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La Junta tribune., 1899-11-08
"WE ARE DAISIES"
REPUBLICAN TICKET ELECTED
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
With the Exception OF Commissions
and Possibly coroner-Fusion Ma
jority Gone UP Salt RIVER.

We have met the enemy and
they are our'n. The cinch fusion
majority OF from 400 to goo, OF
which we have heard so much dur
ing the past month, has gone glim-
mering, and the entire republican
ticket is elected with the exception
OF commissioner and coroner, by
malorities ranging from 200 to 500.
Yesterday was an ideal republican
day, and a very large vote was
polled, nearly 3,2oo in the entire
county. The records made by the
county officials have been endorsed
by the people OF Otero county. as
we were confident from the very
outset that they would be. The
organization in this city was per
feet. and the lady workers in La
Junta are entitled to no small
share of the credit for the victory
in this city.
EtGerion ECHOES.
"Clear sailing for the silver tick
et"--up salt river.
Guy E. Smith received eleven
votes in precinct No. 7 for con-
stable.
In No. 7 one ballot read, 81
hereby vote the straight Pedlar's s
ticket" 1t was counted for Ken
nedy.
The republicans say that their
only hope of election is in the law
ish use OF money, but the disgrace
full way in which they are spending
it would surprise some of the
La Junta tribune., 1899-11-08
There Is no Deception

In Beckwith's Round Oak.
Through all the years Of its making
there has been no clipping off of
quality II is the same reliable
stove as OF old. 1t costs no more
than limitations that get pretty
wobbly after year or SOS use,
while the Round Oak will be just
as good after ten years use as the
day you started it. That is the
reason it o.sssells all other stoves.
CAwTHRoN & CAwrHRoN.
La Junta tribune., 1899-11-08
FIcIAL ELECTION RETURNS OF 0TERo COUNTY.
Returns of the General Election Held in oteo County, Colorado
November 4, ,8oo--A Great Republican Victory.

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Wonderful CaIcuIators.

Inaudi and Brandenbourg the two fa-
nous champions in mental arithmetic
and rapid calculation, have recently
been giving examples of their peculiar
ability before the French Astronomical
society. Here are some of M. Inaudi'S
rapid calculations, with his back turned
to the blackboard, on which were in
scribed the sums dictated by persons in
the audience. In nine seconds he COM
pleted the subtraction of two lines of Is
figures. In Is seconds he multiplied five
figures by themselves, and in 54 seconds
five figures by others. He also extracted
square and cube roots with amazing
rapidity and finally recapitulated from
memory all the figures on the black
board without looking at them.
The other arithmetical phenomenon,
Brandenbourg, proceeded in different
manner and looked at the board. He,
too, showed calculating velocity to an
extraordinary degree, as, for instance,
when ne gave the total sum of ten lines
of six figures each almost as soon as
they were down and before the line was
drawn. He also did some remarkable
multiplication work in a few seconds.
The two specialists elected great ap-
plause from the assembled scientists.
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Two Royal Engineers.

When King Chulalongkorn Of Siam
visited Great Britain in 1897, few things
interested him more deeply than his ex-
cursions to scenes of industry in the
north of England When visiting New
castle, his majesty fingered so long at
the arsenal of Elswick that his de-
parture for Leeds was delayed for sew
eral hours beyond the appointed time.
and the municipal dignitaries of that
place were kept waiting for corre-
spending period to entertain him and
his suit at a banquet.
That the impressions made then at
Newcastle were lasting ones has been
abundantly proved. He has lately sent
two of his nephews to England, and
both are engaged on Tyneside. one at
the locomotive works of the Northeast
ern Railway company, the other in the
arsenal at Elswick.
! Ever since the days of stephenson,
the great inventor, the Tyne valley has
been re-eminent in this important in
dustry of locomotive building, and the
locality is very proud of the royal scion
now studying there.
