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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27

against Summerell; possibly he had DIS
own reasons for wishing SmmmeTell re-
tanned.
But if the evidence of those who de-
clared their friendship for Summerell
is believed, he is man with no control
over his temper, a man who is utterly
heartless in driving his men to labor.
IA man who coddles few pets and abuses
the rest of the defenceless men commit.
ted to his keeping. If the evidence OF
men who others swore We're unbiased is
believed then Slrmmerell is brute, a
tyrant and subject for the grand jury.
Summerell is tolerably good farmer
He treated his pets well. Even the con-
vict who should go beyond that tribute
would imperil his reputation. For the
most part SummerelH has ''done good
by stealth. The rest Us upon record
Just now the main question of interest
is, shall the record be prolonged?
When the committee reached Summer
els farm the first day there were a
number of men sitting and lying on
benches in the yard. OF that number
five had been sent back to the stockade
overheated. None such were found at
the other farms. One man was lying
on his bunk in the cells. His breath
came in gasps. What is the matter?"
| asked him. He replied that he hau
been suffering with some sort of fever off
and on for year. But he had been sent
out to pull fodder in sun that disabled
well men. That he had been long i'll
was sufficiently evident by the painful
thinness that showed through his stripes.
lie was almost a skeleton. And these
things Were going ON when Summercll
knew the investigating committee was
apt to arrive at any time. What he did
in the days when his instincts had I'm
bridied sway has been partially told.
If this investigation, ably conducted
throughout and with the utmost fairness.
rs not to prove vain and futile thing
then Summerell must go. Captains Day
can not afford to retain him, the peone
of the State con not afford to tolerate
him. 1t was bad that the friends of the
State prison Should have been squander-
ed, wasted. stolen; that Apache cruelty
should have been p1-actfced on men whom
the State by very virtue of its own pun
lshment is bound to protect from others:
that the man guilty of it should be kept
III place rs contingency too hideous
and insufferable to be discussed.
The committee adjourned at the end of
SumnerelFs evidence subject to the cal
of the chairman
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
DEATH is THEIR ALLY.
The Generals Rely Upon it to Crush
Dreyfus.

Rennes. August % dead men tell
no tales" This is the barricade behind
which General MERCER and the general
staff have intrepched themselves. But
there is one weak point IN their de-
fence Colonel Du Patty De Clam-and
the military clique know it and are
striving to the utmost to keep him out
of III. Lahori'S clutches. liz they can
prevent Du Patty De Clam, who is now
called the sick man of the Dreyfus af-
fair" from appearing ut the witness
bar they can effectually put the silence
of the tomb between truth and justice.
NJ Labor is fighting tooth and nail
to drag him into court, but Colonel
Jouaust i'm refusing him the necessary
assistance.
While the Dreyfusards believe Colonel
Du Patty De Clam is not seriously i'll,
they feel secret dread which is eX-
pressed in the significant remark not in
frequently heard: "Sandherr is dead;
Henry committed suicide and Du Patty
De Clam will die"
The conformation today of Colonel
Maurel, Captain Freystatter and Gen
-eral MERCER was an instructive expo
sure of the fraud and dishonesty of the
general staff which the absence of Du
Patty De Clam alone prevented from
being complete. The defense might de-
mand that Il rogatory commission be
sent to examine Du Patty De Clam
on his sick bed. But NJ. Labor ana
Demange despair of obtaining salts
factory result therefrom. They want
to have Du Patty De Clam in court
and turn the screws of the racl them
selves
Teday's session tore the last of
credit from MERCER, but added Il lie
of Freystaetter to the little foll of
heroes who have risked everything in
the defence of Dreyfus.
Captain Freystaetter stated in part:
Il was judge of the court martial
of 1894. My belief in the prisoner
guilt was due to the evidence of g
perts and Colonel Henry and Colonel
Du Patty De Clam / should say Il WAS
strengthened by the reading of docu-
ments which were communicated TO us,
the judges, III Il private room. (Great
sensation).
1.-The secret dossier contained:
First, biographical dossier, imput-
ing to Dreyfus acts of treason, com
mitted at the Pyrotechnic chool at
Bourges, at the military college, and
while on the headquarters staff.
Second document known as the
'Cette canaille de d. document.
''Third-A letter, wn.ch by showing
the resemblance of the handwriting,
proved the genuineness of the 'cette
canaille de d. document, and which
was called the D'Avignon letter. Cries
of OH.
'Fourth-A telegram from a foreign
military attache very distinctly assert
ing the prisoners guilt"
This telegram, if / remember right
w." continued Freystaetter, was in the
following terms:
"'Dreyfus is arrested. Emissary
warned" (Renewed cries of "Oh! Ohr0
When court adjourned the Dreyfus-
ards were iubilant.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
ON The DIAMOND.
NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES.

NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES.
AT Louisville
Louisville .2oooooos"-5 o
Baltimore ....00O1OO0OO-1 6 .
Batteries: Woods and thinner; Kit
son and Robinson Umpires. O'Day
and Hunt. Time LAP.
At Cincinnati
Cincinnati ..223OO3O1 *-11 II 4
Washington 100000102 4 8 s.
Batteries: Hahn and PETIT; Weying
and Roach. Umpires, Swartwood and
Dwyer. Time 1:50.
At Cleveland
Cleveland .........O0001-1 /
New York .0200*-2 6 0
Batteries: Schmidt and McAllister;
Doheny and Wilson. Umpires, Manas-
sau and McGarr. Time 1870.
At Chicago
Chicago .OOO2OO1O3- 6 8
Brooklyn ...0036OOO10 -10 Is 6
Batteries Callahan, Garvin and
Donahue; Mc.Iames and Mcclure. UNI
pires, Snyder and Connolly. Time 2:20.
At ST. Louis
st. Louis ..3O10OO0OO- 10
Philadelphia 0200OO-5 8 4
Batteries: Powell and Schreck; Bern
hardt. Orth and Mcfarland. Umpires,
Emslie and Mcdonald. Time 2:15.
EASTERN LEAGUE GAMES.
At Syracuse
First Game. r. H. E.
Syracuse ..010213OO01-S IA 1
Hartford 1907 IL 2
Batteries: Bishop, Pfammiller and
Steelman; Hodson and Urquhart.
Second Game. r. H. e..
Syracuse ....1O7O2 0000-10 II o
Hartford -. .20002 600 . 10 3
Batteries: Pfanmiller and Steelman;
Kneel and Urquhart.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
SUMMERELLfs YARN.
lie Admits That he Sent Convicts Out
and They Were Frost Bitten.


and They Were Frost Bitten.
summerell's testimony in detail fol-
Have you got a good crop this YEAR,.
Yes, but the cotton is net as good as
people think
''You have been criticised some for
cruelty, have you not?''
Yes, more than any man in the
State"
Have you seen anything in print -
Yes sir"
I'm what papers we're you critici-
sed?'
News and Observer , and Raleigh
Post?..,
Where were you when you saw
AT home"
"Was any one PRESENT.
My wife,
ANY one else?"
..No.'
You have brought suit against the
News and Observer have you not?"
Yes"
who advised you to bring suit?'
mo one at all.
II ask you if Captain Day did not
state to You that YOU ought to sue the
id paper and break it up?"
i don't think he ever did. Captain
PEBBLES has always been my attorney,
Refresh your memory ON this point =
lie might have made the remark,
bnt not to me. ] do my own think
ing"
Does Captain McIyer have discipline
enonghY'
Il look OH him as a fine disciplinarian.
! got my knowledge OF management
from him.
How about Captain Rhem?'
He is good disciplinarian / reck-
on
DO you know Mr.. Hodges, an over
seer?"
Yes, when he was discharged at Nc
lver's farm by the Republicans / gave
| him job. He is friend Of mine.'
rs his character goody'
i know nothing against him.
| PREJUDICE IN THE FAMILY.
| What sort of Il man is ID. S. Rus
se1?''
Il discharged him for getting drunk. !"
DO you look on him as a reliable
witness?'
1 NO, 40 NOT. 1 lHiuK 0ln pfpJu-
diced. Prejudice rims in the family"
do you know Dr. Ferguson
'sOh. yes SIR
did james Lowe die at the North
ampton farm?"
Yes
"Where?"
| I'm the field"
How many times was he whipped
| that day?''
Il don't know; / was sick in bed.
WAS Lowe a hearty man?"
"'No he, had dropsy and was sorter
delicate but had fattened up. DR.. Fer
guson said he might have heart disease
and told me | had better not put him
| in the field"
| COMPLIMENTS SEARS.
What sort of man was Sears?"
~ fine overseer, as fine as ever
| saw. doubt whether he did right
about Lowe ] discharged him. The
| prisoners told me about him.
did Won ever whip Joe Mazon?'
/ eyes"
What was he whipped with"
"A leather strop two feet long and
/ three fingers wide with a wooden handle
seven inches long"
"How large was the handler
IAN inch and half in diameter"
"Did you ever fog Macon yourself?'
! Continued ON Sixth Page.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
DISMAL SWAMP SHIP CANAL.
1t is now Open to Traflic--Corn Crop
Ruined.

