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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1898-04-30

Sheriff Littell and wife are !

"dSoh allcJ.
d. c. Simpson was in from
Smith Valley yesterday
j. G. Pierson arrived here yes
terday from Hum boldt.
Fred Gignoux is one among the
University students to enlist.
Dan Emmerson came in from
Mason Valley yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. J. Simon and little daugh-
ter left last Monday evening for
New York.
Miss Addie Brooks has been
appointed School Census Marshal
for Dayton district.
The Board of County Commits
sioners will hold its regular month
ly meeting next Monday.
County Clerk Lotus and wife
drove out to Yerington last Sunday
and returned Wednesday.
-Ranchers in Mason Valley de-
pendent on the East Walker river
are already suffering for water.
Mr.. Chas. J. Orth, of California,
is up from San Francisco visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Capt. Davis.
DR.. Gardner, formerly of this
place, has rendered his services as
army surgeon to Gov. Budd, of Cal.
Judge Mack will hold Court
here to day. Probate matters will
be the principal business to attend
to.
The TINES acknowledges the
receipt of a ticket to the Silver City
Hose Co.'S, dance to be given on
May 9th.
Miss Lottie Foote, of Silver
City, will leave for San Francisco
tomorrow evening to undergo medi-
cal treatment.
The Herald, at Wells, has
changed from a weekly to a daily
and is as bright and lively as any
one could wish.
Mrs. Carrie Rising and chill
dren arrived from Portland, Or, on
Tuesday of this week, on a visit to
Dayton relatives.
An Italian with tame bear ar
rived in town yesterday and created
much excitement among the rising
generation last evening.
Vic Bernard, of Mason Valley,
received message while on the way
to his fathers funeral that a brother
in Iowa had just passed away.
If you desire to vote at the
coming school election, and are not
on the great register of last year,
come to this office and get registered,
The water is now shut off from
the town, and will remain SO for ten
days or two weeks, or until the
Douglass ditch and flume is repair
ed.
A light shower of rain visited
this place yesterday afternoon and
last night the weather was much
cooler. A damp frost now would
do much damage to fruit.
r. NJ. Huffaker, of Virginia
City paid Mason Valley Lodge No.
"a, of Yerington, visit Tuesday
evening, the occasion being the an
niversary of Odd Fellowship. Major
Huffaker is Supreme Representative
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Of this State.
Charles NJ. Shortridge, in a
communication to the Carson Ap-
neal, denies that there has been, is
or ever will be any friction between
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1898-04-30

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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

tives of the Philippines have not degener-
ated, but lave progressed and arc highly
intelligent, comparing favorably with the
Spaniards, the Chinese immigrants and
the half breeds, or mcstizos. The natives
arc called Tagadays.
General Aguinaldo has been repeatedly
approached by Spanish agents with brides,
and it is said he has been offered large
sums to combine with the Spanish forces
against the Americans. That he has re-
fused all such offers shows that he is a
true patriot. Falling to bride him the
Spanish government has put a price on
his head, Offering $25 900 to any n who
will kill him. But Aguinaldo appears to
be equally undisturbed by brides or
threats, for he has gathered a large army
of insurgents and has made plans for CO.
operating with the American forces as
soon as they reach Manila.
Though the mestizos have taken an
active part in most of the instructions
that have disturbed the island during
many years East they are quiet now, at
least in Manila, where the Spanish arm
can reach them too readily.
The revolution in the islands has been
in progress almost as long as the Cuban
instruction. It has several times been
reported by the Spaniards as sup
pressed the term having about the samo
Specification as Weyler's qualification OF
Cuba. The war of the Spaniards has been
carried on there with. barbarous cruelty,
as in Cuba. Money has been used with
some effect, and several leaders of the in
surgents have been killed or deported.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11
A UNIQUE CRIMINAL.
Hrssey Stole q Picture From the Rogues'
Gallery In St. Louis.

