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The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24
SAVE THE OLD VILLAGE"
Venerable Orator Charms tho Com
mIttse, but Has to lie Shut ON.

Venerable Orator Charms tho Com.
mittse. but Has to he shut on.
was at the state house and l went
in for a few moments to hear what
the committee on street railways was
doing. The members of the committee
are nearly all city men and the mat
tiers that come before it are often of a
complicated and important nature.
The room where the committee me;
yesterday was the one that has its
walls and ceilings frescoed in old gol'
and the atmosphere when the electri
lights are burning and a good railroad
lawyer is discussing franchises and the
floating of bonds, is decidedly roseate
or golden, and tends to turn ones
mind to Wall or State street, rather
than to the quiet corners of the world,
says the Lowell Citizen. Before this
committee came a party of the oldes'
residents of one of the oldest towns CT
the state, to ask that the location Of c
new electric road be changed so that
1t would not run through the main
street of the village. A venerable man
who was nearly the image of the poei
William Cullen Bryant, appeared In
behalf of the petition and explained T.
to the absorbed and unmoved mem
bers of the committee. Then he called
upon a man hardly less venerable than
himself a little man, who grasped
the ends of the table. and began an
address in the measured style of fifty
years ago. Two or three men smiled;
the others could not hear. Then the
speaker raised his voice and said.
Save the old village in its peace and
quiet" From that moment every
member listened. Under the eloquence
of the old man the golden walls of the
room faded away to be replaced By
the great elm trees that shaded the
most famous and peaceful old street
in western Massachusetts" Every
man in the room was thinking of some
old town that he had known. or hoped
to know. 1t showed in their faces. 1t
was evident that The speaker had
reached his climax and that If he
could be withdrawn at that time the
deep impression that he had created
would remain. A friend of the bill
whispered as much to the venerable
| man who had first spoken. The latter
took his heavy cane and began to tap
gently upon the legs of his friend. But
| he of the Village street" had an ora
| ton covering a good part of the his
| tory of the town and did not heed the
| tapping. He began to quote the names
| of people who would have opposed the
| location of the tracks had they lived
| and in the course of this he became
| stranded to remember one name.
What was her name?" he asked, bend
ing over to his venerable friend. Sit
down, Billie; you have said enough"
| replied the latter. And he let go the
table and sat down with regret appar-
ent on his face.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24
WHAT THE NEGRO HAS DONE.
Facts and Figures That show n Won
derfuI Advancement.

A recent writer gives the following
summary of what the negro has &C
complished to demonstrate his fitness
for civilization. He has reduced his
illiteracy 40 per cent in thirty-five
years; negro children in the common
schools number 100000; negro stu
dents in the higher institutions, 49,
900; negro teachers, 10000; negro stu
dents learning trades, 10000; negro
students pursuing classical courses, L.,
200; negro students pursuing scientific
courses. 200; negro students pursuing
business courses, 1000; and negro
graduates. 1900. There are $50, 900
volumes in negro libraries, 1856 insti-
tutions for the higher education of ne
groes, 500 negro physicians, 300 books
written by negroes, $50 negro lawyers,
3 banks conducted by negroes. 3 maya
zines edited by negroes, and 400 news
papers under negro management. The
value of their libraries is $500 900, their
school property is worth S12,000,000,
their church property is valued at $751;
600. 900, their farms, numbering about
,D00 are worth $4,000 900 (this
does not include homes, valued at
S325,000 000), and their personal prop
erty is worth sl65, 900, 900. Since the
war the negro has raised $40 100000 for
his own education.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24
HELENA.

mist but also with exotics from all
chimes, so that it presents the aspect
of botanical garden--the oak grow
ing side by side with the bamboo and
banana, and date palms shooting sky
ward from fields of English gorse.
Cronje and his 1000 burghers will al
most double the population.
The most notable prisoner who ever
fretted away his days on Englands
prison isle was of course the great
Bonaparte, and the spectacle called up
by a consideration of his Imprisonment
forms one of the saddest things in his
tory. On Aug. IT. 1915. when the
world was reverberating with the ech-
oes of Waterloo, boat was rowed in
to Plymouth harbor from H. NJ. S.
Bellerophon to H. NJ. S. Northum-
berland, seventy-four guns, flying the
pennant of Rear Admiral Sir George
Cockburn, under orders for st. Helena.
In the stern of the boat sat he who
was designated in England's official pa
pers Napoleon Bonaparte." The an
Choir was weighed and the Northum-
berland stood out to sea. bearing for
ever from Europe the man whose am
bition her shores could not confine.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24
EXILE FOR CRONJE.
ST. HELENA AWAITS THE
FORMER SOLDIER.
Where Napoleon Closed His Caroor-Ths
Dreary Isle, Situated In Mid Ocean,
Seems to Have Been Designed by
Nature as Model Prison.
Especial letter.

