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"RFADY!" "AIM!" 'FIRE!"
First Murder in the Army to Be Punished by
the Military Code.

the risk OF breaking long record that
speaks volumes for the character OF
our soldiers. Lindsay Holt may have
to pay the penalty OF his crime with
his life.
The court martial provides. where
guilt is proven under the charge of
murder. that the culprit shall be shot
by firing detail selected from the
provost guard. There will be ten RI
fiemen and a commanding officer and n
second lieutenant. Every alternate
gun will be loaded, and the marksmen
will occupy three sides of square.
while on the fourth side Holt Is to
kneel. bound around the arms and
calves OF his legs. Immediately in front
of his coffin.
Around his eyes a bandage will be
tied. so that he may not know who OF
his former comrades have been selected
to carry out the mandate of the mill
tary court. A brief time will be al
lowed him for his last prayer, and his
chaplain will administer the benedic-
tion.
In order that there may be some rea-
sonable doubt as to which OF the rifle
men fired the fatal shots, only half Of
the guns are to be loaded with bullets.
The other half contain blank car
tridges.
These guns are distributed at hap
hazard and when the men take up their
positions to await the order to fire not
n single man will know whether or not
his weapon contains messenger Of
death or a charge OF harmless powder.
Three PAGES to the right and to the
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u
ing officer will stand, and at the prop
er time will give his orders. At the
order, Make ready" the marksmen
will cock their guns. Take aim" will
be the next order, and ten guns will
swing to ten shoulders, to be aimed at
Lindsay Hollis heart.
Fire. Five balls, from which muz-
zles no one will ever know, will pierce
the soldier of misfortune, and the in
cident will be closed.
Nothing remains at the conclusion of
the tragedy but to dispose of the
corpse, just as though Holt had died
in the hospital. A decent burial will
be given all that is left of him, and
the Tenth Cavalry will resume its daily
life again as though Holt had never
lived.
But his wonderful fighting at San
Juan Hill will not be forgotten. Be-
fore that fight began Holt was far
rier and made horseshoes for the
horses of his comrades. He worked
hard, and the music Of his anvil echoed
all day as he pounded the steel into
shape for the beasts that were to bear
their riders into battle.
But the roads became impossible and
the cavalrymen went into the fight on
foot. For the time being there was
no particular need of horseshoes, and
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tai, where he died the next day. A
court marital was appointed to sit on
Hollis case as soon as the Tenth ca
valry reached Huntsville, whittier they
went few days afterward. The SOL
emn ceremony of trying brother SOL
dier was duly carried out, and the
prisoner was found guilty and ordered
to be shot to death. Gen. Wheeler put
his signature to the findings, and the
verdict and documents were forwarded
to President Mckinley for final in
dorsement. 1t now remains entirely
with the chief magistrate of the Unit
ed States as to whether or not SOL
dier of our last war shall die the most
ignominious death that it is the lot
of man to have meted out to him.
In the meantime the comrades of
Holt in the Tenth cavalry are whis-
pering of the fate that is in store for
the unfortunate man, who will be the
first soldier to die by rifle bullets in
times of peace in military camp. Not
since the civil war has the death SEN
tence been passed upon soldier of the
Union,
For thirty-f1ve years the records of
the army have been clear of such a
blot, and there is strong hope that
even this man may escape with some
other form of punishment The stern
demands of discipline are such that
clemency Is seldom shown, and even at
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TWO CLEVER POSES

ly in one of these moods he nearly bit
the hand off one of his keepers a few
weeks ago. Batty says the secret of
training bear lies in remaining al
ways the master with a good heavy
whip to demonstrate it. His bears
would attack him as quickly as they
would anybody else, but he never takes
his eye from the animal he is handling
And these bears are cunning. They
are trained to look for something good
Immediately after the performance of
their part of the program. 1t is either
lump of sugar, bottle of milk, or a
bottle of sugar and water. Were this
not forthcoming there would proba-
bly, be strike and riot. When not
performing they are always securely
chained to the floor of the stage. Bat
TVS bears have only been in America
eight weeks. Batty, Russian, is so
greatly pleased with the country and
the big money he draws that he would
like to stay here with his performers
permanently, but the heated term would
kill the animals.
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BATTY ON THE BIG BEAR.
or the circus. It is probably fact
that Batty's bears are the best trained
animals of the kind in the world. Their
performance In a Chicago theater is
creating quite sensation with the old
folks. as well as the children. But
nobody knows the time and care that
Batty has given these animals. He has
four big brown fellows. ranging from
eight to fifteen years old. These are
from Russia. And he has one little
black cub-eight months old-who has
a laughing face and glowing eyes like
a pickaninny. and is the comedian OF
the Great Northern. He halls from
Siberia.
The Oldest of the bears weighs six
hundred pounds, and he is SO ponder
ously large the wonder is that he obeys
a master at all. This fellow waltzes
and stands on his launches, drinking
from bottle. 1t is the one next in
size that performs the most marvellous
tricks. He jumps the hurdles and
fences, walks the tight rope, and comes
back over the same rope "hand-over-
hand" fashion. with a bottle of milk in
his mouth. But the fellow that turns
the somersaults is the wonder of the
group. He rolls about the stage like
ball of fur.
Batty has been training these bears
for ten years, and while he never loses
sight OF the animal he is handling. he
is more afraid Of that saucy little cub
than he is of the four big fellows to-
gether. The little fellow has one or
those inviting come and play with
me" looks all the time. While evident
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THEORIES ABOUT THE "MAlNg" t"
Captain sigsbse's Talk With the Spanish
Admiral After tho Explosion.