Hxssey Stole q Picture From the Rogues'
Gallery In St. Louis.
James Husscy, heretofore considered by
the st. Louis police as only a worthless
idler with criminal instincts, achieved a
distinction that is unique and exclusively
his own. He sneaked into the private of
flee of Chief Desmond and stole a picture
of aRed" O'Connell, a notorious local
thief, from the rogues' gallery.
The theft of the picture is unprecedented
in the annals Of crime anywhere in tho
country. 1t puts Hussey in q different
light before the police department, and
Chief Desmond will endeayor to have him
convicted of petty larceny. After getting
the picture Hussey was captured in the
building by Billy Caples, the Four Courts
janitor.
Hussey is 20 years old and q moral de-
generate. He is a member Of a respectable,
thrifty German family who live IN the
west end. Hussey puts in his time when
out Of Jail in smoking opium and ciga-
rettcs and drinking beer in the environs of
the district about Thirteenth and Lucas
avenue, known to the police as the White
chapel" His name appears oftener on
the docket book of the Second district po-
lice court than any other offender, and he
is known to every police officer in St
Louis.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

sional district and won the appointment
over 81 rivals. After graduating he was
appointed to the Ninth cavalry as second
lieutenant. He served as post adjutant
and as post quartermastcr, and in 1894
was appointed by Cleveland as professor Of
military tactics at Wilberforce university,
Ohio.
Ever since that appointment was. made
by the executive of the nation reports have
come to the war department that Lieuten-
ant Young's pupils were among the best
drilled found in any of the colleges. Still
greater honors awaited him when last
summer he was detailed by the wal de-
partlnent to inspect and instruct the Ninth
battalion of the o. N. O., who were in
camp at Newark. In a later examination
at Fort L~eavenworth he won his commits
sion as first lieutenant.
There is much hope centeringai in Major
Young, occupying as he does q unique po-
sition, and from what his friends have seen
and know Of him they confidently expect
to see these. bright hopes in some measure
realized, providing the fates and fortunes
of war should he at all gracious to him.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

IN reality, but frequently Becomes y
when a gulf storm drives the waters OF
Lake Borgue over tho neighboring land
Exposed as it is to the fury of the gulf tor
nadoes and the tidal waves, which in q big
storm sweep over the land and even over
the chenieres, tho houses are built on
stills, five or even ten feet above the ground,
so that If the water rises it will not flood
them. The posts are driven into the soil,
but the houses are as fragile as those Mt
Luzon, which tumble down with every
earthquake. The roof is of palmetto, lata-
nier and moss, the exact counterpart OF
those to be seen in any picture Of native
villages in tin, Philippines.
AS in Manila, the principal amusements
of the people of ST. Malo are gambling and
cockfightirg. Never were there more
desperate gamblers than these Malays, and
with dice rather thar with cards. The
great game of the Manila men is craps,
and it is not improbable that this game,
which is popularity supposed to have found
its way into this country through the me-
groes, really came through the Louisiana
Malays.
If the inhabitants of the Philippines arc
no better thar the men Of their race set
tied at St. Malo, they are certainly CEN
turies remove from the possibilities of
self government, and the Louisiana Malays
havc at least a chance Of knowing what
civilization is. They arc desperate gam
blers, improvident. living a life more saw
age and with less of the element of civili-
cation about it than that of the lowest
negro.
There are scores, too, of desperate re-
yenges among them. Some time g a
Manila man living a short distance from
ST. Malo was informed that a ~compadre
had sworn to burn down his house and
murder him. He met the would be assas-
sin in the marsh q few days a~ftcrward,
and with two friends tied the man with a
strong rope, SO that he could move neither
hand nor foot. Then no drove a strong
stake into the swamp, so deep that itcould
not be moved, and tied his enemy to it.
When the stake was visited next day, the
would be assassin was found dead. The
mosquitoes and ~tappanoes (green headed
fies) had sucked out his life blood.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

mish line. 1 had no business to be there,
because I was on the medical staff. The
bullets began to whistle around me, and !
got behind a tree. Then I tried to think
how 1 was ito get out of it. The brain
works quickly in positions of deadly peril.
81 reflected: Now, if / run a bullet
will catch me just as surely as if ] walk.
Therefore I will just walk to the rear !
came out from my tree and walked. BY
good luck / was not hit. 1t seemed as If !
was in the midst of a very hails.orm OF
lead. 1t is q fact well known to veterans,
however, that comparatively few bullets
find billets, and that considering tho
number of shots that are fired in a hot en-
gagement very few men are killed or even
wounded"
"Didn't you run a little toward the end
of the trips'' asked another veteran slyly.
The doctor smiled. well, ! won't say
that my quick march did not become a
double in the last few strides.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11
SAVED BY a COBRA.
A Tame Snake Lays Down Its Life For =
Child.

