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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-05
NEW FOrRTH-CL4SS POSTW4SpERS.

Washington. April i--1'he following were among
the fourth class postmasiers appointed to-day
NeN-Jcrsey-Cape May Lillian +. Young
w-Nork --IindeburG George Baldwin. Hun
phreysville Louis +. Ashley Lake Delaware Wnl
lam T. Mason North Conesus. Gertrude 4. Jewell
Sterlington. - Monatt. Jr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-05
LAND APPRAISERS APPOINTED.

Albany. April John O. Deubert OF Brooklyn,
and George Bingham. OF Bunslo. were appoin'ea
appraisers of State lands by the State Land board
to-day at a salary of 81 800 year each. They sue
cesd George Sheldon. OF Buffalo. and James D.
Patton. t'ticn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-05
STATEMENT FROM NELSON MORRIS & co.

Washington. April A representative Of Nelson
Morris & co. tonight made the following state
ment concerning to-day's beef inquiry:
Tho original complaint. far concern
was involved. made by a discharged cnplOyc.
who reported 10 the Secretary OF Agriculture that
quarters Of beef had been taken out ~ the tank.
This complaint founded tho statement Of
another discharged employe. Dr. Devoe made his
Investigation. and we gave him every assistance.
knowing that If condemned beef had been removed
from the tank 1T by who had access
ana who dill IL his responsibility. Ger
tainly tho first knew OF IL when DR. Devoc
called upon The testimony OF the discharged
employees was never substantiated. and We have
niwaYS insisted there valid ground upon
which to base inquiry. but gladly courted
Il. with the result as Dr. Devoe states. that no
case was made out. As to there being foundation
for complaints about other packers at that time.
In Nn not hing Sav.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-05

States "s
The bill was advanced TO the order Of Ansi ma
sage 49,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-05
RESPECTS TO WAR COMMISSION.

Here DR.. DAILY took occasion to pay his re-
spects to the War Investigating Commission. be-
fore which he had appeared. lie said tho Com
mission had given out the impression that the
deterioration Of the beef the Panama was
due to want of ice. This was contrary to his
testimony. and the truth could easily have been
aacertaned. As a matter of tact. the Panama
had an excellent refrigerator and it carried ten
tons OF ice 10 one OF beef. Tie also referred to
the criticism in the War Commission of his use
c. the expression In his report that the smell
about the beef was like the odor Of boric aciG.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-28

"AdaOs, .Stincho! HdSt0 otT0 Uistn!"
be cured only in dry climate, but the
war office knew as we'll as the navy de-
partment that it was an affair of the
heart and not of the throat.
He WASH t the first man by any man.
ner of means to fall in love with Made
leine Torrance, the prettiest girl and
most unprincipled flirt that ever wore
the navy button or tormented sailor
father Blake sought the toughest duty,
that of escorting inspectors staff off
GERS or paymasters on their wearisome
trips through the wilderness, and no ono
denied him. The cavalry was short of
officers, and he got assigned to San
ford's troop, aud the biggest surprise
that had come since his commission met
him one day at ella Bend when that
same old red stage, relic of California
days, emerged from the dust cloud of
Its own manufacture and a quiet youth
In pepper and salt and sand colored cos
tune looked up from behind pair of
green goggles and said Hello, Blake!'
1t was the voice. not the face. that
the tall trooper recognized.
"Well-of-all-th e-why, what iu
the name of Pegasus brings you here,
Loring? | thought You had graduated
into the engineers. y
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-28
said the newcomer senten-

