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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
A FillpIno Town Taken.

Manila. sept. 29.-General MacAr-
thur entered Porac after half an
hours nghting. The American loss
was slight and the insurgent loss is
not known. The enemy fled north
ward. When the Americans entered
the town hey found it practically de-
serted.
The attacking party moved on Por-
ac in two columns. The Ninth infan-
try with two guns from Santa Rita.
was commanded by General Wheeler,
and the Thirty-siXth infantry under
Colonel Bell. with one gun, accompa-
MED General Macarthur from San
Antonio.
Both columns struck town at 0
o'clock and opened brisk fire. which
was replied to by the enemy for half
an hour. Then the insurgents fed
and the Americans marched over their
trenches and took possession of the
place.
Just before the fight Smiths COM
mand gt Angeles made n demonstra-
tion by firing artillery up the railroad
track.
Liscum reported one casualty, and
Bell reported four men of his com
mand wounded. The artillery did not
have any men injured.
Ten dead Filipinos We're found and
the captain and commissary of Mas
carnos' command We're taken prison
ers.
The American loss is five killed. but
there We're many pfostrations from
tie heat.
Englishmen from the insurgent lines
report at the rebels from Bamban
have 1000 new Japanese rifles.
Porac is situated fourteen miles
from Bacolor and has n population of
g 800
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

A girl in New England factory
wrote her name several months ago
on bolt of cotton. Recently she re-
ceived a letter from woman in Arizo-
ma saying that the cloth had been
bought by the government, and was be-
Ing cut up for garments in an Apache
Indian school. 1t is but a few years
ago that the Apaches thought more of
taking scalps than of schools in which
shirt making is done. While the mill
girls act ELECTED this striking COM
parison, it was an act to be unhesitat-
ingly condemned. A girls name so
represents herself that to have it light
ly banded about in writing, or in pub
lie conveyances, or in the mouths OF
strangers, reflects meretriciously upon
her character Had the bolt of cotton
fallen into inscriptions hands, the
letter sent from Arizona might have
been anything but pleasing to the
thoughtless recipient.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

For years and years almost innumer-
able writers, some of them learned in
maritime matters, and others only in
terested in, such things, have been
preaching the necessity for intelligent
and united action, either by govern
ments or shipowners. to the end that
abandoned vessels may not be allowed
to remain afloat in the ocean highways,
increasing materially the perils of nav
igation and giving needless proof that
what is everybody's business is no.
body's. Lamentably little has been ac-
complished by all this exhortation and
its continuance seems discouragingly
like waste of energy. The issue is
thoroughly live one, however, and
perhaps by constantly harping on 1t
the vast number of people whose lives
are often and whose property is con-
stantly menaced by these derelicts may
at last be moved to enforce the rene
dying of the present neglect of great
evil
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
(To be continued.)
NO WONDER HE REFORMED.
Saw Postage Stamp Do stunts Al
Over the Rnrropr

Saw Postage Stamp Do Stunts All
Over the Barroom.
From the Kansas City Star: Re-
forms are wrought in many and Gu
rious ways, but seldom in a stranger
manner than that in which a certain
drunkard was sobered. This man had
wandered at midnight into a low sa-
loon. He gave his order, and then
leaned against the bar for support. A
man standing near by took from one
pocket an addressed envelope and from
another stamp, which he moistened
with his tongue. Instead of adhering
to the envelope, as the man intended,
the stamp slipped from his fingers
and fiuttered to the floor The tippler
saw it fall and staggered forward to
pick 1t up. Just as he was about to
grasp 1t the stamp darted in a zigzag
course toward the side wall, like a
scared thing. Filled with astonish-
ment, the drinker drew back and in
tently watched the bit of paper, which,
upon reaching the wall. began to as
cend. AS it assembled, the tippler's
face grew more intent, his body more
rigid. He saw nothing but the myste-
rious. moving thing. His mind was
soggy from years of ceaseless drink
ing. He thought that the animated
stamp was warning At the top of
tho wainscoting the stamp stopped,
squatted as If for moments rest be-
fore ascending higher, and then made
dart toward the tippler's haggard
face. The trembling sot saw it stop.
saw 1t hesitate and leap. He was un-
questionably doomed If he continued
longer to drink to excess; the STAMP
had been given life to warn him. So
it seemed to him. With a pitifuI yell
of fear and determination, he rushed
from the saloon. From that eyentful
night until he died, in prosperous cir
cumstances, recently, the man never
swallowed a drop of liquor. The
moistened stamp had fallen upon
cockroach's back and stuck thru.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

