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The daily sentinel., 1899-11-18

The News has joined the Sun in
condemnation of the Boer war. 1t
has so far sifted the controversy
that, it believes that the Beers in
fighting to maintain their liberty
are in the wrong. We hope the
News will not have to apologize
for this judgment before the next
issue.
The daily sentinel., 1899-11-18
Elegant, Convenient. Roomy

New equipment makes the Union Pa
ciic the most popular line running beth
east and west from Denver. Nine hours
saved between Denver and San Francis
CO of the Pacific northwest, and only one
night to Chicago, St. Paul or ST. Louis.
See your local agent or address George
Ady, General Agent, Denver.
The daily sentinel., 1899-11-18
MAY RETREAT.

London-The Times publishes the fol
lowing dispatch from Pietermartizburg,
dated Wednesday, November Is:
"Estcourt is short Of artillery. The
garrison may retire to the Mool rive =
southwark, tonight, in ease strong
force Of Beers should advance. The
epemy's intention is to keep back the
British relieving column"
The daily sentinel., 1899-11-18

Alfred Dolge's lins of felt shoes and
slippers for men, women and children
Just in,
The daily sentinel., 1899-11-18

Wolcott, from his own sense of
honor, has at last been compelled
to speak decently of Bryan. 1t does
him much credit, as Mr.. Wolcott
cannot ever afford to patronize
Bryan.
The daily sentinel., 1899-11-18

Joubert is not dead. He will
doubtless make the British wish he
was before the end OF the Trans
vaal war.
The daily sentinel., 1899-11-18
Saturday, November 18, 1899.

Hold ups in Portland took 50 S5
from five people. They could do
better in Colorado robbing boot
blacks.
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needd firewood, and set out to get it.
On the Besancon plantation were some
magnificent oaks, centuries old, the
pride of the place and of the family.
The wood-cutting party saw the oaks,
and with axes in hand started for them.
Onthe plantation with Miss Besan-
con were her sister, two cousins, and
two visiting friends, all young women
From a window they saw the ak
party approach the group of great
oaks. Then there was race. When
the soldiers arrived at the first tree
they found six pretty girls in white
with hands Joined encircling and clasp
ing the old gray trunk.
4 was case of Soldier, spare this
tree" but the men wanted wood. They
made for another oak, but again were
outs{ripped in the race, and that tree,
in its turn, was cIasped IN the arms
Of six plucky southern girls. A third
tree was c;rcled IN the same manner,
and then the northern invaders shame
facedly withdrew and secured their
fuel supply elsewhere.
This tree-saying episode reached the
ears Of the officers of the army of oc-
cupation and Of those Of the feet. They
called in scores to offer their congratu-
lations to the plucky plantation girls.
Among the callers was Midshipman
Watson, now a rear admiral with a fleet
OF his own.
1t goes without saying, perhaps, that
the admiration of the federal officers
was no whit diminished when they
learned subsequently that just before
the oak episode the same six southern
girls had wheeled. "'by hand.'' bat
terry of light artillery, which the re-
treating confederates had left behind,
down to the Ievee and had dumped the
guns into the rushing waters of the
! Mississippi. in order that they might
be of no service to the invading host
Chicago Tribune
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GROW PRIME FRUIT.
Those who Do 1t and Get Acquainted
with the Consumer Are Bound
10 Make Money.

Every grower of fine fruit should ainz
to get acquainted in business way
with his customers. I have a friend
who grows superb berries, and in every
box he puts ticket giving his name
and the variety of fruit. and in the
largest type he says: Price always
five cents above the market price.
With berries selling at eight or ten
cents ordinarily he gets five cents more,
and that means big profit Can III.
sell them? Certainly. He sells more
than any other grower in the county,
and gets his price. Then, too, his Der
ries are so fine and large he gets them
picked for one-half cent less a quart
than others, and he makes it pay both
ways.
In the fruit growing of the future
there must be cutting down of the
acreage of the majority of the growers.
They must grow larger and better
fruit, of greater beauty and higher
quality. and the grower who gets the
closest in touch with the consumer will
get the highest price. Another thing
will be the production on tremendous
scale by a few growers, by companies,
with certain lines of fruits in certain
localities suited to them. The small
growers might do better by coopera-
ton, perhaps. as to methods of pack
ing and selling and transportation. and
it will bring more money to pay some
specialist to place your products on the
market in more desirable shape.
[ have not said anything of the home
supply. 1t is one of the most impor-
tant things of all. Every farm home
should have the greatest possible va
riety of fruit. You do not take interest
enough to do this now. perhaps, but
think it over, and you will see how i'm
portant it is. Plant your grounds with
beautiful trees and make home sur
roundings beautiful, your lawn attract
i've with beautiful flowers and the in
side of your homes attractive as well.
There is nothing better than this.-J
H. Hale, in Rural World.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-16
TIE ARMY SANDWICH.
One Kind That the Old Veteran
Doesn't Find Among the Many
Now Served.