fact, said the newcomer senten-
tiously
"Well, what's an engineer doing in
Arizona? re as soon look to SEQ en- arch
bishop.
Scouting, said the dust colored
man. "Where's dinners"
sin the shack yonder, II your stom-
achs copper lined Better come over to
my camp ard take pot luck there. :"
Which Loring gladly did and then
went on his dusty way, leaving Blake
with something TO think CT besides his
own woes Within half a year of his
graduation from West Point the yonng
engineer, one OF the stars Of his class,
had been ordered TO report to the gen
eral commanding Tire division of the
Pacific and was set to work on mill
tary map in that generals Office lior-
ing found all maps of Arizona to be
vague and incomplete and was ordered
forthwith to go to the territory and
gather in tho needed data. That he, too,
should be lasslorn never for moment
occurred to his comrade of the line
Had such facts been confessed among
the exiles of those days many a COM
radeship of the far frontier would have
been strengthened.
That the girl who duped Gerald
Blake should have been known to her
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What Sancho said IN answer is not
recorded, but now he was watching the
coming of the stage from Yuma. Some
one had warned him Lieutenant Blake
would return that way, ordered back to
the old post, to the north, as witness
before an important court martial.
Those Were later termed "the days of
the empire" in Arizona. Perhaps 5000
souls were counted within it's borders
at the time our story opens not count
ing the soulless Apaches. Arizona had
the customary territorial equipment of
governor and certain other officials
Nine men oat of the dozen Americans
IN the only approach to a town it then
possessed-Tucson-would have said
"Damfino" if asked who was the sec
rotary, but al men knew the sheriff
The grave, cigarro smoking, serape
shroudea caballeros who rode at will
through the plaza and ogled dark eyed
maidens peeping from their barred win
dows could harbor no interest in the
question Of who was president of the
United States, but the name of the post
commander at Grant, Lowell or Grit
tenaen vas housonold word, and in
the eyes of the populace the second lieu
tenant commanding the paymaster's
escort was illimitably "a bigger man
than the thrice distinguished soldier
and citizen whose sole monument up
to that time was the flagstaff at the
adobe corral and barracks sacred to his
name.
Mr. Blake had never been in such
God forsallen country or community be.
fore, but there was something III the
utter isolation, the far stretching waste
of shimnering sand, the desolate noun
tain ranges sharply outlined hostile and
forbidding, the springless, streamless,
verdureless plains of this stricken land,
that harmonized with the somewhat
savage and cynical humor in which be
had sought service in the most intolera-
BILE CLINE then open to the troops of
Uncle Sam. Blake had been Tilted and
took it bitterly to heart Wearing the
willow himself, he cherished it as the
only green and growing thing in the
ella valley, whereas had he sought
sympathy he would have found other
young gentlemen similarly decorated,
and therefore as content as he to spend
the months or possibly years of their
imbittered life just as far from the
madding crowd and, as Blake cynic-
ally put it, "as near hell.
Blake was a man of distinction, as
relatives went, and those were days
when friends at court had more to do
with fellows sphere of duty-very
much more-than had the regimental
commander or even the adjutant gen
eral Blake took Arizona in preference
to tour in the signal Office at Wash
ington He wanted to get as far away
from the national capital and the favor
lite haunt of "the army and navy for
ever" as he possibly could. 1t was the
most natural thing in the world to him
that he should ask for duty in the land
of deserts. centipeds, rattlesnakes and
Apaches. He put it on the ground of
a serious bronchial trouble which could
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-28
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-28
CHAPTER III.

just what an officers actual rank
might be in the days that followed close
on the heels OF the war was matter no
man could tell from either his dress or
address. Few indeed were they who es-
capped the deluge Of brevets that poured
over the army and soaked some men six
deep
There were we'll authenticated cases
OF we'll preserved persons who had never
so much as seen a battle and were vet.
ON one preteAt or another, Lrevetted
away up among the stars for faithful
and meritorious service recruiting.
mastering or disbursing.
We had colonies by title whose fuuc-
tions were purely those OF the file closer.
We had generals by brevet who had
never set squadron in the field and
didn't know the difference between a
pole yoke and u pedometer.
Every captain, except one or two who
had laughingly declined, wore tho
straps of field officer, some few even Of
generals, and SO when one heard mil.
itary looking man addressed as colonel
the chances were ten to one that he
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-28

