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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

Dreadful Exp~risree - Survivors Of
wreck In AustraIisn Waters.
That Ii a terrible story OF shipwreck
the details Of which the last Austral-
ian mall brings. The bark Loeb Sloy,
Captain Nicol, had been lib days out
from Glasgow, and was almost In
sight of her first port (Adelaide), when
in the early morning she came to ut
ter wreck on the southern point of
Kangaroo Island. or thirty-aye souls
on board four only got ashore through
the surf-two seamen, an apprentice,
and passenger named Fitzpatrick.
The last named only escaped the
waves to meet death Of lingering
torture on land. The three others have
been rescued in the last stages of mis-
cry and exhaustion. The grimmest
feature In this grim story is that no
one had an inkling Of the catastrophe
until 1t was fortnight old.
No one dreamed that human beings
were struggling and starving and per-
fishing within a few miles of succor
until fortnight later one Of the ship
wrecked sailors (Iacmillan,, In state
of utter collapse, reached a settlers
house some twenty miles from Cape
Borda. He and his wrecked compan-
ions had lived for days on food washed
ashore from the wreck. He, as the
strongest, had wandered away to get
them water, and on his second return,
after two days absence, had found
them gone. Sometimes, half delirious
he had roamed the island alone, until
by following the Rocky River he
struck habitation.
Search parties Immediately scat
tered out, and next day one of the
lighthouse keepers from Cape Borda
came upon two more survivors, the
apprentice, w. j. Simpson, lad OF
eighteen, and the other seaman, Will
lam Mitchell. They were crawling
along in an awful condition, clothed in
few rags, with torn feet, and with
strength only to lift head and groan
in answer to the call of rescue. For
time, count of which was lost, they
had lived upon limpets and two dead
penguins they had found, the remains
of which were suspended round their
necks. together with flask Of water.
In the early days of their misery, Kill
patrick, tile passenger, who was too
weak to climb, had been hauled by
them up cliff one hundred feet high,
with a rope made by tearing into
strips roll of flannel washed ashore.
Later on he had refused. despite their
entreaties, to leave water-hole they
had encountered on the way. His body
is ali the rescuers can now hope to
find
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

City Council Of Oakland, Nd, has
taken advanced ground by passing an
ordinance prohibiting the throwing
OF rice at newly married couples in
that place, and providing severe
penalties for violations of the act.
The practice appears to have been
seriously over. worked in the town,
so much so in fact that the neighbor-
hood was recently threatened with a
rice famine. The custom might be
tolerated if the rice throwers would
only tie their offerings in stout bags
or put it into barrels, so that the re-
cipients could take the grain home
with them for household use. There
would be an element of utility in that
sort of thing that sensible people
would appreciate, whereas the present
method is inherently pernicious in
that it sets an example of extravaganza
to young persons ut h time of life
when they should be taught the i'm
portancs Of domestic economy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

An English murderess has been
hanged in spite of strenuous efforts
to obtain her reprieve. The lady
seems to have gained great sympathy;
her only crime was that she sent
poisoned cake to her sister, whose
life she had insured for her own
benefit. Such a thrifty use of re-
latives seems to have caught the pop
ular fancy, and had she been freed
she probably would not have lacked
marriage opportunities. But Eng
lish justice refused to be swayed by
the merciful heart of the public, and
the lady was prevented from enjoying
the fruits of her enterprise.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

1t is an extraordinary thing that in
the international college games in
1894 and since the Englishmen carried
off most of the honors in the runs,
and the Americans excelled in hammer
throwing and weight-putting As re-
CARDS the running, the Englishmen
must be credited with more endur-
ance, and the conclusion seems just
that the American college has more
muscular strength, for in feats of
strength the Englishmen made a
sorry showing.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

1t is computed that in New York
City. there are $500 barber shops
and %. GOO BARRIERS. For long time
the BARRIERS were chiefly Germans, OF
Americana of German descent but
within ten years the Germans have
lost their control of the business.
having been superseded by Italians.
Some former German "bosses" are
now employees; others have retired
from the business and others still
have been obliged to seek other work.
Meantime their Italian successors are
making money,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24
School Of Whales Driven Ashore.