Historic old st. Helena, the midAt-
lantic island where Napoleon Bona
parte spent his declining days as
prisoner of Great Britain, is to receive
another notable occupant. The Brit
ish government having decided that
there is no prison in South Africa suf-
fciently strong to contain General
Cronje, the dauntless farmer-soldier,
is to drag out such an existence as
Napoleon endured after the battle of
Waterloo. On the map the island Will
be found in the South Atlantic ocean,
in a spot remote from all the world
1850 miles from the coast of Africa,
1880 miles from South America, the
same from Cape Town, 4,059 miles
from London, of which it has been
dependency for $50 years. Its ex-
IRENE length is ten and one-fourth
miles, its extreme breadth eight and
one-fourth miles, its area forty-five
square miles, its population 5000 hui
man beings, three-fifths of whom are
clustered in Jamestown-and innu-
merable goats. The island is an an
cient volcano thrust up in fire from the
floor of the sea. long since dead and
cold somewhat enlarged by the slow
processes of nature and garmented not
alone with an indigenous flora so va
ried as to be the delight of the bota-
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

rooms, at the east enc OF Z long, drao-
colored brick tenement There are No
carpets to cover the floor, and an old
lounge and two rocking chairs, with
small, square table, are all the signs
there are OF better and more prosper
GUS days. A bedstead stands in one
corner of the room which answers for
the parlor. The kitchen is immediate
ly to the rear, and small coal cook
stove of antique pattern and in a state
of delapidation serves. with an old
table and two wooden chairs, to fu.-
nish the room. The cooking utensils
are few and well worn. The cupboard,
which serves as china closet, con-
tains little which could be called china
ware 1t is in these surroundings that
the couple live.
Mr.. Robb is Sc years of age, intelli-
gent, bearing no evidence of dissipa-
ton. Everything my wife has said
is true" said Robb to the writer. Il
was expelled from the union, and like
wise have been assaulted and severely
beaten on two or three occasions. My
trouble with the union began in July,
1893, when l was working for Angus
& Gindele on the street car power plant
at Twelfth street and Blue Island ave-
nue..
1.-THE union made charges against
me, but paid no attention to the first
notice l got to appear for trial. A few
nights after the day set, and after
had been ordered to cease work and
had refused, Chris Merry, the peddler
who was hanged for the murder of lis
wife, with his gang, broke into the
building. Merry knocked five or six
men down in my presence, and he with
his fifteen or twenty assailants assault
ed me- / was kicked and beaten into
insensibility Two of my ribs were
broken, and it was long time before
l was again well.
Il don't know what they will do
with my wife. They may murder her.
l am sorry she went before the com
mittee, and didn't know she was going
there. would work and be more than
glad to If l had the chance. The
chance to work is all | want"
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24
COWS WRECKED
His Garden, But Started Him on the
Road to Fortune.

