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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

1t Is most important to understand
the causes which led to the Great
Trek Of the Beers, says Alleyne Ire
land In the Atlantic. They were the
misguided zeal Of 1.-THE English mis-
sionaries, the abolition Of slavery
with the safeguarding of the natives
interests, and lastly, what Canon
Knox Little describes as ''England's
fatuous policy Of vacillation, betrayal,
friction, irritation, postponing, chang
Ing, doing and undoing."
The troubles with the missionaries
began even before the colony was
coded to England. In 1911 a certain
Mr.. Read. Of the London Missionary
Society, wrote letter which was
widely circulated in England, In which
he asserted that over one hundred
murders of natives by the Dutch had
been brought to his notice In his dis
trict, and that the Governor of the
Colony remained deaf 10 the cry for
justice. An inquiry was ordered by
the government, and every facility
was given the natives of proving Mr..
Reads charges. After throwing the
whole district into confusion by sum-
m0ning over thousand witnesses,
many Of whom were under arms on
the frontier I'm expectation Of Rosa
raid, the Circuit Court found that the
charges were grossly exaggerated.
The net result was the sending up for
trial OF five Dutchmen. George Nc
Call Theal, in his History of South At
RIGA, says in regard to this affair:
''The Black Circuit, as 1t was called,
produced a lasting impression amongst
the Dutch. 1t was no use telling the
people that the trials had shown the
missionaries to have been the dupes
Of idle story tellers. The extraordinary
efforts made to search for cases and
to conduct the prosecutions appeared
In their eyes as a fixed determination
on the part of the English authorities
to punish them il by any means pre-
text could be found AS for the mis-
sionaries Of the London Society, from
that time they were held by the from
tier cOlonists to be slanderers and pub.
lie enemies" That the actions of the
Missionaries really influenced the Dutch
in their determination to leave the
colony is shown by manifesto pub
lished by PETER Retief, one Of the
most prominent trekkers, in which
were set forth the reasons why British
rule was no longer endurable. The
fourth paragraph of the manifesto
says: 1--WE complain of the unjustifi-
able odium which has been cast upon
MS by interested and dishonest per-
sons, under the name of religion,
whose testimony Is believed in Eng
land to the exclusion of all evidence in
our favor; and we can foresee, as the
result Of this prejudice, nothing but
the total ruin of the country
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
AFTER THE GOLD BoOMs.
Importance of the Reactions l Determining
Population.

'The law that settlers follow the
line of least resistance suffers an ex-
ception when men seek gold" says
writer in Ainslee's who goes on to
prove it. I'm the natural order of
things, population would have worked
itself In continuous progression to-
work the Rocky Mountains, crossing
them only by compulsion, as the Allie
ghanies were crossed and the Missis-
sippi and the Missouri Rivers. But
where there is gold in sight there is no
law. Humanity goes into Alaska
with the same blind avidity that it
went into California fifty years ago,
with the same fatuousness that 1T
swept to Pixies Peak in 1853 Popula-
ton forsook all its domiciles, its pa
tronages and its prosperity, In the Ar
gOnaut period, and, as IL driven by
some monstrous wind, surged over the
uneven earth to the Pacific and to the
Rockies. The whole world knows how
1t did so, and the suffering that en-
sued Is as common story as the for
tunes that were won. But the thing
that is not known, the matter of last
ing Importance that is most often over
looked, Is the migratory reaction. the
settling back of the big flood to the
places in which, either by necessity or
by choice, it must finally rest The
character of the Great West, the
Trans Missouri, with its multiple var
iatiOns, Is determined by this phenom-
enon.
A map and book of census Stats
tics will tell the story. 1t Is the story
of the oil from the pitcher again. Men
and women touched the crest Of the
continent at Leadville, in Colorado, in
1853, but fell. back into the plains
again before the sixties were expired.
The Mormon emigration filed the val
ley of the Jordan in 1S47, but the gen
eral tide of people either went to the
lower valleys of the Sacramento and
the San Joaquin on the Orr .ntal side
of the Sierra Nevadas, or receded on
the eastern slope of the Rockies. Sue
cessive mining discoveries enticed
rushes of prospectors into Northern
Idaho and British Columbia, but the
greater mass OF the movers went back
into the warmer regions Of California
and Oregon. Where the Comstock
and the Consolidated Virginia silver
mines once magnetized so many set
tiers as to beguile Congress into max
ing State of Nevada, there is little
left now but the evidence of what has
been and the promise OF what may be
when the immigration of the West be-
gins to move again for less glorious
promises than acres Of oranges for the
mere filling of the soil, and monster
timber for the mere hewing OF the
logs. The mesas Of the two South
western territories, Arizonas and New
Mexico. seem to have absorbed the
hosts of traders and Adventures that
went into them. as the sandy soil OF
their great areas drink in the freshets
from the mountains"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

