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The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
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SUM MONS.

State Of Colorado-County of Fremont-ss :
In the County Court.
Jose Ilozaso, plaintiff, VS.. Nicolas Lozaso,
defendant.
The People OF the State of Colorado. to Nicolas
Lozaso, the defendant, allowed named,
Greetings
You are hereby required TO appear in an ac-
plNintift, in the county Court of Fremont Co.
State OF Colorado and answer the COMPLAINT
therein within thirty days after the service
hereof, II served within the State of Colorado
or by publication; or, II served out of the State
OF Colorado. within fifty DAYS after the service
hereof, exclusive OF the day of service; or said
action may he regularly set for trial the same 5
though such appearance had been made and
issue had been Joined on such complaint
The said action is brought by plaintiff to OBJ
tain IA decree of divorce, dissulYing the bonds
of rnatrimony now existing between plaintiff
and defendant, on the ground that since the
marriage OF plaintiff and defendant the said
defendant has wilfully, and without cause or
from plaintiff for the space of more than one
whole year last past and upon the further
ground that for the space of more than one
whole year last past defendant has failed to
make reasonable provision for the support of
plaintiff, he, the defendant being in good
bodily health during all of said time and fully
able to provide for and support plaintiff and
to recover costs: and for general relief as will
more fully appear from complaint in said ac-
tion to which reference is here made and n copy
of which is hereto attached.
And you are hereby notified that If you fail
to appear, and to answer the said COMPLAINT as
above required, tho snid plaintiff will apply to
the Court for the relief therein demanded.
Court, at Canon City, in said County this 10th
(Ssal) JAS L. COOPER,
d-w4 Judge and Acting Clerk.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Groom Connp.d to His Bed with 9
Broken Leg. the Result of an As-
cideut ON the Cruiser
st. Paul.

Ensign William Van Nest Powelson,
oEe of the survivors OF the bsttleship
Maine and hero of the war with
spain, was married in his room ia the
Episcopal hospital. Philadelphia, TO
Miss Margaret Olivia Millar, of wyo-
ming, o., daughter OF Col. Millar.
l.. 5. ~
Around the ceremony was an air
of romance. Ensign Powelson could
not stand as he made the promise 70
cherish the woman who was about to
become bis wife He was kept pris-
oner in bed by a broken leg. The wom-
an who cheered him in his sickness.
who cared for him and supplied him
with delicacies, was his bride. She
was his nurse, but her services were
those of love. She had long been hi.
sweetheart. and when he was sick she
insisted on nursing him. The cere-
mony over, she assumed the right TO
keep on nursing him because she was
his wife.
Ensign Powelson asked to be trans
ferred to another warship. AS soon
as the war broke out he was all eager
ness to fight and to strike for the
Maine. He was burning with rdor 10
avenge the blowing up of the vessel
in which he took so much pride. He
was finally assigned to the auxiliary
cruiser 81. Paul. and though this was
not an actual fighting ship he was
with his old commander. Capt. Sigs-
bee. and he expected that the St. Paul
would he able to fight little against
some of the smaller Spanish war yes
sells.
He had long been engaged to Miss
Millar. But for the breaking out OF
the war the couple would have been
married late in the spring. Ensign
Powelson was doomed, however, to be
placed out of the fighting force by an
inglorious accident. Stepping back
ward on the deck of the st. Paul one
day he fell down an open hatchway
and his leg was broken.
The almost cheerless hospital room
had been transformed into a veritable
bower of roses for the occasion, and,
notwithstanding the temporary in
firmity of the groom, the occasion was
as Joyous and happy as though the
marriage had been celebrated in the
church in Wyoming o.. where it was
originally intended that the couple
should be welded.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS.
Our Democratic Ways as Compared
with the Manners of Our Eng
Iish Cousins

The contrast between our own
people ard those of Europe. even those
of England. is a striking illustration of
the elevating poNcr of the assurance
that each America feels. not only of
his equality before the law, for the
Englishman certainly feels that, but
of his equality NJ power in the con
troll of the government and the making
and administration OF its laws. Our
critics say that we are ill-mannered.
and that services TO which we are en-
titled. and which we have the right to
command. are often insolentiy rem
dered. and are hurled at us az if they
were favors grudFinely given. Ii is
to he regretted that there is much
truth in this criticism. But whatever
may be said about the manners pre-
vailing in a democracy, the most in
solent car conductor and hackman in
America is much more pleasing per
son than an obsequious retail trades
man of European capital. We know,
at least. that the son of the insolent
American is likely to be better than
the father, and that the son of the
European tradesman is likely to i'm
herit the business. the social posi-
ton, the Ignorance and the genufiec-
tions of his ncestors.-Henry Loomis
Nelson, in Hnrper's Magazine.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Music "A. . Cur. for Neuralgia.