Several personal letters tell to the ground.
who had captivated Mr.. Loring was
suspected by neither officer at the time.
and that despite the efforts and the res
olution of both men both women were
destined to reappear upon the stage and
temporarily, at least reassume their
sway was something neither soldier
would have admitted possible. Yet
stranger things had happened, and
stranger still were destined to happen,
and the first step in the drama was
taken within the fortnight of this
chance meeting at ella Bend.
Sancho, studying the coming stage
with Blake's binooular until it diyed
into the arroyo 500 yards to the west,
handed that costly instrument to the
silent dumpy, dark skinned woman
who stood patiently at his side and said
briefly "Dos, at which she vanished,
and after restoring the glass to its hid
ing place in her bedroom was heard up
lifting a shrill, raucous voice at the
back of the house ordering dinner to be
ready for two. When the vehicle came
rafting up to the door, Sancho stood at
his threshold, the old lorgnette in hand,
bowling profoundly as two travellers,
officers of the army apparently, emerged
in their busters and stiffly alighted.
Have any letters or dispatches been
left here for me?" asked in quiet tone
the elder of the two, limping slightly as
he advanced leaving to his comrade the
responsibility of seeing that none of
their luggage had been jolted out of the
rickety vehicle
One or two hangers on came languid.
ly yet inquisitively within earshot
For answer the ranchkeeper, with an
other elaborate bow, produced a bulky
official envelope. The officer glanced at
the superscription, said, "This is for
me, % strobe within the adobe walled
corral, halted under screen OF brown
canvas and there tore open the packet
Several personal letters fell to the
ground, but he paid at first little heed
to them. Rapidly his eyes ran over a
sheet of closely written matter then he
turned to the silent and ceromonious
ranchman.
"When did this Gomez" he asked.
AT sunset yesterday. senior conan
dante'
where's the COURIER
He returned before dawn today"
The loungers drew still nearer as the
senior calmly turned to his companion,
who, having assured himself that their
impedimenta were all safe, came with
quick. springy step to join him.
Where do you suppose Blake and
his detachment to be at this moment.
Loring?"
perhaps 80 miles ahead sir. over
toward Maricopa. Do you need him.
colonel?''
Eyes, and at once. Our bird has
flown. In other words Nevins has
skinned
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01
Do We Want Pure Water.

J.E W. Richards, a we'll man from
Arapah0e, was in the city the fore part
Of the week, having come here Mt the
request Of the city authorities for the
purpose Of looking over the ground TO
secure q supply of water sufficient for
our city's needs. Mr.. Richards is a
practical well man, and clearly demon
stratcd tn the authorities that plenty
of pure water could be had at the site
of the small test well put down last
week In fact he 10 so sanguine OF 1t
that he is willing to make "A contract to
put in . well at that point and guarantee
it to furnish 100, 600 gallons OF water
per day. He offers two propositions to
the council, As follows: FIRST, to make
n system of ten drive wells along the
course Of the gravel bed found in the
test well and connect the same to the
pumping station 10y pipes, for 1925
when the above ten wells shall have
been successfully driven and finished
and on a test will supply 100000 gal.
Ions per day, more than can be at pres
ent obtained. Second, to make n well
sixteen feet in diameter, bricked up,
with eight sandpoints on the inside OF
said well, driving same through the
DTltk Slutt lntItOl w u uiStdutS VI
from fifteen to thirty feet into the gray
oil, wherever required to obtain the
greatest flow OF water. This well vii
cost 81, 900, payable after 1t has been
completed and connected to pumping
tation, and upon test will supply 100,
900 gallons Of water per day, more thar
is AT the present time fur nished by the
water system. These are the W prop
ositions as submitted by Mr.. Richards
and they certainly seem very fair inns
much rs he is willing " guarantees hi
work aud insure n plentiful supply o'
pure water, something this city ha,
never had. However, the city council
has ns desire to call down upon then
heads the maledictions OF some un
grateful people for such useless expen
diture as some choose to call 1t, with
Jut giving everyone an opportunity Il
express their views OF the question
For the purpose of getting me senti
ment of the people on this subject thu
mayor has called u citizens meeting
tor next Monday 0night at 8 o'clock
at the Fireman's Hall at which Mr.
Richards will be present and thorough
ly explain his proposed plans, ant
everyone interested in pure drinking
water should be there. II you wan
pure water that will be the time to 81.
so, and il you don't care enough abou
pure water T. attend the meeting at
say SO the council may take II to
granted that you are satisfied wit
water filtered through pig peus, Gov
yards aud piles in dry weathe
when the water in the present well
gets short, and let the pure water ques
ton drop. II you are interested al
tend The meeting.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01
Communicated.

