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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-25
YuIe's Command Gets
Lost in the Shuttle
Continued from Fifth PaSe.)

the TransvaaI border, re taking the Of
fensive. They have attacked a Boer pa
troll at Rhodes Drift but apparently not
much damage was done on either side.
The Beers say that they lost three
horses. q
Lieutenant Barnes, who was wounded
at the battle of Elandslaagte is brother
of Violet Van Brugh, the well known
actress.
Germany has sent, to follow the British
forces in South Africa, her military at
tache in London. Captain Baron Won Lutt-
WITT, who married MISS Mamie Cary of
Cleveland, Ohio.
The British military authorities hope to
have the wireless telegraph in operation
in South Africa within three weeks. when.
it is hoped, the difficulties experienced
from the cutting Of wires will be obviated,
as it will only be necessary to estab-
fish communication with point at which
the ordinary wires are intact.
Cape Town, Oct PA message received
this evening from Mafekng, by way Of
Lorenzo Marques says: "All we'll in Ma
feking on October 90"
London, Oct 4-The war Office pub
lished tonight a dispatch from Colonel
Badeu-Powell, the British commander at
Mafeking, dated October 10. and forward
ed from Cape Town. 1t says: "All well
here In fight today, four miles from
Mafekng, the armored train, a section
OF the British South African police and
two squadrons. OF the Protectorate regi-
ment repulsed the enemy. losing two
killed and fifteen wounded, the latter IN
Guiding Lieutenant Bentnick, Ninth Ian
GERS. and Lieutenant Bryan OF the Pro-
tectorate regiment, both slightly. The
enemy's loss Is estimated at ffty-three
killed, besides many wounded. The names
of our killed and wounded will follow.
All worked splendidly and are very anx-
ious for the next meeting with the en-
envy"
London, Oct &-A dispatch to the
Morning Post from Kimberley dated the
afternoon of October 20 and carried BY a
dispatch rider via the Orange river. where
it is dated October "a, reports slight skir-
mishing and small casualties. II is be-
lieved, however, that the dispatch must
refer to the armored-train fight al Ma
feking Dispatches TO the Daily Mall
from Cape Town. dated October "A, say
that FIVE big guns have been sent from
Pretoria 10 MafekfrR
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-25
RAILROAD WORK AT BLACKWELL
Track TO Peckham TO be Completed by
November

Guthrie. 0. T.. Oct 2i.-The Blackwell
Times-Record thus reports railroad pro-
gress at that point: The Frisco has
quite gang az work IN the yards here.
They are using part u their surplus dir,
for surfacing the yard tracks. and the
rest OF it is being loaded into cars for
Use on the main track The surfaoing
sangs are now finishing up the work be-
tween Arkansas City and Peckham. and
after that is come re5 three gangs will
be put at work On the track between
here anr Peckham ana they expect to
have 1t completed by the first OF No
vember.
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Colony, dated Monday evening: .sThe
Fransvaal government are about issuing
i proclamation declaring the district
north Of the Vaal river, and including
Bechuanaland. to be Boer territory. Com
nandant Cronje. who has been twice re-
pulsed al Mafeking. is said TO be advanc-
ing on Kimberley and TO be impressing
men and seizing stores sand munitions in
British territory. He left a small force
investing Mafeklng. The Free State Beers
are moving westward in order to join
him for an attack on Kimberley. The
dispatch riders who are coming down 70
the Orange river from Kimberley, are
performing thrilling feats- They ride
through the Boer lines under cover Of
darkness and get to the Orange river
without taking any rest, save for
change OF horses. The distance Is sixty
miles. One rider who got into Kimber-
ley last Friday was chased seventeen
miles by Beers, narrowly escaping with
his life. The same man returned safely
with dispatches to Orange river today.
When he reached a point thirty miles
from Kimberley, his horse fell and
kicked two Of his fingers against rock,
but despite this painful wound the gall
liant fellow made a good journey here.
He reports that the Beers are three miles
from Kimberley but are afraid to attack
the place and are awaiting the arrival OF
Commandant Cronje. No Beers are to
be seen south of Belmont, which IS
twenty miles north OF the Orange river.
The defeats in Natal are taking all the
fight out OF them and they will not at
tack the British troops. though they may
defend a few positions. Indeed. it is be-
lieved here that the heaviest fighting OF
the war is over, except for battle near
Draforia
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ENGLAND'S FOES IN THE EAST