Long-drawn arpeggio chords on the
pianoforte have been found efficacious
as panacea for neuralgia in the case
of William f. Gladstone. Music alone
relieves him, it is said. of the intense
agonies he suffers, and in order to nf-
ford him relief a young lady, who is
STAYING with Lady Clara Spencer, comes
in daily and produces weird chords that
prove completely consolatory to the
grand old man. In some cases, it is
TO be feared, the discourse of long
drawn arpeggios would prove a worse
remedy than the disease, but, after all,
the music cure is no new thing, and
any method by which the wonderful
old statesman can get relief must be
eagerly welcomed by his friends.-Chi-
cago Times Herald.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
How Fast Things Co.

4 mathematician has compiled the
following list of speeds second: The
snail, one-haf inch; man walking.
4 feet; fast runner, % feet; fly. "a
feet; fast skater, IS feet; carrier
pigeon, 81 feet; locomotive-60 miles
an hour-ss feet; swallows, 22o feet; /;
the worst cyclone known, $50 feet; the
Krakatoa wave-at the volcanic catGs-
trophe of August %, 1893. in the Sunda
islands-940 feet; the surface of the
globe on sea level at the equator, 1900
feet; the moon, $3.50 feet; the sun,
5H miles; the earth, is miles; Holley's
comet in the perihelion, 235 miles; elec-
trio current on telegraph wires, 1000
miles; induction current, 1,O40 miles:
electric current in copper wire arm
atures, 81 900 miles; light, $50, 900 miles; !;
discharge of Leyden jar through cop
per wire one-siIteenth of an inch in
diameter. 277.100 miles, which is said
to have been the highest velocity meas
ured.-Chicago Tribune.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
A GRATIFYING SHOWING.
Latest Report show. That Practically
All the States Have Supplied
Their Quota of Troops.

The war department feels that it
has reason to be gratified with the
results obtained under the first and
second calls for troops by the presi
dent. The statement just issued shows
that practically all the states have
supplied the quotas called for in these
two calls. 1t is explained that the dis
crepancy between this statement and
the one published week ago. which
caused so much criticism and put sew
eral states, including Massachusetts,
Nebraska and North Carolina, in the
anenviable condition of having CON
tributed only small number of the
troops called for. was caused by the
fact that owing to failures to make
prompt reports these states appeared
to be deficient.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
SPY FOOLS THE sPANIARDs.
Special Government Agent of United
States Sees Csmara's Fleet
Depart.

Diplomats and military and naval
men are talking of little else now than
of the remarkable exploits of United
States spy who was lionized in Madrid
and Cadiz, and even dined with Ad-
miral Camara before the now cele-
brated ''Suez canal squadron" sailed
from Cadiz.
This spy, or Confidential agent OF
the United States government" was
West Pointer, holding n commission a ;
captain of the Second Texan rangers.
His true name has not been disclosed.
In Madrid he was Fernandez Del
Campo. He arrived in Madrid seven
or eight weeks ago in the guise OF =
wealthy Mexican gentleman. He hired
n suite Of rooms on the first floor in
the finest hotel OF the Spanish capital
and was soon great favorite in So
ciety, and was known, by reputation at
least, in every Madrid drawing-room.
Fernandez Del Campo spent month
between Cadiz, the dock yards AT Car
raca and the arsenal OF San Fernando.
lie stayed in Cadiz for day or two
after the departure of CaInara's
squadron. He witnessed this event on
board one of the admiralty's launches.
One morning three Spanish gentle
men were walking up and down in
front of the Hotel de Paris as f they
were waiting for somebody. They
were detectives sent to arrest him. a
week later he was in Tangier spe aking
remarkably good English for "Mexi-
can"
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
synopsis of burglaries, forgeries,
robberies, cases of swindling, and
blackmail, and the like.