Norfolk, Va, Aug. 26.-'The Dismal
Swamp Ship Canal is now open to traf-
tic and the first schooner wall pass
through Monday. This will be the Will
liam Donnelly, Captain Riggin, of Phil
adelphia, coal laden for Elizabeth City,
N. c.
A visitor from the sound region today
stated that not over one third of n crop
of corn could be gathered this year,
many farmers having lost their entire
crop.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
WILL STILL DISCUSS SILVER.
Bryan Says it Win CO Side BY Side
With Other issues.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 26.-W. j.
Bryan stopped here between trains today
en- route to Denver. Il shall continue to
discuss silver" said Mr.. Bryan, in re-
Spouse to a query, adding:
There was a story recently that was
putting silver in the background. | am
not. | will not. Silver will be placed
alongside of the other great issues. l
stand by the Chicago Democratic plat
form"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
GEORGIA RIFLE TEAM.

New York, Aug 26.-The Savannah
Liner City of Birmingham, which ar
rived ( her dock at 8 O'Clock this morn
ip~ ad on board the crack rifle and re-
yer team of the Georgia miIitiamen
lat will compete in the Sea Girt
matches to be held September 4th to
9th inclusive
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
THREE KILLED FROM AMBUSH

Manila, Aug. 26-5:40 p. m.-Four
men of the Twenty third regiment, sta
toned at Cebu. were ambushed by the
natives in the hills and three of them
killed. The fourth man succeeded in
making his escape. Details of the af-
fair are lacking.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
FEARS OF A DUTCH RAID.

Lourenzo Marques. Delagoa Bay, Aug
Several persons suspected of be-
ing emissaries of the Transvaal Gov
ernment have been arrested here. Ex-
element prevails, and in view of con-
tempBated Transyaal raid the Portu-
guese troops are kept in readiness for
an emergency.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
FEDERAL BUILDING SITES.
Titles at Winston and Elizabeth City,
n. c.. Defective.

Washington, d. c., Aug 25.-Dis-
trict Attorney Holton and Bernard have
reported that at present the titles to
the proposed sites for public buildings
in Winston and Elizabeth City, n. c.,
are defective. Proceedings have been
begun in court with view to curing the
defects. In both cases the question OF
the validity of title will depend upon the
decision to be rendered, and both cases
may be found so bad that new sites,
with perfect titles, will have to be Sc
lected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
THE sHEEPsHEAD FUTURlTY

New York. Aug. ga Sheepshead
today Clarconac won the futurity; Briga-
der. second: Windmere third. Time.
1:10 % The stake was valued at
about 5000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27

The Island Of Martinique reports a
cyclone forming South and moving to-
ward Dominica and Guadaloupe.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27
TELEGRAPHIC BRy 1Fs.


The President has arrived at Pitts
burg.
4 parcels post convention has been
signed between the United States ana
Germany.
The United States Supreme court will
be petitioned in October to appoint com
missioners to remark the lines between
Virginia and Tennessee.
General ]. B. Gordon. at Rockbridge
Alum Springs, Va, fell over IA greyhound
which ran in front of him, and sustained
bruises about the face.
A steamer was seen ON fire off Far
rort. Ohio, last might. A dispatch from
that place stated it was a freight boat,
but gave mo further details.
The postoffice at Peck. has been dis
continued. A reward has been offered
for the capture of the parties who as
saulted Crum, the postmaster.
A dispatch from johannesburg to
London, says word has been received
there from Pretoria that President
Kruger and General Joubert favor send
ing a special peace mission to England,
composed Of members of the Volksraad,
headed by f. w. Reitz, State Secretary.
Mr.. Cameron Morrison, chairman OF
the Democratic county committee of
Richmond, will speak ON the Constitu-
tional Amendment at Smithfed ON next
Tuesday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27

Little Rock. Ark, Aug. 26.-The
town of Pleasant Plain, has been wiped
out by a tornado.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27

WIPED OUT BY A TORNADO.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-21
HAS MONEY TO BURN
Iowa in Comfortable Situation Just
 at Present.