New YORK, Oct. "A 5!spatch . tns
Herald from Berlin says; ''Teisgrarns
from Brussels announce that n the
Transyasl legation circles It is stated that
France and Russia viii not permit ihs
annexation q tire Trsnsyaal and Orange
Free STATE 20 England"
4 dispatch % the Tribune from Londoa
SAYS: The sailing % the Channel squad
ror Tor Gibraltar = REGARDED By ksenszi
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-25
STEYN ANNEXES BRITISH SOIL

London. Oct. 24-The colonial oface has
received a cablegram stating that Presi-
dent Steyn, of the Orange Free State. has
issued a proclamation annexing that part
OF Cape Colony which IS north OF the
Vaal river. This means Griqualand West
and Bechuanaland. and is apparently in
consequence Of the Free State forces hay-
ing seized the railway and all stations
north OF Kimberly except Mafeking. IN
less Mafeking has fallen since the last
news from there, which IS a week Old.
London. Oct. at Is reported at Cape
Town that President Steyn % the Orange
Free State, IS close 70 Aliwal North. near
HerscheL on heborders OF the Orange
Free state. It IS added that the Boer
camps on the Orange river are quiet TIA:
blowing and shearing are proceeding and
that there are large quantities OF stock
on the river bank
THE ADVANCE ON KIMBERLEY
London. Oct 5-The Daily Telegraph
has the following from De Aar, Cape
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-25
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Methodist Mission Money for Utah.

Pltsburg. Pa, oct 24--An approprfa-
ton Of 1855 was made By the woman's
Home Mission Society of the Methodist
Episcopal church az today's session. for
the Tfah work
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GLASS HOUSESl

Cape Town. oct. IA private tele-
gram from Deiagoa Bay says a man who
has just arrived there from johannesburg
asserts that the Transvaal government
has appropriated $50 beds IN private
houses IN johannesburg for wounded
troops from the front. The Boer organs.
according 20 this informant. are doing
everything % minimize the Bosr Losses.
and all sorts OF misstateanents and mis-
ranrose-,+aefops ara arnpIava9
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Forest Fires Wisconsin,

Grand Rapids. Wis. Oct A-ForssT
fires are raging furlously or the norm.
south and east portions Of this city. Tbs
cranberry marshes have suffered severe
~. The woods are very dry.
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THEPOLITlCS OF ANNEXATION

Cape Town, Oct PA dispatch from
Kimberley. dated October p and brought
by a dispatch rider to the Orange river,
has just arrived here 1t says: The po-
sition in Kimberley is unchanged. The
siege continues. Yesterday the armored
train found the enemy in the same posi-
ton in the Spyfontein neighborhood. The
prisoners who were captured when the
armored train was destroyed by the
Beers at Kraalpan are now reported alive
and well treated. The Beers hoisted the
flag of the Transvaal over Vryburg on Oc-
tober Is and are about issuing a procla-
nation that Bechuanaland now forms
part of the TransvaaL This is regarded
as a move on the part of the enemy to
induce the colonial Dutch to join the re-
public without mourning the risk here
after of the charge Of high treason. If
the Beers are ultimately defeated. Col
onel Keckwich. on hearing of it. immedi-
ately issued a proclamation notifying the
people that if any British subjects were
found assisting her matesty's enemies.
either directly or indirectly, such person
would be punished summarily as a base
rebel. Several arrests of Cape Dutchmen
were made here Yesterday"
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Paris. Oct. 2t-The cabinet today sp-
proved the text q BIN granting trades
unions the same status az an indivifusI
citizen. ard eGac,i1E privileges ard pen
sities 70 secure the free working OF such
bodies
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Carmaek aCandIdato for senator.

