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o'clock in the morning. and that only a
legal quorum OF members was present.
President Kruger, addressing the mem
bers. described the war as unjust and un-
necessary, and denied that the OuuanderS
wanted the franchise.
Lucas Meyer, the chairman, said the
real purpose Of the British was solely TO
gain Naboth's vineyard"
The Transvaal reply. It is reported. is
now ready for dispatch, and only awaits
the receipt Of the British note.
Continuing, the correspondent says:
II understand that the landing OF further
troops VIII be regarded as a Casus belli
-Four members Of the Government Will
take command Of the commanders.
COmmandant General Joubert started for
the Natal border to-day with his staff. -
4 dispatch from Newcastle, Natal, re-
ports that COmmandant General Joubert
has gone TO Vryheid.
The PietermaTitzburg correspondent Of
the Daily Mall says he believes martial
law viii be declared IN Natal with q view
joining the Beers.
The staff OF General Sir Redvers Butler.
who Is 10 command the British forces IN
South Africa. has been officially gazetted
It is the largest since the Crimean war.
The Standard : correspondent at New
castle, Natal, telegraphing Monday night,
says; The forward movement Of the
Boer forces, which threatened the Natal
frontier has been suddenly arrested. A
majority Of the burEhers who had gath
cred on the heights northeast and east Of
Newcastle have fallen back on their
original base near Sandsfruit
The Daily Telegraph 5 correspondent at
PietermariIzburg says Commandant Gen.
eral Joubert's policy is defensive
According 10 the Cape Town CORE
spondent Of the Daily News, ". P.
SchTeiper, Premier Of Cape Colony, has
refused an application from Kimberly
that the inhabitants be allowed TO form
a town guard but Sir Alfred Milner has
granted the application over the heads Of
the Cape authorities.
The correspondent also says the Free
State command invests Kimberly, where
defensive preparations are being actively
carried on Boer commanders are massed
at Boshof and Jacobsdale, both in the
Free State, near Kimberly It IS believed,
however, that in a few days Kimberly
VIII be impregnable, provided there are
sufficient troops to man the defenses.
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BEAUTY OF
THE GLACIERS
HAS VANISHED
Nature Mars Her Own Won
derful Handiwork in
Alaska.
BY HAL HOFFMAN.

JUNEAU. Alaska, Sept. 30 (via Seat
tie. Wash, Oct. 3).-The general effect
Of the recent earthquakes on Alaksa
glaciers is most deplorable from
sightseeing point Of view.
The Foster glacier up the Taku Inlet,
near this city, next TO the Muir, prob
ably the best known glacier in Alaska,
IS an example of this. While not as
large as the Muir, * was more pictur-
esque with its dones and pinnacles Of
( Ice. It's beauty has been almost COM
pletely destroyed, and IL may take
4 century's action OF the elements TO
I build II UP 6 gain TO its former height
and grandeur.
I John Davies OF Juneau. who owns q
custom stamp mill, as well as the little
I steamer Thistle, took an adventurous
4 Englishman, who wanted to see ice and
plenty of it, up the Taku the other day.
1t was the first time any one had at
/ tempted the trip since the earthquake
/ of Sunday, September 10. 1t was seen
/ that the Foster glacier has slid of down
nearly 70 level with the surface of the
water-that is, from the sea level the
/ glacier runs back at gentle, rugged
incline-the fine, transparent attitudes
Of ice having slid and crashed into the
sea
The Englishman thought he saw
more ice than he probably ever will
again in the course OF his natural life.
What happened the glaciers IN Dis
enchantment Bay, near Yakutat, has
been published. Half q mile Of ice
rushed into the water.
Now the question is, what has hap
+ pened TO that gigantic climax of ma
ture's handiwork, so well known all
over the country, Muir glacier? Can
4 1t alone Of all the principal glaciers in
Alaska have escaped without injury D.?
People hereabouts do not think so.
What makes the uncertainty worse is
that II Is highly improbable that there
will be any way to find out before the
first tourist ship reaches there next sea-
son. There are no Indians in the vi
cinity. and even il there were this is
the wrong time Of the year for them to
venture far from home in canoes. There
is one way in which the effect on Muir
glacier may be guessed at, and it is a
pretty good guess, too If the ocean off
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after the bulletins ceased a dispatch
came along saying that the system had
worked perfectly all day. There had
been no Interruptions, and the only de-
lay had been enc Of slight Importance
and that was on the land wires leading
from Navesink into the office OF the
Herald and The Call.
Thursday and on succeeding race
days the steamship Ponce will leave her
pier at 8 O'Clock instead of half past
8. This will make it certain that those
on the steamship viii be enabled to see
the yachts go over the line for the start
Prior TO the yacht races the Herald and
The Call received from the American
Wireless Telegraph and Telephone
Company an official letter stating that
they were the owners Of the Doloear
patents, covering, they claimed, all
rights TO wireless telegraphs and tele-
phones In the United States, and that
they formally protested against the use
Of the MaTconi system In reporting the
cup events. The letter further stated
that while reserving all rights TO take,
in the immediate future, such legal ac-
ton in the matter as they might decide
upon, they did not propose TO interfere
with and stop. the Herald and The Call
Marconi reports, but desired it distinct
ly understood that they made such tenn
porary waive solely in the interest Of
science and because of the great public
interest in this important demonstra-
ton of practical wireless telegTaphy.
Professor Dolbear and his associates
have for years been experimenting on
wireless telegraphy with most satisfac-
tory results, and in 1856 a patent was
issued to Professor Dolbear, with which
the company claims that the Marconi
patent conflicts. But In the company's s
courteous and public-spirited letter
they decline to seek to interfere with
the cup race reports by the Herald and
The Call. Professor DolbeaF's work
and the results he has obtained show
the active interest that is being taken
in this field Of science by American in
ventors, and in the near future the
American Wireless Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company intend to give a pub
lie exhibition Of the workings of their
SEctPTY1
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GIRL PROBABLY
BURNED TO DEATH

