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The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
The OrcRon--Licut. Key Safe.

Washington, July A cablcgram
received AT the navy department from
Lieut.. Key dated Toxic last night says;
Russian dock at Port Arthur is too
small for Oregon TO enter"
The dispatch conveys the first news
that Key is not at pckin, whore he
was naval atiachc, II the Oregon In
'loated she will be dockcd at M.
gasak.
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
The Temporary Chairmanship.

Kansas City, Mo-, July a.-The ma
tional committee has chosen Hon
Charles s. Thomas, Of Colorado, for
temporary chairman. The vote was "a
for him TO 22 for Rose.
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
sEE kEMprF WAS RIGHT.
The American Admirai's Foresight
Now finds tiOn.

London, July ., 2!i0 p. m.--Whilc
the general British comment severely
crltlcIzcs Americas non'par,lcipation
In the bombardmcnt of the Tuku forts
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
G,cnt Excitcmrnt IN Morocco.

Tongcr, July 3,-rhcrc Is great cy
ciicmcnt at ltcz owing to French en-
crouclmcnts on the casIs Of Touol, A
mob killed the manager of n French
concern, who was IN American citizen,
The British consul has demanded the
assistance of the authorities TO protect
his house, and the Jewish ghetto Is he.
scpcd
The legation hero Is making serioW
representations on the subject,
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
ruE VICE-PI,EsIDE>CY,
The Towne Men Confident HIT D"n-
forth II LooktWp Up

Kansas CITY, Moo July 4'-The
Towne men are more confident thah
ever that they will nominate their man
for vice-presidcnt, They say the nght
" between Towne and Dnnforth, OF
New York, and the question OF cNpe'
diency will now he considered Dan,
forth In the personal and pol''le"'
friend Of David u. HILL
A Point Ueina Made.
Already the point Is being mndc
that he is lilll's candidate aud thnt he
Nv to be named for the purpose OF con-
cillutng nm for the manner In when
his suggestions were treated by Mr.
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
Tive stock Markets.

81. Louis--Cattlo--F Fancy exports, yoh00b
57b butchers, tt60m6.i5; stockcrs, $500
$50; cows and heifers. H,05dpt1b Hogs
Packing N,15u5lO; butchers, $4,000, ,22is .
light, MSju5l5 Shcop-Mutton sheep,
s3,5omiS yenrllng lambs, N2b1Lib;
spring lambs S0oa6,i5,
Chicago Cottlc-G to prime steers
81. 20dt6sO, poor to medium. A6Dn5,ls
stockefs and feeders, t2,b0ii.S5, cows y2s
al 10, heifcrs, t3OOub,i0; Gamers t20ob
2,75, calves, N5OMJ.oO; Texas fed stcens.
81 t0u5,25, TeSas grassers, tS75Gtt26, Hogs
Mixed and butchers, Sl0uoa0 good 10
choice heavy, E'goMs,ssls rough hsavy,
S@MS 10; light 81, loas,sos sheep-dood
mixed tJ,?o@i.50i western sheep, N,iOail 7bi
Texas sheep, 1iOuA5oi native lambs, 10, %
u0.i5; western lambs, clipped, ib,iol62S.
Kansas City-Cattle-Native steers,
N20a5,si Texas steers, ts.0odl4goi Texas
cows 22,ff2 10, native cows and helfers.
81 25df 100. stockers raa speders, t3O0ei4 .76'
Hogs--IIcavy,. IS lo9ps.?o; packers, G.01is@
5,lS mixed Ao0ao'is; light, N.eY6, Isl
b,75; muttons t.00dt6.25.
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
VAN BUREN. ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, JULY I. 1900

Bryan on his recent visit to Lincoln.
This is feature, however, which cuts
both ways, as there is an element
among the delegates who do not feel
IKE Offering anything in the way OF
olive branches.
They Have Some Doubts.
1t is also known that Hill and his
friends have some hesitancy about
pushing Danforth for the nomination
because they have doubts of success
if there is distinct declaration for 16
to |. The fact that the New Workers
seem willing to allew the convention
TO take its own course, without max.
ing any determined effort to name
candidate, has given the Towne men a
great deal of encouragement and they
are more aggressive than ever.
A Different story.
But from the quarters of the eastern
men, particularly New York and the
Sulzcr element, comes story of a diff
ferent nature. The eastern delegation
is absolutely quiescent on any of the
direct issues in platform or as to can
didates, They assert that they are for
anything the western silver delegates
may decide upon. Hills name they
say, will not be considered
Al last accounts Danforth stock was
looking up.
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
DcdicatOry Exercises