IL starts;
a sinuous eyelash from the sun,
A golden, leaf-shaped, dancing thing,
Bending fern-lIke in magic breeze.
And grows,
And saps the virgin forests strength
With writing, biting arms,
And with its red jaws through the
Cast elm shadows round the room.
And waxing still
II lashes round the knotted wood
With soft but cruel sting.
Till, gorged with strength, 1t fades
away
Beneath coverlet Of gray.
And now,
Like molten sunset from the west,
Pulsates as with living breath
NIL dying midst the bones its greed
has made
Its heart is still, and ashes mark the
grave.
"A. II. Allan.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
An Impulse to Conversion.

In consequence of the Instructions
caused In the narrow streets OF 500
chow by the large number of well-to-
do young Chinese anxious to learn to
become wheelmen, and acting on rep
reservations made by the more sober
and scdate citizens, the three district
magistrates Of Soochow City have is
sued joint proclamation forbIdding
the riding of cycles by anyone except
foreigners, missionaries and converts.
This ought to give an impulse to con-
version. North ChiA. News
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28
Addsrs In England.

Although adders are comparatively
rare in most parts Of England, there
are people, hardly past middle ago,
who remember when they were so
common on the south side of Chapman
common, London, that 1t was neces-
sary to put up a warning to children
that II was not safe to play on that
spot
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

native aplrlts and 20 to the guar0house.
The next day caramba kakisck
comes and Says 10 his straps that you
come to his pickaninny epishnck anu IN
suit him. It IL a lie, but just the
sainec you get ten days guarlhouse
and are fined ten peso Mex. II II isn't
a Kakiack Il will be Cheeno who
says You swiped tobac from his shop.
Either way his straps will believe the
Kakiack or Cheeno about loot as
against you, and you get II hard"
whats pIckanInny epishach,
Smithie?'
"Its natives little house. A Span
ish big house or hotel like this Is an
estakazol or a casa"
whats Cheeno and who IL his
straps?''
"A Cheeno Is Chinaman and his
straps is your commanding officer"
"Well," said !, NOW how about the
healthT'
"Ohv' said Smithie, that's not SO
mala as you'd think. Leave the tnbig
and the beno alone and you'll pull
through"
"And what's tubig?v
THAT'S water. Beno Is the native
whiskey. When you can get 1t cool be-
fore sunrise, the tuba Is not mala.
That is the coco-beer that they brew In
bamboo buckets up In the tops Of the
coco trees. For 10 cents, Melicano, you
can get mucha loco OH 1t. There's
taps. Turn in with me. If you sleep
on the floor the squi will chow-chow
you. The squi are ants, you know.
Douse that glim, will your"
And that last sentence was about the
only bit of pure, unadulterated United
States that I've heard I'm lara.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