The Northwestern railway is at pres
ent engaged in putting together a new
type of passenger engine which, 1T is
hoped. will enable the east coast route
to hold it's own against its powerful RI
walls, the Northwestern and Midland
railways, for the Scottish tourist and
shooting traffic in the fall. The locomo-
tives are to have six foot wheels
coupled instead of four I foot wheels
coupled, with a four wheeled truck in
front. The working pressure of the boil
ers is to be 200 pounds, and the engines
will be the largest and heaviest in use
in Great Britain
1t is at the works where these massive
engines are being built that Prince Ses-
seri is now going through the mill. He
is to have the opportunity of becoming
acquainted with all the detail work, the
idea being that on the conclusion of his
apprenticeship, so to speak, he is to re-
turn to Siam and superintend the con-
struction and establishment of a similar
industry there.
Prince Bovaradiez is an elder brother
of Sesseri. He is one of colony of stu
dents and experts engaged at the Els
wick works in inspecting the progress
of manufacture on ships, torpedoes,
guns and ammunition at the famed
Tyne arsenal. So busy are these works
of the Armstrong; in producing ma
chimes of war that they never stop night
or day, notwithstanding the peace cru
sades cf the Russian czar and Mr..
Stead.
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versity. He is a scholar and a gentle
man, and when the ten years war broke
out in Cuba he distinguished himself by
his bravery in the struggle against
Spain-a distinction for which he was
cast into Morro prison and later deport
ed to Spain. where he was held a pris-
oner for two years. On his release he
returned to Cuba and became a quiet
and sedate sugar planter for the time
being. But the next wave of revolu-
tionary feeling caught him up and car
ried him into the midst of the revolt,
and we find him the first man to pro-
claim the freedom of Cuba in 1895. AS
suming chief command of the army. he
directed all it's movements in the east
ern department until the arrival in
Cuba of General Gomez and Jose Marti,
who had been busily promoting the rev.
olution abroad. Then Masso discreetly
stepped aside and handed his command
over to Gomez, the man who had so
long been the idol of the Cuban soldiery.
This was an act of graciousness on
Masso's part which won for him the ap
proval of all patriotic Cubans.
Another of the grand old men of long
oppressed Cuba is Tomas Estrada Pal
ma, who has been called the Franklin
of his own island country. Little is
known in the United States of this in
teresting and devoted mans personal
ity. Though but 64 years of age, he is
an old and broken down man, for he
has done much and suffered much for
his beloved Cuba. The son of one of the
wealthiest and most respected Cuban
planters. as boy he was sent to Sc
vile to study. He was graduated from
that famous Spanish university. On his
return to Cuba all his time and atten-
ton were given up to the problem of
freedom for his long oppressed country.
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When Cespedes took up the standard
of revolt in 1863. Palma freed all his
slaves, raised what money he could
upon his tax drained estates and threw
himself into the new movement for free
dom. He had a mother who was very
devoted to him, and even on the field
this noble woman refused to forsake her
son. The result was that after one Of
the engagements with the Spaniards
Palma's mother was captured and in
three days died from the i'll treatment
and indignities she received while a
prisoner. 1t was this tragic event which
caused her son to take an oath of eter-
nal hostility and vengeance against the
Spaniards.
A years Imprisonment in a Spanish
castle could not wiring from him prom
ise of allegiance to his captors and his
old time oppressors. On his liberation
he returned to the new world, coming
to New York. Here blank poverty
stared him in the face. and in his search
for honest employment he drifted down
to Honduras, where for time he was
struggling schoolmaster. Later he be-
came postmaster general, and, falling in
love with President Guardiola's daugh-
ter. he married that lady and made a
home for her in Orange N. J.
Now that the long looked for end is in
sight Palma seems 20 years younger, his
eye brighter and his face less careworn
than it was two years ago.
Another representative of the high
grade Cuban who is giving the outside
world the opinion that the island has
men upon it who are not incapable of
governing it satisfactorily is General
CapOte, who some time ago was elected
vice president of the so called Cuban
republic. Although he is still a COM
paratively young man, he is an author
ity on international law and constitu-
tional history, being a graduate of the
University of Havana. His learning
will make him very valuable adjunct
| to the party that is looking forward to
| the ultimate independence of Cuba,
| when the island shall have it's own gov
| ernment and control its own affairs.
| Still another remarkable figure who
cannot be forgotten at such a time is
Salvador Cisneros, who at one time sold
cigars and cigarettes in little tobacco
| shop in New York. Notwithstanding the
| fact that he is full blooded marquis.
| Later he edited revolutionary news
paper in Puerto Principe. The press in
his office was driven by mule, and his
sheet had a wide circulation before the
Spaniards shot the aforesaid mule and
shut up the office. The subsequent ad-
ventures of Cisneros would fill a vol
| ume and are more or less known to the
American public. Many others there
are, too, whom the events of the last
few years have thrust into prominence
and who are ready to show themselves
as living refutations of the popular er-
ror that Cuba is country of crop de-
stroying barbarians, who are happy on
| ly when up to the ears in blood, and
whose only congenial employment is
the f1ourishing of the guerrilla machete.
