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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-19

Michael Camoeis. dealer in meats ut No. 25s
sixth-aye.. made an assignment yesterday TO John
Symos. giving him preference for $500. Mr.. Cam
ics has been In business since 1879 and few days
ago valued his investment in IL at $1,000 His lease
expires on Nay next. His health has not been
good and IL was his Intention it is saio retire
from nus!aess Lamb. Osborne d Petty, his attor-
neys, san the liabilities are about 5000 and the
assets Ro5aby s2.Cc0.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-19

Schedules OF the Royal Shoe Company at No 200
IVES; One-hundred- Observation-Disclosures. show La
bhitfes $3ell3 nominal se.s29 actual assets
&, 7s2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-19
THE ELECTIONS IN JAPAN.

Yokohama, March 1s.-The election returns show
ANAL majority for the Government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-19
REFEREES APPOINTED.

REFEREES APPOINTED.
Supreme Court.
BY Bschofr. jr., J.
Terry ast Dusenbury-Thomas Allison.
Crawford agt. Servlss-George Edward Kent
BY Giegerich. J.
Mahoney agt. Dowd-M II. Oppenheim-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-19

TIE Sheric. yesterday received executions against
William f. Setz. builder. Of No l73 East Ninety
fourth-st., in favor of the Graves Elevator Com
pany. for $3.50 and against William sez for siS7,
in favor OF the Gutta Percha and Rubber Manu-
featuring Company. Mr Seitz built the Metropolis
Theatre, a. Thirdave. and One hundred and forty
second-st. ard TIE claims of the Graves Elevator
Company is for the balance due on two hydraulic
elevators for the theatre. Myers, Goldsmith &c
Bronner attorneys for the mort agec Of the lease,
said that the execution Will nOt interfere with the
theatre, and that the management VIII so right
along usual
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
Some Pertinent Questions.
OBy Congressman TowncsD


l. Are you in favor of the DOLLAR
OF greatest urchasing power?
2. Are you glad that certain Amer
lean farmers in 1897 got higher
price for their wheat than they had
for some years received?
If you answer the second question
in the affirmative, please explain why
you are glad that your dollar OF the
Greatest Purchasing Power" had in
1897 less purchasing power than usu-
al if reckoned in wheat.
3. If it was u good thing for the
American farmer to get higher price
for his wheat, would it not have been
81 better thing if he had received also
higher prices for his hay, oats, corn,
cotton, fruit, hops and all his farm
products?
5. If it would have been a good
thing for the farmer to get higher
price for all his products, would it not
have been Il better thing for every 9th
or American producer also to receive a
higher price for all his farm products
6. Please explain how there can
he general rise in the average price
level of all commodities, without a
corresponding increase in the stuff,
viz: money, in which prices are
reckoned and expressed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
WILD FLOWERS AT THE CAPE
Masses of Beautiful Blossoms and Many
Gorgeous Sunbirds.

Masses of Beautiful Blossoms and Many
Gorgeous Sunbirds.
The wild flowers of the cape are
among the richest in the world and the
gunner, as he quits his nights resting
place and wanders among the hills,
may see around him marvellous array,
says the Spectator. Oxalis, lilies, brill
liant orchids, strelitZias, mesembryan-
themums, the wonderful blue agapan-
thus, the wild aurum-so common as
to be called by the Beers the pig lily"
splendid heaths in q bewildering
plenty, lovely preteas, many Towering
shrubs, gladioli, ixias, watsonias, noble
amaryllids-these and a hundred other
flowers contribute for a season to the
hunters supreme enjoyment. He must
be worse than a Kafir, indeed, if he
cannot take delight in them. Masses
OF pelagoriums flourish among the
kloofs and valleys. Here a mountain
side is to be seen fairly blushing with
and odd heaths of which the cape can
boast. And so, if he is lucky, and the
rains have been propitious, the gunner
may follow the klfpspringer through
kloofs and up hillsides, thus gladdened
for brief space with brilliant flowers.
The innumerable wild doves COO softly
from the thOrny acacia groves. AS you
pass the clear rill of water. gushing
from yonder deep kloof, little crested
kingfisheI, with mazarine-blue back,
carol-red bill and blue-and-black crest,
darts like some living gem upstream.
Climbing the lower foothills you may
rote, busy among the sweet protea flow
ers, gorgeous sunbirds (honeybirds the
colonists call them-the nectariniae of
the naturalist, clad in brilliant greens,
bronzes, violets, oranges, yellows and
reds, extracting with their long brush
tipped tongues the honeyed dainties of
which they are so Unfortunately fond
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
MORO Was d. strOyed.

