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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

DR.. c. A. Place, president Of South
west Kansas college, has purchased a
rice plantation Of 1000 acres at Beau
mont, Tex, near Port Arthur, and
has it already well equipped. he will
retain his position In the college until
the end Of the present school year.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
For Sale.

A good paying, well-establishsd
business; small capital required. Al
so two full blooded-P -Percheron stall
lions, two full-blooded Percheron
mares, and three or four three-quar.
ter bred mares. II the above stall.
lions are not sold soon would let them
out on shares for the season. Call on
or address j. A. Stevens, Wellington,
Kansas. II
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
He Killed a Spaniard.

Harley MOyer Of Conway Springs, a
soldier ia the late war with Spain,
was in The city Thursday. Beside
bearing the distinction Of being the
only Sumner county boy who killed
a Spaniard in the war, he has IA
record of narrow escapes noG cqualIed
by many persons.
Meyer was a private in the Fourth
Ohio volunteer infantry lie enlist
ed in the fourteenth OHIO national
guards, Governor McKinIeq's Old Is,
cOft, few days after the declaration
of war. His company enlisted 10 the
Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry in d
body, and vas placed in General
Miles command. The Fourth OhiO
embarked from Newport News for
Santiago de Cuba aud touched Santi-
ago while Miles was there on an
inspection of the American troops
then in the trenches They proceed
ed to Pu>rtO Rico under tue com
mand OF Gen. Miles and participated
in the triamphal march through the
island.
1t was while doing picket duty in
Porto Rico that Meyer killed Span
lard. The American troops bad cap
turtd the town OfGuim, after driving
the Spania ds into the hills. The
Americans also captured an impor-
TINT bridge and road leading into
Guam, and stationed Sentinels to
gu lrd the highways. Meyer occupied
the extreme outpost, at the bridge
Three companies of Spaniards who
had been driven into the hills, de
sired TO capture the bridge aDd
station their artillery there. They
panned to kill Meyer without alarm.
ing the other sentinels. Meyer SAW
a sneaking Spauiard in the under.
brush detailed lC aSSlSSinate him,
aud he dred at him, killing him. The
shot alarmed the sentinelS and three
companies Of American soldiers came
to his aid. The Americans, number
ing about 300 men, captured the three
companies of Spaniards, numbering
about 400 men.
When peace was declared the
Fourth Ohio embarked for New York
from the island of Viequi, Uff the
western coast Of Porto Rico. From
New York they went to Philadelphia,
and from there TO Washington,
where President Mckinley gave them
a reception and shook hands with and
spoke to each and every member oil
the regiment. From Washington
they went to Columbus, where they
were mustered out about two and a
half months ago.
Meyer Is still a member Of the Ohic
national guards.
Besides having many narrow es
capes while in the army, Meyer has
had some thrilling experiences il
private life. His hair was turned
white by his experience in the st,
Louis cy clone. He was pinned to the
ground for ten hours by the jOist of q
building that had been blown down,
and every minute expected pile Of
iron and stone TO fall upon his head
and crush the life out Of him. Two
feet from him, pinioned by the samt
timber, was a woman whose life
slowly went out while he was unable
to lift finger for her or himself
Fire was rapidly eating its Wa!
toward them, and but for timel!
rescue he would have been burned Il
death.
A few years ago Meyer was in 1
disastrous railroad wreck at the Han
nibal bridge Of the Hannibal & st 10,
railway. His escape from death il
the wreck was most miraculous.
He is an exceedingly interesting
Young man, is well educated and is
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
WELLINGTON KANSAS TUESDAY, MARCH a. Soo-FIRST SECTION

good cOGyersatiOnalIst. He speaks
Spanish flnently, and may decide to
return to Cuba and seek his fortune
there in private pursuits.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21
Best Of All

To cleanse the system in gentle ard
truly beneficial manner, when the
spring time comes, use the true sed
perfect remedy, Syrup OF Figs. Buy
the genuine. Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for
sale by all druggists, at so cents pei
bottle.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

