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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-02-16
KNOCKED OUT DY HEAT.

KNOCKED OUT BY HEAT.
Manila, Feb. 11.-5:o5 p. m.--The heat
today knocked out many more Of our men
than did the Filipino bullets, especially
in the marsh lands north Of Malabon,
where the Kansas regiment was stationed.
Fully a score of them were taken to the
hospital.
Tnong the incidents of the day it is
cited that Privates Hartley and Fitch, OF
the Thirteenth Minnesota Regiments, were
both wounded in the legs by the same
bullet. and Private Mitchell, Of Company
b. of the Kansas regiment, while assisting
q couple Of men to the rear, was shot IN
the left arm. The railroad is now open to
Caloocan, and supplies for the troops are
being forwarded by rail.
rnE. ATTACK on CALooCAN.
Manila. Feb. ll.-ll:50 a. m.-The fol-
lowing additional particulars regarding the
capture of Caloocan have been obtained;
The insurgents had been concentrating
their forces for days at Caloocan, and
Major General Edwell s. Otis, the Amer
lean commander, here was determined to at
tack them. He instructed his command
ers accordingly, and requested the assist
ance of the naval forces under the COM
mand of Rear Admiral Dewey. Major
General Macarthur reported that all was
ready and at S o'clock he received the fol-
loving message;
"The commanding general orders you
to 90 ahead with the programme.
'BARRY."
The attack began Immediately. The
monitor Monadnock and the cruiser
ChMleston shelled the Caloocan and the
coRtry north of it for half an hour.
General MacArthur's artillery also did ef-
fective work from hill in the rear.
ADVANCED CHEERFULLY.
Brigadier General Harrison Gray Otis
with his brigade, consisting of the Kansas
regiment, the Montana regiment and the
Third Artillery, regular, actirg as infan
trv. advanced handsomely, pushing for
ward in the face of the Filipino bullets as
cheerfully as if they had been snowballs
The enemy was utterly routed aud fled tc
the mountains.
At6 O'Clock "Cease firing" and "Re
CALI we're sounded. The troops were
then well through Caloocan and north
oft.
General Macarthur established his left
at Caloocan and strengthened his lines fol
the night.
By the capture of Caloocan the contro
of much of the rolling stock Of the Ma
nila-Dagupan railroad was obtained.
The city is now quieter and business is
better than at any time since the out
break Of hostilities.
The American losses yesterday were
three men killed an SO wounded. Among
the latter are gallant Lieutenant Colo
mel Bruce Wallace, Of the Montana re
iment, and lieutenant of the Second Cav
alrv, who was shot through the lung while
leading a charge across the open ground
The enemy lost heavily.
PRECISION OF CLoCKwoRK.
Iondon, February 11.-Dispatch t
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-02-16

The Lynchburg News has published in
its editorial columns since the troubles at
Manila commenced some very clever and
liberal articles in reference thereto. They
have been free from partisan criticism OF
the President and the action of our troops
at Manila. The News places the respon-
sibility for the fighting at the door of
Aquinaldo and his unwise advisers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-02-16

A few Democratic papers at the South
still continue to sneer at the policy of
President Mckinley toward the Philip
pines, but none Of them are able to sug-
gest another policy. These fault-fnders
ought to suggest something sensible Or
stop criticising the policy of the man who
has so far shown more wisdom and pa
triotsm than all the grumbers combined.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-02-16
LETTER FROM OREGON.
That State and Adjoining States Have
Many Acres of Land Open for
Location.