Port-Au-P Prince: Tie following ad-
Gitional details have been received
here from a Spanish source at Havana
IF the engagement reported eff San
tiago de Cuba.
The Spanish batteries at first an
swered the fire of the American
squadron in lively manner. After
20 minutes of firing, directed in II SUI
rerior manner upon the part of the
American fleet, the Spanish battery
began to weaken, and the American
ships concentrated a violent fuSilade
vi on FL Moro, destroying it com
pletely.
The forts at Socapa and Punta
Gorda fired the last shots.
The Spanish loss must have been
considerable. Details are lacking as
10 the American loss.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon
fhe American squadron ceased firing.
At that hour there was no Spanish
vessel in sight.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
RELIEF MAP IN PLASTER.
Object Lesson In Social and Industria
Life.

II
Life.
In order to show the close connec-
ton between the region and the social
and industrial life of the people, the de-
partment of ethnOlogy Of the National
museum has constructed a relief map
in plaster, colored to show the geolosi
cal features of southwest Colorado,
southern and central Utah as far as
Salt Lake, nearly all Of Arizona. and
New Mexico. as far east as the Rio
Grande river extends, says the Wash
ington Star. This area is sometimes
called the arid region, also the Pueblo
country. 1t includes the territory OF
cliff-dweller, cave-dwellers, crater
dwelleTs, mesa-dwellers, and that por-
tion of Sand and other portions of the
Pueblo land. In this region Is basin
Of the lower Colorado, the Little Colo
RADIO, the ella and Rio Grande rivers.
While this territory differs from the
buffalo plains ON the east and the coast
area of Colorado on the west, greatly
within itself, it also possesses a re-
markable variety of it's own features,
SO that combined in only one Pueblo
regioD,( there are half dozen types,
shown by houses, pottery. basketry and
modes Of living. The map is marked to
express these varieties. A separate court
at the museum, with its galleries, will
embrace the clinical features of this
map, consisting Of figures and groups,
models of various types of houses and
separate cases, in which each special
art Is shown in Its distribution through
the arid region. When completed, this
map, with it's accompanying exhibit.
will present the best picture Of a cul-
ture region to be seen in any museum
in the world. In addition to the map
on all the collections there will be
large labels and small ones, photo
graphs, drawings and small library,
accessible to every visitor who wishes
to study along these lines.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
BEAR AND, DOG FIoHT.
stashound Chung So IAht to Brufn
That He Game Out Har,nless

eeoHhoun Nlun& 60 mt To Brufn
That He Came Out Har,niess
From the Seattle Post-Intelligeneer:
The following capital bear story comes
from Klickitat county. Washington.
through q correspondent "a. NJ:
Not long ago party of sheepmen, con-
sisting OF Will Coleman, Milt More
head. George Van Ostran and O herd
or, were in the vicinity of "swampy
corrals," on the Upper Klickitat river,
when they discovered yearling brown
bear. The party had with them a
number Of coyote hounds and a shep-
herd dog and the dogs Immediately
freed the bear. The bear, being only
yearling, and freed so easily, Van
Ostran offered to climb the tree and
shake him out evidently thinking him
on par with a coon, but the bear.
refusing to be shaken, held on with
tenactty. A rope was then thrown
Van OSttrn, who made q moose and
with dextrous throw succeeded in
catching the bear about the head. One
or the men of the party was riding a
good cow horse and to him Van Ostran
threw the end Of the rope, and the lat
ter, taking a turn around the horn OF
the saddle, succeeding In bringing
down the bear. And now the fight be-
gan IN earnest. The bear made a rush
for the horse, and struck out with his
right paw so well that he cut a deep
cash in the horses shoulder and at the
same time freed himself from the lari-
at. The sheepmen. believing that dis
erection Is ever the better part of valor,
betooR themselves without loss OF time
to the highest limb of bull pine,
where they could in safety watch the
battle going on below. The bear had
successfully routed the three hounds,
when the shepherd dog decided to take
hand in the game. The bear made
swfpe at him and, catching him by
the collar, held on, while the shep-
herd dog danced a fig Having rid
himself one by one of the dogs, It look
ed as though bruin was coming out
high cock O. the game" when Rather,
staghound belonging to A. Smythe
seized the bear by the throat, and was
Immediately locked in an embrace
such as only a bear can give. and the
two rolled over and over on the ground.
But the hound held on and lay appar-
emily so close to the bears breast that
he was unable to squeeze him very
hard. They fought thus for twenty
minutes, until at last the bear sue
cumbed, with his windpipe cut In two.
One Of the men said he had seen many
a bear fight in his day, but never such
game fight as on this occasion. II
Is needless to say that Rather is much
honored in Arlington as the champion
bear dog
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15