THERE is a man in the Delaware
state prison who may claim the
championship of the worlds poly
gamists. Detectives who have
looked up his record claim that in
forty-seven years he has married
fifty-fve women, and in some way
or another defrauded each one of
them. Congressman-elect Roberts
is only an amateur.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Glorious News

Comes from ID. b. Carlyle, of Washita
!. II. He writes;" Four bottles of Eiec-
trio Bi ters has cured Mrs. Brewer of
ser fula, width had caused her great
suffering for Years. Terrible sores
would break cut on her head and face,
and the best doctors could give no
h Up; but her cure is complete and her
health is excel mt This shows what
thousands h,ve proved that Elec-
tn Bitters is tn" best blood purifier
known its the sup eme remedy for
ecz ma, tie r, salt rheum, ulcers.
hoils and running sores. 1t tstimulates
| yer kidney, and bowe,s, eXpels po-
sons. teps digestion builds up the
st ensh Only so cents Sold by j w.
Yelton.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

GENERAL BROWNING suggests 8
that the Legislature should be
turned into a society affair at leas t
one evening in each week Moth
IN was said about teaching Del
sarte and the other little incident
ais necessary to graceful move
ment, but it is not improbable that
such an idea is implied. Members
of the legislature should become
leaders in the battle for progress
in the state rather than lions in
society. There are too many frills
attached to the skirts of legisla-
ton as it is. What the people de-
mand is good, practical common
sense and honest toil,-Denver
Times.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

THE United States Criminal
Record is new Chicago publica-
ton, G. j. Stillwell. editor. 1t is
an illustrated journal of practical
aims and wide scope. 1t will be
useful to the thief catcher and
profound criminologist alike. The
contents of the initial number are
in part Endorsements of this new
enterprise from high sources,
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

NONE but select few, and these
the most influential of our public
men, have any idea of the embar-
rassments to which our govern
ment was subjected during our
war with Spain from the lack of
merchant ships and seamen. Dis
aster threatened. many times, just
on this account, the details of
which cannot be fully disclosed.
1t is to prevent a recurrence of
such danger that Representative
Payne and Senator Hanna have
introduced, in their respective
branches of congress, identical
bills, the purpose of which is to
grant to American ships in the
foreign trade compensation suffi-
cient for them to cope with the
shipping of foreign nations now
enjoying governmental aids aggrc-
eating much more than twenty
millions of dollars each year. The
bill ought to pass at this session.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

The Leadville News-Reporter
devoted three columns of last Sat
urday's issue to the police court.
The editor waxed facetious in his
account of the various cases, and
the slang he "slung" would indi-
cate that he is well versed in bar
room parlance.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

Mr.. CARNEGIE declares there is
no truth in the story that he Of
fered to pay S20,D0o,O0o for the
Philippines in order to give the
natives independence. 1t was an
absurd rumor. Whatever Mr.. Car
negie may think about the Philip
pines, he knows that the natives
cannot be intrusted at present with
the government of the islands, and
that their independence would
mean anarchy, the expulsion or
massacre of Europeans, and the
return of the people to a condition
of savagery. Such a result would
not be worth S20,OOO,oO0 of any
body's money. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

EurOpe's Increasing Population
Fifty years ago the population of
Europe was about 5o.Oo0 600; it is
to-day considerably over 360, ,00O. 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09

hogany is the scarcest and most Valu-
able timber known to the lumber
trade. The tobacco crops Of this wear
will be $4,000 sefons, OF l10 pounds
each The country is in fine sanitary
condition, the interior furnishing ex-
cellent springs for drinking water,
while rain water is caught in shallow
vessels for drinking purposes in the
cities. There is nothing offensive in
the way of sewage in any Of the towns,
notwithstanding the fact that there are
as yet no waterWorks in the Republic
of San Domingo, exc ~ ct points along
our railroad.
LAS to the peopie-tn- c5untry peo-
pie 1 mean-at first the boys and girls
go abroad perfectly nude. The first
article of apparel is invariably a hat;
the next a pair Of shoes. After awhile
the boys wear belt and knife, and
the girls short dresses.
notwithstanding the present insur-
rection, commerce is not affected. San
Domingo was never SO prosperous as at
the present time. The present gener-
alton does not inherit the revolution
airy propensities of the last and former
generations. The country people do
not want to fight, either for the govern
me,t or against it, and not infrequent-
ly, in order to avoid military service
they take to the bush"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09
WHITE RULE WANTED.
A Revolt Against a Black Minority In
Santo Domingo.