A large school of bottle-nose whales
recently appeared or Thurso sands,
England, and were driven ashore on
the sands. The sea was red with their
blood as they lay fioundering. and 1O4
were captured. Most Of them meas
ured twenty feet in length. The catch
lies close to the fisher part of the town
and the authorities dread that they
will be run into considerable expense
by having to remove the cprcasses for
sanitary reasons.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

A record has been made in the
Schuylkill County PENN Court that
was never before equalled. In one
day the grand jury ignored forty-nine
bills of indictment out of sixty
that were passed upon. The costs
were placed on the prosecutors in all
but one case for bringing before the
court trivial cases, and the magistrates
escaped.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

The Rocky Mountain states-Mon-
tana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and
New Mexico-where silver mining
was the chief industry few years
ago, have all found compensation for
the decline in this industry by going
diligently into gold mining, and their
total annual production of precious
metals is actually greater in value
than 1t was in the great days OF high
priced silver bullion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24
bright Idea.

"How did the burglars happen to
miss your jewelry?"
"Only yesterday morning something
told me they were not safe In the to-
mato can In the cellar where I usu-
ally keep them, and / had accordingly
concealed them In n jewel case In my
room."-Detroit Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

EW uar11. ~
aave you heard e the valley Of Baby
y land. -.
The realm where the dear little dar-
lings stay,
TIL the kind storks go, as all men
And. oh, SO tenderly bring them
away? t -
The paths are winding and past all
finding,
BY all save the storks who under
stand ~.
The gates and the highways and the
intricate byways
That lead to Babyland.
All over the Valley of Babyland
Sweet flowers bloom In the soft green
moss;
And under the ferns fair, and under
the plants there,
Lie little heads like spools Of floss.
With soothing number the river Of
slumber
Flows Ger bedway of silver sand;
And angels are keeping watch DER the
sleeping
Babes of Babyland.
The path to the Valley of Babyland
Only the kingly, kind storks know;
If they fly over mountains, or wade
through fountains,
No man sees them come or 60.
But an angel maybe, who guards some
baby,
Or fairy perhaps, with her magic
wand,
Brings them straightway to the won
derful gateway
That leads to Babyland.
And there in the Valley of Babyland,
Under the MOSES and leaves and
ferns,
Like an unfledged starting, they find
the darling,
For whom the heart of mother
yearns;
And they lift him lightly, and snug
him tightly
In feathers soft as lady's hand
And Off with rockaway step they
Out Of Babyland.
AS they go from the Valley of Baby
land,
Forth into the world Of great unrest,
Sometimes in weeping, he wakes from
sleeping
Before he reaches the mothers
breast.
All, how she blesses him, how she
caresses him,
Bonniest bird in the bright home
band,
That DER land and water, the kind
stork brought her
From far off Babyland.
ELLA WELLER WILCOX.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

A German legal decision holds that
the ladies-in-waiting of the Prussian
Court are servants. Almost any
American household will testify that
the reverse is here true and that do
mestic servants are simply ladies-in-
waiting.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24
A Problem soIveS.

There's the smartest little woman
that ever took hold Of this servant
girl problem" said the old gentleman,
pointing with pride to his only
daughter.
"How's she going ut itr'
@,Gettin' mp n popular song to ideal
he dish washin',''--Detroit Free Press
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

The second years trial of manual
labor teaching in the Garrison colored
school OF Kansas City according to
the Kansas City Star has abundantly
justified the wisdom Of the experiment..
The boys have got on we'll with the
woodwork, and the girls have pro-
fitted by the winters course in sew
ing. The pupils have not lost ground
in the scholastic department. but
furnish their full proportion of grad
yates who will enter the high schools
Books have not suffered from the use
Of chisel and plane and needle and
thimble. 1t is suggested that this
good work among the colered scholars
be extended and that something like
an industrial high school shall be es-
tablished, something on the line Of
the industrial high school the white
children enjoy, at least the selection
Of school where pupils from all the
colored schools who dsGre industrial
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

