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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-01
OUR COOKING SCHOOL.
Beef Roll.

Take lib. beef steak (or pieces OF
inferior beef, " lb. lean ham or bacon,
Il lib. bread crumbs, little more than
half grated nutmeg, pepper and salt
to taste. Mince and mix we'll to-
gether, adding two beaten eggs; make
in the shape of a sausage roll; tie
very tightly in a cloth, and boil for
three hours. Glaze and serve cold.
Scrapple.
Boil any kind of meat until tender.
Then separate from bones and chop.
Sprinkle with pepper and sage If de-
sired, and salt the liquor in which you
boil the meat. Put the chopped meat
back in the liquor, and while boil
ing stir in meal until Of the con-
sistency of mush. Pour in milk crock,
and when cold slice and fry. 1t is
very nice for breakfast.
Collared Fowl.
Boil the fowl in sufficient water to
cover it until the meat comes off the
bones easily. The head and feet and
any other bones may be boiled with
1t to improve the stock, also large
onion stuck with 3 or cloves and a
bunch Of herbs. Oil mould, place
round it slices of ham or bacon cooked.
and three hard boiled eggs cut into
slices, fill the mould with the fowl cut
up in pieces after removed from the
bones. Have soaked in readiness 1 OF.
Of isinglass, or gelatine in little water
for an hour. Add it to ~ pints Of the
stock, hot, with little sauce, pepper,
salt to taste, and pour over the meat;
fill quite full, and when cold turn out
into a dish. This is delicious dish
for breakfast or supper Rabbit may
be done in the same way, and is ex-
cellent.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-18
LONDON PRESS THINKS
BOERS MEAN TO FIGHT

LONDON, Sept. 1S.-The Morning
Post SAYS: "The Beers mean to fight.
That is the plain English of it"
The Standard says: THE Transvaal
note is unsatisfactory, and, indeed. a
dangerous composition. 1t might be go
ing too far to say that the last hope OF
peace has vanished or that diplomacy
has said it's final word. but 1t idle to
deny that the rulers Of the Transvaal
have brought their country very close
to the brink of a disaster, which the
British Government has done its best
TO avert"
The Daily Mail says: President
Kruger's defiance has terminated a
long period of unrest and uncertainty
in South Africa, for, whatever may be
the issue Of the present situation, one
thing is certain that duaIism in South
Africa will end forever"
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CLOUDS OF WAR AGAIN
HOVER OVER TRANSVAAL

The Daily Chronicle says: I'VE re-
gret that the Beers, by rejecting a
fair offer made in fair language, have
taken a line giving fresh points to the
argument of their enemies that Presi-
dent Kruger is shifty and imprac-
ticable politician, fit only to be spoken
to across a line of bayonets."
These extracts fairly represent press
opinion in London. All the papers
characterize the attempt to represent
Conyngham Greene as suggesting the
TransvaaPs former proposals as mere
shifty prevarications.
The Pretoria correspondent of the
Morning Post in his summary of the
TransvaaPs reply, says the Transvaal
repudiates suzerainty and the right of
interference and denies that either
State Attorney Smuts or the Govern
ment offered a five years franchise
otherwise than on Conyngham Greene's
assurance that the imperial Govern
ment would withdraw its claim of a
right to interfere in the Transvaal S
internal affairs. The correspondent
adds: THE reply anticipates a final
alternative of a British note by saying
that further suggestions on the line in
dicated are vain"
Daily Mail says: Northumberland cir
cles profess to have information that
President Mckinley has interviewed be-
tween Great Britain and the Trans
vaal. Sir Alfred Miner. British High
Commissioner, in reply to a correspond
ent who had requested information re-
garding the position Of British subjects
in the Orange Free State in the event
of hostilities, has replied that he is un-
aware of anything in the relations be-
tween the imperial Government and the
Orange Free State which would Justify
hostile action on the latter's part. and
expressed the opinion that it would be
equally contrary to international law to
order out British subjects against the
Queens soldiers or to utilize them in
such a manner as to set free a corre-
spending number of burghers for SER
vice against her Matesry's troops. This
is O most opportune pronouncement. as
the Orange Free State purposes COM
manding British subjects to guard the
Basutoland border"
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JUSTICE THROTTLED
BY A BIASED JUDGE
Magistrate Rodden, Caught at His Game,
Attempts to Destroy Evidence Against
Himself.