Andriano Grullon, a representative
in New York of the revolutionists Of
San Domingo, who is now in New
York, said to a Tribune reporter:
This revolution is an effort of the
white men to wrest the control Of the
HeureCx was negro; Figuereo is al
so a negro, and practically all the men
in power are negroes. In short, the
negro is supreme in the government.
notwithstanding that the pure whites
of the island-that is, those descended
two-thirds Of the population. But
nero rule might have been tolerable
had not the negroes virtually under
taken to drive the whites out. BY OPP
preston, confiscation, Imprisonment,
murder and what not, they have tried
to make the island a place a white man
could not live in. The white men, who
comprise also the majority Of the edu-
Gated, enlightened and liberal people,
have concluded to take things into
their own hands and institute a de-
| cent government. Jiminez was on eX-
cellent terms with Heureux, but jim
inez was the only Dominican whom
! Heureux feared. Jiminez built a canal,
diverted river to its old mouth at
Monte Christi, reclaimed a large log
wood district from swamps, and in re-
turn received from the government a
tn oil ;r+v ;a4
exported logwood, and it was the foun-
dation of his fortune. By and by jim
inez found that he had given Heureux
100000, and that the latter was de-
handing more. He refused to give
! again, and he and Heureux ceased to
be such cordial friends"
E. D. York, secretary Of the San Do
mingo Improvement Company, said to
the same reporter:
When town surrenders the
insurgents take the defeated
| government troops with them
All government employees, the police
watchmen, etc, are armed " tn Rem
ingtons and revolvers. An American
is as safe in San Domingo as he is in
New York-safer when the trolley anG
cable cars are considered.
''The chief cause Of dissatisfaction
and uprising in San Domingo is the
currency question. A man who ha:
prestige and who can obtain loans i:
the man the natives are looking for a:
president. Jiminez is hardly the man
He is well known in New York, Ham
burg, London and Paris. where hi:
banking houses have suspended. The
chief products of San Domingo are to
bacco, chocolate, fruits, wood, honey
beeswax and hides. The best mahog
any in existence grows there. Ma
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09
when buying from wholesale dealers.

when buying from wholesale dealers.
On the other hand, it is alleged by
the firm which adopted the new sys-
tenn Of testing that chemical analysis
| will fail to afford the desired informa-
ton, with a number of drugs For in
stance, strophanthus and digitalis are
substances whose active principles are
well known; but these cannot be as
sayed chemically, it is asserted, be-
cause the glucosides to which they owe
their activity are OF such delicate
structure that they decompose in pro-
cess of extraction, and so prevent
cumulative estimation. Ergot de-
mands ''physiologic testing" because,
Notwithstanding the Investigation
which has been lavished upon it by
scientists, no one has yet succeeded in
isolating the definite component which
duplicates the action of the drug; this,
of course, renders any assay by chemic
methods very unsatisfactory. Regard
ing aconite, the statement is made that
there are several alkaloids present, and
the relative proportion Of the active
and inactive alkaloids is variable:
hence, the ordinary determination of
total alkaloids is not a safe exponent
of the therapeutic activity Of a prepa-
ration of this drug. In the case of
squill and convallaria majalis the lack
of definite knowledge as to the active
principles or accurate means of sepa-
rating them renders chemic assay
abortive. III cantharides the quantita-
tive separation of the cantharidin in
medical preparations is too inaccurate
to warrant general acceptance
The same general style of argument
is followed in several other instances,
and the claim is put forward that a
distinct improvement has been made
in methods of ascertaining the virtue
of drugs. At any rate, costly and ex-
tensive laboratory has been fitted up
for physiological testing" and it aims
to reveal the action of various drugs
on the heart, respiration, blood vessels,
kidneys, intestines, other organs,
nerves and muscles.-New York
Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09
CURIOUS A1.uGHING PLANT.