PASADENA. Oct. SIT is believed that
Daisy Prushaw, aged g years, has been
burned TO death. Myron Hill, e well known
young man, was calling this evening on
Miss Prusha-w at her home al 3S2 Kensing-
ton place. At g o'clock Hill went away
and Miss PTushaw went upstairs with a
lamp in her hand. She dropped the lamp
and it exploded. Hill saw the flames and
came back. He went upstairs. but was
driven out by the flames and smoke
The house burned rapidly and the fire
department was late in arriving. NOBODY
seemed TO realize that perhaps q life was
lost. Nearly a half hour after the fire
had been extngUished q search was start
ed. Policeman Reynolds tried 10 get into
the girls room, but il was burned of
The girl faints easily, and il is thought
she tainted and was burned 70 death
Another theory is that the girl was dazed
and wandered away She is not with the
others members OF the family and they
do not know where she IS
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eleventh CONTEST FOR
THE AMERICAS CUP

In 1897 Sir Thomas Johnston Upton. the
self-made mulu-millionaire merchant,
joined the Royal Ulster Yacht Club Of
Belfast, Ireland, with the purpose Of get
ting that club TO challenge in his behalf
for the Americas cup, held by the New
York Yacht Club for nearly fifty years.
despite the ten strong contests made at
intervals to carry it back across the At
lantic. August q. Sir Charles Russell,
representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club
who had assumed Sir Thomas Upton S
challenge, met the cup committee of the
New York Yacht Club and presented the
challenge. the acceptance of which was
ar once signified.
On September 6 the challenge commit
tee of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club met
the cup committee OF the New York Yacht
Club in Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan 5
Office and agreed upon the conditions of
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MINERS WATCH
BIC DREDGERS
Interesting Day Spent
at OrOVille.
Special Dis9atch to The Call

