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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
A RACE WAR.
White lIen in Little River County
Ark, Inaugurate a Systematic
Slaughter of Negroes.

Texarkana. Ark, March PA race
war is on in Little River county, and
during the past As hours an indefinite
number of negroes have met their death
at the hands of an Infatuated white
population. Seven are known to have
been lynched, shot to death or slain in
some manner, and the work is not yet
done. The bodies of the victims of the
mob's vengeance are hanging to the
limbs of trees in various parts of the
county, strung up wherever overtaken.
while that of another who was shot to
death while trying to escape was
thrown into a creek and left there.
The known dead to date are: Cen
eral Duckett, Edwin Goodwin, Adam
King, Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones,
Moses Jones, unknown man. Joe
King and John Johnson were also taken
in hand by mobs and whipped. They
were afterward turned loose and have
disappeared.
The disturbances grew out of the
lynching of a negro named General
Duckett, near Richmond. in that coun-
ty, on Tuesday.
Jackson, Miss, March 24-Three ne
groes were taken from an officer of the
law and lynched by an armed mob
near Silver City. in Yazoo county, last
Saturday morning. After being shot
to death the bodies of the victims were
weighted with bundles of cotton bale,
tied and thrown into the YaZoo river.
The negroes were Minton Wilson, c. c.
Reed and Willis Boyd. They were'the
ringleaders of the negroes in race
encounter on the Midnight plantation
early last week.
Advices from New Boston, Tex, are to
the effect that across the river several ne
groes have been lynched. Thursday
morning Benjamin Jones was found
dead on Hurricane bend, and from New
Boston it is learned that Joe King and
Moses Jones were found hanging TO
trees at Horseshoe curve Thursday
Another Jones is missing. In the gang
that was plotting for race war were %
negroes. and it is likely that the entire
number have been strung up in the
thickets. The negroes are fleeing from
the district. Thursday three wagons
full arrived at Texarkana. having
crossed Red river at Index at midnight
They were greatly frightened. The
citizens of Little River county have saf-
fered much recently from lawlessness
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
No More Free Ratfons

Washington, March 22.-Gen. Brooke
has caused to be printed and promul-
gated an important order in Cuba,
which sets forth that after April 1 no
rations will be issued to destitute Gu
bans by the United States. Thereafter
the rations must be paid for out of the
revenues of the island. BY direction of
the secretary Of war Gen. Brooke has
transmitted this order to the COM
manders of the various departments of
the island, and is trying to give the
order, which is of great Importance,
the widest publicity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
Gerald Lapiner Found.

gainesville. O.. March GA startling
sequel to the abduction of Gerald lap
iner, the three-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Lapiner, which occurred in
Chicago May so, 1895, developed here
Tuesday in the recovery and restora-
ton of the child to his mother and
the arrest of Mrs. Ann Ingersoll and
John Collins. who live about a mile
west of gainesville, at whose place the
child was found, and where he had
been kept since last June. The man
and woman have been arrested. Col
Inns was held in $500 and Mrs. Ingersoll
in s.. Geo bail.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

has it. A great many people think they
are suffering from something else and
have tried many medicines in vain
when if they could realize that it is
catarrh and take Pe-ru-na for it they
would improve promptly and soon re-
cover entirely. There are no substi-
tutes. Let no one persuade you there
are other catarrh remedies just as good.
Winter Catarrh" is book writer
by DR.. Hartman, Columbus. Ohio Sent
free to any address.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
THE NEW MARSHAL

United States Marshal William H.
Grimshaw entered upon his new duties
and is now prepared to carry out the
orders of Uncle Sam within the confines
of Minnesota. His first formal act was
to announce the appointment of Stephen
J. Picha and Timothy Sheehan OF ST.
Paul ard Charles A. Nimocks of Min
neapolis as Office deputies. The present
force of field deputies will be continued
for time. but some changes may be ex-
pected ere long.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

COlOnel Hamilton, OF columbus, "
demonstrated in my family. 1 have
number of friends who have taken it for
catarrh and stomach trouble, and all
unite in praising it. As remedy for
catarrh l can fully recommend it" Mrs.
Hamilton, wife Of the gallant Colonel, is
an ardent friend of Pe-ru-na also. In
letter on the subject she writes: Il have
been taking Pe-ru-na for some time, and
am enjoying better health now than 1
have for years. / attribute the change
in my health to Pe-ru-na. and recon-
mend this excellent catarrh remedy to
every woman. believing it to be espe-
cially beneficial to them"
The spring time is the most favorable
time of the year to treat catarrh. There
is so much less liability to take fresh
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
RESIGNS.

