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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-12-14
W L. SEXTON, Pres. IN. HARMAN, seey and Treas
TazeweII Insurance Agency.
Fire, Life and Accident Insurance.
TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS:
FIRST: Is Your Life and Property insured?
SECOND: Is Your Insurance Placed with US?

To Questions: Why not?
prepared Insurance the Best and Strongest Compa
doing Country write the VERY LOWEST at
Responsible We do claim
Companies neither do claim to he the Only
write that know the Insurance Business but
Good We will write Insurance that
will indemnify full the face of the
that? We Insurance Com
Company office that has Issued
history World The old PHOENIX of Lon
Millions in losses anu Is
policy covering Seventeen Millions of property the largest poe on
record.
what talking about anu the value
of Good Insurance.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-12-14
LOGAN STORY DENIED
Koppitz Says He Never Said the Majors
Own Men Shot Him.

San Francisco, CAL, Dec 1.-The story
purporting TO have come from here that
Major John A. Logan, Jr., was shot by his
own men in battle, created surprise among
officers here.
The purser of the transport Sheridan
that carried the Thirty-third to Manila, is
not George II. Koppitz, as reported. Kop-
pitt is the commissary clerk under Quar-
termaster Captain Coulling. He denies ell
knowledge of the story and says that the
use of lis name was entirely unauthorized.
"As far as l know" he said, "there is
nothing in it"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-12-14
Reuuires Machinery.

Most painters know that zinc prolongs
the life of lead; but they do not know how
much, unless they have used Devoe lead
and zinc. For they only mix; and Devoe
IL ground. Lead aud zinc requires ma
chinery,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-12-14
Trespass Notice.

Ali persons are hereby warned not to
trespass upon my lands, near Baptist Val
ley post Office, in Tazewell county, Va, by
riding over said lands, throwing down
fences, or otherwise. l will enforce the
law against any person who violates this
notice. JAMES BANDy.
Dec. 7th, 4w.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-12-14
FAMILY DIscREDIr THE STORY.

Youngstown, o., Dec. 1l.-Family and
relatives of Major Logan discredit the
story sent out from San Francisco that he
was shot by his OWN men in battle to re-
dress fancied grievance.
Mrs. Logan and her mother, Mrs. G. ".
Andrews, will leave next Wednesday for
Coronado, CAL, where they will await the
body Of Major Logan.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-12-14
When He Found Retreat Cut Off BY The
Beers.
MORE FROM GENERAL GATACRE.
The Idea to Attack StOrmberg Promised
Certain Success, But the Distance Was
UndereStimated by Himself and the
GuideS-ErrOr of the Latter Not
IntentiOnal-366 of the North
umberlandS Are Missing.
umberlandS Are Missing.

London, Dec /" The War Office pub
fishes the following dispatch from General
Butler
Dispatch from General White, dated
December II, says :
"Last night Colonel Metcafe and 500 OF
the Second Rifle Brigade SORTED to capture
a Boer Howitzer Oil Il hill. They reached
the crest without being discovered, drove
of the enemy and then destroyed the
Howitzer with gun cotton.
"When returning Metcalfe found his re-
tirement barred by the Beers, but he
forced his way through, using tine bayonet
freely The Boer losses were considerable.
The British losses were the following :
Lieutenant Ferguson and II men killed;
three officers and Al men wounded; six
men captured"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-12-14
GEN. GATAcRE REPORTS FURTHER.

