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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-07

Ube Daily Graphic.
 MEYER soLMsoN, city Editor.
 WHHrHHR FoRrcHsT.
 Partly cloudy tonight ami Satur urday. Stationary temperature
 CITY ITEMS.
 Miss Nina smart is very sick with fever.
 Miss Annie May Allen is visiting friends in BrinEler
 
 MT '. Nj. Clarke has returned to his home at Stuttgart
 Miss Jewell Altschul of Little Rock, is visiting relatives In thecity. Mir. Joe c. Meyer went to Little Rock tkis morning to meet his nffiance, Miss Carrie Burgauer
 MT. Robt. York has returned from Terra Haute, Ind, where he attend cd school during the past winter.
 Mr. J. E. Joyce, representing the Plunkett farrell Grocery Co, of Lit tie Rock, was in the city this morz- ing.
 Davld Fry was arrested this morning upon charge of embezzle- ment He will have hearing Monday.
 Mrs. +. O. McGehee and family left today for Winona, Mss, where they will visit relatives during the summer
 slaton McGehee had the misfort- une 10 have his arm broken recently. His arm caught in the belt at Me Gehee's woodward.
 The Valhana Club gave reception ut their club on West Second avenue Thursday night. Fun mention in society column Snr aay.
 Mrs. M. Parse. formerly Of this city but now If Atlanta, Ga, aeeompa- nied by her two nieces, the Misses ShiDn, are visiting in Il city.
 Mir. J. A. Dykes. manager of the Kingsland Mercantile Company and a son Of Sheriff Dykes of Cleveland county, was in the city today.
 Mir. Frank Loper, the handsome son of the late Dr. F. M. Loper, Of Monticello. is visiting Messrs. Ray and Warren Osborne in this city.
 Miss Carrie Burgauer, of Hot Springs arrlyed In the city today and will be the guest of Alderman Gabe Meyer and family for a few weeks. A cablegram has been received in this city by F. " Nitz from his wife She together with her Iittledaughter have safely arrived in switzerland. Mir. Harry Shoemaker. who has been the guest of friends in this city for the past several weeks, returned 10 his home at Charleston, H., Thursday.
 Word from Memphis states that Mrs sam Franklin, who was carried to Memphis recently very 1T, is slowly improving.
 Bert Payne went to Pine Bluff few hours last Thursday in the in- terest of his bro lm I, ctory. Hecame back with orders for fifty dez5n broUms Stuttgart Republican.
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15
FROM kOTZEBUE SOUND.
A"o lowans just Out Have Tales of
Hardshlps, hut No Gold.

Two lowans just Out Have Tales %
nsrdsh,ps. hut No Gold.
SkAGrAi. Alaska, May 5, via Seattle,
Wash, May l5.-F. A. Fysh and w.
Williams reached Dawson, April IS, on
foot from ko.zebue sound. Fysh and
Williams formed two of a party of ls
who left Iowa last summer and joined
the big rush which landed 1900 on the
various rivers of Kotzebue sound.
The party established winter quarters
800 miles up the Kowak river. After
untold hardships and labor they de-
c'ded that there was no gold in the
country. On Feb. 10. Fysh and Will
lams struck ont over the divide to the
koyukuk. thence 10 Dawson distance
Of l.5oo miles. Mr.. Fysh reports that
ko,zerue sound is thickly peopled with
an intelligent race Of Indians closely
resembling The japanese in habits and
physique. The principal diet hereto.
tore has been dried salmon, but the
Abundance OF white mans food last
summer WA, the cause OF laying away
less inan half crop Of salmon. The
result tEis winter was that the lily
nourishcd natives have been dying off
like sheep. He says the opening Of the
Bering sea will see the exodus Of the
last white man. and only scattering
I of cabins will mark the scene Of one OF
the mos' disastrous gold huntin. expe.
\ dltions since CortcZ landed Oh The coast
Of Florida
w. |. Segcl. Uni,en States mail
Garner. arrived from Dawson today
with l6j pounds ot mail matter from
points on the American side Of the
Yukon. commencing at ST. Michaels.
he made the trip in fifteen days. He
broke through the ice several times.
having many narrow escapes. he re-
ports that ny. large mails for Dawson
are hung np at Sclkirk. Hootalinqua
and White Horse and will have TO await
the opening of navigation. The Yukon
and its tributaries are fast breaking up.
Thirty Mile river is free Of ice and Fifty
Mile river is open from White Horse
rapids 10 Lake Marsh.
Norman Rank. ex-gold commissioner
of the Atlin district, who arrived from
| NltttEld l13dN, bIlIlSS dll oIuci lIoii
Minister 0. Mines Humes to the effec,
that the opening Of the mining season
is 10 be extended from June 10 July /
He also brings word that Humes would
come up before the end Of the month
with committee of arbitration before
which all controversies about owner
ship of claims in A.lin district are to b,
settled
| Captain Wallace Landlay reached
here from Victoria today with gran
for the construction by the Atlin Shor
Line Railroad and Navigation company
Of a narrow gauge road Of 81 miles t
connect steamboat navigation betweei
Lake Bennett and Atlin.
Ed Strattord, special agent of th'
United States land Office. Is here t
make selection of sites for public
building. From here he goes to Sitka
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15
BARkER WILL COMMAND.
C.ptnin Of the Oregon Temporarily Sue
ceeds Dewey at Manila.