OROVILLE, Oct. 3.-The mining en-
gineers' party experienced to-day in
and around Oroville one Of the most
delightful days of its trip. After an
early breakfast on the train, which ar
rived during the night, the visitors dis
covered close TO the depot q feature of
California mining which delighted
them more than have some big quartz
mines. Close to the depot some Chit
nese were mining bedrock gravel
through a small shaft and working it
in a primitive rocker.
Twenty carriages soon speeded the
party down the Feather River to visit
gold dTedgers, six Of which are oper-
ating along a stretch Of six miles of the
river banks. All the dredgers of diff
ferent type were visited and the pom
derous machinery and gold-saving de-
vices were closely studied. They saw
great machines costing $4,000 each
which will handle 1000 cubic yards OF
gravel a day at a cost Of from 8 to !,
/ cents yard, and learned that around
Oroville alone are many square miles
of deep gravel beds yielding 15 cents
or more g cubic yard, which can be
worked only by this process, yet new in
the California mining field. A fine lun-
cheon was prepared and served near
one of the dredgers by committees of
/ Oroville's hospitable men and women.
Some Of Butte County's big orange
and fig orchards gave surprise and de-
light, and in town a special county
mineral exhibit, which included several
thousand dollars worth of gold speci-
mems, was displayed. Among the main
features OF the varied entertainment
elaborately arranged by local commit
tees was a banquet in the evening. The
party viii arrive at lone IN the morn
/ ing for the mother lode trip. which will
end Thursday night, the visit to
Tuolumne County having been cut out
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LONDON, Oct, 8.-There are no new
developments in the TTansvaal situa-
ton. Arran gements for the dispatch Of
war stores and men continue. A guam
tity Of balloon material has been sent
10 South Africa, the War Once con-
sidering that military ballooning viii
prove Of the greatest value n the kind
Of warfare expected in South Africa.
The chartering CT transports Is still go
ing on. Five vessels Of the Cunard line
are now engaged.
one result Of the war scare Is an ed-
vance OF one shilling 10 eighteenpence
in. the price asked for the wheat offered
in the Lynn market today.
a telegram from Paris announces
that n Arnau6. president Of the In
ternational Arbitration and Peace
League. has sent an appeal to Lord
Salisbury entreating him 10 choose Z
power to act with a power chosen by
the Transvaal with the object Of avert
ing war.
Montague White, Consul General for
the South African Republic in London,
said this morning that he telegraphed
President Kruger yesterday urging him
10 make q personal appeal TO Lord
salisbury dwelling upon the iniQuity of
the war and proposing q statement as
2 basis Of further negotiations.
He said he was moTnentarily expect
ing to hear that the Transvaal Govern
ment was sending an ultimatum 10
Great Britain declaring the dispatch Of
troops q casus beili in which event
he would be compelled 70 close his Of
fees. Mr.. White added a curious state
uent to the effect that a representa-
tive Of one Of the largest capitalists Of
the Rand had called upon him this
morning ard asserted that Il was
kE0wn in capitalist circles that Lord
Salisbury had determined that there
should not be war and had instructed
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the
h
responsible
Following him G. Robertson tncubenO City Auditor
City Attorney and A A Deigne dncumben0
he
School DrectorsFst
Ward
IN to
D.
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the contest, as follows: The races 10 be
races over courses as nearly as possible
thirty nautical miles in length, starting
from Sandy Hook IghtshIp; the first
third and fifth races to tse 70 windward OF
leeward and return, and the second and
fourth races TO be over an eqUilateraI ri
angle; the challenger 10 be informed al
least one week before the first race what
vessel is 10 defend the cup; the first race
10 be sailed Tuesday, October 5, 1899 (r0t
later than October 10), and the remaining
races on Saturdays and Tuesdays follow
ing, until cOmpleted.
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BRITISH TROOPS. SAID
TO HAVE CROSSED BORDER

BIOEMFONTEIN. s. A. Oct 3-The
Landrost Of Boshof telegraphs that the
British troops have crossed the border
from Kimberly.
LONDON. oct "A special dispatch
from Pretoria dated Monday says the
meeting Of the Raad adjourned at Il
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04
ON BOARD STEAMER
'GRANDE DUCHESSE

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-Every bulletin
sent by Signor Marconi from the steam
ship Ponce by his wireless system of
telegraphy was alphabetically spelled on
q receiver in the captains cabin of the
Grande Duchesse. W. ]. Clarke, general
manager of the United States Electrical
Supply Company of this city, was in
charge and directed the sending and re-
ceiving Of messages. Far from the Ponce,
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04

Cape Spencer, or Icy Strait on the
mainland side Of Glacier Bay. are
pretty well filed with ice the presump-
ton IS that some of it came from Muir
glacier. though there are other glaciers
UP that arm Of the sea.
The Alaska Commercial Company s
steamer Dora, now due here from the
westward, sails through Cross Sound
and Icy Strait. Captain Johansen may
be able to throw some light on the mat
ter
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TELEGRAPH TO DAWSON.
line Erected by the Canadian Gov
errment Completed.

