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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-07-22
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The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-08
IN MANILA BAY.

Hark! to the glorious news that comes
From the trackless Western sea!
Thrilling the cable 1T sings and thrums,
Under the water it merrily huns
And tells of the glorious day,
Of the close and terrible fray.
When the Dons bent knee to the flag of the
free
AS it scared Ger Manila bay.
Dewey but paused at the harbor gate,
Just for a moment paused he
Down On the Spaniard then sped SO straight,
The big guns sounding the kneI of fate
In a harsh and terrible way,
In that c-ose and glorious fray,
Till the foemen flee from the flag Of the free
AS 1t scars Ger Manila bay.
Bravely the sailor lads played their parts,
The chronicles well agree
Bravely the gunners displayed their arts,
Filling the Spaniards with fatal darts
In that close and terrible fray,
On that ever glorious day,
Till all eyes can see the flag of the free
AS it scars Ger Manila bay.
Glory to all Of the sailor men
VINO fought In the Western sea!
Boarding the foeman within his den,
The Yankee six 'gainst the Spanish ten,
On that great and glorious day,
In that close and terrible fray
Where the flag Of the free all the world
could see
AS it scared DER Manila bay.
w. R. Rose in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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its way up the mountains. Crossing
the Andes the railroad will reach a
number of good-sized towns and some
rich agricultural country.
The City of Cajamalca.
A branch will extend to Cajamalca,
the city where Pizarro held the Inca
king, Atahualpa, in prison. and where
he later on had him put to death.
You remember the story. Atahualpa
was the ruler Of the whole western
coast of South America. He had, it
is estimated, about 100000 people
subject to him, and this region had
then a higher state of civilization than
it has today. When the Spanish free
booter Pizarro entered the country
with a handful Of soldiers and few
horses he was met at Cajamalca by
Atahualpa and kindly treated. Pizarro
asked him to dine with him, and when
unarmed he came into the house or
palace which Pizarro by his favor was
occupying. He was captured and the
Spanish soldiers slaughtered his atten-
dantS.
The person of the Inca king was so
sacred that this event paralyzed the
nation, and at Atahualpa's request war
was not made. Then Atahualpa said
that IL Pizarro would release him he
would fill the chief room in the palace
in which he was confined with gold to
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the silver veins are rich beyond de-
scription, and from where the silver
with which Pizarro's soldiers shod their
horses probably came. There are COP
per and lead mines along the route,
and, as far as 1 can learn, the whole
region is full of undeveloped mineral
wealth. The workings of the silver
mines SO far have been after the rudest
methods, the silver being reduced to
a sulphide and carried on mules down
to the seacoast, to be shipped to Eng
land or Germany for reduction.
AS l write this L see dispatch in
the Lima paper which has just reached
here stating that the first installment
of rails for this road has just been
shipped from Philadelphia. 1t is to
be hoped that the work Of construction
will be rapidly pushed, for the other
foreigners here are very jealous of any
American innovations, and will not
scruple at anything which will block
the wheels of Yankee progress. rms
is especially SO of the English, VINO,
through the Peruvian corporation, now
control most of the railways OF Peru.
The development of this concession
will make the American influence very
strong, and it may possibly result IN
our getting a coaling station 1or our
navy in this part of the Pacific.
The pier which has been reared mere
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LARGEST MUSIC HOUSE IN NORTHWEST
2I-23 WEST FIFTH STREET, Next to Postoffice