The English parliament recently
passed bill compelling shopkeepers to
provide seats Tor their women clerks.
Quite as effectual relief bill was re-
Gently passed in club of rich girls in
these words: I'VE will not price
things which we do not intend to buy;
We will make our selections quickly;
We will not shop on hot days nor at
late hours" Whenever we blame pub
lie conditions. might we not, like these
generous-hearted girls, ask ourselves
who the public is?
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
CHAPTER III.-(Continued)

CHAPTER (Continued)
Mr.. Martineau had moved his chair
little, so that his face was entirely in
the shade. The daylight in the room
was not ve-y strong, so that his ex-
preston was difficult to fathom. At
this point he broke in with
What kind of a man was this who
spoke to you?"
shook her head.
Il can tell you only two things about
him. He was young. and he was not
dark-that is, his hair was not black.
l should think he was several years
older than L.
you would not know him again If
you saw him?"
II am afraid not You see saw him
only just then"
"Oh-that was the only time you saw
him?"
Il think so. but he may have seen me
afterward without my knowing it."
please explain"
We'll. that evening as I was in my
room, crying my eyes out, my uncle
sent a message to say l was to come
GOWN into tne urdWlHS-TOOln. ne Hdu
never said such a thing before. l sent
back word that would not come. He
came up to my room in a towering
passion. l was terribly frightened of
him, but was now thoroughly reused.
and l still said l would not come. He
beat me then-struck me several cruel
blows, shook me and flung me to the
ground. After that he went cut. lock-
ing the door behind him.
Il had quite made up my mind by
that time. / meant to run away. My
beating had frightened me and shaken
me-there was sharp pain in my
head. Terror and pride alike urged
me to flee. II l stayed he would strike
me again. tied up as many things as
| thought l could carry in a towel,
opened my window, and dropped them
down on the turf below. My room was
on the most secluded side of the house,
shaded by big trees. None OF the
kitchen windows looked out upon it.
1 fastened my sheets together. and
knotted the top one securely to the
iron ring of my window shutter.
was a very good hand at climbing-I
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

The general introduction of women
into employment before held by men
has had the most far-reaching social
effects. 1t is not necessary, and would
not be appropriate here to enter into
a consideration of the question whether
the result of such general employment
OF women has been beneficial or the
reverse in its effects on society What
ever conclusions may be reached on
that very comprehensive subject 1t is
quite plain that the employment of
women in the business pursuits is des-
tined to be less, rather than more, gen.
eral in the future than it has been in
the immediate past.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

Tauric acid, new chemical discvv-
cry, obtained from tauric moss-a lich-
and the roots of trees throughout the
country-has been found to possess
properties which will render 1t inval-
liable as a solvent of metals. Gold,
silver, steel, aluminium and lead, when
Immersed in the acid. become pliable
and ductile as putty. The advantages
1t presents for workers in metal
more especially jewelers-are readily
apparent. Designs can be nodded by
the hands alone. without the use or as.
sistance of heat. Strange to say, how
ever, the acid has no effect upon iron.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

There are still four widows OF revo-
luuonary soldiers on the pension rolls
OF the government at Washington. At
this rate the United States will be pay
Ing pensions to soldiers of the civil
war or their widows well on in the last
quarter of the coming century and to
soldiers or their widows of the Span
ish-American war nearly to the close
of the first quarter of the twenty-fct
century. 1t takes long time to close
up the expense account of a war.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
CHAPTER w.

Mr.. Martineau pushed his chair more
closely to hers, asking with great in
tentness-
mo more?"
mo more, till the strangest part OF
ALL"
A sudden movement of the junior
partners hand sent a bundle of papers
to the ground. He stopped after them,
and slowly replaced them.
THE strangest part of all?" he said.
Yes. One morning l went for a
drive. l cannot tell Thy l should re-
member this, but l do. There were
three other people with me. think
or two-I was not alone. but cannot
ss,l you now in the least who they
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
WIN mc,.ure Earth Movem.nts.

