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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
n WEAK SPOIL.
Vulnerable Bulkhcads Cause Most of
the Losses Mt Sea.

the Losses ut Sea.
1t is Il common belief among all who
have occasion to take IL sea voyage
that their safety on the water is pro-
vided for by the careful %shipowners in
large measure by the water-tight COM
partmcnts, with which all the best pas
sengcr steamships and all large battle
ships are fitted. Those who have
been on IL ship and seen how these are
arranged will form 81 wrong opinion
about them at once. 1t will likely oc-
cur to them that the boat is built with
these b%ulkheads as permanent spaces.
But this is not true. A passenger
steamer, for instance, is built in Sec
tons, and each of these on the several
decks are used as cabins, saloons, etc,
and they are connected by heavy iron
doors. 1t is the closing of these doors
when completes the bulkheads. Now
1t is obvious that the bulkhcad cannot
be any stronger than it's door, just as
a chain is no stronger than it's weakest
link. and it is all too true that as at
present constructed these doors are
dangerous and inefficient. They have
been the direct and known cause of
the loss of many lives and many good
ships, and il the truth could he known.
doubtless many Il ship on the list of
the missing and u%naccounted for could
be chargeable to faulty %bulkheads.
There are over $50 water-tight doors
and matches on Il tirst-class battleship,
and about 800 valves and CRATES CON
nected with v%entilating, draining. and
flooding the hull, and involving the
safety of the ship. 1t will he seen,
therefore, that the systematic control
and operation of these devices are of
no mean Importance. 1t takes ITO men
to look after these details alone in re-
sponse to a collision alarm, and it has
never been satisfactorily demonstrated
yet that this number are equal to the
emergency. The greatest danger that
is to be me- with at sea is that of COLI
sion. and against this the bulklead is
the chief and only protection. Yet. not
~witllstanding this, il put to the test, it
is doubtless the most vulnerable part
Of the shin,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19

The insurgents succeeded in landing ton
machine guns ut Capiz, OH the island of
panay.
McArthur's troops are considerably en-
servated by the heat and the fatiguc of
the campaign.
The insurgents of the province of Ca
site are preparing to make a desperate re.
-sistance to the Americans.
Gen. Luna masscd his army east of the
railway, bringing up troops by trainloads
in sight of the American lines.
"A accommodating party, sent out by Gen.
;I4awton, discovered the insurgents strong
ly intrenched ut San Ildcfonso, nine miles
north of Balinag.
During the afternoon of Monday Gen.
Mascardo, with n large retinue of off,
GERS, rode along the lines, frequently sion.
pins to harangue his warriors.
The transport Hancock, which sailed
from San Francisco April 1S, carrying
the Twenty-first infantry and Light Bat
terry II, First artillery, thirty-nine officers
n 1,451 enlisted men, has reached Ma.
Mia.
AT dusk Tuesday a detachment of rebels
rushed toward the outposts of the Mon
tana regiment, but were met by a hot fire
from the Montana regiments line. The
insurgents from trenches nearly three
miles long responded.
Senior Lopez, the Filipino agent in Lon
don, discredits the reports of the desire
of the Filipinos to surrender. He saws
Aguinaldo is still in supreme command
and c%ontradicts the reported division of
the Filipino forces under Mascardo and
Luna.
The United States Philippine commits
sion has been considering a provincial con-
stitution for the island of Negros, which
was framed by Col. Smith and leading ma
tives.
The insurgents assassinatcd NJ. Duma-
rias, n Frenchman, who had crossed their
lines under a flag of truce. He was me-
gotiating with the Filipinos for the release
Of Spanish prisoners.
The country between San Fernando and
Calumpit is filling up with natives, who
profess great friendship toward the Amer
leans, but who are suspected by many Of
sympathy with the insurrection.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19

braska colonel who only barks.-St. Paul
Dispatch.
Col. Fred Funston, the Kansas cyclone
in the tropics, is not Il Chicago man. He
didn't stop to boil the water.-Omaha
Bee.
Col. Funston can have anything he
wants in Kansas when he gets home, even
Jerry Simpsons socks, if he can find
them.-St. Paul Globe.
If the people of Kansas do not elect
Col. Fred Funston to something they will
miss a great opportunity to honor u real
hero.-Baltimore American.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
HIS sHELL a SUCCESS.
G%athmann's Gun Cotton Projectile
Tcsted at Sandy Hook.

