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The Florence daily tribune., 1898-03-11
TO ur CONTINUED
A NEAR VIEW OF THE RUSH
intere sting Letter from Wonder
land Dick

In letter received by Frank
Blackldigc from Wonderland
Dick" until recently well known
figure in Florence, the latter throws
some light on the condition Of
things at the jumping off place for
Alaska. We quote. verbatim:
Wish l could see handful of
Florence dust | have not seen
spot of dry gronnd since / landed
in Washington. | am still at work,
and in the show place of Seattle.
All gambling is closed up here
and will stay so until after the
spring election. Hundreds are
jumping sideways for breakfast.
All the thieves, gamblers, sports,
sure thing men, buns, jim crow
bartenders and fast women in
America are herc-and doing well
nit A! | pay So week for room
that rented for s4 month before
the rush. The people hero are
olumb crazy. They think Seattle
is the only place on earth, and
everybody ON earth has got to core
here sooner or later. | suppose
you have read something of the
condition of things on the Ska
quay trail? Well, you simply
have heard nothing. You should
talk with one of the fellows who,
have returned. Soapy Smith a.
his gang (numbering over fa1
run the country from Skaq,iit o
the top of the pass. No o.,
safe, if known to possess n Gd !.
The deaths arc from6 to load
as often as otherwise, the dea
simply chucked aside into
bank and left for those WHO
next spring, when snow Is
bnry. The weather up
something awful, wind all f'e
40 TO GO miles an hour and 2
grees below zero. There are ae
ly thousands leaving here ev
month. What they viii do is
p 'oblom. There are leo vessa
running from here north Some
of them are old tubs built before
the food. | would not risk my
self in them to cross The Arkansas
river. This would be nice place
TO live if you could see the sun
once in while. Some one broke
nto our rooming house and stole
'ome of my clothes and some
money from Fifteen-two.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-03-11

Commodore Browhsen sailed for
Europe yesterda to complete pur-
chases of foreign warships for our
navy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

Senate Votes for Two additional Reg
iments of = rfllIery.