A delicate instrument, designed BY
Horace Darwin, will indicate slow tits
and pulsations of the earth's crust OF
less than one three-hundredths OF a
second, or an angle less than one inch
in 1000 miles. 1t consists OF circular
mirror suspended from brackets by
two wires of very unequal length.
Slight fitting of the upright causes ex-
aggerated motion of the mirror. The
spot of reflected light will vary one
half inch when finger is laid on the
support of the apparatus.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

1t looks as If Porto Rico" was to
become the proper spelling of that
word, in spite of the long-standing
recommendation of the board of geo
graphic names that it be written
Puerto Rico. The postoffice depart
ment has adopted the shorter form,
which was used, by the way, in the
treaty Of peace. and President McKin-
ley is said to prefer it. Americans like
short cuts.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
Tho Best Man Wins.

Prize fighting may not be pleasant
subject but it teaches n lesson-the in
ability of man to hold the champion
ship for any length of time. How un-
like that great champion of health,
Bostetter's Stomach Bitters, which has
for fifty years cured constipation, dys-
pepsia, biliousness and liver trouble.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
Governor rlces From Yellow Fever.

Jackson, Miss, Sept. Ex-Governor
McLauren, Treasurer May and Super
intendent of Education Whtetield have
left the city on account of the yellow
fever prevailing here. The business of
the treasury is being transacted
through one of the local banks. No
new cases haye been reported ainco
yesterday
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
Political Caution

From the Chicago Record: Mary
how do you feel about this open-door
idea?" well, the open door is all
right, but 1 think We ought to have a
ay-screen door. too''
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

One of the worst traits of humanity
Is insincerity.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

gets what he wants, but not what he
ought to get.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

A mans repentance is never genuine
when it merely comes from the fact
that he was discovered.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

Adversely often makes a vain person
mbler and wiser
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

Every man has his favorites-and he
usually heads the list.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

Brevity may be the soul OF wit, but
the man who is too brief in his re-
marks is apt to be misunderstood.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

Pity the man who brags. He has to
do it in order to brace up his self
respect.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

what is gross negligence2" "It is any
oversight for which somebody else Is to
hlamp'
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03

Happiness is very unsatisfactory
when seen through the eyes of others.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
Do your Feet Ache and burnt

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores. Csc. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy. N. Y.
''Is 1t true that Madge has been engeged
to three old bachelors this summer? %
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE.

sos 10th Street. corner of stout Street. Trial in
struction and outfit FREE We have more
Gents in positions than all other Denver Collegef
combined. Write for illustrated catalogue.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-10-03
H&YPE WRITER'S AND SUPPLIES. ALL

MAKES at s25 90 and up. Lists free on mp
pllcation. General Agent Hammond Type
A writer and Dausacrc Dupllcator. Mail orders
speciality. DENVER TYPEWRITER EN-
- CHANGE 1888 Champa Street.
The record-union., 1899-08-10
The Sinking Of the Steamship
Nunobiki Maru
Believed to Have Resulted in the Death Of
Over One Hundred Persons.
Only Twelve Of the Grew Known to
Have Been Saved, and There
Were ON Board Over One Hum
dred and Twenty Passengers.