The dedicatory exercises will be wit
messed and participated In by the most
representative assembly of Americans and
foreigners ever gathered together IN one
spot in Paris. Ambassador Porter will
be president of the day, and the ambas-
sadors and ministers to other principal
foreign governments to the number of
fifteen will be vice-presidents. Archbishop
Ireland comes all the way from st, Paul
to make the dedcatory address, and ad-
dresses will be made also by Ferdinand
W, Peck, commissioner general for the
United States to the Paris exposition. and
Mr.. Thompson, the protector of the mon
ument and director Of the movement
which has produced It. The statue will
be unveiled by Masters Gustave Hen
noque de Lafayette, great-grandson Of the
general, and Paul Robert Thompson son
of the protector. These boys are respec-
lively nine and eleven years old. The
former will represent the school children
of France and the latter the school chill
dren of America. The monument will be
accepted for France by NJ. Delcasse, min
lister of foreign affairs. A dedicatory ode
will be read by Mrs, TarQueria II. Voss or
Mrs. Daniel Manning, the former of the
Daughters of the Revolution, the latter of
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
l., WANTS n United states Gunbont

London, July A special dispatch
from Hong Kong says Ii Hung Chang
has requested United States gun
boat 10 take him TO Ticn 1sin.
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
A TRIBUTE 0 CHILDREN.
The Equestrian Statue of Lafayette
to Be Unveiled To-Day at the
French Capital.
GIFT OF AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN.
The Statue Occupies n Position in
The Court Of the Louvre, the
Choicest Monumental Size In All
Pnris-Brief sketch oS She Incep-
tion and Working Out of the Plan.

Paris, July AT ten o'clock this
forenoon will occur the chief event of
the participation of the people of the
United States in the Paris exposition,
an event due to the patriotic concep-
tion and persevering energy of Robert
j. Thompson. This is the unveiling
and dedication of the Lafayette mon
ument in the court of the Louvre, the
choicest monumental site in all Paris
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07
Finn nciH1.

New York, July a.--Money on call NOM
lnally at IN per cent! Prime mercantiIe
paper SAntH pcr cent. Sterling exchange
bills nt isi%dist,s for demand and lSlQD
istit for 70 days,posted rates, is6 and ts7k:
commercial bills, ts'hdfissit Silver cefs
tincates,, OlyVg.N Bar stlver, elk. Msxl.
strong, pr
The Van Buren press., 1900-07-07

the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion both of which societies have been In
vitcd to be represented, This ode is the
product of the pom Of Frank putnam,
newspappr worker OF Chicago,
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
BRITISH MIND SLOW
TO APPRECIATE VALUE OF
ELECTRIC RAILWAYS,


II always was hard 10 penetrate into
the interior fastness OF the British
mind, and when that mind belongs to
the Scotch subdivision, II resists any
thing In the way of ordinary human
logic. Marshal Halstead, our consul In
birmingham, says Of electric railway
experiments in Great Britain:
The facts in the experience Of cities
in other civilized countries have alb
%solutely no value for consideration In
Great Britain. Glasgow sent a com
mission to study the street car systems
of the cities Of the United States. Ger
many, France and Austria-H Hungary,
port. built merely an experimental
line. The experience Of the rest OF
the intelligent world meant nothing to
the citizens of Glasgow. though the
necessity OF the Glasgow mine for ex-
p~erimenting with what others had
in the completion of a proper tramway
system. Birmingham cares nothing
for the newly acquired tramway ex-
perience of Liverpool, and Is not at
all interested In the fact that In
n%eighboring little Coventry there Is
rather a nice tramway line or that In
the adjacent Black Country there are
several rather effective lines. In the
Birmingham newspapers the other
day the guard rail of an experimental
open summer car of the one cable
line Is described as a novelty, and the
fact that the conductor collects fares
along the f%ootboard is thought a queer
and new proceeding. 1t Is hard to see
how a car builder could base his ideas
on the type Of car we know and pro-
duce anything as ugly. on lines SO in
artistic, as in this new car. There
seems to be no conception OF the fact
that a tram car can be made as attrac-
tive a feature of street life as Is the
best appointed ladies' Orougham.
Tram cars all owe Great Britain are
painted a dull red mud color. intended
for chocolate. From the reports OF
the appearance OF our bright cOlored
street cars they fear a circus effect,
and yet this is all a matter of custom.
These dull paints were used here or
i~ginally because they were thought
economical, and II Is not recognized
that bright colors are now so chemi-
cally made that they are really more
permanent, and that cars painted light
inside and bright outside create a
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
standard OF cleanliness important In
tramway Cperations.