ARTHUR TITCOMB.
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have just been broken, and that intel
lectual emancipations do not, as a rule,
precede political emancipations.
But the one characteristic failing of
the Cuban is his faith in ''manana," or
tomorrow" For centuries now the Gu
ban has lived in the yesterday. He
has neglected his today and put things
off until 'manana." 1t may be that his
tomorrow" is at last coming, and it
may be that his new position and his
new life will give him new energy and
a new outlook, but that only time and
experience will show.
The problem now before the United
States is just how to bring about the
reconstruction of this country, devas-
tated by centuries of the most destruc-
tive warfare. How shall the blood
stained machete be turned into the bu-
collie plowshare? What shall be done
with the Cuban army? And how long
shall our military occupation Of the is
land endure?
Before answering such questions of
the future one must first go back to the
past. From the day of it's discovery
Cuba has been an island of bloodshed.
It was on his first voyage westward
that Columbus discovered what he then
called the island of 'Juana" IL days aft
er his first sight of land in this hemi-
sphere. Nineteen years later, when Die
go Velasquez undertook the conquest of
the island, the natives, who had at first
thought their white visitors had come
down from heaven, were quickly and
rudely disabused of that idea Then it
was that the first act of the long drama
of Cuban struggle began. Those six
teenth century Spaniards treated the
natives with a revolving harshness and
brutality that even out-Weylered Wey-
Ter. When the Indians on the mainland
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| dead bodies were horribly mutilated.
Soon after this arose the so called Re-
formist party, whose manifest object
was to secure Cuban rights without i'm
pairing Spanish interests. In the mean
| time the sympathy of the citizens OF
the United States had been growing so
active that President Polk offered to
purchase the island for 10000 900. This
was indignantly refused Ten years
later proposition was made in the SEN
ate to offer Spain $50, 100000 for Cuba,
but the proposition was dropped.
Coming down to the latter part of the
century, we find the Cuban struggle for
liberty bringing into prominence those
patriots with whom the reading world
is now more or less familiar.
Among the conspicuous Cubans who
will in all probability take an active
and interesting part in the reconstruc
tion of the island perhaps the most
picturesque figure is General Maxine
Gomez Gomez is native of Santo Do
mingo and, beginning his military ca
reer in the Dominican army, has been
for many years fighter for and against
the liberties of small states. This has
led his enemies to call him mere SOL
dier of fortune and to dub him an adj
venturer. But his own staff adores and
swears by this Cuban Napoleon, who has
always been loyal in his likings and Bit
ter and relentless in his hatreds. At one
time. for example. when Gomez was
still at the head of affairs, he came
across a brigadier in southern CANA
quay who, against his generals orders,
had been permitting pacificos in his dis
trict to sell "raspadura" (Which is mere
ly brown sugar) to some of the Spanish
garrisons. General Gomez sent for the
offender When the culprit appeared.
the bugler sounded the Assemble"
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fled to the shores of Cuba for safety,
they were pursued by their Castilian
enemies and quickly overcome. and their
leader was burned at the stake. The is
land was parceled out among the Span
ish officers, and the captured aborigines
were converted into slaves to till the
rich soil and pour American gold into
the hungry Golfers of Spain.
In little more than half century,
however. almost the entire native popu-
lation disappeared. so relentless were
the prosecutions of the invaders. Then
for three long centuries the Pearl of the
Antilles was condemned by the oppress-
ors to isolation and neglect. Her scat
tered inhabitants were forced to live in
poverty and squalor, and during those
dreary 300 years Spain made no ade-
quate or serious step toward the devel-
opment of her Cuban colony, nor did
she worry one jot about the well being
of its people. Whenever sporadic native
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Antilles has arisen from the existence
of the atrocious sanitary condition of
those different towns and cities in which
foreigners have been in the habit of liv-
ing and visiting. The Spaniard has ever
had Svengalilike disdain for municipal
cleanliness. The sickness which of old
invariably followed the seasons will at
once disappear when public hygiene re-
ceives anything like the attention which
civic life in the tropics demands.
