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duty for every three patients on the average:
Up 70 date 100 patients had been treated
Resuming bis testimony, Dr.. Frye spoke Of
the causes for the prevalence Of typhoid
fever in the Jacksonville camp. He at
tributed it largely to the age OF the men,
young people being more susceptible than
those more advanced in age to this disease
He also thought much was due 10 the care
lessness of the men themselves.
DIR. Frye said that in all the hospitals with
which he had been connected there had
been u deficiency of bed linen. The hospital
here had also been short Of lighting facili-
ties. There was not sutficiency Of can
dies or lanterns: : Regulations had been
made for them, but they could not be se-
cured from the government stores owing
to the congestion of orders. Here we had
10 depend upon the Red Cross for these ar
ticles. DIR, Frye expressed the opinion that
in several instances convalescents had been
sent away from hospital before they were
in safety.
DIR. Frye. spoke in very uneomplimentary
terms Of the men engaged in the hospital
corps, saying that they had been picked up
at random over the country and were "gen-
orally a scabby.looking lot" not fit to adorn
any walk Of life. He also spoke deprecat-
ns od of tine net Se s &c 1 s1Myng M that
or friends to 30 per cent of them.
MANY of thein," he said, "were recent
graduates from medical institutions, and I
do not consider the average medical gradu
ate capable of taking charge of from twenty
five to fifty typhoid fever cases."
In reply to a request from General Dodge.
Major Frye gave his opinion as to the origin
Of the popular excitement concerning CON
ditions at Montauk point while the troops
were stationed there. He said that from 30
to 70 per cent, of the men were sick when
they landed there and that insufficient room
had been made for them. As consequence
many were compelled to lie upon the bare
exposure. He also asserted that reporters
Of the many papers had been sent to the
camp under instructions to find all that was
bad and nothing that was good.
DO you know this of your own personal
knowledge? he was asked, and he replied
mo, but ! was told it by man who
talked with the reporters"
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A Lawful Prize

NEW YORK, Oct. l9.-Counscl for the
government Mt the adjourned hearing in the
condemnation proceedings against the prize
steamship Olinde Rodriguez, captured off
the port of San Juan on July l7th, by the
Now Orleans, produced as witness Serigo
Iare, the Spanish official telesrapher in
charge OF the signal station. the MORO Of
Before leaving San Juan," said the wit
ness, was taken before the Captain Gen.
cral. He said to me: Bear in mind the
friendship that has always existed between
the French government and SPAIN"
Lare added that i'll had been known in
San Juan that his testimony would be in
favor of the American government he would
not have. been permitted to leave.
After describing his duties Of telegrapher
and signal officer at the MORO, the witness
said he saw the Olinde Rodriguez approach
ing the mouth Of the harbor from the north
west about o'clock on the morning Of July
18th; He said that on July 10th, he had
received orders to look out for her, and
that the commanders Of the batteries had
also been notified to protect her entrance.
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I CHICAGO, Oct. l9.-Miss Laura Williams
Of Chicago, the daughter of Norman Will
Jams and grand daughter Of the late Judge
John Dean Cation is 'journeying over the
Atlantic to be welded in London some time
within the next two weeks to Major General
Philippine Islands, to whom her engagement
was announced some months ago. Miss Will
Jams, with her mother and brother, Norman
Williams, Jr., sailed from New York last
Saturday for Liverpool. The exact date of
the wedding will not be settled, it is said,
until the steamer reaches Liverpool, whittier
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TOBACCO WAR
Independent Factories Unite to Fight
the Trusts

the Trusts
ST. LOUIS. Oct. l9.-Colonel NJ. Twet-
more, at the head of the great tobacco works
Of the Liggett and Myers Company, OF this
city, declared there is nothing in the re-
ports circulated around the country of a
new combination of plug tobacco manufac-
turers, under the leadership of his COM
pany, to oppose the American Tobacco Com
pany.
dispatches from Louisville Indicate that
there Is to be combination, to fight the
trust, whether the Liggett and Myers capl-
tai is to be in it or not. The independent to-
bacco manufacturers of Louisville, notably
John Finer and Belos, and the Harry
Weissinger Company, are very bitter against
President Duke of the American Tobacco
Company. -, .,
"Both companies say they will unite with
the independent factories in st. Louis, De.
troit and elsewhere to break down the
trust. AS the combined output OF the IN
dependents greatly exceeds that Of the com. on,
they can win"
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0lassworkers' Strike