in with thick walls of mud as high as
your waist, and irrlgating bitches carry
sparkling water here and there through
them. The water comes from the river,
and great part Of 1t goes to waste.
There Is rice field. This is one of
the best paying crops of this part of
Peru, and there are large mills at
Pacasmayo, where the rice is hulled,
polished and prepared for shipment.
We go through large estates devoted
to the raising Of sugar. This is Peru's
greatest crop. The most of the as-
tates are owned by foreigners, and
some In the past have paid very wefl.
The whole Of the coast valleys are
adapted to sugar raising and the cane
grows much more easily here than In
our states about the Gulf Of Mexico.
I visited the Lura Fico estate the
other day. This was managed and
built up by Mr.. B. H. Kaufman. 1t
paid large dividends until the fall in
Pcices Of some years ago, when the
heart was cut out Of the sugar busi-
ness. Many of the plantations changed
hands and Lura Fico is now owned
by an English syndicate which has tens
of thousands of acres Of sugar lands.
The factory of Lura Fico made 5000
tons of sugar last year, and it will
make more this.
ne AdCtOIy dlOH0 CcSl POUOUUU, anu
the improvements on the estate have
footed up more than a million. The
most of the machinery was imported
from Philadelphia, and the machine
shops and foundry are now using steel
plates which they import from the
United States. This is so notwith-
stand the fact that the owners are
English. The estate uses steam plows,
harrows and cultivators, and I noticed
that the plow points were made at
Hartford. The cane Is hauled from
the fields to the factories by steam
engines over g. portable railroad, and
all sorts of modern economical ma
chinery is employed There are now
over sixty sugar factories on the coast
region Of Peru, and in the neighbor-
hood Of $20.000,000 is invested in the
business. The amount produced Is
about 165, 5,0000 900 pounds year. The
laborer is the native Peruvian Indian,
who receives from 30 to 80 cents in sill
yer a day, or from 25 to 40 cents Of our
money.
I wonder how an American tenant
would look if he were offered a place
on one of these Peruvian farms. refer
more especially to those on the smaller
estates. I went into one of the houses
on a plantation near here today. 1t Is
a sample Of thousands all through
Peru. The hut was made of canes, and
you could see through the cracks on adj
sides. The floor was Of dirt and the
roof was Of reeds, being only needed
to keep out the sun. There was in the
house but one room, about eighteen feet
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THEY REMEMBERED THE MAINE

Dewey! Dewey! Dewey!
Is the hero of the day,
In the good, old-fashioned way
The way Of Hull and Perry,
Decatur and the rest,
When old Europe felt the clutches
OF the Eagle of the West;
That's how Dewey smashed the Spaniard
In Manila's crooked bay,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashioned way.
Dewey! Dewey! Dewey!
| A Vermonter wins the day!
And the Maine has been remembered
| In the good, old-fashioned way,
By one who cared not whether
| The wind was high or low
AS he stripped his ships for battle
| And sailed forth to find the foe.
=! And he found the naughty Spaniard
| In Manila's crooked bay,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashioned way!
Dewey! Dewey! Dewey!
He has met the Dons' array,
And the Maine has been remembered
| In the good, old-fashioned way
A way Of fire and carnage,
But carnage let it be,
When the forces of the tyrant
Block the pathway of the free!
So the Spanish ships are missing
From Manila's crooked bay,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashioned way!
Dewey! Dewey! Dewey!
Crown with victor wreaths of May;
For the Maine has been remembered
In the good old-fashioned way;
And flags that wave triumphant
In far-off tropic seas,
With their code of symboled color
Fling this message to the breeze:
1--WE have routed all the Spaniards
From Manila's crooked bay,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good old-fashioned way"
Edward F. Burns in Boston Globe
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for the terminus of the railroad is one
of the finest in South America. 1t cost,
I am told, $1,O0O0 to build it. It is
made of iron, and is about forty feet
wide and just a half a mile long. 1t
extends that distance out into the har-
Dor and forms one of the principal ship
ping places of this sEpart Of the world.
The steamers do not come to the pier,
but lie some distance away, and the
goods are taken out to them in light
ers. This Is a cattle-growing country,
and a large amount Of live stock Is
shipped. Cattle are loaded by raising
them In sings by means of derricks
from the end Of the pier and dropping
them into the lighters. When about
100 fat beeves have abeen thus dropped
a lighter Is full, andit Is taken away to
the ship. There is now railroad track
upon the pier, and the cars Of the rail-
road which goes up this valley bring
their shipments of sugar, coffee and
hides out to the ships over It, paying
the American company for the priI-
lege.
Oil Regions of Peru and Ecuador.
All along the coast above here I saw
signs of the oil fields Of Peru. At one
port we stopped and took on thousands
OF boxes of petroleum for Lima, and at
another we saw the refineries on the
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-08
THE FIRST VICTORY.