Tested at Sandy Hook.
Louis Gathmann, the Chicago inventor,
achieved a remarkable triumph Mt Sandy
Hook. A big cannon loaded with n gun
cotton shell, to which was attached one of
his special fuses, was fired. The gun was
blown to pieces, but the shell remained in
tact, showing that through the device of
Mr.. Gathmann, u cotton shells can be
safely used in war as engines of destruc-
ton. The experiment further demon
strated that gun cotton will not detonate
when discharged by means of u high pres
sure.
1t was believed the cruiser Vesuvius had
made a new era in naval warfare when
gun cotton shells were discharged by pneu-
matte pressure. In the Sandy Hook cx-
pertinent the CUR was purposely exploded
in order to demonstrate that gun cotton
could be used with the minimum of dam
ger. The element of safety was introduce
ed by the Gathmann fuse.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
Latest Achievement of Science.

Wireless telegraphy gets here Just in
time to announce the arrival of cowless
milk.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Wireless telegraphy is evidently one OF
the solid scientific achievements of the
day.-Springfield Republican.
The Hawkeye believes the wireless telee-
raphy is n demonstrated event and that
it will find its practical utilities in the
commercial as well as the scientific world.
Burlington Hawkeye.
The successful experiments in wireless
telegraphy are said to be causing some
concern to the managers Of the telegraph
companies-but not enough to cause them
to stamp messages, as yet.-Tacoma
Ledger.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
sG74,0s1,O22

GrNnu tOs0l. ........... .SGI4, OS1, OS9
In addition to the specific a%ppropria-
tons contracts were authorized for in.
crease of the naval establishment and for
various public works throughout the
country requiring future appropriations
by Congress in the aggregate sum of
$11,041,274, including the following items:
Three new battle ships. three
armored cruisers and six pro-
tected cruisers, to cost, fnclud-
Ing armOr and ornaments. 80. .$44. 104, 800
River and harbor improvements. %, S68, 3oo4
Public buildings In various States,
including a new government
printing Office in Washington. S,1G3, $50
At an annual cost of $12, 15O,S67 new
Offices and ~employments to the number OF
49,639 are ordered, while those abolished
or omitted amount to $50, at an annual
expense of $SS43,371. thus n,aking a net
increase of Sill, 3O7, 400. OF this increase
3S.315 are for the military establishment
under the act increasing the efficiency Of
the army, and 9,572 are for the naval es-
tablishment.
A comparison of the total appropriations
of the third session of the Fifty-fifth
Congress for 1900 of $674,0S1, O22 with
those of the second session for 1859 of
$500, 2231,8 15 shows a reduction in favor
of the third session Of $21S,25O,503.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19

States aud of the request of Watson to
be assigned to duty. While it is impossi-
bic us yet to fix an exact date for the re-
turn of Admiral Dewey, navy department
officials express the belief that it will
only be a matter of n short while. They
base this opinion on the supposition that
the native army is about to surrender and
that the opposition in the Philippines can
not long continue. Even at this early date
the national welcome to Dewey on his
home coming has heen pronosed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19

the grief Of the bcreaved men and women
who our the loss of friends and homes.
Years will not blot out the memory of this
terrible storm, which left a path Of death
and desolation in its wake.
At Kirksville over 100 houses were torn
to splinters, and of the inmates of these
houses ION escaped injury-and many
met death; death came in all shapes of
horror, and the sights that greeted the
eyes Of those who were early upon the
scene after the fury of the wind had been
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
A CREMATION IN SIAM
Occasion Upon Which Relatives of the
Deceased EnioY Themselves.