her Sc. 0oo, 0o0, While shs II % far
ohead o. Ell othor maritime Rovers -
TO be beyond comparison with them.
The report Of the capture of the
British Ninth Lancers By the Beers,
though false, hr1ngs mp once more the
discussion in military circles 80 to the
value OF the Lance. In the French
army the adversaries of the weapon
are in an immense majority. They
ridicule the thing. and insist that il
should appear only in museums,
among the relics Of the middle ages.
For ten years. nevertheless, the little
group that favors the lance has held
ont. Probably the pretty effect Of
regiment OF lancers ON parade has
something to do with the stubborn re-
sistance. But the moral effect of the
thing in actual warfare, as compared
with that of blazing carabines in the
hands OF charging horsemen, who hold
their sabres in reserve, counts for
little in the opinion OF French officers.
In the German army it was abolished
some time ago; hut it was recently re-
stored. Austria has thrown it ont
completely, and in Russia it is pre-
served only in few Cossack regi-
ments. On the other hand, in the
war of the Soudan, in which General
Lord Wolseley distinguished himself,
General Graham's corps came near
being annihilated by Arabs armed
with long lances.
Thirty years ago it was asserted re-
peatedly that the outcry against the
Wholesale slaughter of the buffalo was
ell nonsense, and that it was utterly
impossible to exterminate the Amer
lean bison. But where is he now ?
queries the New York Sun. The
Keepers of our geological gardens can
answer. We hear the same cry in re-
gard to the food supply of our fishing
grounds. In times past New York
Bay afforded some of the best fishing
in the world, but in comparatively
few years its fishing grounds, dis
solved one after another, until now on
the line between the Narrows and
Sandy Hook scarcely one remains.
1t took less than twenty years to ac-
complish that destruction. Even at
the once ar-famed Romer it is doubt
full if dozen game fish were captured
by the anglers last season, unless
blackfish are to be counted among
the game. And the cause of it all is
plain enough. 1t is simply foul water
and fast netting. 1t may be some
what difficult to put the garbage scows
out of commission, but everybody
knows that before long the system
must come to nm end, and the sooner
the better. The scows must 90.
They are an offensive nuisance, and
in the dredging of the proposed new
channel the Federal Government will
have to pay some millions of dollars
for taking up the stuff that it cost
New York city many millions to put
down.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

American printing presses have aP-
peared in Edinburgh, and the only
adverse criticism made is that they
turn out papers faster than is neces-
sary.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

Ont of IL, 900, 900 American families
the income of 1000, 900 of these fam
lilies is less than $500 each per year,
and the incomes of nearly eighty per
cent of the entire number are less
than 81, 900 each per year.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

A Rome dispatch announces that
the head Of the Malta has been found
and that the gentleman is still wear
ing it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

The young men and women who
were rehearsing play at co-educa-
tion college in Illinois had to be re-
proved for the sincerity of their kiss
ing scenes. The reproof was proper.
They should be reminded that mere
realism is not art.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

The excitement over wireless tele-
graphy and liquid air seems TO have
left the flying machine out OF the
count
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

The Prince Of Monaco makes a fad
Of deep-sea study. He rarely visits
his gambling establishments at Monte
Carlo.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

Each year about 10000 human bod.
ies are inferred In the County Of Lon
don.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

A bicycle factory in Pennsylvania
has just completed number of jim
rikshas for China, Japan. South Africa,
and the Philippines. The bodies of
the carriages arc of wood, aud como.
of the wheels are of bicycle finish,
with rubber tires. All have tops to
protect the riders from the heat of the
tropical countr es. The American
manufacturers have greatly improved
the running qualities and appearance
OF this useful but queer-looking ve-
hicle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

The Assistant Attorney General for
the Post-ofiice Department at Wash
ington reports that for the last fiscal
year, out of ninety-nine fraud orders
issued, only nine were for lotteries
and gift enterprises, an indication
that the lottery business has been
nearly broken up.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

