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Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
RECRUITING WILL NOW BEGIN.
Twenty-Five Men Wanted to Fill the
Ranks of Old Il Company.

San Francisco, June lS.-R. A. Koontl,
Spokane Wash-Enroll good recruits
for Company l.. Sergeant Childs will be
in Spokane Monday. NOsLER.
The above dispatch was received by
Mr. koontz on Saturday from Lieutenant
Nosler Of Company L, formerly Company
B of Spokane.
81 will want % more men to bring the
company up to the new requirements,
said Mr. Koontz Il already have a half
dozen men in mind for this enrolment
and others who may want to go will find
me at number s Front avenue.
No, ! do not know about Company A,
but presume Sergeant Corey will be
along to recruit for that company about
the same time
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
WHILE WAITING FOR TROOPS.
Santiago Forts Destroyed and n
Good HarbOr Secured.

Off Santiago, June II, via Kingston,
June lS.-The weeks campaign in east
ern Cuba has resulted in the practical de-
molition of the outer Notifications Of
Santiago, in anticipation of the arrival
of the troops, and the occupation Of the
day are anchored such magnificent ships
as the Oregon and st. Paul, together with
the Marblehead, Dolphin, Suwanee and II
other auxiliary gunboats, colliers and
press dispatch boats, in an average depth
of II fathoms of water
The military resistance to definite oc-
cupation is practically closed since the
bombardment of Wednesday.
An intercepted official report of the
Spanish military commander indicates
that his military resources are exhaust
ed His soldiers are now on half rations.
There are supplies only for the remand
er of June. The commandant has al
ready seized all private drug supplies, in
order that they may be bestowed to the
use of the soldiers.
ped by Captain McCalla, not only proved
daring scouts, but turned out to be brave
fighters and good shots with the Lee
Metford rifles. Our own men are warm
in their praise and look for unexpected
ly STRONG cooperation on the part of the
Cuban army.
Carried Food and Gold.
Kingston, Jamaica, June lS.-A dis
ly strong Mantanillo, province of San
tiago de Cuba, received here today an
nounces the arrival there of the Spanish
steamer Purisima Conception, which
sailed from Kingston about 2 o'clock
Thursday morning with food supplies for
the Spanish soldiers and carrying, it is
understood, $4,000 in gold.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
SANTIAGO FORTS BATTERED.
Fleet Tore Great Holes il
the Protecting Walls.

Off Santiago de Cuba. Thursday,
June 16.--Noon (va Kingston, Jamaica,
June1O O.-Rear Admiral Simpsons fleet
tbomba rded the batteries at Santiago de
Cuba for the third time at daylight this
morning For hours the ships pounded the
batteries at the right and left entrance,
cnly sparing FL MORO. where Lieutenant
Hobson and his companions are in prison.
The western batteries. against which the
main assault was directed were badly
wrecked. One was utterly destroyed. In
the others many guns We're dismounted.
AT first the Spaniards replied passion
ately and wildly but impotently. Then
most of the guns were deserted. Not a
ship was struck nor a man injured on the
American side. 1t is believed the Spanish
loss of life was heavy.
Though the gun captains had been cau-
toned not to waste ammunition, but to
fire with deliberaton the fire was so
rapid that there was an almost continuous
report The measured crash of the big
1S-inch guns of the battleshps sounded
above the rattle of the guns of the sec
ondary batteries like thunder claps above
the din of hurricane. A strong land
breeze off the shore carried the smoke
of the ships seaward while it left a thick
curtain in front of the Spanish gunners.
Their guns responded sp1-tedly at first,
but their frenzied fire could not match
the cool nerve, the trained eyes and skill
ed gunnery of the Americans.
Our fire was much more effective than
in preceding bombardments. The admir-
ais ordnance expert had given explicit
directions to reduce the powder charges
and to elevate the guns so as TO shorten
the trajectory and thus to secure plung-
ing fire. AS the shells in the preceding
commandments dropped with the almost
straight trajectories of projectiles, with
full charges, it was almost impossible to
plant them. They would shoot into the
air, encircling the batteries owing to the
high elevation and fall far over the fortl-
fications. The effect of the reduced charges
was marvellous.
After a while Admiral Sampson slg-
nailed the ships to temporarily cease hrlaS
in order to allow the smoke to clear from
the batteries. When the order came at
$50 to cease firing every gun of the en-
emy had been silenced'for 10 minutes, but
as the ships drew off some of the Spanish
courage returned and half dozen shots
were fired spitefully at the Massachusetts
and Oregon, falling on their wake
Throughout the bombardment the dyna-
mite cruiser Vesuvius and the Porter oy
direction of the admiral lay outside OF the
right flank. The steam launch OF the
flagship scurried among the ships carry
ing messages.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
SEE A PIN, PICK IT UP"
All the Old Rules Fail in These
Days of the Germ.

