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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
MUST HAVE A CABLE.
President McKinIey's Message to Con-
gress Urges Action at This Session.


Washington, Feb. 13.-1he presi-
dents message on the Pacific cable.
transmitted to congress today, is as fol-
lows:
"As consequence of the ratification
of the treaty of Paris by the senate of
the United States, and it's expected
ratifiction by the Spanish government,
the United States will come into pos
session of the Philippine islands, on
the farther shores of the Pacific, the
Hawaiian islands and Guam being
United States territory. and forming
convenient stopping places on the way
across the sea, and the necessity for
speedy cable communication between
the United States and all the Philip
pine islands has become imperative.
Such communication should be estab-
lished in such way as to be wholly
under the control OF the United States.
whether in time of peace or war. At
present, the Philippines can be reached
only by cables which pass through
many foreign countries. and the Ha-
waiian island and Guam can only be
communicated with by steamers. in
volving delays in each instance of at
least week. The present conditions
should not be allowed to continue for a
moment longer than is absolutely nee
essary. The time has arrived when
cable in the Pacific must extend as far
as Manila. touching at the Hawaiian
islands and Guam on the way.
Under those circumstances, it be.
comes paramount necessity that meas.
ures should be taken before the close OF
the present congress to provide such
means as may seem suitable for the es-
Enlistment Of cable system. l rec
ommend the whole subject to the care
lul consideration OF congress, and to
such prompt action as may seem ad.
visable.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Seattle Markets.

Onions. $4,000 per 100 pounds.
Potatoes. t18@20.
Beets, per sack, 75c.
Turnipe. per sack. 50975c.
Carrots, per sack, $4,000.
Parsnips. per sack, 81.
Caulifiower. 75@$l.OOo per doz.
Celery, So a 40c.
Cabbage, native and California
el.25 per 100 pounds.
Apples. $50 SOC per box.
Pears, SOC @$l.50 per box.
Prunes, SOC per box.
Butter-Creamery, 26c per pound;
dairy and ranch, l5@20c per pound.
Eggs. &c.
Cheese-Native. 12@121ac.
Poultry-Old hens, lac per pound;
spring chickens, lac; turkeys, Ice.
Fresh meats-Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, SC; COWS. prime.
&c; mutton. 8 nc; pork, &c: veal, case.
Wheat-Feed wheat. 1913.
Oats-Choice, per ton, $26.
Hay-Puget Sound mixed, $4,000
IL; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $ll@l4.
Corn-Whole. $23. so; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $3.50.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton.
t25@26; whole, SEQ.
Flour-Patent. per barrel, SO. 80;
straiehts. 1925: California brands.
$S.25; buckwheat -four, 90. 80; graham,
per barrel, So. so; whole wheat -four.
&3.75; rye -four, $3.50.
Millstuffs-Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton. $I8.
Feed-Chopped feed, $20@22 per
ton; middlings. per ton. rs17; oil cake
meal, per ton, &35.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Many Horses Perished.

Reports from Gillian county, Or,
are to the effect that range horses have
persisted in enormous numbers during
the late cold snap. Persons who trav-
eled over that section OF the country
have seen the animals lying by the
roadsied, having been frozen to death
after reaching the stage of starvation.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
ATTACK ON CAlOCAN.
fovn Reduced by Combined Assault Of
American Forces.

Manila, Feb. l3.-The American
forces at $50 this afternoon made q
combined attack upon Colocan and re-
duced it in short order. At a signal
from the tower of the de la LONE
church Omitted States signal station),
the double-turreted monitor Monadnock
opened fire from the bay with the big
guns Of her fore turIet ON the earth
works, with great effect. Soon after
ward the battery bombarded the place
from another position.
The rebels reserved their fire until
the bombardment ceased. when they
fred volleys of musketry as the Mon
tana regiment advanced on the jungle.
The Kansas regiment. on the ex-
treme left, with the artillery deploying
to the right, charged across the open
and carried the earthworks. cheering
under heavy fire. Supported by the
artillery at the church, the troops fur
Their advanced. driving the enemy.
fighting every foot, right into the town
line, and penetrated to the presidency
and lowered the Filipino flag at $50
P. M.
The enemy's sharpshooters in the
jungle on the right fred at long range
on the Pennsylvania regiment, but the
rebels were soon silenced by sharpnel
shells and the Pennsylvania remained
in the trenches. AS the Americans
advanced they burned the native
houses. The rebels were moved down
like grass, but the American losses
were slight,
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Discredit the Andree Story.