" AN RAFAEL, Sept. 17.-Justice
> of tie Peace G. Rodden is making
Van effor, to use his office to pun
- ish those with whom he has had
personal differences. If this mag
istrate were given a free rein no man
who engendered his displeasure would
be safe. In his hands the machinery
of court of law is a dangerous weapon
with which it appears he would not
hesitate to punish the innocent or mulct
the defenseless. The measure by which
this Judge deals out law to the unfor-
tunates whose unlucky star leads them
to his court is the question of friend or
foe. And woe to the foe who falls into
the clutches of Justice of the Peace
Rodden. TO such the wheels of his
court machinery turns to grind their
very bones. No quarter is shown
They are enemies of the Judge and JUS
tice is not for them.
The Call has caught this tyrant in
the very act of condemning a defendant
who had not been given a hearing; of
preparing to punish a man who in the
eyes of the law is innocent of crime,
because he has not been proven guilty;
OIL sealing the Idlet OIL lDlS UldH, So ldT
as lay within his power, before he had
been given an opportunity to be heard
in court.
Citizens of Marin County, how does
such picture strike you? Those of you
who are lovers of liberty and upholders
of the law, how do you fancy the idea
of liberty and law being throttled by
an INSCRIPTIONS, venomous person who
has Wormed himself into office upon the
promise that he would deal out justice?
Those of you who take pride in your
county, can you look your fellows
squarely in the face when the proof
goes forth that no mans peace or hap
piness is safe in your midst who has
caused the displeasure [ your town
ship magistrate G.. Rodden, Car of the
Justice Court of San Rafael by the
grace of himself and the permission of
the Clan Cochrane?
Caught at his work this man
squirmed like snake robbed of its
fangs and deprived of it's venom, and
then sought to cover up his tracks by
a clumsy effort to mutilate the records
of his court; to blot out the words
from a document that proved his unfit
ness to preside in a court of justice; to
conceal the evidence which showed him
to be prejudiced and narrow, vindict-
i've and vicious.
He admitted his prejudice when cor
nered: he admitted that the man whom
he intended to punish was his enemy,
and vet he had not The manhood to re-
fuse to try the case, where the defend
ants liberty was at stake, when he
stopped to consider that he had a
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EVASIVE REPLY OF
B0ERS TO GREAT BRITAIN

LONDON, Sept. 1S.-The reply Of the
Transvaal to Mr.. Chamberlains latest
note is said to cover nine pages. 1t is
eminently Of the negative and inclu-
sive" character which Mr.. Chamber
lain declared would compel the imperial
government to consider the situation
afresh. 1t practically repudiates suze-
rainty, reverts to the seven years
franchise and declines to give equality
to the Dutch and English languages in
the Volksraad.
In short, it is politely negative and
defiant The full text may not be
available for a day or two, but 1t will
not change the aspects Of affairs. The
Cabinet will probably meet on Wednes-
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naval officials that the Detroit will
surely arrive at La Guayra by to-mor-
row or Tuesday. In a dispatch to the
State Department received yesterday
and mentioned in the Herald this morn
ing, Mr.. Russell, Charge d'Affaires,
suggested that another warship besides
the Detroit be ordered to Puerto Ca
ballo, and Acting Secretary Allen noti-
fed the State Department that the
Nashville, now at Gibara, Cuba, could
be sent if desired. 1t is understood.
however, as indicated, that the State
Department will await a full report on
the situation which Commander Hemp
hill will make Immediately upon his
arrival.
The dispatch announcing that the in
surrectionary forces had reached Mara
cay has for the first time caused admin
istration officials to doubt the ability of
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r ONDON, Sept 1S.-All dispatches
from South Africa this morning
talk of the imminence Of hostili-
- ties and the preparations for
them. In Johannesburg it seems
to be taken for granted that the Orange
Free State has approved President
Kruger's not and promised active as
distance in the event of war.
An official telegram posted at Volks-
rust says that the Transvaal, with the
assent of the Orange Free State, repu-
dates British suzerainty and adheres
to the seven years franchise.
At Cape Town 1t is reported that Mr..
Hofmeyer, the Afrikander leader, sent
a communication to President Steyn of
the Orange Free State, entreating him
to do his utmost to preserve peace, but
that he received in answer the words {:
Too late"
All military men agree that 1t is out
of the question to begin hostile opera
tions before the middle of next month,
no rain having fallen and the veldt be-
ing still bare.
1t is supposed that the next move
contemplated by the Transvaal is an
appeal to the powers, begging them to
recommend arbitration on the lines Of
the conference at The Hague.
There was a serious disturbance in
the market square OF johannesburg on
Saturday afternoon. A meeting called
by a labor agitator named Balm to con-
denim the British policy and to enroll
volunteers TO f1ent for the Beers led to
serious fights with the police, lasting a
couple Of hours Many persons were
injured. among them the recently noto-
rious DR.. Matthews, who made charge
against a mounted policeman. An i'm
mense crowd, singing Rule Britain
MA" accompanied him to the police
office
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interests the public What the public
is concerned in is that Perkins is
charged with a crime before court
where all the laws of the land, where
the PRINCIPLES that form the founda-
ton of the nation, give him the right
to expect justice and the distinction of
being considered as innocent of crime
AZ tie unborn babe until his guilt is
proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Perkins has not been tried. No evil
dence either for or against him has
been produced in court. His case has
not even been set for hearing. Yet at
this status of the prosecution. without
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THE EVIDENCE OF RODDENS VINDICTIVENES5