O. j. Breda, professor of Scandinavian
literature at the State University, will
sever his connection with the institution
at the close of the present year. He has
decided to return to Norway, where his
wife resides, because the climate of this
country is injurious to her health. Prof
Breda has been connected with the uni
versity for many years in his present
capacity, and the faculty will lose one
of it's ablest and most highly respected
members in his departure
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

cold that the treat
ment is unimped-
ed. All old cases
of chronic catarrh
should begin i'm
mediately a course
of Pe-ru-na as di-
rected in DR.. Hart
m a n S books on
this disease. There
are so many differ
ent phases a n q
5 { a g e S of catarrh
[ b 4 t o Il e hardly
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
This Gold Brick Was All Right.

Davenport. Ia. March ga Mexi-
can miner sold NJ. F. Nabstedt & Co.,
of this city, gold brick Tuesday for
s4,427. On being melted it proved TO
be worth more than that amount. The
sale is the first of the kind known in
this state and occasioned much inter
est Why the miner came here in pref
erence to larger cities nearer Mexico
is not known.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

Clay Center, Kan, March 24.-John
Gilbert, who slew his wife and four chill
dren with a Ratchet on February % last,
on his farm near Industry, pleaded
guilty when put on trial here Thursday,
and was sentenced to death. This, I'M
Ger the Kansas law, means life impris-
onment. as no recent governor has
signed i death warrant.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
Days of the Horse numbered.

The greatest electrician in the world de-
clares that the days of the horse are num-
bered, and that in a short time electricity
will completely supplant mans most useful
animal. In 20 years, he asserts, the horse
will be curiosity. Diseases of the stomach,
liver, kidneys and blood would also be
curiosity if all sufferers would take Hostel
tiers Stomach Bitters. There would then be
practically no dyspepsia, nervousness, Sleep
lessness, indigestion, constipation, malarid
fever or ague.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
Cruelty.

ooh. | knowed would get it, said the
man who had been fined for selling tinted
butter, "and l guess | can stand it., But 1t
does seem kinder hard to have been fined by
a Judge with dyed whiskers. indianapolis
Journal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
A CRUSHING DEFEAT.
Administered to Aguinaldo by Amer
lean Troops.
FilipinOs Lose Fully 500 Men In the
Enlargement American Loss
About 100 Killed and
Wounded.