A Tame Snake Lays Down Its Life For .
Child.
This strange story comes from India: A
child-a mere baby-had strayed some
distance from the camp toward the jungle.
There under a tree he found a covered
basket containing a tame cobra of unusual
size, but being the son of a serpent charm
er he was not afraid and, cuddling down
beside it in the shade, was soon fast asleep.
While he slumbered a wild jungle snake
another cobra-came gliding out of the
shadows in search of frogs and mice. At
length in the course Of it's sinuous quest
it reached the child-an intruder in it's do
main, the representative of a hated race
and quite helpless. The horrible creature
reared it's head, spread Its scaly hood and
emitted a vindictive hiss. At the sound
of it the little boy shrank, even in his
| dreams. He stirred uneasily and thrust
out with his chubby hand, striking the
basket so sharply as to dislodge the cover,
which had not been properly fastened.
Then he lapsed back into the deep slumber
| Of tired babyhood.
But the jar of the blow on the basket
! had thoroughly aroused the tame serpent
within. She heard the threatening hiss
and knew its meaning, fl. its language
was her own. It was as when a native
servant overhears her unframed fellow
tribesmen plotting to murder the babe
which she has in change. Suddenly the
loose cover was flung off. She, too, had
reared her head, and kissing out her an
swer to the challenge she wound her way
to the unconscious baby's feet, where she
faced the enemy with dilated crest and
Pickering tongue.
There was a moments pause as the two
frighful reptiles, veritable basilisks in
aspect and SO like that each seemed the
mirrored reflection of the other, swayed in
passionate anger from side to side, watch
ing like wrestlcrs for a favorable opening.
Then with q flash of darting fangs too
swift for the eye to follow they closed and
began to writhe in mortal combat, twined
together like a snarl of living rope Dou-
bling and twisting and contracting, strain
ing and swaying with all the power of
their India rubber muscles and savagely
gripping with their venom laden jaws,
they slid about in knotted, palpitating
coils close by the sleeping infant, and for
a long time neither was able to gain the
mastery, SO equally were they matched in
strength, in quickness and in cunning.
No battle of dragons could be fiercer or
more hideous.
Meanwhile the baby had been missed
and the little camp was all astir. The
mother was frantic-she knew well that
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

children who strss on the borders Of the
jungle are rarely seen again-and the men
ran back and forth in what seemed a hope
less search.
At last, however, the panic stricken IA
Their deserted his boy, still sleeping by
the empty basket, his baby face upturned
in sweet Inconsistencies, and scarcely
two yards away was the writhing tangle
of ~serpents, lashing the earth in the throes
of their final struggle. They were almost
exhausted now. AS the poor juggler ran
breathless and aghast, to the rescue of his
child he saw the grim coils loosening. Be-
fore he could reach the spot the reptiles
had dropped apart, and n stretched it's
limp length upon the ground, quiyering
in the agonies of death. Over it's PROSTATE
form the victor reared her mangled neck
for one triumphant hiss, then slowly
dragged her crippled body to the baby's
side. There her head dropped and her coils
relaxed. At the cost of her own life the
tame cobra had won the fight and saved
her little playmate.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11
Typical Mexican Fun.