spected previously, without the knowl-
edge or consent Of the Judge, and q
copy made of the inscription that was
to condemn Perkins to the Rodden
punishment.
The Judge was docile until the words
that show his bias were turned to.
AS the newspaper representatives in
spected them closely he was visibly
agitated. He turned pale and began
to tremble like a man with the palsey.
From appearances he fully appreciated
that he had been trapped.
I'VE would like to photograph this;
judge
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chance to even up an old score and
wreak his vengeance on man whose
greatest fault seems to have been in
knowing too much about Rodden and
not being afraid to tell it.
A few days ago M. F. Cochrane
swore to a complaint before this mis-
cradle magistrate, charging John D..
Spreckels, proprietor of The Call, and
Frank L. Perkins, the San Rafael cor
respondent With criminal libel. Per-
kins was arrested and taken before
Rodden, and is now enjoying his lib
erty because he furnished bonds. Rod
den is no lover of Perkins. What their
differences may be is not matter that
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Heavens! That was too much. Pho
tograph it! Never! Negatives do not
lie. Rodden grabbed the document from
one of the reporters and held on to it as
though it were a priceless treasure
by the unfeeling newspaper men. No
amount of argument could turn him
from his determination to conceal from
the public the evidence of his incapa
bility an of the fact that his official
head should be unceremoniously sew
cred from the rest of his being.
He claimed that his office was closed
on Sunday and that therefore the pa
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they have haC no personal differences.
Rodden wrote the words quoted
above. When cornered he confessed
that the Endorsement of APerkins' pre-
sumed guilt was a little premature,
and then blurted out like a spanked
schoolboy that Perkins had not treated
him fairly; that he had caused to be
printed things that pricked the thin
Rodden hide. He admitted his ami
mus This was the reason he had
jumped at the opportunity to try thu
Perkins case. 1t was his chance to get
revenge on a presumed enemy, and it
appears that this is the Judges highest
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the Government to suppress the insur-
rection. Maracay is near Valencia and
on the road connecting that city with
Caracas. The capital has no defenses,
and it is thought that Castro is moving
toward that point with a view of in
vesting it and proclaiming a revolu-
tionary party Government.
Senor Pulido, Venezuelan Charge
d'Affaires, said tonight: Il am unable
to give any reason for the return of
President Andrade to Caracas, for arn
without official information concerning
the progress Of the revolution. I am
confident, however, that he participated
in any battles that may have occurred
with his usual bravery, judgment and
skill and that his return to Caracas is
for the purpose of taking fresh meas
ures for suppressing the insurrec-
ton"
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RoDDENs DAUBs THAT FAILED no BAFFLE THE CAMERA

