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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
King of Stowaways.

The steamship Lackawanna brought
into Philadelphia recently a boy who
is probably the most famous stowaway
on the Atlantic. The fact that the cap
tain of the Lackawanna had involun-
tarily carried him thrice across the sea
is fair test of his ability to secrete
himself, as on each occasion the vessel
has been thorough searched before
leaving Liverpool. Edward Murphy is
only II years old. He halls from Brk-
enhead, England, and has never had a
home other than the cutters of the
worlds largest city can afford. He be-
gan the stowaway business some years
ago, when less than 10, and has made
a great success of 1t. He has visited
most of the shipping ports of the At
lantic, and many South American and
African countries besides. During the
past year he has travelled from Liver
pool to New York, to Santos, to Ro-
sario, to Argentine Republic, to the
Barbados, to Southampton, to Liver
pool, to Philadelphia. He is known to
every skipper who sails from London,
and as rule is a favorite with officers
and men. Captain Wytte, of the Lack
awanna, thinks so much of him that
he has offered to adopt him, but Muir
ply cannot give up his rowing life. If
he can escape from the Lackawanna-
on board which ship, in accordance
with the law which requires every sea
captain to pay a fine for foreigners
brought to America without money, he
Is closely confined-he will probably
beat his way across America and
ship" on some Pacific collier, as he
has always expressed a desire to so to
the Klondike.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

Twenty years ago when he was In Ell
Paso, Texas, with herd of cattle he
met an old companion of his youth on
the Texas border. The old friend had
turned prospector and had been among
the Dragon mountains In Southern
Arizona Among the mineral proper
ties he had located was "A copper claim,
the Ranger by name. Healey Is seldom
touched by the sentimentalty of friend
Ship but this time his friend told such
n tale of distress that Healey gave him
outright $500 for two-thrds of the cop
per claim. At different times Healey
was persuaded to put 5000 and $500
more to hold his share of the property
legally intact. In 1892 the mine began
to pay, and when Healey got $1,000 for
one-third the mine, he thought his re-
naming third was worth holding.
When copper rose to II cents pound
In 1897 Healey got some $1,000 month
from the I1nger, and since copper has
risen to Is and 10 cents, he has had be-
tween $1,000 and $500 month profit
from 1t.
Ills vaqueros say they believe the
millionaire must be made of steel. He
has been a physiological steam engine
for over thirty-five years. He literally
knows no rest He usually sleeps less
than five out of the twenty-four hours,
and is often in the saddle or in the cor
raj for two days and nights at time.
In these later years, when he has be-
come so rich. he has several vaqueros
about him always ut night in the lonely
mountains, where it would no trick at
all for bandits to perpetrate some GRIM
inal design upon the wealthy cattle
man. Frequently the old man will roll
in a blanket alongside the camp fire on
the range for the night, and with a sup
per on crackers and cheese or boiled
beans will go to sleep until the earliest
streaks Of daylight, when he will get
up and go to work again.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
Whence Gutta Percha Comes.

The tree from which gutta percha Is
obtained grows in Borneo, and in 9th
er islands of the Indian Archipelago,
says the Philadelphia Times. 1t is very
large, but the wood is spongy. and of
little use as timber. The leaves grow
on long stalks, and are green above
end of n bright yellow beneath. The
/ flowers are small and grow in pretty
tufts in the axis of the leaves, each
on a separate stalk or stem.
To obtain the gutta percha of COM
merce, the finest trees are cut down,
and missions are made in the bark;
a milky juice eXudes from the incis-
ions, and is reserved by little troughs
made for that purpose. When the
juice has hardened to certain extent
it Is kneaded into cakes and exported.
! The cakes are Of reddish brown col
or and are full of irregular pores.
| Before, however, the cakes are ready
| for use they have to undergo some
preparation. They are first sliced into
very thin shavings and then placed
In a tearing" machine, which re-
wolves In trough of hot water. The
machines tears the shavings into
small pieces, and the hot water washes
them thoroughly. These pieces are
then made into cakes and the cakes
are rolled several times between heat
ed cylinders TO free them from any air
or water that they may contain, and
to make them uniform in texture
Again they are rolled between heated
rollers and thus made into sheets Of
various thicknesses for use, or formed
into rods, water pipes or any other
shapes which may be desired.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