Hurrah for Dewey and his men,
With seven ships he licked Spain's ten;
Cared not for FORTS torpedoes mines,
But sailed right in through all their lines.
He knew his business and did it right;
Though Spain was scared, he MADE them
fight.
He showed them how our guns could shoot
How our BOYS could stand, and fight to
boot.
His feet was small, but up to snuff;
In a little while Spain had enough:
They now believe besides their ROOT,
The YANKEE PIGS" know how to shoot
He not only wins great victory from
Spain,
But shows to the world he remembered the
MAINE.
And when Montejo's report, corrected, comes
in
The Dons will find out what they did to
him.
Three cheers for Dewey, three cheers for his
feet
Three cheers for the Jackies who did things
so neat.
Eurrah for OLD GLORY, how proud she
does wave
{ Ger the land of the free and the home OF
the brave.
j. F. E. in the Wheeling Register.
Wheeling, w. Va. May 2, 1S9S
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square. In one corner a wooden n,a,-
iorm ABOUT as high as your knees fur
iisneu the sleeping place for the heads
OF the FAMILY: the children slept on
the hoor. In another corner was the
!a1liy COOK stove, two stones placed
JUST VIDE enough apart to allow an
carmen cooking pot to rest on them
Ihere were no windows. no chimnevs
ana, with the exception Of a soap boy
no furniture. In this house a family OF
SIX nVe, and 1 doubt not deem them
serves happy. Their chickens and poata
iVe with them, and all they want ia
enough TO eat and drink and a chance
10 get drunk now and then. These peo-
PIE seem to have no ambition what
ever. They work hard and are perfect
~ satisfied. Their employers furnis,
them, In addition to their wages. one
pound of meat and two pounds of rice
daily, and they allow them to run nm
such bills at the store on the estate.
as keep them always In debt to their
masters. Our farmers could not work
on such rations as these men have
Ihey take upon rising a glass of pisco.
or native whisky, and go to work with
out breakfast. This is at about o'clock
IN the morning. This whisky serves
them until II a. M, when thew knocr
OIL for lunch, or for what is here calIed
breakfast.
This usually consists Of a stew OF
goat meat and rice At o'clock thew
go back to work, and at stop for the
DAY. When they get home, they have
another stew Of meat and rice. and per-
haps piece or so of bread. After
gunner they sit about and talk, and at
or 3 o'clock lie down In the clothes
which they have worn all day and 90
10 sleep. They have no education, and
not one In a hundred of them can read.
Ihelr dress costs them almost moth
Ing. That Of the men is made up OF
a pair of cotton trousers, a cotton
shirt, pair of leather sandals and a
straw hat. The women wear cotton
dresses and straw hats, and. Ia ad-
d1tion, have black wooden sharyls for
feast days and Sundays. The men also
nave what are known as ponchos.
Ihese are the overcoats o5South Amer
lea. They are merely blankets with q.
short slit in the middle large enough
TO slip the head through. They are
worn by the better classes, as we'll as
the poor, and are costly or otherwise.
according to the purse of the owner,
The fine farm machinery which 7
have written of as being used here Is.
or course, to be found only on the large
estates. The native Peruvians do their
work In the crudest ways. Oxen with
ploWs OF wood tipped with iron serve
as the motive power, and the Indian
holds the plow with one hand and
drives with a goad, as the Palestine
farmers did in the days Of the Scrip
lures Frank G.. Carpenter.
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TO DEWEY.

The following lines were written by DR.
James Henderson, of Bad Axe, Mich, an6
hung In the postofice Immediately upon re.
ceipt of news of Deweys victory In ths
Philippine islands:
Coed on your head, brave Deweyi
We are cheering you today,
From the Golden Gate of Frisco
To the shores Of BuzzaId's Bay;
And from old Mexico's waters
To each northern hill and lake,
They echo "Rah for Dewey!"
"a cheer for Dewey's sake!"
Yes. when you sailed from Hong Kong
And your bridges burned behind,
You flung the flag of liberty
So proudly to the wind,
In thought we followed after,
Down through the China Sea,
We knew full well, brave Dewey,
You would the victor be.
You have shown the world our prowess,
You've lesson read the Don;
Your guns spoke loud for liberty,
= Your guns shot straight 'gainst wrong;
You did not wait to parley,
But you showed your Yankee vim
When you cleared your decks for action
And stIaightway waded in.
Hail, Dewey! Brave George Deweyi
High upon the roll of fame,
With that of Jones and Farragut,
We will scribe your honored name;
And how you downed the naughty DON
The lion Of old CASTLE
When you steamed down to Manila
And measured steel with steel.
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point as high as he could reach:
This was agreed to, and for several
weeks gold was brought in great loads
from all parts OF Peru. The room was
seventeen feet long by twenty-five feet
wide, and the point up to which 1t was
to be filled was designated by red
mark nine feet above the floor. The
gold was in all sorts of shapes. Some
of it was composed of gold plates torn
from the Temple Of the Sun at CuZco.
There was a great variety of golden
basins, drinking cups and other dishes.
many pieces of beautifully carved
workmanship. When the room was
almost filed up to the mark indicated,
Pizarro ordered the Indian goldsmiths
to melt the whole into ingots, and
there was so much gold that they
worked day and night for month in
doing so. Then PiZarro refused to let
Atahualpa so, and with mock trial
had him put to death. There is
stone in Cajamalca which the Indians
say is stained with Atahualpas blood.
A prison now covers the spot where
the palace stood, and 1t is in one of
the rooms of this prison that the stone
is shown.
Silver Mines of North Peru.
The road will also pass through the
rich mining town Of Hualgayoc, where
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BRIEF BATTLE BALLADS.

