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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04
THE FLOOD.
RAILROAD.

hhiLkuAu.
The railroad forces worked up
TO Campbell creek beyond Bench
ley yesterday. They havesufIicient
timber TO put in the bridge at that
point. A force Of men is repairing
the track between Campbell's creek
and Hearne.
The Navasota river, which rose
TO depth of ten feet over the track
in the bottom at the deepest point,
and was probably a mile and a
half over the track was reported on
standstill yesterday afternoon.
The railroad bridge across the
Navasota was saved by the use Of
strong cables Sunday night when
the water threatened the ap-
proaches.
About twenty Of the Waterbound
passengers hustled out yesterday
morning, some north aud some
south on foot and on horseback.
Some went down to Millican by
train and expected to get through
the Navasota bottom by means Of
boats. Parties came up from
Nayasota to Bryan on the train
Sunday afternoon, having crossed
the Navasota bottom by means oi
boats.
Work along the Central where
damages have occurred is being
pushed as rapidly a. possible, but
is prevented at points below OF
the Navasota river and at Court
ney by water over the track. Mr.
Lee expects this will be of within
two or three days when the gapl
below will be closed up and more
men and material brought up L
complete the work above.
Supt. Daifan wires the II. & 7
c. is open from Calvert north.
The Santa Fe people expect 4
have the branch open from Nava
sofa to Conroe by Wednesday
night.
The /. & G. Ms reported opeI
with trains running from Houston
TO Palestine.
The Katy bridge on the Brazo
near Boggy is reported gone.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04
The |. & G. N"

THE ILLUSTRATOR AND GENERAL
NARRATOR OF Facts
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04

The populists Of Precinct 4, will
meet at the courthouse on Satur-
day the Slh day of July, 1899, at
2 o'clock p. m, for the purpose Of
organizing a precinct club and any
other business that may be neces'
slry to the interest Of the party.
d. d. Dawson, Pre-. Chm
Bryan, June 2S, 1899.
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See Battle OF Manila at Houston
July 4th 1900.

For special train passing Bryan
July 4 1899, l.5S a. M, II. q T. c.
will sell round trip tickets to Hous'
ton for l.75. Tickets good to leave
Houston on regular trains up IA
and including 800 "a. m. train
July 9Th. W. S. WILSON,
Agent.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04

Smoke General Arthur cigars-best
on earth--sold st the Exposition ss-
loon. l4itf
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Proposal.

Sealed bids will be received 10 July
Is, 1899, by the undersigned committee
for the furnishing Of so cords Of good
split wood; 60 cords for white schoo
and 20 cords for colored school, bids
TO he filed with j. A. Myers. Nothing
but good wood wanted. Committee re-
serves the right TO reject any and all
bids. ia. Myers, chairman,
NJ. Parker,
NJ. IL. James,
l7s 36 Committee
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04
A Bargain.

A second hand upright piano on pay
payments $500 per month. Address
]. NJ. willinghAm, Bryan.
The Bush & Gerts Piano man from
Dallas. ls4
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TIME Is MONEY"
"rhe Longest Way Round Is
Sometimes The Quickest
Way Home"

These wise old saws apply to the
new fast train service now in effect
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04

handsomely illustrated monthly publication
20 pages, engraved covers in coors, issued by the
& G. n. r. r. descriptive Of the matehess re-
sources Of and for the encouragement Of intelligent
farming, and industrial and general enterprise in
East, South and Southwest Texas. First issue
during March,
viii be sent to any address on receipt of 25
cents in stamps or otherwise to cover postage for
one year. or OF two cents TO cover postage on sam
pie copy. Address;
D. j. PRICE. C. p. s. T. A..
Palestine Texas
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04

via the Great Rock
Isla Route.
while not the short
line everywhere,
We "get there, -
which Is the main
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-04

point 10 be considered.
A whole business day saved is
one argument. A maximum OF
comfort by reason Of through SER
vice, modern equipment; rock bal.
last; in short, an up-to-date rail
way, are several other arguments
to assist you in deciding how and
VIA what route 10 purchase tickets.
The new schedule is as follows.
Leave Fort Worth. S:25 a. m: ar.
rive Lincoln, 7:l0 a. m: arrive
Omaha, 8. a. m, connecting at lat.
ter point with train through Iowa;
arriving Des Moines; 4:39 p. m.
CHAS. B. SLOAT,
G. p. ASC. K. /. IL T. Ry.,
Fort Worth, Tex.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-10-12