Two Americans in Korea dispersed
.. 900 Koreans who were attacking the
employees Of the trolley system. This
establishes . new ratio of American
supremacy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

2 Kansas City, Mo-, has established
IN institute particularly for substitute
teachers, in order that they may be
kept up to the modern methods Of
teaching.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

Guest--what have you got?
waiter--rve got liver, Calls brains,
pigs feet 49,.
Gucst-I don't want description of
yonr physical peculIarities. What
You have got to eat Is what L want to
know.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

esueasion could gather, ssy. for -
hour each day Tas suggsstion of IN
addition to or improvement In on;
school system il usually followed BY
consideration aud adoption.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24
why they Didn't Suit.

"III have to have these collars ex-
changed" she said. They'll never
do ut ALL" 40
1.-THE one you have on looks all
right" he asserted.
YPreposterousv' she replied. at
isn't high enough to feel uncomfort-
able under the chin. Post.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

press or the animal kingdom driving
them in blue tights, all ready for the
hoop act she does on the Trakene
stallions-oh, it's immense! But you
can't send anywhere and get gated
CRATES now. There's no more to be
had, and there won't be until the Sou
dan gets fairly opened.
Things had been going from bad to
worse for several years and the ami
NAL market had gone pretty short on
CRATES when Gordon went up there
to pacify the Soudan and convert old
Muddy Even as early as that we
could see that the man who got the
first CRATES out would make lot of
money. So another fellow and myself
put our heads together and figured
that we might turn the money into our
own pockets just as well as not. Both
Of us knew the trade well and the
country Just as well, SO 1t was the toss
Of a coin who should go after the
game and who should attend to mar
keting 1t. He won the toss and chose
to go up the river. Now, you know
Gordon was every inch the officer and
gentleman. and you couldn't go to him
and show him the way to let you work
his convoy for private deal in gil
RATES.. But he did want men who had
had experience in the Soudan country
and who could patter the lingo. On
that score my mate got taken on with
Gordon's expedition. but the thing he
meant to do was TO nip or as soon as
II was safe to do so and run the first
consignment OF giraffes down the river
to me, so that we could he the first to
reap the advantages OF the high
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
TRIAL OF JACK KENNEDY is VERY
NEAR THE END.
SPEEDY CONVICTION EXPECTED
1T MAY TAKE LONGER TO AGREE ON
A PENALTY.
william Jennings to Be Tried as Soon
as Kennedy Case Goes to Jury
William Wright to De
Prosecuted for
Perjury.

HARTVILLE, MO, June 19.-(Special.)
Arguments in the Kennedy case have been
in progress all day and this evening. They
will be concluded tomorrow morning and
the case will be given to the jury about
noon. 1t is the general belief that the jury
will make short work of finding Kennedy
guilty, but it may take some time to agree
on the penalty-whether it shall be death
or only a term in prison.
William Jennings will be the next ac-
cused robber tried. Judge Cox to-day or
dered a jury in the Jennings case, which
will be taken up as soon as the Kennedy
case has gone to the jury.
Colonel Musick opened the argument in
Kennedy's behalf at o'clock this morning.
He bore down hard on the alleged failure
of the state to prove that Davis and
Kennedy are one and the same man. Then
he branched off into a rabid denunciation
of corporations in general and railroad and
express companies in particular, declaring
that they have come here to hound an in
nocent man to his DEATH
Colonel Musick talked four hours. This
afternoon, w. ]. Orr, of West Plains, talked
at length for the state, and the other law
ycrs followed. Two have yet to speak.
Prosecuting Attorney Ball this morning
swore out a warrant for the arrest of Will
liam Wright. of Norwood, for perjury.
Wright testified Saturday that Byrum, the
confessor told him that he was to receive
$500 and forty acres of land for testifying in
the case, and declared that Mrs. Byrum
says Wright lied, and Prosecutor Ball is
determined to punish him for it.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
GENERAL WOOD ARRIVES.
brings to Boston an Optimistic Story
as to Condition of Affairs
i'm CruIRa.