Chattano0Ea, Tenn, oct. An a letter
to Attorney Peoples. Of this city. Con-
gresham r. W. Carmack announces that
he will be candidate for the United
states senate 70 succeed Senator TURKEY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-25
WHERE DR.. JAMESON IS

Lorenzo Marques. Delagoa Bay. oct -
DIR. Jameson. who became famous
through the raid which hs headed into
tho Transvaal. and his companion. Colo
nel Grey, have arrived here from Eng
land
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GA = TO RIA,
Bears the n he AR3 TO3 Haze LsaS Bum
Ct NxHNzEZ<a
MRS. LOVE IS SLEEPING YET
Has Been Declared Insane and VIII
BE Taken 10 Nnrnnn

Guthrie. o. =. Oct 2A-The Oklahoma
CITY Times-Journal SAYS: Mrs Jack
Love. who went into Mysteries at The
Arbeka hotel last Wednesday morning nj
o'clock is stiu in a capaleptic state. she
has slept since that time almost confirm
ousiuy. only arousing for a few seconds
al long intervals She talks but utlle.
ana what Sc says is unlnienigiblz She
takes but htt!e Il any nourishment and IS
Continued o. ThIra Pare
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-25
GUTHRIE STREET FAIR Is ON
National Guard One of the Notable
Eenturre-. FInNNcr Pnrnde TndnN

Guthrie, .. T.. Oct Ci-The second day
of Guthrie's big street fair and carnival
opened with a smash. bang and roar. the
reverberauons of which must certainly
have been heard in the adjoining states
and territories. And what crowds, The
Santa Fe train from the north was made
tp Of eleven coaches crowded even 70 the
roof. and every country road was an
endless procession OF vehicles. The Mid
way. with its manifold attractions and
oriental delights is Of course the big
Feature Of the carnival The soldier boys
who are in camp 1T Island park are also
viewed 10y hundreds. The soldiers are be-
ginning 70 reaEze that the annual en-
campment Is not merely 3 picnic and The
manner in which Colonel Stone puts them
shrough thai- PAGES is revelation 10
most of the boys
Tomorrow VIII witness the parade Of
the queen. Miss Lillian LauN. ana her
escort. The queen VIII head the flower
parade which VIII probably be one OF the
most elaborate socetacIes ever witnessed
sn the southwest
The race meeting also opens ~ the fair
grounds, half q mills south Of the CITY
tomorrow and Manager Severn has ar
ranged an unusually attractive program
for the entertainment or the lovers Of
that sort Of sport. Jesse James. Jr.. son
OF the noted Missouri bandit. arrived
from Kansas csty today and VIII have
charge Of the cigar privileges AZ the fair
e+r,r,,R-
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NATIONAL GUARD NOTES.

Company OF Chandler was the third
company 70 arrive AZ camp. being pre-
coded by companies from Pawnee and
Ponca Gig. CaDssin Ashton VII mot ar
rive until Wednesday. but the company IS
under the efficient leadership OF LIeuten-
Hnt Warren. The company Will be de-
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fear for nothing ca ezre Wiz he horrors q
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london. Oct 25-The Daily Telegraph
has the following from De Aar. Cape
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shaken CT ThonszzdS
of ~ozel have fuIz1
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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-08-12