London, Dec. l2.--The War Office has
received the following from General Fores
tier Walker:
"Cape Town, Monday, December / l.
Gatacre reports as follows:
''The idea to attack Stormberg seemed
to promise certain success, but the dis
tance was underestimated by myself and
the local guides. A policeman took us
round some miles, and consequently We
were marching from $50 a. N. till t p. m
and were landed in an impossible position
do not consider the error intentional.
"'The Beers commenced firing from the
top OF an unscalable hill and wounded g
good many of our men while in the open
plain. The Second Northumberland tried
to turn out the enemy, but failed. Tht
Second Irish Fnsiliers seized a kopje neal
and held on, supported by the mounted
infantry and Cape police. The guns, under
Jeflreys, could not have been better han
died. But regret to say that one gun
was overturned in a deep nullah and
another sank in quicksand. Neither could
be extricated in the time available.
Seeing the situation, sent dispatch
rider to Molteno with the news. collect
ed and withdrew our forces from ridge to
ridge for about nine miles.
"The Boer guns were remarkably we'll
served. They carried accurately 5000
yards.
Il am holding Dushman's Hoek and
Cypergat. Am sending the Irish Rifles
and Nurtbunberlands to Sterksstroom, to
recuperate. The wounded proceed to
Queenstown.
"The missing Northumberland number
366, not 306, as previously reported" )"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
Emnty Praise.

To little men and wome of the liter
airy profession. the p0etasters and wit
lings. there Ought to be something ill.,
structive in this word from Thackeray,
quoted by his daughter. Mrs. Richie.
After reading such an estimate of no.
toriety by IL man truly great. the min
nows may well consider whether they
are not swimming too prctentiously.
There's no use denying the matter,
or blinking at it. now l am become n
sort of great man. in my way-all but
ut the top of the tree. indeed there. if
the truth We're known. and having Il
great fight up there with Dickens.
II get such Il deal of praise wherever
1 go that it is rather wearisome to hear.
l don't think my head is IL bit turned,
please God. for l have always got my
own opinion; and when men and news
papers say: Our sheet is the finest
and SO forth, l know Il deal better, and
don't disguise the truth, either. :.
This London world is full of sOod-na-
tured tOm-foOls, and directly be-
gins to cry oh" all the rest say. Pro.
digious"."-Youth's Companion.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
The Grease Tree.

The "grease tree" is a native of Chi
na, where it is found in large forests,
and where its produce, as Il lubricant.
Greats a considerable mount of local
traffic. Its cultivation in India has be-,
attempted, and, up to the present, with
most successful results. In the Pun
jaub and Northwest provinces general
ly, it grows as rapidly and vigorouslS.
as in its native soil, and there are ai-
ready thousands of trees on the Gov
eminent plantations yielding o Of
seed useful for n variety of commercial
purposes; the grease it produces is adj
mirably adapted for railway lubricat-
ing purposes; 1t also forms an excellent
tallow, burning with n clear, brilliant
white light, without any offensive or
unpleasant odor, and with little or no
smoke.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
THE HOME OF TRUSTS,
FREE-TRApE ENGLAND THEIR
FAvORlTE SOIL.
To Abolish Protection in the United
States as q Means of Throttlinu the
Combines Would Be Fatal to Many
American Industries.

Under the caption, "The Growth of
Monopoly in English Industry" H. w.
Macrosty. in the Contemporary Re-
view," furnishes some interesting in
formation respecting trusts In Great
Britain which deserves to he attentive
ly studied by those misguided writer's
who ssh that protection is respon-
sible for the movement in the direction
of industrial combination so %preyalen.
III this country ut present.
Mr.. Macrosty furnishes abundant
evidence that the phenomena is not
confined to protective countries, and
Shows that the movement is as far
ieaching in free trade England as in
the United States. Speaking of the
growth Of combinations in the United
Kingdom he says:
Single amalgamations, While not
entirely excluding competition, control
the screw, cotton, thread, salt, alkali
and india rubber tire industries. In
other cases n formal agreement Of
masters fixes prices; thus, in the hol.
low ware trade (metal utensils) prices
are arranged by an informal ring of a
dozen Birmingham firms. Similarly
there is no open market in anthony,
nickel, mercury, lead pipes, fish sup
ply and petroleum. Steel and iron rails
are controlled by an Enlish rail ring,
which so manages matters that it is
undersold by American, Belgian and
German competitors. All the largest
firms in the newspaper-malsing indus
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
try have just consolidated their in