''I read the other day." said a civil war
veteran, "that there are made nova
days, including some that are peculiar
to seasons and some that are made to
order, rs different varieties of sand
witches, and that you can always find
ready, in the big ablishments where
such things are sold, 20 or 30 varieties.
1 don't doubt that for a minute, but
I'd like to bet that there's one kind of
sandwich that you could not find at any
of them, at any season, and that is one
that, if not exactly popuiar, was at least
widely known, and, in some parts of the
country, extensively some 30-odd years
ago, namely, the pork sandwich.
This sandwich was peculiar to the
army. When the dinner call sounded
you got your tin cup and walked up the
company street to where the cooks fire
was, and where the camp kettles hung
from pole supported at the ends by
crotched sticks driven in the ground.
Pork, hard bread and coffee for dinner;
and if there was plenty of hard bread
you helped yourself from an open box:
if there wasn't plenty, then the cook,
or somebody helping him, dealt it out
as the men came up, so many crackers
to man. Then the cook gave you your
slice of pork, you held out your crackers
and he laid it on the top one. Then you
got your coffee and started for your
tent, walking down the company street,
juggling the pork on top of the crack
ers in one hand, and the old pint cup
filed with coffee in the other. You did
it without dropping the one or spilling
a drop Of the other; there was skill born
of long practice.
'.Scrumptuous dinnerP Well, like a
good many other things, that depended
a heap on circumstances. IF we hadn't
had anything to eat for a week, then a
pork sandwich with cup of coffee was
a great delicacy. If we hadn't had any
thing to eat for a week but pork sand
witches, then they got to be just shade
monotonous-s-N.Y z. Sun.
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PERMANENT LABELS.
Horticulturists Who Want to
Keep Names of Plants.