Nothing could be written In better
taste and temper than Captain SIgs.
bees personal Narrative of the
Maine," the third installment of which
appears In the January Century. The
Wrecking and the Inquiry" are the
special subjects Of this concluding
paper. The captains personal rela.
tlons with General Blanco and Admiral
Manterola were, he says, undisturbed
by the explosion. They remained cor
dial to the last" Soon after the catas-
trophe the admiral called upon Cap.
tain Sigsbee and n conversation oc-
CURED which Is tersely summarized in
these words:
1.-The admiral assumed from the first
that the explosion was from the in.
terror of the vessel. He asked II the
dynamo boilek had not exploded.
told him we had no dynamo boilers.
He said that the plans Of the vessel,
us published showed that the gun.
cotton store-room, or magazine, was
forward near the zone of the explosion.
He was informed that these plans had
been changed, and that the guncotton
was slowed aft, under the captains
cabin, where the vessel was virtually
intact. He pointed out that modern
gunpowders were sometimes very un-
stable. This was met by the remark
that our powder was Of the. old and
stable brown prlsmatic kind, and that
we had no fancy powder. He referred
to the probable presence of boilers,
lighted, near the forward coal-bunkers,
which were adjacent to the magazines.
This again was met with the remark
that for three months no boiler in the
forward boiler compartment had been
lighted; that while In port the two
aftermost boilers in the ship had been
doing SERVICE"
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Lindsay T. Holt, a negro private In
the Tenth cavalry OF the United States
army, has been found guilty OF the
crime OF murder by regular army
court martial. and sentenced to be shot
to death by a provost guard. Holt Is
now In Jail at Huntsville, Ala, await
ing the approval OF the sentence by the
president of the United States. This
is the only case during the late war
where a court martial has ordered n
soldiers death at the muZzles OF
provost guard. Hollis crime was COM
mitted at Camp Wikoff. Montauk Point.
Sept. 25, and consisted of firing three
shots from an army revolver into Pri-
vate James Twishy, also negro MEM
ber of Hollis troop. Strangely enough
the quarrel had its origin in dispute
concerning the ownership Of a Span
ish gold coin OF the value Of ten Pc
setas. 1t was trophy that Holt had
brought back from Santiago after the
famous battle at San Juan Hill, where
the negro troops fought valiantly,
shoulder to shoulder with the Rough
Riders. At Camp Wikoff Holt exhib-
tied the coin to his comrades. Twishy
attempted to grab it. There were hot
words. and both men separated to go
in search of weapons. Holt got q
six-shooter and Twishy razor. Later
in the day the men met again. Twishy.
who was the more powerful, rushed
upon his enemy. waving the razor in
the air and uttering threats to cut
Hollis heart out. The latter fired
three shots and Twishy, receiving
them all, was carried of to the hospi-
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partial critic can Internationally ad-
mire it, he will not fall into the error
of treating it as rubbish. He will not
fail to recognize the fact that every
progress on the field of literature as
elsewhere involves a repudiation of an
established something at every step
and that this task OF repudiating and
clearing away which is necessary in
order to bring the plane of the Ger
man drama to higher level has been
performed by the daring poets of 1889
and that the credit for this work of
demolition is due to them.
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WONDERFUL BEARS.
A VAUDEVILLE PERFORMANCES
EXTRAORDINARY
They Jump Hurdles Like Horse-Turn
somersaults Like an Acrobat, and
Clear Fences While Erect ON Hind
Lsgs-Rsssmblos = Pickaninny.
lSpecial Lottery

Perhaps 1t is not SO wonderful for
bear to walk a tight rope-that Is In
their nature. But to see bear. at the
command OF his trainer. stand on his
head. turn somersaults like an acrobat,
jump hurdles like race horse. or clear
three fences. one at time. jumping
on his hind legs, is n real novelty.
Trained bears are new feature for the
vaudeville stage; In fact. trained bears
are seldom found outside of the zoos
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THEIR CALLING is ODD.