DEVELOPING A SLENDER, ARcHED FOOT"
grant with orange-trees, and so across
the trellised vines towards the soft out
line OF the mountains eastward. "a
great part OF their wealth was In the
form Of jewels and precious stones
When Cortez took the city, one Of the
priests, who WINS relative of our fam
lily, put the jewels In q box and hid
them in certain place In the desert %
and does Kamaialzan know where
the place is3' asked the General.
He can know, when the time comes"
Which viii be, perhaps, when You
arc ready for your dowry," observed
the professor, genially.
spell was put upon the spot"
Miriam went on, with a certain imari.
native seriousness, for she loved ro-
nance and mystery 50 well, and was of
temperament so poetical, that the
widest fairy-ta1es had sort of reality
for her. "No one can find the treasure
while the spell remains But Kamaia-
kan understands the spell, and the con-
Duration which dissolves IL; and when
he dissolves It, the treasure will be
found"
"And, between ourselves" added the
General, 'Kamaiakan Is himself
the priestly relative by whom
the spoil WIS wrought. He
bears an enchanted life, which cannot
cease until he has restored the Jewels
to Miriam's hands"
There might be something in Il,
You know" said Meschines, after a
pause. ''The treasures of Montezuma
have never been found. Is there no old
chart or writing In your collection of
euriositiee and relics that might throw
light on itT'
1.-THE scriptures of Anahuac were of
the hieroglyphic type,-picture-writ-
Ing" replied the other. "No, I fear
there is nothing to the purpose; and IL
there were, shouldn't know how to
decipher it,
10 be continued.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15

do ToU REMEMBER THE TINE LICKED
YOITP''
silk stocking and sapdal-slipper. and at
the other end dark, youthful, oval
face, with glorious eyes and dull black
hair. 4 voice of music esked.-
What is lacustrine, papa9'
80. so you are awake again, Scnorita
Miriam?''
lacustrine?"
ASK the professor.
"L0cus, you know, my DEAR" said
the latter. means fresh water indi-
cations as against salt"
Then how does Great Salt Lake"
''Oh, for that ma tier, the whole ocean
was fresh originally. Moisture, evnpo-
ration, precipitation. Water Is great
solvent: earthquakes breah the-crust,
and there you ares
''Then, before the earthquakes, The
Salt Lakes were iresh7' reioined the
hammock.
'"There was fresh water wet Of tn.
3 'cldcs and south of-Why,7 cried
TIA, professor, trterrupting himself,
when I was In Wyoming apd around
there, this spring, in what they cafl
the Bad Lands,-cliffs and buttes Of H.
durated yellow clay and sandstone.
worn and carved out by foods long be-
fore the Aztecs started to move out of
Canada,I saw fossil bones sticking
out of the cliffs, the least of which
would mako the fortune of museum
That was between the Rockies and the
Wahsatch."
Peoples tonesP" asked the ham
mock, agitating Itself again, and show
ing glimpse of smooth throat and a
slender ankle.
Bless my soull If there were peo-
pie in those days they must have had
an anxious time of it.'' returned the
sage. NO, no, my dear. There was
brontosaurIs, and atlantosaurus, and
hydrosaurus, and Observation-Disclosures,
you know, not like these little black
fellows that run about In the pulver-
lied feldspar here, but chaps eighty or
hundred feet long, and twenty or
thirty high; and turtles, as big as a
house.
slow did they get there2'
ssGot mired while they were feeding,
perhaps; or the water drained off and
left them high and dry"
But where did the water go tor
The General chuckled at this juno
ture, and lit another cigar. ''She
knows more questions than you do the
answers to them,' quoth he. "But I
wouldn't mind hearing where the
water went TO, myself. should Ike
TO see some Of 1t back again. .
Ask the earthquakes and the sun.
There's $50 degrees Of heat in some Of
these valley bysses, rather, 800 or
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
PRODUCTS oE WOOD.
Wood Alcohol, Tar, Acetate of Lime
and Charcoal.