He Is by no means miser, for he has
several times made gifts of 81 900 and
$1,000 to his vaqueros, whom he likes
Last Christmas he decided to a man on
his range a bunch of prime 4-year-old
steers that were worth 81 500, and he
gave all in his employ ten or
twenty-dollar gold piece. He makes his
headquarters and home In pine shan
ty on the southern end of his great
range, about thirty-fve miles north
west from Cerillos station, on the Santa
Fe route. There he sleeps in a rude
bunk built against the wall and above
are two other hunks, where friend or
a trusted vaquero sleeps occasionally.
Frugal in His Expenditures.
Healey cooks his own food, but some
times he has a cowboy help him at
cooking. A lot of burned black kettles,
burned skillet, and grimy old coffee
pot and few battered pans, Clipped
dishes. and decrepit knives and forks
on greasy table near the stove all tell
what sort of meals this unusual mil
liOnaire partakes Of
He has never seen drama, heard a
concert. or anything theatrical or oper-
attic since 1870, and then in Ell Paso.
About once a month, when there is no
work jim Healey can busy himself at,
and he feels in the mood, then the eat
tie king will get out a three-gallon Jug
of claret (Which he buys from the half
breed Ind,ans) and produce several yell
low paper packages of cheap tobacco,
and he and several associates will sit
and tell stories either about camp fire
or in the cabin for few hours. But
that's the end of the cattleman's dissi-
patton. No one can induce him to have
another taste of it in less than three or
four weeks.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
Whale in Shrimp Net.

A small bottle-nosed whale II feet
long and 6 feet in circumference has
been captured off the Essex coast, and
is now TO be seen on the beach at
Southend. 1t was surprised near the
shore by some local fishermen, who
managed to take it by tangling it up
in an old shrimp net.
Its vitality was so great that 1t lived
for fifty hours after capture. The idea
of tackling a ton of lively whale with
a shrimp net does not in the least i'm
press its captors, who, says our CORE
spondent. would go for u sea serpent
with q half inch rope
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
A STARTLING OBJECT LESSON.
How a Mexican A1calds Learned Some
of the Difiicu1tie. of Raiiroadiux.

HOW Mexican A1calde Learned Some
of the Difficulties of RaiIroadinx.
The old Southwestern engineer was
telling tales of by-gone days down In
Mexico and dwelling upon the Next
cans ignorance of railroading.
Once, near Victoria" said he. I'VE
were loaded heavily with iron, and we
hit the usual drunken Mexican asleep
on the track. Them folks used to think
roadbed better'n wool mattress. 1t
was down grade and around a curve,
and we were going at fair clip. and.
though we had air brakes, we couldn't
hold up In time. We ground him up,
and at Victoria, ten miles further on.
we didn't have any better sense than to
report 1t. OF course, the train was side
tracked and we were put In Jail. Next
day we were hauled up befor, the alcal
de. He was little, dried up man, with
mahogany skin and snow-white mus
tache. 1t bristled tiercely, but noticed
that his eye twinkled a good deal and
/ sorter cottoned to him right away.
We told him that we couldn't stop the
train in the time allowed us. and ii was
the truth. He said, through an inter-
prefer. of course:
1--we heard all this before. Five of
my people have been killed by trains in
six months and | have let the train
crews go. They said they couldn't stop.
I'm going to see about this. Your train
Is on the sldetrack, coupled and loaded.
Wen fire up and go back to the place
where you killed Vicente. Wen run
down at the same speed. When you
come near TO the curve you must try
hard to stop. l will go in the cab with
you
well, we fired up and went back
three miles beyond the death spot.
Then we started forward again. OF
course 1t was not my business to run
too slowly. | wanted to show the
alcalde that stopping in the space de-
scribed was an impossibility. Old 93
was quick engine, and inside of two
miles, ii being a down grade, we were
doing a two-minute clip. We struck
the curve at forty miles an hour. The
alcalde had never in his life been on a
train, and he was leaning out of the cab
window. waving his big straw hat and
shouting Viva. Viva! AS we sighted
the spot where Vicente had been pull
verified the airbrakes went on like the
clamp Of death. ! was thrown to the
floor of the cab myself As for the
alcalde, he shot through the window
like rocket, turned six somersaults
and lit on his back in the sand thirty
feet away. The train ground to
standStill, yards beyond the blood
stained ties. He came limping up,
brushing the sand out of his white hair.
| remember that his mustache was all
bent down on one side. He looked up
at me and said simply, 'Nalga me Dios"
which is about equivalent to bern my
buttons" We went back to town; he
discharged us all and invited us to din
ner with him. We stayed and pulled
out that evening. Everybody ran pref
ty much on his own schedule in them
tines
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