If there is any time when the Siamese
may be said to hold sports, it is mt II
notable cremation. Ordinarily the dead
of Siam are burned at IL CHAT common
to all who annot afford the considera-
bic expense of Il private contiagration;
and when the wood of the funeral pyre
has been consumed, the body is well
roasted, and the attendant vultures are
given Il chance to clean the bones.
Those who can afford it build the funer-
al pyre within their private walls,
where festivities are held during the
burning, and invitations issued to
friends. that they may come and behold
the honor paid their dead. The bodies
of those intended for private cremation
are embalmed, and usually kept for
some time-Often many months. One
Siamese gentleman, when inviting me
to the proposed cremation of his BROTH
er, Informed me that the distinguished
deceased mad been awaiting combus-
ton for a year.. The extent and charac-
ter of the festivities on such an occa-
sion depend entirely on the length of
purse Of the deceased's remaining rela-
tives. But as the Hibernian clans of
Tammany Hall gauge the social impor-
lance and erstwhile political pulp of
Il departed brother by the number of
carriages his friends muster at the
funeral, so also in Siam the variety of
the funeral festivities mark the wealth
and status and the grief Of.the bereayed
family.
On the afternoon or evening of the
appointed day the guests assemble and
witness the simple ceremony of the
yellow ROBBED priests of Buddha.. Subse-
qucntly the nearest male relative fires
the pyre. and then, while the flames
crackle and the late lamented Kisses
and pops like Il green pippin ON a spit.
his grieving family and friends
merry over the cakes and sweetmeats
and wines, while men hired for the oc-
casion perform at several games. and
even, on rare occasions, do some little
running and jumping. The game near
est approaching one of skill is a sort
Of fence play with short sticks fastened
to both arms. Once in a while one sees
Mt these human barbecues a kind of
boxing, the art of which seems to he I'm
parrying with the arm and open hand
the thrusts that never have any serious
intention of landing.-Harper's Weekly.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19

spent. shall be memorable for their grue.
someness and ghastliness. The walls of
buildings fell with a crash that sounded
above the roar of the storm, burying peo-
pie in the ruins. frame buildings were
twisted and lifted from their foundations;
others were utterly demolished. pieces of
them being carried for miles. The bodies
of the storms human victims were found
hundreds of yards away from where their
homes had stood.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19

A warranty deed for I'M SO-acre tract Of
mineral land in Jasper County, Mo-, which
was recently filed with the recorder at
Carthage, bore revenue stamps aggregat-
ing 1914. The price paid for the land
was t844,C0.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
Tea and Conee.

An eminent physician says that no
person should be permitted to drink ten
or coffee until he or she has attained
the age of 10 years. In the young
those beverages unduly excite the
nervous system, and have an injurious
effect upon the digestive organs.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
a RODE TIE WINE.

s~eventy-fve New Graves Tell the
Story of Missouri's Cyclone.
The d~eath-dealing cyclone, of which
hirksville. Mo-. was the especial target,
was one of the worst calamities in the his
tory of the State. Seventy-tive new graves
is a most eloquent, and yet most terrible.
evidence of the awfulness of the storm.
In the hospitals and homes are 200 hui
man beings suffering from broken limbs or
worse injuries, and over all this scene is
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
Roman Remains.

Many Roman remains. including n
colossal head Of Marcus Aurelius, have
been dug up at Carthage by NJ. Gauck-
Ter, Director of Antiquities in Tunisia.
He seems to have reached the Roman
Carthage founded by Gracious, but
not to have struck the Phoenician CITY
as yet.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19

1t is estimated that England's stock of
coal will last 200 years longer, and North
Americas 600 years. 1t is not likely, how
ever, that these supplies will be needed,
as it is probable that before many years
have passed, power and heat, more econ
omical and better, will be secured in other
ways.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
WATSON ORDERED TO MANILA.
Wall Relieve Dewey When the Adj
miral Wishes to Quit.

miral wishc. to Quit.
Rear Admiral John G. Watson has been
ordered to proceed to Manila to relieve
Admiral Dewey as commander-in-chief of
the Asiatic station. Secretary Long said
that Rear Admiral Watson would not
succeed Admiral Dewey as a member of
the Philippine commission, and that the
Admiral will remain in Manila until the
commissions work is completed. The
orders to Rear Admiral Watson are due
to the limitations received from the Adj
miral Of his desire to return to the United
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
Pgzsfna ff|@s
IpREss
Filipino Peace Proposals.