Mr.. w. G. Young recently received a
letter flom a gentleman at Portland, Ore
gon, in which he sets forth briefly the ad-
vantages for settlers in tie Northern Pa
cifc States. In recent years good many
people from Southwest Virginia have
moved to that country, and some have
gone from Tazewell. Others are thinking
of seeking homes in new countries, and
thinking the letter would be of interest to
such persons we have asked the privilege
of publishing the letter, which has been
granted by Mr.. Young. The letter is as
follows:
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

has been the result Of drift policy. ThS
promises made at the annexation even
partly fulfilled would have initiated
period of prosperity, but Indifference and
criminal negligence provided the very en-
Vironment which Kruger and his com
panions desired. and which kept alive the
feeling of unrest and contempt of law
they hereditarily knew so we'll how to
utilize The Government agents were
siuiply anesthetized. while the crafty Boer
embodied his wacht-een- beetle (wait a
while) policy, giving less information
when he seemed most prodigal of report,
and being most guilty of intrigue when
seemingly most anxious to be frank
There was no fear of Dom Paul commence
ing operations before the victim was
fully under the chloroform" True,
more active and sympathetic diplomat
than Governor Lanyon would have noted
the wink of Uncle Pauls eye" and
would not have been caught mapping, as
he was. The same Boer craft and the
same British slumber are being demon
strated in the overtures of 80
The Boer proper Is a farmer. but he he's
been bred away from civilization on lines
so concentrated and so inbred that lis
mentality has been narrowed until he is
either stupid or fanatic-the latter class
being the more numerous He is to use
the expression of one of my friends who
experienced the torture Of twenty-four
hours, crucifxion to a wagon wheel, and
whose, wrists still bear the marks cut
into them by the ox-reims, professor OF
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En- schryf my wat het kost-s myde en-
dr,e yongen." Of you get small Kafflrs,
be good enough to buy six for me-
and write me what they cost-three maids
and three youths)
This from a pious Boer shows that the
little people," as Olive Schreiner mater
naly calls the Vaal Beers, had an eye to
q labor bureau supply, and illustrates the
Voretrekers' idea Of keeping a treaty
when it imposed upon them any restraint
In the Transvaal the Beers patriarch
al instincts and his desire for isolation
asserted themselves and he wanted his
'huis" twenty miles at least from his
neighbor, and here he vegetated, hated
by the natives, until a decay was tmml-
nent-a treasury containing 60 cents,
commerce. degenerated to barter, was
certain preface to utter dissolution or rev.
olution In 1877 this condition was so evil
dent that Sir Theophilus Shepstone an
nexed the Transvaal to the imperial Gov
ernment, an act which has evoked many
criticisms, but was made necessary by
the old spirit of rebellion and Boer dis
like for authority.
President Burgess, elected by the peo-
pie, was unable to enforce their laws and
they utterly refused to pay the taxes
they themselves had imposed. Had the
English Commissioner left the Transvaal
to its fate he would have been deemed
illiberal and cruel. He took 1t under his
care and is considered equally In the
wrong.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

religion. for he sung psalms in his cams
while I tainted at the wagon wheel.
Personally l failed to find in the most
pious much of the tenderness Of the gentle
Nazarene.
l fully believe when the clash on the
Transvaal really comes that acts will be
perpetrated which would discredit the
humanity of the Apaches. Such took place
in the last war, and there is no reason
TO believe that the contact of the Boer
for the past sixteen years with the
Tweed ring of Hollanders'' has modi-
fed his applied Christianity.
The siege of Pretoria was prefaced BY
tha famous wagon incident" A Gov
ernment levy is to the Vaal Boer as stinl-
ulating as is the poll tax TO San Fran
cisco policeman.
In Cape Colony during the year 1873
there was Dutchman, BeZindenhout By
name, who, by refusing to pay taxes
started a revolt which caused several
deaths and then eXpiated his crime on
the gallows at Slaaghters Mex. A name-
sake and direct descendant of his in 1880
owed $40 for taxes which he refused to
pay Special officers could collect moth
ing, and finally the Sheriff seized wagon
as collateral. A party of Beers headed
by Cronje recovered it, and appeal was
made TO the Government at Pretoria.
I we'll remember that quiet Sunday
morning early in November, as stood
on the Poort Hills overlooking the post
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lated English troops .Earrisoned therN
IhS ,aEod ATivG nv 9t British reinforGepeants
was raised and remained The Beers
made terms, but as n prior days, some
refused conditions and trekked inland and
norUhward.