An original widows pension Of o6
per month has been issued to Mrs,
Mary z. Baughn Of Oxford.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21


only one death resulted.
Mrs 0. G. Allen aud r H. Massen.
gill OF Caldwell, were injured in the
Il elk Island wreck at VoIand Fri.
day. Mrs. Aliens lip was cut and
her ankle sprained. MasSengill was
hurt in the shoulder, scalp, leg and
thigh. The Topeka Journal gives the
best account of the wreck: The train
left Alma, the first station north of
VOlland, on time and had reached a
speed of 80 miles an hour by the time
1t reached Volland station. As the
wheels Of the-engine tank struck the
wJst switch at the station they sud-
denly f3g the track, The tank break
ing loose from the en- ine and dragging
the combination baggage and mail
car and the smoker down the embank-
ment. The coach aud chair car tipped
ullf way over and remained in that
position. The Pullman sleeper in the
rear alone kept therais. The engine
tank and the baggage aud smoking
ears toDpled over on their sides on the
embankment. Aim st instantly FIRE
broke OUT in the baggage car, suppos-
etly from the broken lamps. There
were 81 passengers On the train at the
time OF the accident, the majority in
the derailed cars. When the cars left
the track they were thrown from their
seats in all directions. The lights
went out aud CONSERVATION seized
them 10 the darkness. Ia the SmOk-
ing car men broke through the win.
d)ws and clambOred over the side of
the Car in making their escape. The
passengers in the coach and chair Car,
men and women, rushed for the doors
aud jumped from The platforms down
The slight emAankmeut. In a few
minutes the cars were entirely emp
lied. By tn It time the baggage car
was 10 llImes and before anyone
realized that the baggsgeman had not
escaped it was too late to save him.
1t is supposed he was pinned down by
the falling truuks, and unable to
assist himself was burned to death
uuder the load Of baggage. A few
charied bones we're the only remains
found among the wreckage Of tue
burned car. The mail clerks in the
other end Of the car made their escape
by crawling over the side. The fire
spread quickly from the baggage car
to the cars behind it, and 10 short
time all were in flames. The Pull
man was saved by being pushed back
few feet from the burning chair
car. Before the relief train sent out
arrived at the scene Of the accident
the four cars we're mass Of wreckage.
VOlland is not night station, and IL
was half an hour after the accident
occurred before the word was received
at the Rock Island Offices in Topeka.
Conductor Thomas and Engineer
Riley, with engine 922, were 10 charge
OF the train. The cause Jf the derail-
ment can only he surmised. The
wheels Of the engine passed safely
over the switch and the wheels OF the
tank were the first to leave the track.
1t is believed that the nange on Que
Of the wheels gave way as the tank
struck the switch. When the tank
broke loose from the engine 1t pulled
it around across the track and there
it remained. The engineer and fire
man were considerably shaken up, but
not injured 10 the least.
Best Of All
To cleanse the system in gentle ard
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15
FROM HILO NEWSPAPERS,

Activity In Promotion OF Plantation
-KeRistration, Etc.
T. M. Rowland is seriously i'll
with malaria fever.
Frost at the Volcano House on
Sunday morning last is the latest
news of interest from that resort.
So low temperature is very rare
ly experienced at that point.
One hundred and five Portu-
guese registered in Hilo in a
single day this week.
New club rooms and a club OF
esuization are among the latest of
Bilo's advsncements in a social
way. Messrs. Hockey and Mack.
intosh have taken the second story
of the hockey building and have
made several alterations which
will fit it for excellent club quart
ers.
August Hamburg, for nearly
two years cashier of the Hilo
branch of the II. Hackfeld e. Co.,
Ltd, store, has been assigned to
the post OF manager of the firms
branch at Kailua.
School Agent Severance has
shut of all the tap water from the
school houses and has placed
water casks outside for the pur-
pose of catching the rain water.
This action is due to the supposed
infection in the government
water.
Two cane expert, are in Kona
looking over a large tract OF land
owned by F. b. McStocker.
John Hind, of Kohala, has 10
view plan of starting a new
sugar plantation at Puako, Kons.
w. G. Achi, Honolulu at.
torney, is visiting Kona and max
ing extensive purchases of lands.
A newspaper plant direct from
japan arrived on the Kinau, and
a new japanese paper will shortly
make its appearance in Hilo.
Deputy Sheriff Lyman says
that the increase in the number OF
natives who are registering this
year for voting is remarkable, es.
pecially in portions Of Kona and
Kohala where royalistic senti.
ment has prevailed so strongly.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15