you think | shouldn't do as we1l?'
mot as well. You'd do better--infin-
itely better. oh, must co." she blush
ed, rose, good-bye and faded out of
the office.
Ten minutes later Matthew Elder,
middle-aged, bald and cheerful, saun-
tered into the room with his hands in
his pockets.
well, Bill. Everything all right?'
MI Elder had not found In the as
sortment of names provided for
Champnies by the accident Of his birth
and the guesswork of his christening
anything which took his fancy.
"No." said Champnies shortly, still
irritated by his interview with Cynthia
Page. Quart into tin pot. Plugged
up with ads, and Rowse has Just sent
UP that he'll want another half-page.
We shall have to leave over everything
that'll wait, and some things that
won't"
"Ah! you don't keep a tight enough
hand on Rowse."
step in and tackle him yourself
iItlts tilIS NDlildll CdIltu 10 SEE YOU
wouldn't tell me her business
Matthew Elder took this paper slip
and sank down in n chair.
'Bill, this Is rather bad. | ought to
have been in. What with my unfortu-
nate enthusiasms, and my wretched
memory, shall get myself into trouble.
Listen. l met this girl two or three
times year ago; never gave her an
other thought till came on a story by
her that was perfectly magnificent-O.
horribly gOod.-probably the best story
that has been written in this century.
| dashed off letter to her at once. and
50 worked up myself about 1t that /
said, to show my sincerity, that If she
liked I'll marry her, and she could call
at the office this morning with her an
swer. She'd have refused me. of course.
as they all do, and perhaps I'm better
single; but, none the less. 1t would have
been more civil not to have forgotten
the appointment"
Really" said Champnies, you must
be a little mad"
"Undoubtedly," answered Elder,
cheerfully. ITS the price one pays
for being so excessively intelligent"
Champnies stared blankly at the
desk, trying to recall the exact words
of his conversation with Cynthia Page.
Look here, Bill" said Elder. "wrte
and say you want to see her about a
story; then when she comes do the eX-
planning for me. Say was called away
by telegram. Say 1t was from motives
of delicacy. Say anything"
The following is from a subsequent
issue of the Tea Cup; journal con
Quoted by ladies for ladies':
'One of the most brilliant of our lady
writer's, Miss Cynthia Page. is, it is
whispered, shortly to be led to the ny
meneal altar. The fortunate partner of
her future joys and sorrows is ]. Ora
ham Champnies. young journalist Of
great promise. Our heartiest felicia
tons Speaking of weddings. have you
seen the really beautiful designs in
s-indistinguishable from real
pear.s-now being shown in the win
dows of *?"-Black and White
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
Holmes HumOr.

The late John Holmes, whose repu-
tation for wit was not as wide as that
of his celebrated elder brother, DR.. OIL
yer Wendell Holmes, was yet known
among his intlmates as a man of ready
repartee and characteristic humor.
Mr.. Holmes never married. but lived
by himself In little house in Cam
bridge, and once friend rallied him
on his lonely life.
You ought to marry. John" said he,
''and have larger house."
why, yes replied Mr.. Holmes.
with a quiet smile, eff should take a
better half | would have to improve
my quarters"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