standard OF cleanliness important In
tramway operations.
"The calculations In tramway mat
ters In birmingham include only the
existing lines, and there Is no antici-
patton that the number of these will.
as all experience shows they must. be
multiplied many. many times, through
the force Of a public opinion. which
is bound to come after the people have
experienced the pleasure and profits
OF even one electric line. Thirty to
forty electric lines using from twenty
to fifty cars each and 200 miles of
electric service Is. Of course, absurd
This public opinion is already assert
Ing itself to the embarrassment OF the
city authorities of Liverpool. several
creditable street car lines having been
In operation there for some time. The
people OF those sections of Liverpool
not now enjoying the benefits Of the
new wonder and delight have n sever
~al-thousand volt impotence To be TIA
ken care OF. but the legally financial
restrictions OF the city allow OF only
the step-by-step plan of building one
line at a time, although the financial
returns from the existing lines would
be quite sufficient to the ordinary
courageous capitalist to warrant an
immediate and wholesale extension.
The people of Liverpool have already
manifested. by letters in the local pa
pers, impatience at the speed %restric-
tions imposed by the mationaD Board
of Trade, and they may oon think, as
we are credited with doing, II people
are foolish enough to get in the way OF
rapidly moving street cars they cannot
complain after they have been
killed"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05

with a petroleum motor tandem. The
three men OF the triplet. who were
pacing an amateur of the name OF
Dupuy. were thrown with the latter
to the ground, where Dupuy remained
unconscious. People ran to his aid.
From the other side of the track
a park policeman, n OF the guar
dams of the Woods of Vincennes, Sbe-
came interested in the catastrophe,
and having nothing better TO do, ran
impulsively across the track to get a
great ~personages on the public high
way, where cabs and even thunderous
omnibuses pull up for them as they
stalk majestically in the middle of
the road. 1t lever occurred to this
park guard, named Pechmegel, that
anyone or anything would dare run
into him. This is just what did hap
pen, for a racer of the name OF Chau-
dron caught him fair and square in
the middle OF his stomach.
Pechmegel and Chaudron fell sense-
less, and there was a moment of gen
eral CONSERVATION. While fifty men
were relieving Dupuy on one side OF
the track. fifty more were trying to
bring to the policeman and the racer
on the other side. Both bicycle men.
having the habit OF being knocked
about, soon recovered and limped of.
1t was not SO, unfortunately, with the
tender policeman. Unused to such
rude play, he regained breath and con-
seriousness slowly. One of his ears be-
ing torn of. it was recovered too late
to be Joined again to his head. He
will be a one-eared policeman hence
forth.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
BY CATS EYES.
Chinese Tell the Hour by the Linz In
the Feline Visual Organ.

Chinese Tell the Hour by the Line In
the Feline Visual Organ.
1t must be conceded that In some
qualities of primitive, but practical re-
sourcefulness the Chinese are ahead
OF most civilized nations. All travellers
agree that IL In a district where clocks
n watches are unknown you ask q
Chinaman the time Of day he will. II
we'll disposed, at once proceed to am
buscade and capture the household cat,
n after pushing up the lids and look
ing for a moment into It's eyes he will
tell the time with astonishing aocur-
acy. The explanation is a simple phys
biological one. The pupils of the cats
eyes constantly contract until midday,
when they become like a fine line, as
thin as a hair drawn perpendicularly
across the eye; after twelve they be-
gin again to dilatc. Ii is to be hoped
that II the practice is ever introduced
into this country watches and clocks
Will continue to be made, as there will
probably be many who will not care
to run after a cat whenever they want
to know the hour, or who may fear
some danger to their own eyes from
too close an examination of hers. The
Chinese have by no means a monopoly
OF the cat as a perambulating time
piece. The negroes Of Jamaica are
very well acquainted with the method
OF telling the time by looking at the
effect OF the sun on pussy's eyes, and
those who twenty wears & were quite
illiterate and could not tell the time
by a watch used to resort to this
method for discovering the time OF
day. | have myself repeatedly, watch
in hand, asked a negro to tell the time
in this way, and 1t was very rare in
deed for him to DE five minutes out by
the clock.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
Phil Armour's
Big JOB

P. ID. Armour Of Chicago, "the old
man OF the markets." has a contract
from the Russian car to ship 1000
cattle to that country from San Fran
cisco. 1t Is easy enough to secure
the cattle, but the question OF trans
portation is an enormous task. There
are not boats enough on the Pacific
coast to carry the cattle. Those who
know Mr.. Armour, however, are con-
fdent that he will solve the problem;
IL not, 1t will be the first time that the
greatest trader In the world ever re-
ceived an order that was too big for
him.
The last great coup of p. ID. Armour
was made in connection with the
Letter wheat corner in 1897. This
corner was months in maturing. It
sent the price of grain up in India.
The value of a loaf of bread almost
doubled in Calcutta, in London and
In New York. Joseph Letter was a
foe worthy even OF p. ID. Armour. 1t
Is now a matter of common history
how Armour wriggled out Of a
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
L OF DOCS.
Wolf Species Contribute 70 the Country's
Development.

Wolf Species Contribute 70 the Country's
Developments.
Wolf dogs are not the handsomest
Of their species, yet they are now. and
have been In the past. contributing
not a little aid to the development OF
the far northwest. Much has been
said OF the Klondike. but the wolf
dogs. which I'm the beginning made
that frigid Eel Dorado possible, have
received little more than passing COM
ment. Nor has this neglect been due
Of the master-man They are far
from humble. as their wild ancestry
attests. They may be beaten into SUBJ
mission. but that will not prevent
them still snarling their hatred. They
may be starved into apparent docility
and then die suddenly, with teeth fast
locked In a brothers throat, torn to
pieces by their comrades. Rather has
little attention been accorded them
because the interest OF man has CRAWL
tated inexorably toward the natural,
mineral and social features of that far
northerly land. But the husky Is far
from embarrassing. AS a type OF en-
durance no better evolved product OF
natural selection need be sought. IL
ever a species has been born and bred
OF hard times 1t has. Only the fittest
In a struggle for existence extending
through a thousand generations have
survived. And they are we'll At. Do
mesticated by the savage a%utochthons
Of that f%orbidding region. they may
not only account their remote ances-
tors as wild wolves. but often their
immediate forbears.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
The Execution
Of q

p. d. ARMOUR.

The press Of Europe is severe in its
condemnation of Gen. Lord Roberts
for having permitted the execution or
Hans Cordua, the Boer officer, who
was convicted on the charge Of nav
ing c%onspired to kidnap Lord Roberts
and other British officers In the in
terests OF the Boer cause.
There is no denial Of the fact that
Cordua and other Beers in Pretoria
entered into the conspiracy, under
the belief that II Lord Roberts could
be prevented from directing affairs
the British plan Of campaign would
be greatly weakened. But In his de-
Tense Cordua advanced the statement
that the conspiracy WAS not OF his
initiative. 1t was according to him
concocted by British secret service
men and it was not until great pres
sure was brought to bear upon him
that he c~ountenanced, 1t and became
a party to 1t. In the light OF this
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
Two Queer Bicycle Accidents.

1t has often been disputed whether
or not a man running up against a
stone wall with his head down can
strike 1t with sufficient force to break
his skull or kill himself. Prisoners in
cells are ~oftenest the alleged heroes Of
this nervy sort OF self-destruction; but
an authentic case has just come to no
tice in France. where the act. as in
voluntary as successful, was accom-
plished by a free man in the open air
and with the aid OF a bicycle.
Ernest Chausson, a w~ell-known
musical composer, had a country prop
erty at Moussets, near Limay, N the
Seine-et-Oise department. There, in
a large garden that almost amounted
to a park, he was learning to ride the
bicycle. Half a dozen friends were sit
ting on the lawn, under trees. cooling
themselves with summer drinks, chat
ting and observing with hilarity the
awkward efforts of the prospective
wheelman. In one part OF the grounds
the path went down a rather steep
hill, and M. Chausson took II into his
head that could he get a running start
at the top OF 1t and then jump On the
wheel he might make a more success
full start than on the level. 1t never
occurred to him or his friends that a
high stone wall at the bottom OF the
declivity. where the path turned could
prove a danger. on he started. with
the laughing congratulations Of all,
The bicycle, gathering speed, got out
OF his control. There was no brake
on his wheel. and, indeed, there would
scarcely have been time for an mex
perienced man to use 1t. Nobody
seems to know how 1t happened. All
at once, however, the unfortunate
young man was seen heading for the
wall at a terrific rate. and the next
moment head first into the wall he
crashed. NJ. Chaussen, picked up un-
conscious, never came TO. After lin
gering half a day he expired of concus-
sion of the brain. Medical examination
showed that the skull had been frac-
tured, making the most extraordinary
bicycle accident on record. The facts
form the matter of a communication
20 the French Academy OF Medicine.
A rival bicycle accident happened at
the V%incennes Velodrome. This Is the
magnificent bicycle track presented to
the wheelmen of Paris by the Paris
municipality last summer. On II the
great international races OF the expo
sition have been run. The accident,
which occurred during a reunion OF To-
cal amateurs, is peculiarly noteworthy
In that its principal victim was a
policeman.
The third race on the program was
a hfteen-mile race, led by quad and
tandem petroleum pacemakers. There
were thirty starters. not a great num-
Der for this spacious track that often
Is made to Accommodate as many as
fifty starters. They were scarcely of
on this occasion, however, when a
trlplet man-power machine collided
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
Excluding pu-h-Cart Mon.

Push-cart men are to be excluded
from the business districts on lower
Broadway. New York. and the ada
cent streets. Mayor Van Wyck has
signed an ordinance which banishes
the peddlers from Fulton street. This
is to be followed by another ordinance
which will drive the push-cart men
out Of the whole lower business dis
trict, including Wall street and other
t~horoughfares in the financial section.
The takers have held possession OF the
sides of the streets where business Is
always on Il rush for so long that they
doubt the power of the administration
to Danish them. So there may be a
fight in the courts over the ordinances.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05
How Cables Are RepaIred.

II Is said hat one of the submarine
cables Is laid at a depth of Is, 900 feet.
At any rate. there are at least three
cables, working at a depth OF nearly
1900 feet, and four In about l6, 900,
but the vast majority lie In water
about 1000 feet deep or less. Repair
ing a cable is hard work. The APP
paratus has TO be at once sensitive and
strong. The repairing steamer pro-
ceeds TO the point where calculation
shows the break or damage TO have
happened, and then lowers a %grapnel.
which II slowly drags across the route
OF the cable at right angles. As soon
as a tension on the grapnel rope is
noted, due to catching the cable 1t has
hooked. great pains have to be
taken lest the precious treasure-trove
slip OF at any stage of Its journey up
to daylight. Special grapnels have
been devised for this important work.
In one OF the latest the prongs project
from a hood like the claws of a crab.
Should any Of them come in contact
with rock the bottom OF the sea
they ecede within the shield sufiei-
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-10-05

corner OF Maryland to about the
northwest corner. The remainder of
the Pennsylvania line to the south
west corner Of Pennsylvania was sur
veyed and remarked In 1885.
IL ia interesting to know that
Messrs. Mason q Dixon marked out
other lines beside the east and west
south boundary Of Pennsylvania.
Their journal, a copy OF which Ia in
the possession OF the Maryland land
Office and another copy In the Penn
sylvania Historical Society library,
states that they resurveyed the entire
west boundary Of Delaware and also
determined the distance from the
northeast corne Of Maryland to the
Delaware river, is miles below Phila-
delphia. These lines OF Mason 4
Dixon do not, OF course. come under
the attention Of the new commission.
Granite posts three feet In length
will be used In the Mason g. Dixon
marking. About the only inscription
will be a Up" on the Pennsylvania
side and an M" on the Maryland
side. together with a reference to the
authority under which the r survey
Is to be made.
The popular impression Is that a
stone will be placed mt the end OF each
mile, but this Is The topo-
graphy has much to do with the fire.
quency Of the marks. the Idea being
to locate them so that a straight line
from one to the next nearest can be
easily determined by the surveyor.
Stones are also placed at highways
and important streams for the con-
venience of officers of the law.
The stones with which the greater
portion OF the Mason n Dixon Line
Ia now marked were brought from
England. Out In the western part of
Maryland and In West Virginia, how
ever. mounds of earth and stones were
heaped up to n height Of perhaps eight
feet. That work was done In 1867.
yet In 1885 they were still two feet
or more above the level of the ground,
and were serving their purpose fairly
well. The surveyors had cut great
vistas through the woods along the
boundary line as they progressed. and
these remained with much distinc-
ton.