The last cars of the King street
line going to Waikiki and Palama
pass the Anchor Saloon. The
cleverest mixologists in the city
are there always to put you up
anything you may desire. Drop
in and take a drop before you take
the car. The celebrated Seattle
beer is to be bad here on drsught.
A full line of liquors including the
famous A. A. Jesse Moore Whisky
etc., always on hand. Received
per Wsrrimoo, Rainier Book Beer
on draught. The Anchor Saloon
is here to please its patrons.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15
BRITISH PACIFIC CABLE

London, May 4.-The report OF
the Pacific cable com mittee, which
was Issued today, elbows that the
committee has recommended that
the proposed cable be opened and
operated by the Governments in
terested and that the general d.
rection should be in the hands of
a manager in London, under con-
troll Of a small board upon which
the associated Government should
be represented.
A Parliamentary paper contain
ing correspondence regarding the
proposed cable was issued tonight.
En- bodied in the paper is the
statement made by the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, Joseph
Chamberlain, in the House of
Com mons on April g, to, the eft =
feet that the British Government
has made proposals to the Govern
ments of Canada and Australia on
the subject of the proposed cable,
but that no final arrangement had
been made.
To this is added the statement
that the Government Of Great
Britain has always considered
that the construction of cable
is of far greater importance to
Australasia and Canada, than to
the United Kingdom and that the
Government would not be dispos-
ed to recommend that Parliament
vote in aid of the project, but de-
sire to afford support by the
motherland to great self-govern
ing colonies in project, the sue
cess of which cannot fail to pro
mote imperial unity. For this
reason the Government considers
that the responsibility of con-
structinR and operating the cable
should be borne by Canada and
the Australasian colonies, they
taking the profits and the United
Kingdom giving an annual sub.
sidy not exceeding 100000, for a
period not exceeding twenty years,
the exact subsidy being i've
eighths of the shortage of receipts
below expenses, and provided that
the subsidy be payable only after
Canada and the Australasian COL
onies shall have completed the
cable and opened it for traffic and
only while the cable shall remain
open. Other provisions of the
proposed agreement necessitate
that priority be given to imperial
Government messages at one-half
the commercial rates.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15

81 would not be without Cham
berlian's Cough Remedy for its
weight in gold," writes ID. J..
Jones, of Holland, Va. my wife
was troubled with a cough for
nearly two years. l tried various
patent remedies, besides numerous
prescriptions from physicians, all
Of which did no good. I was at
last persuaded to try a bottle Of
smberlian's Cough Remedy,
which promptly relieved the
cough. The second bottle effected
a complete cure" 80 cent bottles
are for sale by all dealers. Ben
son, Smith & Co., General
Agents. X
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15
Heard Much About IL.

81 was all broken out with
pimples. tried several remedies
in vain, and having heard so much
about Hoods Sarsaparills began
taking it. After taking two bot
ties my skin was cleared of PIN
Piles and 1 am now better than
for years" Jeanne Cocagne, 257
Grand Ave., Pasadena, Califor
MIA.
Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick
headache, biliousness, indiges-
ton, constipation.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15

New England Bakery e. Candy
Co., Hotel street manufacture q
fine line OF bread, pastry, wed.
ding cakes, ice creams, sherbets
and candies-fnest in the city
and prices very low. Telephone
"a. j. OSWALD LUTTED, Mana
ger.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15
California Fruits.

ID. G.. Csmarinos received per
Australia a large consien lent of
Vegetables, Fruits, Halibut, Fro
zen Oysters, Crabs, Luca Oil, etc.,
afc
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15
-Established 1866
BISHOP &c 90.
BANKERS.