WASHINGTON, FEB AS soon as the
reading of the histori. ewell address of
Washington was conc.,e' 7 by MIR. Lodge
of Massachusetts, in the $ -nate to-day, Mr.
Hawley. of Connecticut, chairman of the
military affairs committee, called up the
bill providing for the enlistment of two adj
ditional regiments Of artillery for service in
manning the heavy coast defense batteries
which Congress has provided during the
past two years.
Mr.. Bate objected to the bill because it
tended to an increase of the army, to which
he said he was unalterably opposed. He
thought there We're enough troops already
under enlistment to man all the guns now
being provided for by the government. He
argued that it would be better to assign
infantry regiments to the manning of those
guns than to put them in charge of raw
recruits.
In reply Mr. Hawley pointed out that the
strength of the army was really decreasing
in proportion of the inhabitants of the coun-
try. In addition, he said Congress had
made large appropriations in recent years
for great guns for forts and coast defense
stations. OF these guns 139 were guns of
large caliber and delicate mechanism. To
these must be added 30 rifled steel mortars
coast defense stations. In order that these
guns may be properly handled a body of
trained artilleriStS is necessary. Each of
these great war engines requires to handle
1t as much skill as it requires to run a loco
motive or an ordinary river steamer. The
War Department estimates that the sixteen
hundred men which this bill calls for will
be necessary properly TO man these guns.
Mr.. Cockrell said he was opposed to an
Increase in the infantry or cavalry arms of
the service but in this case the country was
confronted by serious condition He
garded 1t as necessary that the guns pro-
Vided by the government should be properly
cared for and manned. For that reason he
had consented as member of the commit
tee TO have the bill favorably reported.
The bill was then passed-52 to L. The
negative votes cast by Messrs Bate Glenn. },
Clay Ga.), Chiffon (TeX.) and Vest (No.)
Mr.. Morgan secured the adoption of the
following resolution:
That the committee on naval affairs is
instructed to inquire and report whether a
man-of-war equal, at least, to any war ship
in the world, to be named the George Wash
ington can be built, armed and commits
stoned within a period of twelve months by
the use of the facilities of the shipyards,
machine shops, mines and forests of the
United States, wherever the same are
found; and that the committee have leave
to report at any time by bill or otherwise"
The resolution was adopted without de-
bate. AT 1879 the Senate went into executive
session, and at p. M adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator Haw-
ley, in reporting the bill for the increase
of the artillery arm of the army by two
regiments, says:
THE speedy passage of this bill. or it's.
equivalent, appears to be an absolute neces-
sity. The government, after long and care
full consideration by those whose offices and
studies qualify them to give the most
valuable advice has entered upon the
execution of systematic and elab-
crate plan of coast defense The prog
ress there is indicated in extracts from
the last annual report of General John Nj.
Wilson, chief of engineers Existing con-
tracts call for the emplacement and mount
ing on or before June 30. 1898. now rapidly
approaching, of 13S modern high-pOwer steel
guns ranging in caliber from eight TO twelve
inches, twelve of fVe-inch calber, four
siX-pounders. and 90 twelve-inch mortars
q total of 3Sl. These are to be scattered
according to the best judgment of the en-
gineerS and ordnance officers from Maine
to Puget sound, having careful regard to
the relative Importance of the positions to
be defended The great expenditure will be
wasted treasure unless a sufficient number
thoroughly drilled, be assigned to the care
and use of these costly instruments of de-
Tense. AS the works are from week to week
completed, the utmost the general com
handing can do is to detail few care-tak-
erS to each station With the aid of the
actives of the National Guard and those
who have been discharged thercfrom after
years of instruction, effective cavalry and
infantry could be collected in a compare
lively snort time. Bul III case u war snort
notice would be given to the men in charge
OF the guns on the coast, whose costly ma
chinery requires much mechanical skill and
practice. Men tit TO be trusted to run great
engines on our railroads or even the or
binary steamers of rivers and lakes, can
not be called into service at a days or a
months notice. To handle, but especially
TO fire with precision. the new guns requires
the highest class of skilled labor.
a careful estimate of the annual addi-
tional expenditure required to maintain the
two regiments is S530.054. But some months
will expire before the regiments can be
fully enlisted and organized. and while the
> ale of the first year with its equipment
wal be very considerably greater than that
Of average subsequent Years, II IS believed
that $4,000. probably less. ii is believed
che fiscal year 1899. 1t is scarcely worth
while TO enlarge upon the wisdom of estab-
fishing the defenseS of our very extended
coast. Successive Congresses have Vigor-
otIs!V and literally asserted II.
To this is added a number Of reports. in-
Guiding 4 letter from acting Secretary
Meikeliohn and General Miles. the latest
being a letter from General Miles, written
Yesterday IN which he says:
My Dear SenatOr-Refefrng to our con-
yersation this morning / have the honor TO
state that batteries have been placed in
position in new Notifications at Portland
Head. Ne; Growers Cliff. Boston harbor.;
Fort Hancock. approach to philadelphia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23
4 POSSIBLE RESULT OF THE MAINE
EXPLOSION.