eyes. seemed to say: You do interest
me" J. Graham Champnies found him
self hoping that Matthew Elder. after
synchrOnizing his watch. would find 1t
necessary to go and see a man about a
dog-or, at any rate, would delay his
return. Ia the meanwhile he was anx-
tous to know what he could do for Miss
Page.
II am speaking to the editor?" said
Miss Page, a little doubtfully.
"The actual editor. Mr.. Elder, is not
In at present. but have full powers to
act for him"
Il see" She was still in doubt.
PRAY be assured of It. | can make
contracts with you. accept stories from
you, sign checks for you, so if you have
anything to propose
"Oh, it's not that, In fact, l came in
consequence of a proposition which he
had already made to me-"
well, | shall be very glad to carry
on anything that he has begun. AS a
rule he mentions these things to me.
but this time am in the dark"
She smiled mysterously. But YOU
can't be sure that you would wish to
carry on what he has begun"
"As Mr.. Elder is the supreme author
fty here, | should have no choice. But,
even If | had, what you suggest is ex-
tremely unlikely"
'Why unlikely? No two men can have
minds exactly alike. It's such funny
arrangement you have here"
at works well enough in practice.
We both know the character of our pa
per, and what our public wants. | say
It is unlikely that should be unwilling
TO carry on whatever Mr. Elder has
begun, for this reason and also because
] know and admire your work"
"Oh, do you think it's any good?"
"Of course ! do"
speaking frankly"
Speaking frankly, It's full enough
of faults; some of it seems to have run
away with you and got all over the
place. But it's horribly interesting all
the same. You see. it's original"
"Oh, yes" she assented. Il am orig
inal. If were not, shouldn't be here"
THAT sounds cryptic" he said. POS
sibly. l shall understand 1t when |
know the nature of Mr.. Elders pro-
posal. He wants some stories from
your
mo, no."
'Then what is it?'
ADO you know that I'm afraid l can't
tell you"
VERY well, then; there's nothing
more to be said. Mr.. Elder is out at
present. You'd better call again.
suppose you think it would make some
difference whether Mr.. Elder went on
with his business. or | did,
I'm sure 1t would-tbe greatest diff
ference"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

lives in rude board shanty that could
be duplicated for $50. out of his an
nual income of 100000 he spends less
than 5000 of it on himself. He owns
thousands of acres of land in the fertile
spots of New Mexico, and still he lives
no better-not even so well-than a
good part of the ignorant Mexicans he
employs to help herd his cattle.
James Healey went to New Mexico
from Texas. He was born in Sedalia,
Mo-, in 1893. and with his parents went
to Austin. Texas, in 1850. He has al
ways lived on the plains and has no
knowledge Of any other life. He never
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

NAME. Miss Cynthia Page.
TO SEE. The Editor.
BUSINESS. Private.
DATE. 1850.

well, I'll see her" said Champnies
He had seen the name Cynthia Page in
good magazines, appended to curious
and interesting stories.
He was not ill-pleased. when the
clerk showed her in, to find that she
had youth and beauty on pale and mys-
teal lines. Her long. raised lashes,
and the lingering glance of her gray
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

NJ q Xi o, who Is
W ort h $1,000.O00
and whose annual
income is 100000,
Is such a person.
Healey Is an extra
or | airy man,
whose counterpart
can scarcely be
found anywhere.
He possesses land.
cattle and copper
pro p er t les well
worth far above a
million any day in
thA u-nAl. GOT hn
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
Its Name Against If.

"That new ladies' magazine proved
complete failure"
did it? What was the causeT"
"Why, it was called The Age of
Woman and. of course, that's some
thing the women don't want to come
out "-Philadelphla Bulletin.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
HE is RICH, YET POOR.
JAMES HEAlEY, THE CATTLE
KING Of NEW MEXICO.
Is Worth 81 100000, and Has $780,
900 in Yearly Income, Yet He Lives
the Simple and Arduous Life of a
Mexican Cattle Herder.

A man who doesn't know what to do
with his money is somewhat of an
anomaly, but James Healey, of New
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
AN ATTHEW ELDER. editor o

N0 ATTHEW ELDER, editor of
ImI the Inner Circle, had gone out
oS for half an hour to synchroniZe
his watch, and his assistant j. Graham
Champnies, reigned temporarily in his
stead. On every occasion when Elder
was absent, whether he had gone out
to get his hair cut tat n restaurant OPP
posite). or was away on a twOmOnths'
holiday. or had taken a week off be-
cause he felt far from well, j. Graham
Champnies reigned in his stead, en-
dowed with plenary powers. He was
ambitious, and intelligent, and hard
working, and trustworthy; Matthew
Elder, brilliant and lazy. had long since
recognized that. Elder thought of
things to do-Champnies did them.
A clerk had just laid on Champnies'
desk the form which a visitor had filled
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31