Road to Fortune.
About the narrowest escape from
financial embarrassment was expert
enced by a friend of mine" said Will
liam Reese of Allentown, Penn. at
the Broadway Central Hotel. 1T was
like this: My friend and neighbor is
an inventor of a window sash appli-
ance that is likely to make him
rich man, but, like most inventors, he
was awfully hard up for cash while he
was working out his idea. He Dor
rowed money from all his friends I'M
til they get so they disliked to see him
coming, and he had really reached a
crisis in his career. He realized It,
but he told his wife that something
would happen to enable him to raise
$50 due the next day on contract
that involved the loss or the preserva-
ton OF his hold on his patent He
didn't have the $50 on the night before
and when he went to bed that
night he was thoroughly discour-
aged. He lived on a place that
had a large barn on it, and in
the garden were growing fruit and
SOOu BdIutu. maj HiSul dDoul
a dozen cows, which in some parts of
Pennsylvania run at liberty, broke into
his garden and ate up most of his crop.
besides destroying number of choice
young fruit trees. He woke up in the
middle of the night and caught the
cows in the act. He was on the point
of soaring them out and blaming one
more unlucky incident to his long list
when a bright idea struck him.
Calling a neighbor, he quickly
drove the COWS into a corner of the
yard, and repaired the fence. Then he
sat on the fence the remainder of the
night and allowed the cows to COM
plete the destruction of his garden.
In the morning, with the help of his
neighbor, he tied the cows up and
then sent word to the owners to come
and settle. By counting the cows he
calculated how much he would have to
get from each owner IN order to make
up $50. Under the Pennsylvania law
the owner must pay the damage caus-
ed by his COW or the damaged person
can hold the animal. The owners
came and pleaded, but it did not avail.
My neighbor was obdurate. Some of
the owners were poor women, but IT
made no difference. He pointed to his
ruined crops and wrecked garden,
and, like the absent minded beggar,
said: Pay, pay, pay. To make
long story short, he got together $50
and saved his patent. That was the
turning point in his fortunes. He's
got plenty of money ow."-New York
Tribune.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

NO, do not make friends as easily
as | used to with my fellow-travelers,"
said the man who was relating Euro
pean experiences. 1T is not because
feel less socially inclined. but because
of the cold setback l received at Gil
braltar. In the hotel office one morn
ing | entered into conversation with an
English man and woman who seemed
to me to be the right sort. They did
not meet my friendly overtures with
the usual on and an English stare.
On the contrary, they seemed anxious
to become acquainted with me, and
soon we were chatting pleasantly.
congratulated myself upon my good
fortune in falling in with such agree
able people, who were almost nice
enough to be Americans. We discussed
Gibraltar and were just planning a
sightseeing expedition for the follow
ing day when one of the hotel walters
thrust his head in the doorway and
said, The missus wants the both of
yez. My new found friends were the
maid and man servant of the duchess
of Cleveland, Lord Rosebery's mother"
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

the young Irish surgeon whom Napo-
leon had picked from the British ma
val service as his private medical at
tendant. Count and Countess Ber-
trand and their three children were
quartered in little house at dis
lance.
Doctor O'Meara's writings, some of
which were published at the time and
other portions of which are only now
being made public. give graphic idea
of the prison life of the Man of Des-
tiny. They show that Napoleon was
dissatisfied with the treatment accord
ed him. He found fault with Sir George
Cockburn because of his seamanlike
lack of ceremony which O'Meara en-
deavored vainly to explain away. But
this was mild compared to his hatred
of Sir Hudson Howe. who in April,
1876, succeeded Cockburn as governor
of St. Helena.
Il am convinced he said, that this
governor, this chief of jailers, has been
sent out on purpose to poison me or
put me to death in some way or an
other, or under some pretext, by Lord
Castlereagh."
In such manner. moro indolent and
fretful as the weary years passed, did
Napoleon live, until in 1921 he died of
a cancer of the stomach.
The British military authorities are
Influenced by many considerations in
sending Cronje and his soldiers to st.
Helena. In the first place, Cape Col
ony, with its threatenings of uprisings
of the Cape Dutch, and with the pro-
nounced Boer sympathies of Afrikan-
ders OF Dutch parentage. was no long
er a secure place in which to keep pris-
ers of the Importance of Cronje and
the men who defended themselves so
heroically against Lord Roberts great
army. The most secure place for
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24
STORY OF E. j. PHELPS
AS A LAWYER HE HAD FEW
SUPERIORS.
Was Kees Politician of tho Higher
Order and Gifted Writer-Aiso
Gained Distinction as q Diplomat and
Poet.

The recent death in New Haven,
Conn, of Hon. Edward j. Phelps, ex-
ambassador to the court of st. James,
removed from the nations public ac-
tivities brilliant jurist, an able ora
tor, a keen politician and a gifted
writer.
Mr.. Phelps was native of Vermont,
where he was born, in 1922, at Middle
bury. He was a graduate of Middle
bury college and for a time practiced
law in his native town, subsequently
removing to Burlington. Under Presi-
dent Fillmore he was second comptrol-
Ter of the treasury. In 1870 he was
delegate to the Vermont constitutional
convention. In 1880 he was the I'M
successful candidate of the democracy
for governor of Vermont, and the same
year he was president of the American
Bar association. In 1881 he became
professor of law in Yale university.
From 1885 to 1889 he was minister to
Great Britain, and in 1890 was the
candidate of the democrats of Vermont
for seat in the United States senate
an ambition he failed to realize.
He was one of the Boring sea arbi-
tration commission, which settled the
points at issue between the United
States and Great Britain, thus remov-
ing a source of much friction between
the two countries.
Prof Phelps gained some distinction
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