"a
Jhansi police, in which the latter were
completely victorious and the rem
nants of the gang killed or taken pris-
oners.
Having heard that the dacoits had
gone on a plundering expedition, the
assistant superinten dent of police and
the district superintendent Of police,
accompanied by 25 native police, start
ed in pursuit, and came up with them
on the side Of a hill, where they had
taken a strong position under an over
hanging rock which protected their
rear, while in front Of them and on
either flank were high rocks, with an
open plain beyond.
Finding it impossible, owing to the
nature of the ground, to dislcdge the
dacoits from distance, twas decided
to rush their stronghold, and accord
ingly they were charged by a party of
police from the front and anot her party
from the rear of the position. Both Of
fcers charged home, but the native po-
lice Jagged behind. Shots were ex-
changed at a few PAGES. and two of the
dacoits were killed, one of them being
Saleh Sahib, the leader of the gang. II
Z In q second attack each officer was
accompanied by one man, one of whom
was killed and another wounded
Eventually the three remaining dacoits
two of whom were wounded, laid down
their arms and surrendered.
This Illustration shows how they are
kept in restraint with steel hobbies
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Pianos Try Her Nerves.

A funny story about Miss Marie Co
srelli comes from Strat ford on Avon,
where that mystic novelist has been
living opposite young ladies' school.
appearsst hat il this school are many
pianos dali practice upon which BY
the pupils has been excessively dam
aging to Miss Corelliss nerves. Driven
ito desp ton, the New York Tribune
say she wrote to the principal of the
school asking that when pianoforte
practice was going forward the win
sdows might be kept closed, as the noise
|interfered with the progress Of literary
compositions. To which the schoolmis-
stress replied that If the noise would
prevent the composition OF another
book like the Sorrows Of Satan she
would order dozen more pianos.
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HORRIBLE PUNISHMENT.
How a Number Of Captive Dacoits Are
Jailed by the British omcials u 5
In India

For over q year much trouble has
been caused in the Jhansi district Of
the northwest frontier Of India by q
gang Of dacoits, originally between 400
and 500 in number, who have been wag-
ing a guerrilla warfare with the police
of GWalior and the adjacent British ter
ritory. In the frequent encounters
which took place the numbers of the
dacoits have been steadily thinned, un-
til a short time since they made q last
stand, when a desperate hand to-hand
fight took place between them and the
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\ q. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures lIIIl[lllIlDlNEIZ[It
lid q a[[D
RED WHire Blue YELLOW.
ORANGE FREE STATE flag.
(Queerest Combination of Colors in the
$tsi s. 1850 tyVorld \


WORLDLY
mainson the farms they had improved
and nbmit, to the impositionaof their
British masters. Some Of them settled
IN 1Natal, which was thereupon made a
British colony, leading to the passage
Of those to the north across the Vaal
river, where they found cd the South AZ
rican republic. Others moved further
west and formed a rude government
about 1888. Difficulties between Beers
and the Griqua natives were made pre-
text for British interference, and
Griquas and British fought side by side
against the burghers in 1845. Great
Britain then assumed control by ap-
pointing a resident governor, where
upon more Of the Boerswent across the
Vaal. About 5000 remained, and these
had constant quarrels with the British,
who, determined to make the Beers
submit to the yoke, annexed the ter
ritory and attempted to establish reg
ular colonial government. The Beers
reyolted under their leader, Pretorius,
and expelled the British magistrates.
Another force of redcoats reconquered
the Beers and maintained British rule
until 1858, when, after another year Of
intermittent fighting, the British a ban-S
doned the region and allowed the Beers
to form a government of their own I'M
der the name Orange River Free State.
No gold has been found in the country,
and SO there is no uitlander question.
But the Orange Free State Boersreaiize
that if the Transvaal becomes British
they will be entirely surrounded by
British territory and their independ-
ence will be of short duration. The re-
gion now has 237, 900 inhabitants, of
whom about one-t third are whites. Great
Britain makes no claim to suzerainty
over the nation.
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News in Brief,

