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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
It Is the Very Latest Little Republic

ponds principally on that staple for its
commerce.
Rodriguez Aries is an intelligent,
wide-awake man. apparently about so
years of age. His face is of a decided
Spanish cast, with kindly looking eyes
which beam on you through a pair OF
gold-rimmed spectacles. From his APP
pearance one might take him to be
professional man, lawyer or a doc
tor.
Whether the new Republic of Acre
will take permanent place AMONG the
family of nations remains to be seen.
1t may be noted that there are prosper
Gus states in existence to-day which
have arisen in the same manner as the
Republic of Acre; among these maybe
mentioned the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State in South Africa,
which We're also established by adj
Venturers in ISLAND, and are
now of sufficient Importance to make
no small noise in the world.
The region of the Acre is one of thu
hottest and most healthful in South
America 1t is also one of the richest
in rubber, which grows wild in the
woods in great abundance. and those
engaged in the rubber trade can gen.
orally calculate on making their for
tunes in four or five years If they es.
cape the malarial fevers and other dis
eases which dog the steps of the white
man in these ATTITUDES.
The territory of the Acre. or a por-
ton of it. was granted not long ago to
an American syndicate by the govern.
ment of Bolivia. which had YER,
doubtful title to it. The syndicate wa.
to build railway and make other inn
provements, but the project never came
to anything, owing partly to the DIS
puted ownership of the land, which
| led to litigation, and finally resulted in
the proclamation of independence al
ready referred to.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

From a Buenos Ayres Letter.
Probably there are not many people
who have heard of the Republic of the
Acre 1t is a brand-new state which
has arisen in South America in the last
- '' - Arc
lie" weeks. 1t owes IT'S orisia
fact that a large part of the interior
of Soutb A,,ar;co is a norman STAND,
+uo or even
so''ie parts claiiheu 80 ~
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
Tendency Ought to BE Knocked Out.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin,
The parents of John Il. Sullivan. lief
fries and Sharkey followed Roosevelt
idea in permitting their boys 10 fight.
but the result, from civilized standpoint.
is not highly satisfactory.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

| proves the true soldier;ta deed hereto
fore untold in print like many deeds
in war, passed over because of it's
lack of spectacular effect, but requiring
the highest type Of courage and sold
| ierly devotion to duty. .r
/ The two Utah guns were, as the
| soldiers expressively term it, stuck"
p, Their wheels We're damned in the UNI
derbrush and their batterymen could
not pull them out. The enemy had To-
| Gated the guns and was concentrating
! his tremendous fire on the point of road
between them.
In this dilemma Captain Dillon
turned to his command and asked: do
any of you men want to volunteer to
get those guns out?'
Every man within the sound of his
voice sprang forward. All of K COM
pany was there and considerable por-
ton of Fl. 1t was duty thankless in
character and dangerous in the ex-
IRENE, yet every man was anxious to
go. There was not an instant's hesi-
tation. The men knew the captain con-
sidered the duty too dangerous to order
them, but that only made them the
more eager
The captain selected the IS men near
est him and took them to the guns AS
cody as if the bullets dancing about
them We're butterflies, the men drew
the guns from the brush into the road,
pulled the cassions after them. hooked
the cassions to the pieces and with six
men on one drag-rope, seven on the
| other and two to take the places of
those who might be hit, quietly pro-
ceeded up the road until a bend in it
removed them from the insurgents
! range.
In all the several soul-trying min
utes it had taken to perform the work
| not man was badly hurt Bullets
went through hats, burned holes in
clothing and even Clipped the tires and
spokes of the gun carriages in scores
of places, but the men seemed to bear
charmed lives.
One can understand how, in the heat
of battle, even a man possessed of
small personal courage, may charge
gloriously. or how, borne along by the
enthusiasm and confidence of numbers
he may participate with credit in
brilliant and dangerous engagement,
but such an act as that of the K COM
pany men is in class apart. In place
of an exciting battle there had been
the deadening period of inactivity in
which the sun had done it's utmost to
burn the vitality out of the men: in
place of yelling, mad charge to keep
up their courage there was steady,
quiet work to be done.
What greater test can there be of
true bravery?
That night the Command fell back to
Maloos to remain for three weeks. How
it then returned to the Bag Bag and
routed the insurgents is a matter of
| history.
That this story of the Utah guns has
| never been told before is the fault OF
! the - men who were selected from
those who volunteered, and here is their
reasoning: Every man who offered to
| go is entitled to as much credit as we
are. If we We're mentioned it would be
unfair to them"
| Ihls, then, is the reason the names
| of the is are not recorded in the records
| and that their brilliant exploit never
| until now has been made public. Their
! modesty and generosity is as great as
| their courage.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-10
floods Sa14abcM&
floods Pills cure liver ills: non-Jritating and
the only cathartic to take with Hoods Sal o~pAriIA