Des Moi1es, la, May 20.-State
 has a surplus of cash in tho state treasury of s4OO, 900, being the largest amount at any time since he has bsen treasurer, nearly five years. It is be- Heved that this is. also the largest sur-
 plus in. the states history. The state
 has called in all the outstanding war rants and has received $91, ,4S3. .7S from the general government This was re- ceived in a single warrant yesterday, representing the first payment on the refund from Uncle Sam of Iowa's ex- pense in getting state troops ready for servica at the opening of the Span ish war. During the next four months there will ibe comparatively little re- ceipts from taxes. The April install ment is paid in, and another will not be due till October. The cash now on hand will ali foe used, and a few war rants will probably have to be stamp ed mot paid for lack of funds" before the October payment comes in. But after October tt IS reasonably certain that the treasury's bottom will not soon have to be scraped again. The receipts of revenues from miscellan- eous sources, as insurance fees cor poration fees, building and loan fees. charges on issuance of notarial com missions, etc, are far larger than ever before; while, on the other hand. the management of state institutions uu- T.. -t .1, lii h the largest department of the states expenditures, smaller than ever be fore
Arizona republican., 1899-05-21

of s16OS6 has been expended in re- pain,ng the damage done to the grounds innnediately south of the ex- ecutive mansion in consequence o1 their use by the children on Easter Monday, April 3.
 Colonel Bingham says that in ac- cordance wiEh the usual custom the grounds were thrown open to the children on that occasion, and, as a matter of precaution, temporary wire fencing was placed around all the flower beds, small trees and shrubs to protect them from injury from the large crowds in ssfteHdance.
 Because of this action, but little damage was done to the ilclosure. The lawn surfaces were considerably damaged, however, and the ground badly filtered. Colonel Bingham says that it cost $16O.S6 to erect and remove the wire fencing, to clean up the ground ard resod or seed the bare places on the lawns where the grass was degtroyei1 by the tramping of the crowds. Mods of the expense was on account of labor.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-21
FROM COBRE GRANDE
Return of Professor Rsmser From
 a Visit to inc Famous Nine.

Professor Paul Ramser returned yesterday from the Cobre Grande mine in Sonora, in which he is inter ested. This is the property acquired few months ago by George Mitchell, for himself and several other persons. Professor Ramser says since early last March great change has lbeen taking place. There was nothing there but some old Mexican workings and the mine was almost inaccessible. Since then good roads have been carved up the mou1- tain sffes, a 200-ton smelter has been put up and the Cobre Grande has been converted into modern mining camp, which he believes, after ex- tensive travel through northern SO- nora, is the greatest in that state
 Professor Ramser was quite favor ably impressed with what he saw of Sonora, especially with the simple method of administering justice. One day a body of rurale5 came into camp and captured two men, who 1t was afterward learned, were notorious out laws There were many things for which they were wanted and they had been in effect, tIied for and convicted of enough crimes to warrant their ex- ecUtion. The rurales were therefore ln- vested with plenaIy powers for their disposition. The Bandits as soon as captured, were taken outside the calup, plut to death and buried, boots and all, and the incident was thus happily closed. On this si1e of the line the bandits would have been formally arrested, taken to Tucson, where they would havd l1in in jail subject to painful anxiety regarding the result of the trial. At length they might have been convicted at great expense, in keep, in court costs and have been hanged to the demorallza- tion of the town What is worse, they might have been acquitted, have broken jail, have escaped by habeas corpus or have been sent to the peni- tentiary.
 Prof. Ramser will re'surn to the Cobre Grande in about three weeks and after a short stay there will make visit to the east
Arizona republican., 1899-05-21
Morris Goldenson,
In competitor with Ellington Drug Co.,, Cor. Fourth and Spring Sts.,
 LOS ANGELES, CAL.

She says herself that she had to shut her eyelids tight to keep her eyes from popping clear cut of her head when she saw the fifty oysters:
 Isn't that more than ffty?" she asked.
 No, miss answered the waiter Shall take some a'way?" and he grinnei1. It was the grin that did it. Her. western blood rose at it
 "No,'' she said, coolly. Its not too Tgany.a. I'm hungry.
 She l6cked the decr after the astcn- isiled waiter, and opened the window. II was a'idark night, but she could see tie ro0fs of the adjoining houses al- most within arms reach beneath her vfindCtMih Only a narrow alley separ- ateid the Buildings. She took a fork, and deftly an1l deXteriously, one by one, she flung the oysters as far as she could. 'She could hear them fall moist ly, softly, fiabi5ily upon the roof oppn- site. When the waiter returned two
Arizona republican., 1899-05-21
THE LATE JOHN THOMAS.
A Self Appointed Administrator Tries
 to Find His Heirs.