To the EditOr-ln keeping read up 10
the Dreyfus case, is one not struck with
The farce which il being played in the
trial ~ Of the prisoner, and feel at the
same time grateful for having been
| born in the Unit, 4 States of America
IL would he n strange proceeding IN
the eyes Of any American who could
witness it and more so to an American
lawyer familiar with the civilizedlmeth.
DDS Of finding the truth.
IN tead Of telling facts men simply
get up aud make speeches, aud state
conclusions aud call each other hard
names. Up to this time there have not
| been one hundred words of testimony
introduced agair.t Dreyfus hut would
have been promptly aud properly ruled
out by an American Judge.
IL 1t were a habeas corpus case In Ne.
braska, Dreyfus would not have been
detained in custody over night and II
France would permit us TO send over
one good justice of the peace with a
copy Of "Greenleaf on Evidence" he
would IN a day hear all material and
competent testimony, restore the pris.
oner to his family, declare the court
adjourned, and, with his "Greenleaf'
under his arm, come back to Nebraska
and serenely taSe up the work laid
down for the occasion, and feel that he
had simply performed a reasonable
service I o a falsely accused citizen of a
sister republic, aud dealt out a good
strong blow in the interest OF human.
ity.
No sooner does a witness conclude
his testimony than some fellow hop.
up and asks that he be confronted
by the retiring witness, which reques
is granted, and then begins another
scene such as is simply Undesirable
so full of spleen Is it, and so exceeding
ly ridiculous as often,imes to set thu
spectators in q roar. Now this court
martial trial il not so much for tn
purpose Of Furnishing Dreyfus AS it i
for n vindication Of the Army" u vas
majority Of the French people believing
that the army is second only to the Al
mighty, il second to any power what
ever whether on earth or in the skies
and would, doubtless, stand up for tn
army at the expense of meeting wit
divine disapproval.
Imagine that you are attending tn
trial and that you are straining ever
nerve to catch each syllable as it fall
from the lips of NJ Bertillop, one o
the star witnesses for the prosecution
and you are RECALLED with the following
as one Of his very strongest argument,
in proof of the prisoners guilt: eth
handwriting Of the borderaulobeys a &c
omotrical ry hm, Of which d~iscovere,
the equation in the prisoners blottinI
pad"
Why! the palmiest days Of the -
- county bar, when the member
chewed black Navy plug and spi
across the table n, n another an
made faces behind the judges back
sink into no%thinguess when compares
with the antics of most of the witnesse
and lawyers for the prosecution in tn
Dreyfus case.
II now remains to be seen whethe
the Court" will have the manliness t
declare the innocence of the prisoner
and that, too, Outside Of Fran ce) wit
the approval of the whole civilize
world. j. M. CHAFFIN.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

A man with a poor memory lives IN
Mcpherson, Kas. After buying n safe
for the storing Of his valuables, he
penciled the combination on the plas.
tered wall neal the safe. A few days
later he had the walls whitewashed,
and, of course. the pencil figures we're
obliterated. He had 10 have the safe
blown open and his wife blew him up
for his stupidity.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01
GUIDE ROCK.

A. Ii. Crazy returned home Monday.
Still the town lots are being bought
up.
II. Is. Hunter shipped a car of cattle
Tuesday.
o. A. Edgerton is here from Iowa
this week.
). A. Redden expects To make his
home in Oregon in the future.
Chas. Gay and Geo. Payne returned
from their western trip Thursday.
D. q. lLeith bought u car load Of
horses aud shipped them from here last
Friday.
/. Is. Colvin sold 5. A. Redden's
farm last week To n. &. Simpson OF
Chase, Co. Neb.
Mr.. Lowry received a telegram We'd
nesday announcing the death of Mrs )
Vandoran formerly of this place, al
White Cloud, Kansas.
Alexander Phillips, Geo, hagan, Geo
Aughinbaugh, aud probably some
&c. A. X, encampm..t u, p-!.adel
phia.
As Milton Fail field and Winfield Hen
~ we're going home from town Tuss
day night, their team became frighten'
ed al u maslif dog about mile ,asi
of town aud ran away, thro wing then
out and injuring Fairfield so bad he had
To be carried home on a cot, but Henr,
escaped uniniured, One of the horses
was badly injured.
Harvey Horn is down from Blue Hill
this week. AMIDOwN.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