floods Pills cure liver ills: non-Jritating and
the only cathartic to take with Hoods SaronpArilkL
1t is reported that the governments
Of the TranSvaal has expended nearly
81, o 600 since 1891 in trying to iniip
ence the European press and European
officials to prevent the leasing Of Der
agoa Bay to Great Britain. This viii
be cheerful news for the Uitlauders
from whom the 81, 900 was squeez
ed in taxes.
The Skaguay Railroad is finished II
the top Of the White Pass, but it II
hard to keep the workmcn from run
min. away whenever they hear Of 4
new find. If they are sensible they
will just keep on driving spikes. Their
is more gold in working for miner
than there is in gold mining.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-10
TWO WHEELS Now

Upon a cleaning tandem
They used to gayly fit:
lie pedal ed like a major.
And never kicked d bit
Bet he traded of his tandem
When she became his bride;
To lay sine also pedals
When they 80 form 10 ride.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-10
hA,lSH MO..LY.

Mrs. Bil'ins-Is your sons vito a,
econoD.ic.. -oaug vomaD
Ms. flab1Us-l should saw so
She mas induced him to lie, his wh;st.
ers grow, 50 a. 70 be able 10 get aIoao
~ithe-t Leck:.cR
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-10
"DurzbMy IS
Better Than Sho9u."

The weaM of the multi
n1i1lionares IS not equal to
good health. Riches wdhout
health are a curse, and yet the
rich. the middle classes and
TIE poor alike haze. in Hoods
Sarsapariua, a valuable as
sistant in getting and main
tanning perfect health. It
neuer disappofnts.
Scrofuia-" Three years ago our son,
now eleven, had a serious case OF scrofuls
anderysipelas with dreadful sores. dischare-
ing and itching constantly. He could net
walk. Several physicians did not help for
sixteen months. Three months treatment
with Hoods SarSapariila made him pei
fectly well. We are glad to tell others of il. ;"
MRS. DAVID LAIRD, Ottawa, Kansas.
Nausea -"Vomiting spells. dizziness
and prostratiOn troubled me for years.
Had neuralgia, grew weak and could not
s.eep. My age was against me. Out HOOds
Sarsaparilla cured me thoroughly. Ny
weight increased from l25 to l43 pounds. /
am the mother of nine children. Never fen
&c we'll and strong since l was married a. l
do now" MRS. NJ. A. WATERS, 1879 SD St..
Washington, u. c..
Eczema We had to tie the hands Of
eur two year I'D son on account OF eczema
on face and limbs. No medicine even
helped until we used Hoods S~arsaparilla
which soon cured" Mrs. A.. VAN WICK, ~
Montgomery Street, Paterson, Nj
The record-union., 1899-10-06
A MISTAKEN POLICY.

