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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
A SCENE OF BUTCHERY.
The Slaughter That Came With the
End of the Janizarfes.


On the 18th day of June. 1926. the
whole corps of the janizaries in the
capital assembled. overturned their
camp kettles (the signal of revolt) and
advanced upon the seraglio. With his
own hand the sultan unfurled the
sacred ''sanjak sheriff and called upon
the true believers to rally round their
dischah and caliph. and the Jealous
Mussulman citizens rushed from all
quarters and rallied under the sacred
symbol The ranks of the janizaries
We're raked with grape and solid shot
by ''Black He'll Ga nickname for Ibra-
him. general of artillery and his gun
ners as they pressed through the streets.
compelling them to fall back TO the
Etmeidan. where they defended them
selves with extraordinary fierceness.
Staying great numbers of their assail-
ants The artillery. supported by the
marines and the bostangi, pressed for
ward and compelled them to retreat to
their barracks. where they offered des-
perate resistance to the assault.
From every street cannon thundered
on the walls without intermission. the
building was soon in flames, the walls
torn and battered down by grapeshot.
and the janizaries, overwhelmed by
ruins, shot and flames. persisted in their
burning and blood stained barracks.
For two days the gates of the city re-
manned closed, and with relentless vigor
every corner was searched for such
janiZaries as had escaped the general
massacre, and when found they were
hastily executed Nearly 90. 900 jani-
zaries were destroyed on this memora-
BILE day, and many thousands were aft
erward put to death in the various
cities of the empire. and thus not one
of the number under arms was left to
tell the tale Culture.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
Somebody's Mother.

A ragged woman was crossing the
corner of a public park in large city
where the children of the poor are ac-
customed to play, many of them bare
footed. a burly policeman stationed
at the corner watched the woman sus-
piciously. Half way across she stopped
and picked up something which she hid
in her apron. In an instant the police
man was by her side. With a gruff
voice and threatening manner he de-
manded:
What are you carrying off in your
apronI"
The woman seemed embarrassed and
refused to answer. Thereupon the Off
Ger of the law. thinking that she had
doubtless picked up pocketbook which
she was trying to make away with,
threatened 70 arrest her unless she told
him at once what she had in her apron.
At this the woman reluctantly unfold
ed her apron and disclosed handful of
broken glass.
In stupid wonder the policeman ask
ed:
what do you want with that stuff g.
A flush passed over the woman face:
then she answered simply:
IF You please. sir. just thought I'd
take it out of the way of the children
feet Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
AN HONEST ARTIST.
He Would Not Paint n Lie Even For
n Napoleon.

There was no love lost between the
Emperor Louis Napoleon and his cousin,
Prince Napoleon, whom the Parisians
called ''Plon Plon. The prince used to
make abusive speeches against the en-
peror, which people We're only too ready
to repeat to him. Let him alone,
Louis Napoleon would reply. He is
too well known. No one would turn me
out to place him on the throne. -
The emperor was correct, for no one
said u good word about ''Plon Plon.'
He was commonly believed to have
shown the white feather in the Crimea
and never exposed himself where the
lead was falling. An English lady. who
in her young days mingled with French
society. tells in her Foreign Courts
and Foreign Homes story as discred-
liable to Prince Napoleon as it is hon
orable to a French artist.
While the artist was painting the
historical picture of the battle of the
Alma. which the emperor had ordered.
Prince Napoleon called at the painter 8
studio to make known to him the facts.
On leaving he said he wished the prom
inent figure in the battle to be himself
mounted on his white charger. He sent
the horse to the artist so that he could
paint its exact portrait When the pic
ture was finished and invitations were
sent out for n ''private view" the
white charger was seen, Il prominent
figure in the battle, but without "A rider
On hearing of this terrible omission
the prince sent an aiddecamp to ask
the reason. The honest artist said the
horse should remain if the prince wish
ed. but no rider would be on it. Tell
the prince have never yet painted Il
lie. The hint was taken The prince
ordered the horse TO be rubbed ont.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
HE HAD A BAD HABIT.
And 1t Made Him Il Poor Insurance
Risk In Kentucky.