BOSTON, June 19-The Boston Fruit
Sompany's steamer Admiral Dewey. which
arrived here to-day, brought among her
passengers Major General Leonard Wood
military governor of Santiago de Cuba. !.
Mrs. Wood and their two children. Cen
eral Wood was escorted to a steam launch
and conveyed TO the New York, where he
had conference with Admiral Samnson
Later General Wood talked about CIIba,, :,
affairs. BE said:
Everything is quiet in Santiago nrov-
1nce. Every man who is entitled to re-
ceive the United States bounty is being
paid, and he is very glad to get II, or
course, there are few agitators man
who want to control, whose ambitions baTa
not been gratified, but they do not amount
TO anything.
''The condition on the island is iunroy-
ing daily. The houses are being rebuiIt
and a large number of the people are al
work in the fields. "'
Prior TO my departure" said the pan-
eral' made a visit to every town of
any size in the province, and did not re-
ceive one application for assistance. The
inhabitants are anxious to have their
schools rebuilt and they seem anxious thar
the younger element should go to school.
The troops are healthy There ba G
been no yellow fever since last Noyenhe1.
and the death rate is about as low as IN
IS in any good-sized town here We are
making good headway in the sanitary ar
rangements and the people are beginning
10 appreciate the changes"
General Wood said that there was M
feeling in Cuba about the disposal of the
revenue.
General Wood left for New York and
Washington this afternoon. He expects 10
return here for the Harvard commence
ment, when, 1t is understood. he will re-
ceive a degree from the university. he
expects TO go back to Cuba about July l.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
PLANS OF BoERs.
Gen. Joubert Expects to Win War
in Two Weeks-To Move on
Kimberley First.

LONDON, June 19.-The St, James Ga
zette this afternoon claims to have received
from an absolutely reliable source at Pre-
toria, capital of the Transvaal, the plan of
campaign which will be followed by Gen
eral Joubert, commander-in-chief of the
Beers, in the event of war between the
Transvaal and Great Britain.
General Joubert's force, it appears, will
consist of 20.0O0 men armed with Mauser
rifles, in addition to forty-six quick-firing
guns and 1000 artillerymen, most of them
drawn from the German and Dutch ar
mics.
With these troops, and help expected
from the Orange Free State, Joubert eX-
poets to take the offensive Immediately
after the declaration of war, enter Orange
Free State and march on Kimberley,
the British diamond mining center in West
Griqualand, which forms four of the sew
enty divisions of Cape Colony. Kimberley
is about 100 miles northwest of Bloemfon-
tein. In his march on Kimberley, Joubert
will use the railroad as far as available.
He expects to capture the town with slight
loss and blow up the DeBeers diamond
mine Simultaneously, it is added, the rail-
road from Cape Town to Bulawayo will be
destroyed by Boer sympathizers and agents
in Cape Colony who will destroy the Port
Elizabeth-Pretoria line south of Bloemfon-
teIn to prevent British troops using it
Finally, Immediately after Kimberley is
captured, General Joubert will advance on
Cape Town, the capital of Cape Colony,
through the western provinces, where the
Dutch predominant, and are expected to
Join the Beers Joubert calculates that he
will be master of Cape Town in a fortnight
after the declaration of war and that he
will then be able to dictate terms of peace
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail says:
1.-The government has forwarded bat
| terry of heavy guns to Kimberly for the
defense of the diamond fields. There is
great activity in the Cape imperial COM
| mand and munitions of war are being sent
| northward in large quantities
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
THE DEMON DRINK. .
How 1t Can BE Cured Mt Home With
out Publicity.

No man who is not entirely lost to
sense of moral responsibility can help de-
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be on any point. the drink curse in but
very few cases is too strong to be con-
uuered by unaided effort. That drunken
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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
LAND TITLES IN COURT.
Governments Suit to Recover 1,SOO
Farms in Kansas Argued
Yesterday.