increasing so rapidly that California
can no longer be termed the Golden
State. The official figures of the Di-
rector of the Mint show that during
1898 Colorado produced 1913, 1876, 800
while Califorpia's product was only
$15, 637, 900. For 1897 the figures
were: Colorado $40, 1O4, 200, California
$14, 618. 800. Furthermore, nearly all
the rich new strikes made recently
were in Colorado.
Criminals today fear the public
journals quite as much as they fear
the detectives and other officers of
the law, and in many instances they
fear the newspapers most of all states
the Philadelphia Times. The services
of American journals in the exposure
and suppression of crime have be-
come so general that the public have
little appreciation of them, but those
who we'll understand the power OF the
public press to halt the vocation of
the criminal have the most wholesome
fear of Americas progressive journal
ism.
The London riding schools, we are
told, are supplying women grooms.
Instead of following '.my lady" at a
regulated distance, like the male at
tendant the woman groom rides right
up alongside. Thus the early MORN
ing canter is no longer passed in ST.
lence, but in cheerful converse,
which Ia supposed to add to the en-
joyment of the riding Constitution
al" Where is women's invasion of
mems established occupations to end
With men being employed as cham
bermaids, while women are to be
found at all callings from barristers
to barmaids and grooms, school COM
missioners and mayors of cities,
things are being turned topsy turvy.
We may look forward to women
judges on the bench deciding whether
or not dress fits or where the blame
lies between servant Ind her en-
ployer.
Norway is to-day unique as CON-
mercial nation. There is no other,
not even Great Britain, that rivals
her in the proportionate size of her
ocean going commerce. Great Bri-
tain, with 40, 900, 900 population. has
IL, 500, 900 tons of shipping, or nearly
one-third of ton per capita. But
Norway. with only 2, 200, 0U0 popula-
ton, has more than 1000, 900 tons,
or nearly three-fodrths of ton per
capita. And Norway. with only 2, :
200. 900 population, is in tonnage only
so per cent behind the United States
with its rs, 600. 600, and 80 per cent
behind Germany with her So. 900. 900,
and actually surpasses Frances with
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

Nearly a million dollars is now 60
ing into cotton mills in Mississippi.
That good state is moving steadily
forward and her people are said to be
more prosperous than they have been
for twenty years past.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

A photograph recently taken of the
delegates of the Nebraska State Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs shows,
what ia to be noticed in the greater
number of clubs, that the members
are the middle-aged matrons and older
women whose active household duties
have ceased to great extent. They
used to say that missionary societies
in churches were composed of old
maids and widows. There was prob
ably some truth in it, because the un-
attached women have the time to de-
vote to the work.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

The Kansas City Star, commenting
on the increased transportation OF
horses to the Eastern market, says:
"The passing of the horse as motive
power has been fruitful theme for
writer's since the advent of the cleo
trio Car and the automobile, but the
horse persistently refuses to pass"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-28

Who says the Indian is not pro-
crossing. An Alaska native has sued
prominent Seattle citizens, including
a newspaper man, for stealing totem
pole from the reservation. The old
fashioned method OF recovering q
sacred emblem would have been a
war dance and scalping knife.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-01
MURDER AND MUTILATI0N
Two Men Waylaid and Robbed by
Mexicans in Arizona

Kingman, Ariz., Janv~}l.-The bodies OF
two men have been found murdered near
blackberry. a small Itown east Of here. The
bodies had been exposed three days. The
threats were cut and the heads beaten to
a Jelly with stones The remains have
been identified as those or James Bowd,
a miner, and John Blake, a Mormon
teamster from Utah. BIae leaves d
widow and children.
Both men had been drinking for several
days. and on Thursday night disappeared.
Three Mexicans who were in town that
night drinking and gambling also disaD-
peared and it is supposed that they muir
dered the men. The murdeTers built a
fire near the bodies and burnt the blaoAv
clothing. Part OF a letter, written in
Spanish. was found in the aSles. The
Mexicans have been caught and are here
in Jail. There Is talk OF lynching. The
bodies were bruta,ly mutilated after death.
Blake's head was nearly severed from the
body. He was robbed Of a watch and .
small lamount OF money.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-01
Cold, Damp Weather Ag-
gravates the Disease.

Cold. damp and disagreeable
weather is dreaded by those sub
ject TO Rheumatism, for the slight
est change IN the atmosphere or
temperature is sure 10 increase
their suffering. 4 great many
who experience little difficulty
from rheumatism during the
summer months are likely 10 be-
lieve themselves rid of the disease.
but with the first cold, damp day
their aches and pains return and
they soon find themselves firmly
in the grasp of their old enemy.
who fortunes them more than
ever.
Several years ago l was afflicted
with what the doctors called Sciatic
Rheumatism or Lumbago, suffering the
most intense agony 81 times, and being
confined TO my bed about = year. al
though four Of the best physicians Zone
OF whom was my fssher) attended ne
during my Illness. They could give me-
only temporary relief. and ] think they
tried about sll Of the remedies known
TO medical science, dosing ne with
strong medicines until my stomach cot
IN such condition that / could digest
nothing. and neither myself nor friends
had any hope Of my recovery ! was
persuaded "a try : : 6. and before
the first bottle. found thar
lad the right remedy. / continued -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-01
Army INCREASE
BILL IS PASSED
Continued from First Page.)