London, Feb. l5.-According to dis.
patch to the Standard from Stockholm,
Nansen and NorJensjold, the explorers.
refuse to credit the story from Krasno-
varsk of tie finding, in the province Of
Yeniseisk, of the bodies of three men,
supposed to be of Andree and his com.
panions.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Gale In England.

London, Feb. IA heavy gale
swept the British islands yesterday and
has continued today, causing floods at
many points. Rivers have overfowed
THEN banks. railways have been SUBJ
merged and there have been numerous
casualties along the coast,
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Four Liyaa Loaf.

Marlboro, Mass, Feb. ia pO-
iiceman who went to email house in
the rear Of shoe factory tonight to
investigate FIRE found the house full
of smoke. and in room of the kitchen
four persons lying on a mattress. which
had been placed on the floor, all dead.
and in the kitchen three other per-
cons in a state OF insensibility.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Fifty Below I'm Manitoba,

Washington, Feb. l5.-The weather
bureau TODAY issued a special bulletin.
1t shows that so degrees below zero
was recorded at Minnedosa, Manitoba.
The outlook is there will be marked
though gradual rise in the temperature
east of the Rocky mountains after to-
day.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Missouri Fruit Crops Killed.

Nevada. Mo-, Feb. l3.-The peace
and apricot crops OF Vernon and Cedar
counties are reported killed today. The
loss is estimated at more than $780,
600. The weather ia the coolest known
here in 80 years.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Frightened Filipino ENJOYS.

San Francisco. Feb. l3.-On the
steamer from Yokohama today came
General" +. Riego de Dios and Senior
M. Rivera. who are Aguinaldo's special
commissioners to Washington. They
were very much disturbed when told Of
the latest developments in the Philip.
pines.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
More Goats Than First Reported.

Instead of only I.400 goats in and
around North Yamhill, the local pa
per says that, according to recent
careful count, made by some local
men. there are about 1900 head, all Of
which are within comparatively short
distance of the town.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
In the south.

Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 15.-The South
is today enveloped in storm of UNI
usual severity. From the Gulf north
ward, and from the Atlantic coast to
the western boundary of Texas, cold
wave has settled heavily on the coun-
try, and produced the lowest tempera-
tuIe ever known.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Nav Shingle Mil.

E. L. Gaudette, Whatcom county,
Wash, logger, is building a new
shingle mill at Samish lake. The mill
will cost about 5000 and be finished
and running about March 20 or later
during that month. The mill cut
about 100, 900 shingles day.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
The ON cial RepOrt.

Washington, Feb. 15.-Shortly be-
fore midnight, Adjutant- General Cor
bin made public the following dispatch
from Major General Otis, reporting the
capture Of the town Of lilo lilo by the
American forces under General Miller,
on the 18th inst:
Manila, Feb. 15.-General Miller
reports from lilo lilo that the town was
taken on the 18th inst. and held by
troops. Insurgents were given until
the evening Of the 18th to surrender,
but their hostile actions brought on the
engagement during the morning. In
surgents fred the native portion of the
town. But little losses to the property
of the foreign inabitants. No casual
ties among the troops"
A dispatch also came from Admiral
Dewey telling of the capture of the
city. 1t was brief recital OF the facts
of the case. hut it is said contained SUBJ
stantially the same information as that
sent by General Otis. 1t was sent to
the navy department, and is expected
to be made public in the morning.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
Increase in wheat Acreage,

The reports of confidential agents Of
the Southern Pacific show that u 10 per
cent increase in acreage has been sown
in wheat this winter. and also that the
condition of the crop is excellent.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
miller CAPTURES ITO ITO.
The American Forces Struck
the Blow Saturday.
NOT AN AMERICAN WAS LOST
The Petrol and the Baltimore Bonn
barded the Town, which Caused
the Insurgents to Evacuats.