went to school but three years and that
was on the plains Of Texas. But he
was born with rare sagacity, n peculiar
border shrewdncss that reads men at
glance and knows a schemer instinct
lively. His chief stock in trade is an
iron constitution and bravadO nerve
that made him we'll known on the from
tier before he was 20. He became
vaquero in Texas when he was II years
old. His associates have been Mexican
vaqueros, American cowboys, hardened
characters on the border and half
breed Indians.
start of the Healey Fortune.
When the Navajoes were moved by
the government to Southern New Mex
leo in the latter SOS, Jim Healey and
other vaquerOs went northward with
little bands of cattle and settled on
tracts of land close to the Arizona ter
ritorial line. That was the beginning
of the Healey fortune. In few years
he had several hundred head of steers.
Then he had several thousand. He
spoke the Spanish tongue as we'll as his
own. and no American knew the border
and It's rude ways so well as Jim Hea-
lev did. With further sales of cattle he
bought more land. SO he has kept on
buying land, trading for cattle and
water rights, occasionally dabbling in
sheep and wool until he has become
more than millionaire.
Up to twenty-five years ago Healeys
sole unnecessary expense was gam
bling. There are still tales in ancient
Santa Fe of the times when Jim Healey
returning from cattle drive to Trini-
dad and Fort Dodge, used to sit in
faro game for fOrty-eight hours at
stretch and lose or win 5000 or $4,000
at a sitting. One night he saw the faro
dealer give significant wink to a pro-
fessional player alongside Healey and
from that moment he quit the tables
He has had his ups and downs in cat
tie, the same as all other cattlemen. In
the great freeze of 1873 he lost the
greater part of herd that represented
some $125.000. At another time he lost
over 100000 worth of cattle by reason
of lung plague and the Texas cattle
fever.
The fearful depreciation In cattle and
ranges, which set In al about 1890 and
eliminated in 1896, ruined many a cat
tleman. but Healey not only hung to
his herds and sold his cattle at little or
no profit for six or seven successive
years, but he added to his range by
purchase Of land from discouraged men
who abandoned the industry. For three
years he has been selling his steers
at topnotch prices, and he is the fore
most cattleman in New Mexico.
Rich in Copper Property.
The present marvellous boom in cop
per has also added to Healey's riches
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
Worlds Coal Fields,

the world is estimated at Al, 800 square
miles.
The Wichita tribune., 1899-03-04
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WICHITA, X
ALL OF THEM TURNED LOOSE
Cases Against Alleged Kansas City
Train Robbers Dismissed.
THE PROSECUTOR DESPAIRS,
Gives Up Hope of Convicting Ryan, Polk
and Others After Failure to Win in
the Jesse James Case. Which Was the
Strongest the State Had.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 2.-This
morning Prosecutor James A. Reed
dismissed all the train robbery cases
on the criminal court docket and at 10
o'clock W. W. Lowe, Andy Ryan and
Charles Polk left the Jail free men.
The cases dismissed were against W.
w. Lowe, Andy Ryan, Caleb Stone.
The Wichita tribune., 1899-03-04

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.NSAS, SATURDAY
HAPPENINGS in KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS I'm THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and Cen
aral News Condensed to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS DE INTEREST.
This has been such long, cold win
ter that spring would be awfully well
come.
Nothing in kansaf is going mp any
more rapidly than the price OF broom
corn.
1t is rumOred that Superintendent
Stryker will go in-o the newspaper
business
None Of the superintendents ap-
pointed to the state institutions ever
touch liquor
The Wichita tribune., 1899-03-04
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[f1l
HANNA TO RETAIN HIS SEAT,
senate Committee on Elections Makes a
Report-MInorlty Enter g. Protest.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator
Chandler, from the committee on priv
ileges and elections, presented to the
Senate report of that committee on
the charges of bribery in the election
to the Senate of Hon. NJ. A. Hanna,
as made by the Ohio senate: The re-
port sets out that no direct remOn-
STRANGE setting out that M. Hanna
was not elected or ought to be expell-
ed by the Senate has been received by
the Senate. He also shows that no
one has appeared before the committee
AMI that ny n1narS has hanD rnppiVad