Csptniu Of the Oregon Temporarily sue
ceeds Dewey at Manila.
WASHINGTON. May lo.-ln order to
provide for the direction of naval at
fairs in Asiatic waters between the date
of Admiral Dewey's departure and the
arrival of Rear Admiral Watson orders
have been issued placing Captain \. ).
Barker in command Of the Asiatlc
squadron after Admiral Dewey's depar.
ture until relieved by Rear Admiral
Watson. Captain Barker Is now IN
command of the battleship Oregon, the
pride of the navy. and. next to Admiral
Dewey. is the senior officer on the sta
ton. He is an officer Of ability and DIS
cretion and may be depended upon to
take good care Of the interests OF the
United States. He was assistant cnie'
Of the bureau Of navigation during Al
miral Ramsey's term Of Office and
member Of the naval war or strategy
board during the Spanish war. At the
close Of the war he relieved Captain
clark Of command Of the battleshil
Oregon and took that magnificent war
ship from New York around the Hori
to Callao, Peru, and thence by way o
Honolulu to Manila, where she arrived
several weeks ago.
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Desiring to Send a Military Com.
mission to Confer With Phil
ippine Commission.
Dewey Will Start Home Soon. bu
Will Make a Leisurely
Journey.

MANILA, May l5.-6:20 p. m.-The
Filipinos have resumed attempts to in
duce the Americans to discuss the sit
uation. Reyes, a young lieutenant on
the staff Of General Gregerio del Pillar.
came to General Lawton under a flag of
truce. He was accompanied by bare
footed bugler. The two were escorted
to Manila by Captain Sewall of General
Lawton's staff. Reyes told Major Gen
eral O:is that Aguinaldo desired per.
mission for military commission tc
come to Manila to confer with the Phil
ippine commission. General Otis an
swered that passes would not be neces
sary, as ularmed commissioners could
come without them. He would leave
the matter in General Lawton's hands
Lieutenant Reyes returned to Bacolor
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15
(REYR0UBLE
Coal and Ore Dock at But:
(,o Said to be Tied Up by
strikers.
NJ, Being Made to Induce
pion Men at Other Points
70 Assist.
Miners in Portions Of Mis-
euri and Kansas Are
Now Out.
i. Urcrators Raise a "De.
,u,p Fund" of a Million
Dollars.

Edo. y y. May Is. Every coal
J. lc,k in Bu:falo is now said TO
| ~. Early in the morning ~
|nploye,l al the Lackawanna coal
med the strikers and a little
! k.a men at the Scott ore dock also
Taey numbered about 50 men.
!, men were sent TO Dunkirk, Erie
III lake ports to induce union
| a. those places to refrain from
b. vessels bound up or down. The
..mu,r about 200. The grain
kc,or has brought in two carloads
h II N the vicinity Of Bradford
II y from Tonawanda were put
|t.s, u..nus a few who deserted
! ,a~y learned that they Were &
l. places If strikers.
b. present indications il is nol
Tia, tie question of appointment
ks. sprr~ will be rapidly settled
e.r 4 amor says he will no,
'>,., being chosen by anyon,
i4,. /, Nc-srs. Gonlder and Cor
were in consultation with Mr.
j.. all all three agreed that tn,
+ " III! not concede anything OF
L. 10 the strikers representa-
Ine receipts of grain have beer
..-a,rl fur the last few days, be
slippers are withholding their
GAal the scoopers' trouble is set
lcl,e4aent.y the congested con
q ,4r harbor is being relieve,
EsEe ar' sill over forty boats to b.
ble,.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15
plsoEDER IN DULUTH.