Filipino Peace Proposals.
Pence must be made Oh cur own terms.
Nashville American.
Surrender first, peace and reconciliation
aftcrwards.-Louisville Couricr-Journal.
1t is regrcttable that there should be
any delay in arriving at terms of peace
Buffalo Courier.
1t is useless to urge that AguinaldO can
not surrender without the authority of the
COMPASSIONATE Bee.
Aguinaldo's effort to work the manana
game on Gen. Otis was not successful
Seattle Observation-Disclosures.
Self-preservation will force Luna to ac-
cept Gen. Otis terms of unconditional
surrender.-New York Mail and Express.
AguinaldO is the kind of general who
thinks twice before allowing a war to in
terfere with his summer vacation.-Wash-
ington Star.
Talking of peace cannot stop fighting
agreed to, for the serious part of the
rainy season is near ut hand.-Minneapolis
Times.
If the insurgents insist OH losing another
capital or two before making peace, Gen.
NtiS SuOulu uuSteu 10 Erutlfy tnclt desire
with all possible dispatch.-SiouX City
journal.
OF course Otis is carrying on the nego-
tiations with the Tagals badly! He is an
ignorant wardog on the ground, and the
know-it-alls here could tell him off-hand
that he ought to surrender uncondition-
ally!-New York Tribune.
Hero of the Hour.
Hurrah for Gen. Funston! He richly
deserves his Observation-Disclosures Tele-
graph.
Hail to Col. Funston. the unosculatcd
Hobson of the Orient!-Detroit Free
Press.
1t is Gen. Funston now. No American
volunteer ever deserved better of his coun-
try.-Washington Times.
Ten to n when Aguinaldo gets his last
ditch ready that man Funston will be on
hand to swim it.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Col. Fred Funston is so small that it
will be easy to Hobsonizc him when he
returns to this country.-Springtield Jour-
nal.
In the race for fame the Kansas colonel
who bites is several laps ahead of the Ne
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
Samoan Situation.

Mataafa probably begins to realize whit
is meant by 1.-THE power behind the
thrown."-Louisville Post.
Admiral Kautz's ready-made king is a
subject of the American people. Conse-
quently we can all reflect that, though We
have no king over us. we have one under
us.-St. Paul Dispatch.
It has already been the boast of the r.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain that he has
never taken physical exercise. Now he
is reported laid up with the govt. Serves
him right.-Boston Herald.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
Baby Industry.

1t is computed that 100000 babies
are born into the world every year,
which is ut the rate of 20 per minutes
or a little more than n per second. !
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
PERMIT FOR ANA
Conditions Arc Named Upon Which,
Channel Max Re Onened.-

Secretary Alger's visit to the Chicago
drainage canal resulted in the issuing Of
a permit for the opening of the big ditch
Us soon as the work has progressed suffi-
GENTLY to make that possible. The san
itary district of Chicago is permitted to
open the channel subject to three condi-
lions:
First. leaving it distinctly understood
that the Secretary of War will submit
certain questions that have been raised
to Congress, and that the permit is sub
ject to such action as may be taken by
Congress.
Second, that if Mt any time it appears
that the current created by such drainage
work i'll the south and main branches of
the Chicago river are unreasonably OBJ
structive to navigation or injurious to
property, the Secretary of War reserves
the right to close or modify the discharge
through the channel.
Third, that the sanitary district of Chi
cago must assume all responsibility for
damages to property and navigation inter-
ests by reason of the introduction of q
current in the Chicago river.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
ToTAL IS Be74. ee ,o22.
ofRciai Report on Appropriations o

Official Report on Appropriations Of
the Fifty.ffth sangress.
The appropriations made by the third
session of the Fifty-tifth Congress amount
to $G74,9S1 ,0222, according to the volume
relating to appropriations, new offices,
ETC.. completed by Thomas +. Cleaves and
james G. Courts, chief clerks of the Sem
ate and House Committees on Appropria-
lions. The appropriations We're as fol-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The insurgents succeeded in landing ten
machine guns at Capiz, on the island of
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-19
The Ball Teams.