So far as the wealth and the charac-
ter of the soil of Cuba are concerned, the
home of the Havana cigar. is vastly
superior to any other tropical land
known to man with the one exception of
Porto Rico. 1t has no arid fields, no
areas of sterile sands and no volcanic
debris scattered across it's ever luxuri-
ant face. It's 100000 acres of un-
cleared virgin forest are standing ex-
ample of the most luxuriant vegetation
in the world. It has 9O00,OO0 acres of
splendid pasture land, and, although
not 100000 of its available 35, ,OO0, 900
acres of arabic land are or ever have
been under cultivation, the unbroken
soil is merely waiting for the plow-
share. 1t teens with all the tropical
fruits that supply man with food when
too indolent or too primitive to SOW
wheat and eat bread. 1t produces the
finest tobacco known to the world, and
the very word Havana is a guarantee
of unrivaled excellence in cigars, as the
American smoker very we'll knows The
valleys of the interior can grow straw
berries in midwinter and flowers all the
| long year round.
OF the Cubans themselves one can
hardly speak with such certainty, and
certainly not with such enthusiasm
Public opinion is divided into two camps
as to the character of the Cuban, and
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"HE FUTURE OF CUBA LIBRE:.

long before the opening of the Spanish
American war a flood Of conflicting
opinion on this point was poured forth
by the press and the public men of our
country. The one says the Cuban is q
cowardly. selfish, ruthless guerrilla,
glorying in the destruction of a planta-
ton or two per day and incapable of
looking after anything beyond his own
little interest of the moment. The 9TH
er protests that the Cuban is a long
oppressed patriot, fighting desperately.
but nobly, for his land and his liberty.
However that may be, actual expert
ence has shown us that the Cubans are
neither gods nor angels, to borrow the
phrase of the poet, but men in a world
of men. Some of them are good and
some of them are bad, like all other
men. If they are not just what we. as
the godfathers of their freedom, could
wish. it must be remembered that the
shackles of the middle ages that have
been binding them down for centuries
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rushed in where European angels feared
to tread there is little reason to doubt
that our regeneratio of Cuba, the ill
fated and long oppressed will be along
lines that are both liberal and compre-
henSive, cautiously as we may set
about the execution of our task.
1t is something more than a cheap
epigram and a mere paradox to say that
the lesson which the past has taught
not only to the United States, but also
to every other great power, is that ito
restore a country is to restore it to its
own people"
Our aim in Cuba for this reason will
be to supervise the restoration of law
and order and when the time is ripe to
make over the island to the people
whose homes and interests and affec-
tions are and have been centered on Gu
ban soil. 1t seems a very simple thing
to say, but that the carrying out of
such an undertaking is a stupendouS
problem every one who has looked into
the situation is ready enough to admit.
England, older and wiser in such
things, has shown US that the easiest
and Surest way is to carry railway
and a college behind our cannon. But
the reconstruction of countries cannot
be effected offhand by an administra-
ton, and obviously the first thing be-
fore US is to look a little more closely
into the character of the country and
the peoples among whom we are to
start calling the living to school,
Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles is 70(
miles long and has an area of over AZ 00(
square miles. 1t is one-fourth as large
again as Ireland and covers more of the
land surface of this globe than does Ell
ther Ohio or Virginia, being, in fact
about the size of New York state. II
has 2200 miles of coast line and popu.