George Montag, German, is the in
ventor of process for the manufac-
ture from ordinary earth of a fuel
closely resembling coal. So successful
have his experiments been that many
large German manufacturers are max
ing arrangements to employ his prod
uct in the place of pit coal. Any kind
of earth can be used in the manufac-
ture of the fuel with the exception of
sand and gravel. Certain ingredients.
the nature of which is the. inventors
secret, are mixed with the dirt; the
material is then pressed into the form
of bricks. which are extremely hard
md brittle, and highly infiammahle.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

Cronje upon his arrival at Cape Town
was deemed on board a British ship
but this form of Imprisonment prompt
ly called out continental criticism, and
possibly on that account, but more
probably with a view to the greatest
possible security against rescue, it was
decided to send the famous Boer to
Great Britain's mid-ocean prison.
where escape will be impossible.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

Her father-I think that young Dud-
ley who's calling here is pretty small
potatoes. Her little brother-Guess
that's why she's mashed on him.-New
York World.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

One month and ten days later the
Northumberland dropped anchor in the
harbor OF jamestown. Napoleon was
escorted ashore and found lodging in
the town. Sir George Cockburn Sc
lected as the exile's residence Long
wood, the country seat of the lieuten-
ant governor. Thither next day the
fallen emperor cantered along the
lovely road, escorted by his followers
and guard of English officers. On
Dec 9 the French exiles moved to
Longwood. With Napoleon were
Count and Countess Montholon and
their child, Baron Gourgaud, Count
de Las Cases and his young son, Cap
tain Piontkowski and Doctor o'Meara,
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

Johannesburg is fronted by natural
fort-a thirty-mile stretch of earth
which is called "tailings''-that is,
mounds of ground-up rocks and debris
from which the gold has been extract
ed This almost impregnable fort
would receive shell or shot indiffer-
emily, and is the accumulation of five
years mining refuse.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

as a poet. His lectures on medical
Jurisprudence and other subjects were
we'll received, and his articles on THE
Constitution of the United States"
we're mastery productions. The pro-
fessor had keen Yankee wit and was
always in demand as a brilliant after
dinner speaker.
The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1900-04-24

Ladysmith is the third town of i'm
portance in Natal, is 1879 miles north
of Durham, has thirteen streets, Il town
hall and public library.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-04-04

sions had great difficulty in REFRESHING
his hotheaded colleague, notably in 1873,
when Joubert, with Kruger and Prcto-
RUS, was planning the rebellion to ever
throw British rule in the Transvaal. The
result was Majuba Hill and the practical
independence Of the Transvaal.
1t was Joubert who organized the army
of the South African republic, later on,
dividing the country into seventeen milf
tary departments, and each of these de-
partG ants into smaller divisions, with
commandants, field correts and lieuten-
ants of various ranks il charge. Accord
ing to the generals plans every man be
came trained soldier without leaving
his farm, and had his equipment ready at
hand. To such point of perfection was
the system carried that within forty
eight hours after the present war was
declared the Boer nation was under arms.
1t was also due to Gen. Joubert that the
South African republics succeeded in
amassing the immense stores OF war mu-
nitions and provisions which have stood
them in such good stead during the con
fct now in progress.
When the jameson raiders were locked
up in Pretoria jail Joubert was strongly
in favor of their immediate execution,
1t was not until Joubert and Kruger had
been closeted together for a whole night
that the more mertiful counsels Of kru-
ger prevailed.
In November last it was reported that
Gen. Joubert had been killed in action,
and later reports safe he was dangerous
ly wounded and had to use cart in or
der to follow the operations in the field.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-04-04
BRITAIN HAS APoLoelzED.
Salisbury Made Amends for the Open
ing of Macrmm,s Wall.