PITTSBURG, Oct. l9--The lockout in
the window glass trade has been broken by
Glass Company works at Hazelhurst, Pa,
returning to work at the scale originally
agreed upon, but which was opposed by
President Burns. The Hazelhurst plant is
the largest independent factory in the coun-
try. The manufacturers regard thd revolt
as encouraging for starting Of all the fac
tories. If the vote now being taken favors
accepting the same terms as the blowers apd
gatherers are receiving at Hazelhurst, the
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A RED H1urT TrRn
A Church, Business Hooks and Resi-
dences Burned q

RED BLUFF, Oct. ia blaze broke
out this afternoon in an alleyway between
Ssns Occupied Sy nt rsriess csn burning
house Of N. M. Russell was next burned
The fire leaped across the alley to Martin'1 4
shoe shop, and from there to the bie ren.
eral merchandise store Of j. Eckert. Eom
here the flames spread to the south, burninu
a house belonging to w. O'Connor. and
thence to the South Methodiat uarsonare
and church. The church cost nearly SlO. .OO6,
and az the debt had been but recently paid ofl'
The total snsurance % sSseo on the church and par
alone was worth $500. From tie churcS
the flames spread to the residence Of j. M
Sweeney, which was also destroyed. The
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A Military Trial

LEXINGTON, Ky,. Oct. l9.-When the
case OF Provost Guard Alvin Kitchen was
called in the city court to answer for the
killing Of Private Nygren, Twelfth New
York Regiment, the City Attorney suggest
ed that the charge be dismissed because
Provost Marshal Gaines was present with
military warrant for the arrest of Kitchen.
The court dismissed the charge and Kitchen
was placed under military arrest. His trial
therefore will be by court-martial.
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were arrested a number of times by the
police for selling liquor without license.
Williams died about four months ago at the
county hospital of delirium tremens. The
remains of tie woman were removed to the
undertaking rooms of Orr Hines, where an
inquest will be held this morning at l0:30
o'clock. The loss amounted to about $1,000.
The woman was reputed to be worth con-
siderable money.
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Comparative Use of Letters

Z To those who have never considered the
subject it might appear that each letter is
of equal Importance in the formation of
words, but the relative proportions re-
quired in the English are these: A, 5; b,
i. T 30; !; j, "a 1; K, sSs %; II 30; o, 50; p p,
II; q, 5; r, 62; 8, 80; t, 9G;sh, "a; v, II; W,
20; <, 4; y, 20; 2, 2. 1t is this knowledge of
how frequently one letter is used compared
with others that enables cryptogram readers
to unraved SO many mysteries.
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A wallace for His Williams

w. j. Wallace pleaded guilty in Justice
Owens court yesterday to the charge Of
battery preferred by w. Williams, floor
walker. Wallace is said to have rushed
after the young son of Mrs.C. E. Dosch to
chastise him and the youngster took refuge
behind Williams. In the scrimmage after
the boy Wallace struck Williams in the
face with his fist. Justice Owens desired
to hear some evidence, so he continued the
time for sentencing until today.
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Men on the Roof

BOSTON, Oct. l0-Patrick Rosch, 45 years
old, and John G. Rice, 80, roofers, while en-
pioyed in the repairing of the roof of a four.
story, house on Hudson street, became en-
gagged in a quarrel. People below saw them
struggling on the roof. They drew grad
ually near the edge, and then, to the borrow
Of the spectators, the two rolled over and
fell fifty feet to the ground. Both were ter ter.
ribly injured and died in few hours The
cause of the quarrel is unknown, but it is
supposed it resulted from dispute about
the work.
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A Mixed Flour Ruling

WASHINGTON, Oct. l9.-Actinp Com
missioner Wilson, of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, has modified the ruling as to what
shall constitute mixed -four under the new
War Revenue law. Under the former rul.
ing person engaged in grinding together
wheat with any other grain or other ma.
terial or mixing the -four made from wheat
with flour made from any other grain or
other material, was deemed a maker Of
mixed flour. Under the new ruling wheat
-four must be the principal constituent in
the mixture
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Curtains and Curling Iron

The front axle of truck B of the fire de-
partment snapped in two yesterday as the
apparatus was on Seventh street, between
Spring and Main streets. The department
was called out by fire in the residence Of
DR.. Ybarrando, at Eighth and Los Angeles
streets. A. pair of window curtains ignited
from the fame Of a curling iron lamp. The
damage was trif1ing
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Anti-scalpers' Session