4
The mFnager of a life insurance COM
, pany had the floor.
Life insurance companies, he was
! saying, ''are as particular about the
people they already have on their lists
as they are about getting them on in
J the beginning. They are rich. of course,
but they are no more anxious to take
in man who viii die of disease within
| the first year or two than they are to
take in perfectly healthy man and
have him hazard his life by taking per-
, sOnal risks in dangerous pursuits or by
travel in unhealthy countries
II remember a funny instance that
occurred once while / was living in
New England. One of our SO, 600 men
had a way of calling Il man liar in the
most careless and indiscriminate man
ner and with only the merest or no
provocation. One day he was in our
office and casually mentioned the fact
that he was going to make i trip to
Kentucky.
" 'When2 inquired the manager
alertly.
" Next week
q" ON business or pleasure?'
I" Going to buy pair of horses
/" 'Um-er-erl' hesitated the man
ager Before you start 1 wish you
would stop in and see me.
What for? Want me to buy a
horse for you2'
g No: want to arrange about your
policy.
90 What do you want to arrange
about it2 Isn't it all right?'
"a Yes, as long as you stay in this
country. But if you go down to Ken
lucky We'll have to advance the rate
until you come back.
" We'll, what in - began the
policy holder hotly. when the manager
interrupted him.
a. Don't fly the track. my dear fell
low he said gently. It's all right here
and the rate is satisfactory to us; but,
by Jove we can't give you the same
rate and let you go to Kentucky and
call men liars like You do in this sec
ton. Not much We haven't got $40,
900 policies to give away like that, and
you oughtn't to expect it. Wash
ington Star
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
Accounted For the Fit.

Hon. George r. Peck so keenly APP
preciates Il good joke that he tells the
following on himself
when. after a foreign trip, l was
being welcomed by some of my friends
in Topeka, l Wore a suit of clothes
made by London tailor that was I'M
comfortably tight in places l expressed
my surprise that n loose fit in London
should prove tight fit in Topeka.
whereupon an Irishman of the party
exclaimed.
"'Mr. Peck. don't forget you're a
bigger man in Topayka than you were
in London. Chicago Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21

He looked with forced admiration AT
the slippers-forced because he already
had half a dozen pairs.
You don't mean to tell me that
they are all your own work. What a
talented little wife IN going to haveF'
And she smiled. though the plain
truth was that she had bought the up
pers. paid man TO sole them and then
managed to sew the bows on crooked
after her mother had made them Yet
she was very proud and really wonder
ed how she had managed to accomplish
SO much Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
Snusage Links.

'Yes.'' said the yellow dog. at be-
lieve after death we enter into another
sphere of action l think III be golf
player.
How do you figure that out p
Gueried the black and tan
.'Oh. IN be in the links "-Philadel-
phia North American
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
Untirnely MN.

"What time did the hotel catch fire2
Midnight Z"
"Everyb body get out safely?'
''All except the night Waterman. We
couldn't wake him up in time. Dos
toz Traveller
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
Kidney Diseases

Are the most fatal of all diseases.
Foley's Kidney Cure a guaranteed
remedy or money refunded.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
The DANGER of 1t.

The man with too many irons in the
fire is sure to take one by the hot end.
Dallas News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
In These
Times of War

Of war Just end d, of war existing, and pos
sibly of A GREATER WAR COMING
when the affairs of the world are rapidly
assuming forms, the people seek quite
naturally to be INTELLIG EMILY IN
FORMED of the events as they develop in
their day and generation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-21
They All Knew.

Teacher-Now. boys. who was Co
lumbus1
No answer
Teacher (promptingly)-The man
that
Class (readily)-Broke the bank at
Monte Cario-London Judy
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