The little wooden labels which are
used to mark the trees and plants sent
out from the nursery are not durable.
They are light affairs and generally are
fastened on with a piece-of iron wire
which soon rusts off. If il does not rust
and break the limb will often grow
around it, and may become so injured
as to break off. The name is written
on with a common lead pencil and the
weather of one year Will wear it off, and
thus the name is lost.
If it is desired to keep the name of
the plant on label attached to it it
may be done in this way: Get a heavy
six or eight-inch label and rub it over
with white lead thinned with the least.
bit of oil. Then with soft pencil, and
before the lead is dry, write on the
name and anything else you may wish.
This will last for several years
Now procure some No. IA or No. 10
copper wire and cut it in pieces foot
or more long. Make loop on each end,
give the middle a twist around the label
and hang it around a small branch,
hooking the loops together and pinch
ing them up tight. Such a label fas-
tened in this manner will last for years.
Edwin C. Powell, in National Stock
man.
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nearly all of it is owned by these water
companies.
Of course, irrigation greatly increases
the value of these arid lands, but the
settlers claim the right to do the irrigat-
ing. If the streams were not monopO-
| lized by the corporations, each farmer
Cor the settlements), could construct
their own bitches, and tap the streams.
Some of them are sinking artesian
wells, and will thus be independent of
the irrigating canals. That is why the
government is asked to sink artesian
wells in Colorado desert lands.
1t is held that the federal government
should protect the water supply, both
in the interests of public and private
lands. The settlers hold that the water
naturally belongs to the lands-it is
part of the land, and cannot be segre-
gated.
This comes down from the aborigines,
who claimed that water was commun-
ity property. 1t belonged to all-no
one could take that which belonged to
others, but each person was entitled
to as much as he could use. For this he
gave his share of labor in constructing
bitches, etc. They held that the water,
like the air, was free to all, the man and
the beast, and no one Individual had a
right to take unto himself that which
belonged to all. Under the laws of
Colorado this orient law is reversed. A
person may appropriate stream and
no one may take water out of it with
out first paying him. He owns the wa
ter by prior discovery" or location,
and his neighbors above and below
him must pay him a royalty. Under
the aboriginal custom, and the Spanish
law, the water is part of the land.
This is what is called riparian
rights and was also embodied in the
old Roman law. 1t is now construed
otherwise, against the interests of the
government and the general public.
Who shall own the streams must soon
| become a national issue, as millions of
acres of land are forever worthless
Shall a few corporations own these
streams (and practically the land) or
the people to whom they naturally be-
long?
Irrigation is comparatively new in
Colorado. These large enterprises have
sprung into existence within the last
ten years, since the tide of immigra-
ton has begun to flow in and created
a great demand for 1ands-especiall
public lands
Much of this arid region is being
planted to sugar beets. tt is well adapt
ed to their culture and it is predicted
that the desert regions of the United
States will eventually become the main
source of the sugar supply of this coun-
try. The beets raised here contain
from 200 to 500 pounds of sugar to the
ton, a larger per cent. than the beets
grown in less warmer sections. The
beet is an adjunct to cattle and hog
raising. 1t is an excellent food and
makes the milk of the cow much sweet
er and increases the flow. They are
also fed to horses and sheep. And as
less water is needed for irrigating
them, farmers are turning their atten-
ton to this culture as a measure of
economy. 1t has been generally be-
Iieved that beets canont be successfully
grown where irrigation is necessary;
but it is here demonstrated that even
a better quality is produced on arid
lands. J. n. SCANLAND.
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This important fact is usually over
looked by the eastern purchaser, until
it is too late He should first endeavor
to get land near an unappropriated
stream-if he can find any in southern
Colorado; otherwise he will land with
in the grasp of the water octopus and
find himself making yearly payments
for his farm long after he has paid for
the land. That is, he must continue to
pay for water or abandon his ranch.
1t may be within hundred yards of a
living stream, but he is not permitted
to dig a ditch and tap that stream,
though he sees oceans of water run
ming by his door and to waste. The
stream has been appropriated by the
irrigation company and he must get
his supply from them.
A water right" costs from $1,000 to
So, 500 for an eighty-acre farm, near the
towns; but out in the arid regions the
stock is sold at smaller figures, and
the farmer pays, in addition, about 81
per acre, yearly, for water.
AS water is most valuable where it is
scarce, these companies practically
hold mortgage upon the productive
energies of the people of the districts.
True, tney nave greatly aIded IN re-
claiming the waste lands, but there is
no doubt that Colorado would soon be-
come even more populous and wealthy
were it not for the wholesale appropria-
ton of the streams by the irrigating
companies. A number of these COM
panies have located, through ''dum-
miles," extensive tracts of government
lands. Then they appropriated the
rivers and creeks and built their stor-
age reservoirs and irrigating canals.
They pay the government price and
charge the settler from $40 to $40, or
more, per acre. According to govern
ment land Office reports nearly 1,0OO,
900 acres of land have been taken in
Colorado during the past year and
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rying water to farmers throughout
the districts, thus gridironing the val
Ieys with artificial streams and, to
some extent, modifying the dry, heat
ed atmosphere.
These canals are 10 or IL feet deep
and about 20 feet wide at the bottom,
sloping outward at the top. The bot
tom and sides are, of course, cement
ed "water tight" The larger ones
have a capacity of irrigating about 50,-
600 acres of land.
In constructing these immense ca
historic grades and followed the lines
of the ruined and forgotten primitive
irrigating bitches of the aboriginal
tribes who inhabited this country ages
ago. The modern engineer finds that
he cannot improve upon these scientific
channels. Here are the ruins of ancient
reservoirs, into which were led the
fertilizing streams from the noun
-tains and the rivers to nourish their
growing crops.
In this arid section it requires about
1S inches of water yearly to grow
crops. This water is distributed in
six irrigations, of about three inches
each, at stated intervals. There is
much dissatisfaction among the farm
'ers at the appropriation of these nat
ural streams by the water syndicates.
Stock raisers must also pay royalty
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-16
IN ARID COLORADO.
Irrigation Has Changed the Desert
Into a Garden.
hut the PrOht Is Reaoed by Water
AEOnOpOIies Whose PrOPrietOrs
Grow Fat on the Sweat of
the TOiIers.
Especial Denver (col) letter.