In Egypt one is very apt to run into
group like this on the street corners
The crocodile merchants do thriving
trade among tourists and sell reptiles,
big and little, dead and alive. A cro-
codile is pet apt to be dangerously
lively as it increases in size, and can
nibalistic as to appetite, so the small
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-01-12
Our Six Wars,

Since the Declaration of Independ-
ence the United States have had six
wars, not counting the little differences
with the Indians. These were-the
war of the revolution, the war of 1912,
the war with the Barbary States, the
Mexican war, the war for the union.
and the war with Spain.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-01-12

The London Daily News calls atten.
ton to an amusing instance Of Russian
censorship. Christmas eve the Daily
News published an editorial dealing
fiatteringly with the peace proposal of
the Gear. When the issue reached Rus
sia the whole article, with the excep-
ton Of the first few lines, was blacked
out, which seems to prove that the
censor holds views widely different
from those Of the Gar.
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Soc tho Small Ad PsUs..

'1d like to know" muttered the
night foreman, as he put half dozen
more printers at work on the "short
lads" where the poet got his idea
that man wants but little her. b..
low.'"-Chicago Tribune.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-01-12

haAN1 " WEI.
formation that the empress Of China
has hers, also. Unfortunately, this
particular hobby resembles that Of the
Duchess in alice in Wonderland,
namely, to make light of other peoples
heads, and since madame the empress
was suspected Of de-capital designs on
Kang Yu Wei the British had no COM
junction in affording safe asylum to
the little Chinaman. Two days after
Kuang Hsu was deposed Kang Yu Wei
reached Shanghai, and on Sept. 81
sailed on the Ballarat for Hong Kong.
Heads might be bowed and pigtails
waggled, but no persuasion would in
duce the British captain to give his
man up; SO Kang Yu Wei sits peaceful
ly in an English dependency waiting
till his turn shall once more come
around. 1t was he who advised the
late emperor to clear out the Manchu
slaepyheads and do something for
progress and reform, and though the
empress is working her hardest to un-
do his work, the ball has been set a
rolling and rebellion on a most glgan-
tic scale is at hand
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-01-12

Britain owns one-fourth of the rail-
ways in the United States of America
and half of the railways in South
America.
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weighed and Found Wanting,

"Our neighbors are shiftless people. {"
How do you know?" When l go over
to borrow anything they never have
it."
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If a thing doesn't seem possible II
Is sure to occur.
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Soap that's all soap-Diamond &C
Soap.
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CONTESTED SEATS ~ THE HOTSE.
EVIDENCE ALREADY FILED IL A NUMBER
OF CASES.

EVIDENCE ALREADY FILED N A NUMBER
OF CASES
Washington. March % (speciaD.-Evidence in the
contested elections for Congress Is taken in the
States where the contests arise. unless for some
reason it becomes necessary 10 get dispositions Of
witnesses in other places. This evidence is prop
erly certified and forwarded TO the clerk OF the
House II the contest be for seat in the House Of
Representatives. All the testimony so far taken
and filed with the cleck in contested elections Of
the LVIih Congress has been by the contestant
great deal of it has Nosn received. especially in
the TWO Virginia cases and In Of the North
Carolina cases. that OF Dockery against Belamy
The cases in which evidence has been filed are as
follows
AlaDama-IVth District. Aldrich against Rob
bins Kenucky-VIIIth District. Davidson against
Gilbert; Kiln District. White against Boering North
Carolina With District. Dockery against Belamy:
IXth District. Pearson against Crawford Viz
einia-lId District. Wise against Young IXth Dis
trict. Walker against Rhea
The recent shooting affair grew out Of the TAX
ing of testimony in the latter contest The case
from the I'D Virginia District IS the sequel OF the
contests in the last TWO Congresses between the
same men The Adrich- Robbins contest is like.
wise continued story.
in the With North Carolina District ex-Renre-
sentative oliver H. Dockery will rely largely on the
anti Democratic complexion of the district for
at wimineton before the eecton The o'S SoS H%Mt
in the mountain district Of North Carolina Is be-
tween Richmond Pears IN, who represen ted that
Ghe IXth) district in he LIVth and Lvth Con-
crosses and his competitor IN the election for the
former Congress. William i. Crawford. The o.
iorlty claimed by Crawford is small. Pearson $
m joriv was in the LINth Congress.
or all these contests the most generally interest
ing Is that between Walker and Rhea IN the IXth
Virginia District The parties 10 1t both
resoute men. and General Walker. who was a
most active member Of the last Congress is one OF
the bravest OF the Confederate officers who have
had 10 defend their political convictions when at
tackled for changing their party associations. For
a number OF years he has been one OF the most
determined and able OF Virginia Republicans
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SOME sc1NTILIATIoNs.

The New Minster-"t hope you pray
every day To- be better2' The Belle
"Oh. dear me. no. am 20 good now
I'm a bore to my friends"
The y. G. 4 NJ Company have just
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factory for high grade 1899 model
Sterling bicycles.
Broker-"I think on the whole, won't
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money In statues rather than in pic
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one side Of a statue, and get your non
ey's worth better"
Take your wheel TO the =. G. & NJ.
Company and they will make it look
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Old Wayback-"Good mawnin', jedge,
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Judge Brownies; he sailed yester-
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If you have a first-class gun, revol-
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Chisei-"What's the market for thai
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He Gust after the proposal-"Im 81
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