Manila, March 25.-A terrible battle
was fought this Saturday morning
northeast of Caloocan. in which the
Americans lost 100 men, including
killed and injured, and the rebels lost
about 500. The first engagement be-
gan soon after daylight. Gen. MacAr-
thurs division is to be credited with
the magnificent work done, which in
cludes the capture of several villages
and the almost complete demoraliza-
ton of Aguinaldo's forces.
Soldiers Behave SpIendidIy.
The American soldiers behaved SPLEEN
didly, charging the strong trenches
thrown up by the rebels among the
canebrakes while the enemy kept up
terrible firing. The ambulances were
kept continually on the firing line to
carry away the many who fell.
The gunboat Laguna entered the
small creeks fringing the coast and
aided in the assault on the Filipinos.
The engineers constructed sectional
bridges across the Tinajeros river and
our troops were enabled to advance
Return for the Fight.
The Third and Seventeenth regiments
of United States infantry, which had
gone aboard the transport Sherman to
be conveyed, presumably, to some point
on the bay, disembarked to march to
the front overland.
The Twenty-second regiment of
United States infantry and the Oregon
volunteer regiment were among the
first troops to set out for the scene of
impending action to the north of Ma
Mia.
Movements of the Rebels.
The rebels had been expecting an adj
vance movement for some days. Their
spies within our lines usually have
kept them advised of the American
plans of operation.
In this case the Filipinos knew they
must make their most stubborn stand,
as the American commander meant to
wipe them out or disperse them and
capture their capital-Malolos.
The Filipinos moved forward from
Malolos, leaving there only body
guard for Aguinaldo, it is said, and con-
centrated in large numbers about Mala-
bon. which lies to the north of Manila
on the railway and on the shore of the
bay.
Regiments Engaged.
Gen. McArthur's division. consisting
of the brigades of Gen. Harrison Gray
Otis, Gen. Hale and Gen. Hall, supple
mented by Gen. Wheaton's brigade, adj
vanced at daylight and cut the enemys
forces in two. They captured the towns
of Polo and Novaliches, on the left, and
San Francisco del Monte and Moriquina,
On the right. clearing the rebel trenches
in front of the line north from the river
10 Caloocan. They also secured posses
sion of the railroad, practically corner
ing the flower of Aguinaldo's army at
Maiabon. and in the foothills at Singa-
len, 20 miles apart.
Tie troops engaged were the Third
artillery, as infantry; the Montana.
Kansas, Pennsylvania. Nebraska,
Wyoming. Colorado, South Dakota,
Minnesota and Oregon volunteers, the
Third, Fourth, Seventeenth and Twen-
ty-second regulars, the Utah artillery
battalion and Twenty-third regulars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

1t is usually easy to rob busy man
Atchison Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
INSANE woMAN,s SUICIDE.

Mrs. William Rolling, residing at AS
Sinner street, ST. Paul, committed
suicide by hanging herself During the
absence of her husband she made careful
preparations for the deed, and upon his
return he found her suspended from the
ceiling and life extinct. Last October she
was released from the asylum at Roches-
ter, and it is believed that she took her
life while temporarily out of her mind
Secretary Gage has suspended the order
establishing tea inspection at St. Paul.
At Garfield a Great Northern fast
freight was wrecked by an ice clogged
switch Fifteen cars loaded with grain
left the track and are badly demolished
The engine and caboose did not leave
the track. The wreck was caused by
spreading rails. Mails were transferred
around the wreck.
Jacob Kiefer was reelected Mayor of
Moorhead by 20 majority.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
A BRAVE COLONEL
Recommends Pe-ru-na as a Fam
lily Medicine.
A Scientific Spring Medicine.

Colonel Arthur L. Hamilton. of the
Seventh Ohio Volunteers, 259 Goodale
street. Columbus. Ohio, writes: Besides
having the merits of Pe-ru-na so fully
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

Ever thus-heirs to aches and pains. st.
Jacobs Oils the doctor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29

Stricken with Sciatica? ST. Jacobs Oil
will strike it out and cure.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
The transactions of the Lawmakers at
ST. Paula Short Summary of
the Regular Routine.

St. Paul. March 21-The senate yester-
day recommended for passage the Wilson
bill to parole the Younger brothers.
Stockwells bill for the initiative. and
referendum was killed by indefinite post
ponement.
The following bills were passed:
Requiring the education of children and
providing truant officers in ungraded
schools in school districts and cities now
or hereafter having over $1,000 inhabi-
tantS.
To abolish private seals and to provide
that contracts in writing shall import =
consideration.
To amend sections 1890 and 1891, General
Laws 1894. etc, relating to corporations.
To amend the act to revise and cOdify
the insurance laws of the state, etc. so
as to authorize organization of certain in
Surance companies to insure bicycles
against loss by theft.
To provide for the purchase of NUM-
cipal bonds for the permanent school and
university fund.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
The Crime Of The HiglDillelS
vi SOCIETY HAS BROKEN LOOSE IN NEW YORK, HAS KILLED A MAN
AND THREATENS MORE EVIL TO COME.