and Charcoal.
Over 90 per cent of wood may be con-
verted into liquid, says the Mining and
Scientific Press. The strongest of n.y.
draulic pressure would not squeeze
one-half Of per cent OF moisture from
dry wood, but by putting the same ma
terial into an iron retort and convert
Ing 1t into charcoal by means of heat.
the gasec and smoke, to the extent of
fully 65 per cent of the weight of the
wood may be condensed into pyrolig-
neous acid, from which are obtained
wood alcohol, acetate of lime and wood
tars. A cord of wood weighing 1000
pounds produces about 1850 pounds of
pyroligneous acid and TOO pounds of
charcoal. The pyroligneous acid from
one cord Of wood produces nine gal
Ions of 81 per cent crude wood alco-
hol, 200 pounds of acetate of lime and
about twenty-five gallons OF tar. be-
sides thirty-fve bushels Of charcoal.
After the pyroligneous acid is neutral
lied with lime the wood alcohol is dis
titled on. the lime holding the acetic
acid In solution. After the separation
of the wood spirit the remaining LIQUID
is boiled down in pans to sugar. which
Is dried and becomes the acetate of
lime in commerce. Acetate of lime Is
used for making acetic acid. Fully
three-ffths of all the wood alcohol and
acetate OF lime produced in the world
are made In the United States. A con-
siderable quantity Is also produced in
Sweden. and the exhibition now being
held In Stockholm specimens may be
SEEN Over 5000 acres of forest per
year are cleared In the United States.
Wood alcohol affords a perfect eubsti-
tute for grain alcohol for manufactur-
ing and mechanical purposes. and AZ
less than one-third the cost II Is used
principally as solvent In the making
OF shellac yarnish and In making cellu-
1oid and Photographic paper. Il makes
beautiful dye-tints. Is antiseptic. and Is
used for liniments and for skin rubbing
In lighthouses.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
A Qualified Misfortune.

To illustrate the readiness of some
INSCRIPTIONS people to turn even their
calamities to a dishonest advantage.
the story is told that certain small
farmer complained to a relative that
his COW was sick. And you have to
buy milk" asked the relative. Land.
yes" How much d'you have to pay?''
Mis- Tewkesbury lets us have some of
hers for five cents quart" well.
what d'vou do with your milk while
the cows sick?" "Oh, we sell it to
the city milkman" Get five cents a
quart from him?" "Sakes, no. He
gives sixv'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
spaniards Claim victory.

Special by Cable.
Since dusk of Tuesday, Havana
has been en- fete, in celebration Of the
Tepulse of the American fleet at San
tiago de Cuba.
Details of the engagement were re-
CeivCd in this city early yesterday
afternoon. The news produced a
great effect, and great enthusiasm
prevailed in all quarters.
At the Albisu Theater the perfor-
nance was suspended during the
reading of bulletins from Santiago,
and when it was announced from the
stage that the American fleet had
withdraw, an enthusiastic demon
straticn took place. The orchestra
played 1.-The March From Cadiz."
which evoked salvos of applause.
To-day Havana is very merry. The
balconies of all houses are decorated
with banners.
Captain General Blanco has issued
a proclamation announcing that after
u valiant struggle the Spanish forces
compelled the Americans to retire
with probably heavy losses.
The Capital General received news
of the engagement from General Lin.
ares at Santiago de Cuba, and to-day
forwarded the following official dis
patch to the Minister of War at Ma
drid:
The enemy's feet, composed of the
Massachusetts, Brooklyn and Mime
spolis and another cruiser, and six
ships more, sailed westward to the
Cuba Canal at quarter past 2 O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon.
1.-THE cruiser Cristobal Colon was
anchored in The bay In front of Punts
GoIda, and was seen by the enemy.
The fleet was answered by the battery
Of MORO, Socapa, Punta Gorda and
by the cristobal Colon's guns. The
enemy fleet fred from 60 to 20 shots
with missile Of 80 centlmeters with.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15
CUBAN CIGARS.
The Finest of Them are Sent to Eng.
land,