DETROIT, Mich, Oct, l9.-Little busi-
Passenger and Ticket Agents Association.
1t was II o'clock when the convention was
called to order. The anti-scalping question
reported on by committee appointed at
St. Louis was the feature of the session. The
committee recommended continuance of the
fight for anti-scalping legislation by Con-
gress along the same lines as heretofore.
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Worse Than Yellows

NILES, Mich. Oct. l9-The vast peach
Of Southwestern Michigan are be-
ing destroyed by new tree disease said to
be more damaging than the dreaded yellows.
1t was first noticed two years ago and owing
to it's peculiar effect, which is a stunting Of
the fruit when about the size of hazelnuts,
has locally been given the name of ''little
peaches" Its ravages have been SO fearful
that several large orchards in Saugatuck
township alone, about 1000 trees, are said
to have been destroyed this season.
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Blanoo Will Make a Dash

General Fitz Lee has received orders to
prepare to go to Cuba with his command
and General Blanco may be expected to end
his remarks in the middle OF sentence or
wherever he happens to be when the news
reaches him.-Nfilwaukee Sentinel.
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A Miners Death

PLACERvILLE, CAL, Oct. l9.-Jesse
Thompson was killed last night at the
which completely crushed his head. Thomp.
SON leaves wife and child in this city.
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Food for Cubans

NEW YORK, Oct. l9-In addition to the
weekly cargo Of army stores and supplies sent
to the United States troops in Santiago and
Porto Rico, there are on the transport
Berlin, which will sail for Santiago today,
500, 900 rations for the starving Cubans,
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Censorship Ceases

NEW YORK, Oct. l9.-The Commercial
Cable Company today issued the following:
1--WE are advised that the Spanish censor
has retired from San Juan. Therefore the
censorship is abolished"
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An Atlantic Storm.

+ NEW YORK, Oct. lo.-The Commercial
steamer Orizaba today from Havana, re-
ports q southeast gale with terrible sens
from Hatteras to this port.
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Harold Frederic Dead

LONDON, Oct. l9.-Harold F. Frederick,
the London correspondent Of the New York
Times, died at Henley Of heart disease. He
had been IL for some time, but recently had
much improved in health.
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A storm at Malta

VALETTA, Island Of Malta, Oct. l9-
A hail cyclone has swept over this island,
doing an enormous amount of damage to
quarter Of pound.
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lo.s Of Eckert's store Il placed between
PsOQ0 and el0, 900, insurance unknown. The
loss on the houses OF .Cnasin, Russell and
OConncr will average about $1,000 each, not
including furniture. The fremen did good
work, but their facilities were inadequate.
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Sick Of Office

PARIS, Oct. 19.-The Matin says Prem.
ier Brisson, through i'll health, wishes to re-
tire from the cabinet. His successor may be
NJ. Bourgeoise, now Minister of Education.
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The Spanish Cabinet

MADRID, Oct. l9.-The Cabinet Council
did not meet today, The government has re-
ceived dispatches from General Ortega at
Porto Rico, who was then embarking for
Spain,
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Pensions Granted

WASHINGTON, Oct 19.-Pensions were
granted to Californians yesterday as fol-
lows: Original-William F. Overstreet, San
Francisco, $l2; Robert c. Hiatt, Whittier,
$40; Alpheus q. Leadbeter, Los Angeles, 50;
William Alexander, Artesia, &c.
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Ben Lun in Jail

Deputy Constable Huff arrested Ben Lun
yesterday on warrant charging him with
grand larceny and lodged him at the county
jail. :
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Lieutenant Moore, acting commissary of
the Ninth Illinois, was questioned in re.
gard to the quantity of rations. He said
there had been. no difficulty except as to the
bell that there had been no trouble on ac-
count of meat since the arrangement had
been made to take cured hams instead Of
beef.
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OF All Sorts.

