were
much alarmed for the time
The native Immediately began firing.
Dismounted cavalry were sent to quen
the disturbance, but the natives mis-
understood the move and the firing be-
came general.
Trooper Hudson was killed and Cor
pOral Anderson mortally wounded.
Troopers Laydon. Nachbar, ConolIy and
Doyle of the Fourth cavalry were
wounded.
Four natives were killed and several
wounded
General AguinaldO has expressed his
regret at this encounter and promises
to punish the offenders.
No further trouble is expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
TO ANSWER FOR THIS.
More Indictment For IncOmpe-
tency Piled Up Against
AIger.

Savannah, Aug. 26-AIrs. w. w.
Gordon. wife of the commander of the
second brigade of the first division Sew
enth Army corps, U. S. V, at Jackson
Vile, tonight sent to his late home,
Goshen, Ind, the body of Private Perry,
Company G, First regiment Indiana
volunteers, who died on the train while
she was nursing him en- route from
Fernandina to Savannah. Mrs. Gordon
told a reporter of her experience today
Just as the train was about leaving
for Savannah the Fernandina train ar
rived, and in short time between
stops the work of crOwding sick soldiers
into Pullman cars commenced. Men
were brought by the front and rear
doors and showed through the windows,
helpless, and some of them hOpelessly
inValided, in the various stages of
typhoid fever. They were from the
camp at Fernandina.
THE men were weak and some of
them nearly famished. One poor fellow
was laid across the seat in the thrOes of
death. One man died soon after the
train started. Another was deliriOuS
from fever, and a third was in the
last stages of typhoid. The situation
was desperate and the other passengers
were driven from their places in the
Pullman car. The apartments were left
to the soldiers.
Here We're a lot of invalids just
from the fever camp going home with
out hospital car, a surgeon, a trained
nurse or a steward. The men were in
charge of Captain Elias ID. Salisbury,
who was attentive and Watchful, and
who did everything in his power to aid
them, but Captain Salisbury is neither
physician nor nurse, and had not
been supplied with the proper nOuriSh-
ment for the sick and dying soldiers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-26
HOBSON TO BE THERE.
He is Expected at the Coming g. a
R. National Encampment.

Cincinnati, Aug 26.-The close of the
war and the general tendency on the
part of the people of the United States
to celebrate it in a fitting way make
the coming G. A. r. encampment at
Cincinnati, from September 5th to 10th,
a very oppOrtune time for observing
such an occasion. Arrangements have
already been made by the municipal
authorities of the city of Cincinnati to
have the week turned into a veritable
peace jubilee. and the presence of a
large number of the most prominent
men of the country at the encampn ent
will make this sort of an event quite
easy Of realization.
President Mex nley long ago promised
to be present during the encampment
if nothing of such Importance might
come up as to keep him away and now
that the way is made clear for his pres
ence, it will bring a larger number of
other prominent people here than would
otherwise have attended. Then the
same cause, the end of the war; that
has made it certain that the president
Will be here will allow many others to
come whose presence was doubtful.
Among this number is no less a person
age than the chief of the
Grand Army, ]. P. S. Goblin himself.
General Goblin was commissioned a
brigadier general and was with his COM
mand at a point ready to go to the
front at once. Had there been hard
fighting at the time of the encamp-
ment it would have made his presence
a matter of doubt
1t is ANTICIPATED that some of the
prominent figures in the Spanish war
Will be in Cincinnati during the en-
campment, and Richmond Pearson
HobsOn, has already promised Rear
Admiral Kelly of the Navy Veterans
union that he viii be present if his du-
ties do not interfere. The promise was
given during the progress OF the war
and 1t is anticipated that the visit of
the hero of the Merrimac will surely be
made Admirals Sampson and Schley
will be invited.