fired At . Nou.Cnion Motor.
"an and Car Dynamited.
III May IA non.union mo-
Va an interstate street car was
sAS ~ times but none Of the bullets
,4ecs' although all Of them passed
a lew inches Of his head. Two
sAots were fired from beneath
su'h's'.perior bridge and four at
aer Of Belknap ana Tower ave-
superior. One arrest has been
n;,oa oa the Woodland park line was
o', WV but beyond breaking the
s"eels and truck Of the car and
s"s w. the framework somewhat. no
Was done.
,., "a hank Burslarlssd.
) A. rE IN, CITY, L.. Lay i5.-The
)y no ellsworth wac entered st au
ouf and $500 taken.
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WHAT AGUINALDO THINKS.
Hopes Action Regarding Foreigners Will
secure Him Recognition.

MANILA, May 15.-ll:2O .. Nag
uinaldo has issued orders that all for
eigners mus: leave insurgert territory
within IS hours. There are only few
commercial men here. mostly English
and German. Aguinaldo believes that
by refusing them the rights of noncom-
batants he can force their governments
to recognize the belligerency of his So
called government, in order that they
may treat for the safety Of their sub
, jects
A Filipino priest who had talked with
the Tasal general. Treas. has brought
to Father Mrkinnon, chaplain Of the
First California regiment, a copy of {
letter written by Aguinaldo to Genera
Treas. asking his opinion as to thu
advisability of surrendering, saying:
Il fear that the long warfare tha
will be necessary to conquer the United
States will drain the countrys resources
too much"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15

invitation now. Condition OF health
necessltates rest and quiet
The cablegram was in reply to one
sent by the association asking the ad-
miral to become its guest upon his re-
turn to this country and strongly urg-
ing upon him the advisability Of coming
by way Of San Francisco and across the
continent
NEW YORK. May l5.-The committee
OF the board Of transportation which
had extended an invitation to Admiral
Dewey to attend dinner at any date
he might accept has received cable
from Admiral Dewey dated Manila in
which he states it will be impossible to
accept the invitation. adding:
Condition Of health demands res.
ana quiet.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15
COAL. MINERS OUT.
|saNern kansas and Western Mis-
souri, Districts Affected.

ea,'ern kansas and Western Mis-.
'oari Districts Affected.
>HyLe Kan, May Is. The coal
s.a Western Missouri and South
n Kansas struck at noon. The
Wei; out at all camps except
4 meeting at Yale it was
oy vote Of is to $50 that the
Vas opposed to q strike that only
nj par, Of the miners Of Kansas
Missouri. District President
aH who ordered the strike on in
ions from National President
tA' and J.P. Reese of the national
ls'se board, who have charge OF
'Ahe here, feel encouraged over
.'aanon. However, Mr.. Wright
'la' a general strike would have to
''afel before they would win.
sNlhe order affects the mines OF
S'trn Coal and Mining company,
raesas and Texas, the Central Coal
seSe company. and the Southwest
4Ho'emcnt company.
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COMPRESSED AIR.
Car on "A Chicago Street Railway Line
Orerated bY This Power.

CHICAGO, May l5.-For the first time
in the history Of street railroad traction
in Chicago, compressed air has been
used as motive power. A compressed
air car made the trip over one Of the
principal trunk lines Of the North Chi
cago Street Railway company, and Of
ficials Of the railway company who
made the trial trip pronounced the new
motive power highly successful as far
as it HAD been tried.
A compressed air car will be run for
some time as an experiment. If it
proves success, il is the intention to
run all the cars on the North and West
Side cable lines by air. In appearance
it resembles tile ordinary box trolley
car except tor the absence Of a pole on
top and a difference inthe trucks below
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WILL TAKE LIS TINE.
Voyage Of Admiral Dewey Expected q
Take -Four Months.

Take Four Months.
MANILA. May Is. = Admiral Dewey
will sail for New York by way of the
Suez canal in about ten days. 1t is ex-
pected that the voyage will occupy
about four months.
The United States cruiser Olympia.
on which Admiral Dewey will take the
VOYAGE home, will sail q leisurely trip,
stopping ut Mediterranean ports for
some time to give the admiral, the OFF,
GERS of the ship and the crew an oppor.
tunity for rest. Like all the Olympia's
company, Admiral Dewey is much run
down in tropical port without change
and under the rigorous conditions Incl
dent to a war footing.
All are delighted at the prospect Of
returning home. The officers have had
little shore leave and have been obliged
ALWAYS to be on shipboard by sundown.
The crews have had still less leave, and
show the effects of years spent on q
hot ship under enervating sun.
The Olympia will proceed from Ma
nila to Hong Kong, where fortnight
will be spent in transforming the mud
color which she was painted to white,
having up to this time been unable te
comply with the departments order te
take on white paint. At Hong Kong the
cruiser will be coaled and provisioned
for her further journey.
Admiral Dewey expects to retain hi:
position on the Philippine commission
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MAY CLEAR THE. AIR.
Six Alfred Nilner and President Kruger
20 Talk Over Differences.