While the police of the east have been
willing to admit that it was possible that
organizations of highbinders still exist in
California and other western states they
have persisted in the assertion that no
such association of criminals could be
found in New York or any other large
city on the Atlantic coast. For years
they nave prided themselves that the law
less element among the Chinese had been
placed SO thoroughly under subsection
that serious crimes We're almost entirely
unknown in the local colonies, but, in
spite of this, those who have become in
timately acquainted with the Chinese and
their habits have been fully aware of the
fact that such bands of criminals did ex-
list and that they were practicing their
blackmailing schemes even when they
did not resort to more serious offenses. A
few days ago, however, the police of New
York experienced a sad awakening for
there can be nc question u that the
murder of Loo Chow was the work of the
highbinders.
Loo Chow was an inoffensive little
laundryman and yet it was known
throughout Chinatown hat in some man
ner he had incurred the illwill of the DOW
erful society that has preyed Upon the
Celestial residents of this country for so
many years. For a time he was able to
escape their vengeance but one morning
he was found sitting upright in a chair
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

nea the door of his aundry. His head
hung over upon one shoulder as if he was
asleep but the slender streak of red that
extended the full length of his garments
and gathered in a little pool on the floor
told that it was a sleep from which he
would never wake. The police came, but
the evidence was too conclusive to permit
of any question. Loo Chow ha been
murdered by highbinders and this fact
proved clearly that the close Students of
Chinese life were not mistaken when they
had said that such an organization did
exist.
There probably was never a more
heartless association Of criminals than
that of the highbinders, or "hatchet-
men. as they are sometimes called. When
or where the society was organized is
somewhat of a mystery but it first came
into prominence in California many
years ago and since that time has spread
terror throughout the west. Purporting
to be organized for fraternal and insur-
ance purposes it has never failed to AXE
advantage of every opportunity to
carry on a secret system of crime. Men
who have made themselves obnoxious to
the organization have been marked for
slaughter and it is seldom that any one
selected to die by the society has been
able to escape the penalty pronounced
against him.. Swindles of all kinds have
Gel OJCI otCu ny lit members OF TINS
gang of criminals, blackmail has been
Systematically levied, and the greatest
and vilest of crimes have been committed
without hesitation under the guise of this
fraternity.
While these conditions apply particu-
larly to the west where the Chinese have
cOngregated in great numbers, a similar
state of affairs, to a lesser degree perhaps,
has prevailed in the larger cities of the
east, New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
In the eastern cities, however, the some
what limited Chinese population has act
ed as a deterrent and the offences COM
mitted have usually been restricted to
theft. sWindling or Matchmaking. Occa-
sionally, however, murder has been done.
There has been the lash of the knife un-
DER cover of the darkness and another
unsolved mystery has been entered upon
the books at police headquarters.
A few months ago the hiehbinders re.
celVed a scare that for a time had a ten
dency to keep them pretty thoroughly
under cover. This was due to the fact
that SO manyc complaints had been lodged
with the officials OF the Chinese govern
ment in this country that the powers in
China had determined to take cognizarce
of the subject. The Chinese officials rec
ognized the fact that the local police were
seriously handicapped in their efforts to
deal With these secret criminals and SO
WI Ting Fang, the minister to Washing
ton announced his willingness to nego-
tiate an extradition treaty applicable to
all criminals. but intended particularly to
apply to the highbinders.
This proposal spread terror in the
ranks of the society for the minister has
stated that the Chinese government
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