No naval disaster of modern times mas
attracted as much attention throughout the
world as the destruction of the Maine The
first expression is one Of sympathy, and
these have been numerous enough to show
that one such horror makes the whole
world kin. This feeling is likely to be fol-
lowed among naval powers by one of con-
sternation that such a battle ship as the
Maine. the latest product of modern naval
architecture and a thoroughly up-to-date
fighting machine, can be wrecked and sunk
with almost all on board in the twinkling
of an eye. This fact is bound to set naval
powers thinking. and may lead TO radical
changes in naval architecture. For many
years past the effort in the construction Of
war ships has been to make them more
and more terrific as fighting machines by
means Of powerful batteries, and more and
more invulnerable to attack by means Of
impenetrable armor. Much has been ac-
complished in this direction, but it seems
to nave been at the cost of exposure III
other ways. The modern war ship is not
only very cumbersome on account of her
huge bulk and weight, but with her COM
plicated enginery of destruction her boilers
batteries, magazines, dynamos and explo-
sives, is a vertable floating volcano, con-
tanning within itself the clements of it's
own destruction. Whether the Maine was
destroyed in this way not, the prevalent
belief or suspicion that she may have been
will set naval powers to wondering if the
limit Of usefulness has not been passed in
the direction of steelclad war ships. The
United States gave the first lesson in mod
ern ironclad battle ships by our ironclad
gunboats during the civil war and the
Monitor, with her revolving turret, was the
pioneer on that line of naval architecture.
1t may be that the destruction of the Maine
will mark the beginning of a reactionary
movement towards simpler construction.
In view of the fact that a big ship is more
difficult to handle and as easily sunk by
explosion as a small one, it is a question
whether there is not more fighting power in
several small ships of lighter armament
than there is in immense one with
heavy batteries. Five or six ships Of say,
1900 tons displacement would carry as
many guns as one ship Of 10000 tons, and
perhaps be more effective in action because
more easily handled, while the larger ship
is as liable to be lost one of the smaller
ones. 1t is not unlikely that naval archi-
lecture, which has been going TO an ex-
treme in the direction of huge, heavily
armed ships, may take a turn in the other
direction in the near future. The Maine
may mark the turn of the tide of which the
Monitor was the beginning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23
BOMB In HOUSE.
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would admit that there was some respecta-
bilty among them?"
Yes, l have no doubt / should add at
least an air of responsibility TO them. :"
LaughteT.)
Mr.. Walker Rep., Mass) replied to Mr..
simpson, denOuncing the other side for its
reiterated aspersions upon men of wealth
Turning to the Southern members. he de-
clared impulsively that he had given to the
cause of education in the South more than
all of them together had contributed. Fig
ure it out said he, with feeling, land you
will find ] have given two dollars for every
one you have contributed. / am tired of
this abuse. / stand here in the integrity
of an honest life. / have given away more
than now possess. You have driven me
TO this statement, now hang your heads in
shame. Great applause on Republican
side)
Before the debate began Mr.. Cannon took
the floor and made a general explanation of
the features of the bill. While the bill was
not eXtravagant, Mr.. Cannon said. it was
liable in its provisions for the public serv-
ice. He pointed out in detail the various
increases and reductions i'm the bill and the
next provisions of law. Mr.. Smith (Rep.,
Mich) criticised the provision in the bill
creating an advisory board of nine commits
sionerS to the Paris exposition to serve
without compensation. He said that it was
discriminating against those who We're not
wealthy enough to serve without salary.
Mr.. Simpson suggested that if the Drovi-
sion stood recommended pine million
aires with special interests would go to
Paris amuse themselves and attain social
glory. At O'Clock the House adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

The Sultan he sat by the Golden Horn and looked
But the ships Of the powers afar were borne ana
never a sail saw he
And he heard no more Of the Concerts Notes.
which they played arotnd the Isle OF Crete,
For the First Violin had gone back TO Berlin and
the second to Downing. street.
''Now what has become ii the Ffankish hosts"
The said to his Grand Vizierl,
Those adnlirals all with their cruisers tai and
Are the Special Commissioners all on strike who
wrote OF the deeds I've done.
While the Concert en- masse has gone to Klondike
and sails on the far Yukon?
us Greece from her burden of debt released by
the Great Pan.Frankish feet? ,o r..
and Governor found for Crete?
Have they fixed the shapes to which each shall
What the German and Slav shall respectively
have when the plundert they come to divide"
"Oh, the Eastern Question is much the same as
it was ten years ago@
Vizier) Ito the glorious Status Quo
And hear that in Greece there is still the deuce
And the Cretans are cooking each others goose
in the old accustomed way
But Kaiser and car have sailed afar, with
different fish to fry
else in Wei-Hai- Wei.
1t is china's tOrn to fan to-day meath civiliza-
And the grand old game Of grab they play for the
general good CT Man..
.'What deeds Of dread (the Sultan said has
the Monarch celestial done
And have | a twin IN far Pekin, on another
Internal Throne26
Does be rule by a Bashi-tsazouk regime which
mOralists strict condemn,
Or drown the Lights OF his novel harem when
he is not pleased with them?
"A virtuous man is the son of Heaven. with a
strict regard for Law
Ana Mandarins have none OF the sins OF a regular
But the way that they spoke to a German priest.
it grieves much to hear
1t has angered the Lord of the Mailed Fist
replied the Grand Eizier.
.'.Alas and aackl' the sultan said, and ne rent
his reverent beard
Now this is the most outrageous crime that
Sultan heaEdt
oh, the Brother august Of rheSSun and the Moon,
II is only too plain To see.
For his tyiannOus ways VIII be damned very
II he doesn take pattern by me.
For am wight who's regenefate quite anu
the way of Salvation have found
And more they avow I'm JnspealSaple now,
affirm I'm a reprohate crowned
For though in your time you've been guilty ot
crime. and n slave TO original SIN.
You viii never be child fos the things that you
dill, II you only make friends with Berlin. .
"a c. ia ST. James,s Gazette
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