slACCAT. Alaska, Sept. 2 Wa
Seattle. Wash. Oct 3)-The Canadian
C4Qveru-nsnt telegraph lire was completed
r. LlaEzgr- yesterday,
Tie Dominion lire reaches from Bennett
70 Dawson. and the wires OF The White
Pass and Yukon Railroad cover the
distance between SkGguay a2d Bennett.
The first message was 70 the Minister OF
Public Works 81 Ottawa.
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no cure La Grippe in Two pays

Take Laxative Bro-no Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money II It fails 20 cure
E, ". Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
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= = , = = y y = = = = = =

the Secretary Of State for the Colonies,
AIr. Chamberlain. TO wire 10 South Al
rtca further assurances with regard TO
The British desire TO respect the COM
Dlete independenCe OF the TTansVaal.
No confirmation Of this IS obtainable
in official circles.
The dispatches from Newcastle, Ma
tal, report that Geographic conmunlca-
ton IS interrupted beyond ChaTleStOWn,
where the stores have been looted by
the natives since the departure Of the
whites. Stories OF the movements OF
Boers and British, and OF the hurried
muster ard dispatch Of troops on both
sides have come from other points 4
telegram from LaGysmith, Natal, says
that the Orange Free State troops have
occupied and closed BOthas Pass on the
Free state border and that Command
ant Allriche. chief OF the Free State Ar
tillery, IS proceeding in the direction OF
Kimberly with a considerable force Of
artillery Another force Of artillery,
under Commandant BOning, has gone
70 Harrisuith while Commandant
Smith commands a force OF artillery en-
route for hroonstadt.
The latest news received from Johan-
resburg. fled there yesterday, indicates
that the last rush Of Europeans TO leave
the town has occurred. They crowded
the trains Ike sardines in q box, oc-
cupyirg every possible inch on the
trucks There is considerable anxiety
with regard 10 the few who remain be-
hind. as communication seems to be
cut Of.
The Mining Commissioner stated Off
cially that the proclamation Of Septem-
Der q relating to the protection OF
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MARVELLOUS WORK OF
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

Continued From Second Page
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PARIS. Oct. A number OF
papers say that the Beers have
sant an ultimatum 10 England
demanding the withdrawal Of the
troops from the frontier within
fOrty-eight hours. The papers
congratulate President Kruger
for coming TO this decision.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
SOM ETHING FOR NOTHING
And the Little CattIeman has
Been Forced Out.

From the days when the ''strip"
used to be leased to the cattle
companies the Cherokee nation
has had TO defend itself against
the cattlemen. Every Cherokee
boy and girl ought to be taught
just as early as they are able to
comprehend that the arch-enemy
Of their sacred rights has been the
man who has overrun their cOun-
try with Texas cattle and monopo-
lized their grass and land without
remuneration. The chief reason
the United States government has
given for the destruction of Chero-
kse nationality has been that the
country was dominated and mono.
polized by the big cattle owners.
This has been the argument that
no Indian delegation has ever been
able to answer, and has been
deemed q sufficient reason why
congress should act in q very radi-
cal manner with the five tribes.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
THEY ARE PLACED.
Good Don't Come al Behest
of the Vicious.

Vinita owes little TO the men
who are now fighting the govern
ment and refusing to comply with
the laws of their country. Our
schools, churches and general ad-
vancement, as well as the absence
OF saloons and houses OF prostitu-
ton, are in spite of them rather
than through their influence. 1t
is good to live in christian COM
munity. Life is safer, property is
more secure and intelligence is of
a higher order. Wehave all these
rather over the protest of the
drinking, gambling, Sabbath des-
ecrating men who fear neither God
nor man, and who have always led
in the open and notorious violation
of the nation's laws. The Chero-
kee nation has groaned for gen.
GRAFTON under the dominating
sway Of the men who are now or
ganizing to fight the interior de-
partment rather than pay their
taxes, and who are openly boast
ing that they have money enough
to defeat it.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
THE TOWN is ALL RIGHT.
Revolt Againstothers Think
ing for Them.