if on the wings of the wind. Imagine a
fast express train rushing on with a
clear, straight track before it, II you
ma have some idea of the character of
the machine that is to play a leading part
in the races of the next century.
! In spite Of all this it is a simple inven-
ton, a motor composed of equal parts
of compressed air and gasoline. and yet
no race horse that ever faced the starter
could equal the pace that is set by this
machine when propelled by clever bicy-
clists. When such a pace setter is pro-
vlded space seems to be obliterated and
the Wheelman simply speeds on, as OBJ
lvlous to distance as to time.
Long before M. Fourier came to this
country he was known as the demon
rider" While Routon's was the brain
to perfect the instrument, he was the
IDEAL man to operate 1T, and supersti-
tlous persons who have watched his per-
formances are sometimes inclined to be-
lleve that he is possessed-that he is the
demon RIDER in fact as we'll as in name.
He is a Frenchman who has been speed
ing bicycles even since the early days of
the wheels. and what he does not know
about racing is scarcely worth knowing.
His career in France was a triumph.
His success in this country has been phe-
nonlenal.
The Internal quad, which has of late
become so familiar to racing men as the
fastest bicycle PAGER in existence, is OF
American build. 1t was constructed by
the Orient company, of Waltham, under
the direction of NJ. Fourier himself, and
was built with a care to the minutest de-
tail that has seldom been given even to
racing machines. When one has seen the
Internal quad in operation, however, he
IS not surprised hat those who were to
ride the denaonlac machine should have
insisted that it should be perfection in
every detail of it's construction. Just
how fast 1t can go no one knows, but it
Is certain that at the speed already de-
Veloped a flaw or an imperfectiOn that
would be sufficient to cause an accident
would mean instant death for each OF
the four riders.
At the present time the Internal quad
represents the height Of achievement In
the making of motor cycles. OF course
there are other cycles that bear the name.
of riders and that were built for comfort
more than for speed, but such machines
are not to be compared to the great quad
that has been turned out from the Amer
lean workshop. To hear M. Fourier
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

cape from punishment for this serious
crime will inspire them with the courage
that they have heretofore lacked, and
that the carnival of crime that has oper-
ated SO much against the law abiding
Chinese citizens of the west will soon
be inaugurated in the cities of the east.
The highbinders know that they have
little to fear from the local police for it
is a we'll known fact that unless one has
become intimately acquainted with the
race 1t is next to impossible to distinguish
one Chinaman from another. Instances
have been known in which a highbinder
has murdered his victim almost in the
presence of a policeman, has stepped into
a doorway, changed his cap for a wide
brimmed hat and has stood perfectly
serene while the detachment of police
summoned to the scene of the crime has
searched for him from one end of the
colony to the other. The statement that
this thing has been dom has often been
made by Chinese merchants who have ap-
pealed for police protection and no one
who knows the Chinese character would
doubt that it might be possible.
Another fact that operates to prevent
the police from accomplishing their duty
is the unwillingness of Cinnamon to de-
liver n of their number for punishment.
If twenty Cinnamon saw one of their
relatives shot down by a highlander not
one of them could be made to testify
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

would be willing to assume the burden
of the detection and punishment of the
criminals if the necessary treaty should
be adopted. This meant that special of
ticers would be appointed and that it
would be their sole duty to discover and
run to earth every member of the Grim
NAL association and these men, when
taken back to China would be dealt with
in short order.
While in many respects the proposal
seemed a wise one the United States au-
thorities We're afraid that serious evils
might result from such an action and so
the matter was dropped. AS soon as it
became known that this government had
refused to become a party to the propos-
ed scheme of determination the high
binders assumed that this action was
something in the nature of a license to
commit crime and the unlawful work of
the society was revived. Men who were
suspected as having been instrumental in
causing his effort at interference by the
Chinese government We're subjected to all
kinds of prosecutions; in the west sew
eral murders were committed, and even
in the east the work of Matchmaking and
swindling went on with renewed vigor.
At last came the murder in New York.
and those who are acquainted with the
methods of the highbinders feel certain
that the trouble with the organization
has only just commenced; that their es-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
HE SIZED UP HIS CUSTOMER.

A rather laudly dressed gentleman"
stepped into the necktie department of
a big store the other afternoon and in a
supercilious tone, that would have net
tied a craven image into anger, uttered
the single mandatory word: .
"Neckties!'
Then he threw back his head as if
the assistant was entirely beneath his
notice. The top-lofty air aggravated
the assistant, but he quietly displayed a
number of late patterns with a def
erential air.
These he said obsequiously, ARE
the very newest things and are excel
lent quality at half a dollar
Half a dollar" haughtily snapped the
customer: hal a dollar! Do l look like
a man who would wear a SO cent necktie?
Is there anything about me to indicate
that u
- beg pardon, sir" meekly in%terposed
the assistant, the rs cent counter Is at the
other end of the shop