Hulrs motion. The motion to recommit
was lost, III to no.
There were only four breaks from party
lines on this vote. Messrs. Barber of
Maryland and Connolly of Illinois. Re
publicans. voted with the Democrats and
Populists TO recOmmit, and MeSsrs. Nc
Clellan and Cummings On. ", Democrats
voted against the motion. The vote then
came up on the passage of the bin. and it
was passed. 16S to 125 The announcement
was received with cheers
The senate amendments to the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill were
disagreed TO and the Dill sent to confer
ence.
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
Mr.. Burton (Rep., Ohio. chairman OF
the river and harbor o'mmittee, called up
the river and harbor bsp and proposed
that thirty minutes be allowed for gen.
eral debate. There was immediate objec-
ton. Thereupon he proposed an hour.
How much is carried by this bill, may
I inquirer" asked Mr.. Hepburn (Rep., la
Thirty millions"
Thirty Millions" repeated Mr.. Hep
burn, and you propose an hour for general
debate? I object"
No agreement was reached as 10 the
general debate. The house went through
the form Of going into committee in order
TO put the river and harbor bill under
consideration.
The committee then rose, and the house.
at 4:35 p. m. adjourned.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-01
TEXT OF MALLEY'S BILL
FIXING Salaries and Limiting FIX
penditures In General.

Guthrie, o. T, Jan. 3L-(Speciall-Th
was lively discussion in the house this
afternoon over Malley's bill fixing the sala-
ries of territorial officers and limiting ex-
penditures for contingent expenses. The
principal fight in the committee of the
whole was on the provision allowing 81. 600
u year for the purchase Of books for the
territorial library. The Populsts. led by
Walls and Hadley. and assisted by Jones
(Rep.), made fight TO have this provision
stricken out, while Stevens, Reid and Ier
ton successfully defended the necessity OF
public law library. The bill entire is as
follows:
Section l. The governor Of Oklahoma
shall he allowed one thousand dollars per
year 10 be expended as a salary FOR 8
private secretary; and he shall be allowed
TWO hundred and fifty dollars per YEAR
for clerk hire and contingent expenses.
and no more.
Sec. >. The attorney general Of Okla
homa Territory shall receive a salary Of
fifteen hundred dollars per year. pavablo
quarterly ;snd he shall be allowed one
thousand dollars per year. or so much
thereof as may be actually necessary. for
blanks, rent, clerk hire and contingent ex-
penses. and no more Provided that for
every mile necessarily ana actually tray
eled by the attorney E~'eral in person.
on official business in Oklahoma Territory.
he shall he allowed actual travelling ex-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-01
NILES STICKS 10 /
Beef Was Embalmed and Any
body Ought to Know It
NOTHING TO SAY OF EAGAN
Final Plea in Behalf of the
Fiery Commissary.

New York, Jan. 31-Major General Miles
was asked by an Evening World reporter
today what he had done regarding the offer
Of Colonel A. A. Pope of Boston 10 give
1000 for proof that chemicals were used
to "embalrn'' beef furnished the United
States soldiers in the war with Spain.
II have told Pope" was General Miles
reply, that I appreciated his patriotism
and had great respect for the public spirit
which he displayed, but that do not think
it necessary to spend any such sum 70
prove such a patent fact that the beef
was embalmed. The evidence Of nearly
100 officers proves it. The reports made
to me establish it beyond a doubt.
MY report was bas ed solely upon per-
sonal observation and the statements to me
by officers in whom 1 have every conf
dence.
81 think the evidence and testimony 1
produced is sufficient 10 establish the truth
Of everything 1 said regarding the beef"
General Miles refused to express himself
regarding the court martial in the trial
Of General Eagan.
'.It was reported in Washington" the
reporter suggested, "that the war investi-
eating commission has reached a decision
in which it practically exonerates all army
officers except yourself and General Brock
inridge."
''Well," replied General Miles, there
are many rumors afoat and there is no
need for me to add to them. All have
to say is that the report will speak for
itself when il is made public"