Emile Zola's novels have been read by a
great multitude of people, but he never had
as large or intelligent an audience as he
did when, from the prisoners dock in a
French court, he denounced his trial as a
strangling of justice and repeated three
times Before all the world, swear Drey-
fus is innocent" Not that Zola's saying
30 makes it so, hut if there was any doubt
before the trial of lola has established the
innocence of Dreyfus. The conviction of
lola has been foreshadowed from the be-
ginning. but the trial has convinced the
world that his charges against the govern
ment and army of France were true and
that his prosecution has been simply an eff
fort to suppress the truth. 1t will take a
long time for the French government to
recover from the disgrace of the proceed
inv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

A police judge of Louisville who lately
had couple of newspaper thieves before
him fined them $40 each. and i'll default of
a thousand-dollar bond for twelve months,
sent them to the workhouse for one year
This judge had the right idea of the Sc
robustness of the offense. In this city the
theft of newspapers from doorways where
they are delivered by carrier is very COM
mon and a source of great vexation and
loss to both subscribers and publishers
but the difficulty of securing adequate
punishment for the rascals after they are
apprehended makes it impossible to break
up the practice. The argument is used in
their behalf that the articles stolen are
only a newspaper and the thieves 'only
boys and the latter are thereupon dis
missed with merely a reprimand-a course
that encourages them and their kind to
steal papers whenever opportunity offers
An example made like that in Louisville
of one of the offenders would put an end
to the business for some time to come.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23
HIS FAITH UNLIMITED.
Christian Scientist ''Taken In" and
Robbed by Confidence Men.

CHICAGO, Feb %. Edward Schultz.
Peter Raven, Harry Wright and William
Prendergast, said by the police to be four
of the cleverest confidence men in the coun-
try, were arrested to-day charged with
swnding Christian Muster, of Dawson,
Neb., out of 5000 in currency and $1,000 III
checks Wuster left his home in Nebraska
to come to Chicago to be treated by faith
cure for a cataract. When he reached Chi
cago to-day he was met at the depot by
four smooth-spoken strangers, who induced
him to accompany thenrto a doctors office
on Clark street. He produced his money
in response to statements that such Il
course was necessary to secure treatment.
Muster was Immediately. set upon and
robbed AS the thieves started to leave the
room they were met by police officers who
had followed the Nebraskan and his
friends" After a hard struggle the rob-
hers were taken into custody. All of Wus-
ter's money was recovered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

The death certificates in use in Michigan
are criticised by a Detroit man Z ter this
fashion: One of the most frequent uses
that a death certificate is put to- so far as
the public IS concerned at least. is to
furnish data TO insurance companies and
others interested relative to the family of
the deceased. But in the entire document,
after it has been completely filled out, there
is absolutely nothing to show who the
widow or the children or the heirs or the
family of the dead man are. 1t viii be a
surprise to the people who have cherished
a notion that such certificates are kept
merely to aid in the compilation Of vital
statistics TO learn that they are really for
the use of insurance companies; but IL an
account of all the dead mans living de-
scendants is insisted on why stop at that =?
A little history of his ancestry would be as
convenient for the patriotic societies and
pedigree hunters as the other to the insur-
ance men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