Thirty five dollars for a piano, five
dollars for q billiard table, twenty-five,
dollars for four watches and clocks,
ninety dollars for three horses and
three carriages, five dollars for n sew.
ing machine, and household goods to
the amount of $3.50, are the values
placed upon bis personal belonging
by Mi. VIM. j. Bryan in answer To the
tax assessor of Lincoln.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

j. w. Runchey has, at the earnest
solicitation of his friends, decided to
again be a candidate for the office OF
sheriff. For q time John positively re-
fused to be a candidate on account OF
his other duties, but now that he IL
foot.loose he has at last succumbed To
his friends wishes. II past records
count for anything John will be found
q strong candidate, as for four years
be made one OF the best sheriffs Web
ster county ever had. He proved him
self during his term OF office 10 be q
natural born criminal hunter and nc
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

An Abilene man turned his eyes from
things and so invented an ideal pancake
turner. This is not strange where the
women run to clubs so universally, and
where the pancakes must bake and turn
themselves automatically or give way to
bakers read. However, over in this
neighborhood the ideal pancake turner
also sings, talks a little, wear a white
apron and chews gum.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01
Good Enough to Take.

The finest quality Of loaf sugar is
used in the manufacture Of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy and the roots
used in its preparation give IL a flavor
similar to that Of maple syrup. making
II very pleasant TO take. As a medicine
for the cure Of coughs, colds, la grippe,
Group and whoOping cough 1t is un
equalled by any other. 1t always curet
and cures quickly. For sale by II. f
Grice.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

Mr.. Bryan thinks the present pros.
perity is only imaginary. II you had
been getting $500 per day tor speaking
and found the price cut to fifty per
cent and weak at that, you would have
the same opinion.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

Next Tuesday evening 8 o'clock at
the Fireman's Hall and Roby's feed
mill is the time and place set for hold.
ing the republican primaries.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

II the managers Of the Hastings street
fair will agree to cage and exhibit the
poetical editor OF the Tribune, we
might be induced to visit that place
during the fair, We always have had
a kind % hankerin' to see the critter.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01
Republican County Convention

republican county convention for Webster
county In hereby called TO meet at the court
houseiu Red cloud on Thursday, september
7th. 1921. at A O'Clock am. for the purpose OF
nominating candidate for the sttice OF
CLERK OF the District Court,
County Treasurer,
County ClerE,
County Judge,
County superintendent OF Public Instruction,
County Sheriff,
County Coroner, "a,
County Commissioned for the First and Fourth
Districts. ~
Also 20 elect delegates to attend the Judicial
convention TO be held ut Hastings, Nebraska, on
the 10Th day OF Septemt er, 1879,
Ais to elect delegates to the state convention
TO be held nj Omaha on the 2lst day OF Septem
Der, 1899.
The various townships aud wards are entitled
to representation as follows, based on the Not,
Tor Hon. NJ. l.. Hay ward la 1898. for governor
allowing one delegate for each zen votes. and
major fraction thereof so cast and one nj large
for each township or ward to wit;
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01

This story Of the latest confidence
scheme Tor fleeing the unsophisticated
farmer is going the rounds Of the
country press; A man who represents
himself AS a travelling preacher calls
and asks TO remain over night. Before
the hour for retiring a young nan and
woman come along and ask IL there
is not a minister in the house who eau
perform q marriage ceremony. Oi
course there is. Tue young couple Join
hands aud the farmer aud his wife
are asked TO sign the marriage certif'
! cate as witnesses. The certificate af
terward turns upDas a promissory note
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-01
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