Oh. Dewey, you're dandy, you're good
one heart and hand,
You're a credit to your country and upnolo
your native land.
The Spaniards thought you easy, but they We
learned thing or two
You didn't do thing to them, oh, Dewey
Dewey-do.
A dark-browed Dago named Spain
Blew up our batteship Maine,
But when her fotilia
Was sunk at Manila
The spectacle gave her pain.
When Dewey comes sailing home again,
Hurrah! hurrah!
When Dewey comes sailing home again,
Hurrah
The thundrous guns will his welcome speak
The bells will ring and the whistles shrek,
And an admiraIs flag will fly at the peak
OF the brave Olympia.
"Cayite,' said Montejo, beware
How you venture within my lair,
With it's ships in line
And it's sunken mine
To blow you into the air."
But bold Dewey took his dare
And aiming his guns with care
When the Spaniard awoke
He found twas no joke,
For there was cavity" there
And he was in 1t.
Willard Holcomb.
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WHEN DEWEY GAINED THE HAIR
BOR.

They we're easy on their pillows-they were
dreamin O. the light
When Dewey gained the harbor in the night
Night,
Night!
They hear the thunder rolling
Saw the lightnings feaping bright
When Dewey gained the harbor In the night!
1.-THE foe is upon us!
Hoi eunners, left and right
The fires of hell are blazing.
And Dewey leads the fght!'
Then bayed the wild shore batteries: we'll
put his ships to s1ight!
He has stolen in the harbor in the night
Night.
Night!
But the sails of 1their proud vessels were
their winding sheets of white
When Dewey gained the harbor in the night!
'sThe foe Is upon us!n
Ho! gunners, left and right
The fires of hell dare blazing.
And Dewey leads the fight!'
Then sank their ships foreyer-their proud
flags furled from sight,
For Dewey held the harbor in the night
Night,
Night!
And the stars and Stripes waved Victory"
When Dewey gained the harbor in the
night!
'"The foe Is upon US!
Our vessels sink from sight!
Cease. guns to belch your thunders,
For Dewey gains the fght!"
Atlanta Constitution.
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MANILA ANp The MUJSG..
WAITING TO HEAR FROM MANILA.


We know that Dewey whipped them out of
sight,
But we're waiting for dispatches from
Manila:
The Dons admit they didn't win the fight,
But we're waiting for dispatches from
Manila.
They tell US that the spaniards acted
That they fearlessly encountered shot and
shell,
And that each who died was fighting when
he fell,
But we're waiting for dispatches from
Manila.
There's to be another story Of the fray,
And we're waiting for dispatches from
Manila;
We haven't heard what Dewey has to say
And we're waiting for dispatches from
Manila:
We want to know what Dewey did and
sa!d:
How he scorned the Spanish forts and
steamed ahead,
And how our noble fellows fought and
shot and won and bled,
So we're waiting for dispatches from
Manila.
Cleveland Leader.
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DIxEY FOR DEWEY.


Oh, de Spaniards blow, en- brag en- bluster,
'Twell Dewey come. en- jerked his duster,
En- away,
Dat day
Went de Spanish ships forever!
Dey's some folks tell him: "Wait 'twell Mon
day."
But he knocked 'em all six ways fer sundayl
En- away,
Dat day
Went de Spanish ships forever!
Oh, Dewey come, en- he crops up quiet,
Den tu'n loose in mighty riot,
En- away,
Dat day
Went de Spanish ships foreveri
He toP 'em all dat he boun' ter git 'em-
Never knowed whut de devil hit 'em!
En- away
(HoorayD
Went the Spanish ships forever!
Atlanta Constitution.
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DEWEY A POPULAR MAN.

