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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-03-12
LAWToN's POSITION.
- T. Generally Understood lie wiii Take
Command Of the Field.


Command Of the Iisid.
Washington. March u. Its positive
ly denied ~ the adiutant general sofiice
that any dispatch had been received Fri
day night from General Otis regarding
a conference with General Lawton lt
Is well understood that General Otis Is
only awaiting the arrival u the remain
der II his reinforcoments 20 inaugurate
nm active campaign. though the depart
mcnt has heard nothing from him on
this subject
The war department according 10 its
officials. are await ng with quite as
much interest as the public for some
definite news from the Philippine.
which will show just how General on.
intends to use General Lawton and hi'
reinforcement. ia the campaign against
the uatiyct
n has been nuite generally under
stood. without o irIal confirmation. how
ever that General lawionun Dos arriyl'
/ viii he assigned tD active command oi
operations in th, field leaving Genera
OH. moro time Tor administrative du
ties ~ military governor The fact b.
no very general instructions have bcei
sent to General otis and the department
AYERS that h has not lied the command
/ ing generals hands by any harl
aud fast orders The probabilities ar
that General Lawton viii take ~
active part In the offensive campaig
soon to begin. His training for India
| fighting pocularily its him Tor th
/ present command and General Ots
well acquainted with hi. capacities.
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II Is Believed General LawtOn VIII
Be in Charge Of All the Forces
in The Field.
HAD TO SHE'LL THE
ENEMY AT 0AL00CAN.
The FilIplnos We're Throwing up Pro.
teeilte Works Which the Ameri.
cans Did Not Like 10 See
Completed.

Manila. March H. Extensive pre-
parations are being made for general
advance Of the American forces The
movement will probably take place
soon All IS quiet however. along the
line AZ daylight the rebels We're
caught working on an enhhdiug trench
AZ Cnloocan and were shelled by a bat
terry Desultory firing also took place
at san Pedro and Macati
The United States cruiser Charleston
has relieved the armed transport Buffalo
OH purauaque
The la-t batch Of Spanish soldiers,
numbering -sj men. excepting "a few
who are Ia the hospitals, have embark
cd on board the transport Buenos Ayres
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Savannah. March No. The soldier, oi
tha Sixth immune, recently from Porto
Rico which will bs mustered out next
"Wednesday. have decided they do mo-.
want 90 go Co thc Philippines or else
where iu the regular army Upon m.
quiry among them % was developed that
not half % dozen of them will recnli-t in
the regular army Members os The
Third Connecticut regiment are making
nn cnortto be mustered out here instead
Of baing sent home
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REsPEcrFuLLN
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from paying certain carriage bills con-
tractel by the board Of aldermen last
wear. which were considered exhor-
bItant by several citizens oi Boston. who
brought the matter before the court
This isa test case and will be tried le-
fore a master The bills which have
been approved in she treasurers Office
amount % s3i-s anl the amount az
fccted bv the injunction Is nearly Sli-
900 More than fi50O has already been
paid of the $3DO)u Of aldermanic car
riagc bills for the year
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Austin. March H. United States
Marshal SIebach hasrcccivel % telegram
from Monterey. Mexico. announcing the
capture ut mountain town near tnnrr
Of Charlie, BcpIer, who robbed the
WcllsFargo express 90 san Antonio o.
500 900 in currency about tlroe moninI
ago The capture was affected hy twH
deputy United States marhals V.U
have hcen on the iug.uyos trail iurstt'
crnl weeks They will receive arcwarI
Of SjOOl Wsl lOpcr cent of the m0ugy
rerovoral The telegram Hate' tha.
B.elrr has poo money With hm hut b D.
expected that the greatcr part of ih.
stolen wealth will soon h' located
l1elr ufar. m r-'ru i1 ta. "fnptf-
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Marysville. CAL March H. - The
ilarysvlle wooden mill has been dam
aged siJDOOo by fire The insurance
amounts 60 sil 900 During thoprogress
81 the hrc Frank Peck of luba City o
well Enowl bicycle rider entered tas
building. was overcome by smoke AMI
burned to death The burned min wa.
probably l1. oldest of lha Bind 90 the
state. having n.n operated continually
since I-G. Unemployed .lJ hands ami
Is ,nuialr..I af s1IO. .ull
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-03-12