Two Chinese laborers entered the
state at st. Vincent, but were appre-
hended by United States custom Off
Gals and are now in their custody.
While Ottie Darges and Abram An
derson, two small boys at Little Falls,
were quarrellng, young Darges stabbed
Anderson with a pocket knife in the
right breast. Young Anderson lis in
precarious condition.
The board Of regents Of the state
university has materially increased the
salary of President Northrop. He has
been receiving Sc, 900 per annum from
the state. Hereafter he will be paid
1925 every month instead of his former
monthly stipend of $500.
& "A flock Of 10000 sheep arrived at New
Brighton, to be fed during the winter.
State Auditor Dunn has sent notices
to county auditors that the states levy
this year is IA mills for the general
fund, the lowest in Is years Last
year, and for several years previous,
the levy was 1. 5 mills. 1t has not been
as low as that since 1884, when the
state called for 1.3 mills. The lowest
levy was IL mills in 1881.
Postofice service has been estab-
1lished at Visby, Kittson county, and
discontinued at Malmo, Atkins county.
The st. Paul plumbers who struck
recently have returned to work.
The Ramsey county courts uphold
the supple ntary school levy.
Free rural mail delivery will soon
begin at Rush City.
The total enrolment of pupils at
Rochester is 1000.
Articles of incorporation Of the Vir-
GINA & Ely railroad have been fled
with the secretary Of state. The road
will run through a rich iron district.
M. ]. Hogan & Sons store at Spring
value Of $500 taken.
In two days IL, OOo, 900 feet of lumber
was shipped. from Duluth in vessels.
The body Of an unknown man was
found in the river at Fort Smelling.
Mrs. Mar PEBBLES; an aged lady,
fell down stairs in Minneapolis and
was killed.
William G. Smith, st. Anthony Park,
has received the appointments Of field
assistant in the Departmental agricul-
ture, with a salary of 81, 900.
IS The Lake Superior Consolidated,
sometimes known as the Rockefeller
company. paid the state a fee Of S13, 2Oc
as q foreign corporation, aid am
nounced its intention to contest the
Econst OF the Somerville act.
Josie Swanson. aged years, was
burned to death in Minneapolis. She
was playing around a bonfire and her
clothing caught fire,
Mrs. Carl Stople, Of Minneapolis, died
from arsenic taken with suicidal in
tent.
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Butler has served il light campaigns in
Asia and Africa, and won medalsin six
of these, receiving honorable mention
in all. His experience in the Zulu war
will be Of value. On the retreat Of In
hooband he rescued two officers and
one private soldier whose horses had
given out, and who would have been
killed but for his assistance. During
the Boer war Of 1881 he was chief Of
staff to. Sir Evelyn Wood. Gen. Butler
is not popular with his men, for he is a
martinez and unusually severe, but he
is recognized as one Of the bravest and
sablest soldiers in Great Britain.
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ORANGE FREE STAT:
IT. IndepsndencesD epen d Altoeeth.
81 On the snecess Of Boer Dlplo-
NJ macysor9 Victory InNNar.

The stories Of the struggles Of the
Beers IA the Transvaal and in the
Orange Free State against their enemy,
England. are sostnearly alike that the
support rendered tie former by the lat
ter is not strange. As early as 1924
Dutch farmers from Cape Colony were
driven into the region across the Orange
river by the British prosecutions. When
the great trek came the Beers loaded
their chattels into great wagons drawn
BY oxen and went north to face wild
animals and savages, rather than re-
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CASE AGA INST BOERS.
English Preacher Historian on the
Transvaal Situation.
His Views Arc Heartily Applnuded by
the Jingoes OF Great Britnin-.
Has Nothing Good to sny OF
Dutch Africans.