All the Old Rules Fail In These
Days of the Germ.
1t may be before long that our pins
will have to be dipped in carbollc acld
before being put on our bureaus. For
pins have been proved to be prolific
source Of danger in spreading diseases,
says Harper's Bazaar All kinds Of germs,
it is said can be collected under the heads,
and nurses who indulge the feminine
habit of holding pins in their mouths lay
themselves open to serious attack. The
doctors who have warned the public say
that many of the so-called new pins are
not new at all, but have been picked up
in the streets and laid side by side with
the others. The idea is not an altogether
pleasant one, and is, moreover, one likely
to increase the uneasiness of the overfas
tidious.
There are some women now who are
50 afraid Of germs that they wash all
their gold and silver pieces before handl-
ing them. and who never allow bank
bill to go into their purses until it has
been wrapped in some kind Of disinfect-
ing paper. They even require the shop
girls who hand them their change to wrap
it in paper first What is to be done, if
all this is so, with the popular supersti-
tions about picking up all the pins that
one sees and never passing penny in the
street?
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
TWO HUNDRED NEW OFFICERS
APPOINTED FROM CIVIL LIFE.
second LieutenantS From the Ranks
and From Many States. None
From West Point-Names of Those
From the Pacific West.

Washington. June 2O--At late hour
last night General Corbin made public
the names Of the 1875 men selected for
appointment as second lieutenants i'll the
regular army to fill the vacancies created
/ by the act of congress adopting the three
battalion organization of infantry and
the addition of one second lieutenant to
all batteries to be filled to war strength
Each Of the l95 men selected will be
obliged to undergo an examination that
will be thorough test of his mental
and physical qualifications for the army
service. Those who pass the eNamina-
/ tion will be named by the president to
the senate.
TO the selection of men both the pres
ident and secretary of war have devoted
time and consideration. Out of the l95
appointed, 50 are known to be college
graduates, five of them honor men of
their classes-of colleges having military
ent institutions. Forty eight are now in
the volunteer militia service and l3 are
enlisted in the regular army.
Never before has there been such vital
ity and new blood injected into the mill
tary service. Army officers view with
satisfaction-West Point men more than
all others-that 81 different college no.
tions and methods are to be put OF trial
alongside of West Point and army meth
DDS. More than 1000 applications for ap-
pointmcnts were filed at the war depart
ment.
Civilian applications for appointments
as second litutenants. U. S. A., designat
ed by the president, include the following
from western states:
California Charles r. Lloyd, private,
battery A. Connecticut volunteers: Geo.
w. Bauer honor graduate, University of
California: James Malcolm Graham, col
or sergeant, First infantry, national
guard California
Idaho-Alexander j. McNab, Jr., pri-
vate, Company ID, First Idaho volunteers;
Joseph L. Gilbreth honor graduate, Uni
versity of Idaho.
Montana-Bryan Conrad, late private,
Z. S. Fourth cavalry, lieutenant Montana
volunteers.
Nevadl-Robert Brambila, honor grad
uate, state university of Nevada.
Oregon--Willam II. Jordan, Jr., Camp
II, Second Oregon volunteer infantry;
Ralph w. Terrill honor graduate, agri-
cultural college of Oregon.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
NEW LAND GRABBING SCHEME.
Live stock Company Claims the
Land Left Dry by RecedfnE
Waters.