The New York team is the laughing
stock of the country.-Ncw York EyeninS
World.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-23
End of Powell County.

| the failure of the state senate
TX Yesterday to reconsider the vote
of the previous day on the bill
for the creation of Powell county that
bill is now officially dead 1t is well
that the bill was killed and it is credit
able to the state senate that it refused
to pass a bill so nanifestly unjust.
The citizens of Deer Lodge county
did not ask for the division of the coun-
'ty and did not desire it. With two or
three exceptions, the only residents of
this county who worked for the division
were men named as officials of the new
county in the bill. The effect of the
passage of the bill would have been to
make the present taxpayers of Deer
Lodge county support two sets of
county officials and bear the expense of
two county governments instead of one.
No class of people could have been
benefited by the creation of the new
county.
The Standard has said nothing here
tofore in regard to the bill, feeling as
sured that the legislature would not
pass a measure in support of which
no argument could be made. There was
some talk about taxation without rep
resentation.' The claim was made that
people in the northern part of this
county, while paying their proportion
of taxes. have little representation in
the county government. AS a matter of
fact, the heaviest taxpayer in the pro-
posed Powell county had the bill pass
ed, would have been the Anaconda COM
pany. That company owns large tracts
of land and regularly employs four
hundred or five hundred men in the
timber districts within the limits of the
proposed county. The next heaviest
taxpayer to the Anaconda company
would have been the Northern Pacific
railroad company. The taxes collected
in the proposed Powell county, outside
of that collected from these two heav-
lest taxpayers, would not have been
sufficient tot pay the cost of keeping
in good condition the roads and bridges
of the county.
The only people benefited by the pass
age of the bill would have been the in
dividuals named in it as county officials.
1t was wise thing to kill it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-23

bill means the investment of mucn
more capital in Montana, and that
means the employment of great many
more men. The governor has made
good official. He has had the interests
of the state at heart and it is not be-
bill Gf so much merit and of such vital
interest to the people of the entire state.
There has never been a bill passed in
Montana which will do more for the
state of Montana, and the statements
approve it must be regarded as prepos-
ferrous
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-23
Justice Brewers View.

Z N a recent speech at Buffalo, N Y,
| Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court spoke strongly in op-
position to the policy of imperialism
He confined his talk mainly to two
propositions, one that the islands be
made United States colony, and the
other that the inhabitants be made our
fellow citizens Against the colony
proposition ne said that I'VE stand con-
secrated to the single political idea of
government by the consent of the gov
erned, and to introduce into the life of
the nation the other thought of gov
eminent by force is at the very outset
to precipitate conflict which sooner
or later must inevitably result in trou-
BILE
In regard to the idea of making the
various tribes in the Philippines fellow
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-23
The French Pretenders.

0NE of 1.-THE best assurances that
THE French republic will con-
tinue doing business in spite of
the present little disturbances is the
fact that those in France who favor a
change are not able to agree among
themselves and instead of acting in
unison against the republic will oppose
each others claims. The Bourbons and
the Oreanists each have a claimant to
the throne of France, and the Bona
partists have two claimants. The head
by seniority of the Bonaparte family is
Prince Victor Bonaparte. He has is
sued proclamation to the French peo-
pie in which he sets forth his claims
and outlines what he would do as en-
peror if the people will give him the
so shape themselves that the empire
should be restored, Victor would be
the fifth of the Napoleonc line. The
second Napoleon never reigned. The
third regned several years longer than
the first, but ran up against Germany
d. the "IUliS llIlle anu was uepOSeQ 10
make way for the republican form
of government. The fourth of the line
died at the hands of the Zulus while
serving in the British army in order
apparently to demonstrate to the glory
loving French people that all military
genius did not die with the original
Napoleon.
Victor Bonaparte is a grandson of
Jerome, who was brother of the great
Napoleon. He is not, however, alone
in the ambition to be emperor of the
French. His younger brother, Louis
Napoleon, is much more popular with
the Bonapartists. He is an officer in
the Russian army and has married into
one of the smaller royal families of
Europe.
1t is believed, however, that the re-
public is not through doing business
yet. Its enemies are not united and
there is no strong man to lead the OPP
position. Things are always uncertain
in France and there have been many
changes in the form of government in
the past century. The present republic
however, has remained is control sever
al years longer than has any other form
of government since the French revo-
luton