try have just consolidated their in
terests into one large combination. In
the engineering trades t%wenty-four
firms have a subscribed capital of f14,-
245.O00. In 1897 Armstrong s Co. alb
sorbed Whitworth & Co., raising their
capital to f4,21O.OOO in the process.
Nickers & Co., the armor plate manu-
facturers. are another example Of a
Very large amalgamation. In the
spring Of 1897 they bought up the
Naval Construction and Armament
Company, and later they acquired the
Observation-Disclosures Guns and Ammu-
milton Co. Now they boast of being
the only firm capable of turning out
a battle ship complete in every respect.
The most noteworthy examples of
combination, however, are to be found
in the Birmingham staple trade and
in the textile industries"
This condensation is supplemented
by extended details showing that
slowly but surely the British organizer
is bringing every possible plan of
money making within the field Of his
operations, and that England is rap
idly becoming the home of trusts.
Here is his summing up:
I'VE thus see in British industry q
steady movement toward combination
and monopoly, n movement which is
the natural outcome of competition,
and therefore not capable of being pre-
vented or undone by law"
The keen critic will not fail to note
that this admission is fatal to the as
sumption that protection is RESPONSE
BILE for the creation of trusts. II trusts
are the natural outcome of competition,
as Mr.. Macrosty AYERS, then the evil
cannot be attributed to n policy which
has the effect of restraining the area
Of competition. We may add that this
view, that competition is responsible
for combinations, has found expression
in the works of sucl distinguished free
traders as j. Thorold Rogers, and that
it Is only the "feather-weight' econ
omists. fighting under the Golden ban
ner in this country, who have sought to
fastcn the responsibility for the evil
on protection.
Not only is protection not RESPONSE
bic for the trust evil. but it may be
claimed that it offers the only remedy
for its suppression. We venture to
say that no protectionist will assent to
the proposition that combination is
mot capable of being prevented or un-
done by law" but it is natural enough
for Q free-trader to assume that the
OWL IN frronnodioh1o ovoont nv a rocor<
to socialism, as Mr.. Macrosty does in
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
sary to admonish Mr.. Edward Atkin.

sary to admonish Mr.. Edward Atkin.
son as to his duty to his country by
some form of punishment, 1t might be
advisable to string him up by the
thumbs with his toes Just touching the
floor while relays of talking machines
grind out to him renditions Of all his
statistical essays and economical trea.
tises. Thus would q long-suffering
reading public be avenged for the mill
ions of words and figures with which
this prolific compiler has deluged the
presses during the last forty years.
Washington Star.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
Brief Comment.

~ SOIutueuts
Col. Bryan's idea that ian idea once
turned loose in the world can neye.
again be chained" is quite an idea.
The last New York spread might
have been appropriately labeled: ..Tha
man who is working tire workingmen's
dinner"
The attempt to make President Nc
Kinley appear as a usurper and die
tator and as a sort of modern Caesar
will probably not succeed.
Most of the anti-expansion writer's
have lost temper and are tearing pas
sion to tatters. This frequently hap.
pens under disappointment and q
growing sense of being in the wrong.
There have been traitors in all wars.
says a contemporary. They have never
yet prevented the rightful settlement
of III American war, though they are
more of a nuisance than IL they fought
their country openly.
Admiral Dewey says that the govern.
ment Of Aguinaldo is a severe mill.
tary despotism." 1t takes q mans
he2d of when he does not come t.
time. Who knows better, the profes
sors in Mr.. Rockefellcrs college in
Chicago or Admiral Dewey in thu
Philippines?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
Go.d Word.

A little Irish maid, fresh from her
native isle, has furnished her New
England mistress with many n new
phrase.
1.-The sun has hard work to shine this
week. Nora" said the lady to the maid.
who was busting her room one .,:oomy
day. "It comes out for n few minutes.
and then the clouds hide it for hours
again."
Eyes, mim," said Nora. ITS what
you'd call baslful weather, min, now
isn't it?"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
United States Forest Reservation.