PREToEln Transvaal Republic. May
l5.-The tulksraai has given is APP
proval 10 The meeting Of President kru-
ger ana >ir Alfred Miner. governor Of
Cape Colony ana high commissioner q
South Africa, on neutral ground al
Bloontuu'eln. The points # difference
are now being discussed. and the gen.
srol opinion is that the meeting will
clear the air Of most II the existing
political troubles.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15

NEW YORK, May Is. Oscar Gardner.
,ha .O,naha Kid" and Martin Flsher1y
lowell. Mass. i, fought q 251!ound
- the New Broadway Athletic
% ci"h in the presence Of . crowd that
hacked the auditorium and nela, oves'
aow meetings in the aisles ana spsrsnSe. =
Il was an unsatisfactory hight ITO" '''
.sapdnoint " the spectators
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HIS HEALTH POOR.

such IL the Inference Drawn From Re-
cent Cablegrams of Admiral Dewey.
CHICAGO, May l5.-Judging from the
wording az !. a.cablegrain recaived, from
Admiral Dewey by the Illinois Manu-
facturers' association the, health OF the
admiral, despite medical assslsace to
the contrary, is mono Of the best and to
this fact i dus, his probable return by
vav 81 the Sues cSual. instead Of the
pacific coast route. The message 10 as
follows:
Many thanks. Impossible TO accept
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-15

An Order by Postmaster General Smith.
AsHlNhToS, May l5. = Postmaster
General smith has ordered that post
masters IN paying advertising accounts
attach 10 the voucher the publisher
affidavit that the rates do not exceed
the commercial rates charged to indi-
viduais, with the usual discounts.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22

A curious sight was witnessed in
the principal streets of Cambridge,
England, the other day. What at
first sight appeared to be funeral on
an extensive scale passed along the
streets, but there was no hearse. To
make up for the deficiency, however,
there were plenty of mourning
coaches, decked with Grape and with
drawn blinds. Leading this mourn
full procession was an open landau
containing three undergraduates who
wore the ''trappings and suits of
woe" very lightly indeed. Behind
came nineteen hansoms with whips
draped, bearing the departing ones
friends. At the station there were
three groans for the Queens don and
three cheers for the unfortunate one
who had been "sent down." In re.
sponse to cries for speech, the de-
porting collegian said: Gentlemen,
1 must thank you all for this loyal
demonstration. 1t makes me very
pleased, especially in view of the cir
cumstances under which L depart" !"
an effus1on which was greeted with
tremendous cheers. AS the train
steamed out of the station the mourn
ers, drawn up in line, whistled the
"Dead March" That is the way a
man is ''sent down" from Cambridge
in 1899. 9.-London Correspondence in
Chicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22

OF matches, as well as of most Other
manufactures in Japan, complaint has
been heard time and again from the
market to which they have been ex-
ported. We now gather from ver-
nacular contemporary that Japan is
fast losing the trade; Japanese
matches are being ousted by matches
of Swedish manufacture which are
bounty fed, but are still three dollars
per ton dearer than Japanese matches.
The reason why Japan is fast losing
the market in India and China is be-
cause Swedish matches are of better
quality, not a single bad stick being
found in box, while there is an aver
age of three bad ones in each small
box of Japanese matches-with re-
gard to which we may say that if the
average is above three the matches ex-
ported are infinitely superior to those
retailed in japan Kobe Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22

have cultivated some in rows three
feet apart and find that it reaches
more than double the size of the wild
weed. This peculiar weed fourishes
as abundantly during severe droughts
as at other times and I really believe
that it grows more luxuriantly during
dry weather. 1t should be cut when
in blossom and stacked in all cases,
while yet partly green, as it is ex-
tremely difficult and disagreeable to
handle when perfectly dry. regard
the advent of the Russianthistle to this
particular locality as boon of no lit
tie consequence and its future is full
of promise
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22
GUTTA-PERCHA SCARCE.
Difficult to Get Enough for a Pacific
Gable.