Manila, Feb. l5.-The United States
gunboat Petrol arrived late last even
ing with dispatches from Brigadier-
General NJ. p. Miller to Major General
Otis. announcing that lilo Ito had been
taken by the combined military and
naval forces Saturday morning.
General Miller, on receipt of his in.
structions from Manila, sent native
commissioners ashore from the United
States transport st. Paul, with a COM
munication fer the rebel governor OF
lilo lilo. calling upon him to surrender
within time stated, and warned him
.ot to make demonstration in the in
terval.
The rebels Immediately moved their
guns and prepared to defend their po-
sition. Thereupon the Petrol fred two
warning guns, and the rebels immedi-
ately opened fire upon her.
The Petrol and the Baltimore then
bombarded the town. which the rebels,
having set on fire, Immediately evacu-
ated. The American troops were
promptly landed and extinguished the
fires in all cases Of foreign property.
but not before considerable damage was
done.
1t is believed the enemy's loss dur
ing the bombardment was heavy, but
no American casualties are reported.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-16
A Few
Facts

When people are contemplating 4 trip
whether on business or pleasure, they natur.
ally want the best service obtainable so far
as speed, comfort and safety Is concerned.
Employees Of the WISCONSIN, CEN
TRIAL LINES are paid to serve the public
and our trains are operated so as to make
close connections with diverging lines at all
junction points.
Pullman Palace Sleeping and Chair Cas
on through trains.
Dining Car service unexeelled. Meals
served Ia Carte.
In order to obtain this first-class service,
ask the ticket agent to sell you ticket oves
THE WISCONSIN
CENTRAL LINES
and you will meke direct connections at St.
Paul for Chicago, Milwaukee and all points
East.
For any further information calf on any
ticket agent, or correspond with
JAS. c. POND,
Gen. Pass. Agent, Milwaukee, Wis, or
ia. CLOCK,
Gen. Agent, 246 Stark St., Portland, Or.
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G. A. GRAHAM, II
A. D. CHARLTON,

Asst. Genl. Pass. Agent
Portland, Oregon.
Ticket oflce-255 Morrison street, cor. Third
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For information. time cards. maps and
tickets call on or write to
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Through Tickets to Japan and China,
via Tacoma and Northern Pacific Steam.
ship Co.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19

The city division of the Birmingham
Railway and Electric company, as Its nar-e
implies, includes all tho lines operated l.,
Birmingham proper; namely the South
Highlands and JonesviIle. the Avond1fe L
Fountain Heights. the North Highlands and
Elyton. and the .Behren's Park lines.
These lines haven't, as yet, such fine nor
such up-to-date cars as have the big Ems
ley and East Lake lines. but their rolling
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19
AN IMPREGNABLE CITY.
Paris Learned a Lesson from the Great
German Invasion.