LEAvENWoRTH. KAS.. June 19.-(Spe-
cial) The case brought by the government
to annull the title to 1850 farms included
in a government grant to the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad, reaching from
Junction City to Parsons, was argued be-
fore Judge Hook in the federal court to-
night The government was represented
by w. 2. Perry, former United States dis
trict attorney, and the railroad by T. n.
Sedwick, of Parsons.
The government claims that the grant
was for ten sections of land mile for
about 140 miles, to be taken from the odd
numbered sections in radius of ten miles
on each side of the track, when not pre-
viously disposed of. 1t is set forth that
twenty miles on Union Pacific near juno
ton City and twenty near Emporia on the
Santa Fe had been previously granted to
these roads, also that along the L., L. &
G.tnow the Southern Kansas) the grants
lap and that the grant to the L., L. &
G. was given first. 1t is also claimed that
in Allen county several claims by settlers
are prior to those of the railroad.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
ZINC MINE CONSOLIDATION. 4
Member of Firm of coIIey & Co. Says
1t Will Take Years to
Eject 1t,

NEW YORK. June 19.-(special) Charles
Choate Walcott, of Colley & Co., who are
largely interested in zinc and lead mines
in the Joplin district of Missouri, says that
the movement to consolidate the zinc and
lead interests was not by any means a
regular consolidation or trust" movement.
''Tbe interests in that district" he said
is going on slowly, one company being alb,
sorbed at time. 1t may be several years
before it is effected The total value of the
zinc and lead output in the Joplin district
this year has already been s5,147,174. That
amount represents 226 226.6TU pounds of zinc
and q, ,103 460 pounds of lead mined. The
increase in production thus far this year
over last in zinc alone is SO, 723, go pounds,
while the production of lead shows an in
crease of 4,362, 900 pounds. The old-fashion-
ed machinery is being displaced by steam
hoists and other modern equipments so that
we expect that the value of zinc and lead
this year will be somewhat over SIS, coo 0OO."
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
KING QUITS THE POPS.
Their Opposition to Expansion Proved
the One Thing More Than He
Could Stand.

TOPEKA, June 19.-(Special) Judge S. S.
King, the Populist election commissioner
of Kansas City, Kas, has quit the Pop
ulist party. He WAS one. of the original
founders lof the party and for years was
regarded as one of the leading Pops of
Kansas. He was the Pop nominee one time
for congress in the Second district and was
a candidate for United States senator when
PETER was elected. He says he has not
Joined any other of the old parties. but that
he will have no more Populism in his. Il
may organize a party of my own" said
he to-day. II don't know how many con-
verts l can secure. l promise you, however.
that l will not attempt to convert the gang
of Pops that are now controlling that party
in this state. They will ruin anything they
affiliate with"
Judge King thinks the present Pop Lead
ers are leading their party into political
oblivion by opposing expansion. LAS
understand it, said he. Democracy, re-
vivilled by Populism, will oppose national
expansion. Believing that the United
States, with its matchless army and navy
has gained more glory among the nations
of the earth during the last fifteen months
of its existence than during its first CEN
tury, my judgment is that the party oppos-
ing its policy or seeking to throw away the
fruits of its brilliant victories. would be
happier as babe under the wheels of Jug
gernaut."
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-06-20
ALL TO HAVE MEDALS.
No Favoritism to Be Shown in Dis
tributfOn of Manila Badges
of Honor.

WASHINGTON, June BIT is stated at
the navy department that every man at
tached to the Olympia, Boston, Baltimore,
Concord, Raleigh, Petrol and McCulloch
during the battle in Manila harbor. re-
gardless of rank or station, will receive
a medal of honor The McCulloch which
was revenue cutter at the outbreak of
the Spanish war, was transferred to the
rayal service and added to Admiral
Dewey'S fleet. She rendered efficient sup
minated in the annihilation of the Spanish
feet under Admiral Montejo, and also car,
ried the first official news of Admiral
Dewey's victory to Hong Kong In view
of these facts, it was deemed proper that
the officers and men of the McCulloch
should share equally with the others in the
distribution OF. congressional medals, not
withstanding the fact that the McCulioch
has since resumed her regular duties in the
revenue cutter service under the treasury
department