VANCOUVER (B. c., Aug. 9.-The
following Oriental advices have been
received by the steamer Empress of
Japan:
The steamer Nunobiki Maru, 1,44O
tons gross, formerly belonging to the
MitSui Bussan Kwaisha, sunk in the
vicinity of the Saddle Archipelago at
the mouth of the Yang Use ,Kiang,
twenty miles from Shanghai OF the
crew twelve only were saved by the
British steamer Kyuchiang. 1t is sup
posed that there must have been 12O
or 100 passengers on board, almost all
of whom We're drowned. The. steamer
was built in England in November.
1874.
For considerable time the Manila
newspapers have been making outspok-
en- reference to the continued shipment
of arms and ammunition to the Filipi-
nos from Hongkong. A proclamation
of the Governor prohibits such traffic
in arms, but it still goes on. HongEong
is also sending arms into. China at an
alarming rate RevolverS are common
articles among the Chinese rutfians
who infest the Canton River delta and
Kowloon Hinterland and who plumber
British vessels and murder British sub
jects.
News has been received of the muir
der at Vladivostock of c. Wahling Of
the Vacuum Oil Company. He was
murdered at night by a Chinese SER
want, who with a Ratchet smashed in
the head of his master.
The record-union., 1899-08-10
SAVINGS BANKS.
Annual Reports of Those Located
at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.-The an
nuai reports of the nine savings banks
of San Francisco have just been filed
at the office of the State Bank Commits
sion, showing their financial condition
as follows, at close of business on July
81, 1899:
Resources-Bank premiums, S1.393,-
493. IS; real estate taken for debt, So.
139, 1851; miscellaneous bonds and
stocks, $40. 55S 9S67S: loans on real es-
tate, sec, 064, 99O.33; loans on personal
security and overdrafts. 81 ,2S3, 799. 80.
money on hand, 81, 005, 1864. 70; due from
banks and bankers, 81 .914 9S1. SO; other
assets, $44, 502.45. Total resources
S123 ,401 ,234 80
Liabilities-Capital paid in coin, 81
100000; reserve fund. $5,354, 029. 45;
due depositors, S113 294 ,213. 80; other
liabilities, $742, 991 80: total liabilities,
S123. 401 ,234. 80.
This shows a gain in eleven months.
or since last annual report, of Sc, 49,,
435.42
The record-union., 1899-08-10

geles IS. Red Bluff SS, San Luis Obispo
SO, San Diego 70, Sacramento 81, indie
pendence SS. Yuma 102.
San Francisco data: Maximum tenn
perature 81, minimum 81, mean 81.
The storm over Vancouver Island and
Washington this morning has moved
steadily eastward along the infeina-
tional boundary, accompanied by gen.
.eral rain over the northern portion OF
the country. The pressure has risen
slowly over the greater part of the Pa
cific Slope. M
The temperature has remained nearly
Stationary except over Northern Idaho
and Eastern Washington. where 1T has
fallen about 10 degrees Throughout
California the temperatures are stu
from 4 to degrees cooler than the
normal but somewhat warmer weather
may be expected Thursday.
A maximum wind velocity of twenty
eight miles per hour from the west IS
reported at Winnemucca.
The record-union., 1899-08-10
BURIED BENEATH The DEBRIS.
SIX FIREMEN WERE BADLY
INJURED LAST NIGHT
While in the Discharge Of Their
Duty at Fire on Sixth Street,
San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. Six
firemen were injured tonight while in
the discharge of their duty near the
corner of Market and Sixth streets.
by an overheated range broke out in
the restaurant of Star & Owen at No.
8 Sixth street. 1t quickly spread to an
adjoining lodging house. The saloons
next caught the blaze. and soon the
Grand Central Market was enveioped
in flames.
Just as the firemen had the fire under
control the roof of the market fell
with a resounding crash and several
firemen were caught under the debris
/ A cry of horror went up from the
immense crowd that was viewing the
fire from Market street. and. breaking
through the police lines. many of the
excited spectators rushed to the as
sistance of the wounded men.
A few minutes later another portion
of the burning building fell, but for
tunately the crowd of rescuers received
warning of the threatened collapse.
and escaped just as the heavy timpers
crashed to the ground.
The cries of the firemen who had been
injured by the falling of the roof could
be distinctly heard by their COM
from the Chief or his assistants they
plunged into the burning building and
carried the suffering men to places of
safety. Those injured are:
John McGivins, member of Engine
Company No. 10, fractured hip and an
extensive scalp wound.
Daniel Higgins of Truck No. 1, thigh
broken.
Dave Levy of Engine No. IA, scalp
badly torn.
Eugene Grove, foreman of Truck No
/, head severely cut.
John Feehan of Engine No. 10, knee
wrenched.
Sidney Cummins of Truck No. 4,
slightly injured about head.
After an hours work the firemen sue
ceeded in subduing the flames.
In addition to the destruction of the
Market and restaurant a barbershop
owned by Stems & Hagan, at II Sixth
streets; the "Our House. saloon, at
500 Market street; the dry goods store
of J. w. Pehdergast at Sixth street,
and a florist store kept by Kahn &
Lasserre at 5 Sixth street were dam
aged by fire and water.
The property loss was about $4,000
The record-union., 1899-08-10
YAQUI INDIAN OUTBREAK.
Mexican Government Prepared to
Cope With Them.

