Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-08-20
SNAP SHOTS.
Hot Tamalcs Caught on the Wing
and Served with Tobasco.

She never yet has bitten OFF
More than she can chew.
Detroit Free Press.
Candor is the brightest gem of criti-
cism. -Disraeli.
Why is it that u cronic kicker never
kicks himself?
The Spanish troops are fast leaving
Santiago for Spain.
All our whalers are not not warships
but all our warships are whalers,
Hawaii wants the honor of furnishing
Uncle Sam Il battalion of infantry.
General Miles appointed General
Wilson, military governor of Ponce.
The President will call special ses-
sion of congress for September 10Th.
General Merritt wants from twenty
to fifty thousand men for the Philip
pines.
One dollar Il barrel beer war tax is
driving many saloons out of business in
St. Louis.
Admiral Sampson says the Marir
Tersea will be completely overhauled
and made fit for service.
a private in an Indiana company of
volunteers is Chinaman who has taken
the name of John Dewey.
Three different outfits of Wrecking
companies have left New York for San
tiago to raise sunken vessels.
a paper of Brennan, Germany, re-
Gently told its readers that the Spanish
fleet had bOmbarded Chicago.
In violation of the terms of the sur
render the Spaniards sunk one of their
gunboats in Guantanamo bay.
President Masso says he will quit his
job, if such a step is necessary, to bring
about Il good feeling between Cuba and
the United States.
a Chicago paper notes the fact that
while a man named Heaven has just re-
signed from the ST. Louis police force,
another man named Helle is still serv-
ing.
Captain n. Mayo Dyer, of the Balti-
more, has presented to the city of Bal
did such deadly work at the battle of
Manila.
40 limb cd T. nS
civil governor of Santiago, because the
latter supplanted Spanish officials with
Cuban. He called Ros IA presuming
rascal"
The Spanish prisoners of war at
Portsmouth n. H., manifested their APP
probation of their good treatment by
cheering the United States gunboat
Frolic as it passed.
Henri Brisson, the PRIMER of France
thinks our course in the war with
Spain has been most noble, and says
that Europe has no right to NEEDLE in
the negotiations.
Col. San. Martin, Spanish commander
of Ponce, was court martlalcd and shot
for surrendering without resistance,
and Lieut.. Col. luiz, second in COM
mand, has suicided,
Mrs. j. Addison Porter, who is at
Santiago with Clara Barton, writes that
that at the battles of Ell Caney and San
Juan Spanish sharpshooters shot
wounded men dead lying in Red Cross
filters.
A fleet is composed of II battleships;
a squadron is composed of less than II
battleships, and is sometimes part of
fleet; q floatilli is composed Of II or
more men-of-war, some of which may
be battleships.
Sergeant Matthews of the English
Civil Service Volunteer Rifles, made
worlds record of l05, all bulls eyes,
shooting from the knee, under the
Queens first stage conditions of seven
shots each at 200, 500 and 900 yards, in
a recent regimental competition.
The crew of the Brooklyn found the
standard compass of Cevera's flagship
and gave it to Comodore Schley as a
trophy. He thanked them and said aft
erward "I'd rather have thing like
this than the adulation of my entire
country"