Washington, June 20.-A case present
ing some novel and interesting features
has been argued before Commissioner Her
mann of the general land Office. 1t in.
wolves the ownership Of lands surround
ing Lake Malheur in Oregon and hinges
on the question of whether the owners Of
the land down to the waters edge in 1917
can now hold lands left dry by the reced
ing waters of the lake. The French
Glenn Live Stock Company is the appel
liant and claims under the surveys of 1877
and laws Of Oregon possession of land to
the waters edge Of the lake. Since that
year there has been subsistence of the
water and this company now claims the
vacant land as riparian right. A large
number Of settlers have filed entries for
this land in the local Offices of the depart
ment and now the question is as to the
title of the land exposed by evaporation
between 1877 and 1895.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
HEARTY WELCOME AT HAWAII
Manila Expedition Given u Good
Time ut Honolulu.

Victoria, B. c., June lS.-Advices to-
day per steamer Miowera from Homo
ln:l June 10. say:
The United States transports City of
Peking, City of Sydney and Australia ar
rived here together on the lst instant.
The voyage down was pleasant and the
vessels Travelled abreast most OF the way,
although it was necessary for the Peking
and Australia to slow up and wait for
the City of Sydney.
the Australia. The sick men were sepa-
rated from the other passengers on the
ship by being quartered on the hurri-
cane deck and the surgeons had the cases
we'll in hand when the vessels arrived.
As soon as the three vessels were
sighted all Honolulu turned out to wei
come the soldiers. The docks were lined
with people and as the vessels entered
the harbor the spectators yelled them
selves hoarse Such a scene Of enthu
siasln had never been witnessed in Homo
lulu.
When the vessels docked it was late
so the order was given to allow no one
ashore, but the next morning about half
the troops were allowed to land. During
the day they were given the freedom Of
the city. The men visited Waikiki and
other points of interest and had a pleas
ant time generally.
At noon President Dole and his cabi-
net received the officers of the expedition.
During the reception the steamers and
the grounds Of the executive building
were thronged with people.
On June 3 the soldiers We're entertain
ed on the grounds Of the executive build
ing President Dole was on hand to well
come them. The utmost freedom pre-
vailed, the affair being very informal.
TO each man the chief executive gave
word Of welcome to Honolulu. An out
door luncheon was served by the ladies
of the city.
The transports left for Manila on the
4th The Charleston steamed outside and
waited for the fleet, which got away
about 10 o'clock, with the Charleston in
the rear While the vessels were in port
they took in the neighborhood Of 1000
tons of coal.
OF the $500 men among the various YES
sells. but two desertions were recorded
and they are from an Oregon regiment.
Two other men were left behind one be-
ing discharged for disabilities and the
other is in local hospital.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
The Nicaragua Canal.

Washington. June 2O.-The senate com
mittee on the Nicaraguan canal today
agreed to report bill providing for the
construction of the Nicaraguan canal, but
on lines very different from those of the
bills previously reported. The bill au-
thorized today practically provides for
the construction Of the canal by the Unit
ed States, and provides for the payment
of $5,OOO,OOO to the stockholders for the
work already performed.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
Central America Is MisIed.

San Francisco, June 20.-The steamer
Newport, which has been chartered as a
government transport, has arrived from
Central America. According to stories
told by her passengers, the Central Amer
leans side with the Spaniards in the pres
ent war, although the governments of the
several republics are strictly neutral. The
natives think that Spain is getting the
better of the war; as Spanish agents
spread all kinds of stories about reverses
of the Americans. The news of Dewey's
victory was received with great surprise.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
ACTIVE AT GUANTANAMO.
Shells Thrown Into the Town
Spanish Messengers Captured
and Shot.