In connection with the Pacific cable
a very interesting question arises, says
the Engineering Magazine From
where is the gutta-percha for this gi
gantic cable to come? Every whisper
of the construction of a transpacific
line sends the gutta-percha market at
Singapore up by leaps and bounds. The
ruling price of the gum is the highest
that has ever obtained. 1t is stated,
on what authority it IS hard to say,
that the visible supply of gutta-percha
ls insufficient for the task, and that If
this cable is laid it will be the last-the
last with gutta-percha insulation at
least.
While this pessimism on the part of
the gutta-percha producers savors
somewhat of a desire to stiffen the
market, there is yet a sufficiently rea-
sonable foundation for it in the wanton
destruction of the gutta-percha forests.
1t will be interesting to see the out
come of the situation. If the United
States acquires an island in the Caro-
lines the building of the cable line
seems possible, though expensive. II
they do not find landing place the
operation of the cable seems to require
a prohibitively costly plant And
meanwhile there is the question of the
disappearing gutta-percha tree.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22

Some Missouri lawyer has invented
a brand-new basis for claim for dam
ages against railway compny. He
has client who was member of the
non-commissioned staff of one of the
volunteer regiments enlisted for the
war with Spain. While the army was
being concentrated in Florida the SOL
dier, by reason of alleged negligence
Of the Fort Scott and Memphis Rail-
way, fell from car at Jacksonville,
sustaining injuries that necessitated
his discharge from the army. Through
his attorney he has now brought suit
against the railway company for S25,-
900 damages. The popularity of the
case lies in the fact that plaintiff sets
forth in his complaint, as one of the
principal damages for which he seeks
recompense, that by reason of defend
ent's negligence, plaintiff was deprived
of his opportunity to win glory and
honor as a soldier in the war with
Spain, to his loss and damage. -
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22
Lord Russelps Early EfusIon.

Lord Russell of Killowen, the Lord
Chief Justice of England, halls from
Newry, the place of 'high church and
no steeple, dirty streets and no peo.
ple," according to Dean Swift. In
his boyhood Lord Russell belonged
to literary society, the members of
which were for the most part youths
of fifteen or sixteen, and on one occa-
sion they had to write an essay on
"The Age We Live In-Its Tenden-
cies and It's Exigencies. Lord Rus
sell completed, "and laid the cres-
cent in the dust, played havoc with
some venerable dynasties, and pro-
posed reforms which even in the pres
ent day would make the most advanced
reformer shake, in his shoes" The
essay was actually printed, though
the lord chief justice says he is happy
to'state that no copy now exists to rise
up in Judgment against him.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.
English Workmen Have Many Objections
to Their Introduction.


English workmen do not view with
complacency the introduction of the
American locomotives on the Midland
railway. They are not only an af-
front to their national pride, but they
see in them positive menace to the
engineers trades union, which has
been one of the most powerful in all
Europe. The American locomotive Is
placed on the rails in Great Britain
at cost Of from 20 to 80 per cent less
than the British makers can produce
the same sort of machine. So the
working of the American locomotives
Is watched with much more than ordi
nary interest by men on both sides of
the ocean. If the machines can be
made thoroughly adapted to British
requirements at such a saving of cost
to the British railway companies, it
means that the British maker must
produce them at a like cost or else
be thrown out Of the market. That
means lower wages to the British
workman, and against that he will
fight with all his characteristic OBJ,
stlnacy, as he has to the introduction
of labor saving machinery. Even the
long drawn out and disastrous strike
which made possible the Introduction
of the American locomotive, has not
taught them the whole of their lesson.
There is even now proposition on
foot that the union of locomotive
drivers shall adopt rule prohibiting
members from handling an American
made locomotive, when the engineers
union shall reach the conclusion if it
does, that the introduction of the
American machine threatens seriously
the wages of their trade.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-22
Gen. A. S. Kimball. Depot ouf

Gen. A. S. Kimball, Depot Quarter
Master of the U. s. Army in New York
City, has sent to Lyman McCarty, AS
sistant General Passenger Agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in New
York, a letter of thanks for the prompt
movement of troops that We're ticket
ed over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
during the past year. He says that
many of these movements were made
on short notice and his department had
too frequently to rely upon insufficient
and sometimes inaccurate data He
realized that under such circumstances
the company was placed in an embar-
RAISING position and the extraordinary
efforts made by the line to give salts
faction in every respect merited and
received his fullest appreciation.