WASHINGTON, May 7.-The hero of the
hour, Commodore Dewey. is we'll known here
and is modest unassuming man and ex,
tremely popular.
Writing to a friend here several weeks
since, and speculating on a war with Spain,
he is reported to have expressed the wish
to be where the fighting was the hottest
and that he wanted to return to Washington
"a dead commodore or live admiral His
wish will be gratified. At a dinner given to
him at the Metropolitan club just previous
to his start for the Asatic station, the follow
ing prophetic toast was offered by Col Arch.
ibald Hopkins:
Fill all your glasses full tonight;
The wind is off the shore;
And be it feast or be 1t fight,
We pledge the Commodore.
Through days of storm, through days of calm
On broad Pacific seas;
At anchor off the Isles of Palm,
Or with the Japanese.
Ashore, afloat on deck, below,
Or where our bull dogs roar;
To back friend, or beast or foe,
We pledge the Commodore.
} We know our honorll be unstained
Where'er his pennant flies;
Our rights respected and maintained,
Whatever power defies.
{ And when he takes the homeward tack
! Beneath an Admirals flag
We'll hail the day that brings him back
And have another jag
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Col. Hopkins has added this postscript t
} his toast:
Along the far Philippine coast,
Where flew the flag of Spain,
Our Commodore today can boast
Twill never fly again.
And up from all our hills and vales
From city, town and shore,
mighty shout the welkin halls;
We'll done, brave Commodore!
"Now let your admirars pennant fly;
You've won it like a man
Where heroes love to fight and die
Right in the Battles Yan.''
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SURVEYING A RAIL ROUTE

over the Andes and Expect to sup
pIy the Pacific Coast With Coal
Anthracite of the Andes and
Whnt 1t VIII be Worth-A POS
sibIe Naval Station on the Pacific
for Uncle Sam-The UndeveIOped
Oil Fields of EcuadOr-Flowing
Wells which Grease the Sea.
Copyrighted, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter)
PACASMAYO, April 6.-I find the
Americans very much In evidence in
Peru. l came from New York to Pa
mama with party of miners who were
on their way here to the Carabayo gold
regions, in the southern part of the
country 1 met further south Mr..
Forbes, who told me that he had just
secured a concession for John Searies,
of New York, for the right TO build
electric street railways in and about
Lima, and here at Pacasmayo, corps
of American civil engineers are laying
out the route for the Pacific company
to valuable coal mines in the interior.
This company has leased the pier here
of the Peruvian government for the
term of ten years, and it is the idea
to make this the terminus of the rail-
road.
The American party at Pacasmayo
consists of Mr G. Clinton Gardner, for
merly superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and the builder of the
Mexican National who is the general
manager of the company; Maj. William
NJ. Phillips, of Philadelphia, another
well-known Pennsylvania railroad man
who is acting as chief engineer; Mr..
F. S. Rook, of New York, and Mr.. B.
II. Kaufman and son, who have for
many years been in business in South
America, and who now do the chief
shipping and import business of this
part Of Peru. In addition to these men
there Is an English engineer, Mr.. F.
Herbert Wood and also several Peru
vlans. The surveying party has been
IN the mountains for the past three
months. It returned the night before
I landed, and l am able to give the lat
est and fullest news from my talks with
the engineers.
But first let me tell you something
about the concession which this COM
pany has and its probable effect on
South American affairs. If the scheme
be carried out as is now contemplated,
1t will result in putting AMERICA to the
front in Peru, and it will, l believe
make some Americans rich. The Pa
cific company has an authorized cap
ital of $20,0G0000, and a number of the
leading business men of New York,
Philadelphia and Lima are interested
il It, 1t has concessions for valuable
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ONE COAL BASE.

Oh, the Spanish rooters howled and screamed
When Dewey took his base;
Twas something they had never dreamed
When Dewey took his base.
When they saw him come they thought that
they
Would take the championship that day,
But Dewey pitched hot ball their way,
And then he took his base.
Spain's teams captain changed about
When Reina Maria Christina went out
And Don Juan de Austria's face
Was spoiled when Dewey took his base;
And the men at the gates with mortar and
gun,
They didn't collect cent of mon,
When Dewey took his base.
u. W. M. in New York Press.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-08
AN ACTIVE QUANTITY.

1t isn't every prophet
Whose wares are of the best
So here's to the commander
Whose product stood the test;
When forth to face the foeman
He and his men were bid,
He said he'd win a victry;
And Mr.. Dewey did.
Tho Spaniards vowed they'd cheat us.
They told us to beware;
And tales Of dark connivance
Went floating through the air.
Quoth they, well send confusion
The enemy amid!'
But now 1t seems they didn't,
While Mr.. Dewey did.
Washington S.ar.