The laughing-plant grows in Arabia
and derives it's name from the effect
produced by eating its seed. 1t is Of
moderate size, has bright yellow flow
ers, which grow in tufts, and leaves Of
a dark green color. It's fruit is a pod
or capsule, stuffed with velyetlike pad
ding, in which lie snugly imbedded two
or three seeds resembling small black
beans.
The natives dry these beans and then
reduce them to powder. When ad-
ministered in judicious doses the pow
der produces effects very much like
those arising from the inhalations Of
nitrous oxide, or, as it is called laugh
ing gas"
The person to whom the powder is
given shouts, laughs, sings, dances and
acts in a ludicrous way. His merri-
ment lasts for about an hour, and then
he quietly falls asleep. After several
hours he awakens and has not the
slightest recollection of anything that
he said or did while under the in
f1uence of the powder.
It is said that an overdose of laugh
ing-plant powder is likely to cause
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09
Spelling A MORAL.

speaking Of the demand for work
in the cities and for workers in the
country, of which so much has been
said recently" remarked the farmer
from Wisconsin, reminds me of lit
tie experience I had recently. I
needed two men to help me with the
thrashing-only wanted them for two
days, you know"
81 know all about it," asserted the
wise man. while you were securing
the country for some men to work a
whole lot of idle men were hanging
around the cities waiting for some
thing to turn up. That's always the
way. | recall"
will you let me finish my story?"
interrupted the farmer.
"Sure. Go ahead
well, I'll bet 1 went to every farm
house within five miles of my place in
any direction, and not one of them
could spare man. They were look
ing for help themselves.
"Of course" broke in the wise man.
why, the first words you said gave
me the cue to your story, and 1 could
have told it myself. l tell you, gentle
men, the trouble is that men all want
to be in the city. They won't go where
work is to be had if it takes them
away from the city. If they were will
ing to go out and work in the fields
there wouldn't be half so much suf-
fering as there is. /"
Twill you let me finish my story?''
interrupted the farmer again.
ooh, beg your pardon. l thought
you were through. How did you come
out?"
CAT every place I went" continued
the farmer, "they said they would
spare me a man the next day if they
could, and if they heard of anyone
who was looking for work they would
send him to me, but 1 couldn't get
anything definite"
$50 you had to postpone your
thrashing," suggested the wise man.
mo" answered the farmer slowly
Eighteen men showed up the next
morning ready to go to work"
"Oh!" said the wise man. 1t was all
he could say.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09
A REMARKABLE LOUISIANIAN.
Amassed Fortune of 100000 ano
Never Learned to Read.

The most remarkable man who has
developed in Louisiana in the last
half century died in this city tonight
He was Leon Godchaux, who came to
Louisiana a young Jewish peddler
from Bavaria, without the vestige OF
an education, and who by a phenom-
email business instinct amassed a for
tune of nearly $1O,OOO,OOO, and won the
admiration Of the entire business
community. Only in recent years was
GodchauX able to write his own name
and he never learned to read.
At the time of his death he was be-
yond doubt the highest sugar planter
in America, and he it was who de-
veloped the sugar business in it's pres
ent centralized system and caused the
abandonment of the old-time in
dividual plantation sugar houses,
which added much to the pictur-
esqueness of the sugar business, but
were great loss to the state output.
When GodchauX first came to
Louisiana it was with a pack on his
shoulders, which ne carried from plan
tation to plantation along the
Mississippi river, and he was
driven off as vagrant from
some of the plantations which he
afterward acquired. 1t is said in fact
that the young man shook his fist at
one arrogant planter and vowed he
would own the planters home. This he
did. Godchaux first entered into the
clothing business in New Orleans and
his establishment is still the largest in
the city Later he embarked in the
sugar business, and exhibited a
shrewdness in his operations that
easily ranked him as the most expert
sugar man in the state. His business
rapidly widened, although not
owning as many actual sugar lands
as the recently deceased Gen. Porcher
Miles.
Mr.. GodchauX was born in Herb
villiers, France, in 1920.-New Orleans
Correspondence New York Tribune.