San Francisco March H. Three tugs
for uso in Manila bay and among the
Philippine, have been purchased by the
United States government IN Hong
Kong They are ihc Kar shun. lie Pat
and Kum Hing at present but Admiral
Dewey will probably rcchristcn them
Each tug b. Too tons burden They viii
b. used 20 transport troops from point
10 poiut when necessary.
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ertradition proceedings


carbondaie, Ills. March ii.-Death
has claimed the family of y G. Culley,
an aged farmer of this vicinity His
Youngest son died Wednesday, his
daughter expired Thursday morning
his aged wife passed into eternity Thurs
day evening. and his only son lies az the
point Of death. The entire family, with
one exception, was stricken by pneu'
mOnia
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-03-12

Boston. March a. Judge Morton Of
the supreme court has granted an IN
junction restraining the city OF Boston
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15

Through Mr. Boynton the writer
learned that large diamond had been
found in 1884 by farmer named End
Hch, a kohlsville, near West Bend,
Washington county, Wisconsin, The
stone had been brought to Mr. Boyn-
tons shop for examination, and he had
remembered 1T as wine-yelIow dia-
mond, weighing 21A carats. After con-
siderable correspondence this diamond
was located by the writer in the pos
session of Mrs. Louis Endlich of
kewaskum, Wis, the widow of the
man who had discovered the stone in
the neighborhood town of Kohlsville,
On visiting Kewaskum the writer was
allowed to examine the stone, which
proved to be in all respects as described
by Colonel Boynton, and there is no
doubt that the weight (21A carats) re-
ported by him Is approximately correct.
since this stone is considerably larger
than the one from Eagle. Mrs Endlich
stated that her diamond was found by
her husband in the spring of 1886 while
blowing field on his farm in the town
of Kohlsville. This stone is still in her
possession.
In 1894 Mr.. Kunz reported the find
ing by Frank B. Backmond of a
diamond weighing almost II carats, at
DoWagiac, Cass county, Michigan. This
locality is to the southeast of Lake
Michigan, on the Michigan Central
railway, between Niles and Kalamazoo
Inc stone was found in the glacial drift
and some search was subsequently
made in the vicinity for other stones,
but with negative results.
In March, 1896, stone was brought to
the office of the Wisconsin state chemist
/ at Milwaukee, which, on examination,
proved to be white diamond of near
| ly 6R carats weight 1t was found by
| Conrad Schaefer, Germon farmer at
Saukville, Ozaukee county, Wisconsin.
| In letter to the writer Mr.. Schaefer
says of this stone: This diamond is
from collection of gems, stones and
fossils, also Indian implements, all col
| lected on my land. My land adjoins
the Milwaukee river, and is drift
range running northeast and south
| west. l had the stone about Is or 16
| years in my possession"
! This diamond was purchased by
Messrs. Bunde & Upmeyer, Milwaukee
, jewelers..
| In 1898 Messrs. Bundle & Upmeyer
! purchased from Mrs. G. Pufahl white
! diamond of about 2 carats weight said
! to have been found at Burlington, Ra-
! cine county, Wisconsin. Little was
| learned at the time of the circumstances
! attending the finding of this stone,
! and the writer's subsequent attempts
| TO get into communication with Mrs.
th"h'' tiouSH klnuly assisted Dy
Messrs. Bunde & Upmeyer, have not
/ been successful. Like most of the 9TH
ers, this diamond was probably found
| in the glacial drift
The latest diamond to come from the
region under consideration was found
recently. 1t is a diamond of purest
water, weighing six carats, and was
found by two small daughters of ]. r.
Taylor, at the town OF Milford, Cler-
mont county, Ohio. 1t is now owned
by Herman Keck, of Cincinnati and
has recently been cut into the form of
a brilliant. Before cutting a cast was
taken of it and the stone is now be-
ing studied by Professor Thomas n.
Norton of the University of Cincinnati.
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an exhaustion from which there was
no recovery. 1t was literally a dance
of death to many. In the intervals.
when not dancing, the Indians would
vie with each other in devising and
carrying out the most awful tortures.
They would strip their skin so that it
hung loose from the body and nail the
tapping cutiCle to a post. Then, with
a yell, they would throw themselves
backward, tearing great jagged patches
of skin from their bleeding bodies.
This. however was some years ago.
The Indian of to-day is not so partial
to physical pain, and the dancers of
late years have confined their self-tor-
ture to going without food while dane
ing as long as nature holds out
About q hundred young Indians
gathered for the recent dance. When
the time arrived for the dance to be-
gin these young warriors, entirely di-
vested of clothing with the exception
of breech cloth. entered an enclosure
that had been carefully prepared for
the purpose of shielding the dancers
from the prying eyes of those who
gather, for the sake of idle curiosity,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15