The thirty forest reservations Of the
United States embrace an area of 49,
100000 acres in thirteen Suites and
Territories. Seven are in the State of
California. the largest of which, the
Sierra forest reserve, includes 4,OO6,-
600 acres. Within the past t%hiity-ive
years it is estimated that II, 200, OOO,O0O
feet. board measure, of timber on pub
lie land has been destroyed by forest
fres
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26

Comparative street Mileage or Cities. r
London has 1850 miles Of s~treetsr(
Paris GOO miles. and New York 675.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
Fit Punishment for Atkinson.

Don't send Mr.. Atkinson to Jail.
Don't accommodate him in that way
In this matter he isn't worth feeding
at the public Observation-Disclosures
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
his concluding sentence, m which he

his concluding sentence, IN which he
says:
Nevertheless, with the weapon of
state control in hand, combination
may be welcomed, and if control
proves insufficient, state purchase and
public administration remain behind -
Pr~otectionists, accustomed cs they
are to the idea of regulation, will not
hesitate to resort to the most drastic
measures If they find it necessary to do
so in order to stamp out the evil. By
carefully limiting the area of COM
petition to their own country the
statesmen Of u protective nation can
control trusts. but that will be found
an impossible achievement in IL free
trade country, for the simple reason
that the attempt to prohibit combina-
ton in n land with widc-open trade
doors will prove destructive to domes-
Fit Punishment for Atkinson.
Don't send Mr.. Atkinson to Jail.
Don't accommodate him in that way
In this matter he isn't worth feeding
at the public Observation-Disclosures
Star.
The American punishment for such
public enemies is public contempt, as
lasting as it is sincere, as earnest in
spirit as it is humorously temperate in
expression. No fine could be as heavy,
no imprisonment could be as enduring.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Edward Atkinson and his crowd are
trying to hide behind the Senate docu-
ments as n defense for their treason.
able utterances. They imply that be,
cause certain things were read, or said,
or permitted to so in the Record they
are all right. That is begging the ques.
ton. Some of the rankest treason ever
heard IN this country has been uttered
on the floor of Congress. That was SO
in 1S60-G1 as well as in 1S0S-'99.-
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Should it eventually be found neces.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
Brieadicr General Fun.ton.

The promotion Of Colonel Fredericl,
Funston, of the Kansas Volunteers. to
he a brigadier general, will meet with
the general approval of the people,
who are bound to say that the Presi-
dent has done exactly right. Colonel
Funston is deserving Of the honor that
bus been conferred upon him, for he
has proved in n dozen engagements in
the Philippine Islands that he is n
fighter of great courage and a natural
leader of men. Not only has he taken
a conspicuous part in nearly all the
battles, but he has distinguished him.
self by rare bravery upon special oc-
casions.-Cleveland Leader.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
Easy Way to Clean a Chimney,

An easy way to clean a chimney Of
SCOT has been discovered by a Maine
man. Instead of going to the top Of
the chimney and probing with rods, he
begins ut the bottom. There an OPEN
ing is made, and he fires upward a re-
volver charged with a blank cartridge.
The conclusion, 1t is said, will clean
out the SCOT. He also claims that the
burning of a piece Of zinc in a stove
will clear the stove and its funnel Of
SCOT,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-06
BRAVE CORPORAL HUNT.
How He Tried to Save Lives of Lans-
dale Monaghan.

San Francisco, May 4.-The steamer
Alameda, which left here several weeks
ago for Australia, via Honolulu and
Apia, had as passengers from Apia for
Australia two active participants in the
fight which took place near Apia sew
eral weeks ago, in which Lieutenant
Lansdale ard Ensign Monaghan lost
their lives. They were Marine Cor
poral Harry Hunt and Marine John
Foxworthy Of the British warship Por-
poise, both having been wounded in the
battle.
The case of Hunt is especially note
worthy, as he was the man who re-
mained with Lansdale and Monaghan
on the field of battle, after the retreat
had been sounded. Lansdale had been
wounded and Monaghan had gone to
his aid. and the two We're cut off from
the rest of the party Hunt, seeing
their plight, left the ranks and ran TO
their assistance. In the fight Lansdale
and Monaghan were killed and Hunt
was struck down by a blow with a
club.
In the quarrel over the possession of
the arms. Hunt managed to get on his
feet. and a blow from an AK, intended
to decapitate him, fell short, but cut
off one of his ears. He afterwards
reached the brush, and, almost dead
from loss of blood, was rescued by his
comrades. They were sent TO Auck-
land for medical treatment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-06
HOW CHICAGO WAS SAVED
ORGANIZED LABOR PREVENTED
REDUCTION TO ASHES.
During Recent Industrial Depression,
Modifying influence Was Exerted
Over the Unemployed.