idea of the purpose of his court.
Driven into a corner this person took
refuge behind the childish explanation
that he had written the telltale words
before he realized that Perkins had not
been held, and claimed that they were
Of no force and did not foreshadow his
final decision be ause he had not ap-
pended his signature.
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one iota of testimony having been
taken, before the ink on the complaint
has had a chance to dry, Justice G.
Rodden tries the issue in his own mind
measures the defendant as a fancie6
enemy, consequently finding him
guilty, and, having determined on the
verdict when the matter comes regu-
larly for trial, makes the following in
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per was not a public document and
could not be inspected any further
This thing doe Lot amount to any,
thing anyhow" whined the cornered
magistrate. 81 have not signed it. OF
course it is in my handwriting, but
that makes no difference I did not re-
alize that Perkins had not been held
when I wrote it. Please go and tell
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When representatives of The Call in
timated to him hat it was tie inten-
tion of the paper to expose the whole
matter Rodden ran his pencil through
the writing, and later when the news
paper men were absent he made an in
effectual attempt to erase the inscrip-
ton.
Two Call reporters and d photog-
rapher visited the Justice this morn
ing and requested permission to in
spect the complaint. 1t had been in
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ARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. IL
Prncilant Andr.ndn hnr ,-ot,1rrad

NARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. IL
President Andrade has returned
to this city after his disastrous
~ defeat at the hands of the revolu-
tionary army under Cipriano
Castro. The latter continues his victO-
rious advance, and has reached Mara
cay.
The Cabinet is doing everything pos
sible to prevent blOodshed in Caracas.
There is great excitement. The Eng
lish, French. and American Ministers
have asked Their respective Govern
ments for war vessels
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-Until a
report is made on the matter by
Commander Hemphill of the Detroit,
showing the need of another ship, the
State Department will not ask the
Navy Department to order the Nash
vile to Venezuelan waters. 1t is said by
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Frank L. Perkins guilty
thereof, / order that he
be held to answer to the
same and committed to-

His dis Honor had evidently not de-
cided whether to commit the defendant
to a slow death by being dipped in
boiling oil or give him life imprison-
ment at San Quentin.
1t is we'll to note that the name of
John D. Spreckels is not mentioned in
the Rodden decree. Rodden had no
acquaintance with Mr.. Spreckels and
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dorsement on the back of the com
plaint:
1t appearing to me that
the offense i'm the within
deposition mentioned has
been committed, and that
there is sufficient cause to
believe the within named
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Street Scene in Caracas Showing Capital Building the Left


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~ CARTERVILLE ILL.,. Sept. IL
Carterville was the scene Of a
bloody riot between white and ne
~ gro miners to-day. Six negroes
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-07-07

and a golf cap to Kennedy. both 81
which we're found 10 his apartments
Perhaps one Of the strongest biN Of
evidence brought forward by the state
was the positive Identification Of Ken.
nedy BY a bell-boy named Lenahan az
the man who had gone unstairs with
Miss Reynolds and later had tried &c
slip out unnoticed.
The death-dealing instrument which
Kennedy had used was another strone
link in the convicting chain. II was
a long piece Of gas pipe inclosing g
piece OF lead pipe, closed at one end
with solder and wound at the Other
with bicycle tape. Il was shown or
the stand by the evidence OF the pris.
oner's own father that he and his sor
had been working the day Of the muir
der repairing a kitchen sink. during
which they used solder. lead and gas
pipe. The prisoners father also ad.
mitted that his son rode a bicycle. and
that he had often seen hiuD With bl.
cycle tape. The Importance Of the
admission as to the solder will be seer
when it is known that the solder on
the murderer's weapon was fresh, and
according to plumbers, had been melted
on that day. Many other little bits
Of evidence we're brought out by the
state at the trial, which, combined
with the more important points, added
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-07-07
Media Hold Her PrIsoner.

jamestown Journal: While operating
a sewing machine at her home IN Wesi
Seventh street Wednesday Afternoon
Miss Agnes Folder had the misfortune
to get her finger under the machin'
needle, which penetrated 1t. The nee
die became bent in the operation, ant
it was impossible for her to turn tint
machine so as to withdraw 1t. Beint
alone in the house at the time, sht
was a sure enough prisoner, and coult
not attract attention by her cries tol
help for fully an hour. Finally Lione
o. Robertson heard her while passint
the house. He went to the rescue, bul
could not turn the machine to releas'
the unfortunate young woman. A ma
chinist and a physician were sent for
On the arrival Of the machinist he wal
compelled to take the machine apar.
before Miss Folder could be released
The physician then extracted the nee.
die, and the wound will soon heal, bul
the experience is one which will doubt.
less be remembered by the victim fol
a long time.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-07-07