Mole st. Nicholas, June lS.-G:3O y. IN.
News from Guantanamo bay, up to tlis
morning, shows that naval operations
there continue most active and with the
| advantage on the side of the Americans
Yesterday morning at $3.50 o'clock the
Americans resumed the bombardment of
Guantanamo town and in the course of
an hour threw into it IS shells, great
majority of which appeared to have been
effective. Six of these shells were 3-inch
boys, eight eight inch and the rest small
er. The men in the tops could see many
The town, While others fell among the
shipping and commercial buildings near
the waters edge Smoke arose in dense
columns from the places where the shells
fell and it is believed the damage. both
by the impact of the missiles and conse-
qnent condagration, was very great.
On Thursday evening the ships had
thrown four l3inch and nine eight inch
shells into the town. This bombardmen,
began at o'clock and ended at 5 o'clock
Much smoke and confusion was discerned
in Guantanamo during its progress
Crowds of people and troops of soldiers
were seen moving about and the vessels
in port hurriedly changed their anchor
age.
Texas Battered Castle Socapa.
On Wednesday night the Texas penc-
trated into the bay of Santiago, passed
MORO castle and poured well directed
fire both on that stronghold and on the
castle Socapa. This battle began about
II o'clock and ended about midnight.
bo
iards and such as there was. did hardly
any damage. No one was killed on the
American ships in any of these actions.
The Spanish officers who were captured
on Wednesday at Guantanamo bay are
reported to be on board the Marblehead.
The news of the work on Wednesday
night by the Vesuvius and New Orleans
in Santiago bay is confirmed. The We
suvius threw shells into the water to ex-
plode the mines. while the New Orleans
engaged the Notifications along the short.
The Marblehead has captured Spanish
sloop in Guantanamo harbor and made
eight soldiers who were on board prison
erS.
Hold Guantanamo Bay.
The Americans are now practically in
full possession of Guantanamo bay and
the white tents of the land force present
a rather imposing spectacle. There is oc-
casional firing from the Spanish land
forces, but it is always inefficient and of
no Importance.
Day before yesterday our soldiers cap
tured at Guantanamo a Cuban with dis
patches which he was carrying to the
Spanish general. He was turned over 20
the Cuban commander and shot. Another
was also captured the same day under
similar circumstances. His fate is under
consideration.
Last night the Texas entered Santiago
harbor and inflicted much damage upon
the forts on the east shore. 1t is the gen
eral opinion among the naval officers that
the possible reduction of Santiago there
will be no more large operations during
the summer.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
Base Ball at Spokane.

Base ball dates for Spokane are as fol-
flows: Portland will play with Spokane
July 27, %, 80, 81, August 81, September
/, 8, 4, 5, s. Seattle will play with spc-
kane June %, %, 25, 26, July 20, 81, %,
"a September 7 8, 10, IL. Tacoma will
play with Spokane June IS, l6, IS, 10,
August 8, 4, 6, 7, September IA Is, II, Is.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
Put ON Their Good Clothes.

Beirut, June 20.--In view Of the ap-
preaching visit of Emperor William to
Palestine an aide-decamp of the sultan
is examining and having repairs made on
all the roads in Syria and Palestine, and
all the troops have been presented with
new uniforms.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
FOREIGN Warships Moving.

st. Thomas, June 20. - The Italian
cruiser Giovanni Bausan left today for
st. Lucia. The British cruiser Intrepid
has gone to Antigua, in the Leeward isl
ands.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
Struck by Lightning,

jacksonville, Fla, June 20. When
about to 60 in bathing at Plabt beach
yesterday James L. Gatewood, private
stenographer of General Fitzhugh Lee,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. Gatewood was from Richmond,
Va
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
Hawaiian Debate.

Washington, June 2o.-The quick dis
position of morning business and the
large attendance in the senate today IN
dicated the intention on the part OF the
senat tors TO press the Hawaiian question
to the front as rapidly as possible.
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he shall set legal posts or erect mont-
ments of earth or rock not less than two
feet high and two feet in diameter at
base, SO that such line can be distinctly
seem
Washington at Omaha.
''The Washington mineral exhibit at
Omaha is going to be crackerjack," sail
Captain Thompson last week. MIR. Arm
strong is exceeding all expectations in
getting together an exhibit of which the
state may well be proud. Difficulties have
arisen in the commission. due to the end
less jealousy between Seattle and Ia
coma. The Seattle papers accuse Chair
man Thompson of Tacoma of unfair
methods in turning down the proposition
to have state building at Omaha after
Seattle had provided the lumber and the
greater part of the cash. l do not know
whether the charge is we'll founded. The
Seattle Post-Intellgencer roasts Chair
man Thompson numerically. Some peo-
pie have thought it was l who was under,
fire, the initial not having been given.
The chairman Of the commission is Hon
George NJ. Thompson Of Tacoma. | only
have charge Of the mineral exhibit. ] do
not know how this building proposition
will shape itself. The last proposition was
to build very plain, one-room building,
making it strictly a lumber exhibit and
using in it large timbers which no other
state but Washington produces. This
could be built at slight cost, and the
material was all to be furnished. IT
would not have been handsome struet-
ure, but it would have been unique and
A meeting was held at Ia
coma the other day. The full commits
sion was not there, and the meeting de-
cided to dispense with the building. This
is the cause Of considerable bad feeling in
Seattle. 1T is hoped that matters may be
harmonlZed at the next meeting.''
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25