b. Ogden, a well-known and highly re
spected citizen of Long Beach, is lying,
seriously i'll.
Revelstoke has been incorporated as a,
city, proclamation to that effect appear
ing in the last number of the British Col
umbia Gazette.
1t is reported from the CariboO road
that the anti Chinese legislation enacted
at the recent session of the British Col
umbian Legislature has already had the
effect of Kidding that part of the country
of large number of Chinese.
An effort is being made to induce the
city council of Nelson, B. c., to require
the closing of all hotels and saloons in.
that city from u o'clock Saturday night
until 6 o'clock on the following Monday.
The board of licensing commissioners of
Victoria, D. c., has refused to renew the
liquor license of seven waterfront saloons
in that city on the ground that they are
unsightly and a disgrace to the localities
in which they are situated.
The bodies of the two boys, Isaac Fish
er and George Howison, who were lost on,
hunting trip February 18th near New
Westminster, b. c., have been found in
Burnaby lake. They were in only three
feet OF water, but the bottom being very
soft, made it difficult for them to reach
shore
With eleven tons of explosives on
board, the steamer Selkirk, which was
partly burned at NanaimO last week,
crossed the gulf of Georgia to Vancouver
and on the way over the flames leaped
into renewed life and more than once it
was feared that they would reach the car
go The efforts of the crew happily
averted disaster.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
8ININO NOTES.

The Crystal mine near Fort Spokane
at the mouth of the Spokane river is fast
Developing into a bonanza.
Ore, too rich to mill at the mine, is be-
ing sacked for shipment from the Bonan-
"a, in Oregon.
The Gold Hill mines of Oregon are now
being operated more extensively than
ever, about so miners being employed.
Elkhon mountain in Oregon will be
one of the liveliest camps in these gold
fields this year. Plans of operation on
large scale are laid by the companies
interested in the camp, and before the
year is out the monthly output from the
camp will reach or exceed 100000.
The trustees of the Montana Ore Pur-
chasing company have declared on extra
dividend of $4,000, being 81 per share
upon the capital stock outstanding, pay
able March 20, 1899, TO stockholders of
record March TO- This makes 100000
paid by this company since January,
1895.
The Magnolia mine, at Granitet, Ore,
is among the big properties there that
will pass into the hands of capital this
year and be operated on an extensive
scale.
The reopening of the Monte Cristo
mines and the rebuilding of the washed
out sections of the railroad near Ever
EFT, Washington, is going to be helpful
to the western Washington mining in
dustry.
r. E. Gosnell of Victoria is in Grand
Forks, B. c., after tour of the Boun-
Diary country. He was formerly private
secretary of ex-Premier Turner. He says
he has official information to the effect
that a smelter of so tons capacity will
be erected this summer by the Old Iron
sides company within three miles Of
Grand Forks.
The face of the Lombardy tunnel, in
the Couer d'Alenes, is now full of ore
the latest assay on which showed 66e
per cent lead and 228 ounces silver. The
rock is very hard and progress is slow
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
GOMEZ TO Be A PRESIDENT
DOOMED FOR THAT HONOR
The Movement Toward His Election IL
Begun-He Is willing If Unanimously
Elected-The Military Assembly be-
moraiizcd-Gen. Chshh Has the Fever.

New York, March lS.--A dispatch to.
the Tribune from Havana says:
The popular demonstration in honor OF
General Gomez at the Quinta de los Me
limos seems to have been turned by the
anti-assembly leaders into something of
presidential boom for the grand old
man" of Cuban politics. Most of the
speakers insisted on proclaiming the de
posed general in chief the sole guarantor
of insular independence and the ineyitabl
head of the still unfounded Cuban repub-
lie.
In reply to these highly fattering as
surances, General Gomez cautiously, but
still suggestively, declared that he could
not think of accepting the presidential
title unless it were bestowed upon him by
the unanimous vote of the Cuban people.
This answ er disclosed an intention sin
gularly at variance with the program he
announced in his manifesto of Sunday
last. In that manifesto he said that his
sole desire was now to retire to private
life and end his days in peace on his plan
tation in San Domingo. His new atti-
tude is also in striking contrast with the
offer of bis sword to committee of Puer-
to Ricans who had suggested the initia-
ton of movement for the independence
OF that island.
The military assembly held no meeting
yesterday and its members are hopelessly
demoralized and altogether at sea as to-
their future program. One result of the
assemblys discontinue is already appar-
ent in the efforts being made TO secure
the removal from office of the civil gov
ernor of the city, Senior Mora, and The
superintendent OF police, General Mario
Menocal, both of whom are accused by
the Gomez faction of having shown undue.
partisanship in trying to repress the pop
ular demonstration of last Monday.
AT General Brooke's headquarters it was,
said today that Major General Chatsee
was suffering from an attack of malarial
fever, the recurrence of a trouble which
he contracted last summer at Santiago.
The First Texas and the Second I.Ouisi-
ana are the next volunteer regiments to
be sent home for mastering out The
latter will sail for Savannah ON Saturday.
the Ward line steamer Havana being char
tered to convey the regiment to that port
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
A Large Deal.