Andres Pretorius remained IN Natal,
but later took offense at the methods used
by Sir H. Pottinger-a toWnsnan Of the
noted IriShm2n, Sir George White. the
present commander in Maitland Joined
followed, but the famous Sand River con-
Vention, with its terminal clause No
slavery will be permitted" took place
and in 1852 the discontented Beers crossed
the River Vaal into the land beyond that
the Transvaal. The two BOer leaders,
Pretorius and Potgieter, became recon-
treaty was ratified It was IN the Church
of Rustenberg that Dom Paul shocked
the saints by standing upon his head on
the tOpmOst beam when 1t was laid as the
last timber in the sacred edifce.
Soon after this the Sand River conven-
tion was ignored and quarrel with the
natives under Chief Setyeli followed. Set
yeu was q protege of the celebrated DR..
livingstone who was then located in tho
chief's territory, and the Beers claim that
DR.. Livingstone insugated this action.
Dom Paul, then simply Field Cornet
Kruger" was one of the commanders OK
the attacking Beers and perchance had
''dood skit" at the great missionary. Tbs
Orange Free State had petitioned In 1883
Federation, but the home Government re-
called the Governor, Sir George Grey, for
advocating such policy, an action
strangely short-sighted but not surpris-
ing TO the student Of South African his
tory Potgieter and Pretorius died, the
one in March the other in July of the
same year-1S53. At this stage Of devel-
opment the republic was divided into four
districts - Potchefstrom, Lydenburg,
Toutpansberg and Rustenberg. A new
district was added, having in its center
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CTyIIE Vaal Boer must be accepted As
a result and not as a factor in the
history Of South Africa. He IS him
seIf either a Voretreker OF is ths
4 Immediate descendant Of one. OF
a strong IsAmaelitish warp he was
IN the past equally as discon-
tented with the rulings OF tho
Dutch East India Company and
the Intervention OF the English, as he is
to-day with the British and Outlander.
His history from the days when the
Dutch. In 1850, first occupied the Cape OF
Good Hope is too well known TO here re-
quire repetition. Discomfort with any au-
thoHty other than his own personal will
has ever been one Of his Characters
tics
The ced,ng OF the Cape to Great Brit
ain IN l,l3 for the sum Of $50 900 and
some special considerations marked the
beginning Of The trouble between the
Boers and the English, which hes con-
unued until now
The early administration was not well
managed. There was q most marked
Jealousy between the then free Dutch and
the English along the lines Of maritime
oeYelopment-a condition which demand
90 most liberal recognition, as well as
QlploIualc manipulation. Rivalry became
friction, friction became hatred; hatred
expressed itself in dissensiOu-unti the
was created where better understanding
might have secured d friend
Among the chief causes OF rupture in
the early Stage OF Augl0-Dutch difficulties
was Tie sudden abolition Of slavery and
the unsatisfactory way in which claims
were adjusted. The methods OF the mis-
sionaTies were also uupeasing, as they
expected Of the Boer a philanthropy
which he did not and cannot understand.
The BOer has always felt himself superior
10 the native. II the native was willing
10 obey him, ali went well; II not the
native was knocked on the head. and there
the discussion terminated, the Boer taking
charge Of his widows. which fact accounts
for a large part Of the mixed popuIafion
OF the Cape Colony OF to-day.
The Boer looked upon the acts Of tbe
missionaries as expressing the sentiment
Of the British Government, and uncon-
ceeled hatred Of the Government was the
result.
Though FOR a time after the Great
Trek" Of 1895 the British and the Foers
worked together in harmony around the
Bay Of Natal. defending themselves
against common foe, the Kafirs. "Din.
gaan's day" Ga Boer national holiday
oornmemorating the defeat Of Dingaan
the Kadir chief on December l6 IS3S3
was no sooner established, however than
the Beers claimed all the bay and on
posed a force OF 150O men to the 200 iso-
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Continued on Page Twenty-Five.
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Aiken, early in the POS, west of the ex-
change, the supply of water coming from
the city spring and here for many years
was the only place of the kind in the Dis
trfct. Mrs. Aiken was succeeded by her
daughters who conducted the business till
some years after the civil war
The Old Jail.
The modest saloon west of the mail bag
repair shops possesses interest from the
fact that early in the century the iail of the
District, or strictly speaking, the lookup of
the marshal, was located on the rear of the
lot, and it was used in the confinement of
Patrick McGurk, convicted of the murder
of his WIFE and executed in 1903 near
where Trinity Church now stands. McGurk
while ntoxca ted, assaulted his wife and
stamping upon her caused her death. After
his conviction strenuous efforts were made
to save his life, the case going to the Cir
cult Court appeal.