In the City of Mexico they had . pretty
little entertainment the other day. 1t was
a lion and bull fight, in which the king of
beasts-two of him, in fact-showed a
contemplate spirit and d~espicable lack of
strength. The fight was witnessed by all
the f~ashionaEles of the city, from the gov
down. The first lion was q fierce
and powerful brute, which had recently
killed it's keeper. He lasted just n round.
The second lion managed to wound the
bull, thereby cnraging it SO that it fought
with redoubled vivor. 1t gored the lion
numerically. The governor finally gave
the signal for stopping the fight, and the
lion was dragged from the arena dying.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

and carried up an incline plane to an alti-
tudc that will permit delivery through
shoots into the ports Of a ship. This is
lone by means Of endless carriers or con-
veyers that are run by steam. One engi.
neer and his assistant can manage to oper-
ate one Of these barges, and cars handle
from so to 100 tons an hour and stow ii
away in the bunkers.
Another device known as the Temperly
transporter has been in use in France and
has been known to stow on board q war
ship going at a rate Of seven knots IN hour
100 tons Of coal in three hours.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11
ONLY coLoRED OFFICER.
Major Young Holds q Unique Position In
the Regular Army.

MAJOR 1Ouug dOidS u Unique Is'sitioA Al
the Regular Army.
The only Afro-American officer in the
regular army is Lieutenant Charles Young,
recently promoted from lieutenant to COM
mand O eolered battalion of volunteers
from Ohio. Major Young is a tall, fine
looking young man and every inch a sol
der. He is a West Pointer, being n OF
the three colored men who have been grad
uated from that institution. Of the other
two neither are now in the service, one
having resigned q year ago and the other
being deceased.
Major Young vas born in Kentucky 81
years ago. His father fought in the Fed
eral ranks during the civil war and at the
close of hostilities moved to Brown
ty, o. He sent his son to the common
school, a high school and then to a pre-
paratory school for the purpose of study
ing Latin and Greek to fit him for a Jesuit
college. Young's early ambition was to
become a Catholic priest.
More to see where he stood than because
he had any idea Of serving in the army, he
entered a competitive examination for a
cadetship from the Twelfth Ohio congress
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11
HE BEGAN AS A PIRATE.
Weird Romance Of Ivan
Skobel, the Russian
Samson.
"A ROVER IN STRANGE LANDS
Learned to Perform Feats OF
Strength in Japan, Spent
Years in a Rus
sian Prison.
A ROVER IN STRANGE LANDS

Grange and romantic things happen in
these prosaic modern times Of ours. The
events in the life Of Ivan Skobel prove
this. Had Ivan never roamed he might
have lived as uneyentful a life as any one,
but fate ordered otherwise. Here Is the
story:
Ivan Skobel was born in Cairo, Egypt.
His parents were wealthy. His earliest
recollections are of a home of eastern mag
n~ifcence. He remembers his parents, but
only family. He does not know whether
they were Egyptians, Arabians, Turks or
Hebrews.
He was 2 years old when one day a
strange, suspicious looking craft came to
the landing. The boy went with the crowd
down to see it. A man whom he knew
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

"Nice. pleasant young fellow, Dabbs.
1 wonder you refuse to let your daughter
be engaged to him. said Cityman No. l
to Cityman No. q.
Every pleasant, " remarked No. 2 dryly.
mice CHEEKY way he has. When I told
him my daughter wouldn't have q penny
till I died, he answered, All right, sir; I
don't mind waiting q year or two. Very
pleasant son-in-law he'd make, ehs'-
London Answers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