Spokane Wash, March 2O.-A deal has
been closed and deeds are heing filed for
the transfer of 5000 acres of timber land
north of this city, the purchasers being
the Buckeye Lumber Company and the
sellers the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany and ranchers residing in that
section. This is the largest purchase of
timber land ever made by a mill company
in eastern Washington or northern Idaho.
Approximately $4,000 was involved in
the purchase.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25

shifts on crosscut tunnel. This is
contract work.
Among the properties which are expect
ed to be working this season are the
Bunker Hill, Leadville, Hercules, Little
Falls, Copper World, Bull Frog, Triune,
Rainbow, Spokane, King Solomon, Black
Warrior, Kalamazoo, Surprise and 9th
ers. Active preparations are being made
to start at least two-thirds of the prop
critics above mentioned on April /.
Not in five years has mining been as
active in and around LOOMS as this
season, and this years development will
go far toward establishing this as a per
manent and producing free gold camp.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
Is Careful OF HIS Men.

San Francisco, March l9-Paymastcr
Bellows of the Baltimore, who has just
arrived here from Manila, says that when
he left the Philippines Admiral Dewey
appeared to be in excellent health. He
says the admiral exercises the most scrup-
ulous care regarding the physical condi-
ton of his officers and men.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
Direct Communications.

New York, March 2l.-Direct telegraph
ic communications have been established
with Iloilo tPanay), and Bacolos
tNegros).
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
Cleveland Hotel Ere.

Cleveland, o., March 2O.-The Brook
lawn hotel was partially destroyed by
fire this morning All the occupants es-
capped without injury. The loss is about
$4,000.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
Bar Iron Trust.

Munice, Ind, March 2l-A $l5,OO0,O0
trust of the bar iron manufacturers of the
country viii soon be completed.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25

season, and this years development will
go far toward establishing this as a per
manent and producing free gold camp.
Republic.
Some fine specimens of copper-gold ore
were brought down from the Copper
Queen and Number Nine claims on Buck
horn mountain. These claims lie about
half mile north of the noted Buckhorn
mine. There is shaft on theCopper
Queen that is 20 feet deep and the ledge
is 10 feet in width. Five assays have
been made of the ore that showed values
of from 500 to 500 per ton. The ore
is what is usually termed copper ore, but
it carries quite percentage OF gold
and silver.
The Number Nine is a mammoth
ledge, having a surface showing of so
feet. 1t is a combination of magnetic
iron, copper and gold. The assays vary
from $40 to $33 per ton of all values. The
properties are owned by Dan and Doc
McClung.
1t is reported that there is considerable
mining going on in that section. Sew
eral of the copper properties are being de-
veloped and also one of the gold claims.
Among the latter is the Review mine. 1t
is said that it is looking better than
ever.
Everything at the Bodie is ready for
the reception of the hoist, but it is still
matter of doubt when it will arrive.
Frank Jackson, superintendent of the
Excelsior group, states that the shaft on
the property is 80 feet deep and the ledge
three and half feet wide. The ledge is
gradually improving in width and values.
The claim lies about three-fourths of a
mile south of the Golden Harvest.
One shift only is working on the Black
tail. The work is being done in the raise.
1t is claimed that there is yet 40 feet
of raise to make in the San Poll before
the two tunnels will be connected The
ore remains of as high grade as hereto
fore. 1t is said to run from $50 to $50
per ton. 1t is Just possible that the con-
nectiOn will be made by the first of
April.
1he 'Suhp ls ihOic promising Win every
foot of development, and there is a large
body of stopping ore in sight, but the
great value of the property win not be
accurately known until after a shaft has
been sunk to depth of several hundred
feet
The Eureka has been surveyed for a
patent.
The Kate Hayward tunnel is making
good progress, and it is expected that it
will strike the ledge within the next 20
feet
In the Lone Pine there has been about
100 feet of drift run on the ledge The
tunnel was driven about 100 feet to tap
the ledge at a depth of about so feet.
From the face of this the drift was start
ed east and along the ledge. Where it
was cut by the tunnel it was about nine
feet wide, but at its present face it is
about 10 feet wide The ledge widened
gradually as the drift was extended east
and the values also increased AS rapidly
as did the width
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25