Salisbury Made Amends for the Open
ing of Macrum's Mail.
A special from Washington says that
Lord Salisbury has apologized to the
United States for the opening by the
British censor at Durham of mail adj
dressed TO Consul Charles +. Macrum M
Pretoria. The apology will be sent to the
House committee on foreign af airs 10y
Secretary OF State Hay when Mr.. Ma
crum's case against the State Depart
ment is heard.
Authority for the statement that an
apology has been received comes from
Secretary Hay. who admitted it to Repre-
sentative Berry Of Kentucky. one of the
members of the House foreign affairs
committee. Representative Berry called
at the State Department TO talk over the
charges made by Mr.. Maerum and II
was during this interview that Secretary
Hay made the confession.
Il saw Secretary Hay, said Repre-
sentative berry. in talking of the pro
posed hearing. "and he said that the
whole groundwork of Mr.. Macrrm $
charges rested upon the fact that three
letters had been opened by English Off
Gals in South Africa. Secretary Hay
said that England's attention had been
called to this violation of international
law, and that Lord Salisbury had made
an investigation and then had sent an
apology to this country. The apology was
delivered at the State Department by
Lord pauncef0te.N
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-04-04

'.This is to certify that |, JUS Davis.
do hereby give to Rudolph OFT, tit""n
located mining claims and my youngest
daughter, Ida Davis, In default Of which
/ promise to pay Rudolph OFT the sum Of
$4,000" In this way Josiah Davis, a
pioneer resident Of Shasta County, Cal,
disposed Of his only child to liquidate a
debt. The young woman is queenly TO
look upon. Her father is second cousin
of JEFF Davis, president of the Confed-
eracy OFT is young man of sound
business judgment and sees nothing
wrong in thus acquiring a beautiful girl
as security for her fathers debt. The
young woman refuses t. discuss the mat
ter. It is believed that a wedding will
soon result The girls father is a native
of Mississippi, fought through the rebel
lion, and went to California right after
the war; His property is mining claims
whose future dividends are uncertain and
the parties live at Redding.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-04-04
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
S3.00 to $500; hogs, shipping grades,
So 90 TO $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to Sc 70; wheat, No. . red, 65c to 66c;
corn. Ne. =, 3se to soc; oats. No. ., 24c
to 25c, rye, No. ,. J4c to soc; butter,
choice creamery. 23c to 24c; eggs, fresh,
Toe to &c; potatoes, choice, 2Sc to 40c
per bushei.
indianapolis Cattle. shipping, $500 to
5000: hogs. choice light. $500 to $3.50;
sheep. common to prime, $500 to 500.
wheat, No. >. zoe 10 Tie; corn, No. 2
white. 3se to 39e.; oats. No. white,
2Sc to 2gc.
st. Louis-Cattle, S3.25 to 5000; hogs.
$500 TO $3.50; sheep. $500 to $500;
yellow, 31c TO 39c; oats, No. =, zoe TO
2Gc; rye. No. ., Die TO 55c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000; hogs.
$500 TO $3.50; sheep, $50 to $50:
wheat. Ne. >, T1c 10 ISc; corn, Nc. =
mixed. lie TO 4Se; oats. No. mixed, 26e
10 re; rye. No. >, 59c 10 Gle.
Detroit Cattle, $3.50 10 SAGE hSgs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $500 to S5.15;
wheat. Ne. =. lie TO T5e; corn, No. :
ye4low. ;Sc to Zoe. oats. Ne. = white, &c
20 29c. rye. 59c 10 Gle.
Tole,lo-W No. = mixed. lie to
72c; corn. Ne. = mixed, 3Sc te Zoe; oats.
No. = mixed. 24e 10 26,: rye. No. =. 5Te
Ia 5Sc; clover seed, old, $4.S3 to S4.95.
Milwaukee-Whca No. . northern,
ti1c to G7e; corn, Ne. 5. sac to Sc; oats,
n. > white, Poe to &c; rye. No. l, 51e
te 'Gc; barley, No. =. Axe to &c; pork,
mess. Sl2-00 TO Sl250
BUffalo-Cattle. good shipping steers,
$500 20 SG00; hogs, common to choice
$50 10 500; sheep fair TO choice. 500
10 S6.1,,; lambs. common to extra, $3.50
to $1.75.
New 1ork-Cattie. SS,2J to $500; hogs.
$500 10 $5.75; sheep, $500 to S6.25;
wheat, Ne. = red, soc to Sic; corn, No. =,
z5c to 46c; oats. No. white. SIC TO 32e;
butter. creamery. Pie to &c; eggs, west
cru. lie 70 &c.