ing blown up a few mud forts and de-
stroyed q few villages, quietly withdraw,
and amicablc relations are resumed
1t costs the Indian government a large
amount of money to preserve even a SEM
blance of peace on the border, for ever
since the first disastrous Afghan campaign
of 1889 ii has been found cheaper to sub
sidize the tribes than to fight them. If a
headman will govern his people in quiet,
avoid raiding and keep the passes open,
then he will get an annual payment. If
not, then he will have to fight the British.
Before any hostile operations can be car
ried OF in Afghanistan the passes must be
secured, especially the famous khyber
pass, through which the river Kabul makes
its escape from the ranges Of the Eindoo
Kush to the plains of the Punjab. Every
expedition of any size which has entered
Afghanistan has gone through this pass,
and it was the neglect to secure it proper
ly which led to the terrible disaster of
1912, one of the most severe defeats which
British arms save ever sustained.
1t is always alleged to be Russian in
trigue which commences the trouble in
Afghanistan. The recent rising of the
Afridis is more than suspected to be due
! to a secret agitation carried on by Russian
agents, though the ameer has been care
full to deny any completely in the actions
of his unruly subjects. But in 1889 there
was no doubt about the matter. The
ameer of the day, Dost Mohammed, was
openly dallying with Russia, and the Brit
ish sent an expedition under Sir John
Keane, which dethroned him and placed
Shah Shuja on the throne. Unfortunately
Afghan treachery was not so thoroughly
understood then as it is now, n the
force Of 5000 men left to support the new
monarch on the throne took no precau-
tions to keep open it's line of retreat to
India. In consequence the Afghans soon
organized an insurrection against their
new ruler and his friends, the English.
The whole country rose, n after a num-
Der of officers and even helpless women
and children had been trcacherously muir
dered the British made a treaty with the
Afghans, agreeing to withdraw from the
country on condition of being supplied
/ with provisions and escorted in safety to
the frontier. Neither clause of this agree
ment was kept. In the middle of winter,
in the bitter cold, without food, the troops
began their disastrous retreat. Day after
day they were attacked by large bodies of
the enemy, and within a week the whole
| force, which numbered, including camp
followers, women and children, some &c.
600, was destroyed.
The defeat, of course, was redressed.
Kabul was taken, but no subsequent VIC
tories could restore the lost army or the
| innocent women and children who had
fallen, and ever since then India has
been most careful to keep control of the
passes; hence the determination with
x,lso1 che hoe rrAr,o IN vyork of anu onct fn
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

A good story Is told of the wife Of Col.
Robert Ingersoll. She was recently spend
Ing an evening with a friend. About 8
o'clock. after lneffectually attempting to
smother several yawns. Mrs. Ingersoll
apologixed as follows lyon really must
excuse me. but, you knew. dear. tina /
have accompanied the Colonel on a re-
cent lecture tour and have In consequence
got into the habit Of falling asleep about
eight o'clock every evening""
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11
THE FIRST FIRE.
Would You Try to Dodge the Bullets
When They whizzed?

When They Whizzed?
Would you dodge the bullets in your
first battle2 Lots of people think they
would not finch. Others are frank enough
to say they think they would. The old
question Can soldiers go into battle with
out being frightened?" came up among a
group of professional and business men.
A strongly expressed opinion came from a
Young national ~guardsman that a brave
mar would never be frightened under any
circumstances.
Don't believe anything of the kind"
put in the white haired physician. II was
an army surgeon in the war of the rebel
lion, and l never knew a man to go under
fire without being SO badly scared that he
would have given anything to be able to
run away without being regarded as a pol
troon.
eThe man who says he was not fright
ened when he went into battle is either a
liar or a fool. There may be men SO stupid
that they do not realize their peril, but
every intelligent man who faces an enemy
knows that his life may be snuffed out in
an instant, and he never forgets it until
he is so warmed up with the conflict that
he is ray.
Thousands of our volunteers who are
going into this wal will find that what L
say is true when they first find themselves
facing the bullets and shells. But the boys
don't finch. No fear of that. They will
take their lives in their hands for the sake
of Old Glory, and all honor to them for it,
and they will b. none the less heroes be-
cause their knees will tremble when they
first hear the spit spat' Of the bullets and
see their comrades dropping around them.
81 was in the battle of the Wilderness,
and somehow l found myself in the Skin
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

.MALAYS OF LOUISIANA
A Wild, Fierce People Who
Came From the Philip
pines.
DARK DEEDS DONE BY THEM
Hidden in the Swamps Near
New Orleans They Live
Like Their Oriental
Ancestors,

Hidden away in the swamps of Louisi-
ana are four colonies of Philippine island
Malays. If q man wishes to understand
the Philippine islands, if he want to visit
Luzon without the trouble of a trip across
the Pacific, he a do SO by a journey of a
few hours from New Orleans. if he can
secure the services of a guide who speaks
Spanish and will lead him to St. Malo,
the largest of the Philippine settlements.
Tho Malays, or Philippine islanders,
settled near New Orleans are popularity
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-11

Natal's hippopotami are extinct. The
last herd was protected by the Govern
ment on a reservation near Durham, but
did 50 much damage to the surrounding
sugar plantations, that orders were given
to have 1t destroyed.