A great change is taking place in
Colorado. Many eastern people are
under the mistaken impression that
the mining industry is the princi-
pal source of it's prosperity, but
the stock and farming industries are
much more profitable. Certainly they
are more lasting. The profits of agri-
culture and stock raising during the
present year are estimated at $780,
100000. This rapid increase is mainly
owing to the numerous irrigation en-
terprises, especially in southern Colo
rado-the arid district. There are il
Colorado about 100000 acres of land
susceptible of irrigation, and practical
1y valueless without water. About half
of this area is now under irrigation
and cultivation. To water this desert
region there have been constructed
within the past few years $4,000 miles
of irrigating canals. The capital ex-
pended is estimated at $5,000,000, not
hncluding the purchase of the arid
Hands. These irrigating canals extend
southwark from Denver to Pueblo,
Canon City, Trinidad, Durango, De
Beque, and throughout the Grand, San
Luis and Arkansas valleys, tapping the
mountain streams for hundreds of
miles.
From these large canals small ca
mails are run in various directions, car
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HELPED TO CAPTURE DEWEY.
story of a Notable Incident OF the
Civil War by a Brave Ex-
Confederate Soldier.

On the night of the 21st of March,
1868, the federal fleet undertook to run
the blockade at Fort Hudson, the Hart
ford and Switzerland, with portfolios
closed, leading. The old Mississippi,
being next in line, opened fire on our
batteries, viz: our nine batteries with
four siege pieces each, of the First Ala
bama. Our batteries Immediately re-
turned the fire. The entire feet and
immense mortar guns on the federal
side and all the land batteries on the
confederate side, aggregating So heavy
guns, were intensely engaged ia this
artillery duel.
Melancthon Smith, the gallant cap
tain of the Mississippi, and his officers
and men fought with heroism and
bravery known only to Americans.
Lieut.. George Dewey was on this vessel,
and was the last man to leave it. His
men, the marines that were captured,
were loud in their praises of his gallant
conduct. The Mississippi had 81 heavy
guns on a side, and threw several broad
sides at our batteries, and during the
engagement it struck On a sandbar, but
the officers and men remained on the
vessel fighting until the boat, which
was set on fire by our batteries, was
fercely burning. When it became
necessary to abandon the ship her boats
were lowered as rapidly as possible and
the men and some five or six officers
were landed on the opposite shore.
Melancthon Smith, with several officers,
sailed down the river back to the fleet
under heavy fire. Dewey remained on
the burning vessel until the last man
was taken off, and then, in his efforts
to save these men, he was himself cap
tured at the sugar mill. The night was
very dark and ii was impossible for the
federal men to make their escape. The
confederate force, numbering some 300,
crossed the river and CAPTURED these
$50 marines and some Ave on six officers.
On their arrival at Fort Hudson was
on the guard detail near the officers.
The men were loud in their praises
Of Lieut.. Dewey, and he was pointed out
TO me. He was peculiarly impressive
a handsome blonde, with blue eyes,
very fair and rather stylish in appear
ance. He seemed 10 be man of great
determination. The young lieutenant
whom the men praised so highly on that
occasion for his heroisIn is now the
world-famous American admiral, loved
as much by the south as by the north,
and admired by all the world as the
greatest naval hero OF the times. TIE
federal marines and officers were held
only a DAY, until we could parole them
for exchange, as we had no place to
keep them, being practically surround
co by Banks army. They were taken
to Baton Rouge and exchanged. The
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DEFENDED THE TREES
Southern Girls Surrounded Them
and Kept the Yankee Soil
dIers On.