The election in East Carroll on
Thursday to nominate candidate
for Congress from the Fifth Dis
trici, brought out very good vote,
considering that nearly twenty five
people were away and several were
sick. The Providence (third ward)
box give Hon. Jos. +. Ransdell
1913 votes and Barksdale six. The
official returns from the four coun-
try wards were not in when we went
to press, but we learn that about
100 votes were cast, with only Que
vote against Mr.. Ransdell. 1t is
said the candidate who receives 1900
votes in the district will be the
nominee. Ransdell will get over
this number, and we believe that
he has received fully $500 votes in
the district.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-08-12

until he now occupies the honorable
post of lieutenant-governor OF the
State. Endowed by nature with a
robust mind and keen intellect, the
years passed in public life have been
taken advantage of by him to store
up a fund of information as to
Louisiana. her people, her needs,
her resources and her government,
which would bear good fruit should
be occupy tho gubernatorial char.
Born, reared and educated in Louis
lana, the browning work of his life
would be that devoted to her SER
vice as her chief magistrate.
The Gazette trusts that Mr. Sny-
der will permit himself to become a
candidate, assuring him in advance
of the loyal support of the people of
his native parish of Tensas. --Tensas
Gazette.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-08-12
TO THE COTTON FARMERS.

The Natchez Democrat gives the
following advice to the cotton grow
ers of the South, aud if it is posi-
BILE for them to do as the Democrat
suggest-hold back part of theil
cotton until after December or Jan
nary-they will no doubt profit by
it. The Democrat says:
The time will soon arrive for the
marketing of the next cotton crop
and unless change is made as to
the mode of doing it the same low
level of prices that were current last
year Will inevitably be the result.
1t is a well established TACT that
large port and interior receipts dur.
ing the months of September, Octo
Der aud November are the grea,
factors in making prices; and it is
IN your power to prevent this, as
you have the remedy in your own
hands, which is to hold back on
your farms one-third Of your gin
nings until after December or Jan.
uary. Two.thirds will bring nearly
az much marketed in this way as the
whole crop marketed in the usual
way.
In doing this you will not be de.
priving the merchants or the banks
to whom you are under obligations
of What they are justly entitled to,
but on the other hand, protecting
almost their salvation as well as
your own.
The government says the acreage
in cotton lands is eight per cent less
than last year, and that the July
condition is g.. (three fourth-teuths)
per cent less, or total depreciation
of ia eleven four-tenths) per
cent.
Estimate the current crop at IL,
100000 bales it means a shriukage
Of 1871 900 bales, or a crop of
0, 1928, 900 bales for l699-l9O0.
Notwithstanding all this, and the
further fact that the cotton mills
throughout the country are making
profits ranging from 90 per cent. to
40 per cent. mighty efforts are be-
ing made to create the impression
that the crop will be an enormous
one, with the view of getting your
cotton cheap, and it is for you to
determine whether the greedy spin
ner will success.
You will be assailed by the willy
Spectator with all kinds of argu-
ments to prevent you from holding
your cotton, but it is your only
weapon and your financial salvation
depends upon its use.
We will keep this appeal prom
inently forward in our columns and
devote part of each issue in earn.
estly advocating it, and We ask our
associates of the press, merchants
and bankers, who are equally inter.
ested with us in building up the
prosperity of our Southern country
to join and aid us in our efforts.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-08-12
SUMMER RATES.

Commencing June l and continuing
until September 80, 1899, the Queen &
Crescent route wifi place In effect from
oil coupon stations regular summer
excursion tickets 10 all the principal
summer resoris in East Tennessee,
North Carolina, Virginia and aortbern
resorts, good until October 81. The
Queen & Crescent offers to the public
excellent service. Train leaving New
Orleans daily q, 7:3O p. M. arrives in
Cincinnati mex; evening at 7:30, thus
giving 24-hour schedule, carrying
Pullman buffet sleeper. There is also
through Pullman sleeping car on this
trnin for New York, running by the
way of Chattanooga, Bristol, Lynch
burg, Washington and Pennsylvania
railroad, :hus penetrating the very
hear. of the summer resorts. Train
leaving Shreveport daily at 9:i0 q. m.
carries through Pullman sleeper to
Chattanooga, where change can be
made into the Cincinnati or New York
sieepers without getting of The train.
For detailed Information rs 10 rates,
routes, etc, apply to any ticket agent
or Il. NJ. Hunt, Z. p. a, Dallas, Tex.
r. J. Anderson, A. q. P. A, or
George II. Smith. G. P. a, New Or
leans.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-08-12
The NEXT GOVERNOR.