I had rather feel conjunction than un-
derstand the definition thereof-Thomas
Kempis.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
MINES AND MINING CAMPS
METALS OF THE NORTHWEST.
items From the Rich Regions OF the Pa
cihc Northwest. News From All the
Principle Mining Camps-Personals-
Mining Notes.

An immense bed of Ignite coal has been
discovered in Asotin county, Washington.
The whole country seems to be underlaid
with the deposit, which has been traced
up the Snake river from Mallory Ridge
as far as Elbow canyon, and crops out in
several places along the river in Wallace
county. Oregon.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
Payne Mine Sold.

The great Payne mine in the SLOGAN
has been taken over by Montreal capital
lists and the head office of the company is
to be removed, it is said, at once from
Anaconda, Mont, to Montreal. The sale
was engineered by Charles G. Griffith, the
well known mining engineer and promot-
er of Spokane.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF

An Interesting Collection OF Items from
the Two Henispheres Presented In
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
eigraph Reports.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-14
THE FLOOD is NOT YET OVER.
pRAzoRrA COUNTY is STILL UNDER
WATER.
r.xr. NJ Columbia, Brnsorin ana
ycIasco Are Inundated-He-
lief Is Needed.

Galveston, Texas, July 1S.-The gov
eminent lighthouse tender pansy arrived
here shortly after l o'clock this after
noon from Yelasco. She brought about
forty-Aye persons-the majority of whom
were women and children-who had been
stopping at the hotels near Velssco, and
who took this opportunity to fee from the
flood.
The idea has prevailed here for the last
few days that the food is over, but from
the reports brought by the people on the
Pansy the water is recedins very slowly
south of Columbia and the whole country
for thirty-five miles in from the gulf Is
flooded, and that within the last two days
the water has fallen only two inches.
IF more relief is not sent at once there
is going TO be great suffering II not starVa-
ton over there said jack Adriance. We
went up the river as far as CUR Pralrle,
where we fed 200 persons. We distributed
supplies everywhere We could, particularly
at Brazoris and Columbia, both of which
places are totally submerged, only the
tops of the houses being visible"
is Brazorla really under water?" asked
the reporter. why Brazora Is on
blum aud is higher than Columbia"
"Brazoria, as we'll as Columbia, is I'M
der water" said young Mr.. Adrilnce.
The railroad from Velasco is submerged
and there has been a great loss Of cattle
aud property. No persons have been
drowned, as far as we know, but we saw
large punches of cattle with their noses
just above water. We left Dr.. Blunt in
the Brazos with the tug Hygeia. He is
doing splendid work. Credit is due to
Engineer Fields and Firemen Bilbo and
Williams OF the Hygeia. They have
worked night and day. But the man above
all men is Lieutenant Edmonds OF the
revenue cutter Galveston. With a crew
from his boat he has been going through
the whole country over there distributing
supplies."
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-14

charity and the action of the committee
Is TO be commended. Should necessities
arise, notice will be given to those in
charge and meanwhile contributions set
aside for this district can be held back
until the present supply shall be about
exhausted. After this week rations will
be only given to those who go back to
work and only physical disability or lack
of opportunity will be taken as excuse.
The local relief committee is sending
onefourth OF all receipts to Sunnyside.
where the demand Is for 500 rations; condl-
lions at that point are now satisfactory.
Wherever possible farmers are going
to work as fast rs the ground will allow
it. One reliable negro came in this morn
ing and reported that some cotton he plant
ed on last Monday was up. He employed
what is called the tramping process. Seeds
are thrown on the wet ground, tramped
upon and the planting Is done. Seeds OF
all kinds are eagerly awaited.