In specializing on the probable loca-
ton Of the diamond fields that I'M
doubtedly exist on this continent, it is
first necessary to remember that the
diamonds which have fro milne to time
been discovered in the region of the
great lakes of North America now
number II, not including those of mi
croscopic size. With the augmentation
of the number of stones, the problems
arising out of their distribution in the
glacial drift and particularly those re-
lating to the source or sources from
which they have been derived, assume
increasing interest.
The localities at which the diamonds
have been found are distributed
throughout an area nearly 600 miles
In length, by 200 miles in breadth, with
its longer axis trending almost exact
ly northwest and southwest. Six of the
eight localities are near the center of
this territory, within an area about 200
miles square, with its center near the
city of Milwaukee.
All the diamonds, with the exception
of some from Plum creek, were obtain
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head seemed to mock them from its
! elevated perch, and a few white men,
/ the representatives of over sixty
/ millions, listened calmly to the racket
and, but for the fear that some white
| families wight be made to suffer in
! consequence gave no thought to the
appeal of the Indians to their spirit.
( There is always a danger after one
of these dances that some outrage may
be committed, although the watchful
eye that is kept on the Indians in these
i days makes it extremely improbable
that any harm will come from the
/ fanatical gathering. Twenty years
/ ago, after a dance such as that just
| coming to an end, the White River Ute
/ Indians rushed out with murder in
their hearts and massacred the Meeker
family in Colorado. They were ban
ished from Colorado in consequence
and still pay a fine of 81 500 a year, but
they are bad Indians still. During the
progress of the dance just held the rep
reSentativp of this tribe endeavored to
make bad medicine and stir up the
other trbesmen to engage with them
| in a raid in the direction of their old
| hunting ground. They tell me that
! they will start as soon as the present
moon is full, although l have warned
| the leaders that it will mean only death
| to the flower of the tribe or a prison
! in Florida l am hoping for their sakes
that they will go peacefully home, but
the influence of the frenzied dance is
| strong upon them, and they believe.
as they always do after one of these
| gatherings, that the Great Father has
| been propitiated at last and their time
| has surely come to turn the tables on
| the white men. Old SOwowic is with
them and they say they wait only for
the going down of the Green river so
| that the water will permit their
! ponies and squaws to cross to begin
| the march back to their lands in Colo
| RADIO. Fl. p. MYTON,
| United States Indian Agent.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15
FRENZ|ED RED MEN ON
MURDER BENT IN UTAH
Special Correspondence Of the Standard