An Oklahoma minister. according to the
Denver Post, married IL couples IN 0
minutes the other day.
There is said to be gold In the clay OF
which bricks are made to the extent OF a
shilling's worth to the ton.
The Chinese dictionary. compiled by Pa
cut-she, LOO years before Christ, Is the
most ancient of any recorded In literary
history.
The Chinese government levies a regu-
lar tax on beggars, and gives them In re-
turn the privilege of begging In certain
districts.
A passenger car on a steam railroad
costs from $1,000 to 5000; a baggage car
from 81 900 to 50. 500; a sleeping car from
$4,000 to $4,000.
In Sweden there are floating canneries.
They are small vessels which follow hsn-
ing fleets. and men on them can the hsn
while they are fresh.
Spain. having lost control of her sugar.
producing colonies, has sent delegates TO
the conference on the abolition of sugar
bounties being held at Brussels.
The most wonderful astronomical photo
graph in the world has been prepared by
London, Partisan and Berlin astronomers.
1t shows at least IS. 900. 900 stars.
In the great volcanic district of Iceland
there is a whole mountain composed OF
eruptive clays and pure white sulphur. "A
beautiful grotto penetrates the western
slope to an depth.
Paris 1900 exhibition will be the 18TH
held In the city. The site of the hrst, IN
1928, was the Champ de Mars, where llo
exhibitors showed their wares in wooden
booths and % medals were awarded.
A ton of Atlantic water, when evapo-
rated, yields 81 pounds of salt; a ton OF
Pacific water 10 pounds; a ton of Arctic or
Antarctic water IS pounds: a ton of water
from the Dead Sea 1877 pounds.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art IN
New York is in possession OF a rare por'
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70 dsy. the movement being as artih-
cial as the high waves are which make
realistic q shipwreck scene on an
opera house stage. This process was
death and destruction to all the little
d~ealers-many of them, with their i've
or ten-cent margins up. were wiped
out before they knew what had MT
them.
MAY was wheat's gala month-it en-
ioved a continuous performance. You
can hardly tell where It went: II was
quoted at $40 on May 10 and at sLSO
four DAVIS later. BY and by ii was sl6S'
and finally there was a mighty hurrah
over ~,wo-dolIar wheat. The sequel is
that wheat quoted at s1.75 on May -
was sl.O7 two days later. and through
ont June IT slumped and slumped un'
III. the gamblers having been compelled
70 let go. wheat on July 3. 1898. was
Nirgling around In the region OF Its Ole
quotation OF a year ago, finding Us
normal relation again TO the price o.
silver. And the loud howhng about TN
| country riding into prosperity on DOL
lar wheat while silver stands stu, IA
hesn struck dumb.
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the Germans nay mean much. The
testimony OF Europe is that Aguinaldo
is a pretty tricky fellow. The accusa
ton is that, not longer han W years
ago, he sold out to the S~paniards, re-
ceived a round sum, promised to >e
quiet, but again began hostilities at the
first convenient moment.
This story may be a Spanish fiction
vet all accounts agree in writing
A~guinaldo Down as a man who, by
every instinct. is so disposed TO perfdy
that he is not to be trusted In any OF
our dealings concerning the islands.
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~ AMPSoN is one Of the splendid
~ men whom the ranks of this
- country's plain people furnished.
His boyhood was spent in lowly life
he vas the child OF an industrious day
iaborer whose home was an extremely
humble little house in Palmyra, a
pleasant town not far from Roohes-
ter, New York.
As mentioned some time 6 in the
Standard when SIMPSONS name first
became a household word. the home
of a part OF the family now is on the
farm, near Palmyra, where Joseph
Smith claimed to have dug up the gold
mon was written-of course. h Samp-
sons never a any Mormonism about
them.
Shafter, whose name goes on the
scroll of honor, is another contribution
from the common people. He was a
farmers boy in Kalamazoo county,
Michigan, when the civil war came.
He enlisted in the 9TH regiment OF
Michigan infantry in 1851, and was
made a nrst lieutenant OF volunteers
He distinguished himself at the battle oi
Nashville, n received promotion foi
gallant and meritorious services In
the battle Of Fair Oaks. and wa:
awarded a medal by congress for hero
ic conduct at Piney Ridge.
When the war ended Shafter becam'
a part of the permanent establishment
and did no end OF rough work and hare
fghting in the various Indian wars II
the West and Southwest as lieutenan
colonel of the cath infantry. In 1Ss
he was given his commission as brigs
der general.
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trait of Benjamin Franklin. 1t was pro-
cured in Paris and represents the great
philosopher wearing a cooked hat.
Bangkok. the capital of Siam. will soon
have electric light. A company with q
capital of $780, 900 has been formed there,