Sheriff John Speese this week re-
 ceived a clipping from a newspaper published in Montpelier, Vermont which says in part as follows:
 ''Chief of Police John Futile has re- ceived a letter of inquiry from parties in Yuma, Arizona, asking about the heirs of John Thomas, al wealthy ranchman, residing in ArizoE2, who died in December, 1898. His heirs reside in Vermont and a good sized fortune awaits them if they can ba fCund."/
 The article Soes on 70 state that the letter was signed by a party who saId he had been requested by the probate court of Yuma to endeavor to find the legal heirs; and that Thomas made a will in favor Of one john Speese, not having recognized any of his relatives, thus ni2Eirg the will easy to contest. ''
 This self-aCp0inted administrator Cf the estate of the late John Thomas does net inform the heirs of the cx- tent of the good sized fortune" but states that it consists of a ranch stocked with horses and cattle"
 The facts in the case are as fol- lows: The ranch consists of a claim on the Algodones grant to which the only title held by MT Thomas was a squatterS right. The stock consists of few i@ayuse horses, worth about six dollars and siX-bits a head.
 During the last year before MT. Thomas death he suffered severely with consumption and was wholly de- pendent upon fis friends for a subsis- tence. MT. Speese took an interest n the unfortunate man and last summer borrowed money with which to send him to Los Angeles, where he took a three months treatment for the dis ease that finally caused his death Shortly after MT. Thomas return from Los Angeles he became bed-ridden, and until the end MT. Speese Paid the doctor bills, hired } nurse to take care of him, and finally paid the funeral ex- penses.
 MT Thomas cd only right when he willed all his earthly possessions to the man who- had befriended him in his last hour of need. Although Mr Thomas gave all he had, it was not half enough to repay MT. Speese for the actual money expended. MT Spee5e, however. does not complain, as he is not the kind of a man who measures his friendships by a golden Sun.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-21
THE FAULT FINDER

For a long time I have been engaged in making weekly complaint in behalf of Phoenix, the territory, the schools, religion, the republican party and whatever else is best for the com mUnity. Now I have a grievance or 1 two of my own, affecting me and other newspaper reporters. One of my oh iect5 Of detestatiCn is the dan1pilooI who injects himself into the oonver- satiCn between m,e and some other per- son frGm whom I am trying to get coherent story of some more or ie55 important event. The C. p. ~TcCmes up, gets inter ested begins asking questions and destroys the continuity of the reIa- tion. He doesn't realize, of course, fer he is d. D., that he is interfering with my business for the qualification of his own idle curiosity. The inter YieWee is my personal property for the moment to do with what I can. I am almost daily annoyed by these d. ip's,
 
 Then there is another person I do not like. He, is the man who comes to me for information regarding some matter in which he may or may not have a material interest I begin tell ing him what he says he wants to know. He constantly interrupts me with "Ohi yes; now I see,'' q under stand it now" and undertakes an CT roneous explanation Of the matter him. self. He naturally arrives at point at which I have to correct him and begin andw. Finally I have finished to no purpose The inquirer has been so busy with his own e0pl anatory in- :erruptions that he has failed to grasp my meaning
 Then there is an other nuisance, the newspaper reporter who rushes around with those conspicuous badges of his business, bunch of paper in enc hand and pencil in the other. He is al- legged to se in search of news and he thinks so himself. Having inserted his auger into a victim he begins taking notes to the embarrassment of the vic jim, who fails to talk naturally. What ne does say is mi5quOted, for the re- porter engrO5sed with his pencil and note boow is unable to comprehend what is being said. It is a fact which Is sometimes regarded as singular, that very few good newspaper report CTS understand shorthand. If they did they would not 'ba good reporters
 *
 A few days ago The Republican an nOunced that the municipality was thinking of fencing itself off from c. D. Ward, the proprietor of the Col -ege Place, which is built to the mid de of what would be Van Buren street f the street we:e fully opened. MT. Ward has indignantly gene into print lenying that such a fence as was de 1cribed in The Rooul3I1can is in cotenplatiOn. I know it is, fer I heard t discussed by a man who is supposed 70 have Q great deal to do with city boundaries and improvements
 MT. Ward admitting for the sake of argument that the city intends to erect such a high and tight fence as has been described, says it would not seri- ously interfere with him, since he would have a right to cut apertures in