The time fast approaches when
the Democrats of Louisiana will be
called upon to choose a candidate
for the high office of governor of the
state, and already the names of a
number of men have been mentioned
for that all-important office. Among
those names the people of Tensas
note with pride that of their honored
son, Lieutenant-Goye Robert II.
Snyder.
The Gazette but voices the senti-
ments of every man, woman and
child in Tensas in expressing the
hope that Governor Snyder will be-
come candidate for the chief mag.
istracy of the State. Here where he
was born, reared and has spent his
life he is regarded with a wealth of
affection and esteem which 1t falls
TO the lot Of few men to inspire IN
their neighbors and friends. To see
him further honored by the peo-
pie OF the state by comforting on
him the highest office within their
gift, would deeply crafty the PEG.
pie of his native parish, who feel
that IN thus honoring him the peo-
pie of this state would confer upon
them a distinction of which they
might well feel proud
But in no snese would MIR. Snv.
der be regarded as the candidate of
this or any particular section of the
State. BY long term of public
service IN the Legislature, the consti-
tutional convention, and as lieuten-
ant-governor, Mr.. Snyder has built
mp reputation as a brainy, capable,
honest and thoroughly equipped
public man, which is as broad as the
State itself, and which has made
his name as well known in Calca-
sieu as in Tensas, in Orleans as IN
Caddo. Nor would Mr.. Snyder, in
becoming candidate, stand as the
representative of any faction or fac
ton of the Democracy of the State.
The people of Louisiana are tired of
factional party strife and we take it
that the candidate of the next Dem.
ocratic State Convention for COVER
nor will be the choice Of the Dem
ocratic people of the state'-not of q
faction or fraction of them.
We feel assured that If Mr.. Sny-
der becomes a candidate for the gov
ernorship it would be only on the
lines above indicated. Animated
by a profound love for his native
State and for the Democratic party
which has SO honored him in the
past, his candidacy for governor
would be based upon an abiding
faith in the wisdom and integrity of
the Democratic masses throughout
the State, whose candidate alone he
would be.
OF Mr.. Snyder's qualifications for
the office of governor, 1t is unneces-
sary to speak, so we'll is he known
throughout the State. Though inst
entering into middle life, he has
spent many years in the public SER
vice. Beginning with clerkship
IN the house of representatives., he
has surely and steadily advanced
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-08-12

The Daily States, the Simon-pure
Democratic daily of New Orleans,
who is opposed to the bosses In that
city and is opposing the Jacksonlsn
Democrats for the manner In which
this organization is trying to crush
the Democratic party both in that
city and throughout the State, says
''let us review the ranks of the Jack
sonians for instance, and what do we
find? We defy any man to lay bis
finger upon a leader in its ranks who
has not been at one time or another
the beneficiary Of the boss system
an ofiice-seeker or an office holder
and who is now not ready and eager
to swallow any office that may cross
his PATH
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-08-12

Sunday was a day of accidents
which resulted in an appalling loss of
life. A trolley car crowded with
pleasure seekers plunged from tres
sic near Bridgeport, Conn, and fell
a distance of forty feet to the flats
below. Thirty-six people were IN.
stantly killed and dozen more pain.
fully wounded. At Bar Harbor
Maine, a gang plank on which abon'
two hundred people were standing in
the act of boarding an excursion
steamer, suddenly collapsed and the
mass of humanity was dropped strug-
Cling into the deep water. So far as
known twenty persons lost their lives,
but it is believed that other bodies
will he recovered, as strong tide
was sweeping under tue pier when
The terrible accident occurred,
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We Dislike Boosting,

But away beyond any other to be
seen here, is our line OF Summer
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IERY, NECKWEAR, white and
fancy HAND KERCH IEFS, Staw
HATS and Leather BELTS.
Money back ifnot suited.
Mail orders receive prompt atteB-
ton.
WARNER & SEARLES CO.,
Vicksburg, Miss.