From Pearson's Magazine.
The French have been taught wisdom by
past experience. and as a result have PLAN
ned and a few years ago finished system of
fortffcations round Paris which are proba-
bly, unequalled, for the purposes for which
they are intended, by any similar fortifica-
tons in the world A well-informed mill
tary writer member of the general staff
of the German army, has given 1t as his
opinion that q successful siege of Paris
would be, under present conditions, an i'm
possible undertaking.
The new Qualifications that surround the
French capital are some fifteen or twenty
miles from the city, and are connected with
Paris and with one another by a railway
system which would enable the French
commander to quickly mass at one point a
very large body of men, while the general
of the besieging army, IL he wished to pre-
vent the city from obtaining supplies and
thus shut in the people and the army that
was defending 1t, would have to occupy a
line extending more than one hundred
miles, and hence could not by any possible
ity collect large number Of his force at
any one point to resist with even a shadow
of hope an attack of the enemy.
1t required a German army OF, approx
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valley to the other, which is almost an alb
solute necessity in a district as widely
spread out as Greater Birmingham.
The cars which run on the big lines of the
district are the finest in the south. Atlanta,
Memphis and New Orleans are the only
other cities south of the Ohio river which
have anything like them, and they have not
SO many. Several Birmingham cars are
forty feet in length, have air tight vesti-
bules at either end, and are fitted up in
side with the finest rattan seats. Some of
the cars are equipped with the latest style
of electric heaters, and in fact they have
nearly every one of the latest equipments
known in the car builders art.
The most notable part of 1t all Is that
nearly all of these improvements have
eighteen months. To begin with, new road
beds were built, some of them being as we'll
constructed as are the regular railroad
tracks, being made of just as heavy mate
rial. A great deal of new overhead wire
work has been put in, and the old Is being
practically rebuilt. And last, but not least,
a large number of new summer cars, SINH
lar to those described above, have been
purchased, and will be received this spring.
Improvement is now the watchword of
the Birmingham street cars lines.
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eye. The people here took great pride In
their street cars back in those days of the
seventies
And they do still. The magnificent sys-
grown out of that primitive little horse car
line, are enterprises of which the Birming-
ham district may well be proud. In boom
days horse and dummy lines were built
all over the district, and so thoroughly was
1t covered that it has been found necessary
to construct only few miles since that
time After the boom reached its climax
and values began to tumble, the street car
lines suffered along with all the other in
dustries and enterprises, especially as they
were compelled about this time to begin
equipping their lines with electricity. They
stood the strain well, though, and today the
majority Of the lines in the city are as well
equipped and give as good service as do the
street cars in any other city of the south.
The remaining lines are fast being equipped
in similar manner, and 1t Is only the mat
Ter of few years before Birmingham's
street car systems will be practically per-
feet.
In the length of its lines Birmingham has
been for some time right UP at the head,
almost, of all the southern cities. The fol-
lowing list shows the number of miles of
street car lines in the various cities of the
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the road in operation by next July or Au-
gust.
AS the completion of this road draws near
the talk becomes more and more pro-
nounced that the Louisville and Nashville
will eventually build line from the Bir-
mingham district to Selma, which, together
with the road now being built south of that
city, would form an air line from Birming-
ham to Pensacola, and give the Louisville
and Nashville another route from Birming
ham to the gulf. Arguments which are now
advanced with regard to such road are
that the main line of the road now running
south from Birmingham already have all
the business they can conveniently attend
to, and that another direct route to the
gulf would be of the greatest advantage to
the system: also that the Mineral already
has q branch extending south to Brookwood
and Blocton and that it would be COM
paratively easy matter to connect one of
those points with Selma. Indeed, some peo-
pie claim that such route has already
been surveyed, and that right of way has
been obtained to be used when the road Is
ready to build the new line.
This OmciaIs
The following are the officials of the road:
August Belmont, chairman of board, New
York; Milton H. Smith, president. Louis
vile; A. M. Quarries, second vice president.
New York; William w. Thompson, treasu-
rer, Louisville; J. G. Metcalfe, general man
ager, Louisville; R. Mouthport, chief engi-
neer, Louisville; Pulaski Leeds, superin-
tendent machinery, Louisville.
The road Is operated in seventeen divis-
Ions, two of which enter Birmingham. One
Is the South and North Alabama railway,
and the other the Birmingham Mineral rail-
road, both of which divisions are under the
control of Superintendent w. M. Newbold
and Assistant Superintendent ]. L. WEIGH.
There are two other division headquarters
In Alabama. J. l. Mckinney Is superin-
tendent of the Mobile and Montgomery d.
vision, with headquarters in Montgomery,
and Walter e. Knox Is superintendent of
the Alabama Mineral railroad, with head
quarters at Admission.
z. Van DenBerg of Louisville is traffic
manager of the road. At the head Of the
freight department is c. B. Compton, and
under him are thirty-nine assistants in the
capacities of assistant general freight
agents. general agents, travelling freight
agents and contracting agents. who are
stationed at the various important points
along the lines
f. C. Shepherd. with. headquarters in
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Nicknames Among the Rough Riders