The United States military authori-
ties in Luzon make a mistake in ac-
cording reception TO ENJOYS of Agui-
naldo within the lines and especially
within the city of Manila The place
to meet these .emisaries of the insurgent
chief is between the lines, out in the
open where they will not be the focal
center for thousands of eyes, and where
crowds cannot congregate and follow
them about and pay them homage;
where they cannot spy out our positions
or communicate with their friends
within our lines.
The dispatches say that on the occa-
sion of the recent visit OF Aguinaldo's s
peace ENJOYS. General OTIS refused to
receive them as representing any civil
government, though perfectly willing
to communicate with them upon a mill
tary footing. That was right, but it
was gross error to permit these men,
tricked out for the occasion in white.
blue and gold lace, within American
lines, where they were surrounded by
thousands of Filipinos and followed by
curious crowds as they took their after
noon drives about the city of Manila,
and, Of course. held converse with their
spies and friends.
There is such a thing as being court
eous TO foe, but when it comes to
taking him into your home and giving
The record-union., 1899-10-06

Taking all the news dispatches re-
ceived to this writing together, and
carefully considering their import and
reliability the Record Union" finds
no reason as yet to express different
opinion from that recorded yesterday,
namely, that there is hope for peace
ful settlement between the Beers and
the English, and that such hope is
based on good grounds Only an act
Of great indiscretion on the part of
the Beers can precipitate war soon.
But that the Boer authorities are do
ing their utmost to prevent such an
act, is evident from the orders of Cen
eral Joubert, just issued, that no
Burgher shall cross the border under
penalty of death. We retain the be-
lief that way out of the difficulty will
yet be found and war be averted.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

Unless the reports brought to us by
the officers of the Society for the Pre-
wention of Cruelty to Children are un-
true, there is exceeding dereliction of
duty on the part of parents and guar
dians in this city in permitting chill
into the evening. 1t is very true that
for the great majority the sidewalk
space in front of the home affords the
only opportunity for children to get
out into the air and romp as is nat
ural and desirable. But this does not
include the permission to wander away
from the watchful eye OF parents or
elders in charge. Uhhappily there are
many wolves upon the streets also,
awaiting opportunity to poison the
minds of children, to introduce them to
knowledge for which they are untitled
by years, to render them insensible to
foul language, and to harden their SEN
sibilities upon questions of right and
wrong. 1t is within the knowledge of
officers of the society named, and they
communicate the fact unreservedly
that numerous children are led astray
by the contact to which they are ex-
posed upon the streets after dusk, and
sometimes in broad day. These cases
are not fugitive, but sufficiently num-
erous and recurring to suggest the
thought that all children who run upon
the streets unattended after sunset, are
liable to just such exposure as is in
dicated. The extent of moral deprav-
lty is not known to most people. To
the officers of these rescue societies it
becomes known through bitter and
heart-rending experience. Their tes-
timony upon the subject is to be taken
with great confidence for they have no
influence to exert, no ends to promote,
that are not worthy and disinterested.
The record-union., 1899-10-06
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

The following news of coast mining
matters will doubtless prove of general
interest:
RIVER AND QUARTZ MINES.
Yreka Journal The Greenhorn Blue
Gravel mine is still taking out good
pay. and is using the water from the
Wheeler mine adjoining, which is not
needed by that company until reach
ing bedrock.
The pumps have been fixed up again
in the Wheeler mine at Greenhorn on
the Nehrbass place, and are raising
about twenty-five inches of water con-
stantly. It is expected that bedrock
will soon be reached, when good pay
is anticipated.
Drs. Wheeler and Russell, two enter
prising Oakland, men, are opening up
a quartz ledge on Patterson Creek,
Scott Valley, above the Sheba mine,
which prospects rich, although a small
ledge, as far as developed. When we'll
opened for good working, the doctors
anticipate realizing good pay for their
expenses incurred. They have a
number of hands employed, and ex-
pect to put up mill in the near future.
Work in the Golden Star or Old
Spencer mine at Humbug, is progress
ing steadily in getting out quartz from
the old works recently tapped by the
new lower tunnel which prospects
very satisfactory. We learn that the
company intends putting up quartz
mill, and add more stamps as may be
needed in developing the mine.
The Preston Peak mining district on
Sislxiyou Mountain, in this county,
near the Oregon line, bids fair to be-
come one of the most extensive and
prosperous mining camps in Northern
California. Besides containing rich
gold mines. it covers a vast area of
copper lodes, that many believe to be
as extensive as the Iron Mountain
mines of Keswick in Shasta County. To
develop them successfully branch
railroad to the main line will be nee
essary as in Shasta County, because
copper ore must be handled in large
quantity with the greatest facility and
the cheapest transportation to the sea-
board markets where it is used in
great quantity for various purposes.
The work of development and getting
out a large supply of quartz at the
Schroeder mine on Deadwood, is now
carried on energetically, and in a short
time the mill will be started I'D for
crushing.
B Mr.. Souther, the managing agent 3of
the company Intending to open Up
Yreka Creek northward from Yreka, is
expected here in about three weeks.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