% Il + ~ i taE Z
Such a case as Rev. W.iJ. Knox Little
cent work on South Africa shows that
ahe present contention is not a new
matter, or one which has arisen since.
the discovery of gold in the witwaters-
rand. So far from suzerainty being,
now asserted for the first time, it has
never been laid down, and there is no
time in the history of the Transyaal
that the overlordship of the British
crown has not been put forward as the
fundamental con sideration. The Beers
themselves do not date the existence
of the Transvaal government from the.
date of their wholesale immigration in
1886, and the fact remains that Presi-
dent Kruger and all those surviving
from The older stock were born British
subjects and have never had their al
legiance surrendered back to them.
s In 1888, two years after the grand
trek, the Beers beyond the Vaal were in
trouble with the fierce and war loving
--zuius. Sir George Napier, governor Of
the Cape Colony at that time, assumed
that the Beers were British subjects
as matter Of course, and sent British
troops to bring about peace, which
was soon after effected. At that time
Sthe trekkers were in sore straits, and
had England left them to their fate
there would have been no Boer gov.
eminent to-day to tell the tale. The
right division of the immigrants un-
der Peter Retief had been mercilessly
slaughtered by the great native chief
Dingaan at Umkingloo, or the Place Of
sthe Skull. and again at Weneen, or.
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WHAT ! rs ADO UT.
Is Succinct Account Of Our Little
Trouble with Canada
The aoId Disco vsrie. n Ala.lka Ha've
S Given New Value 10 the Coast
Line, and Our Greedy Neigh
Dor wants Part OF Ii.

< ~ ~
IT would be most deplorable if the
much-talked-of Anglo-American al
lance, toward which so much real prog-
ress has beeng made within the past
year, should suffer serious reversal over
a matter Of such comparatively slight
Importance as the possession of a few
hundred miles Of Arctic coast line. Yet
this is agsperil that threatens i'm the
strained relations between our govern,
ment and Canada arising out Of the
Alaskan boundary dispute.
This protracted boundary dispute has
reference to asnarrow, strip of terri
tory running down from the main body
of the Alaskan peninsula between Brit
ish America and the Pacific ocean, ter
minating at the border Of British Cos
lumbia in latitude 81 degrees 40 min
utes north This strip has an average
width of about so miles, and but for
the discovery of gold in Alaska it might
have been regard ed as not worth talk
ing about. 1t includesSa fringe Of is
lands along the coast, a number of in.
lets, and is bounded at the south ex-
tremity by anavigable channel known
as the Portland canal, and at the north
by similar passage known as the Lynn
canal. On the latter, and on Chilkat
inlet adjacent are the ports Of Taiya,i
Skaguay and Pyramid Harbor, COM
handing the three passes to the Yukon
gold fields, and Of great importance now
from q commercial point Of view be-
cause of this fact.
The United States, says Leslie's Week
", claims absolute sovereignty over all
this strip Of territory, Including the
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-10-12

stSe1Se W T 4y.l
Weeping. The requirements under
Uys, Maritz and Potgieter We're over
thrown soon after near the crossing Of
the Buffalo river. There was no doubt
about British sovereignty at that time.
It was not long after that a British
resident was sent to Bloemfontein as
IAN open expression of government.
When, in 1S4s, the Beers made trouble
for this official and shut him up in his
own house, Sir Harry Smith acted inn
mediately. With small but sufficient
force from Cape Town he met the trek
kers at Boomplatz on August 20, and
put them to rout, sreestablishing the
sovereignty of the Orange Free State.
$50 we'll attested are these facts that the
Beers do not pretend to have been in
sany way liberated from the allegiance
lowed to Great Britain until the Sand
river convention in 1852, when Pre-
torius began the admins tration Of what
he called the Dutch African republic.
But Mr.. Little SCOTS at the idea of there
being anything like a government in
the Transvaal atlthat time or for many
years afterward. There were perpetual
chickering's between Potgieter and Pre-
torius, and it is hardly to be said even
now that there is that maintenanceio Of
public order and administration of i'm
partial justice which are the essentials
of settled rule.
In 1857 the son Of the old Pretorius,,
then acting as president of the repub-
lie, invaded the Orange Free State. He
retired without firing shot, however,
and in the year 1859 the two countries
were united under his leadership. From
that time on for many years the force
of the Beers was used alternately in
4 fighting with Cetewayo, the Zulu king,
and in Wrangling over doctrinal re-
ligious questions at home. When Pre-
torius proclaimed the boundaries Of
the Transvaal to extend as far as Lake
Ngami he was forced to withdraw his
proclamation by the British, but not
until the great explorer, Livingstone,
whom the Beers hated, had been at
tackled by them at Kolsberg, and all
he. owned in the world put to fire. B
The British found the country de-
fenseless against a powerful foe, with
sout money in its treasury or other prop
ser means for representation. It kept the
/ descendants of the trekkers from the
assegais of the Zulus, as it had kept
their ancestors from them years be-.
fore. From that time to this there has
been no doubt of the British sovereign
sty. even though Gladstone was pre-
vailed upon to permit them to establish
their own government. This is the
British content ion as set forward by!!
Mr.. Knox Little. \, 81 3s5 8 81
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Fell from a Pillow and killed.

