El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-12
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One Awful Feature.
What lends horror to the Chinese
troubles is the fact that they are con
nected with such places ga Tien-Is1n
Tung-Tinga u, Pao-Ting Flu and Wei
Bai-Wei. It's tempest in a tea
chest.-Boston Herald.
A New Job For Hobson.
The Oregon will proceed to the dockl
at Kure where she will be locked and
Captain Wilde, her commander. will
order board of survey to decide
what repairs will be necessary. 1t
may be that Licute nant Hobson who is
convaleecing at Yokohama may be
sent to euperintepd her repairs. Inc
Gregg will remain in the Japanese
aters and will be pressed into service
th.re if necessary.
Helen Gould and the Dewey Cannon
Three Oaks, Michigan, had the
proudest day of its life June the
twenty ninth when Helen Gould I'M
veileo the Dewey cannon. This cannon,
It will be remembered, was donated
by Admiral Dewey to the national
monument committee to be given by
them to the town or village contrfbut-
ing the most to the memorial In pro-
portion to population. Three Oaks
entered the contest, and won. Helen
Gould, General Alger, the militia, the
Grand Army veterans and q cnorus
singing patriotic airs took part In
the dedication celebration. Miss Gould
satd very few words OF appreciation
of the honor given her before she
touched the electric button that
loosened the veiliDgs of the cannon.
Japanese In California
The Red Bluff News is responsible
for the following account of the Japan
csc fruit pickers who have been tm-
ported to work In the neiRhborinP
orchards. Quite q number of Japar
csc arrived here on Saturday and went
out to work at picking fruit on the
Cone ranch. They are the first many
of our people have seen, and some were
curious to know whether they were
Chinese or q newly -discovered speoies |
of dwarfs. 1t has been found impossi |
BILE, 80 the orchardists in general say. |
to secure help at home, and recourse |
has been had to the outside. Wong |
Foey. the Chinese magnate. secured
these little brown men, and we hear
that others will follow suit. It is too
bad that help enough cannot be &C.
cured at home.
The Aptitude OF the Irish.
An Intelligent Irishman can turn
his hand to most anything. He is the
easiest of all foreigners to American
ize. And that he can some
times Guido the Germans in German is
proved by the following story from the
Chicago Record:
Union Telegraph Company, imported
three German scholars expressly to
send specials written for German news
papers In the German language. Yes
terday afternoon Ivan Stsnalistizki, of
tire 'St. Louis Stats ZeitunR."
filed 600 words written in German
McLorain turned it over TO his three
German operators for Transmission.
None of them could read a word of 1t.
Then a canvass of the Office was made
and finally John Patrick Doogsn and
Patrick Rafferty, Hannigan took the
"copy," read it like poster type, and
sent 1t to the St. Louis newspaper in
Gig time"
An Army of TWO British Soldiers.
On the occupation of Lady brand, u
regimental saddler and bugler OBJ
tanned leave to enter the town with
the Ksffirian Rifles, but at the last
the order was cancelled. The
and entered the town, capturing the
and demanding the surren-
der of the district.
This was complied with, and
quantity of arms and ammunition was
surrendered, together with q large
mum Der of carts and horses. The two
men then bought up the whole stock
Of tobacco, cigars. and cigarettes In
town, and with this and the rifles and
returned to camp, where
they sold the tobacco to their comrades
as q handsome profit.
The cost of their escapade, however,
was instant. dismissal don Daily
Express.
Diamonds for ostrich Feed. ,
There is q story going the rounds Of
An Ingenious scheme carried out by
four swindlers, three men and q
The confederates took pass
age on . French steamer and had an /
ostrich Gagged in the hold, explaining 5
their and his presence by the state
mont that it was an educated ostrich ,
from San Joaquin, California, intend
ID for the United States exhibit At the G
From the first to the last !
lay OF the trip across the passengers :
ost dianonds and jewslry of all sorts,
sometimes $4,000 worth in q night, ana !
The ships officers could find no clue to Z
he thieves, and when the ship Ian ded
ler passengers and their baggage in
Guiding the ostrich and his four COM !
oanione the S45, 900 losses were as
aysterious as ever. But In the mean 7
lime, the exposition authorities who Z
lad been expecting An educated o. d
eioh ha0an aaaHnh for 10 bird