him freedom to plot beside ones hearth
stone for it's destruction, totally. diff
ferent rule should prevail. Assuredly
a mistake has been made on now
three distinct and widely separated oc.
casions, in admitting Filipino ENJOYS
to Manila and entertaining them there
like princes. giving them freedom to
roam about the city, and to commune
with their sympaHnizers.
That is making all too much of the
insurgents. While it is defended, of
course, upon the ground that 1t is an
exhibition of magnanimity and as
tending to impress the enemy with our
self confidence, we prefer to believe
that it gives advantage to these willy
Malays and that on returning to their
shacks they laugh long and heartily
over our innocence.
The record-union., 1899-10-06
A WISE MILITARY POLICY.

In the raising of the new military
dent has shown favoritism Certainly
his bitterest enemies cannot Justly
charge him with making these new
FORCES the means of reward for politi-
cal service. In the first place in choos-
Ing superior officers the President has
manifested great wisdom 1t is con-
ceded by old soldiers and commanders
that he could not have chosen better.
Experience, character, capacity and
previous service have been the four
requirements he has insisted upon.
For minor positions he has taken
either the soldiers educated at the Gov
ernment Academy or officers who
served in Cuba, Porto Rico or in the
Philippines, or who filed responsible
positions in the volunteer forces raised
for West Indian purposes though not
actually dispatched to the islands.
Finally, he has caused an order to
be issued that hereafter when a va
cancy occurs in any of the provisional
regiments recently raised, it shall be
flled by seniority, making a vacancy
in the rank of Second Lieutenant. so
that the latter place may be filled from
the n-commissioned group. These
non commissioned officers are to under
go immediate instruction, classes being
formed in each regiment for the pur-
pose, to instruct them for the places
to which some of their number may be
called.
The result of this order will be to
augment the unity and stiffen the pride
OF each regiment. To create a strong
bond of sympathy between the COM
missioned and non commissioned Off
GERS, to inspire the latter with laud-
able ambition. and as a consequence
TO quicken the privates into activity.
study, attention to duty and compli-
ance with the regulations of the school
for the soldier that they may be de-
serving Of promotion to the non-com-
missioned class.
The record-union., 1899-10-06
A MEMORIAL GIFT.

The Crocker Estate Company at a.
day, ordered that a deed of gift be
made to the Southern Pacific Company
for the benefit of the employees of the
company, for the mansion and grounds
of the Crocker homestead in this city,
situated at Ninth and E streets. The
purpose is that the spacious mansion
shall be used as hospital for disabled
railroad employees. The gift is made by
the children of the late Charles
,Crocker one of the original builders of
the railroad system of California, one of
the incorporators of the Southern Pa
cific Company, and one of the four Sac
ramentans who constructed the Central
Pacific Railroad from Ogden to this
city.
The gift is made by Mr.. Crocker's
children in the memory of their father.
The mansion is very large and beauti-
full one, and with few changes can be
adapted easily to the purposes the
donors have in mind. The grounds Of
tiful, being in a high state of orna-
mental cultivation. These grounds will
be exceedingly gracious and pleasant
for convalescents at the new hospital.
The gift is a generous and fitting one
1t constitutes a memorial statue to the
memory of Charles Croker, and COM
ing, as it does, from his children, typi-
fies their regard for the memory of their
father and the great works of his life
The homestead mansion is situated
upon the north side of the city, and
some years ago was regarded as not in
an eligible locality, because improve
ment of streets, drainage. ETC., had not
pushed that way as it has southwark
and eastward But in recent years the
north side has been looking up. The
threat of the waters of the American
River IN that direction has been re-
moved and the stream is now more than
mile distant from the north levee.
while the filling in Of the low lands be-
tween the city and the river has been
going on steadily and each year in
creases.
In the meantime highway improve
ment has been stretching northward.
and several streets have been macad-
amized clear to the north inside bound
airy, and other work of like character
is now in contemplation. The new
drainage and sewerage system of the
city, which has been resolved upon, will
include the whole north side and be as
beneficial to it as to any other section.
Thus the new hospital to be establish
ed by the generous gift of the Crecker
heirs viii soon be as well located as
any building on the north Of I street,
and even better than many pretentious
ones when the progressive street i'm
provement takes in all the streets north
Of G street, as it very soon will. OF
one thing there can be no doubt. No
hospital in the country will have more
beautiful surroundings in the way OF
well kept grounds, and no hospital pa
tients will be housed in as elegantly
finished a structure as the Crocker res,
idence.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