A farmer named Frederick Martin,
living in the town of Foran, about 10
miles south of Wells, was killed by
falling under a sulky plow. He had
been driving the team on the pillow and
was going to the house for dinner.
His son and a hired man went in ahead
of him, but when the old man did not
come they went to look for him. They
found him dead under the pillow. The
pole was broken and the horses had
run away.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-10-12
IGNACIO MARIsCAL.
scented President Diaz at the
Chicago Fall Festival.

Since the illness of his wife prevents
President Diaz' attendance at the Chi
cago fall festival he could not have done
better than send Ignacio Mariscal. His
minister of foreign affairs is his right
hand man, and no one in the govern
ment stands closer to the president. It
used to besaid, when Senior Romero was
alive, that Mariscal was Diaz' right hand
and Romero his left. No man now liv-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-10-12
aueen. ana Typewr,ter..

The queen Of England has great
dislike to- typewriter communities
tons, and does not allew any docu-
mentss that are supposed to emanate
from the sovereign to resent out type
written. The czarina, on the other
hand. has taken q great fancy to the
typewriter. and is The owner OF q ma
chine with type bars Of gold and frame
set with pearls.
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Took Their own Forks.

Before the revolution IN France IT.
was customary, when q gentleman was
invited to dinner, for him to send his
servant with 9 knife, fork and spoon
Or. il lie had no servants. he carried
themswlth him III his vest pocket.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-10-12

ports named. 1t rests its claim uponits
Interpretation of certain clauses in the
Anglo-Russiantr treaty of 1925, the United
States succeeding to all the rights of Rus
siaEWhen it assumed possession of Alas
la in. 1867. By that convention the
boundary between Alaska and British
America was fixed as either the noun
5tains Situated parallel with the coast"
or "a line parallel with the windings of
the coast, and which shall never exceed
the distance of ten marine leagues"
or about 80 miles. The chief point at
issue relates to the basis of measure
ment on the coast from which the 'sten
marine leagues are to be counted. Our
government has insisted that the sinu- /
osities or windings Of the coast men
toned in the Anglo Russian agreement
should form the starting point of meas
urement. This would give us the strip
of territory as it has always been repre-
sented on our maps Of Alaska, and the
absolute control Of all the seaports and
ports of entry to the Yukon mining dis
trict. ssIss:seesYss ss3
tits the Canadian contention thatth
starting point, or basis of measure
ment, should be q line. drawn between
two headlands at the mouth Of the
Lynn canal. This would give Canada
one OF more ports Of entry on the canal
and reduce the whole area of our pos
sessions on this coast by several hum
dred square miles. According to the
American measurement the village of
Klukwan, an indian village on the Chill
kat inlet, would be in Alaskan territory.
by about two miles, while thee anadi-
ans measurement would bring it with
in their territory. The ownership of
a valuable gold-mining district on Por-
cupine creek is also affected by the line
of measurement. Canada originally
claimed Taiya and Skaguay, but was
willing to abandon those claims if Pyr-3
amid Harbor, at the head Of Lynn canal,
were conceded to her.
"A joint high commission, made up Of
representa- from Canada, England
and the United States, was appointed
a year ago to settle several long -stand-
ing questions between us and Canada,
including the afur-seal and other fish
cries, transportati across the bound
airy, mining rights, alien labor laws,
reciprocity in tariffs and extradition.
The commission was in the way of COM
ing to an agreement on all these mat
tiers when the boundary dispute came
up. and on this rock the negotiations
went to pieces. Arbitra ton was pro-
posed, but here again there was an ir-s
5reconcilable di ference Of opinion as
to who the arbitrators should be, and
that resource came to naught. In the
case Of the United States, any compro-.
mise would amount to the loss Of its
whole cont ention, for once Canada is
admitted to.the Lynn canal the United
States would be deprived Of the only
weapon which it now possesses for the
protection Of miners going into the
Klondike from extortion, and perhaps
expulsion, by Canada. 1T was for this
reason that Secretary Hay rejected the
Canadian proposal to arbitrate, at
tended BY the condition that in any
case Pyramid Harbor should be be-
slowed upon Canada. ss
Ig777