Transact a General Banking
and Exchange Business.
Commercial and Travellers
Letters of Credit issued, avail
sble in all the principal cities
IF the world.
Interest allowed after July
L, 1898, on fixed deposits 3
months 3 per cent, 6 months
81 per cent, II months 4
per cent.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT !

Ordinary and Term Deposits received,
and Interest allowed in accordance with
rules and conditions printed in Pass
books, copies Of which may be had upon
application.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-15
BISHOP & GO.
SavingsBank

Savings Deposits will be
received and interest allowed by this
Bank at four and one-half per cent.
per annum. The terms, rules and
regulations Of the Hawaiian Postal Saw
ings Bank have been adopted as far as
II is practicable to apply them, and the
Cash Reserve Of $50 900 as required un-
der the Postal Act will be maintained.
Printed copies Of the Rules and Reg
ulations may be obtained on application.
BISHOP d co.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19

furnaces of the Wellman rolling type. The
charging floor of this building is on the
general yard level the stocks being brought
to the furnaces by locomotives without
hoists or inclines, and charged into the fur
naces by the Wellman charging machines.
The steel Is run from the furnaces at q
lower level into ladels handled by electric
travelling cranes and poured into moulds in
cars. The cars containing moulds and in
gots will be run from the open hearth build
ing to the hydraulic stripper house, and
thence ingots are to be taken, while still
hot, to the heating furnaces located at the
end of the blooming mill building; the IN
COTS are handled by electrical machinery
From thence they are conveyed by tables
to the blooming mill.
The 44-Inch Blooming Mill
This mill is designed for a range of work
from seven by thirty-six-inch slabs to four
by four-inch billets. Running the entire
length of the blooming mill building is a
thirty-ton electric travelling crane for the
purpose of handling and changing the rolls
The mill is driven by pair of thirty-six
by forty-eight-inch E. P. Allis reversing
engines For shearing heavy slabs, n.y.
draulic shears are to be used with suitable
mechanism for handling the product; while
for billets, steel will pass on through the
hydraulic shears to q power shear, from
whence they will be conveyed to the ship
ping yard or sent directly to the finishing
mill. Adjacent to the blooming mill are the
boiler and power plants, the former con-
sisting of ten Cahall water-tube boilers of
three hundred horse power each, arranged
In two batteries. In the same building
there will be the hydraulic pumps and an
accumulator for the pressure system. The
steam pressure to be used is 125 pounds, and
the hydraulic pressure 600 pounds, to the
square inch In the power house there will
be installed a 225-kilo-watt Westinghouse
generator, driven by a twenty by thirty
Buckeye engine with ample room for addi-
tional capacity.
Continuous with the blooming mill will
be finishing mill, designed to roll billets
smaller than four by four inches and rails
All of the buildings are of structural Steel
The machine shop and foundry buildings
will be located near each other between the
blast furnace plant and the steel works.
the former consisting of building 80 by 120
feet, which will be equipped with all the
tools necessary for general repair work.
commanded by Cotton electric travelling
crane. The foundry building. 60 by 100 feet,
Is designed to make the ordinary castings,
ingot moulds. stools and general work.
In the location, plan and design of the
plant special attention has been given to
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF
ENSLEY STEEL PLANT

Tho plant OF the Alabama Steel and Ship
Building company. now under process of
construction at Ensley, Is to consist of
basic open hearth plant and blooming and
finishing mills, with all the accessories In
the way of shops, foundry electric and n.y.
draulio power house, boiler plant, etc. Back
of the open hearth furnace building, and
parallel to 1t, is gas house surmounted
by coal bins which are supplied with coal
dumped directly from cars brought by loce-
motives over an elevated track from the
adjacent mines. The coal is delivered to the
producers beneath by means of chutes.
Ashes from the producers are dropped from
hoppers directly into standing gauge cars
which are standing underneath the pro-
ducers on a track running full length of
producer house and rising by an easy grade
to the general level. The producers, thirty
two in number, are fitted with the latest
improvements In the way of crates, hop
pers etc. Near the end of the open hearth
building, toward the blast furnaces, will be
a 250-ton mixer plant for the use of liquid
metal.
TheO2en Hearth Building
This building is TAO feet long by so feet
wide, contains ten 50-ton basic open hearth
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19
EXTENSIVE PROPERTY =
OF SLOSS COMPANY
IS the Second Industry of a Vast,
District
OPERATES LARGEST MINE
Company Favored in Having Rich Ores and All Properties for
Iron Making in Great Abundance Splendid Brown Ore
Mines at Leeds Being Rapidly Developed
Company Has Numerous Coal Mines