A few days ago the sensational. sus-
picious and always-ready-fo fora scandal
press was full TO the lips with yarns
that the President of the United States
was about to whitewash Captain Car
ter, the embezzler and fraudulent en-
gineer officer of the army. There was
scarcely anything too mean that this
same group of sensation mongers
could suspect of the President Now
comes the truth. He took time to
go over the record of the courtmartial.
to examine into all the facts, and that
done he has approved the finding of
the court and Carter in consequence
goes to State Prison to be kept at hard
labor for five years, and in addition
he must pay a fine of 5000. OF course
the yellow press will now glow in tri-
plicated head lines of apology to the
President and withdrawal OF their foul
suspicious, and will give just as much
publicity to the truth as they did to
their seandalous and low-lived insin-
uations against an official who has in
no act manifested any disposition 10
cover fraud, whitewash guilt or shell
ter dishonesty.
The record-union., 1899-10-06
THE LATEST YARN.

"A Pittsburg drummer tells this new
yarn: / always carry g bottle of Kemp's
Baisam in my grip. / take cold easily and
me well man. Everywhere 60 speak
a good word for Kemp take hold Of my
customersl take old men and young
do when I take cold. At druggists, 25c
and 6Qc.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

If you suffer from looseness of bowels
or fever and ague, Angostura Bitters
will cure You. DR.. ]. G.. B. Siegert &
Sons, sole manufacturers. Ask your
druggist.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

The San Francisco EXAMINER is a
conspicuous example Of the two-horse
act. While it sharply rasps the At
kinson crowd it maintains apparent
championship of the only Bryan, who
is as opposed to expansion as is At
kinson. But then 1t, Is nothing for
the Examiner to face. in two direc-
tions at one and the same time.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

Try Fishers hot drinks; hot bouillon,
beef tea, hot lemonade. hot chocolate,
ETC. S22 K street.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

As a rule New York can raise the
wind on any occasion on the shortest
possible notice, but she appears to have
signally failed up to date in the mat.
ter of the International yacht race.
The record-union., 1899-10-06
Weather Forecast.

For Northern California-Showers Fri
day; fresh southeasterly winds: cooler
in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Val
1eys.
The record-union., 1899-10-06
Fresh Eish 7

Fresh Fish To-Day.
All kinds of fresh fish at the Pacific,
J. near Eighth.
The record-union., 1899-10-06
WOOD AND COAL. MccAv

have been awarded the contract to supply
the public schools of the city for one
year being the lowest bidders. 1t will be
to your interest to see them about your
winters wood or coal. ONCE SIS L street.
Cap, phone 53s,
The record-union., 1899-10-06
THE FORD MINE.

Calveras Citizen: There has been
considerable activity over about the
Ford mine during the week and effect
i've work has been done. The water
has been pumped down to the 5OO-foot
station and good gain was made on the
flow. Some repairs will be made on
engine, to put it in good condition for
the water, and then the mine will be
emptied, preparatory to sinking. Mr.
Gutmann is expected here soon, and
then the plans of the new company will
be fully outlined. 1t is we'll known,
however, that the most vigorous de-
velopment. of the mine, especially at
greater depth, will be the order of the
day.
The record-union., 1899-10-06

The following news of coast mining
matters will doubtless prove of general