On being taken to the scaffold, accom-
panied by his spiritual adviser Ia presO,
he made a scene by jumping from the scat
fold before the trap was sprung; and his
burial at the Western Holmead'S) burial
ground caused some excitement among
friends of other parties buried there his
body being resuTTected and buried else
where This was described in The Star a
quarter Of a century ago, the authority
being two old citizens one of whom as a
boy of nine years, followed the cart in
which McGurk was taken to the scaffold
and both witnessed the execution The
traditions in families of former jaiiors also
confirmed them.
The first marshal, George Dent was sue
ceeded in a few months by Daniel Carroll
Brent in 1901 and he had a private Jail on
his premises on New Jersey avenue be-
tween b and streets southeast. This was
used but a year so, when the one noted
above was occupied. This too was only
used few years the structure Immediately
in the rear of the court house being occu-
pied from about 1906 to 1870 when the
blue Jug near the corner of 4th and G
streets occupied.
The title to this land was vested in Burns
heirs for many years, but it went into the
| possession of John 8. McCubbn. under a
| ten-year lease, in 1926, and it was SUISSE
| quently purchased by him. Previously Mr..
McCubbin kept a public house or tavern
on the east side of 9th street. in one of two
! frames on the site of the National Hotel
| one occupied by the law offices of the father
| of Mayor Wallach. On street Mr.. McCub-
! lin established a business which continues
| to this day. The popular Harry Sweeting,
| who married the widow of Mr.. McCubbin
succeeded to the business, and for a number
| of years was the place known as the Vir-
ginia House. After Sweeting came Levi
| Pumphrey, and his son, Mr.. j. W. Pun
| phrey succeeded him. For some years it
| was known as Gerhardt' s-the resort of
| many of our German citizens. In Noyem-
| ber 1860, Carl Schurz made his bow to
| Washington public here. Quite a demon
| stration was given htm-a serenade and
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Capitol at the St. Charles, and Mr.. Gibson
took The hotel anu was followed by Char
ley Thompson. He was succeeded by Mr..
McNickIe, who had long been attached to
Browns Indian Queen Hotel.
Mr. McNickle's name was given to the
house, and ne being a representative son
Of the Emerald Isle it became quite re- r..
sort for his nationality, more than one St
Pair ck's banquets taking place mere Mrs.
McNickIe succeeded her husband at his
death, and after few years was followed
by Mrs. Hayden. who kept it as a boarding
house In 1863 DR.. Jonas Green settled
here, and soon built up a large practice, as
a homeopathic physician. Next Mr.. Cush.
ing opened 1t as a boarding house, and
of late wears it was known by his name.
During the latter part of the 4O's and in
the early 5Os the stablinS on the rear or
the lot was used to some extent as a slave
pen and the nefarious traffic in slaves
was carried on under the noses of some of
the anti-slavery members Of Congress in
the house and netghborhood.
THE City Spring.
The building itself has no less an interest
ing history than the neghborhood, for
within it was the no;ed city spring Uhe
source of our first water works, it may be-
claimed.
The city spring from which the neigh
borhood procured its supply of water, was
upon the east part II lot 3 (east of the Ex-
change, and was in the possession of b. S.
Orr, from whom it passed to Richard Bur
CESS. and then to John Gadsby; and about
sixty years since it was purchased by the
corporation. That it's value was appre-
ciated is seen from its history, as the water
supply for that section of the city for three
fourths of century. AS stated above,
Commodore Tingay conveyed the property
to VIM. Woodward in 1903, and the latter
on January /, 1906, conveyed it TO Robert
Underwood, who gave Woodward, the same
the spring for parts of lots l and 6, square
400 (bOundad by Louisiana avenue. 9th and
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ed by fire in Baltimore and was then quite
young man; Yeaman, laughter-provok-
ing, old-fashioned attraction, and earns
with his team of eight dogs. 1t was here
the circus wintered and thea trical perform
anceS were also given. The grandfather of
Joe Jefferson appeared here and was more
successful on the stage than were the
knights of the sawdust in making laughter.