and has secured a concession for 20 years.
The United States consul at Sunneberg,
Germany, reports to the state department
upon a new discovery made by a DANISH
scientist, August Jjelstrup. His discovery
is a new method of preserving beef.
Animals are often able to bear very pro-
tracted fasting. In the italian earth
auakes OF 1875 two hogs were buried In the
ruins of a building. They were taken out
alive a days later, but very lean ano
weak.
The island of Porto Rico pays Spain
this year In taxes A,SA'S'4 oil wnich only
$3.50. 900 is spent for the benefit OF the ma
tive population. OF the 4Se ,267 whites on
the island only e6, S67 read and write. The
illiterate aggregate 6s5,S2s.
Carbonic oxide being found normally In
the blood of living beings existing IN
Paris. NJ. Nicloux has demonstrated TO the
French Academy of Sciences that the gas
forms within the organism itseit WITHOUT
external causes.
A welshman has accomplished the feas
of walking 1000 quarter miles in 1000 sue
cessive periods of ga minutes each az
Leeds. a worlds record. Twenty Thousand
persons ooked on at the finish. He mao
previously walked the distance In inter-
walls of 9s minutes.
Agricultural laborers in Lucerne. Swift
eriand, eat eight meals a day-the hrst a.
4 o'clock in the morning. REINFORCED ps
further refreshment at 6, s, 10, IL, 3, . ane
7 Some of these meals are but luncheon:
of cider and bread. but the daily bill o.
fare includes a substantial
dinner and supper.
In his viii the late Sir Henry Havelocl
Allen beoueathed all the paper and cor
r~espondence of his father, General Have
lock, of Indian Mutiny fame. and all Q
his own to Major General Mcleod Inness
with e1oo on condition that the lat
ter write a biography of the testator. ee
pecially placing before the public the ex
act account Of the events hat forced tn
t~estator out of the English army.
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has repeatedly been quoted as one who
has no other plan than Independence IN
view for the isiandA He tells hfs fol-
lowers that the Americans are glins
to win Independence for Cuba, that
they promise to do h same for the
Philippines and that h islanders may
safely trust the United States
II Asuinaldo gets 1t into his head that
we propose to make the islands our
own he may change his tactics: It was
not in his plans to trade the sovereign
ty OF Spain for that of the United
states. He can trouble Dewey; indeed,
the story is that already he has aroused
suspicion and that his dickering with
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midnight, a Hong Kong message an
~nouncing that the three transports
composing our first Philippine expedi-
ton arrived all safe at Manila, last
Thursday, under convoy of the Charles
ton. 1t appears that this expedition
tarried long enough at the Ladrone
Stands to gather in the Spanish gov
ernor and carry him off, a prisoner.
and that the islands are now unde the
management and control of Americans
whom the feet left there.
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f., ,HEAT'S Fourth OF July IL
w worth taking into the account
for the twelvemonth ex-
tending from Fourth to Fourth, wheat
made an erratic round. Its course Is
worth reviewing because the principal
business Of silver's enemies during the
past year has been 20 contemplate ris-
ing wheat with glowing satisfaction and
point gleefully to stationary silver n
rising grain as the convincing exposure
Of what they have termed the free
coinage fallacy.
BY an argument supported with hg-
ures that are of record. the friends Of
silver have maintained that wheat and
labor and practically all the staples
that labor produces have moved stead
iIy toward the starvation hne Of prices.
So. when. months ago. a gamoling
| CLIQUE cornered wheat snd played foot
a with its market price. soldeug
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by the score n goldbug
orators galore pointed with overlooking
pride to prosperity as measured by
wheat's rising price. Applying their
shallow talk to every conceivable phase
Of daily life, they wound up. a few
days ago. just before the boss gambler
in the wheat deal went bankrupt. oy
showing how dollar wheat was the
argument that carried oregon
against silver IN the June state cleo
ton. The citizens OF oregon must by
this time feel thoroughly ashamed that
the average of their intelligence was so
fippantly estimated.
On the morning of July 4. 1897. wheat
I'm the Chicago market was quoted at
GA cents a bushel. The price was "a
cents Is days later. In early August II
was II cents: at the end Of that month
IL was 50 cents. 1t was "a cents on
September 3; 80 cents a week later;
and nine cents lower on that months
las, day. 1t was 9S cents on the last
dav Of October, and SO cents on the
last day of last year. 1t kept IN the
nineties through January, moving wei
above the dollar mark in
The gamblers beat the tom-toms zeal
ously during the next thirty days, ano
wheat was sl.20 at the end of April
Meanwhile, the managers of the dea
kept wheat rising and falling from DAY