There is something in the hu-
man makeup that reyolts at the
idea of serfdom. A living DEM
onstralion of this fact may be
found in the attempt Of two or
three msn in Vinita this week to
turn the tide of popular favor
against The Daily Chieftain.
These fellows have met deserved
rebuke on every hand and the re-
suit iB We have subscribers we
never had before. Men Of all class
es, the rich and the poor, the man
with good salary, and the man
who works by the day to support
his family, want it distinctly I'M
derstood that they know their own
business and will have no inter-
ference. It requires good deal
OF downright effrontery to go ont
and ask a free man to stop taking
a newspaper, and the man that
attempts it deserves nothing but
the severest rebuke.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
War StiII On.

Tom Ketchum has been waiting
since July for the Indian war in the
YaQui country, in Mexico, TO subside
before starting to that country TO
make his future home. The news in
todayss papers from that section indi-
Gates that the revolt is still raging
and increasing rather than subsiding.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
The skinner places.

Last week Chief Mayes came up and
placed the Sam Skinner places south
west of town In the hands of VIM.
Brown, as custodian, yesterday. Mr..
Brown states that about 200 head of
cattle were put into the field against
his protest.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
Dot Z Vacation.

Arthur Chamberlain got lay-off
for month as Indian policeman, but
may be called into service any day as
the service may require. He went
ont today to appraise the Bear Simp-
son estate.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
A Broken Leg.

A dispatch received from St. Louis
gave the unfortunate intelligence
that #. L. Kelly broke his leg, giving
no particulars, except that he is in
the hospital.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-10-13
A Judge Invited.

Judge Clayton, OF South McAlester,
has been invited to visit Vinita by a
gentleman well acquainted with him
and there are reasons to believe he
will take pleasure In doing SO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-14
CRANK ARRESTED.
German and Ex-SoIdier Who Threat-
ened to XIII President Mckinley.

MONTREAL. March 13-Henry Muller.
German and former United States soldier,
was arrested to-day on a complaint sworn
out against him by United States Vice Con-
sui German, acting on instructions received
by Consul General Bittenger from Secretary
Of State Hay. Muller arrived here couple
of weeks ago, and has since been busily en-
gagged in parading his grievances against
the United States government. He has called
at the various newspaper Offices and endeav-
ored to obtain the insertion OF a two-column
statement, the principal burden of which Is
q complaint that President Mckinley is an
enemy of the German people. Muller was a
private in one Of the New York regiments
during the civil war; and was wounded I'm
the head, as a result OF which he has pc
riodical fits of mental alteration. In the
present instance ne has got himself into
trouble through a letter written 10 Presi-
dent Angel. of the University of Michigan.
in which he stated that he was going to
Washington, and If he could slay no one
else he would kill President Mckinley as
he was an enemy of the German element.
Mr.. Angel sent the letter to Washington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-14
TO CHOOSE A COMMANDER.
Call Issued for n Meeting Of the G. A.
II. Executive Committee.

CINCINNATI, o.. March 13-W. c. John
son. senior vice commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army Of the Republic. to-day issued
a call for the executive committee of the
national board of administration OF the
Grand Army to meet at the Continental
Hotel in Philadelphia on Wednesday, April
II. to select a commander-in-chief to sue
coed the late Gen. James A. Sexton. Senior
Vice Commander Johnson has been Endorsed
by the Department of Ohio as we'll as by the
local posts Of this city and will be a cand-
date for election as the successor of Sex
ton.
The members of the executive committee
are: Senior Vice Commander Johnson; Adj
jutant General T. j. Stewart of Phiadel-
phia; Quartermaster General T. w. Sphinx.
of Chicago; j. NJ. Sterrett. of st. Louis: j.
w. Scott, OF Fairfield, Ill; w. II. Arm
strong, of Indianapolis; Il. j. Reed, OF New
York city; NJ. d. Wickersham, OF Mobile;
II. j. Smith, OF Racine, Wis, and j. II.
Morrison, of Philadelphia.
General Black, of Illinois, is announced
as candidate for the honor. Vice Com
mander Johnson has been acting as COM
mander-in-chief and his friends will urge
the executive committee to elect him Sex
toms successor. He will accept the honor,
but stated that he would not work for cleo
ton. There are several candidates for
other offices in the event of Johnson's cleo
ton as the commander-in-chief. While the
committee is in session il will transact
large amount of business relative to the en-
campment at Philadelphia in September.