The building was purchased by Messrs.
Walker & Kimmel, who transformed il
into a livery stable with halls above In
these Masonic lodge, a tribe of Red Men,
some divisions of the Sons of Temperance
met and for some years the Washington
Light Infantry had its armory here.
The Havenner bakery was then modest
three-story brick building, in which were
the bakery, store room, dwelling in which
the elder Havenner raised his family, car
ried on the business beneath the sign
May Our Country Never Want for Bread, >
and rented rooms to congressmen-Messrs
r. NJ 7. Hunter James NJ Mason of Vir-
ginia and A. P. Butler of South Carolina.
among others resided here Mr.. Havenner
also conducted one of the classes of Wes-
ley NJ. E. Church here. Thus under his
roof secular, religious and legislative bust
ness found place
On the West.
Immediately adjoining the exchange on
the west was the house of Miss Gurley.
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| from The London Truth
A case just reported from Portsmouth az
fords a striking proof Of the severity with
which punishments are melted out in the
navy for trifiing offenses \ man nam.d
Fletcher entered the service as a boy in
1851 At the age of eighteen ne became. an
ordinary seaman, able seaman soon after
ward, and on passing in gunnery. etc.
leading seaman. He then passed the ex-
animation for ships corporal which rank
he obtained in 1893, since which he has
served on four or five different ships with
constant record OF "N. c." for conduct
and abilities. Some little time since, how
ever, when serving the Prince George,
ne committed the offense Of permitting tho
dinner OF his mess to be cooked al the
WardfOom galley. There was no allegation
tnat the mess was actually obtaining ward
room food and when the man was deprived
OF a good conduct badge and reduced in
character to Good ii might have been
thought that the justice of the case had
been met The admiralty. however, were
Of a different opinion. for they have since
ordered that Fletcher shall ne reduced from
ships corporal on Is. Id. per day to A. b.
on Is. 100, and, owing to other cirCum-
stances which one need not go inNo, il will
be practically impossible for him TO re-
cover his former position. This man has a
wife and two children, which he cannot
possibly maintain, and would never have
attempted to maintain, on Is. 10d a day,
so that If this decision is allowed to stand
he will have no option hut to leave the
service, and the navy will lose a thorough
ly well-trained and competent sailor Are
they plentiful that we can afford to
throw them away in this manner?
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speech of welcome, to which he responded
followed by a reception.

speech of welcome, to Which he responded,
followed by a reception.
Other Old Houses.
The adjoining stables, long known as
Humphreys, We're originally conducted by
Jim Smith, colored, and he was succeeded
by Mr.. John Brown, connected with the
Baltimore and other stage lines, who in the
4O's sold out to Mr.. Humphrey.
Near the corner of 9th street was the
coach and blacksmith shop of Mr.. John
Young, then conducted in a small frame, a
frame restaurant and the magistrates Of
flee of c. T. Coote. Opposite was the loca-
ton of the offices of the Washington Gas
Light Company on its opening for business
in the 40's.
The National Hotel building was one story
less in height than now, but occupied
the same ground. In it, in a room over
looking 9th and streets, Henry Clay died
in 1852.
Circus and Theater.
On the south side of c street in the 30's
was the Circus building, used also a
theater, on the site of Havenneris bakery.
This was under the management of Buck
ley, and among those recalled are Joe Pent-
land, an English trick clown, who came
here after Cooks circus had been destroy
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Old Exchange Hotel.

NJ. Gilbert, II was regarded with increased
favor Mr.. Gilbert having in the western
part of the city made quite name as a
caterer He so conducted it that he could
seldom accommodate transents after the
opening of Congress. Hannibal Hamln af-
terward vice president, and other Maine
congressman and number of the Ohio
delegation stopped with him. A number of
these followed him when he moved to the
St. Charles at Sd street. 1t Is said that
during this decade-lS40 to 1S50-many con-
hdential consultations were held here re-
garding slavery and the work of prepara-
ton for the advent of the republican party
In the COS Mr.. Gilbert located nearer the