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
White Rocks, Utah, July S.-The red
man dies. but never surrenders 1t
would be thought that after so many
years domination by their hereditary
enemies, the whites, the Indians would
be convinced that it was worse than
hopeless to fight against such a mighty
power. Those who think so, however
underrate the blind fanatical trust of
the Indian in the supernatural power
and friendliness of the Great Father
For some time the Indians have been
gathering at White Rock agency with
the avowed intention of going through
the weird and horrible exercises of the
ghost dance, which usually preccGCs
trouble of some kind with the tribes.
Knowing this, forbade the dance to he
held, but the Indians promptly changed
the name of the exercise to that of
harvest dance" claiming that the
function was a perfectly innocent one
designed to exercise the demon VINO
sometimes spoils their crops.
Under the new name the dance went
forward. 1t was nothing more or less
than the old ghost or coyote dance,
sometimes known as the sun dance.
In former years this dance was a hor-
rible one. The Indians would gather in
great numbers and torture themselves
in a shocking manner. For four days
and nights they would go without food
or drink, dancing continually until ma
ture gave out and the dancer sank ex-
hausted to the ground, frequently in
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to watch the red mans gyrations.
More especially was the enclosure de-
signed to keep off the kodak fiend. The
Indians believe that If a photograph
is taken of them while the dance is in
progress, just that much virtue has left
them. Therefore [ promised at the
urgent request of the Indians to allow
no knight Of the camera to level his
fear-inspiring appliance at the dancing
warriors. The enclosure was probably
1000 feet around. and was fenced in
with brush. except at the entrance,
where a space Of about four feet was
left for the warrior to get into the en-
closure. In the center of the enclosure
was a pole on which had been set up
the head OF a buffalo, that erstwhile
prairie monarch that the white man
has almost eXterminated, but which the
Indian fondly hopes is coming back in
countless droves to- the plain in years
to come, when the white man shall
have been driven from the land and the
beloved buffalo sent back by the Great
Spirit to the place that once knew him.
but knows him no more. A dream.
but the red man believes it will one day
surely be realized.
So, around the pole crowned with the
buffalo head danced the Indians, call
ing in a frenzy on the Great Father
to send back the buffalo and drive the
white man from the land. hundred
frenzied Indians, nearly naked, wholly
crazed with fanaticism, danced and
danced day and night, and rent the
heavens with their shouts, while the
heavens remained as brass, the buffalo
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WHERE DIAMONDS MAY Be
PICKED UP IN AMERICA

given to Mrs. Clarissa Wood. who, with
her husband, was tenant on the prop
erty. Seven years later, while still
ignorant of the stone, she sold it to Mr..
Boynton. at that time conducting a
jewelry business in Milwaukee, for the
sum of 81. Colonel Boynton submitted
the stone to competent examination
and learned that it was diamond.
Upon hearing of this, Mrs. Wood Of
fered to purchase the stone for $1.10,
and upon his refusal to accept this Of
fer. brought suit against him to re-
cover the full value of the stone. After
extensive litigation the case was
brought to the supreme court of the
state, from which a decision was
handed down in favor Of the defendant,
on the ground of his ignorance of the
nature of the stone at the time of pur-
chasing it.
The writer called upon Colonel Boyn-
ton at Chicago and was allowed to ex
anime the stone. Both it and the Ore
gon diamond were subsequently pur-
chased by Tiffany & Co. of New York
and are still uncut in the Tiffany col
lection.
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less than IL well-defined diamonds,
varying in weight from one-half carat
to over 21 carats, have been discovered
in the regions of the great lakes in
North America. That a considerable
number of others have been found
which have not been reported because
they have escaped identification, hard
ly admits of reasonable doubt, when
it is borne in mind that three of the
stones found Uncluding the two larg-
est remained in the hands Of the farm
ing population without their nature be-
ing discovered for long periods. If it
were possible to visit all the homes in
the lake region, I have no doubt that
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15

many diamonds would be discovered in
the little collections of pebbles and
local "curios" which accumulate on
the clock shelves Of country farm
houses.
With a view to preventing the loss of
genuine diamonds through the ignor-
ance of the finders as to their true
value, it is proposed by competent
mineralogists to examine free all stones
brought to them for this purpose. 1t
is hoped that the proposition will meet
with the approval Of all interested and
that the search of the diamond belt for
long-hidden gems will be carried on
Systematically.
WILLIAM H. HOBBS
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15
War Scandal in Dahomey.
From the Detroit Journal.

From the Detroit Journal.
All Dahomey was shaken by the
scandal in the war department.
The amazons had been sent into a
general engagement with short supply
of inferior chaperones, and the suffer-
ing had been terrible.
How can I ever look my people in
the face again. cried the king, much
mortified.
OF course it was vain to try to white
wash anybody, now.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24
BEN WILLIAMS
Is the Man Who Captured FusseI
mans Murderer.