Washington, May Sc. w. Perkins,
president of the International Cigar
makers union. and David Ross, secre-
tary of the Illinois bureau of labor sta
tistics, were before the industrial COM
mission today Mr.. Perkins expressed
the opinion that, if it had not been
fer organized labor, Chicago might
have been laid in ashes during the last
industrial depression"
They had exercised modifying IN
fiuence when excitement among the
unemployed was running high. He said
there had been no general reduction or
wages among the cigarmakers for the
past six years, and that cigarmakers
now lived better than formerly.
1--WE live better" he said, but We
deserve to live better, and having had
little of the improvement, we want
more"
The increase in wages had not kept
pace with the general improvements in
society Mr.. Perkins expressed himself
as opposed to indiscriminate immigra-
ton, saying that because of this it WAS
impossible properly To organize the
cigar men in New York.
Mr.. Ross expressed himself in strong
terms as opposed to blacklis.s. He said
he was not an advocate of the boycott.
because it was impracticable, and also
because it failed to reach those against
whom it was directed. He said that,
while he had formerly been opposed to
compulsory arbitration, recent occur
renceS at Pana had inclined him to
change his opinion.
Mr.. Ross declared the employment or
the injunction in labor troubles had
been mischievous and had failed to pre-
vent the troubles at which it aimed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-06
NEW TOWNS SPR|NG|NG UP
BOOM Is ON STRONG IN THE UTE
RESERVATION.
Proposed Railroad From Durango to
Albuquerque-No Strife Or Law
1essness Reported-Not All Taken

Durango, Colo, May Building on
several new townsites in the Ute lands
is going forward with all possible
speed. The filings at the land office
up to noon today numbered eighty.
There is no way of estimating the num-
Der of actual settlers. They are in no
hurry to file.
New York parties are looking over
the ground with view to building a
railroad through the old reservation
from Durango to Albuquerque, n. NJ.
Several large irrigating enterprises are
also under way.
Homesteaders are coming in singly
and in squads for the purpose of filing
their claims to the lands on which they
located.
No authenticated reports of strife or
lawlessness have been received. Taere
is a number of duplicate locations, ana
as the preponderance of legal opinion
is with the actual settler a sagainst the
one who merely filed. test case will no
doubt result in deciding all the contro-
versies where like conditions prevail.
Many thousands of acres of reservation
land yet remain unoccupied.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-06
BURIED TREASURE FOUND.
Negro Laborer Unearths Eleven
$4,000 Bonds.

Cincinnati, O., May 5.-Buried trea-
sure in the shape of eleven $1,000 bonds.
bearing unclipped coupons which add
several thousand dollars to their value,
were found by Thomas Lawson, ne
gro laborer, while digging in the cellar
of a downtown department store OH
Sixth street
The ground was formerly the prop
erty of Britting Bros, piano manufac-
turers. In the tin box was found a
paper on which was written: These
bonds belong to julius and Martin
Britting, and are the result of years Of
industry and saving"
This discovery solves a mystery
which had been a source of angry con-
tention among the heirs of Julius Brit
ting, whose sisters brought suit against
Martin Britting, a brother, charging
him with having concealed the bonds.
Martin denied everything, but, not
withstanding his denial, judgment
was rendered against him in favor OF
the estate of julius for about $4,000.
The money was collected and the estate
distributed and settled.
The negro claims the bonds as trea-
sure troVe.