land.
The finest grades of cigars sell at re-
tall in Havana for less than half the
price one would have to pay in the
United States. That Is, one will buy
for 10 cents cigar that would cost
him In New York 20 or 25 cents, and
for cents a cigar he would pay 10 or
Is cents for at home Then there are
cigars or cheroots sold for ] or cents.
The ordinary retail price for a pack
age of cigarettes is cents. The CT
CARS smoked by Cubans are Of the larg-
est sizes. six or eight inches in length
and some OF them an inch In diameter
The very finest Cuban cigars go to
England. Some of them cost 81 each
In Cuba at wholesale. The men who
make these cigars are paid 80 cents
each for the making of them. They
are made with the greatest care, every
bit of leaf in them being selected and
especially treated, and the rolling and
Wrapping being done by the most skill
full of cigarmakers. One of these men
engaged in making dollar cigars will
not make more than twenty or thirty
a day. He is supplied with a certain
amount of tobacco when he begins
work in the morning, and when he
turns in the product of his days labor
at night must account for all the to-
bacco. The cigars are carefully in
spected and if any defect, the slightest
crack or any variation in color, is dis
covered in cigar it is rejected. The
cigarmaker is paid only for the per-
feet cigars. In the best factories the
rejected cigars are smoked up by the
employees.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-15

year, grow mp, and take their pIaces in
life according TO their quality and
merit, What mean is, that the
boy who drives wagon for
them to-day, at three dollars . week,
may control one Of their chief depart
ments, or even become q partner, be-
fore they done with him; and. nutatts
mutandis, the same with the efrlA
When these girls marry, it's opt to DO
into higher rank of life than they
were born in; and that fact, take It,
is good indication that their shop-Qirl
experience has been an education and
an improvement They are given work
TO DO, suited to their capacity, DO 1t
small or great; they IRE IN the way Of
learning something of the great eco
noInic laws, they learn self-restraint,
courtesy, and"
And human nature, Yes, poor
things: they see the American buying
woman, and that is D discipline more
trying than anypof you -Pointers
know about! Oh, yes, soe your point.
II the fathers Of the big family are
fathers, and the children are children
to them. All the same, I fancy the
young ladies, when they marry into
the higher social circles, as you soy
they do, don't, as o rule, make their
shop-girl days topic of conversation
at 5 o'clock teas, or put 'Ex-shop-girl
TO So-and-so' at the bottom of their
visiting-cartis
Il believe, after all, you're . snob,
Meschtnes," said the General, pensively.
but, as was about to say, when you
Interrupted me ton minutes ago, Greoe
Parsloe Is coming on here to make Us q
visit She fell i'll, and her employers,
after doing what could be done for her
in the way of medical attendance, made
up their minds TO give her change Of
climate. Now, You know, e. she had
originally gone TO them with letter
from me. and as live out here, on the
borders of the Southern desert, In q
climate that has no equal, they natur-
ally thought Of writing to me about 1t.
And CT course said I'd be delighted to
have her here, for month. or year,
or whatever time is may be, She viii
be pleasure TO me, ind friend for
Miriam, and she may find a husband
| somewhere up or down the coast, who
will give her fortune, and think all
the better of her because she, like him,
had the ability and the pluck to make
her own way IN the world"
"Iiumph! When do you expect her9'
"She may turn up any day. She is
coming round by way of the Isthmus.
From what hear, she .s really very
fine, clever girl. She held RESPONSE
bic position in the shop, and
"Well, let Us sink the shop, and get
back to the rational and instructive
conversation that we-or, to be more
accurate, that was engaged IN when
this depression began. presume you
ere aware that all the indications are
lacustrine?"
Hereupon, hammock, suspended
near the takers, and filled With what
appeared TO be bundle of lace and
silken shawls, became sgitated, and
developed at one end slender
urched foot in en- open-work