No better use can be made of a national
holiday or anniversary than to enforce the
lessons of good citizenship and obedience
to law which lie at the foundation of re-
publican government This was the object
OF General Harrison's address at Chicago
yesterday. His special theme was the re-
ciprocal duty of equal tax laws and of the
Shonest payment of taxes by all according
to their taxable possessions. In enforcing
this idea a very strong presentation was
made Of the mammoth proportions to which
the evil of tax lodging has grown and OF
the danger to the peace and welfare of
society and to republican government it
self which the practice involves. No strong
er presentment of this insidious and cor
ru2ting evil has ever been made. and it
was accompanied by an appeal for reform
which should rouse the popular conscience
everywhere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23


A press dispatch from Chicago says that
mo less an authority than Hon. Robert L.
Lincoln holds that if the Maine was de-
stroyed by mine exploded by a fanatic
or by accident, no responsibility whatever
would attach to SPAIN The Journal is not
aware that the ipse dixit of Mr.. Lincoln in
this or any other matter carries special
weight. His statement that under no cir
cumstances is a government responsible for
the acts of private citizens is a very
sweeping one. In the present case the an
chorage of the Maine was selected and de-
cided by the Spanish authorities. and If
she was placed over a mine without notice
OF the fact and subsequently blown up
either by an accidental explosion or the act
of a private citizen who had knowledge of
the mine and access to the means Of ex-
pioding it, this government would be fully
justified In holding Spain responsible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

The international Student Volunteer
Movement for Foreign Missions" is the
full title of the organization which met
yesterday in Cleveland, o., for q
four days session. 1t is one of those re-
markable religious movements and organ
izations for which the closing years of the
nineteenth century have become conspicu-
Gus, and all the more remarkable because
it's aim and object are practically identi-
cal with others already in the field. This
movement, however, differs from others in
that it embraces only undergraduates of
colleges and students at other Institutions
The Student Volunteer movement is only
twelve years old, yet the present conven-
ton will bring together representatives of
more than sixty missionary boards, dele
gates from about twenty foreign countries
and from not less than Il thousand col
leges. Such movements cannot be ignored
in estimating the moral forces of the age
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

The attorney general of Indiana moving
before enc justice Of the peace after an
other in Ripley county for warrants for
the arrest OF alleged lynchers on the affi-
aavit of the Governor sworn to before the
clerk Of the Supreme Gourt-this is the I'M
precedented and remarkable situation
brought about by efforts Of the state au-
thorities 10 ferret out and bring 10 justice
the perpetrators of the disgraceful lynch
iues done at Versailles in September last.
II has been known for months past that
the State authorities were quietly prose-
cutting an investigation OF the matter, and
that they were Handicapped and thwarted
at every step by the Indifference Of the
local authorities Of Ripley county and the
hoTiile attitude Of the citizens That they
have pusbed the investigation to a point
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

approaches to Washington coast of North
Carolina, Charleston harbor: Mobile, Ala,
Galveston, Tex; Fort Baker. Cal; Fort
Point, Cal. and Fort Stevens, Ore. Bat
teries will also be placed within few
months new fortificati tons at Great Dia-
mond island. Portland. Me; Fort Consti-
tuition, Portsmouth. n. H.; Long Island
Head, Boston harbor; Dutch island, Mar
ragansette bay. r. T.: eastern en-
trance TO Long Island sound, New
York: Delaware City, Del. APP
proaches TO Baltimore. approaches
to Washington; approaches to savannah,
Ca; New. Orleans: San Diego, Cal: en-
trance to Puget sound, Wash. making IN
al twenty-six new seacoast fortlhcatlons
for the defense of the great cities of the
Atlantic gulf and Pacific coasts. where
Notifications have been and are being
erected and where artillery IS required to
protect and man these batteries. We are
sending small detachraents of men to keep
them in fair condition and protect the am
munition. but these are not suft1cient 70
man said batteries and hence the necessity
for two additional regiments of artillery IS
imperative and requires immediate action.
There are also reports from Generals Will
son and Flager, showing the necessity OF
the additional force
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-23

where they feel authorized in taking open
and decisive action is greatly TO the
credit of the State. 1t will be
gratifying assurance to every Iaw-abidng
citizen that the State has power to en-
force its laws. So far as appears only one
arrest has yet been made, but others will
follow and the trial of one or two cases
ought TO uncover the whole plot