The youngest college president in the
United States is Mr.. Jerome H. Ray
mond, who no further back than TWEEN.
ty years ago was a ~12-year-old news
boy in Chicago. The way TO success,
lay through stenography. Becoming
an expert he was appointed private
secretary to Pullman. the palace car
magnate. and afterward to Miss VIII
lard, whose great correspondence he
attended to for four years. At the
same time he studied diligently. He
went to college, was graduated, and
accepted the chair Of sociology in q
small western hall Of learning. While
attending classes he was never beaten
at study but once. and that was by
young lady. He straightWay married
her. She now assists him-in presiding
oyer the destinies of the University o.
West Virginia.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-07-07

Glass or People who fnhabit the Apps
lnnhIan MAnnlnlna.

Among the social virtues Of the
mOuntnineer hospitality has a high
place. says William GoOdell Frost IN
the March Atlantic. This virtue Is to
be found IN solitary places the world
over. Its two hlending motives are
compassion for o stranger and curl
Oslty to learn whatever news he may
bring, and both motives are credible.
While we cannot here trace all the so
cial codes Of mountain life, It Is Inn
portant to note that there nre social
codes and moral standards which M
most strictly observed. Herein the
mountain white shows his genus. It
Is his social standards and his indie
pendent spirit that prove his worth, or
at least his promise. He is not a de-
graded being. although, to tell the
truth. he has not yet been graded up.
The poor whites were degraded by
actual competition with slave labor.
The mountain whites had little con-
tact with slavery, and retained that in
dependent spirit which everywhere be
longs to the owners of land. Mr.. John
Fox, Jr.. Is responsible for the stale
ment that when a man was sent with
a sum of money to relieve distress In a
NNAMA WENHAA ANNNM MAHAA III III NAN mum
tains Of Kentucky he could find lone
who would confess their need, and
rode for days without being able to
execute his commission. The noun
taineer Is not a suppliant for old
clothes. Even when bestowed they
are likely to prove too short in the
sleeves. And this reminds us that
when John Fox gave a reading from
his Cumberland tales in Berea the
mountain boys were ready to mob him.
They had no comprehension Of the
nature Of fiction. Mr.. FOX's stories
were either true or false. If they were
true, then he was nj gentleman for
telling all the family affairs of people
who had entertained him with their
best in the mountains. IL they were
not true, then, of course, they were
libelOus upon the mountain people
Such an attitude may remind us of tn,
general condemnation of fiction by tn,
uncO' guide a generation ago.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-07-07

strengthening threads to the web thai
entangled Kennedy.
The defense did not care to put Ken.
needy on the witness stand for his Owl
defense, as previous to the trial he hat
made such conflicting statements as t.
his whereabouts and actions on tn,
eventful night that it was believed thu
cross-examination by the state IL
which these would be introduced woult
hurt his case very much. It was sough
to be shown that Kennedy was not a
the hotel on the night OF Aug. Is, bu
the alibi broke down in vital points
and the record Of previous good be
havior which the defense brought for
ward counted for nothing. The de
Tense then had to content itself witt
picking flaws in the evidence Of tn
various witnesses for the prosecution
Some Of the scenes Of the trial werl
quite dramatic, notably when thu
father Of the accused was forced tl
admit certain telling circumstances
The jury was not long out, and wa
unanimous for conviction when polled
Thus circumstantial evidence, indirec.
but strong, has scored another victory
and the electric chair viii soon claim
another victim unless 'vernor in.
t~erferes.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-07-07

Mr.. Breidenthai. the state bank ex-
aminer Of Kansas. who Is the most
popular and influential Of the Populist
leaders, asserts that the value OF the
agricultural crops and live stock pro-
duced by the farmers Of Kansas dur
ing the last eve years was greater
than the national debt Of the United
S-tates-nearly $1,000 100000. Nv.
Breidenthal is the highest authority IN
the state on this subject, and the fact
that he is a pOpulist relieves his state
ment from any suspicion Of political
prejudice.