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Turning to his force. the old general
said:
You see before you a man who has
been known as brigadier He is a
brigadier no more. but after this Brig
adler Raspadura' (sugar cake). From
this time l want no man in Cuba to call
him by any other name" Then, turn
ing to the degraded officer, he cried
Take off those stars! You are a dis
grace to them! You are no patriot, for
you can be bought with a cake of brown
sugar. You are common peddler of
privileges and are not fit to command
men. Go down to the ranks, where you
belong, and be thankful if my soldiers
condescend to march alongside of you"
Another equally interesting parsonage
to figure in Cuban reconstruction is
Bartolome Masso, who was elected pres
ident of the Cuban republic two years
ago. Masso is the son of a family of
wealth and good standing in the island
and was graduated from Havana uni
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energy or private effort developed a new
industry, Spain at once demanded a
fresh tax or an increase in the existing
one. Her centralized, rapacious and in
efficient administration, dominated as it
was by a blind spirit of routine and Of
ficialism, looked upon all reform as
dangerous experiment. When tobacco
raising assumed respectable proper
tions, Spain, in a great furry, at once
taxed and monopolized it's cultivation,
it's sale and it's manufacture. The re-
suit was an insurrection among the
planters. the dispatch of few battal-
ions from the homeland and the burn
ing of a few seasons crops. But follow
ing the occupation Of Havana by the
English in 1852 and consequent brief
and novel experience of freedom Of
trade and life came desire on the
part of the Cuban for education and
the migration of Cuban youths into the
United States in search of schooling.
Spain soon put stop to this dangerous
practice, however, and every one sus
pected Of being tainted with the new
tangled educative leaning was put un-
der strict police, surveillance.
1t was when thesnews of the deposit
tion of the royal family of Spain by Ma
poleon in 1903 reached Havana that the
members of the -quiescent "Cabildo"
were hastily called together and made
preparations for: that struggle against
constituted authority, which might be
said to have extendedadown to the pres
ent year of grace. Every member Of
this .Cabildo" was pledged by a solemn
oath to preserVe the island from the
French tyrant. 2Thens in 1929. came the
'Black Eagle" uprising, which was a
protest against s'taxation without rep
resentation.' phrase that has a remi-
niscent sound to American ears. Fif-
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lation of almost 1000. 900 mixed peoples,
one-half of whom are whites of Cuban
blood, 100000 colored and over 100000 of
Spanish birth and descent. Without it's
Inhabitants Cuba would be an Eden No
place on all this wide earth has a more
beautiful climate. No hills on which
grass ever grew have a sweeter air, and
when once the accumulated filth of CEN
turies is scraped off their defiled surface
there will be no more healthful country
to be found in the new world or the old
Even under existing circumstances the
climate of this sun stepped land is far
more salubrious, than it has been paint
ed. The winter months in Cuba are de-
lightful. enchanting. in their loveliness,
while even the summer months are far
more pleasant than we find them in
many of our own states. The Cubans
themselves consider the summer months
the most pleasant part Of their year.
The popular impression of the insalu-
brity Of the climate of the Pearl Of the
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teen years later the smoldering fires
again broke out in an insurrection
among the blacks, though it was not
until 1S48 that the Cubans under Mar
ciso Lopez made any united or effective
stand against Spanish domination. The
plans of Lopez. however, did not carry.
though he had among his followers over
600 American volunteers. He was not
discouraged by the first failure, how
ever. and in 1851. with several hundred
adventurous Kentuckians, he made a
descent on the north coast of the island
From place 70 place this little band was
pursued by the Spanish forces. His
army was eventually dispersed, and 700
of his men were taken prisoners Then
began that systematic policy of absolute
cruelty which marked Spain.s treat
ment of the Cuban until American arms
swept her last soldier from the island.
Colonel Crittenden was among the great
body of soldiers condemned to death.
The garrote was put in use. and the
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tending from one side of the pocket to
be started at one end of the roll of cloth
and unwind the cord as it passes around
the bolt.
Tickets are easily handled by a new
pocket case having central receptacle
in which the tickets are placed, with a
spring wall on one side which presses
them to the opposite side and into a
slot in sliding yoke, the latter being
moved onward to discharge each ticket
in turn.
An improved prospecting tool for
miners is formed Of central auger,
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receive small portion of the stream,
which flows through the wall of the
nozzle and enters port, to be directed
on the fireman.
In an improved massage apparatus a
small motor is used to revolve a flexible
shaft carrying roller at the outer end,
by which an electric current is applied
to the body as the roller is rapidly
turned and drawn over the flesh.
A Rhode Island woman has patented
neat skirt litter having pins arranged
in the underside Of the skirt, with loops
on the pins, to which are attached