AUSTIN (Tex), Aug. "a dispatch
from Durango, Mexico, says that Man
uel Lopez Soma, constructor in the
service of the Federal Telegraph Com
pany, has just reached that city from
the Yaqui Indian country He says
the Government is in much better
shape to wage successful campaign
against the rebellious tribe than in
any previous wars. There is hardly
a point in the turbulent territory that
is not in direct Geographic communi
cation with the War Department, and
every movement of the warning bands
of Yaquis is made instantly known to
the military authorities and the move
ment of troops is directed accordingly.
Continuing, Senior Soma says:
1.-The War Department is informed
as to the position of every warning In
dian band in the Yaqui Valley, and
troops are now being massed along the
lower course of the river and will
strike at the vital point when the or
der is given.
1.-The present uprising has been ex-
pected for over year. The first infor-
nation of the contemplated outbreak
L
Yaqui Chief Tobiate several months
ago, and Immediately thereafter the
work of massing troops in the state
began, and there are now over .S0OG
available men armed and equipped and
ready for the active campaign that is
before them. The war will be over in
a few MONTHS
Senior Soma said the Indians had
committed many murders and de-
stroyed a large amount of property be-
longing to the peaceable Mexicans be-
fore he left the valley. They had one
fight with a small force of Mexican
troops near the village of Onava, re-
sulting in the defeat of the Yaquis,
their loss in killed being nine men. One
Mexican was killed and two wounded
in the fight.
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FIRST cAL1FoRNIANs.
The Transport Sherman Leaves Yo-
kohama for San Francisco.

kohama for San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 9.-The
United States transport Sherman sailed
from Yokohama for San Francisco at
noon to-day. Colonel Buboce, in a
telegram announcing the departure OF
the troop ship, says that she will be
off the Farallones at noon on August
I'D or 23d. Ship masters are of the
opinion that the Colonel has made a
mistake in his calculations, as none of
them can see how the Sherman can get
here before August oath at the earliest.
It was decided to-day at the joint
conference of representatives from the
Native Sons and Daughters and the
Citizens Reception Committees, that
Governor Gage be asked to set aside as
a legal holiday the second day after
the arrival in the bay Of the transport
Sherman with the California Regiment
from the Philippines.
The program. as at present outlined.
contemplates naval parade on the
afternoon of the arrival. with grand
illumination at night of the shipping
in the harbor. Next morning the
Fighting First is to disembark, and
after breakfast with their relatives at
the ferry depot march with military
escort to the Preside. where they win
be given leave to spend the rest of
the day as they like. which will un"
doubleday be at the homes they left
to fight for their country That night
the electric light display will proba bly,
be made in their honor The next
night comes the big parade when all
the organizations. civic and military, in
San Francisco. reinforced by many
from surrounding towns, will march
with the California heroes under the
canopy of incandescent light provioAd
by the Citizens Committee, and re-
viewed by the Mayor. and, if possible,
the Governor
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The Colorado Regiment.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.-The
transport Warren, with the Colorado
Regiment on board, is expected to ar
rive this week from Manila, and prep
arations are being made to give the
returning soldiers a fitting welcome.
Assistant Chief Wharfinger Godryden
has arranged to have the sirens blow
when the Warren is sighted and the
shipping in the harbor decorated. The
Reception Committee will go out on q
tug accompanied by a band when the
transport enters the bay. The depart
ure OF he Warren from Nagasak has
not been reported, but it is thought she
left there about two weeks ago.
The record-union., 1899-08-10
BUBoNIC PLAGUE.
Constant Movement Westward Of
The Dread Disease.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-The steady
westward advance of the plague and of
the conditions prevailing with its lat
est point of attack in Alexandria,
Egypt, are discussed in report made
to the State Department by Consul
Robert c.. Skinner at Marseilles.
He declares that the appearance of
the disease at Alexandria shows a con-
slant movement westward and from its
location there; 1t is a menace to the
great Mediterranean country of Eu-
rope, most of which have adopted rigid
quarantine regulations.
The state of affairs in Alexandria is
set forth in a letter to the commercial
authorities at Marseilles bearing date
of June 25th. It says the epidemic
neither increases nor diminishes, but
that about two new cases appear daily
with occasional intervals. The munic-
ipality and the sanitary service of the
city display tireless zeal In adopting