Second only to the Tennessee Coal and
Iron In this district, in magnitude the Sloss
Is unriyaled anywhere in one respectful
mines every pound of coal or ore or flux 1t
uses. Near its North Birmingham furnace
1t has opened. practically at the surface,
quarry OF dolomite of unsurpassed value
This quarry has a twenty-foot face. The
depth of the deposit is about 200 feet, but 1t
Is not necessary to go below twenty feet,
thus avoiding the use of a drift or shaft
or any underground work. A tipp,e over
track facilitates the handling and loading
OF the f1ux, and 1t Is soon trundlsd away to
one of the company's furnaces 1t Is SIM
ply impossible to procure anywhere a bet
ter quality of fux. or to quarry 1t at
lower cost. The quarry is perhaps within
the call of the voice from the North Biz
mlngham furnaces. All of the company's
furnaces are. in fact, located on beds of
dolomite, which are made up of about equal
parts of lime and magnesia.
Nor Is the company less unfavorably cir
cumstanced in the still more important mat
ter of ore 1t uses all the kinds of ore
found In this district, relying largely, of
CourSc, upon the twenty-five tOOt vein OF
red hematite found in Red mountain. The
Sloss mine, one mile east of Bessemer, is
perhaps the largest single ore mine In tho
district, its daily output rising at times to
loo tons. At this mine every facility, both
within and without, has been gathered and
placed, and the work of loading daily fifty
cars at the tipple over the Mineral Belt
railroad goes on as smoothly as the loading
self is a busy hive. The great vein has
selef Is a busy hive. The great vein has
been penetrated in every direction-fairly
honeycombed-and this mine would be an
interesting place to visit were it not for the
greasy. tenacious nature of the ore and for
the rapid descent of the vein into the bow
els of the mountain. The vein has decline
of nearly forty-five degrees so that the Wis
itor is, before he knows it, in the very
depths of the famous mountain. No one
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19

tons of ore day arc taken out, but this
amount can be indefinitely increased. The
value of the ore is shown In Its analysis
II contains 81 per cent of metallic iron,
and not over per cent. of silicon, and very
little sulphur. 1t also contains at least
per cent of hygroscopio water and per
cent. of combined water As 1t costs MOTH
ing to carry off this water on the slack,
the ore must be accounted about IS or 50
per cent. rich In metallic iron. There is an
other advantage in brown ore-it needs no
intermixture Exclusively brown ores can
be readily treated In the slack, and from
them excellent iron can be extracted.
At the mine in Pine Ridge a new town has
sprung up, known as castleman. in honor
of Mr.. Castleman. the general manager of
the Sloss company and the particular friend
and developer of the brown ore mines at
Leeds. In this village is the Dumping sta
ton and duplex Snow pump, which lifts
and drives great stream TO a reservoir,
and at the reservoir Is another pump which
lifts or drives the water to any part OF the
openings in the ridge. The staying power
and richness of this brave attempt of the
Sloss Company to procure a full supply OF
brown ores will be watched by all who are
interested In the Birmingham district ~
The company's numerous coal mines are
located on Five Mile creek. the nearest be-
ing within the sound of the whistles of the
furnaces in this city. At Coalburg, Brook
side, Brazil, Cardiff and Blossburg there are
numerous drifts, all in the Pratt seam. This
excellent coal-the best in Alabama-is cut
out in the company's numerous mines at the
rate of about 5000 tons day. Covering
distance of seven and eight miles, one cam
not get out of sight of a washer or "tipple."
The screening, washing and coking of the
coal are all carried on at the mines, and
there is scarcely a spot In the coal fields
of Alabama which displays more activity
and more productiveness than do the Sloss
mines in the Pratt seam. Every analysis
or test that has been made serves to conc