Gov Roosevelt In Scribner's.
The men speedily gave one another nick
names, largely conferred in a spirit of de-
rision, their basis lying in contrast. A
brave but fastidious member of weu-
known eastern club, who was serving m
the ranks, was christened though Ike" and
his bunkie, the man who shared his sheltet-
tent, who was decidedly rough cow
puncher, gradually acquired the name of
1.-THE Dude" One unlucky and simple.
minded cow-puncher. who had never been
east of the great plains in his life, unwarily
boosted that he had an aunt in New York;
and ever afterward went by the name OF
metropolitan Bill" hugh. red-headed
Irishman was named "Sheeny Solomon" A
young Jew, who developed into one of the
best fighters in the regiment, accepted with
entire equanimity the name of "Porkchop-"
We had quite number of professional
gamblers, who, am bound to say. usually
made good soldiers. One, who was almost
abnormally quiet and gentle, was called
Hell Roarer," while another, who In point
of language and department was his exact
antithesis, was christened ''Prayerful
James,"
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In the early days of Birminghams his
tory, when this city was but little village
situated at the crossing of two railroads,
one of the most conspicuous features Of
the new little city was its street cars. Al
most before there were any streets several
built a horse car line, running down First
avenue toward Elyton, and 1T was an insti-
tuition that always attracted the strangers
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mately, 10000 men to lay siege to Paris
from September 49, 1870, to January 80, 1871;
but the authority we refer to Is of the
opinion that to repeat the same operation
German besieging army would have to
number more than 100000 men, and the
work of maintaining such force and
properly handling it's parts would be some
thing which few governments would care
to undertake and few military command
ers would be able to efficiently perform.
The French have spent upon these new
Notifications an amount variously estimat-
ed at from $50 900 900 to $4,000 900, and hence
can well afford to sell the land occupied by
some of the now obsolete Notifications OF a
generation ago.
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Montgomery, 4 general freight agent for
all lines south OF Decatur. =. A. DeFuniak
iB tn charge OF the freight department IN
Birmingham m the capacity OF general
agent. He is assisted by Sid B. Jones IS
contracting agent
c. P. Atmore, of LouisviDe, Is at the head
of the passenger department, and under
him are twenty-five NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
general passenger agents. division passen-
ger agents, travelling passenger agents, etc.
r. F. Beasley Is in charge OF the passenger
department in the capacity of travelling
passenger agent.
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BIRMINGHAM RAIL WAY
AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

The Birmingham Railway and Electric
company is the largest street car system in
the district and 1t had been one of the
greatest factors during its existence In the
upbuilding Of the Birmingham district.
In the first place. most Of its lines and
equipment Is as ,ins as any In the SOUTH
and IT'S remaining lines are fast being put
in just as. good condition. The officials
of the company are among the most enter
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places along his road as desirable places of
residence. Through Captain Jones the
fourishing towns of Cullman, Vinemont,
Thorsby, Canoe. Williams, Bay Minette all
in Alabama, have been located and started
on their road to prosperity.
Talk of New Route to Gulf
The road is now engaged in building a
new road about forty miles in length, which
will give 1t a direct route from Selma, Ala,
to Pensacola The road Is already partial
ly built, but there is a gap of about forty
miles between Pineapple and Repton which
is now being filed in. 1t is hoped to have
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Have Always Been a Conspicuous
Feature of the City.
ELECTRIC AND STEAM CARS
Lines of Birmingham Railway and Electric Company and Br-
mingham Traction Company Cover the City and All
SuburbS-Cty Ranks Third Among Southern
Cities in Miles of Street Railway

trict the great commercial and Industrial
center 1t is. 1t is true that the big rail-
roads which run their lines off to the vari-
Gus mines, furnaces and other Industrial en-
terprises are absolutely essential for their
successful operation, but as the railroads
cars are to the people of the district.
Through them the people have quick and
safe means of travelling from one end of the
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His Luck

From the Chicago Post.
Gust my luck" he said, disconsolately.
IT can't even be sick with any appropriate
ness"
whats the matter?"
He shook for minute or two before re-
plying.
"Chills in winter and fever in summer"
he answered when he had time y