It has not yet been decided who will
get the reward money so generously
offered by citizens for the capture aud
conviction of the murderer of Charles
Fusselman.
Perhaps the honor of the capture be-
longs by rights to Deputy Sheriff Ben
Williams of Las Cruces for it was he
who succeeded in landing Para behind
the bars after a warm fight with six
shooters. He did not know then how
ever that Para was wanted for murd err
in this county. Williams took him
into custody only for theft and Para
was given six years in the Santa Fe
penitentiary,,,where he was recently
discovered and fully identified by Cap
tain ]. r. Hughes, of the rangers,
brought to this city, tried and convict
ed.
There is about $500 in reward money
to be distributed to some one for the
work. but just who will get it has not
yet been decided, though possibly it
will be divided between Captain
Hughes and Ben Williams. A few of
the signers of the subscription list
have already said that they would not
pay anything now as they did not in
tend that the reward should remain
standing for all time.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24
Best AllYea Route to California

Is the Southern Pacific. The travel
ing public can easily understand this
when it is known that this is the onlv
line running coaches through to Cali
fornla points without change. the only
line running tourist sleepers direct
from ri Paso to Los Angeles and San
Francisco, the only line running pull
man palace cars direct to the above
named cities without transfer and the
only line running buffet cars, thus en-
abl1ng passengers to obtain their mes ! S
at hours convenient to themselves.
seventeen hours shorter time to Los
Angeles than by other lines.
NO changing cars during nights,
enroute.
Parties going to the Pacific Coast
for a rest should make a note these
facts.
T. E. HUNT,
CONT Agent
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24
BIG WHISKY DEAL
Organization of the Distillery Com
pany of Amerlcd.-Capital Is
placed at S125,OOO,OOO.

A merger of the American Spirits
Manufacturers company. consisting OF
sixty-five separate concerns: the Ken
lucky Distilleries and Warehouse COM
pany, consisting of fifty-six concerns;
the Sta 1dard DistillinR and Distribut-
ing company. and number of the most
important rye whisky concerns into
one central company has been effected
by the organization of q new concern
called the.Distilling Company of Amer
lea, with a capital stock of 1925, 600, 900,
of which $55 900, 600 is 7 per cent Gu
mulative preferred stock and $40, 000,
600 common stock.
The plan contemplates contraction
of the $94. 500, 600 of securities now out
to S77, 100000, for which amount in
addition to the old securities the new
company will acquire certain of the
new important rye distilleries, among
them the Hannis Distilling COM
psny, owning Mount Vernon and Han
nisville properties and the different
plants of those concerns.
The working capital of the existing
to be absorbed is now about
Sc, 900. 900. The new company il to
have an additional working capital of
s., 900, 900, of which 81 100000 will be
supplied at once.-Dallas News.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24

lures which by incubation will pro
! duce yellow fever in Guinea pigs, ant
1 have also secured q serum which
when used either as preventive or urf
will. in the case "f Guinea pigs, cOu n
terra t the effects Of the germs and save
| the lives of the animals. Just how far
this will apply 70 human beings 1 do
not yet know. We will have to make
ma ny more experiments and tests be-
fore we can make any more positive
statements.
~ got my first cultures of yellow
fever" explained DR.. Doty today,
from victims of the disease and deve-
Hoped them in test tubes. The orga-
rapidly. The microbes are shaped
like short rods.
'Inoculation with these invariably
prod uces death by yellow fever in the
Guinea pigs.
Then we inoculsted our two horses.
The horses were sick, but recovered
afrer a week or so. The incubation
seemed to produce in the serum. or
watery part of their blood, some resist
ing influence, which grew stronger
with each incubation. At last we have
secured serum so strong that, used
either before or after incubation with
the virus in the Guinea pig, it will pre-
vent death.
"Now of course we have only demon
strated principle. We must still
keep at work. We hope the serum can
be used effectively on human beings.
secured will save human life we do not
know yet, but it is certainly worth try
ing. New York dispatch to the
Dallas News
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24
A Narrow Escape.

Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada
e. Hart. of Groton, S. D. WAS taken
with bad cold which settled on my
lungs: cough set in and finally termi-
mated in Consumption Four doctors
gave me up, saying L could live but 8
short time. L gave myself up to my
Savior, deter mined if l could not stay
with my friends on earth, would meet
my absent ones above. My husband
was advised to get DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds. 1 gave it trial, took in
all eight bottles. It has cured me and
thank God, 1 am saved and now q we'll
and healthy woman." Trial bottles
free at Irwin & Co.'S. Drug store.
Regular size soc. and S1OO. Guar
anteed or price refunded.
Ask for "EL PASO TRANSFER"
the best cent CIGAR on the market.