A pretty wartime story developed in
Chicago recently through the presence
in the city at the same time of Admiral
Watson, who was passing through. on
his way to relieve Admiral Dewey, and
Mrs. Edwin A. Clarke, of Quincy, ILL.,,
who was here visiting her son, Edwin
B. Clarke, the Chicago architect. It was
a story of the war of secession and not
of the Spanish war, but the occurrence
of a foreign conflict in the meantime
does not dim the story's interest.
Admiral Watson's friendship for Mrs.
Clarke dates from the time when he
was a midshipman with Admiral Far
ragut's fleet before New Orleans, and
when she was Miss Besancon. a south
ern belle, and the strongest kind of a
sympathizer with the secession cause.
Miss Besancon was on her fathers
plantation in a suburb of the city. A
part of the federal army of occupation
camped near the place. The soldiers
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Hartford and Switzerland succeeded
in running the blockade and cutting off
the confederate supplies from above,
which aided Banks in finally forcing
the capitulation of that stronghold,
after siege of 81 days.
To appreciate the predicament in
which the Mississippi was placed at the
time of her destruction by US, it will
be necessary for me to explain the
strength, position and elevation of our
batteries. The river bank was very
high. The river was about a mile and
a half wide, with the deepest part on
our side. Our batteries were so well
arranged that it would be almost i'm
possible for any vessel to pass, and had
not the night been dark and had not
the two federal vessels that passed
been painted black and had their port
holes closed, so as to conceal their
lights, they would most certainly have
shared the fate of the Mississippi.
]. J. MCDONALD.
Editors Note.-Afr. Mcdonald was one
Of the bravest soldiers Of the confederacy.
He was born March 10, 1916, in Macon coun-
tys Alabama. At the age of 16 he enlisted
in the civil war at Claton- He was captured
at Island No. 10, in the Mississippi river,
ana carried 10 camp douglas, chicago He
says he was well treated while a prisoner
of war After he had been exchanged he
arrived at Vicksburg July 4, 1852 from
which place he was sent to Fort Hudson,
and remained there until July g. 1868, when
that place surrendered. He was paroIed,
returned home, remained few months.
and was exchanged and returned to serv-
ice, being stationed at Mobile, Fort Powell
and Fort Gaines. at the mouth of Mobile
bay. in the service OF heavy artillery. In
the spring of 1854, when Sherman began his
famous raid through Georgia, Mr.. McDon-
aid was transferred to Johnson's army. in
time to be in the battle of New Hope
Church. He was in all the fights around
Atlanta, including the siege Of that city.
When Gen Hood became commanding gen
eraI Mr. Mcdonald went with the army to
Nashville, Tenn, was in the fights at Co
lumbia, FRANKLIN and Nashville, and re-
manned in the army until it was finally sur
rendered at Greensborough. n. c.. in the
spring OF 1861
-LesEe'A Weekly.
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BEST FARM WAGON.
Farmers in Other Sections May
Draw a Valuable Lesson.

I have often wondered why it was
that manufacturers did not make farm
wagons more especially and particu-
larly adapted for use on the farm than
they do. Tie kind that are usually put
out all over the country do very well
on the road, but they do not fill the bill
on the farm. The wheels are as rule
too high and it takes one side of a ten
acre field to turn round in, unless the
body is made so narrow that it won't
hold anything. We have had our farm
wagons of late years made to order in
the following manner: The front
wheels are 40 inches high, hind wheels
so inches. We prefer broad to narrow
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for water. as the streams are fenced
with barbed wire, or guarded. The
few sluggish streams on the desert
soon run dry, or sink into the sands,
and during the heated term, when no
rains fall in this arid region, thousands
OF dead cattle are seen on the plains
persisted for the lack of water which
as taken from them by the big compa-
mics. The loss in cattle and sheep by
the appropriation of these streams is
Immense.
Water can only be had by purchasing
stock in the company, and upon the
face of each certificate is a description
of the land to which the water is to be
applied. Based upon this certificate
the company issues TO the farmer a
water deed, or check. for the quantity
he is entitled to. The holder is entitled
to a voice in the management of the
company. When he sells his land the
water stock goes with it. The water
is the most valuable part of the farm.