A leading physician says that pepper is
deadly poison to the system.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25

Importers say that revenue tax of
Zoe a pound on tea ought not to raise
the retail price.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25

Chocolate is used in the interior of
South America for currency, as are nuts
md eggs.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25

A newly discovered spot in the sun,
visible now, is 10000 miles in diameter.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25

A Catholic church is being built at
Ritzville
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25

tween posts Nos. and 2 so that it can be
distinctly seen, by blazing trees and cut
ting underbrush; and in locality where
there is neither timber nor underbrush
he shall set legal posts or erect monu-
ments Of earth or rock not less than two
feet high and two feet in diameter at
base, SO that such line can be distinctly
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-06-25
AMONG MINES AND MINERS
CONGRESS TALKS SMALL CLAIM
Washington at the Omaha Exhibit
Oldest Coal Mine in Europe
Legal Posts in British COlum bia-
New Road to Sylvnnite-COpper
Output in April.

+. L. Preston of Troy, Mont, announces
that the Troy Sylvanite wagon road has
been completed and opened to the public.
This road has been under construction
since January, 1897. The cost, including
the ferry across the kootenay river at
Troy and fine bridge over the 1ahk
river, is. in round numbers, $1,000. 1t is
said TO be one of the best mountain roads
in the west. The maximum grade in
either direction is only eight feet in 100
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-07

taken possession Of this commonwealth
and are trying to run 1t on royalist
rather than republican principles. In
the court house there now, your father
the friend of Franklin, sir, and the
upholder of the rights Of MANS be-
ing arraigned before judge who
wears an imported London wig AMI
gown warranted to be of the exact
pattern worn on the Kings bench. And
the sheriff has just gone into court
with a mace and sword carried before
him as If he were the lord mayor OF
London. Republican institutions VIII
go to the devil sir, if it is not stoppei
and stopped soon."
Having delivered himself of this har-'
angue without seeming to care whethcr
it would please the bystanders or not,
the tall young man shook hands twice
with young Sewer and turned toward
the court house, followed by cheer
from the tackles" or plebeians, as he
would have called them in the Ian
guage of the volume of Plutarch he
carried in his saddle bags He had
way of his own in getting through a
crowd, and few minutes later he was
in the court house and inside the rail-
ing. talking in low tones to two othc"
young men whose conversation showef
that they were law students and fierce
republicans like himself. silence III
the court" said the high sheriff, stern
ly, and the undersheriff, who held the
royalistic mace which had helped TO
occasion the "Jacobinlcal" outburst,
brought the handle of it down on his
desk in a series of menacing thumps.
AS the noise ceased the judge looked
over his spectacles at the prisoners
dock. THE defendant has heard the
indictment charging him with high
treason against the sovereign common
wealth of North Carolina, by the grace
of God free and Independent. Let him
stand up before the bar of this court
and plead whether he be guilty or not
guilty"
Sewer rose slowly. He was smooth
ly shaver, and his face, still unwrln-
killed., gave him the appearance of be-
ing 10 years younger than he really
was. He had dressed himself care
fully in the full regimentals of Con-
tinental colonel, and when he rose to
plead, the crowd outside, seeing him
through the windows and being safe
from the anger of the bench, gave it's
verdict in the case by lusty cheer.
The judge frowned. and the sher!ff's
mace once more pounded the desk. AS
the cheer died away Sewer began: