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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
Miss Kussner Married.

New York, July Miss Amelia Kuss-
ner, the painter Of miniatures, was
married TO Captain Dupont Coudert in
St Patrick's cathedral last night
Captain Coudert is a son of the late
Charles Coudcrt and was a commits
sary in the United States army in the
PHILIPPINES
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
Pro.Boer Arrested.

Chicago. July Aired II. Seligman.
nightwatchman In postal station A, who
is n native OF the Transvaal. South
Africa, and who became prominent
through acting as vice president OF
pro-Boer meeting al Tattersalls last
winter. was arrested last night charged
with robblng the mails. DecOy letters
were found on his person al the time Of
his arrest and he broke down and con-
fessed when confronted with the evil
dence OF his guilt
Seigman has been In the employ OF
The government for three years.
The amount Of his stealings Is not
known.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
MURDER OF ALL
THE MINISTERS.
Not a Hope in London That Any Remain
AIiye-China is Making War
in Earnest.

some things he saw lie says the for
elgners were making a last stand IN
the extensive buildings and Enclosures
of the British legation, They had many
dead and wounded. Among them we're
some women and children. All were
short Of food, even Of the commonest
necessaries. The women were starving,
as they gave a part OF their small al
lowance TO the children,
The foreigners, neverthelcB were
holding out under a terrible fire. up
held by the hourly expectation of relief
They knew they would not be aban'
doned. and that the armies Of their
governments We're advancing. Some
times they thought they could hear arr
tillery in action beyond the wall. They
We're unable To- return the fire OF INC
Chinese, except at moments when an
assault seemed imminent Then the
machine guns and repeating rifles tore
the storming parties 10 pieces.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
CRUCIBLE STEEL COMBINE.
IL WIN Have a Capitalization of
Fifty Millions.

New York, July 4.-The Herald says
The Crucibe Steel Company OF
America is proceeding rapidly toward
It's foundation. On Monday the direo-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
Against Woman suffrage.

Chicago, July A special to the
Times-Herald from Ottumwa, Ia. says:
The constltutionality OF woman suf-
frage has suffered reverse by de-
cislon handed down by Judge Frank w.
EiChelberger In an injunction case re-
Gently brought by citizens Of Ottumwa
against the city council and city off,
GERS Of this city.
Some time ago Andrew Carnegie Of
fered the city $50 600 for a public library
with the provision that the city guar
antee $1,000 annually for its support
According 20 the statute the women
were permitted TO vote on the PROPOSE
ton TO accept or reject the offer. BY
the women's vote Il carried Opponents
Of the measure began injunction pro-
ceedings and today Judge Eichelberger
announced his decision. as above stated,
on the grounds that the Constitution
does not recognize as voters any except
male adult citizens.
The decision is an important one, and
II is the first case Of the kind In the
State, II may be carried to the Su-
pTeme court.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-04
FIGHT is DESPERATE.

Sir Robert Harris runner. who was
interviewed by the correspondent OF
lne Associated Press al Shanghai. sup
liemented the tragic sentences OF the
dispatch he bore BY a narrative OF
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
CUBAN CALL TO ARMS.
Negro Natives at Santiago InAamed by
Arrest OF Five Editors.

Santiago, April 1.-THE alcalde of
Santiago, Senior Padro Grinan, yester-
day caused the arrest of five men on
the editorial staff Of the Daily Cubano
Libre for the publication of sensa-
tional and insulting condemnation of
all Cubans holding Office under the civil
government. The article in question
denominated all such Cubans as hyp-
ocrites and canaille, using also many
other expressions indecent beyond de-
scription. 1t also accused the civil Of
ficials of robbing the municipality.
The article is the result of the dis
organization, two weeks ago, of the
electoral committee, which disagree
ment between the whites. and blacks
had led to open rupture.
The present public officials hold that
the only way to insure government by
the intelligent people is strongly to OPP
pose the black element in the province,
which outnumbers the whites five to
one, and which rabidly resents the
further presence of the Americans on
the island. General Joaquin CASTILLO
says the suppression of this paper is
necessary. The people desire rational
political organization before the Amer
leans withdraw.
The arrest has caused much indigna-
ton among the negroes, who tele-
graphed General Rabi to come here inn
mediately and head popular move
ment against the Americans and the
Cuban traitors"
The city and rural guard about San
tiago was called in to provide against
violent demonstrations.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12

He says that since the discovery of
gold on the beach at Cape Nome the
general land Office has received con-
tinual applications from pretended dis
coverers, inventors and schemers in
general for exclusive rights and priv
leges connected with beach mining and
deep sea dredging. Offers have been
made to construct a railway along the
beach as far as it can be mined, if
granted an exclusive privilege.
Commissioner Hermann of the land
bureau has had many such PROPOSE
tions, but has declined to entertain
them. As for rights to mine the beach
sands-all have been declined on the
ground that there is nc authority in
existing law to dispose of beach dig
gings. The question is not entirely
new to. him, as there are extensive
beach grounds on the southern Oregon
coast, where gold is found richly mix
ed with tide. sands. near his own home.
But southern Oregon beach mines are
strongly mixed with black sand, or
iron sand, and no practicable method
has been invented for separating the
iron sand from the fine gold-as the
beach gold is fine as four-but the
Cape Nome beach has no black sand,
and the gold is easily separated.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
THE DEWEY SITUATION.

Admiral Dewey's ill-advised and i'll
timed announcement of his candidacy
for president has brought much trou-
BILE about the ears of the Dewey fam
lily. The admiral still holds to the hope
that he will require no platform other
than his we'll known name and "the
American flag" He still affects to be-
lieve that the leopard will change his
spots and the democratic party nom
mate him at Kansas City on platform
which smaclls not of silver nor of that
other blight upon the hopes of would
be presidents, anti-expansion. The adj
mirals day dreams carry him further.
He thinks that New York, Iowa and
California will send instructed dele
gates to Kansas City, and that he can
make these states the rallying points
of his campaign. While the admiral is
indulging himself in these roseate Wis
ions, Mrs. Dewey is strenuously deny
ing that she had anything to do with
her husbands ambition; indeed, she
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
wArTEasoN ABAsDons DEWEY.
kentucky Editor Thinks the Admirable
Candidacy Comes Too Lale.

Louisville, KY, April 9.-The Cou-
rier-Journal was one of the original
Dewey advocates, and Mr.. Watterson
sang the praises of Dewey long and
loud; but on last Saturday he gave up
hope and committed himself in the fol-
lowing editorial:
''rhe ticket which will be nominal
ed by the democrats at a Kansas City
will be headed by Mr.. Bryan. There
was but one man, under favoring con-
ditions, who might have tried conclu-
sions with Mr.. Bryan's grip on the
nomination, and that man was Admi-
raj Dewey. If, in the autumn of 1899,
Admiral Dewey had given his consent,
a movement would have been started
to name Dewey and Wheeler. which
would have proved strong enough to
carry all before it, and which might
have defied any divisions that any fac
ton could bring against it. The peo-
pie were ripe for new shuttle and cut.
They were full of the American spirit.
They wanted the perfect restoration
of the union implied by the idea of
Dewey and Wheeler.
''But the admiral would NOT. He let
the time go by. The occasion has
passed, and with the end of it came
the end of all opposition that could be
made even respectable to the claim of
Mr.. Bryan.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
PROBABLE CASE OF SMALLPOX.
Exposed Man isolated at ChiIlIcothe
With Immune Nurse.

The authorities of the town OF Chill.
licothe have quarantined a man who
has been exposed to the smallpox. The
patient has developed no signs of the
disease as yet, but in order to be on
the safe side the authorities have him
isolated in a tent on the edge of the
town with an immune nurse in attend
ance. 5ii
About nine days ago James Delaney,
who has made Chillicothe his home for
the past year, came from Smoky Hol-
low to Chillicothe. A girl in the for
mer place conveyed the information to
relatives in Chillicothe that Delaney
had been exposed to smallpox at the
former place. The authorities were
notified and yesterday learned Of the
fact. They at once came to Ottumwa,
bought tent and engaged the services
of Ed. Gerlach, the man who nursed
the Ottumwa case. Both nurse and
tent were taken to Chillicothe last ev-
ening and Mr.. Delaney is safely isolat-
ed in the tent at the edge of town.
The disease has not yet manifested it
self on the patient, and many think he
will not take it, yet to be on the safe
side the authorities quarantined him.
Yesterday was the ninth day since his
exposure but physicians say that un-
til twenty-one days have passed it
would not be safe to allow the patient
to go untrammeled.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
SUCCEEDED AT LAST. q
Lewis johnson Finally Accomplishes
His Own Death.

Nevada, April LEWIS Johnson, liv-
ing near Callsburg, an accounts OF
whose attempt at suicide was given in
these dispatches a few days ago, died
yesterday afternoon. johnson, who
had threatened on several occasions to
end his life, was found in a field with
his throan badly cut and his head
bruised, self-inficted wounds made
with a corn knife. Physicians were,
called and sewed up the wounds and it
was thought the would-be suicide
would recover. Johnson, however,
was determined to die and at the first
opportunity escaped and jumped into
pond, He was discovered in time to
prevent drowning, but the shock to his
weakened constitution proved fatal
and he died yesterday. 1t is supposed
he was mentally unbalanced.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
A PETR1FIED FOREST PARK.

Iowa State Register: Congressman
Lacey has introduced a bill which pro-
Vldes for the most remarkable national
park in the world. The park will be
known as the Petrifed Forest National
park, and, as favorable committee
report has been secured upon the bill,
1t is likely that it will soon be added
70 our government park system. This
petrltled forest is in Arizona and covers
a tract eight miles square between the
Little Colorado and the Rio Puerco
rivers, one of the grandest scenic spots
in all America. Over the entire area
trees lie scattered in all conceivable
positions, and in fragments of all sizes,
the broken sections, it is said, some
times resembling a pile of cart wheels.
phenomenon which is perhaps un-
paralleled, and is one of the remark
able features of the park, is natural
bridge formed by a tree OF agatized
wood spanning a canyon forty-five feet
in width. In addition to the span fully
fifty feet of the tree lies on one side,
making it visible in all it's wondrous
beauty Tor a length of over one hun
dred feet. There is every indication to
show that this tract of land once stood
uIoil lHG SlOISS vi an \ 1ulduQ sea
which ultimately flooded the country
and submerged the forest for centur-
les. After the trees fell and became
waterlogged, the decomposition of the
cell structure of the wood began, and
as the wood cells were destroyed they
were replaced by silica in the water
until after many years the. trees Were
transformed from wood to stone. This
Strange workshop of nature was first
discovered in 1858 by surveying par
sy which was preparing the, way for
the. Pacific railroad, and it has since
then been one OF the greatest natural
wonders of America. Thousands OF
sightseers annually visit the place, and
as they are marring its beauty by car
rying away specimens, etc, it is pro-
posed to preserve it in the form of
national park, just as the natural Won
ders of the Yellowstone are being pre-
served.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
No Political CAPITAL.

Muscatine Journal: The fear ex-
pressed in some quarters that the He
riott letter criticising the assessment
of the railroads for taxation will be
used by the democrats to the disad-
vantage of the republicans in the next
campaign is not well grounded. In
the first place, there is very little in the
criticism that amounts to anything
practical, except that the present sys.
TEN of assessment and taxation is faul-
ty, and the democrats are not on rec
ord by resolution or otherwise in oppo-
sition to it, tho it has existed for over
quarter of century. Governor Boies
never raised voice or hand against it
when he was in the executive chair.
The democrats will find but little in
this subject for a political issue SO far
as their record is concerned.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
THE IDAHO MINING RIOTS.

Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho, was
a witness before the military affairs
committee for twelve days, giving tes-
timony as to the mining riots that oc-
CURED there last year. Any impartial
person who heard his testimony must
feel disguised with the democratic eff
forts to place upon the shoulders of
this administration the responsibility
for the murders, arson, and other
crimes that were committed there.
The governor denied every charge
made in the resolution offered in the
house by Representative Lentz,of Ohio,
as result of which the investigation
was ordered. He denied that the writ
of habeas corpus had been suspended.
He denied that General Merriam had
made any arrests. He denied that the
prisoners were held under the most
brutal and tyrannical conditions" He
denied that the ''bull pen" was unfit
for human habitation. He denied that
the treatment of the prisoners was
s'brutal and degrading" He denied
that dying prisoners request for a
priest had been refused, a charge that
had been made by the San Francisco
Examiner, and which had been inves-
tigated, and found false at the insti-
cation of a very high official of the
Catholic church. He also denied that
an escaping prisoner had been shot and
killed by the soldiers. As matter OF
fact, there is no political capital to be
made out of the affair by the demo-
Gratis, and well-organized labor will
fail to sustain the actions of the band
of disorganized labor that spread lire
and murder thru Shoshone county.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
AGAINST THE WAR.

Not all the people of England are in
favor Of the present war which Great
Britain is waging in South Africa. The
Courier has received a circular letter,
signed by some fifty representatives of
the working mems unions in various
cities thruout England and Scotland,
which sets forth the opinion that the
present war is being fought in the in-
4 tercsts Of large capitalists, who are
the owners of gold and diamond mines
in South Africa. The circular denies
that the war issin behalf of justice
and freedom for industrious Britons.
1T says that President Kruger offered
TO concede to the outlanders as much
as the British government demanded
for shem; it says that white labor is
not used nor wanted in the mines;
that the mine owners prefer Kaffir la
Dor; that in Mr.. Rhodes mine the
wages of Kaffirs are from one to two
shillings per day of ten hours, and the
law allows them to be worked seven
days in the week. In the Transyaal, on
the other hand, a Kaffir gets from three
to six pence more per day for eight
hours work, six days in the week. The
object Of the war, therefore, was TO
allow the owners of the Transyaal gold
mines to reduce their Kaffirs to the
same conditions as those of Kimberley.
Cheap and forced labor, then, accord
ing to the circular, is the chief object
= of the capitalists. Under the head
Why We Refused Arbitration" che
circular says:
with such damning evidence as to
the real objects of those who promot-
ed the war it will be easily under
stood why Mr.. Chamberlain to please
the millionaires refused the repeated
offers OF President Kruger to submit
any matters in dispute to arbitration.
s We had very weak case, and body
of arbitrators would speedily have
found that out. Away. then, with the
j delusion that this war is waged in
order to open up new territory to Brit
ish colonists. The capitalists, who
Z bought up or hired the press both in
South Africa and in England to clamor
Z for war, are largely Jews and foreign
Il ers. The cry which they raised about
4 the outlanders' grievances, the armin2
of the Beers, a Dutch conspiracy, etc,
were mere pretexts to deceive you.
The enormous sums which they made
out OF the Rhodesian diamond mines
semboldened them in their efforts to
become absolute masters of the Trans
vaal gold mines also. They have all
along wanted war to double their
profits by cheap forced native labor
This is now proved ont of the mouths
OF the capitalists themselves. And for
this despicable object the British peo-
pie have TO pay untold millions, and
British blood already is poured out
L like water on South African soil"
Whether or not the signers OF this
document represent any political party
or any considerable class of the En-
glish common people, is not easy TO
discover. At all times and in all coun-
tries when war was in progress some
part of the people have been opposed
TO it. Recent and present examples
are before us in our own country. We
know that here the opposing faction
does not represent large or infiuen-
tial body Of citizens. It is probable
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
FIRST PAY FOR SWAMP LANDS.
Iowa State Treasurer Forwards In.
IDENTITIES Under the New Law.

Des Moines, April 11.-State Treasur-
err Herriott has sent to Poweshiek and
Bremen counties the first swamp land
money to be paid under the law passed
by the last legislature. Since 1850 conn
ties have been compelled to send
agents to the seat of government to
get this money, but by the provisions
of an act passed by the Twenty-eighth
general assembly, the treasurer is
authorized to transmit these funds by
draft.
In 1s49 the United States govern
ment granted to Louisiana the right
to all swamp lands, and in 1852 and
1855 the same right was granted Ar
kansas and other territory, including
the state of Iowa. The object in ex-
tending the right to Iowa was to
encourage The settlement of the coun-
try.
The state took advantage of the offer
and laid claim to all the land that was
shown by surveys to be swamp land.
Later homeseekers turned attention
to these swamp lands, and by system
Of drainage thousands of acres were
made tillable. Whole townships were
reclaimed and settlers secured patents
on the lands from the government. But
the state was not disposed to submit
to the action of the general govern
ment without a protest. Claim was
made that the state owned all the
swamp land which the work of her
people. had transposed into valuable
districts. The states claims against
the government reached an enormous
figure.
The general government recognized
the justice of the claim and decided
to indemnify the state in the amount
that lad been paid by the settlers fot
the swamp lands. TIE state now re-
ceives these funds and turns them over
to the counties to which they properly
belong. But some trouble has arisen
in the counties. In a few the claims
against the government were sold to
individuals.
The new law in relation to indemnity
funds requires the county trustees to
execute receipt to the, state treasurer
and to attach the county seal. This is
for the purpose of clearing the state
officials of all entanglements where
counties have sold these claims.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
Iowa,s plum Trees.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The plum
is the only fruit tree in Iowa that has
been holding its own during the past
ten years. The number OF apple, cher
ny and other fruit trees has decreased
during those years, but the number of
plum trees has been increased. Pro-
fessor Craig OF the Agricultural col
lege at Ames has collected all the in
formation TO be had bearing on plum
growing in this state and has publish
ed the same in "a bulletin. which is
being distributed free to those who
are deeply enough interested in the
matter to apply for a copy. The hor-
ticulturalists OF the state have given
a great deal of time and expense to
the developments Of the plum sree.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-12
IOWA Rank SUES MASON.
Senator OF Illinois Appears Prominent.
" in Law Suit at Des Moines.

Des Moines, April Ex-senator Will-,
lam r. Mason, of Illinois, appears
prominently in law case which is be-
ing tried at present in the district
court. The suit is that of the Bankers
Iowa State bank against the Mason
Hand Lathe company, and William e.
Mason. The suit is brought to recover
on notes amounting to $1,650, which
were given to the bank for money bor-
rowed by the lathe company and which
We're endorsed, or according to a writ
ten statement, secured by Mason. The
defense made to the case is TO the
effect that the notes were endorsed
merely as an accommodation and than
at the same time a note due Mason
from the company to the amount of
$4,000 together with a mortgage on the
property OF the company, was assigned
to the bank for security.